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I've been wanting to start playing D&D for some time, and I was wondering how I could get started by myself with relative ease. I own the first two player handbooks, and a set of dice.
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Dungeons and Dragons is very much a social game. As such, there is no real "by yourself" to it. The only things you can really do separate from a group in D&D is to educate yourself on the rules of the game, and prepare for whatever sessions lie ahead.
Toward that end, I recommend two things primarily:
In the end, if you really want to get started in D&D, you'll have to find a group. For this, head down to your FLGS (Favorite Local Gaming Store) and inquire about the local games. Chances are, there's a few that are run right in the back room of the store. You can also search various places online.
When you do find a group, prepare for your first session with the following:
Some essentials to have on hand:
Optional items:
Additionally, if you want to get a feel for the flow of a real D&D game on your own, there's several websites that have podcasts of actual D&D game sessions available for download.
To answer the question, especially in a non-critical light, there are quite a few things possible to do with solitare D&D. While it is a social game, there are many elements that can be simulated, especially if you don't have the ability to game with others. Though I do recommend looking at online gaming (on this site and elsewhere), the game can indeed be played as a solitaire exercise, especially with the cooperation of a site such as this for support on rules questions and clarifications.
First, DDI has a solitaire game, which I quite strongly recommend:
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For battlemaps, I personally find making a map and throwing it on Google Wave with the RPG-Bones battlemap is quite effective, and using iplay4e combined with old characterBuilder characters the best way to track the numbers. I hope that I can recommend the new CB soon, as you'll need a DDI subscription to get the solitaire game, but...
Once you've gone through those two, the best practice is to grab adventures from DDI and the web in general and run them for the tactical encounters. Just like playing chess solo, getting in the right mindset to run everyone is tricky but can be quite fun when you achieve it.
When playing a solitaire campaign by myself, here's what I do. Note, this is a tactical campaign. IF I wanted a RP campaign, I'd write a book (that's for a different question):
You can try the Starter Kit for D&D 4e, it has a solo campaign that teaches you about the rules. It's not that expensive, and gives you a simplified rule book and a couple of campaigns to ease you into the rules, character creation, and eventually being a DM.
The solo campaigns are like "Choose your own adventure" books, and send you through the story line based on your choices and dice rolls.
The drawback is, the set has a lot of errors, typos and isn't as nice of an introduction as I was hoping for. The free additional solo campaign that is available for download is even worse when it comes to errors and typos.
An alternative to playing by yourself would be to subscribe to one of the many fantastic live-play podcasts which are recordings of a group of people playing D&D. Personally I'm a huge fan of the Critical Hits podcast from the folks at Major Spoilers, the Icosahedrophilia podcast and for a shorter, video podcast the Penny Arcade video podcasts (with Wil Wheaton) published by Wizards of the Coast themselves are also fantastic.
All three are easily found via the iTunes podcast search.
There are dozens of others but those three all have the advantage of being exceptionally well recorded and edited - meaning as a listener you can concentrate on enjoying the story - and on learning via listening to how these DM's run 4e.
Of course any game you start or join will play differently depending on your DM and group and play decisions & style, but those three podcasts all are a good way to experience D&D 4th ed by yourself.
Two things you might consider- D&D Encounters (a program that generally runs on Wednesdays at your local game shop) and Living Forgotten Realms were created specifically to address people who are interested in playing D&D but don't know anyone to play with yet. Look into joining an Encounters group and see if you can't make friends with fellow players that way.
I considered this myself when I started playing, however D&D is a social game designed to bring players closer together. The DM is necessary in the game – you must have one and a player can't really DM and play at the same time.
One player and one DM is not exactly an exciting game – however, it is still playable. D&D is aimed at around 3–5 players.
You can play solo D&D, though I recommend playing with others. You can play online using Google+ and the community is, from what I've heard, very active. You would need a webcam and microphone, which are not very expensive anymore and many laptops come with integrated webcams at least.
As for solo D&D, check out various free modules available online. These "canned adventures" have all the adventure details written out so you don't have to make things up. Depending on the writing style of the author you might also get advice on how things in the module will react to different player actions (if the guards at A sound the alarm, reinforcements will come from B and C, etc).
1st edition AD&D dungeon master's guide came with tables for randomly generating a dungeon and populating it with monsters, treasure, etc. Dizzy Dragon: http://www.dizzydragon.net/adventuregenerator/gen among others, has created an online tool that outputs the same information. Just select d20 Pathfinder from a dropdown box and a party level to get a 3rd edition dungeon. It might look sorta compatible with 4e if that's what you play. It defaults to 1st edition, which is very compatible with 2nd edition.
The 1E DMG also has a wilderness generator, which I haven't seen online.
There's a problem with a random dungeon generator though, that it doesn't capture the incredible variety of material a real DM will come up with. Modules are a little better, but many rely on the player not knowing certain secrets. The module of course gives you all the answers, because it's supposed to be a DM aid. Noticing things, critical thinking, and problem solving are a big part of player skill. Learning from modules for D&D is a little like using math workbooks to learn math, in the sense that it helps get you started but you'll find it's different when you have to think on your own.


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What are the differences between pig and hog? The writer of this article wrote them consecutively, separated by only a comma. Searching Google images result in the same type of animal. The differences between pig and boar are clear though.
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Actually, in current usage, "hog" and "pig" means pretty much the same, although there is a slight difference in semantics among pig breeders or famers:
So, "hogs" referred to grown-up pigs. Why, in the first place, was two different words? It seems that, from Wiktionary, "hog" used to have a slightly different meaning:
But that usage is no longer common. Kind of Archaic.
I can't say I read the article thoroughly, but it seems, that the author uses hog as a synonym for feral pig as opposed to domestic pig which is either called that or simply pig.
That corresponds with this short Wikipedia article, which defines hog as Other than the Domestic pig and lists a couple of examples on wildlife hogs (Giant forest hog and Red river hog)
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In the United States, the term "pig" refers to a younger domesticated swine weighing less than 120 pounds (50 kilograms), and the term "hog" refers to older swine weighing more than 120 lbs. In Great Britain all domesticated swine are referred to as pigs.


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At the end of Prometheus, we are lead to believe that the Engineers were planning on using the black goo as a biological weapon to end human life on Earth. At the beginning of the movie, black goo is used to create the DNA that would lead to human life. Humans don't seem super aggressive compared to the life forms created by the black goo in the airlock room. Is this the same black goo used to create human life in the beginning of the movie, as the black goo that created the hyper-aggressive worm and the giant squid Dr. Shaw gave birth to? Or, did the Engineers try to "tweak" this goo to perform different actions on DNA?
Is the black goo used to create human life the same the Engineers intended to use as a biological weapon to destroy human life on Earth?
This interview with director Ridley Scott and writer David Lindelof indicates that it is the same liquid, but their film is intentionally ambiguous about what exactly the liquid does.
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Welcome to the Orchard Project – a free, community-focused, open source CMS built on .NET and designed meet the needs of developers, designers, and end-users alike. In this talk, we'll build a site from the ground-up using Orchard's admin panel and flexible module and theme system. We'll look at the available ecosystem of modules and themes in the Orchard Gallery, and take a peek "under-the-hood" of Orchard to demonstrate how you can write your own custom extensions, widgets, and more. We'll also delve into the Orchard's template system in detail, demonstrating how you can create a highly-customized look-and-feel for your site. We'll end by actually shipping our totally customized Orchard-based application to a live site.
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BOSTON, MA (Jan. 7, 2014)—The Boston Conservatory Dance Division has been selected as one of the top 45 dance programs in the country by author Elaina Loveland in the latest edition of Creative Colleges: A Guide for Student Actors, Artists, Dancers, Musicians and Writers, which aims to give creative, college-bound students the information and resources needed to select an appropriate training program. The Boston Conservatory's dance program has been selected for inclusion in the book in all four editions published since 2005.
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What bug exactly? I have now no computer with IE8. I will try to fix it without having it.
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I got problem to get this plugin work when is loaded dynamically.
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Use the firebug plguin of the firefox, look at the tab "Net" when loading dynamically. It will show what could be loaded and what not. Apparently, the tiny_mce_src.js could not be loaded, but the TinyMCETextArea.js could.
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Thank you, Qtx, for response.
Both scripts are successfully loaded. As far as I tried to find, it looks like plugins aren't loaded for some reason. Function init() of TinyMCE is called, but that is all.
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Well, then you have to do the step by step debugging starting from the method init(). The file tiny_mce_src.js is not the once that is required, many other files, not only plugins, are also loaded dynamically over special loading methods, so that you have only to include the tiny_mce_src.js into your code and others are loaded automatically.
Maybe they are not loaded at all? Are js errors reported by firebox when you load?
Study the method loadScripts of the TinyMCE.
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Looks like 'ready' event is not fired and function defined on line 12494 is not processed. But I can not figure why...
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It looks like you have found the reason! The ready event is the event for the document rediness. It was fired when your documet is successfully loaded. When you load the script dynamically, the document is already ready, and this event is not fired anymore.
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I finally found a solution. I added these lines to TinyMCETextArea plugin to initEditor funciton before tinymce.init function is called (line 475):
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Measuring just 11-by-2-by-2 inches makes it easy to store in a backpack to print boarding passes, movie tickets or anything you have to have on paper right there and then.
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[Washington, DC] -- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the European Union have signed a bilateral agreement guaranteeing free access to goods and services. The agreement is part of the Kingdom's bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), which could happen as early as 2004. In the accession process, the Kingdom is negotiating bilateral agreements with current WTO members while adopting the organization's trade rules. Saudi Arabia has already signed 14 bilateral trade agreements with other members of the WTO, including Japan, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Australia.
Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan stated: "The conclusion of this most recent agreement is a further indication of Saudi Arabia's determination to join the WTO. The bilateral agreement with the EU brings us one step closer to our goal of accession."


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(Apologies in advance for the vague and miasmic question)
Is there a book, or other resource, there that can explain using Drupal, The System, to a web app oriented programmer?
I've read through the Apress Pro Drupal Development book and it was a fantastic overview of the system's architecture. That's not what I'm looking for here.
Instead I want something that's going to tell/show me "Here is how people use Drupal to manage their sites and build applications". I've been building websites and web applications since the beginning, and whenever I sit down to spend some time with Drupal I find I can't leave behind my concepts of
A URL equal one HTML page, and everything flows from there
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and Drupal seems to be built on an entirerly different model.
So any books, tutorials, or explanations that start from the above two points and explain how Drupal is different, and what Drupal developers spend their days doing would be fantastic.


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Have you run into the PS4 save corruption error? Reports have begun to increase [Update]Written by: / / 18 Comments
Sony has responded to queries regarding the PS4 'ce-34878-0' error, as a representative wrote (from VG247):
"We are aware of the cases and we appreciate your patience while we investigate."
In addition, Sony has posted an official fix for the issues, writing (from OPM):
Error: CE-34878-0 Application has crashed
– Step 1: Close the application, install the latest system software and game update, and restart the system.
– Step 2: If the error occurs again, back up your saved data, and then go to [Settings] > [Initialization] and choose [Initialize PS4].
Let us know if you've been having problems and if the above steps work for you.
[End of Update]
Have you run into the mysterious 'ce-34878-0 Error' on your PlayStation 4?
Reports of the error have become increasingly prevalent lately but there's still no consensus on what is causing the error, which users on the official PlayStation forum are saying is corrupting their save files for games, rendering them unplayable.
Some users are reporting that save files for games as different as Assassin's Creed IV, NBA 2K14, Battlefield 4 and FIFA 14 have become corrupted, which means that it's not publisher or even game specific. As quickly as users advise others on possible fixes for the problem – everything from disconnecting from the internet, to deleting and reinstalling games, to getting a new PS4 – others report that the fixes don't work for them.
The thread on the official forums is now at thirty-six pages long with 352 messages, but as the reports of this error increase there is still no word from Sony on a possible fix or recognition of the error.
Have you run into this peculiar error while playing PS4 games?
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Before And After
Tommie Ortega
From: The Cancer Poetry Project: poems by cancer patients and those who love them (Karin B. Miller, editor) Fairview Press, 2001
I remember water
touching my body differently
as, still whole, I lay in that last hot bath.
Now I discover a freckle
beneath where my breast once was
and feel a newness come over me.
I ask god to tell me he loves me
and he answers
through the taste of a sweet, summer peach.
Water pours over a scarred, curveless mass, and I am


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I'm looking for clues on which tool to use to see all the resources that a browser would load when going to a particular URL. This would be similar to the list seen in Chrome's Developer Tools -> Frames, but output as something nice like JSON or XML.
You can use firebug. It is an excellent add-on. Don't forget to check the details here: http://getfirebug.com/
You want Live HTTP Headers for FireFox. As you load a website it list every URL that is loaded along with the request and response headers that are sent and received. There is a "save" button that you can use to save them all to disk.
By asking on another site, I found out that Chrome's View -> Developer -> Developer Tools -> Network panel lets you save this information by right-clicking on the bottom bit which tell you all the resources.


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The 7 Most Badass Man vs. Beast Showdowns
#3. The Best Goddamn Mother-In-Law Ever
The Showdown
We here at Cracked have a theory about why unexpected things happen sometimes, and that is unexpected things happen so we can write articles about them, because we are the favorite sons of the Universe.
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How else can you explain situations like what happened to Leon Chizeji, a school teacher from Zambia, who went outside of his house one morning to find two tons of pissed off Hippopotamus charging him on his front lawn, fully intent on dishing out some early morning assbeat.
Leon quickly found himself in the jaws of the hippo, being tossed around like a rag doll.
Then, help came from the most emasculating of sources possible: His mother-in-law. Rejoice Mushala made the choice to help save him from the rampaging beast instead of just letting it tear him up in hopes her daughter would marry someone richer next time.
She most likely made this choice because she isn't a character in an old sitcom.
Rejoice came to the rescue with a pounding stick and started clubbing the hippo in the head until it dropped Leon and retreated, presumably in search of a larger stick. Leon got off lucky with limited wounds to his hands, buttocks and pride as a man.
Badass Rating: 5/10
This was a perfect storm of brave old lady gonads and fantastic luck. The fact that the hippo wasn't more violent than it already was, that it didn't kill anybody and that it didn't turn on Rejoice once she attacked it should make churchgoers out of everyone involved.
The hippo was undoubtedly Hungry, Hungry.
Nonetheless, she went to bat against a pissed off, two-ton creature with massive teeth while most of us would've been huddled inside searching for Sylvester Stallone's number in the white pages. For that, we salute her.
#2. Diver Challenges A Shark To Mortal Kombat
The Showdown
It seemed like any other day for professional spear fisherman Craig Clasen had been hunting yellow fin tuna just south of the Mississippi River's mouth with several of his friends. Things started to go south when one member of the group, Ryan McInnis, became stranded alone in the water away from the boat. Well, actually, he wasn't completely alone.
He had company in the form of a 12-foot tiger shark, and in case you failed "animals that will murder your face" class, tiger sharks are known for being fatally aggressive and can eat anything from tuna to dolphins to guys named Ryan McInnis.
"The next thing that pisses me off is getting eaten, I swear to God."
Clasen spotted the shark's attack posture and decided that this shit was now on like Donkey Kong. He jumped in the water with a spear gun and a knife, swam over to the shark and embarked on what would become a two hour long fight to the death/battle of destiny.
Clasen proved his manliness and came out on top of the duel after shooting the shark in the head and gills with his spear gun six times and using his knife to finish the job. All the while his friends were getting pictures of the deed, presumably because they knew no one would believe "I stabbed a shark in the face" on faith alone.
"Fuck you, shark!"
Badass Rating: 9/10
Unlike some of the others on this list, Clasen had the help of an honest-to-God weapon and thus a better fighting chance than many. However, the fact that he looked out into the ocean, saw a shark speeding towards his friend and decided "fuck this", probably makes him the baddest dude that ever lived. And if that wasn't enough, Clasen had this to say about the incident: "Personally I never shoot anything or kill anything that I am not going to eat. We saved the tail and the head, cut a giant chunk out of it and ate a piece."
Tastes like victory! Also, shark.
That's right. He killed the shark, and then he ate it. The balls of everyone else on the boat retreated back into their abdomens like frightened groundhogs.
#1. Daniel M'Mburugu Ain't Nothin' To Fuck With
The Showdown
Americans tend to only know Kenya for two things: Guys that are fucking awesome at running marathons and dangerous animals that are fucking awesome at eating guys that run marathons. Are the two connected? And if we want an American to win the Boston marathon next year, should we unleash some jungle cats during training? Might be worth a shot.
The guy in the corner is timing his lap.
Anyway, while normally your speed tends to decrease with age, Daniel M'Mburugu was not like most 70-year-old Kenyans. He was instead the African Clint Eastwood, a dude so tough you could sharpen a knife just by holding it in the air next to his face.
One day, Daniel was minding his own business tending to his potato garden when suddenly giant spotted death in the form of a leopard lunged towards him, probably thinking that it had some easy pickings on the way. Unfortunately for the leopard, Daniel wasn't taking any of Death's calls that day (play some metal right here for the ultimate effect).
As the leopard lunged and knocked him to the ground, Daniel's seven decades of life told him exactly what he had to do: Rip the bastard's fucking tongue out with his bare hands.
Get up, go to the soda machine, then come back to your desk and read that sentence again. Sadly, Craig Clasen's friends weren't there to take pictures.
Badass Rating: 10/10
That's right, Daniel scores a perfect 10 on our badass scale, if for no other reason than one we haven't mentioned yet. Remember how we speculated about the old man in the snake fight tossed aside his knife just to be badass? Well that actually happened here.
"A weapon? No. I only use this for whittling."
That's right; Daniel had a machete at the start of the fight, but he dropped it because the voice of God told him to kill the leopard with his bare hands.
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How can I write a shell script that shows the results in real time?
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It would help if you were a lot more specific about what you are trying to do.
Here is an extremely simplistic example:
you can use the watch(1) command to run your script at regular intervals:
This will run
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It give's you a lot of real time information and is easier to control and manage.
You can change the layout of the output, such as bar graphs and columns.
Most of that data is generally exposed in the /proc virtual file-system primitives. Each process has an entry in /proc in a directory called the PID. So /proc/5437 would have the primitives for the 5437 process. Reading the primitives there and parsing appropriately would yet you close to what top does.
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America, Catholics & Elegant Racism
As deftly summarized in this article by Adam Serwer, there is a through line connecting last year's evisceration of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court's five man Catholic majority in Shelby County v. Holder to the infamous1857 Dred Scott decision written by the Court's first Catholic justice, Roger Taney.
That fact alone is reason enough to give white Catholics in the United States pause this Independence Day regarding the enduring sin of racism, a sin inextricably interwoven with American history for at least 395 years.
The new issue of America, "Black and Catholic", offers a wealth of ways to enter into the topic---from a profile of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eugene Robinson, to a reflection on the life of Sr. Thea Bowman, to Vincent Rogeau's assessment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act's impact, to book recommendations from a distinguished collection of black Catholic intellectuals, to a republication of the editors' reaction to passage of the Civil Rights Act 50 years ago.
My own favorite (a word which when used as here means something like "deeply discomforting because it rings so true") contribution to this collection comes from Boston College professor of systematic theology M. Shawn Copeland. In "Revisiting Racism: Black Theology and a Legacy of Opporession", Copeland deftly summarizes the emergence of Black Theology from the "time of turmoil" (1954-68) and its enduring revelance in our current age of "elegant racism" which is "invisible, supple, enduring."
Many thanks to all the editors and contributors to this issue of America for a lovely and timely Independence Day offering to the rest of us.
About the Author
Luke Hill is a writer and community organizer in Boston. He blogs at dotCommonweal and MassCommons.
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That fact alone is reason enough to give white Catholics in the United States pause this Independence Day regarding the enduring sin of racism, a sin inextricably interwoven with American history for at least 395 years.
Actually, I'm a white Catholic and do not practice racism, so there is no "enduring sin of racism" being committed by myself. This sounds like the standard practice by liberals to induce white Americans (and especially white Catholics) to feel guilty about things they have never done or thought. These are the attempts to construct phsychological "cages" in the minds of those in the target group so as to insure that they don't question liberal orthodoxy, on any subject. It has been very effective in the past, but folks are increasingly shucking it off for the psywar propoganda it is.
Are you saying that you do not accept the argument that all our inherited systems were constructed by and for white people and that they still privilege white people? I think that is the charge of "racism" in reference to our systems--educational, justice, economic, etc. If that argument is valid, then the further argument would be that we all have a responsibility to remodel the systems to ensure equality. It isn't about individuals feeling guilty. It is about everyone recognizing the problem, seeing the harm it causes, and working for a more just society. Do you reject these arguments?
My questions above are for Bob Schwartz. Sorry, I couldn't get them into the "reply" box.
The concept of "whiteness" and actually being white are two different things. Race is complicated. As Tim Wise explains, in the sevetneenth century there was no white race. Scottish people fought highlandes and lowlanders.
The issue was economics, elitism, and the building of priviledge. The economic elite gave carrots to certain other Europeans. They (the lower European economic class) entered into the social compact with elite landowners and the structure of slavery emerged. The elite were able to break apart coalitions of people of both races who had similar economic and political interests.
This problem still exists but it is more an issue of economic class. So it is strange that you have two communities (white and black) who have similar socio-economic class but the white people will blame the blacks in the next district who have the identical social and economic condition as them.
Here is Tim Wise explaining the issue well:
There was at least some element of race in racism and the Catholic church. I'm thinking of the Valladolid debate that asked if the natives of the Americas were "people" .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valladolid_debate ... and the guy who gets all the credit for arguing that theywere was instead a supporter of the transatlantic slave trade of natives from Africa ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas
Paula: Your question,
It isn't about individuals feeling guilty. It is about everyone recognizing the problem, seeing the harm it causes, and working for a more just society. Do you reject these arguments?
presupposes that there is a "problem" you have defined as having the quality of "privileging white people". I don't think that's true. Therefore I don't propose to spend any time working to fix a nonexistent problem. One of the greatest mechanisms holding people of color back is the out-of-control birth rate of single women, and the fact that a huge percentage of black kids virtually have no fathers. But not to worry, the same problem is overtaking the white and hispanic population, thanks to the overall disintegration of Western (judeo-christian) civilizational behavioral norms. In fact, from where I sit, we are in the final stages of collapse. Now that's equality!
One of the greatest mechanisms holding people of color back is the out-of-control birth rate of single women
Bob, why do you think single women of color behave differently from others? Is it because they're black, and then isn't that a racist opinion? Or is it due to the social context, and then how did that situation develop to create such conditions for black women specifically?
George D,
The problem can't be reduced to economics. Even ignoring the ongoing presence of discrimination and bias, the experience of a black person of a given income or with parents with a given income isn't the same. Both housing covenants and mob violence prevented black families from being able to live anywhere they could afford, and discrimination by the Federal Housing Administration meant that the only financing available was exotic mortgages that were designed to extract a family's entire wealth before foreclosing. The result of these is that a black family of a given income is going to live in a neighborhood with more poverty that a white family with the same income, and the black family is going to have less wealth built up than a similar white family.
The problem is the subculture, not race. Why is the current subculture so toxic? I have my own ideas about that, ideas that I cannot absolutely verify, but they make sense to me. Again, it gets back to behaviorlal norms.
Bob: When you heard about the shooting of Trayvon Martin, did you assume he was a thug who was "asking for it"? Or did you assume that George Zimmerman is a bigot, or a Barney Fife wannabe, who got away with murder?
I was living in Florida at the time, and I never doubted that it was Zimmerman who escalated the confrontation with Martin, and that Martin's murder was totally unjustified. I'm white, and I was astounded and discouraged by how many other whites immediately assumed the worst about Martin.
There are many reasons for stratification. Race is a factor only to the extent that a race is identified with a particular class.
This is not possible to prove one way or the other but it does suggest the need to look for the cause of inequity beyond just race. Colonization in the context of American Indians is also a factor. Manifest destiny is one of the most vile doctrines to emerge out of the United States and amounts to an immoral and illegal occupation and theft of Indian land.
But you will hear American politician prattle on endlessly on American exceptionalism, a cover for a multitude of imperialistic sins.
Papal teaching around the status of indigenous people in the new world was actually quite good. That does not mean it was always followed in particular instances. But, on balance, the teaching was good from the indigenous justice point of view. The Canadian Jesuit Michael Stogre has a good book on that entitled,
"That the World May Believe: The Development of Papal Thought on Aboriginal Peoples."
I have a copy of the painting by Blake Dabassige that is on the cover.
The first reports I heard were encapsulated within what a little later was revealed to be a doctored audio tape that indicated Zimmerman volunteered the information, without being asked, that Trayvon was black. Zimmerman was talking on the phone with the police; he had called them to report a suspicious person in the neighborhood for which he was a (the?) designated Neighborhood Watch person. The undoctored tape indicated that the police asked Z to describe the suspicious person.
In addition, the much publicised photo of Tryavon was of what appeared to be a 12-year old kid. And finally, an again much publicised picture of Zimmerman's head appeared to show only a minor small abrasion.
As it turned out, Travon was, what, seventeen at the time? And rather more physically robust than that picture. And a later photo of Zimmerman's head showed a kind of bloody mess. We later learned that there had been an upsurge in break-ins & burgluries in the area and that Trayvon had a couple "typical" burglury tool in his knapsack (screwdriver, etc.). From all of the above shenanigans perpetrated by the media, I leaned towared Zimmerman's side of the story. And, by the way, first Z was described as "white", then later as "white hispanic". From the above it was easy for me to see that the media were desprerate to cast Z as the villain.
I now think that Z is somewhat of a screwball, but that is what I got from the media.
The story of how Roberts may or may not have grifted the Court's liberal block is quite a tale (told more succinctly here). If I were liberal, I'd be worried about what undetectable explosive devices Roberts might have sewn into his Obamacare decision.
Liberals questioning the Court's construction, out of very little, of a doctrine of "Equal Sovereignty" reminds me of social conservatives questioning the construction, out of similarly meager materials, of a doctrine of privacy. I guess both sides take turns wearing the originalist hat.
At the risk of being a calming influence, I'd note the following:
* Except for the one part struck down by the Roberts Court, the Voting Rights Act remains in force, including at least one part that specifically outlaws racial discrimination in voting. I've read recently that Attorney General Holder's Justice Department is making use of those other sections to protect voting rights.
* Congress still has the ability, if it chooses, to repair the unconstitutional sections of the Voting Rights Act. It strikes me as a good sign that a Republican is introducing legislation in the House to do so.
* Some commentators have noted that the recent GOP primary run-off election in Mississippi, in which the incumbent Senator Thad Cochran staved off a challenge from his right, illustrates that the struck-down section of the Voting Rights act may no longer be an indispensable tool to ensure voting rights. Cochran prevailed by inducing black voters to cross over. He campaigned hard to get their vote, got it, and won. It's worth noting that Mississippi has a voter ID law. American democracy worked in Mississippi in 2014.
Am I misreading you badly, or are you suggesting that racism is now a "non-existent problem"? Even if one believes that racial attitudes are much more enlightened now than they were one hundred or fifty years ago (and I suspect that is not uniformly the case for Americans), the results of 200+ years of slavery and an additional 100+ of institutionalized racism (Jim Crow laws, denial of voting rights, de jure and now de facto segregation in housing and schooling that continues today) might be expected to have an impact on African Americans. I find it impossible to believe simply saying "We're not racists" eliminates the destructive effects that racism has had on African American wealth, educational opportunities, and family life.
I try very hard not to have any racial prejudice, but I have to wonder if the priviliges I still enjoy as a white person are a bit like living on stolen property. I think we need to do much more for racial and economic justice in this country. We have little reason for self-satisfaction.
I think that if you're reading Bob at all, then you're reading him badly.
Bob, I've always suspected that the injuries to Zimmerman's head could have been self-inflicted. Given that he already had been accused of domestic violence by an ex-girlfriend, once he shot Trayvon, Zimmerman might have immediately realized he was in deep trouble unless he could convince the police that he'd been attacked and had shot in self-defense.
I carry a nail file in my purse. If I were a black woman, would a white racist jump to the conclusion that I use it to pick locks instead of filing my nails? I've also read that Trayvon was acting "suspiciously" because he was peering into windows in the apartment complex. When one remembers that it was dark, Trayvon didn't live there, and was trying to find his way back to the apartment where his father's girlfriend lived, it seems more logical than suspicious.
As someone said about O.J. Simpson: I'd like to know the last thing Zimmerman thinks about at night and the first thing he thinks about in the morning.
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Dear Friends I have two mfc application. One is a dll and the other one is a client exe application. From the exe application I am trying to load the dll and launch the mainwindow of the dll.
For that in dll.....I have the view class there in view implementation file i am declaring a view pointer, like the code below
Now I have exe applicatioln where I want to launch the mainwindow of the dll above is given below.
With this my application mainwindow is appearing but immediately its crashing. Can anyone tell me whats going wrong. How can I launch the mainwindow of the dll ?? Please help me. Thanks Sujan
For that in dll.....I have the view class there in view implementation file i am declaring a view pointer, like the code below
//RevolutionProjView.cpp file CRevolutionProjView *view; CRevolutionProjView::CRevolutionProjView() { view = this; } // The I am creating an extern C function by name runAppli like below. extern "C" BOOL __declspec(dllexport) runAppli(void) { AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState()); view->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW); return true; }
void CClientRevProjDlg::OnBnClickedButton1() { typedef VOID (*MYPROC)(void); HINSTANCE hinstLib; MYPROC ProcAdd; BOOL fFreeResult, fRunTimeLinkSuccess = FALSE; hinstLib = LoadLibrary(L"C:\\Users\\DasmahapatraS\\Projects\\Bhagavan_Cadem\\RevolutionProj_OrthoGraphic\\debug\\RevolutionProj.dll"); if (hinstLib != NULL) { ProcAdd = (MYPROC) GetProcAddress(hinstLib, "runAppli"); if (fRunTimeLinkSuccess = (ProcAdd != NULL)) (ProcAdd) (); fFreeResult = FreeLibrary(hinstLib); } if (! fRunTimeLinkSuccess) printf("message via alternative method\n"); }


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(CNN) -- A day after it launched a punishing strike on the East Coast of the United States, Superstorm Sandy remained a threat Tuesday.
The storm made landfall along the coast of southern New Jersey on Monday night, but its mammoth size affected a much wider area -- and continued to do so as it shuffled northward toward Canada, leaving at least 33 U.S. deaths in its wake.
By Tuesday afternoon, nearly 7.9 million customers were without power in 15 states and Washington, according to the latest CNN estimate.
President Barack Obama signed disaster declarations for New York and New Jersey. He has signed emergency declarations for other states and the nation's capital.
Nearly 11,000 people spent Monday night in scores of Red Cross-operated shelters in the hard-hit mid-Atlantic region.
Here's a look at how Sandy has affected the United States and Canada.
-- The death toll stands at two, according to state police spokesman Lt J. Paul Vance. The victims -- one of them a firefighter in Easton -- were killed by falling trees.
-- Some 458,349 customers were without power, according to utilities.
-- Power went out for 42,585 customers, authorities said. Delmarva Power said it cannot predict how long it will take to restore power.
-- Gov. Jack Markell scaled back driving restrictions Tuesday morning.
-- Officials said 11,845 customers were without power.
-- Metro transportation bus and rail service was restored on modified schedules. The system expected normal service to resume for Wednesday morning's commute.
-- About 60,149 homes and businesses were without electricity, according to Central Maine Power.
-- Two people have died, an emergency management official said. A falling tree hit a house, killing a man inside. A car accident blamed on the storm accounted for the other death.
-- Raw sewage was leaking from a plant in Howard County, emergency management spokeswoman Karen Spicer said. About 2 million gallons of sewage per hour were pouring out of the Little Patuxent Water Reclamation Plant as a result of a power outage.
-- Utilities said 332,704 customers were without power.
-- A state of emergency remained in effect.
-- More than two feet of snow had fallen in Western Maryland, forecasters say.
-- State employees returned to work Tuesday morning, according to the governor's office.
-- Utilities said 262,607 customers were without power.
-- Gov. Deval Patrick said utilities plan to pair tree removal and power restoration crews, rather than having them work separately, so that work can be done more efficiently.
-- New Hampshire's power suppliers reported 154,009 customers without electricity.
-- Gov. John Lynch urged drivers to stay off the state's roads.
-- The governor asked the National Guard to place 100 troops on active duty, with 100 more on standby.
-- Obama will travel Wednesday to New Jersey to join the governor in viewing damage, talking with people recovering and thanking first responders, the White House said.
-- Emergency workers saw widespread damage on every New Jersey rail line.
-- A tidal surge stranded rail cars on the New Jersey Turnpike.
-- Houses sat in the middle of Route 35. The amusement pier at Seaside Park was half washed out, and amusement park rides were in the ocean.
-- Sandy has killed at least three in the Garden State. Two people in Morris County died Monday evening when a tree fell on their car, authorities said. A male of unknown age was killed in Hawthorne when a tree fell on a house, town Fire Chief Joseph Speranza said.
-- A dam or levee broke early Tuesday in the town of Moonachie, said Jeanne Baratta, chief of staff for the Bergen County executive, which handles operations for the county government. Rescues were under way in Moonachie, Little Ferry and Carlstadt, where 4 to 5 feet of water had flooded streets. People were standing on their roofs.
-- Sandy left 2,356,495 customers without electricity.
-- Flooding was reported in portions of Atlantic City and Hoboken.
-- New Jersey Transit service was suspended indefinitely. Flooding also forced the closure of Newark Liberty International and Teterboro airports.
-- The Garden State Parkway in New Jersey was open, but more than 200 other state roads remained closed, Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday in a Twitter message.
-- Sandy killed 18 people in New York City alone, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
-- Outerbridge Crossing, George Washington, Goethals and Bayonne bridges were reopened, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. The Tappan Zee Bridge, over the Hudson River, was opened, the governor's office said.
-- A record-setting power outage darkened a large Manhattan hospital, triggering a patient evacuation.
-- About 2,063,773 customers were without power, suppliers said.
-- New York's LaGuardia International Airport was not expected to reopen Wednesday, but John F. Kennedy International Airport likely will reopen, Cuomo said.
-- New York University Langone Medical Center went dark late Monday. More than 200 patients were evacuated after backup power failed, said hospital spokeswoman Lisa Greiner.
-- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said more than 80 houses were lost in a fire in the Breezy Point section of Queens.
-- Water spilled into subway tunnels connecting Manhattan with Brooklyn and with Queens, said Metropolitan Transit Authority spokesman Aaron Donavan. The water will have to be pumped out. The subway system remains closed entirely, as does MTA's bus system.
-- Two roadway tunnels linking Manhattan to the two boroughs took on water and seven MTA bridges were closed because of high winds.
-- Obama declared a disaster in New York state, freeing federal funds for the counties of Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), Nassau, New York, Richmond (Staten Island), Suffolk and Queens.
-- A crane atop a luxury Manhattan skyscraper under construction partly collapsed Monday, leaving its arm hanging over West 57th Street.
-- The captain of HMS Bounty, a tall sailing ship used as a prop in classic adventure films, was missing after Hurricane Sandy forced the crew to abandon ship some 90 miles off Cape Hatteras. Two helicopter crews saved 14 people stranded in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. A deckhand missing from the 180-foot ship was found dead, the Coast Guard said. The guard was searching for the missing captain about 125 miles southeast of Hatteras.
-- On Monday night, a 25-year-old driver died when a tree fell on his truck.
-- About 79,856 customers were without power.
-- Gov. Beverly Perdue declared a state of emergency for 24 counties in the western part of her state because of snow.
-- High winds, flooding and snow have hit parts of the state.
-- Suppliers said 238,816 homes and businesses lost power.
-- An 8-year-old boy struck by a tree limb in Susquehanna County was pronounced dead at a residence in Franklin Township, state police said.
-- Gerald Witman, 62, of Oley, was killed when a falling tree struck him, State Police spokesman David Beohm said.
-- Another person died in a traffic accident in Somerset County, Gov. Tom Corbett said.
-- Utilities said 1,190,206 homes and businesses were without power.
-- Thirty-eight Pennsylvania counties were under emergency declarations, and 1,700 National Guard troops were on the ground, Corbett said.
-- The union's smallest state, with slightly more than 1 million residents, reported 114,710 customers without electricity. Outages were concentrated in the southern part of the state, affiliate WPRI-TV in Providence reported.
-- Few used public evacuation shelters. Widespread debris cluttered the roads, "but no casualties and relatively little alarm," WPRI said.
-- Power suppliers said 692 homes and businesses had no power.
-- Two storm-related traffic fatalities were reported by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The deaths occurred in the state's central region.
-- Sandbags were piled inside restaurants in the Old Town section of Alexandria along the banks of the Potomac River.
-- The number of customers without power stood at 272,562.
-- The state asked that only its essential state employees report to work Tuesday, the governor's office said.
-- A woman was killed when her car collided with a cement truck after the storm dumped 5 inches of snow on the town of Davis, authorities said.
-- West Virginia declared a state of emergency as Sandy dumped snow and rain in the Appalachian Mountains.
-- Utilities said 344,507 customers had lost power.
-- Twelve counties were under a blizzard warning until 6 p.m.
-- An estimated 800 outages occurred across Ontario, affecting about 150,000 customers, the provincial energy minister said.
-- The hardest-hit Ontario communities were Toronto, Waterloo, Peterborough, Owen Sound and Sarnia.


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How to compute the following
$\sum_{t=0}^{k}{2m-1-t \choose t}{2m-1-(k-t) \choose k-t}$, where $1\leq k\leq 2m-1$?
Please point me to some references if this has already been studied. Thanks for your time!
How to compute the following
$\sum_{t=0}^{k}{2m-1-t \choose t}{2m-1-(k-t) \choose k-t}$, where $1\leq k\leq 2m-1$?
Please point me to some references if this has already been studied. Thanks for your time!
To elaborate on Dennis's response, a useful way for dealing with sequences and series is by using generating functions. Given a sequence $(a_n)$, you can associate the power series $\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_n x^n$. Assuming that the sequence doesn't grow too quickly, you can view the power series as an analytic function defined near $0$, and you can get a correspondence between operations on sequences and operations on functions. Further, if you know the function associated to a sequence, you can then use calculus and the theory of Taylor series to determine what the sequence is.
A classic use if with the Fibonacci sequence, defined by $a_{n+2}=a_{n+1}+a_n$ and $a_0=0, a_1=1$. If we defined $f(x)=\sum a_n x^n$, then taking the recurrence relation, multiplying it by $x^n$, and summing over all values of $n$, yields that $$ (f(x)-x)/x^2 = f(x)/x + f(x). $$ This allows you to solve for $f(x)$, and partial fractions allows you to solve for the coefficients.
Back to the case at hand, we can solve this problem in a few steps.
For more details on this method and other applications of generating functions, I recommend that fantastic (free) book by H. Wilf, Generatingfunctionology. Note that, starting on page 52, there is a list of useful power series which might be a good jumping off point for thinking about solving part (1). You might also want to check out the "snake oil method."
Hint: For two power series $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}a_nx^n$ and $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}b_nx^n$ the formal multiplication $\left(\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}a_nx^n\right) \cdot \left(\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}b_nx^n \right)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}c_nx^n$ gives us $c_n=\sum_{t=0}^{n}a_tb_{n-t}$.


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I'm on the second area of the first stage of 3D Classics: Kid Icarus. I've collected 13 items which the manual identifies as mallets; it says that I can use them as weapons by pressing Y to switch weapons. However, pressing Y does nothing; my attack button continues to shoot arrows. Is this an ability which is enabled later? Do I need to do something else? Am I misunderstanding the controls?
In the Controls menu I have checked that the Y button (as well as the L and R buttons) are set to Weapon Selection. My Y button functions normally in other games.


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For decades, the GED test has been synonymous with a second chance for dropouts and adult students to earn a high-school diploma.
But that could soon change: Dozens of states are considering whether to jettison the GED, which is now going through the biggest overhaul in its 70-year history, and many are already hunting for alternatives among a growing list of new competitors.
The change may not be simple. Like Band-Aid and Velcro, GED is a brand name often confused as a generic. As states consider their options, a question is emerging: Will colleges and employers recognize an equivalency diploma that isn't called the GED?
"This is a huge transition," said Marque Haeg, Oregon's GED administrator. "For most jobs here in Oregon, you have to have a GED, and that includes everything from McDonald's to little mom-and-pop shops."
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Randy Trask, president of GED Testing Service, said the new test would be worth the price, with additional features such as a detailed analysis of students' answers and security measures to prevent cheating. He also defended administering the test on computers alone. "Computers are a necessary part of society today," Mr. Trask said. "If you're going to apply at a Walgreens or a Wal-Mart WMT -0.37 % or a Target, you're going to be filling out an application on a computer."
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"The system just worked very, very, very well," said Art Ellison, administrator of the Bureau of Adult Education in New Hampshire. "It's been branded. The increase in the cost is what caused other people to start looking at this thing."
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It is unclear just how big the market is. "It's really yet to be determined," said Amy Riker, director of high-school equivalency testing at ETS. An estimated 40 million American adults don't have high-school diplomas, and in 2011, about 723,000 people took at least part of the GED test.
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5 Jun 2008 8:33 AM #1
Setting a combobox fieldLabel width to include long labels?
I want to have a long label stay on the same line rather than breaking off after each word or two. Basically I'm trying to widen the width allowance on the combo box label. Not sure why I can't adjust it like I do with other form field labels ...
5 Jun 2008 8:41 AM #2
Embed that combo box in a fieldset and set your custom labelwidth there.https://moduscreate.com/wp-content/t...es/favicon.png
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5 Jun 2008 8:41 AM #3
Sorry about that, I figured out that I have to explicitly set a class on 'x-form-item-label' to a larger width...
5 Jun 2008 8:54 AM #4
actually... this worked for me:
{ xtype: 'combo', labelStyle: 'width:220px', fieldLabel: 'Super Long Label That Cuts Off' }
1 Mar 2010 7:27 AM #5
fieldlabel fix
I was having the same issue and could not figure it out! But after going through forum after forum I realized there is a setLabelStyle.
so the fix:
comboBox.setLabelStyle("width:75px"); or whatever width is appropriate for you Label to be in one line
comboBox.setFieldLabel("Set your label here");
30 Jun 2010 1:06 AM #6
I tried this
PHP Code:
xtype: 'numberfield',
fieldLabelTip: 'Saksnummer',
anchor: '100%',
labelStyle: 'width:30px',
fieldLabel: 'Super Long Label That Cuts Off'
This isn't the desired effect. How do I reduce the gap between the fieldlabel and the textfield?
When I set the width to 5px the gap is still the same.
When I set the width to 500px I get this:
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16 Sep 2010 1:49 PM #7
I also find that setting the "width" style causes a gap of a compensating size to open up between the label and the field. I have a small label, and would like to reclaim that empty space for the field. Help!
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Maybe better to ask for help on this question here: Are there eight numbers $0< x_{1},\ldots,x_{4},y_{1},\ldots,y_{4}<1$, such that $$ \frac{\max\left(\left(x_{i}-x_{j}\right){}^{2}+\left(y_{i}-y_{j}\right){}^{2},\left(x_{j}-x_{k}\right){}^{2}+\left(y_{j}-y_{k}\right){}^{2},\left(x_{k}-x_{i}\right){}^{2}+\left(y_{k}-y_{i}\right){}^{2}\right)}{\left(x_{k}\left(y_{i}-y_{j}\right)+x_{i}\left(y_{j}-y_{k}\right)+x_{j}\left(y_{k}-y_{i}\right)\right)^{2}} $$ less than $5/8$ for all distinct $i$, $j$ and $k$, $1\le i,j,k\le4$? Thanks.
The quantity at the numerator is the length of the largest edge of the triangle with vertices $(x_i,y_i), (x_j,y_j), (x_k,y_k)$, squared. The denominator is its area, squared, so the fraction is four times the reciprocal squared of the minimal altitude of that triangle. The whole question may be therefore rephrased more geometrically: Are there $4$ points in the unit square such that the $12$ altitudes of the $4$ triangles they form are all larger than $2\sqrt{8/5}$? No, because no triangle inside the unit square can have an altitude larger than $\sqrt 2 < 2\sqrt{8/5}$.
[edit] Since we are still here, we may ask what is the optimal configuration for four points in the square, that is, the one forming four triangles with larger minimal altitude $h$. Four points on a square either form a convex quadrilateral (A), or a triangle with an interior point (B). It is convenient to consider separately the two cases.
(A) Among all choices of four points that form a convex quadrilateral, by a symmetrization argument, the optimal configuration can be reached on rectangles (any quadrilateral contains a rectangle with the diagonals on the same lines, and with same minimal altitude $h$). Moreover, a rectangle can be enlarged and rotated until all its vertices touch the edges of the unit square, and this will not decrease $h$. This way it follows that the optimal configuration for convex quadrilaterals is the unit square, giving the optimal $h_A=\sqrt{2}/2$.
(B) Given a triangle inside the unit square, the choice of a fourth point inside the triangle, giving the best $h$ is the incenter of the triangle (all three interior altitudes are equal). In this case, the problem may be stated: find the largest radius $h$ of circles contained in triangles contained in the unit square. This is a computation that you may like to complete (one vertex of the triangle must coincide with a vertex of the unit square, by an analogous argument as before); in any, case it will give an optimal $h_B < 1/2$, worse than the above $h_A$.