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5 Styles That Defined Entire Eras (Were Made Up by Movies)
#2. Wall Street Brokers
The Image:
Greedy and ruthless businessmen who will exploit the system, ruin lives and even naked-wrestle their own grandmas if it means they get to wear fancy suits and slick their hair back with the fat from endangered polar bears. The sort we gladly blame for the recent recession, and occasionally spit on.
It's OK -- they can afford the dry cleaning. Plus, they're hardly people.
Totally Stolen From:Wall Street.
Since the premiere of Oliver Stone's Wall Street in 1987, countless people have told Michael Douglas that his portrayal of the movie's antagonist, Gordon Gekko, is why they got into the broker game. As Michael Lewis notes, hedge fund wunderkind Seth Tobias "gave an interview for Wall Street's DVD bonus reel, in which he said, 'I remember when I saw the movie in 1987. I recall saying, That's what I want to be. I want to start out as Bud Fox and end up as Gordon Gekko.' "
When Tobias was found dead in his Florida swimming pool soon after delivering that commentary, he became the first person to have ever fatally misread a movie. See, Gekko was supposed to be a villain, and you were supposed to hate him! He was a caricature of the "greed" culture of the 80s, a cartoonishly evil human-shark.
The 80s had their share of greedy stock-market assholes, but nobody made it look as good as Gordon Gekko. In fact, Gekko looked so much better than anyone looked on the real Wall Street that according to Ellen Mirojnick, the film's costume designer, it almost got her in trouble. Stone warned Mirojnick that, "My friends tell me that on the Street no one looks like that." But she persisted with her vision to make Gekko dress like an old-school movie star, and soon enough the actual bankers followed.
"It became all the rage -- the whole idea of it from his slicked back hair ... to the horizontal striped shirt. It became the language of power-dressing for men." Of course, Stone was right. According to Mirojnick, "I later went on to discover ... the Street ... was very conservative at that time."
The rest of Gekko's character wasn't exactly authentic either. Stanley Weiser, who wrote the movie with Stone, spent a few weeks doing research before realizing that most of these guys were boring as, well, businessmen. To help add some glamor, he chose to incorporate other nonbanker characters into what became, "an amalgam of different personalities that I had studied" both on and off Wall Street.
The strangest part is that, according to the writer who created him, "Gekko's dialogue actually was inspired by Stone's own rants. Listening to Oliver's early morning cajoling and sarcastic phone calls exhorting me to work (provided) the precise varnish with which I needed to coat Gekko." So the banker whom everyone on Wall Street thought they were imitating was actually a pinko lefty filmmaker who wanted to make America hate bankers. And he would have succeeded if he wasn't so creatively gifted at being an asshole.
Something like this. Only millions of people lose all their money 20 years later.
#1. Cowboys
The Image:
"The cowboy" is probably the most iconic character in the history of the U.S. Everyone immediately recognizes them by their cowboy hats and fancy belt buckles, riding their horses while shooting at each other or, as was more often the case, at Native Americans.
Go back to whatever country you came from, Indians!
Totally Stolen From:Wild West shows and silent Westerns.
We've already mentioned how the "Wild West" saw less gun violence than Amish daycares, and we've also challenged the common misconception that there was ever any significant difference between a cowboy and a hobo. Both myths were started by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. These late 19th/early 20th-century vaudevillian spectacles were about as representative of the real West as porn movies are of the pizza delivery business. It was those shows that created the template for the "Western look," including, among other things, the "10-gallon hat" invented by Buffalo Bill specifically for his performances.
It's a hat! It's a bucket! Nope! It's pure bullshit!
Despite what the movies taught us, a silly hat and unironically ending each sentence with "partner" doesn't make you a real cowboy. An uneventful life of working for minimum wage and poor personal hygiene are way closer to the mark. In reality, the only real difference between a typical cowboy's attire and a burlap sack was the occasional presence of buttons. The colorful cowboy look created by Buffalo Bill survived thanks to stupid people who brought it with them from the East and whose only interaction with the Wild West was the shows they'd seen. This would be like making assumptions on African culture in the outback based on the way lions interact with lion tamers at the circus. Stupid, right? Well, everything you think of when you picture the Wild West is just that ridiculous.
The style was later immortalized by silent Western actors such as Tom Mix. After launching his career in 1917, Mix appeared in a number of movies sporting the 10-gallon hat, silver buckles and clothes full of fringes, popularizing the made-up look among later "cowboys" who just didn't know any better. In their defense, the notion that movies can lie to you must have been new at the time.
They had no way of knowing.
The modern image of "the cowboy" was completed with silent films starring G.M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson, who defined the stereotypical cowboy personality: cordial to the ladies, deadly with a gun, presumably hated by his horse for constantly putting it through dangerous stunts. In reality, however, most cowboys were dirty, underpaid farmhands with insanely boring lives.
And really, if someone started making your shitty job look awesome in the movies, you'd probably go with it too ...
Accounts Receivable just got real.
Cezary Jan Strusiewicz is a freelance online journalist and Japanese-English-Polish translator. Contact him at email@example.com.
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That is to say, how long before you notice the effects, feel more alert, and so on.
I'm assuming it's different for each person, but there must be a range. Also, does it differ for different types of coffee - beans, and styles - eg espresso vs latte?
(This being relevant to productivity so that I can time coffee intake before meetings)

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I'd like to control some of my home's electricity sockets via my PC. I was thinking about WiFi sockets (couldn't find any product for that), or sockets which are controlled by the electric network (like x10 - though I need for 220v). Can you think of something to help me?
X10 works, but is a pretty bad protocol. It is very slow and limited, and is susceptible to noise and interference (often mistaking noise for actual commands, causing lights to turn on/off on their own).
Z-Wave provides similar capabilites, but is much newer and uses RF signals to communicate. There are a huge variety of products and lots of stuff for UK (some stores I found on Google -- no endorsement: Z-wave products UK, UK Automation)
UPB is another technology, though it doesn't appear to be available in Europe.
Insteon is a fairly popular one in North America, and although they've been talking for a few years about introducing it to Europe, it doesn't appear they have yet.
All of these (including X10) have ways to communicate with them from a PC, and from there you're limited only by your imagination and programming abilities. I have an Insteon setup in my basement home theater, which is controlled by a PC (and via the PC, can also be controlled from a simple iPod interface, my Aastra VoIP phones, or infrared remotes). Next house I will probably do UPB though (specifically, Simply Automated products), simply because the switches are a lot more powerful, and their software is miles ahead of Insteon, albeit also harder to use**.


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I'd like to write formulas and notes on my Droid X. All the styluses that I found have a thick end and don't simulate a pen, it's more like a finger. Does anyone know of any styluses with thinner or more accurate tips? Do pens from tablets like Lenovo work?
Thin styluses are usually for resistive screens, they don't work with Droid X's capacitive screen.
The difference between capacitive and resistive touchscreens
I have a Pogo Stylus which was originally meant for the iphone although I see they have an Android version now. It works ok, but I feel like I have to push down harder than I want to to get it to work. It is accurate, more so than my finger, however if I don't maintain enough pressure when drawing a line for example, there will be gaps in the line. I have a screen protector on and I've never tried it on the naked screen so this might be a factor. When all is said and done I don't use it very much so I can't provide a detailed review.
If you don't want to spend the money there are a number DIY capacitive tutorials that look pretty good. Some mimic the pogo design and others don't. Here are a few:
I remember seeing someone do tests on the accuracy of capacitive screens and in reality, they're terribly inaccurate. Unlike resistive screens, a stylus won't make much difference for you. I believe it was said that a fine stylus would provide just as much accuracy as using a hot dog.


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I want to post a file to a server via python, for this I need to name this file as "xmlfile" so that server recognizes the input.
import urllib2
url = "http://somedomain"
to_send = open('test.xml').read()
data = {}
data['xmlfile'] = to_send
f = urllib2.urlopen(url, data)
This doesn't work, in addition, how can I retrieve the response and save someplace ?
In other words, I want to do the action as I do with Curl:
curl.exe http://somedomain -F firstname.lastname@example.com -o response.html


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5 Sep 2012 12:45 AM #1
Unanswered: How to pass class reference in a hyperlink cell data of a tree panel ExtJS4
I have a tree panel. It has a column that has a delete hyperlink for all the rows as shown below:
planName: someName,
deleteLink: 'Delete'
where "deleteLink" is a dataindex in the tree panel as shown below:
Ext.define('PanelJS', {
extend: 'Ext.tree.Panel',
columns: [
xtype: 'treecolumn',
dataIndex: 'planName',
flex: 2
dataIndex: 'deleteLink',
tdCls: 'custom-column',
flex: 1
But console says "planRef" is undefined when it is declared on class level, moreover I have checked the value of "planRef" before this line.
During debug mode when "planRef.callClickMe()" is watched it gives proper value. But at runtime, when screen is loaded and I click on the "Delete" link console says "planRef" is undefined.
I have even tried href config of NodeInterface but it does not show any hyperlink text.
I'm badly stuck into this issue. Help appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
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Instead of having the onClick attribute, use event listeners
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I would like to scan open ports of a server. But as far as I know, when I try to scan the open ports with something like nmap in shell they would be able to trace me. Is there a way to secure this scanning to make sure they would not be able to trace back?
Along with the options already provided, the use of anonymous gateways can provide substantial cover for scans. Tor, for example, should provide enough entry and exit points that any trace is unlikely to be successful.
Depending on the environment of your scan and where the server is located etc. You may be able to accomplish this using a TCP Idle Scan - http://nmap.org/book/idlescan.html
You could also do your scanning via a proxy http://funoverip.net/2010/11/socks-proxy-servers-scanning-with-nmap/
Both the above methods are more covert but neither is completely untraceable so do consider this.
Also you should consider legality of port scanning a system unless you have permission to do so - http://nmap.org/book/legal-issues.html
To 'scan' ports, you need to send traffic to the port to get a response. But, beside Idle Scans and proxies to get other targets to send the traffic for you, there are 2 other covert options to enumerate a target's ports:
Sniffing the network allows you view traffic to/from various ports. As sniffing is passive, you could not be traced. This depends on active traffic from ports during the sniffing window.
The other option is most likely outside expectation, but I include for completenes-sake: once you obtain access to a target, you can query the target to tell you what ports are available. You might get a shell on a vulnerable web server through port 80, then run
Both of these options require you to be close to the target or have an exploit vector, but they have been helpful to me in the past.
There are two ways to make the scan nearly untraceable (only if the system under attack hasn't been configured specifically for detecting scans).
The first one will take a long time (during which the firewall configuration can change) or will require massive amount of computers (and can hit per IP blocks instead of port blocks).
Continuing the quantum physics references: this is similar to the Uncertainty Principle ;)


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Do you have an inexpensive storage option for use in a garage?
I have a 2.5 stall garage. Trying to come up with a somewhat inexpensive way to store all of the generic rakes/shovels/brooms/wheelbarrow/etc. type of things.
Gladiator storage systems would be awesome, but alas, I do not want to spend $1000-$2000 on wall panels and brackets/hooks/shelves/cabinets/etc.
We also do NOT have much storage room in the house, so I need a shelving option to easily store totes and such like that.
Most of my tools will be in the workshop in the basement, so I don't need to worry about a workbench or anything else like that in the garage.
Note: I am fairly handy, and have debated just building shelving for the totes, but that of course takes time and we're trying to move into the house soonish.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
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I've used 3/4" plywood screwed to studs to hold hangers for heavy yard tools (shovels, rakes, etc.) and pegboard with 1" X 2" furring strips around the edges to hang lighter stuff. Harbor Freight and Walmart are good sources for pegboard hooks of all kinds.
Family Handyman magazine has several articles online about different storage systems you can build, from simple to complex:
Their site seems to not be responding. I've got two more links I'll post later, Or, just search for "garage storage" on their site. They have a lot of articles.
Here are the other two links:
I love pegboard. I have it on two walls in my garage. It's mounted firmly into the frame, and good quality, and I have every hook known to man to use in it. I have everything hanging on that pegboard, from a trenching shovel to a pickaxe, and from a hedge trimmer to three different sizes of sledge hammers. Sadly I am out of cement and rock that needs busting up, so the big sledge hammer may get dusty.
I also built (ages ago) decent shelves, and all sorts of items are on them, from various hose nozzles (everyone needs a couple of deck nozzles) to sprinkler parts, and random poison crap to throw down on the ground (Round Up, Ground Clear, Weed B Gone). Having a professional mount the pegboard was probably the only expensive thing (the shelves were originally left over scrap, spray painted black). You would probably do that yourself, but I'm short, and preferred giving someone else money to do it.
Pegboard FTW!
@tbgolladay: Excellent! Thanks! Magazine is only $10 on Amazon...thinking I might go ahead and try it out for a year!
@shrdlu: Is the pegboard mounted directly onto plywood, or to the drywall?
I'm curious how the pegboard has withstood the abuse of the tools (weight) over the years -- I suppose the brackets (or hooks) that you use might take more than just one peg hole though...
@sgrman05: Try your public library. Mine has 3 years of back issues and I can check out all but the current month. Also, I think Family Handyman did a special issue (not monthly) completely on storage. You may be able to find it at Lowe's or Home Depot.
@sgrman05: It's mounted directly into the framework of the garage. Mounting into drywall would be a prescription for sadness. My pegboard looks as new as the day it was put up (and it's been a few years). It's very nice to just be able to look up and grab the right shovel, or loppers, when I need them.
I love tools. Really and truly.
Just read the rest of your comment. Yeah, there are brackets meant for big tools, and they take up four pegs. Then again, that's what it's for, right? The sledge hammer's the heaviest thing on it. I used to have a mawl, but I'm just too short (and too old) to swing it. I'm always afraid I'll hit something breakable (as in my bones) when I swing it. Besides, what do I need with a 25 pound hammer anyway? The ten pound sledge hammer works just fine.
My friend built tote shelves for my garage in an afternoon. He used 4'x8' sheets of plywood halved lengthwise for the shelves, and 2"x4"s for the frame, with sturdy L brackets. The shelving unit is 16'x2' deep with three 24" tall shelves and stands about 4" from the wall. My totes are about 20" wide, so when slid in sideways they fit neatly in there and leave about 4-6" space in front for smaller items. I cut plastic sheeting to the length of the shelves and nailed it to the edge of each shelf, so all but the top shelf has protection from dirt and dust. The sheeting curtains each shelf, so I can easily lift it to access things on that shelf. The lowest shelf is about 30" up so I could slide second hand pallets I picked up at a local store for free underneath, to keep the lowest stuff off the ground. It isn't gorgeous, but it holds all my holiday stuff, my out-of-season clothes boxes, and a huge amount of art supplies in a clean, dry and accessible location.
I use shelf brackets mounted to the studs with 5/8" plywood ripped lenghtwise to 18" for the high stuff. You can't go wrong with 1/4" pegboard properly mounted for the easy-to-reach stuff.


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'63 Chevy II - Barn Revival, Part 2Written by on October 10, 2012
If you're one of the lucky ones who have stumbled across a barn find and are interested in getting the forgotten jewel back on the road, this article is for you. It's all about rescuing a muscle car that has been sitting for way too long and making it roadworthy once again. We're not doing a full-on restoration, and it's not about getting it running well enough to just limp home. We are giving you the steps to follow to truly make the car dependable and enjoyable to drive again.
Last month we went over the basics, replacing every inch of rubber fuel line, radiator hose, and fan belt. We also changed the engine oil and trans fluid, and read the diff oil. Our particular car is an early '60s Chevy with points-style ignition, which we upgraded with a PerTronix electronic ignition conversion, cap, rotor, coil, and plug wires. We also replaced the gas tank and the radiator.
This month we dive deeper into the car and address the brakes, front suspension, and steering systems, starting with the brakes. When a car sits for more than a few years, several things happen in the brake system that need attention. The brake fluid breaks down, absorbing moisture and causing corrosion in the brake lines, wheel cylinders, master cylinders, and calipers. At the very least, you should flush all of the old fluid out of the system and look in the bottom of the master cylinder to get an idea of how bad the system is. If it looks good, fill it with new fluid, bleed the brakes, and consider replacing the pads and shoes. If it looks like the bottom of Lake Erie, you really should replace the master and most likely the wheel cylinders and calipers. If everything is ugly, you should replace the hardlines too, as they can corrode from the inside out.
If your barn find is a late '60s or newer car, it may already have front disc brakes. In that case, all that's really needed to make it a safe and capable driver is to replace the worn and crumbling parts. If your car has four-wheel drum brakes and you intend to make it a driver, you should consider upgrading the front brakes to discs. There are kits for just about any muscle car, and there's a really good chance Classic Performance Products (CPP) has a bolt-on kit in stock. CPP also offers front end kits and steering components to help you either restore or upgrade the suspension and steering.
The '63 Chevy II we're reviving needed new rubber throughout all the front suspension. Most of the brake system needed replacing because of rot and decay. These cars had four-lug wheels and pitiful four-wheel drums. Since this car is destined to be driven, we just couldn't see rebuilding a four-wheel drum brake system with four-lug wheels. CPP offers a very complete front disc brake upgrade kit that also converts the car to five-lug wheels. The rearend proved to be a bit more challenging to convert to five-lug, which we cover in the "Five Lugs to Go" sidebar.
Changing a car from four to five lugs also means new wheels. In the case of our Chevy II, we were going to need new wheels to fit the front disc brake conversion anyway. The car originally came with 13-inch wheels, and the disc brake caliper just won't clear a wheel that small. We ordered 15-inch wheels and tires from Coker Tire. The 15-inch wheels will look great on the car, fit the brakes, and be much easier to find replacement tires for in the future.
Next, we will wrap up this barn-find revival and take our little Chevy II for a ride!
Five Lugs to Go
The '62 Chevy II was Chevrolet's first attempt at a true economy car. It was smaller and lighter than anything else in the lineup, which made it great muscle car material when outfitted with a V-8. But its econocar status also brought some low-cost or light-duty equipment that just won't work in a muscle application. For example, our car and other '62 and '63 Chevy IIs were equipped with four-lug wheels. In a V-8 application four-lug wheels is a bad idea. In fact, the factory V-8 cars came with five-lug wheels.
Even if you have a stock I-6 car and don't plan on swapping in a V-8, it's a good idea to upgrade to five-lug wheels because it's hard to find wheels and brake drums for the four-lug application. Up until about 10 years ago, the way to fix this was to go to a salvage yard and grab a five-lug rear axle and front steering knuckle/brake assembly from a '64-'67 Chevy II. But these cars are no longer plentiful.
The CPP front disc brake kit we installed converts the front to five lugs, making this pretty simple. The rear is a completely different story. We found that the axle ends on the early four-lug Chevy II rear axles are unique, preventing you from bolting on a readily available complete drum brake assembly or aftermarket disc brake kit. The drums on these early cars are even a different dimension than later cars, so you can't swap to later drums and shoes.
Chevy II enthusiasts say that a standard 10-bolt rearend from an S-10 pickup truck is the correct length for a swap. To do this, you'd need to cut off the spring perches and shock mounts and weld on new ones. Another alternative is to order a brand-new axle from Moser or another aftermarket axle company.
For our car we decided to take the axleshafts and drums to a local machine shop and have them drilled with the five-lug pattern. The upside is that this costs just $100 and all of our parts still fit because we didn't change any of them. The downside, though, is that two of the new holes intersect with the old holes. This would not be a good idea with a V-8 car. Also, we won't be able to get replacement drums, and may have to locate another pair of four-lug drums and have them redrilled in the future. Perhaps by that time we will have found one of the now elusive '64-'67 five-lug rear axles.
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2 Since we are changing wheels and tires, we used a Percy's High Performance Wheelrite from Taylor Cable Products to determine the tire size and backspacing. The Wheelrite is adjustable and can simulate a variety of wheel and tire sizes, making it easy to see what will fit. The CPP disc brake kit we're using does not widen the track width—important to know if you're measuring using your old brake system like we are here. Use a jack under the lower A-arm to compress the suspension to ride height.3 If you're not using a Wheelrite, you can measure your existing wheels and tires and measure the available space around the package when it's installed on the car. To determine backspacing, place a straight edge across the inside wheel lip and measure the distance to the wheel mounting flange. If your car has decent-sized tires on it, you can just order replacements. Our Chevy II had undersized tires in addition to having stock 13-inch wheels, both situations we'll remedy thanks to Coker Tire.4 To separate the tie-rod end from the steering arm, remove the castle nut and hit the side of the steering arm with a heavy hammer. You don't need to hit it too hard, but you'll probably need to hit it several times. The impact releases the pressure on the tapered part of the tie-rod end, letting it drop out.5 This same technique is used to release the ball joints with one important difference. We've used spring compressors to remove the spring pressure from the A-arm. On this style of suspension, you have to do this to separate the ball joint from the steering knuckle. On systems with the spring mounted between the two A-arms, the force of the spring can be very dangerous if the ball joint releases and the spring is not contained.6 Next, the spring and shock are removed. The Chevy II has a suspension design unique in the GM family of cars, although it is similar to Ford suspension systems from the same era. It uses a spring mount on top of the upper A-arm. The lower arm is simply a straight channel with a support rod that triangulates it to the front of the car. The support rod uses large rubber bushings that we also replaced with new ones from CPP.7 We ordered new springs, shocks, shock mounts, and coil spring plates from CPP. The company offers stock height and lowering coil springs. We opted to lower the car approximately 2 inches while we were making these changes. The new spring has the same wire diameter but is shorter, which should retain a very good ride quality.8 To replace the bushings in the upper and lower control arms, the arms must be removed from the car. With the spring and shock out, the upper arm unbolts from the shock tower. The lower control arm is held in place with a single bolt and a suspension alignment cam plate.9 CPP offers both replacement-style rubber bushings and its Polyplus front-end kit that includes graphite-impregnated bushings for better handling and longer life. The complete kits include upper and lower ball joints, inner and outer tie-rod ends, adjusting sleeves, an idler arm, control arm bushings, and strut rod bushings. You'll need a press like this one from Harbor Freight Tools to push the old bushings out of the control arms and to install the new ones.
11 You will need to have your car aligned after replacing the inner and outer tie-rod ends and A-arm bushings, but you'll want to get the overall length of the new tie-rod assembly close to the old pieces. Thread one tie-rod end into the sleeve first and then the other.12 If your car has the original ball joints, they will most likely be riveted in place. You'll need to cut or chisel off the ends of the rivets and then use a punch to push the remains of the rivets through the ball joint and control arm. This is not easy, and it's safe to say that it would be hard to find rivets as stout as what was originally used in this application!13 The rivets were a bit smaller than 5/16 inch, which is the size of the bolts that came with the new CPP ball joints. Use a 5/16 -inch drill bit to slightly enlarge the three holes on the upper and lower control arms where the new ball joints will attach.14 Grade 8 hardware and Nylock nuts are included with the ball joints. CPP uses Nylock nuts for the ball joints instead of a traditional castle nut and cotter pin.15 We also needed to open up the holes for the new lower spring and shock mounts in the upper control arm. This would be easier to do off the car, but we didn't mock it up for fitment until after we had the upper control arm reinstalled.16. We used locking pliers to hold the new CPP upper coil spring seat in place. Then we compressed the new coil spring and bolted the new shock to the lower mount. Do not cut the nylon strap off of the shock yet or else installation will be much more difficult. Wiggle and push the assembly into place on the upper arm.17 CPP makes disc brake upgrades for a range of cars including the Chevy II we're working on. Most companies do not make a steering arm for the early Chevy II with manual steering, requiring you to find an original power-steering system or converting to aftermarket rack-and-pinion. Our disc brake kit came completely assembled, including the correct non–power-steering arm.18 We set the CPP steering knuckle and brake assembly on the ball joint in the lower control arm first. Then we used a floor jack to raise the arm and assembly to meet the upper control arm.19 Now you can cut the nylon strap off the gas-charged shock. Install the lower washer and rubber bushing, and then guide the threaded end of the shock through the top of the shock tower. The CPP shocks for this application have an Allen fitting in the top of the shock that you can use to hold the shock rod while tightening the nut.
20 Here's the completely rebuilt front suspension and disc brake upgrade. The suspension rebuild is a critical safety step before putting a barn find back on the road, and the disc brakes will make this car stop better time after time, making the car significantly safer. We still need to install the new dual-reservoir master cylinder, proportioning valve, and brake lines included with the CPP disc brake swap kit.21 At the rear of the car, you can retain drum brakes because 70 percent of the stopping power is provided by the front brakes. We replaced the shoes, hardware, and wheel cylinders on the rear. The shoes had plenty of material left on them, but 20-year-old shoes have a way of coming apart when they are put back into service.


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KILLEEN (December 31, 2012)--The City of Killeen is seeking the public's input on proposed charter amendments to be included on the May 2013 general election ballot.
Four public hearings have been scheduled, with the first to be held Tuesday in the Utility Collections Conference Room at 210 W. Avenue C.
Other hearings are set for the next three Tuesdays, all to begin at 5 p.m.
Hearings on January 8 and January 22 will be held in the City Council Chambers located at 101 N. College Street.
City council members will vote on the proposed ballot for the charter election at its February 12 meeting.
A draft of the amended charter along with comments to provide justification for the proposed changes is available on the city's website.


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Disabled EXT field tooltips not showing in FireFox
Firefox 17
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ExtJS 4.1.1
Hey everyone,
Let me start off by saying that I realize that this is a duplicate bug. I've seen similar bug reports throughout the forums, but none with a satisfying answer. The posts I've read through are all listed as can not reproduce or as fixed by Mozilla Bug 274626. Unfortunately, I'm certain that this bug has not been fixed as I am currently having problems with it.
The problem is that tooltips are not displayed for disabled fields in firefox. Many users before me have pointed out that Mozilla Bug 274626 addresses this issue and has been fixed. As far as I can tell, these bugs are related, but not the same.
Tooltips for simple HTML inputs are fixed by Mozilla Bug. For example, the following tooltip for a simple HTML input button works correctly when the button is disabled:
<button type="button" title = "test" disabled = "disabled" >Click Me!</button>
Ext.onReady(function(){ Ext.tip.QuickTipManager.init(); var form = Ext.create('Ext.form.Panel', { renderTo: Ext.getBody(), title: 'Simple Form', bodyPadding: 5, width: 350, layout: 'anchor', defaults: { anchor: '100%' }, // The fields defaultType: 'textfield', items: [{ fieldLabel: 'First Name', name: 'first', allowBlank: false },{ fieldLabel: 'Last Name', name: 'last', allowBlank: false }], // Reset and Submit buttons buttons: [{ text: 'Reset', tooltip : 'my Button Tooltip Text', id : 'my-button ', handler: function() { this.up('form').getForm().reset(); } }, { text: 'Submit', tooltip:'Submit', formBind: true, //disabled: true, handler: function() { Ext.getCmp('my-button ').disable(); } }], renderTo: Ext.getBody() }); });
This jsfiddle(http://jsfiddle.net/BSjqJ/12/) shows the bug in action. When loading the jsfiddle in chrome or IE9, the tooltips for all buttons should be displayed, regardless of the button being enabled or disabled. However, when loaded in Firefox17, the tooltip for the simple HTML clickme control is displayed, but the tooltip for the disabled ext button is not displayed.
I would greatly appreciate me if someone could let me know if there is a workaround for this or if I'm doing something wrong! Thank you for your help,
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Thanks for the report! I have opened a bug in our bug tracker.
4 Mar 2013 11:26 AM #3
same here with Ext 22.214.171.124 and Firefox 19.
any update on this ?
4 Mar 2013 11:59 AM #4
I'm not sure why this problem can't be reproduced. The linked JsFiddle shows that the tooltip field for ext buttons doesn't display when the button is disabled.
Instead of using the tooltip field for the button control, try creating a separate tooltip object and linking this object to the button.
var tip = Ext.create('Ext.tip.ToolTip', { target: 'ButtonID', html: 'TooltipText' });
6 Mar 2013 5:08 AM #5
Thanks AGregory for the feedback
Based on your example, theres a simple workaround :
instead of just "tooltip:'blabla'" you need to add :
id: 'btnID', tooltip: { target: 'btnID', text: 'blablabla' }


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For awhile now, my MB has been slowing down at times and I've been trying to diagnose the problem. Here were my hunches:
- old age?(only 2 yrs old)
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- fan problems
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The immediate thing I could do was to check the fans. So, I installed smcFanControl at first but then nothing was happening. I created a "High RPM" setting and even if I set it to that, fan stays at 2000rpm. When I open a flash app(say an fb game or even Steam) it lurches to 6krpm(not surprising i guess?)
Anyway, I tried another fan control(Fan Control) for Mac and now I got this:
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Consider the last passage percolation model on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with, say, geometric weights on each edge. By a landmark result of Johansson (http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9903134), we know that if $T_n(\alpha)$ is the passage time (or distance) between the origin and the point of coordinates $(\alpha n, n)$, then $$ \frac{T_n(\alpha) - \omega(\alpha) n}{\sigma(\alpha)n^{1/3}}\to X, $$ where $X$ has the Tracy-Widom distribution. Here $\omega(\alpha), \sigma(\alpha)$ are two constants whose value is known and is not important for this question.
I am interested in the following natural question:
Q1) Given $\alpha, \beta$, and letting $\gamma_n(\alpha)$ denote the geodesic between 0 and $(\alpha n, n)$, how many edges do $\gamma_n(\alpha)$ and $\gamma_n(\beta)$ share?
Intuitively, one possible way to approach this question is to first ask
Q2) How big is the covariance between between $T_n(\alpha)$ and $T_n(\beta)$?
The reason why these two questions seem related is that one would expect $\text{cov}(T_n(\alpha), T_n(\beta)) $ to be roughly proportional to the number of edges on $\gamma_n(\alpha)\cap \gamma_n(\beta)$. (At least this is what happens for deterministic paths).
Presumably, Johannson's result tells us that var$(T_n(\alpha))$ is of order $n^{2/3}$ (though it's not a straightforward consequence of that result), so Cauchy-Schwarz implies that the covariance is at most of order $n^{2/3}$. This would suggest that $|\gamma_n(\alpha)\cap \gamma_n(\beta)|$ is at most of order $n^{2/3}$. However, it is hard to believe that this is sharp!
Does anyone know if these questions have been studied ? And what if we only know that $\text{var} (T_n(\alpha)) = o(n)$ (as in this paper, http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.aop/1068646373, by Benjamini Kalai and Schramm), does it follows that $|\gamma_n(\alpha) \cap \gamma_n(\beta)| = o(n)$?


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LENDING A HAND — Members of Brooke County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 101 and Fraternal Order of Police Associates were thanked by the Brooke County school board Monday for their $1,000 donation for equipment used to aid autistic children at Follansbee Middle School. On hand were, from left, Melissa Figlioli, Brooke County director of special education; Brooke County Sheriff's Deputy Rich Arthurs; Kathy Kidder-Wilkerson, superintendent; Brooke County Sheriff's Deputies and Prevention Resource Officers John White and Larry Palmer; and Kim Johnson, Follansbee Middle School principal. -- Warren Scott
SPECIAL RECOGNITION — Stephanie Blundon, left, Brooke High School assistant principal, was recognized by Melissa Figlioli, Brooke County Schools director of special education, and the Brooke County Board of Education for being named the West Virginia Principal's Leadership Academy's 2013 Distinguished Scholar. -- Warren Scott
Brooke County Sheriff's Deputies Rich Arthurs, Larry Palmer and John White represented the FOP at the meeting. Brooke County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Hanna, the group's president, said $1,000 donated to the school was raised through contributions from the community.
The board also recognized Stephanie Blundon, Brooke High School assistant principal, for being named the Principal's Leadership Academy's 2013 Distinguished Scholar.
She also will be recognized for the honor at a banquet in Charleston.
Valerie Smith, Brooke County director of student services, said all newly hired school administrators are required to attend the academy and Blundon was chosen for her outstanding performance there.
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I'm taking on my first enterprise-level application
and I want my team to model the entire ASP.NET MVC C# application before we even tap out one line of code.
UPDATE: This was not intended to be a philosophical discussion about when to document/model an application. Please only provide answers for "how" to document/model.
The truth is that I've always skimped in this department and I've never really modeled an application before. What is the standard way to do this? What type of diagrams should be used and what would the documentation look like? Links to sample diagrams and documentation is appreciated.
When searching I can find numerous things around the net but I wanted to see if there is a current modern consensus on how to go about doing this.
Thanks in advance!
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I want to try Evidence-Based Scheduling so I've broken everything into small tasks. This process was interesting since I've detected some tasks that wasn't immediately evident and forced me to design the damn thing.
I've noticed that as I'm working on a given task, I'm sometimes switching to another task for a couple of minutes. I'm starting to think that my tasks may be too small (some are less than an hour) and/or too closely related to each other.
So, is there a way that I can prevent this constant switching between tasks?
EDIT Here's a example :
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1.1 Load content from database
1.2 Build the layout
1.3 Create a custom widget
So create home page is a task that I've broken down into smaller tasks. Now, if I start working on loading the content from the database, I'll probably stop before finishing the task, since I have no place to put the data. So I'll switch to building the layout. Again, I will not be able to complete this task because I need to create the widget that will go in the page. So technically, I should've started with creating the widget, then the layout, then loading the content. But sometimes, it's not that clear.


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I read there are only two books, is that right?
I also see that using FlashDevelop you can make an Adobe Air project with HaXe and compile to exe.
And begun to wonder from a game making perspective:
I saw the example in the first link, are there any additional advantages in performance when using HaXe instead of AS3 for games development (for the web)?


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I've used sharepoint designer in the past to create my custom master pages. I personally do not like sharepoint designer because it's so buggy (slow, shuts down unexpected, ect). With all the new stuff in VS 2010 for sharepoint is it possible to create a master page from scratch?
I would highly recommend you to start with the Starter Master Pages project by Randy Drisgill over at codeplex - http://startermasterpages.codeplex.com/.
In my openion its the best starting point to create a custom master page in SharePoint 2010...
Visual Studio 2010 does not actually allow you to visually see what is going on with your master page, so it would better to keep SharePoint Designer 2010 as being the best and only tool doing it. It has greatly improved from SharePoint 2007, really had excellent experiences.
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As I understand, if $0\rightarrow A\rightarrow X\rightarrow B\rightarrow 0$ is a short exact sequence of abelian groups, $\mbox{Ext }_{\mathbb{Z}}^{1}(B,A)$ gives all the isomorphism classes of what can come in as $X$. But when I consider $0\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}\rightarrow X\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}/(3)\rightarrow 0 $,$\ \ \ $ $\mbox{Ext } _{\mathbb{Z}}(\mathbb{Z}/(3),\mathbb{Z})=\mathbb{Z}/(3)\ \ $ but all I can think of for $X$ are only two, $\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathbb{Z}\oplus\mathbb{Z}/(3)$. Am I missing something or am I not understanding the result of extension problem correctly?
$\mathrm{Ext} = \mathrm{Ext}^1$ does not classify the middle terms up to isomorphism. It classifies the short exact sequences up to equivalence, where the equivalence relation is generated by commutative diagrams having equalities on each end. It's possible for two inequivalent short exact sequences to have isomorphic middle terms. See Eisenbud's book, Exercises A3.26, A3.27, and especially A3.29 for more.
As for your particular example, consider the pullback of the exact sequence $0 \to \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{Z}/(3) \to 0$ by the map given by multiplication by 2 on $\mathbb{Z}/(3)$. The middle term is isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}$, but the short exact sequence is not equivalent to the original.
The subtlety is in when two extensions are considered the same, in other words what are the morphisms of extension? There are different reasonable answers. For example a morphism could just be a morphism of short exact sequences (i.e. chain complexes).
However the statement that $Ext^1$ classifies extensions uses a very particular kind of morphism of extension: only those morphisms of short exact sequences which are the identity on A and B.
Let's look at extensions of $\mathbb{Z}/3$ by $\mathbb{Z}$, where the middle guy is a $\mathbb{Z}$. Suppose that the map from $f:\mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{Z}$ is fixed and is multiplication by 3. Notice that there is a unique map $h: \mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{Z}$ such that $f = hf$,
In short, the extensions $\mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{Z}/3$, up to isomorphism fixing the first and last group, are in bijection with homomorphisms from $\mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{Z}/3$ which have kernel $3 \cdot \mathbb{Z}$. There are exactly two such homomorphisms, given by sending 1 to 1 or 1 to 2 in $\mathbb{Z}/3$. So there are two distinct non-spilt extensions.
However you can also use $Ext^1(B;A)$ to get extensions up to the weaker notion of equivalence described above. Since Ext is functorial in both variables, you have an action by the automorphism groups of both A and B. Extensions up to this weaker notion are in bijection with equivalence classes in the quotient of $Ext^1$ by these actions.
You can check in this case that the action by automorphisms of $\mathbb{Z}/3$ exchanges the two non-zero elements of $Ext^1(\mathbb{Z}/3, \mathbb{Z})$, and so there are exactly two extensions in this weaker sense: the spilt extension and the non-split one.


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12 Nov 2012 5:31 AM #1
associations getting set upon store.insert
I have a Contact model with a hasOne association to Address
hasOne: [ { instanceName: 'address', associationKey: 'address', model: 'CrmApp.model.Address', getterName: 'getAddress', foreignKey: 'addressId', setterName: 'setAddress' }
var a = Ext.create('CrmApp.model.Contact'); store.insert(0, a);
but if I inspect it after the store.insert call, it is set with data seemingly copied from another model instance from the store (probably the one that was currently selected in the grid?).
I stepped into Store.insert and the address property is undefined until the line me.fireEvent('add', me, records, index);
after that executes, it is set.
As far as I know, I do not have any listeners on that event. Any idea where/why the associations are being set?
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mystery solved. I had a renderer which was calling getAddress. The getter will fetch the address. I changed the renderer to use the instance variable directory. i.e.
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Under the auspices of the series, which seeks to broaden engagement among the Law School's intellectual community, guest speakers deliver early morning lectures and field questions from attendees over a catered continental breakfast. The gatherings give guests an exclusive opportunity to exchange ideas with fellow graduates working in academia, private practice, and public service, and to engage with Columbia Law School faculty.
At one recent event hosted by Thomas J. Reid '87 LL.M. and Po Y. Sit '88 at the New York City office of Davis Polk & Wardwell, Professor Michael J. Graetz, a leading expert on national and international tax law, addressed an audience of more than 50 on the subject of tax reform. During his talk, Graetz, who has written and edited numerous books on federal taxation, discussed potential options for reforming the Internal Revenue Code by taxing consumption instead of income.
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Other events in the series included a talk by Dean David M. Schizer at the Conrad Miami Hotel that was sponsored by Edward Soto '78 and Weil, Gotshal & Manges; and a discussion hosted by Amanda J. Gallagher '94 featuring Professor George A. Bermann '75 LL.M., who offered reflections on the American Law Institute's current Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration project, for which he is the chief reporter.


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A local politicians say he's going to ask for a recanvass of the vote.
Nearly 20 year democrat incumbent Senator Joey Pendleton lost to republican newcomer Whitney Westerfield in the Kentucky 3rd senate district race by less than 300 hundred votes.
The district is made up of Logan, Todd, and Christian counties.
Westerfield said he understands and if he had lost the election by this small of a margin, he would probably ask for one too.
A recanvass is a retabulation of totals from each voting machine.
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Welcome to Heartland Community College and the excitement of the Hawks' athletic program.
The Hawks' baseball team finished the regular season ranked sixth in the National NJCAA D-II poll, 45th in Perfect Game's JUCO Top 50, captured thier fifth straight M-WAC conference regular season championship, and finished with an overall mark of 43-13, which represents thier sixth straight season with 40 plus victorires.
The Hawks' softball team ended the regular season as conference tri-champions, which was their fourth straight M-WAC championship, and finished with an overall record of 35-21.
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The Hawks' men's soccer team went 7-13-1 on the year before falling to Parkland Community College in a Region 24 quarter final playoff matchup.
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How are the Hawks doing academically?
For their performance in the classroom, the following Hawks players were named 2013-14 Academic All-Americans: Jacob Hendren, Superior (Baseball), Jared Hendren, Superior (Baseball), Nolan Lodden, Exemplary (Baseball), and Ashli King, Exemplary (Softball)
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The following players made the Dean's List in the Fall 2013 semester: Austen Bozarth (Men's Soccer), Hannah Bresser (Women's Soccer), Eric Flight (Baseball), Chad Gendron (Baseball), Brennan Hammer (Baseball), Jacob Hendren (Baseball), Jared Hendren (Baseball), Tanner Hudson (Baseball), Charlie Jerger (Baseball), Nolan Lodden (Baseball), Keith Mahler (Baseball), Frank Waliczek (Baseball), Bridget Bankes (Softball), Kelsey Bessler (Softball), Emily Bush (Softball), Caitlyn DeLong (Softball), Taylor Gutzman (Softball), Ashli King (Softball), Kali Sanders (Softball), and Breanna Wonderly (Softball).
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I grew up playing and DMing AD&D 1st edition. Have played a few other systems like Paranoia but really know the AD&D system well enough to not spend time constantly looking up rules. Do you have any suggestions, from experience, about what's a good age to introduce my kids to the hobby and how to do it?
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When they want to. When they are interested they can probably handle it. Just tailor what you are doing to their needs.
My 6 and 10 year old play and have a great time. But we didn't pick it up until the 10 year old started asking some serious questions and stating he wanted to play.
This answer assumes that you currently roleplay and the kids see it is something you do (my kids are long used to roleplaying in the house). If you don't currently roleplay, and your kids don't have any friends who currently do, then you may want to approach the matter differently than I did.
Can they keep track of the difference between reality and fantasy? (Typically, starts between ages 5 and 10, tho' some teens still haven't.)
Can they do the math for whatever system you are intending to run? AD&D needs signed addition/subtraction, and at two-digit integer precision. White Wolf's Storyteller requires addition only, and single digit integer. Rolemaster needs 3 digit precision, multiplication and division...
Can they read/write the character sheet?
If yes to all, start with pregens, and show them the ropes. If they grok the mode of play but not the rules, simplify as needed.
If not ready, just collaboratively tell stories. Have your preschooler tell you new stories about Dora or Mrs. Bunny or Mario & Luigi... or have your child who can't distinguish reality from fantasy predict character actions in a story at story time. (Your child's reading teacher will thank you, as well.)
I play with all my little brothers – they're 12, 9, and 5. We play D&D 3.5 and we have a blast.
I think if a child is somewhat intelligent and can roleplay fairly well then he or she is ready. My 5-year-old brother is by far the best roleplayer in my small group. I think little kids are awesome to play with. Just don't burden them with rules at first – slowly add the rules, focus more on the roleplay, and they will be on the path to becoming epic roleplayers.
Hope you have many great adventures!
I think by age 10-12 most every kid could handle full blown DND. There isn't any reason you couldn't start younger.
The first step is get them interested. Younger kids aren't going to want to do much that you force them to do. If they see Mom and/or Dad playing there is a good chance they will want to join in! Let them roll your dice.
Get out some dice and a few minis. Depending on how young they are, just strip out more and more complexity.
I started my daughter at age 4, rolling a d20 and telling her what number she needed to have her prince kill the monster. One she killed 3, she rescued the princess. That's all she was looking for. :) I narrated my heart out to bring it alive for her. Unfortunately for me, she hasn't shown a lot of interest in growing the complexity, but I'm patient.
Take a look at Happy Birthday Robot, which is a very simple but fun storytelling game that uses coins and dice designed for very young kids. I'm a new father, and I'm pretty excited about getting to play with my son in a matter of years, even if it's just simple stuff like this.
I introduced my son to D&D (3/3.5) at age 7. I chose D&D over the games I had abandoned it for because it offered a couple of advantages for kids:
He eventually dropped D&D for the same reasons I did and now runs a variety of games himself.
We started our daughter at 8 years old with a game called Faery's Tale. The story concepts were familiar and pretending to be a pixie was easy and enjoyable for her. It also had very simple mechanics that involved odds and evens on die pools.
She had her first D&D/Pathfinder experience at age 10 as she would occasionally play an NPC for me that happened to be a child. She played it perfectly and quickly wanted to have her own character to play with us. We now have an established game with our family plus some friends.
She still struggles with thinking like her character than as herself, but that's something every kid goes through. I'd like to get another kid into the group as she seems reluctant to suggest things for fear of making a mistake. This is despite us regularly telling her that it's fun to make mistakes.
For characters, I would say you want to make characters for them to choose from to start. Even in a game as simple as Faery's Tale, creating a character is a very different experience. After they've played a bit, let them loose with a rulebook to see what art or what things interest them for a character.
There's only a very short time I believe that it's too early to begin playing with your kids. When's the first time you picked them up and had them pretend they were an airplane while you swung them around?
I know, not quite a roleplaying game. However, very early on you build the foundation of playing games with your child, and there's absolutely no reason 'Let's pretend' can't be a huge part of that. At 3-4 when your kids are pretending to shoot bows and arrows, play with him/her. Dice aren't even neccessary. At that point, you're roleplaying. Your child the bit of an archer, and you of whatever else. Maybe you're both pretending to shoot deer as my nephew and his father did.
Move on from there as they're ready. You can introduce settings, creatures, let them play out and pretend they're in their favorite Disney movies or the like. Can introduce the concept of not -always- succeeding, show them how in the movies that it's more exciting when the hero isn't perfect. Sure he always wins, but, there's usually a hold up. If he rescue'd the princess right off, there wouldn't be much entertaining about it would there? Aladdin never would have met the genie if he could have just hooked up with the princess, for example. Still don't need dice, or character sheets, at this point in time, use a coin, or play rock paper scissors.
When they're ready, you can start introducing the concept of statistics, when you pretend you're 'blah', he's -really- strong, right? So, when he tries to do things that require alot of strength, he has an easier time, right? ...
I could probably babble on the better half of a novel, but, I think the point is well on the way to leading to many more possibilities. Hope this helps!
Chatty DM has an article about his 8-year-old son playing Talisman and letting him pretty much invent the game as he goes.
Newbie DM blogged about playing a kind of D&D lite with his 4-year-old kid a while back.
Geek Dad has a series of blog posts on this topic as well.
In April, WotC published a D&D lite adventure, The Heroes of Hesiod, intended for kids.
The D&D 4e Red Box has a solo "character creation" adventure that older children could enjoy.
For young children (grades 2+) I recommend something like SimpleDnD it really removes most of the complexity from the game and sticks to the basic 6 ability scores and a few skills. The system is D&D, but without the million rules and enough variety to keep the kids engaged. It's bonus is that once your child is 10 you can always make the move to a more complex system like 5e or pathfinder and they children won't have to relearn how to do things.
I definitely plan on getting my daughter started as soon as she's both developmentally capable and interested, but don't know when that will be. I did want to throw out these links to The Chatty DM's play reports on some games with his kids I think it helps give a sense of how at least one set of kids plays, and it definitely makes me excited about playing with my kids.
If you mean actual RPGs with dice and the like I'd suggest waiting till 12 or so years old. But many children start "role playing" at a very young age. We've all played "Cops and Robbers" or some variant of pretend (more LARPing really).
The point is, children naturally role play, feel free to participate with them, or guide the interest. Just wait a while to introduce all the rules (and maybe the people at your game shop).


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Here in the United States, we are observing Veterans Day. In Europe, today is Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. We commemorate the end of major hostilities of World War I by honoring all military veterans. At Oracle OpenWorld 2009, you may have met some servicemen and women participating in Oracle's Injured Veteran Job and Training Program who took the time to share their stories with the Oracle community during the show.
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And both teams trotted pretty reliable kickers out there -- veteran David Akers pushed a 41-yarder wide left, then Greg Zuerlein missed wide right from 58. In Zuerlein's defense he also made one from 53, only to have it wiped off the board by an inexplicable delay of game penalty.That was the second critical flag that went against St. Louis in OT. On the first play of the extra session, Bradford bombed one to Danny Amendola for 80 yards, but an illegal formation penalty (tackle Rodger Saffold did not report as eligible) wiped that one out.The officials later struggled to get the ball placed right, costing St. Louis a good 10-plus seconds before a 3rd-and-1. Considering that the Rams completed a pass to midfield at the final whistle, those extra ticks proved significant.So, too, might have the 1:12 that came off the clock in the second quarter while the officials measured for a San Francisco first down. 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I don't know how to reproduce this problem, because I don't regularly play music or sound. All I know is that, sometimes, I'll load a video (from youtube or from a local file) and there will be no sound.
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"The Nutcracker" ballet, featuring a journey into a magical world where toys, gingerbread cookies, candy canes and snowflakes come to life, has long been a favorite holiday tale.There will be a performance of the famous ballet at Century II Concert Hall in Wichita next weekend — and four local students will be a part of the production."We're excited that they can dance with this professional company," said Danika Bielek with the Bethel College Academy of Performing Arts.Miranda Reinert, 14, Emily Blaine, 13, Briar Grant, 11, and Katie Castor, 10, are all students at the Bethel College Academy of Performing Arts. BCAPA instructor Kalina Bartlett also will be involved in the Ballet Wichita production.Reinert will be dancing in "Waltz of the Flowers," the Arabian dance and the dance of the Mirlitons. Blaine will be in the "Waltz of the Flowers" and also will be dancing as a prancing horse pulling a sleigh. Grant will play a ginger cookie, and Castor will play a mouse.While this is Grant and Castor's first year to be a part of the production, Reinert and Blaine both have appeared in the production previously. Bielek said the older girls helped encourage the younger ones to try out for the ballet, and she is proud of her students' work.She said the experience will help her students gain self-confidence and endurance as dancers, as well as give them an opportunity to learn more about "The Nutcracker" and about being involved in a large, complicated production."They learn about the history a little more, and how all the parts come together," she said.All four students would like to become professional dancers in the future, and she said participating in "The Nutcracker" will help them gain valuable experience."They're becoming very diverse and fun dancers, and I think they all enjoy what they do," she said.Tickets are available for "The Nutcracker" performances at 8 p.m. Dec. 15 and 2 p.m. Dec. 16 at Century II in Wichita. To purchase tickets, call 219-4849 or visit www.wichitatix.com.Bielek also invites the public to attend a local dance production at 6 p.m. Dec. 21 at Krehbiel Auditorium on the Bethel College campus. The show is titled "On the Rise" and features choreography work by BCAPA students.General admission tickets will be available at the door: $6 for adults, $3 for children, students and seniors, and free for children age 5 and under.
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Seasense Bow Stop
The boat's bow is most prone to damages during loading. Designed to withstand countless drive-ons, the Seasense Bow Stop is made of molded …
- Molded black rubber bow stops for use on trailer winch mount; available in two sizes.
- Length 2"
- Height 2"
- 3/8" Shaft
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