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Doctors: Clinton Should Recover Fully From Clot
Jan. 2, 2013 -- Medical experts say Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is extremely lucky that her medical team found the blood clot they are now treating with blood thinners.
The rare clot in a vein between her brain and skull was discovered during a follow-up exam Sunday, weeks after she reportedly sustained a concussion after a fall in her home during a bout of stomach flu.
The experts agreed that Clinton's clot could have threatened her life if it had been missed during the routine exam.
Where is Secretary Clinton's blood clot exactly?
The clot is in a vein between her brain and skull behind her right ear. The bleeding was reportedly contained within the vein, and there was no bleeding within the brain, which could have led to stroke or brain damage.
So why was the clot so dangerous if left untreated?
If the clot had grown large enough to cause a major blockage of blood, it could have led to serious swelling and even death, says Keith Black, MD, who is head of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
"I think Secretary Clinton is very lucky that this clot was caught early and treated early," he says.
How rare are these blood clots?
Blood clots occurring in the legs are very common, especially among older people, but clots occurring in the head are pretty rare, says Jack Ansell, MD, who chairs the Department of Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Ansell says the clots occur in about 1 in 100,000 people and that women experience them about three times more often than men.
Ansell suspects that Clinton's fall-related head injury along with flu-related dehydration caused her blood clot.
"I would have to assume that if she didn't fall and hit her head this would not have happened," he says.
Secretary Clinton had a previous blood clot in the 1990s. Could the earlier clot be related to the new one?
Both doctors agree that it could. In 1998, when Bill Clinton was in his second term as president, then first lady had a deep vein clot behind her right knee. Some people do have a genetic predisposition to develop blood clots, but it is not publicly known if Hillary Clinton does.


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It's often recommended to 'unplug' - that is to switch off your emails and mobiles ect for a particular amount of time.
While the benifits of doing this socially are obvious, the benifits of doing this during your working time are less clear. I'm interested to find sources that give some discussion of the advantages of time isolated from normal channels/distractions. Can people recommend either sources or examples that have been found to work.

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Pan-fried Clams with Parsley and Garlic
Categories: Entertaining, Low-fat, Quick to fix
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Your family will love these pan-fried clams with parsley and garlic.
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 20M
Serves: Serves 4
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- pinch of sea salt
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1-2 green bell peppers, seeded and finely chopped
- 3/4 cup dry white wine
- 1lb (450g) fresh clams in the shell, well rinsed (see Cook's Notes)
- handful of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
- lemon wedges, for serving
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- Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add the onion and salt, and cook for about 5 minutes until soft. Add the garlic and peppers, and cook gently until the peppers begin to soften. Increase the heat to high, and add the wine. Cook for a couple of minutes until the wine begins to evaporate.
- Add the clams and cook, covered, shaking the pan occasionally, for 5-6 minutes or until the clams open. (Discard any clams that do not open.) Stir in the parsley. Serve hot with fresh crusty bread to sop up the juices, and lemon wedges for squeezing.
- Meat is often paired with seafood in Portuguese cooking. Try adding small cubes of chorizo to this dish, cooking the meat just before you add the clams.
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Fine Printing: Presses
Early and Fine Printing Collection,
Early Printing:Collection and Parish Libraries
Fine Printing:Presses and Illustrated and Miniature Books and Two Birmingham Printers
Private Presses
Earlier private presses such as the Strawberry Hill Press of Horace Walpole (1757 89) and the Hafod Press of Thomas Johnes of Aberystwyth (1803 10) are represented. There is a very good collection of books printed by John Baskerville (1706 75), the amateur printer who lived at Easy Hill, Birmingham and whose first book, an edition of Virgil, "went forth", according to Macaulay "to astonish all the librarians of Europe". Baskerville gained the support of Matthew Boulton of the Soho Manufactory, who was one of its subscribers. He printed his magnificent lectern Bible at Cambridge with special permission from the University who held the patent. There are also several editions of his Book of Common Prayer, some finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled bindings, such as the one by John Baumgarten. The type specimens and prospectuses in the collection are extremely rare - any that appear on the market are snapped up by libraries and collectors.
Kelmscott Press
The Kelmscott Press and William Morris inspired the private press movement in England and abroad at the turn of the century, and the Library has a comprehensive collection of books printed at the Doves Press (including the Bible, 1903-5), the Ashendene Press, the Golden Cockerel Press (including The Four Gospels with wood engravings by Eric Gill, 1931), The Gregynog Press, Essex House Press and others. Amongst them is a set of the books produced at the Birmingham School of Printing under the supervision of Leonard Jay.
Contemporary Private Presses
The Library continues to support the tradition of buying examples of the work of contemporary private presses in the UK. The Old Stile Press, run by Nicholas and Frances McDowell, matches literary texts with imaginative illustrations. The Whittington Press is owned by the Randles who escaped the mainstream publishing scene for hand printing on historic presses. The Rampant Lions Press was founded by Will Carter, and later run by his son Sebastian, both typographic designers. The Fleece Press of Simon Lawrence is known especially for its wood engravings. Find out about other private presses of the UK.
In the USA, there are examples of the publications of the Ariel Press, the Bird and Bull Press, the Janus Press of the artist Claire van Vliet, the Pennyroyal Press and others. There are also small collections of French, German and Italian fine printing.
The Library is fortunate to include in the collection works by both Bill Pardoe and David Wishart, two Birmingham Printers, who have both sadly died in the last few years.
Image: Lens of Crystal, Poems by Robin Skelton, images by Sara Philpott. Reproduced with kind permission, Old Stile Press.
Recent Acquisitions include Avocet to Zander by Anne Cathcart, one of the highly commended entries for the Clarion/Fine Press Association Competition for alphabet books. Weaving and Interlocking Book Structures from the Janus Press, and Inwards where all the battles is by Alun Lewis printed at Gwasg Gregynog. There are two miniature books from the Old Stile Press, Be still and Psalm 150. A collection of pamphlets and ephemera printed by F.E.Pardoe have been added since his death in 2002. He will be much missed
In 2005 the library purchased for the collection The bricks of Venice by Peter Harris, printed at the Old School Press in a limited edition of 150 copies of a volume of text and a box of watercolour plates.
For details see www.theoldschoolpress.com
Ridler Collection
The William Ridler Collection of Fine Printing was deposited on loan from Dr Ann Ridler in Birmingham Central Library in 1988, and is shelved in glass fronted cases on Floor 6.
It contains about 3,500 finely printed and illustrated books, dating from the beginnings of the private press movement in the 1890s to the 1970s, and complements the Library own collections.
The illustration on the right is from The Tale of Igor, published by the Beaumont Press in 1918.
The Ridler Collection has its own printed catalogue.
Please note We are not responsible for the content of other organisations' websites.
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Although for the purposes of definition
a clear separation can be made between life and non-life, in truth
the distinction is less clear. Viruses, for example, are a problematic
group of structures composed of the same organic molecules (proteins
and nucleic acids) that typify living organisms and, in many ways
viruses also behave like living organisms, but they cannot reproduce
without using parts of the genetic machinery from another life form.
In this technical sense, viruses are not alive. Nonetheless, most
biologists consider viruses to be specialized, parasitic life forms
that have secondarily lost the ability to reproduce independently.
All other life on Earth fulfills the basic
definitions set forth above. Living organisms are composed of at
least one cell, often referred to as the "building block"
of life. Cells are self-contained engines of life, capable of interacting
with the outside world, ingesting food and generating energy from
it, and reproducing. Cells are mostly watery protoplasm, which is
enclosed within an external cell membrane. The basic functions of
the cell are performed by specialized molecules or by whole structures
called organelles. Organelles are the "organs" of the
cell, and they work in such roles as protein synthesis, food digestion,
and energy storage.
The most specialized organelle is the
nucleus. Present only in the cells of certain organisms (eukaryotes),
the nucleus is often called the "control center" of
the cell. It contains the genetic material of the cell, and therefore
the code by which all processes in the cell are regulated. In cells
without a nucleus (prokaryotes), this genetic material is dispersed
throughout the protoplasm.
The genetic code is written in the form
of DNA and RNA, molecules found only in living cells. These extraordinarily
long molecules are usually tightly coiled into chromosomes, which
vary in number depending on the species. The genetic code controls
both the way an organism develops and its ultimate external and
internal appearance. Through the genes, the nucleus also controls
much of the cell's physiology—its biochemical functions.
The most primitive life forms are single-celled cyanobacteria, archaebacteria,
and true bacteria. These organisms lack a nucleus and are described
as prokaryotic. The specialized energy-producing organelles (chloroplasts
and mitochondria) of eukaryotes are thought to have first appeared
through early symbiotic relationships between primitive prokaryotic
organisms. In these instances, the organelles were once free-living
organisms that were absorbed into other cells where they carried
out specialized functions. Single-celled organisms usually reproduce
asexually, through the process of mitosis, or cell-splitting. Occasionally
they may also engage in conjugation, which allows genetic material
to be shared between different individuals.
Eukaryotes are highly diverse and the
great majority of them are multicellular forms rather than single
celled. Multicellular life forms are capable of great structural
diversity because they can specialize in ways unavailable to single-celled
organisms. In single celled organisms all biological processes are
carried out within that one cell. This cell is limited in size and
design because, through evolution, it must make structural and physiological
"compromises" to carry out all its functions. In multicellular
organisms, however, cells can specialize for certain tasks, permitting
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sum of the parts. Such organisms tend to have organs (such as a
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to perform all functions. Rather, as long as the function takes
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of the structural limits on cell size that thus limit the size of
a single-celled organism no longer apply to multicellular organisms,
which can grow to enormous size.
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allowing the exchange of genetic material. Offspring thus contain
genetic information from both parents. Because multicellular organisms
have specialized parts, they must undergo a process of development
in order to permit orderly growth from the initial, single-celled
zygote, through the multicelled but mostly cellularly unspecialized
embryo, into a complex multicellular adult. This process of ontogeny
allows the initial cell to divide into thousands of new cells, which
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Men's Nike Oregon Ducks NCAA State T-Shirt
Ducks pride comes through in head-turning detail in the Nike Oregon Ducks NCAA State T-Shirt. The geography-inspired graphic puts your school allegiance on the map, and soft cotton offers a gentle touch. Ideal for the hard-core fan, this favorite tee is bound to become a game-day must.


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Yes, I am a noob at all this so please excuse my ignorance! So, for the past couple of days, I've been searching for a drop down page menu widget, but I would like to have the pages separated into "labeled" catagories. I don't have pages that require any hierarchy, so I don't have or want a parent page to catagorize by. Basically, I want to be able to enter a label/title for the group that will show on the menu and when you click or hover on the label, the pages designated to that label will drop down. I noticed you can catagorize posts and links, but not pages. Does such a widget exist??
Such a widget does not exist. You say you don't want to use parents, but that is my advise. Then just make a menu for it. If you know how you could make it yourself. A plus of this would be that you get the 'category name' of the parent in your permalink.
An other idea would be to create a custom post type and enable categories there. It would be better organized. Still the menu would be best coded yourself using wp_query


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Hello Ninja Users,
I shoot with a Nikon D2X and 360 Precision heads, but recently have decided to attempt making panoramas with a more portable set up for those awkward situations. So I've invested in a Nodal Ninja 3 Mk II to use with my portable camera of choice, the Ricoh GR Digital II - with the GW-1 wide converter making it into a 21mm lens. I've spent my first afternoon trying to locate the NNP and think I'm just about there. A few more tests to go yet. Just wondered whether anyone else is using this set-up? Maybe you have some alignment marks? Maybe you want mine?
Must admit, my first reaction is that it feels like going back to all the messing about I had with the old Manfrotto. 360Precision does spoil you. But, I bought it for its compact size and you can't have it all.


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I am beggining to do some work with cubical sets and thought that I should have an understanding of various extra structures that one may put on cubical sets (for purposes of this question, connections). I know that cubical sets behave more nicely when one has an extra set of degeneracies called connections. The question is: Why these particular relations? Why do they show up? Precise references would be greatly appreciated.
A list of precise references for connections on cubical sets has to start with :
R. Brown, P. J. Higgins and R. Sivera, 2011, Nonabelian Algebraic Topology: Filtered spaces, crossed complexes, cubical homotopy groupoids , volume 15 of EMS Monographs in Mathematics , European Mathematical Society.
as in there Brown, Higgins and Sivera have written out and explored the theory in detail. There are several introductory sections on connections both in double categories and in cubical sets. The intuitions come back to the structure of the singular cubical complex of a space in which there are cubes that are degenerate in an intuitive sense but are not of the 'constant in direction $i$' type. The typical example is a square with two adjacent sides constant and the other two copies of the same path. (I cannot draw it here!)
Ronnie Brown has numerous introductory articles on his website and I will give you a link to the handout for a talk on higher dimensional group theory in which there is some discussion of the connections from a group theoretic viewpoint.(http://groupoids.org.uk/pdffiles/liverpool-beamer-handout.pdf) The discussion is fairly far near the end, so have a look for diagrams with cubes and hieroglyphic pictures!
The point made there is that if you want to say that the top face of a cube is the composite of its other faces, then on expanding the cube as a cross shape collection of five squares, there will be holes to fill in the corners, but connection squares are just the right form to fill them. (It is worth roaming around on Ronnie Browns site including http://groupoids.org.uk/brownpr.html, as there are several other chatty papers and Beamer presentations that may help.)
You can go back to the original Brown-Higgins papers, but as they have been used as the base for the new book, they may not give you anything extra.
The point I want to make was that the notion of connection on cubical set was forced on us in the following way.
Go back to
[21]. (with C.B. SPENCER), ``Double groupoids and crossed modules'', Cah. Top. G\'{e}om. Diff. 17 (1976) 343-362.
The problem we started with in 1971 was: since double groupoids were putative codomains for a 2-d van Kampen type theorem, were there interesting examples of double groupoids?
We easily found functors
(1) (double groupoids) $\to $ (crossed modules)
We eventually found a functor
(2) (crossed modules) $\to$ (double groupoids)
which nicely tied in double groupoids with classical ideas, but which double groupoids arose in this way? A concurrent question was: what is a commutative cube in a double groupoid? (An answer was needed for the conjectured proof of the 2-d vKT.)
It was great that both questions were resolved with the notion of connection! (our first perhaps rambling exposition was turned down by JPAA as a result of negative referee reports, and because the 2-d van Kampen theorem, an explicit aim, was not yet achieved). As explained in [21] the transport law was borrowed from a paper of Virsik on path connections, hence the name `connection', see also [21] for a general definition.
It was not too hard to formulate the higher dimensional laws on connections, since they involved the monoid structure max in the unit interval, but the verification of the equivalence corresponding to (2) was carried out by Philip Higgins, (phew!), stated in
[22]. (with P.J. HIGGINS), ``Sur les complexes crois\'es, $\omega$-groupo\"{\i}des et T-complexes'', C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris S\'er. A. 285 (1977) 997-999.
and published in
[31]. (with P.J. HIGGINS), ``On the algebra of cubes'', J. Pure Appl. Algebra 21 (1981) 233-260.
I hope the early pages of the book partially titled Nonabelian Algebraic Topology (EMS Tract vol 15, 2011) (pdf with hyperref downloadable from my web site, with permission of EMS) will help to explain the background. Look at particularly the notion of algebraic inverse to subdivision, which necessitated the cubical approach.
Another relevant paper is
Higgins, P.J. Thin elements and commutative shells in cubical $\omega$-categories. Theory Appl. Categ. 14 (2005) No. 4, 60--74.
A very concrete instance where you can see the meaning and usefulness of connections is this article by Brown and Mosa: They show that double categories (which do have an underlying (truncated) cubical set) with connections are the same as (globular) 2-categories.
The reason is that the connection allows to fold the four different edges of a 2-cell in the cubical double category structure into just two edges, leaving degenerate edges at the other sides, and this can as well be captured in the data of a globular 2-category where 2-cells have just one source and one target 1-cell - see the definition of he folding map right before Proposition 5.1 in the above article.
As far as higher cubical categories are concerned, a connection will allow you to literally rotate a face, i.e. turn a face of one type into a face of another type, in an invertible way. In short it materializes an equivalence between the different types of faces into special degenerate cubes.
The 2d case for example is fairly simple as one can either turn horizontal arrows into vertical arrows or vice versa.
One advantage of a connection is therefore that it allows one to speak of commutative n-cubes in an n-tuple category with connection. To do so, you can take an n-cube, apply connections until you only have non trivial faces of one type. Then check whether the obtained cube is an identity or not. It turns out that it does not depend on the way you chose to apply the connection, if your cube gives an identity cube with one face rearrangement, it will with another. It is, to my understanding the essence of Brown and AlAlg's equivalence between cubical categories with connections and globular categories.
So for cubical categories it is very restrictive, which is also why they are so friendly. But I am not sure about the impact on cubical sets. You surely will find good material in Tim and Ronnie's references.


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lol, so this Chinese company makes an iPhone 5 lookalike and threatens to sue Apple if it releases the iPhone 5 in China. This should be good.
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In Windows XP I create my
test.tex in emacs and then run it in the cmd promt as
pdflatex test.tex in the corresponding directory, and it works without a problem. However, in Windows 7 doing the same thing I need to use the full file path in the cmd promt
pdflatex "...dir/test.tex" and then it runs but stops because it can't find the
test.aux file, probably since the program looks for it in the current directory where the
test.tex file is located.
How can one do this in Windows 7?


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Hot Sheet: Pease On Middle Earth
10. EVENT: Comedian Jordan Pease, December 13
Right before he heads off for his Young, Hot & Gay tour of the wintery midwest, gay comic Jordan Pease will perform Friday night in Los Angeles. Whether he's waxing poetic about the Golden State's lenient stance on drugs, or adopting children essentially as a fashion statement, Pease is guaranteed to crack you up. TheJordanPease.com for dates. —Michelle Garcia
9. DANCE: Streb at S.L.A.M. FORCES — The Story of Action
Butcher and grittier than Cirque du Soliel, Elizabeth Strebs's choreography is like an S&M Rube Goldberg obstacle course. Streb's concepts about gender and class inform her work, and you'd better have some street smarts if you want to dance in her company, as you will need to watch your back for swinging metal girders and other implements of doom. Streb and her Extreme Action Company give the show FORCES big ideas, big hardware, and big muscles in a show for the whole family. November 8 through December 22 in Brookyln. Find tickets and more information here. —Christopher Harrity
8. EVENT: Seattle Men's Chorus Heads to Casablanca, through December 22
As long as you love Christmas music or the classic film Casablanca, you should check out the Seattle Men's Chorus's 34th season opener, "Play It Again, Santa." The chorus does not disappoint, with a full-on show of singing, acting — and farce, of course. And if all that laughing and smiling isn't enough for you, you can also fulfill your do-gooder desire by donating to the Lifelong AIDS Alliance for a holiday food dive, to help stock the organization's Chicken Soup Pantry (only at Benaroya Hall performances). Click SeattleMensChorus.org for dates. —Michelle Garcia
7. THEATER: Leslie Jordan: Show Pony
The Emmy-winning gay actor (Will & Grace, Sordid Lives, The Help) delivers tales of his life, ranging from hilarious to poignant, in his latest one-man show. The limited engagement at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre opened last night and runs just through Sunday, so don't delay — get your tickets here. —Trudy Ring
6. DVD: The Sound of Music Live!
It was only a week ago that NBC aired the three-hour live production of the Broadway classic The Sound of Music, but it was such a ratings smash that the DVD rolls out Tuesday (in time for the holidays, of course). Starring American Idol winner and country darling Carrie Underwood — in a performance that received mixed reviews, especially for her acting — The Sound of Music Live! was produced by the gay power team of Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, and also stars Stephen Moyer, who you'll recognize as brooding vampire Bill Compton on True Blood. Find the DVD on Amazon. — Neal Broverman
5. THEATER: Feliz Navi Diva
Drag star and Tupperware sales champ Kay Sedia presents an evening of holiday-themed music and comedy, three nights only, next Tuesday through Thursday at the Cavern Club Theater at Casita del Campo restaurant in Los Angeles. There will be two shows per night, with a guest star at each performance; Natalie Lander (The Middle) is scheduled to appear at Wednesday's 9:30 p.m. show. Check here for tickets and more info. — Trudy Ring
4. FILM: Saving Mr. Banks
In Saving Mr. Banks, Disney delves into the making of one of its most iconic films, Mary Poppins, which, apparently, was almost never made. Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) had courted the creator of the original book, bisexual novelist P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), for years, in order to obtain the rights to the story that had captivated his daughters during their childhood. The film depicts the power struggle between smooth-talking Disney and the reluctant Travers, whose own childhood, involving an alcoholic father (Colin Farrell) and an intervening aunt, serve as the real-life inspiration for the tale. With strong leading performances from both Hanks and Thompson, the film also features many of the original songs from Mary Poppins, which may have viewers singing in their seats to one of the holiday season's most magical films. Saving Mr. Banks opens in theaters this weekend. Watch the trailer below. — Daniel Reynolds
3. EVENT: This Ain't Your Grandma's Craft Fair, December 14-15
Forget the mall, head on down to Bust magazine's annual Craftacular & Food Fair in Chelsea's Metropolitan Pavilion for your holiday needs. Don't know what to get your younger, hipper sister, or your owl-loving best friend? Stock up on indie gifts while giving a boost to 200 local crafty business owners and innovative chefs, as DJs spin in the background. —Michelle Garcia
2. MUSIC: "Cannonball" by Lea Michele
The Glee star and Broadway phenom is now taking a stab at a pop career: her first single, "Cannonball," was released this week (and is part of her first album Louder, out in February). Michele is strong and determined on the track, which sounds like a testament to moving on after the death of her boyfriend and Glee co-star Cory Monteith. — Neal Broverman
1. FILM: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Make your holidays gay by viewing the The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which features performances from gay and bisexual actors Luke Evans, Lee Pace, and Stephen Fry. That's not to mention the out Sir Ian McKellan, whose reprised performance as wizard Gandalf the Grey is a welcome guide back through the fantastical world of Middle Earth. Critics have praised the second installment of The Hobbit trilogy, in which Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) resumes his quest alongside 13 dwarves to reclaim a lost kingdom, as a thrilling continuation of the series that is marked by strong storytelling and a fierce dragon voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, directed by Peter Jackson, opens in theaters this weekend. Watch the trailer below.— Daniel Reynolds


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Yuan Investors Skirt PBOC Limits
SHANGHAI—Chinese investors are finding new ways to express optimism about the yuan despite Beijing's tight controls, the latest indication of the increasing divergence between the market and authorities on where they think the Chinese currency should be trading.
Some investors are trying to profit off trades of once little-used short-term yuan forward contracts that effectively allow them to go beyond yuan trading limits set by the People's Bank of China, according to traders who watch China's onshore yuan market. Others are looking at currency pairs other than the yuan-dollar combination, which faces looser limits than yuan trades against currencies like the euro and the yen.
The trading comes as investors are already pushing the yuan to the strongest point allowed by the daily-trading limits set by the central bank, in defiance of its efforts in recent weeks to keep the currency steady against the U.S. dollar. The pressure indicates investors believe the yuan should be stronger than the central bank will allow it to go, amid signs that China's economic growth is picking up again after a lull.
The trades suggest that many yuan sellers are only dealing when prices are higher than those set by the PBOC—and are finding willing buyers, many of them from the corporate world, according to traders. It is a fresh reminder of the challenges faced by Beijing in honoring its long-standing pledge to grant market forces a bigger role in determining the yuan's value.
The PBOC sets a daily rate, called the parity rate, at which the yuan trades onshore versus the dollars. The yuan is then allowed to move 1% in either direction during daily trading. Investors have pushed the yuan to the upper limit of the trading band in 19 of the past 22 sessions starting from Oct. 25, indicating a desire for faster appreciation.
But the yuan is up only 0.4% versus the dollar over the same period, as the PBOC continues to set a relatively steady parity rate. The yuan on Monday finished at 6.2255 to the dollar, again hitting the upper limit.
The restrictions have drawn interest to one-day-long dollar-yuan forwards, which are settled three days after they are sold rather than the two days required to settle on the spot market. The freely traded forward market enables traders to strike deals on yuan at prices higher than the spot exchange rate.
China's central bank releases little in the way of detailed trading data, and the size of such trades is unclear. Traders say that although they see a clear pickup in such trades recently, volumes of these and other alternative trades are smaller than what the spot market sees on a typical day.
"Because the recent dollar selling interest has been very strong, people have started to get around the spot market, which is confined by the 1% band, via the forward market," said Raymond Lo, head of trading at Hang Seng Bank (China) Ltd., adding that such alternative trading solutions are within regulations.
On Monday, the one-day dollar-yuan forward contract was quoted at 6.2240 when the yuan hit the 1% upper limit in the morning, said a Shanghai-based foreign bank trader. That put it 1.03% higher than the day's parity rate, according to Wall Street Journal calculations.
"The one-day forward market was especially active in mid-November, when the yuan had hit the band limit for a while and the market was very confused about where it's going," said Zhao Pengyong, a trader with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., who is a participant of the one-day forward market.
Those willing to pay a premium for yuan are corporate buyers facing lower liquidity in the onshore market and a need for yuan, traders say.
Another alternative route that traders have taken to unload their dollars is to use the exchange rates between the yuan and other nondollar currencies, like the euro, yen and even the Hong Kong dollar, all of which enjoy a much wider trading band, to indirectly achieve conversion between the Chinese and U.S. currencies.
Traders said unless the PBOC changes its tactic and allow the market to more freely express its more bullish views on the yuan, the currency will frequently hit its daily upper limit, which could force even more investors to look for similar alternative solutions.
Dennis Tan, a foreign-exchange strategist with Deutsche Bank, DB 1.43 % said he expects the yuan to have a slower pace of appreciation in the next three to six months as domestic inflation will likely stay at low levels.
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The problem is my CSS still seems to be cached. I edit my theme's default style.css and it still loads the old version no mater what I do. I've cleaned my cache for however many times. And even if you access the css file right from the browser it still gives you the old version (taking a look at it via FTP will show the right version).
What the hell is going on? To me it looks like minify is creeping somewhere in my WP installation and delivering the old cached CSS.
Could you guys point out where should I look?
I've changed the theme folder name and the issue has gone, which kinda prove there's some minify remains messing up with my code.
I'd still like to get rid of it if someone can help
So, this is seriously driving me nuts now. Despite what I've said the issue persisted. So I've decided to DELET IT ALL and start from zero.
I've cleaned the database and the files. Installed a fresh WP install. Restored the database and only the uploads WP folder.
And guess what? The issue is still there. Is that an indication it's in the DB?


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Bogdan, a long-time member of Monk's vocal ensemble, received a Fulbright Grant in 2003 to teach the work to a Hungarian ensemble in Budapest, and will travel to Brazil this upcoming January to teach it to students at the University of Sao Paulo.
One of the few people in the world who has taught Monk's spiritually inspired piece, Bogdan also teaches it as a performance course at Bennington. Originally performed by 12 members of Monk's Vocal ensemble, A Celebration Service will be performed by forty Bennington students, as well as faculty members Susan Sgorbati and Kirk Jackson, with collaborative assistance from Terry Creach, Danny Michaelson, and Michael Giannitti, in Greenwall Auditorium on Friday, December 3, and Saturday, December 4, at 8:00 pm.


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A man has been charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer after he allegedly pulled a knife on a Leavenworth police officer over the weekend, according to prosecution and police officials.
Harold Snell III, 34, appeared Monday in Leavenworth County District Court and was advised of the charges against him.
He's charged with aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer, possession of methamphetamine and obstruction of a legal process.
The crimes are alleged to have occurred Saturday. Leavenworth Deputy Police Chief Dan Nicodemus said an officer had located Snell in the 1200 block of Olive Street. The officer believed Snell had existing warrants through Leavenworth Municipal Court and Leavenworth County District Court.
Snell went into a residence. The officer was waiting for someone else to arrive as backup when Snell reportedly ran out the back door.
"The officer gave chase on foot," Nicodemus said.
Nicodemus said the officer chased Snell through several yards and over fences. He said the officer eventually caught the suspect.
The officer, who's identified in a court document as Steve Brandau, was trying to subdue Snell when the suspect allegedly pulled a knife. The officer was able to subdue Snell but suffered a cut to his right hand and had to have stitches, according to Nicodemus.
Nicodemus said suspected methamphetamine was found on Snell as he was searched.
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I'm thinking to use EAV for some of the stuff in one of the projects, but all questions about it in stackoverflow end up to answers calling EAV an anti pattern.
But I'm wondering, if is it that wrong in all cases?
Let's say shop product entity, it has common features, like name, description, image, price, etc., that take part in logic many places and has (semi)unique features, like watch and beach ball would be described by completely different aspects. So I think EAV would fit for storing those (semi)unique features?
All this is assuming, that for showing product list, it is enough info in product table (that means no EAV is involved) and just when showing one product/comparing up to 5 products/etc. data saved using EAV is used.
I've seen such approach in Magento commerce and it is quite popular, so may be there are cases, when EAV is reasonable?


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I'm trying to create a custom web part that consumes from an OOTB list view web part's "Send Row of Data To" producer. The list has a lookup field to another list, and I need that value (the associated item in that other list) as a parameter in my custom web part.
Resources I've looked through:
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms469765.aspx
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff597538.aspx
- http://www.sharepointoverflow.com/questions/6322/which-approach-to-use-for-connectable-web-parts
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.webpartpages.communication.irowprovider.aspx
What provider interface does the OOTB list view web part use?
IRowProvider looked like a candidate, but it's listed as obsolete.
Hopefully, once I know what interface is being used, I can find the api and figure out how to drill into the row's data.
side note: Does anyone know where I can find the api for the OOTB list view web part? Perhaps it's documented in there? So far, I've only found this and this, and they haven't been helpful.


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If a mod could fix the picture, that would be great! The new pictures weren't available yet. Thanks!
If you haven't tried out Cogs yet, it's definitely a keeper!
Madden NFL 12!?! yes, please
@justfsu: Looks good, but it's got loads of bad reviews... probably still worth it for $.25
Just got Perry (my 3 and 6 year old have been playing the free one for weeks) and Cogs.
Works out of USA too. Awesome.
I'm losing all my lunch money with these sales. Gotta go beat up some nerds. BRB.
Man, I don't see the Madden... but I see everything else.
@bigshayne: Means your device isn't compatible with Madden NFL 12. It's a pretty graphical game, so older phones might not be able to run it.
@bigshayne: Madden: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ea.game.madden12_na&feature=apps_promotion_celebrate_25_billion#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLG51bGwsImNvbS5lYS5nYW1lLm1hZGRlbjEyX25hIl0.
Maybe if it's not compatible with your device it doesn't show up? I've had that problem before.
@luvche21: i bought it on your recommendation! hope to play it tomorrow!
hmmm madden looks bad and got some terrible reviews. does it have a season mode on this app?
@justfsu: Madden 12 is craptacular. It wasn't worth the 25 cents.
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Suppose that after submitting a paper for publication, but before hearing anything back from the referee, I discover an error in the paper that needs to be corrected, or an omission that needs to be rectified. What is the best course of action? Should I send a revised version to the editor to forward to the referee, explaining exactly what I have changed? Or wait to hear back from the referee and then include the fixes in my next version along with whatever other changes the referee suggests (again explaining them to the editor)?
I think Angelo is right in broad strokes. For minor errors it's annoying to bother the editor and the referee. But if it's something that the referee might end up wasting hours on then correcting it pre-emptively makes sense. Here are some examples of things that I'd wait or not on for concreteness. I'd love to hear from people with more knowledge/experience about whether this is vaguely the right place to draw the line.
Wait when:
Contact immediately when:
If the error is trivial and you think the referee will overlook it (missing factor of 2, etc), you could wait. If the error is obvious and you think the referee will see it at once, (you forgot to say the manifold is assumed to be compact, and the theorem obviously fails for $\mathbb{R}^n$), you could wait. Otherwise, as a referee, I'd rather know about it. I tend to read papers very carefully and sometimes spend a lot of time deciding whether some obscurity is due to an error or my own ignorance (I'm a younger mathematician and will probably outgrow this eventually :) A constant stream of corrections would be annoying, but one significant one can be appreciated.
If the error will require major revisions or seriously weaken the result, I'd say notify for sure. If you aren't yet sure of the fix and think you might need to withdraw the paper, notify for sure, so the referee needn't waste time reading it in the meantime.
I somewhat disagree with the answers given so far. There are great differences among mathematicians (at the cultural level, and also at the individual level) in their attitude to errors in written work. Some people -- dare I mention continental Europeans? -- are really distressed by coming across a false statement in a paper. It makes them think that the author is at best "sloppy"; worse, there is the risk that an error that looks silly to you may cause the referee to lose confidence in your work.
Also remember that you know what you meant 100 times more than anyone else, and someone who is struggling to understand an argument which is new to them may not be so willing to correct a trivial error. In the intermediate level graduate course I am teaching now I am writing up all of my own notes and my own exercises. Several students in my class write to me periodically to point out trivial errors in my notes: e.g. missing "not"s and such things. Indeed, I encourage them to do so, because I know that these errors still give my students some trouble: their guesses at what I meant to say are usually correct, but they lack conviction and are thus somewhat nervous that they are misinterpreting something.
So I would say that if you discover that you have made an error in your paper -- again, I mean an incorrect mathematical statement, not a missing citation or a piece of exposition that you have found is more obscure than you wanted -- then you should contact the editor promptly. If it is easy to correct the error, do so, and enclose the new version of the paper and/or link to your homepage. The editor and the referee can decide what is truly minor.
Of course, when you contact the editor to say that you have corrected something and made a new version, it's a great time to recheck the rest of the paper. Sending one or two such "author generated revisions" on a given paper is (in my opinion, of course) being a diligent author. More than that really does risk annoying and eroding the confidence of the editor and referee.
Addendum: I see from the comments that Kevin Buzzard has expressed the opposite opinion, and he -- unlike me -- is an editor (although I have been a referee many times over and do not mind receiving an unsolicited revision). So now I'm thinking that the correct answer may depend upon the editor, and that there is no one best policy.
If the error is substantial, I would send a revised version immediately, for obvious reasons. Otherwise just wait.
This is a slightly silly comment, but I'll explain why I think it's worth making.
The best answer, of course, is don't make mistakes!
Of course, we're all human (and, ahem, it's not like I haven't had to correct papers which have already been published). However, I continue to be amazed by how sloppy some papers are which come to me as a referee. These are often by serious, established mathematicians. But I'm talking about people managing to cite their own work incorrectly (or get a definition, which they invented, wrong), or major, paper-breaking errors which I, as the referee, spot almost immediately. I can only imagine that people, once they have proved a result, almost fall over themselves to write it up and send it off. I'm young, and relatively patient, but I imagine that this behaviour is a good way to get rejected out of hand (even if the, corrected, paper is quite nice).
To answer the original question: as a referee, I would prefer corrections, but I would agree with Pete Clark that this would make me lose faith in the author(s). If I were an editor: I don't know...
I second the answers that have already been given, but you might also consider updating the paper wherever it appears on the internet (your website, the arxiv). The referee(s) might not have started looking at your paper yet, and when they do, there's a decent chance that they'll download the paper from the arxiv or your website rather than looking at the copy that was actually sent to them by the journal.
(This comes from experience. I once had a paper where the referee ended up reading a version that wasn't quite final. I had caught some typos between putting the paper on the arxiv and sending to the journal; but the referee read the arxiv version, so the typos got caught again. This I think one can live with -- I wouldn't update an arxiv submission just to fix typos until the final version -- but if the changes were serious I think it would have been worthwhile.)


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Black holes have so much gravity that even light can't escape from them. If we can't see them, and the suck up all electromagnetic radiation, then how can we find them?
To add to John Conde's answer. According to the NASA web page "Black Holes", detection of black holes can obviously not be performed by detection any form of electromagnetic radiation coming directly from it (hence, can not be 'seen').
The black hole is inferred by observing the interaction with surrounding matter, from the webpage:
This also includes detection of x-ray radiation that radiates from matter accelerating towards the black hole. Although this seems contradictory to my first paragraph - it needs to be noted that this is not directly from the black hole, rather from the interaction with matter accelerating towards it.
There are many, many ways of doing this.
Gravitational lensing
This is by far the most well known. It has been mentioned by the others, but I'll touch on it.
Light coming from distant bodies can be bent by gravity, creating a lens-like effect. This can lead to multiple or distorted images of the object (Multiple images give rise to Einstein rings and crosses).
So, if we observe a lensing effect in a region where there isn't any visible massive body, there's probably a black hole there. The alternative is that we are peering through the dark matter 'halo' which surrounds (and extends passed) the luminous components of every galaxy and galaxy cluster (See: Bullet Cluster). On small enough scales (i.e. - the central regions of galaxies), this is not really an issue.
(This is an artist's impression of a galaxy passing behind a BH)
Gravitational waves
Spinning black holes and other dynamical systems involving black holes emit gravitational waves. Projects like LIGO (and eventually, LISA) are able to detect these waves. One major candidate of interest for LIGO/VIRGO/LISA is the eventual collision of a binary black hole system.
Sometimes we have a black hole in a binary system with a star. In such a case, the star will orbit the common barycenter.
If we observe the star carefully, its light will be redshifted when it is moving away from us, and blueshifted when it is coming towards us. The variation in redshift suggests rotation, and in the absence of a visible second body, we can usually conclude that there's a black hole or neutron star there.
Salpeter-Zel'dovitch / Zel'dovitch-Novikov proposals
Going in to a bit of history here, Salpeter and Zel'dovitch independently proposed that we can identify black holes from shock waves in gas clouds. If a black hole passes a gas cloud, the gases in the cloud will be forced to accelerate. This will emit radiation (X-rays, mostly), which we can measure.
An improvement on this is the Zel'dovitch-Novikov proposal, which looks at black holes in a binary system with a star. Part of the solar winds from the star will be sucked in to the black hole. This abnormal acceleration of the winds will, again, lead to X-ray shock waves.
This method (more or less) led to the discovery of Cyg X-1
Cosmic gyroscopes
Cyg A is an example of this. Spinning black holes act like cosmic gyroscopes — they do not easily change their orientation.
In the following radio image of Cyg A, we see these faint gas jets emanating from the central spot:
These jets are hundreds of thousands of light years long — yet they are very straight. Discontinuous, but straight. Whatever object lies at the center, it must be able to maintain its orientation for very long.
That object is a spinning black hole.
Most quasars are thought to be powered by black holes. Many (if not all) of the candidate explanations for their behavior involve black holes with accretion disks, e.g. the Blandford-Znajek process.
A black hole can also be detected by how it bends light as various bodies move behind it. This phenomenon is called gravitational lensing, and is the most visually stunning prediction of Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
This image portrays the geometry of gravitational lensing. Light from luminous background objects are bent due to the warping of space-time in the presence of mass (here, the red dot could conceivably be the black hole in question):
Astronomers have discovered the existence of a super-massive black hole at the center of our very own Milky Way Galaxy, and has been dubbed Sagittarius A*.
Over a period of ten years, the trajectories of a small group of stars have been tracked, and the only explanation for their rapid movement is the existence of a highly compact object with the mass of about 4 million suns. Given the mass and distance scales involved, the conclusion is that it must be a black hole.
One way is by following Gamma Ray Bursts. When a black hole feeds on surrounding gas or swallows a star that got too close, they often emit gamma ray bursts which are very energetic and easy to spot (although they don't last long).
In the case of super massive blackholes, they are seemingly at the center of every medium and large galaxy. It makes where to look rather easy.
All 4 answers given prior to this one are very good and complete each other; finding an object orbiting your target object enables you to also calculate the mass of your target object.
Matter falling into a black hole is accelerated toward light speed. As it is accelerated, the matter breaks down into subatomic particles and hard radiation, that is, X-rays and gamma rays. A black hole itself is not visible, but the light (mostly X-rays, gamma rays) from infalling matter that is accelerated and broken up into particles is visible.
By looking toward the center of our galaxy, the Chandra X-ray space telescope has observed several black holes besides Sgr A*, indirectly, by catching the hard radiation of infalling matter flaring up as they swallow something; afterward, the black holes go dark again if there is nothing more to assimilate nearby;
Here you can see some of this flaring in the swarm of black holes near the center of our galaxy.
Methods to detect black holes (which are not really holes or singularities, as they do have mass, radius, rotation, charge and hence density, which varies with radius, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius ).
But there will be nothing left to see what caused it; better have some observations of that spot in the sky before it happens.
Another thing to point out is that these observational methods typically set a density limit on the invisible object such that the only thing that would reasonably explain it would be a black hole.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and Senate Republicans sorted through stubborn disputes over taxing the wealthy and cutting the budget to pay for Democratic spending proposals as Monday's midnight......
Bipartisanship sounds like a good idea until you realize the Republican party's only objective is to destroy the remaining middle class.
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BCF. As a nation, we must set priorities as you have stated in your opinion. that is fair and reasonable. However, we must look at the actually dollars spent in each area and determine if the cuts will truly make a difference. Many are symbolic and do not make any impact on the actual spending issue. It is important though to have sacrifice from our political leaders. When the time comes and the government cannot borrow or interest rates are substantially higher to borrow to cover the debt, that will only hurt the poor, retired, and middle class as more money will go to interest and less to these groups. That is why this issue must be dealt with. Ow so we do not harm these gros in the future. In the long run, living beyond of means will hurt poor, retired, and. Middle class so much. that is why Moody rating is so important for our government. remember, the financial markets will correct this debt issue at someoint and the most impacted will be the poor, retired, middle class.
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We'd be better off to cut Big Oil welfare, Congressional pay and waste in Defense than benefits for seniors and the poor.
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Bernie Sanders is a socialist so consider the source. You may want to examine other countries who have tried to extract all the money from the successful, better term than rich.
What we need is to encourage investment in businesses who will employ people not the government taking and then reallocating money. It is a never ending cycle that eventually destroys a society. Does not work............
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During the upcoming budget battles, we will be hearing a lot of talk about "a balanced approach" to deficit reduction.
But let's not be fooled. Making the wealthy and large corporations pay a few dollars more in taxes is not the moral or economic equivalent to cutting Social Security benefits for a senior citizen trying to stay alive on $15,000 a year, throwing elderly people off Medicare, or cutting benefits for disabled veterans.
Think of it this way. If Bill Gates has lunch with an unemployed worker, it would be wrong to split the bill down the middle. It would be even worse to have that worker pick up the tab. That is not a "balanced" plan. The same goes for deficit reduction.
- Bernie Sanders
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BCF. forget blame. Now, we, all of us, must face the fact that our spending continues out of control and must be curtailed. We owe this to our children and grandchildren to be honest, realistic, and face up to the issue. It is not political but financial. 100 percent of the people of this great nation must get on board and all work together to curtail our desires and wishes so we can keep this. Ignty ship afloat. If Moody's lowers our rating, higher costs for borrowing, if we do not limit our spending, there will come a time when no one will lend us a dime and that is when the financial markets will solve the problem for us. That will be very painful, create disaster, and really plow the poor and middle class into very difficult times. It takes courage and sacrifice now to avert that outcome down the road. Let us unite to avoid that potential outcome.
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@BCF; show us the dollar amounts.
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GOVT SPENDING INCREASE - 1ST TERM: Reagan: 8.7%, H.W. Bush: 5.4%, Clinton: 3.2%, W. Bush: 7.3%, Obama: 1.4%.
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BCF. Try reading the Wall Street Jounal for most accurate financial news, economic issues, and the real cliff that we face. Forget politics, parties, or specific individuals. Just please focus on the facts of the day.. Please. No emotion.
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The 113th congress begins tomorrow, along with the battle over spending cuts -- with Republicans threatening to block an increase in the debt ceiling as a means of getting the magnitude of cuts they want. Their goal is to slash programs for the poor, along with Medicare and Social Security. Democrats shouldn't be against spending cuts per se. They should offer instead to cut the military budget by 25%, and eliminate corporate welfare for big agriculture, big pharma, oil and gas, Wall Street, and big insurance.
- Robert Reich
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In their final act of hate and shame before being ousted, the Tea Party GOP refused to vote for Hurricane Sandy relief.
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BCF - and Dems aren't for the poor either unless as pawns on the chessboard. You are seriously deluded.
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Iceman in order to get that earned income credit they are working (earned income). Those are people that work their a-- off low paying non-union jobs you Rs like. You're not talking SS because you are getting it I bet. The Republicans wouldwant nothing more than taking that away too.
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Iceman People are living like kings on $ 500 a month are they. The earned income credit was a Nixon program, that was before the Republican party lost theirminds.
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Bush Crime Family great to see someone here other than a bunch of teabaggers.
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If Boehner and the GOP cared about the deficit as they were helping Bush create it, there wouldn't be one to worry about now.
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Democrats need to fight as hard for the working poor as Republicans do for the super rich.
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I think Reid is the worst ever he would lie cheat or steal to win. He has not passed a budget in 3 years. And to increase unemployment for a year is a joke. If you were getting 500 a month like some people would you sign up to work. How many people do you no getting money they don't deserve. What about all these woman with kids by different men that get back 4 to 7 thousand every year in taxes . and the fathers don't pay a dime. And live with them. There are so many free loaders out there its a crime and I'm not talking about social security. And you see them every day just like me.
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93% of all new income generated between 2009 & 2010 went to the top 1% while the bottom 99% split the remaining 7%.
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One final middle finger from this do-nothing Congress to the working people of America. Boehner might be the worst Speaker ever.
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In 1 Timothy 2, the Apostle Paul writes, "First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."
Paul doesn't say pray, "if you love your kings or leaders", or "if the kings or leaders are from the same political party", he says, "pray for ALL who are in high positions." Paul goes on to say that is the way we "lead a peaceful and quiet life, Godly and dignified in every way."
Tonight President Obama will address the country about the situation in Syria, tomorrow our leaders will vote on what action to take. Our nation is at a crossroads, and I imagine that our prayers are coveted by the men and women that are making decisions that will affect all of us. Let us then follow Paul's advice to Timothy, and "PRAY for ALL who are in high positions."
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Cranky Camaro - HOT ROD to the RescueWritten by Marlan Davis on July 4, 2012
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For the Trujillos, it was love at first sight and a rekindling of their high school car hobby when they spotted and managed to snag this classic '69 Camaro SS equipped with a hopped-up 350 small-block, a TH350 automatic trans with a 10-inch converter (2,800-rpm flash), and a 3.31:1-geared 12-bolt rearend with an open diff. The short-block's origins, internals, compression ratio, and healthy flat-tappet hydraulic cam's exact specs are unknown, but it is topped by Chevy Phase 2 Bow-Tie iron heads and runs best on premium gas. External bolt-ons include a Holley Street Avenger 670-cfm vacuum-secondary carb, a Weiand Team G single-plane intake, Doug's tri-Y headers, and an MSD distributor controlled by an MSD 6A box.
The Problem
It may have been love, but all relationships go through their rocky patches. "The car was previously known for running very rich," Gilbert says. "It had been nearly 20 years since I worked on cars, but we tinkered with it and got it to run a little better. The timing was way off, and the fast idle speed was adjusted way too high to compensate for the lack of timing. But it still has a problem or two, especially when it gets up in temperature."
"A problem or two" is stating it mildly. Although there were no overwhelming deal-breakers, the Trujillos reported a variety of ongoing driveability glitches: hard starting and "flooding out," most noticeably in the summer, after the car sat and heat-soaked for an hour; problems at cold start in the morning ("the car will usually start if I hold the throttle to the floor"); a Third-gear surge at part-throttle, steady-state cruise; and occasional detonation "when the engine temperature rises."
To scientifically diagnose and resolve the problem, we set up a chassis-dyno evaluation for the Bellflower, California–based car at one of our favorite SoCal test-and-tune facilities, Westech Performance in Mira Loma. Ace Westech tuner Ernie Mena let the car sit overnight so he could deal with the cold-start problem.
The Fix: Driveability
Next morning, the car wouldn't start cold and idle properly. The primary and secondary float levels were correct, and the electric choke was correctly hooked to a full-time, hot-in-crank-and-run, 12-volt power source, yet dead cold, the choke blade was fully closed. Mena got the car to start by adjusting the over-rich choke setting slightly leaner. That got the car to start up, but after initial cold fire-up, it idled erratically lean. Richening the idle mixture screws (turning them counterclockwise) stabilized the idle, enabling Mena to make an initial dyno run.
During the first run, there was an occasional audible "click," as if something was grounding out. Sure enough, one spark-plug wire was burned through against a header pipe. It turned out to be the root cause of the erratic idle, and replacing the wire went a long way to smoothing everything out. See how you can end up chasing your tail?
Mena was then able to dial in the proper idle quality by leaning out the idle mixture screws (turning them in) until the engine changed tone, then backing them out about ¼-turn, and finally fine-tuning the idle speed by turning the curb idle adjustment screw almost all the way out to get the idle under control with the big cam. The final hot-idle speed ended up at 825 rpm (before it wouldn't idle below 1,000). Getting the idle mixture right and the curb-idle speed under control also solved Trujillo's hot-soak flooding complaint. The occasional surge at part-throttle cruise was caused by a lean primary circuit, easily fixed with slightly richer primary jets.
The Fix: Ignition Curve
Next, the Camaro's full-throttle performance was evaluated. At the balancer, the timing appeared to be set at 14 degrees initial, advancing to 46 degrees total at 3,500 rpm, and still climbing—just like a typical lazy stocker. After popping the distributor cap, it was apparent that someone previously tried to speed up the curve with two lightweight silver springs and a thin bushing. The usual procedure is to add a thicker distributor bushing to limit total advance, increase initial timing, and add softer springs to make the advance come in quicker. On this car, Mena achieved the desired advance rate with a thick bushing, one light silver spring, and one medium-tension blue spring. Getting the bushing to fit took some work; the distributor was a very early MSD unit that didn't accept standard-configuration bushings. The advance was reset to what appeared to be 23 degrees initial and 40 degrees total. But the car still felt sluggish on the dyno.
Mena had a feeling the timing pointer wasn't accurately indicating true top dead center (TDC). He turned over the engine by hand and looked into the No. 1 cylinder with a borescope as the piston rose up in the bore. Sure enough, the zero mark was actually 10 degrees retarded! The reason for that is unknown, though it could be a mis-indexed crank key, the wrong balancer for the application, the wrong front cover (it had a weld-on tab), or a combination of these factors. After accurately re-marking the tab, the engine responded with 24 degrees initial and 42 degrees total, all in by 3,200 rpm. That seems like a heck of a lot of timing, but Mena said it's typical for an old, low-compression small-block with "lazy" combustion chambers.
The Fix: WOT Fuel
Although initially lean on the primary side, at an 11.9–12.1:1 wide-open-throttle (WOT) air/fuel (A/F) ratio, the car was too rich at wide-open for Mena's taste. Yet the secondary jets were only No. 72s, seemingly within reason. Maybe the vacuum-secondaries weren't fully opening? Nope, they were opening fully with no hesitation using the original, as-delivered, plain-colored, secondary spring. Throttle linkage too short? OK as well. So Mena tried No. 68 secondary jets, which leaned the WOT A/F ratio to 12.3 to 12.5:1. That's better but still not as lean as you'd expect from a four-number jet change. And engine output remained the same as before. Mena says, "I didn't want to keep pulling jets out compared with the now-richer primary side. As a street carb, there's no secondary air-bleed adjustments, so it's about as good as you're going to get and still stay safe for daily street driving."
The car now starts properly both hot and cold. Idle vacuum is higher (about 13 to 13.4 in-hg versus 11.5 initially), and there's no dieseling (run-on) after shutdown. Trujillo says after hot soak "the car fires right up without touching the gas. There's no more flooding, everything's correct." When you get on it, that one-legger rearend really lights up the tires. (Posi, anyone?) The only remaining glitch (and it's just barely noticeable) is a slight flat spot; creeping along about 20 mph, there's a slight pause where the rpm doesn't immediately increase when you slowly step into the throttle. Mena says it's "primarily a weak signal because of the single-plane intake's large plenum volume. Changing to a high-rise dual-plane would provide a stronger signal at low rpm, especially as this engine doesn't make power over 5,600 rpm."
Lessons Learned
There's a complex interaction between the carburetor, ignition curve, and various small defects that can gang up to cause mysterious driveability ills. Check the basics first before trying to cover up the underlying problem by gross timing, choke, and mixture adjustments.
Holley Performance Products Inc.; Bowling Green, KY; 800/HOLLEY-1 (nearest dealer) or 270/781-9741 (tech); Holley.com
MSD Performance; El Paso, TX; 915/857-5200 (general) or 915/855-7123 (tech); MSDIgnition.com
Westech Performance Group; Mira Loma, CA; 951/685-4767; WestechPerformance.com
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The Trujillos' Camaro appears so pristine-stock on the outside that you'd swear it was 1969 all over again.The 350 had a bunch of driveability issues: hard-starting, surging, and occasional detonation. Was it the carb or the ignition?Westech Performance's tune-up ace Ernie Mena found and fixed a bunch of relatively minor ignition and carburetion problems.The No. 1 plug wire had burned through, causing an occasional miss. The carb was set over-rich to crutch the undetected problem.Not only does the car look brand new, it now drives like it is, too. All problems were solved to the owners' satisfaction.Why the car wouldn't cold start: Dead cold, the choke tower plate was fully closed. Rotating the electric choke housing cover clockwise (leaner) increased the blade angle, allowing air to enter the primary side and the car to fire-up.However, idle quality was now erratic. Suspecting a lean idle mixture, Mena placed his hand over the carb; with the airflow restricted, idle speed picked up, confirming the diagnosis. Adjusting the idle mixture screws slightly rich stabilized the idle for the moment. Note that a lean idle can also be caused by a vacuum leak, but that wasn't the case here.After repairing a bad plug wire and sorting out the idle, Mena checked for and found the owner-reported surge at cruise. At 2,600 rpm, light throttle, the A/F ratio was a too-lean 15:1. Mena removed the primary float bowl and metering block so he could install richer jets.Changing the primary jets from No. 69 to No. 72 brought down the cruise A/F ratio to a more drivable 13.8:1. Why not shoot for a theoretically optimum 14.7:1 stoichiometric ratio? "Due to less-than-perfect air/fuel distribution, an old-school carb on a single-plane intake won't be happy under cruise at 14.7:1," maintains Mena.
The existing lazy centrifugal advance curve had insufficient lead down low and too much on top. The distributor had an MSD data plate, but with its cast body didn't resemble any of MSD's current billet models. It turned out to be one of MSD's earliest models, dating back to the '80s--but still mechanically running strong.On modern MSD billet distributors, the centrifugal advance limiter bushing installs in a hole over a threaded stud and is retained by a locknut, as shown here. On the old, now obsolete, cast-body distributor (not shown), the bushing installs in an elongated hole and is retained by just a C-clip.To limit the amount of total centrifugal advance, a thicker bushing (right) was needed to replace the existing thin bushing (left), but a normal round bushing wouldn't fit the old distributor's elongated hole. One side of the new bushing was ground down to make it fit.Were the vacuum secondaries fully opening? Mena tie-wrapped the secondary throttle-linkage full open (A), then rechecked the fuel curve on the dyno. The WOT A/F ratios didn't change, indicating normal secondary opening. Dial in idle mixture quality by fine-tuning the mixture screws (B, one each side), then set the idle speed with the curb-idle screw (C).One last adjustment was made the following morning, with the engine again dead-cold after sitting overnight: Mena final-set the fast idle speed by turning the fast-idle set screw (arrow). Somewhat inaccessible, it's located under the lower rear choke housing, so we can't actually show it as it would appear on the car.With the new, better curve and normal initial advance, the car felt even more sluggish, loosing 10 hp on the chassis dyno. Oops! The timing tab's stock zero pointer mark turned out to be 10 degrees retarded at true TDC. The new white mark is the correct TDC location. If your engine doesn't respond well to "normal" advance settings, verify true TDC.


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Am I handicapping myself by continuously drawing figures (limited to $\mathbb{R}^2$)?
I am tuned to imagine things which align neatly. For instance, if someone says imagine a triangle, I imagine an equilateral one and this usually prevents me from understanding subtle points.


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I want to raise some dragons to level 15 as it's the highest level I can reach.
How many treats (total) does it take to get a dragon from level 1 to 15?
I want to raise some dragons to level 15 as it's the highest level I can reach.
How many treats (total) does it take to get a dragon from level 1 to 15?
Hooray math time!
Dragons start off at level 1, needing to be fed 5 units of food at a time. Every level after that, the amount of food doubles - level 2 requires 10 food, level 3 requires 20 food, etc. You need to feed a dragon four times before it levels, so we can factor that in and pretend it's already required - a level 1 dragon requires 5 * 4 = 20 units of food to level, a level 2 dragon requires 40, a level 3 dragon requires 80, and so on.
Now, if we factor out 20 units of food from those numbers (it's 5 * 4, which are just constants we've applied), we get a simple pattern: level 1 requires 1, level 2 requires 2, level 3 requires 4, level 4 requires 8, and so on; if we can figure out a quick way to sum that up from level 1 to level 15, (or alternatively, from 2^0 to 2^14) then we just need to multiply everything by 20 and we'll have our answer.
Since we need to take the sum of those things, and we can tell by looking at them that they're powers of two, we stick "sum of powers of 2" into the ALL KNOWING ORACLE. That gives us this result, where someone says that the formula is 2^(N+1)-1 and that this is in fact a geometric series, and then we lose like three hours on Wikipedia but that's okay.
So, now we know that the equation is going to be of the form 20 * (2^(N+1)-1) or maybe it's N-1 or maybe just N, I don't know, I kinda lost track during that Wikipedia binge. Since it's early in the morning and we're not entirely sure we did that right, we'll write down the values that 20 * (2^(N)-1) puts out and see how they match what we know:
So it looks like if you want to do this calculation for level N, you'd put in N-1, making it 20 * (2^(N-1)-1). Otherwise, the values look good. Yay!
It requires 327660 units of food to take a dragon from level 1 to the beginning of level 15, or 655340 units of food to take the dragon to the end of level 15 (a full food bar). In general, you can calculate the amount of food required to take a dragon from level 1 to level N by plugging N into the equation 20 * (2^(N-1)-1).
The amount of treats required per level starts at 20 for level 1 and doubles every level. Per the DragonVale Wiki this means that by level 15 you will require 163,840 treats to go from level 14 to level 15. To your exact question, that means the cumulative total you'll need to go from level 1 to level 15 is 327,660 treats.
I have played this for a looong time and I noticed it takes roughly 10,000 food to get a dragon to level 10 and then if i have at least 320,000 food or something close to that then I can easily get it to level 15 with food left over
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