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Development in Birmingham during 2012-13
Past, Present and Future
More than half of the City's built-up area was developed before World War II, nearly a quarter before the First World War. Most of the remainder was developed for housing during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in comprehensive redevelopment areas in the inner City as well as outer estates. The overall extent of the built-up area since the 1970s has changed little because of the Green Belt and other land use planning policies. Just over half of land in the City is in use for housing.
At April 2013, 635 hectares (just over 6 km2) of land had a planning policy commitment for development (including planning permission). Most of the City's supply of sites for development consists of previously developed or 'brownfield' land. Some of these sites in older urban areas are affected by physical, service or ownership constraints that impede development and 10% of 'brownfield' land sites were derelict, requiring reclamation before they can be brought back into use. A smaller number of 'greenfield' sites, have been identified to meet specific needs including public open space.
- The supply of land for future development is constrained by the fact that much of the City is already built up. Many future development sites on 'brownfield' land are still in active use so cannot be identified until they gain a formal planning policy commitment (including planning permission) for redevelopment and the existing uses cease. Where these sites are developed for housing, they are sometimes described as 'windfalls' and make an important additional contribution to the supply of residential land for future development in Birmingham.
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236 dwellings were demolished during the year to April 2013, down on the previous year (371), and significantly lower than the last 10 year average of around 850. Three-quarters of these were located in the North West Area and 85% involved local authority stock, reflecting the continuing regeneration of estates. The demolition of Normansell Tower (Nechells) made up 106 of these dwellings. Other demolitions continued to take place in Aston and on the Primrose estate off Redditch Road in Kings Norton.
Taking into account demolitions, the net gain (from new build and net conversions) in the City's dwelling stock was 1,372 (including student dwellings), up on the previous year's figure of 1,187 and third consecutive year it has increased. However, it remains lower than the 2005/06 peak year when net gains were over 3,000.
Just over 50% of new build dwellings were concentrated in the wards of Ladywood (City Centre), Sheldon, Longbridge, Sutton Four Oaks and Shard End. Other wards with completions over 50 dwellings were in Nechells, Northfield, Aston, Selly Oak and Washwood Heath.
Of total dwellings completed, 94% of new homes were built on previously developed 'brownfield' land, compared with a current local Development Plan target of 82%. The figure for 2011-12 was 99%. The higher levels seen in recent years were due to Development Plan allocated 'greenfield' site developments coming to an end and the completion of several high density City Centre schemes meeting the Plan's commitments to 'City Living'.
- 17% (276) of net dwelling completions were located in the City Centre (Ladywood). The proportion of total dwellings completed in the City Centre has fallen significantly from around one-half in recent years. Completed sites included 149 student 'cluster' flats at Bishopsgate Street and 92 dwellings at Old Snow Hill, a mix of new build and conversion from a hostel (Ladywood). The remaining flats were completed on a site with a capacity of 105 under the latest mixed dwelling phase at Attwood Green, Bell Barn Road (Ladywood).
Of the 114 ha. of land under construction at April 2013, 56 ha. was being developed for purely residential use, plus 3 ha. of mixed use with residential. There were 1,871 dwellings (net) under construction, of which 1,749 were new build. 577 (31%) were in the City Centre including 186 private dwelling flats at the Birmingham Mint site, Icknield Street in the Jewellery Quarter, 80 at Granville Street, and 74 student flats at Moland Street, Aston (now completed).
Outside the City Centre, private tenure completed sites included 113 dwellings at Lickey Road (Longbridge), 81 dwellings at Sherwood Road (Hall Green), 63 flats at Lichfield Road, (Sutton Four Oaks), 49 houses at Rednal Road (Kings Norton), 33 houses at Long Acre and Compton Road (Nechells) and 33 houses at Hole Lane (Bournville). Sites under construction at April 2013 but now completed were at 'Parklands', Birmingham Great Park (Longbridge) for 100 dwellings George Road (Stockland Green) with a capacity of 111 and Shard End Crescent (Shard End), for 191 dwellings. A site at Mill Lane (Northfield) with a capacity of 152 was still under construction.
- Sites under construction at April 2013, included; the development at Ley Hill Farm Road (Bartley Green), Alma Way/Wheeler Street (Aston) and the next phase at Attwood Green, Bell Barn Road (Ladywood) for 132 flats. Other new starts include 57 dwellings at land to the rear of Hagley Road (Edgbaston), 49 Sheltered apartments at Church Road (Sutton Vesey) and 47 houses at Goosemoor Road (Erdington). There were also new starts at the Groveley Lane site in Bromsgrove, but created under the Longbridge Area Action Plan.
273 dwellings were completed through Housing Association developers, mostly for rent. During the year to April 2013 there were 445 'Affordable' dwellings completed on a mix of BMHT, Housing Association and private developer sites. Social housing (either 'social rent' or 'intermediate' including shared ownership) is secured through Section 106 Agreements on private or Housing Association developments.
Housing Association completed sites included the former East Birmingham College, Garretts Green Lane (Stechford and Yardley North) with a total of 90 dwellings, Spring Road (Edgbaston), Herbert Street (Nechells) and at Green Meadow Road (Weoley). Housing Association sites under construction (now completed) were a retirement village for 240 dwellings at Hagley Road (Harborne), land at Harvest Fields Way (Sutton Four Oaks) and at Elliot Road (Selly Oak).
- In the year to April 2013, 235 dwellings were completed through the Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust (BMHT), which is the City Council's programme of house building, working in partnership with private developers providing a mix of homes for sale and rent. Homes for rent are allocated by the Council to existing tenants who have applied for a transfer and houses for sale are marketed by the developers. Sites completed were on the Chestnuts Estate and at Admington Road (Sheldon), Couchman Road (Washwood Heath), Gower street/Alma Way (Aston), Pype Hayes Road (Tyburn) and at Lower Beeches Road, Egg Hill estate (Longbridge).
A further 215 BMHT dwellings were under construction, including sites (now completed) at Gorsymead Grove on the Egg Hill estate (Longbridge), Meon Grove (Sheldon) and at Old Moat Way (Hodge Hill). Following the completion of 43 dwellings at the Pool Farm Estate (Kings Norton), a further 49 dwellings at Owens Croft and Brooklea Grove/Hillmeads Road were nearing completion. Also under construction were sites at Grange Farm Drive (Kings Norton), Brunswick Road/Albert Road and Villa Street (Lozells & East Handsworth).
Residential care homes for the elderly were completed at Brooks Road (Sutton New Hall) and Streetly Road (Stockland Green).There were care homes under construction at Moseley Road (Nechells), and at Weoley Castle Road (Weoley).
Hotel completions in the City Centre were; 'Hotel la Tour', at Masshouse Lane (174 beds), and 'Hampton Hilton' at Cumberland House in Broad Street (285 beds). Hotels under construction but now completed were; 'Holiday Inn Express' at Snow Hill Plaza, Queensway (224 beds), 'Premier Inn' at the Exchange building, Stephenson Place (140 beds), a former warehouse to the 'Hampton Hilton' at Constitution Hill, Hockley, (109 beds) and former offices at 1 Martineau Place, Corporation Street (227 beds). Outside the City Centre, a Travelodge hotel was under construction (now completed) as part of a mixed use development of the new Longbridge town centre.
Student accommodation completed were 149 bed/studio flat dwellings at Bishopsgate Street and a 39 bed (22 flats) site at Harold Road (Edgbaston). Under construction in the City Centre included Aston University (Nechells), comprising 2,403 beds (now completed), representing a net gain of 286 bed spaces. Other sites were conversions of buildings at Moland Street (Aston), containing 74 dwellings and 271 beds (now completed), and at Bristol Street (Nechells). Outside the City Centre, sites were at Aston Webb Boulevard (Selly Oak) containing 144 cluster flats within 436 bed spaces (now completed) and at Dale Road with 120 beds, (Selly Oak).
Development for Non-Residential Uses
During 2012-13, 85 ha. of land was developed on completed sites of which 65% (55 ha.) were developed for non-residential uses. A significant proportion was developed for education use (30 ha.). 6 ha. was developed for retail, 5 ha. for health. 3 ha. for industrial/warehousing, 4.5 ha. for transport, and 3 ha. for leisure use. A further 3 ha. was developed as public open space.
Of the 114 ha. of land under construction at April 2013, 58 ha. were being developed for non-residential use including 16 ha. mixed uses and 9 ha. of education use.
Just 7,500 m2 of industrial or warehousing floorspace was built during 2012-13, down on last year's figure of 36,000m2. Sites included an industrial unit at Wing Yip Centre (Nechells), and one at Soho Pool Way (Soho). A warehouse extension was under construction at Holford Park, Holford Way (Perry Barr) and an Ambulance maintenance Hub is now completed at Birmingham Great Park, Hollymoor Way, (Longbridge).
Just over 15,000 m2 of A1 use retail floorspace was completed. Convenience floorspace included a Morrisons store at the new Edgbaston shopping centre, Hagley Road, in the City Centre and one at Coventry Road (Sheldon), both with 5 smaller units. 2,400 m2 of other retail (A3/A5 use) was completed, mainly in the City Centre. Just over 55,000 m2of retail was being developed including over 46,000m2 of convenience floor space together with mixed retail use or restaurants. Stores being developed were; an Asda at Barnes Hill (Bartley Green), a Sainsbury's (now completed) within the new 'Longbridge Town centre' which also comprises a further 25 mixed retail units with restaurants plus hotel. Also under construction was a John Lewis department store adjacent to New Street Station. This involves part demolition of 8 existing retail units in the Pallasades and development of 23,225 m2 gross comparison floor space plus 6 smaller units and restaurants.
Just over 36,000 m2 of office floorspace was completed during 2012-13 including Snow Hill Phase 2, Snow Hill Queensway in the City Centre. Just over 15,000 m2 was under construction including the 'Birmingham Mint' site, Icknield Street in the Jewellery Quarter (mixed commercial office and residential use) and the redevelopment of the former Post & Mail building at Weaman Street. Outside the City Centre, there was 4,800 m2 of office development under construction at Longbridge town centre phase 1, now completed.
Education developments completed included; a new research building at Aston University and a new building adjoining Millenium Point, at Cardigan Street (Nechells) for use by Birmingham City University to provide a new location for the Birmingham Institute of Arts & Design. New schools building projects included; replacement of Waverley School on a new site in Yardley Green Road (Bordesley Green), the replacement of Heartlands Academy in Great Francis Street (Nechells) and a replacement North Birmingham Academy at College Road, (Kingstanding). There were also new school Academy buildings at Shenley Lane (Bartley Green), St. Albans, Angelina Street (Nechells) and an engineering Academy at Dartmouth Middleway (Nechells).
Other school redevelopments were at; Four Dwellings primary school (Quinton), a new primary school at Soho Road (Soho), new classroom blocks and sports hall at Saltley school (Bordesley Green), and at Park View school, (Washwood Heath), extensions at Nansen (J&I ) school (Washwood Heath) and new classrooms at St Wilifreds RC school, Hodge Hill primary (Hodge Hill) and Worlds End primary (Quinton).
Education developments under construction included; student accommodation and facilities at Aston University, now completed, and a learning and resource centre at Charlotte Street in the City Centre for the University College Birmingham. The schools building programme included; King Edward V1th Sheldon Heath Academy at Sheldon Heath Road (Sheldon), now completed, and replacement of Harborne Hill school with a new Harborne Academy at Harborne Road (Edgbaston).
Health use developments included a medium secure unit at the Yardley Green Health campus (Bordesley Green), a Primary Care Centre at Bath Row, 'Attwood Green' in the City Centre and a new estates building at Heartlands hospital.
Community or Leisure completions were a new City Centre 'Eastside' City Park, a sports centre for Aston University at Woodcock Street and a youth, sports and IT/media centre at Alma Way in Newtown (Aston), as part of a new housing redevelopment scheme. Other new public open space within new housing sites included a children's playground at Mill Lane (Northfield) on former industrial land, and on the former Moor Green football ground off Sherwood Road (Hall Green).
The New Library of Birmingham at Centenary Square, Broad Street is now completed. Also under construction were the conversion of the Great Hampton Works building at Hampton Row (Aston) to a visitor centre and museum and the former Handsworth Girls School, Church Lane (Handsworth Wood) to community and sports use. Other Leisure developments included a sports pavilion, tennis courts and community use at Holford Drive Sports Hub (Perry Barr).
Most of the information on development in Birmingham comes from a computer database maintained in the City Council's Development Directorate Planning Service. Records go back to 1983. Updates come from a variety of sources including planning applications and building notices. All 'live' sites with outstanding full planning permission are visited as part of an annual stock-take.
Further Information
The land database service supports the Birmingham Development Plan, Local Development Framework (LDF) and other city-wide and local planning functions as well as economic development, housing and transportation strategies and statutory returns to Central Government, including the National Land Use Database (NLUD). For further information see the NLUD page on the Homes and Communities web site.
The City Council Planning Policies for Birmingham web page includes land use and planning policy information.
Details about current and future major schemes including Eastside, New Street Station and Paradise Circus can be found on the Developments page.
The Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) details the progress on delivering planning policies.
The statutory development plan is currently the Birmingham Unitary Development Plan Alterations. The Birmingham Plan (UDP) 2005, the main land use planning document up to 2011 contains strategic plans and policies covering the whole City. The emerging Birmingham Development Plan (formerly the Core Strategy) is not yet adopted but will set out the statutory planning framework to guide decisions on development and regeneration in Birmingham until 2031.
Note: A hectare equals a 100 by 100 metre square or 10,000 square metres (m2), roughly the equivalent of a football pitch. A hectare equals just less than 2.5 acres. There are 100 hectares in a square kilometre.
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I have a squealy floor below my carpet on the 2nd floor of my house. It sounds like the subfloor under the carpet is moving up and down a little and makes this awful load squeak when I step down on this specific location. It can be reproduced at will.
Fixing a squeaky floor beneath a carpet is a fairly complicated process that's probably best illustrated with video. This Old House provides a wonderful tutorial.
The procedure demonstrated at that link does not require you to pull up any carpet and uses scored screws to hide your work. This seems to be the most hassle-free way to do what one might expect to be a huge job.
If there's movement you'd do best to pull back the carpet and nail down the subfloor. Hopefully the squeak isn't in the middle of the room.
I had a squeaky floor at an old house, had to pull back a large chunk of carpet and drive a few nails through the floor to anchor it down.
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George Swan
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Place of birth
Plymouth, England
George Swan is a commanding centre-back with the ability to read the game and his strengths lie in winning the ball in the air and his timing of tackles. He can also get forward and score goals with his powerful long-range shots.
The defender joined City from Leeds United where his father made 49 appearances in the eighties. He had an injury hit season last season but Swan is expected to stake his claim oncemore after an operation on his knee gave him the all-clear.
Swan spent a month on loan at Norwegian Premier League outfit Stromsgodset towards the end of the 2011/12 campaign.


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In one West Philadelphia neighborhood, families come together in celebration of unity and togetherness. Their block parties provide a union that serves as a backdrop for discovering the truth about themselves and the people they think they know.
Best friends Neet and Shay have depended on each other for most of their lives. However, their friendship will be tested when Neet becomes pregnant by one of the corner boys and Shay arranges an abortion that goes terribly wrong.
To Shay's horror, Neet is left unable to bear children and embraces her mother's esoteric yet sometimes impractical religious beliefs as punishment for her sins.
Meanwhile, Shay is left to struggle with her own growing maturity, the grief of losing a cherished friendship, and the disintegration of her parents' marriage. The two girls eventually choose their own separate paths.Leaving Cecil Street invokes those things that are most important -- family, friendship, and love.
About the Author
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Is the Trinity considered Homoousios in spirit only or also in matter? We are taught that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. That would be a problem if Jesus was Homoousios physically.
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The Bible specifically reveals God as spirit, that is, not physical (John 4:23). So, Jesus took on flesh (the physical dimension), but this was something new. God--the Father, Son, and Spirit0--exist outside of the physical universe. God created the physical universe, so He cannot be inside the physical universe.
So, no, Jesus took on flesh, but neither the Father nor the Spirit did so.
It should also be noted that the law that states matter can be neither created nor destroyed is a natural law and applies to natural things. Obviously, when God created the heavens and the earth, matter was created. This was done supernaturally. So, we have to make sure we apply natural laws only to natural processes and not force them upon God. Jesus certainly was not bound by natural law when He fed the 5,000, raised the dead, healed the blind and many other things.
There's a big difference between "homoousios", which means "same substance", and "homoiousios", which means "similar substance". It was precisely this difference that caused such a ruckus at the Nicene Counsel. Homoousios is the correct term as chosen in the Nicene Creed, and it refers to the spirit, since God is spirit and has not a body like men.
The divine nature of Jesus Christ is homoousios with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. The human nature of Jesus Christ is fully man, like anyone alive today, only without sin.


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Men and women today are not conditioned for the degree of sacrifice that parenthood, and above all motherhood, requires. This is, I believe, the reason the transition to parenthood is so volatile for us, and why so many of us have a personality conflict with the baby stage.
Most of us develop more respect and empathy for our mothers and the sacrifices they made for us after we join the ranks of motherhood ourselves. Nevertheless, approximately 82 percent of us believe we are doing as good a job, or a better job with our children than our mothers did with us, according to Parenting magazine.
Any way you look at it, parenthood is much harder today than when we were small. Despite having options to work at home or outside the home, to have babies or not we feel we have few real choices. The new world that was supposed to accommodate smart, career-oriented moms and equal partnerships in marriage never materialized en masse.
Postpartum Support Meant Neighbors and Casseroles
Neighbors, coffee klatches, and church call-chains rallied around new parents of my mother's generation, making possible time off from Baby and iceboxes stocked with casseroles. Although we have mandated maternity and paternity leaves, support today is not comparable to that which many of our moms received, when a great number of women were still at home and readily chipped in to help one another's families.
Stay-at-Home Was the Norm
While many women in our mothers' middle- and upper-middle-class circles received college degrees and spent some time in professional life, most also relinquished work when they had children. Though their material expectations were modest, our moms could, in many instances, afford to stay home with us full-time when we were small.
Today 65 percent of moms with small children are in the workplace. According to Time magazine, economic conditions demand that 60 percent of us are in the workplace to pay for bills, not to garner extravagances. Some of us work outside the home because we would otherwise be unfulfilled and thus intolerable mommies. But the mommy majority prefers part-time or flexible hours, which are hard to come by in our seemingly evolved marketplace.
Dads Stuck Around
Decades ago, having children solidified marriage, according to the statistics. These days couples who take the parenthood plunge increase their chances of divorce.
Our fathers and their fathers were the primary, if not only, breadwinners in our families, and were not expected to devote much time to child care. Today, husbands and fathers fully expect to be engaged in child care and have taken up a bigger role. In fact, as leisure time in America shrinks, many dads today feel gypped, unable to devote the hours to their children that they intended to.
There used to be an enormous stigma attached to being a single mother. Today single motherhood is accepted, even admired, and a much larger percentage of families are run by single-mom heads of households.
Our Parents Were Younger, Both in Years and Experiences
As youngsters, we ran circles around our moms the same way our children dizzy us. But most of our moms were in their twenties and enjoyed the staple of energy that younger adults possess.
Today, men and women are waiting longer to marry and have children, making us five to fifteen years older and considerably more fatigued than previous generations of parents. Virtually unheard of in our moms' day, some modern women are experiencing first-time motherhood in their forties and fifties.
Experts tell us that older parents do make better parents, lending greater stability, confidence and patience to this most exacting of jobs. Yet, greater complications beset over-thirty parents.
Moms of our era face a previously unimaginable double whammy: the tribulations of early motherhood simultaneous to the onset of menopause. The single mother of a four-year-old she adopted from China, Cathy in Phoenix is coping the best she can. "Menopause, including the surgery I had last fall to ease some symptoms, has been difficult. I make every effort not to inflict my grumpiness on my daughter but I am sure sometimes she senses it."
As older moms, we are more apt to feel the pinch of being in the sandwich generation and the need to care for aging parents as well. "My parents are in terrible health," Keesha from Detroit says. "I can't tell you how much pressure I'm under, working full-time, trying to take care of two kids under the age of five, getting them to the doctor at the same time I'm taking my father to the doctor, or going with my mom to buy a new walker."
We're older in years and in experiences. Those of us who enjoyed independent, career-focused, and self-indulgent but also self-defining years, feel every ounce of sacrifice involved in mothering. Brought up to seek self-fulfillment and individual happiness, we are not wired the same way as was the so-called "greatest generation" who lived during World War II. We were not immersed from birth in societal values that prized God and country, much less duty.
Indeed, researchers at San Diego State University report that older, wealthier couples grapple most with the transition to parenthood. In their formula for happiness, the salaried thirty- and forty-something set includes dinners out, frequent travel, and having time for themselves and their romantic lives. So their sense of deprivation and of having lost their modus operandi is often intense.
Intensive Mothering
Dr. Benjamin Spock encouraged our moms to trust their instincts. But we are subjected to the criteria of "intensive mothering," so named by University of Virginia professor Sharon Hays in The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood. Intensive mothering is demanding, child-centered, expert-guided, labor-intensive, and expensive, Hays says. Ironically, these demands come at a time when 75 percent of all American mothers are in the labor force, nearly 40 percent of them in full-time jobs.
Women accustomed to being overachievers embraced these outrageously heightened ideals for mothering. So that today, many of us manically second-guess ourselves, trying to do everything by the book, or by twenty child-care books that contradict each other. We throw galalike birthday parties for our kids and teach them to overdo and overspend, rather than appreciate simpler and less fabricated delights.
From What No One Tells the Mom by Marg Stark. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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LORENA (October 5, 2012)--A boil notice was issued for some city water customers after crews working on an I-35 construction project broke a water main.
Water has been shut off on the east side of Lorena, the South Meadows area and for all customers south of Lorena.
Specifically the boil water notice is in effect for South Meadows subdivision, Gibraltar, Evelyn, Rosenthal, Old Rosenthal, Sutton Place, South Old Temple, Creek Road, Telephone Road and all customers south of town.
City officials will notify residents when water is safe to consume without boiling.


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Meningitis Outbreak Update: List Of Hospitals Released
The government has named 75 medical facilities that received a potentially contaminated drug suspected of infecting 47 patients with meningitis nationwide.
The hospitals and clinics that have used the possibly tainted steroid are in 23 states, from New Hampshire to California and Idaho to Florida. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released their names and phone numbers so patients who have had spinal injections at these places can know if they're at risk for a rare and dangerous kind of meningitis.
The number of meningitis cases went up by 12 on Friday, but the number of deaths remained stable at five. The CDC says all 42 known survivors are still hospitalized, and officials expect more cases to emerge over the coming weeks.
The CDC urges patients who have received steroid injections in the past month to seek immediate care if they have headaches, fever, nausea, dizziness, slurred speech or confusion. Many who have received the potentially contaminated drug have escaped harm, however, and others have had only mild symptoms.
Close to 18,000 doses of the drug, methylprednisolone acetate, have been recalled by the Massachusetts pharmacy that made it. The drug is used to treat back pain.
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How many functions are there which are differentiable on $(0,\infty)$ and they satisfy the relation $f^{-1}=f'$.
Let $a=1+p>1$ be given. We shall construct a function $f$ of the required kind with $f(a)=a$ by means of an auxiliary function $h$, defined in the neighborhood of $t=0$ and coupled to $f$ via $x=h(t)$, $f(x)=h(a t)$, $f^{-1}(x)=h(t/a)$. The condition $f'=f^{-1}$ implies that $h$ satisfies the functional equation $$(*)\quad h(t/a) h'(t)=a h'(at).$$ Writing $h(t)=a+\sum_{k \ge 1} c_k t^k$ we obtain from $(*)$ a recursion formula for the $c_k$, and one can show that $0< c_r<1/p^{r-1}$ for all $r\ge 1$. This means that $h$ is in fact analytic for $|t|< p$, satisfies $(*)$ and possesses an inverse $h^{-1}$ in the neighborhood of $t=0$. It follows that the function $f(x):=h(ah^{-1}(x))$ has the required properties.
Wow. I remember that I thought exactly the same problem out of curiosity as a high school student but did not reach an answer. In fact, I was thinking about posting this problem on MathOverflow!
At least it is easy to construct one solution: f(x)=xφ/φφ−1, where φ=(1+√5)/2 is the golden ratio.
Edit: Corrected the calculation. Thanks to Aaron Meyerowitz for spotting the error!


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Ten Steps to Kick-Start Your Fashion Drawing Career
Build a portfolio.
A digital portfolio of your illustrations works for marketing in many cases, and a hands-on portfolio is great for client meetings and networking.
Be your own critic when putting together a portfolio. You probably have quite a number of drawings at this point, so choose your best fashion drawings and pull together an excellent body of work. Pick only choice pieces that you feel best reflect your style.


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I would like to draw a land for a motocross game. I've been thinking of Bezier Curves but I am not sure whether this is the best approach. Can you give me some advice? I want to do it in JavaScript, not very good choice but it's personal project so for time being it's OK.
Instead of beziers, you probably want b-splines or catmull-rom splines.
Usage: t ranges from 0 to 1, where the value interpolates the spline between two control points, and the floats p0, p1, p2 and p3 are represent the control points (previous, current, next, and the following). To interpolate n-dimensional curves, just call the functions once per axis.
The practical difference between bsplines and catmull-rom is basically that catmull-rom goes through all control points while bsplines are more smooth.
I found a couple of links that might be useful for others:
Example script of Bezier implementation in JS
It can be used from JavaScript or ActionScript to animate along a bezier path.
Online drawing script/plot, quite useful if you want to make some tests
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I asked about What is HTTP GET/POST Flooding Attack? recently and I got a few detailed answers about what they are and how they work.
Now I want to find out what are the disadvantages of them.
I asked about What is HTTP GET/POST Flooding Attack? recently and I got a few detailed answers about what they are and how they work.
Now I want to find out what are the disadvantages of them.
Main disadvantages (for the attacker) of that kind of flooding attack are:
It all depends on what you class as an "disadvantage" of such an attack, because it all depends on which end of the attack you're on. I'll assume you mean from an attacker's perspective, since that's the only way I can envision this question making sense.
The primary two disadvantages are based on monitoring and mitigation. HTTP traffic is heavily monitored by firewall / IDS / IPS infrastructure across most networks, and is likely to trigger alerts much faster than other DoS traffic. There are also many products and services tailored to mitigating HTTP DoS attacks, e.g. CloudFlare. As such, most DoS protection is focused around keeping the HTTP server accessible to legitimate clients. Alternative DoS mechanisms (e.g. HTTPS flood, SSH flood, SMTP flood, DNS flood, etc.) may be harder to block and monitor, since less networks tend to implement stringent monitoring and mitigation mechanisms for those services.
In terms of mitigation, all network traffic (especially rates) regardless of protocol should be monitored, and proper protection processes and mechanisms should be implemented. That way there's always at least a minimal layer of protection against DoS attacks at the IP layer.
When somebody floods with requests your server won't be able to serve all the customers, that is failing to serve the real customer. If you know Denial of Service attacks you can understand quickly. If you don't to just take a look at DoS attack.


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I'm saddened to report the tragic and untimely death of one of our students, Joseph Glantey, in an automobile accident on Wednesday morning. A senior math major and transfer from SUNY Binghamton, Joseph was driving back to campus following an ROTC physical training session at RIT, when his car skidded and collided with a truck. The death of a student is one of the most difficult events we ever face in a campus community. At this sad time, we send our deepest sympathy to Joseph's family, friends and fellow students, and especially those students at Geneseo and RIT who joined him in the ROTC program.
Joseph entered Geneseo through our Access Opportunity Program and was an academically talented, promising student who was actively involved with his campus and community and dedicated to the service of his country. We mourn his death and are making counselors available through Lauderdale Student Health and Counseling Center for individuals who wish to avail themselves of this service. At the current time, funeral or memorial arrangements are pending. We shall inform the college community when further information is available. Every loss of a student diminishes our community, and we grieve the passing of this young man from our midst.
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Simple Lifestyle May Limit Exposure to Chemicals
June 26, 2012 -- Concerned about exposure to the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) and other potentially harmful chemicals in the environment?
You may be able to reduce your risks by leading a simpler life in the fashion of the Old Order Mennonite (OOM) community.
The Old Order Mennonites are a Christian group who eat mostly fresh, unprocessed foods; farm without pesticides; and rarely use personal care products. The OOM community is known to have low rates of obesity, diabetes, and infertility.
In a small study, 10 pregnant women from the OOM community had significantly lower levels of BPA and phthalate (pronounced thal-ate) metabolites in their urine than pregnant women in the general U.S. population.
Researchers analyzed urine samples from the 10 pregnant OOM women for the presence and levels of BPA and nine phthalate metabolites. These results were compared to those of pregnant women who participated in the 2007-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
Although the researchers also gathered information on OOM participants' product use, lifestyle, and household environment within a 48-hour period prior to collection, they did not have similar data to compare for the NHANES.
BPA is a chemical used in the manufacturing of many metal food and beverage cans. It is also in napkins, toilet paper, tickets, food wrappers, newspapers, and receipts. Phthalates are found in cosmetics, scented candles, and plastics. These chemicals are considered endocrine disruptors, which means they affect hormones in the body.
But at least one expert tells WebMD that although this study showed higher levels of chemicals in some pregnant women, it doesn't prove that these chemicals have done any harm.
The new findings appear Neurotoxicology.
Follow in the OOM Community's Footsteps
"If you are concerned or afraid, you really can control your risk by limiting exposure to BPA and phthalates," says researcher Shanna H. Swan, PhD. She is a professor of preventive medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
Swan suggests that you can reduce your exposure to these chemicals by:
- Eating unprocessed foods
- Choosing organic foods wherever possible
- Avoiding canned foods (unless they are packaged in BPA-free cans)
- Minimizing your use of personal care products and cosmetics that contain these chemicals
- Choosing chemical-free cleaning products and personal care products
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Five directors re-elected to board of Carolina Alliance Bank
Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 7:48 p.m.
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Downtown Spartanburg-based Carolina Alliance Bank announced five directors were recently re-elected by shareholders during its annual meeting.
The directors, who were originally elected in 2010, will serve another three-year term that will end in 2016.
The group includes: Andrew Babb, president of Mid-South Management Co. Inc.; James Bearden, vice president of clinical research at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System; Norman Chapman, president of Inman Mills; Caleb Fort, a private investment manager; and D. Byrd Miller III, CFO of William Barnet & Son LLC.
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I'm a bit confused about this one. Does Ubuntu use two different window managers at the same time?
They're not used at the same time but I can see the cause of the confusion.
So while they might look similar in some aspects, apart from the actual theme files used, they're very different underlying code.
But why have both at all?
Because Compiz needs better hardware to run. Lots of people still don't have hardware that supports DRI, so Ubuntu includes both to give everybody a desktop.
It uses one or the other depending on your settings. If you open System -> Preferences -> Appearance and go to the visual effects tab, if you choose none then metacity is used, otherwise compiz is.
You can only use one window manager at at a time. As psusi has written Ubuntu chooses between Metacity and Compiz depending on your settings.
Metacity and Compiz are just the two window managers available in Ubuntu's standard setup but there are many more available and most of them can be used with Gnome. xwinman gives a good overview on what's available and has a short explanation on the general concepts behind window managers.


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San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Summer Camp 2013: Grades 9-12
- When Multiple dates from Jul 8 - Aug 16, 2013 [days & times]
- Where San Diego Zoo Safari Park, 15500 San Pasqual Valley Rd, Escondido, CA Map | Website
- Age limit 14+
- Categories Animals, Camps, Outdoors
- Cost $295 - $325
Above: Exterior image of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park sign.
Discover an adventure like no other during the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Summer Camp 2013! Children ages 14 through 17 can enjoy this 5-day camp adventure:
Work on the Wild Side
So you wanna be a keeper? A veterinarian? An exotic animal trainer? Try those careers (and more) on for size during a week working on the wild side. Explore the Safari Park in depth, meeting and shadowing professionals in all areas of animal care and conservation. You'll find out what it's really like to be a veterinarian with a trip to our state-of-the-art animal hospital and veterinarian meet-and-greet. You'll get to try your hand at zookeeping during one-on-one zookeeper shadows. You'll even see firsthand what it takes to train animals, from birds to cheetahs, when you get to shadow one of our animal trainers.
Hop on board a Caravan Safari truck for an opportunity to feed giraffes and rhinos and to see if field research is your thing. You'll explore off-exhibit, behind-the-scenes animal areas to meet exotic animals up close and have some amazing feeding opportunities plus meet animal ambassadors up close in private animal encounters. There's no place like the Safari Park and no summer camp like this one. Join the team and see if a wildlife career might be right for you!
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The biggest reasons one of your competitors pano head is so expensive is because they do not make enough pieces each time they set up the CNC machine in order to bring the final cost down. There is a cost in just setting up the machine. The more pieces you make, the more you spread out the cost of the set up between each piece. Once a machine is set up, you can run 1 part or 10,000 parts. The set up cost is the same. Unfortunately if you do not sell all the parts, you end up sitting on the inventory for longer than planned. That is something called planning.
The same thing is true for casting. The time it takes to set up the casting machine is the same, no matter how many parts you run. The difference is that casting a part is so much cheaper than machining a part. If you design a casted part correctly, it comes out of the mold completed (except for deburring and painting).
Nick has made a small run of the swivels using CNC fabrication. That gets the part to market. If enough people buy the swivel, and demand continues, casting becomes a very attractive alternative. Making a mold can cost $10,000 (+ or - a few K) and up. That cost needs to be spread out over the parts that get made during the life of the mold. Some molds do wear out and need to be repaired or replaced.
The previously mentioned competition (whose name cannot be said) CNC everything. Nothing is cast. While I have never used one, I am quite sure their pano head is a thing of beauty and works great. The cost, however, puts the price out of way too many people's hands.
For those of you who have seen my pano head, it takes me two days to manually machine the parts on my old WW2 Bridgeport mill. If I had a modern day mill, I could get that done in 1/2 the time and probably make 5 of them at once. For me to take the time to play in my garage in order to make my own stuff, time is not an issue. To start producing the pano head for market, that is a completely different story. Who out there would pay me for two days worth of labor plus the bit you would still have to purchase from Bill? Nobody would. About a dozen people have asked me, but are not willing to pay. No biggie. Nick has finally produced the design (ring mount, 180 swivel). I can't wait until it finally goes on sale. I may just break down and buy one.
Sorry to go on and on about machining parts. Machining is a hobby of mine (it was my profession for over 15 years). Photography is a hobby but does not pay the bills. I am just not good enough and there is way too much competition.
Thanks DennisS, for these explanations!
Most of it I already knew. But it is very interesting for me (German) to read all these specific, not daily used, idioms in English.
I guess that there is another competitor in Germany with the same problem regarding the price and low amount of pieces in cnc production. But this is another story.
It's probably inconsequential to the design and usage of what we're talking about but my impression was that machined parts are generally more durable than those that are from casting?
OK. I just got my nadir adapter just arrived and I have it on the NN5. Any tips on its use? How far do you move the tripod? Is it critical that the camera is "restored" to its original position when taking the nadir shot? Any & all tips appreciated to cut down on the trial & error cycle.
Measure from the center line of the pivot point to the center line of the lens. Double that and you have the amount you will need to move the tripod over. Using your favorite graphics editing software, you will need to rotate the patch shot 180 degrees so it will line up with the Nadir shot.
Make sure you orient your tripod and pano head correctly before you start. Go to the above link and you will see what your pictures should look. In order to orient my pano head, I had to use some paper shims between the tripod and head.
You may need to get a short center column, as a normal length column may extend down into the picture and overlap the tripod leg in the Nadir shot.
Before moving the tripod over, put a lens cap or something on the ground directly under the tripod. Use this as a reference when sliding the tripod over. Practice a few times and you will see you do not have to be precise, but you do need to pay attention to what you are doing. I carry two small rulers with me. After taking the Nadir shot, I put them on the ground next to the tripod legs, move the rig over, then pick up the rulers. Piece of cake.
It will be very interesting to see how this device impacts people's workflow. Some may embrace it, others may dismiss it without even trying it, still others may decide that hand held patch shots are quicker. Whatever gets the job done.
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Another question, what is the speed screw for? It doesn't seem to control the friction when swinging the adapter. Thanks.
Just a thought...
Mine is as tight as a drum, and I can't open the adapter with it locked (which is handy when I pick up the whole rig and move it).
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23 Jan 2012 12:24 PM #1
Little help with debugging?
I've got a rendering bug that I cannot duplicate with an easy test case so I'm trying to debug it.
The issue is a grid with 2 columns.
- standard column with flex of 1
- action column with width of 20
I've narrowed it down to when getColumnsForTpl is called for the chunker, header.getDesiredWidth () return "undefined" because width is not set:
else if (me.flex) { return me.width; }
23 Jan 2012 12:48 PM #2
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Could be the fact that you're trying to set a width lesser than the minimum for your action columns. I believe the min width value for Ext.Columns is 40, check the source for reference.
27 Jan 2012 6:17 AM #6
I've been using 20px columns for quite a while and they work elsewhere in the same system. I also don't see anything about a min width in the doc or column source, other than being able to set one for column re-sizing.
A min width of 40 doesn't make much sense with action columns which are typically 16x16 images.
Surly someone at Sencha knows where the width of a flex column is set in the new layout stuff?
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It's just a guess but like it or not, this is from the Ext 4.1 beta 2 code:
Ext.define('Ext.grid.plugin.HeaderResizer', { extend: 'Ext.util.Observable', requires: ['Ext.dd.DragTracker', 'Ext.util.Region'], alias: 'plugin.gridheaderresizer', disabled: false, config: { dynamic: false }, colHeaderCls: Ext.baseCSSPrefix + 'column-header', minColWidth: 40,
27 Jan 2012 6:50 AM #8
Ah, I see where you are getting that from.
That code is for the HeaderResizer grid plugin (which I am not using). It is the "default" minimum width to which the user can resize a column.
3 Feb 2012 11:54 AM #9
FWIW this wound up being caused by a button in a form much further down in the layout that was anchor: 'right'. Even with an anchorSize set on the parent container this caused a layout failure in the grid columns much further up in the layout.
Pretty sure it's a bug but, I've alreay spent enough time on this so I'll leave it for the next poor programmer who finds it to report...


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5 Insane Celebrity Product Endorsements by Historic Figures
It's always a little hard to see your heroes sell out. Most of us know we're getting old the day some rebellious rock song we liked as a kid gets used as the jingle in a shoe commercial. Or when Dr. Dre turns up in an ad selling us Dr. Pepper.
But selling out is an age-old tradition, and some icons from your history books were doing it long before musicians and athletes perfected the art ...
#5. Pope Leo XIII Advertised Cocaine-Laced Drinks
The Man:
This was the first pope of the mass-communication era -- he was the first to have his voice recorded and his image captured on video. He served from February 20, 1878 to July 20, 1903.
Via Wikimedia Commons
Here he is, totally not expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
The Endorsement:
Vin Mariani was a cocaine-laced wine and a predecessor to Coca-Cola, developed by a French chemist who struck it rich after realizing there might be some money in the coca business. The surprisingly addictive drink attracted admirers/junkies such as Ulysses S. Grant, Queen Victoria, William McKinley, Jules Verne, Thomas Edison, Alexandre Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson and a not-so-shocking-in-hindsight Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
As for Pope "Hollywood" Leo XIII, his addiction was so complete that he awarded the Mariani Company a Vatican gold medal "in recognition of benefits received from the use of Mariani's tonic" (i.e., for getting His Holiness coked out of his mind for a spiritual high not even found in faith).
"Jesus saved my soul, but coke saves my parties."
The Pope allowed his name and face to be featured on a Vin Mariani advertisement and, in a gesture of the recently defined dogma of Papal infallibility, reportedly carried a flask of the sweet stuff under his robes at all times. You know, for baptisms.
Via Joecrazy.com
"This town is like a great big pussy ... just waiting to get fucked."
Did It Work?
Better than anyone could have guessed. Pope Leo XIII ended up becoming the oldest pope in history and the third longest serving. Also, that whole Coca-Cola industry still seems to be doing pretty well.
#4. Mikhail Gorbachev for Louis Vuitton and ... Pizza Hut
The Man:
Nobel Peace Prize winner. Destroyer of walls. Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1987 and Man of the Decade for the 1980s.
Via Achievement.org
Though we like to think that Rocky IV helped make this feat possible.
The Endorsement:
It turns out that Gorbachev, the Nobel Prize laureate and dignified statesman who helped drag Russia into the modern world, was not one to turn down an endorsement opportunity.
First, you have his recent ad for Louis Vuitton travel bags ...
Via Nytimes.com
It's where he keeps his spare birthmarks.
... in which Gorbachev joins the ranks of Vuitton spokespeople like Madonna, Uma Thurman and Keith Richards. Yes, in the ad he's driving past the Berlin Wall. He's all, "That's right, I did that. Me and my Louis Vuitton here."
Oh, and you see that magazine poking out of the top of the bag? Apparently it's a conspicuously placed message about Alexander Litvinenko, the ex-spy Vladimir Putin is accused of having killed. OK, so maybe you figure Gorby took the Vuitton money just so he could get that little jab in at Putin.
But then you look back to 1997, and a certain Pizza Hut commercial that reminded the world that, for all of Russia's economic troubles, at least they now have good, American pizza.
Did It Work?
The Russian Federation is indeed the proud owner of at least one Pizza Hut franchise, so there's that. As for Gorbachev's legacy as a whole, Vladimir Putin and the Modern Warfare series have convinced us that we shouldn't go all "Mission Accomplished" on declaring Russia to be a freedom-loving friend of the West.
Come on, guys! He won Man of the Decade! He helped kill communism, and the best capitalism can do for the guy is make him advertise pizza and expensive purses?
#3. Theodore Roosevelt Sold Fox Shotguns
The Man:
He was the 26th President of the United States. A Nobel Prize laureate. An arm-wrestling champ. The type of man you could have killed a plate of wings with before they were even out of the fryer.
He invented the Panama Canal so the Atlantic and Pacific oceans could have sex while he watched. He killed more animals than a fast food chain, fathered six children that we know about and was reportedly bulletproof on account of what we can only speculate was the world's first adamantium skeleton.
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"Doctor, there's like six other bullets already in here. They're ... reproducing."
The Endorsement:
There was really only one product this man could have loaned his face to: A goddamn shotgun.
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This ad alone was legal tender.
While countless companies cashed in on whatever they could slap TR's trademarked grin onto, only one succeeded at actually obtaining his official endorsement: the Fox Gun Company, for a 12-bore FE-grade double-barreled shotgun they built specially for the man while he was still president.
Via Jamesdjulia.com
"You can tell the army their services are no longer needed."
TR would later describe the buckshot launcher as "the most beautiful gun I have ever seen," and even plugged it in an article for Scribner's Magazine: "I had a Fox No. 12 shotgun; no better gun was ever made." Whether he was on safari or fighting Bigfoot with the scattergun remains up to interpretation. Just ask "Sharpwriter," who made this amazing chunk of awesome:
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That's right, you can buy this.
Did It Work?
Let's put it this way: If you were to ask us "Can we kill a zombie-bear with it?" we would have to answer "Yes." Because we believe what Teddy Roosevelt tells us. We have seen that "big stick" he always spoke of, and it is a goddamn boomstick.


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David Kocieniewski is a business reporter who has been covering the nation's tax system for The New York Times since 2010. Previously, Mr. Kocieniewski had been a reporter on the paper's Metro desk since 1995 where he focused on law enforcement, corruption and its offshoot and the New Jersey government.
In 2013, he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting "for its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers."
In 2011, Mr. Kocieniewski examined the efforts by businesses to lower their taxes and the debate over how to improve the tax system in a series titled "But Nobody Pays That.''
In April 2012, the series was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. The Pulitzer jury said his work "penetrated a legal thicket to explain how the nation's wealthiest citizens and corporations often exploited loopholes and avoided taxes."
Mr. Kocieniewski joined The Times in 1995. Previously, he worked at The Detroit News from 1986 to 1990, and New York Newsday from 1990 to 1995. He has covered criminal justice and politics for most of his career.
While at New York Newsday, he wrote a series of stories about corruption in the New York Police Department that led to the Mollen Commission hearings and won a handful of awards from various organizations, including the New York State Bar Association and the National Association of Black Journalists.
Mr. Kocieniewski is the co-author of "Two Seconds Under the World," a book about the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the F.B.I.'s failure to takes steps that might have prevented it. He also wrote "The Brass Wall," an exposé about corruption in the police department's Internal Affairs Bureau that nearly cost a hero undercover detective his life; the book was cited as one of the top 10 nonfiction books of 2003.
Mr. Kocieniewski was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1985, and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1986.
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As followers of Jesus, we are meant to toss back the covers, climb out of bed, and drink in the fullness of life God intended for us. We are called to live alert to the wonders all around and within us that expand our desire to know God more.
Yet the focus on the functionality of ministry combined with the increased sense of familiarity can numb us to the marvelous work to which we've been called—encouraging people to walk in the fullness of all God has called and created them through Jesus Christ.
Here are a handful of things that can pull us away from living wonderstruck and experiencing the daily splendor of knowing Jesus as we lead:


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21 Jul 2009 5:29 AM #1
How to read XML files in ExtJS locally?
Hi all -
I am using ExtJS locally for development.
The XML Grid Example on the Samples page runs fine:
but when I try to run the same example from the extjs directory, the XML data does not get loaded:
This is a major roadblock to me. Could someone suggest me on how can I run these examples locally?
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Publish them on a local webserver (Apache?).
(or you could use the ext-basex user extension to add local file access support)
21 Jul 2009 5:36 AM #3
Hi Condor,
Thank you for your response.
I would like to use ext-basex user extension but I do not know how to use it.
I had found a thread by Doug Hendricks:
but it has so many posts that it is turning out to be really difficult to follow. So, if you don't mind, I would appreciate if you could tell me in simple steps on what should I do to run these XML examples locally?
Thanks- K
21 Jul 2009 5:59 AM #4
If you can't read/follow that thread, I would say you shouldn't be using that extension. Start from the top of it and look at Doug's examples and code. It's not difficult to use if you take the time to understand it.Tim Ryan
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You are referring to the following thread right?
Earlier, I pasted the thread on localXHR.js and then I later realized that there is a separate thread on Ext-baseX.
Correct me if I am wrong.
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Use the ext-basex.js file from this post.
ps. You might need to set:
Ext.lib.Ajax.forceActiveX = true;
Also, in Firefox you can only access file below your current directory (or you need to change a security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy in about:config).
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Thank you so much for the instructions. I was able to get it working.
Great support!- K
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Can ext-basex.js be used on Ext 4.1?
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Sunset Speedway Park was back in action on Saturday June 7th. And with the $25.00 Car Load Special being offered a good turnout of race fans were on hand at the "Banks Bullring". Classes racing included the IMCA Modifieds, Street Stocks, Pure Stocks, 4-Bees, and Womens divisions.
A good field of IMCA Modifieds were on tap for their third race of 2014. Jake Van Ortwick from Scappoose was ultra-quick in his MAPS Auto Center/Andone Enterprize/DFI Performance/Justin Russell Trucking #53V Rayburn. Rob Ireland of Banks would eventually seize the lead but he was by no means out of the woods yet as Van Ortwick kept the pressure on him. Ireland would hold on despite Van Ortwick nearly retaking the lead on the final lap. Ireland became the third different winner in as many races at SSP in 2014 and it was a big win for the defending champion in his Ireland & Ireland at Law/Privateer Racing/Applebee Aviation #8 machine.
Jake Van Ortwick would finish a respectable second while in third place was Aloha's Doug Lockwood in his Aloha Station Tavern/Perfection Automotive/Ross Electric/Curtis Trailers #66 Shaw. Brad Gentry from Lafayette in the T-N-T Motorsports/Busy Bee Cleaning/Willamette Valley Automotive #2G Loose Gruff crossed the stripe in fourth while Chris Hallberg of Sandy was fifth in his Marty's Transmissions/All-In Property Investments/Baldwin Motorsports #01 FR1.
In Street Stock action the Shattercrystal.com Game Codes/McCutcheon Fence/AFT Race Engines/Van Raden Industries #32 Camaro of Robert Summerhalder from Portland was dominant in the first half of the race before losing the top spot to John Ireland of Banks. Ireland, and father to Rob, was searching for his third win of the season but unfortunately some mechanical issues with his engine would put the Ireland & Ireland at Law/Privateer Racing/Applebee Aviation #88 Monte Carlo out of action prematurely. That would give the lead to Brian Roden of West Linn. Roden would lead the remainder of the laps to pick up his first win of the season in his JNR Construction/Molecular Motion Inc./Dockweiler Stainless Steel Tube Systems #14 Camaro.
Last week's winner Earl Claypool Jr. from Hillsboro was second in the Beaverton Machine Shop/Customs by RC/JNR Construction #3 Camaro and crossing the wire in third was the A.F.T. Racing Engines/Aftermarket Enterprises #5 Camaro of Marc Farrar out of Sherwood. The Eric's Frame Shop/All-American Classics/Sign Of The Times/Tom's Performance #96 Monte Carlo of Danny O'Neil Jr. from Vancouver, Washington was fourth and the Sweere's Auto Body/Sweere's Trucking/Tire Factory of McMinnville #37 Camaro of McMinnville's Freya Smith was fifth.
In Pure Stock competition Vancouver, Washington's Bert Pegg seemed to be on his way to his first victory of the campaign. The Pegg Boys Racing/Kenton Station/Pfeifer's Mobile Concrete/Local Glaziers #17 Firebird was on a rail but unfortunately would get sideways after Ken Shauve, in the Creekside Mortgage #05 Nova, got together with him while challenging for the lead. That would give the lead to Forest Grove's Trevor LaBarge. LaBarge blazed the trail the rest of the way to win his second consecutive victory in his Pure Addiction Diesel Performance/S&R Motorz/Courtesy Auto Body #7 Camaro.
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If $\frac{1}{2r}∫^{x+r}_{x-r}f(t)dt=f(x)$, show that there exist constants $a,b$ such that $f(x)=ax+b$.
I tried to do this by fixing x at $x_0$ and r at $r_0$ and tried the contrapositive approach but got stuck. Can someone guide me in the right direction...as in how to start on this problem...and what ideas would be relevant in trying to prove this.
I understand what is happening. The mean value of the function is basically the value of the fucntion at the center of the interval. I just don't know how to start on the proof.


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Another batch of code from Microsoft licensed under GPLv2... That is two so far this week. Very interesting!
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There doesn't seem to be a way to indicate that one only likes a person with whom one is friends, rather than loves them. Is there a way to indicate this while still referring to the friend as 'tu'?
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If "Je t'aime" means "I love you", how do you say "I like you" in French while still addressing the other person as "tu"?
Je t'aime bien (literally: I love you much).
To change "love" to "like", you need to modify it with an adverb.
Je t'apprécie
Je t'aime bien like Andrew Lewis suggests will work fine too, but it is safer to use Je t'apprécie with same sex persons.
In fact, to like is often translated as apprécier in French.
Generally, one would use:
However, if you want to be more formal, then use rather the following:
If you speak French with a foreign accent, then I suggest you use the second sentence as it sounds less naïve than the first one, which could be directly taken from the first lesson of any learning course.
"I like you" can be translated by:
More casually, "Tu es sympa"
You can even say "Je t'aime", but you need non-verbal communication like intonation and gestures, or some context or background with the other person that can avoid any misunderstanding.
Friends usually address themselves with "Je t'adore" or also you could make périphrases like "J'apprécie beaucoup être [en ta compagnie|avec toi]".
Another good expression Tu me plais.
As other said, you are dealing with an untranslatable term. Languages support cultures, and different cultures build different social relations.
In French, there's no equivalent to like, just like there's no equivalent to vous in English. Of course one may use different language register in English, as well as one may express a whole shade of relational feelings in French. But it will be reflected in more complex constructions that you can't sum up in a one to one locution translation.
Using tu is already a way to express a more intimate relation. If you want to express that you like to spend time with a friend, you may say "je suis heureux qu'on soit ami(e)s, tu sais?". But as said, you will need to be more specific on what you want to express.
I like you can be translated to 'je te kiffe' as a familiar language. Its origin is Arabic, see kiffer on the Wiktionary.


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I've finished the mod, and figured the least I could do is leave a review!
: The scope of this mod is just tremendous. It definitely has an epic feel to it. Part of that is the total number of planets, part of it the ship (more about that later). It's clear you put a ton of work into this, and it shows in a big way.
Planet Number and Variety
: As I said, the number of planets is impressive -- and I love that there's variety to their total size. It was a smart move having a couple planets/stations that are only one or a few modules. The "quick stops" create a movie-like experience that's a lot of fun.
The Ship
: What an inspired choice to use G0-T0's Yacht as the basis for the player's main transportation. While it could get tedious running around to look for people, it was well worth it. Beautifully done. I also appreciated the attention to detail of using the shuttle to travel down to planets, and the airlock to travel to the station.
Extra Companions
: Having people on board that weren't members of your "party," but with whom you could interact, was tremendous and really added to the immersion factor.
: This is a great, great storyline. It's totally believable and logical, neither lacking in depth nor overly complicated. Tremendous stuff.
Voice Acting
: Some of the voice acting in here is incredible and wouldn't seem out of place in KOTOR or KOTOR II. Kannos, in particular, is just wonderful. There's no "straight readings" with this guy. He clearly thought the character through, is conscious of what each line means, and delivers all his dialogue with flair. Kreia is also wonderful. The impression of the KOTOR II actress is great, and here again we have someone that's not just reading lines -- she's acting. Others that are very solid include Shenna, the Exile, Atton, and the voice actor who seems to do a lot of the "old men" and "authority figures" (Grenn, the Czerka station chief, etc.).
: Choosing between multiple apprentices, having interesting romantic sub-plot options, a shape-shifting Jawa, a big lizard with a sophisticated speaking style, and having so many options for the ending were great and gave the name a very unique feel. Additionally, the way Freedon Nadd was used (including your initial meeting, the trials, the potential apprenticeship) was a welcome surprise.
Voice Acting
: Some of the voice acting is... not quite up to par with the Kannos and Kreia performances.
The build-up to finding Revan was epic and very well-done. So, it was doubly disappointing to discover that Revan was... a high school kid doing his best gravelly voice. This is made more glaring because Revan is constantly saying things like "my child" and "I must be pushing 60." Sometimes I would mute it when Revan was talking because it took me so far out of what was happening. There were a number of other voice actors in the game that would seemed better suited to portraying Revan, so it was a strange choice to me.
Another one that "took me out of the game" was Cressa. This was mostly because the lines are delivered flatly, in the same tone of voice no matter what he was saying (he'd make a joke in the same cadence as he would deliver the news the galaxy was about to die), and far too quickly. It almost sounded like the voice actor was running late for something and wanted to blow through his lines as quickly as possible.
Bastila also left a lot to be desired.
Computer-Generated Voices
: Some of these, such as Freedon Naad and Tholn, worked. But most of them heavily damaged the immersion factor and did a disservice to the dialogue, story, and dramatic tension. Tsig has such an engaging personality (based on the dialogue) that it's really disappointing she didn't get a voice actress. Her side quest wouldn't have had to be changed either.
Comedic Moments
Star Wars
, and the KOTOR games specifically, are known for having light moments to ease the tension, but they're always well-timed and have a certain decorum about them. I felt like most of the comedic moments in the mod came at the wrong time and didn't "feel" like Star Wars humor. The two moments that immediately come to mind are: Revan's "you can all ask me one question" scene on the ship; and Revan saying "with this fleet I pulled out of my ass?" at the Senate. That didn't feel like Star Wars, came at a bad time, and felt juvenile for a venerable Jedi like Revan.
: Some of the worlds feel very empty. There's not a lot of people to interact with (many don't even have the quick little "talk bubble" above their head), and there's a surprising dearth of enemies compared to KOTOR and KOTOR II. Leveling-up can feel almost irrelevant at times.
The Ending
: I didn't find the ending very fulfilling. The resolution of the main plot was good, but the "epilogue" fell flat for me. To have the entire scene dominated by Bastila and Carth, two characters that didn't feel central to my play-through of the mod, without a glimpse of the player character (or his other companions), was disappointing. It felt like: "I went through all of that just to hear Bastila prattle on pedantically and then fade to black?"
Final Verdict
This is a terrific mod. There's a lot of bugs to be worked out (I've mentioned several of them at other points in the thread), but as you noted, it's only a beta and it's very playable.
The amount of work that went into this is amazing. It's a great achievement, and you should be proud. The positives definitely outweigh the negatives and I had a ton of fun playing it. Thank you for sharing this with all of us. The storyline's terrific, and it's a satisfying follow-up to KOTOR II after years of it leaving us hanging!
Wonderful job.
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15045 F.M. 2154, Wellborn, TX 77845 |
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Phone: (979) 690-3002
Specialty Dishes: Roman Sausage Sandwich, Italian Sausage, Burgers, Pizza
Guy Fieri jumps back to the 1940's at The Hullabaloo Diner, a New York-themed restaurant in Wellborn, TX, that serves east coast Italian sausage and peppers with southwest service, on Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
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- Roman Sausage Sandwich Recipe courtesy of Rich Risbon at Hullabaloo Diner, Wellborn, TX


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