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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- The wait was worth it for hundreds of Kansas State University students who were able to secure their spot at the Fiesta Bowl.
Lines started forming hours before the Athletic Ticket Office opened Wednesday morning, wrapping around the concourse at Bramlage Coliseum.
"It's been a little crazy. It's been a long line. I waited a long time. I woke up at 5 AM but we're doing it for the Cats," said K-State senior Patrick Mellard.
One thousand tickets available to K-Staters with student passes quickly sold out. After paying $105 dollars for their tickets, they were off to make travel arrangements.
Thousands of regular tickets to the January 3rd game in Glendale, Arizona have also been purchased online as fans gear up to see the Wildcats face off against Oregon.
"It's going to be part of history. Whether we win or lose, it's going to be something that I did in my time so I can tell my kids about it so I think that's something kind of cool," said K-State student Paul Harris.
"It's going to be a fun road trip down with some of my best friends and it'll be a fun game," Mellard added.
K-State has been allotted an additional 1000 student tickets which will go on sale Thursday morning at 8:30 AM at the Athletic Ticket Office.


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Imidacloprid and Clothianidin are killing our honeybees and our governments know it.
This is not a new finding by any stretch of the imagination. They have known for years and there is a really good chance that they knew all along. I'm going to give you some sources so you can check this out yourselves. But first I want to build a foundation for you to use as you research this for yourselves.
A systemic pesticide is a pesticide that by design gets in the plant and becomes part of the plant. As part of a plant the pesticide is available to all parts of a plant including the roots, sap, stalks, leaves, blossoms, pollen, nectar, and the fruit. It then kills the insects that feed on the plant. It is important to note that many insects of many types that feed on any part of the plant can die; that is target insects and nontarget insects. It is also important to note that the insects don't need to die immediately as in fall on the back with the legs in the air dead. They can die a very slow disoriented staggering around lost with more of a dementia sort of a death.
A certain level of independent thinking is truly necessary here. The governments are hiding these facts from us. The Giant Agrochemical Companies' Public Relations Firms are constantly leading us off track. They have an agenda and they know that they will be fine if they can just keep us in the dark. They also know that we just want to believe that our food is safe so they just keep telling us everything is ok. They want us to believe that the governmental regulatory agencies are looking out for us and most of us do. We can't fathom the idea that government could be so corrupt that they would actually allow us to eat toxic food but that is exactly what they are doing.
Let's just think for a minute how we allow this to happen and do nothing. First of all, we are at least somewhat content with our lives and seem to be happier knowing that our government is looking out for our best interest. Secondly, we go through life in large part just doing our thing, chasing our various hobbies, watching TV, and doing the things we like to do. Since that takes up so much of our time there is little time left to care about what is going on with our environment as a whole, our food and water supply, or the plight of any given non human species. This makes the PR firms jobs much easier. Most of us only need the slightest reassurance that everything is ok and we go on with our lives.
My favorite smoke screen perpetrated on us by the Giant Agrochemical Companies and their PR firms and Government hacks is the causes of CCD! If this lie wasn't so egregious it might be laughable, but they have managed to continue the hoax for 5 years know. They have been very effective keeping the populace completely off balance and in suspense. They use a few different tactics that we have all heard before. Probably the most common one is, "it is a combination of factors such as, Varroa mites, tracheal mites, diarrhea, migratory beekeeping, loss of habitat, etc, bla, bla, bla."; usually as a bit of an after though it will be mentioned that also pesticides may play a roll. But if you make the obvious mistake of asking for more information on the pesticide link then you will hear that much more investigation needs to be done to prove any one culprit. It is important to note that the bees do die from all those culprits but there is nothing new there as these problems are not new to bees. The pesticides work to weaken the bees defenses against these pests and the pesticides are the common denominator period. Another "string in the back of the neck" response is "scientists are working diligently to find the cause of CCD Colony Collapse Disorder." WOW! They sure are wasting lots of time, money, and effort if they aren't diligently trying to find out how to keep from killing bees with systemic chemicals. I have no degree and I'll answer that for free! Stop using these systemic neonicotinoid chemicals that you know for a fact are killing the bees!
Beekeepers have been screaming at the top of their lungs that it is pesticides that are killing their bees for years now but you can only hear this from non mainstream media outlets. One only needs to watch Vanishing of the Bees and listen to the interviews of top beekeepers in the field to see that they have known and have been trying to work with governmenst on this issue for a while now. And speaking of the mainstream media, they know the truth as well but who pays their bills…?
If you have made it this far you may be asking yourself what can I do about it. Well let me help you with that. I feel that beekeepers should be spreading the word diligently to get the truth out there. I do it all the time. You don't get through a personal conversation with David Wright without being told that systemic chemicals are killing our pollinators. We are not just talking honeybees here but I'll stay on track since honeybees are getting all the buzz. If you are not a beekeeper then you could take a small space of time each day or even once a week to do a little homework on the topic of system pesticides. Learn what they are and how they work. What foods are they being used on in your area? What foods are you eating that contain systemic pesticides? Read studies from areas abroad on the topic to see what other scientist have to say. Remember that scientists that speak out about this will be vilified and discredited so don't be put off by the negative press directed at them, just read their work. As you study these chemicals you will be pulled into the GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) issue, but that is ok since the 2 subjects are so interrelated. You will see as you go along how they relate and why this topic is so important to you and your family.
This is not conspiracy theory stuff but the powers that be would have you believe that way. No, this is real and it is happening right now; right in front of all of us. I'll direct you to some websites below to help you get started and then you can branch out from there. The title above asks, "What else might they be killing"? I don't know but we need to find out. These chemicals are being feed to us now and the time for action is now…please get involved now.
Here are a few links to get you started with learning the truth about what you are eating and what is killing our bees.
As I mentioned above, everyone should watch "Vanishing of the Bees"
Tom Theobald at the Boulder County Beekeepers' Association website. Read the articles on Tom's Corner.
Recently published findings on Systemics killing honeybees.
A 5 minute video with the Bee Researchers themselves on Imidacloprid.
Here is a link to a great way to research Poison in our food.
If you did all the above then give yourself 5 gold stars! Thanks for caring, now put that knowledge to use.

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Which of the following to you find more readable? The hand-written loop:
for (std::vector<Foo>::const_iterator it = vec.begin(); it != vec.end(); ++it)
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What are some good, preferably free, introductions to leveraged loans, also known as syndicated loans or bank loans? The introduction should describe the basic mechanics and very importantly provide an understanding of the important attributes of these products and how they may be modeled.
Good leveraged loan tutorials are few and far between. I've looked far and wide, and the best I ever found was a leveraged loan handbook published by citigroup (by William Deitrick) in 2006 which is free for clients. Citi and Barclays also have two decent (but very different) bank loan models. For Citi, search for Terry Benzschawel. For Barclays, look in the "Quantitative Credit Quarterly" for 2011 Q3/Q4, an article on "valuation and risk of floating-rate term loans with prepayment option and Libor floor" by Claus Pedersen.
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- A fractional dimension, e.g. 3/4 means that when size doubles, volume increases at a factor of 2^3/4
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He also says the district hopes additional funding will come available through Title I, but they're not sure what that'll be with the recent sequestration.
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I like to mix almonds, walnuts, raisins, cashews and dried blueberries together have them as a snack throughout the day. I've never tried this food source on a 25-50 mile ride. I'd like some thoughts from knowledgeable people on how good this would be to eat during a ride. Anything good to add to this?
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The EXPERIENCED CYCLIST, who is not, eg, out of shape after a long winter does not need any food for 50 road miles. This is because his muscles and liver have "learned" to store extra sugar/carbs to provide energy over a long period of time.
But a beginning cyclist who is not, say, already a distance runner or otherwise used to exercising vigorously for several hours DOES need some extra carbs along the way to keep his blood sugar up, not, perhaps, for a 25 mile ride, but for a 50 mile one. (Note, you DON'T want large amounts of fat or protein -- these do nothing to help your sugar levels and they are hard to digest.)
The form of the carbs is not especially critical, other than the food should be chosen for convenience, neatness (you don't, eg, want chocolate smeared all over your hands), and personal taste.
Avoid foods with any significant amount of fat, and avoid spicy or strongly flavored foods -- these may seem appetizing at the store but do not go down well or "sit" well on the road, especially if you allow yourself to become a hair dehydrated (which of course you shouldn't do, but it happens). A modest amount of salt is desired, but too much (without enough water) can send your stomach on a spin. (The nut-raisin snack, by itself, is just a tad "heavy" for my taste, and may be a hair too heavy in terms of fat. But as one of a small variety of snacks it's fine, and likely a decent source of salt.)
I would say figure on about 500 calories of mostly carb snacks for a 50-mile, 3-hour ride. This isn't nearly enough to replace the calories you burn, but it is enough to prevent a low blood sugar condition.
And, of course, HYDRATE!
Really, any source of food is fine for a 25–50 mile ride.
Although for anything of longer distance, you're going to want to add significant quantities of carbohydrates. Nuts are great, but they're primarily fat and protein. Toss some M&Ms and raisins into that mix for an improvement, and make sure there's some salt in them.
But really, 25–50 miles doesn't require any sort of well-tailored nutrition. Just bring water and any kind of tasty snacks and you'll be fine.
I pack bananas as my cycling food of choice. That said I'm unfit as anything and I'm not sure that 25 to 50 miles is that far even for me.
Make sure you have water or an electrolyte drink and you should be fine.


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Special Olympic athletes from across the region battled for a chance to go to the State Tournament, right here in Bowling Green today, at the Kummer Little Recreation Center.
Today more than 250 Special Olympic athletes on 19 teams from across Kentucky took to the court for their chance to shine.
"A lot of athletes have been working really hard and practicing two and three times a week. This is a big day for them,"says Nicole Defreeze, with Bowling Green Parks and Recreation.
And it was a big day for the Bowling Green Deputies who won their first two games.
"It feels great. We got a great team on and off the boards and we're going for that state title and there's no holding us back,"says Captain, Robert Llyod.
"It feels amazing and I'm surprised we did it,"says Mikaela, a player for the Deputies.
And the West Kentucky Hawks from Paducah were all smiles as they advanced to the State Tournament.
"It feels good I ain't lieing. It's a relief I've tried to do this for three years and I finally got it done. My team is amazing I couldn't have done it without them,"says the Hawks
But it wasn't without hard work.
"They've practiced real hard each and every practice they've had,"says the Deputies Coach.
We put two maybe three months of practice into this and it all paid off,"says Llyod.
"Long time practice everyday,"says the Hawks.
But when the buzzer sounds it's not just about the win or the loss.
"I like the players I get to play with the people I get to meet. The kids who have disabilities it's amazing to come together,"says Lloyd
"Just the excitement to see them happy that's all I wanted,"says a member of the Hawks team.
"Before I signed up I almost had no friends at all I was bullied a lot and now I have a lot of friends from Special Olympics from Muhlenberg County all the way to Owensboro,"says Mikaela.
Basketball is one of the most popular Special Olympic sports with 91 teams statewide.
Eleven teams from the region will compete in the State Tournament which will be held in Louisville March 8Th through the 10Th.


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KILLEEN (October 26, 2012)--A Killeen man and woman pleaded guilty Thursday in Waco's federal court to counterfeiting $5 bills.
U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith, Jr., set Joshua Charles Whaley and Misty Nicole Walls for sentencing on Dec. 19.
A federal court documents says beginning on May 18 a Killeen police detective began an investigation into counterfeiting after the officer arrested an individual who was trying to buy methamphetamine with counterfeit bills.
The informant said he had been to a house in Killeen where a man told him he would teach him how to make counterfeit $5 bills.
The informant showed the detective the location of the house on a map and provided a description of the man who offered to teach him how to make counterfeit bills.
Law enforcement officers went by the home to verify the location and observed the vehicles that the informant had described would be there.
While there the officers retrieved some sheets of paper from trash bins in front of the home that had bills printed on them.
Some of the serial numbers on the bills taken from the trashcans matched serial numbers on the bills that had been used to try to buy the methamphetamine.
Officers obtained a search warrant for the address and during a search of the residence recovered a printer/scanner/copier with a genuine Federal Reserve Note taped on the glass and counterfeit currency that was cut to size.


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I've got a simple ASP.NET webservice. I'm wanting to return a string of json as the result. By default, my webservice is wrapping my json result in some xml.
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I'm studying vector analysis and it is hard for me to understand what divergence of a vector field really is. I know that $divF=\nabla\cdot F$ but I don't understand what kind of quantity it gives and what it is used for. Could anyone give me a good example of what it is used for (in real physics)?
It is just $$\partial F_x/\partial x + \partial F_y/\partial y + \partial F_z/\partial z $$ and measures whether the field is a source or sink at a given place. A basic introduction is here:
and the most important relationship that gives the divergence an "intuitively comprehensible" meaning is Gauss' theorem
The flux of the field $F$ over the surface $S$ of a small volume - the integral $\oint F\cdot dS$ where $dS$ is a vector normal to the infinitesimal area $dS$, with the same magnitude - may be written as ${\rm div} F$ times $dV$. The latter is the volume of the interior bounded by the area $S$. If the volume is non-infinitesimal, one has to replace ${\rm div}(F)dV$ by the integral of this.
The most obvious example from physics is the Maxwell equation $$ \nabla\cdot \mathbf{E} = 4\pi\,\rho $$ which simply states that the electric field $\mathbf{E}$ "comes out of" any charged particle (where there is a finite charge density $\rho$), and does not have any source at places where $\rho$ is zero.
To get a realistic feel of the divergence of a vector field. Consider water flowing in a pipe. We can associate every point inside the pipe with a vector field that gives the magnitude and direction of the flowing water. Taking the divergence of the the velocity vector at any point would mean to calculate how much of water accumulates (outgoing - incoming) into the infinitesimal volume around that point. If the flow is steady with constant velocity then the water flowing into and out of the volume would be equal and thus divergence zero which mathematics says is correct because the divergence of constant vector is zero. Had there been a source of water which constantly produced water then all water would flow out of the volume and thus would the divergence be positive and negative for a sink inside the volume.
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Consider, for example, centrally symmetric field in the space, defined by the formula
$$\overrightarrow A=f(r)\overrightarrow r$$ Now, the flux through a sphere of radius r centered at the origin is
$$q(r)=4\pi r^2f(r)$$ Thus the number of vector lines originating in a thin layer between two such spheres is
$$\rm dq(r)=4\pi \rm d[r^2f(r)]=4\pi[2rf(r)+r^2f'(r)]\rm dr$$ Hence, this layer has per unit volume
$$ \rm div \overrightarrow A =\frac{\rm d q}{4\pi r^2}=\frac{2f(r)}{r}+f'(r)$$ vector lines.
In particular, the centrally symmetric field with no sources outside the origin is characterized by the fact that
$$ \rm div \overrightarrow A = \frac{2f(r)}{r}+f'(r)=0 $$ Solution of this differential equation:
$$f(r)=\frac{\rm const}{r^2}$$ We came to Newton's law.
Divergence of a vector field at any point gives the gain of flux through a infinitesimal volume. A vector field specifies a vector to every point in the coordinate space. If you take a infinitesimal volume at any such point, the sum of the dot product of the vector field and area vector ( area with its direction normal to the surface) through all the faces of the infinitesimal volume is the divergence of the vector field. The sum is in fact the total gain of flux. The flux going out will be positive and coming in to the volume will be positive.
I learnt to understand it as a measure of ' the rate of change of magnitude of a vector field.' So that if a field 'has' divergence, $Div F$ is non zero, then the magnitude of vectors within some region will be changing.
A physical example I encountered is a can of compressed air that has been recently opened (alright this is a little artificail but it serves a purpose!). Just after opening the air near the back of the can can't escape as there is air in the way and so the velocity is low in that region. Near the opening the air can readily escpe and so the velocity in that region is fast. Thus measuring the divergence from the back to the front gives a non zero value and hence we have 'divergence'.


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Robo Rally is a fun game but the option cards totally break it if a person just sits on the wrench and hammer and collects them all.
Has anyone tried a house rule to discourage this behaviour? How did it work out?
Robo Rally is a fun game but the option cards totally break it if a person just sits on the wrench and hammer and collects them all.
Has anyone tried a house rule to discourage this behaviour? How did it work out?
This uses the online PDF from http://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/rules/roborally.pdf
You aren't allowed to "sit" anywhere.
Camping on a repair spot is thus not as easy as it may seem. Especially since you retain only locked cards. If one gets consistently lucky enough to have the ability to return to start spot with cards alone, it's great. If one is using terrain, it's skill, more than luck.
In short, I suspect the problem isn't the option cards, but a misread of the rules.
If there was no misread, one simple solution is to use a 1 per space limit; put a (custom) player token on each upgrade spot, and when you draw an option card, put that token on it. When it's lost, put the token on an upgrade slot where you don't have one.
I've never felt it needed, and the people I've known who did usually were making one of three mistakes:
I someone is able to somehow null out their 5 moves to collect options - kill them! Your robot has a laser for a reason :)
Also, most hammer and wrench spaces are hard to get to - if they sit and waste many turns collecting options you should be able to beat them in the race.
The best way to discourage this behavior is to remember it's a race, and start racing.
Grabbing early options is actually a very good strategy -- it maximizes the use you'll get out of them during the game. But once you've got a few loaded up, get your butt moving. Every turn your opponents spend option camping is a turn you get to advance without them messing with you. Unless the cards royally screw you (you don't get any move cards for a few turns, or somebody lucks into a devastating option combo), the head start they're spotting you can be very tough to beat.
It's a lot easier to camp a "Toy Spot" than some of the other answers are making out. To combat this, we institute a limit of 3 options. If you would get a 4th you must choose and discard one of your options BEFORE you draw a new one. This reduces the camping to a good extent, but doesn't stop it either. And of course, if someone is camping constantly, coming over and shoving them into a pit, or shooting the crap out of them can be the simplest method to solve the problem. Or just go tag all the flags and win while they're collecting toys.
It's not in the current set of rules, but to avoid option hoarding my play group always said that you only get a new option card if you go to a different repair bay slot (you can use your archive token as an indicator of this). So, you can go back and forth between two double wrenches to collect them.
While option cards can be handy, most of them aren't going to buy you a full turn, so I'd recommend the simple strategy of:
I don't really see a problem with too many option cards. With solid planning I usually need about 2-3 complete Turns to get to the next Flag, if the other players aren't actively blocking me. So if we both start, you take 2 turns to your Repair-Shop I'm already at the first flag. If you stay there for 5 more turns (and manage to just collect your option cards, without people shooting at you and without a stroke of bad cards or someone pushing you) - fine you than have 5 RANDOM option cards. I will at this time probably be at Flag 3 - where as you have to go to Flag 1.
Sure if you are lucky, maybe you get the right cards to get amazingly fast or to kill everyone else. But on small maps the racer will already be at Flag 3 of 4 or 5 and will win the game before you can get him. On a Big map he is probably too far away for you to actually get him properly with your option cards. And if you get too strong, all it takes is 3 Players ganging up on you and shooting you and your cards to hell...


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An area man will be back in court next month, more than a year after he was accused of stealing the identity of a Burkesville man. Just over a year ago, Mark Capps' identity was stolen by Chad Grimsley.
Grimsley got proper identification under the assumed name, and bought a cell phone and a brand new truck under Capps good credit rating.
Capps says his credit has finally been restored, but unlike a year ago, he's a little more skeptical of his fellow man.
So how did Grimsley get Capps personal information? Grimsley's mother used to work at Riverfront Chevrolet in Burkesville and took her customers' personal records with her when she left that job.
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As a result of the incident, Chad Grimsley was charged with theft of identification, theft by deception and multiple counts of forgery. After pleading guilty, the Commonwealth recommended a five-year sentence, but after a few weeks in jail, Judge Tom Lewis let him out on probation.
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[EDITED] by mistake, the subject was regarding 1m^3 instead of 1mm^3. There should be a significant difference between the two...
A 1x1x1mm pit filled with water is frozen at a slow rate (1K/minute).
When the water becomes ice and expands 9%, I assume that it will be pressed out of the pit since it has nowhere else to go. But how much pressure does it apply to the pit walls?
We can assume that the water is impure and will freeze at 0 degrees C. Whether the pit material or the air is first to reach below 0 degrees C cannot be assumed.
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Summary : Following in the footsteps of dauntless explorers who came before, accompanied by a veteran expedition team, and captained by Ice Master Leif Skog, National Geographic Explorer will—for the first time ever—set an east-west course through the Northwest Passage. A navigational highlight will be seeing the captain and his officers use the 'mud maps' made by Lars-Eric Lindblad's team, as they navigate the James Ross Strait. But this is far more than a hydrographic survey: what makes this voyage extraordinary, as well as historic, is not only the route you take, but the content of your explorations. Spend time exploring the most exciting parts of Northwest Passage, discover the actual islands, protected waterways, ice-filled fjords, historic sites, and native communities. Marvel at the extraordinary Arctic wildlife and rugged landscapes you'll encounter on this monumental adventure.
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Depart on your overnight flight to the Land of Fire and Ice–Iceland.
Arrive in Reykjavik, the world's northernmost capital, which lies only a fraction below the Arctic Circle and receives just four hours of sunlight in winter and 22 in summer. Have a guided overview of the Old Town, including Hallgrimskirkja Cathedral with its 210-foot tower, and shed some light on Nordic culture at the National Museum, with its Viking treasures and artifacts. Embark National Geographic Explorer.
National Geographic Explorer navigates Iceland's wild western frontier, sailing past the immense Latrabjarg cliffs, the westernmost point of Iceland and home to a huge population of razorbills. The cliffs are an area once famous for egg collecting; the men were tied to ropes and lowered like spiders down onto the ledges. Continue to Flatey Island, a trading post for many centuries, for walks around the charming little hamlet that grew here.
Follow the wake of Eric the Red and Brendan the Navigator as you cross to Greenland, watching for the magnificent blue whale.
Prins Christian Sund is a major fjord on the southern coast of Greenland. Surrounded by mountain pinnacles and glaciers, the decks are perfect for viewing this landscape. Anchor off Nanortalik, Greenland's most southerly town. Go ashore to the picturesque little town by the water's edge.
Inhabited since Norse times, the Scandinavian influence is still apparent in the colorful wooden buildings and town museum, displaying Greenlandic kayaks, hunting equipment, art and crafts.
Tiny Ivittuut stands at the site of the original Norse Middle Settlement, which included about 20 Viking farms. An abandoned mining town, Ivittuut is the only town in Greenland to have a road leading to another town. The Ivittuut mining operations were a major factor in the American occupation of Greenland during World War II. The name means 'grassy place' in Greenlandic, and you'll encounter breathtaking vistas and hope to spot herds of muskoxen.
Nuuk is the world's smallest capital city with 15,000 inhabitants. Visit the National Museum with its famous 15th-century Qilakitsoq mummies, found near Uummannaq, and the subject of a National Geographic cover story.
Dozens of deep fjords carve into Greenland's west coast, many with glaciers fed by the ice cap that covers 80% of the country. Trace this ragged coastline, and search for humpback and minke whales. At Sisimiut, a former whaling port, visit the museum and wander amid a jumble of wooden 18th-century buildings.
Sail into Disko Bay and set out to explore the Ilulissat Glacier, a tongue of the Greenland ice cap and a UNESCO site. Take an extraordinary cruise among towering icebergs. Explore the historic Inuit fishing village of Sermermiut, and view the Ilulissat Icefjord and its immense, calving glacier.
In 1972, Uummannaq was the site of Greenland's most remarkable archaeological find when an astounding collection of preserved mummies dating back to 1475 was discovered among the remains of an old Inuit settlement. The mummies were featured on the cover of the February 1985 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Head up to the Bridge to keep watch for marine life.
The ice ship National Geographic Explorer navigates through the quintessential Northwest Passage—following nature's path, dependent on ice and weather conditions. Explore the ice-choked channels and glacier-carved islands that stretch for hundreds of miles—a stunning display of raw geology. Take cues from nature: following wildlife, stopping for hikes on the tundra, and dropping anchor in a beautiful fjord or an iceberg-strewn bay to kayak or explore by Zodiac. Encounter ringed seals, arctic foxes, musk oxen, walruses and polar bears, as well as beluga and bowhead whales, and perhaps even the rare narwhal. Learn about the Inuit peoples who have hunted and fished here for thousands of years. And hear heroic stories of the early explorers: Roald Amundsen, John Ross, William Edward Parry, and James Clark Ross among others.
After breakfast, disembark in Kugluktuk and fly to Edmonton where you overnight at your hotel. The next morning, transfer to the airport for flights home.
Photo Expeditions:
The photo team, a National Geographic Photographer and a Lindblad Photo Specialist, will enhance your voyage by working with you on photo composition and exposure; helping you develop your own unique vision; showing you how professionals edit and store images while on the go; and sharing the stories behind some of their greatest images. Whether expert or interested beginner, you'll find added benefits such as walks ashore and Zodiac cruises dedicated to photography, presentations on the creative and technical aspects of photography, and one-on-one mentoring and coaching in the field.
Accommodations aboard ship; one hotel night in Edmonton; all meals and non-alcoholic beverages aboard the ship; some meals ashore; all shore excursions and sightseeing; transfers to and from group flights; tips (except to ship's crew), taxes and service charges; services of a ship physician and expedition staff; use of kayaks; expedition parkas.
Not Included:
Air transportation; passport and visa expenses; baggage/accident/cancellation insurance; immigration fees; items of a personal nature such as alcoholic beverages, email and laundry; gratuities to ship's crew at your discretion; fuel surcharge may apply.
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Revisit Childhood Friends
From Winnie-the-Pooh to Peter Pan, original illustrations of well-loved children's stories provide a touch of fantasy at literature sales next week.
On Wednesday, Sotheby's London will offer illustrations from the collection of British film director Michael Winner in a single-owner auction. They will include drawings and watercolors by E.H. Shepard, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsen.
In the catalog introduction, Mr. Winner tells how he became obsessed with "the wonder of illustrations." "They had a charisma which I found enchanting," he writes. "For some reason, in many instances I knew not why, I found them absolutely riveting." All the pieces in the sale were displayed in Mr. Winner's house so he could enjoy them every day, says Sotheby's books and manuscripts specialist Philip W. Errington.
Mr. Errington notes that collecting book illustrations has a sizable following, be it for their artistic value or for nostalgic reasons: "People recognize reproductions from their childhood; and are thrilled as adults to own the original." He also points out that original illustrations can be very affordable. Estimates in Mr. Winner's auction range upward from the hundreds of pounds.
The top lot will be Shepard's drawing for A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh," "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin" (1926). This is the first rendering of Pooh Bear with his young friend—and one of the most famous images in children's literature (estimate: £70,000-£100,000). A 1926 drawing in which Winnie-the-Pooh discovers that Owl is using Eeyore's detachable tail as a bell-pull for the door of his tree house is expected to fetch between £50,000 and £70,000.
Potter's "Gentleman Rabbit with Letter," a watercolor from around 1890-93, is hard to beat for charm. It depicts Benjamin Bunny, a member of Potter's rabbit universe, in a gentleman's waistcoat, brandishing a hat and walking stick (estimate: £30,000-£50,000). Carrying the same estimate is Rackham's illustration for J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906) that shows fairies hiding until dark under a huge tree. Nielsen's surrealistic image from Grimm's fairy tales, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1925, depicts Hansel and Gretel, hand in hand, staring at the wicked witch's tempting house made from bread and cakes (estimate: £20,000-£30,000). There are a number of exquisite color plates by Dulac illustrating "Stories from The Arabian Nights" (published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1907). The blue of these watercolors is extraordinary in expressing the magic of the Orient.
On the same day, Sotheby's will also have children's books and illustrations in its general literature sale. There will be a superb watercolor drawing by Dulac depicting the medieval legend of King Arthur taking the sword Excalibur from a hand rising above the waters of a lake (estimate: £5,000-£7,000). There will also be two captivating drawings by Anita Jeram for "Kiss Goodnight, Sam" (2001) by Amy Hest, one showing mother bear standing at the foot of her little bear's bed as he reaches for a final cuddle (estimate: £1,500-£2,000). Favorites of mine are illustrations by Jill Murphy for her tale "Peace at Last," first published in 1980. In the four images on offer, Mr. Bear seeks refuge throughout his house from the noise of his snoring wife (estimate: £2,000-£3,000).
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The Name of the World (Paperback)
The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident takes the lives of his wife and child and has permitted that grief to enlarge him.
Michael Reed is living a posthumous life. In spite of outward appearances -- he holds a respectable university teaching position; he is an articulate and attractive addition to local social life -- he's a dead man walking.
Nothing can touch Reed, nothing can move him, although he observes with a mordant clarity the lives whirling vigorously around him. Of his recent bereavement, nearly four years earlier, he observes, "I'm speaking as I'd speak of a change in the earth's climate, or the recent war."
Facing the unwelcome end of his temporary stint at the university, Reed finds himself forced "to act like somebody who cares what happens to him. " Tentatively he begins to let himself make contact with a host of characters in this small academic town, souls who seem to have in common a tentativeness of their own. In this atmosphere characterized, as he says, "by cynicism, occasional brilliance, and small, polite terror," he manages, against all his expectations, to find people to light his way through his private labyrinth.
Elegant and incisively observed, The Name of the World is Johnson at his best: poignant yet unsentimental, replete with the visionary imaginative detail for which his work is known. Here is a tour de force by one of the most astonishing writers at work today.
About the Author
Denis Johnson is the author of The Name of the World, Already Dead, Jesus' Son, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Fiskadoro, The Stars at Noon, and Angels. His poetry has been collected in the volume The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award, among many other honors for his work. He lives in northern Idaho.


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I'm interested in the difference between Highmem and Lowmem:
- Why is there such a differentiation?
- What do we gain by doing so?
- What features does each have?
On a 32-bit architecture, the address space range for addressing RAM is:
The linux kernel splits that up 3/1 (could also be 2/2, or 1/3 1) into user space (high memory) and kernel space (low memory) respectively.
The user space range:
Every newly spawned user process gets an address (range) inside this area. User processes are generally untrusted and therefore are forbidden to access the kernel space. Further, they are considered non-urgent, as a general rule, the kernel tries to defer the allocation of memory to those processes.
The kernel space range:
A kernel processes gets its address (range) here. The kernel can directly access this 1 GB of addresses (well, not the full 1 GB, there are 128 MB reserved for high memory access).
Processes spawned in kernel space are trusted, urgent and assumed error-free, the memory request gets processed instantaneously.
Every kernel process can also access the user space range if it wishes to. And to achieve this, the kernel maps an address from the user space (the high memory) to its kernel space (the low memory), the 128 MB mentioned above are especially reserved for this.
1 Whether the split is 3/1, 2/2, or 1/3 is controlled by the
The first reference to turn to is Linux Device Drivers (available both online and in book form), particularly chapter 15 which has a section on the topic.
In an ideal world, every system component would be able to map all the memory it ever needs to access. And this is the case for processes on Linux and most operating systems: a 32-bit process can only access a little less than 2^32 bytes of virtual memory (in fact about 3GB on a typical Linux 32-bit architecture). It gets difficult for the kernel, which needs to be able to map the full memory of the process whose system call it's executing, plus the whole physical memory, plus any other memory-mapped hardware device.
So when a 32-bit kernel needs to map more than 4GB of memory, it must be compiled with high memory support. High memory is memory which is not permanently mapped in the kernel's address space. (Low memory is the opposite: it is always mapped, so you can access it in the kernel simply by dereferencing a pointer.)
When you access high memory from kernel code, you need to call
This is relevant to the Linux kernel; I'm not sure how any Unix kernel handles this.
The High Memory is the segment of memory that user-space programs can address. It cannot touch Low Memory.
Low Memory is the segment of memory that the Linux kernel can address directly. If the kernel must access High Memory, it has to map it into its own address space first.
There was a patch introduced recently that lets you control where the segment is. The tradeoff is that you can take addressable memory away from user space so that the kernel can have more memory that it does not have to map before using.
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As far as I remember, "High Memory" is used for application space and "Low Memory" for the kernel.
Advantage is that (user-space) applications can't access kernel-space memory.
HIGHMEM is a range of kernel's memory space, but it is NOT memory you access but it's a place where you put what you want to access.
A typical 32bit Linux virtual memory map is like:
(CPU-specific vector and whatsoever are ignored here).
Linux splits the 1GB kernel space into 2 pieces, LOWMEM and HIGHMEM. The split varies from installation to installation.
If an installation chooses, say, 512MB-512MB for LOW and HIGH mems, the 512MB LOWMEM (0xc0000000-0xdfffffff) is statically mapped at the kernel boot time; usually the first so many bytes of the physical memory is used for this so that virtual and physical addresses in this range have a constant offset of, say, 0xc0000000.
On the other hand, the latter 512MB (HIGHMEM) has no static mapping (although you could leave pages semi-permanently mapped there, but you must do so explicitly in your driver code). Instead, pages are temporarily mapped and unmapped here so that virtual and physical addresses in this range have no consistent mapping. Typical uses of HIGHMEM include single-time data buffers.


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I'm using the Firefox add-on "Deutsches Wörterbuch 2.0.2" which is based, according to the about-section, on igerman98.
It is full of errors of the form
Strasse instead of
Grösse instead of
Größe and so on.
I tried to find the dictionary on disk without success
grep "^Stra" /firstname.lastname@example.com/dictionaries/de-DE.dic
leads to right form,
grep "^Strasse" $(locate de-DE)
grep "^Strasse" $(locate german)
don't yield any results.
More interesting than finding the erroneous data would be a a corrected dictionary, or another solution.
Of course I can add over time the right spelling to the user extension, but this will not remove the wrong one (which are only right for de-CH, where
ß isn't used).
Note, that this is not a case of old and new spelling.
Straße isn't pronounced like
Strapse with a short vocal.
I'm using Firefox 3.6.24 on Xubuntu 10.04 with "Deutsches Wörterbuch 2.0.2" add-on, according to the about-box based on a dictionary called igerman98 from 20091006.


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5 Economic Collapses More Ridiculous Than This One
#2. Diocletian's "Solution"
By the beginning of the fourth century AD, The Roman Empire resembled Marlon Brando in his waning years; a ghost of its former self, bloated and unstable. The new emperor Diocletian inherited the throne amidst a series of unpopular wars, a wrecked economy and an empire teetering on the edge of ruin.
Also, he was not attractive.
Faced with the burden of having to fix Rome's economic woes, Diocletian decided what the system needed was a little bit of batshit insanity.
What Went Wrong?
Diocletian introduced a new currency that was literally worth less than the material it was printed on. If you're not clear why that's a problem, it'd be like if you found out that a $1 gold coin actually had $2 with of gold in it, and that you could thus double your money by just melting down your money and selling it at a pawn shop.
Note: Dollars don't melt easily.
Of course, if the pawn shop paid you in gold coins, they would be giving you back twice as much gold as you just gave them. By stamping something, say "one dollar," on the coin, it actually lowered the value of the metal by half.
It gets worse. Although his advisers undoubtedly urged him to take a break from fixing Rome for just a little while, Diocletian decided to control inflation by introducing the "Edict on Maximum Prices," which essentially established a price ceiling for every single tradable good in the empire. This meant that merchants could not legally sell their togas, slaves and toga-wearing slaves beyond a certain arbitrary price, even if that meant it cost more to manufacture those things than you'd make selling them.
The sculptor of this piece would have carved a dong, but the cost of
carving the dong was more than the dong-profit would have been.
Yes, he actually implemented a policy that a small child could have spotted the flaws in.
Two things saved the system from total collapse: First, huge chunks of the empire simply refused to follow the laws, figuring they were all part of some huge practical joke the emperor was playing. Second, Diocletian became the first Roman emperor to ever voluntarily leave office, having the wisdom to realize the whole thing really was kicking his ass.
#1. Easter Island
Pop quiz: What is the most ridiculous thing you can think of that could cause an entire civilization to collapse? Did anyone say "gigantic stone heads"? Because that's exactly what caused the near-extinction of the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island more than 350 years ago.
It's a long-term investment.
Recent archaeological records have shown that the population of native peoples on Easter Island was in full swing as recently as 1600. But sometime between then and 1722 (when the island was first discovered by European explorers) the once flourishing society had suddenly collapsed, and its entire population relegated to a tiny starving few.
Nobody could understand how a healthy society of people could vanish in just a hundred years, but the bigger mystery was the disappearance of all the trees. Soil samples reveal that the barren Easter Island was once rich in resources: Robust forests and fertile land that allowed the Rapa Nui civilization to thrive for so long.
What Went Wrong?
They cut it all down.
Wait a second. Didn't ancient peoples live in harmony with their ecosystem? Like the Native Americans, and the blue people from Avatar? They weren't like the greedy Captain Planet villains we have today, right?
Fuck you, Verminous Skumm.
Well, no doubt the inhabitants of Easter Island understood the importance of nature, but something else was far more important to them: carving and moving hundreds of gigantic stone heads around for no reason.
We can only speculate as to what led the Rapa Nui people to convert every red cent of their island bounty into a bunch of dopey-looking rocks. Perhaps they were a status symbol, or an offering unto a god. Maybe they were just determined to keep carving that thing until they got it right. But most scholars seem to agree that the stone heads were far and away the most significant factor in the civilization's collapse.
But just look at their funny hats.
The Rapa Nui usually carved the heads out of huge boulders in quarries, but apparently they didn't just want a quarry full of stone heads. They wanted stone heads that stared imposingly over their rose gardens. After beating their protesting common sense into submission, they decided that apparently the only reliable way to move something that weighed over a hundred tons was to cut down trees and roll the cumbersome things along atop the felled logs. With each new statue completed, down came another chunk of forest until -- after almost 1000 statues were made -- there was literally no tree left alive.
When the forest was gone, the soil eroded and a devastating game of dominoes took over that eventually reduced the Rapa Nui to cannibalism, and inevitable eradication.
Think about that. At some point, a guy actually looked upon the last tree in existence, and made the conscious decision to cut that bastard down. What was he thinking? That surely there were more trees elsewhere on the island? That they would all grow back?
Actually, it just looked silly standing there by itself.
But of course, we know what he was thinking; we still see it today. "Environment? Sure, I care about the environment. I'll be happy to discuss that with you after I cut down this here tree." The big picture is just an abstract idea; you need the tree now. It's so hard for humans to connect the two.
And so the islanders' mortal obsession with long faces, big chins, and little hats made of rock is now forever on display... so that dudes in loud shirts can take pictures of themselves wackily humping the grim stone mouths of heads more famous than the entire society they murdered.
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I have OCZ Solid 3 120GB SSD with 500MB/s Read & 450MB/s Write speeds on my Dell Inspiron R15. My primary OS is Ubuntu 12.10 (fresh) 32-bit. It runs fairly well, no freezes and overall performance is much better than on a HDD, however, just now I noticed that copying speed is much slower than on Win7. Copying a 3GB file on Win7 has around 130mb/s speed while on ubuntu it's roughly 30-40mb/s. I'm wondering why this is the case.
I followed few guides which has to optimize an SSD on linux like adding "discard,noatime" to fstab, however, this hasn't improved copying speed. It's still under 40mb/s.
Any ideas how to solve this issue?
ADHCI Enabled Dual boot (Ubuntu 12.10 & Win7) on the same OCZ Solid 3 SSD (two partitions: A for Ubuntu; and B for Win7. No Swap) Dell Inspiron 15R I3-380M 6GB RAM Radeon 6560 1GB


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Why are people against Obamacare?
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Didn't Romney just flip-flop on the individual mandate for "Obamacare"?
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If the wealthiest Americans pay a lower percent of taxes than the middle class, can someone explain why we shouldn't raise their taxes?
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Arthritis Health Center
Caring for Your Joints
In this article
Build Muscles to Support Joints
Strong muscles support your joints. If you don't have enough muscle, your joints take a pounding, especially your spine, hips, and knees, which must support your entire body weight. Weight training exercises help build muscle and keep your muscles and surrounding ligaments strong. That way, your joints don't have to do all the work.
A certified personal trainer can show you the best exercises for healthy joints and how to do them correctly. Doing them incorrectly increases the chance of injury.
Help Joints With a Strong Core
Make sure your exercise routine includes activities that strengthen your core. That includes your chest, back, and abdomen.
Stronger abs and back muscles help you keep your balance and prevent falls that can damage your joints.
Know Your Limits for Your Joints' Sake
Certain exercises and activities might just be too tough for your joints to handle at first. Go slow. Modify exercises that cause joint pain. Ask a trainer, physical therapist, or coach to help you with modifications. You will likely feel some muscle pain after working out for a few days, especially the second and third day. Listen to your body, and learn the difference between "threatening pain" and good muscle-building pain.
Perfect Your Posture for Good Joints
Slouching is not good for your joints. Standing and sitting up straight protect your joints from your neck to your knees. Good posture also helps guard your hip joints and back muscles.
Posture is also important when lifting and carrying. For example, if you use a backpack, be sure to put it over both shoulders instead of slinging it over one. Being lopsided puts more stress on your joints. When lifting, use the biggest muscles in your body by bending at your knees instead of bending your back.
Protecting Your Body Protects Joints
Make sure you always wear a helmet, knee pads, and elbow and wrist pads when taking part in high-risk activities, including work-related ones such as repetitive kneeling or squatting. Even if you think you're a pro on a bicycle or on a pair of Rollerblades, you should never go without safety gear. Hit the wrong bump in the road, and you could be headed for a lifetime of trouble. Serious injuries or several minor injuries can damage cartilage. Injuries can lead to long-term joint problems.
Elbow and wrist braces, or guards, also help reduce stress on your joints during activities.


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I exported the XML file of the metadata of a GIS database. I want to view this data on SharePoint 2010. I don't want to see the code, I want to actually see the way it looks in ArcCatalog. How can I do this? Thanks in advance!
The answer lies in a third party app/webpart or creating your own xslt file to render the XML the way you want. There is an XML web part that will let you point to an xml file, or enter xml manually, point to an xsl file, or enter it manually, and render the results.
You can also create a custom Data View Web Part to accomplish this.
Here is an entire custom webpart I wrote earlier today. It reads an xml that store information about our download section, the xml looks something like this.
And the webpart code
Simple, very fast and adaptable!


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I want to know how many have been to space (they don't have to have returned.)
Actual Minifigures In Space
There have been a number of videos posted from the ISS mission, where we can clearly see one of the astronauts (Satoshi Furukawa) on the station holding a model with some minifigures:
On the Gallery Pages they list out "Working and living in space - This is the LEGO models shown in the videos"
In the shots there are there are at least 7, if not 8 minifigs (assuming that each hair and face is part of a complete minifig, rather than having the bodies reused for the shots):
This appears to be the first time actual articulated minifigs have officially gone to space.
A Romanian named Oaida Raul sent the Lego Shuttle [bs:3367] up on a weather balloon to "the edge of space" on 31 December 2011, but hasn't released actual figures of the altitude reached:
Two Canadian Students sent a Minifigure up to the stratosphere in January 2012, high enough to see the curvature of the earth, which can be seen reported on the Toronto Star's pages:
Minifigure Statues
Before then the closest thing to a minifig officially sent to space are the three custom built aluminium Minifigure statues that went up on the JUNO space craft this year:
This wired article concludes:
LEGOSpace.com's insistence on not supporting deep-linking fails me, but if you go to the Education Blog and scroll to Thursday, August 04, 2011
Pictures of Minifigures
Prior to these two missions, previous missions have been promoted as sending Minifigures to space when in fact what they actually contained were pictures of minifigures:
When in reality what happened was:
Since 2010 there have been Lego sets on the ISS but no mention of minifigs officially manning the outpost.
according to this NASA-article: at least 3 - the minifigs of galileo galilei, the god jupiter and his wife juno.
Actually, I think the correct answer to that is "none".
While two Astrobots, Sandy Moondust and Biff Sterling were designed to follow the adventure of the two Mars exploration rovers, these only contained pictures of them, not actual minifigs.
So this leaves us with the three custom-built aluminium minifigs of the JUNO spacecraft, but considering these as minifigs is a bit of a stretch. To me, these are but statues of minifigs, not real ones. They aren't even yellow!
There are also some up in the ISS right now: