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Have you met Woot Stalker?
For the last couple of months, I have been working on something called adqstalker2000, which was built for deals chat in IRC. Basically it monitors all things woot, and posts updates on everything. Anyways, this past week I have ported it to an online version and published it.
The site can be found at http://www.wootstalker.com
-Monitors all woot sites for most recent items
-Shows most recent woot plus sales, and marks recently added sales as new
-Shows latest social media updates from woot
-Gives a history of items/sales/statuses
-All parts of the site auto update/refresh
-Plays audio alert for new woot sales (social media and woot plus not included)
-Tags social media with a boc icon if crap is listed
-Auto Open new browser when BOC is detected (Popups must be allowed)
This is still a beta, and some stuff is still being ported over to the live site. More stuff to be added soon. Feedback is welcome.
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Great job Lichme this looks fantastic!
@adqstalker works wonderfully in DWC and I'm excited to see it ported outside of IRC. Way to go, @lichme! Thank you for all of your hard work.
But yeah, love it. Thanks Lich!
upvoting for coolness
A recommendation is to list the most recent previous price on the main page under the current price if there is one.
!catchup must see everything
Looks beautiful but I know you would want me to tell you that Pinterest is spelled incorrectly.
And this should have an apostrophe if you're going to use a contraction:
You thought wed (we'd) forgotten about you G+
It would actually look better if you spelled it out (we had).
Not to be hypercritical but the editor in me can't help herself.
I approve this website with the stamp of awesome!
Definitely saves me the trouble of having 10+ tabs open.
Thanks! And great job with the website!
!cheese :)
@agingdragqueen now everyone can find out about your favorite friend! Please stay safe, you never know where this crazy bot is going to find you next!
Excellent. Let's see if we can break it during the next woot-off!
Makes me wonder if you have an affiliate account.
Well done!
As usual, I think I'm missing something. Blame it on age. Or maybe I'm being obtuse. Does this offer something that the in-place woot trackers (such as mywoot & wootalyzer) don't offer? To say nothing of woot.com itself. And yes, I've seen this on IRC.
Other than that...nice piece of work, lichme! ;-)
Very nice work...I wondered where you have been. Thanks!
This is fantastic! Thanks for making it and thanks for sharing!
You are magic.
good work lichme, glad to see you're more than just a gloat.
you know i'm just kidding. Nice site. way to give back to the community
Shows a lovely character to share your work.
@cowboydann: hehe you're so funny
@lichme: I just discovered WootStalker a few weeks ago. Good stuff. I just sent you a small donation. Keep on keepin' on!


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I know the
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I am using Parallels 7 & trying to re-create the
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The original problem with the Time Machine drive was "stiction", they put the drive into a clean room to fix that, and as they were reading the data from the drive one of the heads failed. Needless to say, the data recovery took 2 weeks, but I think we finally have all the data (in the form of raw files) from the Time Machine Backup drive now.


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A fire burned out of control for hours Thursday on a stretch of the Jersey Shore that had been ravaged by superstorm Sandy, destroying a recently rebuilt boardwalk and devastating businesses in its path.
The blaze, which began around an ice-cream shop in Seaside Park, spread for about six blocks behind strong wind gusts and was fueled by the newly repaired wooden boardwalk. Hundreds of firefighters from seven New Jersey counties were called in to battle it, using water pumped in from nearby Barnegat Bay.
Many firefighters worked all night, some hoisted in the air by cranes to spray water on the flames, said Chris Aldrich, deputy fire coordinator for Ocean County.
"We think we have it under control," Mr. Aldrich said Friday morning. The cause remains under investigation.
Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, said the cause of the fire was under investigation.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said firefighters were working to "exhaustion" to bring the fire under control and had built a 20-foot trench north of the fire on Lincoln Avenue in Seaside Park in an effort to stop its path.
"Leave no doubt: The destruction south of Lincoln Avenue is complete. It's complete," he said of an east-west thoroughfare that bisects the barrier island. Mr. Christie estimated that more than 20 businesses had been taken out.
Seaside Heights Police Chief Thomas Boyd said wind gusts of up to 40 mph whipping off the ocean made the fire difficult to control. "It just rolls. You can't control the wind, you're not going to be able to control the fire," Mr. Boyd said.
Several firefighters were treated for minor injuries.
For residents of the area, which comprises the popular destinations of Seaside Heights and Seaside Park, the fire was the latest blow after the widespread destruction wrought by Sandy in October 2012.
The boroughs had replaced their boardwalks in time for Memorial Day. Seaside Height's waterfront suffered extensive damage, with amusements from the Casino Pier plunging into the ocean.
After extensive repairs, Casino Pier had opened at least 15 of its 18 rides this summer. Pier managers had hoped to be profitable this year.
"We just got rid of Sandy, and all this comes," said Seaside Heights borough spokesman Mike Graichen. "The last 100 years, this one has been bad."
Authorities said Thursday's fire broke out at about 2:15 p.m. near the Kohr's Frozen Custard shop, a Jersey Shore institution.
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"The wind is just funneling it down the boardwalk," said Mr. Macchiaverna.
The fire spread north to Seaside Heights. Mr. Boyd said firefighters had tried to slow the fire down with two trenches. The first failed, but the second was holding.
Damage to the borough's water supply line from Sandy forced authorities to pump water in from the Barnegat Bay to fight the blaze, Mr. Christie said.
Route 35, a main artery running along the Jersey Shore, was closed from Seaside Heights to Berkeley Township in the south around 4:30 p.m. to allow fire trucks access to the blaze, a state Department of Transportation spokesman said.
Power was cut to buildings along the boardwalk as the fire spread, and crews with Jersey Central Power & Light were on the scene working with emergency officials, spokesman Jim Markey said.
Residents were distraught to watch another disaster strike their borough.
Theresa Lewis, a 30-year-old resident of Seaside Park, said she moved there from Point Pleasant after losing everything during Sandy.
"I can't deal with more after Sandy," she said. "I just keep looking out the window to make sure that [the fire's] not coming down the street. I know I'm not going to be able to lay my head on a pillow tonight...knowing that that fire is still burning."
She and her children marveled at the boardwalk being rebuilt, taking a daily trip to see the progress.
"We'd walk the whole boardwalk," she said. "It was so exciting because every day we went up there after Sandy, we got to go farther and farther and farther."
Mr. Christie called the situation "unthinkable."
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Brown SP, Hestrin S. Intracortical circuits of pyramidal neurons reflect their long-range axonal targets. Nature. 2009 Jan 18 ; Pubmed Abstract
Brown SP, Hestrin S. Intracortical circuits of pyramidal neurons reflect their long-range axonal targets. Nature. 2009 Jan 18 ; Pubmed Abstract
In this work the authors test for differences in the default mode network between healthy controls, patients with schizophrenia, and first degree relatives of the patients. They look at both the degree to which the default mode is modulated by a working memory task and also examine the strength of the functional connectivity. The controls are found to show the most default mode signal decrease during a task, with relatives and patients showing much less. The controls, relatives, and patients show increasing amounts of functional connectivity within the default mode regions. In addition, signal in some of the regions correlated with positive symptoms. The findings in the chronic patients and controls are consistent with our previous work in Garrity et al., 2007, which also showed significantly more functional connectivity in the default mode of schizophrenia patients and significant correlations in certain regions of the default mode with positive symptoms, and in both cases the regions we identified are similar to those shown in the Whitfield-Gabrieli paper. Our work in Kim et al., 2009, was a large multisite study showing significantly fewer default mode signal decreases for the auditory oddball task in chronic schizophrenia patients, again consistent with the Whitfield-Gabrieli paper, but in a different task.
The most interesting contribution of the Whitfield-Gabrieli paper is their inclusion of a first-degree relative group. They found that the first-degree relatives are in between the healthy controls and the chronic patients in terms of both the degree to which they modulate the default mode, as well as in their degree of functional connectivity. This has interesting implications in terms of the genetic aspects of the illness and suggests that the default mode may be a potential schizophrenia endophenotype. It will be interesting in future studies to examine both the heritability of the default mode patterns and their genetic underpinnings.
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Submitted 28 January 2009
Posted 28 January 2009
The Default Mode Network and Schizophrenia
For a long time functional imaging research has focused on brain activations. However, since 2001 it has been appreciated that there is also a network of brain regions—which includes particularly two midline regions, the medial prefrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex/precuneous—which deactivates during performance of a wide range of cognitive tasks. Why some brain regions should be active at rest but deactivate when tasks have to be performed is unclear, but there is intense speculation that this network is involved in functions such as self-reflection, self-monitoring, and the maintenance of ones sense of self.
Could the default mode network be implicated in neuropsychiatric disease states? There is evidence that this is the case in autism, and a handful of studies have been also carried out in schizophrenia. Now, Whitfield-Gabrieli and colleagues report that 13 schizophrenic patients in the early phase of illness showed a failure to deactivate the anterior medial prefrontal node of the default mode network when they performed a working memory task. They also find that failure to deactivate is seen to a lesser but still significant extent in unaffected first-degree relatives of the schizophrenic patients, and that the degree of failure to deactivate is associated with both the severity of positive and negative symptoms in the patients.
Importantly, the findings of Whitfield-Gabrieli and colleagues are closely similar to those of another recent study by our group (Pomarol-Clotet et al., 2008), which found failure to deactivate in the medial prefrontal cortex node of the default mode network in 32 chronic schizophrenic patients. This is a striking convergence in the field of functional imaging studies of schizophrenia, which has previously been marked by diverse and often conflicting findings. Additionally, in both studies the magnitude of the difference between patients and controls was large and visually striking. These findings suggest that we may be dealing with an important abnormality which could be close to the disease process in schizophrenia.
If so, what does dysfunction in the default mode network mean? On the one hand, failure to deactivate part of a network whose activity normally decreases when attention has to be turned to performance of external tasks might be expected to interfere with normal cognitive operations. Consistent with this, cognitive impairment is nowadays accepted as being an important, or even a core feature of schizophrenia. Perhaps more importantly, could it be that default mode network dysfunction can help us understand the symptoms of schizophrenia? As Whitfield-Gabrieli and colleagues note, if the default mode network is involved in self-reflection, self-monitoring, and maintenance of ones sense of self, then failure of deactivation might lead to an exaggerated focus on ones own thoughts and feelings, excessive self-reference, and/or a breakdown in the boundary between the inner self and the external world. The default mode network may thus have the potential to account for two major realms of clinical abnormality in schizophrenia—its symptoms and the cognitive impairment that is frequently associated with them.
View all comments by Edith Pomarol-ClotetComment by: Samantha Broyd, Edmund Sonuga-Barke
Submitted 4 February 2009
Posted 4 February 2009
The surge in scientific interest in patterns of connectivity and activation of resting-state brain function and the default-mode network has recently extended to default-mode brain dysfunction in mental disorders (for a review, please see Broyd et al., 2008). Whitfield-Gabrieli et al. examine resting-state and (working-memory) task-related brain activity in 13 patients with early-phase schizophrenia, 13 unaffected first-degree relatives, and 13 healthy control participants. These authors report hyperconnectivity in the default-mode network in patients and relatives during rest, and note that this enhanced connectivity was correlated with psychopathology. Further, patients and relatives exhibited reduced task-related suppression (hyperactivation) of the medial prefrontal region of the default-mode network relative to the control group, even after controlling for task performance.
The findings from the Whitfield-Gabrieli paper are in accordance with those from a number of other research groups investigating possible default-mode network dysfunction in schizophrenia. For example, in a similar working memory task Pomarol-Clotet and colleagues (2008) have also shown reduced task-related suppression of medial frontal nodes of the default-mode network in 32 patients with chronic schizophrenia. However, the findings are at odds with research reporting widespread reductions in functional connectivity in the resting brain of this clinical group (e.g., Bluhm et al., 2007; Liang et al., 2006). As noted by Whitfield-Gabrieli et al., increased connectivity and reduced task-related suppression of default-mode activity may redirect attentional focus from task-related events to introspective and self-referential thought processes. The reduced anti-correlation between the task-positive and default-mode network in patients further supports and helps biologically ground suggestions of the possibility of an overzealous focus on internal thought. Perhaps even more interestingly, the study by Whitfield-Gabrieli and colleagues suggests that aberrant patterns of activation and connectivity in the default-mode network, and in particular the medial frontal region of this network, may be associated with genetic risk for schizophrenia. Although there are some inconsistencies in the literature regarding the role of the default-mode network in schizophrenia, the work of Whitfield-Gabrieli and others suggests that this network may well contribute to the pathophysiology of this disorder and is relevant to contemporary models of schizophrenia. Indeed, the recent flurry in empirical research investigating the clinical relevance of this network to mental disorder has highlighted a number of possible putative mechanisms that might link the default-mode network to disorder. Firstly, effective transitioning from the resting-state to task-related activity appears to be particularly vulnerable to dysfunction in mental disorders and may be characterized by deficits in attentional control. Sonuga-Barke and Castellanos (2007) have suggested that interference arising from a reduction in the task-related deactivation of the default-mode network may underlie the disruption of attentional control. The default-mode interference hypothesis proposes that spontaneous low-frequency activity in the default-mode network, normally attenuated during goal-directed tasks, can intrude on task-specific activity and create cyclical lapses in attention resulting in increased variability and a decline in task performance (Sonuga-Barke and Castellanos, 2007). Sonuga-Barke and Castellanos (2007) suggest that the efficacious transition from rest to task and the maintenance of task-specific activity may be moderated by trait factors such as disorder. Secondly, the degree of functional connectivity in the default-mode network may highlight problems of reduced connectivity, or excess functional connectivity (e.g., schizophrenia), which suggests a zealous focus on self-referential processing and introspective thought. Thirdly, the strength of the anti-correlation between the default-mode and task-positive networks may also indicate a clinical susceptibility to introspective or extrospective orienting. Finally, future research should continue to examine the etiology of the default-mode network in schizophrenia.
Bluhm, R.L., Miller, J., Lanius, R.A., Osuch, E.A., Boksman, K., Neufeld, R.W.J., Théberge, J., Schaefer, B., & Williamson, P. (2007). Spontaneous low-frequency fluctuations in the BOLD signal in schizophrenic patients: Anomalies in the default network. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33, 1004-1012. Abstract
Broyd, S.J., Demanuele, D., Debener, S., Helps, S.K., James, C.J., & Sonuga-Barke, E.J.S. (in press). Default-mode brain dysfunction in mental disorders: a systematic review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2008 Sep 9. Abstract
Liang, M., Zhou, Y., Jiang, T., Liu, Z., Tian, L., Liu, H., and Hao, Y. (2006). Widespread functional disconnectivity in schizophrenia with resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. NeuroReport, 17, 209-213. Abstract
Pomarol-Clotet, E., Salvador, R., Sarro, S., Gomar, J., Vila, F., Martinez, A., Guerrero, A.,Ortiz-Gil, J., Sans-Sansa, B., Capdevila, A., Cebemanos, J.M., McKenna, P.J., 2008. Failure to deactivate in the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia: dysfunction of the default-mode network? Psychological Medicine, 38, 11851193. Abstract
Sonuga-Barke, E.J.S., Castellanos, F.X., 2007. Spontaneous attentional fluctuations in impaired states and pathological conditions: a neurobiological hypothesis. Neuroscience Biobehavioural Reviews, 31, 977986. Abstract
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View all comments by Edmund Sonuga-BarkeComment by: Yuan Zhou, Tianzi Jiang, Zhening Liu
Submitted 18 February 2009
Posted 22 February 2009
I recommend the Primary Papers
The consistent findings on default-mode network in human brain have attracted the researchers attention to the task-independent activity. The component regions of the default-mode network, especially medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex/precuneus, are related to self-reflective activities and attention. Both of these functions are observed to be impaired in schizophrenia. And thus the default-mode network has also attracted more and more attention in the schizophrenia research community. The study of Whitfield-Gabrieli et al. shows a further step along this research streamline.
The authors found hyperactivity (reduced task suppression) and hyperconnectivity of the default network in schizophrenia, and found that hyperactivity and hyperconnectivity of the default network are associated with poor work memory performance and greater psychopathology in schizophrenia. And they found less anticorrelation between the medial prefrontal cortex and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region showing increased task-related activity in schizophrenia, whether during rest or task. Furthermore, the hyperactivity in medial prefrontal cortex is negatively related to the hyperconnectivity of the default network in schizophrenia.
There are two main contributions in this work. First, they found significant correlation between the abnormalities in the default mode network and impaired cognitive performance and psychopathology in schizophrenia. Thus they propose a new explanation for the impaired working memory and attention in schizophrenia, and propose a possibility that schizophrenic symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations, may be due to the blurred boundary between internal thoughts and external perceptions. Secondly, they recruited the first-degree relatives of these patients in this study, and found that these healthy relatives showed abnormalities in the default network similar to that of patients but to a lesser extent. This is the first study investigating the default mode network of relatives of individuals with schizophrenia. This finding indicates that the dysfunction in the default mode network is associated with genetic risk for schizophrenia.
The findings in schizophrenia are consistent with our previous work (Zhou et al., 2007), in which we also found hyperconnectivity of the default mode network during rest. Considering the differences in ethnicity of participants (Chinese in our study) and methodology, the consistency in the hyperconnectivity of the default mode network in schizophrenia is exciting, which supports the possibility that abnormality in the default-mode network may be a potential imaging biomarker to assist diagnosis of schizophrenia. However, this needs to be validated in future studies with a large sample size, due to other contradictory findings, for example, the reduced resting-state functional connectivities associated with the posterior cingulate cortex in chronic, medicated schizophrenic patients (Bluhm et al., 2007). In addition, further studies should focus on default-mode function in different clinical subtypes, as schizophrenia is a complicated disorder. Finally, it should be noticed that the hyperconnectivity of the default-mode network is not exclusively contradictory with hyperconnectivity in other regions, as we previously found (Liang et al., 2006). It is possible that hyperconnectivity and hyperconnectivity coexist in the brains of individuals with schizophrenia and together lead to the complicated symptoms and cognitive deficits.
Bluhm, R. L., Miller, J., Lanius, R. A., Osuch, E. A., Boksman, K., Neufeld, R. W., et al., 2007. Spontaneous low-frequency fluctuations in the BOLD signal in schizophrenic patients: anomalies in the default network. Schizophr Bull 33, 1004-1012. Abstract
Liang, M., Zhou, Y., Jiang, T., Liu, Z., Tian, L., Liu, H., et al., 2006. Widespread functional disconnectivity in schizophrenia with resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroreport 17, 209-213. Abstract
Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Thermenos, H. W., Milanovic, S., Tsuang, M. T., Faraone, S. V., McCarley, R. W., et al., 2009. Hyperactivity and hyperconnectivity of the default network in schizophrenia and in first-degree relatives of persons with schizophrenia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106, 1279-1284. Abstract
Zhou, Y., Liang, M., Tian, L., Wang, K., Hao, Y., Liu, H., et al., 2007. Functional disintegration in paranoid schizophrenia using resting-state fMRI. Schizophr Res 97, 194-205. Abstract
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How can I geo-reference and digitize features on a Y,Z plane of a vertical cross-section in ArcGIS? The surface coordinate system is NAD 83 UTM 15. This is a simplified version of the question found here: How to digitize directional drilholes from scanned vertical sections?
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After disappointing results in other software packages, I created a workflow to build geology cross sections with the ability to display deviated and inclined downhole data, and digitizing lithology contacts in ArcGIS.
I am now re-mapping downhole surveys to view the data in East to West and South to North sectional views. (When importing points map X = Y and Y = Z and using unknown coordinate system set to metres for unit.) Adding 3D DXF subsurface objects is a bit tricky but after converting these models to point clouds and adding XYZ coordinates (I densifying the 3D mesh lines to get more contact points to digitize from) I can the remap the XYZ and query for a range of easting or northing values (however the section is oriented). This gives me a selection of points on the perimeter of the contact. I had to create (and will create more to automate the process further) a few add-ins. 1. to convert mesh lines to 3D points using al vertices, 2. creating a coordinate grid i can use on the sections. (Northing, Elevation)
It's not the most dynamic process but afer i write a few tools for updating new drillholes it will hopefully get easier.
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Have people been travelling in Egypt after March 2011? What's the situation like over there? The election is also happening at the end of November. Should I wait until after the election to book my tour? I'm planning to visit early 2012.
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Egypt, as like much of North Africa and parts of the Middle East, is volatile.
The State Department of the US has a comprehensive website detailing the latest information on the country. It points out that while crime is relatively low, there has of course been several incidents of protests, riots and political upheaval over the past year.
In the end, it is always going to be a gut feel thing. Many tour companies are offering 2 for 1 deals to get people to return to Egypt. People point out that apart from an unfortunate incident with an American Reporter, the violence has largely not targeted foreigners.
Anecdotal information from friends who have been since the uprising say that they felt entirely safe. Tour companies are going to have the latest information and will know which areas to avoid.
The election may change things dramatically, but given it looks to be the first 'free' elections in decades, it may be a good thing, with celebrations rather than protests. If you're not going anyway until 2012, perhaps wait. I booked a tour over Christmas 4 years ago with 2 weeks notice, and given the situation, you shouldn't have a problem finding a tour or flights around then.
In the end, as the state department website says, "There is nobody better at protecting you than yourself.". Be careful, keep informed, be safe.
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I just heard yesterday that it's an amzing time to visit Egypt right now while all the tourists are away.
A young Australian couple passing through my hostel were there recently and reported only about three other people were at the pyramids while they were visiting!
They felt very safe and highly recommended it. I was so impressed with their story that I immediately started figuring out what set of borders I would need to cross to get there via an overland route on my current trip.
Elsewhere I heard for safety to stay away from the main square in Cairo where protests were focussed and stay away from the vicinity of voting stations if you're there while the elections are underway.
If it were up to me and the cost of the transport was not too high I would take the gamble and book the flight (etc) based on the possibility of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I wouldn't book anything else in advance since everybody in tourism in Egypt right now has practically no customers and nothing will be booked out.
But when it comes to saftey, you must make your own decision!
I visited Egypt in August of this year, and although I didn't stay in Cairo (I stayed in Sharm El Sheikh), I never once felt threatened.
I partook in many activities whilst there, visiting the Bedouin, travelling to the pyramids, and quad biking in the desert, with 2 children.
While Sharm would tend to cater much more to the tourist, on a professional level I have also visited Cairo a number of times since the trouble last year due to work commitments - and I am still here to write this.
The best tip I can give you, is always keep your wits about you, as in any country.
No, I don't think so. I was planning a trip to Egypt a year ago (it was quite a tense period then as well) but decided to go to India this year instead. It was also suppose to be a backpacking trip and was planning to go solo. I joined all the travel forums I could think of and members there (both, traveler and residents of Egypt) told me that I have nothing to worry about. I'm sure you won't wander off to some obscure places and will mostly be visiting monuments and famous sights.
The only thing that could ruin your trip is that if the government introduces police curfew, you would have to get to your hotel/hostel/hut by then. It is quite unlikely that the curfew would last more than a week. Besides, curfews so far were only from 2 to 7 AM and that's usually the time when you would sleep anyway.
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Having said that, these days levelling should give you more than enough gold to provide for your needs. Riding in particular should cost 4g for the basic skill and 1g for the mount as required at level 20. At level 40 you can get a slightly faster ground mount for 50g for the skill and 10g for the mount, but that shouldn't be a concern as yet.
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In Minecraft Alpha Single Player Survival, what are the specifications to create a waterfall elevator to go from the bottom of a long mine shaft to the surface?
If I understand the theory, here's how you do it.
Remove the marked block and this happens:
To move up and down, swim up and down the column of water; move slightly out to breathe then continue your ascension.
A boat makes this faster as Strix explains and this video demostrates. However, you must allow further space down to avoid crashing on the bottom:
This video shows, however, that you can also climb a boat elevator by simply swimming.
Boats float in water. Essentially, all you need is a waterfall from ground level straight down from the top of your mine shaft to the bottom. Then, while at the bottom, boat your way into the waterfall and watch as you rocket to the top.
Here is a better design.
First, make a hole that is 3x3 wide and as deep as you want. At the bottom, add a block to the center, then dig out the sides:
The 1's except the center are possible exits. The numbers represent the number of blocks from the ground.
At the top, you have your hole:
Above it, place a wood balcony, at least 1 block between it and the pit:
then, place water on top of it (water will be B, W is wood)
It will flow down and make a perfect place to create a water elevator.
In order to use it, make a boat, place it on the middle block (at the bottom) and get into it(quickly).
To go down, just freefal but catch yourself in the water pillar near the end.
Note: the boat breaks each time when you do it this way, but boats are cheap, and it's easier to use.


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5 Sidekicks Who Got Screwed By History
It would be a pretty hard sell convincing you that without Robin, Batman would be nothing more than an insomniac running around Gotham in his footie pajamas. Or that without that screaming ninny Willie, Indiana Jones would have found himself on the business end of a crocodile's gaping maw. Because those statements are obviously stupid.
But that's not the case with these lesser-known, real-life sidekicks who, for one reason or another, got shafted by history.
#5. Walt Disney's Sidekick, Ub Iwerks
Ub Iwerks was a Missouri-born animator and Walt Disney's oldest and closest friend. He was also the guy who invented Mickey Mouse.
You read that right. Before there was Disney, the multi-billion-dollar global conglomerate, there was just Walt, the young man kicking around at someone else's animation studio, and his buddy Ub, the guy doing the grunt work. Ub's first success as Walt's go-to guy was the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit:
Which happened to look like Mickey Mouse, if some sadistic bastard had hung Mickey up by his ears for a week and a half. Unfortunately for Disney, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was actually owned by Universal Studios, and Universal Studios decided itdidn't need Walt's involvement to keep this scrappy character going. So Walt asked his BFF Ub to whip up an Oswald 2.0:
Did everyone just look like Charlie Chaplin back then?
Iwerks not only conceptualized Mickey Mouse, he animated Mickey's first cartoon, all by himself. In fact, because Disney was shorthanded, Iwerks ended up animating Mickey's first five cartoons, plus the first Silly Symphonies. And Disney was so appreciative of his friend's work that some of those first cartoons' titles read like this:
Notice how Iwerks' name is bolded and bigger than Disney's.
So why have we never heard of him? Apparently, because Iwerks was shy and didn't have a very good sense of humor. Believe it or not, back in those days people thought Mickey Mouse was hilarious. Like, pee-your-pants, snort-milk-out-of-your-nose hilarious. And even though Iwerks was recognized as one of the most technically talented animators in the field, he just wasn't all that funny.
"I cannot breathe for my vigorous laughter!"
So when he left Disney to start his own studio, it flopped like a wet bologna on a lube-covered Slip-N-Slide. Walt could replace Iwerks with new animators, but Ub couldn't replace Walt's sense of humor. Eleven years after leaving Disney, he came back to the studio, but this time around, he spent his talent concentrating on solving more technical problems, like how to integrate archaic live-action racial stereotypes with blatantly offensive animated animals.
In the end, Disney himself said his friend's personality was the reason no one had ever heard of him. Iwerks was too shy to promote himself, and no one makes it in Hollywood without a little bravado. As a result, when people all over the planet see the face of one of the most recognizable characters in the history of human culture ...
And also, some broad in an ugly dress.
... they think one word and one word only: "Disney."
#4. The Wright Brothers' Sidekick, Octave Chanute
Despite having a name that sounds like a musical garbage compactor, Octave Chanute was one of aviation's earliest champions. Already an old man and a retired engineer in 1890, he began tinkering with flying machines as his second career, publishing the very first history of aviation before anyone had actually taken flight. Which, coincidentally, inspired us to publish The History of the First Blow-Job Powered Hovercrafts, but that's another story.
One with alligators.
More importantly, Chanute developed collaborative relationships with his contemporaries, freely sharing knowledge with the hopes that someone, anyone, would finally get a plane up in the air. One of those aviators, Percy Pilcher, actually took Chanute's design of the first triplane and built one but tragically died in a glider accident days before he could test the plane out. Which was a shame, because over a hundred years later, some British university students reconstructed the plane and flew it for over a minute. Which means that Octave Chanute probably designed the world's first functioning airplane, four years before the Wright brothers flew theirs.
So, one year after Chanute designed a plane that would have flown had it been tested, the Wright brothers contacted him for advice. Octave not only gave them beaucoup advice, he practically became their champion for the next few years. He publicized their experiments, visited them, exchanged hundreds of letters with them and pretty much legitimized their work to the rest of the aviation community.
Oh, and they modeled their glider after his designs.
Also, we're not sure, but we think KFC may have stolen his image for Colonel Sanders.
And as a measure of their thanks for all his help, the Wright brothers became intensely secretive about their methods and designs, patenting everything and scrambling to secure government contracts before anyone stole their ideas. While Chanute did everything he could to promote the work and efforts of others, even investing up to $100,000 of his own money in his and others' experiments, the Wrights subscribed to the "gotta get mine" philosophy of aviation innovation.
And for that, Octave Chanute practically disowned them. In 1910 Chanute died, beloved within the aviation community, unknown outside it. Meanwhile, the Wright brothers got so famous that 100 years after their biggest flight, they were played by the Wilson brothers in the 2004 Jackie Chan vehicle Around the World in 80 Days.
It could probably have been worse, but we're not quite sure how.
#3. Edmund Hillary's Sidekick, Tenzing Norgay
We're starting to suspect that being a success is five percent inspiration, and 95 percent not having a ridiculous-sounding name. Too bad for Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa guide of famous Mount Everest climber Sir Edmund Hillary, that one of those elements was not in his favor.
Where do you even buy a suit like that?
In 1953, Norgay joined John Hunt's 400-member strong Everest Expedition as one of the 20 Sherpa guides. And it was a good thing, too. Tenzing had already attempted to mount Everest in six previous climbs so he was by far the most experienced of the climbers, and was chock-full of lifesaving tidbits that came in handy as the expedition wore on. Like the time he saved Edmund Hillary from certain death when Edmund fell into a crevasse and Tenzing quickly used an ice ax to secure his rope. From that moment forward, Sir Edmund Hillary made Tenzing Norgay his mountain buddy of choice.
The two were such a good team that it was a no-brainer when Hunt picked them to do the last little climb to the summit. In fact, the only picture of their feat was taken by Hillary of Norgay at the top:
... because Tenzing didn't know how to use a camera and the summit of Mount Everest was no place to get a photography lesson. For their success, Sir Hillary was knighted, given India's highest civilian honor, put on the New Zealand five-pound note and made an honorary citizen of Nepal.
Tenzing got a medal and India's third-highest civilian honor. And you've almost certainly never heard his name.
So why don't you know about him? You would, if you were Indian or Nepalese. Over there, Norgay was a national hero. He spent the next 22 years after the climb as the field director of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. Which wasn't so bad a gig for the illiterate son of a yak herder.
And while Time magazine did throw him a bone and put him on the list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, when we in the West think of "Everest" we think "Edmund Hillary," and when we think of Tenzing Norgay, we think "What is that? An STD?"
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What does that mean? How to fix this?
Someone has reported me that he cannot install or upgrade applications on Google Play. It fails with error RPC:S-5:AEC-0
What does that mean? How to fix this?
I found this working answer on Androidcentral: Remove and re-add the main Google account
User @rds has given the correct answer about how to fix this problem, but I can tell you that this issue happens mainly after stopping Google Services Framework (this is a practice that some people recommend in order to be able to get OTAs when delayed to be available for your phone).
I had Android 4.2, but I was trying to get a recently released bug-fixing 4.2.1 update, so I just did this (stop Google Services Framework), but after updating Android and restarting my smartphone, I got that infamous
First I tried, unsuccessfully, what @Anthony says. Then I did what @rds says (removing/adding my Google account) and the problem has gone!
Let me add: this is not the first time I get that error, but it is until now that I realize both the reason and the solution, so I'm sharing this with you.
Go to Settings>Apps>Google Play Store>Uninstall Updates
Then reboot phone.
Try resetting your home router just to be on the safe side.
The server error
I've done a fair bit of searching and just can't find an answer for this server error problem.
The SO-question Android error while retrieving information from server 'RPC:s-5:AEC-0' in Google Play? might provide some help. Several of the answers suggest removing and then re-adding your Google account to the Play Store will fix the issue (a reboot may be required).
A similar advice can be found at AndroidCentral:
Alternatively it's just waiting for Google to fix the issue.
I have this issue with my tablet and found that saving all my important info and factory resetting the tablet. once I had done this I set up a new g-mail account. so basically starting a fresh. this worked and did not show the error msg any more (RPC:S-5:AEC-O). HOPE THIS HELPS
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Thomas works at the organization's Gill House location on North Sixth Street, Steubenville, which houses the community psychiatric services. His fellow employees say Thomas "has consistently gone above and beyond expected job performance from the first day he walked into his case management position."
"He is personable, outgoing and friendly," they added. "He goes to bat for his clients and tries to lend a helping hand to other case managers. (He) has an expertise for finding housing for our homeless clients. Michael shows a compassion for the plight of others."
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The Steven E. Stripe Memorial Scholarship is an unrestricted scholarship that is awarded to the recipient in four equal payments while he or she is enrolled in full-time courses at Eastern Gateway, and as such this scholarship can be used for any costs associated with attending EGCC.
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How to make own feed for cows and sheep
December 02, 2010, 09:01:06 PM »
Does anybody has any suggestions as to making feed. Currently I am just feeding oats to the animals and I am aware that I am missing protein so I was thinking about soy. I have read some people opinions about soy, so how can i increase the protein level in the feed?
If I do use Soy, should I cook itfirst or just mill it into flour?
I was thinking about 1/3 oats. 1/3 barley and 1/3 soy. I live in Northern Victoria (90km north of Melbourne) and my aim is to source the inputs as close as possible and ideally directly form other farmers directly.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
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I formulate my own targeting 12-14% protein using whole grains, no soy. I created an excel spreadsheet and solve least cost using linear programming.
Your options for protein are
- bran
- soy
- cottonseed
- misc available stuff at the feed store, like feathers
Cooking soy makes another 5-10% protein available. Milling does increase bioavailability, but not drastically.
that ratio of oats, barley, and soy will give you a protein content of about 20%, assuming good quality feed.
Not sure what kind of suggestions you want. What is your feed philosophy? Are you a protein minimalist and start with good hay? Or do you feed cheap hay and try to do a TMR? Are you concerned with proper nutrition or cheapest cost? There's quite a lot to nutrition science, and nutritional needs differ among animals.
Taking an extended leave (until 2015) from the forums to build out my farm and dairy. Please e-mail or PM if you need anything.
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Ideally I would like to either grow the feed myself or find farmers to buy it directly. I am not sure how good my pasture is so for a while i think i need to supplement until i learn to manage the pastures. What do you recommend? Could i see your spreadsheet?
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Re: How to make own feed for cows and sheep
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I shoot for 16% protein in my feed. I combine hay, corn and enough cottonseed meal to get the protein up to this percentage. I then give free choice hay on top of this. You can substitute oats for the corn without much change in the numbers. You just need to know the protein percentages of the feeds you are mixing. I would check with local farmers and see what is available close by. BTW,
is a thread where I posted a video of my family making feed; not informative but fun.
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Morrison's Feeds & Feeding is an old, out of print reference I find helpful when formulating feeds. You can find them used on eBay and other places.
I have a mix for my dairy cows that includes a lot of alfalfa (about 17% protein), corn, oats, wheat middlings (a decent protein source), sunflower seeds, a bit of soybean meal. I would like to eliminate the soy & corn as I know it is likely GMO. Need to work on that. The mix is 15-16% protein.
If your animals are not producing milk, they will not need such high levels of protein. The book I referenced above covers everything but goats.
So LinuxBoy, care to share your spreadsheet?
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Re: How to make own feed for cows and sheep
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I try to avoid soy in feeds. I can't recite why off the top of my head but it was more than the fact that most soy and corn is contaminated with Genetically modified material. The places that make soy-free feeds usually substitute Austrian Field Peas for soy. Other options are Siberian Pea Shrub and Honey Locust pods. I recently scored 15 Ashworth Honey Locust saplings to put in corners of my pasture. (protected of course) as shade trees. They are nitrogen fixing trees so they'll nourish my pasture as well as shade and feed my goats and sheep. The Ashworth variety was bred for high protein livestock fodder before chemical fertilizers came on the scene and changed grain production. They should be good for honey bees also. There is also the option of feeding your stock sprouted grains and it's even better if you add sea minerals to the soaking water. I use "SeaCrop" by EcoAdvantage although I haven't staerted sprouting for my grain needs. I hope to do that soon. a farmer friend whose family sprouts grain for all their work horses, cattle, etc described his method to me. Bucket with holes drilled into it holds the grain. It is put into a larger bucket that has the water and SeaCrop in it. Draining is easy. Countryside Organics is an organic feed company in the US. You could look at all their ingredient lists if you want more ideas. I too am working towards not needing to buy and feed grain. Milk from grain fed animals has more mold in it and is not as healthy. Good luck!
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Hi, I have a custom mix done at the mill. My main mix will feed the goats, chickens, cows, etc. I have another one for my sheep and for flushing at the start of breeding season. I simply asked them to build a mix for me based on what I had.
I do not use any soy in the feeds, never. I do not use any GMO's either. I am lucky in that I can purchase non GMO corn from a local farmer. To that I have oats and linseed meal added.
All minerals are fed free choice. I have 7 different types out at all times that they can help themselves to as needed. You will notice during the season that the mineral needs change quite a bit too.
My main mix is a 17% protein. The flushing mix is 13%. Non lactating animals are on pasture/hay. Basically the only ones getting grains are the diary animals--goats, sheep, and cows.
I feed free choice dairy quality alfalfa hay to all lactating animals and a really good grass/alfalfa mix to everything else.
You can try to do up your own mix by using pearsons square which will help to balance the mix to get the right protein % as well. It is a bit confusing at first but can be hashed out.
I would find a mill that does custom mixes and talk with them or an animal nutritionist.
Make sure to have enough copper and selenium as well. I have to do copper bolus now on my goats and cows, and I give selenium shots twice a year as well as having it available in mineral form.
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Re: How to make own feed for cows and sheep
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The best thing to do is to find in your area a service that many mills, or even some universities do, where they analyse your pasture and find out what is missing for a decent diet.
Cows and sheep have different nutrient needs so it will be a little different for each. Together you come up with a list of ingredients that are readily available in your particular area at a good price at each season, this include some cheap byproducts like beer processing or many others that you might by luck be close to the source.
This list of ingredients will be different for most areas.
Growing your own feed will be not be cost efficient most of the time, because small scale grain production where the harvesting has to be done by hand because a combine won't work in such a small quantity will be more expensive than buying from a larger operation, that have economy of scale, but probably you could grow at least one of the ingredients. I have 13 cows and 60 milk sheep and I produce almost entirely on grass, (a mix of perennial ryegrass, orchard, white clover, in irrigated pastures and I supplement with corn that I also grow, I am on a low input system that produces less milk but at a very low cost.
At the end of the day you should find a diet that allows you to produce each gallon of quality milk at the lowest cost possible (unless your operation is a hobby farm)
In a cheese making business the most important number for the bottom line by far is the price of the milk (bought or in-house)
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(AP) OTTAWA - Kyle Turris had a goal and an assist to help the Ottawa Senators beat Florida 3-2 on Saturday, spoiling Peter Horachek's debut as the Panthers' coach.
Horachek was promoted from the team's American Hockey League affiliate in San Antonio on Friday after the club fired Kevin Dineen and assistant coaches Gord Murphy and Craig Ramsay. The Panthers have lost eight in a row to fall to 3-10-4.
Original Florida captain Brian Skrudland _ who had been serving as the team's director of player development _ and former Panthers center John Madden replaced Murphy and Ramsay.
Mika Zibanejad and Clarke McArthur also scored for Ottawa, and Robin Lehner made 25 saves. The Senators have won three straight to improve to 7-6-4.
Nick Bjugstad and Marcel Goc scored for Florida. Tim Thomas made 28 saves in his first game back after missing six straight because of a lower-body injury.
Trailing 3-1, the Panthers had a two-man advantage for 1:17 in the third period. They controlled the puck for nearly the entire time, but had only three shots.
Less than 3 minutes after the second penalty ended, Goc beat Lehner with a wrist shot to pull the Panthers to within a goal.
The Senators scored the only goal of the second period and that came on the front end of a 5-on-3 power play. After passing the puck around the Panthers' end, McArthur was finally able to but a one-timer past Thomas after a pass from defenseman Erik Karlsson.
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Just 19 seconds later, following a Florida turnover, Zibanejad scored from behind the net as he banked a shot off Panthers defenseman Erik Gudbranson and in.
Exactly one minute after that the Panthers got on the board on a great effort from Bjugstad and a lapse in judgment from Karlsson, who seemed to turn away from the forward who was allowed to cut to the front of the net and jam the puck past Lehner.
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Remember our WWII vets and Pearl Harbor
Seventy-one years ago Friday, people around Polk County, as was true throughout the nation, were shocked and horrified when they learned that the United States had been attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor.
The late Charlie Swain, a Bartow resident and the father of long-time newspaper employee Anita Swain, was a proud survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack. His ship, the USS Vestal, was attached by line to the ill-fated USS Arizona. Swain's ship was hit two times in the same attack that sank the Arizona.
Swain said he watched as a Japanese pilot fired a torpedo his. The missile passed beneath the Vestal and struck the USS Arizona, sinking it.
"The pilot circled around us. I could see his teeth; he was smiling," Charlie said.
He and several of his shipmates, including the captain, were thrown into the water by the blast. The captain ordered the other men to swim to shore, and then swam back to his ship.
Seventy-one years ago Friday, teenaged machinist's mate Miles Carpenter was on the USS Phoenix, docked at the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, when waves of Japanese fighters and bombers attacked. Carpenter was one of the lucky ones: The USS Phoenix was not hit. The ship, a light cruiser, got under way in about 15 minutes time, but was blocked from a full escape to open water by the battleship USS West Virginia, in flames and smoking. Still, it survived.
Some 2,402 American service men and women died as a result of the attack; 57 civilians were killed. Another 1,282 on the base were wounded on what President Roosevelt called a "date which will live in infamy." That was true. It is one of the most significant dates in this nation's history.
As everyone should know, the attack on Pearl Harbor led to America's entrance into World War II. Before the Axis was beaten and the Japanese surrendered on Sept. 2, 1945, some 16 million men and women had joined the armed forces. More than 400,000 lost their lives; nearly 700,000 were wounded.
The emotion, the anger and sense of collective angst was probably not felt again until terrorists attacked New York on Sept. 11, 2001.
Carpenter survived it all on that day in 1941. He went on to meet wife-to-be Jeanne at a Navy Mothers Hostess House while the Phoenix was being reconditioned at the Navy Yard there. They were married soon after the war and moved to Florida four decades ago. This week, Carpenter stopped by one of our offices to pay a visit. He is a little unsteady on his feet these days, but still extremely proud to have served.
Swain is gone now but not forgotten. He never forgot his public service and was always proud that he was Pearl Harbor survivor.
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For this to work seamlessly you would need an SMB server on your phone. There is such an app, available via this forum thread. It needs root, and it looks like results vary by device. At least one reason why root is required is that normal users aren't allowed to open ports below 1024, whilst by convention, SMB servers use ports 135-139.
An alternative is the On Air (Wifi Disk) app, available in the market. Whilst not quite seamless, this does give you access to your SD card via AppleTalk, WebDAV or good old FTP. I've just tested with an HTC Desire HD and Windows XP over WebDAV and it appears to work well.
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