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- Alaska - Areal Flood Advisory , Special Statement , Record Report
Areal Flood Advisory - Central Interior, Copper River Basin, Denali, Eastern Alaska Range, Eastern Norton Sound and Nulato Hills, Lower Koyukuk and Middle Yukon Valleys, Middle Tanana Valley, Northern and Interior Seward Peninsula, Southern Seward Peninsula Coast, Upper Kuskokwim Valley
Special Statement - Central Interior
Record Report - Alaska Peninsula, Anchorage, Baldwin Peninsula and Selawik Valley, Bristol Bay, Central Aleutians, Central Beaufort Sea Coast, Central Interior, Chukchi Sea Coast, Copper River Basin, Deltana and Tanana Flats, Denali, Eastern Alaska Range, Eastern Aleutians, Eastern Beaufort Sea Coast, Eastern Norton Sound and Nulato Hills, Kodiak Island, Kuskokwim Delta, Lower Kobuk and Noatak Valleys, Lower Koyukuk and Middle Yukon Valleys, Lower Kuskokwim Valley, Lower Yukon Valley, Matanuska Valley, Middle Tanana Valley, Northeast Prince William Sound, Northeastern Brooks Range, Northern and Interior Seward Peninsula, Northern Arctic Coast, Northwestern Brooks Range, Pribilof Islands, Southeast Prince William Sound, Southeastern Brooks Range, Southern Seward Peninsula Coast, St Lawrence Island and Bering Strait Coast, Susitna Valley, Upper Kobuk and Noatak Valleys, Upper Koyukuk Valley, Upper Kuskokwim Valley, Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country, Western Aleutians, Western Arctic Coast, Western Kenai Peninsula, Western Prince William Sound, Yukon Delta, Yukon Flats and Surrounding Uplands
- Arizona - Areal Flood Advisory , Flash Flood Watch , Public Information Statement
Areal Flood Advisory - Northern Gila County, Southern Gila/Tonto NF Foothills
Flash Flood Watch - Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Northwest Deserts, Northwest Plateau
Public Information Statement - Baboquivari Mountains including Kitt Peak, Chiricahua Mountains including Chiricahua National Monument, Dragoon/Mule/Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountains including Bisbee/Canelo Hills/Madera Canyon, Eastern Cochise County Below 5000 Feet including Douglas/Willcox, Galiuro and Pinaleno Mountains including Mount Graham, Santa Catalina and Rincon Mountains including Mount Lemmon/Summerhaven, South Central Pinal County including Eloy/Picacho Peak State Park, Southeast Pinal County including Kearny/Mammoth/Oracle, Tohono O'odham Nation including Sells, Tucson Metro Area including Tucson/Green Valley/Marana/Vail, Upper Gila River and Aravaipa Valleys including Clifton/Safford, Upper San Pedro River Valley including Sierra Vista/Benson, Upper Santa Cruz River and Altar Valleys including Nogales, Western Pima County Including Ajo/Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, White Mountains of Graham and Greenlee Counties including Hannagan Meadow
- California - Areal Flood Advisory , Excessive Heat Warning , Fire Weather Warning, Fire Weather Watch , Beach Hazard Statement , Air Quality Alert , Record Report
Areal Flood Advisory - Death Valley National Park, Eastern Sierra Slopes of Inyo County, Owens Valley, White Mountains of Inyo County
Excessive Heat Warning - Indian Wells Valley, Southeastern Kern County Desert
Fire Weather Warning, Fire Weather Watch - Modoc County
Beach Hazard Statement - Orange County Coastal, San Diego County Coastal Areas
Air Quality Alert - Carquinez Strait and Delta, East-Central San Joaquin Valley, Indian Wells Valley, Kern County Mountains, Mariposa, Madera, and Fresno County Foothills, Motherlode, Northern San Joaquin Valley, San Luis Obispo County Central Coast, San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys, San Luis Obispo County Mountains, Sierra Nevada from Yosemite to Kings Canyon, Southeastern Kern County Desert, Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, Southwestern San Joaquin Valley, Tulare County Foothills, Tulare County Mountains, unknown, West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada, West-Central San Joaquin Valley
Record Report - Coachella Valley-Including The Palm Springs South Coast Desert District, Orange County Coastal, Orange County Inland, Riverside County Mountains-Including The San Jacinto Ranger District Of The San Bernardino National Forest, San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire, San Bernardino County Mountains-Including The Mountain Top And Front Country Ranger Districts Of The San Bernardino National Forest, San Diego County Coastal Areas, San Diego County Deserts-Including The Anza Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County Inland Valleys, San Diego County Mountains-Including The Palomar And Descanso Ranger Districts of the Cleveland National Forest, San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning, Santa Ana Mountains-Including The Trabuco Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest, Victor Valley - Apple Valley - Lucerne Valley - Johnson Valley
- Colorado - Record Report , Public Information Statement
Record Report - Alamosa Vicinity/Central San Luis Valley Below 8500 Ft, Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County, Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Ft, Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Ft, Crowley County, Del Norte Vicinity/Northern San Luis Valley Below 8500 Ft, Eastern Kiowa County, Eastern Las Animas County, Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Ft, Eastern Sawatch Mountains above 11000 Ft, La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Ft, La Junta Vicinity/Otero County, Lamar Vicinity/Prowers County, Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County, Leadville Vicinity/Lake County Below 11000 Ft, Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft, Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains above 11000 Ft, Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Ft, Northwestern Fremont County Above 8500Ft, Pikes Peak above 11000 Ft, Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet, Saguache County East of Continental Divide below 10000 Ft, Saguache County West of Continental Divide Below 10000 Ft, Southern San Luis Valley, Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Ft, Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Ft, Springfield Vicinity/Baca County, Teller County/Rampart Range above 7500fT/Pike's Peak Between 7500 And 11000 Ft, Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft, Upper Rio Grande Valley/Eastern San Juan Mountains Below 10000 Ft, Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft, Western Chaffee County Between 9000 and 11000 Ft, Western Kiowa County, Western Mosquito Range/East Chaffee County above 9000Ft, Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Ft, Western/Central Fremont County Below 8500 Ft, Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Ft, Wet Mountains above 10000 Ft, Wet Mountains between 6300 and 10000Ft
Public Information Statement - Boulder And Jefferson Counties Below 6000 Feet/West Broomfield County, Central and East Adams and Arapahoe Counties, Central and South Weld County, Central and Southeast Park County, Elbert/Central and East Douglas Counties Above 6000 Feet, Grand and Summit Counties Below 9000 Feet, Jackson County Below 9000 Feet, Jefferson and West Douglas Counties Above 6000 Feet/Gilpin/Clear Creek/Northeast Park Counties Below 9000 Feet, Larimer and Boulder Counties Between 6000 and 9000 Feet, Larimer County Below 6000 Feet/Northwest Weld County, Logan County, Morgan County, North and Northeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/North Lincoln County, North Douglas County Below 6000 Feet/Denver/West Adams and Arapahoe Counties/East Broomfield County, Northeast Weld County, Phillips County, Sedgwick County, South and East Jackson/Larimer/North and Northeast Grand/Northwest Boulder Counties Above 9000 Feet, South and Southeast Grand/West Central and Southwest Boulder/Gilpin/Clear Creek/Summit/North and West Park Counties Above 9000 Feet, Southeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/South Lincoln County, Washington County, West Jackson and West Grand Counties Above 9000 Feet
- Connecticut - Flash Flood Watch
Flash Flood Watch - Northern Fairfield, Southern Fairfield
- District of Columbia - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - District of Columbia
- Georgia - Record Report
Record Report - Bulloch, Candler, Coastal Bryan, Coastal Chatham, Coastal Liberty, Coastal McIntosh, Effingham, Evans, Inland Bryan, Inland Chatham, Inland Liberty, Inland McIntosh, Jenkins, Long, Screven, Tattnall
- Idaho - Fire Weather Warning , Air Quality Alert
Fire Weather Warning - Caribou Highlands, Eastern Lemhi County, Lost River/Pashimeroi, Lower Snake River Plain, Sawtooth Mountains, Upper Snake Highlands, Upper Snake River Plain, Western Lemhi County
Air Quality Alert - Big and Little Wood River Region, Eastern Magic Valley
- Illinois - Record Report
Record Report - Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Randolph, St. Clair, Washington
- Indiana - Special Statement
Special Statement - Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, Elkhart, Fayette, Franklin, Fulton, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Kosciusko, La Porte, Marshall, Miami, Noble, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke, Union, Wabash, Wayne, Wells, White, Whitley
- Kansas - Flash Flood Warning , Areal Flood Advisory , Special Statement
Flash Flood Warning - Osborne, Rooks
Areal Flood Advisory - Cloud
- Maryland - Areal Flood Warning , Flood Warning , Flood Watch / Flood Statement , Public Information Statement
Areal Flood Warning - Anne Arundel, Central and Southeast Howard, Northwest Howard, Prince Georges
Flood Warning - Central and Southeast Montgomery, Northwest Montgomery
Flood Watch / Flood Statement - Anne Arundel
Public Information Statement - Anne Arundel, Calvert, Carroll, Central and Eastern Allegany, Central and Southeast Howard, Central and Southeast Montgomery, Charles, Extreme Western Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Northern Baltimore, Northwest Harford, Northwest Howard, Northwest Montgomery, Prince Georges, Southeast Harford, Southern Baltimore, St. Marys, Washington
- Michigan - Areal Flood Advisory , Public Information Statement
Areal Flood Advisory - Genesee, Lapeer, Saginaw, Tuscola
Public Information Statement - Bay, Genesee, Huron, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Midland, Monroe, Oakland, Saginaw, Sanilac, Shiawassee, St. Clair, Tuscola, Washtenaw, Wayne
- Missouri - Record Report
Record Report - Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron, Jefferson, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Moniteau, Monroe, Montgomery, Osage, Pike, Ralls, Reynolds, Shelby, St. Charles, St. Francois, St. Louis, St. Louis City, Ste. Genevieve, Warren, Washington
- Montana - Fire Weather Warning
Fire Weather Warning - Beaverhead, Butte/Blackfoot Region, Jefferson, Madison
- Nebraska - Severe Thunderstorm Watch , Special Statement
Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Custer, Eastern Cherry, Garfield, Grant, Holt, Hooker, Keya Paha, Logan, Loup, McPherson, Rock, Thomas, Western Cherry, Wheeler
- Nevada - Flash Flood Watch , Fire Weather Warning
Flash Flood Watch - Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Las Vegas Valley, Lincoln County, Northeast Clark County, Sheep Range, Southern Clark County
Fire Weather Warning - Northern Elko County, South Central Elko County, Southeastern Elko County
- New Jersey - Flash Flood Watch
Flash Flood Watch - Eastern Bergen, Eastern Essex, Eastern Passaic, Eastern Union, Hudson, Western Bergen, Western Essex, Western Passaic, Western Union
- New Mexico - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Central Highlands, Chaves County Plains, Chuska Mountains, Curry County, De Baca County, East Slopes Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Eastern Lincoln County, Eastern San Miguel County, Estancia Valley, Far Northeast Highlands, Far Northwest Highlands, Guadalupe County, Harding County, Jemez Mountains, Lower Chama River Valley, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Middle Rio Grande Valley/Albuquerque Metro Area, Northeast Highlands, Northern Sangre de Cristos above 9500 feet/Red River, Northwest Highlands, Northwest Plateau, Quay County, Raton Ridge/Johnson Mesa, Roosevelt County, San Francisco River Valley, San Juan Mountains, Sandia/Manzano Mountains, Santa Fe Metro Area, South Central Highlands, South Central Mountains, Southern Sangre de Cristos above 9500 feet, Southwest Chaves County, Southwest Mountains, Union County, Upper Rio Grande Valley, Upper Tularosa Valley, West Central Highlands, West Central Mountains, West Central Plateau, West Slopes Sangre de Cristo Mountains
- New York - Flash Flood Watch , Flash Flood Watch, Areal Flood Advisory
Flash Flood Watch - Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Northern Nassau, Northern Queens, Northern Westchester, Orange, Richmond (Staten Is.), Rockland, Southern Nassau, Southern Queens, Southern Westchester
Flash Flood Watch, Areal Flood Advisory - Putnam
- North Carolina - Heat Advisory
Heat Advisory - Beaufort, Bladen, Carteret, Coastal Brunswick, Coastal New Hanover, Coastal Pender, Columbus, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Inland Brunswick, Inland New Hanover, Inland Pender, Jones, Lenoir, Mainland Hyde, Martin, Onslow, Outer Banks Dare, Pamlico, Pitt, Robeson, Tyrrell, Washington, Western Dare
- North Dakota - Special Statement
- Ohio - Special Statement , Public Information Statement
Special Statement - Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Darke, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hardin, Highland, Hocking, Licking, Logan, Madison, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Pickaway, Preble, Ross, Shelby, Union, Warren
Public Information Statement - Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble, Tuscarawas
- Oregon - Fire Weather Watch
Fire Weather Watch - Central and Eastern Lake County, Klamath Basin, Northern and Eastern Klamath County and Western Lake County
- Pennsylvania - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette, Fayette Ridges, Forest, Greene, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango, Washington, Westmoreland, Westmoreland Ridges
- Puerto Rico - Flash Flood Watch, Coastal Hazard Statement , Flash Flood Watch , Flash Flood Watch, High Surf Advisory, Coastal Hazard Statement
Flash Flood Watch, Coastal Hazard Statement - Culebra, Northeast, Northwest, Ponce and Vicinity, San Juan and Vicinity, Southeast, Southwest, Vieques
Flash Flood Watch - Central Interior, Eastern Interior, Mayaguez and Vicinity, Western Interior
Flash Flood Watch, High Surf Advisory, Coastal Hazard Statement - North Central
- South Carolina - Heat Advisory , Record Report
Heat Advisory - Coastal Georgetown, Coastal Horry, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Inland Georgetown, Inland Horry, Marion, Marlboro, Williamsburg
Record Report - Allendale, Beaufort, Charleston, Coastal Colleton, Coastal Jasper, Dorchester, Hampton, Inland Berkeley, Inland Colleton, Inland Jasper, Tidal Berkeley
- Utah - Fire Weather Warning , Record Report
Fire Weather Warning - Cache Valley/Utah Portion, Castle Country, Central and Southwest Mountains, Glen Canyon Recreation Area/Lake Powell, Great Salt Lake Desert and Mountains, Northern Wasatch Front, Salt Lake and Tooele Valleys, San Rafael Swell, Sanpete/Sevier Valleys, South Central Utah, Southern Utah Mountains, Southern Wasatch Front, Southwest Utah, Utah's Dixie and Zion National Park, Wasatch Mountain Valleys, Wasatch Mountains I-80 North, Wasatch Mountains South of I-80, Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs, West Central Utah, Western Uinta Basin, Western Uinta Mountains
Record Report - Cache Valley/Utah Portion, Castle Country, Central and Southwest Mountains, Glen Canyon Recreation Area/Lake Powell, Great Salt Lake Desert and Mountains, Northern Wasatch Front, Salt Lake and Tooele Valleys, San Rafael Swell, Sanpete/Sevier Valleys, South Central Utah, Southern Utah Mountains, Southern Wasatch Front, Southwest Utah, Utah's Dixie and Zion National Park, Wasatch Mountain Valleys, Wasatch Mountains I-80 North, Wasatch Mountains South of I-80, Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs, West Central Utah, Western Uinta Basin, Western Uinta Mountains
- Virgin Islands - Flash Flood Watch, Coastal Hazard Statement
Flash Flood Watch, Coastal Hazard Statement - St Croix, St.Thomas...St. John.. and Adjacent Islands
- Virginia - Dense Fog Advisory , Public Information Statement
Dense Fog Advisory - Albemarle, Augusta, Culpeper, Greene, Madison, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Southern Fauquier
Public Information Statement - Albemarle, Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria, Augusta, Central Virginia Blue Ridge, Clarke, Culpeper, Eastern Highland, Eastern Loudoun, Fairfax, Frederick, Greene, King George, Madison, Nelson, Northern Fauquier, Northern Virginia Blue Ridge, Orange, Page, Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Southern Fauquier, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Warren, Western Highland, Western Loudoun
- West Virginia - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Berkeley, Brooke, Eastern Grant, Eastern Mineral, Eastern Pendleton, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Jefferson, Marion, Marshall, Morgan, Ohio, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Western Grant, Western Mineral, Western Pendleton, Wetzel
- Wyoming - Record Report
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Applicants will undergo a background check that includes criminal history.
There is no cost to participate.
For more information on the Citizens' Police Academy, contact Tammy Moseley at (254) 501-8805.

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Lets say i have 3 ANT projects each with its build.xml script located at the top level folder
I configured Jenkins to build these 3 projects and it builds them and stores the output in three separate folders.
The ANT script is the one that puts the jar file in the distribution folder. I want to use these jar files in another project which produces a war file.
The jar files that are generated in each project are used to build a WAR file. Is there any way i can configure Jenkins to build proj1, proj2, proj3 then copy the jar files to a specific location which will contain another ANT project which when run will produce a war file? Or does this have to be coded with ANT?
Also, is it possible to configure jenkins to do multiple checkouts before running the ANT build script. I am using CVS and would like to do 3 checkouts each using a different tag before running the build.
I posted the question last night before i went to bed. Reading it again today i think it is not clear enough so i will clarify the requirement again. I have 4 projects that use ANT as the build mechanism and are all stored in a CVS repository. All 4 projects when built form a WAR file that is deployed on a Tomcat application server.
- file1.java
- file2.java
- file3.java
- file4.java
- file3.java
- file4.java
- jsp
- home.jsp
- css
- home.css
- lib
- classes
- web.xml
Each project (except proj4) has an ANT build file which builds the project and produces a JAR file which it stores in a 'distribution' folder on the root folder of the project. For example after proj1 is built it will look like this
- file1.java
- file2.java
- distribution
- classes
- file1.class
- file2.class
- proj1.jar
Proj4 has a dependency on proj1, proj2 and proj3 in that it first needs to copy all the jar files into its workarea before it builds a war file. The ANT build file for project4 copies the JAR files from proj1, 2 and 3 and builds a WAR files. The resulting WAR file contains the following structure
- jsp
- home.jsp
- css
- home.css
- lib
- proj1.jar
- proj2.jar
- proj3.jar
- classes
- web.xml
Now to automate the above i need to somehow configure Jenkins and ANT to do the following (in the order shown)
- Checkout proj1 from CVS using RELEASE1.1 tag
- Build proj1
- Checkout proj2 from CVS using RELEASE1.2 tag
- Build proj2
- Checkout proj3 from CVS using RELEASE1.1 tag
- Build proj3
- Checkout proj4 from CVS using RELEASE1.1 tag
- Copy the proj1.jar, proj2.jar, proj3.jar from the previous 3 builds and copy them to the proj4 WEB-INF/lib folder.
- Build proj4
- Deploy the WAR file.
I played around with Jenkins yesterday and managed to configure it to build each of the projects but each jar file ends up in an unrelated folder. How can i configure Jenkins to build the projects as i've described above?
The environment has the following properties
Build tool - ANT
OS - Solaris
Maven would probably work with this but at the moment there are no plans to introduce Maven. If there is a simple Maven like build tool that i can use to just store the libraries i need that does not require external access then please let me know.
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I have some No Limit experience, but this hasn't stopped me from getting fleeced at Limit games, which I started playing out of curiosity.
What are the strategic adjustments that must be made to move from NL to Limit Hold'em?
I have some No Limit experience, but this hasn't stopped me from getting fleeced at Limit games, which I started playing out of curiosity.
What are the strategic adjustments that must be made to move from NL to Limit Hold'em?
When you move to limit, math is going to be a much bigger part of your play.
You have to learn to correctly calculate pot odds and implied odds, since it is very different.
You can and should read whole books on the subject of limit play, because it is very different.
To summarize the MAJOR points that change.
Small mistakes have big consequences. Many times the correct play is only a few percentage points better on the positive EV.
If you are getting "fleeced" in limit games after playing no limit, you are probably folding too many hands in limit, that you should be playing out.
The difference between no limit and limit is that the betting increases exponentially in no limit, and only linearly in limit. Because of that fact, hands also have to increase in value exponentially in no limit.
In no limit, if there is a five-fold raise, the raiser has something like the top one-fifth of all CALLING hands, maybe 3-5% of ALL hands. A second raise probably means AA and you should get out. That's not true in limit. The second raiser may not have AA, and even if s/he does, you might want to call with a small pair or a suited connecter if there are a lot of other callers, because if you hit your set, straight, or flush, you will collect more from the other callers than you lose from the raises. In no limit, there are fewer callers, which means you have to get out faster with a "drawing" hand.
The biggest mistake I see people make is NOT folding to tight players. And NOT saving a bet on the river just because the pot is so big. Fold the river if you know ur beat. It should be obvious after the Turn betting who is on a draw. If the flush or st8 card comes on the river and a tight player bets- Fold the to the 20$ bet even if the pot is 200$. Because saving bets is huge. Watch players closely and take breaks if you start calling A9 off under the gun.
When Moving from NL Holdem to Limit Holdem you should notice the following:
It is important to note that NLHE is a simple betting structure. You have blinds of different sizes and these things effect bankroll decisions, but they really do not effect anything else. Limits on betting add a level of complication to the game. With limit holdem there are limits to what you can bet, and these limits in relation to blinds dramatically effect game play in profound ways. To say limit is more about math, while true is wholly inadequate to describe the differences between the two games. The details about limit that do not have anything to do with NLHE could fill large books. It is more about putting the betting part of the game in a whole different paradigm. The other parts of the game that fall under tells, psychology are completely interchangeable. And while somewhat less intense they are just as important in limit as they are in NLHE.
IMHO, NLHE is more forgiving to a wider variety of player types then limit. You can wait for good starting hands in NLHE and do okay without being to creative. You can be very loose per-flop if you are a good player that knows what to do with a hand after the flop and beat NLHE. And you can vary up between these two examples, and other styles and depending on your skills beat the game of NLHE. What I am trying to say is that limping starting hands in NLHE just don't matter that much. You're not going to go broke limping with 4-6 off suit in NLHE if you understand enough to know the right game and time to limp with a 4-6. it is not a bad play if the mix of players and the situation offers you enough upside to play 4-6.
In limit hold-em, there is never a game that offers an upside to playing 4-6 and there is only one style of play that is even close to optimal, that is tight and aggressive. Doyle in his Super Systems book said something to the effect "that in NLHE it all happens on the flop". In limit play what happens with the first two cards is much more important than it is in NLHE. What happens on the flop is just as important to your value, it is perhaps not quite as influential to the other players as it is in NL.
Limit poker also enjoys variants that NL poker does not. There is a lot of difference in the way you play 10/20 with structured betting and the way you play 5 to 20. This makes playing limit more diverse then NLHE.
These differences were at the root of a general debate about which required more skill limit are no limit. Perhaps look that up online, it will provide you a lot of insight, I suggest two plus two, or a RGP archive someplace. (I thought the debate kind of silly, the best limit player is going to beat the best no limit player at limit, and vise a versa)
Expert NLHE players need a somewhat smaller bankroll to gain the same win rate as expert limit players, but this is a very general statement, your NLHE bankroll has more variables that depend on the type of player that you are: loose and aggressive=much bigger bankroll. Of course it holds true for both limit and no limit players who are not expert players that they don't need bankrolls, they need jobs.


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I have a code in my functions.php that gives me a count of how many favorites a post has got.
function wpfp_get_current_count() {
global $wpdb;
$current_post = get_the_ID();
$query = "SELECT post_id, meta_value, post_status FROM $wpdb->postmeta";
$query .= " LEFT JOIN $wpdb->posts ON post_id=$wpdb->posts.ID";
$query .= " WHERE post_status='publish' AND meta_key='wpfp_favorites' AND post_id = '".$current_post."'";
$results = $wpdb->get_results($query);
if ($results) {
foreach ($results as $o):
echo $o->meta_value;
}else {echo( '0' );}}
And I use the following code to achieve the count and it works just fine.
<?php echo 'TOTAL FAVORITES: ' .wpfp_get_current_count(); ?>
Now, I would like to add 300 favorites by default. So that if my actual favorites are 33 then the total favorites becomes 333. I guess i need a lesson on some basic php addition. If possible please suggest me a modified code. I tried the code below, but the addition does not happen. To be honest I asked this question earlier here on wordpress.org frorum but could not get a reply. Please help.


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (October 28, 2012)--Astronauts aboard the International Space Station released the commercial SpaceX Drago cargo ship Sunday morning.
SpaceX, which tests its rocket motors at its facility in McGregor west of Waco, will steer the unmanned capsule to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean Sunday afternoon, a couple hundred miles off the Baja California coast.
The supply ship is bringing back nearly 2,000 pounds of science experiments and old station equipment.
Perhaps the most precious cargo is nearly 500 frozen samples of blood and urine collected by station astronauts for the past year.
The Dragon is the only commercial delivery ship capable of returning items, now that NASA's shuttles are retired.
SpaceX launched the capsule three weeks ago from Cape Canaveral.
It's the second Dragon to return from the space station.
The first capsule was shipped here after a successful test mission.


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I was reading this definition of a linear recurrence, and was wondering what characteristics are required of a linear recurrence for it to be solvable? Meaning, can I find a closed form?
The subject of solving linear recurrence relations was just barely touched on in a Discrete Math course I took a while back, and now I'm trying to pursue the subject further as part of reading Knuth's book, Concrete Mathematics. I've taken a Linear 1 course, but don't know anything about Linear Difference Equations.


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The games you wish existed - 12-29-2009, 07:34 AM
I want to see a full-time, fully three dimensional Zombie MMORPG. The zombie plague event in WoW was pretty good, but it ended really fast and that was the end of our zombies.
The game I see in my head would feature a dark world of misty fields, shadowy forests and plagued, run-down cities. The powers in it would be split into three factions: Humans, Feral undead, and self-aware undead.
character customisation would include options to slide age up and down, change body build and multiple other options. Races would be human and self-aware undead. Players would become feral undead bye being killed bye the npc undead, and the more times it happened, the longer the duration of your stay in loonyland. This could be negated bye carrying certain items or being resurrected bye another player.
Skills and combat specialisations would be decided in-game. there would be three main branches: melee, range and magic. Players could choose one main skill, and a secondary skill. they would be able to perform combat with the last branch (Eg a melee seconded for magic could still shoot with a gun) but they could not perform any special tricks or spells with it.
after the three main branches, they would branch out further into the schools of darkness, light and neutral. a darkness warrior would be able to weaken his opponent's physical ability, while a light warrior would be able to elevate their own power and heal themselves. a neutral warrior would neither increase damage or empower themselves; they would instead rely on pure skill.
magic would branch off much more meaningfully: Dark mages would be able to control the powers than swamped the world in undead monsters in the first place: Necromancy and demon magic. Light mages would be able to heal, protect, negate and empower to a vast degree; neutrals would again, ignore the pulls of both and focus on basic magery; freezing enemies, blowing their heads off and conjuring stuff.
Races would influence this: living players would have bonuses making them more powerful in the light field than undead players with the same focus, and undead would be far more adept with necromancy than the living.
Cooperative play would consist of forming into a survival group which would travel together, which could later evolve into a faction, which could build their own instanced town which only faction members and those specifically invited could enter.
Placing objects would be a major focus: building small wards and planting traps, pitching tents and starting camp fires, would all be in a day's work for a player in the game.
Companions and backup would be important also. hiring mercenary troops from various places, and animal (light and neutral) and undead (dark) companions could be chosen to help you.
The game wouldn't be entirely full of zombies: it would also have vampire-like creatures, lycanthropes, demons and of course, psychotic maniacs (every apocalyptic world needs them to exist, xD)
The world would be split in two bye some event in the world's distant past, before the dead began to rise and try to kill the living. One half would be extremely old-fashioned, victorian looking and only has any modern-ish technology where absolutely necessary, where as the new world would be modern, with sky-rise buildings, machines all over the place, cars, guns, and of course politicians.
Equipment wouldn't have much effect on gameplay. it'd mostly be for cosmetics and would be highly customisable, like your character. mounts would be extremely variable, ranging from versatile new-world vehicles to swift and reliable old-world methods.
all range of weaponry would be available. I mean all range. tiers would seperate powerful weaponry from weak weaponry. It would be best to keep an arsenal of different weapons handy for dealing with different enemies, which would also be extremely different and have different weaknesses.
so yeah, that's my stupid little dream. just waiting for the industry fat cats to churn it out atm.
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Is there anything in the physics that enforces the wave function to be $C^2$? Are weak solutions to the Schroedinger equation physical? I am reading the beginning chapters of Griffiths and he doesn't mention anything.
Some of this was discussed elsewhere. See « significance of unbounded operators » http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/19569/6432 .
It is not true the wave function has to be continuous, it just has to be measurable (i.e., a limit of step functions almost everywhere). Naturally you might wonder what sense Schroedinger's equation makes if you apply it to a step function...but the answer is easier than worrying about distributional weak solutions. The point is that you can solve the time-dependent Schroedinger equation with the exponential $$e^{itH},$$ which is a family of unitary operators, and which is better behaved than the $H$ you have to use in Schroedinger's equation. The $H$ you have to use, for example $$-{\partial ^2\over\partial x^2} + \mathrm{other\ stuff}, $$ is unbounded. And non-differentiable functions are not in its domain. But plugging it in to the power series for exponential converges in norm anyway, and so the resulting operator, being bounded and even unitary on a dense domain of the Hilbert space, can be extended painlessly to the entire space, even step functions. So it makes more sense to say that the solution to Schroedinger's equation with a given initial condition $\psi_o$ is $$\psi_t (x) = e^{itH}\cdot \psi_o (x)$$ and there is no need to bring in distributional weak solutions. These considerations are called the Stone--von Neumann theorem.
But such functions are not very important and indeed it is possible to do all of Quantum Mechanics with smooth functions, especially if you take the attitude that, for example, a square well potential would also be unphysical and is really just a simplified approximation of a physical potential which smoothed off those square corners but had a formula that was unmanageable.... See Anthony Sudbery, Quantum Mechanics and the Particles of Nature, which since it is written by a mathematician, is careful about unimportant issues like this.
That family of operators I wrote down is called the time-evolution operators, and they are an example of a unitary group with one-parameter, time. It is easy to see that if $\psi_o$, the initial condition, the state of the quantum system at time $t=0$, is nice and smooth, then all the future states will be nice and smooth too. Furthermore, all the usual quantum observables have eigenstates which are nice and smooth, so if you perform a future measurement, you will get a function which is nice and smooth and its future time evolution will remain that way, until the next measurement, etc. until Doomsday.
That said, for all practical purposes you may assume all wave functions are smooth and that the only reason you study discontinuous ones is as convenient approximations.
The comment one sometimes hears is that a wave function that was not in the domain of the Hamiltonian would « have infinite energy » but this is nonsense. In Quantum Mechanics, you are not allowed to talk about a quantum system as having a definite value of an observable unless it is in an eigenstate of that observable. What you can ask is, what would be the expectation of that observable. If the wave function $\psi$ is discontinuous and not in the domain of the Hamiltonian, it cannot be an eigenstate, but if its energy is measured, the answer will always be finite. Yet, the expectation of its energy does not exist, or you could say, the expectation « is infinite ». Not the energy, its expectation. There is nothing very unphysical about this because expectation itself is not very directly physical: you cannot measure the expectation unless you make infinitely many measurements, and your estimated answer, even for this discontinuous function, will always be a finite expectation. It's just that those estimates are way inaccurate, the expectation really is infinite (like the Cauchy distribution in statistics).
But even for such a « bad » wavefunction, all the axioms of Quantum Mechanics apply: the probability that the energy, if measured, will be 7 erg, is calculated the usual way. But these bad wave functions never arise in elementary systems or exercises so most people think they are « unphysical ». And, as I said, if the initial condition is a « good » wave function, the system will never evolve outside of that. This, I think, is connected with the fact that in QM, all systems have a finite number of degrees of freedom: this would no longer be true for quantum systems with infinitely many degrees of freedom such as are studied in Statistical Mechanics.
The time-independent Schroedinger equation for the position-space wavefunction has the form $$\left(\frac{-\hbar^2}{2m}\nabla^2 +(V-E) \right)\Psi=0$$
Where $E$ is the energy of that particular eigenstate, and $V$ in general depends on the position. All physical wavefunctions must be in some superposition of states that satisfy this equation.
At least in nonrelativistic QM, the wavefunction is not allowed to have infinte energy. If the second derivative of the wavefunction does not exist or is infinite, it implies that either $V$ has some property that "cancels out" the discontinutiy (as in the infinite square well), or that the wavefunction is continuous and differentiable everywhere.
Generally, $\Psi$ must always be continuous, and any spatial derivative of $\Psi$ must exist unless $V$ is infinite at that point.
Here we want to show that there is an easy mathematical bootstrap argument why solutions to the time independent 1D Schrödinger equation
$$-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m} \psi^{\prime\prime}(x) + V(x) \psi(x) ~=~ E \psi(x) \qquad\qquad (1)$$
tend to be rather nice. First rewrite eq. (1) in integral form
$$ \psi(x)~=~ \frac{2m}{\hbar^2} \int^{x}\mathrm{d}y \int^{y}\mathrm{d}z\ (V(z)-E)\psi(z) .\qquad\qquad (2)$$
There are various cases.
The above two cases do not cover a couple of often-used mathematically idealized potentials $V(x)$, e.g.,


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Let $\hbox{Aff(}k,n)$ be the space of $k$-dimensional affine subspaces of $R^n$. The group of Euclidean isometries of $R^n$ (the semi-direct product of rotations and translation) acts transitively on $\hbox{Aff(}k,n)$, so by general Lie theory $\hbox{Aff(}k,n)$ is a smooth manifold and there is a smooth invariant measure on it (called kinematic measure in Integral Geometry) that is unique to within positive scalar multiple. If $M$ is a smooth $(n-m)$-dimensional submanifold of $R^n$, then it is an easy corollary of the Parametric Transversality Theorem that all $F \in \hbox{Aff(}k,n)$ outside a set $E$ of measure zero are transversal to $M$, so that if $F \notin E$ then $F\cap M$ is a smooth $(n-(m+k))$-dimensional submanifold of $R^n$. (Special case: Almost all lines in $R^3$ intersect a given surface in a discrete set.) Of course this has to be a well-known theorem, and I would like to know the appropriate reference for it.
Dear Richard,
I think this is just thought of as "folklore" in integral geometry (sorry, never seen it written down). This is probably because the statement you give follows from something that needs almost no technology to prove:
The set of $k$-flats that are parallel to a given $k$-dimensional subspace $L$ can be identified $R^n / L$ and provided with the Lebesgue measure. Among these flats, those that intersect the manifold $M$ transversely have full measure in $R^n / L$.
One then uses the usual decomposition of the kinematical measure (the set of affine $k$-flats is the total space of a tautological bundle over a Grassmannian) to conclude the statement you seek.
This is a special case of a more general theorem on generic transversality of submanifolds in homogeneous spaces:
Let $Y$ be a smooth homogeneous space for a Lie group $G$ and $Z_1, Z_2\subset Y$ be smooth submanifolds. Then for any measure in the Lebesgue measure class on $G$, for almost all $g\in G$ the intersection $Z_1\cap g Z_2$ is transversal.
Algebraic geometers know this result as Kleiman Transversality Theorem (in the context of smooth algebraic varieties and algebraic group actions), see
S.L. Kleiman, The transversality of a general translate, Compositio Math. 28 (1974), 287–297.
When we needed this (actually, a bit more general) result in the category of smooth manifolds and actions we could not find this (folklore) theorem in the literature, so we proved it in Proposition 2.3 of M. Kapovich, B. Leeb and J. Millson, "Convex functions on symmetric spaces, side lengths of polygons and the stability inequalities for weighted configurations at infinity," Journal of Differential Geometry, Vol. 81, 2009, p. 297-354.
The result that we proved is slightly more general and deals with several smooth submanifolds of $Y$ and their $G$-translates.


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6 Inexplicably Terrifying Commercials for Everyday Products
If Mad Men has taught us anything, it's that the best ad campaigns are created by drunken, borderline sociopathic con men with an inability to maintain healthy interpersonal relationships. So it should come as no surprise that sometimes, while thinking of new ways to sell shit on TV, their minds go to some dark fucking places. What is surprising is why a major company, with a vested interest in not scaring the hell out of potential customers, would have green-lit any of these commercials:
#6. Mattel's Whispering Doll Will Drive Your Children Insane
Via YoutubeThe Idea:
The year is 1965, Mattel's Chatty Cathy is one of the best selling dolls in the market, and the company is busy trying to think of ways to sell the same shit under a new name. "I've got it!" someone exclaimed. "A doll that whispers secrets! How could that possibly end up being anything but adorable?"The Horror:
See, this is what happens when you let a Chatty Cathy doll with a defective voice chip direct a commercial. The ad starts with an innocent child waking up next to an innocent baby doll -- everything seems perfectly normal, until the camera zooms in on the doll's face as its lips open and it whispers in an unholy voice, "Is anyone else awake?"
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"Good. Now show me where mommy keeps the knives."
"Her lips really move!" the announcer says, as if trying to distract us from what we just witnessed. Another zoom into the doll's stoic expression brings another whispered phrase -- we know it says, "I want to tell you something," but our ears still can't stop hearing "I want to kill you some day." Indeed, we'll continue hearing those words long after we've turned off the computer and gone to bed.
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"All must burn. All must perish. Also buy more Barbies."
Even in the face of this horror, the girl just smiles and whispers back at the doll, her mind no longer her own. If the ad continued for another few hours you would see her skin turn plastic, her eyes stop moving, and a "Made in Japan" label appear on her back.
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"But Spot is my brother's doggy ..."
"Insolent child! You will do as I say!"
This is the point where the narrator desperately reminds us that this is a product one can buy, before the doll's face returns one last time to address you directly: "I know a secret. Do you?" We know a bunch, Baby Secret, but probably none that compares to the mind-destroying truths contained within that hollow plastic skull.
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By the way, the girl went on to star in something even more terrifying.
#5. Kleenex Wipes (for Japanese Baby Ogres)
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When you are a universally known brand like Kleenex, you can't just slap a new soundtrack to the same commercials and expect them to work well in every country -- you have to tailor-make your ads to the tastes and sensitivities of each nation. That's why in 1986, Kleenex created two ads specifically for Japan: The first one showed a little angel girl playing with Kleenex tissues, and the second one, well, um ...The Horror:
We guess the idea of this commercial was to celebrate the bond between mother and child, which is a nice enough sentiment. It's unfortunate, then, that they decided to set the ad in a parallel dimension where demons have enslaved humanity and forced us to raise their ill-begotten spawn as our own.
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That horn must've stung like hell during delivery.
In the ad, the ruby-skinned Toddler of the Damned sits with arms crossed, clearly displeased with his human mother/servant-for-life. Knowing how cruel her child can be when not entertained, the woman desperately casts about for something that will save her soon-to-be-flayed-off skin.
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Changing diapers full of brimstonse and snakes must be a chore.
With most of civilization reduced to a barren red hellscape, the woman has little choice but to turn to dark magicks for her salvation. She reaches for a Kleenex , the only brand allowed by the dark overlords (because even demons masturbate), and levitates it through the ether.
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You'd think anyone tough enough to raise Baal Jr. would be able to hang on to tissue.
Meanwhile, all through the ad a lone voice sings a pleasant English song ending with the lyrics, "It's gonna be a fine night tonight / It's gonna be a fine day tomorrow" ... but we know it's not true. We know it will never again be true, after watching this commercial. In fact, the next time we see the Kleenex logo, we'll probably start weeping right awa- Why, you Don Draper-ing geniuses!
By the way, in Japan this ad was the subject of an urban legend claiming that everyone who watched it died mysteriously (huh, probably should have mentioned that before). That's right: even the Japanese thought it was too creepy.
#4. McDonald's Coffee: It Turns Your Nose into a Penis
Via YoutubeThe Idea:
Swedish people freaking love their coffee, so we're not clear on why McDonald's Sweden even thought they needed to put out a series of ads for the brew back in 2008. That's probably why, when a Swedish agency was commissioned to create these ads, they said, "Eh, let's have fun with it. Let's do something creative and original. People will buy the damn coffee anyway."
The Horror:
Somewhere along the line, the idea for "coffee commercial" became "20-second horror movie mash-up of Pinocchio and The Human Centipede." The ad opens with this man:
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This is what happens when you snort Enzyte like cocaine.
The man utters a hoarse, wheezing laugh that speaks volumes, if you are fluent in Crazy. It seems to say, "At long last, the experiment is a success!" As the screen slowly pans to the right, it reveals more and more of the man's disturbingly phallic nose.
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Making matters worse, we are treated to a soundtrack with the same kind of broken xylophone playing that, if this were a movie about scary-ass demon children, would come right before an adult discovers them and they make their first kill. The spot is only 20 seconds long, but it feels much longer the first time you see it, since your mind is busy shitting itself at all the horrible things that might be on the other side of the Dick Nose. For why else would the nose go on ...
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And on ...
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And ... you get the idea, unless something is there, waiting for us? What could it be, we ask, with a mixture of dread and please-don't-fucking-tell-us?
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These guys must be a hit at limbo parties.
Yep, it's another dude. Is this a separate person, or did the nose grow so long that it eventually grew a second man at the end of itself, if only for balance? The imbecilic chuckle and unconcealed nose-pickery of the poor fool tells us the real story: A mad scientist has joined himself to his Igor-ish lab assistant in an unholy union of flesh. Anyway, buy McDonald's coffee.
The same ad agency did a whole bunch of these 20-second nightmares in 2008, like the one with the infinite beard, the one with the newscaster parrot, and the one with the ... Jesus, we don't even know. Is all the coffee in Sweden spiked? Like, is it a law or something?


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I have a bit of a problem.
I'm working on an iPhone app landing page and was wondering what would be the best way to combine the "join beta" and "sign up form" as one.
Btw "Preferred Platform" has the options - Website, iPhone, Android, Windows, Blackberry
Would appreciate any feedback on what I have right now and any wire frame designs.


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9 Nov 2012 2:14 AM #1
sencha app build looping
hi I tried to build my app with Cmd 3.0.0.
Now I see this message over and over again:
[shellscript] identical app.css
[INF] Compressed 0 of 1 (1 up to date)
[INF] [copy] Copying 1 file to /Applications/Dropbox/CapMan/build/Capman
So the build proces is looping.
My app is made with ExtJs 4.1
Any clue why this happens
12 Nov 2012 3:00 AM #2
Same Problem here.
Using "Sencha Cmd v22.214.171.124" on Mac OS.
30 Nov 2012 3:05 AM #3
I don't know why but after regenerate the app with CMD tool the problem is gone.
Just another question about CMD app build for a extjs4 app. I saw only a build all-classes.js after build. Is this normal behavior? So we have to copy all other files like css and thirth party code and made a new .html that loads all files besides all-classes.js???
2 Dec 2012 10:26 AM #4
it might happen if the build folder(output folder) path is inside the application/webapp path.


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At some point in every Assassin's Creed game, the creed itself comes up, but I can never remember what it is. I know it has something to do with "everything is permitted" and there's another part about light and dark. Does anyone remember the full assassin's creed and what it means?
Also I seem to remember Altair losing a finger during a part of his initiation ritual, and some of the assassins in later games have something done to their fingers (removed?) and I seem to remember this having something to do with the hidden blade. What's the story with the fingers?


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I am a GIS basic/novice user.
Our company has ArcGIS 10 desktop, and since it is multi-user license, I was allowed to install on my computer. I was given a copy of "Getting to know ArcGIS desktop" but it is for ArcGIS 9.
Are the two versions so different that I should just get myself the latest copy for 10? ESRI sells it for about 70 dollars so I'd like to not spend the money, but I'd also like to learn the system as well as possible.


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KILLEEN (October 22, 2012)--Peaceable Kingdom Retreat, in Belton, is holding its annual fundraising banquet Tuesday.
Florence High School 10th grader Hunter King will receive the "Empowered Child Award" and guests will cast their ballot for greatly needed programs for children with special needs.
Hunter, who is challenged with cerebral palsy, won the award by demonstrating "amazing courage in the face of adversity."
"The enthusiastic student exhibits determination to rise above his obstacles, with a strong desire to achieve. Hunter has a contagious positive attitude, a great sense of adventure and he cares deeply for those around him," an event organizer said.
The theme for the event is "Vote Kids" and guests will be given the opportunity to influence which programs are offered to children in need.
The event begins at 6 p.m. at the Killeen Civic and Conference Center.
Tickets are $99 or $149 per couple and include dinner from Las Casas, dessert, a Starbucks coffee station, auction, entertainment by the Belton High School Show Choir, and a program to showcase the children served by the charity.
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I made the mistake of eating a Kobold corpse and got sick. My health stopped increasing over time as a result of this, and it lasted for quite a long time. That character is long dead now, but it would still be useful to know for future reference how exactly I should go about curing sickness.
Does sickness wear off over time? If not, how can I cure it?


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26 Nov 2012 12:46 AM #1
sencha package native for iPhone 5 not full height
When I run,
sencha package run <myconfig>.json
It launches the app in the simulator nicely. However, when testing on Retina 4-inch (iPhone 5) it appears that the app is not going full height – rather it's only as high as a 3.5-inch display iPhone <= 4s.
Is this expected to work or is it still to come? If it's pending I'll just wait for it and not keep trying.
Screenshot: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=34glgee&s=6
Last edited by abcd_ca; 26 Nov 2012 at 12:50 AM. Reason: adding screenshot
7 Feb 2013 4:41 AM #2
hi ...
i have the same problem
do you find any solution ????
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8 Feb 2013 2:36 AM #6
hi guys , you can fix this by adding iphone 5 screen size splash to your xcode project...
8 Feb 2013 9:51 AM #7
8 Feb 2013 11:09 PM #8
you only have to add a splash of 1136 x 640 pixels into your xcode project ... thats it and
problem solved, no need to add anything is app.js or packager.json ...
i hope it will help you
9 Feb 2013 12:53 PM #9
I would make sure you have the latest version of Sencha Cmd because it sounds like you may have 3.0.0 (the latest is 3.0.2 at present).
This command "sencha package ..." was moved to "sencha app package" in that release but otherwise is the same functionality.
If the problem persists, please let us know.Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
"Use the source, Luke!"
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I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 at home, I have cable net INTERNET connection.
In windows I am able to connect by dial-up connection.
How do I configure it in Ubuntu 11.10?
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US coal consumption will fall by 14% between 2011 and 2017 as power stations burn increasing amounts of cheap shale gas, but the European export outlet that has helped sustain the industry through the early stages of this shift won't last as carbon emissions regulations there tighten, the IEA said.
By SARAH KENT
The US coal industry faces a difficult period at home as
shale gas reduces the fuel's share in power generation, but its
problems are set to worsen as export markets diminish and large
swaths of the industry could have to shut, the International
Energy Agency warned Tuesday.
US coal consumption will fall by 14% between 2011 and 2017
as power stations burn increasing amounts of cheap shale gas,
but the European export outlet that has
helped sustain the industry through the early stages of this
shift won't last as carbon emissions regulations there tighten,
the IEA said.
The result is likely to be mine closures and job losses in some
of the poorest U.S. regions, it said.
"If domestic coal demand remains sluggish and international
coal prices low, large shares of coal production in the United
States will eventually become unprofitable," said the
Paris-based IEA, which advises rich industrialized countries on
energy policy, in its medium-term coal
market outlook.
The US coal industry's woes are the flip side of a six-year
boom in natural gas production as companies have used new
technologies to unlock vast reserves previously trapped in
shale rock formations stretching from Texas to New York.
The resulting fall in natural gas prices has encouraged a shift
away from coal in power generation, putting pressure on the
world's second-largest coal industry.
Although coal remains the backbone of the power system in
the US, natural gas increased its market share by almost six
percentage points between 2005 and 2011. Last year, natural gas
accounted for 24% of the electricity generated in the country,
while coal provided 43% of US electricity generation.
The US coal industry has responded by increasing exports,
primarily to Europe where recent low prices for
permits to emit carbon dioxide and high prices for
natural gas have made coal more attractive.
According to the IEA, US seaborne coal exports increased by
31% in 2011 compared with 2010 to 97 million metric tons, the
highest level in the last two decades.
But growth in European demand for coal is expected to be
sluggish over the next five years as regulations governing the
emissions of carbon dioxide from
power stations get more stringent and renewable energy
production grows.
The trend is already apparent. German utility E. ON AG said
Monday it had ceased commercial operations at a coal-fired
power station in Kent in the southeastern UK in response to
European Union legislation limiting carbon emissions.
"2013 will be a good year for US coal exports, but then it
will become more difficult for the coal to come to Europe," said Laszlo Varro, head of
the gas, coal and power division at the IEA.
That is bad news for the US coal industry. Estimates already
peg production cuts at around 60 million tons this year, or
around 6% of the country's coal production in 2011, the IEA
said. By contrast, supply of natural gas is estimated to have
increased by around a quarter between 2006 and 2011.
"Given sustained weak coal demand over the outlook period,
parts of the coal industry in the United States will have to be
restructured and consolidated in the coming years," the report
Closing 60 million tons a year of mining capacity in the
second-largest US mining region, Appalachia, might result in
the loss of 9,000 to 15,000 direct mining jobs, the IEA said.
The majority of mine consolidation would likely take place in
West Virginia and Kentucky, among the 10 poorest states by
gross domestic product per capita, it said.
However, the IEA said it was likely many employees of the
mining industry would be able to find new jobs. "Given that the
US economy is recovering and the shale gas industry is looking
for a lot of people with technical qualifications you will
probably see former coal miners finding employment in shale
gas," said Mr. Varro.
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A coworker approached me at work this morning wondering if I thought the Tigers would actually pursue Johnny Damon to fill the (nominally) vacant designated hitter role. My response: "no way".
There was some talk of Detroit brining Damon back following the injury to Victor Martinez, but the signing of Prince Fielder filled the DH void without directly filling it. I think everyone (except Mr. Damon, apparently) realizes that the Tigers aren't looking for another "no defense" hitter to join their roster.
But you can't really blame Johnny for trying. He's not necessarily chasing dollars right now, he's chasing additional rings, but apparently no one's a taker. Reports are that Damon also reached out to the Yankees this offseason before they decided to go with Raul Ibanez.
"at this point of my career, I want to have some say in who I can and can't play with… pay me whatever, and I'll try to help you win a championship"
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Lynn Henning has a Detroit News article out today in which he extols the virtues of Austin Jackson's changed batting approach. Henning admits that Jackson's 11 strikeouts in 29 at-bats don't look very good (as I pointed out the other day), but he quickly dismisses the 32% strikeout rate as not being an issues because of "a different circumstance from 2011".
I can't imagine what the "different circumstance" would really be besides the fact that he's currently racking up the whiffs in spring training, which means he's likely facing inferior pitching. I guess Henning is trying to argue that Jackson is smacking the ball hard, so he's looking like a "better hitter" right now than he did at any point last season, even though his strikeout numbers are still sky-high. But I think he's well off-base with what he's trying say. Here's the money quote:
"Jackson, if anything, has been dealing with bad luck after two weeks in the Grapefruit League. He scorched a grounder and a line drive at the shortstop against the Cardinals on Saturday, and came away with zeros."no comments
The Tigers came to Lakeland this spring with six in-house candidates competing for the last spot in the starting rotation. Jacob Turner was probably the odds-on favorite to win the job, Duane Below was the safe pick, Drew Smyly was the sexy dark horse, and Andy Oliver, Adam Wilk and Casey Crosby were "in the mix".
Three weeks later, we've received very little clarity on the situation in an official capacity, but it's pretty easy to guess where things are headed. Only Casey Crosby has been declared out of the running – he's was optioned to AAA Toledo a few days ago – but on-field performance helps us pretty much figure out the rest.
Adam Wilk has probably played himself out of the running. He's been pounded in 9.2 innings of work, putting up an elevated 5.59 ERA and a 1.55 WHIP. He's known as a control pitcher, and he's been fine in that respect giving up just two walks, but he's only struck out three batters, and he's allowed two home runs (something he also struggled with in his brief time in the majors last year). He's also a candidate for a long relief position, but he probably only has a chance there if Below makes the rotation – I don't really see both in the bullpen – otherwise we'll see Wilk starting in Toledo.no comments
The numbers for Brandon Inge this spring don't appear to be all that great on the surface – a sub-.300 on-base percentage should impress no one – but he's doing exactly what should be expected of him, and that's produce against lefties.
We're all well past the point of expecting Brandon to be a plus hitter. Even in his peak years (2004-2006), he was 'only' good for an OPS in the mid-to-upper .700's. The numbers he's put up this spring – .240/.296/.440 – would probably be on the extreme high end of what could be expected of him in a full season. They could probably pass for a full-time second baseman with average (to slightly above) fielding prowess, but it's how he's accumulated these numbers that show us why he shouldn't be expected to replicate them as an everyday player.
Inge's lefty-righty splits are currently pretty extreme. Versus righties this spring, he's batted for a slash line of .154/.214/.231 (.445 OPS). Versus lefties, those numbers jump to .333/.385/.667 (1.051 OPS). The problem here, though, is that he's had an even number of opportunities against each type of pitcher (14 PA's versus right-handers, and 13 PA's versus left-handers). An everyday player wouldn't be afforded that luxury. Generally speaking, about 70-75% of starting pitchers are right-handed, so an everyday player would face in the neighborhood of 2.5 times as many righties as lefties.no comments
We received the obligatory article this offseason about Austin Jackson. About how he spent extra time in the batting cages with hitting coach Lloyd McClendon. About how he was changing his style of hitting to gain a better 'two-strike' approach. And about how he was becoming really comfortable with the adjustment.
But early returns so far this spring give us little hope that change will make any difference for Jackson. With two strikeouts yesterday, his total has climbed to ten in nine games. That's an absurd 37% strikeout rate in his 27 plate appearances. He'll need to be strikeout free for his next ten PA's just to bring that down to last season's (high) 27% rate.CONTINUE READING THIS POST>>
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Ryan Raburn is off to a blistering start with the bat this spring. He has pounded six extra base hits (four of them home runs) in his 17 plate appearances and now posts a ridiculous 1.937 OPS. His hot start at the plate has some fans hoping that he'll skip his annual first half swoon this season, and just pound the ball from the get-go.
Unfortunately for Ryan (and the rest of us), his career spring training stats have been a terrible indicator for how he has hit in the season's first half. Here's a look at his splits over the past four seasons (spring, first half, second half).
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Yesterday morning, as I was surfing around for Tigers chatter, the following tweet came across my timeline from Mark Anderson of TigsTown.com:
Why do people insist the #Tigers need to do something w/ Nick Castellanos b/c of Cabrera's move. He's two years away! #StopTheMadness— Mark Anderson (@TigsTownMark) March 6, 2012
I was actually floored that there are folks out there who are clamoring for Castellanos to move positions right away! It's true that Castellanos is in Major League camp right now, but, as Anderson points out, he's still likely to spend two full seasons in the minor leagues before joining the Tigers. Being "blocked" by Cabrera shouldn't factor into an organizational decision at this point in time.Scouts have wondered all along whether or not Castellanos would be able to handle third base defensively at the major league level (and the jury is still out on this). If the answer ends up as a 'no', then the likely move would be to a corner outfield spot. So, the idea of Nick switching positions isn't a new one, but the Tigers organization should hold out as long as possible before deciding to make that switch official. Five reasons:
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CHEBOYGAN — A jury found a Cheboygan man guilty of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after a two-day trial this week.
Bernard Brasseur, 54, was alleged to have digitally penetrated two females who were under 13 years of age. A trial was conducted on Wednesday, Sept. 18 and Thursday, Sept. 19 in the 53rd Circuit Court.
According to Cheboygan County Prosecutor Daryl Vizina, the offenses occurred in the early 1990s and after an allegation involving a child, the two victims came forward.
After the defendant was charged, two additional females came forward indicating they too had been sexually assaulted by Brasseur as children. Those acts were barred from prosecution due to the statute of limitations, Vizina explained.
During the trial, all four of the females testified under oath as to the specific sexual acts Brasseur had performed years earlier, Vizina said. After the proofs concluded, the jury deliberated for approximately 48 minutes and returned with a guilty verdict on both charges.
The charge of criminal sexual conduct 1st degree carries a maximum life sentence. No sentencing date has been set as of yet. Upon a motion by Vizina, Brasseur's bond was revoked and he was taken into immediate custody of the Cheboygan County Jail.
"This was a great victory for the community but an even greater victory for the victims who all have been dealing with the hurt, the shame, and the trauma of Brasseur's acts," Vizina said.
"They all exercised great courage and strength in coming forward and having the fortitude and willingness to testify about such a personal issue. A lot of credit also needs to go Deputy Brenda Nowak and Sgt. Mike Brege of the Cheboygan County Sheriff's Department. They conducted a thorough investigation and assisted in preparing the evidence."
"If there's anything to come from this conviction besides the obvious, that adults cannot be committing sexual acts against children, it is that it's never to late to come forward with information involving crimes of this nature," Vizina added.
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Read again the final two verses of Psalm 40. Do you seek the Lord with gladness? Are you compelled to declare before men "The Lord be glorified"? Whether poor or rich, remember today that He who thinks of you is ...Read More
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Tests that show us our psychological inclinations, talents, and aptitudes can be valuable in assessing our strengths and gifts. Learning our gifts will make us more useful members of Christ's body. Through discussion and prayer with your pastor and other ...Read More
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When we see that love and hate boil down to favor and disfavor, we can see that they are objective and that they involve conscious decisions. How does understanding this change how you look at people? Resolve to favor those ...Read More
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Villa Enterprises Management, the global multiconcept restaurant franchisor, announced its second annual Villa Holiday Giftaway promotion.
To celebrate the holiday season, Villa is giving fans a chance to win one of many free prizes that include Amazon Kindles, iPod Touches, Pepsi swag and products, and a $500 holiday shopping spree.
"The holidays can be an extremely stressful time for many, so what better way to kick off the season than giving our fans something extra to celebrate?" says Villa Enterprises CEO Anthony Scotto.
Beginning on November 19, 2012, guests who purchase a Value Meal at any U.S. Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen location through January 6, 2013, will receive a unique entry code for a chance to win Holiday Giftaway prizes.
"We have more than 200 locations in food courts around the country, and hope to make this hectic time a bit easier for our loyal fans by giving them great-tasting meals on the go and a chance to win some great prizes for themselves or their loved ones," Scotto says.
Last year, nearly 9,000 Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen fans participated in the Holiday Giftaway promotion, redeeming in-store coupons. Thousands of dollars in prizes were given away to 50 lucky fans.
Guests can also enjoy Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen's latest twist on the classic Stromboli this holiday season with the debut of a new Chicken Ranch Stromboli.
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I have a Dual-Boot HP laptop, with Windows 7 Home Premium and Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I messed up a little with Windows and I had to restore my system to factory configurations by using a backup disc I created using the manager.
But when the Recovery Manager finishes copying all the files to the HD, it tells me that it has to reboot the machine SEVERAL TIMES in order to get the default OS and drivers installed. But when it first reboots, it automatically boots into the GRUB manager and tells me to select an OS to boot from, AND WINDOWS DOESN'T APPEAR.
So, my question is: Is there any way to disable Ubuntu from booting first so that it lets the Recovery Manager to reinstall the files? Or do I have to uninstall Ubuntu completely? If it is the last option, will I still be able to start the Recovery Manager WITHOUT any OS? Or is my machine perpetually doomed?
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Jerry Seinfeld is back and in the producer's chair for an all-new and improved second season of "The Marriage Ref."
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STEUBENVILLE - The Franciscan University of Steubenville Board of Trustees Friday chose the Rev. Sean O. Sheridan, TOR, to serve as the school's sixth president.
Sheridan will succeed the Rev. Terence Henry, TOR, who has been president of the university since 2000.
"Father Sean brings an excellent blend of academic, pastoral, legal, and business experience to Franciscan University. He has also demonstrated a strong care and concern for the good of the University's educational and spiritual mission. Together, these qualifications will uniquely equip him to lead Franciscan University according to the 'heart of the Church,'" said the Rev. Nicholas Polichnowski, T.O.R., chairman of the board of trustees and minister provincial of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Province of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance.
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"I am honored to serve as the next president of Franciscan University. It is inspiring and truly humbling for me to be here at Franciscan University with the students who are pouring their hearts into their education and their prayer life, falling in love with God and the Church, and striving to become saints," said Sheridan.
"The university has grown in every area under Father Terence's leadership and increased its reputation for excellent academics and faithful Catholicism. I will build on that strong foundation, always with a view to serving the Church and the new evangelization. I look forward to working with Father Terence, the Board of Trustees, and the entire faculty and staff as we continue to seek God's will in advancing Franciscan University's educational and spiritual mission," Sheridan said.
Henry, credited with strengthening the University mission through a new core curriculum, his public stand for religious freedom, entry into NCAA Division III athletics, and a $31 million capital campaign, will remain at Franciscan University to help the new president with his transition.
"I have the utmost respect for Father Sean, and I have deeply valued his opinion, especially on Church issues, over the years," Father Henry said. "I'm happy to be leaving the university to his leadership, and I am certain he will continue to raise the bar of excellence. I will be glad to introduce him to friends and alumni, and to help him with the transition into his new position."
Sheridan will assume the duties of president June 1, the start of the new fiscal year for Franciscan University. His formal installation as the president will occur during the inauguration ceremony on Oct. 10.
The university announced in January Henry would be stepping down as president of the school.
He arrived in the fall of 2000 "a little nervous" about replacing the Rev. Michael Scanlan as president.
"I was walking in large foot steps when I arrived. Father Mike was known nationally and internationally but very few people knew who I was. That's why I asked Father Mike to remain as the university chancellor. It was very important to me for the school to remain faithful to the teachings of the Church. I look back at my time here with gratitude. It has been a privilege to have been entrusted with the mission of guiding the university," said Henry in a January interview.
"When I came here in 2000 to start the transition from Father Mike Scanlan there may have been some people who wondered if Franciscan university would change. But we kept the mission of the church. It was why the Franciscan friars were originally invited here by Bishop (John King) Mussio to start a Catholic university. I am honored to have served as the fifth president of the university and to see the blessings I have received here," declared Henry.
One of the first issues Henry embraced as president was the creation of a commuter grant program for local students.
He also oversaw the university's re-entry into intercollegiate sports in 2007 as the Barons joined the NCAA Division III and gained entry into the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference.
During the past 13 years the physical campus has more than doubled in size with the purchase of adjacent property bringing the total acreage to 242, ensuring space for further growth.
Henry's personal passion as a priest has been confronting what he calls, "the culture of death."
The university joined other Catholic schools and institutions last year in a legal challenge to the Obama Administration's Healthcare mandate
Every year he leads hundreds of students, faculty, and staff at the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Sheridan served as assistant professor in the School of Canon Law at The Catholic University of America from 2009 until he joined Franciscan University's Theology Department as a professor in fall 2012, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses.
His pastoral experience includes Franciscan University summer conferences, parish ministerial duties, RCIA, pastoral care at hospitals, campus ministry, and residence hall chaplaincy. He also serves within the Sacred Heart Province in many other capacities.
Before he entered the Franciscan Third Order Regular, he graduated in 1985 with a bachelor of science in pharmacy from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, working as a pharmacy training manager from 1984 to 1990.
In 1990, he earned his law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and spent the next 10 years as a practicing attorney in Sacramento and Pittsburgh, focusing on healthcare litigation, primarily with the representation of hospitals and physicians.
The Cresson, Pennsylvania, native entered the Franciscan Third Order Regular in 2000 and made his solemn profession of vows in 2005. He was ordained to the priesthood in December 2006.