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Dear MO world,
I'm teaching an undergraduate course on "fun with chaos". As part of a test (on bifurcations in differential equations), I asked students to sketch phase portraits for a family of (2d) differential equations. While preparing my solutions, I fed the differential equations (with one value of the parameter) into a phase portrait plotter on the web and found that there were families of closed curves as solutions, so that the system seemed to have a first integral. Changing the parameter, this persisted. I'm hoping someone can tell me why this should have been obvious to me!
The system was $$ \eqalign{\dot x&=y-x+1\cr \dot y&=y-rx^2.} $$
The phase portrait (with $r=0.15$) looks like this:
Some computation with mathematica reveals that $2rx^3+3y^2+6y-6xy$ is a first integral. The question is why? Is this an outrageous coincidence? (I thought that your chance of bumping into a conservative differential equation by accident were nil unless the system was of the form $\ddot x=f(x)$).
So: should I go and buy a lottery ticket, or is there some reason that this I shouldn't be surprised by this?


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Western Kentucky University president, Dr. Gary Ransdell, spoke with WBKO and gave us his thoughts on the budget cuts.
Ransdell says the cuts at Western are serious. Some programs will have to be eliminated because the school is already past the point of across-the board cuts. He says the school is focusing on how it will deal with the cuts and where they can be made at Western and will take several weeks to sort out, but one thing they to try avoid is another tuition hike.
Dr. Gary Ransdell says, "We do not at this point and time have a plan to raise tuition just to meet a state budget cut. That would defeat a state budget cut in the eyes of the state and in all fairness to our students tuition needs to be focused on meeting the needs of our school, not balancing the state budget."
Ransdell says officials will meet in Frankfort this Friday to see how the budget cut will affect each of the eight universities.


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Birmingham's Scheduled Ancient Monuments
A Scheduled Ancient Monument is an archaeological site that is considered to be nationally important and is included on a list of sites compiled by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
Scheduled Ancient Monuments are protected by law and nothing can be done to them without scheduled monument consent.
There are currently 13 Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the city. The locations of these are visible on My Local Information Services.
Detailed descriptions of each site are on the National Heritage List
Birmingham's Scheduled Ancient Monuments
- Sutton Park
- Woodlands Park Prehistoric Burnt Mounds
- Fox Hollies Prehistoric Burnt Mounds
- Moseley Bog Prehistoric Burnt Mounds
- Peddimore Hall
- Kent's Moat
- Gannow Green Moat
- Kingstanding Mound
- Weoley Castle
- Birmingham's Roman Fort (Metchley)
- Hawkesley Farm Moat
- Perry Bridge
- Guillotine Lock
Established as a deer park in the 12th century. The boundary ditch and internal subdivisions of the deer park survive, together with older remains including Bronze Age burnt mounds and a Roman road built in the 1st century AD to join the Roman fort at Metchley with the fort at Wall near Lichfield. There are also fishponds, millpools, wood boundaries, a former racecourse and the remains of military training.
An interpretation scheme explaining the archaeology of Sutton Park consists of interpretation panels, site markers, a leaflet (see bottom of the page) and an education pack. Find out more about Sutton Park in prehistoric, Roman and medieval times. Read about recent work in Sutton Park
Woodlands Park Prehistoric Burnt Mounds
Located off Woodlands Park Road, Northfield. Two Bronze Age burnt mounds visible as layers of heat-shattered stones in the stream bank on each side of Woodlands Park Road, on public open space.
The larger of the two sites consists of a layer of burnt stones and charcoal about 60m long on the south bank of the stream. Towards the east end of the mound, the section visible in the stream bank mound suggests that it is dipping into a former stream bed. The south-east edge of the mound was recorded in a manhole pit, showing that the mound extends 7.5m south of the present stream line. The banks of stream were cut back in December 1999, revealing the burnt mound in section on the north bank. Its total length was 20m and it was up to 500mm thick. Charcoal taken from stream bank section in 1982 produced a radiocarbon date of about 1200 BC.
The smaller site is a layer of burnt stones and charcoal 3m long and up to 0.15m thick, on the north bank of the stream. The mound is not visible in trenches 1m away from the stream's opposite bank therefore it is either under the north bank of the stream or has been largely washed away by the stream.
Fox Hollies Park Prehistoric Burnt Mound
Located off Gospel Lane on public open space. This consists of a low mound measuring approximately 14m long, 9m wide and 20- 30cm high, Grass growing on it is parched in very dry weather. Occasional erosion holes shown that it consists of gritty black soil with small heat shattered stones.
A small excavation revealed burnt stones over grey clay A geophysical survey of the area surrounding the burnt mound revealed other anomalies beyond it, interpreted as hearths, concentrations of stones, possible troughs and old stream courses.
Moseley Bog Prehistoric Burnt Mounds
Located off Pensby Close. Two Bronze Age burnt mounds, one visible as a low mound and the other as heat-shattered stones in the stream bank. There is an interpretation panel on a walkway near the site. Evidence of the burnt mounts can be seen from the photograph of the heat shattered stone on the right.
Located off Peddimore Lane, Sutton Coldfield:
A double moat built in the 13th century to surround a timber building, accompanied by ridge and furrow which is the remains of medieval cultivation around it. Private property but visible from a nearby public footpath.
The double moat encloses a rectangular area containing Peddimore Hall and its garden. Peddimore was a manor in 1281 and a chapel here was licensed for divine service in 1360. The owners of Peddimore Hall were allowed by the Earl of Warwick to enclose and improve waste in 1288. The present Peddimore Hall is a two-storey double-pile building, in brick with sandstone dressings. It dates to the middle of the 17th century but may incorporate an earlier structure.
Sheldon Heath Road, to the east of the city. Kent's Moat, a now dry sub-rectangular moat, measures 98m by 85m. The arms of the moat, with sloping sides and flat-bottomed, average 11m wide and 1.3m deep. The original water supply to the moat cannot now be determined.
The moat is under turf and two-storey blocks of flats have been built within the interior blocks of flats have been built upon the island with an access causeway over the NE arm. The first manor house was built at the beginning of the 13th century; this, together with its size, suggests that it was the more important of the two contemporary manor houses of Sheldon(the other was Sheldon Hall). It was extensively rebuilt in the 14th century, further modified and went out of use in the 15th century.
In the 15th century it was property of the Earl of Kent. Excavations in 1959 consisted of trenches across moat and on the moat platform, finding wall foundations and decorated floor tiles. Excavations in 1964 before construction of houses inside the moated area revealed occupation on the site from the 12th or 13th to the 15th century. Remains of timber buildings, interpreted as hall, solar and kitchen, and cobbled yards were found. Some of the structures had tiled roofs, tiled floors and stained glass windows.
Off Devon Road, Frankley. The moat was originally filled by a stream running into the River Rea, and it was lined with clay to hold water. Archaeological excavations in the 1960s revealed details about the site.
A well-built sandstone wall ran along the edge of the moat. When the moat was constructed, the earth dug out of it was piled up inside it to make a level surface to build on. Under this, the 13th-century ground surface contained pollen that showed that there were alder, hazel and oak trees around the site at this time, and fields in which cereals were grown. The buildings surrounded by the moat would have been timber-framed but had tiled roofs. One of them had a hearth constructed of roof tiles laid on edge to withstand the heat.
An interpretation panel has been erected on the site as part of the River Rea Heritage Trail.
Kingstanding Road on public open space.
This small artificial mound is where King Charles I is said to have stood when he harangued the troops he brought out of Shropshire at the beginning of the Civil War, but it is more likely to be a prehistoric burial mound or barrow. It is about 20m in diameter and up to 1.25 m high.
Weoley Castle is situated on Alwold Road. The excavated remains of a fortified manor house dating from the 13th century.
Birmingham's Roman Fort (Metchley), off Vincent Drive, Edgbaston. One corner of the defences has been reconstructed and much new information about the site has been obtained by archaeological excavations over the past few years.
The site is on private land which the public are allowed to use .
There is an interpretation panel near the Faraday statue, just inside the University campus near University station
Munslow Grove, Longbridge, south Birmingham. Part of the moat is now a pond and part is visible as a large dry ditch. Excavations in 1959 showed that the moat surrounded timber buildings, hearths and ovens dating from the 13th to 15th centuries. There is an information panel about the site on the edge of the moat.
Walsall Road. An 18th century stone packhorse bridge over the River Tame. This is a red sandstone bridge of 4 arches over the River Tame, constructed in a pack horse style. It is probably the bridge built by order of the Staffordshire Quarter Sessions, held in 1709, to take the place of a `Wood horse bridge'.
It has a span of about 50' (15m). It is about 15' wide (4m) and its approach is 21' (6m) wide. The bridge has parapets each side, about 3' (0.914m) high. The middle arches take the main flow and there are three V-shaped cutwaters rising to the full height of the parapet to give refuges.
Lifford Lane. Vertical lock gates built between the Stratford and Worcester Canals at the end of the 18th century.
This pair of guillotine gates near the junction of Stratford on Avon Canal with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal was devised to stop water flowing from one canal company's territory to another, regardless of which side was higher. They symbolise the rivalry between canal companies and their concern for the conservation of their own water supplies. The existing gates are probably 19th century in date, but the lock arrangement may date from the opening of this part of the canal in 1796 and they may incorporate late 18th century elements. Each lock consists of a brick-lined stone-dressed stop lock with a cast iron guillotine gate framework.
A winched counterweight chain mechanism to the guillotine gate runs in a slightly raked cast iron girder frame. The chain passes through a block on the gate and up over 2 wheels carried on one side out and down to the winch, and on the other out over a wheel supported by an elegant cast iron column before sinking with a counterweight into the post.
This particular cast-iron design of guillotine gates is probably unique. There were three buildings associated with the lock, all of which have been demolished. On the north bank were the lock-keeper's house and a putative stable. Fragments of the latter survive above ground but there is no trace of the other former buildings.Return to Top
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My 2010 KIA Forte LX has no power lock from stock, but it has wires in doors. Is it possible to put lock actuator from EX model? Or in any other DIY way? I've checked a lot of forums, but there is no clear info. Dealership and auto shops want $500-700 for this.
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The Forte LX mode uses a cable setup to work the door locks. While the EX uses rods. It is possible but, it would take some work to figure out a way to connect the door handle (interior) to the lock assembly. Next you would have to find a way to provide these locks with power since the harness is not the same in both models.
On the software side both Body Control Modules are the same part number so it's most likely that if anything it's just some coding that would have to be done.
All-in-all I wouldn't call this a "DIY" job. It is much more involved than an oil change. Of course, it could be "hacked" together and done cheap. But, if you want it done right, then the dealership would most likely be the best bet. (I say dealership because they have the most resources)
In theory it should be possible, if the higher-spec models had them, however it may depend on the various computers in the car.
The wiring will all be there (as it isn't worth them making different wiring looms for different models), however the software might not recognise the actuators - and you can't simply swap over the BCU (Body control unit, i.e. the computer that controls things like door locks, windows etc) as it'll be coded to the particular car it is in.


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I want to write some shell script which can perform the process migration from one node to another. Is it possible ? Can somebody please help me scripting this.
What all should I know before coding it?
You can't migrate a process from node to node in Linux without extending the system - it simply isn't supported by default.
The two tools that make this more practical than otherwise are:
Neither of those is simple, however, and they are not without substantial caveats.


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BIG WHEELS: Semina De Laurentis
|Seven Angels Theatre artistic director Semina De Laurentis and her 2010 Toyota RAV 4: 106,000 miles and still running strong. Contributed
HER RIDE A 2010 RAV 4 with 106,000 miles.
Tell me about your first vehicle?
It was an old Buick Rambler my parents let my sister and I drive. It had a front passenger seat that would fall straight back if you hit a bump. I loved surprising my friends.
What's the most meaningful conversation you have had inside your vehicle?
With my Dad. We had many. We would discuss (argue) politics and he would always give me sage pieces of advice to live by, like "Know what you know, but more important, know what you don't know," "Your vote counts, so take it seriously," and "Always stand up for your principles, even when it isn't easy." Funny how they ring more true to me today than they did in my 20s.
What's the best movie about driving?
The Stanley Kramer comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."
Did you ever name any of your vehicles?
Yes. When I was in college, I had a black station wagon that I named Black Beauty. In order to get clear radio reception, the front seat passenger had to hang their arm out the window and touch the broken antenna. Friends would flip a coin on who was going to sit there, especially in the winter.
Do you talk to yourself or sing when you drive?
Oh yes! A couple of years back, I was stopped at a red light. I was listening to the radio and singing along to Elton John. I looked over and the guy in the car next to me was listening to the same station and singing along. So I rolled down my window and we were harmonizing by the time the light turned green.
Who is the most intriguing person you have ever given a ride to?
Actress Susan Strasberg. When we were producing "The Diary of Anne Frank" at Seven Angels, she came to see a performance. The next day, I drove her back to NYC. We talked about acting and the legendary people she knew.
What is the most interesting destination you have ever driven to?
The Grand Canyon. I drove into the park, pulled up alongside the road, looked to my right and said OMG. It took my breath away.
What is the oddest object you have in your vehicle?
A 1970's NYC subway map.
What's the most interesting thing someone left in your vehicle?
One day I picked up my mother and a friend of hers, who sat in the back seat. Her friend was always a cheery, talkative woman, but this day she was very quiet. Earlier that day, our sound engineer and I had gone to a pharmacy to buy a box of 144 condoms. We use them to cover and protect body microphone packs from sweat. After I dropped off my Mom and her friend, I discovered we had left the box on the back seat. I never said anything.
Who would you most want to take for a ride in your car?
Pope Francis. And one more drive with my Dad, my Mom and my sister Ellen.
Do you have a "philosophy of the road"?
I was taught to "drive defensively" which meant you never know what the other driver is going to do. That went along with my mother's philosophy of life, "Worry! You never know what can go wrong." And DO NOT TEXT AND DRIVE!
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I am pasting this text into a text box in InDesign, I have a Paragraph Style set for that box and I am using "Justify with last line aligned left" (you can see in the screenshot, the red circles)
The problem is that I want to know if there is a way that the words in the text don't get breaked in two in between the lines. If the word doesn't fit at the end of the row I want it to go on the next row, not to break into syllabes like in the screenshot I took.
I hope there is a way to do this automaticly. But if there isn't... is it bad practice to leave it like that? should I manually push the words to the next row or can I leave it like that, breaked into syllabes? [you can see the screenshot here if it doesn't appear in the question]
I just wanted to add something for others, like me, who are not native English speakers. The term I was looking for was hyphenation, and is probably common in most programs. I did not know this term so I couldn't even ask the question properly or search for help.
There is a checkbox(Hyphenate) in the Paragraph window in InDesign. The Paragraph Styles window also has a Hyphenation tab with several options. Hopefully this edit will be useful for non-native English speakers like me.


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Going home for the holidays? Flight info, security info, airport traffic and weather, road construction, etc.
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Unanswered: Bug? GXT (Ext GWT) Compiles in 'devmode' target but not for 'build'
'm working on a GXT project, and I'm using GXT UiBinder. I'm compiling with ant. The target devmodeworks fine with no errors, and I'm able to see my application running in the browser. But using the targetbuild I get the following error:
[ERROR] Errors in 'jar:file:/home/webbtra/dev/rail_gxt/gxt-2.2.3/gxt.jar!/com/extjs/gxt/ui/client/data/BeanModelLookup.java'[ERROR] Internal compiler errorjava.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Found class com.google.gwt.core.ext.typeinfo.JClassType, but interface was expected
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'Simple and ingenious' - Léa Linster
During January and February 2011 Luxembourger Léa Linster, as our Star Chef, will be responsible for the culinary service in First and Business Class on long-haul flights from Germany.
In 1982 Léa Linster, who was then studying law, took over her father's guesthouse as a self-taught chef, opened her restaurant 'Léa Linster Cuisinière' and in 1987 received her first Michelin star. Further awards followed, such as the 'Bocuse d'Or' in 1989 which she was the first and to date the only woman to win. Léa Linster became popular through her appearances in cookery programmes, her regular newspaper and magazine columns and her cookery books.
Once you have exchanged a few words with her you understand immediately that cooking is her passion; she quite literally radiates love for her profession. Léa Linster's style of cuisine is one of exceptional, but unfussy dishes that bring out the unadulterated taste of the individual ingredients.
With Léa Linster's menus Lufthansa First Class passengers can look forward to starters served from an étagère which include duck foie gras and chicken in aspic with celery salad. For the main course, filet of sole with crayfish in tarragon sauce, flour dumplings with black salsify or spring chicken with rosemary sauce are all on offer. The tempting desserts are crème brûlée or chocolate mousse.
In Business Class, too, passengers can savour Léa's culinary delights. Starters include venison terrine with green bean salad and mustard sour cream sauce or sweet and sour trout with mixed vegetables. Pike quenelles and king prawns in a lobster sauce or wild mushroom ragout with chive dumplings are served as main courses. Stuffed profiteroles, fruit salad and an assortment of cheeses round off Léa Linster's Business Class menu.
You can find further information about Léa Linster and her restaurants on her website: http://www.lealinster.lu/.
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"I told Ms. Hart (A & T Executive Director) that I would be perfect for the job," Williams said. "I already knew the residents and they knew me. I knew each of their diets, along with their other likes and dislikes."
Hart said she looked over the applicants and decided William would in fact be perfect for the position.
"I think she's got a nurturing personality," Hart said. "She goes above and beyond to make sure the residents here are happy."
During dinner at the A & T, Williams makes it a point to walk around the grand dining room and visit with each resident. After everyone's eaten, the majority of them retire to their rooms, but there too is another feature that's unlike what the average nursing home offers.
Each of the residents who live in the Arbor, live in an apartment type setting. Walking inside is very similar to walking inside a two-room apartment.
A & T resident John Roan has been living in the Arbor for the past three years. He said he enjoys the games that Williams has shared with them.
"She's brought on board some new things that I've never done before," Roan said. "We play the memory game and fun card games. It use to be the same thing everyday, but with her here, we're always doing something different."
The Arbor is for seniors who can maintain the lifestyle they had before coming there to live, outside of working. The Terrace is for those who need extra care, in areas such as feeding and bathing.
Although the Terrace residents don't participate in the activities, Williams said she still finds time to go next door and visit them daily.
"I make sure that I see every resident who lives here, everyday," she said. "I want to see with my own eyes that each one is doing okay. No one here is neglected."
Lessie Clark lives at the Terrace, where up until January, she lived with her husband Jim., who owned Clark's Furniture in Bastrop for over 30 years. Jim was the one who needed extra assistance, so therefore he had to move from the Arbor to the Terrace. Lessie of course followed, being the couple who, after 69 years of marriage, claimed to be as in love as the day they married.
"I think Sheila is very sweet," Clark said. "She was good to my husband Jim too. One time he had to go away for physical therapy and I didn't see him for six weeks. When he returned, Sheila came and woke me up early that morning and took me to get my hair and makeup done before he got here."
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"I love the people here just like they were my own famiy," Williams said. "I'm just where God wants me to be."
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i am writing a php code involving mysql. At one point, i have to update a table in my database for which i am using the below 2 statements. But these are not working.
$temp = $row['tracking_id'];
mysql_query("UPDATE order_products SET state=4.00 WHERE tracking_id = '$temp'");
Note that i don't get an error message. The table is not updated though. Also note, the column names, table names are correct. I have also tried without the single '' quotes around $temp in WHERE clause.
The connection to database is fine. I know this cos select queries are working fine.
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It was as if I returned to my roots when I visited Munson Angus Farms west of Junction City to experience their pumpkin patch. Reared on a Kansas farm where we also raised Angus cattle, I helped with my family's large garden. But it was nothing like the Munson's huge pumpkin acreage, and I certainly never rode in a wagon pulled by a team of beautiful Percheron horses to pick the fruits of our labor. Nor did we ever create a maze in our corn field!
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I would hope/assume Jira would provide a feature for subscribing to an issue/ticket. It would allow premium users to act upon nightly updates and hotfixes, and would give Sencha another tool to effectively allocate resources by monitoring the most-subscribed tickets.
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It is pretty disturbing that this thread is four years old.
Users must be able to submit tickets. The whole point would be ruined if this was prevented.
Yes, there would occasionally be stupid / irrelevant issues submitted. But with any decent system, this is a one-click resolution. Look at JetBrains. They are a small company (smaller than Sencha I believe), with like 20 different products. Anyone can submit issues, and JetBrains actually reads, replies to, and updates the issues! Shocking, I know!
There's just no excuse, no excuse at all, for using a discussion forum as an issue tracker. That would have been sad 5 years ago. Today, it's completely absurd.
Just buy a license for Jira or YouTrack and be done with it. I manage multiple Jira instances myself, and I'm not a sys admin, I'm a software engineer. It's not that difficult or complicated. Please, Sencha, just do this already. Help us to help you!
24 Jul 2013 4:13 AM #35
Google have open bug trackers. If you post a message about a problem on their forums the developers will often tell you to please post a bug and point you at a bug tracker. Outside developers don't appear to inundate their bug lists with garbage. In fact, the opposite happens at times - some seem down right reluctant to post bugs even when asked by Google to do so. It's very useful to be able to see when attention is applied to an issue you've submitted and be able to verify a build when it appears to be fixed. If you post a garbage bug report it gets ignored. No big deal. You learn quickly not to submit crap reports if you want your issue addressed.
Sencha has a different culture. I haven't figured it out.
24 Jul 2013 12:24 PM #36
Have we gotten an official response on this? Using the forums to track the status of bug fixes is a bit of a pain..
25 Jul 2013 7:14 AM #37
Why I want a bug trracker
Searching the forums to identify a "known" bug is painful. Some people who post don't even input the EXTJS release version or the title of their post is something like "Grid doesn't work".
A bug tracker adds discipline and would make it so much easier to find issues. Not to mention I think it would improve the quality of the product. How? If I find a problem I don't always create a reproducible case because that does take time/effort so I'll just wait for the next release. Plus, if it's already a known issue there could be multiple customer-developers creating test cases. This is a wasteful duplication of effort.
EXTJS is not Microsoft Word. The customers are developers just like those creating the Sencha products and we need similar tools to do our job effectively.
25 Jul 2013 6:36 PM #38
Indeed. I'm a developer at a large (Fortune 500) company. If we ever tried to tell a client that our issue tracking system was a discussion forum, we'd never win another contract.
25 Jul 2013 11:48 PM #39
26 Jul 2013 7:23 AM #40
I just wanted to add my voice to this thread, albeit from a Sencha Touch perspective.
It is ludicrous there's no public bug tracker for this kind of framework. Even more ludicrous that many bugs get missed in the discussion forum because they're not put into the system.
I'm sure this contributes to the bugs that end up in releases (ie: 3 public releases with infinite list support. It still doesn't work without a showstopper bug in a native iOS app which is a bit silly, to say the least).
I'm not a support subscriber right now. I judge Sencha on what I see from here which is a phenomenal, grade A framework. But because you're trying to sell me support and I don't see anything suggesting you're very good at this, I consistently pass on the support sub.
Only like most people here trying to offer constructive feedback! Apologies if my frustration comes off otherwise.I blog about Sencha Touch at www.senchatouchdev.com
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Two hours before tip-off of the second Red/White Scrimmage of the fall, the University of Louisville men's basketball team met with the media to discuss the highly-anticipated 2012-13 season.
While the Cards are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in most preseason polls, the team emphasized the importance of focusing on one game at a time and refusing to let the hype surrounding the squad get to anyone's head.
"There's the pressure but that's a good pressure too," said Center Gorgui Dieng.
"It's going to push us to work harder every single day because we know, we all understand, we have that big target on our backs. Any time we get in the gym we won't let any second slide."
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Siva also discussed co-captain Luke Hancock, a transfer from George Mason who will make his debut as a Card this season. Siva jokingly called Hancock "the myth" due to Pitino touting him as one of the best players in college basketball despite no one having seen him play an official game as a Cardinal.
But, during UofL's scrimmage on Oct. 21, Hancock proved his worth, scoring a game-high 29 points, along with six assists, five rebounds and two steals.
"It's humbling to be around these guys," Hancock said of his chance to play with UofL. "Wayne Blackshear is a McDonald's All-American, Peyton, Chane (Behanan), some guys are supposed to be All-Americans this year so being a captain is no big deal in a star-studded cast like this."
While Hancock guided the Red Team to a 85-74 victory, Russ Smith led the White Team in scoring with 20 points, and added seven rebounds, six assists and four steals. Kevin Ware and Montrezl Harrell also showed promise, finishing with 22 and 20 points, respectively, for the Red Team. Ware earned a double-double with 10 rebounds. On the white team, Christian Academy alum Tim Henderson scored 11 points and had two steals. Behanan and Dieng combined for 24 points and 21 rebounds.
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[vibration failure]
[pump housing]
Optimists tell us about steady industry trends toward
reliability-imparting procedures and work processes, while
realists continually make us aware of pressures to reduce
expenditures. As outside observers, we affirm that striving to
reduce monetary outlay is quite commendable, but only as long
as these aims dont run counter to the professed
longer-term reliability improvement objectives.
Conflicting issues are often alluded to in queries that we
receive from readers. For instance, we were asked if we knew of
literature that quantifies the merits of precision alignment
for pumps, and if its really appropriate to shun
old-style methods.
With modern alignment methods taking no more time than
tinkering with old-style methods, common sense should point
toward using precise methods. Inadequate alignment still causes
major calamities (Fig. 1); whereas, the results of sound
alignment approaches typically show up as improved mean time
between repairs (MTBR) and a reduction in maintenance outlay. The November
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A likely consensus among reasonable people holds that
precision alignment typically lowers vibration to half of the
value of conventional alignment. Fig. 2 represents
an estimate of bearing operating life extension due to reduced
vibration velocity for typical process pumps. Fig. 3 gives an
indication of how a major bearing manufacturer rates the
effects of misaligned bearings. Most rolling element bearings
fit somewhere between the two curve boundaries and at tangents
below 0.001; bearing life is thought to exceed a relative
rating of 1.2
On average, there is then reason to believe that precision
alignment alone would result in a pump MTBR multiplier
of somewhere between 1.4 and 1.7. The problem is that
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upgrades and they will seldom confine their work to just better
alignment. That is why Ref. 1 puts the pump MTBR of a very
marginal performer at 1.6 years, while best performers often
get 9 years or more between pump failures.
1 Bloch, H. P. and A. Budris, Pump
Users Handbook: Life Extension, Third Edition, 2010,
Fairmont Press, Lilburn, GA 30047; (ISBN 0-88173-627-9).
2 Leibensperger, R. L.; Look beyond catalog
ratings, Machine Design, April 3, 1975.
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Proper run-in of the pump unit (shaft/bearing/motor) after alignment is essential to a longer operational service life of the pump system, run-in speed is advised to be on a gradually increasing load basis with time so as to allow the alignment to adapt within tolerable limit to conditions of vibration & heat development
Antifriction bearings- fatigue life is determined by load and speed, for most applications speed tends to be constant as per motor driven pump. Misaligment adds to the loads hence reducing overall life.Of note though, the late Charlie Jackson wrote an article where he conducted an experiment on apump with increasing misaligment vs vibration - the vibes increased then flattened out, so the bottom line- vibes is an indirect means of determining load but does not tell the full story. Until we start integrating load sensors on bearings we will have to depend on vibes, heat, ulrasonics etc.
Article is excellent and the two charts in Figure 2 and 3 are very useful in practice
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FOLLANSBEE - Hollywood would have been proud of the drama students who played victims in a mock disaster Saturday involving an active shooter and tanker explosion at Koppers and subsequent decontamination at Weirton Medical Center.
The mock disaster had all the drama of a Lifetime Channel movie -domestic violence, children on a field trip, a shooting and tanker truck explosion.
But the drill served as a way for a lot of public service agencies and a hospital to do a reality check on just how good their procedures are in responding to a disaster, fake or otherwise.
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A West Liberty University drama student applied makeup to simulate a facial injury during a mock disaster drill in Brooke County on Saturday. The injured were treated at Weirton Medical Center. -- Mark Law
Firefighters with the Colliers Volunteer Fire Department work inside a decontamination tent to wash contaminants from a patient Saturday in a mock disaster drill, organized by the Brooke County Emergency Management Agency. Fire departments from throughout Brooke County responded to Koppers for the disaster involving an active shooter and tanker truck explosion. -- Mark Law
The scenario showed a father who had a domestic violence protection order from his wife who tries to attend a Follansbee Middle School field trip at Koppers. The school bus stops at a tanker truck, while the father is denied access at the Koppers' gate. The father shoots a security guard, who is wounded, and continues toward the bus. More shots ring out, with the wife being shot, and a bullet hits the tanker causing it to explode. Most of the students are off the bus when the explosion occurs. A plant worker calls 911 and fire and emergency medical personnel are dispatched to the scene. The father is killed in the explosion.
The emergency medical personnel encounter 15 patients, who are loaded onto ambulances. Then a determination is made the tanker's placard is wrong and the material is not deadly. But the patients still have to go through decontamination before entering Weirton Medical Center.
Bob Fowler, Brooke County Emergency Management Agency director, said all the patients were transported off scene within 45 minutes.
One problem was discovered during the drill in that the mass care trailer wasn't immediately deployed. He said the mass care trailer will be sent to a scene regardless in the future and it can return if not needed.
"The communications went well. The decontamination went well. Everyone did very well," he said.
Fowler said mock disaster drills are a several-step process, from training, to table-top exercises to the actual drill.
"This is something we should be doing once or twice a year on a regular basis," he said.
Weirton Medical Center emergency room workers knew a drill was coming but didn't know the scenario, even though a decontamination tent had already been erected at the rear of the hospital.
Members of the Colliers Volunteer Fire Department did the actual decontamination. Fowler said the fire department is called to do that job because emergency room workers can be overwhelmed with treating patients.
Kelli McCoy, hospital director of communications, said the mock disaster tested a variety of hospital workers, including security, doctors, emergency room staff, trauma team and support staff.
Hospital workers train annually and sometimes more often depending on the influx of new staff.
Mary Vandine, emergency room director, said the patients were unloaded from an ambulance and taken through the decontamination tent, where their clothes were cut off and the patient's bodies sprayed down to remove contaminants.
Vandine said public service personnel at the scene called the hospital to give emergency room staff the number from the placard of the tanker truck that exploded. The hospital staff then looked up the placard number in a hazardous material handbook to determine what decontamination procedures should be followed, she said. The patients were then taken to the emergency room for a more in-depth evaluation and a determination of the patients' injuries.
Donna Kittridge, WMC director of support services, said the drill tested a lot of layers of the hospital staff.
Vandine said the staff will now sit down and do an evaluation of how well the hospital staff responded. Kittridge said recommendations will be made for improvements.
"If we don't do practices, we run the risk of inexperience. When we do the drills, it can only make us better at responding," McCoy said.
Students from the West Liberty University drama department participated in the drill and spent about $500 on the makeup to make their injuries look real.
Fowler said the drama students did an outstanding job from the makeup to the way they acted.
"They were upset, their friends were hurt," he said.
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I want to retrieve all comments of a public Facebook post via my application. My application is a service which uses an application_accesstoken to call the Graph API (so there is no possibility to authenticate from a user's perspective).
I retrieve posts via the 'All public posts' search URL (https://graph.facebook.com/?q=[keywords]&type=posts. This URL only returns a few comments on a returned posts. Most of the times only 2 comments (which are the same you can see on the profile page before clicking 'View all XX comments').
Is there any way to retrieve all of those comments via my application? Calling the URL https://graph.facebook.com/userId_postId/comments?access_token={my_application_accesstoken} returns an empty data set.
According to this question ( Facebook Graph API returns 'false' even though post is public ), this is a bug, because it works for comments on posts by companies / on pages.
Can anyone confirm this? Or does anyone know whether this bug is already solved / have a workaround for this problem?
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My kids (grades 2&4) are very bright and very active. The traditional school setting does not seem to be working for them. This is evident by their perpetual visits to the principal's office for disrupting the class and comments from the teacher about them not paying attention. After speaking with the teacher about what they are doing in class, I think they are bored. They don't like school. I don't want school to be a long, hard road for them. Any suggestions?
Hah this is a really good and old question.
Let me tell you something else first...
School for a bright kid is not about teaching. And not about learning because if he is as bright and vivid as you say he will learn everything himself.
A school for a child like him, is about learning the hard way in life unfortunately. It is about learning discipline. It is about learning to pay attention even if you are bored as hell, because you wont get by in life without a good concentration skill..
Of course they are bored. School is boring. And flat. And destructive. What you as parent can do is... assure your kid that it will get better. Assure him that he is smart. Don't pressure him to bring home good grades. Just tell him to learn how to pay attention. Make a game out of it.
Tell him if he pays attention, let him map how the teacher walks in the class. What words he / she uses. Create a challenge for him. Create a quest for knowledge for him that he finds interesting.
BUT!! Make sure he studies never the less. Then he must be creative at home. He has to utilize his skills other ways. Show him piano. Show him interesting stuff like physics. Show him the world and he will like it.
Now... You could switch school, you could get a personal teacher and so on and so forth. That depends on how much you have to spend on school. But if not, then do the above and he should be fine, although he will always rebel a bit. :)
As per Lennart Regebro's comment i'd like to add this link:
It's an article about home schooling vs real schools.
I never said that doing a good homeschooling is bad for a child. But it depends on the parents Time, Money, and Resourcefulness if he can afford it.
I empathize that if you can then YES you should switch to a school more challenging or homeschooling or personal teacher.
If you have some time to spend teaching your children yourself, and you have some money you could contribute towards their education, you could look into a homeschool co-op, or a part-time homeschool-curriculum based private school. These are both significantly cheaper than traditional private schools, and might offer an environment in which your children could move at a faster pace than other kids in the class in academic areas where they are strong.
With a co-op, you find other parents that want to homeschool or use a homeschool curriculum, but you pool money together to pay a teacher for several families. This is usually a 2 or 3 day a week thing, then you do additional work and extracurricular activities with them yourself the other days.
If this is an option for you, I would highly recommend seeking out a program or teacher that is familiar with the Classical Education system of teaching. My two older kids who are school aged have learned with this system, and we are very satisfied with the results.
To bring the discussion back to your question, ultimately we've found that when our kids are in a smaller classroom (7-8 kids max) and are learning with the Classical Education model, they are never bored and are noticeably excelling in all academic areas each year. They love school, and are excited about learning. In a class setting, students can move at different paces on certain subjects. For example, when my oldest son was in 4th grade, there was a kid in his class who was doing 9th grade math.
In public schools, my oldest son was bored and never challenged. He constantly came home with worksheets geared towards helping him pass a standardized test (which ultimately is more about the school than my child, but that's another discussion).
If you want to find out more about Classical Education, there is a good book called The Well-Trained Mind.
I suggest reading at least the first chapter of "Have Space Suit, Will Travel" by Robert A. Heinlein (the rest of the book is a bit entertaining, if dated, but the first chapter is pure gold). The suggestions there are more for high school students than grammar school students, but the philosophy is the same:
Public school is crap. Especially for bright students. Find other things they can learn to occupy their time, preferably subjects they want to learn. Tell him to read the whole textbook instead of sticking to the parts the curriculum says to stick to, for starters. Then start feeding him classics like Edgar Rice Borroughs (trust me, he's old enough for these - I was at 7), Johan David Wyss, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Louis Stevenson. This high adventure stuff has 9 year old boy written all over it.
Also, he needs to know not to be a snob about being smarter than the other kids or learning faster than the school wants him to. That just leads to trouble. If all this is truly because he's really bored in class, he can crack open War and Peace or a high school math textbook. The teacher won't bother him at all then.
Alternatively, your kid isn't as bright as you think he is, but I doubt that (parents usually know for certain about that before the kid turns 5). I for one, was never disruptive in class. I just felt held back by what the curriculum offered.
If your child is "gifted" you can try looking up AEGUS (the Association for the Education of the Gifted and Underserved Student) for help advocating for a better situation to suit your child's particular needs as well as educational opportunities about how these kids need a different kind of educational environment than they are often given and how to best help them at home whether you are helping by supplementing a curriculum from a mortar and brick setting or you take them home for homeschooling.
I also see mention of homeschooling quite a bit above. In addition to co-ops and the like, there are charter schools that are really organizations that help you school at home. They often offer a community of support, days and field trips that include chances for kids to get together for cool activities or even to become involved in a school team or choir if the community is large enough. Sometimes they do this all for free under the umbrella of being a public charter school. www.k12.com is one that operates internationally and is free in most of the States, but it isn't the only program (its just most would be a lot more localized). Keywords like "virtual schools," "free home-education," and "public learning centers" (plus the name of your region) should yield resources for your area. Using this type of system has worked really well for us so far - Mine was reading in third grade and in the fall of her kindergarten year was tested as reading and comprehending at about a 4th - 5th grade level (depending on the test results trusted).
If HS interests you as an option, this answer addresses both common concerns and common problems with homeschooling and has a few articles at the end you can look up for more information about HS studies, options, etc.
How do you know that they are stuck in a boring school? In particular I want to point out the word "stuck". Could they attend a different school?
You could help them to get extra education at home. Did you consider home schooling? You could also try putting them in front of http://www.khanacademy.org and seeing what happens
The Montessori method is something you may want to consider, as well. You can check to see if there are any Montessori schools nearby.
You might be interested for the following wikipedia articles:
If you have any similar schools near you, it might be a really good idea to make a contact and see if they fit to your philosophy and to children's needs..
One thing that's not clear from the question is whether you are using the school as a free day care while you are at work or otherwise not available to supervise your children yourself.
If not, you can reduce their hours.
Now, what if you need them to be there? "If leaving the school is not an option, then encouraging his kids to find ways of entertaining themselves in a non-disruptive manner when they have finished their work is an important skill. I constantly kept books with me at school because I always finished my work early, but I knew better than to be sent home with a note saying I'd been disruptive in class. If reading isn't his deal, then a Suddoku book might be or a small logic puzzle book that he could work on in class." Some children can't concentrate on something like that with so much going on around them.
The short answer is to tell the teacher, in response to complaints of disruptiveness, "Keep him busy. Give him plenty of work to do that challenges him." Since it is not likely she's going to take the time to design additional worksheets for your child, you may want to send in some materials you have selected yourself.
Take a look at the lists of accommodations recommended for children with ADHD. I'm not saying your children are ADHD, I'm just saying that some of those accommodations are GREAT! I hope your lines of communication with the teacher are open enough that you can get some of those accommodations implemented -- either informally or formally through a 504 plan (you could say that it's for Executive Function).
I don't have of those lists handy, so I'll give you a similar one written for children with Tourette Syndrome. http://teacherweb.com/NY/ValleyStream13/howellroadpbis/CatalogOfAccomidations.pdf
There's some stuff in here you can skip over, but there's also a lot of great ideas for active children (who tend to be the square peg in elementary schools).
Try to get more dynamic teachers for next year.


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Debian 6 will also be available with the FreeBSD kernel. Why did they decide to to that and why should I use it?
I think the most compelling reason would be to run ZFS under a familiar GNU/Linux userspace.
Debian kFreeBSD is officially considered a technical preview right now. This means it works but is not completely ready for production use.
If you just want a usable system stick with Debian Linux for now.
Once it graduates from technical preview status, you may want to reexamine it if you have needs that are better fulfilled by BSD than Linux, such as ZFS and the OpenBSD Packet Filter (pf).
Debian does not target a specific kernel. Debian GNU/Linux is just one variant (the most popular and advanced). There are also Debian GNU/NetBSD, Debian GNU/Hurd, Debian GNU/Darwin, and as you mentioned Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (and perhaps more). Porting Debian to non-Linux kernels is useful for people (users, system administrators, system developers, etc) who are using/developing a non-Linux kernel but would like to take advantage of the Debian (
Debian is a "Universal Operating System", the kFreeBSD is another example to this. They experimenting with other kernel too, like Hurd, Darwin and others.
The answer, why the FreeBSD's kernel is the most used along with the Linux kernel, is the richness of that kernel. It's best features ZFS filesystem, Jail virtualization subsystem and others.
Actually based on my experience with Debian/kFreeBSD, you shouldn't:
I encountered all of this while trying to set up a backup system with GNU/kFreeBSD and ZFS. In the end I threw the towel and went with zfs-fuse on standard Debian. Works very well. I have just replaced a failing hard disk yesterday and all went wonderfully smooth (link in french: http://meta.libera.cc/2012/09/linux-zfs-et-disque-sata-remplacement.html )
it means you should interstand you have to do
to get it working ...
see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2012/02/msg00090.html
and most important the project name is much too difficult to write :) uppercase then lower then upper then lower then upper then lower ...
All in all maybe a good idea, but let's wait it leaves the alpha stage ...