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A Saturday afternoon, interrupted I thought, turns into an unexpected unforgettable moment. A drive from Jordan to Maple Lake. Actually 90 moments there. And 90 back. Same estimated time freeway or back way…so back way it is. And leaving Jordan we have no idea what we are in store for. So a couple stops, and…Read More
Our family's favorite toast: Cheers to Life! Inspired by a friend who takes a photo of her feet standing at a special place or event, we began to commemorate some special places and events with a toast. So here's to 2011 ~ here's to life! Thank you to all our guests for making 2011 our best…Read More
Jordan attracts the antique seeker, and the antique dealer. Our latest addition is The Jordan Junker, and it certainly will not disappoint the antique enthusiast. The shop is open as an occasional sale store, open posted days during the month with a constantly changing inventory. During my visit in December, a focus on holiday decor…Read More
Our guests tend to dine at restaurants in Jordan for their evening meals. And though some venture anywhere from Excelsior to downtown Minneapolis or St. Paul, the majority dining outside of Jordan do so within 10 miles in the surrounding communities of Shakopee, Chaska, Belle Plaine, New Prague, and Prior Lake. So Kevin and I…Read More
While watching Jordan's local Heimatfest Parade Saturday morning from Nicolin Mansion's front porch, I turn to our innsitter, Cindy Nevins, and make an offer: you clean the room that's checking in this afternoon while I finish my computer work and we'll go on a Nicolin Mansion Fieldtrip to Crofut Winery for the annual Grape Stomp. Deal! So we…Read More
Suzette's is likely the most popular dining destination for our Nicolin Mansion guests. And it's likely the most unexpected in our quaint town.Read More
Served up this morning, our signature scones, which were "heaven" according to our guests. This recipe has even passed the test of our British guests! So, thought it was about time to share – so you can experience a taste of the Nicolin Mansion in your own home. 2 cups flour 1/4 cup sugar 1 tablespoon…Read More
Carasim Coffee Shop is far more than just Coffee. While it's true they do serve coffee, espresso, chai, fine teas, Italian sodas and real fruit smoothies, there is a lot more going on in Frank Nicolin's former Opera House. Dining at the vintage bar or booths not only includes a great nostalgic atmosphere, there is…Read More
I like to set goals for renovation projects, now that we're open, specifically on dates for upcoming events. So when we booked a recent courtyard wedding (watch for a future post), I set the goal, well actually Kevin's goal, to have the only yet untouched room in the mansion completed for that wedding. So when…Read More


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text: Here is a very unique lesson that I had a lot of fun creating because it is based on the dragon. Dragons have a lot of versatility to them whenever you come up with a new concept. There is a ton of ways you can draw dragons and one of those ways is how you see it here now. I have to believe that what I have created for you today is what a lot of you dragon drawers love creating.


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In 3D, I can calculate the total force due to gravity acting on a point on the surface of the unit sphere of constant density, where I choose units so that all physical constants (as well as the density of the sphere) is 1:
$$F = 4\int_{-1}^1 \int_{-\sqrt{1-x^2}}^{\sqrt{1-x^2}} \int_{-\sqrt{1-x^2-y^2}}^{\sqrt{1-x^2-y^2}} \tfrac{x+1}{\left[(x+1)^2+y^2+z^2\right]^{3/2}} dz\, dy\, dx = \frac{16\pi}{3}.$$
This force agrees with what we get if we treat the sphere as a point particle at the sphere's center of gravity with lumped mass $\frac{4\pi}{3}$. So far so good.
But now if I try to calculate the force of gravity of a point on the boundary of the unit disk in 2D, I get infinity:
$$F = 2\int_{-1}^1 \int_{-\sqrt{1-x^2}}^{\sqrt{1-x^2}} \tfrac{x+1}{\left[(x+1)^2+y^2\right]^{3/2}} dy\, dx = \infty?$$ Intuitively, if I think of the total force as the sum of contributions from nested circular rings around the point of interest, the circumference of the rings scales like $r$, the force density like $\frac{1}{r^2}$, so the contribution of each ring scales like $\frac{1}{r}$ which diverges as $r\to 0$.
What is going on here? How is the gravity potential derived? Is it an accident that in 3D, $\frac{G m_1 m_2}{r}$ is harmonic on the punctured space $\mathbb{R}^3 \backslash\{0\}$? Is the "right" gravity potential in 2D something like $G m_1 m_2 \log r$? If so, why, and isn't it a paradox if point masses in 2D orbit according to a different law than coplanar point masses in 3D?


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Florida's 24 regional workforce boards invite young adults, including those from Gadsden County, to apply for participation in a summer employment program funded by recovery funds under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
NOAA forecasters say a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year. However, as with any season, the need to prepare for the possibility of a storm striking near you is essential.
"Today, more than 35 million Americans live in regions most threatened by Atlantic hurricanes," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said. "Timely and accurate warnings of severe weather help save lives and property. Public awareness and public preparedness are the best defenses against a hurricane."
More mathematicians are in the making in Gadsden County and there are FCAT scores in to prove it.
FCAT scores show that Gadsden County students continue to make gains on the yearly administered high stakes testing. More importantly, more children are scoring at or above the state average and many schools are seeing the highest achievement levels since the inception of the high stakes test. Scores reflect that students in grades 4-10 are showing steady growth in reading and math.
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According to published reports, Gov. Charlie Crist signed a bill this morning that gives Gadsden County another year to reopen the Gadsden Community Hospital.
Crist signed House Bill 873, sponsored by Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee, as Gadsden County officials looked on. The bill allows rural hospitals that have held inactive licenses for at least 20 months to get a 12-month license extension. The bill, tailored for Gadsden, requires hospitals to make progress toward reopening.
The percent of Florida third graders performing at or above grade level in math reached its highest point to date according to Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test results released today. The results build on the state's long-term progress in math where the percentage of third graders performing at or above grade level has increased 26 percentage points in only 9 years. Additionally, black and Hispanic third graders continue to close the math achievement gap with their White counterparts.
Havana council members Olive Collins and David Norman are sworn in for another term of office by town clerk Sheila Evans. Vernell Ross was voted mayor, while current mayor, T.J. Davis, will assume the position of mayor pro tem, formerly held by Ross.
It's been a lean year for counties and cities in Florida given the $6 billion slash in the state budget, according to Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee, who is pleased overall with the funding that came to Gadsden County.
"It was a good year. It was an opportunity for me to learn the process, the budget and the rules of the process. It was important to build relationships with Democrats and Republicans for the future," Williams said.
The Gadsden County Board of Commissioners last Tuesday night hired the Tallahassee law firm of Ausley and McMullen as legal representatives of the county. Deborah Minnis will be the attorney of record. Michael Glazer will be the deputy county attorney.
"I'm a little leery going forward and I have concerns about a conflict of interest. I didn't support the process on how we got here," said Commissioner Sherrie Taylor."
The $1.4 million annex to the Guy Race Judicial Complex has been completed. The ribbon cutting was held Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m., with judicial dignitaries and public officials joining in the celebration.
"I want to thank each of you for the part you played in making this a reality," said Eugene Lamb, chairman of the Gadsden County Board of Commissioners.
The expansion resulted from a request by Chief Judge Charles A. Francis and the public defender's office for more space.
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This week on Real Housewives of Atlanta, Nene and Sheree went through break ups, Phaedra got used to being a mother, and Kim bought Brielle a purity ring nicer than most wedding rings.
While Greg and Nene's split was dramatic and full of unfortunate hype, Sheree's was hilarious. Good for her for standing her ground, though Dr. Tiy-E was pretty entertaining while he lasted.


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The Sunrise Seniors of Toronto met Oct. 26 with President Susan Kulstad welcoming guest Henry Portocarrero and Chaplain Glenn Smith leading the group in a moment of silence for John Manning, a member who recently died.
Reports were given by Mary Lou Deku, Mike Timko and Susan Conaway.
John Bodrog provided information on the planned bus trip to Branson, Mo., in May. The cost will be $518 and include bus trip, six nights' lodging, six breakfasts, four dinners and seven shows. Payments will be made in three installments of $75 Jan. 11, $200 on Feb. 2 and $243 by March 15. Insurance can be purchased for an additional $45 which is payable in advance.
There are still some spots available. Contact Bodrog at (740) 537-1611.
The Christmas dinner is Dec. 14 at St. Francis Hall with appetizers at 5 p.m, and dinner at 6 p.m.
Door prizes were won by Stan Ohalek and Kitty Roth. The 50/50 was divided by Marion Wilson and Kitty Roth.
Bingo winners were Peg Nordenger, Patty Roth, Judy Sabol, Dorothy Pavelka, Betty Mossor, Marlene Garrett, Lois Baker, Sandy Smith, Tim Gribben, Joyce Gribben, Pete Graceffa, Diane Pernick, Mary Lou Deku, Susan Kulstad, John Bodrog, Jo Andrews, Bruce Pertko, Beth Clark, Donna Twyford, and Lucy Timko. Scat winners were Patty Farnelli, Dolores Graceffa, Nancy Bodrog, Patty Roth and Bruce Pertko.
The next meeting will be held Friday at 5 p.m. in the Roosevelt Senior Center.
The November kitchen committee will be Paul and Dorothy Pavelka, Tim and Joyce Gribben, Ted and Edna Riffle and Marie Bernabi.
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A report on the first Lions Golf Scramble at Castle Shannon was given at the October meeting of the Adena Lions Club. There were 72 golfers on 18 teams. The golf committee consisted of Don Moore, Drew Case and Dustin Kinsey.
Plans were made for the annual Halloween parade and party and judging of costumes at the Adena Community Center. Hot dogs, drinks and treats were to be distributed following the parade.
Ed Looman, Progress Alliance executive director, was the guest speaker at the dinner meeting. His topic was "Jefferson County: There's Something Happening Here!" He spoke on the growth taking place in Jefferson County as a result of the influx of the new businesses in the area related to the oil and gas industry.
Looman gave information regarding unemployment figures in several of the surrounding counties, with all counties he touched on having a lower unemployment percentage than they did the previous year. This he credited to the oil and gas, a huge plus for this area of the state, he said.
Thank-you cards were read from the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County for the donation to the summer reading program and library party, as well as a thank you from the Heritage Days committee.
Randy Bednarski is in charge of the rose and carnation sale to conclude Nov. 13 and be distributed Nov. 20. The cost is $13 for carnations and $15 for roses.
District 13G Gov. Beth Johnson attended the dinner meeting and spoke on her goals for the year.
Dustin Kinsey reported on the annual Christmas Cantata called "Call Him Jesus" that was performed 13 years ago. It will be presented Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. at St. Casimir's Catholic Church and at 7 p.m. at the Harrisville Methodist Church. Donations go to the Adena Food Pantry.
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Immaculate Heart of Mary Council No. 472 is having its monthly spaghetti dinner Saturday at the council hall.
It will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The cost is $7 a person. The public is invited along with all members and their families.
Reservations are not necessary.
Carryouts are available by calling (740) 264-0092.
The menu is homemade spaghetti and meatballs, salad, Italian bread, desserts and coffee. Bottled water, sodas and other refreshments are available in the council social room.
Splendid Sound at Rosemont Chapel
The singing group Splendid Sound will be performing Sunday at 7 p.m. at Rosemont Chapel, which is located at the corner of Goulds Road and Williams Boulevard, Steubenville.
It is open to the public.


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I'm trying to add the facebook SDK to my project but it won't work at all.
I've followed the official steps; opened the fb sdk, made sure it's set to "is library", in m yown project go to properties->android->add library and it lets me select com_facebook_android and it shows up with a green tick next to it. HOWEVER, when i go back to that screen straight away it now has a red cross next to it, and if i try to launch the app in the emulator it has " com_facebook_android] Could not find com_facebook_android.apk!"
(This is just me testing without referencing the library in my app)
if i DO reference the library, then any calls to the facebook library give an error within eclipse and the tooltip suggests to add it to build path, so if i click that it launches fine, but still does the above apk error and the app force closes on any activity which references facebook.
As far as I can tell I'm following the official instructions fine but it just keeps coming back to that red cross in my app's properties
Does anyone know what this could be?


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Experts' year-end tax advice thrown off by uncertainty
At 72, Paul Nagorski likes to own stocks that come with their own payday. Dividend checks add to his income. The Kansas City, Mo., resident soon may be sharing more of his investing income with Uncle Sam. Like other investors, he's heading for a tax cliff on Jan. 1.


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To say Tuesday's general election will affect residents in many ways would be an understatement.
Voters will decide who will run the country, their state and their county.
Voting has never been as important as it is Tuesday.
People across the country will flock to the polls, or have already in early voting, to determine the president for the next four years. The campaign that seemingly would never end will do so on Tuesday.
Ohioans also will decide races for U.S. Senate and Congress, state senator, justices of the Ohio Supreme Court and court of appeals. Two Jefferson County commissioner seats also are on the ballot.
In West Virginia, voters will make selections in races for U.S. Senate and Congress, governor, secretary of state, state auditor, state treasurer, commissioner of agriculture, attorney general and justices on the Supreme Court of Appeals. Also on the ballot are contested races in Brooke and Hancock counties for house of delegates and state senator. Brooke County has a contested election for sheriff, with one of the candidates being a write-in.
Hancock County has contested elections for county commissioner, sheriff and magistrate, as well as a renewal levy for the sheltered workshop.
Jefferson County voters also will cast ballots for the renewal Steubenville's 5-mill levy for current expenses.
The levy has been approved every five years by voters since the early 1960s. More than one-half of the levy goes to fund the police and fire departments.
School levies on the ballot include an additional 2-mill levy for Buckeye Local School District for permanent improvements for a continuing period of time; an additional 9.45 mills for Edison Local School District for current expenses for a continuing period of time; Indian Creek Local School District, bond issue of 3.5 mills for constructing school facilities under the exceptional needs program of the Ohio School Facilities Commission and locally funded initiatives; renovating, improving and constructing additions to existing facilities, including furnishings and equipment; acquiring land and interests in land as necessary, in principle amount of $22 million for 37 years; and additional 1.45 mills for current expenses for five years; and Jefferson County Joint Vocational School District, additional 1 mill for current expenses, for purchasing equipment for buildings and improving buildings, for 10 years.
There is certainly enough on the ballot to bring out voters in Ohio and West Virginia. So much is on the line that it would be wrong if voter turnout isn't above 70 percent.
Go vote on Tuesday, if you haven't already.


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Lebanese Minister of Public Works and Transport Ghazi Aridi inaugurated the Saudi-funded reconstruction of the ancient Damoor Bridge, which was destroyed by Israel in the summer of 2006. The inauguration was attended by Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Dr. Abdulaziz Khojah.
In a speech on the occasion, Minister Aridi thanked the Kingdom for its support for Lebanon. In addition, President of the Council of Development and Construction Nabil Jisr hailed Saudi Arabia's financing of reconstruction projects in Lebanon.


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Racing Rearend Build - Building the Ultimate RearendWritten by on August 1, 2011 Circle Track puts together a dream quick change rear for racers looking to maximize power to the rear wheels
If you race in a horsepower-limited class—typical for anyone racing crate motors, spec engines, or small carburetors—finding just a bit more power simply isn't an option or it's prohibitively expensive. But quite often many different components between the end of the crankshaft and the tread on the rear tires are still open. If you can find increases in efficiency by cutting friction anywhere along the driveline, that's equivalent to finding more horsepower in your engine.
That's not a new concept here at Circle Track. We're constantly testing lighter oils, new components, and different configurations in order to help you find more success on the racetrack. This article is no different, except this time around we're thinking big.
Instead of a single component or product, we've decided to put together a dream quick change rearend. The lightbulb for this project went off when we were admiring a pair of billet wide-five hubs from Joe's Racing Products and thinking about all the applications where these components would be a benefit (while trying to keep the drool off).
The original plan was to pick individual components and put them together, beginning with the Joe's hubs, building a rearend that is as efficient as possible in order to maximize horsepower to the rear tires while also being strong enough to handle the abuse that racers dish out. But that all changed once we found out about a brand-new stock car quick change unit from Diversified Machine's Bulldog Rear Ends line.
Bulldog Rear Ends has been around for a while, but it has never really made much of an impact in the stock car racing arena. Instead, Bulldog has concentrated on live-axle rearends for Sprint Car racing. It's been quite successful in the Sprint community and attracted a loyal following, so when we learned Bulldog was hard at work developing a quick change rear for stock car racing, we knew it would be a quality piece. But when a finished unit was revealed and we got a closer look at it, we realized our original plan of piecing together a rearend one part at a time was a bit pointless.
The Bulldog rear—named the CT-1—is a closed-tube quick change that packs a ton of great features into one unit, and we expect it will start showing up on winning race cars on both dirt and asphalt.
In this article we'll take a closer look at both the billet wide-five hubs from Joe's and the CT-1 from Bulldog Rear Ends and how they go together. Next month we'll follow up with a second edition where we mount a set of birdcages, rotors, and brake calipers from Wilwood, and show you a few tips for mounting your completed rearend in your race car.
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We asked gear specialist Jim Cook to help us tear down and rebuild the Bulldog rear, and one of the first things he pointed out was the amount of thought that obviously went into the design. All quick change rearends look a lot alike at first, but it's the details that make the difference. For example, Bulldog's cast magnesium bell has multiple deep strengthening ribs both on the inside and out. Cook says the aluminum axle tubes may bend in a hard hit, but the bell should be able to handle quite a lick.Instead of a standard round O-ring that seals between the center section and the bell, Bulldog uses a squared off O-ring where each side of the square is slightly concave. This makes each outside edge stick out slightly and creates two sealing edges instead of just one. This should improve sealing and hopefully will eliminate the need to use silicone which must be cleaned off and reapplied after each rebuild.Here's a look at the center section. Notice the extra large struts around the pinion gear. The area around the pinion is one of the most stressed areas in a quick change, and the extra material here should help keep stress cracks from showing up.This photo shows the opposite view of the center section. Notice the three studs that attach the center section to the bell on either side. Long bolts help secure the bells to the center section through the other holes, but these three studs also serve a quite useful purpose. The holes are spaced in such a way that the bell will only fit when it's clocked correctly. This eliminates the possibility of putting everything back together and then realizing that the brake caliper brackets aren't aligned correctly.Lower rotating weight makes for better acceleration, and to that end Bulldog includes an aluminum spool that sports lightening holes. The pinion gear arrived polished for less friction and lower operating temperatures and also has been lightened with edm-cut notches.The jackshaft is set up to accept standard quick change gearsets. So your collection of quick change gears will work here too.The rear cover has been machined to accept an O-ring which should provide much better sealing than standard paper gaskets. Paper gaskets work well in the shop, but they seem to start to develop annoying leaks at the racetrack when the oil gets hot and the metal casings start expanding. Also notice the aluminum wedge that's used to securely hold the bearings in place.After our visual inspection, driveline specialist Jim Cook put everything back together. The main gear ratio is a quick change standard 4.86:1.
Here's another nice touch we noticed. Bulldog includes a few extra-length bolts to fasten the two bells to the center section. These are perfect for attaching the torque arm brackets to the bell.Even if you've ordered a brand-new rearend, it's still a good idea to check the endplay in the pinion as well as the free play on the ring gear wear button. Thread the wear button down until it just makes contact with the back of the ring gear, then back off ¼ of a turn before tightening it down with the lock nut. You can't see it in this photo, but the end of the wear button has a dimple machined in it to help trap oil between the button and the ring gear.The machined aluminum nuts that hold on the quick change cover plate include flanges machined right in. This eliminates the need for washers which always seem to fall off and get lost in the dirt when you're making a gear change in the pits.With the rearend back together, the pinion plate can be bolted on. This rear is going into a Dirt Late Model that was built by Stuckey Enterprises. The company provided all the mounting hardware like the pinion plate.The Joe's hubs are machined from billet aluminum. They don't really save much weight versus cast-aluminum wide-five hubs, but the billet aluminum is less prone to developing cracks. Also, if you take a hard hit in the wheel, the billet design will bend a bit. It will still ruin the hub, but in the same situation the ear on a cast unit can break off completely without absorbing much of the energy of impact—which can then be transmitted into the rearend where it can damage other components.Here, we've already bolted up the brake rotor bracket. It's designed so that you can bolt the rotor directly to the bracket or set it up to be a floater to cut down on brake drag when the rotor gets hot.Like the Bulldog rear, the Joe's hubs also have several very thoughtful features that can make a racer's life easier. For example, the press fit for the rear seal is quite loose. It's actually just tight enough to seal the hub when filled with oil. The seal itself is really held in place with the clip you can see bolted on top of it. This allows the seal to be easily removed without damaging it when it comes time to clean the bearings (and repack if you are using grease), and now it can be reused multiple times.Joe's also sent us these bearing spacers. They use a collar, held in place with set screws, to help reliably set the crush on the bearings for the right amount of drag. This setup does require a bit of trial-and-error, but once you get it right it should stay that way and speed up your weekly maintenance.


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The Mini Zooper Doll Stroller, sold exclusively at Pottery Barn Kids stores, has been recalled due to an entrapment hazard: A child's fingers can get trapped in the hinges. Three lacerations have been reported, including the partial severing of a two-year-old boy's finger. A repair kit is available from Pottery Barn Kids to address the issue; visit www.potterybarnkids.com for information.
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[1]By Roberto G. Gonzales Ph.D. [2]
Each year, tens of thousands of undocumented immigrant students graduate from American high schools and embark on uncertain futures. Their inability to legally work and receive financial aid stalls, detours, and derails their educational and economic trajectories. Most importantly, at any time, they can be deported to countries they barely know. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act is a federal bill aimed at providing immigration relief to these young people. The passage of this bill would grant many undocumented youth access to legal residency and federal financial aid—thus removing legal and economic barriers to higher education and increasing their contributions to America and the likelihood of upward mobility.
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text: Here is a very simple lesson on a Celtic design that many know of and love. I also see a variety of designs of this symbol on the bodies of many people as they have awesome ink displayed on their arms, legs, torsos, and other body parts. Today I will be showing you "how to draw a Celtic heart", step by step. There is many ways you can choose to make a Celtic heart, but since this is a lesson that I know many people will tackle, I wanted to make sure that it was going to be easy to follow and replicate. Drawing hearts can be easy, or they can be complex it all depends on the concept. In this case there are two hearts locked together. Once is upright while the other is upside down. I think you will have fun drawing a Celtic heart because it's one of those things that are easy to draw. I have to bounce out of here so I can upload the other tuts I have for you all so stay tuned in people.


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In D&D 3.5, higher-level players and monsters get iterative attacks. This can slow down the game sometimes. Therefore, I am looking for an alternative rule that fulfills the following requisites:
- Average expected damage is the same (or slightly improved, but not worse)
- Application should be obvious and fast during play
Ideally, the rule would applicable to both monsters and players the same way.
I have seen a nice example on the ENWorld forum, but it is focused on players and doesn't deal with the case where a monster has claw/claw/bite or similarly different attacks (such as TWF). The ENWorld idea works as follows:
Level 6: Two attacks at -2/-2
Level 11: Two attacks at -1/-1
Level 16: Two attacks at 0/0
It is ok if the rule requires some work beforehand, if that work has to be done only once and not for each monster I want to apply this rule to.


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I wish there was a button in the flux that when pressed would send you back to level one.
You can only keep your flux trinkets and your ranch.
A fresh start with a little bit of an advantage.
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Let $F$ and $G$ be sheaves on $X$. Under what conditions is the natural map from the stalk at $p$ of $SheafHom(F,G)$ to $Hom(F_p, G_p)$ an isomorphism?
It's true when X is a locally Noetherian scheme, F is a coherent sheaf and G is any O_X module. This is Chapter III, Prop 6.8 of Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry, so hopefully I'm not just telling you something you knew.
By the way, here's a counterexample for the most sweeping generalization ("it's always an isomorphism"), which I found online in a book called "Topological Invariants of Stratified Spaces". Let X = [0,1] and F be the skyscraper sheaf Z at 0. Let G be the constant sheaf Z. If U contains 0 then Hom(F|U,G|U)=0, so Hom(F,G)_0 = 0, but of course Hom(Z,Z)=Z.
What about for coherent O_X modules on a ringed space X that need not be a scheme? Say, a complex manifold? Just idle curiosity...
The result in Hartshorne if I recall correctly only really uses the fact that affine locally a coherent sheaf on a scheme has a locally free resolution by finite rank projectives and that one can compute stalks affine locally. In particular, as pointed out by David in the comments we only ready need the first two steps so that one can use the exactness properties of Hom/SheafHom.
So the right condition on F as in the comments is that it be finitely presented.


text: Okie dokie folks, here is my last lesson for the day and instead of a four pawed species, how about the eyes of an animal that has hooves. Up next we will be tackling the task of learning "how to draw horse eyes", step by step. The horse are one of my favorite animals species on the planet. They are so magical because they have the ability to make little girls always ask for one when their birthdays roll around. I wanted to make sure that the horse eye I drew, looked almost exactly what they do in real life. They have this glossy, sheen to their stare both on the eyeball itself, and the surrounding area of the eye which is the horse's skin. Well guys, I hope this lesson is all you'd hoped it would be. I will return tomorrow with some more artistic fun so come back around. Adios, peace out, farewell.


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NATRIUM - Once the half-billion dollar Dominion Resources natural gas processing plant opens, the facility will feature a connection to the CSX Corp. railroad line running along the Ohio River.
The giant plant had been scheduled to open by the end of the year, but Dominion officials said Thursday the facility will not open until early 2013.
The plant will be part of a $1.5 billion partnership between Dominion and Caiman Energy, to be known as Blue Racer Midstream. Dominion still will operate the facility upon its completion.
"We have brisk construction activity on site with 825 workers - 296 of them local - working toward our in-service date," said Dominion spokesman Charles Penn.
Throughout the plant's construction along the Ohio River and state Route 2 in Marshall County, members of the Affiliated Construction Trades Foundation have been at odds with Dominion - as well as the company building the plant on Dominion's behalf, Chicago Bridge & Iron - for not hiring more local workers to build the facility.
Penn said CB&I has hired about one-third of its work force from the local area. Total onsite worker numbers have fluctuated from about 84-903 over the past year.
Workers have been busy installing railroad lines that will connect the Dominion plant to the CSX line, which is part of the historic Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Penn said the company will use rail service to move its product.
Dominion officials plan to be able to process 200 million cubic feet of natural gas per day upon completing the project's first phase, with the capacity expected to double to 400 million cubic feet per day once the plant is completely finished.
Dominion plans to employ 40 to 45 full-time, permanent workers for jobs at the plant itself upon completion. Penn said these jobs will pay from $20 to $30 per hour.
He said those looking for a career working at a natural gas plant will need different skills depending upon their specific positions.
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Are there any anti-cheating frameworks for Java games in order to make it a bit harder to cheat? (eg. something that protects from things like Cheat-Engine) Obviously if the cheater were to develop his own tools this wouldn't help much, but I'm looking to protect the game from the average cheating 13 yr. old child.
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None ready that I know of.
Commercial (expensive) systems like PunkBuster exist, which constantly scan memory locations for changes, asserting that they haven't changed by impossible amounts or at impossible moments in time.
You could implement something like this yourself, by occasionally asserting that the changes to the contents of your variables make sense.
If it's a singleplayer game you're working on, I have a very personal request: Please don't do it! Back when I was 13, I learnt a lot about how games work by CheatEngineering or Poking them. It's like taking apart toasters and RC cars. I want my kids to live in a world where they can choose to break their things regardless of the opinion of a grown-up who "knows better".
This is a simple way to do it:
You just use the above class for ints, floats, etc.
When it's a single player game, there is really no reason to prevent cheating. Cheaters can only hurt their own game experience, not that of others. The cheaters themself, however, perceive the ability to cheat as a vast improvement of their game experience. So why bother?
When it's a multiplayer game, you can prevent cheating by designing the network protocol in a way that trust in the client application is not required. This is much better than any 3rd party AC-tool.


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The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 15,560 new cases of esophageal cancer in 2007, with as many as 13,940 deaths from the disease. This is a remarkable increase compared to an estimated 12,500 new cases back in 1997. Esophageal cancer is primarily divided into two main types, squamous cell carcinoma ( SCC ) and adenocarcinoma. SCC had previously been the most common subtype, but this has changed in the United States and Western Europe over the past 2 decades. With the rise in overall incidence, doctors have seen adenocarcinomas become the more prevalent subtype. In addition, there has been a change in the anatomical location of these esophageal cancers, from the upper esophagus (which tend to be SCCs) to the lower esophagus and gastroesophageal junction. Why the change? SCC is caused by smoking and alcohol use, and remains common in Asian countries and other parts of the world. It is a disease mostly of urban centers in the United States. Adenocarcinomas, on the other hand, have been linked to Barrett's esophagus (a premalignant condition of the esophagus) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), both of which have become more common in the U.S. There may also be a link between adenocarcinomas and obesity, another problem that has become increasingly more common in the U.S.
Dr. Anil Rustgi and colleagues have developed a multidisciplinary research program at the University of Pennsylvania, combining the efforts of gastroenterologists, surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, and allied health personnel. This unique project has been funded by the National Cancer Institute and combines the resources of three successful researchers (Drs. Rustgi, Wafik El-Deiry, and Meenhard Herlyn) to provide the groundwork for collaborative research. The group's research focuses upon identifying genes that trigger the growth of esophageal cancers, understanding the tumor microenvironment, using imaging technologies, and developing innovative models that mimic esophageal cancer. Through three-dimensional (3D) cell culture models and animal models, their research is looking to develop approaches for prevention, diagnosis and treatment. While much progress has been made in the laboratory, with accompanying highly-featured publications and presentations at national meetings, Dr. Rustgi hopes to see the emergence of new clinical trials based on this basic science research in the coming years.
How can patients get involved? Patients undergoing diagnosis or treatment at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center can allow their tumor tissue to be used for ongoing and future research studies. In some cases, patients from other institutions may be able to submit samples for use by the researchers. These efforts are in conjunction with the Department of Pathology and clinicians.
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What are the costs of "issue ownership"? When it comes to governing, they include ignoring citizens' preferences in devising legislation and implementing policies.
In Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics (Cambridge), Patrick Egan, an assistant professor in NYU's Wilf Family Department of Politics, notes that Americans consistently name Republicans as the party better at handling issues like national security and crime, while they trust Democrats on issues like education and the environment – a long-standing phenomenon called "issue ownership."
Egan investigates the origins of issue ownership, revealing something unexpected: the parties deliver neither superior performance nor popular policies on the issues they "own." Rather, he finds that Republicans and Democrats simply prioritize their owned issues with lawmaking and government spending when they are in power.
But this is problematic, Egan posits. One, since the parties tend to be ideologically rigid on the issues they own, politicians tend to ignore citizens' preferences when crafting policy on these issues, distorting the relationship between these preferences and public policies. Two, issue ownership becomes synonymous with perceived effectiveness, which diminishes lawmakers' accountability.
"The fact that there is no detectable relationship between parties' control of government and improvement on the issues the public says they are best able to 'handle' leaves few reasons for optimism about accountability," Egan concludes. "When deciding which party is better able to handle a given issue, Americans appear to equate effort with results."
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A lot of the developmental questions on this site are about Language, but I'm less anxious about missing language milestones than I am about other potential developmental milestones that I may be unaware of, for example "cognitive", "mobility", etc.
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Just off the top of my head, I thought of:
Technically, 5 and 6 aren't true milestones, but from my own experience I truly believe that these two things are important enough to warrant a separate point. Before we got C's new RGP lenses, she was starting to get well behind on her development, but as soon as we changed she began hitting milestones like crazy and is completely caught up. The same is true with her language development. We had a really hard time with ear infections for a few months, and a couple of weeks after we had tubes put in her vocabulary just exploded. I can't prove that the tubes were the primary reason for that...it might just be that she was due for a vocab explosion anyway, but I don't believe it's a coincidence. I've listed a couple of websites below with some good general milestones (but it seems like every website has a different list).


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There is this prestige class called Elemental Savant, which makes the character, actually, an elemental (with all the immunities AND the ability to be raised from dead, not to mention one can even be Bone Elemental, or even Plasma Elemetal. Not omega awesome, but at some points, it's a really interesting and badass choice).
The spellcaster becomes of an outsider type and at the 10th level becomes a real elemental, which even changes his appearance (even trough just a little bit). But, the description of the class still leaves something unexplained:
Can the 10th-level Elemental Savant acquire the traits of his elemental type at will? For example, an Air, or Electricity one-can he levitate just because and get trough fences like they're not there at all? Because, basically, for a living gust of wind it would be really easy... Or are the adepts of this class just gain minor appearance changes and elemental traits and the atacks?


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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI Mercurial read-only mirror
From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-05 10:18:28
Depending on how that works, it could be quite interesting -- it opens
up the possibility of leaving SVN as the "back-end" repository, but
also fully supporting HG as well. I don't know if that's really
sensible / useful (i.e., why not fully convert to HG if we're going to
do HG), but it's an option...
On May 5, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Josh Hursey wrote:
> Per our conversation in Chicago - It looks like Mercurial has a Google
> Summer of Code student working on the Mercurial -push-> Subversion
> problem we were talking about:
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/hg/appinfo.html?
> csaid=2757CDDD2156F1A7
> For those not at the meeting this has to do with interoperability
> between Subversion and Mercurial. Mercurial has decent tools for
> making a read only copy of a Subversion repository (exactly like we
> have just setup for Open MPI), but the problem is pushing changes made
> to the Mercurial clone back to Subversion. The current technique is to
> create a patch from Mercurial and apply it by hand to the Subversion
> repository. Maybe this will be improved this summer.
> -- Josh
> On May 5, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>> On May 5, 2008, at 7:49 AM, Terry Dontje wrote:
>>>> Mercurial is a fully distributed system. So instead of thinking
>>>> of /tmp
>>>> branch, you should think of publishing your repository, which has
>>>> your
>>>> commits in it. As I understand it, open-mpi.org is not set up for
>>>> publishing other repositories yet, but it is quite easy to set up a
>>>> mercurial server; there are also several places that will host one
>>>> for
>>>> you: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/
>>>> MercurialHosting
>> FWIW, our goal is to be able to have the OMPI developers be able to
>> use their same SVN username/password to be able to publish hg trees
>> on www.open-mpi.org
>> (or hg.open-mpi.org). But using an outside hosting service is also
>> a possibility.
>> It's not a high priority issue at the moment, but we'll be looking
>> into it in the not-distant future.
>> --
>> Jeff Squyres
>> Cisco Systems
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Is this not an excellent deal?! I am sorely tempted seeing how my wooted Thrive gives me fits. (touch screen dies & I can't revive it without a hard reset).
Where is all my pricing experts? I see it new on Amazon for 351.40. Newegg has a refurb for 229.99. This thing is "pre-owned" meaning IMO just a return... might be defective?
@joedetroit: I think it's a good deal. It's not the best tablet on the market but a good price for a 10".
I already own two so I'm not buying any additional ones right now.
@joedetroit: Be sure to read all the information. Significant dents, scratches, and scuffs. No Power cord, no USB cable, No manual. Power button requires extra force to turn on.
@joedetroit: If it is defective, return it. Cowboom is the best about that. Simply go to REQUEST RMA on the site, click, receive return postage, ship. It is that easy and shipping is paid by them. It does not even need to be defective. One of the return reasons is "changed my mind".
I own one of these. They're not the speediest, but not bad. There's quite a few custom ROMs out there for this as well, so there's a lot of options if you're not happy with being stuck on ICS. I'd consider $149 a great deal. You'll want to make sure you get a power supply though. This device will not charge properly from a plain old USB port. I think that's probably my biggest aggravation with it.
the processor isnt even 1Ghz, even the $50 mach speed tablets have better processors
If you are a Cowboomer you received a 15% off coupon this a.m., making this $127.50
@nangiggles: Umm, yes, it has a 1Ghz dual core, and yes, it is plenty fast. I own a TF101 with a dock and use it for all of my mobile computing. Having said that, I would have taken the deal yesterday for the TF300 with the dock for $300, which does have a quad core Tegra 3, over this.
For $150, if you need a tablet, you won't be disappointed with this one.
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Thanks everyone... I got busy yesturday cooking & never got a chance to reply. I did read the posts though & changed my mind. I already have a sluggish tablet with issues but it works. Actually many of my guests yesterday used it & liked it.
The sale is still on today & I am still temped....
None of the Asus promo codes (ASUS30, ASUS20, ASUS10) would work for me =(


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This is a long one and I apologize in advance:
In my late teens, I was diagnosed with non-24-hour circadian rhythm disorder. In short, my body believes each day is longer than 24 hours and I don't become naturally tired at the same time each day. To boot, the presence of the sun makes no difference one way or the other.
I've dealt with that by being a freelance programmer. Not having a preset daily schedule helped a great deal. I didn't have to dose myself with caffeine to stay awake during the day, thus degrading my abilities. (Sadly, it does sometime cause problems in relationships.)
Still, I've always had trouble sticking to even a loose schedule. And while I'm aware that's more of a personal problem than one caused by the disorder, I'm highly effective when my sleeping schedule aligns such that I can follow events in iCal or Google Calendar. Except during such alignments, it's practically useless to keep a standard calendar. For one, I get alerts at wrong times--or miss a slew-- and two, having to constantly rearrange/recalculate all the events is a time-consuming pain. And simply having a complex to-do list (which I do, I use an app called Process) isn't the answer because there are no consistent multi-stage deadlines to fight, thus diluting the deadline stress motivator.
So my basic question is the title: What are some way to increase productivity with a sleeping disorder?
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WHAT: A graduation ceremony where students and parents will be welcomed by Knudsen and listen to a session on college affordability by Abernathy. Students will perform "Graduation Song" led by Moore, listen to remarks by Belcher and receive certificates from Smith. Columbia College partnered with Columbia Public Schools to offer an exciting array of hands-on activities to motivate students to pursue higher education through a weeklong program called Summer Expeditions. Each day students were bussed to the college, fed lunch, treated to a different activity and given an overview of college life. This graduation ceremony concludes the week's activities.
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Rashomon is one of my favorite movies, and it has several different themes worth exploring which are cross-genre. Here are a few tips to consider -
I'd want my players to feel they made the best possible choice in the end, but still have a nagging doubt or two which leaves open the opportunity of a sequel. The setting of Rashomon, a mostly divided, war torn Japan, a land with no ultimate "source of good" mythology, adds to the mood of the film, but that isn't a theme relegated to Japan. A modern setting could involve a UN investigative team going into a war torn region to investigate atrocities.
My advice is: bring a hat.
I just remember reading something about using rakugo style props, as a GM. I think it was in Instant GM, a bag of tricks.
So the players are going to see a story unfold, or interact with different characters who saw a story unfold who each have their own point of view. In order to easily make the NPCs stand out, just wear the hat differently. As a peasant, take the hat off and hold it in front of you in the presence of these great heroes. As a warrior, wear the hat low on your brow, and look down at the players. A travelling entertainer: wear it off to the side, at a jaunty angle. A noble lady: fold it up and use it as a fan or kerchief in front of your face. That kind of thing.
Actually I don't think a hat is a traditional rakugo prop, but hopefully you get what I mean.
Oh that's a nice game structure. I did not have the chance to arrange such a game, but there's another movie I strongly suggest you to watch : Hero. It's a chinese wuxia movie, with intense artistic colors and an incredibly poetic "point of view" plot.
Another important movie to watch to get ideas from is 12 angry men, an impressive dramatic movie about a jury and a trial for murder.
I think you can organize your plot as follow. Let the characters talk first with the dead (as happens in Rashomon) preferably through a NPC cleric with "speak with dead", but a better choice would be to have a PC as a ghost, and have him join other living characters to find his assassin. His point of view is apparently more authoritative, because he is the one directly involved in the killing, but his authoritativeness is plagued with resentment, which lead to put too much stress on useless facts. It's clearly an investigative plot, they will have to interpret a lot of details.
If your adventure is going to use D&D 3.5, remember that the ghost character requires the archetype system, which introduces additional complexity, hence the ghost character must be interpreted by an experienced player. Also note that the level advancement is different, due to the additional skills a ghost possess. In such investigative adventures, the characters are not supposed to level up a lot.
Point of view can not only be observation of a direct event, but also "different destiny", or "different interpretation of the past". Example: suppose your PC find a gem which shows things from a different point of view. The point of view changes according to the influence that each PC character's past would put in the observed object, person or event. Kairin, a PC rogue with a troublesome past, observes a Pelor priest through the gem, and sees a violent thief. The petty criminal past of the priest childhood is exposed, but grossly exaggerated by the intrinsic roguish point of view of Kairin. Panyar, a PC paladin will observe the same priest through the gem to see a good man, full of compassion and kindness.
You could run the same adventure a number of times. Each time, you give the players a new character brief and goals. Now they have to make sure those without changing the key elements of the story. This would work well for a one off game or as a convention game.


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white castle was so much better than escape from guantanamo bay.
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Let $X$ be a countable set and $d_n,d$ locally finite metrics on $X$. Denote by $R_x^n$ (resp. $R_x$) the radius of the smallest closed ball in the metric $d_n$ (resp. $d$) about $x$ which contains at least two points.
Question: Suppose that $d_n\rightarrow d$ uniformly. Is it true that also $R_x^n\rightarrow R_x$ uniformly?
P.s. In case we can add the hypothesis that the $|C_n(x,R_x^n)|\leq C$, for a universal constant $C$ not depending either on $n$ on $x$ ($C_n(x,R)$ stands for the closed ball in the metric $d_n$ of radius $R$ about $x$).
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WEIRTON - The city's redevelopment authority is going to ask the Brooke-Hancock Brownfield Task Force to do an environmental assessment for a potential investment property.
At Tuesday's meeting, board members were told the Phase I survey would help determine what, if any, environmental issues may exist on the property. That information, in turn, will help them figure out the property's actual value.
"Once we know the assessment, we'd know what our exposure is and then we can make an offer based on our exposure," said Pat Ford, executive director of the Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle. "(We need to have) an idea what the value is before we make an offer so we can line up our resources."
The discussion came in the wake of Ward 3 Councilman Fred Marsh's assertion that the authority needed to "get a project we can handle do it, turn it, bring somebody in" to occupy it, creating jobs and revenue for the city.
"Council is looking for some kind of action from this authority," he'd said. "I think we need a feather in our hat here."
But the redevelopment authority's Gerry Banketas questioned the wisdom of acquiring a property without having an end user in mind, saying it made little sense to spend taxpayer dollars without knowing what the return on investment would be.
"That's what redevelopment does," the Rev. Larry Dorsch, also a member of the authority, replied. "You have to venture some taxpayer money. The redevelopment authority has to venture something ... to try and get something started. We're trying to jump start the redevelopment process - we're not trying to do the whole thing ourselves, we're trying to use a bit of taxpayer money to get things going ... that's the purpose of this body, to get something going."
Ford said the BDC and Redevelopment Authority were created "to intervene in markets where the private sector doesn't have interest or the risk is too high for the private sector."
"We're taking on the risk," he said. "But when you take on risk, you also reap the rewards. ... We're in this business to catalyze investment."
Ford told Banketas that the property owner in question could, conceivably, use the results of the environmental assessment to cut a deal with someone else, but he'd chalk that up as a development victory.
"If we do a Phase I assessment and then (the owner) rents it, we've done our job," he said.
The redevelopment authority and BDC, meanwhile, are still hoping to ratchet up the pressure on ArcelorMittal to grant rights-of-ways for a pair of industrial access roads.
At Tuesday's meeting, the redevelopment authority talked about the importance of the roads - one at the Three Springs Drive Business Park, the other in the downtown area.
Uptown, the Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle is hoping to get its hands on a strip of land needed for an alternate access road that would open up the backside of the Three Springs Drive Business Park, a necessity to business development efforts there, according to officials.
The redevelopment authority, meanwhile, had hoped to access an existing service road stretching from the southern city limits all the way to Cove Road that could be extended and upgraded to a full-fledged truck route, allowing them to reroute heavy trucks, including oil and gas tanker trucks, around the downtown area.
So far, however, they've not been able to get agreements on those or any other mill-owned properties.
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Redevelopment Authority Chairman Mark Zatezalo said the industrial roads "would make the place safer, improve the quality of life."
"We're not talking a lot of property, we're talking about a right-of-way," he said, adding that if the stalemate continues, he wouldn't be averse to limited use of the authority's power of Eminent Domain to obtain the rights-of-way if, in fact, that's what is needed to get truck traffic away from the downtown business district and residential areas.
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In one playthrough, will it be possible for me to get every single perk and max all my skills?
With the 1.9 skyrim patch there is no limit to the levels you can achieve, so you could get all the perks in theory.
Alternatively, on pc, there are mods that can give you extra perk points. For example I use Spend Dragon Souls For Perks. Otherwise search the workshop for 'perk' and see what you find: e.g. Perk Potions
It is possible to raise all skills to 100.
It is not possible to acquire all possible perks by reaching level 100 in every skill, since the number of perks vastly outnumbers the perks earned by leveling to that state (80).
There is no soft cap - the 80th perk is just as (relatively) easy to earn as the 1st.
However, as of the 1.9 release, you can "reset" a skill from 100 back down to 0, which means you can reach arbitrarily high levels, and finally max out your perks.
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What were the economic effects of the Cuban Revolution? Were living conditions improved for the average Cuban? I'm looking for objective criteria like average income, wealth distribution, life expectancy, literacy and similar.
The economic effects of the Cuban Revolution were somewhat of a mixed bag, and depending on the timeline you are interested in the immediate impact was negative, whereas on a longer timeline it was more positive.
The following paraphrases, and quotes relevant parts from Jose Pérez's work Cuba: Between Reform & Revolution
The loss of so much skilled labor led to a serious decline in services because of the shortage of expertise that could aid in the central planning undertaken by Castro's government. Additionally, the US trade embargo against Cuba that began in February 1962 did not help the situation.
The Cuban economy was hit terribly hard by the revolution. The following paraphrases and quotes relevant parts from Jan Rogozinski's work A Brief History of the Caribbean
The Cuban economy would at first shun sugar and tobacco production as they were seen as relics of the country's colonial past. This led to a huge rise in Cuba's trade deficit, mostly with the USSR and Soviet Bloc nations. Cuba would go back to tobacco and sugar in 1965 out of need. The dismal state of the economy was not good, but as Pérez points out there were some positive outcomes eventually:
The caloric intake of the average Cuban increased after the revolution, but since this was due to rationing there was little to no diversity in the diet. Pérez makes the claim that by the 1970's malnutrition had been all but wiped out.
Similarly, education increased so that the percentage of the population completing sixth grade increased from 20% in 1953 to 32% in 1970.
So all in all, there was a large impact. The immediate impact was very negative on the country. This was a combination of the exodus of people, and the hit to the economy. After time the impact became more positive, but is somewhat of a mixed bag. People's life expectancy went up, caloric intake increased, per capita income was redistributed, and literacy went up. These increases were not without cost.
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I'm Cuban (1984- leave cuba in 2009), and I'll try to be the most unbiased possible.
In Cuba exist two currencies the
Local citizens are paid in CUP.
The avg salary is 500 CUP ~ 20 USD by month
The health system and all kind of Education include elemental, Bachelor, Master, etc are free.
1/2 Kg (1 lb.) of chicken breast 25 CUP ~ 1 USD
1 liter (1 qt.) of whole fat milk 20 CUP ~ 0.80 USD
1 pair of Adidas trainers 50 CUC ~ 60 USD
1 liter (1/4 gallon) of gas 1 CUC ~ 1.10 USD
4 rolls of toilet paper 4 CUC ~ 5 USD
2 tickets to the movies 4 CUP ~ 0.20 USD
1 Peugeot 508 (2013) 262,185.50 CUC ~ 288,404.05 USD Google it, shock
The internet access is very retristed, in this link you can see the price of the different packets http://home.enet.cu/informaciones/tarifas.htm
Here another link to the cuban version of craiglist http://www.revolico.com/
The vast majority of Cuban make business in the black market to survive.
The 20% of population have more than 60 years. Reference
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CUBA FACTS Socio-Economic Conditions in Pre-Castro Cuba*
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The effects of the Cuban revolution has been wholly negative. Not only was it immediately highly negative for the economy, as any civil war is, the planned economy instigated by the communist government in Cuba has, as all planned economy, stifled the Cuban economy and doomed the country to poverty.
During the early 20th century Cuba was a prosperous country. In the graph below we can see that Cuba post war is richer than for example Italy. It was poorer than UK, France and Sweden, but richer than Spain and Portugal, to give you an idea. Basically, the country was as rich as an average European country, and one of the five most developed countries in the region.
But while the European countries quickly got their economy back on track, and in Italy's case from 1947 begins a steady economic climb for several decades, Cubas economy gets a big drop when the revolution starts in 1953, and another in the end of the revolution. Civil war is never good for the economy.
But what is significant is that after the revolution, Cuban economy does not recuperate. It doesn't start growing until the 70's. This is in a large part because of increased trade with the Soviet Union, who buy things from Cuba at an inflated price, in an effort to make Cuba a socialist success story.
In 1990, when USSR collapses, so does Cuban economy, which falls back into it's pre-revolution levels. Cuban economy has then slowly gotten better, apparently in part because small private companies are now allowed to operate, so the heavy crush of the planned economy has been loosened.
Despite this Cuba today is by all accounts a poor country, with a GDP per capita around the same level as China, a country that in 1960 had only 10% of Cubas GDP, and as late as 1993 had only half of Cubas GDP.
Although you of course can claim that these later economic problems are not an effect of the revolution, but of the economic policies of Castro, I think this is actually what is asked for. Some blame can also fall on the US embargo, but again that embargo is an effect of Castro policies (namely the expropriation of foreign companies by the Castro government), so that is again an effect of the Revolution.
And for quality of life measurements, the best we have is life expectancy:
Notice how Cuba's life expectancy is increasing rapidly already before the revolution. The increased life expectancy under socialist rule can not be attributed to the revolution. In 1980, Life expectancy reached that of Italy. Then it started lagging.


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Two conjoined twins from Egypt arrived at Riyadh Airbase on Tuesday in a special Medevac plane to undergo an operation to separate them, Arab News reported today.
The twins, Mahmoud and Hassan, were admitted to the King Abdulaziz Medical City Hospital's pediatric ward, where they will undergo a series of tests before the surgery.
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Preston Conklin happened to notice a sign in a display case at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Upper Valley Hostel, Rooms Available. Clearly, it was meant for patients and families of patients. Intrigued, he looked into it. "I stayed at the hostel three or four nights in a row during a number of weeks in 2010," he says. "In 2011, 2012, and 2013, I was there two nights in a row once each year.
People come for one or two nights, visit during repeating treatment, or stay for months at a time
"I live a two-hour drive away, so each stay saved a four-hour drive round trip," he continues. "I would have used a motel or hotel a few times, but they are too expensive to use all the time. No commercial lodging can provide the hostel's residential feel and quiet location."
Tucked on the corner of a quiet street near Hanover High School, the Upper Valley Hostel has occupied its graceful, lovingly landscaped 100-year-old home for 34 years. "The peace this place offers is what our guests really appreciate," says Elizabeth Clarke, the hostel's executive director.
On a full night, the hostel houses 16 guests in seven double bedrooms and two singles; Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays tend to have the highest occupancy. Most are short-term, one-to-three-night stays, such as Conklin's, but long stays are not uncommon. A California woman stayed from October through January after her husband suffered a stroke while they were on a leaf-peeping vacation in New Hampshire. "It's nice to be here for people in that situation," comments Clarke. "They were a long way from home, didn't know anybody here and didn't know the area. She was very grateful for the comfort the hostel provided her while she concentrated her energies on her husband."
Created when doctors saw that patients needed an affordable place to stay during treatment
The hostel, established in 1978, grew out of conversations by members of what was then the Dartmouth Medical School's Ethics Committee. Doctors on the committee noticed that some of their out-patients at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital who lived out of the area, and families of inpatients, needed an affordable place to stay while being treated at the hospital – some resorted to sleeping in their cars. The initial "hostel" was extra bed space in local area homes. By 1980, the hostel was formally organized in its present location, with the purchase of the home made possible "through the inspiring kindness of a small group of concerned and generous area residents," according to Clarke.
"Being off the medical campus is very valuable," notes Conklin. "The hostel's quiet atmosphere–there's no TV sound from rooms next door–is welcome. Bus service to the medical center is excellent, and the Hanover location allowed me to walk to restaurants, the town library, Dartmouth's museums, and other attractions like the orchid collection at Dartmouth's greenhouse, for one. Also having access to Baker Library, Hopkins Center events, and trails down to the river to hike."
Home-like amenities include a computer for guest use and fresh flowers
Amenities inside are home-like and comfortable. There's a computer for guest use, a large flat-screen television in the living room and another TV in the eating area. Willing Hands in Lebanon, which distributes the Hanover Co-Op's unsold fresh produce to food banks and others in need, delivers fresh flowers on Monday mornings. The hostel's bedspreads were recently replaced and walls regularly receive fresh coats of paint. The kitchen is comfortable and the eating area, called the café, is bright with sunlight and cheer.
"Some enduring friendships have been created right around that table," says Patrick Kearney, the hostel's house manager, pointing to a wooden dining table in a sunny corner circled by well-used chairs.
Kearney (he is Olympic mogul skier Hannah Kearney's uncle) also acts as a counselor of sorts for guests who are staying at the hostel as a result of an organ transplant. Twenty years ago, he received a new kidney, and he still enjoys giving a word of encouragement to organ donors or recipients. "It means a lot to talk to someone who has experience with a transplant when you're waiting and don't really know what to expect," he says.
Conklin is effusive: "The staff has been superb during all my stays."
An upcoming capital campaign is in the planning stages for a modest updating to the facility and its interior decor. Other fundraising efforts for the hostel include an annual miniature golf tournament in September and annual giving plans for donors. (Read more about how to support the hostel)
The nightly rate at the Upper Valley Hostel is $25 per person and breakfast is available. (Reservations are required.) The actual cost to the hostel for a stay is more than twice that, so it's a good deal. The added benefit is being around people who understand the stresses that each are experiencing—as a patient or a loved one.
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