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Golden Lighting 3890-M1L GB Golden Bronze Single Light Mini Pendant from the Meridian Collection
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The crystallography restriction states that any 2-dimensional lattice can have rotational symmetry of degree 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 - and that's it. A simple proof of I've heard of this is: the magnitude of $rot_\theta(x)-x$ is less than the magnitude of $x$ if $\theta$ is less than $\pi / 3$. (So if there's a rotation by less than $\pi/3$, it will fail to be a lattice, since we can always get smaller and smaller elements.)
That sounds fine to me, and I get why real crystals would have the requirement that all atoms be some epsilon away from each other. I don't understand why nature requires the lattice to be closed though - obviously real crystals aren't completely closed under addition, or else they would be infinitely large.
So why does the crystallography restriction limit the symmetries of real crystals? (Or does it not, and this application of the theorem is made up by math teachers to convince their students that math is useful?)

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Bordered by the Aston expressway and Aston Villa football club, Aston Hall and Park offers an oasis of calm and tranquillity that can be freely enjoyed by everyone.
This magnificent park forms an idyllic setting for the Jacobean mansion. The park provides a backdrop of mature trees and shrubs, sweeping avenues and constantly changing planting schemes.
Today's park is a remnant of the 934-acre Deer Park and forms the key formal areas surrounding the house. Many of the features visible in the park today have been created as part of the park improvements by the civic society in the 1930s.
Aston Hall and Park provides something for everyone, from the colourful bedding by the Hall, to the play area constructed in 2002 providing play facilities for children of all ages.
Due to the site's importance in the city and country, the gardens have been registered on the Historic Parks Register. In line with a park of this importance, ambitious plans have been drawn up to look at the park and House and to redefine its historic importance.
Aston Hall and park sit in the heart of Aston ward and as such forms a focal point for community events, from Aston Pride to a mini Olympics for the local school children. To formalise these contacts a 'Friends of Aston Hall and Park' group was formed during 2002, which meets on a regular basis to discuss issues within the hall and park.
Visitor Centre
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Room for hire - details contact Aston Hall & Aston Play Centre
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Buses 65, 104 and 105 stop nearby in Lichfield Road, while the 7 and 11 call at the junction of Aston Lane and Brookvale Road.
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By reading the wiki of unique weapons I learned that I am supposed to get a special dagger called "Keening" for completing "Arniel's Endeavor." However, I completed this quest days ago and do not possess this weapon. Since at the end of the quest Arniel implies that he has to wait for something else before he completes his research is there a certain time I have to wait to obtain the dagger from him? I pick-pocketed him as well and it was not there. Is there a certain place to find it?
You get the dagger on the last part of quest Arniel's Endeavor but you have to deliver it to Arniel Gane at the end of a quest. He should immediately use the dagger for some magic and he will "explode," dropping the dagger on the floor.
If he doesn't, there are some known bugs with the scene:
Check these wiki articles on Arniel's Endeavor and Keening to make sure you didn't miss anything.
On the PS3, I've noticed Keening drops, but if you mistakenly run over it, it suddenly disappears. You have to be observant and note where it is on the ground before you run around the room. A couple times I heard it clink when I kicked it and it was gone, and another time I stepped on it and it just disappeared. Look before you leap.
The real answer to your question is that you're confused about the ending of the quest. It says it ended there, but what everyone is referring to is the final part which you have to wait 3-4 days for before talking to Arniel again, then he'll give you this final part. Previously you could ask right away for the next part of the quest, but the final part is unmentioned, unexplained and if you don't talk to Arniel in 2 or 3 game days you wont know about it. I had the same thing happen. It ended & I got nothing. Then I realized it hadn't really ended despite the quest saying complete. It will start again when you talk after 3-4 days.
Possible solution load the auto-save slot, don't equip it prior to entering the area or talking to him. Once he vanishes it should be on the ground if you lose the auto save, well then I can't help you.
Check the room directly beneath you. I couldn't find it anywhere even though I heard it fall to the ground when he disappeared. I saw someone had mentioned that it sometimes falls through the floor into the room under you and, sure enough, went down the stairs and there it was laying directly in the center of the bed.


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Vegan Hacker
Vegan Hacker is a really fun vegan (no meat, milk, dairy, eggs, etc) food hacking event that happens on the last Thursday of every month. The goal is to get together and "veganize" a traditionally non-vegan food group-- and then get a little crazy with it. Previous Vegan Hacker events have made twinkies, corn dogs, COOKIES, fondue, burgers, and more! Everyone is welcome to participate. Contact us if you have questions, comments, or an idea for a hack!
There is no Vegan Hacker for October 2013. Sorry! But check out our coffee roasting workshop on 10/10/13!! https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Coffee_Roasting_101!
Visit our website (http://www.veganhackersf.com/) to get further details about each hack, pictures & descriptions of what we made, announcements, and other fun stuff.
Maggie of Vegan Hacker can be contacted at VeganHackerSF at gmail dot com.
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No. 73 The Heartland Report on School Finance Reform for Illinois: Part 2
In Part 1 of this report, we replied to the March 1996 report of the Governor's Commission on Education Funding.
In this second and final part of our report, we advance an alternative set of principles for school finance reform in Illinois. In many ways, these principles follow the lead of the Governor's Commission. For example, we too seek to create a connection between funding and outputs; we seek to clearly define academic standards; we call for substantial property tax relief; we try to give affluent districts a bigger stake in the state funding system; and we offer a constitutional amendment to protect taxpayers from "bait and switch" trickery once reform legislation is enacted.
Like the Commission, we propose eight principles of school finance reform. Principle 7 presents The Heartland Plan, a proposal that incorporates the earlier principles. Principle 8 presents a proposed constitutional amendment that would implement The Heartland Plan.


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Problem in Deploying a Android application
I am not able to deploy the project for android app.I have successfully deployed for the IPhone,but for android it is asking for certificate.Is anyone aware of this.I just change the settings in packager.json file.I have use the command as $ sencha app build native
I am not able to generate .apk file for my app.Please tell me the simple method to deploy the project for android mobile.
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This question is about the native packager, rather than Sencha.io. You should post your question in the Sencha Touch forum.


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What configuration options can I change to make Dwarf Fortress easier to play?
I found one of the easiest ways to simplify the game without hacking or removing many sources of Fun is to lower the population cap. I found that once my fortress grew to 100 dwarves or beyond, I couldn't figure out how to manage all of them and keep them working productive jobs. So instead they all just sat around throwing parties and pestering my productive dwarves. Until you get enough experience to handle a fortress that size, try lowering the cap to 40 or 50 dwarves.
To do this in v0.31.08, edit data/init/d_init.txt and change the value of this line:
Note: your actual population may still go above the cap you set, you just stop getting new immigrant waves after you reach or surpass that cap. And apparently births don't respect caps. Also I think (but I haven't tested) that you can change this mid-game if you save and quit first.
I really think you shouldn't. I know that sounds kind of weird but all of the joy you will every obtain out of that game derives from the fact that its Hard. That's hard with a capital 'H.' Man hard. After playing Dwarf Fortress for a year and a half now Hard is a four letter word to me.
Now, as much as I don't think you should change the game to make it easier (and there are sites that will help you hack it). I will provide you with some resources; an instruction manual, so to speak.
The Utter Newby Tutorial. Gives you much of the basic controls and layout for your fortress.
Cpt. Duck's Video Tutorial. I literally learned DF by watching these videos and copying them perfectly. It took me close to 10 fortresses to get to the end of his first fortress. Well worth it.
DF wiki. Students have textbooks, Priest's have the bible, you have the Dwarf Fortress Wiki. Commit it to memory. Perhaps the most important article found here is this one: Fun.
Finally, there is the story of Boatmurdered. It is what is called a legacy fortress, where a different person played each year. Its incredibly entertaining, even though parts of it read like a "what not to do."
You can try editing the game's raw creature sources directly. Search the game's directory for a file (probably called
Add the following tags after that line:
This will make your dwarves immune to most status conditions. Now find these lines:
Add one or two zeroes to the last numbers of each line. This will make your dwarves gigantic and unlikely to be killed by anything.
Delete the
If building mega structures is your aim, my advice is to start on an Island. Press tab to check nearby civilizations, and if only dwarves show then embark somewhere around that area. You won't get any goblin snatchers/ambushes/sieges ever. I'm at 181 dwarves and the only thing that ever came was a titan which was easily dispatched by my militia (equipped with training weapons funnily enough).
One thing I like to do, although it at a certain point it may not be "easier" (depending on your play style), is lower the population cap VERY low. i.e. 10, 15 or 20. Just make sure you build a trade depot, I think a caravan needs to visit & leave once before migrants stop.
The easiest thing (without even needing to change an ini file) is to get Masterwork Dwarf Fortress and turn invaders off in the settings... this may be a little too easy, but I think you can re-enable once you have a nice big fortress with lots of fun prepared for your friendly visitors. Also, Masterwork has a lot of other settings you can use to make things easier or harder.


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Sept. 21, 2012 -- Regret getting that Chinese character tattoo that turned out to be gibberish? Can't face turning 30 with the "Hello Kitty" tat you got on a whim a decade ago?
You're not alone.
Studies suggest that a third to half of people who get tattoos end up wanting them gone, and now laser technology makes it possible for those who can afford it. Maybe.
New research finds that the success of laser tattoo removal may depend on some surprising things, such as whether the unwanted ink is on the skin of a smoker.
Tattoo Removal Less Successful for Some
In one of the first studies to examine the issue, researchers in Italy identified key characteristics of successful tattoo removal.
They confirmed that large tattoos are harder to remove than small ones, and that yellow, blue, and green dyes are more resistant to removal than black and red ones.
Other characteristics associated with poorer results were less well-known, says study co-author and dermatologist Luigi Naldi, MD.
The study revealed that:
- Smokers tended to have poorer results than non-smokers.
- Older tattoos tended to be harder to remove than newer ones.
- Tattoos on the feet and legs were harder to remove than those on other parts of the body.
- Outcomes were better when laser sessions were spaced at least eight weeks apart.
"Some people want tattoos removed almost immediately after getting them and others want them removed years later when their lifestyles have changed," Naldi says.


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Looking for a single source that covers the history of software quality assurance and testing stating what over time were the different approaches, and why practices have evolved the way they have over time.
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Great starting point would be Wikipedia's history sections on the pages for Software Testing and Quality Assurance.
For example, the Wikipedia page for software testing cites an Association for Computing Machinery journal article by Gelperin and Hetzel (1988) titled, "The Growth of Software Testing" which list the following eras of software testing:
You might also browse some of the books returned on Amazon by querying: "history of software testing and quality assurance".
If you looking for experience and suggestions about testing I recommend for you check out some books on amazon (depend on experience which you are looking mostly). The fact is that all best testing approaches is not invented without knowledge and failures of past. So you do not need relearn all testing history to reinvent testing approach which cover your application needs. As QA your main goal is check software quality, catch bugs and if you good at this with ad-hoc testing style there are nothing to worry about. However if you need train new software testers I think best write them detailed Test Cases because tester experience gather when working with application. Personally I do not believe that books or articles with topic like "Millenium Quality Assurance Failures" could make tester work better with specific application.
Try this site ? http://www.testingreferences.com/testinghistory.php


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In How does "Reputation" work?, it says "A maximum of +1000 reputation may be earned by users under 2000 rep. by accepted edits."
In this case:
I earned the equivalent of 2700 reputation, and 1800 of it earned by accepted edits. according this rule, this moment my reputation is (2700-1800)+1000=1900.
Then I earned 100 rep, and all of it is not earned by accepted edits, and my total rep achieved to 2000, so the rule should lose effectiveness to me.
The ignored rep by accepted edits will be given back? Will my rep be 2000 or 2800 now?


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The Friends of the Hilton Head Library will be sponsoring a series of gardening seminars in the garden (weather permitting) at the Hilton Head Library which is maintained by the Island Beautification Committee. The series run on Wednesday's at 11:00 a.m. through the month of June. Everyone is welcome.
June 5th, 11:00am: "Designing of a Hilton Head Island patio garden" with Betsy Jukofsky
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I am in the very fortunate position to be the Official Photographer for Wheelchair Sports Western Australia (WSWA). I get to photograph amazing and talented athletes who have physical disabilities but who do not allow those physical disabilities to set them back. Its very inspirational and fun!!
On Wednesday 11th of April, I attended and photographed the presentation of playing jerseys to the current Black Ducks, WSWA's Under 21 wheelchair basketball team. It is an extremely proud moment as an athlete to gain a place on a State team and the room was filled with huge smiles and a lot of pride. Amber Merritt, who will be missing out on playing with the Ducks this year due to Paralympic commitments reminded the team of the opportunity that they have had presented to them, to wear their jerseys with pride and to play hard. Words that very clearly resonated throughout the room.
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The Geismar II project includes their 1 million tpy methanol plant, which is expected to be operational by early 2016. The second phase is likely to cost $550 million. The global demand outlook for methanol is favorable and demand is expected to outpace capacity additions in the industry, the company says.
Methanex has reached a final investment decision to proceed
with the relocation of a second 1 million tpy methanol plant from its Chile site to
Geismar, Louisiana, the company announced on Thursday.
The plant is expected to be operational by early 2016, and has
an estimated total cost of approximately $550 million.
"We are excited to move forward with the Geismar II
project," said John Floren, CEO of Methanex.
"We have made excellent progress with our first plant
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The Geismar I project was given final approval in early 2012, and is expected to start up
in the second half of 2014, according to company officials.
"The global demand outlook for methanol is very favorable and demand
is expected to outpace capacity additions in the industry over
the next several years," Mr. Floren said.
"Relocating a second plant to Louisiana allows us to benefit
quickly from the competitive natural gas price environment in North America and add
additional molecules to our system to supply our customer's
growing requirements for methanol," he added.
"The two Geismar projects, combined with our other
growth initiatives in New Zealand and Medicine Hat,
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Exploring certain buildings in the wastes often gives a certain type of item, i.e. you'll get various alcoholic items from searching a Shady Bar. What are the other building types and the items associated with exploring them?
Here is the list of all buildings found in the world beyond. It is translated from the French version already, however some of the buildings names will be different in our version of the game. It is easy to work out what each building is, and certainly this is the most detailed and accurate list that exists as far as I know, as well as having all the info listed on 1 page rather than seperate links.
There is great list here: Special Zones.
Yes, there is correlation between buildings and contents thereof. For Hordes, this has been extensively explored on WikiHordes. It should be mostly valid for the English versions as well.
The items you get from buildings are mostly common sense. So if you're searching an ambulance you'll find mostly bandages and drugs. If you search an old pump you'll find mostly water and some pipes.
Besides the french list there is also one for the german version of Die2Nite, you should be able to understand that one with some online translation tools.


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We were friends. Nothing more. Just two kids from Jersey traveling abroad that happened to bump into each other by stereotypical mistake. His White European friends dared him to go and talk to that Black Brasilian girl sitting on the beach, who was really a Black American girl in disguise. After listening to his tried pick up line in American-accented Portuguese, I cut him off and bluntly asked him in English where he was from. Shocked, he laughed and said, "I totally thought you were Brasilian." He wouldn't be the first to make the assumption.
Nonetheless, he invited me back to meet his friends staring at him in disbelief thinking he actually succeeded in picking up this Brasilian girl. He broke the ice immediately and said, "She's American." And once again, I got the line, "We thought you were Brasilian!" After watching the sunset together, he invited me to meet up with them to salsa that evening. I wouldn't give him a definite answer, as I had articles to finish and work to do. But he was persistent, followed up by Skyping me that evening re-extending his invitation. I still politely declined.
A few days later, he was headed to a nearby island and invited me to come along to explore. I was looking to get away from the city, so I accepted, of course, booking my own hotel room, and arriving days late on my own schedule. We spent the following days hanging out, walking the beach, but still keeping things platonic. He had met and pursued a local Brasilian girl who was beyond sweet. And frankly, I just wouldn't let my guard down to the idea of hooking up with a white American guy when there were so many Afro-Brasilian men in my surroundings. I was prejudiced, or in kinder words had a preference, for brown beautiful men.
Eventually, our vacation ended and he headed to the south of Brasil to start his new job. I returned to the city to continue living my life, and we kept in touch through semi-frequent Skype chats about our lives as Americans in Brasil. He told me to hit him up when I came to his city. And when I finally made the trip, I did. It had been almost six months since we had first met, and I certainly had changed.
I had opened a different chapter in my dating life, one that included more interracial dating than relationships with Black men in Brasil. So when we hung out, all of the sudden our platonic friendship transformed into a prospect, even though it had likely already been a prospect for him months back. I was sick, blowing my runny nose, and coughing, but he still wrapped his arms around me, made me tea, and made sure I was comfortable in his home.
My toes curled, more than once. I screamed, a few times.
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What followed was a "first" to remember, as we took our time kissing and exploring each other's bodies for the first time. While I know I wasn't the first black woman he ever had sex with, he was the first White American that I had ever let into such an intimate space. Prior to that, I had shared my body with White Brasilians and Argentineans. But this was different. This made me feel like my growth had come full circle, as I struggled growing up in a predominately White Jersey suburb to feel like interracial dating was an option for a young Black woman. While young Black men certainly enjoyed relationships with young White women in my town, Black girls rarely were seen exploring the same types of relationships. Part of it was prejudice; part of it was reality. But the opportunities weren't equal or treated the same.
I grew up believing a number of stereotypes about non-Black men, especially when it came to sex. If you asked most of my friends, their packages tended to be small unless they were of Latin or Italian descent, but they made up for it in the oral sex arena. So when I finally allowed myself to sexually enjoy and explore men of other races and cultures, I found these stereotypes blatantly untrue, just as several of the Black men that I had shared my body with didn't live up to the Mandingo standard.
My first time with this White kid from Jersey was intense. The sex was focused primarily on my pleasure, and he wasn't lacking in anyway to be able to deliver it. But it did make me reflect on why I had limited myself for so long to just having sex and dating Black men or never challenging the popular stereotypes.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Officials at an Evansville hospital say about 560 patients received injections of a recalled back pain medication that's been tied to an outbreak of a rare form of meningitis.
St. Mary's Health spokeswoman Laura Forbes says 10 of the roughly 250 of those patients the hospital has contacted so far are experiencing symptoms that could be consistent with fungal meningitis.
Forbes says the hospital is taking the situation "very seriously" and is trying to contact the remaining patients.
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I keep a bucket of water with me to put out the fire and turning lava into obsidian stone. The process is slow and usually unutilizes the water, forcing a trip back to the ground level once in a while.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use government money to create jobs and......
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"Americans don't expect government to solve every problem," he said. "They do expect us to forge reasonable compromise where we can."
I didn't watch; did he stumble over the pronunciation of "compromise"? I guess it depends on the meaning of "reasonable".
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Obama had a chance to explain why gasoline was about 1.61 in Dec. 2008,3.26 in Dec. 2012 and is now 3.60 and continuing to climb. But he chose instead to focus on everything else, and I mean everything. Communist President and his Communist followers want to stick their noses in every aspect of American society and change every aspect of American life to fit their perceptions. Taxes went back up for the working person so the Communist wants to offset that by demanding employers who can't afford it, raise the minimum wage. Communist are OK with adding a minimum wage increase to the cost of ObamaCare and causing business to layoff employees or close. Communist not known for being deep thinkers. Must be Bush's fault.
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Obama has an opportunity to end his negative and divisive bluster last night but totally failed. So Sad !!!
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Rubio had a chance last night to end the negatively & bluster and set a new course for his party. Sadly, he failed. Same old ideas, same old GOP.
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Quasiparticles theoretically can form braids on a 2D surface. The braids apparently are quite stable for reasonably long periods, allowing a superposition state more time before it decoheres through environmental interaction. This would be a big step in quantum computing. Has this actually been achieved or is it theory only at this point?
So far non-abelian quasiparticles have yet to be observed in quantum hall states. However, as far as theory is concerned, in a recent paper a rigorous proof is provided that such quasiparticles do exist in quantum hall states. There were many candidate states for this object, starting with the Moore-Read state, however, theoretically there did not yet exist a complete proof of their existence.
This is a really big achievement. Frank Wilzcek describes it as "a landmark proof".
There have been various incompletely verified "sightings" of the $5/2$ state which is the non-abelian state. For results upto 2008 at least, see the RMP paper on topological quantum computation. At the end of this paper various references are given which claim to have observed this state. I don't know what the latest is, but I would have heard of an definitive experimental observation, or so I like to think :)


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The GVSU trumpet ensemble is a nationally acclaimed musical group. Under the direction of Professor Richard Stoelzel, the group received top place multiple times at the National Trumpet Competition in Fairfax, VA. After a pre-screened audition, the ensemble was invited to perform at the 36th annual International Trumpet Guild conference. The ensemble will perform with Jeff Uban, a former member of the Glenn Miller Jazz Orchestra and an alumni of GVSU. In attending this conference, the GVSU trumpet ensemble will be performing for an international audience of aspiring, world class musicians.


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Often, TeX outputs underfull hbox and vbox warnings when running and in the generated log file. What are these and how can I get rid of them?
TeX puts elements (letters, lines, paragraphs, pictures,...) in boxes and joins them together on pages using glue (put between them) that can stretch, e.g., to make sure that lines are justified, or that pages are filled to their specified height. In the first example, the line is put in a hbox (horizontal box, or box with material arranged horizontally with respect to one another, words in this case), in the second, the page is put in a vbox (vertical box, or box with material arranged vertically with respect to one another, usually paragraphs and displayed equations in this case).
Such a box is underfull in case TeX has to stretch the glue more than what is specified to be (aestethically) acceptable. In that case there will, e.g., be much whitespace between words of a line (hbox case) or extra whitespace between paragraphs (vbox case).
To avoid underfull hboxes (and also overfull ones), one can, in LaTeX, use the microtype package, which, when used in pdflatex mode (directly generating a
Another, manual route is to reformulate sentences and paragraphs, or add explicit hyphenation (e.g.,
An underfull hbox means LaTeX couldn't space the line wide enough to fill the entire width of the page, without increasing word spacing beyond the allowed maximum; the opposite is an overfull hbox, where a line couldn't be broken and extends past the edge of the printable area. Usually it happens if you forced a linebreak yourself (with


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Is it possible to change the braking system from rim brakes to rotary. I want to replace them because I hate how after a while the pads wear out and I need to replace it so I think the rotary might be better. What would I need to do?
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In general, you can't replace rim brakes with hub or disk brakes unless the frame is designed for that. In particular, hub or rim brakes place too much stress on the front fork unless the fork is designed for them. You're probably better off buying a new bike with the "right" (for you) brakes factory-installed.
But I'm surprised that you have so much trouble with rim brakes. I just had my rim brake pads replaced for the first time last year, after putting about 10,000 miles on my current bike.
The most practical solution would be to upgrade your brake pads. They may seem expensive, but both Koolstop and SwissStop work pretty good. Search around, there are many online sellers.
You can see a significant change in brake performance with the right pads installed.


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Mercedes-Benz is bringing the repair garage directly to the owners. In this project called 'mobile service checks,' the company will conduct free inspection including tread depth, test of tire pressure an oil and water levels. Aside from that, the body and wheels, as well as the lighting will be checked by the experts to see if there are any damages. There will also be a mobile lift where the fuel line, engine, tank, gearbox and power steering will be checked. While waiting for their car, the customers can have a drink and relax. Then, after all the inspections, the customers will be given a test report indicating if there are… Continue Reading »


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6 Insane Fan Theories That Actually Make Great Movies Better
#3. The Little Brother Dies In Radio Flyer
In this 1992 film, Elijah Wood and that kid from Jurassic Park play two young brothers who live in fear of their abusive stepfather. The non-hobbit son concocts a plan to escape on his Radio Flyer wagon. At the end of the film, he and his wagon careen off a cliff, only to fly up, up, and away from his crappy life.
The Theory
There are a couple theories floating around here. One is that the younger brother is a mental fiction created by Elijah Wood's narrator to cope with the abuse--it's notable that no one except the narrator's family interacts with the younger brother. Another theory (which even Roger Ebert suggested) is that the younger brother plummets to his death or is beaten to death by his stepfather.
Furthermore, the narrator's final lines ("Now do you understand what I mean about history being in the mind of the teller? [...]'Cause that's how I remember it.") lend further credence to all of these totally depressing scenarios.
You're a goddamned liar, Tom Hanks!
Why does it make the film better?
Radio Flyer was panned for its saccharine and frankly retarded ending, and the fan theories give the film a more poignant twist. However, we at Cracked find both of these endings wholly unsatisfactory and instead choose to believe that the kid was shanghaied away by Falcor.
Fact: Every movie should end like this.
#2. A Shitload Of Films End In The Heroes' Heads
Quick quiz: What do Minority Report, Taxi Driver, Total Recall and Observe and Report have in common? If you said "that hooker with three boobs," we dig your style, but no dice.
Give up? The final act of all of these movies takes place entirely in the protagonists' minds.
The Theories
Minority Report and Total Recall are based on the works of Phillip K. Dick, a sci-fi author notorious for exploring human perceptions of reality. In Total Recall, the entire point of the film is that you're not quite sure where the simulation Arnold purchased ends and begins (and a major plot point involves the bad guys trying to rescue him from the simulation, or claiming they were). So it's plausible, and even likely, that the ending (or even the entire damn movie) occurred in the brainwashed Arnold Schwarzenegger's mind.
Less obvious is the shiny, happy ending of the neo-noir Minority Report, with the three rescued psychics living out their lives in an idyllic cabin right out of a Thomas Kinkade painting. It feels so out-of-place that it could very well be a delusion of Tom Cruise's Xenu-infested skull. Remember, Cruise's character was briefly imprisoned in that futuristic iJail where the prisoners' brains remained free to dream. It's possible that the "escape" and heroism was all part of the fantasy that keeps the prisoners from escaping (just like the "Zion is also the Matrix" theory).
On a similar note, critics have interpreted the weirdly cheerful ending of Taxi Driver as the dying thoughts of Travis Bickle. Hell, even Scorsese admits that the film's overly happy ending is a cipher. This same theory applies to Taxi Driver homage Observe and Report: After Seth Rogen stops taking his medication, his schlubby bipolar mall cop saves the day and gets the girl through a series of grossly improbable events (including Rogen beating a dozen policemen and shooting a guy with no consequences).
Paul Blart ends this way too.
Why Do They Make These Films Better?
The final scenes of each seem to clash with the movies' overall message. These fan theories reaffirm the films' darker themes while offering the audience twists of Shyamalanian proportions.
These theories also give us hope for other films too. For example, we have our own theory that The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull occurs entirely in Indiana Jones's mind--he hallucinates the whole goddamn mess while slowly dying from radiation poisoning in a lead-lined fridge.
We actually hope that Indy is dead. Just so this never happened.
#1. Chewbacca and R2-D2 Are Secret Rebel Agents
When George Lucas introduced his magnum opus, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, he tried to shoehorn in perhaps every damn character from the original series, the obese Rancor keeper from Return of the Jedi notwithstanding.
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By plopping beloved characters as R2-D2 into the thick of previous events, many fans realized that Lucas had created Chrysler-sized plot holes. For example, R2-D2 and C-3PO basically witnessed Anakin's transformation into Darth Vader, but this fact is never mentioned in the original trilogy. Neither is the fact that Yoda and Chewbacca knew each other (seen fighting alongside one another in Episode III), making it a spectacular coincidence that Luke and Obi-Wan just happened to run into him when looking for a ride off Tatooine in Episode IV.
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Lucas tried to cover the "why in Episode IV does C-3PO seem ignorant of everything he saw in the prequels" plot hole by having Bail Organa wipe his memory. But one incredibly detailed theory suggests that someone in the Star Wars universe realized that rebooting the droids was a godawful idea. After all, R2-D2 and C-3PO had just witnessed the rise of the Galactic Empire firsthand. Why the hell would the Rebels delete this precious intel?
According to this theory, R2-D2 must have convinced Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi to spare him a memory wipe, whereas C-3PO was not so lucky. During the 20 or so years between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, the two robots travel undercover; Threepio suspects that he and R2 are affiliated with the Rebels, but unbeknownst to the golden dandypants, R2 has been in communication with the Rebel Alliance the whole time.
He also never tells Threepio that he's really a tiny man in a can.
In RoTS, Chewie is good friends with Yoda and a high-ranking warrior during the defense of Kashyyyk. Why would a second-in-command of the Wookiee army suddenly slum it with Han Solo, a smuggling lowlife? Because Yoda--who's holed up on his toilet planet--needed Chewie to be his eyes and ears.
The theory further states that Chewbacca convinces Han to work with Jabba the Hutt; this way Chewie can frequently visit Tatooine and keep tabs on Luke Skywalker. We further presume Chewie's other unofficial title was "Incest Cop," and he shoved Han into the mix whenever Luke and Leia capered off to play "Hide The Womp Rat."
Why does it make the film better?
The theory bestows the series' sidekicks with a much greater narrative dignity. It also makes Chewbacca's cameo in Revenge of the Sith something more than a totally crass reason to introduce the "Kashyyyk Resistance Fighter Chewbacca" action figure.
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The theory adds some fascinating subtext to the original films, and also makes the prequels, well, worth watching. Most importantly, if this theory was true, George Lucas would get some serious critical cred. And Lord knows, he could use it.
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A 15 in the Sweet 16
The first weekend of the NCAA tournament ramped up the crazy, but nothing was as wild as the Sweet 16 berth clinched Sunday by Florida Gulf Coast, a college not even old enough to apply to college.
Its improbable run started Friday night when the Eagles beat Georgetown, 78-68, to become the seventh No. 15 seed in NCAA tournament history to knock off a No. 2 seed. The upset was just as impressive as Florida Gulf Coast's brash style. Unlike other Cinderellas, the Atlantic Sun Conference champion didn't slow down the game or hit a whole lot of three-pointers. Instead, they ran all over the Hoyas and rubbed it in with outrageous dunks and alley-oops.
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None of the No. 15 seeds had ever made it to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament—until Sunday. Florida Gulf Coast followed its first upset by burying No. 7 seed San Diego State, 81-71, under a pile of even more outrageous dunks and alley-oops. "Our goal is to make history," Florida Gulf Coast coach Andy Enfield said, "and we did it."
So why hadn't you heard of Florida Gulf Coast before this weekend? Because it has only been a university since 1997 and a Division I basketball team for two seasons. Now up next for the Eagles is a slightly bigger school down the road: the University of Florida.
—Ben Cohen
So Much for Denver: Dumervil Goes to Baltimore
Defensive end Elvis Dumervil, a three-time Pro Bowl selection who was famously dumped by the Denver Broncos due to a fax-machine mixup, signed with the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday.
Dumervil, regarded as one of the NFL's best pass rushers, was set to accept a reduced contract to stay with the Broncos, lowering his salary to $8 million from $12 million. He missed a deadline to accept the contract, though, and the Broncos were forced to cut him. According to reports, Dumervil's new deal is incentive-based but could reach the heights of his old salary. The Broncos expressed interest in re-signing Dumervil at this week's owners meetings but lost the bidding war.
With the Ravens, Dumervil will provide a rare veteran face on a team depleted by salary-cap troubles. Safety Ed Reed, linebackers Dannell Ellerbe and Paul Kruger and defensive back Bernard Pollard are all off to new teams, while star linebacker Ray Lewis retired. Dumervil had 11 sacks last season.
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WEST LIBERTY - Foreign exchange student Huda Bhurgri from Pakistan insists the culture of northern West Virginia is not much different from that of her native country.
"In Pakistani culture, people care about each other a lot," Bhurgri said. "It is the same with West Virginia. People are very connected to each other, especially families. Communities are bound together and people are connected."
Bhurgri, 20, is a student in the International Program at West Liberty University, as she has come to the United States for a semester to study social work.
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She said the U.S. has a good reputation in education in Pakistan. She was curious if America was the "booming country" with tall buildings and rushing crowds as depicted in the media.
Once in the U.S., however, her experience was very different from the rush and bustle of a city. She found it instead to be very people-oriented and friendly, where folks treated her like a member of their own family.
"I've worked in the soup kitchen here and been to churches and seen how people are connected to each other," Bhurgri said. "They're available to help their fellow person. It was such a good experience to see these things about America. It was so different than what you see in the media and Hollywood."
Bhurgri said when she first came to the U.S., she was worried about the stereotypes surrounding her faith as a Muslim. However, she found wherever she went, people accepted her. She was respected and judged by her character instead of her religion.
"People said they were a little fearful to talk to a Pakistani, but after I came, they got to know me and they have seen a different type of person," Bhurgri said. "I'm glad people judge me on my character - not any stereotypes related to my religion. I'm respected here a lot."
Bhurgri said she experienced many sides of America, including the "small town pride" of West Virginia, as well as cities such as New York and Chicago.
"The culture is very diverse here," Bhurgri said. "The way people value their lives, their principles, food, dressing and cultural image, like the Celtic Festival, Valentine's Day parties and the way they celebrate Easter and Christmas. Everything is always changing. It was such a diverse experience."
Bhurgri said the thing she misses the most about Pakistan is the "delicious" spicy food found in her hometown of Sindh.
"The fun thing visitors of Pakistan will notice is the hospitality," Bhurgri said. "People will treat you like a celebrity. People will offer you so much food. Everybody cares about each other."
Bhurgri described Pakistan culture as "colorful" with a rich heritage and many languages. According to Bhurgri, a person in Pakistan will know three or four languages "easily."
Although she will sadly miss the people she has met in America, Bhurgri plans to find work in her country after she graduates.
She will be going back to Pakistan this month to finish her degree.
"My objective is and was to come with peace and love for the people who live here," Bhurgri said. "I'm going to take the same thing to my country - the message of peace, love and friendship."