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Although the budget process for 2014 is now underway, Harvey County officials still are waiting to see what impact state legislation � and cuts � might have on local governments."There are still, of course, some things that are pending," said John Waltner, county administrator. "We don't know what the landscape will look like."Departments' budget requests for 2014 will be due to the county administration office April 26, and the department budget hearings with county commissioners will begin May 13.The budget hearings give commissioners a chance to hear from department heads about their requested budgets and projects they may have planned for the year ahead. The hearings are scheduled to wrap up June 24."We try to�run as many through as we can each week," said Anthony Swartzendruber, assistant administrator and finance director for the county.County staff will draft a recommended budget, and in early July, commissioners will conduct a work session to discuss department requests.There will be a public budget hearing on Aug. 5, followed by the budget adoption on Aug. 12. Staff said having the adoption a week after the hearing gives commissioners time to consider input from the public before making a final budgeting decision.Swartzendruber said department heads have been asked to keep 2014 budgets as flat as possible, and also look for areas where spending could be reduced, depending on what cuts come down from the state.
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According to this blog posting, birch sap is very popular in Russia as a drink. Further, I read in wikipedia that it is popular enough to be bottled and sold commercially.
Finally, (and most importantly) I found this article in the Guardian, detailing the steps to take in order to enjoy fermented birch sap (AKA 'birch wine').
Has anyone tried this, and if so would they relate how successful the attempt was?

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A reader asked the following questions: If the police suspect that my child was involved in a crime, what are the rules regarding the police questioning them? Must a parent of a juvenile be present before they are questioned by police regarding the juvenile's possible involvement in criminal activity, especially if the questioning results in a confession? How is a juvenile's confession deemed admissible at trial?
No, under Michigan law, a parent does not have to be present before a juvenile is questioned; however, the confession must be voluntarily made before it may be used against the juvenile. The test of voluntariness is whether, considering the totality of all the surrounding circumstances, the confession is the product of an essentially free and unconstrained choice by the juvenile.
Michigan law suggests that if juvenile has requested the presence of a parent or other adult during questioning, the absence of such a person should be considered as having a negative impact on the voluntariness of a juvenile's confession.
Additionally, the Michigan courts have set forth factors to be used to determine if a confession was voluntarily made, such as:
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Julian Lee Thomas was born at 4:22 a.m. on New Year's Day at Darnall Army Medical Center.
The birth of the 7-pound 19.5-inch baby was not something the family was anticipating so soon.
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The entire Bennington community mourns the death of faculty member Steven Bach, who passed away on March 25, 2009, after a brief illness. An acclaimed writer and filmmaker, Steven began teaching at Bennington in 1999.
"Writer, teacher, filmmaker, raconteur, friend—he became a beloved presence in this community almost immediately upon coming to Bennington," said President Elizabeth Coleman. "The range of his life from Hollywood studio head to writer and teacher was particularly expressive of the values of this College. And we will miss him sorely."
As former senior vice president and head of worldwide productions at United Artists, Steven was centrally involved in the making of such films as Raging Bull, Apocalypse Now, and Woody Allen's Manhattan, among dozens of others, in addition to writing the story of United Artists' undoing, Final Cut. A critically acclaimed author, his biographies of Marlene Dietrich, Moss Hart, and Leni Riefenstahl were all listed as notable books by The New York Times.
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For some of the performers of this radio play, the acting felt a little more real. The cast of the WTCT Radio Players, a company of the Topeka Civic Theatre & Academy, included two veterans.
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"I have been in combat, I have been with soldiers who got wounded and killed, so it resonates deeply," Shirron said.
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I have a workabke DataView with store. Just want to change it from template-based to component-based.
It had no error if the defaultType was the default value: dataitem.
Then, I created a DataViewItem with userAlias "myitem". After I set "myitem" as defaultType for my DateView and then PREVIEW, the browser said:
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Error message then generated!
I did it with Architect 2.1 build 676 Windows version.
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Is it a monument of sort, build by the prophet of Jehovah's Witnesses in remembrance of all the Old Testament prophet? I also understand that there are altars in this building in honour of each of the Old Testament Prophets. I am not sure how far this is true and would like to know from someone, the beliefs that make this building so special.
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I think Bath Sarim is Hebrew for "House of Princes".
Rutherford's predictions of when they would return failed to come true, and the house has been sold (1948).
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Say an event has $30%$ chances of happening $30/100$. If we run 100 experiments, what are the odds that the event will happen exactly $30$ times? What are the odds it will happen $50$ times or $10$ times? I am interested in learning the formula behind the calculations so I can run it with different numbers. Thanks.
An event has $X\%$ chance of happening. What are the odds of the event happening more/less over time?
The number of events in the $n$ trials is $Y_n = X_1 + X_2 + \ldots + X_n$, where $X_i$ is the indicator variable, equal to 1 if the event took place and zero otherwise. Each $X_i$ is independent and has Bernoulli distribution with parameter $p=\frac{3}{10}$.
The sum of $n$ independent Bernoulli random variable is equal in distribution to the Binomial random varaiable. Hence $Y_n \sim \mathrm{Binom}(n,p)$.
Then $$ \mathbb{P}(Y_{n} = k) = \binom{n}{k} p^k (1-p)^{n-k} $$ With some computations we find $\mathbb{P}(Y_{100} = 30) = 0.0867839$, and $ \mathbb{P}(Y_{100} = 50 \lor Y_{100} = 10) = \mathbb{P}(Y_{100} = 50) + \mathbb{P}(Y_{100} = 10) = 0.0000141966$.
Say an event has probability $p$ of happening. If we run $n$ experiments, the most likely number of times for the event to happen is $np$ (assuming $np$ is an integer.) what are the odds that the event happens $np$ times? In particular, can we come up with an approximate formula for this that doesn't include binomial coefficients?
As Sasha points out, this is $$ P(Y_n = np) = {n \choose np} p^{np} (1-p)^{n-np}. $$ Let $q = 1-p$ for ease of notation; then $$ P(Y_n = np) = {n! \over (np)! (nq)!} (p^p q^q)^n. $$ Now by Stirling's approximation, we have $$n! \sim \sqrt{2\pi n} \left( {n \over e} \right)^n. $$ Therefore $$ P(Y_n = np) \sim {\sqrt{2\pi n} (n/e)^n \over \sqrt{2\pi pn} (pn/e)^{pn} \sqrt{2\pi qn} (qn/e)^{qn}} (p^p q^q)^n $$ and after a lot of things cancel out you get $$ P(Y_n = np) \sim {1 \over \sqrt{2\pi npq}}. $$ So the probability of getting the most likely number of successes goes down like $\sqrt{n}$. For example consider $p = 1/2$; then we get $$ P(Y_n = n/2) \sim {1 \over \sqrt{n \pi/2}} \approx {0.8 \over \sqrt{n}}. $$ So if I flip 100 coins the probability of getting 50 heads is about $0.8/\sqrt{100} = 0.08$; if I flip 400 coins (four times as many) the probability of getting 200 heads is about $0.8/\sqrt{400} = 0.04$, half what it was.


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Fantasy camps have existed for sports lovers for decades -- middle-aged guys can, for a price, play basketball or baseball alongside Hall of Famers and live out all of their jock fantasies that never came true. But there has never been an equivalent for the sci-fi geek or rabid movie lover. Why the hell can't we pay to, say, experience a real zombie apocalypse, or become a spy?
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On some level we all know that an undead takeover of the planet would be a terrible thing, but at the same time, we're also secretly rooting for it. But the only way most of us can shoot a shambling corpse in the head is by investing in shovels and marionette strings. Unless ...
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Just outside of London lies an abandoned mall that offers zombie enthusiasts a dream come true. Zed Events has decided to cash in on the zombie fad by taking the 250,000-square-foot edifice and converting it into a real-life zombie survival fun house. For about 200 bucks, visitors can spend the day seeing how well they would fare if the undead actually did rise up against humankind (or, rather, experience a fantasy version of that in which we heroically survive rather than get killed within five minutes when we discover that chainsaws are not actually effective close-combat weapons).
It's difficult to get a gun in England, making this whole zombie scenario very unrealistic.
The experience starts with a training session, where participants are given Airsoft guns and taught the basics of survival and combat in the mall. From there, it's a "running of the bulls" mad dash for safety, except instead of bulls it's zombies, or at least dudes convincingly dressed as zombies.
Zombies with much better tailors than you.
Once you've survived this stampede, you're tasked with missions throughout the mall, all while wondering if a zombie will be lurking right around the corner. And, unfortunately, your ammo is severely limited, so the experience is as much about being able to evade capture as it is about being able to shoot everything in sight. As far as experiencing the kind of adrenaline rush that only exists in the aftermath of a devastating horror movie apocalypse, it's as close as you can get without moving to Detroit.
The Walmart greeters around there are pretty enthusiastic.
#4. Be a Secret Agent
The Fantasy:
The "regular guy gets caught up in a spy scheme" bit is a Hollywood staple, from Cary Grant in North by Northwest to Larry the Cable Guy in Cars 2. So we all had that fantasy as kids -- say, a mole infiltrates an elite spy organization, kills an agent and infects their computer system with an unknown virus. Somehow it's up to us and our friends to help, because we somehow have acquired the specific skills needed for the task, despite our complete lack of training or experience.
"No, I got this. I go to cut the red wire and at the last minute change to green. It never fails."
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The Citadel, in Phoenix, Arizona, is a local business that puts on an immersive, sprawling, six-hour spy experience with live actors, special effects and guided missions aimed at making you forget that assistant managers at Burger King don't normally get to participate in international espionage. It's basically LARPing Mission: Impossible.
You and your team (it takes four people to play) interact with actors and videos to introduce you to the premise and are given a GPS device, some high-tech walkie-talkies and a broadband-connected laptop. Then, you're set loose on several indoor and outdoor locations in downtown Phoenix so you can find preplanted evidence and clues, sort of like "How to Host a Murder," only fun. You are expected to find and make contact with "agents" along the way who are actors in disguise and could be literally anyone you see on the streets.
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This guy seems pretty conspicuous.
That actually sounds like it could make for some extremely uncomfortable misunderstandings. Take this article about the game:
It's almost 6:30 when team Dragon's mission starts. They will not finish until 12:30 in the morning. Along the way, they will stop at eight locations and encounter more than six actors, some disguised as everyday Phoenicians. Some of the clues they will uncover are cleverly hidden -- for example, a clue could be a message embedded in a book that's sitting on the shelves of a bookstore, or hidden inside a fake advertisement video on YouTube for a fictional local taxi company, or tucked into a pack of cigarettes some unconscious bum's clutching in a park.
"Attempt to rob everyone you see, because anything could be a clue."
You read that last part right. They don't see a problem with you going fishing through the belongings of unconscious homeless people for clues (a classic hiding place for incriminating evidence in a global web of conspiracy). The potential for real-life adventure is off the charts!
Assuming you're able to avoid all the vagrant-rape-related obstacles and finish the game alive and with your virtue intact, you are scored on how much information you and your team were able to uncover. If you do well enough, you could be listed on the Citadel's website as a top performing team. Conspicuously absent is the list of top teams murdered by hobos.
Currently this is the top team, which just means that the best agents are those you least suspect.
#3. Be a Stuntman for a Day
The Fantasy:
Whenever you're watching an adrenaline-fueled action sequence, you're watching the unsung heroes of the movie industry: the stuntmen. While, in the audience's eyes, Bruce Willis gets credit for jumping off the wing of the plane and onto the villain's limo, the stuntmen are the ones who do it for real. So if you dream of being a Hollywood action star who smashes through windows to deliver spin-kicks to masked assassins, you're not dreaming of being Jason Bourne. You're dreaming of being these guys. And the only thing between you and them is an entire lifetime of physical training.
"How the fuck did I get here?"
The Reality:
Or, you can join the one-day stuntman course in England at Regent Park Studios. For one tit-rocking, action-packed day, you can be a stuntman under the tutelage of Martin Shenton, a former army instructor and current stuntman whose work has been seen in movies like 28 Weeks Later and Tomorrow Never Dies, and some BBC shows where he flies through windows and stuff (and here we thought British storytelling was all people in Victorian-era costumes delivering withering bons mots to each other).
"I find you quite the oaf, good sir, and rather ill-maannneeeered!"
After you take some introductory lessons on basic action work (such as how to take a fall without breaking anything), you are thrust into some common stunts, like being run over by a car. Sure, it's not ramping a car over a train, but these people have to deal with liability insurance just like the rest of us.
It costs extra to be run over by anything other than a Citroen.
After that, your group can do battle with an assortment of stunt guns and knives before falling the hell down a flight of goddamn stairs (this is something of a specialty for Shenton, as he holds the world record for falling down 109 concrete steps). After the day's bruising activities conclude, you get a video of your antics as a one-off stuntman, so you have something you'll be constantly showing your friends, assuming you didn't crap your pants and leave a trail of feces down the stairs you were falling down. In which case you need to post that shit straight to YouTube.
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The Espresso Machine needs some tlc.
We bypassed the leaky milk frother and the machine rose from the ashes to make 1 shot of espresso before dying again. It now blinks as if it were heating the water. The heater does get hot, and putting a hi-pot on the heater thermistor to simulate a higher temperature does not work.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – In front of a spirited crowd of 13,950 fans, the Green team raced to a 26-3 win over the White team in the Charlotte 49ers' first-ever Spring Game at McColl-Richardson Stadium, Saturday afternoon.
"The biggest thing for us today was we wanted our guys to execute with the crowd out there," said 49ers head coach Brad Lambert. "How about our fan base? Just phenomenal, the people that came out today to watch us play. It was a real shot in the arm for our guys. To go out and play in front of a big crowd like that, it was a lot of fun for us. I wanted to see our guys execute with some pressure and with some fans in the stadium. I thought they did a nice job. We got some turnovers on defense. Matt (Johnson) did a nice job throwing the ball and we moved the ball early, which is what we wanted. The best thing that happened today was nobody got hurt. That was the No. 1 goal coming out of today."
Green team quarterback Matt Johnson connected on 13-of-14 passes for 174 passing yards and threw the game's first touchdown to Austin Duke, an 11-yard pass to put the Green team up 6-0 on the opening drive that lasted less than two minutes.
"Definitely, the nerves turned down after that first completion. I normally do good after getting hit one time. That's how it was in high school for me. But, this is a lot different from high school," Johnson said. "'It was just a regular practice' is what I tried to keep telling myself and that we needed to come out here and execute like we do every day.
The Green team continued to control the pace of the game as they put together a drive of ten plays which was capped off by Alan Barnwell's three-yard run, extending the score to 13-0 after Stephen Muscarello's extra point kick with 40 seconds left in the quarter.
The White team's defense performed well in the second quarter to hold the Green team scoreless, coming up big to stall a drive that lasted for seven minutes. On fourth and goal, Kendal Parker and Cortezz Nixon stopped Green running back Damarrell Alexander on the three-yard line at the 2:51 mark.
Linebacker Terry Caldwell grabbed the game's first interception from White team quarterback Patrick O'Brien in the third quarter and returned it for 11 yards. The Green team had to settle for a field goal and pushed its lead to 16-0 after Muscarello nailed a 27-yard attempt with 5:25 left in the third.
Just two minutes later, Desmond Cooper picked off another pass from O'Brien and ran it back for six yards, setting up the Green team on the 15-yard line. Alexander was finally able to get through the White team's defense and ended the third quarter with a four-yard touchdown run to extend the Green team's lead to 23-0 after Hayden Pezzoni's extra point attempt.
After two quick downs for the White team, O'Brien threw a clutch 46-yard pass to Darius Smalls to put his team on the 18-yard line. The White team was unable to score a touchdown but got on the board with Muscarello's 32-yard field goal, his longest of the day to cut at the Green team's lead 23-3.
The Green team capped a nine-play drive, lasting over six minutes with a 27-yard field goal from Pezzoni to push the score to 26-3 with a 1:40 left in the game.
Johnson connected on all but one pass and his main target on Saturday was Duke who finished with 81 yards on four catches. Jamel Ross also caught four passes and tallied 47 yards. Alexander and Barnwell finished with 36 yards on the ground. Lee McNeil also saw some time as quarterback for the Green team and was 6-for-8 with 64 yards. The Green team ran 43 plays and finished with 322 offensive yards.
Devin Clegg led the Green team with four tackles as Larry Ogunjobi finished with two tackles for loss and three overall. Rick Legrant recorded the game's only sack.
Brandon Rodriquez and Alex Petzke finished with seven tackles for the White team while Parker and Tyler DeStefani record five.
"It was unreal," Duke said of the crowd and atmosphere. "When we came in before the game, there weren't as many people out there as they were still filing in. When we came back out, we were all like, "this is real". It was time for us to show out and time to go out and do what we've been working so hard on since we got here. It was just a great turnout. The fans were amped, they were live. It was just an overall exciting experience."
Between the first and second quarter, the 49ers entertained the crowd with an offensive vs. defensive line punt receive competition.
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Clippers Star Chris Paul Voted Head of NBA Players Union
League's Top Point Guard Takes Over Organization Faced With Infighting and Litigation
Los Angeles Clippers star Chris Paul was elected president of the National Basketball Players Association late Wednesday, the union announced.
The move, voted on by player representatives from each team, puts Paul in charge of an organization that in recent months has struggled with infighting and litigation.
The decision to elevate Paul, one of the league's foremost stars, into such a position was a reversal of sorts for the players' union. It had become somewhat common for older, journeyman players to ascend to the job of union president because such athletes have reduced on-court duties and tout the kind of background that would give them an everyman appeal to the players.
Paul's predecessor as union chief, Derek Fisher, just completed his 17th year in the NBA, suiting up for five different teams. He had led the players since 2006.
Having just signed a five-year, $107 million deal with the Clippers, the six-time All-Star Paul becomes the highest-profile name to serve as union president since New York Knicks Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing held the post back in 2001.
The shift to Paul, which came after two days of meetings in Las Vegas, was somewhat of a surprise. Though league insiders were prepared for seeing a higher-profile player in the position of president.
LeBron James—the top player in the world and winner of four of the last five league Most Valuable Player awards—considered running for the job before backing out because of concerns about time constraints it might pose in the prime of his storied career. Though Paul, 28 years old, is also in his prime and widely seen as the league's top point guard.
It remains to be seen how, if at all, things change for the union by having a star run the show. But even with Paul, who had served as a vice president within the union's executive committee for the last four years, leading the group, there appeared to be a fair amount of balance in the other moves the union has made.
Along with Paul being ushered in for an 18-month term, journeyman Roger Mason, Jr., was chosen as first vice president. Steve Blake of the Los Angeles Lakers and Anthony Tolliver of the Charlotte Bobcats were also added as new members to the executive committee.
The union will almost certainly avoid the biggest issue that confronted the group last term—a disagreement over revenue sharing that led to a lockout shortening the 2011-12 season. But there are still challenges.
Aside from fighting the legal challenge by ousted NBPA executive Billy Hunter, there is also the issue of finding his permanent replacement. Hunter had served as the executive director from 1996 until this past February, but sued after being voted out.
Among other things, two items—how to test for HGH and other performance-enhancing drugs within the sport; and revisiting the issue of an age-limit requirement to enter the NBA—figure to be among the big issues weighing on the newly elected executives.
They'll be working with a new league commissioner starting in February, once Adam Silver officially takes over from David Stern, who has overseen the NBA for the last 30 years.
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Breann Gabriella Olivas (left) and her 17-month-old daughter Mallory Zuniga have been missing since Monday. (Waco police photos)
WACO (December 17, 2012)-- Breann Gabriella Olivas, 18, and her 17-month-old daughter Mallory Zuniga, who disappeared a week ago, are safe, Waco police said Monday.
"Breann contacted Waco P.D. and it has been verified that she and the baby are safe," Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said Monda.
The woman asked that her whereabouts not be disclosed, he said.
Last Thursday Waco police asked for the public's help in finding Olivas and her daughter who were last heard from on Dec. 10.
Olivas, who lives with her husband in West Waco, was last seen attending a cosmetology class at McLennan Community College.
She attended her 16-year-old brother's funeral several weeks ago and appeared to be very distraught, police said.
Police said at the time Olivas and her daughter may be in the Odessa area.


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1933 Ford Convertible - The Italian JobWritten by on November 1, 2011 Ron and Lois Beard's ASC '33 convertible is beauty to behold
For some street rod builders the journey is the build. They toil endlessly in their garages to transform ideas into rolling art, every day moving closer to the destination. Yet when the destination nears, and the car is ready to roll into the light of day, their eyes mysteriously turn toward the horizon and you can almost hear the gears meshing inside their heads as they lay plans for a new journey with a new project. The paint on the finished car has yet to dry before boxes filled with parts begin arriving for another build. Clearly, it's the journey not the destination that fuels this breed of street rod builder.
But Ron Beard, who operates a small yet efficient shop in Eugene, Oregon, known as Beard's Auto Works, feels that the journey is more than just about reshaping metal and turning wrenches. It's also about turning the wheels on the finished car. "The destination," Ron says, "is the journey." Translation: Enjoy the car that you just built because it represents hours, days, months, sometimes even years, of your toil and talent, so revel in it all, not just the time spent in the garage burning midnight oil.
Ron, with the support and encouragement of his wife, Lois, likes to practice what he preaches. It took Ron a year and a half to complete his personal 1933 Ford convertible that he began during the summer of 2007. The car, based on an American Speed Company all-steel body, was only two days new when he and Lois drove it to the 2009 Goodguys event in Puyallup, Washington, where it was presented with a Goodguys Pick award.
Part two of the journey had just begun, and during the next two years the car snatched a bevy of awards, among them the STREET RODDER magazine Top 100 at 2009 Pleasanton, Pleasanton's Class Act the following year, the Art Morrison Pick at Puyallup 2010, and Pinky's Top 10 at this year's Goodguys meet in Pueblo, Colorado.
Awards like this are fine and dandy, but if you ask Ron and Lois, all those glittery, shiny plaques and trophies represent only a small portion of the journey. The real fun begins when they hit the open road in their open-top car where they enjoy a panoramic view of this great country. This past spring they packed their Mullins trailer, hitched it to the '33, and set out from their home in Eugene to Colorado, with a layover in Texas to visit Ron's mother and kids before heading for the Grand Canyon. Next stop was Pomona, California, for the L.A. Convertibles Show, and sometime before they made it back up the coast to Eugene the convertible's odometer clicked past the 10,000-mile mark.
But if we could retrace Ron's route all the way back to his 1,800-square-foot shop, and turn the clock back to 2008, we'd probably enjoy an opportunity to see how he gave what is arguably one of Ford's most appealing body styles an even more elegant look. The shop journey began when Ron ordered a frame from the Convertible Shop, specifying an additional 3 inches to the rails. "They told me that it wouldn't work, but I just told them to build it." See, Ron had plans to lengthen the hood portion of the body 3 inches, doing so by essentially pivoting the classic shovelnose grille out 3 inches at the bottom, using the top of the radiator as the pivot point. He meticulously massaged the accompanying sheetmetal along the hood skirts and fenders to maintain proportions, and although all this metalwork sounds easy, it took two weeks just to gain the proper lines. The result is a front end that's even more elegant than when Edsel Ford gave the nod to the original classic design back in 1932.
"I like cuttin' and weldin'," Ron says, and he continued his metal-forming exploits along the rear pan area, trick-looking taillight stanchions, and the custom dashboard and insert that he created. He also took time to do a little metal sculpting to the all-steel, all-original Mullins trailer that now sports fenders and taillights similar to what's on the convertible. That little tagalong also has a nostalgic Coleman cooler and the trunk holds all the Beards' gear. Indeed, during our photo session Lois kept Ron and I well fed from their food stash. Yes, the journey requires that we have our nourishment, too.
Ron also gave the interior some special treatments, chief among them the seat's mounting system. By dropping the floor 3 inches he allowed room for the Nissan bucket seats to swing upward when they move forward to accommodate his wife's more compact sitting position. "That makes it easier to look out the windshield when she drives," Ron says. Sliding either seat back lowers it so that he can enjoy his own view during the journey. Crafty.
Dave Owen, of Dave's Hot Rod Shop, fashioned the custom doorsills and interior panels before Andy "Stitch" Smith at Larry's Upholstery (both shops in nearby Albany, Oregon) applied all the fabric. That and the frame were about the only outsourced jobs, so Ron is real familiar with the car's chassis and drivetrain. The suspension includes a Heidts IFS assembly with rack-and-pinion steering, and the Ford 9-inch delivers the power from the late-model 5.4L Ford engine to the 15-inch rear wheels.
There's an interesting story behind selecting that '04 Ford engine. Ron claims that he knew nothing about the computer-laden engine and its electronic fuel injection, so he set out to learn all he could about it. "I wanted to learn about something different," he explains, having spent years dropping small-block Chevy engines into customer cars. By the time he got the all-Ford drivetrain running, Ron was impressed with what he had. "These are really nice motors," he contends.
And isn't that just part of the journey, learning about something new on the way to the destination? "That's just one more thing I can check off on my bucket list," he shrugs about his newfound knowledge of the all-Ford package.
What's next on his journey? He's already been to the Indianapolis 500 and he's attended Bonneville a few times. "Lois and I have our eyes on the Pebble Beach (concours) event," he confesses. And then there are the customer cars to build, not to mention all the miles of highway that he, Lois, and their clean Ford convertible have yet to explore. For Ron and Lois the journey is never over because they feel that they never reach their destination.


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Our out-of-warrantly xbox died, and it's the CD drive (I've been in the box, and got it back working several times). I've determined it's not a big deal to swap in a new drive - if you also swap the PCB with it (short of transferring info with special programs). Unfortunately, I have BenQ drive with soldered connections, rather than plugin connectors. I've decided the best solution is just to buy a new xbox. But - is there any way to determine from an in-the-box new xbox, without opening the carton and peeking at the tray (which can tell you) what brand drive is in the xbox, so I can buy one that can be easily swapped if (when) it goes bad? Hitachi and Samsung/Toshiba appear to have PCBs with connectors, amking swapping easy if something goes wrong. Is there a serial number or something that can tell me this?
This is only be a partial answer, but this list appears to be up to date with the newest versions and will tell you how to determine what lot numbers and teams mean which drives are in the machine.
All that being said, I don't know that you can find this out without actually seeing the physical xbox 360 unit as these numbers are for sure on there. I do not know if the Lot numbers and teams are displayed on the cardboard box that the unit ships in, so it may not be of any use.


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The 5 Most Terrifying Ways Your Brain Can Turn on You
#2. Only Seeing One Thing at a Time
At any given moment, you're not really seeing everything that's in front of your eyes. For instance, when you watch TV, you're not really aware of the rest of the room, you're only paying attention to what's going on on screen. When you drive, you see the road, not the bird shit on the windshield, even though it's right in your line of vision. Everything else gets filtered out.
Dorsal simultanagnosia is a condition that's sort of like that, except patients can literally only see one thing at a time. If that one thing happens to be the wart developing on your eyelid flap, we're sorry, that's all they can see. They can't help it. Their brains can't process anything more than that. If you point them toward your lips, they'll see your lips, but your eyes will disappear.
"Oh my God, what do I have to do to get you to notice my balls?"
This is due to a failure in another bit of the mental software behind eyesight that we take for granted -- our ability, on the fly, to decode and prioritize what we're seeing, to piece all of it together to make a meaningful narrative in our heads. The people who suffer from dorsal simultanagnosia don't suffer from tunnel vision -- their eyes work fine. There is nothing wrong with their thinking -- their minds are intact. But show them your desk at work and they'll just see a stapler. That stapler could be in the middle of the desert for all they know. The rest of the room could be packed full of people or completely empty. All they see is the stapler.
And now, all they can think of is how much they want to staple you.
This means that if you took them to a new room, they'd have to slowly piece together what's going on, one clue at a time. "A clock on the wall. Well, every room has one of those. A magazine lying on a table. Are we at the library? There are chairs. A pamphlet from a pharmaceutical company ... ah, it's the waiting room at a doctor's office."
Just like everything else on this list, the condition can come from brain trauma, brain lesions or a stroke, but this time the damage hits the spot where your parietal lobe and occipital lobe meet. Diagnosing the condition involves a technique that looks like it comes from a 30-year-old Highlights magazine. Patients are asked to look at the picture below and explain what they see:
Via Linguistics.ucla.edu
"All I see is blind, boiling rage."
If the viewer says "curtains" or "a plate" instead of "those children have a mother who is stoned out of her mind," they probably have this disorder.
#1. Time Becomes Meaningless
Quick! What time of day is it? How much longer until Christmas? How old are you? When is the last time you pooped? If you could answer those questions, even in vague measurements, good job. You don't have time agnosia, and you should be pretty grateful. Because losing the ability to measure time is more than just living in a zenlike state.
People with this disorder are unable to sequence events at all, even big chunks of time like the seasons, much less describe the order of the day. In other words, it's not that people with time agnosia don't remember eating eggs and bacon for breakfast, it's that they don't know if they ate eggs and bacon an hour ago or 10 years ago. Can you imagine all of your memories existing in a jumbled timeless hodgepodge?
You'd never stop vomiting.
One patient with the condition lost the concept of a day. As in a 24-hour cycle that happens 365 days a year. So this woman would wake up, eat, knit booties or whatever it is 40-year-old women do with their day, but had no idea that the day would eventually end and that she'd go to bed and start over the next day. She was living her whole life in the moment -- which would be awesome if she was a Buddhist or a college student on summer vacation, but not awesome if she was an adult with adult responsibilities, which she was.
Fortunately, time agnosia usually heals gradually over time, depending on how severe the original injury was. But, you know, good luck trying to explain that to the patient.
"No time to talk, Doc. I have a business meeting to attend yesterday."
So, if you're able to wake up, get dressed and go to work without your brain totally thwarting the process in some inexplicable way, be thankful. A whole bunch of brain processes that science barely understands had to go just right to make that happen.
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7 Dec 2011 4:36 AM #1
I'm not sure if someone have done Datetimepicker in ST2, but have seen couple of those in ST1.
You can have a look into https://github.com/tomalex0/SenchaTo...Datetimepicker.
Screenshots are available at https://github.com/tomalex0/SenchaTo...ree/master/img
I have also setup few examples to get a better idea of implementation of DateTimePicker and DateTimePickerField.
Have a look and let me know any issues.
12 Jan 2012 3:09 PM #2
Thanks for sharing, I had no problems in the implementation
8 Feb 2012 2:58 AM #3
Not working with Sencha Touch 2 beta .
It gives Cannot call method 'getPageBox' of null this error while click on datetimepickerfield.
8 Feb 2012 7:47 PM #4
Please check the github for updated code, i have made a quick fix.
8 Feb 2012 9:40 PM #5
Thanks tomalex0 now this work for me.
thanks again.
18 Apr 2012 10:45 AM #6
Broken in 2.0.1 rc
They added usedom parameter to picker slot getvalue function. To fix just change DateTime.js line 155 to...
values[item.getName()] = item.getValue(true);
22 Jun 2012 12:50 AM #7
FYI, I got the Cannot call method 'getPageBox' of null error too, but the latest JS files on Github as recommended by tomalex0 worked for me.
28 Jun 2012 6:36 AM #8
The Cannot call method 'getPageBox' of null error happens in the Github version for the Cancel button.
11 Jul 2012 11:52 PM #9
My App rejected due to the datetimepicker field
Hi tomalex0,
I used your datetimepicker on my android app and successfully distribute it to google play.
But when i'm distributing my iOS app, my app is rejected and i got an email stated that the reason why my app is rejected is because the datetimepicker field is not in compliance with App Store Review Guidelines.
They tested my app in iPad running iOS 5.1.1. This is their comment:
"As recommended by the iOS Human Interface Guidelines, Pickers should only be presented within a popover element, Pickers should not take up the entire width of the screen."
In my understanding, your datetimepicker take up the entire width of the screen even on iPad. Or should i do something to make it presented within a popover element when the app is running on iPad?
12 Jul 2012 2:13 AM #10
This is new to me, is your app targeted ipad alone ? what about other lower IOS versions? I think its better you show the picker in some pop up then.
I haven't actually considered these things while developing the component, anyway thanks for the information.


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The 5 Biggest Backfires in the History of Disaster Relief
The nice thing about natural disasters is that you always know who to blame them on: your god, your god's greatest mortal enemy or a kraken. Unfortunately, we don't have the same luxury when it comes to catastrophes brought on by man -- especially when all of man's bright ideas for fixing them just keep making them worse.
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#5. Fixing an Oil Spill With Napalm
It's probably hard to believe now, but BP hasn't always enjoyed the stellar reputation it does today. Back in 1967, British Petroleum chartered an oil tanker named the Torrey Canyon to deliver a mess of crude oil to a refinery in Wales. This wasn't just any run-of-the mill tanker; it was the world's first supertanker, capable of hauling 120,000 tons of oil at a time. And unfortunately, its huge capacity for oil-carrying was just about all that was "super" about the Torrey Canyon, because if that tanker had had the power of flight, it would be in a totally different article right now.
"6 Harbingers of the Apocalypse and FLEE -- FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES."
So you can probably see where this is heading.
The Torrey Canyon's problems started with Capt. Pastrengo Rugiati, who, like most Italian oiler tanker captains, had a few bad habits. One was that he liked shortcuts, presumably so he could get home to perpetuate some Italian stereotypes, like eating spaghetti and extorting bribes. Another was that he kept forgetting whether his ship was set to "automatic" or "manual," which is semi-important when you need to make some tricky maneuvers in a hugeass supertanker. And finally, he appointed the ship's cook as his helmsman.
"The captain is on the starboard side, and I'm drunk on the port."
Shockingly, all of this coagulated into a blitzkrieg of stupid that landed the Torrey Canyon smack dab in the middle of the Seven Stones, a ridiculously famous reef off the coast of Cornwall.
And ... crash.
How They Made It Worse:
Deadly chemicals and napalm.
By nightfall, it was crystal clear that the Torrey Canyon was going down, which was probably why all 31 million gallons of oil on board got sentient and decided to abandon ship. Within 12 hours of the spill, the British navy decided the best option was to unleash an assault of "detergents" on the six-mile slick, since detergents had worked all right on cleaning up minor coastal spills in the past. And what do you know, British Petroleum manufactured those exact detergents! Talk about lucky!
Oh, BP. You guys have the solution to everything!
Except these "detergents" weren't detergents at all -- they were cleaning solvents meant to be used on engine rooms, not oceans. One reporter said that using the detergents to mop up oil was "like trying to pick up quicksilver with boxing gloves." The chemicals not only made it harder to capture the oil but also made it easier for marine animals to capture it. In their mouths. So now birds and fish weren't ingesting just oil -- they were ingesting oil and toxic chemicals.
Via HowardLake
So that didn't work. On to Plan B: BOMBING THE SINKING SHIP WITH NAPALM. The idea was to ignite the oil and burn it off, hopefully before it did much more damage. Which probably would have been awesome, had the navy not missed a quarter of its targets. Or if the oil had actually ignited, which it didn't, even after aviation fuel was dumped on top of it. Then, in a baffling display of shortsighted thinking, frustrated residents began collecting the blobs of oil showing up on the coast and dumping it into a quarry -- that was once a German bomb dump. So now, on account of the bombs, this stinking pit of Texas tea is completely inaccessible to anyone who wants to clean up this mess once and for all.
Via Graeme Robertson
The BBC recommends this hell-pit for days out. The BBC is hard-core.
In the end, more than 120 miles of coastline was contaminated, and 25,000 birds were killed -- and they're still dying today from the spill.
But hey, at least Britain got about $3.1 million out of the deal. We're sure that went a long way in buying new beaches.
#4. Healing Ocean Reefs With Millions of Old Tires
By the 1970s, the hippies had thoroughly indoctrinated the rest of us into believing that maybe we hadn't done the best job of taking care of the planet. One of the places this was most apparent was the ocean, which also went by the name "Liquid Trash Can" at the time. This led to the destruction of coral reefs, among other problems.
"Ridin' the can" never caught on.
Our clear hatred of our own planet was also obvious at our landfills, where millions of tires were accumulating year in and year out. While most people saw these two ecological disasters as unrelated problems, Broward Artificial Reef Inc. saw a solution so crazy it just might work.
How They Made It Worse:
By dumping over 2 million tires off the coast of Florida.
"We prefer the term 'fish playground.' "
In 1974, Broward County and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers teamed up to pair the two most unlikely partners this side of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker: tires and ocean. More specifically, to use the tires to create an artificial reef that would entice new game fish and encourage marine life to attach itself, as it would to a natural coral reef.
The artificial reef part wasn't so crazy; artificial reefs are totally a legitimate thing that reasonable people are successfully using all over the world. Some are made of sunken ships, others are constructed out of outdated subway cars, and most of them are actually doing all right. The difference between those projects and the Osborne Reef, however, was that the other artificial reefs were made of heavy things that tend not to move at the slightest wave. Not so with tires, it turns out.
Who would have thought tires were bad for wildlife?
The tires were anchored to the ocean floor with steel clips and nylon, which you'll recognize as a problem if you remember the concept of rust or the degradability of nylon. Or that there are hurricanes in Florida.
So when normal Florida weather started stirring up trouble, naturally the tires started coming loose from their constraints and walloping natural coral reefs and marine life. And when extraordinary Florida weather started stirring up major trouble, thousands of tires went rogue, showing up off the coast of North Carolina after Hurricane Bonnie.
Like college students at spring break.
Within about five minutes of the dumping of the tires into the ocean, it was clear that Florida had invented a full-on ecological disaster for itself, as if God didn't already hate it enough. They are now in the process of slowly and carefully fishing the 2 million freaking tires out of the ocean. The only bright spot in this self-administered affliction is that the U.S. Army Dive Co. is using the reef as a way to train divers, since, you know, there's a shitload of diving to do.
Via nytimes.com
"This is not the underwater carnival Disney told me to expect."
#3. Fighting Rats With Hordes of Opossums
Frank Sinatra once said about New York City, "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere. ... If I watch out for the rats, because they'll definitely eat my face off."
New York. The city that never sleeps ... without banging all the bedbugs out of the mattress first and peeling rats off its scalp.
New York has always had a rat problem, but recently New York City's rats have gotten so bad that they've been seen sashaying through Taco Bells and subway trains like they were the mayor(s) or something. In Washington Heights, 20 percent of the buildings inspected by health officials showed signs of rat infestation. And those were just the ones they could see. So you'd think someone would have come up with an elegant and simple solution by now.
Not that they haven't tried. Over the years, New York has tried poison, traps, a whole league of professional rat killers and digitally mapping rat populations, but the rat problem persists. In 2005, they even instituted a Rodent Control Academy to educate pest controllers, landlords and restaurant workers about smart rat-avoidance practices. Yet none of these solutions can compare to that one time New Yorkers tried to solve their rodent problem with bigger rodents.
Rat infestation? Opossums. Fire kindling? Opossums. Rhetorical question? Opossums.
How They Made It Worse:
Honestly, does the "fight an epidemic of pests by introducing bigger, meaner pests" technique ever work? Ever?
So, what could be worse than a rat epidemic? Try a raging opossum epidemic.
This one isn't raging; it's just yawning. It's hard to tell the difference.
The idea was as simple as it was stupid: buy some opossums, then release them in the streets of Brooklyn so they would eat/kill/maim all the rats. Easy, right? And of course the opossums would die off themselves after they ate all the rats, because what would be left for them to eat? Taxis? Tourists? No way. Bada-bing bada-boom. Problem solved.
Never mind that opossums have a mouthful of 50 dagger-sharp teeth, or that they're omnivores, meaning they can survive off of any food they find lying around, including the exact same trash that rats live off of. Or that rats are faster than opossums by a factor of a million, so it's not like the marsupials would ever catch them in the first place. Or that rats breed up to five litters a year, and each litter can consist of up to 14 baby rats, so the opossums would never have been able to keep up with the rat-making. Forget all that! What did Brooklynites have to lose?
No, really. They live in Brooklyn. They have nothing to lose.
Peace of mind and living space, apparently. Because not only did the opossums thrive alongside the rats they were supposed to eradicate, at least one brought some rabies with him, just in case his knife teeth weren't horrifying enough. By 2010, Brooklyn gardeners, dogs and teenage girls were all living in terror of their opossum tormentors. And it didn't help that the oversized rodents are really into sightseeing. They were initially released under the Coney Island boardwalk but have been seen in Manhattan and the Bronx as well.
As for the rats the opossums were supposed to kill off, they're doing great, thanks for asking. Budget cuts forced city officials to eliminate dozens of pest-control positions, so cat-size rats are having the time of their lives right now.
Word is they're teaming up against Godzilla, because it's a terrible film.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- New phone books have arrived, and now you have a chance to recycle your old or unwanted phone book(s).
Project ReDirectory kicks off its 23rd year at Berryton Elementary Monday (8/27). Last year students of Berryton recycled the most outdated phone books, which earned them the right to host the kick-off this year.
Students of Shawnee County schools, as well as citizens, are "challenged" to recycle their outdated phone books. The participating school that recycles the most outdated phone books per capita will receive a first place banner and host the 2013 kick off.
Project ReDirectory is part of YP's, formerly AT&T Advertising Solutions', corporate citizenship and sustainability efforts. The campaign is sponsored by YP and organized by Keep America Beautiful - Topeka/Shawnee County. Topeka hosted the first telephone book recycling project in Kansas, leading the way for other communities across the state to establish similar programs.
New 2012 Topeka YP Real Yellow Pages directories began to be delivered to businesses and residences August 24. Outdated directories can then be dropped off at several locations throughout Topeka and surrounding communities from now through September 30.
Scouts can earn a 2012 YP Project ReDirectory patch provided by YP by collecting 10 or more phone books. Scout troops can contact the Keep America Beautiful - Topeka/Shawnee County office in Topeka for forms, and the patches will be distributed to the Scout troops upon receipt of the completed forms.
The paper for YP directories is manufactured employing environmentally responsible production methods, including the use of recycled paper waste and leftover scraps of sawdust and wood chips from lumber production processes.
Residents and businesses can call YP Project ReDirectory at 1-800-953-4400 for information about recycling outdated phone books in this community. Consumers who would like to order directories or stop delivery of directories from any directory publisher can visit www.yellowpagesoptout.com.


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The developer of the new Park Row Apartments, Robert McMaster, says, "When you come into an area like this and you're taking the last significant piece of property there's obviously going to be concern from everybody that what is built here is something that's going to fit in with the community."
It's been well over a decade since this downtown lot was occupied. But the new occupant is receiving mixed reviews in the community.
"Well, obviously this is a tremendous addition to downtown Bowling Green. What it means is that we'll have more residents that live in city center Bowling Green which is a good thing for the business community."
On the flip side, downtown merchants believe it will not help their businesses much, if any. None of the merchants WBKO spoke to wanted to go on camera, but they all say the apartments tenants' are not their target demographic.
Another concern with downtown businesses we spoke to is that the Concerts in the Park, that are performed on the square every summer could be in jeopardy if a sound ordinance is passed. These concerts keep downtown businesses thriving.
Merchants we spoke to also say the downtown square is home to restaurants and bars and that a residential senior complex does not fit in with the trend. But the developer of Park Row says they are proving themselves to be a good fit with downtown.
McMaster says, "Based on our turnouts and some comments today at our ribbon-cutting, I think we've succeeded in doing that. We're very proud to be here."


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KILLEEN (January 7, 2013)--The Texas A&M University Singing Cadets will be at First United Methodist Church in Killeen Friday to help raise money for scholarships for local students.
Established in 1893 as an all-male chorus, the travelling performers promote the "Spirit of Aggieland" through festive pieces and hymns.
According to a spokesperson with Texas A&M University-Central Texas the group has performed for every living president.
The upcoming performance is a presentation of the Killeen-Fort Hood Area A&M Club and will be held Friday at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door.
Advance tickets can be purchased at the Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce, Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce and HB Sheppard Cen-Tex Properties in Belton.
The church is located at 3501 E. Elms Road.
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GRANBY — The East Newton girls closed out Big 8 Conference play in style on Thursday as they rolled Monett in a varsity girls game, 50-17.
The Lady Patriots opened the game on an 18-5 burst and never looked back. Not only did they sparkle on offense, but the defense was good as good as they didn't allow more than five points in any quarter.
Everyone got involved for the Lady Patriots, as 10 players scored in the game. Shelbey Thomlinson and Haley Heilig both led the team with eight points, while Emily Brummett had seven, Ellie White two, Kortney Cambers three, Emily Sorrell three, Laura Hopper six, Whitney Thomlinson two and Sarah Harper four.
East Newton also rolled in the "B" game, 50-11. Hopper led the Lady Patriots with 10 points.
The Lady Patriots closed the regular season at 17-9, 4-3 in conference. They begin district play at 8:30 p.m. Monday in Seneca.
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My Google Activity Report typically shows access from "Windows", "Linux" and "Android" platforms. This month, it is also showing access from the "X11" platform. What would report as "X11"? A question here simply suggests that "X11" means "Linux". However, "Linux" has previously (and still) shows up as a seperate entry.
X11 is version 11 of the X Window System.
And the X Window System is that piece of software which talks to your video hardware and displays bitmapped graphics on your monitor. It underlies your UNIX/Linux desktop environment (e.g. GNOME, KDE, Xfce, etc.) and graphical applications, all of which talk to X at a very low level in order to display graphics on the screen.
As to why Google might identify you as "X11" instead of "Linux" that one is also fairly easy. Most web browsers, in their User-Agent strings, identify the operating system on which they're running, such as Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. But certain versions of Mozilla-based browsers (e.g. Firefox) list the operating system in the User-Agent string as "X11".
For instance, an example Iceweasel User-Agent string looks like:
If you used a browser where "Linux" was missing from the User-Agent string, or used a UNIX operating system which wasn't Linux, then Google might not have identified your operating system correctly and fallen back on the generic "X11".


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A friendly reminder Wednesday June 19th will have the Wild Wild West Modified Shootout roll into town. This will have the top IMCA Modified drivers on the Pacific Coast take on Cottage Grove's local competition. Tickets for Adults/Seniors/Juniors (13-17)/Military are $8.00, Youths (6-12) $5.00, Children 5 and Under FREE, and a whole CAR LOAD will get you into the races for $25.00. Racing will begin at normal time so opening ceremonies around 6:45.
Each race will be $1,000.00 to win and $100.00 to start (full payout and format is listed below). Payout will be done each night after all the races are complete. Entry fees are $80.00 per race and Pit Passes will be $30.00. 2013 IMCA Rules, INCLUDING 2013 PHASE IN RULES, will apply at all tracks and the tire phase in rule has been extended due to so many rain outs. This will make both the Hoosier G-60 and American Racer KK704 both legal tires.
Additional Information
2013 Wild Wild West Modified Shootout Schedule:
June 15th – Grays Harbor Raceway (Elma, Washington)
June 16th – OFF
June 17th – Sunset Speedway (Banks, Oregon)
June 18th – Willamette Speedway (Lebanon, Oregon)
June 19th – Cottage Grove Speedway (Cottage Grove, Oregon)
June 20th – Coos Bay Speedway (Coos Bay, Oregon)
June 21st – Siskiyou Motor Speedway (Yreka, California)
June 22nd – Southern Oregon Speedway (White City, Oregon)
Payout (Will Be Done After Each Night):
1. $1,000.00
2. $600.00
3. $450.00
4. $350.00
5. $300.00
6. $250.00
7. $200.00
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1. Transfer
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4. $75.00
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8 On Down. $50.00
2013 Wild Wild West Modified Shootout Format
Heat races will be lined up by pill draw. We will run duel heats. Round one will be lined up straight up; Round two is inverted from the start of round one. Points will be awarded for finish position as well as passing points in each heat race.
Top 12 in points after heats are locked into the main. Top 10 in points will participate in a drawing on front straightaway for starting position.
We will not run a trophy dash.
There will be two B mains that will transfer 2 cars from each. Each B main will be 15 laps.
We will run 1 LCQ with the remaining cars and transfer 2 to the A main.
Each track will have two "promoter provisional" to fill the 20 car feature.
A mains will be 35 laps.
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Email marketing has blown up over the last few years and they have come up with many different tricks and advertisements in order to catch the eye of future clients. It is also one of the best lead marketing tools around. Email marketing has become an effective lead generator because it is a very smooth way to keep in touch with people.
Mailchimp will give you up to 500 emails for free , I didn't try it , So I don't know about their inboxing guarantee


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Ansonia-Woodland football summary
Woodland 0 0 7 0 — 7
Ansonia 7 20 7 7 —48
A —Arkeel Newsome 24 run (Witold Gul kick)
A— Newsome 28 run (Gul kick)
A — Tajik Bagley 62 run (Gul kivk)
A— Tyler Bailey 38 pass from McKnight (Gul kick)
W— Sean McAllen 13 run (Will Flormann kick)
A — Newsome 7 run (kick blocked by Mike Kenney)
A— Newsome 67 run (Gul kick)
A — Newsome 29 pass from McKnight (Gul kick)
Records: Woodland 9-2; Ansonia 11-0.
Rushing: Woodland — Sean McAllen 12-57; Tanner Kingsley, 3-14; Coby Vaccarelli, 1-2; Pat Hale, 2-25; Ansonia — Arkeel Newsome, 22-241; Saiheed Sanders, 3-37; Jai'Quan McKnight, 7-62; Passing: Woodland — Tanner Kingsley, 10-of-29-3, 76 yards; Ansonia — Jai'Quan McKnight,2-of-3-0, 29 yards; Receiving: Woodland — Jake Pinho, 3-14; Levi Fancher, 2-18; Joe Poeta 1-21; Sean McAllen 2-13; Mike Kenney 1-8; Taylor Tucciarone, 1-2; Ansonia — Tyler Bailey, 1-38; Arkeel Newsome, 1-29.
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I work as a team lead in a fast-growing services company. There is one developer in my team who's not performing well, and unable to solve even the simplest of the problems without being spoon-fed.
I have held multiple meetings with him and even sat next to him while coding to understand the root cause of the problem. He has very good grip on Java, however he lacks the analytical skills and IQ to understand the problem at hand and arriving at a solution. When I sat with him while coding, I noticed that he has good domain knowledge, awarness about the code base, but he cannot think and get solution to the problems and was unable to fix the bugs. He's also a comp sci., graduate. He knows that he is not performing well and I have tried motivating him, punishing him etc. He does spend a lot of effort and he is also focused. But there is no improvement in his performance.
Now, he's asking me for suggestions about what kind of job should he go for. He's very hard working and focused, it's just his inability to solve problems that is preventing him from performing. Should he be sent into software testing projects? Should we suggest him to go into technical support? What suits him the best based on the problem he is facing? Perhaps a technical writer job or something like that.
Please let me know your opinions on this, so I can advise him appropriately.


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Is it true that any monomorphism of commutative Hopf algebras over a field is injective? Moreover, is it true that any epimorphism of commutative Hopf algebras over a field is surjective?
It seems that Ben is nevertheless right that the answer to the first question is "NO". Let $G=SL(2,\Bbb C)$, and $B$ be the subgroup of lower triangular matrices. Then the inclusion $B\to G$ is an epi, since every algebraic representation of $B$ that extends to $G$ does so uniquely (on the nose, not just up to an isomorphism!). This follows from the fact that in any finite dimensional representation $V$ of the Lie algebra $sl(2)$, the operator $e$ is determined by $f$ and $h$. Indeed, the kernel $K$ of $e$ is spanned by vectors $v$ satisfying $hv=mv$ and $f^{m+1}v=0$ for some integer $m\ge 0$, and since $V=\Bbb C[f]K$, the operator $e$ on $V$ is uniquely determined.
So one might guess that a morphism of complex affine algebraic groups $\phi: H\to G$ is an epi if and only if $G/\phi(H)$ is connected and proper (but I did not check this).
No. The category of commutative Hopf algebras over a field is opposite to the category of affine group schemes, so your question is "is every epi of affine $k$-group schemes surjective?" But there are maps of finite groups that are epis, but not surjective (this happens when the image has normal closure the whole group), for example the inclusion of a transposition into $S_3$.
I suspect every epi in commutative Hopf algebras is surjective. Certainly one can't construct an example from finite groups. I might be forgetting some funniness about group schemes.
I haven't read through yet but the following paper by Chirvasitu seems to answer your second question and discusses closely related problems. See discussion in page 7 after Proposition 2.5.
Namely an epimorphism of Hopf algebras over a field $$f : H \longrightarrow K$$ is necessarily surjective if $K$ is commutative.
Yes, the category of commutative Hopf algebras over k is antiequivalent to the category of (pro-)affine group schemes over k, but this equivalence does not respect the obvious functors to (Set). I really meant injective as maps between algebras, not between maximal spectrum, prime spectrum or rational points.


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Why shouldn't Jews be cremated?
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There are a number of reasons, but one is that Jewish law mandates that the human body be treated with respect, even after death. This is true for both Jews and non-Jews, since we are all created "in the image of G-d" (Gen. 1:27); for Jews there is the additional idea that the body was in its lifetime a vehicle for mitzvos (the Divine commandments), and so it should be handled respectfully even after it has ceased to serve that function, like a worn-out Torah scroll or similar sacred objects.
Cremation goes against this idea, and is seen as a degradation of the body. We thus find Amos (2:1) excoriating the king of Moab for "burning the bones of the king of Edom into lime."
There's an excellent article summarizing this and many other considerations, at chabad.org.
In addition to the halachic issues invloved there is an emotional aspect to burial vs cremation. There is no place for family to visit, or a memorial. I recently discovered that a great-great-uncle of mine was cremated and I realized that there is nothing remaining of him on this earth. There may be no emotional benefit to burial for the deceased, but there certainly is for the living.
In the near future when Moshaich will hopefully come, all the Jewish souls will be resurrected and reunited with their bodies in Israel. If one has his body cremated after death then he or she will no longer have a body to reconnect with their soul.
I posted about this awhile back here - http://ishimshitos.blogspot.com/2009/08/ashes-to-ashescremation-controversies.html


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I'm trying to submit to a journal that has a non-standard bibliography format: citations look like this:
Gordon, R. H., C.-E. Bai, and D. D. Li. 1999. "Efficiency Losses from Tax Distortions vs. Government Control," European Economic Review, 43, 1095-1103.
Anyhow, using custom-bib I've almost got a
bst file that works. I have two problems:
1) I have a trailing comma on the authors: e.g.
Gordon, R. H., C.-E. Bai, and D. D. Li., 1999. ...
2) I'm missing the comma between volume and page .e.g:
European Economic Review, 43 1095-1103.
I followed the instructions here to remove the comma after the last author here:
remove comma after the last author
But that resulted in removing all of the commas.
Any suggestion on what to look for in the
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It seems like the opening movie always starts up and won't let me cancel it until it has played for about 10 seconds. Is that because it takes the game that long to load regardless? Is there a way to turn off the movie?
Since version 184.108.40.2064:
Earlier versions:
Enjoy your shiny, intro vid free Civ!
Unfortunately, the game takes that long to load regardless. You can turn off the display of the movie but there is no way to actually disable it so that your game loads faster.
Setting the SkipIntroVideo = 1 in usersettings.ini does not actually shorten the load time. Nor does removing the movie file from the root install directory.
You who answer to the contrary (@FallenAngelEyes & @Oak), I challenge you to actually get out a stopwatch and test it. Results below.
Movie on: 20.4 seconds
SkipIntroVideo Set: 19.95 seconds
Movie File Deleted: 20.4 seconds
File deleted and SkipIntroVideo Set: 20.1 seconds
Test procedure used:
p.s. +1 to bwarner's original comment on the first answer about the load time not improving
p.s.s. I realize now that because everyone has a different time before they can click to cancel the movie, it's probably just the game itself loading and not some bug where they force you to watch a certain amount of the movie. So it may not be fixable at all by Firaxis except by improving load times.
Location of this file in the new Mac version:
In Civ 5 Campaign Edition (purchased through the App Store) on Snow Leopard it is in the following location:
Disabling the loading movie also has the advantage, that you do not have to click the mouse to cut it short. You can open the game, and as soon as the game is ready the music starts.
Instead of having you wait for the old man to start talking and then clicking the mouse.
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I am simply sick after hearing of the shootings in Connecticut. I had to turn the television off.
My son survived the shootings in theater in Colorado, and last week my eldest daughter gave birth to our first grandchild. My four children are not here to hug and reassure them as I did on 9-11, even though I was not sure that I could protect them. As a father I want to be there for my children and grandchild and make sure that they are safe; delusional as that may sound, parents are involved in keeping their children safe on a daily basis. Schools are safe places for children - how could this happen again. I have prayed a lot for the people in Connecticut and for my family and me. Now I have to write and share my ideas with you.
I am a professor at West Virginia Northern Community College and a clinical counselor having practiced 40 years. I have been looking at the research about these tragic mass killings and want to share it with you and hopefully in some small way prevent this from occurring again.
To put it in an algebraic equation: guns plus young men/teens plus mental illness equals death. This is true regardless if we are talking about a depressed 18-year-old male who kills himself or the string of mass murders we as a culture are experiencing. One of the most serious mental illnesses, schizophrenia, characterized by thought process problems and poor reality testing, actually has its onset between 18 and 26 years of age with an acute psychotic break. If you look at the Columbine incident, severe agitated depression has been identified as a factor and, in Aurora, the psychiatric treatment of the alleged killer is consistent. Please note: Depressed people or people with schizophrenia are not dangerous but are suffering with serious illnesses.
What do we do as a society and individuals to prevent these incidents in the future?
As a people, we need to listen to each other, especially our children, and not stick our heads in the sand when we hear something that causes concern. Help is available.
The single most important thing a parent can do for a depressed child is to separate the child and the guns you may have in your home. Remove them from your home, do not just lock them up. Parents, please listen to your school-age children's concerns about going to school and the fears that they may have after this shooting. How a parent handles each child depends on the age and developmental level of the child. Talk to school personnel like counselors or mental health professionals for assistance in you particular situation.
Society needs to engage in a discussion of the multiple causes of mass murders, not just gun control. The aforementioned equation does not deal with society's values, beliefs and delusions about masculinity and the need to have a gun.
Guns do not make us powerful, and guns do kill (contrary to the NRA's reasoning). What do we believe about mental illness and do we fund research and treatment like we do for cancer or heart disease or AIDS? (You may be surprised to know that we know what causes schizophrenia but we have no cure for it; we only manage the symptoms. More hospital beds are filled with people with schizophrenia than any other disorder.)
Help turn this evil into an opportunity to grow and change as people and as a society.
Turn your anger into a resolve to work to prevent this from ever happening again. School needs to be the safe place we all believed it to be. Contact your legislators, the president, your professional organizations and churches and insist that we work to restore sanity to our culture.
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I hate to beat a dead horse here, but i do think that the album kinda loses pace in the middle, specifically tracks 5 and 6. anyway other than that pure classic heavy metal, unmistakable riffs, mindblowing bass work(imo by far Steve's best work is on this album), genius vocals(even though Bruce can't pull off Aces High live to save his life) everything is 90% perfect, so i give this album a 9
Written by Angelic Storm on 10.07.2010 at 09:26
What can I say? This is my fave Maiden album. (and it has very strong competition from Maiden's other awesome 80's albums!) Pure heavy metal perfection. xD
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And when it comes down to it, this is where Heavy Fuckin Metal starts and finishes in my book. The epitome of the genre. Nothing has ever topped this in my book.
Written by 神 on 26.05.2014 at 14:32
An overrated band. Always.


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March 12, 2011
A Day at Kalk Bay Harbour – Flickr pic of the day
This photograph of two men at the beach was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Stephen Wagener aka uStevovo.
Stephen says, "This was taken on December 31, 2010 on the walkway above Kalk Bay Harbour. I have lived in and around Kalk Bay for most of my life and consider it to be one of the most vibrant, culturally diverse places in the city. Every year between late December and early January, partygoers from all over Cape Town descend on the town.
"For me, the best street photographs are candid. By the time you've asked for a photo, the decisive moment has passed. On the day in question, I was taking a photo of something else when these two men saw my camera. They insisted that I take their photo, which I then did merely as a courtesy. When I had it developed, however, I was very happy with how it turned out."
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