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'''Disengaging the clutches before testing movement software is highly recommended, as you will be able to see the motors trying to run you over without the robot being able to actually do it.''' This is like taking the laser off of Johnny Five before sending him to the lightning-prone recharging booth.
'''Disengaging the clutches before testing movement software is highly recommended, as you will be able to see the motors trying to run you over without the robot being able to actually do it.''' This is like taking the laser off of Johnny Five before sending him to the lightning-prone recharging booth.
=== Autonomous Behaviors
=== Autonomous Behaviors
=== Face Following ===
=== Face Following ===
Switch on monitor & wireless keyboard.
Switch on wheelchair and
As user mchawking, open a terminal window in home directory.
cd mchawking/scripts/lilia/
python noise-bot.py
Revision as of 00:02, 21 April 2011
Hereby known as "MC Hawking - The Wheelchair Robot"
Here's the beast: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot-emc/DSCN9886.JPG
Videos: rachel driving rachel attacks a wheelchair driving around noisebridge
Improperly used, the robot can destroy itself, its suroundings, and run you over. Please know what you are doing and don't be afraid to ask questions.
- RTFI! Know how to engage / disengage wheel clutches, and where the power switch is incase it goes crazy.
- Always warn humans nearby that the robot could lose control and run them over.
- DO NOT "UPGRADE" UBUNTU OR THE KERNEL ON THE HOST MACHINE! (unless you are going to stick around and make everything work with it...)
- if someone is sitting in the chair when it is on, warn them that the robot could go crazy and kill them, it has almost happened.
- always make sure it's plugged into the battery charger, and that the charger is plugged in and powered on. The batteries are throwaways and barely hold a charge as is, so we need to keep it on the charger.
- We have not implemented even basic safety shutoffs, so you should be watching it all the time. It will very happily drive through its operator and the wall without stopping.
- If it appears to be getting out of hand, the power switch is just behind the joystick, where you turned it on. This will power down the motors and stop it where it is immediately, with the brakes on. At this point you can disconnect the parallel-port interface and drive it home with the joystick, or disengage the wheel clutches and push it home manually.
- If it REALLY IS getting out of hand, use furniture to try to stop its movement so you can get at the power switch. DO NOT try to use your body to stop it, it's heavier and stronger than you are and it doesn't feel pain.
M.C. Hawking the Wheelchair Robot, AKA Noise-Bot, uses an electric wheelchair (Action Arrow Storm Series). This is a mid-sized electric wheelchair which can be dis-assembled without tools and transported in a car, which is how it got to noisebridge. It uses two 12-volt lead-acid batteries such as car batteries. The batteries are wired in series for 24 volts, and it is necessary that they are matched so that one doesn't wear-out the other during use and charging.
At this time (nov 2010) the batteries are throwaways which have just enough capacity to play around with the thing for a couple of hours before having to go back on the charger.
The battery charger plugs into the wheelchair on the joystick side, just in front of the wheel.
The wheelchair is electronically immobilized by the third terminal of the chargers' plug, which is connected to ground. In the future, the robot will be able to plug into electricity by driving into its parking spot, so that the onboard computer does not have to be shut down or manually plugged into mains AC to avoid draining the batteries. At that point the computer will gain the ability to power-up the wheelchair electronics, so that the robot can be summoned from afar at anytime, without a human present to unplug the charger, turn on the switch, and do the reverse when the remote user is finished.
There is a computer (separate from the wheelchair controller which technically has a computer in it) which is in an extruded aluminum case like a car-audio amplifier. It uses a PCI7E mini-motherboard and a Mini-Box M3-ATX power supply
The box is currently powered by a custom voltage regulator made by jake. It accepts up to 40 or so volts, but will never deliver more than 23 to the M3-ATX which is hard-limited to 25 volts. If the voltage is at or below 23 volts, its FETs are in full conduction and there is zero dropout. Once on, the M3-ATX will keep the computer running unless voltage goes below 7 volts, at which point the 24-volt battery array of the wheelchair is being seriously damaged.
The voltage regulator's input plugs into the wheelchair's charger port, on the joystick side, just in front of the wheel. The voltage regulator's output cable is soldered directly to the laptop's mainboard.
The voltage regulator's input plugs into a connector coming from the wheelchair controller's blue power connector, which is connected directly to the batteries. This is where the voltage regulator gets disconnected when the robot is not being charged regularly, so that the regulator does not drain and destroy the batteries. The output of the voltage regulator goes to two tab terminals and an on/off switch, to provide the computer's power supply with constant voltage, ground, and a switched-version of constant voltage. Read up on the M3-ATX linked above.
A circuitboard zip-tied to the arm-rest interfaces the parallel port of the computer to the joystick. This circuit uses transistors to trick the wheelchair controlbox into thinking that the joystick is somewhere other than at-rest in the center. Of the eight bits of the parallel port, two make the chair go forward, two to the right, two to the left, and two backwards. For each direction, there is one bit causing low speed and another causing medium speed. Both bits cause high speed. As of 11/15/2010 a steady-state on the parallel port is not ignored by the circuit, so a computer crash will cause the chair to go out of control. In the future, the circuit will ignore non-changing status bits, but the software has to be changed first.
At this time Jake is preparing to install sensors on the motor which will allow the computer to track movement and speed. An old ball-mouse has been disassembled and its sensors mounted on wires, and these sensors will be placed at the open end of the drive motors. An optical interruptor will be attached to the end of the motors' driveshafts, so the computer will experience movement on the x and y axes of the mouse when the left and right wheelmotors turn. Since the mouse is/was DB9 serial, it will be possible for the computer to treat it as a serial accessory rather than interpreting it as an actual Human Interface Device to move a mouse cursor. The next step will be a daemon to listen for serial data and to make available speed and movement data to applications such as the telepresence driving program (controller.py) to improve control of locomotion over a lagged internet connection.
An LCD monitor is being prepared to be mounted permanently as the seatback.
A robot arm made of mostly aluminum and animated by air-cylinders is fitted to the robot, but few electronic valves and no air compressor or tank have been acquired. Someone will have to invest time and energy to get the arm to do more than make the thing look more menacing. As of 11/15/2010 the arm was removed to make the robot more wieldy/less unwieldy.
The PC is running a stock Ubuntu with PyParallel being used by the controller program to access the parallel port. All the software from the home directory as of 11/15/2010 is here:
The above software is present in the home directory of user tvbrain and mchawking. The difference is that if you log in as tvbrain you are a regular user, but mchawking logs in to an instance of python controller.py which is how the wheelchair's motor functions are accessed.
username: mchawking password: emc
username: tvbrain password: [redacted]
Network Connection
The embedded PC is using a Generic Realtek USB 802.11b interface, which is sub-excellent, but the WUSB600N by Cisco doesn't work properly under Ubuntu for some strange reason.
There's also a Cisco Aironet 1220B named wbr2 on the wheelchair, which associates to a matching Cisco 1220B named wbr1 at 2169 Mission. They use 802.11a to communicate on a dedicated channel. They use the default username and password for that platform. The embedded PC uses its ethernet port to talk to the Noisebridge network via a connection to wbr2's ethernet port.
The embedded PC is configured from /etc/networks/interfaces Also, Network-Manager which is the gui-compatible 21st century newschool network configuration system is been pushed to the side, possibly for good. The embedded PC is now configured to find the wireless network called noisebridge and take the internal IP below.
Noisebridge internal IP address
The robot's USB wireless interface has claimed an IP on the internal network of
Its ethernet port is using DHCP at the moment.
Static world IP address
For those not inside the noisebridge internal network, a static IP from sonic.net has been assigned. The static IP is
Access from outside 2169 Mission
Configuration of the firewall is done (thanks Jof), so that connections to the machine can be initiated from the outside world. This is important if people are expected to log in and drive it around from Germany or Singapore.
DNS entry
In the future someone will assign that IP address a DNS entry like
Local Operation
The electric wheelchairs' controller brain will not allow movement unless the joystick is at rest for a second when power is switched on. If the computer has not initialized the parallel port to the "stop" bitpattern, and the switch is flipped on, the green LED will flash endlessly because it thinks you are leaning on the joystick and don't intend to do so.
The drive-wheels have clutches which can be disengaged from their motors (and brakes) by pressing a button and rotating a collar until it can be pulled outwards. When the clutches are disengaged, the robot can be pushed around like a shopping cart, and the motors can be activated without actually causing movement. Sometimes the robot must be pushed forward or backward in order to engage or disengage the wheel clutches, because they are like gears and only fit together in some positions.
Disengaging the clutches before testing movement software is highly recommended, as you will be able to see the motors trying to run you over without the robot being able to actually do it. This is like taking the laser off of Johnny Five before sending him to the lightning-prone recharging booth.
Autonomous Behaviors
Face Following
- Switch on monitor & wireless keyboard.
- Switch on wheelchair and
- As user mchawking, open a terminal window in home directory.
- ./botsetup.sh
- cd mchawking/scripts/lilia/
- python noise-bot.py


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Ten days ago, I released the new 0.9 version of the Kdenlive video editor. Several annoying bugs were quickly detected and most of them are now fixed in git. so I am going to release Kdenlive 0.9.1 soon (hopefully tonight).
The fixes include:
For ubuntu users, these fixes are already available in the sunab's kdenlive-svn PPA, so if you want to give it a try before the official release and give some feedback, that would be great.
Thanks to all the users who took time to help me fix these bugs. And for the next major release, we will probably try to make a beta release cycle so that we can improve the quality of the release.


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I was wondering if you can get your own house in Fallout: New Vegas like you did in Fallout 3?
You can get your own place if you follow the main quest. For this one you can also buy upgrades.
There is an earlier opportunity to rent a motel room (forever).
There are two 'homes'. When you reach Novac, there is a Motel room you can rent, which is safe to store stuff and rest in, and if you complete the quest One for My Baby by accusing the actual perpetrator, you'll receive it permanently at no charge.
Further along the main quest, once you reach The Strip, you'll be given access to the Presidential Suite at the Lucky 38 Hotel and Casino. This functions more like the house you gained in FO3, in that when you dismiss companions, you can have them wait for you in the Suite, and you can purchase various 'upgrades' to add more style and functionality to the apartment. There are also several mods that add additional crafting resources or other customizations, if you're playing on the PC.
You also get a room for free at the Wrangler once you have collected every debt and taken care of the previous debt collector (which is the last task of that quest).
You can use Victor's shack in Good Springs: that's the first house you can get. You've got a bed to sleep in, a sink which is purified, a oven to store your aids, a couple of ammo boxes to store weapons and ammo, and also a desk to store your miscellaneous stuff. It's also free of charge; there's no need to rent a motel room.
All you need to do is find Harper's Shack. It's just north and east of hidden springs. It has a campfire outside for crafting, a reloading bench, a workbench, lockers, storage boxes and a bed. The only downside is it's near a deathclaw cave. Easily avoidable and/or assaulted
Get in a house, kill whoever is in there, and just stash your stuff there.
For example:
Also, there are several abandoned places which would do just fine.
The Jean Sky Diving shack, down the road from Goodsprings, is also a good storage house with only two Powder Gangers and some Bloatflies out back.
There is also an unoccupied shack right next to a burial ground near Good Springs. The only downside is there are a small portion of Radscorpians.
There is a general store in Nipton, inside there is a harmless powder ganger. Kill him. The store contains a bed and a safe you can put your stuff in.
There's 2 places that i know of,
if your on PC there's ofcause Mods, 2 that i use is
Underground Hideout - puts a manhole in Bonnie Springs, you can do a quest to get the key or opt to skip it, inside it has a garden for growing food, water purifier, clean water sources mannequins, weapon and ammo sorter/storage, a teleporter and the terminal inside allow you to get delivery from the Crimson Caravan. you all get this sledge hammer which allows you to move the manhole so it's mobile somewhat.
there is also a setting to use the Reactor which powers the place, having the setting on means every light consumes power and the reactor needs to be refueled with some Isotope which you can buy for a couple thousand caps or you can make it using the ammo press and power cells, having every light on means the reactor uses fuel quicker but if you just have light on for the main area and the armory one isotope last a month and a few snow globes you can have the reactor fueled for quite a long time.
Vault-Tech Mobile Home this adds a man holes near a couple of Powder Ganger camps just a bit west of Good Springs, inside is a Vault-Tech Facility which after searching, hacking, and blowing up robots gets you a trailer, inside it has all you need plus the computer allows you to change the internal design and move the trailer to any key place which means from the beginning you can zoom right off to places like Nellis Air force Base and in doesn't take time so in hardcore you Sleep, Food and Water needs wont increase.
the facility also have truck loads of rations which if you play hardcore means you don't have to worry about food
both mods have the basics, beds, containers where you can store your stuff, toilets to drink from, and both mods put the home in the map for fast travel. i use the Underground Hideout as my main base only in Good psrings and use the Mobile Home to jump only to places i can fast travel to cut down on travel time to others nearby
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SHERMAN, Tex. -- We continue our monthly series "Little Moments," looking at a mentoring program for children, Big Brothers Big Sisters. The program offers many opportunities for volunteering. Last month we talked about community based volunteering. On Friday, we discover the school-based program giving kids little moments of inspiration.
The library is a place children go to check out books, read their favorite stories, and maybe even get in a little homework now and then, but it's also a place where fourth grade Washington Elementary student, Jennifer, spends time with her Big Sister, Laci Hart.
"We talk about how we've been, how our week was," Jennifer says.
Jennifer and Laci are a part of Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based program, which gives children and their mentors the chance to spend time together at school for one hour a week, three or four times a month.
"I just got a friend, and I'm getting to see a child grow and mature and open up," Laci says.
Just like the community-based program, the school-based option allows Big Brothers or Big Sisters to just talk and spend time with their 'Little sibling'. Jennifer and Laci eat lunch together, go over homework assignments, and share little moments of their lives with each other.
"I just wanted to influence a young kid. It sounded fun to hang out. I've never had a younger sibling," Jennifer says.
Principal Sheryl Barnett is amazed at how much the program impacts the students.
"This has been one of the greatest things to happen to our school," Barnett says.
Barnett has seen the difference it's made in Jennifer after only four short months with her Big Sister, Laci, and it's made a difference in each of the other 'Little's' lives too.
"The kids have come out of their shells, they've had improved behavior. It's been a very good opportunity for our children," Barnett says.
Each moment that Jennifer and Laci spend together is a special one, and even though Jennifer has biological brothers and sisters at home, Laci has taken on a role that gives Jennifer that needed one-on-one experience only a Big can provide.
"We were both shy, and then we were able to open up," Jennifer says.
"She's like my sister," Jennifer says.
If you'd like to become a Big Brother or Big Sister, we've posted that information below. Being a Big Brother or Big Sister doesn't take that much time, but it means the world to a child.
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Secure Electronic Documents (SED)
Inter Library Loan requesters who are members of Birmingham Libraries, can now request and receive documents via Secure Electronic Document delivery, (SED) on their personal computers at home via email.
Requesters must have:
1. Ticked the box on the Inter Library Loan serial/photocopy/SED request form to show that a Secure Electronic Document (SED) is required and supply their email address
2. The FileOpen plug-in installed on their computer
3. A valid email address to access the link to the electronic document sent by the British Library
4. Access to a printer if they wish to print off the document within 14 days after the document is downloaded.
Requesters must have the free 'FileOpen plug in' installed on their computers. FileOpen is compatible with every version of Adobe Reader from version 4. If requesters go to the British Library home web page at www.bl.uk and search for FileOpen there is a link to download the 'FileOpen plug-in' free of charge and to download the test document. There is also a 'FileOpen installation guide PDF' for more details.
Downloading and printing the SED document
Below is an example of the email you will receive in response to a SED request. The email gives instructions on how to download FileOpen if you haven't already installed it.
Users have 30 days to download the document. Once downloaded, you have 14 days to print off the document. It is best to print the document at once to avoid running out of time.
The e-mail says 'Click Here to download your document'.
When you click on the link you will have an option to:
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Select this and then a message appears:
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It is best to select open. The document appears and you have the option to print the document.
If you have a printer attached to your PC you should open and print the document within 14 days. You are allowed to make one print copy but will be allowed two attempts if there are printer problems.
There are FileOpen FAQs available on the British Library website which may help to answer any queries you might have.
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Many native Spanish speakers have trouble determining when accent marks (tildes) should be used and where. What are the rules for accent placement in Spanish? How do you determine whether the vowel on the accented syllable should have an accent mark or not?
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There are three main categories of words in Spanish, according to what syllable the stress falls on: agudas, llanas o graves and esdrújulas. Let's see what these terms mean.
Words are divided in syllables. In order to know what syllable gets the tilde, you need to count the syllables. The counting starts from the last syllable towards the beginning of the word:
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I want to make a priest for healing. In PvP and PvE, which Horde race is better?
Short answer
It depends. Here's a quick sheet based on my experience if you'd rather not think too much about the options:
Long Answer
Race differences are pretty negligible. Any race can be an effective priest. What it usually comes down to are the professions you want to roll and whether you are going to be a raider or a PvP player and how much fun you'll have playing the starting area or simply walking around looking like a member of that race.
That being said, you have 5 options as Horde. Here are their noteworthy abilities. I don't bother mentioning things like resistances or extra time underwater as they really aren't all that helpful overall. I already indicated my opinion above, but depending on your personal preference (maybe you really hate being feared and favor an Undead for their ability to break fear effects overall), the lists below may guide you in another direction.
At one time, early on in the game the priests did have racial spells. For instance, only Dwarfs had fear ward, only Forsaken had Devouring Plague. When these spells were removed (I believe around 3.0) or given to priests of all races, only the basic racial skills came into focus.
In summary: PVP: Goblins for Rocket Jump, Undead for WotF
PVE: Goblins for haste, Trolls for Berserking
But I feel that only high level PvP will bring the racial differences into any sort of significant primacy.
Trolls are great because of the Berserking ability, but Blood Elf is the best race really because of Arcane Torrent which is a silence and mana restore. Good Luck


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In a paper it says "In the generic group model, the PRF is adaptively secure for inputs of $\mathbb{Z}_q^n$". Maybe a stupid question, but what does "adaptively secure" mean exactly?
Well, when we talk about "chosen plaintext attacks", there are two possible flavors for this attack:
This second model is known as "adaptively chosen plaintext attack" model, because the attacker can adapt the plaintext he selects based on previous results. This is a strictly stronger attack model than the "nonadaptive" attack model, where we insist that the attacker gives us all the plaintext up front before we give him anything. "Adaptively secure" means that it is secure within this attack model.
Nowadays, this distinction is a bit obscure, mostly because we really don't have much use for a cryptographical primitive that is secure only in the nonadaptive model; hence a "chosen plaintext attack" typically does mean "adaptively chosen plaintext attack". However, the terminology does turn up when we're being precise.


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Alexei Oblomkov recently told me about the beautiful theorem of Kerov and Vershik, which says that "almost all Young diagrams look the same." More precisely: take a random irreducible representation of S_n (in Plancherel measure, which assigns a probability of (dim chi)^2 / (n!) to an irrep chi) and draw its Young diagram, normalized to have fixed area. Rotate the diagram 45 degrees and place the vertex at the origin of the Cartesian plane, so that it lies above the graph of y = |x|. Then there is a fixed curve, with equation
$$ y = \left\lbrace \begin{array}{ll} |x|, & |x| > 2 \newline \frac 2\pi \left(x \arcsin\frac x2 + \sqrt{4-x^2}\right), & |x| \leq 2 \end{array}\right.$$
such that the normalized Young diagram is very close to the curve with probability very close to 1.
My question: what asymptotic statements about irreducible characters of S_n can be "read off" the Kerov-Vershik theorem? In a sense, this isn't a question about Kerov-Virshik at all, but a question about which interesting statistics of irreducible characters can be read off the shape of the Young diagram.
There are some tautological answers: for instance, if f(chi) is the height of the first column of chi, then I guess Kerov-Virshik shows that
f(chi) / sqrt(n)
is very probably very close to 2 as n gets large (if I did this computation right -- in any event it concentrates around a fixed value.) But I don't really have in mind any representation-theoretic meaning for f(chi).


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I know there's a Graph api url for getting the recent wall feeds:
But how do I get the Recent Activity? Is there any way? FQL (not Graph API) can work too. I don't really care which way I get it.
I'm trying to get the RECENT ACTIVITY, which appears as part of the wall. It has same IDs like the standard wall entries have, but they aren't returned in the
/me/feed request, because they are treated differently on facebook, and I'm trying to find out a simple way to get them just like


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Find out whether your intimacy issues are no cause for alarm or require medical attention
Ever wonder if what you experience between the sheets is "normal"? You're not alone. We've asked the experts for their take on some common sex concerns we've heard from women. Here's what they had to say.
"Sometimes, when I'm having sex with my husband, I start off aroused and then lose interest. I want him to feel good and to 'finish,' but I feel awkward and would rather stop. Why does this happen? Is it normal?"
Don't worry—you don't have some undiagnosed sexual dysfunction just because you lose interest, occasionally, during sex, says Amy Levine, a New York City–based sex coach and certified sexuality educator. "The key for you is to figure out what is working the other times," says Levine. "Perhaps your husband makes certain moves when you don't lose interest that you find pleasurable. Knowing your body and communicating your wants, needs and desires are paramount when it comes to connected and satisfying sex." But what to do in the moment when you lose interest? "Let him know how you want—or don't want—to be touched," says Levine. "If and when this does happen in the future, don't be hard on yourself. You can stop having sex, and tell him you want to satisfy him in other ways. After all, switching things up may be the pleasure prescription to keep you engaged." Photo: Thinkstock
"Sometimes I feel emotional after sex and actually cry. It's embarrassing, but is it normal?"
Absolutely normal! "Sexual behavior can trigger a range of intense emotions, from euphoria to sadness to anger," notes Kimberly Resnick Anderson, LISW, AASECT-certified Diplomate of Sex Therapy, and the director of the Summa Center for Sexual Health in Akron, Ohio. "Every woman experiences a sexual encounter through her own lens and attaches personal meaning and context to it." For instance, she explains, you may be asking yourself questions like: Is our love as strong as it once was? Will I ever have a baby? Am I truly satisfied with my sexual life, my marriage? "All of these 'wonderings' can trigger intense affective experiences," Anderson says. "In addition, the physiological experience of orgasm releases neurochemicals, such as oxytocin, dopamine and norepinephrine, in the female brain that can activate a host of unexpected, powerful emotions." However, if sex or the thought of sex makes you feel emotional or the type of emotions you face after sex are severe and debilitating, speak to your doctor or a certified sex therapist. Photo: Thinkstock
"I feel like I have a very strong vaginal scent. There's been no change in discharge over the years, but I worry that the smell isn't normal. Should I be concerned?"
"Probably not, especially if nothing has changed," says Anderson. "Many women are self-conscious about their vaginal scent and are probably much more focused on it than their partners are." In fact, she adds, many women who believe they have a strong or offensive odor are surprised to hear that their husband or boyfriend is either unaware of a scent or finds it appealing or erotic. "Societal messages and cultural norms have done a disservice to women by inducing shame and embarrassment about natural scents," she continues. "Evolutionary research shows that scent is a key factor in erotic response and that 'blocking' natural odors actually interferes with evolutionary efficiency and long-term sexual satisfaction." Still, if you or your partner notice an obvious change in vaginal odor or discharge, consult your physician to rule out infection, adds Anderson. Photo: Fuse/Getty
"Sometimes after sex, I experience bleeding—not much, just a little. Is this normal?"
It's best to talk to your doctor about any post-sex bleeding, even light spotting.
"Bleeding after sex—or postcoital bleeding, as it's called in the medical world—can often be a sign of something abnormal, most commonly an infection or cervical polyp, but sometimes something more concerning, like cervical cancer," says Lisa Stern, RN, MSN, a nurse practitioner who works with Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles and blogs at gynfizz.com. But sometimes such bleeding turns out to be nothing—even natural. "Occasionally, women, especially teenage women or pregnant women, notice light bleeding after sex, which is due to normal developmental changes of the cervix." Still, any bleeding should signal a visit to your doctor to rule out any underlying problems. Photo: Thinkstock
"I'm worried about the fact that I frequently have pain during and after intercourse. It's not intense, but it's bothersome and I can't help but wonder if other women experience this too."
The good news? You're not alone. "Many women have pain during sex only in certain positions, with certain partners or at certain times of the menstrual cycle," says Stern. "This is often normal, though severe or persistent pain should be evaluated." Be on the lookout for these red flags: "If you do have pain during intercourse, especially if accompanied by other symptoms like vaginal discharge, severe menstrual cramps or discomfort with urination, you should see your health care provider to rule out a cervical infection, endometriosis or interstitial cystitis," she adds. Photo: Thinkstock
"Is it normal to experience cramping after intercourse—even when you're not expecting your period?"
Yes. "Cramping after intercourse can be normal, especially if the cervix—the bottom portion of the uterus—has been jarred at all during sex, through contact with a penis, fingers or a sex toy," notes Stern. "A cramping sensation can also, sometimes, be the result of discomfort in the bladder or urinary tract." To reduce cramping during and after sex, try emptying your bladder before and after sex. Still, says Stern, if you experience persistent cramping after intercourse, it's best to see your doctor to rule out any underlying health conditions like endometriosis, fibroids or a urinary tract infection. Photo: Thinkstock
"It's so embarrassing, but sometimes I pass gas during sex. I can't help it! Why does this happen, and does it happen to other women?"
It's normal and natural, says Stern. "This happens to a lot of people," she says. "The female reproductive organs—the uterus, ovaries and vagina—are located in very close proximity to the colon, the largest portion of the gastrointestinal tract. During intercourse, any movement of these organs can also provoke movement of the colon, which is then able to release trapped gas." And sometimes an orgasm can even trigger gas, thanks to relaxed muscles right before climax. Embarrassing? Yes, but it's great to know that we're all in the same boat here. Photo: Jessica Peterson/Getty
"One of my vaginal lips is bigger than the other. I'm worried that my husband thinks I have an ugly vagina! How do I know if mine is normal-looking?"
Every woman's vagina is unique, and many are asymmetrical, says Stern. "There aren't any 'normal' or 'abnormal' vaginas," she explains. Still, if you do notice that your vagina has changed—for example, if there's a lump on or a change in color of one or both of your vaginal lips—see your health care provider for an evaluation." But if one side has been bigger since puberty? It's just your own normal variation, she says. Embrace it! Photo: Thinkstock
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Getting Here
Located on Naama Bay, overlooking the Red Sea and the South Sinai's desert and mountains. Just 10 minutes from Sharm El Sheikh International Airport, and a 50-minute flight from Cairo.
The Club concierge can arrange for airport meet-and-greet service and transfers, limousine service and car rentals.
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Following Larry's Cloud Keynote – Oracle's MWaaS, Public, Private Strategy Session
By Bruce Tierney-Oracle on Sep 20, 2013
How do I leverage Oracle's Middleware-as-a-Service
offerings? What is the "as-a-Service" strategy? When do I use Oracle Public vs. Private Cloud or a combination of the
two? Following Larry's keynote on
Tuesday Sept 24th get the answers to these questions and more. After a 30-minute break, head over to the 3:45
PM General Session titled "Oracle Fusion Middleware: Designed to Power Your Cloud
Strategy" to hear Senior Director of Product Management Sandeep Banerjie and Oracle
VP/Architect Mark Nelson give an introduction of Oracle MWaaS as well as an
in-depth look into Oracle Public Cloud and Oracle Private Cloud.
Hope to see you on Tuesday September 24th at 3:45 at Moscone West – 3024.For more information on Oracle Cloud and MWaaS sessions, see the Middleware Cloud Computing and MWaaS, see the Middleware Cloud Computing Focus On listing.


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Silver: the smooth way to travel
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Requirements to become a Silver member
Silver membership is yours as soon as you have reached one of the following thresholds within 1 calendar year:
You have earned 25,000 Level Miles (30,000 in France and Monaco) on flights with one of the SkyTeam partners.
- You have made 15 qualifying flights with one of the SkyTeam partners.
Which threshold you reach first depends on your travel behaviour. When you make a lot of short trips, the 15 qualifying flights could be yours in no time. But when your destinations are further away, you might very soon earn enough Level Miles to become a Silver member and be able to enjoy the benefits!
Silver benefits on flights & flight-related servicesAs a Silver member, you always earn 50% extra Award Miles when you fly with one of Flying Blue's SkyTeam airline partners. You also benefit from a greater availability of tickets when you book a ticket with your Miles.
In addition, you enjoy complementary services that will make your trip smoother, such as: extra baggage allowance, preferred treatment, direct access from Privium parking P2 at Amsterdam-Schiphol and the use of dedicated Elite transfer desks. To arrive at your destination in a relaxed and well-rested state, you can enjoy the comfort of the AIR FRANCE, KLM and Delta Air Lines lounges by paying an entrance fee or opt for more comfort on board in Economy Comfort for a reduced fare or by paying with your Miles.
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|Elite bonus
|Carry over Level Miles
|Greater availability of award tickets
|Yes, when travelling in Business Class
|Platinum for Life
|Access to footbridge from Privium Parking at Amsterdam-Schiphol
|Yes, when you have already checked in online and are travelling to a Schengen country with hand baggage only.
|Newsletter with exclusive offers
|Flying Blue account for quick & convenient bookings
|Miles earning possibilities
|Miles spending possibilities
|Flying Blue membership reductions with partners
|Maintain your membership level during maternity leave¹
|Exclusive check-in counters
|At most airports
|Award upgrade
|Free first bag on European KLM flights
|Extra baggage allowance
|1 extra item on flights operated by SkyTeam and on Air Corsica flights to/from Corsica²:
32 kg in First & Business Class
23 kg in all other classes
|Free transfers
Priority services
|- Priority check-in
- Priority baggage drop-off
- Dedicated Silver boarding; boarding after SkyPriority, but before Economy Class
|Exclusive reservation service
|Yes, possible at a fee to a selection of the AIR FRANCE, KLM and Delta Air Lines airport lounges when travelling on, or connecting to/from an international SkyTeam-operated flight the same day³
|Guaranteed seat in Economy
|Preferred waitlist status
|Preferred standby status
|Economy Comfort
|Preferred seats on KLM flights
|25% discount⁴
|Seats with extra legroom on KLM flights
|25% discount⁴
|Seat Plus on AIR FRANCE flights
|25% discount⁴
|Delta Comfort+ on Delta Air Lines flights
|Comfort+ seat free of charge on day of departure⁵
|Car rentals
|Discount on rental prices
|Avis: up to 15% on all-inclusive rates for international leisure activities
Europcar: 15%
|Hertz: up to 15% on the best available rates worldwide and 15% on the Hertz Prestige and Fun Collection
|Sixt: 10% (mention code 9812073) and up to 18% discount on limousine rentals
|Extra Award Miles
|Avis: 100 extra Miles on online bookings
+ 600 extra Miles on eligible rates
|Car upgrade
|Guaranteed car
|Sixt: for reservations up to 48 hours before rental
|Free membership
|Avis Preferred
|Business services
|Regus: discount on rental prices
|10% discount on meeting rooms, videoconferencing and day offices
|10% on a Businessworld Gold, Platinum or Platinum Plus membership
¹ one request per maternity leave, to be submitted after membership level is lost.
² for all flights with a weight concept: extra baggage allowance is 10 kg
³ lounge access fee varies depending on the airport and access is subject to availability
⁴ upon member's request and depending on availability
⁵No discounts available outside this time frame. Seat requests can be made via My Trip on delta.com or at the Delta check-in desk. On the day of departure, all Delta Comfort+ seats will be assigned to eligible Flying Blue members according to availability. Paid or free Delta Comfort+ seats cannot be reserved on a Basic Economy (E) fare ticket, regardless of Flying Blue Elite status. This is valid for flights from 16 May 2016 onward.
*Applicable to standard Economy Class seats selected on/after 22 June 2016 with travel date on/after 24 August 2016. This benefit also applies to flights that are marketed by Delta Air Lines and operated by AIR FRANCE or KLM.
Silver benefits with other Flying Blue partnersOur other partners have special rates and many discounts from which Silver members benefit. What would you say to getting an upgrade when you rent a car with Avis? At some of our partner hotels, you can take advantage of a late check-out or a room upgrade. Our other partners will make sure you'll be treated as a VIP and will surprise you with numerous discounts.
Explore what our partners have to offer our Silver members
Watch the videoClick on the video below to explore all the benefits of Silver membership. This short animation will show you what it means to be a Silver member.
Good to know
Carry over Level Miles
On 31 December of each year, all Flying Blue Elite members, who have earned Level Miles above the Miles threshold required to maintain their current membership level, will carry over the surplus of Level Miles to the next year. This also applies when a higher level is reached. Members who have not maintained their membership level will not carry over their Level Miles.
What you need to move up to the next level
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(60,000 in France and Monaco)
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5 People Who Changed the World From Inside of Prison
One good thing about being imprisoned: It certainly gives you time to pursue your hobbies. Whether that's tattooing your eyeballs, brewing toilet DXM or writing threats to your crook lawyer, the specifics are up to you. But some guys, well, they make a little better use of their time. And some take a break from all the shankings and shower rape to change the damned world. Like...
#5. David Marshall Williams Changes Warfare
If you're extra good in prison, you might earn yourself some Spork privileges. No more eating pudding with the folded up lid for you; you've earned the right to use utensils, son! But that's only if you keep your nose clean, stay out of trouble and generally go out of your way to make prison life more bearable for all. So how good do you have to be to earn gun-building rights? You can ask David Marshall Williams that question, he spent most of his prison time building, testing and refining new types of machine guns.
Caledonia State Prison in (you guessed it) North Carolina thought it was a perfectly fine idea to allow a man who ran an illegal whiskey distillery (and who gunned down a deputy sheriff for trying to shut down said whiskey distillery) the tools to manufacture firearms.
We suspect he is responsible for this bottle design.
After several years of generally MacGuyvering shit for his fellow inmates (and sometimes even the guards), the superintendent allowed Williams access to the machine shop where he immediately began experimenting with new kinds of firearm components. Rather than the thorough Taser colonic he would've received if he tried that shit in modern times, Williams was allowed continue and went on to invent the short-stroke piston and the floating chamber. Unless you're a card-carrying member of the NRA, you probably don't know what those are, so let's just say they made rapid-firing guns even better at taking down a whole room full of people at once.
Without Williams, the terrorists might have won.
These were not minor innovations. In fact, they were so important that he used them as leverage to get himself out of prison, whereupon he returned to the military--no small feat considering he had been kicked out twice at that point.
His components became the basis for the M1 carbine. Even if you're not a diehard gun-nut scrolling through this article by manipulating your mouse with the butt of a revolver taped to another, larger revolver, you've probably heard of the M1 carbine. It was basically the first iteration of the modern war rifle, and it absolutely revolutionized the way battles were fought from then on. If you think it's a little scary that convicted murderers are allowed to manufacture and sell weaponry to the military from prison, please realize this was truly the best-case scenario. Because when you hear the phrase "invented a new super-rifle in prison" it's usually followed by the phrases "bloodbath the likes of which the world has never seen" and "vowed revenge on Captain America."
#4. William Addis Invents the Toothbrush
You don't think of old-time prisons as a hygienic place, the bare cement walls lined with equal parts grime, blood and anger-semen. So you wouldn't much expect a prisoner to be a clean freak. So how would you respond if we told you that the toothbrush, the one invention Americans can't live without and perhaps the most popular hygienic tool ever, was built in prison?
William Addis woke up in his cell one morning like any other, looked both ways to make sure there were no oncoming dicks approaching, and headed over to the showers. Just like any other 18th century Englishman, he brushed his teeth with salt and likely soaped himself with fried fish. Don't write that off as ignorant stereotyping entirely: One of those things was actually real. The tooth-cleaning custom at the time was to take a rag, dip it in soot or salt and rub the rag against your teeth. But this time, while rubbing the ass-end of a fireplace into his mouth with what was likely at one point a sex criminal's whack-rag, Will had an epiphany:
This sucks!
Instead of brushing his teeth with a man-batter-catcher, why not use something marginally less disgusting that might also, you know, work? Using what tools he had access to, Addis took the bone from a piece of meat to use as the handle, some bristles he bought from the guard to serve as the head and straight up invented him some toothbrush. If you enjoy having clean teeth, you've got Addis to thank: The inventor of the modern toothbrush who was counter-intuitively both a prisoner and British.
#3. Jesse Hawley Comes Up With the Erie Canal
Jesse Hawley was confined to a debtor's prison in 1807, due to "his problems in acquiring reasonably priced transportation." We're not quite sure what that means, but we think that's saying he was in prison for not being able to afford a horse--which seems a bit harsh even for the 1800s when people ate tumbleweeds and sneezing in mixed company was a capital offense. In between sitting in a cement cell and cursing the overpriced used horse industry, Hawley had time to think some things over. You know, typical prison shit like "What am I going to do with my life when I get out?"; "What I would've done differently if I had the chance again"; "How will my kids remember me?; "The flow ratio of dam locks into northern climate lake canals"; "I could kill for some pussy right now."
Wait, what was that second to last one?
Hawley spent his imprisoned time writing 14 exhaustive essays detailing every aspect of a proposed Erie Canal. He single-handedly conceptualized the entire project, from start to finish. And while you might expect complex engineering concepts written by a convict with absolutely no engineering background to be, at best, soaked in urine and full of synonyms for "cunt," they were actually so knowledgeable and insightful that the mayor convinced New York legislature to act on the plans.
The Mayor.
So how did a canal change the world? Well, it opened up trade between eastern and western America at a crucial time in our westward expansion. The demand was so great that the canal paid itself off almost immediately: It cost $7 million to make, and by 1870 it was raking in $70 million a year. Without Hawley's work, pioneers would certainly have had a harder time forging the pathway west, and could all very well have broken an axle, died of cholera or tipped over while fording the river and would have to restart from the beginning.


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It's time for Thursday's hottest weekly free comedy show above a chinese restaurant! Come see LA's best, newest and big name comedians do everything from TV ready sets to working out new genius bits.
This week it's the best people from some of the hottest comedy collectives in LA! Featuring people from Headwriters, The Super Serious Show, the It Could Be Better Podcast, Entitlement, The Soup, Chelsea Lately, Pete Holmes Show, Best Week Ever & more!
Evan Davis (Headwriters, Tonight Show with Jay Leno)
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Matt Ingebretson (The Soup)
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Senior Russell James Allen (left) plays Tartuffe and junior Zachary Ellingham is Orgon in the Department of Theatre and Dance's production of "Tartuffe" March 6-10 in the Alice Austin Theatre.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- A smooth con artist. A rich man deluded. A smart sassy wife. A household in uproar. Will someone be able to stop the nefarious Tartuffe from seducing his wife and taking over the family fortune?
The answers are all contained in the SUNY Geneseo Department of Theatre and Dance's production of the classic 17th century comedy "Tartuffe" by Molière in a translation by Richard Wilbur and directed by Los Angeles-based theater director, playwright, social essayist and 2013 Geneseo Artist-in-Residence Elizabeth Wong.
The March 6 - 9 performances begin at 8 p.m. and the matinee on March 10 begins at 2 o'clock. All shows are in the Alice Austin Theatre in the Brodie Fine Arts Building. General admission tickets are $10 and are available online or at the theater's box office.
Wong's critically acclaimed plays include "China Doll (An Imagined Life of An American Actress)," and "Letters to a Student Revolutionary," a story of two friends during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, the first play in the country to respond to the protests. She also has written for television.
Wong's "China Doll" received the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, the Petersen Emerging Playwright Award and the Jane Chambers Award. Her next project is "Roosevelt's Ear," an original play about the three powerful women in FDR's life.
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Stadium Parking Maps
- Parking & Traffic Flow Maps (with incoming/exiting traffic flow & cross-campus walkway)
2015 Permit Controlled Parking
Lot Name
Permit Type
Boatwright Drive & Campus Drive
Boatwright Drive & Campus Drive
Boatwright Drive across from Robins Stadium
Spider Club
Between Milhiser Gym and Robins Stadium
Boatwright Drive across from Robins Center
Spider Club
Between Robins Center and Pitt Field
Spider Club
New Frat Row Drive
Student Tailgate
Richmond Way
Gameday Staff
Richmond Way
Spider Club
Richmond Way
(Jepson Hall)
Richmond Way
Spider Club
Richmond Way
(School of Law)
Spider Club
Richmond Way outside East Concourse
Parking Lot Specifics
- All parking lots open four hours prior to kickoff.
- Please have parking passes visible as you approach the police officer at the intersection.
- There is no saving of spaces in the lots.
General Parking (No Permit)
- All general parking lots are FREE and are indicated in ORANGE on the parking maps.
- Individuals will be directed to a parking area based on the entrance you come in, time of day and available spaces.
- Vehicles cannot be parked so that they prohibit emergency vehicle access. These vehicles will be towed off campus at owner's expense.
Unauthorized vehicles parked in any permit-controlled lot will be ticketed and towed at the owner's expense after 2 a.m. on Gamedays. These areas include the following lots: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, R19, R20, R21, R22 and R23. Additionally, parking illegally in handicap spaces, in fire lanes, or immediate areas surrounding the Robins Center will result in towing at the owner's expense. If your vehicle is towed for unauthorized parking, please contact URPD at (804) 289-8715
Handicap Parking
Handicap Parking is located in Lot B4 located between Robins Stadium and Robins Center. This lot is ADA compliant, with an appropriate number of spaces. Should this lot fill, fans needing accessible parking must proceed to one of the general parking lots, where additional handicap accessible parking is available. A handicap drop-off area is provided in front of Gate C at Robins Stadium. Please note, parking illegally in handicap spaces or in fire lanes will result in towing at the owner's expense.
The University of Richmond will provide a continuously-running shuttle on Football Gamedays. The shuttle begins two hours prior to kickoff, runs during the game, and continues to run for approximately one hour after the game ends.
The shuttle originates from the loading dock at Sarah Brunet Hall on Richmond Way, and will stop at the following locations:
- Second entrance to the Alumni Center Parking Lot on Crenshaw Road
- Between Lot W40 and the auxiliary parking area on Spider Lane (W39)
- By Lot W41 on UR Drive
Spider Club Parking Permit
A football season parking permit is a benefit of Spider Club membership for season ticket holders. Members are assigned to designated parking lots based on giving to the Spider Club Annual Fund and Spider Points. All permitted lots are capacity-controlled to assure parking for all permit holders. For more information, visit the Spider Club page at RichmondSpiders.com.
Student Parking
Student vehicles displaying a 'FX or X' permit must be moved to the designated parking area off Crenshaw Way by 2 a.m. on football game days. All other resident student vehicles must be parked in their assign lot on football game days starting at 2am. Commuter student vehicles may be parked in general parking areas. For more information go to: Game Day Parking Policies on the Parking.richmond.edu website.
RV Parking
There are a very limited number of parking spots for RV's in Lot W37 (near the Jepson Alumni Center). RVs must purchase a pass from the Spider Club office for $50 and display the pass on Gameday to be allowed onto campus and into this parking lot. Please call (804) 289-8759 is you wish to reserve one of these passes, which will be assigned based on Spider Points. Once all of the RV passes have been purchased, no other RVs will be allowed onto the UR campus.
HOV-6/Hybrid Parking
There is limited free HOV and Hybrid vehicle parking for fans coming to Robins Stadium on Gameday. Vehicles planning to arrive with six or more passengers or Hybrid vehicles (each passenger must also have a valid game day ticket) may reserve a free HOV/Hybrid permit. There is limited parking in the HOV/Hybrid Lot. All permits must be reserved at least seven days before the home game being requested. The permit will be mailed to the requested address.
If you would like to request a HOV/Hybrid parking permit, please follow this link to the UR Parking Website.
HOV/Hybrid parking is in Lot B1. If a vehicle arrives with a HOV/Hybrid permit and does not have six or more passengers who each have a valid game day ticket or the vehicle is not a hybrid, the vehicle will not be permitted in Lot B1.
Media Parking
Lot R23 is designated as the media parking lot and is located off Richmond Way, adjacent to Gate H (Media Entrance). Space in Lot R23 is limited, and a parking space is not guaranteed with your working media credential. Auxilary media parking is available on a limited basis in Lot R18. To request a media parking pass, please contact the Spiders' Athletic Public Relations Office at (804) 287-6312, or by email to Matt Moretti at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Postgame Traffic Patterns
Boatwright Exit (Blue Arrows on the map)
From Boatwright Drive make a left onto Three Chopt Road (only left turns will be allowed). Continue 0.7 miles and then yield on the right to Horsepen Road (which will turn into Glenside Road). From there, continue 1 mile until the signs for I-64 E and I-64 W. I-64 E will lead to both I-95 N and I-95 S.
Westhampton College Exit (Red Arrows on the map)
From College Road, make a right turn on River Road (only right turns will be allowed). Continue on River Road for 1.5 miles. At this point, turn left for the Chippenham Parkway/ Rt. 150 to head to points south and I-95 near Petersburg. At River Road, turn right onto Parham Road for I-64 in both directions. Continue 4 miles on Parham Road until the signs for I-64 E and I-64 W. I-64 E will lead to both I-95 N and I-95 S in Richmond.
Richmond College Exit (Yellow Arrows on the map)
From Towana Road, make a right on Three Chopt Road (only right turns will be allowed). Continue 0.3 miles, and then make a left on Grove Avenue. Go 2.3 miles and make a left onto N. Thompson Street. Continue 0.3 miles and once crossing over Patterson Avenue follow signs for I-64 W and I-64 E/ I-95
UR Drive Exit (Green Arrows on the map)
From UR Drive, only a left turn will be permitted onto River Road. Continue 0.2 miles to the intersection of River Road (left side) and Huguenot Road (right side). Turn right onto Huguenot Road for the Chippenham Parkway/ Rt. 150 to head to points south and I-95 near Petersburg. Continue 1.8 miles for the signs for the Chippenham Parkway North and South
At the River Road/Huguenot Road split, turn left for I-64. Continue 0.9 miles until the road name changes to Cary Street. Stay on the same road straight for 1.9 miles to I-195 S. There is no sign for I-195 S at this location, so please be attentive to where the turn is. For I-195 North, drive another 0.1 miles and turn left on N. Thompson Street. To access I-64 W and I-64 E/ I-95 continue on N. Thompson Street and once crossing over Patterson Avenue, follow signs for I-64 W and I-64 E/ I-95.


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What happens when half of the world's population lives in cities? When over three billion people are online? When there are more than 15 billion connected devices? Old organizational models hit end-of-life. People behave differently. Organizations behave differently. What worked in the old world... Read more
I spent two days this week at the Coach K Leadership Conference at Duke. It's always good to get above the trees for a few days, and this experience was exactly that kind of opportunity. Jonathan Opp did a nice summary post on the conference here and you can see the live Twitter stream here.


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I have administrative boundaries in one layer and coastline in another layer. The coastline is categorized in different classes. What I want to find out is how much of each category falls into each administrative boundary. So the outcome would be percentages of the administrative unit's coastline for each class. So say the coastline from unit 1 is 40% class A, 50% class B and 10% class C. Unfortunately, the two shapefiles do not match up exactly because one of them does not have a spatial reference...? (I work with ArcMAP10)
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I am making a turkey in a bag this weekend and I was wondering if there is a sure fire way to know when your turkey is done cooking. I don't have a meat (or any other) thermometer.
Go get a $15 probe thermometer. There is really no point in cooking turkey or any other roast without one.
The actual answer is- there is no good way without measuring the internal temperature. Any time-based approach will be a guess at best.
The built in thermometer in some turkeys is a spring with some epoxy that melts a specific temperature. They are somewhat unreliable and either way they spring at 180F or so. This is well overdone for white meat but covers the turkey seller's liability.
Really- it's worth it to just get the thermometer and take the guess work out.
Use a probe thermometer. A turkey is cooked at 165F (according to the USDA), so you should take it out of the oven around 161F. The turkey internal temperature will keep rising after you take it out of the oven, so cover it with foil, let it sit for 15 minutes after you take it out of the oven and you are good to go.


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Dr. Wallach starts the show discussing the concept that some people believe they can get all the essential nutrients they need from their food. Doc disagrees stating that plants can't make minerals only certain vitamins and fatty acids. Contending that the human body needs 60 traces minerals two thirds of the bodies required nutrients.
Pearls of Wisdom
Doug Winfrey and Dr. Wallach discuss a couple of news stories. The first article concerns a survey that found 99% of surgeons in training stuck themselves or were cut by sharp instruments in their first 5 years of residency. However, less than a 50% reported these incidents putting their health, their families health and patients health at risk for blood borne diseases such as HIV and AIDS. The second article concerns Kroger Company's plans to start selling milk with plant sterols to help lower cholesterol.
- Charity has questions concerning uterine fibroids.
- Bills daughter has been diagnosed with dysmenorrhea.
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COPPERAS COVE (September 24, 2012)--City council members and the public will discuss Tuesday rezoning a section of Constitution Drive for the construction of business offices.
The 75-acre lot near the construction site of the Five Hills Shopping Center could be rezoned to make way for new businesses in the area.
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Men's Golf in 16th at Richard Rendleman InvitationalMarch 3, 2014
SALISBURY, N.C. – Paced by senior Sean Shelton's nine-over par 80, the Anderson University men's golf team is in 16th place following the first day of action at the Richard Rendleman Invitational, hosted by Catawba on Monday at the 6,665-yard par 71 Country Club of Salisbury.
Limestone leads the 18-team field after posting a combined 305, while Queens (308) is three shots further back. UNC Pembroke and Lenoir-Rhyne finished the opening round with identical 309 scores, while Coker (311), King (315), Erskine (316), Carson-Newman (317), Lincoln Memorial (318), Belmont Abbey (320) and North Greenville (320) round out the top 10 scores.
The Trojans (332) lead Tusculum (334) by two strokes and Post University (340) by eight shots entering Tuesday's final round and trail Pfeiffer by five shots.
Shelton's effort gives him a share of 34th, while junior CJ Messana carded an 81 and is tied for 43rd. Sophomore David Wachter fired a first-round 83 and shares 61st, with senior Arran Setro tied for 82nd after an 88. Freshman Payton Whitlock is in a three-way tie for 85th after an 89.
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Now that Disney has gobbled up everything that's important to you and your childhood, they're going to start doing what any corporation worth its salt would do: start squeezing every single possible dollar out of your bank account until your wallet cries uncle. The first step in their recent wave of corporate synergy was giving the 'Star Wars' comic license back to Marvel. Step two is an even bigger deal: giving Pixar a 'Star Wars' movie to make.


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Open Date: 04/16/2013
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Funding Organization: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Funding Number: DE-FOA-0000837
The objective of this FOA is to develop and implement a variety of activities that deploy U.S. technical expertise in areas such as strategic and policy planning and analysis, energy market analysis, energy modeling, workforce development, and technical analysis to prime markets for increased use of energy efficient and renewable energy technologies in South Africa and Saudi Arabia. Benefits to the U.S. include potentially increased exports of domestic clean energy technologies and services in rapidly expanding markets, as well as access to data on clean energy policy and program successes and challenges that can inform U.S. national and subnational policy development. DOE anticipates providing two awards totalling $900k (one $450k award for activities in South Africa; one $450k award for activities in Saudi Arabia). The awardees will implement these activities over a period of up to three years to accomplish the goals of this funding opportunity. This FOA directly supports the goals of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), International.
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With the majority of employers using social networking sites to screen job applicants, it is becoming more important than ever to educate college students on this critical topic. Social media sites, like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook have been known to help and hurt an applicant's chances. CSB/SJU Career Services offers tips about social media and how it can affect your son/daughter's search.
The Saint John's University Men's Chorus is preparing for its national spring break tour in March. Beginning Thursday, March 10, in Rochester, Minn., the chorus will perform 10 concerts in six states, plus the District of Columbia. This year's program features a mixture of representative sacred and secular choral masterworks from the Renaissance to the 21st century, including compositions by Handl, Hassler, Berkey, Clausen, Hatfield, Weber, Barnum and others.
Members of Academic Advising and the CSB and SJU Residential Life offices have recognized Aurora F at CSB and Mary 1 at SJU as the first-year floors with the highest cumulative GPA this fall. Each year, Academic Advising and the Residential Life offices co-sponsor an award for first-year floors with the highest cumulative GPA's.
"These GPA's represent a lot of hard work and hours of study on the part of the residents," said Jason Kelly, assistant dean and director of academic advising.
The winning floors will be honored with a floor pizza party, and plaques will be hung on each winning floor.
The CSB dance team wrapped up the season with a 10thplace finish at nationals. Both the national and elite teams had successful seasons. Highlights include a first place finish by the national team at the St. Thomas Competition, where the squad also received Best Crowd Appeal. The team placed eighth at the Spirit of America competition held at the Mall of America. The elite team took fourth place at the St. Thomas Competition and second at the UDA Chicagoland competition.
The team switched things up this year by performing a hip hop dance at Johnnie football games, SJU and CSB basketball games and dance shows. The dancers also performed a boy/girl dance at the Saint Ben's dance show as well as at a Blazer basketball game.
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I'm working For my company on a .NET N-tier architecture and have several questions. Basics: the project should be split into layers and should not allow tues develop as easy as possible additional modules for modules like logging, ratings, user management etc.
Environment: VS2010, EF4, SQL Server 2008, LinqToSql, c#
Current situation is as follows: I have a Data Access Layer WHERE I'm using Entity Framework Tues access database ENTITIES. then I have a Bussines Layer, with all the logic Insert, update, delete and additional methods for searching etc. The next layer is for WCF Service Contracts Finally there is a presentation layer (desktop and web).
First I have created a desktop application. After adding a service reference and presentation layer on the left side in the datasources tab all shown all the tables from the database. This is great.
Then I used a datagridview and bound his DataSource to WCF with bindingsource and finally the wizard to order columns etc. This worked fine.
The next try was to make a web site with the functionality itself. Despite the fact that I added a WCF service reference, datasources are not displayed, therefore it is not possible to use the wizard for quick changes and all the stuff must be coded! This work is difficult and needs a lot of code to serve with basic operations like insert, update, delete. But if I add a reference to the Data Access Layer and add in the web.config a connection string, then I can use the wizard. But then, access to datasource (DAL) does not take place through WCF.
I found out that in Asp.net Dynamic Data web site has a basis for insert, update and delete done. It would probably use this a better or I am wrong?
Question 1: Should the DAL for .edmx use the auto generated code (code generation add items)?
Question 2: How to to get the same DataSources (in the tab) as in the desktop application?
Question 3: Is it possible to use WCF in conjunction with Telericks DataGrid as it already supports Ajax by default, insert, update and delete operations?
Question 4: How to design architecture that will support modularity?
I have spent hours and hours to find concrete informations about this, and still don't know what's the correct and best way. I was searching for articles, where solving of such specific problems would be demonstrated, but didn't found.
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There is so much information out there about people who wake up early - for example, Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, wakes up at 4:30, as does General Motors' CEO and Disney's CEO.
What I never hear about is what time these people are going to bed. I have a hard time believing they're going to bed at 8:30 so they can get their full 8 hours of sleep.
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Business Intelligence is part of a bigger picture and not a particular software package. BI in general involves many different factors in order to be successful no matter what software or skill set is being used. It requires the knowledge and expertise of the individuals who know it best. This includes the customer knowing what problems they have or want to prevent, as well as the software vendor and/or consultants who know how to provide solutions for those problems.
Analogy 1: Imagine you want to hang a picture. You have some screws but do not have any tools. You go to the hardware store and say, "I need a hammer", because you think that this is the proper tool to get the job done. The proper response would be for the salesperson to ask you, "What do you need the hammer for?" or "What project will the hammer help you with?" When he finds out that you want to hang a picture and all you have are screws, the salesperson may suggest a screwdriver instead of the hammer or perhaps give you nails and a hammer. Even better yet, he may offer something that is even easier to use or costs less like those new gravity hooks. The salesperson needs to ask the proper questions to help the customer with the proper solutions. He may even offer a better solution to which the customer had no idea about. The salesperson was the expert who provided the knowledge for the proper solution or alternative.
BI not only involves helping the customer with existing problems but also involves helping them to see problems that they many not know exist.
Analogy 2: Imagine having a piece of food on your lip and not knowing it. Your friend says, "Hey, you got something on your lip!", and points it out to you. You then take the appropriate action to resolve that problem by wiping it away with a napkin. The napkin was the tool, the wiping was the action taken from the knowledge and direction provided by your friend. Your friend helped you discover a problem you didn't know was there.
It is clear and easy to see that these two analogies provide support that Business Intelligence is about collaboration, communication, discovery, knowledge, insight, direction and action to just name a few. These factors along with the proper software and services can provide an organization with a successful BI implementation. The software can be part of a specific BI Platform or simply an application development environment used to create business applications that provide knowledge on data. Business Intelligence is not just about collecting data and reporting, it is a methodology in which experts can provide assistance. If you would like your organization to succeed with BI, it is extremely important to understand its factors and learn how to analyze and use the data created by this methodology.
BI is part of a bigger picture, is in the heads of people and not just in the software.
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Hello to you and first I want to thank you for taking the time to help me.
I've used Ubuntu in the past (9.04) but pc wasn't good enough. So now I just bought myself all new hardware and built a new pc from scratch. So I saw a new opportunity to give Ubuntu a chance, or more Ubuntu giving me a chance to use It;-)
So I go to the Ubuntu's website, select the 11.04 64bit, download, burn onto a dvd.
But than I boot from the dvd, I see the loading logo, but then I get this really weird screen bug and cannot continue with the install.
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I've played a bit with the bios and downloaded and burned so many copy of Ubuntu without any success.
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I need to open a shape file from ArcMap in R to use it for further geostatical analysis. I've converted it into ASCII text file, but in R it is recognized as data.frame. Coordinates function doesn't work as soon as x and y are recognized as non-numeric. Could you help to deal with it?
I agree with gissolved that you should use the shapefile directly ... the easiest way to do this is to ensure you have the rgdal package installed, and read the shape as an object:
Edit 2015-01-18: note that rgdal is a bit better than maptools (which I initially suggested here), primarily because it reads and writes projection information automatically.
This will give you an object which is a SpatialPointsDataFrame - the fields of the attribute table are then accessible to you in the same way as an ordinary dataframe, i.e.
If you want to use the ASCII file you imported, then you should simply convert the text (character) x and y fields to numbers, e.g.:
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I agree with the Simbamangu and gissolved in terms of retaining the shapefile but want to direct your attention specifically to the rgdal library. Follow the link suggested by gissolved for the NCEAS and follow through with the directions for rgdal. It can be challenging to install on some machines but it can substantially improve results when it comes to projections.
The maptools library is excellent and allows you to define the projection for the shapefile you are reading in, but to do so you need to know how to specify that projection in the proj4 format. an example might look something like:
If you want to go this route, then I recommend http://spatialreference.org as the place to go to figure out what your projection looks like in the proj4 format. If that looks like a hassle to you, rgdal will make it easy by reading the ESRI shapefile's .prj file (the file that contains ESRI's projection definition for the shapefile. To use rgdal on the same file you would simply write:
You can likely skate by without doing this if you are just working with a single shapefile, but as soon as you start looking at multiple data sources or overlaying with Google Maps, keeping your projections in good shape becomes essential.
For some helpful walkthroughs on spatial data in R, including a bunch of stuff on importing and working with point patterns, I have some old course materials online at http://csde.washington.edu/services/gis/workshops/SPATIALR.shtml that might help you see how these methods compare in practice.
I think you shouldn't convert the shapefile to an ASCII but instead use the shapefile directly with one of the spatial extensions. Here you can find a three ways to read (and write) a shapefile http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/scicomp/usecases/ReadWriteESRIShapeFiles. The R-spatial project will probably also interest you http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sp/index.html.
One more alternative is to use fastshp library which offers::
Here is my question on SE on how to use it with ggplot2:


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Don't take yourself too seriously. Work hard and take what you do seriously, but be able to laugh at yourself and your mistakes.
This was some of the wisdom Mike Babcock shared with York College students today as he visited campus as a guest lecturer. It was the first time Babcock had been back to campus since he was a student in 1966. He shared stories and advice from his long career in sports journalism with a group of communication majors.
Currently Babcock is a writer and editor for Hail Varsity magazine—the voice of Husker Nation. He has also had a successful career as a freelance sports writer, book author, and journalist for the Lincoln Journal Star.
"I always wanted to be a sports writer, not a 'real' journalist," he told students. "I had a goal of being a sports journalist, but I didn't know how to prepare for that career."
Babcock's preparation began at York College. He had an English class with Dr. William Epperson, a dynamic young teacher. "He made literature come alive," says Babcock, who decided he wanted to follow in Dr. Epperson's footsteps. He declared English as his major, eventually earning a bachelor's and a master's degree in the subject.
Years later he was teaching English at a community college in Illinois when he started working the sports desk at a tiny local newspaper on Friday nights. He gathered and reported scores from high school games in the area.
It was a small investment, but it paid big dividends. That opportunity led to another, and eventually he was able to land his dream job as a sports writer covering the Huskers at the Lincoln Journal Star.
"I felt like I had the best job in Lincoln," he said, as he told students about conversing with Husker legends like Tom Osborne and Lance VanZandt at practices and before games.
Babcock describes Osborne as one of the most highly principled and intelligent people he's ever met. While Osborne is unpretentious and easy to talk to, Babcock confessed he never really felt completely comfortable in the presence of the legendary coach.
Babcock recently co-authored the book Tom Osborne on Leadership: Life Lessons from a Three-Time National Championship Coach.
He says writing about the Huskers professionally is a dream come-true. "If I could do anything, it would be doing what I do. If I could live anywhere, it would be Southeast Nebraska. This is where my heart is."
While he loves Husker football and basketball and would watch games even if he wasn't getting paid for it, Babcock advised students to diversify their skills and interests, so as not to become defined by their career. "Sports wilting is what I do but not what I am," he told them. Babcock also enjoys music, films, and reading a wide variety of books. Doing something other than sports helps him be a better writer. Have a passion for what you do, but keep it in balance, he told students.
(Photo: Babcock poses for a picture with his former YC baseball coach Paul Touchton, currently a member of the York College Board of Trustees, after chapel. Touchton is holding an autographed copy of Babcock's latest book, Tom Osborne on Leadership: Life Lessons from a Three-Time National Championship Coach.)
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