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Mr. Blumenthal's top priority As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Richard "Rambo" Blumenthal, D-Conn., figured prominently in Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing. Sen. Blumenthal bemoaned Republicans' tough questioning of Mr. Hagel. He argued that as a Vietnam combat veteran, Mr. Hagel shouldn't have had to face such probing questions. If Sen. Blumenthal values consistency, he should denounce his party's sometimes vicious attacks on George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole and John McCain, three recent Republican presidential nominees who are decorated combat veterans. Until he does, it seems fair to say Sen. Blumenthal's pontification was merely him trying to boost someone he supports while pandering to the Vietnam veterans whose valor he spent years stealing. After nearly three decades as an elected official, Sen. Blumenthal continues to be all about himself.
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Five seems to be the magic number in health news lately. Supposedly, running five minutes a day improves your physical well-being. And you can hold at five servings of fruits and vegetables per day because there�s no greater health benefit to eating more than that.
I like the number five, being born the fifth in my family. And five sounds like a manageable number (although if my mother was alive, she would probably disagree!). At least five is manageable for exercising and eating. �Take five� could now take on a whole new meaning . . . one could bust into a jog for five minutes or scoff down one of the five veggies or fruits one needs to eat.
But let�s be realistic � no one runs for just five minutes a day. Being a rather pitiful exerciser, I admit that I could probably not run more than five minutes at a time but no one says, hey going out for a run, be back in five! The study that called all this to attention actually discovered that running once or twice a week for less than 51 minutes in total, at a fairly slow pace could reduce the risk of dying from any cause by 30%. �Someone took liberties with the math to divide that over seven days and come up with the five minutes.
However, it certainly got our attention, didn�t it? And gave those of us who are neither runners nor regular exercisers hope. Often what stops us from exercising is time, or lack thereof. But who doesn�t have five minutes? So, maybe it doesn�t make sense to go out for a jog for five minutes but how about a walk for five? Build up your stamina and you can do 15 (keeping a five in the equation). Fifteen minutes of walking a day is certainly doable. Every little bit is a step in the right direction to better health.

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If you can remember or are a student of political history, you'll recall that during the 1980s (the Reagan era), Congress was seeking a way to avoid raising taxes and balancing the budget.
They were looking for a large pot of money that they could get their hands on. They saw that huge pot of gold in the Social Security trust fund. The fund had billions of dollars in surplus and was sitting there waiting to be used to pay benefits for retirees. Estimates at that time revealed that the trust fund had enough money in it and, together with future interest earnings, would be able to pay full benefits for present and future beneficiaries for the next 200 years.
The the Washington politicians came up with a scheme that would allow them to use all those billions of dollars for budget consolidation and not have to worry about paying it back for several generations.
To make a long story short, when the time came near that the money in the trust fund was running low and might have to be paid back, the term "entitlement" was coined, thus giving the impression that Social Security benefits were a freebie and you didn't really have a right to receive benefits. Propaganda was put forth to blame retirees and the disabled as moochers who didn't save for their retirement and would have to wait until they were beyond normal retirement age to get reduced benefits. Thus, workers who paid into the Social Security trust fund for 20, 30 or 40 years were told that cuts to the program had to be made and the budget problems were more important than their need for a solid retirement benefit.
Even though Social Security has never added one dime to the deficit, Congress now wants to destroy the program. Why? Because they don't want to pay back the money they stole from workers during the last 50 years. The word entitlement is a smoke screen to blur the truth as to why the program should be privatized.
We need to demand fairness and truth as to why those fools in Congress want to end all social programs so that tax breaks can be given to people who really don't deserve them.
Freedom to practice your chosen religion and the right to vote are entitlements. Social Security is an earned benefit that we have paid into for many years - you have earned it.
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In my opinion the recommendation that weightlifters eat 1-1.5gPRO/lb/d, which is 2.2x more protein than required, comes from the supplements industry who rely on people used to thinking in pounds not calculating their protein requirements correctly to sell product.
An athlete weighing a convenient 100kg (220 lbs) for example would have a protein intake of 100-140g/d, which is an amount that can easily be obtained by diet alone, if they based their intake on the correct 1-1.4g/kg/d. That same athlete eating 1-1.5g/lb/d would have a protein intake of 220-330g/d which would be impractical to obtain through diet alone unless they were willing to eat a whole chicken or two per day. Supplements therefore become the only practical way for that athlete to achieve a protein intake of 1-1.5g/lb/d on a daily basis so the supplements industry clearly benefits from people getting mixed up over whether protein intakes should be based on g/lb or g/kg.
Finally, I'm well aware of anecdotal evidence from weightlifters and bodybuilders who claim that eating large amounts of protein and using supplements lead to increased strength and size but protein in excess of 1.8-2g/kg/d is oxidized to provide energy so all those protein supplements are doing really is providing the extra calories required for growth.
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In Touhou: the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, for each of the Spell Cards, there is a property next to each of the sub-weapons. For example, Reimu's "Homing Amulet" and "Persuasion Needle" list "Spirit" and "Dream" next to them respectively. Marisa's "Magic Missile" is "Magic" while her "Illusion Laser" is... "Love"?
Are these properties by which the sub-weapon is stronger against certain enemy types? Or are they simply for flavor?


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Upcoming programs organized by the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County have been announced. They include the following:
-- Book club for the Adena branch will meet today at 5:30 p.m. Join by calling the library at (740) 546-3782.
-- Cookbook club for the Adena Branch will meet and eat on Thursday at 5 p.m. and at the Tiltonsville branch at 6 p.m. Participants bring in a covered dish from selected cookbooks. Join by calling the Adena branch at (740) 546-3782 and the Tiltonsville branch at (740) 859-5163.
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-- Enjoy coffee, doughnuts and a movie at the Brilliant Branch on Friday at 10 a.m.
-- Registration starts now for Tot Time that will be offered at the Schiappa branch on Mondays, Oct. 28, Nov. 11, 18, and 25 at 6 p.m.; Tuesdays, Oct. 29, Nov. 12, 19, and 26 at 10 a.m.; and Wednesdays, Oct. 30, Nov, 13, 20, and 27 at 11 a.m.
Register by calling the branch at (740) 264-6166.
-- Watch a family movie at the Schiappa branch on Friday at 4 p.m. and at 6:30 p.m. Register for one movie time by calling the library at (740) 264-6166.
-- Play and Learn the Alphabet (caregiver and children ages 2-6) will be at the Schiappa branch on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. and at 6 p.m. and also at the main library on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Letter-learning toys are set up for children to play with and to interact with other children.
-- At 7 p.m. Tuesday Thomas Leary of Youngstown State University will present "American Steel: Legacy and Heritage" in room 2100 at Eastern Gateway Community College as part of the library's "Steel Industry In Ohio" project.
The library has photographically preserved the Ohio Valley's steel industry with 50 aesthetically framed and captioned images that were taken by an architectural industrial photographer. The photo exhibit, "Steel Industry In Jefferson County," will be at EGCC through Saturday during regular operating hours.
Visit the library's website, www.steubenvillelibrary.org, for a listing of where the photo exhibit will travel to and programs.
-- Children can make a craft today at 5:30 p.m. at the Adena branch and at the Dillonvale-Mt. Pleasant branch on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.
-- Babygarten (caregiver and children ages birth to two) will be held at the Dillonvale-Mount Pleasant branch on Thursday at 11:15 a.m. This is a lap-sit program that will help babies with language development and early literacy skills through books, songs, and rhymes.


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This may be a good time to have a live whisky tasting on occasion.
Crispy Critter wrote:Tonight, I just killed off a Caol Ila 18 OB with a very generous dram. Mmmmmmmm, good stuff! It's a mellowed-by-time type of Islay dram, with a nice sweet touch inside the peat. It doesn't seem as smoky as Lagavulin 16 - it's closer to Laphroaig 15 in character.
I still have a few more bottles to drain before I open something new, though.
Just poured a little nip of Knob Creek bourbon...
I'm sipping St. Magdalene 19yo again after opening another bottle to inspect cork integrity. Out of 4 bottles I've opened 1 has had serious cork damage (dry and crumbled), 2 were a bit spongy and weak and 1 is in perfect shape which I've preserved with gas and recorked.
Based on 12 bottles I've received I'm predicting 25% of stock will spoil over the next few years. The corked (crumbled) bottle still tastes good but riper and slightly bitter.
hmmm... make that just "bitter". What a shame
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Cannot proceed with above quest so therefore cannot proceed with main quest line.
It's part of the quest chain in the Laboratory for Act 3, that you have do for Dr West.
I'm standing by some doors next to a guy called Bob. The door control panel is green, and beyond the doors I can see more doors, just after those doors is the red flag on my radar.
The doors with green panel will not open.
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Katie Thomas joined The New York Times as a sports writer in January 2008.
Before joining The Times, Ms. Thomas served as a staff reporter at Newsday from 1998 to 2007.
Ms. Thomas is the author of "Waters Dark and Deep: How One Family Overcame Hurricane Katrina's Deadly Fury" (Cold Spring Press, February 2006), a book chronicling the rescue and reunification of a group of New Orleans families in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
In 2006 she received the International Reporting Project fellow where she spent five weeks reporting in Congo Republic, as well as the Mike Berger Award for a narrative feature on victims of domestic violence.
Ms. Thomas received a bachelor's degree in anthropology and journalism from New York University in 1998.
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50 for Anthony in Knicks' win over Heat
|New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony (7) takes a shot against Miami Heat forward Shane Battier during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, April 2, 2013 in Miami. Anthony tied his career high with 50 points in the Knicks' 102-90 win. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
MIAMI (AP) — Carmelo Anthony released his final shot of the night then skipped backward, already knowing the outcome.
The shot was good.
For Anthony and the New York Knicks, the outcome was even better.
Relying entirely on jumpers, Anthony tied his career high with 50 points and the Knicks won their ninth straight game, topping the injury-depleted Miami Heat 102-90 on Wednesday night.
"I felt good tonight," Anthony said.
There was no arguing that.
Anthony finished 18 of 26 from the field, taking two dribbles to free himself from Shane Battier and make his last shot with 16.9 seconds remaining to get to 50 and send the Knicks' bench into hysterics. It was the third time he scored 50 in his career, and it came with Miami's LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Mario Chalmers all sidelined by injuries.
"I think just from the start of the game, it's a feeling that you just have while you're out there on the court," Anthony said. "Sometimes you get off to a good start and then you get cold the rest of the game, but tonight wasn't one of those cases."
No, it was not.
He made his first seven shots, and the fact that he had 37 points before notching any other statistic of note — no rebounds, assists, steals or blocked shots until the third quarter — let everyone in the building know that he was all about a scoring spree.
And the Heat had no answers.
"It's an inopportune time to announce my candidacy for defensive player of the year," Battier said. "Carmelo had a hell of a game. ... That's a game that drives the analytics guys crazy because he didn't attempt a shot within 15 feet of the basket. Most nights, we'll take that every single time. And he made a ton of shots. Made a ton of shots. And that's to his credit."
J.R. Smith scored 14 and Raymond Felton added 10 for New York.
Chris Bosh scored 23 points for Miami, which beat San Antonio on Sunday without James, Wade and Chalmers, but managed only 32 second-half points against the Knicks. Mike Miller scored 18, Ray Allen finished with 16 and Norris Cole had 14 for the Heat, whose 17-game home winning streak was snapped.
The Knicks beat the Heat in three of their four regular-season matchups. They likely would not meet again before the Eastern Conference finals.
"I don't think that team will lack confidence against anybody," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "That's just the nature of who they are."
Miami's magic number for clinching home-court throughout the NBA playoffs remained at five, and the Heat already have the No. 1 spot in the Eastern Conference wrapped up. The Knicks now lead Brooklyn by five games in the race for the Atlantic Division title.
It was only Miami's second loss in its last 31 games.
Much of the star power was taken out of the equation more than eight hours before game time, when the Heat announced that James, Wade and Chalmers would not play. James has a sore hamstring, and Wade and Chalmers are dealing with ankle sprains.
All are listed as day-to-day.
"The No. 1 thing, obviously, is try to get as healthy as we can," Spoelstra said. "Obviously, that's a priority. From there, we have time to still try to improve — not just stay in rhythm, but to improve, and also get these guys an opportunity that haven't been getting minutes to play in these meaningful minutes. We didn't script San Antonio or this like this to happen, but that's what this league is about. It's unpredictable."
Anthony surely did not mind their absences.
He made three shots, a combined 65 feet of swished jumpers, in the game's first 2:17 as the Knicks ran out to an 8-0 lead. Plenty of blue-and-orange shirts in the Miami crowd roared, and the early indications were that Anthony was on his way to a monster night and the Knicks were on their way to a blowout victory.
That assessment was half-right.
"Unbelievable," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. "He just refused to let us lose."
Anthony came in averaging 27.5 points and was practically there by halftime with 27 on 9-for-12 shooting — a display the Knicks absolutely needed, since Miami more than held its own without James, Wade and Chalmers.
After trailing by as many as nine early, Miami actually roared back to lead 58-50 at the half. Miller and Cole combined for 30 at the break; Miller's 18 were five more than he had scored in any game this season.
Anthony — who had one more field goal than every other Knick managed, combined, in the first 24 minutes — didn't exactly cool off at halftime. By the time the third quarter was 4 minutes old, Anthony was up to 37 points.
"We actually played pretty good defense on him," Miller said.
Anthony's first rebound came with 7:02 left in the third, and his first assist came as the clock was expiring to end the period, setting up Steve Novak for a 3-pointer from the right corner that allowed New York to take a 78-76 lead into the final 12 minutes.
Anthony actually went 10 minutes without scoring, then made two jumpers — the second a 3-pointer — 40 seconds apart, giving the Knicks a 95-88 lead with 3:32 left.
The Heat had tied the game twice in the fourth, but never led after Novak's 3 that closed the third.
"My thing is to try to be aggressive, make shots," Anthony said. "When you make shots, it makes the game so much easier."
NOTES: It was the fourth time in 25 career games, including playoffs, that Anthony eclipsed the 40-point mark against the Heat. ... Wade and James looked on intently as the Heat showed a video to promote the looming playoffs after the third quarter. Wade shimmied his shoulders a bit afterward, and James started to nod at one of the final images — his sideline dance in the final seconds of Game 5's title-clinching win over Oklahoma City last June. ... Rapper Flo Rida was at the game, as was actor Andy Garcia and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. ... Of the Knicks' nine remaining games, six are against likely playoff-bound teams.
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5 Disturbing New Ways Debt Collectors Are Getting Your Money
#2. Jacking Your Ride
On the one hand, you know it's got to suck to be the guy tracking down cars for repossession. You're always the bad guy, and you face belligerent deadbeats daily. On the other hand, today's repo man has heaps of tools at his disposal to get the job done, including GPS tracking devices hidden in vehicles for precision repossession and remote ignition cut-off technology for late car payments, which seems cool until somebody misses a payment while driving through Deliverance territory.
"Is that banjo music?"
Wait, what?
Turning off your phones to avoid collectors won't help you if they've got repo 2.0 gear on their side. Some are using cameras with automatic license-plate-reading software to scan as many plates as they can, then matching images to a deadbeats database. Once you're found, the jig is up.
Even sneakier are the car dealers who slip GPS devices into the cars they sell, just in case someone goes into default on his payments. The subscription-based-tracking service will not only locate the car for the dealer but will also keep delinquent drivers from driving with a remote "starter interrupt" feature.
And by ... other methods.
Where will you be when your car stops working? Parked at a hotel with your family 300 miles from home? Taking a sick kid to the emergency room? Who knows?! Mommy should have made her payment, kid!
#1. Pretending to be The Law (While Terrifyingly Breaking It)
In 2008 and 2009, thousands of people across the U.S. were called by law enforcement officials and ordered to make payments on their debt or face jail time. In one case, a couple in Texas came home to a message from the police department warning them that officers were en route to their home at that very moment regarding an unpaid debt.
"That's right, sir. We're basically mercenaries now."
The couple was expecting twins, so they fled their home in terror. But these calls weren't coming from law enforcement officials. They were coming from several debt-collection agencies posing as the police. And this is the man who was the CEO of those debt-collection agencies:
Pictured: CEO "Bags of Money." His self-chosen nickname, as well as what he extorted.
Wait, what?
His real name is Tobias Boyland, and besides being the author of a book titled Thug Motivation and a convicted AK-47-touting felon currently on the run, he was also a small-business owner. Specifically, a debt-collection business. It turns out it's not all that hard for anyone, Bags of Money included, to buy himself a giant portfolio of old debt and account information and do with it what he pleases.
Trickery and the threat of violence are a pretty powerful combination, but at least Bags of Money had the integrity to be thoroughly evil from the get-go. When Kim Mitchell got in over her head debt-wise, she contacted her lawyer for help. What she didn't know was that her debt collector did a spot-on lawyer impersonation, which he used to convince her to borrow from her 401(k), skip the mortgage on her house for two months and ditch her electricity bill to put together the debt money. All sound advice, when your counsel is coming from the devil.
"Have you considered prostitution? It's a great way to make quick cash!"
Well, at the very least, we all have our day in court, right? This is America, after all. No debt collector could take that away from us. This is probably exactly what a number of people in Erie, Pa., thought after they were summoned to court. The only problem? Debt collectors had actually invented the entire courtroom. Unicredit America dressed employees up as sheriffs, hired an attorney to draft fake hearing notices and decorated a room near its offices to look like a real courtroom, replete with fake spectator seating, a fake witness stand, tables and chairs for attorneys and defendants, bookshelves full of legal texts, a bench for the judge and, of course, one of the agency's employees dressed up to play that judge.
The good news in this case, though, is that justice did miraculously prevail in the end, when the entire debt-collection terror troupe was shut down, booked on criminal charges and brought before a real federal judge themselves. The bad news is that, for the rest of us, facing off against debt-collectors in a real court may actually be almost as bad, since the debt collection industry basically owns small circuit courts in sleepy little podunk towns such as Boston and Chicago.
Plus, there's the fact that in 2009, the FTC went ahead and declared the entire American debt-collection litigation system to be broken, to which dozens of Bags of Money's victims declared, "YOU THINK?"
The Federal Trade Commission: Stating the obvious, long after it could have done any good.
Jason Edward Harrington is a former debt collector and current freelance writer. He has blogged at www.absenteedaddy.com and www.jasonedwardharrington.wordpress.com.
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Someone who doesn't know how to spell cradle.
All the other people who defined "craddle robber."
by dsalfkewfilrkvdslkg July 10, 2008
someone dating, or has dated a person who is significantly younger than them. The relationship could be sexual or non-sexual.
"Doode, He went after a Freshman, what a a craddle robber!!!"
by Huy L. March 02, 2007
Someone who has a wide age gap with someone they have sex with, or could be a pedophile
Joe's a sick freak, he had sex with a 12 year old when he was 17!
by Caitlin August 10, 2004
Someone who has graduated from High School and hooks up or dates someone still in high school. A freshman perhaps
Josh is a craddle robber, hooking up with Audrey.
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U.S.-Based Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Three U.S.-based scientists who pioneered the use of computers to probe complex chemical reactions—revolutionizing the design of new drugs and streamlining industrial research—were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday.
Honored for work that began in the 1970s, Martin Karplus of the University of Strasbourg in France and Harvard University, Michael Levitt of Stanford University and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California shared the award. A $1.25 million cash purse accompanies the annual prize.
The Nobel committee awoke Dr. Warshel at 3 a.m. in Los Angeles with the news. Asked by the committee how he felt about the award, the newly minted Nobel laureate replied, "Extremely well."
Dr. Warshel said his work was intended "to satisfy our curiosity" about how molecules in complex chemical reactions behave. "It is like seeing a watch and wondering how it really works," he said.
Announcing the award in Stockholm, Staffan Normark, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said, "This year's prize is about taking the chemical experiment to cyberspace."
At its simplest, the computational techniques the three pioneered—working out their first ideas on a vintage Harvard supercomputer called "the Golem," after the creature of Jewish folklore—today allow chemists in fields from pharmaceuticals to photosynthesis to test sophisticated theoretical chemical reactions by simulating them on a computer first. That allows experimenters to work more quickly, cheaply, and efficiently.
"Theory has become the new experiment," said Lund University chemist Sven Lidin in Sweden, chairman of the Nobel chemistry committee. "Theory is so powerful now we save 90% of the experimenting. We save a lot of money, a lot of time and a lot of effort by doing the theoretical part first."
In essence, their work combines quantum and classical chemistry, other scientists said.
Their modeling techniques allow experimenters to bridge the gap between classical chemistry, which allows researchers to study molecules at rest before or after a chemical reaction, and quantum physics, which allows them to probe the almost instantaneous subatomic shifts of chemical reactions as they are actually under way.
In this way, they effectively turned computers into useful test tubes for advanced chemistry. And by doing so, experts said, the three Nobel laureates also changed the professional culture of chemistry, bridging the gap between theoretical chemists and experimentalists.
"They have done something extraordinary," said theoretical chemist Gunnar Karlström, a member of the Nobel chemistry committee. "They made theory an equal partner of experiment. This was unthinkable 20 years ago."
Chemist Marinda Li Wu, president of the American Chemical Society, agreed. "It was the first time that theoreticians were partnering with the experimentalists to advance our understanding," she said. For that reason, "the experimentalists today can do things they couldn't do even 10 years ago."
Each of the three scientists honored on Wednesday has deep roots in the international community of chemistry.
Dr. Karplus, a U.S. and Austrian citizen, was born in Vienna and studied at the California Institute of Technology before becoming a professor at Harvard.
Dr. Levitt is a U.S., British and Israeli citizen who was born in South Africa. He studied at Cambridge University and today is a cancer researcher at the Stanford's School of Medicine.
Dr. Warshel is a U.S. and Israeli citizen who was born on a kibbutz, or collective settlement, in Israel. He studied at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, in Israel before joining the faculty of USC.
—Niclas Rolander contributed to this article.
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I've been perusing the internet looking for interesting problems to solve. I found the following problem and have been going at it for the past 30 minutes with no success:
Find a continuous function $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ satisfying $f(f(x)) = -x$ for all $x \in \mathbb{R}$.
I was thinking of letting $f$ be a periodic function, and adding half the period to x each time. I had no success with this, and am now thinking that such a function does not exist.
Source: http://www.halfaya.org/Casti/CalculusTheory2/challenge.pdf


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The symbol $\Subset$ (occurring in places where $\subseteq$ could occur syntactically) comes up frequently in a paper I'm reading. The paper lives at the intersection of a few areas of math, and I don't even know where to begin looking for the meaning of a symbol whose latex code is "\Subset". Do you know what this usually denotes?
Edit: some context follows.
All the sets in question are subsets of $\hat{\mathbb{C}} = \mathbb{C}\cup\{\infty\}$.
Example 1. In a situation where $J$ is closed with empty interior, $U$ and $V$ are closed with $U\subsetneq V$, it is written "Note that $J \Subset U$ and, selecting a neighborhood $W \subset U$ of $J$ which is compactly contained in $V$, ..."
Example 2. In a situation where $R$ is a rational mapping, and where it is assumed that $B\subset \hat{\mathbb{C}}$ is such that $R(B)\Subset B$, it is written "Let $\Omega_0 = \hat{\mathbb{C}}\setminus B$. Define $\Omega_1 = R^{-1}(\Omega_0)$. By the properties of $B$, we have $\Omega_1\Subset\Omega_0$. If we let $U_0$ be any finite union of closed balls such that $\Omega_1 \subset U_0 \subset \Omega_0$, ..."
In both cases I have paraphrased to simplify the notation, so I hope I have not introduced errors into it.


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Last time I started a thread about my side having too many "dodgy" results, it was closed without reason. I believe the moderator called it a 'non-issue' - despite me having an issue. Okay, so I deleted that save game and embarked on a new one. However, the same issue exists. Now, I know most users will respond telling me that it's 'my tactics', but those are the people with their head's buried in the sand.
These are just 4 examples of "dodgy" results, but I could post hundreds more. I understand that people don't want the game to be decided by having the better squad, but when results are so blatantly contrived it leaves a bad taste. My teams are always superior, yet I find that the game tries its hardest to create a negative result. The last screenshot takes the biscuit completely.


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Prove that if we have two rectangular parallelepiped (cuboids) such that one of them is placed inside the other then the sum of the three lengths of the inner parallelepiped is at most the sum of the three lengths of the exterior parallelepiped. In 2 dimensions the problem is trivial. Does this hold in higher dimensions? There is a way to prove it in higher Euclidean dimensions?
This version works for all parallelepipeds, not only rectangular ones:
If you replace each parallelepiped by all points that have distance at most $\varepsilon$ to a point in the parallelepiped, you can still place the smaller inside the bigger one. In particular, the smaller object has a smaller volume.
We divide up the extended parallepipeds by extending the planes corresponding to the six faces. This gives the volume of the original solid in the center, parallelepipeds of height $\varepsilon$ on top of each face, partial cylinders (with slanted parallel ends) of radius $\varepsilon$ and length the corresponding edge, and partial spheres of radius $\varepsilon$ around each vertex.
The partial spheres add up to exactly one whole sphere simply by translation. The partial cylinders corresponding to parallel edges add up to one whole cylinder by translation.
Now let $\varepsilon$ tend to infinity (yes, really). The term with $\varepsilon^3$ comes from the sphere of radius $\varepsilon$ and does not depend on the parallelepiped at all, . The coefficient of $\varepsilon^2$ comes from the cylinders and is clearly the sum of the edges times some constant.
So, for the inequality to be valid the sum of the edges of the smaller box must be smaller than the sum of the edges of the larger box.
I don't see any problem with the generalization to higher dimension.
This is true for 3-dimensional parallelepipeds. Let the sides of the ambient parallelepiped be $A,B,C$ and of the inner one $a,b,c$. Then it's clear that $A^2+B^2+C^2\ge a^2+b^2+c^2$ since the diameter of the ambient body is obviously bigger. Also, it's easy to see that the there is a 1-Lipschitz map of $\mathbb R^3$ onto the smaller parallelepiped (just take the nearest point projection map). Being 1-Lipschitz this map does not increase 2-dimensional area and therefore, applying this to the surface of the bigger parallellepiped we get $2(AB+BC+AC)\ge 2(ab+bc+ac)$. Adding the above two inequalities we get $(A+B+C)^2\ge (a+b+c)^2$.
I learned of this problem from Anton's Petrunin's list of exercises in orthodox geometry (which has a lot of other cool problems btw).
I don't know if the same holds in higher dimensions.
What if we ask the same problem with tetrahedron instead of parallelepiped. Consider two tetrahedrons one placed inside the other. Prove that the sum of all 6 sides of inner tetrahedron is at most the sum of the 6 sides of exterior tetrahedron. This looks much harder!


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29 Dec 2008 10:18 PM #31
@Condor,thank you for reply!
My code in FF3 has all the effect what I need.
1)My form.xf.CheckerInfoDisplayForm is a custome component that show plain html table, in IE7 the form is not display sometimes or leave the display area blank!
2)But why in FF3 it is ok?
3)A layout:'slide' with easing:'none' still has the slide effect!
30 Dec 2008 9:30 AM #32
So are you saying your form does not show up? The slide layout is working but your form is not showing up in IE7?Thanks!
1 Jan 2009 9:46 PM #33
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Anything I release on the forums is always under the WTFPL.
Keeping in mind the licensing issues with Ext public extensions of course. But if anyone is going to be knocking at your door with the copyright police it won't be me.
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Works in Firefox for me, but Opera 9.62 animates the outgoing panel and the inbound one never appears.
layoutConfig:{ renderHidden:true, deferredRender:false }
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Im playing with this in 3.0.0, and after you slide a card in then out, if you resize the browser the hidden panel is displayed a little.
29 Sep 2009 9:07 PM #37
This is a nice extension but the latest version of Opera isn't supported. It is an Opera float/clear bug/issue. The subsequent cards are being stacked.
Here is the quick, dirty, simple downgrade fix.
... if (this.activeItem != item) { if (this.activeItem) { if (this.compatMode || Ext.isOpera){ //opera downgrade fix this.activeItem.el.setStyle('display','none'); item.el.setStyle('display','block'); }else{ ... } ...
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Usually, we purchase a camera cleaning kit that comprise a cleaning solution, cleaning brush, cleaning cloth and a air blower.
So, I was wondering if we can use other cleaning cloth (such as spectacle cleaning cloth, laptop screen cleaning cloth) to clean the lens of the camera?
Also, I believe that certain cleaning cloth is definitely should not be used to clean lens such as Rag Cloths - from used Tee-shirt. Is this correct?


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Toshiba Thrive Accessory Bundle (Dock, AC Adapter, Carrying Case, Battery, Case & Screen Protector) for $9.99 + $4.99 shipping
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Be Warned. A Thrive WILL NOT fit in the included sleeve. I checked an hour ago when it was posted on their website. I happen to have both sitting around. I contacted 1saleaday to let them know, but I do not expect an answer.
This is a better deal anyway...http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/70a04376-a7fc-4ec2-b4be-7742f0f4b05f/bens-outlet-toshiba-thrive-ultimate-accessory-bundle-w-dock-ac-adapter-carr#0
same company selling.
Right, the other deal includes a $25 battery for just $5 more.
@morriea: Thanks for that other link! The battery alone makes the other deal worth it!
@morriea: They have added the case, screen protector, and battery from your linked deal to today's sponsored deal.
@thefenst: HUGE difference. Thanks for the heads-up.
I'm not sure about the case not fitting. It looks exactly the same as the deal I took advantage of from this site when it was $25.
The case really isn't great (but the one I got fit my thrive just fine), the spare colored backplate is unnecessary, but the extra power supply, battery, and the dock is a phenominal deal for this price. Especially if, like me, you occasionally have to spend 10+ hours on a plane, or any other long, boring process.
@fellwarre: They changed the deal and picture from when I put my warning. They had an iPad SLEEVE in the deal. It would not fit. It is fine with the changed deal.
I bought this same package for my Thrive from these folks at $20 plus shipping and it was a steal then. I like the sleeve. It is decent quality and does a good job of swivelling to allow you to stand it in portrait or landscape mode. Made recent plane journies much more pleasent for me.
I agree that the replacement back piece is not needed but is a different color to the default one, so nice to have.
The dock, charger and battery are an amazing deal at this price though. I am almost tempted to get another pack. I have the OG charger in my bedroom and the 1SaleADay dock and charger in the lounge. With another package I could use the dock and charger in the bedroom and keep the spare charger wrapped up with my travel items, ready for a trip... hmmmm
I bought this deal last time and the items were as described/shown - no issues. I'm going to do this deal again for Christmas - there is another Thrive owner in the family.
@rex b: this includes the battery too. incredible deal!
As a follow up - my order arrived yesterday and was as described. A+!
@thefenst...do you help with VERY over due sponsored deals? I ordered 20 of this and it is still "processing". Over 2 weeks.
@morriea: Sure, I will reach out to the merchant on your behalf.
@thefenst: Thanks! I am trying to simply cancel at this point. Since they never shipped, yet they are selling them again for less, I figure they must have forgotten me...
You are wonderful. I would call them if they allowed it. Sending "Contact Us" messages does not seem to help.


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Given a polyhedron consists of a list of vertices (
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s), how to break the polyhedron into a list of tetrahedron?
I have a convex polyhedron.
Given a polyhedron consists of a list of vertices (
I have a convex polyhedron.
If I understand your question correctly, you're saying that the given information is the face structure of a 3-dimensional convex polytope, and you would like a subdivision of the polytope into tetrahedra.
Here is one way to proceed. First, subdivide all the faces into triangles. Then pick your favourite vertex $v_0$. Connect $v_0$ to each triangle belonging to a face not containing $v_0$. This subdivides your polytope into tetrahedra.
There are polyhedra which are homeomorphic to a sphere with the property that every edge which is not already an edge of the polyhedron lies completely in the exterior of the polyhedron. Sometimes these polyhedra are called Lennes Polyhedra. These polyhedra can not be subdivided into tetrahedra using existing vertices of the polyhedron. In the plane, any simple plane polygon can be triangulated. This forms the basis for Steve Fisk's elegant result about "guarding" plane simple polygons. The analogue of this can not be carried out for 3-dimensional polyhedra. For a brief discussion of Lennes Polyhedra see pages. 253 and 254 of J. O'Rourke, Art Gallery Theorems and Algorithms.


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Great Britain won its first gold medal of the 2012 Olympics today — in women's pair rowing — and the country celebrated the only way it knows how: with a rich buffoon doing something embarrassing and ridiculous.
That's London Mayor Boris Johnson, strapped into a harness, waving two small Union Jacks as he swings down a zip line, only to get stuck. "Get me a rope, get me a ladder," he says. "I think the brakes got stuck." The crowd responds with laughter.
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I'm working on systems that have 10.04.3 installed as an upgrade from 8.04. So these systems have Grub 0.97 installed.
I want to get verbose console output during startup, so I want to eliminate the "quiet" option being passed to the kernel by the generated Grub menu options. I see there's a commented option in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file:
## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
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I know edits to the menu.lst would be lost upon the next 'update-grub'. So where, or what, do I set so that a subsequent 'update-grub' invocation will build the menu.lst file the way I want?
I have some newer systems (10.04 and 12.04 clean installs) that have an /etc/default/grub file, but my Grub 0.97 systems don't have that file. Could I just create it and add
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Schadenfreude is the joy or pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. What is the word for joy or pleasure derived from the happiness of others?
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Seeing just the title of your question ("What's the antonym for Schadenfreude?"), my answer would have been "Mitgefühl" (to keep it in German) or "compassion" (English), since I'd say that Schadenfreude is the absence of compassion.
Having now seen your description as wanting a word to express "joy or pleasure derived from the happiness of others", I'd say "Mitfreude" would be it in German, and "sympathetic joy" would be the closest I can think of in English (couldn't find a single word, though a bit of googling did turn up "Mudita" as per cornbread ninja's response, so +1 from me).
Mudita is the Buddhist concept of joy.
I'm not familiar with mudita, but this 1871 definition says it's the meditation of joy, but ... not the joy arising from earthly possessions. Personally I'm not sure it's really an English "word", nor does it seem to be (in its original sense, at least) particularly associated with vicariously experiencing pleasure directly experienced by another individual. In its Buddhist context, the priest aspiring to it should already have transcended concepts of individuality anyway.
I don't know a "proper" single-word term, but empathic joy and empathic pleasure are reasonably common collocations (the first much discussed by psychologists, as the empathic-joy hypothesis).
Maybe goodwill? Defined as:
Or graciousness.
As the Corndog Ninja noted, mudita is the concept of finding joy in the happiness of others.
If you want a rough German antonym of Schadenfreude (or simply schadenfreude in English texts -- "enjoyment obtained from the mishaps of others," as Merriam-Webster defines it), then Seligkeitfreude would work.
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Recent and archived news articles by Nicholas Wood of The New York Times.
Former Leader in Kosovo Acquitted of War Crimes
Ramush Haradinaj, the former prime minister of Kosovo, was acquitted of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
April 4, 2008, Friday
Supplier Under Scrutiny on Arms for Afghans
To arm Afghan forces to fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, the U.S. has relied on a fledgling company that has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old.
March 27, 2008, Thursday
Serbia Enlisting Some Unlikely Faces
As the dispute over Kosovo's future nears a climax, the Serbian government has enlisted the support of some the world's best known statesmen — all of them dead.
December 24, 2007, Monday
Serbia Enlists Some Unlikely Faces in Its Quest to Keep Kosovo
For the past two weeks, billboards carrying the images of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Charles de Gaulle have appeared throughout the country above the mantra "Kosovo is Serbia!"
December 23, 2007, Sunday
U.N. Fears Serbs Will Disrupt a Free Kosovo
Kosovo, which has a majority of ethnic Albanians, has been trying to break away from Serbia, but Serbia is vehemently fighting to keep the province.
December 10, 2007, Monday
Talks on Kosovo Hit a Dead End, Rice Says
Expectations are high among ethnic Albanians that Kosovo will declare independence, even as its probable new prime minister said Kosovo would wait until early next year.
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Kosovo: Independence More Likely as Talks Fail
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November 29, 2007, Thursday
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What are the differences between "agree on", "agree with" and "agree to"?
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The object is the difference.
When two or more people agree on something, it means they have the same opinion about something being discussed. To agree with someone is to share a point of view with him/her, and to agree with an idea or proposal is to accept it and to believe that it's valid. Example use that includes both prepositions: "He agreed with you on whether we should or shouldn't increase the salary."
You use "agree to" to imply that a request was made and that the person towards whom the request was directed responded positively to that request -- i.e., he/she agreed to do whatever the requester was asking him to do. Example: "She agreed to be my prom date." (There are other, more slang and common phrasings to talk about proms, though.)
A quote from "A valency dictionary of English" (Herbst et al. 2004: 25), with some modifications:
A. Agree can mean 'be of the same opinion'
(i) People can agree on or about a particular topic or issue.
(ii) A person can agree with another person on or about a particular topic or issue.
(iii) A person can agree that something is the case.
B. Agree can mean 'consent'.
(i) A person or organisation can agree to or with something suggested.
(ii) A person or organisation can agree to do something suggested.
C. If two statements or versions of something agree, they are the same; if figures or calculations agree, they show the same result. Grammatical categories also agree, i.e. correspond in number etc.
D. Agree can mean 'come to a common conclusion'.
(i) People can agree some course of action, i.e. decide upon it.
(ii) People can agree on something as the result of a discussion.
(iii) People can agree to do something.
E. If something such as food or the climate does not agree with a person, it causes them problems.
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I am looking to buy my first bass. What are the various aspects to look out for? I see the neck length as one. An other is the number of knobs it has. The minimum I usually see is 2. One for the volume and one for something else. Other basses have 3 or 4 knobs? But do you need them it you will use an effects pedal? Or with an amplifier it effects? So with the guitar knobs, pedal, and amplifier do you get diffent spots trying to do the same job? Could you not just use the pedal to do all the effects? I ask this cause I see it as cheaper to get a medium bass, and then a good pedal. Rather than a good bass with more knobs, and a medium pedal.
First of all I would recommend buying a used one since you will get better value for the price. Also if you decide to stop playing you can still sell the bass for roughly the same as you bought it for.
The Knobs you are referring to are the tone and volume pots (which is short for "potentiometers" or electric circuits that enable the attenuation of a signal to produce a change in volume or tone). Basically if a bass guitar has two pickups it usually has 2 or 4 knobs as well as a pickup selector. This will give you an almost infinite amount of possibilities. The tone knobs as well as the sound knobs can drastically change how your amp will behave for example. So they are not useless!
But, Still many people prefer not to use them at all, i.e. always using full volume and tone.
Others on the other hand like to fine tune their sound and hence mix with these. There are sound possibilities that you can't get to with any effect(a bit general!) without the tone knob.
What is more important than the number of knobs is the quality of the pickups. If you have bad sound from the beginning, no pedal will make it great.
So you should definitely go for a good bass and no pedal.
However a Bass with 4 knobs is not better nor worse than a bass with two knobs...
I will echo some sentiments; the bass you should buy is the bass that feels best in your hands.
Here are some tips from a Bass Player magazine article on the topic of buying a bass:
No matter what bass you buy, and whether it is new or used, you should immediately take it to a qualified repair luthier and pay them money to perform a setup. In a setup, the repair technician will make adjustments to the nut, bridge, frets, and truss rod on the neck to assure that the bass can easily be played with the minimium of effort, and that the bass will play in tune on all notes in all positions. The repair technician can also identify any defects in the instrument that may require repairs.
Many new musicians buy a bass or guitar and play it for months, not realizing that the instrument has not been set up correctly. The instrument is thus hard to play and does not sound in tune, which leads to frustration on the part of the new musician who does not realize that professional adjustment for a modest fee would have resulted in an instrument that is easy to play and sounds good.
Also, setups need to be performed periodically through the life of the instrument. Many things can go out of calibration due to the effects of seasonal climate, humidity, temperature, changing to a different kind of strings with different tension requirements, and other factors.
Get a bass that is comfortable in your hands, and which sounds nice in the shop. Don't buy anything without trying it first.
It's worth playing a bit on a borrowed instrument, until you can at least play a simple bassline in the shop. That gives you the ability to know what feels right to you.
One of the first ways they skimp on cheap basses, is in the neck. It's expensive to construct a neck that can support the tension of bass strings. The cheap way is to make the neck thick and heavy. If you don't have large hands, that can be a big impediment to playing. You'll notice the difference immediately in a shop.
If you have small hands, a short scale bass will feel much easier to play. Some people dislike the more muddy tone, but it's subjective -- go by what you hear, not what people say.
If you're on a budget, and you're a beginner, it's better to have a good quality instrument with fewer features, than a low quality instrument with more features. So just one pickup might be a good compromise -- you can't fiddle with the tone as much, but you may have a better instrument to learn on.
Don't forget to budget for a half-decent amp too. Also test this in the shop. The amp is an important part of the sound creation. It's very unsatisfying to play bass without being able to hear the low notes.
A multi-fx pedal gives you a lot of flexibility, but may not be necessary for a while, as you're beginning. At first it's enough just to play the notes. Later you may want to fine-tune the sound.


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Army Sgt. 1st Class Wyatt A. Goldsmith, a resident of Colville, passed away at Camp Bastion Hospital, Afghanistan, on July 15, 2011 while serving his country as a Special Force combat medic in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. Wyatt was born on Sept. 21, 1982 in Redmond, the son of John W. and Lorie L. (Torgerson) Goldsmith.Wyatt began grade school in Kirkland and in 1994 began sixth grade in Colville, following the move of his family. He was a 2001 graduate of Colville High School. Wyatt entered the U.S. Army in June of 2004 as a Special Forces recruit. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group from Joint Base Lewis-McCord and was serving his third deployment.Wyatt is survived by his, parents, John and Lorie Goldsmith, Colville; and by his sister, Nicole Goldsmith, Seattle. The Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 26 at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Colville. Graveside service will follow at the Calvary Cemetery in Colville. Memorial contributions may be given to the Special Operation Warrior Foundation. Please visit the on-line memorial and sign the guestbook at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory has been entrusted with the arrangements.


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SALADO (October 9, 2012)—A Salado woman has posted bond and been released from the Bell County Jail after her arrest in connection with a hit and run accident that left a pedestrian injured.
Ana Laura Govea, 39, was charged with accident involving injury-failure to stop and render aid in connection with a Saturday accident during which a pedestrian was struck by a pickup truck that left the scene of the accident.
Police were sent at about 7:50 a.m. Saturday to an address on Stage Coach Road, where witnesses said a pedestrian was struck by a red Ford pick up truck and did not stop.
Officers found pieces of the truck at the scene and identified Govea as a suspect.
Police arrested Govea when they found the truck and noticed a mirror missing.
She was booked into the Bell County Jail on Sunday and released on Monday after posting a $50,000 bond, according to the jail log.


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Listen to Pumpkin stories and decorate your pumpkin for the Halloween Fun Festival and Pumpkin Decorating contest. Ideas and supplies will be available. You may leave your decorated pumpkin at this time if desired, for display in the Children's Area! No registration required. Ages 4-10. Call 255-6558 for more information.


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This is a follow up to my previous question How to highlight the area in google map on mouse hover. In my application i need to highlight the area/place/region when mouse hovers. @simo pointed me out to try kml shapefiles to generate the polygons on mouse over.
Is there a open wiki where i can download the shapefile mappings of the real world boundaries.
I have searched but couldn't find any solid data. But i find this wikimapia kml integrated google map. This allows the wikimapia places/kml shapefiles to be rendered on top of google maps. This is pretty much what i need. But instead the whole wikimapia layer like this
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GRAND LAKE --Grand Lake is hot in the running for the World Fishing Network's Ultimate Fishing Town contest and is currently holding second place behind Cape Hatteras, N.C. The winner of the contest wins not only bragging rights and a short TV spot, but also $25,000 to be used for a fishing-related cause.
Anyone can vote during the contest and individuals are allowed to vote four times every 24 hours. One can submit votes to the worldfishingnetwork.com/uft. Voters have until 11:59 a.m. on May 3, to submit their vote for the first round of the competition.
After the first round of voting, the towns with the most votes will advance to the final voting stage. The final voting stage will end on May 24, at which time the voting will close and the total number of votes for each town tallied.
The contest also awards $3,500 to the town with the most votes in each region. Grand Lake is currently leading the southwest region in votes.
There are only eight days left to vote in the first round of voting, which will determine what towns will advance to the second round of voting.
With 4,014 votes by Monday evening, Grand Lake is currently trailing behind Cape Hatteras by a few more than 1,000 votes for the grand prize and is ahead of Fort Worth, Texas, by more than 3,000 votes for the regional prize.
Jim and Julie Gasner, who own Rocky Mountain Outfitters in Grand Lake, entered Grand Lake into the competition.
Jim Gasner sighted Grand Lake's numerous fishing opportunities and the year-round fishability and popularity of the area as reasons why Grand Lake is the ultimate fishing town.
Gasner said he thinks the town will need the help of all of Colorado to clinch the grand prize.
Being crowned as World Fishing Network's Ultimate Fishing Town would mean more air time for the small Colorado town, which was recently the subject of "Hotel Impossible," a Travel Channel TV show in which the host does his best to save a hotel on its way out. The Western Riviera was the subject of the "Hotel Impossible" show that aired in March.
Residents of Grand Lake hoped the TV show brought some added interest to the town and will ultimately bring tourism dollars into the small mountain town. Hopes are much the same for the World Fishing Network contest.


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LORENA (December 22, 2012)-A chain reaction of accidents involved 13 cars had Interstate 35 traffic moving extremely slowly just north of Lorena this morning.
Paramedics treated injuries at the scene but no one was transported to the hospital.
The first accident involved seven cars.
The slow down in traffic caused another accident involving four cars, shortly after that two more cars collided.
Several Department of Public Safety troopers along with police and fire units from Robinson were at the scene just after 9 a.m. trying to keep traffic moving near the 326 mile marker.
The crash happened in the inside lane of the highway and traffic was restricted to the outside lane on the northbound side.
An official from the Department of Public Safety said the accident was cleared at 11:28 a.m.


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Q: When does a kid get her period? She is already 12 and all she has is yellow discharge.
A: The age at which a girl will start to menstruate is quite variable. Some girls start as early as 9, others not until 15 or 16. The pattern of body changes leading up to menstruation is very specific and predictable though, and this can help you estimate when she will start to have her periods. The first pubertal change is the development of breast buds: a small amount of breast tissue under one or both nipples. The breasts then get larger, with the areola (the area around the nipple) protruding as well. It is approximately two years from the time the breasts begin to "bud" until the time the periods start. The other thing that happens during this time is the adolescent growth spurt. It usually occurs shortly after the breasts have started to grow. Girls will often grow many inches in a few months during this growth spurt. The other change that is notable is the development of pubic hair. This usually starts after the breasts begin to bud, though in many cases it can start first. Once a girl has a "triangle" of pubic hair and noticeable breast enlargement, it is likely that menstruation will follow soon. Many girls will get a small amount of vaginal discharge in the six months before the periods start, and this is another sign that it is about to start.
It is important to make sure that you have specifically talked with a young girl before this all happens. The changes in one's body that occur during adolescence can be very disturbing to young girls and it helps tremendously if they know what to expect, and know that they can ask questions as the changes occur.
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Why don't we use beta radiation to make our electricity? Since it is an electron being released/made, it would make sense to try and capture it. But, we obviously don't so. What am I missing in my logic?
From what I understand from the Wikipedia article on atomic batteries, the problem is not a physical, but rather a technological one: The currents are too low, the voltages too high and generally those contraptions have poor efficiencies.
Additionally, in general you want batteries to deliver a more or less constant voltage independent of the charge condition - this is what distinguishes good batteries from cheaper ones. You can imagine that a battery using a radioactive source will show a voltage drop somehow proportional to the decay of the isotope powering it, which is an additional unwanted characteristic.
The thing you are thinking about is something called 'direct charging generator' in the article:
I suggest you also check out the article on betavoltaics and references therein - those describe a more sophisticated approach to this technology using semiconductors.
We do use beta radiation for electricity production. In a typical fission reactor beta decay of fission products provides about 6% of the reactor power. As other types of radiation it is converted to heat and then to electricity. This energy is also the source of decay heat in the reactor.
Since this energy represent a small amount of overall power there is no engineering reason to try to convert this energy directly to electricity.
Beta radiation is used for electricity production. Devices that do this are called betavoltaics. Because of their low current output, they are only used for things that need a very small amount of power for a very long time. They are frequently used as "batteries" for things like spacecraft going far away from the sun, and used to be used as a power source for pacemakers.


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Greg Bull is used to a fast pace – the 1 a.m. telephone call and the quick trip to the airport; the photo snapped and transmitted so quickly he doesn't even get to look at it; the mad scramble to the next, much different, assignment.
Bull, who graduated from CU-Boulder in 1991 with a degree in journalism and mass communication, is an award-winning Associated Press photojournalist currently based in San Diego. Much of his work is at major sporting events, such as the 2012 Olympics, but he travels internationally to cover all sorts of stories.
"I love being able to go and be an observer in the events around the world. And these things are amazing to witness firsthand," said Bull.
Some of Bull's most memorable international events are the London Olympics and the earthquake in Japan that caused mass destruction and a nuclear crisis.
Bull's name popped up everywhere in the photojournalist world during the London gymnastics competition, when he captured a now-famous image of U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas suspended in midair as she leaped powerfully above the balance beam.
In the press of deadline, Bull sent the photo to his editor before he even looked at it, but he had prepared for the moment for months.
Excited by the photo prospects that gymnasts' high-intensity movements could create, Bull had asked his editor if he could attend the Olympic trials to study the sport and to take practice shots. After attending the trials and shooting the routines repeatedly, Bull was comfortable with the sport and knew the athletes' routines well.
On competition day in London, Bull took a mental step back from the awe-inspiring moment of being at the Olympics and anchored himself to complete the job. Because he had studied the performances, he knew that Douglas would execute her soaring leap above the beam during the women's individual all-around competition. When she was next up in the event, he focused high above the beam and waited patiently for Douglas to jump.
"Literally as fast as I could, I shot," he said. During the break when Douglas and the other athletes switched to different routines, he took the disc from his camera. The photo was edited, captioned and "was up on the wire five minutes after I uploaded it. It was up [on the website] eight to nine minutes after I took the photo."
The photo grabbed national and international attention. It earned Bull first prize in the 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and the AP Beat of the Week Prize in August 2012, and the photo made numerous "best of the year" lists.
Bull said experiences such as the London Olympics highlight the importance of immediate story and photo turnarounds in today's journalism.
The London assignment was just the latest in a series of high-profile shoots for Bull.
At 12:46 a.m. on March 11, 2011, Japan was hit by a magnitude 9 earthquake that generated a tsunami. Bull left for Japan five hours later on the last plane available before flights were canceled because of the quake.
When he arrived at the earthquake site, the scene was pure chaos. Bull and a team of other AP journalists set out for the damaged nuclear plant, but all roads were closed. They wended their way through the mountains and all the way around the island, but when they got to within 12 miles of the plant, a terrified police officer ordered them to turn around. The level of radiation was too high to go farther.
But Bull and his crew had to get photos. They traveled to the local fishing villages. On one beach, police officers were struggling to pick up victims' bodies. As the officers lifted a corpse, shouts rose from the top of the hill behind them. The officers dropped the body and ran up the hill. Bull was still snapping photos. One officer yelled at him to leave. Bull didn't understand Japanese, but the officer's frantic arm motions alerted him that something was wrong. Another tsunami warning was in effect. Panic took over. Bull and other journalists ran up the hill to escape the impending danger. The tsunami warning was a false alarm. But it was a scary moment for Bull and others on the beach.
After completing his assignment in Japan, Bull returned back to the U.S. Security officers at Los Angeles International Airport stopped him after detecting radiation on his jacket and bags. The levels were so high that airport officials forced him to throw them away.
Bull grew up in California. When it came time to pick a university, he decided he wanted different scenery and moved to Colorado, where he was exposed to photojournalism for the first time.
Paul Moloney, a professor at CU-Boulder from 1987 to 1996, taught Bull the basics of photography and quickly became his mentor. Bull initially set out to be a writer, but Moloney's class inspired him to switch to visual storytelling.
Maloney "had such a passion for the people that he covered and the places that he went," Bull said. "It drove it home for me that this is what I wanted to do."
Looking back on everything he has seen in the past few years, including his coverage of Haiti's 2010 earthquake and life on the U.S.-Mexican border, Bull said removing himself from human tragedies is difficult but also added a new perspective on life.
"Seeing earthquakes gives you a small sample of how much devastation there is in the world," Bull said. But even in the midst of horrifying tragedy "you nearly always see incredible human effort, strength and dignity both during and after the events. That resiliency is an inspiring thing to witness."
This story, by JMC master's student Natalie Boyd, originally appeared in the Spring 2013 edition of Bylines magazine.


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Ruth E. Kingsley, 86, of Sedgwick and formerly of Leon, died Nov. 11, 2012. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Walnut Valley Memorial Park Cemetery in El Dorado.
Ruth was born July 2, 1926 in Leon the daughter of Clarence and Fern Arnold Kingsley. Surviving family: brother, Philip Kingsley of Leon; sisters, Wilma Elston and Claudine Reding both of Wichita; and many nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by parents, sisters Maxine Franks, twin sister Ruby Ryman, and brothers C.E. (Gene) Kingsley and Robert Kingsley.
Memorial with Hospice Care of Kansas. Kirby-Morris Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
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