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I ride a 2011 Trek Navigator 1 with 7-speed derailleur. Purchased in August of 2011, I've tried to ride as often as possible. My longest rides have been approximately 12 miles in length. I've equipped the bike with SKS fenders and a rear rack. I'm getting to the point where I'd like to start taking longer rides, maybe 10 or miles each way. Is this sort of riding unfeasible on a "comfort" bike?
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I would argue that there is no limitation on distance the biggest limitation you will have will be on: Speed and Comfort over time.
Comfort bikes arn't made to go fast. They are designed to be ridden around in a leisurely way. Variables limiting speed include:
Comfort over time
Road bikes and to a lesser extent mountain bikes are made to be comfortable for long period of time for more dedicated riders. Just looking at the seat as a case study we find: wide seats are comfortable immediately but after sitting on it for an extended period of time:
It's totally reasonable to ride such distances (and even much longer) on a Navigator.
I have a 2003 Navigator back in Poland. It was my "return to cycling as an adult" bike. I've done many 30+ mile rides on it in rolling terrain. I don't think it would be much fun on a super hilly ride (due mostly to the bike's heft) but even that is doable. As people have mentioned, you can't be in a hurry -- the bike is not meant to go fast.
Ride regularly, increase your mileage slowly (10% per week is an oft-quoted figure) and enjoy your bike.
One of the first rides I did with my (now) wife was a 60 mile course, which she rode on a Mountain bike. It was easy to know she was with me, because the wide knobby tires made enough noise to hear from a distance. The rolling resistance had to be sky high. She wasn't happy with the ride, but she finished.
After that ride we immediately shopped for a new bike.
The point is that it's not the bike that is the limitation, it's you in combination with the bike. If it's not working out you'll know pretty quickly, and the attempt won't kill you. Try it and see.
A twenty mile ride is definitely not unfeasible based on what you describe. You're already doing 12 miles, so adding 8 more shouldn't be a problem, depending on your fitness level and the terrain. (Terrain will be a big factor. A "reasonable distance" on flat terrain may very well be "unreasonable" on very hilly terrain.)
Anecdotally speaking... I know several people who regularly ride 20 to 50 miles on comfort bikes. I also know a few who would find 10 miles challenging. The "longest reasonable" distance is a bit subjective, but based on the description of your goal, you should be fine.
And like heltonbiker mentioned, you may want to use narrower tires and possibly swap out your seat.
I would suggest experimentation. Gradually add distance and time on the bike, and your body will let you know.
Good luck.
A quick note... I was just in the local bike shop at lunch picking up a tube and took a look at "comfort" bikes. My impression is that if I wanted to ride a "comfort" bike for relatively long distances... I would change the seat to something more like a road bike seat. The stock seats look fine for maybe 2 or 3 hours, but beyond that, I'd really want a skinnier seat. And depending on the stock tires, I might want to change those as well.
My 2010 Trek Navigator 3.0 is a quality bike capable of being ridden as far as your rear will stand. My longest single day ride was 50 miles on this bike. The gearing on the Trek is quite Low having a similar 34 tooth cassette as some mountain bikes and most certainly lower geared than most of the road bikesI've examined.
In 2010, I put 1500 miles on it and upgraded to a Surly LHT after I convinced myself that biking was going to remain a part of my life. I am 6'2 and ~230 so I am a big guy, but the bike did not care. Trek builds three versions of the Navigator old ones are 100 - 300 and the newer ones are 1.0 - 3.0 with the 3 series having better components, ie, shifters, seats, hand grips.
The problem for long rides with this bike is also it's advantage. According to bike shop employees, most Comfort customers ride less than 10 miles at a time and the upright position is very comfortable. Road and touring bikes distribute the weight over the seat and the bars and while it took my arms awhile to stop aching from the change on the LHT, eventually you find yourself quite comfortable in that non-upright position. Must be why they build so many that are NOT upright. The simple point is that after 10 miles my hands and my rear hurt and that means stopping more frequently than you or your friends will like on a long ride. Several 'fittings' impacted my wallet but not hands or my rear.
Personally I see the Hybrids in the comfort class, but with skinny tires and better shifters. You still ride them upright though. To be fair though, my Daughter-in-Law ~45, can ride a century on her Hybrid, and I only wish I could keep up with her for 5 miles, much less a 100.
My Navigator served me very well.
I have ridden my Electra Townie for multiple rides between 30-50 miles over the last month and have determined that distance does not work for me on that bike. A comfort bike is less than ideal for longer distances due to the seat, the posture, the inability to ride faster than 12-13 mph and a frame that does nothing to absorb the road rattle. For me, once I crossed the 20 mile distance it was time to look at other bikes. Longer distances are certainly not impossible (I have sure done them) but the "comfort" tends to wane at mile 20 or so.


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LONG BEACH, Calif., March 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Designory, Inc. announced today that it received 34 awards at the 2014 American Advertising Awards Los Angeles ADDY competition. Of the 38 agencies winning in 55 categories, Designory received a combination of gold, silver and bronze awards in 14 of those categories – 17.7% of the evening's awards. Twenty four of Designory's awards will automatically move on to compete at the regional level.
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Dr. Yu Zhang, an associate professor of biomaterials and biomimetics at the New York University College of Dentistry, has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop and test a prototype glass-zirconia composite dental crown.
The award enables Dr. Zhang to advance earlier research on a glass-zirconia composite formulation intended to serve as an alternative to porcelain-veneered zirconia designs. An estimated 10 percent of porcelain-veneered zirconia restorations develop fractures within the first three years.
"A composite crown with glass-rich surfaces will be less susceptible to top-to-bottom fractures from direct contact with hard food as well as to ruptures that occur when the bottom of the restoration buckles under pressure," predicts Dr. Zhang,
Dr. Zhang formulated the initial prototype glass-zirconia composite material with funding from the NIH and the National Science Foundation (NSF), which awarded him more than $1.4 million in 2007 and 2008, respectively. His prior research showed that the glass-zirconia composite has significantly higher load-bearing capacity than porcelain-veneered zirconia formulations.
"In this new study, we will be using a mouth motion simulator -- a machine that simulates chewing and grinding -- to compare the fracture-resistance of eight glass-zirconia and eight all-zirconia crowns," said Dr. Zhang. "Each crown will endure two months and 1.25 million chewing cycles in the simulator – equivalent to three meals a day over a five-year period," he said.
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KILLEEN (October 31, 2012)—Police officers are now investigating reports of assaults involving a stun gun.
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So I have a little game of a ball moving around on the screen and I would like to calculate the FPS. I am using KineticJS (4.3.1) which utilizes requestAnimationFrame under the hood.
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I'm not even sure that this is a theorem, but a while ago I heard a topologist friend of mine (whom I haven't been able to reach) saying that given a continuous embedding $f:M^{n}\to N^{r}$ ($M$ and $N$ being topological manifolds), a sufficient condition for $f(M)$ to be (possibly) knotted in $N$ is that $r=2n$. Does anyone know if this is even true? Also, if it is true then the following question seems natural: will the embedding still be knotted if $r>2n$. Thanks a lot.


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Before the Seattle Seahawks took home the 2014 Super Bowl championship, the Geneseo Knights had already scored a community-service win.
As part of Geneseo's 2nd annual Souper Bowl, SUNY Geneseo student-athletes partnered with Wegmans to collect more than 500 cans of soup/food to be donated to the food pantries in Geneseo, Avon, Mt. Morris and Livonia. Fans who came to cheer on the ice hockey team on Friday and Saturday nights were encouraged to bring cans of soup.
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The IVRPA Board of Directors is pleased to announce a series of contests, with the goal to showcase the work of IVRPA members at Photokina 2008. The largest event in the Photography industry worldwide! Like the previous editions of this biannual event, the IVRPA has secured a booth at this great event.
Winning prints and interactive images will be displayed at Photokina 2008 in Cologne, Germany from September 23 to 28. After Photokina, the exhibition will travel to the Panorama Mesdag museum in The Hague (NL), and possibly other locations.
The contests are open to all current IVRPA members. In an effort to work more closely together with the IAPP (International Association of Panoramic Photographers), special arrangements have been set up to allow IAPP members to enter the contest, though entries by IAPP members will only make up a limited part of the total exhibition.
There will be three major categories in this year's contest:
* Stills/Print gallery,
* Gigapixel images,
* Interactive images.
Each of these categories will be open in turn. We are pleased to announce that the entry period for the Stills/Print gallery is now open! The last day for submission to the Contest is Sunday July 6, 2008. Entries are closed July 7, 2008. All dates and times are in central european time (CET).
For more information about the contest, please visit the brand-new* contests site: http://contests.ivrpa.org/08 . Before entering the print contest, review the rules (which also include directions about sizes and file formats): http://contests.ivrpa.org/08/rules
Once you have prepared your entries and reviewed the rules, you can submit entries to the site here: http://contests.ivrpa.org/node/add . You need to be logged in and registered as a current member before you can post entries. If you are logged in, you can review your entries to the current contest: http://contests.ivrpa.org/entries/me/08_print
More information on the other categories is upcoming. For inspiration, you may be interested in last year's contest entries: http://contests.ivrpa.org/07/entries
Share your great images with the world. Good luck!
-The IVRPA Board of Directors
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*: It is the nature of brand-new sites that they may not yet be perfect. In that light, please do not wait until the latest opportunity to submit your entries! If you encounter problems, let us know through the contact form on the contests site.


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Swaddling is the act of wrapping a soft blanket around the baby to restrict movement. Many children are calmed by this, but some don't like to be swaddled.
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When should I stop swaddling my baby?
I swaddled my baby in a swaddling blanket for a short time after he was born, and then moved on to a Halo combination sleep sack and swaddle blanket. He is now nearly 3 months old, and I'm still using ...


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Let $\sigma = (1, 2, 5, 4)(2,3)$ in $S_5$. Find the index of $<\sigma>$ in $S_5$
Let $\mu = (1,2,4,5)(3,6)$ in $S_6$. Find the index of $<\mu>$ in $S_6$
Here is what I don't understand.
1) This seems like an advanced method of counting. They found the number of elements in the group - the order is 5. Then they count the permutations of the big group, which is 5!. Now what I don't understand is dividing them out? I am a little lost as to why they are doing that? Could someone show me just what one coset even looks like here?
2) Same question as (1), I like to see one coset and this is just a refresher for me because I am confusing the order of a group. They say the order of the subgroup is 4 because they are disjoint because it takes 4 mappings for $\mu$ to map back to the identity, but I thought the order of a group means the number of elements. So if I were to count, isn't there still $6$ elements in $\mu$?


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Movie Tavern - Two Free Movies with registration
If you love a great movie and dining experience, the free Movie Tavern Membership is perfect for you!
- One Free Movie Ticket just for becoming a member.
- One Free Movie Ticket for your birthday.
Note: located in CO, GA, KY, OH, PA, TX, and VA.
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Sometimes I like to ditch my friends and family to see a movie in the quiet of my own company, and this is the perfect place for that. The seating is individual (like executive chairs) and you can have your regular movie snacks or entrees and drinks while you watch a first run film.
Great deal!!
Most of them are in Texas but none are within 500 miles of me, or within 100 miles of my friends and family that live in other parts of the state. Peril of living in a big state. Too bad, it's a good deal.
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A while back, I posted a little write-up on how I made my sonic screwdriver prop for my 10th Doctor costume. It doesn't light up or anything, but it looks pretty close to the real thing. I've been wanting to go back and make one that has all of the electrical bells and whistles, but I haven't gotten around to it. Maybe sometime when I do make one, I'll post a tutorial. Meanwhile, I think I'll just let this guy teach you.
Is he not the most awesome kid ever? I have a degree in electrical engineering, so of course I'm comfortable brandishing a soldering iron at stuff, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone quite so young who could finish that entire project. He even included a wiring diagram! And he advised the use of heat-shrink! I absolutely love this tutorial, and I especially like that he encourages folks to design their own housing.
There aren't many videos on the YouTube channel where you can watch this, and that's a shame. I'm subscribing anyway, though, just in case he decides to make more. I'm just feeling totally inspired and pumped right now, and I want to go and make something. I may have to make a stop off at the hardware store and Radio Shack after we go grocery shopping this week. Or maybe I'll just make a DigiKey order…
What about you? Did you enjoy this video? If you did, go give it a like on YouTube and share it with all the DIY-minded Whovians you know. Heck, share it with people who might not ordinarily do something like this: it might make them want to give it a try.
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Oh. I thought this deal was for 9 cheese-less pizzas. Nevermind.
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Men's Basketball Wraps up Recruiting Class with Trè FieldsJune 4, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – The Anderson University men's basketball team has signed Trèvonn Fields, a 6-foot-5, 190-pound shooting guard from Johnson City, Tenn., as announced by Trojan head coach Jason Taylor on Wednesday.
"Trè has a huge upside," said Taylor. "He has great length and is a very good shooter. He has a great work ethic that will allow him to continue to get stronger and develop his overall game. Trè completes our recruiting class and I could not be more excited about our 2014 class."
Fields was a two-sport letterwinner at Virginia Episcopal School in Lynchburg, Va., competing as a wide receiver for the Bishops, while averaging 15 points, five rebounds and six assists per game last season on the hardwood. He helped lead head coach Curtis Staples' squad to a 23-4 overall record and a berth in the final four of the state tournament en route to earning All-Virginia Independent Conference First-Team recognition.
Fields was also successful off the court, posting a 3.4 GPA and was named to the Headmasters' List at VES.


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These are some useful specs:
- Macbook Pro 7,1
- OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 2,5" SATA SSD (120 GB). Has SandForce driver.
- Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop 32 bits.
- One 18 GB partition for GNU/Linux and 1.5 GB for SWAP.
- MD5 for the Ubuntu install CD is OK.
I tried to install Ubuntu. It seems that everything is recognized, but there's a big problem: read and writes to the SSD are extremely slow. For example, the install process, which shouldn't take more than 20 minutes, it takes 7 hours. Then, booting up the computer takes about 20 minutes. I checked and the problem is definitely the SSD. Every access to any file is like 10 times slower than normal.
I have tried to format the partition as Ext4 and Ext3 with the same problem.
Trying to install other distros like Fedora 17, I have a similar problem. There's a "lag" with the SSD, but not so accused as in Ubuntu. Surprisingly, Debian 6.0 installs and works without any problem. Mac OS works pretty good as well in the other partition, so I discard it's an SSD problem.
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I've found it, but can do nothing with him. What is a purpose of this secret? What can I do with those Diablo?


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For one week I'm going to be teaching music at a vacation course for kids. How can I effectively teach the basics of music to kids aged 5-12? I know it's very little time. The coordinator wants them to be able to play 1 or 2 songs at the end of the week. I don't know how many kids there will be, but I'm estimating about 10. Is there any method out there that I could possibly use? I really don't have any experience teaching. I'll be mainly teaching piano, but I could also be teaching guitar, bass, or drums.
I'm ignoring the organizer's desire, because nobody can learn to play an instrument in a week. The best you could do is give them all percussion instruments and have them bang along. Instead, try letting them organize it. See if they'd rather sing or make music. Then if you can get the raw materials, let them design their own instruments. Just coach them on rhythm and ensemble playing and see what comes out. I know a teacher who did something along those lines, and several kids invented and wrote out their own musical notation for "songs" they created.
You have a total of 2.5 hours of contact time. Split into 5 sessions, so you'll lose some of that time just settling them down.
You have time to teach them to sing a song as a choir -- and barely time for that.


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In British English, a common way of expressing a polite request for a person to repeat what they just said because you didn't hear (all) of it is to use the interjection, "sorry?". I was wondering how common this is outside of British English. Is this as common in the US, Australia, etc.? Would it be understood as a perfectly normal thing to say, or as a quaint British expression?
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It is not marked as being chiefly British. In ten years I have visited the USA, I have heard sorry being used when somebody didn't hear or understand what somebody else said.
I've lived in both the UK and the US and my anecdotal experience is that "sorry" is very much more common in the UK than the US. It sounds very British to my ear. In the US "excuse me?" or "huh?" are considerably more commonly used to serve this purpose.
However, as the saying goes, data is not the plural of anecdote.
I live in the U.S. and I use "sorry" by itself to mean exactly as you stated. More often than not I'm met with a confused look and I have to continue, "I didn't hear that, could you repeat it?" So saying sorry by itself may not be too commonly understood in the U.S.
Disclaimer: I also use other British words and, after having studied in England for a year, found that the things deemed as quirks in the U.S. are seen as normal in England. My use of sorry may not be the norm in the U.S.
It's definitely used in Australia as well, far more frequently than "pardon" if you haven't heard what someone has said.
I live in the U.S. but when I have visited Canada, I notice this usage of sorry to be much more common than in the U.S.
It's used in India to mean the same thing. Old people still use pardon.


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Beautiful underwater gardens featuring fascinating coral reefs decorated with various shapes, sizes, and colors of many sea creatures, that is the view that awaits snorkelers and divers under the crystal clear waters of Abang Island, south of Batam in the province of the Riau Archipelago.
Abang Island is surrounded by many other small islands, most of which are conservation areas for coral reefs, while the main island of Abang only measures around 10 square kilometers. With relatively shallow waters –around 15 to 18 meters deep- this fascinating underwater wonder is a perfect spot for both diving and snorkeling. Its beauty is often compared to that of the waters around Komodo Island National Park, Bunaken, and Raja Ampat, since COREMAP (Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Programs) itself has also designated the area as site for a special underwater coral reef observation center
Above the surface, the landscape of Abang Island is still pristine with hills dominated by granite rocks. Most of the shores are still decorated with beautiful mangrove forests.
The most fascinating feature of the waters of Abang Island is the existence of a rare species of coral known as Blue Coral which only lives in clear waters with excellent water quality. Among some of the fish species that find shelter under its calm waves are Selar, Lencing, Red Snapper, Red Sand Fish, Blow Fish, Pinang, and many others.
Abang Island is inhabited by approximately 400 people in 100 families. Combined with its neighbouring islands, the total number of inhabitants can reach 1.200 persons in 300 households. The settlements at the western part of the island are denser compared to the north. Most of their houses are located around the beach and constructed following the coastline. Over the years, the people of Abang Island have constantly been taught awareness of the importance to preserve the coral reefs both as tourism assets as well as their significance for the global environment. In turn, they can also benefit from tourism activities next to their daily activity as fishermen or traders. This has ultimately led to the well maintained beauty of Abang Island.
Some of the houses in the fishing villages on Abang Island are available as your accommodation options. Prices vary, mostly depending on your bargaining skills. Staying on the island will surely make a complete experience, but if convenience and modern facilities are features you seek, then it is better to find hotels or inns on Batam. For a list of hotels in Batam you can refer to our find a hotel in Batam.
For the perfect diving experience, the best time to come to Abang Island is from March to August, and from September to November. In these months, the currents are known to be the calmest.
Abang Island is located south from Batam or about 50 Km from Muka-Kuning, Batam Island. To reach the island, it takes approximately 1.5 hours drive from Batam to the Barelang Bridge. From there, the journey continues by boat along the River Burdus until you reach Abang Island which is about 12 Km away using motorized boats, which the locals call Bot Pompong.


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One must tovel (immerse in a mikve) various kinds of dishes before first use, and may not eat from his own dishes until they are toveled. Is it likewise forbidden to eat from someone else's untoveled dishes?
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In Hilchos Tevilas Keilim by Rav Dov Cohen, he brings sources which permit eating using untoveled keilim in someone else's house, although, if memory serves, R. Moshe Feinstein forbade it. It should be noted, that according to Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky and others, one is not obligated to tovel glazed crockery at all, as noted here.
Rav Eliezer Melamed notes that according to the majority of poskim, it is forbidden for a guest to eat from untoveled keilim. Nevertheless there are several poskim who allow it, and he permits one to follow them, especially if not doing so will lead to a problem with 'darchei shalom'.
Yechave Da'as 4-44 based on the Bais Yosef – a person may dine in a restaurant or hotel where the dishes were not Toiveled. The reason is since the dishes were initially purchased for commercial purposes – to earn a profit – rather than for private use, therefore they do not have to be Toiveled. However a guest in a private home, where the dishes have not been Toiveled, may not eat off the dishes. Since the dishes were purchased for private use – and specifically, for food preparation – therefore they must be Toiveled.
However HaRav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach Zatzal in Minchas Shlomo 2-66 says that one is allowed to be Maikil and eat if the host does not specifically serve him food. In this scenario, the guest does not have an obligation to Toivel the dishes. However, the guest must remove the food from the plate with a Toiveled fork and spoon. If the host specifically offers the food, then the guest may not eat off the dishes because of Lifnei Iver. However by a restaurant, he says that one may not be lenient because of commercial use. Nevertheless, you may still eat, because you are not the the one who is obligated to Toivel the dishes and the restaurant would never allow you to remove the dishes from their premises. Therefore, you may eat off of the not Toiveled dishes.
According to some opinions, if the dishes do not belong to you, since you do not have a direct obligation to tovel them, you can eat off of the other person's (or restaurant's or hotel's) non-toveled dishes.
HaRav Zev Leff, noted posek and mora d'asra of Moshav Mattityahu, allows one to rely on these opinions when the host would be embarrassed or offended if you did not eat the kosher food off of his non-toveled dishes.
In any case, the rabbinic requirement to tovel dishes in your possession, which were made by a non-Jew, has NOTHING to do with kashrus.


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What is the difference between baptism of the Holy Spirit and receiving the Holy Spirit (or being filled with the Holy Spirit)? Do these two mean the same? I am open to the different views given by the denominations that exist today.
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Note: The answers here will really depend on your doctrinal perspective.
The word baptism is not a translation from the Greek, but a transliteration. The word was used when describing the dying of fabrics. The fabric was plunged into the dye and then changed forever as the dye stayed with the fabric.
So, baptism of the Holy Spirit seems to either refer to us being plunged into the Spirit or the Spirit being plunged into us. Receiving the Holy Spirit, then, would seem to be pretty similar, or perhaps the result of baptism by the Holy Spirit.
Perhaps we could say that in baptism, we receive the Holy Spirit.
There was a time when the disciples followed the Lord Jesus without the benefit of the Holy Spirit. They followed out of faith alone believing in His promises. It is the most basic form of faith.
Yet all that changed one day. When Jesus was resurrected and glorified their relationship changed. As He appeared to them breathed (just as His father had done to Adam) the breath of life, that is the abundant life, the eternal life, that is in the Holy Spirit.
They were granted His great authority because now they were united with Him in the Holy Spirit. Conversion had occurred as they were united with Him. But there was more to come. Before His ascension he told them that there was a power to come.
They followed in obedience His instructions until the day of Pentecost.
The explanation was supplied by Spirit filled Peter.
The receiving and the baptism of the Holy Spirit are therefore two different yet very related events.
The receiving of the Holy Spirit by a believer unites them with Christ in a supernatural way. That relationship never to be broken because it was created by the Lord. It places in the believer's life everything that is necessary for them to serve the Lord such as faith, spiritual gifts, communication through prayer, understanding of God's Word, etc. But it does not unleash the spiritual power.
Spiritual power comes with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It is the spark that ignites the fire of ministry to the world. An example would be the car that you drive. As it sits in your driveway ready to do everything that is necessary for it to operate with power is present. Fuel, electricity, oil, engine, everything that is necessary for it run as it should. But until the key is placed in the ignition and turned on, is that power unleashed. Turning the switch allows the potential that is already there to come to life. It is like the tongues of fire at Pentecost to a car that is already to go.


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When using a power like Bolt with the Additional Bolts option, does any '1' on any of the Spellcasting rolls invoke a Backlash for a character with Arcane Background (Magic). That is if you roll three 1s casting three additional bolts do you get three Backlashes?
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When casting additional bolts, you roll as you do with automatic fire. This means for three bolts you roll 3 shooting die and one wild die. This means that it is very possible that you can wound yourself with backlash as it is possible to get multiple 1's.
Oh, and to clarify - you don't get the -2 penalty for automatic fire when you cast multiple bolts.
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A close reading of the rules in the Explorer's Edition implies that there is only one roll needed to cast the spell, regardless of the number of targets. See page 85 ("Range"):
There's no mention of requiring additional spellcasting rolls for targetting either in the sections on how Powers work or in the text of Bolt. This agrees with my sense of the purpose of the power when used by an Arcane background – emulating D&D's magic missile – with all the bolts being targetted by the success of the casting rather than having to be individually guided.
In this reading of the rules, you only have one roll for one chance of backlash. If a GM's interpretation or house rules requires additional rolls for targetting purposes, I'd strongly advise them to consider making these extra to-hit Spellcasting rolls not use the backlash rules. Otherwise, additional bolts is just not worth thinking about.


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More Red Ink in the Mail for 2013
WASHINGTON – The struggling U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported an annual loss of a record $15.9 billion and forecast more red ink in 2013, capping a tumultuous year in which it was forced to default on billions in payments to avert bankruptcy.
The financial losses for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 were more than triple the $5.1 billion loss in the previous year. Having reached its borrowing limit, the mail agency is operating with little cash on hand, putting it at risk in the event of an unexpectedly large downturn in the economy.
"It's critical that Congress do its part and pass comprehensive legislation before they adjourn this year to move the Postal Service further down the path toward financial health," said Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, calling the situation "our own postal fiscal cliff."
Much of the red ink in 2012 was due to mounting mandatory costs for future retiree health benefits, which made up $11.1 billion of the losses. Without that and other related labor expenses, the mail agency sustained an operating loss of $2.4 billion, lower than the previous year.
Donahoe said the post office has been able to reduce costs significantly by boosting worker productivity. But he said the mail agency has been hampered by congressional inaction on a postal overhaul bill that would allow it to eliminate Saturday mail delivery and reduce its $5 billion annual payment for future health benefits.
"We cannot sustain large losses indefinitely. Major defaults are unsettling," said Donahoe, who made clear that the Postal Service would now be profitable had Congress acted earlier this year.
Earlier this year, the post office defaulted on two of the health prepayments for the first time in its history.
The Postal Service, an independent agency, does not receive tax money for its day-to-day operations but is subject to congressional control.
The Senate passed a postal bill in April that would have provided financial relief in part by reducing the annual health payments and providing a multibillion-dollar cash infusion, basically a refund of overpayments the Postal Service made to a federal pension fund. The House, however, remains stalled over its own legislation that would allow for aggressive cuts, including an immediate end to Saturday delivery.
It remained unclear whether House leadership would take up the postal bill in its current lame-duck session. Rural lawmakers are resisting action, worried about closures of postal facilities in their communities. Congress is focused now on a Jan. 1 deadline to avert across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff."
Overall, the post office had operating revenue of $65.2 billion in fiscal 2012, down $500 million from the previous year. Expenses climbed to $81 billion, up from $70.6 billion, largely due to the health prepayments.
The annual payment of roughly $5.6 billion had been deferred for a year in 2011, resulting in a double payment totaling $11.1 billion that became due this year.
The Postal Service is the only government agency required to make such payments.
The post office also has been rocked by declining mail volume as people and businesses continue switching to email and other online options in place of letters and paper bills.
The number of items mailed in the last year was 159.9 billion pieces, a 5 percent decrease. Much of the decline came in first-class mail.


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Assuming equivalent fitness, what is a fair way to split up weight when hiking as a couple/in mixed gender groups? Should the weight be proportional to the individuals weight? Are there other considerations?
Someone who has overweight isn't normally able to carry more, so weight isn't as important. The height would be more adequate... Muscle strength isn't much important when you go on long hikes... Strength doesn't translate directly to endurance, often it's the opposite - people with smaller muscles are more endure and are actually able to carry more on greater distances.
The most practical solution is not to care about fairness, but of outcome for the group. If someone is doing poorly that day, stays behind etc., take some things from them and give it to the best performing members of the group. As the result, the fastest will go a bit slower, the slowest will go a bit faster and the group as the whole will perform much better.
When I go hiking with my wife or a mixed group, we don't use any fixed figures of x%. Instead we all know roughly what weight we are happy carrying, and if someone feels they could carry more they will offer to help out someone who appears to be struggling or overloaded.
In general, if you are experienced hikers, you will have your pack size/type pretty well nailed for most occasions so shouldn't need to do this, but you may have an inexperienced member of the team, or someone may be a bit off their usual strength through illness etc.
My advice - just work it out between you.
Dividing loads between your trek-mates is a good idea. A better one would be to pack light. In case you want to collectively gain by individually reducing the weight, then my suggestion would be to go by the comfort level of the individuals involved. A strong person might be able to haul more load. But the same one might not be able to perform the same way the next day. The division of labor changes dynamically during treks.
For example: I am used to carrying heavier backpacks during my treks. I usually carry over 15Kg over treks spanning 7 days or more in the Himalayan regions. Whereas, during a weekend trek, with a backpack of just over 3Kg, I whined like a baby (my bad).
Hence, when deciding on dividing your backpacks, think about the current day and the stronger person(s) on the given day. DO NOT go by weight or gender. That never works out.
Happy trekking!
Different people have vastly different styles. Some people carry a lot more weight, some a lot less. If you're interested in cutting your pack weight or moving toward a more lightweight or ultralight style, a good web site to check out is http://backpackinglight.com .
I think many people do use percentage of body weight as a criterion, e.g., I recently hiked with a very small woman (who, BTW, kicked my ass hiking), who had a certain strict figure -- she never carries more than x% of her body weight. (This was just her rule for herself. The three of us on that trip all brought our own gear and didn't re-divvy-up anything.) If you want a figure for comparison, I practice a pretty lightweight/ultralight style for summer in the Sierra, and my normal setup has a base weight (i.e., not counting food or water) of about 9% of my body weight.
I face this problem not for hiking, but for portaging. That is a slightly different situation, but not entirely different. We often went as two families: 4 adults and as many as 5 children. Not only could some children not carry anything, some of them had to be carried. Our approach:
There is a LOT of stuff you only need one of. Pots and pans, stoves, firewood saw, first aid kit, repair kit, water treatment, binoculars, ... we either worked out in advance who would bring something, or moved things between packs before setting off. (And often, the family with less children had some shared stuff in the tent pack, too, like books for bedtime stories.) We also balanced out the food as it got eaten. For ease of finding things, one bag held snack foods (jerky, nuts) and an entirely different bag held meal ingredients. Knowing where to find things when 4 or more bags might hold it sounds like a nightmare to me.
As the children got larger we had bags for them to carry, but could always clip those things to an adult pack if we needed to. In the same vein, a mixed-strength group should pack in a way that makes it easy to take something (the [whatever] kit, the rope bag) out of one person's pack and put it on someone else's.
Remember, too, that you may start a trip as a matched group, then a minor injury or illness may afflict one of you, and splitting up the load may be the key to continuing.
I think that a fair way to split the weight between group members is ... everyone to carry their own. Including food, clothes, bedroll, part of the tent.
This prevents the inexperienced and unfit new hikers form bringing a ton of cosmetics, drinks, clothes.
I try to make my wife as comfortable as possible so she will continue to go with me on these backpack trips. Our last weekend backpack trip was in the Big South Fork in Tennessee in January. The low temperatures were 22 degrees. We had a total of 39 pounds. My pack weighed 22 pounds 56% and Alice's pack weighed 17 pounds 44%. She stated at 17 pounds it felt like her pack was empty. With this weekend's low temperatures expected to reach 9 degrees our gear will probably weigh about 50 pounds. I can see my pack weighing 27-28 pounds and my wife's about 22-23 pounds.


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|A wonderful meatless barley and lentil salad to welcome spring!
(Makes about 6 servings; recipe adapted from Lentil and Barley Salad in Spilling the Beans: Cooking and Baking with Beans and Grains Everyday.)
Salad Ingredients:
1/2 cup small green or brown lentils (I used French lentils du puy, but any green or brown lentil will work.)
1/2 cup pearl barley
(You might want to cook twice the amount of lentils and barley and freeze the extra so you can make the salad again.)
2 large garlic cloves, sliced
1 cup diced tomatoes or cherry tomatoes cut in half
1/2 cup crumbled Feta
1/4 cup thinly sliced green onion
2 T capers (or less if you are not a fan of capers; could also use Kalamata olives sliced in half.)
Dressing Ingredients:
3 T fresh-squeezed lemon juice
1 T red wine vinegar
1 tsp. Greek seasoning (I used The Spice House Greektown Seasoning; Greek seasoning has garlic, dried lemon, oregano, salt and pepper.)
1/2 tsp. minced fresh garlic
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
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More Meatless Salads with Lentils:
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Lebanese Lentil Salad with Garlic, Cumin, Mint, and Parsley from Kalyn's Kitchen
Black Bean and Lentil Salad with Red Bell Pepper, Cumin, and Cilantro from Kalyn's Kitchen
French Green Lentil Salad from David Lebovitz
Lentil and Sweet Potato Salad from Kath Eats Real Food
Warm Green Lentil Salad with Caramelized Onions, Feta Cheese, and Pears from Andrea Meyers
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I am trying to solve an equation of the form
$C_1 f(k_1 z) + C_2 f(k_2 z) + C_3 f(k_3 z) + C_4 f(k_4 z) = C_5 z^2$
for $f(z)$. Everything is complex. The $C_i$'s and $k_i$'s depend on some other parameters $\{ \lambda_i \}$ through a very complicated dependence.
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Consider a 12-sided fair die. What is the distribution of the number T of rolls required to roll a 1, a 2, a 3, and a 4?
Taking inspiration from the Coupon Collector's Problem, I believe that the expected number of rolls to achieve the goal would be
$$E[T] = \sum\limits_{i=0}^3 \frac{12}{4-i} = 25$$
Similarly, the variance would be
$$Var[T] = \sum\limits_{i=0}^3 \frac{1-\frac{4-i}{12}}{(\frac{4-i}{12})^2} = 180$$
But applying Chebyshev here does not yield very useful bounds. My question is therefore, how would you compute, for example, $P(T=16)$ or $P(T<30)$?
Ideally this could be generalized to a set of k required numbers, not just 4 as in the example.


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Play.com.. £29.99,, but with a personalised cover.. might pay the extra just for that.
Play.com.. £29.99,, but with a personalised cover.. might pay the extra just for that.
good idea, but i doubt id do it!
i mentioned this in manager pic thread but some people didnt seem to understand what it meant.
yeah i saw!
i think it bit pointless to pay like 5 quid for you name to be perferctly honest!
Ahh... time for a 'Zombie Football Manager' front cover competition methinks
Or you could scan the sleeve when you buy it and photoshop your name onto it. If you're very clever you could add a bit to the top and stick your face on too.
its not an extra £5 is it to put it on, its all in the £29.99 right? (you mean extra 5 as if youd bought it from somewhere else?)
Seeing as I put the CD (in this case DVD) in the drive and the case gets left on the shelf for months, this offer doesn't appeal to me
Anyway if I bought it then I'd be paying an extra £12 as I've already ordered it for £18
£18! where?!?!?
It was £17.93 for the first week or so in September
yeah sounds cool
but i dont think i can go for that for that extra amount
Mine would read: Drew P Balls' Football Manager 2009
I think I'd have one of those addiction and health danger notices on my copy of ZFM09. 'Could lead to loss of health, income, inter-personal relationships, sanity...'
Play.com haven't been the best lately on getting you pre orders on release days. Just a word of warning.
Tom that is jibberish, you saw by your poll, how reliable it is.
Fingers crossed though that this personalised cover thing won't affect how quickly it arrives but Im sure it will be done ready for it to arrive on Friday 14th November 2008.
Who's going to be the first person to get 'Chairman Instucting his Football Manager 2009'?
We all know people want that in the game -For some reason...
Has redlion give you a bit more confidence, You will be playing it for the whole of that weekend for certain. Might have something funny as on my front cover!


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6 Terrifying Ways Crows Are Way Smarter Than You Think
#3. Tools and Problem Solving
When someone mentions animals using tools, you probably think of chimps using blades of grass to get termites to eat, or maybe that dude with the unibrow who mows the neighbor's lawn -- but birds don't often come to mind. And they totally should: One early test of tool use and intelligence in crows had researchers tying a piece of meat to a string, and then tying that string to a stick. To a one, the crows all stood on the stick, grabbed the string, dragged it up, held it with their foot, and repeated the action until they could reach the meat. We know people right now that would fail that test (some of them are us).
Aesop had a story called "The Crow and the Pitcher," which goes like this: Crow wants some water from a pitcher, but he can't reach it, so he drops rocks into it until the water rises enough for him to get a sip. Now, Aesop is not generally considered a scientifically viable resource, at least not until the stuffy science world finally recognizes the validity of Fableology, but a recent test done on rooks (a small type of crow) showed that he may not have been far off. In the study, rooks were placed in a room containing a small pile of pebbles, then given a worm in a tube with water. And, because all good science is based on dickotry, they made sure the worm floated just out of the crow's reach.
Two of the birds took two attempts to figure out the trick, and the other two got it on the first try. Here's the really mind-blowing part: The birds didn't just figure out a crude behavior through trial and error; they dropped in stones only until the water was high enough to reach the worm, and went for the larger pebbles too, understanding that they would displace more water.
Which officially makes them smarter than most community college students
But that's nothing compared to the New Caledonian Crow: In another tube-based experiment, some food was placed in a little basket and then placed in a tube just out of reach of a crow named Betty. She and another crow, Abel, had two pieces of wire they could use to get the basket: One hooked, one straight. Abel grabbed the hooked wire and took off, while Betty took the straight piece, bent the wire into a hook and then used it to pull the basket out of the tube. This was not some trick Betty picked up through training. This was the first time she or Abel had ever encountered wire.
Then she wrapped it in some foil, poured some household chemicals over it and blew open the door.
When scientists attached small cameras to the tails of some New Caledonian crows, they discovered the birds were using sticks to get bugs out of trees. Typical bird stuff, right? Well, they also used stiff leaves and grass to manufacture knives, then used those knives to manufacture other tools. If the crows discovering how to makes shivs somehow doesn't scare you, surely the fact that they have discovered industry is cause to start rolling out the anti-raven zeppelins, right?
And oh god, there's more! NC crows passed yet another test involving hard to reach food. In this one, a crow was placed inside a container with a tiny stick, along with two small cages, one holding a piece of meat just out of reach, and one with a longer stick. The crow wasted no time in grabbing the small stick, using it to extract the long stick, then using the long stick to fish out the meat. Later, scientists locked a crow in a cage with a copy of Myst. Sadly, the game went unbeaten...but only because the crow said it prefers Professor Layton.
#2. Planning
Planning sucks, because it always makes us do things, but even we have to admit that it requires a certain level of cognition that transcends what we think of as "animal." And yet crows do it: They frequently "cache" food, socking away reserves in case times get lean (and there are no tube-wielding scientists about to take advantage of). Obviously, this behavior is not the exclusive territory of the bird world's supervillains: Plenty of animals do it, like squirrels, but crows take it several steps further.
Go fuck yourselves, squirrels
Since they are omnivores and opportunists, crows are often thought of as thieves. And hell, that's probably fair. Even crows admit that. And that's why, when crows have food they want to stash, they always keep an eye out for other crows. If another is watching, the crow will pretend to hide the food in their cache, when in reality, they're stashing it in their chest feathers. Crows have learned sleight of hand! Then they fly off and bury it in another cache, far away from prying eyes. Now here's where it gets crazy: The watching crows have then been observed to follow the hiding crows, because they know that sometimes they pull a bait and switch themselves. This has led to a spiraling thief/counter-thief arms race, like a little avian cold war. We can only hope and pray there's a badass crow Petrov out there, watching out for us when this conflict inevitably escalates.
#1. Adaptive Behavior
Crows pay attention to how the human world works, and often use it to their advantage: Some have been observed cracking walnuts by dropping them from the exact height needed to bust them open on the pavement. But in other cases, they take gravity out of the equation and just drop the nuts in front of cars, letting us do the work for them. These same crows also memorize the pattern of traffic lights to optimize the exact moment they drop the nuts, but also to make sure they only retrieve them when the light is red and the crosswalk sign is on, so they don't get run over. If you've ever been out driving, you know the latter is a skill that only about 10 percent of the human population has mastered.
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Quick quiz: What day of the week do the garbage men come to your block? What day do they service the next block over? And the one after that? And after that? If you don't know the answer to all of those questions, then congratulations! You're not stalking your garbageman. This must be a proud moment for you. But don't get too excited, because it also means you've just been outscored on a test by a bird: Crows have been known to memorize the patterns of garbage trucks so they can get easy access to the sweet, sweet waste contained within. They know they don't have the strength to open the cans, but also that the sanitation workers who open the cans for them inevitably leave some trash behind, so the crows simply memorize a driver's schedule, then follow the trucks to pick out anything tasty.
The nation's secret nuisance: hobo crows
But wait, if they're so fucking smart, why are they eating garbage, huh?
Ha! nevermind. Stupid crows.
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BYESVILLE - Temperatures were chilly, the course was damp and Meadowbrook High School was the site.
The annual Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Cal Pokas Cross Country Championship was held under ideal running conditions Saturday morning and the St. Clairsville Red Devils demonstrated that tradition just doesn't graduate.
St. Clairsville continued its stranglehold on the Class 4A crown. Coach Tony Ciroli's Red Devils finished third overall and tops in their class with 137 points.
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ON?THE?RUN — Indian Creek's Frank Kamarec led hid squad in the annual Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Cal Pokas Country Cluntry Championships Saturday at Meadowbrook High School. Kamarec finished 21st overall in 17:25.
For the Devils, the title is their 10th in school history and seventh consecutive.
"I was a nervous wreck all week, but the kids really ran well today," Ciroli said. "We came in with a big target on our back, but usually this is one of our best races of the year. And I think the guys stepped up and did what they had to do."
The Red Devils were led by senior Drake Walker, who finished 11th overall and second in his class with a time of 16:58.
Junior Alex Timko continued his fine season with a 19th overall finish in a time of 17:23. Freshman Logan McCort earned all-OVAC honors by virtue of his 23rd place finish in a time of 17:26.
Senior Joe Davies (41st) and sophomore James Davenport (45th) rounded out the scoring for th Devils.
"Winning the OVAC never gets old," Ciroli said.
"You're elated after you win the first one, but after you starting winning several, it leads to more nerves, sleepless nights and an ill feeling. The kids were nervous, and I think there's just a little bit more pressure because we'd won a few in a row."
University and Morgantown sent a direct message that cross country in Monongalia County is some of the best the state of West Virginia has to offer.
The University Hawks won the 5A and overall titles with 47 points, which was 15 fewer than cross-town rival Morgantown High. This is the second straight big-school crown for the Hawks. The two flipped placed on the girls' side of the competition.
Mohigans' senior Cameron Greza captured the overall individual title with a time of 16:03. He was six seconds better than East Liverpool's Nate Boyer.
Other 5A runners, earning all-OVAC include: Wheeling Park junior Albert Schrimp (9th, 16:49), Indian Creek senior Frank Kamarec (21st, 17:25), John Marshall frosh Dylan McKeag (22nd, 17:26) and Indian Creek's Allen Keister (25th, 17:31).
Fort Frye won its first boys cross country title. The Cadets finished with 201 points, which was good enough for sixth overall. Magnolia was second in the class with 312 markers.
The Cadets were paced by junior Jordan Anderson, who was 10th overall in 16:55.
The Blue Eagles were led by James Haught, who was all-OVAC by virtue of his 16:46 and seventh-place finish.
In the small-school division, Caldwell, which is one of the most storied cross country programs in the state of Ohio, notched its seventh conference title, but first since 2002 when it fought off St. John Central.
Coach Dugan Hill's Redskins finished with 253 points, while the Irish were 14th overall with 369 tallies.
The Redskins were led by all-conference performer Tanner Harding, who was sixth in 16:37.
St. John Central senior standout Corey Leasure was fifth overall in a time of 16:36. Leasure was the small-school champion.


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February 11, 2010
Cape Town celebrates 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from prison
Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison on Robben Island. Photo courtesy Mark Holtzhausen
Today marks 20 years since former president Nelson Mandela was released from prison. In celebration of Madiba's 20 years of freedom, people will be gathering just outside Cape Town in their thousands to march from the former Victor Verster Prison (now the Groot Drakenstein Correctional Centre) in Paarl, in the Western Cape.
According to the Mail & Guardian online, the 500m march will be led by Mr Mandela's former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and aims to symbolise his walk to freedom, broadcast globally to millions of people 20 years ago.
Today, thousands of tourists visit Robben Island – the island just off Cape Town's shores, where Mr Mandela was imprisoned for 18 of his 27 years of incarceration.
The Robben Island Museum Tour includes a guided tour of the maximum security prison. A visit to Mandela's cell in B-section is a significant part of the tour. The small cell has been left in its original state to show the hardships of prison life.
So, if you don't join in today's celebrations, make sure you visit Robben Island on your next trip to Cape Town, and take a moment to pay homage to the man to whom South Africa owes so much.