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Whens a good time to purchase a Canon 60d or 7d? any good recommendations where?
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60D: http://camelcamelcamel.com/Canon-60D-Digital-3-0-Inch-Body/product/B0040JHVCC
7D: http://camelcamelcamel.com/Canon-CMOS-Digital-Camera-3-Inch/product/B002NEGTTW
The 60D is announced in 2010, and the 7D is announced 2009. Both are pretty capable cameras, it just depends on what your needs are and what you prefer more.
I'd watch out on http://www.canonrumors.com for any news on the 60D and 7D replacements as this prices SHOULD go down if there is a successor to be announced.. which is pretty much likely now since they're pretty much almost outdated so it's definitely close for a refresh.. but they're typically announced around August.
If memory serves me right.. there was some rebates offered earlier this year around January I believe.. usually the best time to buy these cameras. But there should also be one later this year also I think... it's usually right before they announce things, they have rebates.
Good luck! Best place would be either Amazon, Calumet or B&H Photo to buy
If you buy at B&H, get the extended warranty. My wife's camera fell off the table & broke the lens mount. The warranty covered the damage - and paid for itself in that one incident.


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I want to get an Fisheye Lens and been holding out for the Canon 8-15mm. (Lens not yet for sale in the market)
Nick, am I holding out for nothing? Looking at the image of the Lens, will there be a Lens Ring available?
I want to get an Fisheye Lens and been holding out for the Canon 8-15mm. (Lens not yet for sale in the market)
Nick, am I holding out for nothing? Looking at the image of the Lens, will there be a Lens Ring available?
I will try to make one. one that supports zoom. :-)
We listen. We try harder.
But with this Pentax, it looks like you had some more real estate to work with.
I really hope that a lens ring for the Canon 8-15mm fisheye will be available when the lens comes out. This fisheye will be a top seller for Canon!
for the price of Canon 8-15mm, I am sure people want to use the zoom function. :-)
We listen. We try harder.
We too are waiting for this lens. $1,300 is a good price for 'L' glass. I noticed that Canon is now showing the price on their company website.
Dave still at 360texas.com
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Yes, I am also debating if I should hold out for the Canon 8-15, which is supposed to be shipping the end of July, 2011 (according to Canon.co.uk): The big question for Nick: Do you have a lens ring available in 4 weeks? I personally wouldn't mind to have the ring cover the focus distance and the AF/MF switch (The plastic insert probably needs some depressions to go over the switches). or if that fails, could you post a list of inner diameters for all the R1 rings (or put them actually in the product descriptions), so users can pick the next best: making a plastic inner ring isn't difficult, the nice fitting outer aluminium is difficult.
True, once on top of a pole.. your zoom control would be difficult.
I would just like to see how it would fit in a ring R1... and still use the zoom. The lens dimensions are diameter 3.09 inches or 79mm. Length is 3.27 inches or 83mm. But where to place the ring to permit zoom ?
Currently our Sigma 8mm ring is too small diameter. Maybe a longer threaded base screw might help.
Dave still at 360texas.com
Forum Moderator Pano2VR
today i have pick up 1 Piece in Germany and the Diameter near the Distance Scale without Switches is 70mm. The thickest Places with the 2 Switches is 74,8mm!
I hope that is helpful for the Moment.
Thx for sharing.
But Nick has to have a lens in his hands to check and design the lens ring I suppose.

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Total newbie, had a G9 camera for a while which I like.
I'm wondering what the best setup is for doing Panoramic interiors (real estate) with a G9.
I notice there are a bunch of configurations for the NN3, eg.
Nodal Ninja 3 MKII Complete package
Nodal Ninja 3 MKII w/Rotator R-D8
Nodal Ninja 3 MKII with/Rotator R-D16
Nodal Ninja 3 MKII with RD3L 6-8-10 Rotator/EZ-Leveler-II
Nodal Ninja 3 MKII with RD3l 6-8-30 Rotator/EZ-Leveler-II
what would a good setup be for the G9 taking interiors?
I also take it that the T-adapter with 20mm offset would be required?
Also, is the G9 in general a good camera for doing panorama's.....
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El33t's Question of the Day: Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3… What is your console of the generation?Written by: / / 8 Comments
Welcome to the latest Question of the Day!
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This current console generation is far from done and dusted.
With games like Dark Souls II, Watch Dogs, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, LEGO The Hobbit, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Thief, Fable Anniversary, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare and even Titanfall on Xbox 360 all due out over the course of 2014, there's still a lot to look forward.
However… the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will continue to steal the attention of publishers and developers this year and as more new generation console exclusive games are announced this year, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will slowly begin to be abandoned, and unless it's a family friendly title the Wii has long since become irrelevant as a current platform.
With this in mind, which of these three consoles – Wii, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 – would you deem your favourite console of the last generation? What are the top five games on each platform that makes it your favourite and which console gave you the most entertainment overall?
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Does anyone know of a good online store to buy sterling silver jewelry?
I've found a few places, but would love it if someone can give me some first-hand info - I'm looking specifically for rings, eternity band like.
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I've had very good value-for-price on eBay using sellers tommyway.com and www.silvershake.com. Those are their eBay seller IDs; I think they're sister companies under the same ownership. I just did a brief scan of their current listings and they have a fairly good selection of various styles of rings as well as necklaces and charms.
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In Diablo II, what's the recommended level before starting Nightmare (or Hell) difficulty?
I'm not sure if theres a real concrete answer to this. Different classes, built with different skills, with different items, played by different people will all function differently. Some characters (Like a minion-necromancer) will be able to handle higher difficulties at lower levels then say a mage (especially in hell when everything has multiple elemental immunities).
Without the expansion, I generally tried to hit nightmare around 35-40 and hell 50-60.
With the expansion, I tried to hit nightmare around 45-55 and hell 65-75. You'll want to be level up even higher if your playing a hard-core character.
Hope this helps
One way to gauge is by using the following fact: those little fallens in act1 are level 36 monsters in NM and level 67 in H.
It really depends on how comfortable you are with fighting tougher fights, and whether you are playing HardCore or not.
I personally try and hit Nightmare as early as possible, as you level much faster if you are lower when going in. I generally enter Nightmare around level 30 if possible. I definitely wouldn't wait until 45 or higher as some comments have mentioned.
The earlier the better. It provides more challenge anyways.
Are you playing single player or on battle net?
If it's battle net, I would just recommend getting rushed till a4 hell and then leeching chaos runs to hit whatever level you want. For single player, it depends heavily on the gear/class, but try to have your bread and butter skill maxed (or at least started if its a lev 30 skill) by the time you finish normal and have most of the synergies for it by the time you reach hell. Having high resistance and leech also makes a huge difference.


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6 Movies With Uplifting Messages (That Can Kill You)
There are a ton of movies out there that try to inspire us all to be better people. Rudy, Lean on Me, Robocop--these films' powerful themes can transcend all boundaries.
But a powerful theme can be a dangerous thing in the hands of the wrong filmmaker. What if your "powerful theme" is "don't take those pills the doctor gave you!" or "don't be afraid of death, you're invincible?"
Don't think anybody would make a movie with such a moronically dangerous message? Wanna bet?
#6. Garden State
In a movie appropriately named after the most depressing state in the union, Zach Braff plays Andrew Largeman, a young man who has been on antidepressants ever since paralyzing the shit out of his mom by pushing her over a dishwasher when he was a kid.
Through a series of quirky--and therefore artsy--events, Largeman decides that the best way to deal with his issues is to stop taking his medicine and experience life to the fullest. This allows him to patch things up with his estranged dad and bang Natalie Portman to an indie rock soundtrack.
"I don't know about you, but this funeral is getting me totally fucking hot."
The Message:
There is no medication better than the beauty of life! And also sex with Natalie Portman!
The Horror:
There is absolutely no question that someone in the audience for this movie was on medication and didn't need to be. It happens. All drugs have side effects, they can be unpleasant and some people are better off without them.
What is far more likely, however, is that the people taking the drugs really need to keep freaking taking them. This is not opinion here, this is medical fact: the drug Zach Braff was quitting was lithium and study after study shows that people diagnosed with bipolar disorder (the thing they prescribe lithium for) are 10 fucking times more likely to commit suicide if they don't take it or go off of it.
How's that for a side effect?
"I'm really glad we met. Cool with you if I drive this baby straight into the ocean?"
Now we're sure if the movie Garden State was somehow sentient and here to defend itself, it would say, "But the film deals with that issue! After all, in the movie, Zach Braff was improperly diagnosed by his dad, Bilbo Baggins. So surely you, Guy on Lithium Watching This Movie, aren't supposed to apply his situation to your own!"
Sure, but this is then followed by 90 minutes of Mr. Braff saying things like "the drugs left me fucking numb!" and "we should allow ourselves to be whatever we are!" Oh, and in the film the doctor prescribing the drugs was wrong and prescribed the drugs due to malicious ulterior motives (the big emotional breakthrough is when Braff "forgives" his doctor/father for prescribing them).
And don't forget that the patient's new, drug-free awesomeness is rewarded with Natalie Portman sex.
"You'll have to choose: Me, or that useless Asthma Inhaler."
Of course, it's just a movie. You wouldn't actually listen to it and take its message to heart unless, you know, you had some kind of mental illness or something.
#5. Patch Adams
In one of his many attempts at drama after discovering he was no longer funny, Robin Williams portrays the character of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, a radical, free-spirited "hilarious" "medical" "professional" who sets up a free clinic in the woods where patients can cure their bodies and spirits thanks to the power or caring.
By never conforming to the stiff rules of practical medicine, Patch shows us that humor and a positive attitude are the best medicines of all.
The Message:
Touch a person's soul and you'll cure all their ailments!
The Horror:
In the immortal words of Dr. Gregory House, "What would you prefer--a doctor who holds your hand while you die or who ignores you while you get better?" As hard as it is to accept, some maladies just cannot be cured with the power of puppy dog smiles and unicorn farts. We typically refer to these ailments as "every fucking disease on the planet."
"But what if we smiled at them REALLY hard?"
We're not exaggerating, by the way. The movie seems to show Patch curing a mentally ill patient purely with the power of improvisational comedy. From that point on, he dedicates himself to showing those stodgy, bitter regular doctors that laughter is the best medicine.
Of course the evil, humorless medical establishment will have none of it; they try to kick him out of medical school twice, only letting him back in after he gives a passionate speech on the true value of comedy pills... and hearing from a group of bald cancer patients Patch "cured" with the power of his awesome, tumor-shrinking jokes.
Now, hopefully we don't need to point out that Mork from Ork wearing a goddamn clown nose will never be a good substitute for a syringe full of penicillin. But this movie's bigger dick move is really the way it vilifies all of those mean doctors who seek to cure only with that worthless old medicine bullshit.
"Well, I may not be able to prescribe laughter, but I did just save your fucking life."
We suppose we should point out that the movie is based on a real guy, who in the real world runs the Gesundheit! Institute. The good news is, they don't demand payment. The bad news is they're treating with "alternative" therapies like homeopathy which, in every single study ever done on the subject, ever, has been shown to be even worse at curing disease than laughter.
#4. Shallow Hal
Jack Black, the last man on Earth who should be picky about women, inexplicably plays a superficial ladies' man who refuses to settle for anything less than the visual approximation of what Halle Berry having sex with Bar Refaeli would look like as a person.
"This Bar Refaeli-Halle Berry hybrid is my Sistine Chapel."-Photoshop Department.
His life changes when he is hypnotized to only see people's inner beauty and falls in love with Gwyneth Paltrow in a fatsuit. In the end, he overcomes his shallowness, marries Gwyneth and probably lives happily ever after tucked inside her many rolls of excess stomach.
The Message:
Your appearance doesn't matter, because real beauty is on the inside!
The Horror:
As typical Internet dwellers we are all about people focusing on our inner beauty (which honestly is every bit as unwashed as our outer beauty), but this isn't an ugly duckling story. In the movie, Paltrow's character isn't just unattractive by our society's arbitrary and unfair standards--she's morbidly obese.
We're not disputing whether her character is a good person (she is), but nice doesn't matter for jack if you're so fat your soccer ball sized heart detonates while you're walking up the stairs one day.
It's not an issue of open-mindedness at that point. It's a freaking medical condition. If she's such a nice lady, maybe instead of embracing her 30,000 calorie a day diet, you should be helping live a lifestyle that will let her live past age 50.


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Sorry, i really dont know how to make a headline for that question; maybe there is a name for what im trying to do that i dont know, but i can explain it with some code:
Guess you have a class that unfortunately neither has a copy-constructor nor a public static copy method.
class A
private int i; // <- private, cant access
String x; // <- even worse: cant access unless in same pkg!
/* … other stuff, ctor, etc. … */
public A clone()
A a = new A();
a.i = i;
a.x = x;
return x;
Guess further, there is some function that returns an object of that class:
public static A someFn(x,y,z);
Now the problem: I want to derive from that class to add some functionality. Unfortunately, i neither have a sizeof in java nor a cc or static copy method.
So when i do a
class B extends A
protected w;
public B clone()
/* as usual */
then i can clone my B and get a new one, but how can i convert the returned A from someFn() into a B. Is there anyway to do the opposite of slicing in java? if i clone it, it's still an A, and i cant copy it field by field. This is all simple in c++, but how to do this in Java?


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11 May 2011 11:17 AM #1
[FNR] gridfilters can show more than one context menu when you have non filterable
I could not find this issue as previously reported after searching multiple GXT forums.
Using gridfilters on a grid, either local or remote can result in multiple context menus when you have a mix of some filterable columns but not all columns are filterable. By doing the "wrong" clicks you can get the grid to show 2 seperate context menus simultaneously. You can't get rid of the extra context menu easilly.
This can be reproduced using both grid samples on the sencha site:
GXT version 2.2.3
Browser IE 8
Steps to reproduce:
* Click on the context menu for Type (the last column) and select the first item (Auto)
* Then select context menu for Symbol
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16 May 2011 11:51 AM #2
Sencha, I don't want to cross post more than one report of this issue but need this issue addressed, so please consider this a premium report. I'll post future bugs in the premium forum to ensure a quick response.
- Sean
16 May 2011 10:59 PM #3
If something is high priority for you, than you should always use the ticket system under "http://support.extjs.com".
I already have a fix for this pending.
16 May 2011 10:59 PM #4
If something is high priority for you, than you should always use the ticket system under "http://support.extjs.com".
I already have a fix for this pending.
25 May 2011 4:31 AM #5
This should be fixed in SVN now as of revision 2391
24 Feb 2012 3:20 AM #6
Same issue
I am using GXT 2.2.3. I am getting the same issue. May I know the fix? and how to get the fix?
23 May 2012 8:41 AM #7
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1966 Chevrolet Chevelle - Unconventional KillerWritten by on September 23, 2008 Contributors: Robert McGaffin Randy Johnson's '66 Chevelle Strikes The Perfect Balance Between Creating Torque, And Managing It.
Randy Johnson's been around the block more than once. He's been modifying cars for the last 21 years and building them seriously since the mid- '90s. Both his decidedly different Camaros wound up on the pages of Car Craft. Lucky lad, he is. But luck had nothing to do with the prescience and the forethought that brought those cars to the strict attention of the savvy, experienced eye.
That exposure was fortuitous. It paved a path to his prime (and primal) avocation: making sleepy-looking cars that all at once retain every bit of their classic Detroit iron lines, are capable of generating monstrous handling, display a sensible power-to-weight ratio, yield supreme driving comfort, and guarantee to elicit bliss from the driver and "oh my God" from the knowing observer. Everything is hidden in plain sight and the list of details, inside and out, is very long indeed. Randy firmly believes in balance, favorable weight distribution, a chassis that has more than enough power to handle the torque, and an engine that can be extorted to the fullest in that chassis.
The stock-body '66 Chevelle on these pages wasn't an SS. It was a Malibu crusted in scuzzy brown primer instead of paint, and it hobbled along with a 283 and a 'Glide. It came from Colorado. It had the magic ingredient: It was absolutely clean underneath and in every blind cranny. It didn't even suffer the usual scabs trailing from the backlight-a perfect project platform.
In this era of supreme overkill, Randy's cars are real, reliable drivers. "What good is 1,000 hp-hell, let's get real stupid, 1,500 hp-if you can't use it?" he asks, but with not a shred of condescension in his voice. "Some people just have to have that number for their big, red egos."
Building horsepower is straightforward and relatively easy. To Randy, building a unique envelope to put it in is a challenge that'll fry your brains. What really motivates this 37-year-old is building the piece, noodling the details, doing stuff that no one has done, and embracing components that are a world away from well-known, if not ordinary, speed equipment.
No stinkin' stock rails would support this bomb, either. Randy went to Schwartz Extreme Performance (Crystal Lake, Illinois) for one of its tubular perimeter frames, crossmembers, and corresponding suspension pieces, then assembled the chassis himself. To make it a roller, he hung a seldom-seen Winters Performance circle-track aluminum axle center assembly (it uses pressed-in Coleman Racing axletubes) with a triangulated four-link, Chester axles, coilovers, and a custom-built splined antisway bar. He put some four-piston Wilwoods in place and stretched the outsized 335 Michelins over foot-wide Kinesis K180 modulars.
"I mimicked the factory triangulation design by running the bottom links straightforward and tipping in the upper bars. I used Heim joints at all the ends, so I don't need to run a Panhard bar to center the axle, and so the diameter of the sway bar can be smaller," Randy confessed.
"At the front of the car, I began with Coleman uprights that have spindles with a Mustang II diameter. That enabled me to use a Wilwood hat that fits the diameter of the spindle. The brake setup is actually for a Mustang II-type suspension.
"I got the LS7 through Jeff Schwartz via GM Performance Parts' Bill Martens. They'd torn down about 30 motors and put forged Mahles in 'em for some kind of CORR truck racing program, I think. The program got scotched and Jeff bought all the motors. That worked right into my SS 427 scheme. That's one thing I love about that motor because it looks so stock. All the SS 427 people come up expecting to see a big-block, and instead they see nothing because the motor sits so low and they wonder what the hell's going on. I love that."
Randy separated body from frame and installed 3-inch mini-tubs, smoothed the firewall, and notched the floor here and there to accommodate the rear suspension members.
Sheetmetal and others parts came from Year One, while he got the repro trim he needed from Restoration World. When it was ready for the shiny coat, Randy trucked it over to Midwest Muscle Car Restoration (Slinger, Wisconsin), where they anointed it with PPG GM '66 Mist Blue.
"Ten or 20 years from now," said Randy, "I wanted the car to still look timeless, not anchored by some paint fad that would immediately identify it with a certain, and perhaps forgettable, period."
While the chassis was still without its body, Randy fit the ancillary systems while the elbow room was plentiful. Be Cool made him a custom radiator and catch can. Rick's Hot Rods built him a custom 19-gallon stainless fuel tank to fit between framerails, which are moved inward 3 inches. Fuel delivery is initiated by a Walbro 255-gph in-tank pump. The 15:1 AGR rack steering got in the way of the first two header tubes on the driver's side, so Randy just went ahead and tweaked them for the necessary wiggle room.
Kwik Wire (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) builds engine management systems and wire harnesses to put LS crate engines where they're really supposed to be-in old cars. Next stop, the rollers at West Bend Dyno Tune (West Bend, Wisconsin), where after a bit of timing and fuel-table tweaking, the latter-day 427 put down 440 hp and 404 lb-ft of torque.
Obviously Randy's a slave to details, and nowhere is he more intense about them than inside the car. Submerged in fields of black, bright orderly formations of controls and Stewart-Warner meters are frenched into the elegantly understated satin-black aluminum Rocky Mountain Dashes panel. The Vintage Air Gen IV HVAC controls and billet vents fit the scheme with a subtle demeanor. All the control knobs (including one for the ignition key), the delayed wiper system, and the battery hold-down are DSE products. Randy twists a Grant Signature Series tiller and kicks back in Cerullo SC Sport seats sprouting headrests from a truck model. All the black hides and the headliner are the issue of Ace Upholstery (West Bend, Indiana). Pin neat and looking good enough to eat.
Randy has just formed D&Z Customs (LLC) in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, about 30 feet from his house, a building he seeded with money from the sale of his celebrated '67 Camaro. He has already begun to build a machine for his first customer. Realize that at this point D&Z is a serious hobby shop that happens when Randy's not at his regular job with AT&T. All that, and he still has time to spend with his wife, October, son, Dylan (9), and daughter, Zoey (5). Might as well tell you right now, Dylan's got the sickie hot-car gene, too.
|Randy Johnson, 37 • Kewaskum, WI
|Vehicle weight w/driver: 3,{{{850}}} pounds
|GM LS7 displacing 427 cubic inches
|(4.125 bore x 4.00 stroke)
|GM Gen IV aluminum
|Compression ratio:
|Peterson Fluid Systems wet-sump system
|with custom 9-quart tank,
|scavenging pump, LS7 pan
|Rotating assembly:
|4.00-inch stroke forged tank,
|sintered-forged titanium rods,
|Mahle forged pistons, stock LS7 ring packs
|Cylinder heads:
|stock LS7, CNC-ported
|LS7 hydraulic roller,
|211/230 degrees duration at .050,
|.591/.591-inch lift, LS7 timing gear
|LS7 2.20/1.61-inch valves,
|1.8:1 LS7 rocker arms, pushrods, valvesprings
|LS7 composite intake manifold,
|90mm throttle body,
|D&Z Customs air intake tube,
|K&N element
|Power adder:
|LS7, remote-mount coils,
|Speartech Engineering controller and harness
|Stainless Works headers
|modified by D&Z Customs,
|1 3/4-inch primaries, 3-inch collectors, X-pipe,
|Stainless Works three-chamber
|"turbo" mufflers, 3-inch exhaust,
|custom side outlets by D&Z
|Built by:
|GM Race Group
|Rockland Standard Gear
|"Son of Tranzilla" Tremec six-speed,
|'06 Z06 clutch assembly, Hurst shifter
|Coleman Racing aluminum
|Rear axle:
|Winters Performance center
|axlehousing, Coleman Racing tubes,
|31-spline Chester axles,
|Randy's Ring & Pinion third member,
|RR&P {{{Yukon}}} limited-slip differential,
|4.11:1 ring-and-pinion
|Front suspension:
|Schwartz Extreme Performance
|chassis, tubular upper and lower control arms,
|Coleman Racing spindles, QA1 adjustable coilovers
|with 450-lb springs, Coleman Racing splined
|antisway bar with Speedway Engineering end links
|Rear suspension:
|modified four-link
|(top bars angled towards center of car),
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Case softball is one 'W' away from qualifying for the MIAA Tournament, which has become a perennial accomplishment for the Lady Cardinals in recent years.
Pitcher Leslie Denis tallied a season-high 13 strikeouts and the offense came alive late, with four runs in the final two innings as Case shut out SCC foe Old Rochester Regional, 5-0, on Monday at the Brown Elementary School.
Denis mowed down each hitter in the Bulldogs lineup at least once, and gave her defense a three-inning vacation, recording a strikeout for eight of the first Nine outs. She scattered five hits through seven frames and walked just one.
"I took the opportunity over the weekend to work on my pitches," Denis said. "I was happy to have great 'D' behind me and have all my pitches work well."
The Cardinal defense did their part in the fourth inning. ORR's Olivia Labbe punched a base hit into the right-center field gap and attempted to go for a double. However, Case right fielder Ellie Roberts quickly got to the ball and fired a strike to Maddie Carpenter at second who slapped Labbe with the tag for the first out.
Ahead by a one-run margin (1-0) heading into the fifth, the Cardinals were finally able to get something going against ORR ace Kaleigh Goulart. With runners on the corners, Carpenter (who hit an RBI single in the 1st) hit a pop-up in the infield that the Bulldogs' second baseman dropped, plating Ally DiCesare from third. Kait McCarthy then lofted a deep sac fly to left that scored Denis and Katelyn Kopechy to make it 4-0 in favor of Case. Denis drove in the Cardinals' fifth run of the afternoon win an RBI double to center an inning later.
At just over the season's midway point, Case's 9-2 record is remarkable, considering the seven starters the team lost from last year, and injuries to two current key players. There are eight first-year varsity players in their everyday lineup.
"It feels good to be doing this well considering all the girls we lost from last year, but the new kids have really stepped it up," said Denis.
"We're definitely ahead of where I'd thought we'd be," Cardinals' coach Don DiBiaso said. "These girls have worked hard since the first day."
DiCesare and Julean Newman each collected a pair of hits for Case. Goulart surrendered five runs (three earned) in six innings and had three strikeouts for ORR.
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Dirac writes down the following formula on page 61 of his "Principles of quantum mechanics": $\frac{d}{dx}\log x = \frac{1}{x} -i\pi\delta(x)$, see http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1947pqm..book.....D for the exact reference (but no text). What is the best way of formalizing this to a mathematician's satisfaction?
In integral form, this amounts to the Sokhotski-Plemelj theorem:
$\lim_{\epsilon\rightarrow 0^{+}}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}dx f(x) \frac{d}{dx}\log (x+i\epsilon)=-i\pi f(0)+{\cal P}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}dx f(x)\frac{1}{x}$.
The symbol ${\cal P}$ indicates that the Cauchy principal value of the integral is to be taken. Formalization then amounts to stating the conditions on $f$ so that the principal value integral exists.
The logarithm for $x<0$ is defined as $\log x= \log(-x) + i\pi$. You can avoid the delta function by including the absolute value signs in the logarithm:
$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}dx f(x) \frac{d}{dx}\log|x|={\cal P}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}dx f(x)\frac{1}{x}$.
Questions about distributions, usually involving the $\delta$ distribution ("function"), are of frequent occurrence on this and related sites. Since they are often treated in a rather cavalier fashion, I would like to attempt to answer this query in some detail. The basic problem lies in the interpretation of the functions $\frac 1 x$ and $\log x$ (notabene not $\log |x| $) as distributions. As a preliminary remark, it is not surprising that theoretical physicists are guided by their physical intuition and not by mathematical rigour in dealing with such questions and it is perfectly acceptable for mathematicians to proceed in the same way in formulating such conjectures. However, since this is a mathematical forum, one does have the right to expect that the final formulation of the solution conforms to the usual standards of mathematical rigour (as is implied in the OP). In fact it is rather disquieting that this is often not the case, since this task can be achieved by elementary methods which have been on record in the primary and secondary literature for at least 50 years.
For the example in question (and, indeed, for most of the examples in such forums), one need only be cognisant of the following simple facts about distributions.
$1$. Every continuous function on the reals, better, every locally integrable function, determines in a natural way a distribution.
$2$. There is a notion of convergence for distributions. For our purposes, it suffices to know that if a sequence of continuous functions converges uniformly on compacts, then it converges in the sense of distributions. In fact, local $L^1$ convergence suffices.
$3$. The dream theorem of every freshman calculus student holds---if a sequence of distributions converges, then the sequence obtained by differentiating term by term also converges.
We can now turn to the above query. Note that the problem lies in the fact that while the function $\log |x|$, being locally integrable, determines a distribution, the same is not true a priori for $\frac 1 x$ and $\log x $. In these two cases, we have to proceed in a more delicate manner.
Firstly, note that the function $\log |x|$ is locally integrable and so is a distribution. More importantly the same is true for its derivative in the distributional sense. It is then rather natural to define this derivative to be the distribution $\frac 1 x$.
The case of the distribution $\log x$ is rather more subtle. In this case we resort to the complex logarithm. y thus we define, for non-zero $\epsilon $, the distribution $\log(x+i\epsilon)$ to be $\log|x|+i \arctan \frac \epsilon x$ (i.e., we are using the principal branch of the complex logarithm). We now define the distribution $\log x $ to be the limit of this distribution as $\epsilon$ tends to zero. At this point, we see that we get different values, depending on whether we consider the limit $\epsilon \to 0_+$ or $\epsilon \to 0_-$. If we now differentiate this equation we obtain the required formula.
To conclude, a few remarks.
The above approach is due to the portuguese mathematician J. Sebastião e Silva who developed it in the context of his axiomatic approach to the theory of distributions.
The above is a special case of the family of distributions $x^\lambda$ for general $\lambda$ (even complex) which is developed in detail in the above reference. They are also described in the standard four volume text of Gelfand and Silov.
The distribution $\frac 1 x$ is also treated by Laurent Schwartz who used the Hadamard principal value (the latter was his great uncle by marriage). The connection with the above approach can easily be established by considering the truncated function $\log_\epsilon$ (which is set equal to zero on the interval $]-\epsilon,\epsilon[$), letting $\epsilon$ tend to zero and differentiating.
The ambiguity in the definition of the distribution $\log x$ is no more disconcerting than that in the definition of the logarithm function for complex arguments. In a more sophisticated approach this distribution would not be defined on the real line but on the natural domain of definition of the latter, i.e., on the unversal covering of the punctured plane.
$$ \lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow0} \int_{-\epsilon}^{+\epsilon}\frac{d\ln x}{dx} dx = \lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow0}[\ln \epsilon-\ln(-\epsilon)] \\ \ln(-\epsilon)= \ln\epsilon+ i\Theta \\ $$ choose the principle value for the angle$$ \Theta=\theta= \pi \\ \lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow0} \int_{-\epsilon}^{+\epsilon}d\ln x = \lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow0}[\ln \epsilon-\ln(-\epsilon)] =\lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow0}[\ln \epsilon-\ln(\epsilon)-i\pi]=-i\pi $$
$$\lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow0} \int_{-\epsilon}^{+\epsilon}\frac{1}{x}dx =0$$ Because 1/x is a odd function, thus its integral vanished.
The left hand side equals to $-i\pi$, thus we need add $-i\pi$ to the right hand side.
Above all, we can obtain
$$ \lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow0} \int_{-\epsilon}^{+\epsilon}\frac{d\ln x}{dx} dx = \lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow0} \int_{-\epsilon}^{+\epsilon}\frac{1}{x}dx -i\pi= \lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow0} \int_{-\epsilon}^{+\epsilon}\frac{1}{x}- i\pi\delta(x)\ dx$$
According to the inside parts of integrals, we finally got $$ \frac{d\ln x}{dx} =\frac{1}{x}- i\pi\delta(x) $$
The question is not meaningful since $\ln x$ is not defined for $x\le 0$. You may define, with derivatives in the distribution sense $$ f(x)=\ln\vert x\vert\text{ (even)},\quad f'(x)=pv\frac1{x} \text{ (odd, homogeneous degree -1)} $$ $$ g(x)=\ln(x+i0)=\lim_{\epsilon\rightarrow 0_+}\ln(x+i\epsilon),\quad g'(x)=\frac{1}{x+i0}= pv\frac1{x}-i\pi \delta, \text{(homogeneous degree -1)} $$ where the latter formula follows from $$ \ln(z)=\oint_{[1,z]}\frac{d\xi}{\xi},\quad z\in \mathbb C\backslash \mathbb R_-. $$ By analytic continuation we have (for $z\in \mathbb C\backslash \mathbb R_-$) $e^{\ln z}=z$ and with $H=\mathbf 1_{\mathbb R_+}$ $$ \ln(x+i0)=\ln\vert x\vert +i\pi H(-x)\Longrightarrow g'(x)=\frac{1}{x+i0}= pv\frac1{x}-i\pi \delta. $$ Taking the complex conjugate of $g$ gives you the definition of $\frac{1}{x-i0}$.


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How would you generate building shadows from building footprints?
I have attribute values for the heights of buildings.
So would preferably like to have the shadows' sizes vary based on that.
The best suggestion I've found using ArcGIS is drop shadows: http://blogs.esri.com/Support/blogs/mappingcenter/archive/2008/10/21/3d-effect-for-a-building-footprints.aspx
How would you generate building shadows from building footprints?
A quick and dirty method is to draw the shadows of the building roofs only, render them in dark gray (preferably semi-transparent if there are any underlying ground layers), and draw the building polygons over them. The roof shadows are obtained by translating the building polygons by the distances determined by the building heights in the direction established by the azimuth and altitude of the light source (considered to be infinitely far away). (A formula for the amount of translation appears below.)
This tends to work ok except for low altitudes or tall buildings (such as skyscrapers): see how the shadows of the taller isolated buildings on the right hand side are separated from the buildings themselves.
To connect the shadows properly to the buildings, you need to include the shadows of the building walls. This isn't hard to do. The shadow of the wall extending between a point located at P and another point located at Q will be the quadrilateral outlined by {P, Q, Q', P'} where Q' is the shadow of Q and P' is the shadow of P. A polygonal building will be a collection of connected polygons represented by closed sequences of points (P(1), P(2), ..., P(n)). For each such polygon, form the union of the shadows of the edges (P(1), P(2)), (P(2), P(3)), ..., (P(n), P(1)). This is straightforward to do by means of a loop over the edges.
For a light at an azimuth of a degrees (east of north) and an altitude of s degrees (from the horizon), the shadow of a point P with projected coordinates (x,y) and height h (all expressed in the same units, such as meters) is located at P' = (x - h*sin(a)/tan(s), y - h*cos(a)/tan(s)). You only have to compute sin(a)/tan(s) and cos(a)/tan(s) once for the entire layer, and for each polygon you only have to multiply those factors by the height once to obtain the offsets for each point shadow in the polygon. (The real computational workload is carried by the GIS, not your code, as it forms the unions of all these quadrilaterals.)
Here's an example of the effect. (The azimuth and altitude have changed slightly compared to the first figure, but the building polygons and heights--which vary--are the same as before.)
In response to a request, here's the code used to create the second example. Although almost nobody uses this language (Avenue) anymore, it could well serve as pseudocode for creating a solution in your favorite GIS. (Unlike most pseudocode, however, it has been tested by actually running it. :-) It's so simple that no explanation should be needed; just be aware that indexing starts with 0, not 1, and that polygon rings are explicitly closed (the last point in the list coincides with the first point).
I don't think what you are talking about (looking for) is going to be a capbability in arcmap (version?)
The 3D Analyst extension has some tools (Skyline and Skyline Barrier) for producing silhouettes and shadow volumes but it's in the context of being projected against a vertical plane as in a skyline, so I'm not sure how or if it could be easily adapted to this case (projecting against a horizontal plane, the ground).


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE -- The Belmont County Board of Elections held an emergency meeting Wednesday afternoon at board headquarters to deal with a sizable dilemma....
I'm not sure what could possibly be wrong with either the Rec Center of Fire Stations, but either is a much better alternative than Colerain. Seems like its time to get some common sense state regulations rather than disenfranchising half of the city. God forbid that it snows!
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I received my change notice for polling on Saturday. That was quick work from Wednesday. Something must have been afoot prior.
Why was it an emergency meeting? What happened to the 10-year contract with Liberty Auto - do the taxpayers still have to pay that?
I am disgusted with the Board of elections, and the Board of education. I promote voting them all out of office when their elections come up.
I live in the center of town, I don't go to Colerain, ever. How are the elderly and people without cars going to get to the polling place?
I agree with a previous commenter -Why can't we use the pool/gym building on the first floor? What is the reason the public school would not allow its tax paying citizens use it's building?
This is another attempt to discourage voters in one of the largest cities in Belmont County.
Write the Board of Elections and Board of Education with your comments.
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What about the swimming pool? There is a large room there and parking.
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I'm not from Ferry, but, I wouldn't be voting if I were. I don't have transportation. What about those like me who would have no way to go? This is disgraceful!
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the school belongs to toThe people of martins ferry,not by the so called academics who think they are better than everyone else.most of them should not be there anyway because of conflict of interest being an ex-teacher or a relative of a teacher!!!
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The article didn't give a reason why the Martins Ferry Board of Education turned down the request to use the facilities for the election other than it "opted" not to. Was it a logistics reason? Security issues? Something else perhaps? They could have checked with the Bridgeport Board for policies and procedures as Bridgeport area elections have been held at the school gym for several years now with very little hassles that I have observed. Plus I believe students of the high school government class participate and help with the people coming in to vote by directing them to the correct precinct area, and other functions so it serves as a learning experience for them too. On a side note: I would think the people of Martins Ferry might be a bit upset they can't use the public school building as they themselves are helping to pay for it through their own tax dollars.
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I understand that "exposure fusion" is a method for combining different exposures into a single image. How exactly does it work, and how is it related to HDR?
Exposure fusion is a process that takes multiple images and combines them to create a single image while only keeping the properly exposed elements. In contrast to HDR images, exposure fusion is more basic, gives a more realistic effect, and requires fewer steps.
The exposure fusion(fusion, or EF) process takes each individual pixel and assigns a weight to it for the contrast, saturation, and luminosity of that pixel. It is the software that then determines the balance of pixels in the final image. Some applications refer to this decision as the selection of the "good" or "best" pixels. You can tweak the settings that determine the balance in some software implementations of exposure fusion software.
A great example of when exposure fusion might make sense is when you don't have a neutral density(ND) graduated filter available to you, or the scene that you are shooting does not have well defined areas that usually work well with these filters. You can use exposure fusion to combine bracketed exposures to balance elements such as sky, foreground, and subject. HDR can also achieve this, but many times the results after tone mapping become unnatural and undesired.
Here is a three image example of exposure fusion with a comparison to the output of an HDR process with tone mapping.
I started with these three source images:
This is the output after the initial exposure fusion was done:
This is the output after the exposure fusion was done, and Lightroom adjustments made:
This is the output from the same three source images that used HDR tone mapping and Lightroom adjustments:
Exposure fusion is significantly different than high dynamic range(HDR) images that most of us are familiar with, in that it creates a low dynamic range image without any intermediate step of tone mapping. The two can be confused because they both take multiple input images and turn them into a single output image. The enfused output of exposure fusion is much truer to a scene than HDR photos. HDR photos have very uneven transitions and many times look unrealistic. Exposure fusion images on the other hand only capture exactly what tonalities the scene had, without any tone mapping.
The term exposure fusion is now typically given to the automated process of combining multiple images into one using software. Prior to software automating this, photographers have been doing this for years, in both film terms and digital. In the digital sense, we could take two or more images, and splice in elements from each to combine them into one final image. The result many times would prevent areas from being overly blown out highlights or lost detail.
The real magic of exposure fusion is that the software is very quick at determining what are the best pieces from each image. You could do this yourself in Photoshop with a huge amount of time, but the entire process is automated using algorithms in the software and really speeds the process up. To a degree this is the same as exposure fusion, but at a much more basic scale. An example of this is given below in the further reading for the Luminous Landscape.
Exposure fusion can also be used to stack focus and achieve images that otherwise would not be possible due to a narrow depth of field. This can be handy in many instances and the real trick is that exposure fusion can usually calculate the optimal image on its own.
Some examples of exposure fusion software include:
Overall, exposure fusion is a technique that overcomes the obstacles put forth by limited dynamic range digital cameras. By capturing a set of bracketed images we can take the full dynamic range of a scene and turn it into a single image. HDR photography does this as well, but since modern displays are low dynamic range, we must tone map to display the image. Exposure fusion works around this step and combines multiple exposures into a single low dynamic range image in a typically automated and efficient fashion. The output is very true to the original scene, and can help overcome over or under exposure cases.
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In the past the process has also been referred to as "Exposure Blending", so research on that topic may benefit those interested.
To supplement dpollitt's answer, with exposure fusion, you retain the relationship between tones in the original scene. If point A is lighter than point B in the original image, then it will still be lighter after you've fused the images.
With HDR, because the merged file exceeds the dynamic range of the output device, you have to tonemap it, and in that process you can end up with local areas where the relative tones are not the same as in the original images. A bright, almost washed out sky and dark foreground, can end up with a bright foreground and a dark, menacing sky!
For example, in dpollitt's 3 exposures, the clouds are brighter than any other part of the scene. In the exposure fusion result, the clouds are still brighter, but the shadowy foreground has been lifted. In the HDR version, some of the dark cloud area is darker than the foreground pavement, which is not how the original images were.


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Are there any cordless powertool systems (e.g., drills, drivers) that have a corded battery option (i.e., an adapter that fits where the battery would normally go that can be plugged in)? I've used other electrical equipment with this arrangement (e.g., video cameras), but have never seen it with power tools. If it doesn't exist, is there a practical reason why?
Believe it or not, they do make such things. For example the Greenlee AC Adaptor for 18V Cordless Tools.
I have not heard of a "system" like that though. I suspect that's related to the fact that I've never met a pro who used or even wanted one. When battery-powered tools finally became usable, we all pledged our firstborns to whatever god made that possible and we never looked back.
Cameras, laptops, etc. can all stay in one spot for extended periods as they do their job. Power tools (at least the kind that come in cordless varieties) are in constant motion. Dealing with cords and sockets is a major time, safety, and infrastructure disadvantage.
If your tool stays in one spot enough to where you ponder an AC backup, you're often better off just buying an AC-powered tool for that job. It will: be cheaper, have more power, and be more energy efficient than jacking AC to the cordless tool.
But, if you're really jonesing to do the 60 hertz shuffle ;) and you have some electronics skills, you can rig up your own AC system, a little like this guy did -- Except I would use a proper-sized DC supply and wire it to an old battery pack (¡with the battery cells removed!) instead of hard-wiring it to the tool.
There is a big difference between being tied to an expensive, proprietary battery pack and being tied to a 120 VAC line.
When my first battery pack for a tool dies, I dissect it and attach wires through a suitable strain-relief. I then connect the ends to an Anderson Powerpole connector, which I can then plug into a more substantial battery.
(If you do so, be sure to wire the connector according to the Amateur Radio Emergency Service standard, and you'll be able to plug it into any nearby ham radio operator's battery, if needed.)
For this reason, I favour 12 volt tools, because it is simple to find generic batteries for them -- you can even clamp them to a car battery. I don't find the additional torque of higher-voltage tools to be worth the inconvenience and expense of being tied to proprietary batteries.
I can plug into a 17 ampere-hour battery in a box with a handle, and work nearly ten times as long as I can with the 2 ampere-hour battery that came with my tool.
Another advantage is that such tools are often free! When a ~$80 battery pack goes bad, a lot of people chuck the entire tool in the rubbish bin and buy a new ~$90 tool! I "harvest" such tools and wire them to cables with Anderson Powerpole connectors for a few dollars worth of parts, and put them back in service. Or you can find "batteryless" tools at garage sales for pennies on the dollar.
Such "semi-wired" tools are far more portable than you'd think. Sure, they aren't as convenient as with the contained battery, but they can still be used remotely without running a long extension cord.
Here is a cord attached directly to a drill. I took the screws out of the case and soldered directly to the terminals that make contact with the battery. I then drilled two holes in the end and used a tie-wrap as a strain relief. This sort of mod is irreversible and permanent -- you can no longer use the OEM batteries with this drill:
If your tool has an easily disassembled battery, you can modify a bad battery pack instead of the tool, preserving the use of other batteries:
Here is a close-up of a modified battery pack. Note the strain-relief for the cord egress:
My 10 AH belt-pack is made up of NiMH "D" cells. I have these wired as two six-volt strings that can easily be connected in series, as shown here:
The two six-volt holders then slip into a belt holder designed for a cell phone, a very long time ago:
When I need lots of energy, I have a 20 AH battery housed together with a power supply for charging in an army-surplus ammo case. This will run a tool ten times longer than the OEM battery. Included is a trouble light, wired to a relay so that power fails, the light comes on. Shown also is a car battery adaptor to Anderson Power Pole connectors:
Here is a close-up of the egress to the ammo case. At bottom is a standard connector for a three-pin AC power cord, as used on computers and such. At the top are two pair of Anderson Power Pole connectors in a housing Anderson makes for the purpose:
Thanks for the suggestion to post photos. I hope these are helpful!
A company www.losgatospower.com has created a high power adapter that can power your most powerful cordless tools. Looks like the dewalt 20v is the only adapter currently available, but a Milwaukee and makita version are supposedly going to be available soon.
There are many examples of this mod. What I like about this one is that a proper power supply where used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPyu7ahEWFg


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Women's Soccer Releases 2014 SlateJune 24, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – After setting the South Atlantic Conference record in league ties in 2013, Anderson University women's soccer will seek victories in 2014 as first-year head coach Ciaran Traquair announced his 2014 schedule on Tuesday, headlined by 13 of AU's 17 regular season matches being played in the Palmetto State.
The Trojans will host nine home contests, including five matches featuring SAC opponents and a rekindling of the long-standing rivalry against archrival Erskine. With the majority of this year's schedule being played inside the state of South Carolina, Anderson will have to travel outside of the state just three times in 2014.
After beginning the year with two exhibitions at Young Harris (Aug. 23) and at home against Limestone (Aug. 27), AU begins its 2014 slate at Trojan Stadium on Sept. 4 when it welcomes Southern Wesleyan for a 5 p.m. kickoff. SWU will be in its first transitional year as it makes the jump from NAIA to NCAA Division II.
Anderson will face its first road test of the year two days later when it travels to North Greenville. The September matchup will mark the first time since 2009 the Trojans will square off against the Crusaders when both teams were members of Conference Carolinas.
"For me, I like opening up at home," Traquair said. "Obviously my goal is begin the year with two victories against two local rivals."
After facing two in-state opponents, the Black and Gold return home and welcome Sunshine State Conference opponent Florida Southern, marking the second straight season AU will host a team from Florida after hosting Rollins in 2013. In the teams' last meeting in 2012, Anderson and FSC played to a scoreless draw on the final day of the Columbus State Collegiate Invitational.
Following the nonconference showdown with Florida Southern, the Trojans will hit the road for three straight contests beginning on Sept. 13 when they open SAC play with Catawba. In the last four seasons, the AU and Catawba series has been one of the most even rivalries in the conference as the Trojans are 2-2-1 against the Indians, including a 2-2 draw a season ago.
"This will be our first opportunity to right some wrongs from last season," Traquair said. "It is important to start off the conference schedule on the right foot and to start on the road; it would be fantastic to get a result there. At the college level, I feel its very difficult to win on the road, so to get at least a point would be great."
With one conference match behind them, the Trojans continue their road stretch with a trip to Georgia College on Sept. 17, looking to avenge a 2-0 setback in 2013, followed by their second SAC match of the year against Coker on Sept. 20. Last season, Anderson came away with a 3-0 shutout over the Cobras in their first season as SAC members.
AU follows the three-match road trip with three straight home contests, as all three matches will feature conference foes that the Trojans settled for ties against. The streak begins on Sept. 24 when Anderson hosts Queens for a 2 p.m. kickoff. After the match with the Royals, the Trojans play host to Mars Hill on Sept. 27 and begin the month of October with a match against Tusculum on Oct. 4. Both MHU and TC played Anderson to scoreless draws in 2013.
On Oct. 8, the Trojans travel to Newberry for an in-state showdown, seeking their first win over the Wolves since joining the conference in 2010. Following the match with the Wolves, the Trojans will have a quick turnaround before returning home to take on Lenoir-Rhyne on Oct. 10.
"This will be a tough conference stretch with all these teams projected to finish in the top bracket of the conference," Traquair said. "To be in the bracket, we have to beat these teams. These first conference games are very important for us."
Anderson heads back into its nonconference slate when it heads to Peach Belt Conference opponent Lander for the second straight season on Oct. 15. The Bearcats fended off AU in overtime last season, scoring the match's only goal in the 99th minute of action. The Trojans conclude a brief two-match road stretch when it visits Lincoln Memorial on Oct. 18.
As AU heads into its final stretch of the regular season, the Trojans will play three of their last four at Trojan Stadium, beginning on Oct. 22 against Brevard. Anderson looks to continue its recent success over the Tornados, as the Black and Gold improved to a perfect 4-0 against BC since becoming conference rivals.
Three days later, Anderson locks up with SAC defending champion Wingate for a 4 p.m. kickoff. The Bulldogs polished off 2013 with a 16-3-4 overall record and advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight when they fell to West Florida, 3-2. AU closes its home slate with Erskine on Oct. 30 as the Trojans seek Beville Cup points, hoping to retain the prestigious award for the third straight year.
The regular season comes to a close on Nov. 1 when Anderson heads to the Volunteer State to take on Carson-Newman. The teams settled for a 1-1 tie a season ago, snapping a streak of two straight regular season wins over the Eagles.
"The schedule sets up for well for us," Traquair said. "We have a six-game stretch in 18 days and we will rely on our depth."
The 2014 SAC Championships are scheduled for Nov. 4-9 with the opening round taking place at the higher seeds. The semifinals and final will be held at Manchester Meadows in Rock Hill, S.C.
"The ultimate goal of the season is to make it to Rock Hill," Traquair said. "If you advance to Rock Hill you give yourself a chance. Everyone there, you've faced during the regular season, and then it's up to me and how the strong the squad is until that point to try and make us successful."


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Dr. Rexroat says when she got to the building she saw one of the worst cases of animal cruelty she'd ever seen.
Dr. Rexroat says, "I entered the building and found six dogs that couldn't get out of their crates, hadn't been out of their crates in a long time. They were standing in inches of their own bowel movement."
She says the little water the dogs had was sludge and many of them didn't have any food. When she looked closer she saw something worse.
Dr. Rexroat says, "There were maggots around all the cages. There were maggots everywhere."
When Dr. Rexroat heard barking and puppies whining inside the trailer on the property she went in to find even more dogs being neglected.
Dr. Rexroat says, "We found three adult females in the house with no water. Eight puppies in one of the bedrooms with the female. The puppies were lethargic, dehydrated, and in need of medical attention."
Dr. Shannon Campbell says, "The smell was coming in our front door from the parking lot."
Dr. Campbell treated the dogs when they were brought to the Adair County Animal Hospital. She says she and the other employees were there until 9 p.m. cleaning the puppies and dogs. They were then examined and treated for parasites. After going through all that, the doctors agree that the dogs are ready for a better life.
Dr. Campbell says, "They are an excellent breed of dogs. They are going to be really nice pets."
If you are interested in fostering or potentially adopting one of these dogs, please call the Metcalfe County Judge Executive at (270) 432-3181 or call the Adair County Animal Hospital at (270) 384-6113.
If you would like to make a donation to the Green River Animal Welfare League in support of the Green River Animal Shelter, please send to:
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text: There's been lots of bands that've been popping up around the public. This one in paticular is like the alternative rock/rap version of ICP with added figures in the group. Though I am not a fan of Insane Clown Posse or Hollywood Undead, lots of people are fanatics of their style and music. Drawing these masks should be simple and fun, considering the fact that the coloring would be much needed for your version to look similar. Get yourself some patience and the required tools for drawing in order to begin the process of the six differen maks. I'm not sure what the names of all of them are, so if you know, please leave a comment in the description! Anyways, I've gotta get going on more lessons for the day, there's one more left. Stay tuned for more awesomely fun tutorials soon and I'll get to sketching up your requests! Love and peace, folks!


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Columbia College's online bachelor's degree programs and the MBA program were recognized in the second edition of Top Online Education Programs by U.S.News & World Report. Recognition was based on teaching practices and student engagement; faculty credentials and training; and student services and technology.
"We are pleased to be recognized by this prestigious organization," said Dr. Gerald Brouder, president of Columbia College. "We realized the importance of providing online education more than 11 years ago, and since then we've redoubled our efforts to enhance our online presence. This recognition is indicative of our commitment to become a model institution."
U.S.News & World Report ranked online bachelor's degree programs as well as online graduate degree programs in business, engineering, nursing, education and computer information technology. In order to be considered for the rankings, online degree programs needed to have at least 80 percent of their course content available online.
Columbia College offers 23 online associate, bachelor's and master's degrees. In 2011 alone, nearly 24,000 students took an online course with the college. Each year, more than 800 undergraduate classes are offered through the Online Campus.
Founded in 1851 in Columbia, Mo., Columbia College has been helping students advance their lives through higher education for more than 160 years. As a private, nonprofit, liberal arts and sciences institution, the college takes pride in its small classes, experienced faculty and quality educational programs. With more than 30 campuses across the country, 18 of which are on military installations, students may enroll in day, evening or online classes. The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Columbia College educates more than 30,000 students each year and has more than 74,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccis.edu.


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I am trying to derive the formula for the radius of the circle inscribed in an equilateral triangle from scratch.
$2*n$ = length of a side
$H$ = the altitude of the triangle = $h + a$
$h$ = the long subdivision (from the center of the triangle to a vertex)
$a$ = the short subdivision (from the center of the triangle to a side. Also the radius of the inscribed circle)
By first deriving the altitude of the triangle
I have gotten to the reduced equation
$n \sqrt(3) - a = \sqrt(a^2+n^2)$
Trying to solve for $a$, I know in advance that $a$ is $1/3$ and $h$ is $2/3$ of $H$, with
$a = n\sqrt(3)/3$
This is of course the answer I wish to derive.
In fact, plugging the equation given above into a system such as Mathematica will provide the correct answer. But I can't find out what the steps are, primarily because I know of now way to extract the $a$ term from within the square root term.
Please, no trigonometry. I know there is a fast derivation involving tangents, etc, but this is more properly an algebra problem - how to solve the equation for $a$.


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12 Pregnancy Superfoods
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Okay, so pretzels don't pack loads of nutrients. But they're a great low-fat, low-calorie snack and much better for you than greasy potato chips. Women struggling with morning sickness may find that snacking on a few pretzels, crackers, or other plain snack right when they wake up in the morning helps them feel less nauseated. For extra fiber, go for whole-wheat pretzels, and if you have high blood pressure, opt for lower-sodium pretzels without salt.
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The proliferation of rich interactive web applications across the cloud and mobile devices continues to create new opportunities for creative design and development. As these technologies evolve, Microsoft is committed to providing best-in-class tools for building modern applications. In support of these industry trends Microsoft is consolidating our lead design and development offerings — Expression and Visual Studio — to offer all of our customers a unified solution that brings together the best of Web and modern development patterns.
With Visual Studio 2012 we introduced Blend for Visual Studio, providing advanced design-centric capabilities for Windows Store apps and Windows Phone apps. You can download Blend for Visual Studio 2012 with Visual Studio Express for Windows 8, Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone 8, and Visual Studio Professional and higher.
Additionally a Preview version of Blend for Visual Studio 2012 that supports Silverlight and WPF editing, as well as SketchFlow is available. With this addition, developers can now leverage a consolidated tool for all the platforms, as part of a fully integrated solution with Visual Studio.
We are committed to releasing a production-ready version of Blend that supports these platforms in the upcoming Visual Studio 2012 Update 2. Please check back on the availability by visiting the Visual Studio website.
Download Blend + Sketchflow Preview for Visual Studio2012
If you are unsure about which version of Blend to use for your current projects, please see the platform and version table on our team blog, BlendInsider.
The web is now about applications as well as traditional web sites, and this requires a new set of tools. Microsoft is committed to offering a unified approach to focus on web design and development features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012.
Expression Web is now available as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center, and no new versions will be developed. Customers who previously purchased Expression Web will receive support through the established support lifecycle.
Expression SuperPreview Remote Beta will continue running as a service through June 30, 2013.
Customers are demanding better tools to help them create innovative, user-centric, fast and fluid applications. Going forward, our focus is on building the best tools for creating these applications with Visual Studio and Blend for Visual Studio, importing content from a range of widely used graphical tools.
Expression Design is now available as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center, and no new versions will be developed. Customers who previously purchased Expression Design as part of Expression Ultimate or Expression Web will receive support through the established support lifecycle.
Going forward, Microsoft is continuing to invest in encoding, format conversion, and live on-demand streaming as a part of Windows Azure Media Services.
Expression Encoder 4 Pro is no longer available for purchase. It will be supported for the remainder of its support lifecycle and no new versions will be developed.
Additionally, the free version of Expression Encoder will continue to be available for download.
What's the difference between the free and paid versions of Expression Web and Design?
The features and functionality are the same between the free download and paid versions. The key difference is that the free versions are not supported, meaning they come as-is and no Microsoft technical support is available (these products are supported via the community).
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text: Hi I am really sorry if this is a really daft question to ask. I have been trying Swish-E as a potential indexing\spidering candidate for our new Intranet. Firstly, my setup : Windows XP Pro, Service Pack 2, Swish-E 2.4.3 Active Perl 5.6.1 I have installed ActivePerl 5.6.1 from here <http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.6/ActivePerl-126.96.36.1998-MSWin32-x86.msi> and installed it - no problems there. I've then installed the Windows Binary of Swish-E 2.4.3 from here <http://www.swish-e.org/distribution/swish-e-2.4.3-win32.exe>. No problems there either. I've downloaded Swish-E at home for testing purposes and managed to get it to work for basic indexing by following through with the instructions and switches. No problems there. My query relates to the use of the Perl scripts, namely the 'spider.pl' file in relation to CatDoc. The problems arise when I try to instruct Swish-E to spider a local folder full of office and PDF documents. I've created a swishe.conf file (called 'swishe.conf') in the root of the C:\Program Files\SWISH-E folder and populated it with the info from the web site as follows : # Example for spidering # Use the "spider.pl" program included with Swish-e IndexDir spider.pl # Define what site to index SwishProgParameters default Z:\Files (I have also tried Z:/Files) The first thing I realized is that spider.pl is actually called spider.pl.in by default. I had to rename it to spider.pl. I assume that is correct? Until I did that it just couldn't find the file at all. After renaming it, when I run the following command : swish-e -S prog -c swishe.conf I get the following error : ------------------------------------ Indexing Data Source: "External-Program" Indexing "spider.pl" External Program found: C:\Program Files\SWISH-E\lib\swish-e/spider.pl 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Removing very common words... no words removed. Writing main index... err: No unique words indexed! . ------------------------------------ And that's it. I've searched the Internet for this error in combination with Swish-E and all I could find was this posting <http://swish-e.org/archive/2003-12/6616.html>. Looking at the backslash and forward slash thing, I wondered if it was to do with my PATH settings. So I edited them to include the following : C:\Perl\bin\;C:/Perl;C:/Program Files/SWISH-E. My full system path now reads : C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32\WBEM;C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL;C:\Perl\bin\;C:/Perl;C:/Program Files/SWISH-E Now I am assuming it's got something to do with the fact that Windows is not seeing\detecting the fact that Perl is installed? If that is the case, I don't understand why there is a file association for pl files - it knows pl files are Perl, yet from the DOS shell it does not appear to understand it. Can anyone help me? I'm sure the answer is simple, but believe me, I have spent hours trying to find the answer without success. It is not for a lack of trying. Maybe I just daft! Thanks very much for all your help. Ted ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. *********************************************************************Received on Wed May 3 07:44:03 2006