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Temporary Duty Per Diem is payable when a military member is performing temporary duty (TDY) at a location different from where they are stationed. (Note: TDY is different than being "deployed." Individuals who are "deployed" to "field conditions," like Bosnia, Kosovo, the Gulf, etc., do not receive "per diem.")
The rates below are for periods of time that the member is actually performing TDY duty at the location. Per diem rates when the member is in a travel status (traveling from one location to another) are completely different.
The "Maximum Lodging Rate" shows the maximum amount the military can reimburse the member for lodging expenses for that area. Lodging reimbursement is, however, based on the actual cost of the lodging. For example, if the maximum lodging rate is $55, and the member stays at a hotel that costs $40 per night, the member will only be reimbursed $40 per night (actual lodging expenses). If, on the other hand, the maximum lodging rate is $55, and the member stays at a hotel that costs $70 per night, the member will only be reimbursed $55 per night (the maximum authorized lodging rate). If the member's TDY is to a military installation, he/she is not allowed to stay off-base (in a hotel/motel), unless they receive a statement of non-availability of government quarters from the base billeting office. If the member does not receive this statement, then he/she will only be reimbursed for the cost of on-base lodging (which is usually far below the cost of off-base hotels/motels).
For meals reimbursement, the member is entitled to the "No Government Meals" rate, if there are no government meals (chow hall) available, and/or the member is not directed to consume government meals in their TDY orders, and/or there are no government quarters available, and the member is staying off-base.
The "Proportional Meals" rate, is used if government quarters are available, and government meals (chow hall) is available, and the member's TDY orders direct that the member consume at least one government meal per day. (Note: If the TDY orders require that the member consume all three meals [breakfast, lunch, and dinner] in the Chow Hall, then the member receives the "Government Meal" rate for that base, which is normally about 1/2 of the Proportional Meal Rate).
If the individual is staying off base, they also receive a daily "Incidental Rate," as shown in the chart. If they are residing on a U.S. Military Installation, they receive a daily "Incidental Rate" of $2.00 per day.


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Unique and champion monsters will have a combination of randomly determined affixes/abilities, such as "nightmarish" or "waller".
What are all of the possible abilities?
Unique and champion monsters will have a combination of randomly determined affixes/abilities, such as "nightmarish" or "waller".
What are all of the possible abilities?
Arcane Enchanted - Monsters summon a purple laser beam that slowly spins and deals arcane damage. With multiple of these going, you're going to be navigating a maze to get through it. When they spawn, they indicate which direction they initially face before fully appearing.
Avenger - Only champions can have this. Whenever you kill one, the others grow in size and hit harder. The last one left will hit the hardest of all.
Desecrator - Enemies create a fiery (in appearance) zone of damage underneath player characters that deals physical damage over time. Damage starts low but ramps up quickly.
Electrified - Enemies spew out lightning in all directions whenever they take damage.
Extra Health - Self-explanatory. The bonus health is significant.
Fast - Self-explanatory. The monsters are considerably faster.
Fire Chains - This appears on champions only. When close enough together, there are chains of fire linking the champions to each other that deal damage over time to players who stand in the way.
Frozen - Enemies will spawn frozen orbs that spin for a while, damaging and slowing players, and then explode. The explosion deals cold damage and freezes you in place for a few seconds.
Frozen Pulse - An orb of ice pulsates and moves around the battlefield, slowing and damaging players near it. After a while it will explode, dealing extra damage.
Health Link - When attacking a champion with this trait, the other champions nearby will take part of the damage. This makes it tough to take down groups, but has no affect if one is isolated.
Horde - This can only appear on rare enemies. They get extra minions.
Illusionist - Enemies can create 4 clones of themselves. The clones have severely lowered damage and health.
Jailer - The monsters can imprison players so they take some damage and can't move for a few seconds.
Knockback - The monsters can knock back the hero a significant distance (a little over one screen length). The player is slowed significantly after the knockback effect for a few seconds.
Missile Dampening - This one seems to be rather rarer than the rest. It can only appear on rare enemies. The leader (but not the minions) constantly has a rather large bubble around itself that moves to remain centered on the enemy. The speed of all ranged projectiles that enter the bubble are greatly decreased, although if they do make it all the way to the target they will still inflict full damage.
Molten - Enemies leave a trail of fire where they walk that deals fire damage over time to players who stand on it. They also explode a few seconds after they die, dealing damage in an area around their corpse.
Mortar - Enemies gain a ranged attack that fires a volley of a few lobbing bombs every couple seconds. There is a minimum attack distance for the mortars, so standing right near the enemy will protect you from this attribute. This is very dangerous for ranged characters.
Nightmarish - Enemies that hit you will cause you to flee for a few seconds.
Orbiter - Enemies create a central electric sphere, with smaller electric spheres orbiting slowly around it at different distances away. All said spheres deal damage if they touch you. This covers a very large area, but none of the sources of damage are that difficult to dodge.
Plagued - Enemies can create giant pools of poison that deal damage over time to players. These pools are quite large and last a long time and can easily cover the entire floorspace of a room.
Poison Enchanted - Marks an area on the ground as poison, which then spreads in 4 directions diagonally and lasts for a few seconds. Standing in the poison deals damage, but it's avoidable if you pay attention.
Reflects Damage - Dealing damage to the enemies deals a bit back to yourself. A static amount of damage is reflected each time you hit the target. It is only active for short periods of time during the fight. There is a noticeable graphic change associated with the Reflect Damage effect while active.
Shielding - Enemies can turn invulnerable for a few seconds at a time. The effect is fairly frequent, with about a 50% uptime of invulnerability.
Teleporter - Enemies can teleport.
Thunderstorm - Enemies create lightning strikes that also emit small waves of electricity.
Vampiric - Enemies gain life when they deal damage. This also counts damage from other attributes. For example, if you stand on the plague zone from a plagued enemy who is also vampiric, they will gain health.
Vortex - Enemies can suck you next to them and damage you from more than a screen length away.
Waller - Enemies can create walls to prevent escape. They are very good at placing the walls, and will often barricade you in with them. Many ranged abilities cannot go over the walls, even things that appear like they should. For example, a Witch Doctor's Firebomb cannot go over the wall. It is worth noting that rares and champions place their walls differently. Rares will never give their minions the waller ability, but their walls will create long hallways with a blocked end, essentially caging you in with the rare. Champions each can only create one wall each, which has the possibility to trap you in a much smaller area because the layout is not predetermined.
Wormhole - Enemies can create two portals. After a short time, players at either location will be teleported to the other location.
Yes, there is a list here
Here's a copy of the list and their short descriptions. You can view more details at the link above
As of patch 2.0.1. There have been a few affixes added and some re-worked. The new list is below. Also, here is the link to the affixes list.
Patch 2.0.5 introduced the following restrictions.
Here is the affix list, with the new affixes in bold.

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SALADO (October 4, 2012)--The Silver Spur Theater will present the "Mystery of Irma Vep" beginning Friday.
The production features two actors, eight characters, 35 costume changes and two hours of laughter, a theater spokesperson said.
The play has a comical Halloween theme involving a werewolf, vampire and Egyptian princess.
Actors in the play include Logan Kimes of Dallas and Grainger Esch, the theater's co-founder and artistic director.
According to the play's director, "Irma Vep" is a parody with a gimmick since all of the women's roles are played by two men.
"Subtitled 'A Penny Dreadful,' the play satirizes several theatrical and film genres including Victorian melodrama, farce and Alfred Hitchcock's creepy romantic film 'Rebecca'," a theater spokesperson said.
Admission is $18 for adults and $15 for military, senior citizens and students with ID.
Children ages 12 and under can get in for $10.
For more information, call the theater at (254) 947-3456.


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Samsung 250GB (840 Series) SATA III Internal SSD for $149.99 + free shipping
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This seems like a great deal. Can anybody tell me why I shouldn't buy this one over the 830? I hear a lot of people make that claim but I'm not sure why.
Because this one isn't as fast. The 840 Pro is the true successor to the 830, not the regular 840.
See here for proof:
(skip to page 4 to get right to the numbers)
If I'm going to shell out the money for a SSD I'm going to get a good one. I build computers with Samsung's 830s and they're fast. The write does matter... however if you're upgrading from an RPM there will still be a noticible difference.
830 read 437MB/s
840 read 457 MB/s
830 write 395 MB/s
840 write 247 MB/s
From the cited article - "the Pro also costs 50% more than the 840 Series". and " the 840 Series looks like a good option for anyone seeking an inexpensive path to solid-state storage." As an SSD, it will provide much better performance compared to a conventional drive. Unless you are constantly doing I/O intensive operations, you are unlikely to notice a big difference between this SSD and more expensive SSDs.
If you're looking for a quality, entry level SSD - this is a good one.
It's speed is slower than other models on the market, but most consumers won't have high data input, or output to press this drive's performance. The specifications Samsung uses to build these SSD's are pretty solid. Samsung's revised drive controller is vastly improved, ease to over provision is also a plus. Good deal.
In all honesty, the SSD technology is still fairly volatile and still being developed for consistent performance. Storage (NAND) cells can go bad, seemingly at any moment, the firmware to run these drives is often inconsistent, and read/ write times waver with prolonged use (something SSD's are not supposed to do, in theory).
New improvements have been made to prolong drive life and performance, but these are not always consistent.
Newer technology often has kinks that ironing out. SSD's need a lot of ironing.
Urgh.. I just bought this from MacMall for 168 because Newegg jacked their price up from the 169 that it WAS at to the price now...now I see why. This was all in the span of 72 hours only to put it "on sale" via promo code. They have an "Iron Egg" price guarantee that protects the prices, but only after a submitting emails with links that may or may not change by the time they read your adjustment claim...so I just went with MacMall. Eh... -end of rant-
I have the 120GB model and it just flies. I like/need this series of SSD because of the low profile 7mm drive height, which is a must in my particular portable, so look no further if you have been trying to find a SSD that is thinner than the standard 9.5mm thick drives.
It you NEED faster write speeds and you actually have a SATA III controller to support it, go with the 830 series or 840 Pro, but this is more than sufficient for the average user.
Bought 3 for some work computers. Will be an upgrade coming from standard HDDs.
Better deal than you can get on ebay, I'll grab one. Should be a great improvement over my cheapo HDD.
Yep, after researching the bejesus out of SSDs, this is certainly one to not avoid, per se, but you can definitely get better bang for the buck elsewhere. This is coming in as a "third tier" drive, as opposed to a tier one, which the 830 was, and the 840 PRO is. (That said, the 840 Pro is currently $239.99 on Amazon, which is as low as I've seen it.)
My laptop has a SATA II interface. Is a SATA III interface backward compatable?
You guys shouldn't be looking at raw theoretical I/O numbers anyway. The difference in practical speeds between an entry level and an enthusiast level SSD is so minor as to make hardly a difference at all. If you're upgrading from a traditional HDD to a SSD, or need a larger capacity than the SSD you have currently, this is a damn good deal and in the latter case you aren't going to practically notice any difference, only on benchmarks.
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@dlecornu: A SATA III drive should work with a motherboard that only supports SATA II (I'm actually doing the same thing).
Amazon has it at the same price of $149.99 (prime shipping eligible).
@duckythescientist: That's a very recent, and probably reactive, price change. I looked this morning, and it was considerably higher.
I'm in for 1.. going to use this one for my desktop machine.
@corhei: Most of the "ironing out" had been done by the time gen. 3 SSDs hit the market. Let's not forget that solid state technology has been around since at least the late 70s so, it's not exactly bleeding edge - it's only recently that new manufacturing processes have made it cost-effective for the consumer market.
These days, mean time to failure is virtually identical to modern HDs (hard drives aren't exactly immune to bad sectors) and performance degradation is a thing of the past.
The net improvement of an SSD over the fastest hard drive is undeniable.
What do you think of this drive for use in a Playstation 3? (I have the 85 GB "fat" model with 1/2 backward compatibility with PS2). I'm kind of filling up the drive with RockBand DLC and the performance while playing Skyrim ... well, that game needs all the help it can get on a PS3. I've been looking for a good deal on at least a 120 GB SSD....
@alessar: Would be just fine if you're really willing to spend $150 on a drive for your PS3.
The big issue with SSD is not moderate speed differences, they all are much much faster than a traditional spinny drive. The real issue is with reliability. Somebody that was burned by two faulty SSDs this year, the reliability thing has become a very big deal for me. This SSD uses a technology called TLC for the non-pro series. This allows 3 bytes to be stored per block instead of 2. This, of course, makes the drives cheaper but also more likely to have failed blocks.
I paid extra for PRO because that extra $100 is worth the drive lasting a little longer. A dead drive no matter how fast is of no use to anyone.
I have owned/used/installed a significant number of solid state drives, ranging the gamut from cheap 30GB MLC Synch-NAND drives to 256-512GB MLC(and SLC) Asynch-/Toggle-NAND to multi-Terabyte PCI-Express SLC/MLC NAND server drives...
Some are good, some are great, some are bad, and some are terrible. While I would love, and I mean LOVE, to have a 9.6TB PCI-e 3.0 x16 SLC NAND 3.6GBps drive, the five-figure price-tag is a bit off-putting.
So, I have found what I believe to be the absolute best "enthusiast-class" SSD: the 256GB Samsung 830!
The 830 uses Toggle-NAND, a triple-core controller developed in-house by Samsung, and has phenomenal firmware and support. The entire drive was developed and built 100% by Samsung, with nothing being outsourced to third-party manufacturers (something that every other manufacturer now does, including, sadly, Intel).
It was at the very top of benchmark charts for a while, too.


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Texture Layers 2 also includes its own Sub-Object selection mode so you can choose parts of your model on the fly, while allowing you to read in saved selection sets from elsewhere in the Modifier stack. You can quickly copy, paste, save and load mapping channels within the same modifier, or from one modifier to another to suit your needs. You don't even need to use Multi/SubObject Material IDs when you assign your materials. After application, you can blend all or parts of the material into other layered materials to control how the final material is displayed. For all of you who've been looking for more sophisticated ways of mapping your objects inside of 3ds Max, check out Texture Layers 2 today.
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Does anyone know why the ACPI namespace keeps changing? I had a script a while back on a Red Hat system which read the CPU temperature from '/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM'. Now I have a new (but similar hardware) and relatively same distro (except for a few drivers here and there) and it has changed to '/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ00' and '/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ01'?
Is this even the CPU thermal? Or is it for something else?
I know most will say, read the ACPI docs... But that's beyond the point. Why and who keeps changing the namespace?


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Local Law Enforcement personnel will be honored in Augusta for their professional skills, dedication and support in helping make the City of Augusta and the surrounding area a safer place to live and work. As in past years, a week has been set aside to honor the present and past Law Enforcement personnel. This year's celebration will be May 12th thru May 18th, 2013.
The Augusta Crime Stoppers, Inc. organization is sponsoring a "Drop-In Breakfast" Wednesday, May 15 at the Augusta High School Commons Area from 7 a.m.-9:30 a.m. to honor and recognize our local Law Enforcement personnel. You are invited you to drop by, have a cup of coffee, breakfast and "Thank" our local Law Enforcement Personnel for the job they do for Augusta and the surrounding area. Let them know, we are proud to have them protecting our community.
It is important that we as citizens of Augusta, express our appreciation to all Law Enforcement personnel as they protect and provide a safe atmosphere for us to live, work and raise our families.
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I need to replace a tube in my bike. I know there are many tire sizes. I bought 26', assuming that my bike was that size, and realized when I got home that I didn't even know where to measure from. What is the correct location to measure in order to get the correct size of tubes?
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If you still have the old tire, then the easiest method is to check the markings on the tire. But if you don't, then you have to measure the rim's bead seat diameter (see illustration). Here are the most common sizes:
Source: Sheldon Brown. See his article for more obscure sizes, and an explanation of what it all means.
Look at the tire. It will have the size embossed on the sidewall -- either inches diameter & width (like 26x1.5) or metric sizes (like 700C-32). Use a tube that says it's for that size.
Tubes generally are made to fit a range of sizes. Eg, a single tube may fit both 27" and 700C tires, and 1.25-1.5 inches or 32-38 mm wide.
As a side note tires sizes on older bikes were not standardized.Not all 26inch tires from different bike makers will interchange. A 26x13/8" will not interchange with a 26x1.90 tire, the tubes however will.Always reference the size on the side wall of the tire rather than trying to measure the wheel diameter.


text: Since the animated series called "The Thundercats" is going to be airing soon, or already is on Cartoon Network. Today I will be submitting a lesson on a very important member of Lion-O's group of heroes. Just think panther as you learn "how to draw Panthro", step by step. Panthro is recognized as being the brain of the Thundercats. He is also an excellent engineer, mechanic, and pilot. As you know the panther cat species is said to be one of the strongest big cats besides the lion. Now because Panthro is a character based on the panther, he too is a very strong warrior. He is a fine martial artist, and even though everything listed on Panthro's bio sounds very amazing, there is a couple of flaws. First of all he is very quick to lose his temper, and number two, his only weakness is his incredible fear of bats. I know everybody has their own personal weaknesses, but Panthro is one bad azz Thunderian that can be reckoned with if you're worth it. Have fun with this tutorial on "how to draw Panthro", and I will be back in a bit with more drawing fun. Adios people and enjoy your drawing day!


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Storing passwords to external services (e.g. corporate email servers) on smart phones is very insecure, since phones are more easily stolen. Has any vendor implemented a feature to only cache a password in memory for a limited amount of time? After the time period has elapsed, the app would ask for the password again.
To clarify - I'm aware that many (most?) users are lazy and want to just "set it and forget it". The always-remember feature will probably always be present. I was curious about an option to enable auto-forget for the security-conscious.
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A federal judge has rejected a challenge brought by a group of Kentucky death row inmates to rules governing how and when pastors visit them at the Kentucky State Penitentiary.
U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell concluded that prison officials temporarily suspended pastoral visits at the maximum security prison in Eddyville for security reasons and to bring the prison's regulations in line with Kentucky Department of Corrections regulations.
Russell also concluded that prison officials did not retaliate against inmates who complained about the change in policy.
Five death row inmates sued the Department of Corrections in 2011 alleging violations of their First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion as well as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, which governs religion in prisons.


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Aug. 18, 2011 -- Brain-eating amoebas have killed three young Americans this summer.
What is this scary bug? How does it get to the brain? Where is it, and how can you avoid it? WebMD answers these and other questions.
What Is a Brain-Eating Amoeba?
Amoebas are single-celled organisms. The so-called brain-eating amoeba is a species discovered in 1965 and formally named Naegleria fowleri. Although first identified in Australia, this amoeba is believed to have evolved in the United States.
There are several species of naegleria, but only the N. fowleri species causes human disease.
Like other amoebas, naegleria reproduce by cell division. When conditions are less than optimal, amoebas become inactive cysts. When conditions are favorable, the cysts turn into trophozoites -- their feeding form. These trophozoites can also temporarily grow tails that allow them to swim. In this tailed form they cannot eat, so they soon revert to the trophozoite stage.
Where Are Brain-Eating Amoebas Found?
Naegleria love warm temperatures and are able to survive in water as hot as 113 degrees Fahrenheit.
These amoebas can be found in warm places around the globe. They are found in:
- Warm lakes, ponds, and rock pits
- Mud puddles
- Warm, slow-flowing rivers, especially those with low water levels
- Untreated swimming pools and spas
- Untreated well water or untreated municipal water
- Hot springs and other geothermal water sources
- Thermally polluted water, such as runoff from power plants
- Aquariums
- Soil, including indoor dust
Naegleria can't live in salt water and cannot survive in properly treated swimming pools or in treated municipal water.
Most cases of N. fowleri disease occur in Southern or Southwestern states. Over half of all infections have been in Florida and Texas. However, a recent case in Minnesota suggests either that the amoebas are more common in Northern states than previously known, or that they are spreading into these states.
How Do Amoebas Get in the Brain?
The moniker "brain-eating amoeba" makes naegleria sound like tiny zombies wandering about looking for a way into your skull. But brains are accidental food for them, says Jonathan Yoder, MPH, who tracks the deadly amoeba for the CDC.


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My IPA was in the primary for 10 days and gravity readings where steady before racking to the secondary. It's been in the secondary for 13 days now and emits one bubble every 75 seconds on average. Temps have been a few degrees lower than recommended since racking. Can I bottle this now?
If you got consistent hydrometer readings over several successive days then yes, go ahead and bottle. 3+ weeks in the fermenter sounds like more than sufficient time for your IPA.
By the way, the bubble rate is not an accurate way of measuring fermentation activity. Bubbles can be produced by changes in ambient temperature and by simply walking past your carboy/bucket!
I should rectify this post slightly. You should also check that your FG is reasonably close to what you expected. If it is way off (i.e. 1.03 when it should be 1.01) then you may have a "stuck fermentation" which could lead to problems with explosive bottles etc.
In summary, check that you are close to your target FG, check consistency of hydrometer readings over 3 successive days, and then bottle!
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My passport expires April 2013, can I renew it after my travel to US in December or should I do it before I travel?
It depends what passport you hold. From the US Customs and Border Protection website on the topic:
However, on the same page - it mentions there's a Six Month Club that gets exemption from this rule:
So if you're on that list, you'd be ok. Otherwise, yes, you will need a new passport before you travel there.
I would renew my passport before going. There are indeed exceptions but from experience I can tell that in the end it is the immigration officer which has a final call. I once traveled to the US with a passport that was valid for only another three months. It would still be valid upon return. Back then I asked for advice at the consulate and back then I got the advice to just travel, as long as my passport was still valid upon leaving the US. I then encountered an immigration office, who said that he didn't care what an official of the American Consulate said. He was in charge. It had something to do with the consulates being part of the foreign office and the immigration services of another department. I was allowed to enter the country after all, but the prospect of being flown back to where I came after a long trans-Atlantic flight wasn't funny. This was in 1999, but recently I heard a similar story.
I don't know how easy it is to renew your passport; for me it would cost 50-80 Euros. I would not risk getting delayed because of a disgruntled immigration officer and just renew my passport before going.


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Within the confines of cognitive psychology, what is the difference between these two tasks? In the literature, playing chess is generally seen as the exemplar of problem solving. But recently (thanks to this site), I've stumbled upon quite a few articles expounding the merit of using video game playing to study complex skill acquisition. This difference in terminology (i.e. chess is a problem to be solved whilst playing a video game like pacman is a skill to be acquired) has me completely confused as to when completing a task is considered a skill acquired/mastered vs. a problem solved.
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To take your concrete examples, there are several broad distinctions relevant to comparing a task like chess and a task like playing Pac Man.
Cognitive versus psychomotor skill
Learning versus performance
Task complexity and time frames of learning
This might be a very unscientific answer, but isn't problem solving a type of skill. More specifically, that different kinds of problem solving, are different kinds of skills. I mean that in order to solve chess problems one will utilize the chess-problem-solving-skill?


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KnitBits Preview: A Fine Italian Yarn
Berroco yarn is manufactured in mills all over the world, but we do most of our buying twice a year at a huge trade show in Florence, Italy. That's where our beautiful Berroco Cirrus comes from. There's an interesting story about this fine Italian yarn, and the family that makes it, in tomorrow's KnitBits.
As always, you'll also find a new free knitting pattern. This week it's a lightweight cardigan with a flirty ruffled trim, knit in Berroco Cirrus.
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Chevrolet Gen V LT1 - High Five!Written by Johnny Hunkins on March 13, 2013 Contributors: Chevrolet Chevrolet reveals the newest small-block, the Gen V LT1, and sets a new high mark for V-8 performance and efficiency.
What if you went to work one day and your boss had a sit-down with you. The news: He's going to pay you 5 percent more, you have to do 5 percent less work, the work you do will be 5 percent easier, your commute is going to be 5 percent shorter, and you get 5 percent more vacation time. When you go home that evening, your wife is 5 percent better looking, and that cold beer waiting for you in the fridge is 5 percent taller and 5 percent colder. Suddenly, 5 percent is a number that sounds pretty righteous.
Chevrolet's fifth-generation small-block V-8, called the "LT1," is kind of like the 5 percent scenario spelled out above-at least in automotive terms. It's no secret that the '14 Corvette will be an all-new design, and the Gen V small-block will power it to new levels of performance with an all-new design of its own. One interesting tidbit: We're told unequivocally that the base model C7 will do 0-to-60 in less than four seconds. You'll remember it wasn't long ago that we were popping champagne bottles when the Z06 did 0-to-60 in 3.9. In an era where all of us are getting 5 percent less and paying 5 percent more for it, the LT1 is a very welcome improvement.
Across the board, the 6.2L LT1 is incrementally better in every way than the 6.2L LS3 it replaces; the LT1 makes 450 hp at 6,000 rpm and 450 lb-ft of torque at 4,000 rpm compared to the outgoing LS3 that makes 430 hp at 5,400 rpm and 424 lb-ft at 4,500 rpm. We're promised by Chevy that fuel economy will get a boost too, although how much better than the LS3's 26 mpg highway number we'll have to wait and see. (Five percent would be right in the wheelhouse.) Finally, on the emissions side, the LT1 puts out 25 percent fewer cold-start emissions (the most problematic ones to reduce) than the LS3. As a result, the '14 Corvette will be the quickest, cleanest, and most fuel-efficient base-model Corvette ever produced.
Across the board, the 6.2L LT1 is incrementally better in every way than the 6.2L LS3 it replaces…
The engineers at GM Powertrain attribute these gains in efficiency to a trifecta of new-generation technologies that have been seen elsewhere, but never put together in a domestic V-8 until now. The LT1 is the first engine in the Gen V engine family, which will feature direct injection, continuously variable valve timing, and active fuel management-all three being the result of over 10 million hours of computational analysis, 6 million hours of computational fluid dynamics simulation, and 0.1 quadrillion bytes of disc space. All of this happened in just under two years, and is the effort that will underpin a whole host of Gen V engines that will power all of GM's larger cars and trucks.
Direct Injection
Of the next-generation technologies employed in the LT1, direct injection (DI) is the newest, and is the linchpin that everything rides on. As its name implies, DI injects fuel directly into the combustion chamber, a process that if timed and targeted optimally, can yield substantial improvements in efficiency. GM Powertrain engineers broadly refer to it as the advanced combustion system, because in actuality DI's efficiency gains are highly dependent on having the right intake runner, piston, and combustion chamber shape as an integrated system; it is not merely good enough to bolt DI on and call it a day.
From a hardware standpoint, DI makes use of a high-pressure mechanical fuel pump that is driven off a "tri-lobe" at the end of the camshaft; the result is fuel pressure on the order of 2,175 psi. Why so much? Since the fuel is injected directly into the combustion chamber during periods of intense pressure, the line pressure must be high enough for positive flow into the combustion chamber, and high enough to produce adequate atomization. What you get from this is a really effective way of cooling the combustion chamber-a property that vastly improves octane tolerance. To take advantage, Chevy has increased the compression ratio to 11.5:1. The magical thing about this is if you can raise the compression ratio without detonating or pulling out timing, you get more power without having to add fuel. As a bonus, DI does away with spraying fuel at the intake valve, and cold-start emissions are improved in a big way. Moreover, unlike its Gen IV predecessors, the LT1 can operate safely on any fuel octane and in any high temperature environment with relative impunity. Except for a slight loss of power, the engine simply does not care.
Continuously variable valve timing (CVVT) is something we've seen in Gen IV V-8s, but never in a Corvette. As we reported in our Dec. '12 story on variable valve timing, the aftermarket (COMP Cams and Mast Motorsports) has already caught up and is embracing the technology in its various forms. The advantage of CVVT is that by changing the valve timing-in particular the intake valve closing event-it's possible to maximize cylinder filling and volumetric efficiency over a broad powerband. A simple way to look at CVVT is to imagine that you're doing a series of dyno tests on a camshaft. In the first series of tests, you advance the camshaft until you find the engine's best performance at low rpm. In the second set of tests, you retard the cam until you find the greatest horsepower peak. Now imagine turning a dial and being able to put that cam phasing anywhere you want between those extremes without pulling off the timing cover and changing the timing. The LT1's variable valve timing is like having the ability to retard or advance the camshaft at will, taking into account load and rpm, and eking the most from its 376 ci. In the LT1, CVVT "clocks" the camshaft over a range of 62 degrees. As such, the timing gear is not attached directly to the cam, but to a cylinder with oil-filled chambers that act on the "clocking" of the camshaft. CVVT is the reason why the LT1 makes 395 lb-ft of torque at only 2,000 rpm, and why the torque curve is identical to the much larger LS7's at every point below 4,000 rpm.
Active Fuel Management
The third punch in the LT1's arsenal of advanced technology weaponry is Active Fuel Management (AFM). AFM unobtrusively disengages four of the LT1's eight cylinders when load conditions make it conducive to saving fuel. AFM technology has been in widespread use in the Gen IV LS family for several years, but this is the first time it's shown up in a Corvette engine. AFM is estimated to improve fuel economy by anywhere between 5.5 and 12 percent, so why hasn't it shown up on a Corvette sooner? Maybe it's because GM feared the Corvette customer is more likely to notice it engaging and disengaging, or maybe they merely delayed its introduction long enough to figure out how to make it interact with the new DI technology. We can only guess, but it's about time AFM showed up in the Corvette.
…the '14 Corvette will be the quickest, cleanest, and most fuel-efficient base-model Corvette ever produced.
At the heart of the LT1's AFM system is the lifter oil manifold assembly (LOMA), which orchestrates the ebb and flow of pressurized lube to lifter sets in four of the LT1's eight cylinders. These special lifters either activate their corresponding valves, or they keep them closed. In GM and Chrysler vehicles we've driven with cylinder deactivation, it operates seamlessly and quietly. It should be noted that the degree to which AFM works without intrusion is largely the result of lots of tedious testing and programming to calibrate the wireless throttle body, exhaust tuning, fuel delivery, ignition timing, and cylinder deactivation. In theory, it works as though nothing is happening, but sometimes aftermarket exhaust systems make the cylinder deactivation a more obvious trait. We look forward to driving the C7 to see how well it works. In theory at least, we should see the Corvette's highway mpg go from 26 mpg, to anywhere between 27 and 29 mpg just on the basis of adding AFM alone.
Lube System
With the LT1's torque in LS7 territory, and with new demands placed on the lube system by active fuel management and variable valve control, it was deemed that the LT1 needed a higher-volume, higher-pressure oiling system with a greater dynamic range. GM Powertrain went through dozens of iterations on the lube system before arriving at a variable-displacement, duel-pressure pump. This crank-driven pump is partially controlled by the engine management system; a sensor reading pressure off the second main journal was deemed the end point of the lube circuit where pressure is typically at its lowest. The engine management reads pressure from the second main bearing and controls a solenoid that varies or dithers the pump's pressure valve orifice between its two extremes. This maintains an ideal lube circuit that has the advantage of low parasitic loss under low load, and a robust protective capacity during severe use.
For those Corvette customers wanting to autocross, drag race, or road race their cars-and here we're talking about way more than what's typical-Chevy will be offering the LT1 with an optional dry-sump lube system. This raises oil capacity from 6.5 quarts to 10.2 quarts, and ups the ante with an air/oil separator, external sump tank, and a two-stage scavenger-style oil pump. It's worth noting here that even without the dry-sump's oil/air separator, the LT1 features new oil/air separator schemes in the valve covers and the LOMA-and that's on top of improved bay-to-bay venting in the block's design and a seriously effective windage tray/crank scraper mounted to the cross-bolted nodular iron main caps.
Before we know it, we'll be plucking these jewels from junkyards and seeing them shipped to our door in crates.
Like the wet sump system, the dry-sump's pump will have variable-displacement, dual-pressure control, but it adds a gerotor-style scavenge pump stage that is better suited to capturing oil that's heavily foamed or entrained with gas bubbles. We'll also note that this will be the first time in over 20 years that Chevy has not recommended a pure synthetic for the Corvette (typically Mobil 1). The LT1 oil spec is the Dexos spec-a semi-synthetic 5W30.
At a glance, the LT1's cylinder heads and intake don't look all that different from the LS3, but looks are deceiving. The Gen V architecture is all new from the block up, and significant changes were driven by the combustion system. The LT1's cylinder heads are the product of 75 design iterations that aimed at maximizing combustion efficiency. Engineers analyzed mixture motion and pressure dynamics in an effort to convert the least amount of fuel into the greatest amount of energy, and by the time of the design cutoff, the powertrain team had settled on a satisfying array of improvements.
Given the efficiency of direct injection, it's not surprising that engineers settled on large 2.13-inch hollow intake and 1.59-inch hollow sodium-filled exhaust valves. Air is admitted into the chambers at a very shallow 12.5-degree angle versus the LS3's 15 degrees. (The exhaust also gets help at 12 degrees versus the LS3's 15.) Intake ports are rectangular like the LS3, but the location of intake and exhaust valves has been reversed from the Gen IV, providing a slight bump in efficiency and better packaging.
It is perhaps the combustion chamber and piston face that contribute the most to the high-efficiency DI equation, with their shapes being the culmination of all that computational fluid dynamics. Each combustion event is a well-choreographed dance of high-swirl mixture motion, with atomized fuel entering at the ideal time to cool the chamber. Then on cue, a centrally located plug lights a precisely shaped fuel slug at just the right moment when it produces the greatest force gradient on the sculpted piston top.
All this permits a much higher static compression ratio, which in turn supports a very delayed intake valve closing (remember, fuel isn't coming through the intake valve anymore so there's mostly upside to a late intake closing). All this is great for building torque, lowering emissions, and extending the upper end of the powerband.
The Future ...
The LT1 is just the first salvo in the Gen V engine family. If the past is any indication, Chevy and GM with filter variants of the Gen V into trucks and other cars in the coming years. The next-gen technologies employed in the LT1 will also find themselves in other engine families present and future. Who knows, maybe we'll even see them with other technologies like turbocharging, independent variable valve control, and regenerative braking. All we know is the clock is ticking on tighter fuel efficiency standards, and at the rate of technological improvement that the LT1 has shown us, the future certainly looks bright.
It won't take long for the LT1 and its variants to populate the new vehicle fleet in the coming years. Before we know it, we'll be plucking these jewels from junkyards and seeing them shipped to our door in crates. It might seem scary dealing with direct injection at the moment, but it really poses no more of a problem than fuel injection or computer control did back in their early days. We can be forgiven for entertaining the idea that our hot rodding world might come to an end with tighter CAFE regs, but thankfully the true hot rodders at GM Powertrain dug their heels in and came up with a winner. And for that, we can give each other a high five.
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|Engine type:
|90-degree V-8 with overhead valves; continuous VVT
|6.2 liters (376 ci)
|Bore x Stroke:
|4.06 x 3.62 inches
|Cylinder block:
|cast aluminum with nodular main caps
|Main bearing fasteners:
|six, including two cross-bolts per cap
|forged steel
|Connecting rods:
|powder metal, 6.125 inches in length
|eutectic cast-aluminum alloy
|Compression ratio:
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|319-T7 cast aluminum with 59.02cc combustion chambers
|Valve angles:
|12.5 degrees intake, 12 degrees exhaust
|Intake valves:
|2.13 inches, hollow
|Exhaust valves:
|1.59 inches, hollow sodium filled
|hydraulic type with tri-lobe for fuel pump drive
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|450 at 6,000 rpm
|450 lb-ft at 4,000 rpm
|Max engine speed:
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Although they have roughly the same dimensions, the LT1 piston/rod assembly (left) is significantly different than the previous Corvette's LS3. The higher 11.5 compression of the LT1 requires a sculpted dome versus the LS3's 10.7:1 flat-top. To make the DI work its magic, the computational fluid dynamics led engineers to designActive Fuel Management (AFM) is the deactivation of four of the LT1's eight cylinders, allowing the V-8 to run as a V-4 when the load on the engine is low. This technology typically boosts fuel efficiency between 5.5 and 7.5 percent. Shown here is the Lifter Oil Manifold Assembly (LOMA), which sits where the lifter valley cover does on the old LS3. A series of solenoids opens and closes lube passages to the lifters on four cylinders. When charged with oil pressure, the lifters activate the valves in their respective cylinders, but when closed, the cylinder is deactivated. This deactivation is coordinated with the shutoff of fuel.The LT1's camshaft is different than most in two important ways: the variable valve timing mechanism (front), and the fuel pump tri-lobe (rear). The CVVT mechanism has a 62-degree range of authority relative to the crank, and is controlled by oil pressure that fills channels in the cylinder.The added demands of the lube system required an all-new variable-displacement, dual-pressure oil pump. The solenoid at the right modulates a pressure pathway that can reduce the oil flow for less parasitic power loss at idle and cruise, or feed all 450 stampeding ponies at full tilt.The LT1 has been dyno tested to withstand as much as 1.3 lateral g's, and it wouldn't be possible without a top-rate lube system and oil pan. Note the extensive baffling in the bottom of the LT1 pan. To see a video of the LT1 being dyno tested on a specially built tilt-stand, go to the PopularHotRodding.com video page.


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Under the assumption of no arbitrage without vanish risk, in an incomplete market $(\Omega,{\cal F}, P)$, the set of equivalent martingale measure is NOT empty, i.e. $\mathcal{P} = \{Q: Q \sim P\}\neq \emptyset$
My question is: in the following simplified market with one stock which is driving by two independent Brownian Motions and one bond, i.e.
$$dS_t = S_t(\mu dt + \sigma_1 dW_1(t) + \sigma_2 dW_2(t))$$ $$dB_t = rB_tdt, \mbox{ } B_0 = 1$$
How to calculate all the equivalent martingale ${\cal P}.$ We suppose that $\mu,\sigma_1,\sigma_2, r$ are constants.
One approach in my mind is using another stock to complete the market, i.e. we suppose there is another stock $\tilde{S}$ with parameters, $\tilde{\mu}, \tilde{\sigma_1},\tilde{ \sigma_2}$ such that $$d\tilde{S_t} = \tilde{S_t}(\tilde{\mu} dt + \tilde{\sigma_1} dW_1(t) + \tilde{\sigma_2} dW_2(t)).$$
Then, following the classic method, we could get the equivalent martingale measures described by parameters, $\mu,\sigma_1,\sigma_2, r, \tilde{\mu}, \tilde{\sigma_1},\tilde{ \sigma_2}.$
But, how could I know the equivalent martingale measure obtained by above approach are the set of all the equivalent martingale measures in this financial market?
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Now you can try what I did which was to get your local Bestbuy Mobile to pricematch the $99.99 price on this in store. I printed out the webpage from amazonwireless showing the $99 price and got some very dirty looks from the store manager who had to do the price over-ride but they did it.
I had spent less a day with the horrible Verizon Galaxy Nexus phone and was fed up and need something with better battery life. The galaxy nexus actually dropp from 100% battery to 30% in less than 3 hours. Maybe I had a bad phone, but after talking with Verizon Tech support the rep telling me to ditch the nexus for the Razr Maxx I was all over it. Weird thing was I had the Sprint Galaxy Nexus and never had that bad of battery issues just horrible local cell coverage from sprint so I kicked them to the curb. Good luck to anyone trying to price match. The verizon direct pricing on this phone is $249 for new customers or upgrade customers too.
@jocallag339: I had the opp problem had a bad nexus got a razor sent it back and manged to get a replacement nexus . Look the nexus is a good phone the problem is a lot of them are defective I got lucky with one a lot of people did not . I got a massive battery for it ( larger in power then the razor maxx) and now it last as long as the razor the only problem is the lack of a sd card slot . But to be able to pull the battery is great . Also no bloatware is great as it easy to use . I also though that the razor was a pain to hold . But to each his own . I away fig the battery is the first to go and since I paid full price for it I wanted it to last a long long time .
Also very few stores with price match amazon FRY does I think and a few other.
For any new phone, I just go with Amazon and it shows up in a day or two. They always undercut everyone else's price, and shipping is stupid fast.
Obviously, you can't always wait...
@spike443: Well I was kind of stuck got the first two Free Verizon Galaxy Nexus phones on Friday and returned them to BestBuy on Saturday. When I called Amazon and Verizon about returning the first phones it would then only qualify me for the upgrade pricing on Amazonwireless ($199.99) unless I completely canceled verizon lost my ported cell phone numbers and waited a week to order from Amazon while starting a new account and get random new numbers. That was not an option, plus my wife wanted a White Iphone 4 which was only available in store. So it was not just an instant gratification thing. But I wanted to let others know they might have that option if they could get a pricematch. I guess I was very very lucky that I did and that I got an open box Iphone 4 for my wife too. I am very happy with the Droid Razr Maxx now that I got the ICS 4.0.4 installed on it OTA. Wife is still getting used to her Iphone 4 8gb.
The first Razr Maxx I got from bb was defective and would not connect at 4g LTE anywhere in town. Verizon tried to pass that off as normal, but I took it back to bb mobile. After 2 hours working with a very patient gentleman I had a new Razr Maxx and New Sim Card too. Plus now I had 4G LTE all the time too. Well worth the 2 hours and the 5 more I spend resetting up my Droid. 18-20mbs speedtest on 4G LTE!! I would still highly recommend the verizon Droid Razr Maxx over a GSIII due too the long battery life and the smart trigger system on the Maxx. This system lets you setup an endless amount of combinations of events/times/triggers that will have your phone do things, Example 1: when I get home based on my location it will turn on ringer, turn on bluetooth and wifi. Example 2: when I am at work it will set the ringer to silent/vibrate and turn off wifi/bluetooth. Example 3: 3 missed calls from my wife it will activate an mp3 playlist alerting me. Pretty slick stuff.


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FNB now offering PS4 bundles on credit for R359 per month, only 100 units availableWritten by: / / 10 Comments
Late last year South African bank FNB announced that it would be adding the PlayStation 4 to its 'smart device' range which allows cheque account holders to pay off a wide range of gadgets over 24 months.
The bank has now issued a press release stating that a PS4 500GB console bundled with an extra DualShock 4 controller, Knack and Injustice: Gods Among Us is now available for R359 a month (R8 616 in total). The catch is that FNB only has 100 units in stock so expect all these bundles to be snapped up by the end of the day at the latest.
Delivery costs an extra R150 and you'll need to meet the monthly deposit requirement to qualify for this smart device.
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(WIBW/AP) - President Obama's decision to withhold documents related to the "Operation Fast and Furious" Mexican gun smuggling investigation is drawing criticism from a Kansas Congresswoman.
The administration says it's asserting executive privilege in refusing to turn over the documents. The action led a House panel finding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt at a Wednesday hearing.
The operation is believed linked to the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, says the President's decision contradicts previous statements that he's committed to an open government.
"The American public deserves transparency and confidence that any administration, regardless of party, will operate in a straightforward fashion," Jenkins said.
Jenkins represents the Kansas 2nd District. Her counterpart in the 1st District, U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, echoed the criticism.
"The decision by President Obama to employ executive privilege to conceal evidence is quite hypocritical for the man who pledged to have the most open and transparent administration in history," Huelskamp said. "It is also revealing that the President uses executive privilege for something about which he claims to know nothing. The parents of a slain border patrol agent remain in the dark about their son's death, yet President Obama has once again put politics and self-preservation ahead of anything and everything else."


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On all the DSLRs I've used, there are never any autofocus points near the edges and corners. Why is that?
Phase detect autofocus in DSLRs works by comparing patterns of light coming from each side of the lens using pairs of detectors which are separated a certain distance on the AF sensor. This distance is called the baseline, and the greater the baseline the more accurately the distance can be measured.
The need for a wide baseline and for light to travel from either side of the lens makes it impossible to have autofocus points at the very edge of the frame. The further out you go from the centre the shorter the baseline which is why the outer focus points are often less reliable.
APS-C DSLRs appear to have AF points which cover more of the frame, in reality the positions are similar to a full frame DSLR but the frame itself is smaller.
Because autofocus needs a considerable amount of light, and the lens construction gives more light getting closer to the center. Also, lenses tend to be sharper the closer you get to the center. That is why using the middle focus point and then recomposing usually gives the sharpest result.
Are you sure you'd even really want ones on the perimeter? For me, I turn off all of the auto focus squares except the middle one. Why? If I'm shooting through a tree, for example, I want to focus on my subject which may be 30 feet away. I don't want the camera to focus on a branch (off center) that is 8 feet away. I would never want focusing sensor squares around the perimeter of my lens. But that perhaps is just me.


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Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce are trading in their Celtic green for Nets black next season. The blockbuster NBA Draft night deal won't be completed until July 10, but the trade brings two potential Hall of Famers to Brooklyn. Garnett, 37, and Pierce, 35, teamed up to lead Boston to an NBA title in 2008 but the big question is how much game do these aging veterans have left?
The good news for the Nets: There is precedent for teammates linking up on new teams later in their careers, and the results have been good, particularly in New York.
Catfish Hunter and Reggie Jackson, won three consecutive World Series titles with the Oakland A's, then joined up to lead the New York Yankees to championships in 1978 and 1979. Former New York Mets stars Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden won a title in 1986 and then celebrated across town with the 1996 Yankees.
Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier teamed up to win four Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers and then made the Eastern Conference Finals with the New York Rangers in the 1996-97 season.
Playing first for a New York team and then trying to duplicate success in another city has also been fairly successful. Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens, teammates on the 2000 World Series champion Yankees, reunited in Houston advancing to World Series in 2005.
It should be noted that Garnett's and Pierce's run in Boston ended last season in a first-round playoff defeat to the New York Knicks, led by Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith, themselves reunited teammates from the Denver Nuggets.
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Brennan: It's time to end the NVL title game
WATERBURY -- Wednesday night marked football game No. 11 of this 2013 season for Ansonia and Woodland. It's all over now, right?
Wrong. This is not 1990.
Actually, the Chargers and Hawks might have as many as four games remaining in a span of about 2 1/2 weeks. Yes, more than a quarter of each team's football season could be compressed into an 18-day stretch.
And if you count Wednesday's Naugatuck Valley League championship game, that's a full third of a 15-game football schedule played in less than a month of bitter cold.
Football is fun, but the Valley's coaches have had enough. There can be no more league championship games.
"If Woodland or we are fortunate enough to get to the (state) final, that's 15 games and that's a lot of football," said Ansonia coach Tom Brockett, who won his sixth NVL title in eight seasons with a 48-7 victory Wednesday. "That many games in 14 weeks — nobody else in the country does that. And I'm surprised — with concussions and everything trying to protect kids, it kind of sends a different message."
The mandatory NVL championship game has been the coaches' nemesis since it became a fixture in 2007. Prior to that year, the league held organic title games in 2005 and 2006 when division champions had not met during the regular season.
OK, that's not bad, and that would have been the scenario this year. But 2005 and 2006 had 10-game regular seasons with only two rounds of state playoffs. This season and next have 11-game slates with three rounds of playoffs. Throw in an NVL title game that the majority of coaches don't want to play, and that's more football than any team at any level plays in such a compressed time frame.
"If you start it earlier, it's doable," said Woodland coach Tim Shea, whose team lost to Ansonia in a league title game for the third time since 2007. "But they end up backloading everything, and it's a lot."
Woodland athletic director Brian Fell, who is also the NVL vice president and scheduling czar, does not see an issue with playing 15 games in a season.
"I don't have a problem with that, and that's a rare circumstance of two teams — and it might not even be two teams," Fell said. "You'd have to go to the league final and state championship game."
Rare or not, it will likely happen for at least one of the NVL's division champions. And for those who want to make the "they're kids and they can handle it" argument, consider the opinion of the state's all-time leading rusher.
"We only played 10 games in Pop Warner, so 15 is definitely a lot," said Arkeel Newsome, who will have ended up playing more high school games than he can potentially play at UConn. "Me and the guys talk about it all the time. It's a really long season. We have to keep ourselves healthy. It's tough, especially with the weather. At the end of the season, I'm pretty sore."
The league has its chance to make everything right in two weeks. That's when the athletic directors will propose to the principals their NVL constitutional changes, all prompted by Oxford's joining the league next year.
Fell would not say what the proposal will be, but said both eliminating and keeping the football championship game have been on the table. Keeping the game would be difficult with an odd number of teams and three divisions, but it isn't out of the question for Fell.
"Under ideal conditions, I'm in favor of a championship game," he said.
The problem is, though, those conditions will no longer exist. Plus, Brockett said the coaches' opposition to the game is "pretty unanimous." Fell said the ADs have heard the concerns.
"We all listen to our coaches," Fell said. "Where there is perhaps a disconnect is that the coaches are looking at what's best for football, whereas the AD has to look at the best situation for schools and league. Those might not always be in agreement."
But, guys, the football coaches voting against a football championship doesn't hurt the league's other sports. We can still have league tournaments everywhere else — those are great. But these coaches know the limitations of their players and know what's best for their sport.
"I've been pretty outspoken about the fact that I'm not in favor of it," Brockett said. "We show up and play when we're fortunate enough to make it. We're pretty sure that this is the end of it, so that's a good thing."
Let's hope so.
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North Korea Urged to Free American
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration lashed out at North Korea and called for the immediate release of an American citizen sentenced by Pyongyang this week to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly committing "hostile acts" against the isolated communist country.
The fate of Kenneth Bae, a 44-year-old Korean-American tour operator from Washington state, emerged as the latest test for the U.S. in its efforts to deal with Pyongyang and its young leader, Kim Jong Eun. North Korea has begun a string of provocative acts against the U.S. and its allies in recent months, including nuclear-weapons and long-range missile tests.
U.S. and Asian officials believe the North's sentencing of Mr. Bae is its latest effort to draw Washington into direct talks aimed at extracting economic and diplomatic concessions, something President Barack Obama has so far been unwilling to do.
U.S. officials said they were working through the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang—which represents U.S. diplomatic interests there—to gain information on Mr. Bae and seek his release. Administration officials don't rule out sending a special envoy to Pyongyang to try to win Mr. Bae's release.
Former President Bill Clinton made an emergency trip to North Korea during Mr. Obama's first term and won the release of two American journalistsbeing held in the country.
"We're urging the [North Korean] authorities…to grant him amnesty and to allow for his immediate release, full stop," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney, asked about Mr. Baeduring a trip with Mr. Obama to Mexico City, said little about the arrest, turning quickly to criticism of North Korea's nuclear-weapons program and calling on Mr. Kim to comply with its international commitments.
"Thus far, as you know, they have flouted their obligations, engaged in provocative actions and rhetoric that brings them no closer to a situation where they can improve the lot of the North Korean people or re-enter the community of nations," he said.
North Korea's state news agency said Mr. Bae was tried and sentenced Tuesday by the country's highest court. "The Supreme Court sentenced him to 15 years of compulsory labor for this crime," KCNA said.
North Korea has provided no details of Mr. Bae's alleged crime, but activists in Seoul said he was interested in bringing attention to humanitarian issues and may have been detained for possessing images of vagrant North Korean children. Groups of orphans, known as "kotjebi," or wandering swallows, are found throughout North Korea.Last week, North Korea said Mr. Bae had "aimed to topple" the government, a charge that could have brought the death penalty
There was no explanation for the apparent lesser charge.
The sentence for Mr. Bae complicates efforts by the U.S. and South Korea to lower tensions on the Korean peninsula as Pyongyang is thought to be preparing for a possible missile test from its east coast and has shut down a joint industrial zone with the South.
Since mid-February the North has threatened both countries with attack as it railed against annual military drills in the South and sanctions imposed in response to its nuclear-weapons program. Pyongyang has rejected offers for dialogue from both Seoul and Washington.
Mr. Bae entered Rason, a North Korean special economic zone bordering China and Russia, with a tour group in November and was detained soon afterward, according to North Korean state media. Mr. Bae, who was born in South Korea and is based in China, is a regular visitor to North Korea.
"Mr. Bae has been supporting an orphanage and running a bakery with the North Korean authorities' agreement," said Do Hee-yoon, a member of Seoul-based activist group Citizen's Coalition for the Human Rights of North Korean Refugees. "But he is being detained for taking pictures of North Korean homeless children."
A group led by Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in January attempted to meet Mr. Bae during a trip to North Korea but were denied access.
In recent years, former U.S. presidents have traveled to North Korea to secure the release of detained American citizens. South Korean media reported Thursday that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was seeking a visit to North Korea that may be part of a move to bring Mr. Bae back.
Mr. Carter secured the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes in 2010, after the U.S. citizen was found guilty of similar alleged crimes. Mr. Carter's office wasn't available for comment on the media reports.
In 2009, Mr. Clinton returned from Pyongyang with two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who the North said had entered the country illegally and had committed unspecified "hostile acts."
Some analysts see North Korea's detention of U.S. citizens as a bargaining chip in its efforts to initiate dialogue aimed at winning security and aid concessions from the U.S. Visits by former U.S. statesmen to retrieve hostages also serve as a domestic propaganda tool showing the ability of the regime to win acknowledgment from the U.S.
Mr. Bae was born in South Korea and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, according to an account on the University of Oregon's Daily Emerald website. He was a student at the university from 1988 to 1990, but didn't graduate, the Daily Emerald reported.
A spokesman for Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden's spokesman Tom Caiazza said: "Senator Wyden condemns North Korea's attempt to use a United States citizen in what appears to be yet another attempt to get the international community's attention. He agreed with the State Department that Mr. Bae should be released immediately on humanitarian grounds.
—Joel Millman and Khalid Khattak contributed to this article.
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I have an iPhone 3G 16GB with 4.0.2 and my wifi is not working, I tried to fix it with reset network settings and other quick fixes like that but nothing. Sometimes it sees wifi networks but I can't connect. I don't think is a hardware problem because I can see the wifi mac address on the device.
Version: 4.0.2 (8A400) (jailbreak with redsnow)
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PS: On 3.1.2 the same thing. (jailbreak with blackrain)
Downgraded at 3.1.2, again...still nothing (jailbreak with redsnow)


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Unanswered: Preflighted Resquest and ExtJS
I'm sorry if this question has already been asked, but I haven't found any info either via search engines or the forum.
I have an app that has the frontend (ExtJS) on one domain and the webservices servicing the frontend on another domain.
Everytime I make a request to an URL, an OPTIONS request is sent to the server first. I understand this is something that could be wanted, but does anyone know (or can point me to the doc) on how to make ExtJS not do this OTIONS call ?
Thanks in advance for your help,
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I don't believe ExtJS has any control over this, it's done behind the scenes by the browser.
The second article suggests that you may be able to prevent the OPTIONS request by setting a suitable Content-Type header on the request. There are several ways to do this in ExtJS, see the docs for Ext.Ajax:
http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#!...method-requestConsultJS: http://consultjs.com/
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Schedule changes keep coming
The lingering effects of the weekend blizzard are still being felt in the high school sports season. The Berkshire League girls basketball showdown between Nonnewaug and Thomaston scheduled for tonight has been postponed, as has the boys game involving the same two schools.
No makeup date has yet been determined.
Also, the start of the NVL girls basketball tournament has been shifted to Monday, still at Holy Cross, two days later than the original schedule. Check here for the complete NVL girls tourney schedule.
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I used to play Axis & Allies all the time when I was younger. I recently purchased the Axis & Allies Revised Edition, and was floored by all the added complexity/new units/new rules/map changes. It was definitely a whole pile of fun, but I notice now that there are many other versions of Axis & Allies available as well. Are the "new" rules the same across all the "new" versions? Does each version have its own rules? Are the differences in the rules relatively minor, or do I need to keep track of six different sets of infantry rules for six different games?
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I'm not sure the best way to answer this question, but I'm going to propose a running list starting with A&A 2nd edition as the baseline and then listing each progressive revision below it with all the changes from the previous version--just like software release notes.
Since I don't own all the versions I'm making this answer a community wiki. Please add to the list if you see something missing. I'll start us off with the easy stuff.
3rd edition changes
A&A Revised
I own Axis and Allies 1984 original, the 2004 and 2009 revised editions, as well as the new Europe and Pacific games.
The new rules, new units, new everything make the game so much more interesting.
For example, in Europe and Pacific, there are "Harbors" and "Air Bases." These allow units that move from them to move one extra space. Let's say a fighter is in Hawaii. Fighters have a move of 4. If it leaves from an area with an "Air Base" however, its mobility is upped to 5. The same is true for bombers (and the new tactical bomber). These bases add one movement to any unit. Harbors allow all ships leaving the harbor to move at a 3.
If you want more info on these versions, please comment back.