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I have a tripod head that is made of aluminum. In the head there is a small hole that houses a small screw that secures a quick-release plate. After some time the hole stripped and the screw no longer holds. I suspect that there is no simple way to fix it, but in case there is, I wanted to see what you guys think!
Depends on the size of the screw and how much material you have to work with. If this is a clamp bolt, cheap tripods use screws going directly into the casting. Quality units either use a captured nut, Nyloc nut and eccentric toggle or a tee-head bolt with threaded knob.
If this is a plate with a fair amount of metal surrounding the hole and it's deep enough, I would get a Heli-Coil kit. With this kit, you drill the hole oversize with the supplied drill, use the supplied tap and then the tool to install the helical insert.
Another thread repair is Keensert which, if you have yet more metal because it's a larger device, a locking insert that doesn't require delicate use of Red Loctite to keep it in place.
All the above probably are not recommended in the case that the threaded hole is in a casting that doesn't have spare metal, so the previous recommendations of drilling oversize and tapping for a larger bolt might be the best. Which might not be a solution if the threads are common photography standard attachments between devices.
Aluminum is a soft metal and screws stripping is very common. Since I don't know of any way to make a striped hole smaller, short of welding in new metal then drilling and tapping, the only solution is to make the screw larger. If you have a #6 screw now, use a #8 now. Simply replace the original with the next larger gauge. BTW, that is not giving up, it's fixing the problem in an economical way.
If the screw has stripped out the treads in the hole it will go into, there is little choice. The hole is now too large, for a screw that is now effectively too small. You cannot simply "fix" this without some work.
You can use a larger screw, thus one with a larger diameter. This will require you to re-thread the hole for the new screw diameter. You might have to first pre-drill the hold to enlarge it more, depending on the tap you will use.
You could fill the hole completely, using an aluminum "welding" material. In theory, that material can now be re-drilled and then tapped for the screw thread you have. Be careful though to not overheat the aluminum body.
In either case, it will take some effort to repair.
Nutsert is a thread repair system that restores or installs threads in just about any material and any thickness. The threads are steel so they last through repeated use. They are available at "Fastenal" dealers/stores. There are two types flanged for thin materials and flangeless for thicker materials. The flanged units are similar to a large rivet with threads where the usual pin would be. While a rivet expands by pulling the pin into the rivethead, nutserts use a threaded insert that expands the insert and is then removed leaving the threads intact. I wouldn't be surprised if your local dealer would demonstrate how they work on your tripod.
The two options are:
Re-Thread the hole with a bigger screw (dont force a bigger screw into a damaged site). Use a Reaming/Tap tool to increase the thread size to your desired size... (also, in order to use the heli-coil) you will need to ream/tap the hole.
Helicoil - places an insert into the site to reduce the thread size once again. you will need to match the size and thread pattern with your current screw. so i suggest taking the screw with as a sample.
I had the same issue...as a girl I took clear nail polish and slathered it around the screw. I waited a few min then attempted to screw it back in. It still wasn't 'solid' but I turned the fan on low and that seems to have dried and tightened the Polish and it now works just fine
I use Time Sert system and it has worked great for me on Tractors and mowers.
You might try this:
There are also other brands of epoxy thread repair kits.
For a range of solutions see: http://www.repairengineering.com/thread-repair.html


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I have a large software website and on each application we let users add comments, reviews and so on. Each of these pages are called for example "Comments About Firefox", "Firefox Reviews" and so on.
If we don't have any reviews or we for some reason KNOW that the visitor from Google would be disappointed should we add "noindex" to that page? Or should we just let Google decide if they want to rank us or not?

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Recruitment and retention of the scholars and teachers who prepare our students to become excellent lawyers and who further the academic reputation of the school is as intense as student recruitment. Faculty productivity requires extensive research, travel to present their scholarship not simply nationally but internationally, and resources to involve students and the larger community in their work. Over the years, the law school has been home to some of the most distinguished minds in legal education. Today we boast numerous faculty who have been recognized for their scholarship, advocacy, and teaching. To continue to attract and to retain a law faculty of that caliber, we need to expand funding for faculty research, travel, and support.
A Senior Chaired Professorship recognizes the most distinguished members of the faculty and may be endowed for $5 million. An endowed Faculty Chair requires a minimum contribution of $3 million. Both endowments support a faculty member's research and salary for as long as the professor remains on the faculty. An endowed Term Professorship, which can be created and named for $2 million, is similar to a Faculty Chair, but supports a faculty member for a set term, and then rotates to a different faculty member. To create and name an endowed Faculty Research Fund, which supports the research of an individual faculty member, requires $500,000.


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Research grants
Supporting archival research
One of the National Archives' key roles is to promote archival research in Australia and to encourage scholarly use of our collection. The Archives' grant program is currently under review.
In past years the Archives has awarded three research grants:
- Ian Maclean Award for archivists and other professionals who are interested in archival issues
- Frederick Watson Fellowship for established scholars
- Margaret George Award for talented, emerging scholars
Postgraduate scholarships
The National Archives and the Australian Historical Association provide postgraduate scholarships for the digitisation of records.
Collaborative research
The Archives also participates in collaborative research with universities and other cultural institutions through the Australian Research Council grants scheme. For example, the National Archives is one of the partner organisations with the Departments of Veterans' Affairs and Defence and the Australian War Memorial in the Australian National University's four-year project titled 'Serving Our Country: a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the defence of Australia' which commenced in June 2013.


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Testing a Gifted Child with Dyslexia
Q: My fifth-grader has dyslexia and will soon take the ITBS. I would like to know what constitutes valid testing. She tested at the 50th percentile when she took it in four months ago. With her regular school work, she has tests read to her or she reads them aloud and has her reading errors corrected. She also states answers orally and the instructor writes for her. This is in her IEP. She tests at 115 IQ on the Weschler, which I think is low for her as the testing circumstances were poor. No one seems to know how to have her take the ITBS exam so that it will render a valid result. Do you have any suggestions?
A: Your concerns over valid test results for children with dyslexia are on target. With the ITBS, your daughter should have the same modification to support her that she has in the classroom -- her IEP gives her this option. In interpreting the results, the teacher, psychologist, etc., should keep in mind the areas that may be under-represented because of this disability. You may be able to find a private psychologist in your area who has experience with assessing children with learning problems. If so, a full assessment would be great.
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Mary Ruth Coleman is the director of Project U-STARS (Using Science Talent and Abilities to Recognize Students) at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Coleman has taught in both general and gifted educational programs in both public and private schools.


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Microsoft Word on windows has this really handy feature where you can MOVE the current paragraph up or down. I think you type alt-ctrl-up or alt-ctrl-down, though I don't have a windows pc in front of me and I can't test that. The short cut is far easier than selecting the paragraph, cutting it, moving to the start of the previous (or end of the next) paragraph, then pasting it.
And ... I miss it enormously!


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The Lesson of Mariano Rivera
Mariano Rivera announced his looming retirement from baseball Saturday in Florida, as expected, and the lack of surprise was appropriate. Predictability has been the defining characteristic of the Mariano Rivera experience—the knowledge that calling upon the lean relief pitcher was essentially to end a ballgame several outs early, extinguishing an opponent and giving the crowd a few extra minutes to gather personal effects. Rivera was not perfect, as they know in Arizona and Boston, but he was pretty close, and during an 18-year career his statistics have piled into something unprecedented, an overwhelming case of Rivera being one of the most dominant pitchers—no, players—ever. When he departs at the end of this 2013 season, he doesn't need to unlace his spikes. Metallica pumping, the Sandman can walk directly to Cooperstown, N.Y., home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, where the only suspense will be whether or not Rivera is elected unanimously on the first ballot. This has never happened. Baseball is stubborn, full of musty self-regard. Zeus would get snubbed a few votes. One hundred percent may elude Rivera, too.
Rivera began his morning farewell news conference with a joke, telling the assembled reporters and team personnel that he was grateful to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman for a two-year-contract extension carrying into 2015. Cashman, his leg crumpled from a sky diving mishap, played along, offering a thumbs-up from a wheelchair. A joke from Mo! It was a snazzy change-up from a serious man. Retirement announcements can be mushy, lugubrious episodes—an athlete's first public confrontation of his playing perishability—but Rivera appeared relaxed and composed during the telecast. He is playing one more season, after all. He seemed to well up, but he did not cry. He spoke of his recovery from the knee injury he suffered in 2012, and how he didn't want to leave like that. He said he "had a few bullets left," and "I'm going to use them well." After a while it began to resemble less of a goodbye than a reassertion of purpose. Look at him! Did this man look 43? Rivera never was going to leave, was he?
But he is leaving, he promised. Mo, what tells you the tank is almost empty, he was asked. "I'm telling you it's empty," he said, drolly. "I think that's enough." More laughs! He said he dreamed of wrapping it up atop the mound for another Yankee World Series. And though the announcement brought back a rush of memories, what was essentially left unspoken was perhaps the most remarkable accomplishment of Rivera's career.
Its dignity.
Dignity is an unusual, evasive value in modern sports. There's no metric for it, no statistical standard. It's a little old-fashioned-sounding, almost corny, and it's unclear how much dignity matters anymore. Dignity will not get you a high-profile apparel contract or a magazine cover and it does not ensure a post-playing career as a blustering talking head. One could argue that dignity makes it a little harder to secure those things, because part of what dignity means is not calling attention to oneself, because making a big deal about yourself is undignified. Truth be told, if you want all of these things, you might want to avoid dignity. Dignity is a little boring.
But it shouldn't be, because dignity is hard. And it's freakishly hard to pull off in a sawmill like New York, which strips apart its sports icons from the outside in, questioning first the performance, then the commitment, and then the character, almost reveling as it spits out the bones. Even the best athletes seldom last a season there without a flurry of real or imagined chaos. Rising and falling, humiliation and redemption—it's all part of the narrative structure of playing games in New York, the brutal sport within the sport.
And yet Rivera has thrived for nearly two decades, playing for the most comically demanding New York franchise of them all. Yes, New York's infatuation with its New York-ness is hopeless and mostly annoying, but in this instance it is really true: There is no hothouse quite like the Yankee hothouse, and to remain emotionally intact, as Rivera has done for so many years, should be held up as some kind of marvel alongside those freakish numbers for saves (608) and postseason earned-run average (0.70). Like his loyal teammate Derek Jeter, who is narrowing in on age 40, Rivera will be remembered for the way he stayed one step ahead of an unforgiving town, carrying himself with a humility that seemed hard-wired into his DNA. (When the talk at the news conference turned to Rivera's place as one of the greatest ever, he would indulge none of it, saying he only wanted to be remembered for making the players around him better.)
Athletes are held to high standards, this is true. But they also get so much praise for doing things that ordinary people just do—look at the gooey rapture over seeing the Yankees assemble as a team in the back of Rivera's news conference, as if it was some grand act, and not basic, expected human courtesy for a teammate. Rivera, who by baseball's declaration will be the last player to wear Jackie Robinson's No. 42, is a reminder of how things are to be done. Rivera is not the type to want a glitzy rocking-chair farewell tour, but the Yankees said he intends to take a little time in each farewell stop to meet with people who love baseball as he does—a longtime usher, or a family that has traveled from far away. These individuals do not have to be admirers of Rivera or even Yankee fans.
It is a small gesture, and yet more proof of an all-timer who recognizes what baseball is—a game that perseveres because its history is bigger than one individual, even one who was among its biggest. Mariano Rivera has a final season to go. Perhaps it will be what's expected: more of the brilliant, old same.
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A Mexican, Italian experience in Ojai
Two distinct flavors
By Nicholas Franklin 11/29/2012
La Valle Restaurant
1002 E. Ojai Ave., Suite CD
"What? Another Mexican/Italian place?" That was the buzz around Ojai when news of La Valle Restaurant's opening started to circulate. There was already a load of choices in town for either cuisine. There was confusion, too — would it be Mexican slash Italian or Mexican hyphen Italian? As in chile verde and lasagna, or chile verde lasagna?
These thoughts were running through my head as we approached the modest building by Soule Park Golf Course, which housed The Garden Terrace for years. One thing I knew for sure, though, was that whatever the approach, the food would probably be good. Or very good, as Chef/Co-Owner Marco Bello was most recently chef at the popular Osteria Monte Grappa in Ojai.
After being led through the cozy dining room, we were seated next to the warm fireplace. The interior hasn't received any personalizing touches from the new owners yet, but the place exudes charm as is. With the fireplace emanating heat and fresh scarlet roses atop clean white tablecloths, we were surprised to find ourselves on a date, even though we came on a whim, wearing sweatshirts.
Moments after seating, we were given some chips and salsa to munch on while leafing through the menu. And with that came the beginning of a somewhat jarring discrepancy. I love chips and salsa, but it felt weird munching tortilla chips while browsing through a menu with dishes carrying names like linguine alle cozze e vongole. If that seems petty, it was stranger to go from the delicious Ruffino Chianti our server recommended to eating salsa with notes of cilantro and raw onion.
The menu overall displays little effort to fuse Italian and Mexican. That will be fine to many people; the variety might even be seen as a plus. I was a little disappointed, though. I was dying to see things like osso buco tacos, or pappardelle al pastor. That kind of approach would've made the menu stand out among the competition.
Browsing revealed the best example of a fusion to be the mixed mushroom empanadas, which feature what seem to be crimini and portabella mushrooms sautéed with garlic and shallots and stuffed into a homemade tortilla drizzled with truffle oil.
The empandas were delicious, an example of shining through simplicity. The flavor was uncluttered, with the mushrooms taking center stage. The garlic or the truffle oil could easily have overpowered, but neither did. And somehow they had managed to coax the tortilla into flaky crispiness that you'd think could only come from a flour dough.
As soon as I saw pollo en mole on the menu, I was sold. Mole is one of those things that warms your bones on a cold night, and La Valle's homemade mole was no exception. The chicken breast was pounded thin and drowning in the sauce, which was earthy and subtle with a perfect balance of cocoa, spices, chilis and nuttiness. The homemade tortillas that came with the mole were especially impressive. They had a fresh, unadulterated corn flavor that tasted more like hominy than any store-bought corn tortilla.
My companion ordered the farfalle alla puttanesca con gamneretti, a take on one of my personal favorites. Puttanesca is a rich pasta dish that fuses crushed red pepper fire, the acidity of capers and a deep brininess from olives and anchovies. This preparation featured a large handful of shrimp, which were plump, snappy and saturated with garlic. They were devoured.
But the sauce was a little out of balance. The conservative use of red pepper flakes brought out the anchovy, and leaving the kalamata olives whole made them brine bombs. While we did polish it off before the end of the night, neither of us thought the puttanesca came together with the same finesse as the mole. And the slices of bread with butter that came with it seemed like an afterthought compared to the delicious homemade tortillas.
Though teetering on the brink of stuffed, our server tempted us into the tiramisu. Another personal favorite, this was no let-down. It was light and fluffy, with no soggy ladyfingers but with a nice boozy funk.
Our unexpected date experience was also the product of the great service, with staff that was observant without being overwhelming. I was surprised when our wine was finished because I never had a chance to feel the weight of the bottle. And late in the evening I could tell the staff was mindful about the noise from their side-work. Which is awesome, considering this is a place where nearly everything is less than 20 bucks.
It'll be interesting to see how this restaurant develops as it moves through and beyond its first season. Will it be embraced as a place that offers something for everybody at affordable prices? Or will having a muddled and mostly traditional identity hold it back or force it to evolve?
We left not knowing whether to say gracias or grazie so we stuck with a sincere "thank you." We had cleaned our plates, had a surprisingly romantic experience, and look forward to visiting again soon.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - After a lengthy second public hearing Wednesday, the Belmont County Commissioners voted against a proposed license plate fee increase of $10.
The commissioners were faced with the task of balancing the needs of a financially troubled population with the clear and imminent danger posed by deteriorating roads and bridges. Commissioners Ginny Favede and Charles R. Probst Jr. voted against the increase while Matt Coffland voted in favor.
The hearing included testimony by Fredrick Pausch, executive director of the County Engineering Association of Ohio, regarding the state of Ohio's bridges.
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Fredrick Pausch, executive director of the County Engineers Association of Ohio, speaks in favor of an proposed $10 increase on license plate fees. The commissioners voted down the proposal, 2-1,?Wednesday.
Favede leveled a stern indictment against Gov.?John Kasich and his policies. She referenced Pausch's 2008 report from the Federal Highway Administration, placing Ohio fifth in the nation in the number of local bridges classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Some $770 million would be needed for critical repairs statewide and an annual $230 million for resurfacing.
Meanwhile the state holds a $2 billion rainy day fund.
"Ohio needs to acknowledge these issues," she said. "All levels of government are struggling because of the lack of local government funding."
She added that the gas tax has not been increased since 2003. Meanwhile, costs of materials continue to mount.
"It's a very difficult issue to deal with," she said. "We need a commitment from the state."
She said while she respected County?Engineer Fred Bennett and the genuine need for infrastructure repairs, she noted her duty was to represent the people. She mentioned the outpouring of public response in opposition to tax. She said the commissioners may decide to place the issue before the people in the form of a levy. The public has indicated a preference for such a route. She added that an annual increase of $10 is more than some residents can afford when combined with the increasing number of levies. She said she would continue to testify at the state level.
Coffland said his vote in favor was motivated by the present need. He added that he has also been contacted by the public about the poor state of roads and guardrails.
"Columbus is not coming to our rescue," he said, speculating on the cost of defending against a lawsuit or facing the loss of life. "One liability case, one litigation on one bridge is well worth $10 an individual of this county."
He referred to a fatal flood of the past and noted the temporary pillar at Pike Creek as one example of a risky site, since it would collect debris in the event of a flood. In addition, he noted the trustees are in support of a measure to restore some funding to the villages and townships.
"Much as I hate to," he said. "I don't know any other answer."
Probst concurred with criticism of the state, noting that stimulus funding was spent primarily of state routes while county roads were ignored. He suggested the county may be able to raise more funds locally.
"I think we can accomplish the same thing without putting the $10 on the people," he said, adding that the commissioners, engineer and auditor could put together a road plan. "I think we need to be more aggressive."
He said the county may utilize casino revenue and increased sales tax, which has been tied up due to the recession. The county will also be receiving royalties from oil and gas interests and ground leasing continues.
"I think we could move forward with that type of an approach," he said, adding that the public has recently passed the 911 levy and is facing a senior services levy. The public has voiced their concerns about the compounding financial demands.
He said county's financial outlook may improve in six to eight months, allowing the commissioners to provide those funds to the engineer.
Favede speculated that oil and gas interests may repair more roads as their operations expand and demand more use.
Bennett said these hopes offered few guarantees.
"People are very frustrated because they've been suffering so long," Favede said.
During his presentation, Pausch underlined the issue of public safety, adding that the county has 115 deficient or obsolete bridges.
Meanwhile, numerous residents voiced their opposition. Chief among their concerns was the continued addition of levies and expenses and the desire to see the issue placed before the people on the ballot. Several also raised concerns that the money might not be earmarked specifically for roads and bridges but might be used for other purposes.
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Donations to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Relief Campaign for the Palestinian People in Gaza today reached SR 220,102,403 [$58.72 million].
Foodstuffs, medicines, medical equipment, clothing and blankets have also been donated to the fund.
The Campaign is currently carrying out the first phase of its humanitarian effort, providing immediate relief to the Palestinians. The Kingdom has already sent 61 trucks loaded with relief materials to Gaza, along with many more tons of supplies delivered via airlift.


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HPV/Genital Warts Health Center
HPV Vaccines
In this article
HPV vaccines protect against a very common sexually transmitted virus called HPV or human papillomavirus. HPV infects at least 50% of sexually active people at some point in their lives. The virus often clears from the body on its own. If it persists, it can lead to cervical, anal, and throat cancers and to genital warts.
One HPV vaccine, Gardasil, was licensed for use by the FDA in 2006. It is recommended as a routine vaccination for males and females aged 9-26 years old. Gardasil 9 can be used in the same age group for females and for males ages 9 through 15.
Did You Know?
Under the Affordable Care Act, many health insurance plans will cover preventive care services, including checkups, vaccinations and screening tests, at no cost to you. Learn more.
Another HPV vaccine, Cervarix, was licensed in 2009 for use in females aged 10-25.
Like all vaccines, these HPV vaccines are not foolproof. They do not protect against all of the 100-plus types of HPV. But both vaccines are nearly 100% effective in preventing disease caused by high-risk strains of HPV -- HPV 16 and 18 -- which together account for 70% of all cervical cancers, as well as many cancers of the vagina and vulva.
Gardasil, the First HPV Vaccine
Gardasil, the HPV vaccine made by Merck & Co., was licensed for use in June 2006. It targets four types of HPV: 6, 11, 16 and 18. Types 16 and 18 lead to cervical cancer. HPV 6 and HPV 11 cause about 90% of genital warts.
The vaccine contains a virus-like particle but not the actual virus. Three doses are given over six months.
Insurance coverage for Gardasil is common within the recommended age ranges. The federal Vaccines for Children Program covers the vaccine for those under age 19 who qualify. No serious HPV vaccine side effects have been found, although fainting spells following injection have been reported in teens and young adults. Sometimes soreness occurs at the injection site. It should not be administered to pregnant women.
More recently, Gardasil 9 was approved by the FDA. It prevents infection by the same HPV types as Gardasil plus HPV-31, HPV-33, HPV-45, HPV-52, and HPV-58. Collectively, these types are implicated in 90% of cervical cancers.


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New Fort Lewis College women�s basketball head coach Jason Flores recently hired Elisha Harris to serve as his assistant coach this season.
Harris comes to Fort Lewis from the University of Alaska-Anchorage, where she spent the last two seasons assisting head coach Tim Moser. Last season, she helped the Seawolves back to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight for the first time since she wore the uniform.
�I am very excited about being able to bring Elisha here to Fort Lewis,� Flores said in a news release. �She has coached the past couple seasons in a very successful program at Alaska-Anchorage and will bring many great attributes to our program. She will be a great fit for me, our players, and within the community. Her experience and success in recruiting, strength and conditioning and player development will be great attributes for FLC women�s basketball�
Harris was a guard for the Seawolves� Final Four teams in 2008 and 2009. She averaged 5.6 points per game and 3 rebounds as a senior, helping Alaska-Anchorage to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship and a school-best 31-4 overall record.
As a junior, Harris helped the Seawolves win 30 games and advance to the NCAA semifinals for the first time in program history. She scored 4.6 points per game that season.
FLC will look to qualify for the NCAA Tournament for a sixth consecutive season and seventh overall this season. The Skyhawks return nine players from last year�s Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament title team.


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KILLEEN (November 20, 2012)—A 2-year-old girl who fell into a backyard pool Tuesday morning at a home at 3509 Solomon Dr. in Killeen was flown to Scott & White Children's Hospital in Temple.
The toddler's mother left the girl alone for a moment at around 9 a.m., and when she returned the girl was in the water, police said.
She pulled the toddler out of the water and began calling for help.
A man who was jogging by the home responded to her cries and began performing CPR, police said.
Police said earlier the mother performed CPR.
Paramedics arrived and took over the effort to revive the girl, who was transported to the parking lot of the Killeen Civic Center, where a medical helicopter was waiting.
The girl had a pulse en route to the hospital, police said, but was in critical condition Tuesday afternoon in the hospital's intensive care unit.


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3 Jan 2013 11:40 AM #1
Unanswered: Textbox - why so much bloated markup / HTML ?
I want to display a simple textbox in a page. The TextField component wraps the input in a table with 3 cells. If I am not putting the TextField on a form or using form layout, is there a way to make it generate less bloated markups?
3 Jan 2013 12:25 PM #2
The extra markup ensures a consistent size and style across browsers. It's a personal opinion, but I don't think a few extra DOM objects are going to cause your application that much grief.
As an alternative, you could always just use a plain old HTML input field; but then you'd have to style it/label it/size it/event handle it in a cross-browser compatible way, where this would consitute a lot of manual code/CSS, etc...
3 Jan 2013 2:15 PM #3
As per Friends comments it also has additional element to cater for error message positions and the label etc...
You can create a simple version by extending Ext.form.field.Text and overidding the
relevant tpl e.g. renderTpl, labelableRenderTpl


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The Only B&B Accommodations in the Heart of Eureka Springs
We invite you to stay at Cliff Cottage Inn – Luxury B&B Suites and Historic Cottages. Our bed and breakfast inn perched on the rock bluffs overlooking Historic Downtown Eureka Springs is the perfect place to "land" during your vacation in Arkansas.
Our email address is email@example.com
Occasionally we are not able to check our email as often as we'd like. In the event that you do not get a reply from us within 24 hours, please call us at (479) 253-7409. Even when we leave the inn to go buy toothpicks, we take the cellphone with us.
42 Armstrong St.
Eureka Springs, AR 72632
Phone: (479) 253-7409
Mapquest, Garmins and all other GPS devices will get you to the City of Eureka Springs, but they have Cliff Cottage Inn located in the totally wrong place and will get you hopelessly lost. In addition to this, there are three streets with our same name and ours has no street sign. You will inevitably see a street sign with "Armstrong" on it going up a steep one-way as you come down the steep hill (Hwy 23/Main St.) from Hwy 62 and it is the wrong Armstrong Street.From Highway 62, across from Community First Bank on the highway, you turn onto Hwy 23/S.Main Street and come down a long hill that leads to Eureka Springs' Historic and Business District. If coming from Rogers, AR it would be a left turn onto Hwy 23/S. Main St.; if coming from Harrison or Berryville, it would be a right turn onto Hwy 23/S. Main St. There is a landscaped island with waterless fountain. Come all the way down the steep hill and watch for the following signs on the right (don't go up the steep road to the right part way down the hill as it is the wrong Armstrong St.): Cobbler's Cottage, Tiffany's Place, Sleep Hollow (set back from the road), then Office Supply (a small one-story stone building). Take a right into the large parking lot next to Office Supply and across from Café Luigi Restaurant. On the right is also a yellow highway sign with black wiggly arrow and 15MPH. There is a 2-story brown building on your right facing into the parking lot with motorcycles and the sign, Pied Piper Pub and Cathouse Lounge. Once in the parking lot, go to the far left end where you will see a "No Trucks" sign, a 10MPH sign followed by a Speed Bumps sign which is the beginning of our little street. (Our street is part of that parking lot but there is no sign for it. Our street is above and behind the brick bank.)Once you've entered our street past the two signs, you will see on the right a dusty orange 2-story house with balcony, next a light green cottage, and then the third house on right is our main inn where you pick up your key. It is lavender with purple trim and there is a huge sign in the front yard, CLIFF COTTAGE INN. On the porch is a sign, "The Place Next Door." This is where our office is located and our two suites (Colette's and Thoreau's) are upstairs in this house. Our next house is blue/teal and called Cliff Cottage and is where the two suites Sarah Bernhardt and Tennyson are located. Our third house is white with blue shutters and has a sign on the porch, The Artist's Cottage and is where the two suites Robt. Louis Stevenson and Emily Dickinson are located. Zelda's Studio is the 2-story white building behind The Artist's Cottage. Oscar Wilde's Cottage is farther along our street to the far end and down the steep hill and directions will be provided to that one when you stop at the office to pick up that key.PARKINGAll our parking spaces are pre-assigned to our guests when we send out the official confirmation and there is one space for each accommodation.CLIFF COTTAGE INN – DRIVING DIRECTIONS
Cliff Cottage Inn – Luxury B&B Suites and Historic Cottages is the only Bed & Breakfast in Historic Downtown Eureka Springs. When you enter town, you will be looking for the above house on the hillside behind the Trolley Depot – the office is in the lavender house to right of blue house. The Inn can be easily visible once you arrive downtown — we are on a hillside with our street running up above and behind the old stone Courthouse, the trolley station and the brick bank. Guests will see our lavender 2-story house and our blue/teal Cliff Cottage next to it.
Our street runs parallel to Main Street/Hwy. 23 and is accessed via the parking lot opposite Café Luigi — the Pied Piper Pub and Cathouse Lounge face into this same parking lot. Once in the parking lot, look for a sign at the far end, NO TRUCKS, then 10MPH and then SPEED BUMP immediately above/behind the brick bank. That is the beginning of our little street. See "Finding The Inn" directions.
The inn's elves ask guests to PLEASE print out and bring with them the FINDING THE INN directions and the pre-assigned parking space info the inn will send with the confirmation so that they won't have problems finding the inn or their pre-assigned off-street parking space.
If guests don't bring these directions and parking space info with them, chances are about 99% that they won't find the inn — there are three streets with the same name as ours (and our section of that street doesn't have a street sign because it begins in a parking lot!), all the direction programs like MapQuest or Garmin-type devices put us in the totally wrong place usually way off in the woods, and one week a street is one-way going up, the next week one-way going down… all cause for great confusion!
If we have to step out on an errand and arriving guests phone us, often cellphones don't work in certain areas of downtown or in stores and we won't even know guests are lost. We want our guests to arrive happy and joyful ready to have fun, not flustered and frustrated after driving around lost in Paradise for hours!
Please note that MapQuest does NOT show our correct position on Armstrong – it shows us on the upper portion of Armstrong whereas we are on the lower portion downtown. Similar problem with Yahoo and any vehicle GPS programs.
Click here for the URL showing various routes to Eureka.
We are 2 hours from Springfield MO, 3.5 hours from Little Rock, 3 hours from Tulsa, 4.5 hours from KC, 5 hours from OKC, and 5 hours from St. Louis.


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I am new to game programming and am trying to make a basic 2d top-down space game with 2 space ships that fight each other. I am doing well with the user controlled space ship, but have no idea how to even start programming an AI. Are certain methods/patterns better for this situation? Where would I even begin?
closed as off-topic by Byte56♦ Feb 18 '14 at 15:14
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The Strategy pattern is great for determining what to do but not when to do it. You're also going to need to use Finite State Machines to know which state your AI is in and what appropriate decisions are available.
If this is your first time developing AI, you don't have to worry about things like the state pattern, behavioural maths or even get a book on the subject.
You can literally get away with something like this:
The main aspect of getting AI correct is by thinking about what behaviours you want the character to have and how this can be achieved realistically. So for a basic spaceship enemy, I'd imagine the possible actions it could carry out would be to:
And when could these actions happen?
After you have done this due to the low number of "states" that your character can be in, you can use a simple if statement like the one above. I would then recommend you look at Steering Behaviours as these are very simple behaviours to implement and can result in really good looking movement.
More can be found here: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/
When you are really comfortable with these, I would suggest looking at the State and Strategy Patterns.
The point is to start out small and simple. Don't worry about all these terms that everyone keeps flinging around about FSMs and design patterns and whatever. Design and build first of all, then worry about how you can improve it by using existing methods or standards.
Hope that helps!
You might want to look at OpenSteer, and the Steering Behaviors documentation that goes with it. The source code is not beginner-level, but the concepts behind it should give you some good ideas.
You might want to look at the Strategy design pattern. Essentially write up same basic strategies of how the ships will behave:
Then you will use logic (state machines) to choose between these strategies. For example: If the ships shields have fallen below 50%, then run away from the target and move toward power ups/healing items and so forth.
May I suggest that you buy the book Artificial Intelligence for Games by Ian Millington - it's excellent! :) http://www.ai4g.com/
The source code is at Github - MIT license.
Of course, if you're not using C/C++, then this might be less relevant.
But really an awesome introduction to the world of Artificial stupidity/intelligence.
Things you're going to need from it are steering and state machines. For starters.
Some practical advice if you go for state machines: beware the megastate.
It's tempting to have a "flee" state which handles setting a position to flee to, setting a high target speed, clearing all targets, etc. It's much better to instead have many state machines, each handling one or few ship controls - eg a state machine that handles selecting a target position, one that handles guns, etc.
This may seem stupid, as you'd have to add flee states to each individual machine, but since you're constrained to only one or two outputs, your states end up very small so this should not be a problem.
Also, since each control is now under individual control, you can end up selecting a flee target position while still having the attack state control your guns. You can strafe an enemy while still conserving engine power because of a coolant leak. You can steer to avoid a collision while still dumping countermeasures. All these would be impossible with a single all-encompassing state machine.
Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI
Adding this book to the list of starting points for learning AI programming. With its focus on observation and behavior implementation rather than algorithms of limited application, I believe it is well suited to the task.
How to create AI is a tricky question, because it consists of many parts:
Other posters suggested great books and I'm fond of AI4Games suggested by jacmoe, even though it's quite general in parts (like a lot of books, which is of course understandable).
Of course, each type of game has its specific needs, and arcade/shooter games don't need complex architectures to support interesting gameplay. Simple steering libs will do the job as the basis of that behavior, and then you add details for various types of enemies (some, shoot periodically, some shoot by predicting the player's movement, some turn in order to face the enemy, others may coordinate their attacks etc).
Think about what you do when you play the game. Ask yourself some questions.
Then, what I do is have the AI look at the play field and make a list of possible actions or movements that the AI could make based on those questions. I rank and sort these moves with a "smartness factor". Then, it's as simple as picking and executing a movement/action based on some combination of randomness and whatever difficulty level the player chose at the beginning of the game.
Then, after 500 milliseconds, I do it again.
It doesn't have any learning abilities or anything but with enough tweaking it can be pretty convincing, which it all that really matters


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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [RFC] Non-blocking collectives (LibNBC) merge to trunk
From: Shipman, Galen M. (gshipman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-14 13:21:43
I am in favor of bringing this in.
- Galen
On Feb 14, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> So I don't think that we ever concluded this discussion/RFC.
> I am in favor of bringing in libnbc, given the qualifications below.
> Others?
> On Feb 8, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>> Terry -- I reluctantly agree. :-) What I envision is not difficult
>> (a first cut/feature-lean version is probably only several hundred
>> lines of perl?), but I don't have the cycles (at present) to
>> implement
>> it -- my priorities are elsewhere at the moment.
>> If anyone is interested in this, I would gladly talk them through
>> what
>> [I think] needs to be done.
>> That being said, for NBC, per Terry's points:
>> - if it's not compiled/installed by default
>> - if we can make a big enough red flag for users that it's an R&D
>> effort that is subject to change (perhaps 3'x5'?)
>> Then I think it would not be a bad thing to include NBC. But then I
>> think we need to disallow any other contrib/ projects until someone
>> can find the cycles to implement a better solution (such as an
>> ompi_contrib executable/system).
>> On Feb 7, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Terry Dontje wrote:
>>> Jeff, the below sounds good if we really believe there is going to
>>> be a
>>> whole bunch of addons. I am not sure NBC really constitute as an
>>> addon
>>> than more some research work that might become an official API.
>>> So I
>>> look at the NBC stuff more like a BTL or PM that is in progress of
>>> being
>>> developed/refined for prime time. So would a new PM or BTL be added
>>> via
>>> ompi_contrib? I wouldn't think they would.
>>> The ompi_contrib sounds like a nice utility but I have feeling there
>>> are
>>> bigger fish to fry unless we really believe there will be a lot of
>>> addons that we will need to support.
>>> --td
>>> Jeff Squyres wrote:
>>>> All these comments are good. I confess that although I should
>>>> have, I
>>>> really did not previously consider the complexity of adding in N
>>>> contrib packages to OMPI.
>>>> The goal of the contrib packages is to easily allow additional
>>>> functionality that is nicely integrated with Open MPI. An obvious
>>>> way
>>>> to do this is to include the code in the Open MPI tarball, but that
>>>> leads to the logistics and other issues that have been identified.
>>>> Ralph proposes a good way around this. But what about going
>>>> farther
>>>> than that: what we if we offer a standardized set of hooks for
>>>> including contrib functionality *after* core OMPI has been
>>>> installed?
>>>> Yes, it's one more step after OMPI has been installed -- but if we
>>>> can
>>>> keep it as *one* step, perhaps the user onus is not that bad. Let
>>>> me
>>>> explain.
>>>> Consider a new standalone executable: ompi_contrib. You would run
>>>> ompi_contrib to install and uninstall contrib functionality into
>>>> your
>>>> existing OMPI:
>>>> ompi_contrib --install http://www.example.com/nbc/nbc-ompi-
>>>> contrib.tar.gz
>>>> or ompi_contrib --install file:///home/htor/nbc-ompi-
>>>> contrib.tar.gz
>>>> This will download NBC (if http), build it, and install it into the
>>>> current OMPI. It is likely that the nbc-ompi-contrib.tar.gz file
>>>> will
>>>> contain the real NBC tarball (or maybe just a reference to it?)
>>>> plus a
>>>> small number of hook/glue scripts for OMPI integration (perhaps
>>>> quite
>>>> similar to what is in the contrib/ tree [on the branch] today for
>>>> NBC?). Likewise, after NBC is installed into the local OMPI
>>>> installation, ompi_info should be able to show "nbc" as installed
>>>> contrib functionality. It then follows that we might be able to
>>>> do:
>>>> ompi_contrib --uninstall nbc
>>>> to uninstall contrib NBC from the local OMPI installation.
>>>> This kind of approach would seem to have several benefits:
>>>> - Keep a clear[er] distinction between core OMPI and contributed
>>>> packages.
>>>> - Allow simple integration of MPI libraries, tools, and even
>>>> applications (!) (think: numerical libraries, boost C++ libraries,
>>>> etc. -- how many of your users install additional tools on top of
>>>> incorrectly?). Anything
>>>> - Allow 3rd parties to have "contrib" code to Open MPI without
>>>> needing
>>>> to get into our code tree (and sign the 3rd party agreements,
>>>> etc.),
>>>> keeping our distribution size down, avoiding release schedule
>>>> logistical issues, keeping our "core" build time down, etc.
>>>> - Allow integration of contrib functionality at both a per-user and
>>>> system-wide basis.
>>>> What I'm really proposing here is that OMPI becomes a system that
>>>> can
>>>> have additional functionality installed / uninstalled. Based on
>>>> the
>>>> infrastructure that we already have, this is not as much of a
>>>> stretch
>>>> as one would think.
>>>> Comments?
>>>> ("who's going to write this" is a question that will also have
>>>> to be
>>>> answered, but perhaps we can discuss the code concept/idea
>>>> first...)
>>>> On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Ralph H Castain wrote:
>>>>> I believe Brian and Terry raise good points. May I offer a
>>>>> possible
>>>>> alternative? What if we only include in Open MPI an include file
>>>>> that
>>>>> contains the "hooks" to libNBC, and have the build system only
>>>>> "see"
>>>>> those
>>>>> if someone specifies --with-NBC (or whatever option name you
>>>>> like).
>>>>> If you
>>>>> like, you can make the inclusion automatic if libNBC is
>>>>> detected on
>>>>> the
>>>>> system. It would make sense to also add -libNBC to the mpicc et al
>>>>> wrappers
>>>>> as well when the build system includes the function definitions.
>>>>> This would allow those users that want (or can) to use that
>>>>> library
>>>>> link
>>>>> against it, without adding a bunch of source code to our
>>>>> release. I
>>>>> suspect
>>>>> there are complications that will have to be dealt with, but offer
>>>>> it as
>>>>> something to consider.
>>>>> Also, remember that there is an added burden when we add source
>>>>> code
>>>>> to Open
>>>>> MPI that we haven't discussed - we are now adding coordination
>>>>> issues to our
>>>>> own release cycle. If libNBC changes, are we now going to be
>>>>> pressed
>>>>> to
>>>>> issue another OMPI release so that the new NBC version is
>>>>> included?
>>>>> Do we
>>>>> now need to coordinate our releases with theirs so that things
>>>>> align?
>>>>> And if we have an increasing number of such "included" packages,
>>>>> how
>>>>> complex
>>>>> is -that- release discussion going to get?!?
>>>>> On 2/7/08 4:48 AM, "Terry Dontje" <Terry.Dontje_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>>> Torsten Hoefler wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Brian,
>>>>>>>> Let me start by reminding everyone that I have no vote, so this
>>>>>>>> should
>>>>>>>> probably be sent to /dev/null.
>>>>>>> thanks for your comment and this will not go to /dev/null!
>>>>>>>> I think Ralph raised some good points. I'd like to raise
>>>>>>>> another.
>>>>>>> yes [will reply to this in a separate thread]
>>>>>>>> Does it make sense to bring LibNBC into the release at this
>>>>>>>> point,
>>>>>>>> given the current standardization process of non-blocking
>>>>>>>> collectives?
>>>>>>>> My feeling is no, based on the long term support costs. We had
>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>> problem with a function in LAM/MPI -- MPIL_SPAWN, I believe it
>>>>>>>> was --
>>>>>>>> that was almost but not quite MPI_COMM_SPAWN. It was added to
>>>>>>>> allow
>>>>>>>> spawn before the standard was finished for dynamics. The
>>>>>>>> problem
>>>>>>>> is,
>>>>>>>> it wasn't quite MPI_COMM_SPAWN, so we were now stuck with yet
>>>>>>>> another
>>>>>>>> function to support (in a touchy piece of code) for infinity
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> beyond.
>>>>>>>> I worry that we'll have the same with LibNBC -- a piece of code
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> solves an immediate problem (no non-blocking collectives in
>>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>>> will become a long-term support anchor. Since this is
>>>>>>>> something
>>>>>>>> we'll
>>>>>>>> be encouraging users to write code to, it's not like support
>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>> mvapi, where we can just deprecate it and users won't really
>>>>>>>> notice.
>>>>>>>> It's one thing to tell them to update their cluster software
>>>>>>>> stack --
>>>>>>>> it's another to tell them to rewrite their applications.
>>>>>>> I think this is a very good and valid point. However, I would
>>>>>>> like
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> deprecate the NBC_* things as soon as non-blocking collectives
>>>>>>> are a
>>>>>>> part of the standard. Of course, this would probably need two
>>>>>>> minor
>>>>>>> versions to "clean" the code-base, but this is (will be) our
>>>>>>> normal
>>>>>>> procedure (just what happened to MVAPI).
>>>>>> Though it doesn't seem to me that NBC is a slam dunk to get into
>>>>>> the MPI
>>>>>> spec and I could
>>>>>> imagine it changing significantly due to someone elses opinion/
>>>>>> needs.
>>>>>>> And rewriting the user's application will not be that hard,
>>>>>>> it'll
>>>>>>> mainly
>>>>>>> be vim:%s/NBC_/MPI_/g. Even if we change the interface (e.g. add
>>>>>>> tags or
>>>>>>> decide to use the more limited split collective approach), this
>>>>>>> task is
>>>>>>> rather easy and can be automated easily. It's not a
>>>>>>> functionality
>>>>>>> change, just an interface.
>>>>>> Though if NBC is built by default for release builds I think that
>>>>>> raises
>>>>>> the bar saying that we
>>>>>> OMPI believe this should be used by all of our users without any
>>>>>> concerns that the API may
>>>>>> change or it might have significant issues.
>>>>>> On a similar track do you have any tests that validate the
>>>>>> functionality/correctness of NBC
>>>>>> that can be ran as a part of the MTT nightly tests?
>>>>>> My opinion is I have no problem with NBC being merged in just
>>>>>> that I
>>>>>> don't think it should be
>>>>>> built by default.
>>>>>> --td
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Madeley is situated in the south of the East Shropshire new town of Telford, approximately forty miles west of Birmingham, a couple of miles north of the somewhat better known township of Ironbridge. (Prior to the building of the Iron Bridge, and for many years after, most of the Ironbridge area was known as "Madeley Wood".)
Originally a thriving market and industrial town in its own right, Madeley has been somewhat submerged by the growth of the surrounding new town developments of Sutton Hill and Woodside, which together with other new housing built since the late 1960s, and the historic core of Madeley itself, make up the modern parish of Madeley. The many wooded pit mounts around the town are a reminder of its former importance as a mining town.
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An old postcard (we think from before the First World War) showing the Anstice Memorial Working Men's Institute and, on the right, the old post office and print shop formerly run by John Randall.
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The Madeley Wood Colliery, as was common elsewhere in coal mining, actually consisted of two separate pits — the Halesfield (circa 1861) and Kemberton (1864) Collieries, which were subsequently connected underground in 1939. The Halesfield shafts reached approximately 300 yards, the Kemberton pit was deeper at 364 yards. The whole colliery site, the former spoil heaps and the extensive railway sidings were levelled on closure in 1967 and the area is now a major industrial estate — Halesfield.
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Photons are massless, but if $m = 0$ and $E=mc^2$, then $E = 0c^2 = 0$. This would say that photons have no energy, which is not true.
However, given the formula $E = ℎf$, a photon does have energy as ℎ is a constant not zero and photons with a zero frequency do not exist.
What am I missing here, or does the famous formula not apply to photons?


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The chef's latest exploration of seafood spans time, region, and memory.
The chef's latest exploration of seafood spans time, region, and memory.
David LeFevre's sister restaurant to MB Post features a raw bar and sections for "old school," "new school," and "no school" seafood dishes.
Overall, the list feels a little more West Coast savvy than year's past.
Green tea truffles, crawfish, sashimi, bonbons, uni linguine, and poolside cabanas are all available to Angelenos on Valentine's Day.
The chef finds himself having to explain the name of his new restaurant.
The seafood restaurant is going to be called "Fishing With Dynamite."
Highlights include a Dali-inpisred dinner at Ink. and elk dishes at Josie.
Spago's Sherry Yard is the event's head.
The co-owner also explains that he'd do another restaurant with M.B. Post's David LeFevre whenever the chef is ready.
The five-course menu will benefit Common Threads.
David LeFevre tells the magazine about his favorite places to eat, drink, and shop in L.A.
So far, seventeen restaurants (and a few L.A. Kings) are confirmed.
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As early as her second semester at CU-Boulder, Savannah Sellers began to forge her career, not only by being accepted into the journalism program but also by seeking out practical experiences at every turn.
A CU-Boulder Presidential Scholar and an ace student, she'll graduate May 10 with honors and distinction, and head this summer straight to her dream workplace, where she's had a job waiting for her since last fall. Sellers will hold a yearlong position in the NBC Universal Page Program based at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York.
She'll start with work in guest relations, giving NBC Studio Tours, as well as doing audience coordination for Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and the Dr. Oz show. After three months, she'll be eligible to apply for specific assignments. Obsessed with the Today show since she was about eight years old, Sellers hopes for an assignment with the program.
The prestigious page opportunity -- the only of its kind in the media industry -- was established in 1933 and includes alumni Ted Koppel and Regis Philbin. Receiving thousands of applications on a rolling basis, there's only about a two percent acceptance rate for the program to fill a mere 60 available positions at a time. During the program, pages have the opportunity to explore their interests among a variety of media facets, from news and entertainment, to corporate event planning and ad sales. The idea is for the pages to find a good fit during that first year. About 75 percent of the pages are offered permanent positions with NBC Universal.
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Sellers also is completing CU-Boulder's international media certificate program, offered jointly through Journalism and Mass Communication and the international affairs department. The curriculum has added topics like global development; media, culture and globalization; problems in international relations; and American foreign policy to her studies. Having already finished the capstone -- International Media and Global Crises -- this semester she was a grader for the course, checking quizzes and reviewing her peers' annotated bibliographies.
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Let $C$ be a reduced curve in $\mathbb{P}^3$ of degree $d$. Does there exist $d$ points on $C$ such that there exists a $1-$dimensional family of hyperplanes in $\mathbb{P}^3$ passing through these points?
Assume that the curve $C$ is not degenerate and $d \geq 3$. Then, in order to fulfill your assumptions, $C$ must be reducible in $d$ lines, and furthermore each of these lines meets another fixed line $L$.
In fact, suppose that there are $d$ points on $C$ such that there exists a $1$-dimensional family of planes through these points. Since the base locus of a pencil of planes is a line, this means that the $d$ points belong to a line $L$.
Now take a general point on $p \in L$ and project $C$ from $p$ to $\mathbb{P}^2$. The projection is birational, hence we obtain a plane a curve $C'$ of degree $d$ with a point $p'$ of multiplicity $d$. Then $C'$ is necessarily the union of $d$ lines through $p'$. It follows that the curve $C$ is the union of $d$ lines in $\mathbb{P}^3$, and each of these lines is incident to $L$.
EDIT 1. As quid points out there is actually another possibility, namely when $C=L \cup D$, with $D$ any curve of degree $d-1$. In this case the projection from $p \in L$ is not birational, since it contracts $L$.
EDIT 2. As Auniked points out, one cannot assume that the projection is birational. In fact, the complete answer seems to be the following. Either $L$ is a component of $C$ and we are in the situation described in Edit 1, or there exist planes $H_1, \ldots, H_m$ containing $L$ and curves $C_i \subset H_i$ of degree $d_i$ such that $d_1+ \ldots + d_m=d$ and $C=C \cup \ldots \cup C_m$.
My original answer only dealt with the case $m=d$ and $d_1=d_2= \ldots =d_m=1$.
A slightly different way to prove Francesco+auniket's result is as follows. First, given two different planes in the family, all $d$ points must lie in their intersection, which is a line $L$.
Second, every plane intersecting $C$ properly does so in $d$ points (counting multiplicities). So for every plane $H$ through $L$ intersecting $C$ properly, $H\cap C \subset L$. If there is any such plane, then general planes through $L$ intersect $C$ properly. Let $H_1, \dots, H_m$ be the (therefore finitely many) planes through $L$ which meet $C$ nonproperly. Then $C \subset \bigcup H_i$, each $H_i$ contains a component $C_i$ of $C$ of degree $d_i$ which goes through $d_i$ of the $d$ points. If there is no such plane on the other hand, then $L$ is a component of $C$.
Actually, this is projecting from $L$ rather than projecting from a point of $L$.


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quote: The main point being that the traditional methods of implementing internal combustion engines in vehicles is highly inefficient. Historically this is limited by a need to make engines mechanically self-regulating.


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Currently I am using a
UITabBarController in my iPad application in the master view of a
UISplitViewController. However, in my detail view, there is a
UIToolbar, and the
UITabBar looks out of place. Is there any alternative?
Hmm... are you talking about the top or the bottom tab bars in the detailed view?
With the top I would consider removing the "edit" button in the master view.
If you find another way to offer that functionality (which I assume is multi-delete and rearrange), then the top bar might look as "one" unit.
The bottom bar bothers me personally a bit more... I'm gonna ask the same question again - do you really need it? Will you just have one command there? What does "home" do anyway? Or is it just a place holder?
Tab Bars don't behave nice in a split view. But i've done the inverse with great success. A split view for each tab. You can see screenshots of my implementation at TexLege.com
For me, the tab bar is the root, and the split views switch out to contain the primary features of the app...
I generally agree with the other comments - I don't like the 2 edit buttons or the tab bar at the bottom. Having designed a similar UI recently, I ended up changing the tab bar for a toolbar and putting a segmented control inside it.
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Window container set to hidden by default?
Is there a reason that the Window container has the hidden config set to True by default? It seems like it would make more sense to have this set to false as you would mostly want the Window to be visible by default instead of hidden.


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My main difficulty is not laser-printing a large golden image, for example of a wedding ring. But I just can't get small fonts to have a metallic effect. The program I use is Corel Draw. I tried all sorts of metallic gold images and power-clipped to my fonts. The laser-printout shows shades of white, yellow and brown but doesn't look golden. I'm using "white Kraft paper" It's a heavy type of paper with one shiny side. I'd be grateful for any tips.
How can I achieve metallic gold effect? I need to laser-print golden fonts using an OKI C9650 printer
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Akin to what Stan Rogers was referring to: if you are doing a small-run (of 1), with a design that isolates text, you can use a metal foil that is designed to adhere to laser toner. Basically, you place the foil on the already printed text and use an iron to heat it. This remelts the laser printer toner and causes the foil to stick to it. Some cases, you can attache the foil and then pass it through the laser printer as a blank page to use the toner fuser unit to remelt the toner.
Check out "Metallic Heat Transfer Foils". Make sure it is for home/design use, as opposed to offset printing or industrial use.
This ( http://myrockpaperscissors.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/tips-on-using-metallic-heat-transfer-foils/ ) is a random example which may be in line with what you are thinking about.
When using a wax printer such as the OKI, the best you are going to get are values of yellows, siennas, browns, and whites in order to mimic a gold appearance. You will never get an actual gold.
If you post an image of what you have you may get some pointers on gradients and colors to use.


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24 Jul 2007 9:18 PM #1
Toolbar + Menu button in the right top corner & scrolling bars
Ext version: 1.1 RC1 yui
When toolbar with a menu button is positioned in the north pane in the right top corner and the button is clicked, scrollbars appear in IE6 (see attachments)
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This is a known issue way down on the list of priorities. It is on the list though.Jack Slocum
Sencha Co-Founder, Ext JS Founder
Original author of Ext JS 1, 2 & 3.
Twitter: @jackslocum
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I'm having the same issue with Ext 2.2.1. Is this issue still on the list? And so, any ETA or workaround to avoid this annoying problem in IE6.0?


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I noticed while levelling yesterday that in the Kun-Lai Summit region of Pandaria, the Sha of Hatred was wandering around just north of the Eastery Rest.
It seemed to walk around in a large circle, very much like a pre-defined path for the several hours I was in the zone completing quests. In addition to seeing this big hulking monster, it seemed like the rare/champion enemies we ran into while levelling were scattered quite consistently over the landscape, resulting in us getting the 'Can we find more like that?' achievement for killing them all.
This lead me to thinking, are the rare spawns and world boss spawns pre-defined for specific parts of the world, or are they randomly generated, leaving all of my observations down to being the first through the zone with all the spawns up?


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In the usual presentation of Goodstein's theorem, the base is bumped up by the "add 1" function. Does the theorem still hold when we replace this function by a fast-growing one (e.g. Ackermann or busy beaver)? How far can we push this? For example, let's define $g_0(n)$ to be the number of Goodstein iterations needed to reach 0 when we start with base 2 and seed $n$ (so that $g_0(0)$ = 0). Then we can build a hierarchy of functions by defining $g_{k+1}(n)$ as the number of Goodstein iterations needed to reach 0 with seed $n$ and base-bumping function $g_k$ ($k$ = 0, 1, ...), continuing through the ordinals by diagonalization at each limit ordinal. Surely it's got to break down when we go past $\varepsilon_0$, if not long before that!
As long as your fast-growing "base-bumping" function still takes every natural number to a natural number (instead of, say, an infinite ordinal)--and the busy beavers do--the Goodstein iterations are still upper-bounded by the strictly-decreasing sequence of ordinals in "base" $\omega$, which must be of finite length as a decreasing sequence in a well-ordered set.
First, let me say that this is a really great question.
It seems to me that any increasing base-bumping function would give the same Goodstein result that you eventually hit $0$. That is, I claim that for any increasing sequence of bases $b_1$, $b_2$ and so on, if we define the Goodstein sequence by starting with any number $a_1$, and then if $a_n$ is defined, we write it in complete base $b_n$, replace all instances of $b_n$ with $b_{n+1}$, subtract $1$, and call the answer $a_{n+1}$. The theorem would be that at some point $n$ in the construction, we have $a_n=0$.
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Dear all,
let me give the following remark:
"Goodstein actually employed arbitrary increasing base-bumping functions. He showed that the convergence of all such is equivalent to transfinite induction below ϵ0."
This statement has to be taken with care when it comes to weakly increasing base bumping functions. When we reach functions in the neighboorhood of log* then the Goodsteinprocess becomes provable in PRA.
But when we take a fixed iterate of log then of course termination of Goodstein sequences is equivalent to the 1 consistency of PA.
If the base bumping function growth faster than H_epsilon_0 then Goodstein can of course yield more than the 1 consistency of PA.
Best, Andreas
Goodstein actually employed arbitrary increasing base-bumping functions. He showed that the convergence of all such is equivalent to transfinite induction below $\epsilon_0$. This is illustrated somewhat more graphically by the Hercules vs. Hydra game. See the references from my old post [1] of 1995 which helped serve to popularize these topics on (use)net. Curiously that post received far more feedback than any of my other posts - from popular science writers to researchers, teachers and students.
[1] Bill Dubuque, sci.math, Dec 11, 1995. Goedel's theorem: about anything in real world?


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I jammed my ring finger playing keeper in a soccer game last night and it's pretty swollen and discolored. It hurts but I'm pretty sure it's not broken. What is the best way to treat it? Having done this before, I've heard varying recommendations over the years, including
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I am programming 3 combo boxes so that each one feeds off the information from the previous combobox. For example, in the first box they would select a year, then the second combobox would provide specific events for that year and then the third combobox would provide specific maps that are available based on the the first two answers. I know the process is written in the Sub Change() location but I am stuck on how to relate them to each other. Can anyone possibly provide me some sample code for this procedure. Or maybe a website where I can go to learn how to write this kind of code. Any help would be great!!
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So what you want to do is listen to the combobox selected change event and then test for the condition that you want and load the comboboxes of the other comboboxes. This should get you close:


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I, George Kondick, mayor of the city of Weirton, have been deeply touched with the generosity of the citizens, schools and organizations who contributed to the Weirton Cares Program.
Monetary dollars were spent on baby food, diapers, baby wipes and cleaning supplies. To acknowledge everyone would take the remainder of this page. I would like to thank our committee members who participated by sorting clothes, loading trucks and picking up supplies for individuals who gave, but could not get to the drop-off sites.
Additionally, I would like to thank the individuals who donated money, stored supplies and bought supplies, and a special thank you to the individuals who drove to sites in New Jersey and West Virginia to help people in need.
At this time of year, the giving season, our great citizens of Weirton shined again by supporting this cause.
Mayor George J. Kondick
Weirton Cares Committee


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Wolfenstein: The New Order will be out in Europe a few days earlyWritten by: / / 5 Comments
Bethesda Softworks has today announced that Wolfenstein: The New Order will be available a few days earlier than expected in Europe, bringing the game's launch in line with North America.
Originally announced for a May 23rd release in Europe, Wolfenstein: The New Order will now be out on May 20th around the world across Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
If you need to find out more about this action-packed first-person shooter, don't miss El33tonline's past and continued Wolfenstein coverage for loads of screenshots and additional trailers, as well as our E3 2013 hands-on preview and another look at the game from gamescom 2013.
Don't forget that if you pre-order The New Order, you'll gain access to the upcoming beta test for id Software's next DOOM game. There's no way to know when that beta will become available, but at least you'll be ready to get the first peek at what id Software has been working on for the last few years.
Source: Bethesda Blog
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Five Worst Christmas Movies of All Time
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The Ref
This 1994 movie stars Denis Leary, Judy Davis, and Kevin Spacey. With that cast it should have been smart and funny -- but eating a whole fruitcake would be preferable to watching this film. Leary plays a burglar who robs the ritzy Connecticut home of Davis and Spacey. Then he -- and the audience -- has to listen to them bicker and fight with other family members who come home for the holidays. Unless you want to hear two hours of non-witty family dysfunction, this movie is a must-not see.
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