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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty for PC - Blizzard - Toys "R" Us for $9.98
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These are pretty much sold out in every TRU.
The description (even on their site) says "for PC", but they have it categorized as a Nintendo DS game. Do they have a (semi-)trained chimp editing their site?
Also, I can't even check if it's available at this price at my nearest store, which is ~60 miles away. Grrr.
@gwk1967: Most Toys R Us stores have contact phone numbers. I called mine and they even pulled one off the shelf to hold for me.
I'm pretty sure Diablo 3 is on their for $10 as well, but unlike SC2 I would wait till they get it a little more polished. Poor Blizzard did so well polishing wings of liberty they had to make arcade mode to keep the modders interested.
We are forced to buy Pokemon Black and White 2 for full price to get this game for $10.
This is a great deal because Pokemon BW2 is an awesome/new game!
"70% OFF ANY video game item priced 19.99 or less when you buy Pokemon Black or White 2!"
-Toys R Us website
*Still good to call and make sure if that's the case because I am not 100% sure.
**Just a note for people who think it's just $10 for Starcraft 2 :)
They had this on sale since monday, most if not all games for 10$ are sold out.
@blaize9: They are trying to clear inventory.
Don't forget guys that Best Buy price matches. So if ToysRUs is sold out, show BB this ad and they price match.
@teej21012: Best Buy told me they can't price match if the place is out of copies to sell.
@innercliff: And best buy knows the stocking information of TRU?
Good deal. I wanted to pick up Diablo 3 from my local TRU, but they were sold out of all PC games according to the salesperson.
Went to TRU said they had two but they couldn't find them, ie employee purchase later. Any way best buy had three I bought 2 for 9.98 each. Sweet deal. I've been wanting to play this since it came out, now if only I had some time.
@rockytrh: Our TRU actually has a Best Buy two stores down in the same shopping center. The manager actually went over to the Toys R Us and asked about the stock.
@athawk01: Does the one you got from Best Buy work for Mac too? If so, I'm leaving my house as soon as you say yes.
Just called my local store, lady replied "We've been getting calls about it all day, I don't know why" Suffice it to say they don't have it in stock.
@teej21012: Is it in a printed ad somewhere? Best buy usually won't match online prices, even if they are for in-store purchases. I didn't see a printed TRU ad this weekend but I can check my newspaper again...
@lparsons42: It's true that this promo wasn't posted in ads. I think these guys used a smart phone to show the BB rep.
@lparsons42: I called Walmart about this when it was for Skyrim and Diablo 3, but they said they donly price match actual ads and not online pricing. I don't know why since it's still the price you could buy it. I think if you got the right person though, they might do it from a printed ad or from your phone perhaps. Worth trying at least if you're there.
It wasn't in the newspaper ad at all... at least not here.
Best Buy in Utah matched this for me after clearing it with the store manager, but limited the availability to 1 per purchase. I'll be off to the store again later today to buy more for roommates.
best buy matched tru's diablo, battlefield, and skyrim prices for me this weekend. in Portland, OR for what it's worth.
Just successfully did this today. Went into Best Buy, showed them the price for Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 on my phone, they didn't call Toys R Us or anything. They just did the price override and let me have it. I will mention though any other time I've ever tried to price match at Best Buy, they have called the store I'm matching to see if it was in stock and if it was out, they wouldn't price match. So I'm really surprised this actually worked today.
@joshobra: yes has Mac requirements on box.
I called my local toys r us and the lady said that they don't carry computer games :\
Would there be any awesome Wooters willing to pick one up and ship it to me? Local TRU is sold out and Best Buy right away said no way, without even calling. I have Paypal
Just walked out from my South Bay Best Buy (toys r us doesn't even have pc games anymore) and they did a price match at the register.
Just showed them the toys r us page on my phone, looked at price and picture and I was set.
Some reason the computer didn't require a manager approval so I guess they either know about it or I lucked out.
It ringed up at $49.99 at first and was the last one on their rack.
Thanks for the heads up!
Nevermind, found a sweet deal on ebay for the SC1 battle chest + SC2 for 35 shipped. About the same as if I bought them separate at this deal plus the normal price for the battle chest.
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John Percival
Posted 21 June 2012 - 03:08 PM
John Percival was the main critic for the Times of London for decades. Here's a very nice interview with him on Ballet.co:
Percival was one of the finest critics writing in recent years. He was one of my teachers by example. When I first became interested in ballet, I'd read his daily reviews in The Times and marvel at how he could pack so much detail into six lines yet still keep the writing individual and vivid. I realized after I'd been writing for a few years that I'd subconsciously been using the structure of his full length reviews in Dance and Dancers, where he was a mainstay until that magazine ceased publication.
What I think he had that no one else had, though, was a love of dance as keen as his eye, and an openness to all genres of dance that was rare in those days. I went to see Paul Taylor and Martha Graham because John Percival did. He also had a way of being honest about a new struggling choreographer's work without pulverizing him with wit. I'll also always value how he remained a strong voice in support of Ashton's work.
I never met John, though I spoke with him several times over the phone. I was extremely happy that he agreed to write for danceviewtimes, and if you read the reviews he wrote for us you'll see that his skills as a critic did not diminish with age.
My most sincere condolences to Judith, as well as all who knew him, whether as a friend, or as their window on dance.
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I envied him for having seen so much. As the ballet.co article tells us, he began watching dance in 1943. This generation is dying off now. Horst Koegler (a close friend of John Percival's) died a few weeks ago. Between the two of them they'd probably seen every even mildly important production of a ballet, every choreographer, and every dancer of any note. We've lost a lot of cultural memory.
Posted 21 June 2012 - 07:28 PM
Thanks dirac and atm. Glad you two were also fans One thing John shared with others of his generation was an insatiable appetite for seeing dance. Soon after I got to know him, he was very excited because he had seen two productions of "La Fille Mal Gardee," a matinee in Birmingham and the evening performance in Covent Garden, on the same day. Very good for someone then in his late 70s, I'd say (and a terrific review of both, too).
I envied him for having seen so much. As the ballet.co article tells us, he began watching dance in 1943. This generation is dying off now. Horst Koegler (a close friend of John Percival's) died a few weeks ago. Between the two of them they'd probably seen every even mildly important production of a ballet, every choreographer, and every dancer of any note. We've lost a lot of cultural memory.
I'm sorry for this news as well--I remember rushing to the library to find his review of Kirkland's first Juliet with the Royal Ballet.
Inevitable of course, but we are losing a lot of cultural--ballet--memory that I know means a lot to me.
Posted 21 June 2012 - 08:04 PM
My condolences to his wife, Judith, who also writes for danceviewtimes, and to the world's ballet community.
Rest in peace, Mr. Percival.
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RIP, Mr. Percival.
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Posted 22 June 2012 - 11:23 PM
Read him all the time, for the report itself but also for the sense that he subtly cultivated of where the pleasures really lay; he always gave plenty of context, but hte great thing was, you could believe he was telling you what he really thought and how he really felt and responded to the ballet itself -- to the dancers, the dancing, the music, the choreography, the mis en scene, the phrasing, the look and feel of the whole thing.
Posted 23 June 2012 - 07:35 AM
The art of ballet is transmitted, in the studio and on the stage, from one dancer to another. I have the feeling that our experience as audience members is also transmitted, and very much influenced, by audience members who came before us. Writers like Mr. Percival carry ballet history in their visual and emotional memory. I learn so much from such writers. I will miss his voice.
The ballet.co interview is full of delightful nuggets of what it was like growing up at ballet performances during the Second World War and the post-War era. I was intrigued to learn that Mr. Percival was a conscientious objector during the War, performing his alternative service as a hospital worker. It was fun to read his account of competing with an equally young Clive Barnes for "my" favorite cheap seat in the galleries at Covent Garden. (Later, Percival replaced Barnes as the ballet critic of the Times, when Barnes left for the U.S. to join the New York Times.)
Also: it's amazing to be reminded of a time before Margot Fonteyn before she had developed fully, a time when Percival felt that she might have something to learn from Alicia Alonso and Nora Kaye during Ballet Theater's first London season. I was delighted to read him say, of his years at Oxford, "The biggest thing was the visit of New York City Ballet to Covent Garden in 1950." Also, his appreciation of Jean Babillee (whom I never saw on stage) and John Gilpin (whom I did see), as well as his conviction that Ulanova was
the greatest ballerina I've ever seen. And I can be dogmatic about that on the strength of seeing her in only very few roles, notably Juliet and Giselle.
The following is a Percival insight which I hope will get many members of the ballet audience thinking:
Lately a certain number of technical tricks have been elaborated, most successfully by one or two exceptional virtuoso dancers. .... [B]ut formerly there were far more dancers with a real commitment to communicating the meaning of what they did. That's something which has been largely lost. It wasn't only a question of acting but of dancing expressively and with commitment to what they were doing. You still see a few dancers with that quality; Sylvie Guillem and Tamara Rojo at Covent Garden and Nicholas Le Riche in Paris spring to mind immediately. But I think it used to be more prevalent. It's that concern for expression, rather than his amazing technique, which makes Carlos Acosta so special. And this expressiveness can be in plotless ballets as well as those with a narrative.
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it's amazing to be reminded of a time before Margot Fonteyn before she had developed fully, a time when Percival felt that she might have something to learn from Alicia Alonso and Nora Kaye during Ballet Theater's first London season.
I was happy to read this observation too, bart. I don't feel that Ballet Theater's weight and importance in mid-century's America's dancing has been fully discussed and exposed in literature the way Balanchine's company has, or even BRdMC with that wonderful documentary. I have always been under the impression that the dancers that didn't make the experimental trip to City Ballet when it was first created-(Alonso, Youskevitch, etc..)-were somehow side lined by the audience who instead started focusing more in this other new, exciting AMERICAN company. Still, many older people I know still mention the trilogy of Markova/Alonso/Kaye as THE creme of mid-century America's female ballet dancing examples. Same with Youskevitch, whom I've heard was to be considered by many the greatest bailarin of his era. Maybe it could be due to that up until NYCB started, all this stars from Ballet Theatre-(pretty much as it is now)-were foreign dancers who had not been nurtured by a national educational system, unlike Balanchine's, and so people started seeing City Ballet as something more of their own. Still, even if Kaye tried briefly next door, or Alonso and Youskevitch were put on a barre at first far from NYC, it is a fact that they DID represent probably the best of what America had to offer in ballet matters at the time, at one point for two of them to even be compared in advantage to such a legend as Fonteyn.
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And it was often through him that we first heard of new companies, new choreographers, new dancers, so that when someone like William Forsythe finally arrived in this country we already knew who he was and what he did and were agog to see him for ourselves. (That may sound commonplace in these days when the internet saturates us with publicity, but 20 or 30 years ago writing like John's was our only information channel.)
Now that we can click a link to a YouTube video, it is so easy to forget that critics were often our only gateway to knowing what existed in the dance world, especially for those of us who have no or almost no personal connection to the dance world. To have had our eyes opened by John Percival is such a privilege.
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[FNR] FormPanel/FormField validation issue with error icons
I've run across several issues that I can't seem to fix or workaround in GXT's FormPanel/FormField validation.
I've attached code to demonstrate the issue; the classes are in the .zip file along with a couple screenshots.
I am running with GXT 2.1.1 and GWT 2.0.3, on Mac OS/Firefox 3.6.6 (also reproducable on Ubuntu/Firefox 3.5.9). I can also reproduce this in both development and production mode.
I basically have a FormPanel underlying a TabPanel with multiple tabs. When I hit the Save button, I want the fields on all the tabs to be validated (and marked invalid if they're not valid). And when I hit the Reset Button I want the original values restored (and any fields that were marked invalid should have those errors cleared). Pretty basic really.
Here's the issues I am seeing when I run the attached code:
1. The error icons on the fields in tabs that are not currently visible are displayed in the wrong place when I visit the other tab. (i.e. in the example, bring up the app, hit Save, then go to the 2nd tab where you can see that the error icons are not displayed properly to the right of the field.) I have attached a screenshot of this in FF 3.5.9. It happens in IE8 as well - the icons are just a little further right, but still in the middle of the Field).
I figured out that I had to do a tabPanel.setDeferredRender(false); in order to render all the tabs immediately so that fields in tabs not currently showing would get marked as invalid, but I can't figure out how to fix this placement issue.
2. The error icons for CheckBoxGroup and RadioGroup fields are not cleared when I do a formPanel.reset()
(i.e. in the example, bring up the app, go to the 2nd tab, hit Save, then hit Reset and you can see that the error icons are not cleared on the 'Music' CheckBoxGroup or the 'Favorite Color' RadioGroup)
3. Lastly, the Events.Invalid event is being fired during a formPanel.reset(). It seems like that should only be fired during the formPanel.isValid() call? If I'm resetting fields and removing their validation errors using a formPanel.reset() call, I would not expect to get Events.Invalid events on those fields. Seems odd?
Any help much appreciated since issue #1 in particular is a fairly large issue for me.
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For point 1) you need to change the hidemode of the tabitems to HideMode.OFFSET
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2, 3 will be fixed in SVN shortly.
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2) is fixed now in SVN as of revision 2148
3) is fixed now in SVN as of revision 2149
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Yep - HideMode.OFFSET does indeed seem to take care of the error icon placement issue. Thanks for the quick response this time.
Question though - when I make that change to the sample app I sent you, I notice that the actual checkbox in the CheckBox field in the second tab aligns differently. The actual checkbox moves to the right (looks like it is centered now) rather than being left aligned? Is there a setting I'm missing to fix that? Looks like if I do a cb.el().firstChild().setLeft(0) post-render, then I can get it back to being left-aligned; was just hoping there was some more obvious fix instead?
20 Jul 2010 1:24 PM #6
That is how it should be as there is no boxlabel.
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Inspired by other questions i have two questions about modules over division rings: given a division ring $D$ with center $Z(D)=K$. One has the notion of dimension for left modules (vector spaces) $V$ over $D$, which is well behaved like in linear algebra.
But does the following also hold: Given a left vector space $W$ of dimension $n$ and a right vector space $V$ of dimension $m$. Assume that at least one of them is even a $D$-bimodule, so that $V\otimes_D W$ has the structure of a $D$-module.
$Q1$: Do we have $dim_D(V\otimes _D W)=dim_D(V)dim_D(W)=nm$ in this case?
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Uterine fibroid embolization - discharge; UFE - discharge; UAE - discharge
You had uterine artery embolization (UAE). UAE is a procedure to treat fibroids using radiology instead of surgery. During the procedure, the blood supply of the fibroids was blocked. This caused them to them to shrink. The procedure took about 60 to 90 minutes.
You were given a sedative and a local anesthetic. An interventional radiologist made a 1/4-inch-long incision (cut) in your skin over the groin. A catheter (a thin tube) was put into the femoral artery at the top of your leg. The radiologist then threaded the catheter into the artery that supplies blood to the uterus (uterine artery).
Small plastic or gelatin particles were injected into the blood vessels that carry blood to the fibroids. These particles block the blood supply to the fibroids. Without this blood supply, the fibroids will shrink and then die.
You may have a low-grade fever and symptoms for about a week after the procedure. A small bruise where the catheter was inserted is also normal. You may also have moderate-to-strong cramping pain for 1 - 2 weeks after the procedure. Your doctor will give you a prescription for pain medicine.
Most women need 1 - 2 weeks to recover after UAE before returning to work. It may take 2 - 3 months for your fibroids to shrink enough for symptoms to decrease and your menstrual cycle become to normal. The fibroids may continue to shrink during the next year.
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General Principles for Controlling Nonnative Invasive Plants
The best defense against nonnative plant takeovers is constant surveillance of right-of-ways, streambanks, and internal roads and trails followed by effective control measures at the first appearance of new arrivals. Early detection and treatment will minimize efforts and costs that come with treating well-established plants or full-blown infestations. More effort is required for successful eradication of established infestations, but it still can be accomplished with proper treatments, although costs may be prohibitive. In severe cases, large-scale conversion of existing infestations is the only solution, involving eradication procedures that incorporate integrated management treatments and reestablishment of native plants. Fortunately, in southern forests native plants in the soil seed bank or plants from surrounding areas will naturally reestablish once the invaders are eliminated.
Effective Treatments
If an infestation is spotted or already occurs, then proper and aggressive eradication measures should be undertaken to avoid the inevitable spread. Continued treatment and retreatments will be necessary. Most nonnative invasive plants are perennials, having extensive tough roots and runners. This means that effective herbicide applications offer the best means of containment or eradication, because herbicides can kill roots and do so without baring soil for reinvasion or erosion. To be successful with herbicide treatments:
Selective Herbicide Application Methods
Although treating extensive inaccessible infestations may require broadcast treatments of herbicide sprays or pellets by helicopter or tractor-mounted application systems, the best approach is usually selective applications of herbicides to target nonnative plants while avoiding or minimizing application to desirable plants. The selective methods described are directed foliar sprays, stem injection, cut-treat, basal sprays, and soil spots.
Directed Foliar Sprays
Directed foliar sprays are herbicide-water sprays aimed at target plant foliage to cover all leaves to the point of run off, usually applied with a backpack sprayer (use low pressure, drift retardants, and spray shields to avoid drift). Herbicide application by directed foliar spray is the most cost-effective method for treating most types of invasive plant species. With this method, herbicides are thoroughly mixed in water, often with a non-ionic surfactant, and applied to the foliage and growing tips of woody plants or to completely cover herbaceous plants. Foliar sprays are usually most effective when applied from midsummer to late fall, although spring and winter applications have use on specific plants and situations. Selective treatment is possible because the applicator directs the spray towards target plants and away from desirable plants. The addition of a water-soluble dye can assist in tracking treatment and detecting spray drift on desirable plants. Although dyes are messy and short-lived as a visible marker, they are helpful in training and tracking critical applications. Another safeguard is to only use foliar active herbicides, because directed sprays of soil-active herbicides can damage or kill surrounding plants when their roots are within the treatment zone. Never use herbicides with soil activity to treat invasive plants under desirable trees or shrubs.
Directed sprays are usually applied with a backpack sprayer and a spray wand equipped with a full cone, flat fan, or adjustable cone spray tip. These tips and spraying pressures of 20 to 30 pounds per square inch can ensure productivity with only a few fine droplets that may drift to surrounding plants. To safeguard surrounding plants from damage by spray drift, suspend applications during windy conditions. A spray shield that attaches to the end of the wand can further minimize drift. Adding a drift retardant to the spray mixture can eliminate drift although effectiveness may be diminished.
Plants up to 6 feet tall can be treated with this equipment, while the addition of a commercially available wand extension can slightly increase height capabilities. To treat plants up to about 18 feet tall, use higher spray pressures with a straight-stream or narrow flat fan tip.
Directed foliar sprays are also applied using wands on hoses attached to spraying systems mounted on all-terrain vehicles, trucks, or tractors. Also, a spray gun with a narrow flat fan tip can replace a wand for some applications. Another useful alternative for treating different sized woody plants is a spray gun with a swivel that holds two tips—narrow and wide-angled—that can be quickly changed during application.
Stem Injection
Stem injection (including hack-and-squirt) involves herbicide concentrate or herbicide-water mixtures applied into downward incision cuts spaced around woody stems made by an ax, hatchet, machete, brush ax, or tree injector. Tree injection, including the hack-and-squirt technique, is a selective method of controlling larger trees and shrubs (more than 2 inches in diameter) with minimum damage to surrounding plants. It requires cuplike downward incisions spaced around the stem with a measured amount of herbicide applied into each of the incisions. Special tree injectors are available to perform this operation, or a narrow-bit ax, hatchet, or machete along with a spray bottle can be used in sequence to perform the hack-and-squirt method. Completely frilling the stem with edge-to-edge cuts or injections is required for very large stems or difficult-to-control species. The herbicide should remain in the injection cut to avoid wasting herbicide on the bark and to prevent damage of surrounding plants. All injected herbicides can be transferred to untreated plants by root grafts and uptake of root exudates. Herbicides with soil activity can damage nearby plants when washed from incisions into the soil by unexpected rainfall soon after application. Avoid injection treatments if rainfall is predicted within 48 hours.
Tree injection treatments are most effective when applied in late winter and throughout the summer. Heavy spring sap flow can wash herbicide from incision cuts, making this an ineffective period.
Cut-treat involves herbicide concentrates or herbicide-water mixtures applied to the outer circumference of freshly cut stumps or the entire top surface of cut stems, applied with a backpack sprayer, spray bottle, wick, or paint brush. Freshly cut stems and stumps of woody stems, including canes and bamboo, can be treated with herbicide mixtures to prevent resprouting and to kill roots. Cutting is usually by chainsaw or brush saw, but can be accomplished by handsaws or cutting blades. To minimize deactivation of the herbicide, remove sawdust from stumps before treatment. Treat stems and stumps as quickly as possible after cutting with a backpack sprayer or utility spray bottle for spray applications or a wick applicator, lab wash bottle, or paintbrush for small stems. Add a non-ionic surfactant to the mix to aid in penetration, if permitted by the label.
For stumps over 3 inches in diameter, completely wet the outer edge with the herbicide or herbicide mixture. Completely wet the tops of smaller stumps and all cut stems in a clump. Apply a basal spray mixture of herbicide, oil, and penetrant to stumps that have remained untreated for over 2 hours.
The most effective time for the stump spray method is late winter and summer. Although winter treatments are slightly less effective than growing season applications, the absence of foliage on cut stems and branches produces some offsetting gains in application efficiency.
Basal Sprays
Basal sprays are herbicide-oil-penetrant mixtures sprayed or daubed onto the lower portion of woody stems, usually applied with a backpack sprayer or wick applicator. Full basal treatments require that the lower 12 to 20 inches of target woody stems be completely wetted on all sides with an oil-based spray mixture. Application is to smooth juvenile bark. Full basal sprays are usually effective in controlling woody stems less than about 6 inches in diameter or larger diameters of susceptible species, before bark becomes thick, corky, and furrowed. The appropriate equipment for this treatment is a backpack sprayer with a wand or spray gun fitted with a narrow-angle flat fan, cone, or adjustable tip. A wick applicator can also be used. Herbicides that are soluble in oil (mainly Garlon 4) are mixed with a commercially available basal oil, diesel fuel, or kerosene often adding a special penetrant. Some herbicides, such as Pathfinder II and Pathway, are sold ready-to-use with these ingredients.
A modified method, streamline basal sprays, is effective for many woody species up to 2 inches in diameter, as well as trees and shrubs up to 6 inches in diameter if the species is susceptible. Equipment for this treatment is a backpack sprayer with a spray gun and a low-flow straight-stream or narrow-angle spray tip. To prevent waste, maintain pressure below 30 pounds per square inch with a pressure regulator. At this pressure, an effective reach of 9 feet is possible while bark splash is minimized. For treating stems less than 2 inches in diameter, apply the stream of spray up-and-down single stems for about 6 to 8 inches, or apply across multiple stems creating 2- to 3-inch-wide bands. This same multiple-band treatment can be effective on larger stems. Direct the spray stream to smooth juvenile bark at a point about 4 to 18 inches from the ground. Stems that are thick barked or near 3 inches in diameter require treatment on all sides.
Applications are usually in late winter and early spring, when leaves do not hinder spraying the stem. Summer applications are effective but more difficult. Avoid ester herbicide formulations on hot days to prevent vapor drift injury to nontarget plants.
Soil Spots
Soil spots are Velpar L herbicide applied as metered amounts to the soil surface around target woody stems or in a grid pattern for treating many stems in an area; they are usually applied with a spot gun or with a backpack sprayer equipped with a straight-stream nozzle. Spots of soil-active herbicide (mainly Velpar L) are applied to the soil surface in grid patterns or around target woody stems. This method requires exact amounts and prescribed spacings that are specified on the herbicide label or label supplements. It is only effective on specific nonnative plant species and usually only when applied in spring and early summer. Equipment is a special spot gun, utility spray bottle, or a backpack sprayer with a spray gun equipped with a straight-stream spray tip.
Selecting an Effective Herbicide
Only herbicides registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for forestry use and noncroplands in the Southern States will be discussed here, although herbicides for other "land use areas," such as right-of-ways, pastures, and rangelands, may be just as effective or may contain the same active ingredient. The herbicides that will be identified by trade name (and common active-ingredient name) are:
Because nonnative invasive plants are usually difficult to control, selecting the most effective herbicide(s) is important. Often herbicides that have both soil and foliar activity are most effective with the least number of applications. However, applying herbicides with soil activity can damage desirable plants when their roots are present within the treatment zone or when herbicides move downhill to untreated areas following heavy rainfall. Garlon herbicides are mainly foliar active, but they have some soil activity at high rates or when mixed with oils. Garlon 4 and Vanquish can volatilize at high temperatures and their residues can move by air currents to affect surrounding plants; therefore, avoid application on days when temperatures exceed 80° F. If possible, also avoid applications when rainfall is anticipated within 2 days, unless soil activation is needed, and during periods of severe drought as effectiveness can be reduced during these times.
When possible, use selective herbicides that target specific nonnative species, such as Transline that controls mainly legumes and composites, and minimize damage to surrounding desirable plants even though they receive herbicide contact. Minimizing damage to desirable cohorts can also be achieved by making applications when the cohorts are dormant. For example, apply basal sprays to the bark of invasives in late winter before most other plants emerge, or foliar spray evergreen or semievergreen invasives after surrounding plants have entered dormancy. Remember that desirable woody plants can be damaged through transfer of herbicides by root exudates following stem injection and cut-treat treatments or when soil-active herbicides wash off treated stems. Damage to surrounding native plants can be minimized with care and forethought during planning and application.
Read and thoroughly understand the herbicide label and its prohibitions before and during use. Many herbicides require the addition of a non-ionic surfactant to the spray tank. Always use clean water in a herbicide mixture and mix spray solutions thoroughly before applying. Do not mix in the sprayer but in a bucket with a stirring stick—stirring for several minutes or more—before transferring to the sprayer. Water that is highly basic (pH greater than 6) and contains high amounts of calcium and magnesium interferes with glyphosate herbicide effectiveness, requiring the addition of ammonium sulfate or appropriate additives. When changing from a water-based mix to an oil-based mix in a backpack sprayer, thoroughly evacuate the water from the pump and run a small amount of oil through the pumping system before filling with the oil-based mix, otherwise, a white sludge will clog the sprayer. And, always wear personal protective equipment prescribed on the label and in supplementary materials.
Other Treatments for an Integrated Approach
Overgrazing is a way to reduce the vigor of palatable invasive plants like kudzu, but this rarely yields eradication and may spread seeds (as with tropical soda apple). Mechanical treatments and prescribed burning can assist eradication measures, but are limited in effectiveness. Prescribed burning cannot control rootcrowns or rhizomes of perennial plants and usually only deadens small aboveground shoots, providing only temporary aboveground control. In a similar way, cutting woody plants (by chainsaw and brush saw felling or brush mowing) and mowing vines and herbs without killing roots remove only aboveground plant parts. Mechanical root raking and disking can actually intensify and spread infestations of invasive plants with runners by chopping them into resprouting segments and transporting them on the equipment. Fireplows can also spread invasive plant rhizomes and roots. However, root raking, piling, brush mowing, or burning may be the only way to start controlling dense infestations of multiple woody invasive plants. Small infestations may respond to hand pulling, grubbing with a stout hoe, or shrub pulling with newly introduced devices. Hand pulling or grubbing may be the quickest and easiest way to halt invaders when first spotted and stop them from gaining a foothold. String trimmers can reduce infestation densities and injure thick waxy leaves to improve herbicide uptake and effectiveness.
Although ineffective by themselves to achieve eradication, both mechanical and burning treatments can give added kill of herbicide-weakened plants and have a place in an integrated pest management program. The stumps and stems of nonnative trees, shrubs, and bamboos can be treated with herbicides immediately after cutting to kill roots. Resprouts of trees, shrubs, and vines that are topkilled by burning or brush mowing can be more easily treated with foliar sprays, often the most cost-effective way to use herbicides. Herbicide applications should be delayed after burning, disking, or mowing to permit adequate resprouting of target plants and, thereby maximizing herbicide uptake and effectiveness. Prescribed burning can also destroy invasive plant seeds (and bulbils of air yams) and often stimulate germination for efficient herbicide control treatments. Burning can prepare the site for effective herbicide applications by clearing debris and revealing application hazards, such as old wells and pits. Disking and root raking, if applied correctly, can dislodge herbicide-damaged woody roots and large runners, leaving them to dry and rot. With mechanical and burning treatments, take precautions, such as burning in late winter or spring leaf-out, to minimize the period of bare soil. The most effective time for controlling woody invasive plants and their germinants with fire is after plants have initiated growth in spring.
An eradication program for infestations of invasive plants usually requires several years of treatment and many more years of surveillance to check for rhizome sprouts, root sprouts, seed germination, or new invasions. Following these steps in a planned manner and with persistence is the only successful strategy to safeguard land access, productivity, native plants, and suitable habitats for wildlife.
The Rehabilitation Phase
Rehabilitation is the most important final phase of an integrated invasive plant eradication and reclamation program. The rehabilitation phase requires establishment and/or release of fast-growing native plants that can outcompete and outlast any surviving nonnative plants while stabilizing and protecting the soil. If the soil seed bank remains intact, native plant communities may naturally reinitiate succession after eradication of nonnative plants. Light-seeded native species are usually present in the seed bank while heavier seeded plants will gradually be deposited on a site by birds and other animals. In recent years, native plant seed and seedlings have become increasingly available for rehabilitation sowing and planting, but a limited number of species and absence of well-developed establishment procedures often hinder use. Tree nurseries operated by State forestry agencies are a good source of many species of native trees and shrubs. Often it is necessary to establish fast-growing tree species during the later control phase to hinder reestablishment of shade intolerant nonnative invasive plants. Reestablishing native grasses and forbs is equally important. These species are available from commercial nurseries specializing in native plants, utilizing local sources when possible. Native plant seeds will require proper treatments to assure timely germination. Seedling native plants can be also collected and transplanted from suitable field sites. Their establishment will be more challenging than the commonly available nonnative plants so often used for soil stabilization and wildlife food plots. Constant surveillance, maintaining forest vigor with minimal disturbance, treatment of new unwanted arrivals, and finally rehabilitation following eradication are critical to preventing and controlling invasions on a specific site.
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I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my old laptop (Acer Aspire 5315 ) and observed that fan is not working properly on Ubuntu. How could I solve this problem?
What the problem is that its a problem with the version of Bios your using,its a bug which prevents your CPU fan from working and causes your PC to overheat so then your Motherboard shuts the PC down to prevent damage.
The solution is to download the latest Bios Version for your Acer Aspire 5315, theirs only a windows installer for this on the Acer website,Link for Windows Bios
This is a well known design problem with the Acer Aspire 5315 preventing the fan to work properly and eventually shutting down the computer to protect from overheating.
Solution comes from here and here. You will have to register an account in order to download the fix.
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You have to find out the correct memory address for
For the 5315 wit 1.5G RAM PATCH_ADDRESS=x5F6BCEAF.
Add acer_fancontrol to /etc/rc.local and restart.
Source: http://www.fugaz.net/2010/01/23/acer-aspire-fan-issue-solved/
In other cases, a simple bios upgrade worked: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5315.html
I have an Acer Aspire 5750g that's fan wasn't working (at all, whether in Windows, booting up, etc.).
I took off the keyboard (you don't have to take it off all the way) and poked it a bit, and it turned out the fan was jammed up, and by poking it, I was able to un-jam it.
This would only apply to people whose fan never works, not even on startup.
simply update the BIOS of laptop by downloading it from acer support center .


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I'm looking for a formal definition of scaling limit in a rigorous math sense, also, if somebody knows a good translation to spanish. A good bibliography could be helpful.
I think the main issue you'll encounter with scaling limits and conformal invariance will be that it is a very new subject. Many of the papers will be very high level or still in preprint with details missing.
Here's a list of references that helped me learn the subject. I'll try to comment on some of them later on when time permits. I would first start with "Scaling Limits and SLE" by Greg Lawler. This set of notes is in context of self avoiding walks and how they connect to SLE and you'll find they quickly dive into scale invariance and conformal invariance.
If you are further interested in proofs, I would consult Lawler's "Conformally Invariant Processes in the Plane." This book gives very rigorous formulations of SLE and tackles a myriad of technical difficulties.
Next I would look at "Toward conformal invariance of 2D lattice models" by Smirnov. Here you'll be introduced to the notion of the duality between holomorphic martingales and scale invariance. In particular, you need to understand how discrete complex analysis connects with conformal invariance. I would hold out for proofs of many of the results for now.
Now you'll probably want to look at some simpler examples. I would first start trying to understand the proof of Cardy's Formula. Geoffrey Grimmett has an excellent set of lecture notes, "Probability on Graphs" which should be available off Grimmett's website (I can't seem to access it right now). As well I would consult the original paper by Smirnov, "Critical percolation in the plane". I'll add here that the proof of Cardy's formula doesn't need the full machinery of holomorphic martingales because of the really nice symmetries Smirnov observed. What IS important though is how the Riemann Hilbert boundary conditions are set up.
One of the big issues with discrete complex analysis is how to rigorously define discrete holomorphic functions on graphs. If you want the gory details, "Discrete complex analysis on isoradial graphs" by Chelkak and Smirnov is a good place to look.
This is the idea. Suppose that you have a family or sequence of structures of growing complexity (long random walks, realizations of a random field on a large piece of a lattice or in a large continuous domain, large random trees, etc.). You want to understand the behavior of the large structures of your family. Often you want to say that your large random object is similar to a simpler object that you can describe precisely. Since the random walk consisting of 1000 steps is quite different from the "same" random walk consisting of 100000 steps, but you still want to find similarities between them, it makes sense to normalize or rescale your objects appropriately. If you manage to find the right rescaling (it is given by shrinking the time by $n$ and space by $n^{1/2}$ for a standard simple symmetric random walk), then you might discover that thus rescaled (and appropriately embedded into the space of continuous functions or the Skorokhod space) random walk converges in distribution to the Wiener process.
So, scaling limits provide approximative descriptions of what your objects look like when "you look at them from a large distance" or "zoom out".
At a more formal level, suppose $\xi_n$ is a sequence of random objects in some space $X$ . Suppose $\phi_n$ is a (carefully chosen) sequence of scaling tansformations in $X$. It is hard to say precisely what a scaling transformation is, often it is a linear map depending on $n$ with coefficients decaying in $n$. Often, a (time)-reparametrization of the random objects involved is a part of $\phi_n$. A scaling limit is the distributional limit of $\phi_n(\xi_n)$.
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I think the notion of scaling limit is really more of a group of ideas than a single definition, since there are different types of objects being studied and hence different notions of convergence. Typically though one considers convergence of some (rescaled) sequence of probability measures on "discrete" objects as a spatial parameter $\delta\rightarrow0$ to a probability measure on some "continuum" object. Part of the trouble is that it can be tricky to figure out what the right "continuum" object is and further how to put a probability measure on it. A nice discussion about scaling limits and conformal invariance are these lecture notes by Lawler.
The fundamental example of such a scaling limit is the convergence of random walks to Brownian motion; one source is chapter 5 of the book of Mörtens and Peres.
An interesting scaling limit with a different flavor than the SLE ones described in other answers is Aldous's Continuum Random Tree. The following is from the linked page:
This is a beautiful object on its own but also a key tool in several other scaling limits.
The CRT is used in the study of random planar maps, see these lecture notes of Le Gall and Miermont. Recent developments not covered in these notes are their proofs of the convergence of certain families of random planar maps to the so-called Brownian map (see here and here).
The CRT is also part of the construction of the scaling limit of connected components of Erdős–Rényi random graphs in the scaling window.
I was listening to Lawler give a series of talks this summer and his sense of scaling limit is the same as is often used in defining Brownian motion as a scaling limit of simple random walks. In which both time and space have to be scaled so that the limit process doesn't become trapped at the origin. The difference between Brownian motion and SLE is that the random walks are no longer simple. The conformal invariance in SLE comes of the properties of the not-simple random walks if memory serves.
So if one wanted a rigorous definition of a scaling limit I would look for a text on Brownian motion (most any probability with measure theory book will do this construction in the continuous time chapter) or a more specialized book on continuous time processes. There should be plenty of these in most any language you'd want.


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I've always used RunKeeper to track my runs, but recently I came across an app called Cardio Trainer (from WorkSmart Labs), and it seems like it does pretty much the same thing. Both apps use GPS to track your outdoor activities, both allow you to share your workouts with your Facebook/Twitter followers and with other users, both integrate with your playlists, etc. Are there any pros/cons to using one over the other?
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I use Cardiotrainer more often since it doesn't have to wait till the GPS picks up before recording. It has a pedometer built in so it estimates the steps/distance etc from that and also allows for exercises such as Stair climbing (which I do in the office when it's rainy and I just want to do some exercise). The web interface on Runkeeper is a lot better though. So I just export the GPX files I want to from the CardioTrainer website and upload it to the Runkeeper site. I haven't used the Runkeeper app for ages.
If only the two had a widget which I could install to synchronise them! Or consolidate it all into one website so I have the data in one place.
RunKeeper makes tracking your workouts fun, social, and easy to understand so that you can improve the quality of your fitness. CardioTrainer is a free application for Android smartphones that lets you track and record all of your fitness activity.


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Ballerina Swan by Allegra Kent
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New York, NY—February 2012. Ballerina Swan, by world-renowned prima ballerina and Balanchine dancer Allegra Kent, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully (Holiday House, April 2012, $16.95), encourages children to pursue their goals with passion and hard work.
Sophie, a swan, loves to watch the dancers in Madam Myrtle's Dance Studio stretch and turn and leap. She wishes with all her heart to join them; but when she tries, Madam shoos her away. Then one day a new teacher comes to the class; she allows Sophie to stay and encourages her to work hard. This message of perseverance will ring true for children of all ages as the unlikely ballerina achieves her dreams in spite of the odds.
Paired with illustrations by Caldecott Medal winner and ballet enthusiast Emily Arnold McCully, this irresistible story of pursuing one's passions will have readers cheering for the feathered ballerina. Emily McCully draws upon her enthusiasm for ballet as well as her own artistic talent to create paintings with elegant cityscapes, expressive gestures, and an exquisite swan whose body language communicates hope, shame, dejection, grace, and of course good ballet technique—all attributes with which young readers will identify!
I've just pre-ordered it via our amazon.com box at the bottom of the page. Estimated release date is 20 February 2012.
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I feel like any more description will be a spoiler.
I think this would be a great present for a child of any age interested in ballet.
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Don't know whether this is available online to non-subscribers, but my two favorite bits are:
The effort that Kent put into ballet -- and that her fans ignored, thinking she was an act of God -- is the subject, comically reconceived, of "Ballerina Swan."-
Like most good children's books, "Ballerina Swan" is also a good adult book. "I worked so hard," Kent said. "But then the whole idea of ballet is that the work isn't supposed to show. It should look spontaneous. But you want the effort to show somewhat. You know, passion is also work."
Another review, from the New York Times, is linked by dirac, here. It includes six of the color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Thanks, dirac.
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Since Berryhill re-opened last year, students have reported problems connecting to the School of Medicine network in the Berryhill student labs. OIS has done extensive testing and troubleshooting of this issue and has determined that the problem is related to moving the laptop between VLANs (Virtual Local Area Networks) while in the sleep or hibernate mode. Berryhill, MBRB, Bondurant, Wireless networks, etc, are all in different VLANs. When connected to the network in one VLAN, the laptop is assigned an address in that VLAN's address range. If the laptop is put into the sleep mode (closing the lid), the laptop retains that address. If it is then moved to a different VLAN, when the laptop awakens open the lid), it tries to connect to the network with the old address that it retained from the previous VLAN. The new VLAN will not recognize the address and will not allow the laptop to connect. To connect to the new VLAN, the laptop must be forced to ask for a new address. The simplest way to do that is to reboot the laptop while connected to the new network.
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This beautiful beachfront hotel on Ocean Drive welcomes guests with a modern marble-floored lobby, a copper registration desk, and eclectic artwork. The Hilton Bentley Miami/South Beach is located in Miami Beach's SoFi district and is within walking distance of dining venues and nightlife.
Hilton Bentley Miami/South Beach recreational amenities include an outdoor splash pool, 2 spa tubs, and a fitness center with strength-training equipment and a sauna. The beach has easy access, and a beach club provides chairs, beach beds, umbrellas, towels, and pool toys. Spa services are offered at Spa 101 including aromatherapy, body scrubs, body treatments, body wraps, hydrotherapy, and massages. Massages on the beach are also available. Hair and nail care and other beauty services are available at the hotel's salon. Wedding services are available.
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- Conference space size (feet) - 1500
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De Rodriguez Cuba on Ocean - James Beard award-winning chef Douglas Rodriguez presents his acclaimed AAA 4 Diamond De Rodriguez Cuba, serving modern Cuban cuisine in South Beach's chic South of Fifth neighborhood. The award-winning Hilton Bentley, DRod Cuba is reminiscent of the exhilarating nightlife of old world Havana. Featuring an inventive menu of the freshest seafood and sustainable ingredients and served in a stunning environment, this is a perfect for a night out with friends or a romantic getaway for two. One of GAYOT's 2013 Hot 10 Miami/South Florida restaurants.
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Room service (limited hours) is available for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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The fitness center has a sauna, strength-training equipment, and flat-screen TVs. Guests also enjoy an outdoor splash pool and 2 spa tubs. The hotel is located directly on the beach, and beach amenities include towels, chairs, cushions, pool toys, umbrellas, and beach beds. Child-size lounge chairs with umbrellas are available. Jet skis, wave runners, and parasails are available for rental.
2 miles from the hotel, the Miami Beach Golf Club has an 18-hole course designed by Arthur Hills, a driving range, and a pro shop.
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Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
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Probably most complete are these two d6-based Mass Effect RPGs. And there's a Cortex stab at one here (you have to register to see and download the files attached to the thread). Then there's Dagda who has been noodling away on a Mass Effect 2 RPG on his blog, I don't think it's downloadable but he says he's running it at cons. There's about a dozen less baked mods out there too.
Update - Wesley Schneider of Paizo has been running Mass Effect in Pathfinder and he has just published all his notes and stuff as Project Lobotomy.
There are few suggestions on converting Mass Effect into systems like Traveler, Fate or Savage World.
Otherwise there are no official Mass Effect RPGs.
I just ran across Mass Effect d6: The Unofficial RPG.
I myself am currently working on a Mass Effect Campaign Guide and Players Guide for Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition. The sneak peaks are available at Mass Effect RPG.
I'm working on a Mass-Effect RPG currently in a d10 format. Though its not as common as a format as d20, I feel there is a better balancing between tech, biotics and normal combat.
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I'm planning to make an SD card (or a flash drive) my home directory so as to be able to work on different PCs without much hassle.
Is this a bad idea for some reason?
I've ran an entire system from an SD card before (over USB 1.0!) It was extremely slow. I was running OpenBSD. It has
I'd say the biggest thing to make sure of is that you mount it with
This will also be significantly slower unless you use a USB 3.0 port and a matching thumbdrive/SD card reader. USB 3.0 is actually faster than the ubiquitous SATA-2, so in theory if you use USB 3.0, you shouldn't have any performance problems.
Also, you may want to make sure you can log in to your account without your thumb drive just in case
While they are quite reliable (no moving parts), SD cards/USB flash drives can be slower (you probably do not want to run disk-intensive operations from there) and have limited write cycles. From this Super User question:
You will probably want to avoid a journaling file system, as this puts extra strain on the memory chips: for this you can use ext2. (I remember this was the case once, but as noted in a comment, this might not be the case anymore)
I think you'd be OK as long as you backup frequently and replace the card/flash drive if it starts showing errors.
I do this and it works just fine for me. But I only use it on one computer; the biggest problem I see with using the same card for two means you can only use one at a time. Just something to watch out for: I ran into a bit of trouble because the system was trying to mount the /home directory before the SD card was detected, aborting the boot process. I had to alter the boot scripts (Arch Linux) slightly to wait for the card before mounting it and moving on with the boot.
From my experience, I will really suggest NO. On past few years working of Linux environment for my development purposes, the thing that matters most is performance and stability and SD cards are hardly meant for those, I believe they serve as secondary storage more(Please correct me If I am wrong), rather than primary high speed storage such as HDD itself.
One of the most daunting task you will probably face during this campaign, is when you lose your SD card, or corrupt it somehow. Although, this can be fixed, its a lot confusing task for starters. Waiting for help from an online community such as this site itself might not guarantee a solution and you may get stuck with an useless system for days.
If your home folder is not huge and all your PCs have normal connectivity, you could try one or more of these cloud storage services: Dropbox, Google Drive, Sugarsync, Microsoft Skydrive (but there are many more).
We're living in times of cloud storage and ubiquitous connectivity: if you don't have particular constraints, using a SD to bring your documents with you is simply anachronistic.
Just be aware that when SD cards fail they fail suddenly and catastrophically.
Hard drives may give you some advance warning and degrade gracefully. You can usually mount a failing hard drive and retrieve data. SD cards don't give you that chance.


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