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26 Jun 2012 7:55 AM #1
Actions: touchmove
I have realized five scenes with Sencha Animator. I have applied the "touchmove" event to pass to the next or previous scene.
I have exported my project in html5 to see the pages in a iPad with a browser. The "touchmove" action functions properly, but if I am tapping the screen for 1 second or more, the page changes even if I have not set any other action in Sencha.
How can I do in Sencha Animator to avoid the tapping?
Thank you in advance.
26 Jun 2012 2:37 PM #2
Does that happen if you turn off the touch move action?
26 Jun 2012 10:52 PM #3
Thank you for your reply. It's just I would like to try. As soon as done, I will post it.
26 Jun 2012 11:28 PM #4
I tried: I turned off the touchmove action (there are no action on the button now), and the tap on screen does not activate.
Any suggestion?
27 Jun 2012 9:54 AM #5
So by tapping the screen long enough (or perhaps by just a sight movement) the touchmove action gets called, and that is how the browser behaves.
So to avoid having your long taps to interfere, you could record the time when the touchstart event occurs, and then avoid switching scene in the touchmove action if a certain amount of time has passed. Note that this requires you to write JS code yourself using the custom JS action.


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I am facing a problem. After installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using Live CD, at the reboot there is no boot option to choose the OS. I directly get logged into my Windows 7.
Before that i was having an issue with the 'nomodeset' if not mistaken .After ticking [x] on the nomodeset, i can install my Ubuntu, but got stucked again at choosing the partition option.
So i did 2 partitions for Ubuntu, 1 partition as ext3 for / and the other 1 for swap. Which enabled to proceed until the finished installation dialogue, and after that system wants to reboot .It takes some time and gets stuck at the screen doing nothing, doesn't reboot at all.
I did forced shutdown then rebooted again which directly logs me in windows 7 without boot option. In win7 the partitions for Ubuntu is gone.
I tried the boot-repair thing and it doesn't help .It just shows up the _ Blank Cursor (terminal thing i guess). I typed boot repair but still the same result.
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What is the difference between a "job" and a "process"?
A process is any running program with its own address space.
A job is a concept used by the shell - any program you interactively start that doesn't detach (ie, not a daemon) is a job. If you're running an interactive program, you can press CtrlZ to suspend it. Then you can start it back in the foreground (using
While the program is suspended or running in the background, you can start another program - you would then have two jobs running. You can also start a program running in the background by appending an "&" like this:
For more information on jobs, see this section of the bash man page.
UNIX has separate concepts "process", "process group", and "session".
Each shell you get at login becomes the leader of its own new session and process group, and sets the controlling process group of the terminal to itself.
The shell creates a process group within the current session for each "job" it launches, and places each process it starts into the appropriate process group. For example,
A process is a (collection of) thread of execution and other context, such as address space and file descriptor table. A process may start other processes; these new processes will belong to the same process group as the parent unless other action is taken. Each process may also have a "controlling terminal", which starts off the same as its parent.
The shell has the concept of "foreground" jobs and "background" jobs. Foreground jobs are process groups with control of the terminal, and background jobs are process groups without control of the terminal.
Each terminal has a foreground process group. When bringing a job to the foreground, the shell sets it as the terminal's foreground process group; when putting a job to the background, the shell sets the terminal's foreground process group to another process group or itself.
Processes may read from and write to their controlling terminal if they are in the foreground process group. Otherwise they receive
Above definitions are very technical but maybe the op wanted a more day to day clarification. I think that a job is a scheduled process. When we deal with processes in general there is not necessarily the notion of schedule, but when we use the word "job" we always mean that it is scheduled, or repetitive like a loop, it's like a worker.


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Why was Belgium created as opposed to grouping the Fracophone Walloons and the Dutch-Speaking Flemish with their respective linguistically similar neighbor countries; France and the Netherlands?
First, Belgium wasn't created by uniting the Walloons with the Flemish, but by secession from the Netherlands. This event is known as the Belgian Revolution.
According to the linked Wikipedia article, one of the reasons for the revolution was that many future Belgians, even Flemish, "regarded King William I's rule as despotic".
Moreover, Belgians are Catholic, while the Dutch are protestant. The Belgian Revolution happened in 1830, when nationalism wasn't very popular yet, so linguistic similarity didn't play as big a role as a common religion.
This explains why both the Walloons and the Flemish wanted to secede from the Netherlands. Why not join France? I don't have a good answer, but again, since there was little nationalism (or nationalism wasn't linguistic), there was little reason to do so.
In the middle ages, Belgium and the Netherlands belonged to an area called the "Low Countries". In 1384 this area came under the dominion of the Dukes of Burgundy, starting what is known as the "Burgundian Netherlands". These domions were merged into the Spanish crown as a result of the political marriage of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I to Mary of Burgundy in 1477. Their son Philip "the Handsome" became King of Castile due to his own marriage to Juana "the Mad" of Castile. He inherited the territory and passed it on to his son with Juana who became simultaneously the Holy Roman Emperor Karl V and the King of Spain (formally King of Castile, Leon and Aragon) Carlos I. This personal union ended with Carlos' son becoming king of Spain Philip II and Carlos' uncle (son of Philip I) becoming Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. The settlement was that the Low Countries remain with Spain (the "Spanish Netherlands")
In 1568 the Dutch Revolt erupted with seven north provinces of the Spanish Netherlands splitting from Spain and becoming the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (the Dutch Republic). From this point the histories of Belgium and Netherlands diverge. The roots, however, are in earlier differences, in particular the dominance of Catholic Christianity in the south and Calvinism in the north. In 1648 Spain recognized the Dutch independence in the Peace of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years War. The south part remained Spanish, known as the "Southern Netherlands".
In the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Sucession, in 1713, the Southern Netherlands passed to Austria in compensation for the Austrian claim on the contested Spanish crown. During the War of the First Coalition the First French Republic conquered the region from Austria in 1794. The conquest was recognized by Austria in the Treaty of Campo Formio ending the war in 1797. After the French defeat in 1814, the Congress of Viena formed a new Netherlands monarchy headed by William I, previously Prince of Orange (the Princes of Orange were semi-official monarchs of the Dutch Republic). This monarchy covered the entire Low Countries region, thus unifying south and north again. However, the union didn't last long. In 1830 the Belgian Revolution erupted for numerous reasons including under-representation of the south in the States-General (the north and the south had an equal number of representatives even though the south had a somewhat larger population). The south thus became an independant Kingdom of Belgium with the backing of France (which just had its own revolution: the July Revolution which replaced the House of Bourbon with House of Orleans). Leopold of the German house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was crowned as king in 1831.
The creation of Belgium STARTED when the (Protestant) Netherlands seceded from the (Catholic_ Spanish Netherlands in the 16th century, reducing it to modern "Belgium," under Hapsburg rule.
After the Napoleonic wars, "Belgium" was briefly reunited with the "Netherlands" in a forced "merger" as part of the peace settlement. It was unhappy under Dutch rule, rebelled in 1830, and became an independent country in 1839.
Belgium seceded from the Netherlands under treaty in 1830. This was intended at the time to establish a permanent protestant majority in the northern part of the Netherlands, by splitting the existing Roman Catholic majority, who, for their part, were unhappy with the ruling dynasty's attempts to create an establishment protestant church. It probably had that effect at time. However, the small protestant majority created in the north probably only lasted for a relatively short while, as subsequently there has almost always been a small Roman Catholic majority in the (remaining) Netherlands, at least amongst those remaining who claim to be Christian. - There are echoes in the UK's creation, for similar reasons, of Northern Ireland in 1921.


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I've skimmed through the books but I'm a little confused about powers. Unarmed monks for example get +3 Atk and 1d8 naturally. Is the +3 only added to rolls when you make a basic attack or does it get added to your abilities? For instance I use Drunken Monkey, it is only my D20 roll + Dex modifier to hit vs. Will, and whatever damage it does right? If so, do weapon proficiency bonus' add to abilities for other classes that use weapons or does that work the same way or does it count if the ability uses x[w] key?
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Monk's +3 unarmed proficiency bonus is only added to weapon attacks, not monk "Implement" attacks. Monks are confusing.
The difference is in the keyword of the power.
Drunken Monkey has the following keywords: Full Discipline, Implement, Psionic
The one we care about is "Implement"
Because monk attacks are implement attacks, they do not use weapon proficiency. Instead, they use
To increase the attack mod, you need to invest in feats like "Ki Focus Expertise"
It gets added to any and all of the weapon keyword attacks that you make.
For instance on your weapon attacks the attack roll would be determined by the following:
For the damage you will use the 1d8 for the weapon damage (represented with [W])
Not all weapon attack powers use the [W] damage, however most of them do.
Finally one of the recommendations I will make is that if you are new player you might want to take a look at a DDI subscription. You will have access to the character builder which does most of the character math for you and also gives you access to the DDI compendium which gives you access to all of the powers/feats/monsters and a ton of the stuff that wizards has put out.
If this helps you to understand how the monk works, divide the monks attacks to two categories, as Brian said above (and as they are divided by keywords).
The first one is the weapon attack, an attack like the fighter's, when the monk attacks with his unnarmed strike or a monk weapon. There is nothing more than martial prowess to that, so the attack roll would be of the formula: Prof.Bonus+half your lvl+Str.modifier.
The second category is the psionic implement attacks, where the monk uses his training and power of will to achieve feats far from normal. These do not rely on how proficient one is with a weapon, but rather on his mental training (thus the psionic and implement tags), and how well can he channel his mental power. These do not gain a Prof. Bonus but an implement bonus, as they are closer to spells than to martial attacks.


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If $f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ a differentiable function, it is very easy to find its Lipschitz constant. Is there any way to extend this to functions $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}^n$ (or similar)?
If $f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ a differentiable function, it is very easy to find its Lipschitz constant. Is there any way to extend this to functions $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}^n$ (or similar)?
Let $f = (f_1,\ldots,f_n): [a,b] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n$ be a continuously differentiable function. (See the comments above for an explanation as to why the hypotheses have been strengthened.)
For $1 \leq i \leq n$, let
$L_i = \max_{x \in [a,b]} |f_i'(x)|$,
so that, by the Mean Value Theorem, for $x,y \in [a,b]$,
$|f_i(x)-f_i(y)| = |f_i'(c)||x-y| \leq L_i |x-y|$.
Then, taking the standard Euclidean norm on $\mathbb{R}^n$,
$|f(x)-f(y)|^2 = \sum_{i=1}^n |f_i(x)-f_i(y)|^2 \leq (\sum_{i=1}^n L_i^2) \ |x-y|^2$,
$|f(x)-f(y)| \leq \sqrt{(\sum_{i=1}^n L_i^2)} \ |x-y|$.
Thus we can take
$L = \sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^n L_i^2}$.
Since all norms on $\mathbb{R}^n$ are equivalent -- i.e., differ at most by a multiplicative constant -- the choice of norm on $\mathbb{R}^n$ will change the expression of the Lipschitz constant $L$ in terms of the Lipschitz constants $L_i$ of the components, but not whether $f$ is Lipschitz.
In fact a statement similar to what was described by Pete Clark is true for all normed vector spaces: Let $X$ and $Y$ be normed vector spaces. A (total) differentiable function $f:X\to Y$ is Lipschitz iff its derivative is bounded. Every upper bound for the differential is a Lipschitz constant.
One direction follows from the mean value theorem: $\|f(x)-f(y)\|\leq \|Df(\xi)\|\cdot\|x-y\|$ for some $\xi$ on the straight line from $x$ to $y$.
The other follows immediately from $Df(x)=\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(x)-f(x+h)}{\|h\|}$
Another nice way to do this computation (which generally gives more precise information) is to use the formula
$ f(x + h) - f(x) = [ \int_0^1 Df(x + th) dt ] h$
Also, the formula for $Df(x)$ in Hahn's post above is not correct.


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THE MASTERS TOURNAMENT, which kicked off in Augusta, Ga., Thursday, is the world's most perfect golf tournament. It's state of the art and best in show, the hands-down, blue-ribbon winner in every category except competitive difficulty (the U.S. Open takes that prize) and wind (British Open).
At Augusta National, every blade of grass seems to have been hand-massaged for optimum health. You won't find a weed anywhere. Every tiny detail of the patron experience—the club prefers not to call them "fans"—has been refined over the years to be the best it can possibly be. Parking is free and nearby. The program suggests the finest places to watch and offers other tips. The wrappers on the pimento cheese sandwiches, still only $1.50, are just the right shade of green not to register as visual clutter during the approximately 45 seconds between one accidentally blowing away and a member of the maintenance crew spearing it with a stick.
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Even for those not in attendance, the Masters is the best. As the first major of the year, staged when the snow has just finished melting in the northern U.S. and in Europe, on a course ablaze in azaleas and dogwoods, the Masters is golf's rite of spring. No player invited to participate—this year, the number is 93—ever declines except because of injury. Since the Masters, unlike golf's other three majors, is played each year on the same stage, officials know how to set up the holes, especially for Sunday's final round, in a way that both produces birdies and eagles galore and favors experience. So past winners and golf's biggest names, formerly Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, now Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, are almost always in the mix coming down the stretch. Mr. Nicklaus won his last major here at the age of 46.
So why, given such perfection, am I nagged by ambivalence at the Masters? I love the tournament like everyone else, for all the reasons above, but sometimes it seems too perfect. And I'm wary of things that seem too perfect, such as American television anchors with dazzling teeth and mellifluous voices that never stumble.
Part of my hesitancy may be the mismatch between the glory and perfection of Augusta National and the game's humbler roots in Scotland. Golf, for those who play and adore it, is all about failure and humiliation; those aren't Augusta National's strong points. Augusta National is all about control, not only of all who pass through the gates of the world's most famously private club, but also of the game itself.
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Golf's original, seaside courses were so shaggy and unpredictable that the rules gave luck a special name: the rub of the green. When a well-hit ball strikes a stone in the fairway and bounds off into the gorse, that's rub of the green. Augusta National has rub of the green, too, but Lord knows there aren't any stones in the fairway. Balls can bounce off a tree, for good or for ill, but you can bet that that tree's presence in just that spot has been the subject of debate over the years by Augusta's green-jacketed members and their hired consultants. Balls may or may not trickle down the slope into Rae's Creek in front of the 12th green, but the grass on that slope will have been cut at some precise height to generate the ordained level of suspense. "Manicured" and "manufactured" stem from the same root.
How could anyone object to such well-intentioned grooming, when the result is a course that challenges the game's best players to the nth degree of daring and skill? One can't. But objection isn't the same thing as ambivalence. Stones in the fairway work well, too.
Discomfort about money also comes into play. Augusta National, with a membership that includes America's two richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, is an extremely wealthy place. It isn't pretentious, in the old-fashioned social sense of conspicuous display. The club is about golf and generously donates the surplus it makes from television, ticket and gift shop sales to worthy organizations such as The First Tee, which uses golf to teach values to kids. On Wednesday, the club announced a new, nationwide Drive, Chip and Putt Championship for boys and girls 7 to 15 years old. The finals, broadcast on Golf Channel, will take place on Augusta's 18th green on the Sunday before the Masters each year.
Still, at a gut level, the funds lavished during the Masters on things as mundane as, say, gardening can be off-putting. Richly mulched beds of flowers are everywhere, bursting uncannily into bloom just as the tournament begins. The azaleas behind the 13th green could be the centerpiece of any botanical garden. And three years ago, after quietly buying up an adjoining neighborhood and razing the houses, Augusta National moved much of the parking there and built an astonishing, 18-acre (7-hectare) practice facility on the former parking site near the clubhouse. That facility is used only a few times a year by the members, during their biggest events. The course itself is open only half the year, from mid-October to mid-May.
We journalists are treated superbly. We get free food, excellent information, both on paper and through terminals at our workstations, badges that grant us access to the clubhouse (we can sit down and eat there, too, if we choose) and a chance through an annual lottery to play the course on the Monday after the Masters.
Still, there's an edge. "It is truly our pleasure having you here as our guest," read a friendly letter, waiting for me at my seat in the tiered media center, signed by the chairman of the club's media committee. The phrase "as our guest" resonates. As at any private club, good behavior by guests is expected, with the future possibility of not being a guest unspoken but clear. Reporters, like all patrons, are prohibited from taking their mobile phones onto the course, even just to check messages from their editors. "Violation of this policy," we were reminded in another courteous missive, "will subject the credential holder to removal from the grounds and permanent loss of credential." Every year or two, it seems, some reporter or other gets called on the carpet for having said or done something amiss: indecorous questions, wandering into a party uninvited. We're all vaguely afraid of using the wrong fork.
Augusta National needs its rules. We truly are guests, on private, sacred golf ground. The tournament itself, as Mr. Nicklaus pointed out this week, is an invitational, not a championship run by a governing body like golf's other three majors. But deference is an uneasy posture for journalists.
'There's something about Augusta that makes you want to be better than yourself, better than you are normally.'
I asked a few U.S. television commentators whether they had ever been presented with a list of do's and don'ts for on-air behavior. None said they had, or that they needed to have been. "It's just that you communicate differently here than you do at other tournaments," said Paul Azinger, the former U.S. Ryder Cup captain who is commentating this week for ESPN. "There's something about Augusta that makes you want to be better than yourself, better than you are normally."
Yes, but it's tricky. Take, for example, the so-called Augusta effect, which course superintendents around the world lament. That's the demand by local golfers, after viewing the Masters on television, for conditions equally lush, even in places where water and other resources are scarce and their use may be environmentally unsound. Who will speak out for Augusta to change? Not me, though maybe I should.
At bottom, most of my ambivalence about Augusta stems from the excess here—the excess of perfection. Isn't that human nature? Persian artisans supposedly wove imperfections into every rug, so as not to tempt the gods. The Japanese aesthetic called wabi sabi values imperfection, impermanence, the beauty of things that are a little worn. A bit of wabi sabi wouldn't hurt Augusta National. But even about that I'm ambivalent because the place is mighty fine the way it is now, in all its imperfect perfection.
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Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 8:11) states that the tallis katan should be worn over one's clothes, "so that he will always see it and remember the mitzvos."
Magen Avraham (subsec. 13) comments that kesavim ([Kabbalistic] writings) say that it should specifically be worn under one's clothes, but he says that nonetheless the actual tzitzis should be left hanging out, "and not like those who tuck them into the corners." He also adds that one may indeed keep them tucked in when walking among non-Jews (who might make fun of him, or worse), but that at least they should be showing when reciting the blessing.
Mishnah Berurah (8:26) goes further, and sharply condemns those who wear their tzitzis tucked into their pants.
It's possible, then, that the common custom of doing so arose for the reason that Magen Avraham mentions - fear of the local non-Jews - and became entrenched. But based on all of the above, it would seem that it's better to wear them sticking out.
Wearing Tzitzit in has its source in Sha'ar HaKavvanot 7b(it is also found in the language of the Tur Siman 8). Rav Ovadya Hedayya ZTz"L writes in Yaskil Avdei 5:3 and in 8:2 extended Teshuvot for wearing tzitzit tucked in. The first is al pi halakha and the second is more al pi sod. Rav Ovadiah Yosef Shlita also writes an extended Teshuva to that effect in Yehave Da'at 2:1.
Here's what I heard from Rabbi Herschel Welcher in Queens:
And yes, some people will wrap the strings around their belt and tuck the rest in, to try and satisfy both.
I've also heard that among those who wear theirs out, it became preferable to have out only the strings, not the knots. Back when people made their own knots, it could be embarrassing for those with less coordination to have their less-than-stellar knots showing.
Rabbi Berel Wein mentions that one of his rebbeim in Chicago wore his Tzitzis in; when asked why, he told his students that they should always remember that their rebbe wore his in, and if they were ever in a situation where tzitzis-hanging-out would look wrong, they would thus wear them tucked-in, rather than taking them off altogether.
Chaim Burg, in his book "For God's Sake - Perspectives on Chumrot", discusses this issue and states that it was only around the late 40's that the head of the Eidat Charedit in Jerusalem took it upon himself to influence children to wear their tzitzit out. Until then, photographs of many gedolim and Jews do not show the tzitzit worn out. It would seem that the wearing of them out is a relatively late developing chumrah.
"For God's Sake", page 130: "At this point most likely someone will bring up the point that the Mishne Brura says that tzitzit should be worn outside. But Rav Mendel Zaks, son-in-law of the Chafetz Chaim (who wrote the Mishne Brura), said that his father-in-law had expressed remorse and regret for having written that. And that is why the Chafetz Chaim didn't wear his tzitzit on the outside."
I am unsure where he says it but just a pointer, I belive that Sefardim do not wear them out because of Kabbalistic reasons and Reb Ovdiah Yosef adds as not "LEHOTZI LAZ AL HARISHONIM".That is not to call into question the Minhag of the earlier Rabbanim to wear them tucked in.(Probably based on the reasons Alex mentioned)
I'm just going to copy my answer for the other thread:
HUGE disagreement among the Poskim. Don't want to get too deep into it, but here is the summary (there are also different Pesakim in different cases- for all the details Yalkut Yosef is recommended):
According to the Shulhan Aruch clearly (Orah Haim 8:11, 24:1) they Lechatehila should be revealed. Rav Ovadia Yosef (Yechawe Daat 2:1) holds the Tzitziot must be tucked in (see Halacha Berura ch.8, Yalkut Yosef ch. 8 and Or Lesion 2:2:2). Rav Yaakov Hilel writes (Gevurat HaAri pg. 137) that the Tzitziot must be revealed based on the Arizal (Shaar Hakawanot 7c and Olat Tamid 39a). According to the Hafes Haim they must be revealed and he is very harsh about this (Mishna Berura 8:26).


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Build Your Own Radiator ShroudWritten by on September 22, 2010 Keep Your Cool By Building This Simple-But Effective-Shroud To Help The Radiator Run As Effeciently As Possible
In racing, the only thing that's free is your labor. Anything you can fabricate yourself is money you've saved that can be used on something else (or just not spent at all!) to advance your racing program.
One area where you can definitely save a few bucks with minimum fabrication skills is by building your own radiator shroud to make sure all the air going through the grille also goes through the radiator instead of simply swirling around inside the engine compartment. If you are having heating problems during the hotter summer months, a radiator shroud can definitely help. Air, like water, will always choose the path of least resistance. And when there is no shroud to force it through a radiator, much of the airflow through the grille will wind up hitting the radiator and simply going around it.
We followed along as Dirt Late Model racer Chris Hargett created the patterns and fabricated a radiator shroud as he finished his new race car. The chassis is a Mastersbilt by Stuckey (a Mastersbilt chassis modified to specifications set by Stuckey Enterprises), but this method will work with practically any car. For simplicity, Hargett used the nose as the roof of the shroud, and the bottom is left open. And finally, before we get started, eagle-eyed readers will note that there is no grille cut into the nose-that was done after our shoot.
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Here, you can see how the shroud routes just inside of the bumper frame for the chassis. There will be just enough room to slot it between the side of the radiator and the frame.There's nothing high-tech in this project. Driver Chris Hargett needs only a straight-edge, marker, razorblade (or scissors) and a clean spot of shop floor as he cuts his templates.Don't try to get it all on the first try. It may be easier to build your templates in multiple sections-we made ours in two here. It is also helpful to have a second set of hands to help hold the poster board so you can be free to mark it for more cuts.Notice how the template has been bent with two folds in the middle to take up the space where the bumper slots into the front frame horn? If you don't do this, your final product won't fit properly.Here's the final template for the left side of the car, and it represents about 45 minutes worth of work. The right side will have to be done separately-trying to make a mirror image almost certainly won't work. After the project is completed, mark the templates for the left and right side and put them away someplace. If you ever need to fabricate a new shroud, you at least won't have to repeat this step.Although it isn't absolutely necessary, Hargett wanted a really tight fit around the bumper tubes. To simplify the process, he first cut slots into the poster board and then filled the area back in with masking tape. Remember, it doesn't matter what your template looks like, only that it fits your car as well as possible.Now the template design is ready to be transferred to the shroud material. Although you can use aluminum, the best choice is a sheet, or roll, of plastic, which is available from most racing supply stores. The plastic is actually a high-density polyethylene that's flexible and can usually stand up to a few impacts. Sheets are normally 48x96 inches and 0.100-inch thick, while rolls are 20-24 inches wide, 0.070-inch thick and about as long as you want. Which you use is up to you.Here's the template after it has been traced out on the plastic with a permanent marker. Notice how Hargett has made tic marks where the bends will go to follow the frame horn.
Here it is fitted back up into place. Notice how the bend in the plastic also provides a bit of shielding for the left-front shock's remote reservoir.After everything is like you want it, drill a few holes in the plastic and secure it to the frame horn and bumper tubes with zip ties. This makes it easy to remove in a hurry if you have to perform any repairs at the racetrack.Here's a look from the inside. You don't have to have the shroud extend all the way to the lower lip of the nose of the car, that way if you hit a rut and the bottom of the nose gets folded in a bit, it won't deform the shroud.


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Jumbo should only be used for JUMBOWOOT!
@mkentosh: who says I down voted it? Plus are they really Jumbo?
Not as jumbo as I hoped, but dinosaurs get a thumbs up from me every time.
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they don't even look jumbo next to a 4 year old. they are a little cooler because roarrrrrrr is a tags
@mfladd: I wonder if the visibility of this is better or worse for deals in the long run. Still, it's nice you're raising awareness of it either way.
the little girl in the pic looks thrrrrrrrilled. i wonder if i put these up at work, would that make work more enjoyable?
@w00tgurl: Inflatable-Dinosaurs always make work better. And if not - you can always have the T-Rex eat whoever is not positively adding to your day.
But just so you are aware. You always positively add to my day :)
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - St. John Central and Conotton Valley didn't play during the regular campaign this season.
They did, however, play in 2011-12 and Lady Irish head coach Bubba Kapral remembered a then lanky freshman, Olivia Bower, doing significant damage for the Lady Rockets.
The long-time Lady Irish head coach is certainly going to remember Bower for an even longer time this season.
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ST. JOHN?Central's Kristen Russell eyes the basket during Saturday night's Class 1A game.Additional images can be found at cu.timesleaderonline.com
The 6-1 swing player and her Lady Rockets' teammates proved to be too much as they seized the Wheeling Hospital-OVAC Class 1A title with a convincing 50-26 victory in Saturday's nightcap inside the Health and Physical Education Center at Ohio University Eastern.
"Give Conotton Valley all of the credit because they kicked our butts," Kapral said. "We didn't do what we needed to do, but having said that, we played against a very good team tonight."
The Lady Rockets, who won their only other OVAC title in 1997, had set the conference title as a goal as their first-year coach Chandra Myers took over and tried to figure out the ins and outs of the OVAC.
"I knew nothing about the OVAC other than it was a bunch of river teams that stretched into West Virginia," Myers admitted. "I still don't know much, but I am learning and I know this meant a lot to these girls and it's great for them that their hard work allowed them to achieve one of their main goals."
Conotton Valley and St. John were in a back-and-forth affair in the first quarter with the game tied at 12 in the wanning seconds of the period. However, Conotton Valley's Chandice Cottis picked off a Lady Irish pass and turned into a layup and from there, the Rockets took off.
"That play hurt, but it wasn't the turning point," Kapral said. "It was just a speed bump, but we didn't play through it as well as we needed to. It was just one mistake."
The Lady Rockets began to pull away when they outscored the Lady Irish, 14-6 in the second quarter.
After scoring nine points in the first period, Bower continued to pile up points. She scored six more and had 15 of her 20 in the first half.
"Kristen (Russell) is a great defender, but Bower really hit some big-time shots," Kapral said. "We didn't help (on her) like we should have, but she's a big-time player and we knew that. She's also got a nice supporting cast around her."
Owning a 28-18 lead at the intermission, the Lady Irish came out in the second half to find seemingly a cover on the basket at their end of the court. St. John didn't record its first of three second-half field goals until there was only 3:02 left to play.
"They imposed their will and played more physical than we did," Kapral said. "We like to go baseline to baseline, but we couldn't get out and run. When you can't score, that just compounds matters worse and it wears on you."
St. John had trouble scoring in the second half because Bower was erasing shots at quite a clip. She swatted eight shots to go along with her scoring and 15 rebounds. All told, the Lady Irish cashed just 10-of-52 from the field for a frigid 19 percent clip.
"I know 'Livy' likes to block shots," Myers said. "She's pretty long and she can do it without fouling, but it still makes me nervous. We're definitely fortunate to have her on our team. She really steps up when we need her to, but she'll be the first to credit her teammates."
The Lady Irish, who had a few players under the weather, failed to have a player reach double figures. Frosh point guard Marissa Rose led the way with seven points. Senior leading scorer Russell and frosh Jessica Alvey each had six.
"We knew Russell was their go-to-player," Myers said. "I didn't have a lot of information to go on, but we knew we had to limit second chance points, not turn the ball over and limit Russell's scoring."
Bower, meanwhile, was complemented in the scoring column by Brynlyn Belknap's 13 points and 11 boards.
Conotton held a 36-22 edge on the boards.
ST. JOHN (26) - Froehlich 1, 1-2 3; Coppa 2, 0-0 4; Sliva 0, 0-0 0; Rose 3, 1-2 7; Santinoceta 0, 0-0 0; Russell 1, 4-6 6; Alvey 3, 0-0 6; Knox 0, 0-0 0; LeMasters 0, 0-0 0; Totals: 10, 6-10 26. CONOTTON VALLEY (50) - Cottis 2, 0-0 4; Bower 8, 4-5 20; Jones 1, 0-0 2; Edie 1, 0-0 2; Belknap 4, 5-8 13; Russell 3, 1-1 7; Wallace 0, 0-0 0; Manbeck 1, 0-0 2; Totals: 20, 10-14 50.
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If Jesus returned to Earth, he�d probably kick back at the Flora-Bama, said Jack de Jarnette, a founding pastor of the church.
�It�s the sort of place he often went and hung out with people,� he said. �When you cannot get people to come to church, the alternative is to bring the church to them.�
A band in tie-dyed T-shirts played Curtis Mayfield�s �People Get Ready,� as parishioners gathered underneath an awning adorned with rows of Land Shark beer flags on a recent Sunday. Most wore flip-flops and shorts, but some wore swimsuits.
�If you look closely, you might see a few of the churchgoers having a Bloody Mary or a bushwhacker,� longtime bar employee Blitz Poston said. �It�s really a wonderful thing that brings together people from all walks of life.�
Offerings are collected in neon tackle boxes placed throughout the bar.
Pastor Jeremy Mount wears Mardi Gras beads, shorts, sandals and T-shirt that is fringed around the sleeves.
�There are seven places to drink and no place to worship God on this key,� he said. �We feel like God has called us here to be a ministry. Where would there ever be a better place than the world-renown Flora-Bama?�
His sermon is one of redemption and hope, followed by a communion with bread and grape juice instead of wine.
Many members of his flock were regular churchgoers before they started attending the Flora-Bama service. Others have become regulars because they like the unique setting, Mount said.
�Some had never been to church, ever, but they felt so comfortable here in the Flora-Bama,� he said.
Church member Paul Holland is a longtime fan of the Flora-Bama, which he said is a five-star honky-tonk filled with top-shelf rednecks. He has become an even bigger fan of the church service.
�I don�t want to be judged because I don�t have a three-piece-suit, and I don�t drive a brand-new car and this is that kind of church � they don�t judge you. I feel like I�m more welcome in this church than any I�ve ever attended in my life,� he said.
The service is just a year old, starting July 4, 2011.
Church volunteer Joye Fletcher was baptized behind the Flora-Bama in the Gulf of Mexico during Worship at the Water�s first anniversary.
�It�s just an awesome spirit-led service,� she said.
The service is often a surprise for the tourists who flock to the strip of snow-white sand and turquoise water during the summer months, said Bruce Barrios, the bar�s Sunday manager.
�We have so many people in from out of town. We have people come in and when they see we are having church they pick up a Bloody Mary, a bushwhacker or a soft drink, sit down and listen to the sermon. It�s really cool, you know, it�s unique.�
The appeal of the service for church member John Mason-Smith is that everyone is welcome.
�This is a place I can go and learn about God without all the constraints,� he said. �It is a place that people who aren�t going to church feel welcome and that�s what we love about the Flora-Bama � you could be next to a guy who is down on his luck and the guy next to him is a millionaire. That�s the Flora-Bama.�


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United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
Characterize the effect of methionine oxidation on phosphorylation of synthetic peptides. Determine the impact of methionine oxidation on the phosphoproteome in vivo. Develop novel motif antibodies to identify specific phosphoproteins that may be sensitive to methionine oxidation in vivo.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
We will test the emerging concept that reversible methionine oxidation participates in cellular responses to mild oxidants such as H2O2, by attenuating the phosphorylation of key cellular proteins. To do this, we will employ both in vitro and in vivo approaches in the proposed studies. First, we will build on the observation that methionine oxidation can inhibit peptide phosphorylation by soybean protein kinases in vitro. We will consider canonical and non-canonical motifs targeted by calcium-dependent protein kinases and SNF1-related protein kinases, and also determine the biochemical basis for the inhibition. Second, we will examine the in vivo significance of methionine oxidation using transgenic Arabidopsis with altered expression of methionine sulfoxide repair enzymes (cytosolic PMSRA3 or plastid-targeted MsrB1/2 and PMSRA4), and assess the impact on the leaf and root phosphoproteome. In addition to this broad discovery mode approach to identify phosphoproteins sensitive to methionine oxidation, we will also employ a candidate protein approach. We will specifically focus on selected metabolic enzymes that have a methionine residue within known phosphorylation motifs, such as nitrate reductase and chloroplast elongation factor EF-Tu, which was identified in preliminary studies as an abundant phosphoprotein that is sensitive to methionine oxidation in vivo. In addition, we will also develop targeted-phosphospecific antibodies that may help to identify low abundance proteins that are phosphorylated and are sensitive to oxidative signals in vivo.
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DENVER � The Supreme Court�s ruling last week on President Barack Obama�s signature health-care law won�t be the last word on the subject, panelists at a business group�s breakfast said Monday.
The group included Attorney General John Suthers, who sued to overturn the law, and Cindy Gillespie, who helped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney craft his state�s universal insurance law. Obama often points to Romney�s law as the inspiration for the national Affordable Care Act, but Romney last weekend repeated his pledge to repeal Obama�s law.
Suthers joined officials from 25 other states in suing to overturn the law, based on the grounds that Congress cannot force people to buy a product.
Most arguments centered on congressional power to regulate business in the Constitution�s commerce clause. But the court upheld the law based on Congress� power to tax, which shocked Suthers.
�The court has answered the question, can the federal government force you to buy broccoli, and the answer is yes,� Suthers said.
However, after thinking about the decision all weekend, Suthers thinks Chief Justice John Roberts might have upheld the law while still placing a strong limit on further use of federal power. Congress, in theory, could levy a tax on people who don�t buy broccoli or some other product, but he doubts that would happen.
�It will be a power very seldom exercised, if ever,� Suthers said.
Gillespie was a top adviser to Romney when he passed the Massachusetts health-care mandate. She�s now a senior attorney specializing in health care at McKenna Long & Aldridge.
In an interview after the panel discussion, she defended Romney�s law, which included the most controversial feature of Obama�s law � the mandate that everyone who can afford insurance, buy it.
�Massachusetts was a solution designed for Massachusetts,� Gillespie said. �I think you�ll see a lot of states weighing in to get the freedom to do it the way they want to do, instead of having a one-size-fits-all solution imposed on them by the federal government.�
Gillespie said she was �extremely confident� that Congress will take up health-care spending again next year, regardless of which party wins or who is president, because it will need to cut the deficit.
Next year will be action-packed at state legislatures, too, Gillespie predicted. That�s because states now have the option about whether to expand their Medicaid programs for the poor to people with slightly higher incomes. The Affordable Care Act had told states to do this or else lose all their Medicaid funding, but the Supreme Court overturned that part of the law as too coercive.
Gov. John Hickenlooper last Thursday said it was too soon to say whether Colorado would expand its own Medicaid rolls in the wake of the high court�s decision.
One thing that�s certain, though, is that the state is pushing ahead with the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange, an online marketplace where people and small businesses can compare and buy health insurance in a way that�s supposed to be easier to understand than the current market.
�We are not a new state health-care system. We are a marketplace. Think Travelocity or Expedia or even Amazon,� said Patty Fontneau, executive director of the exchange. �It�s someplace people can go and shop.�
The exchange aims to be open by October 2013, and because of the tight deadline, leaders weren�t waiting to see whether the Supreme Court would approve the ACA. The federal law provides the funds for Colorado to set up the exchange.
The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce sponsored the discussion.


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I'm well aware of the fact that the number of Chen primes between $N/2$ and $N$ for large enough $N$ is at least $$\frac{c_1N}{\ln^2(N)}$$ (Green and Tao). My question is: is there possibly an upper bound for chen primes between $N/2$ and $N$? What I am eventually trying to prove is that there are infinitely many intervals $$\Omega_i=[i^2/2, i^2]$$ such that the number of chen primes in $\Omega_i$ is at least $$\frac{c_1i^2}{13\ln(i^2)}.$$ Does anyone know where to look?
Yes. Sieve methods are much better at proving upper bounds than lower bounds. By the Selberg sieve, or alternatively using the combinatorial sieve, you can prove that the number of Chen primes is bounded above by $C_2 N/\log^2 N$ for some particular value of $C_2$. (ed: Please see Terry Tao's important caveat below, which I neglected in my initial answer.)
I don't know the details offhand; it would take some work to determine a particular value of $C_2$, but this is definitely possible. The Selberg sieve is probably easiest, you can read, for example, Halberstam and Richert. (Just read the first chapter on the Selberg sieve -- no need to delve into the more difficult portions of the book.)
Explicit lower bounds for twin almost primes up to $x$ (for large enough $x$) are known, see e.g., Corollary 25.12 in the book of Friedlander-Iwaniec. (The constant they get for $p$ with $p+2$ having at most two prime factors, each of which is at least $x^{3/11}$, is $1/31$). I don't think the known upper bounds are good enough to deduce the corresponding statement between $x/2$ and $x$. Since moreover the use of primes to start the linear sieve blocks it from being "local" enough, I don't think we know lower bounds for this question for all dyadic intervals (in other words, there does not seem to exist a version of, say, the Bombieri-Vinogradov Theorem for a dyadic interval). But "almost all" such intervals might possibly be accessible differently.
By the way, I'm curious as to why a result of Chen seems to be attributed to Green-Tao in the original question...


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Great classes have to have a point, a purpose, an objective. I always tell new instructors that they should be able to answer one simple question prior to class. What are we doing today?
A good class objective follows two rules:
1: You understand it. If you're going to talk about a specific variable, you should be able to answer basic questions about it. If you are going to present something that a "cyclist" would do outside, you should have a reliable volume of information (and vocabulary) to support it.
2: You can teach it. A good class objective has to be something that can be separated into smaller parts. I always use the example that fun may be something you strive for in your environment, but it isn't a teachable class objective.
The three basic categories for class objectives are:
A: Intensity: Define your goal for the session by letting students know how hard you intend to push them. General statements are fine here. Descriptors like hard breath, heavy resistance, maximal output, steady, controlled, and consistent are just a few examples. If a good number of your students wear HR monitors, you can add a more exact training range to your descriptors. If they don't (like most students), use a simple RPE scale.
B: Terrain: This is always a good objective category to use because it is flexible and visual. Letting students know that you intend to climb several hills during your ride gives them an immediate visual connection to your words. Adding additional information like: two hills, one long climb, or hill repeats give the participants more information on your intensity expectations for the session.
C: Skills: Creating a workout around a specific skill can be fun and challenging to the participants. There are so many to use like: balance, HP 3, cadence building, resistance loading, jumping, and sprinting. Skill classes are good responses to contraindicated movements. If a class population is consistently struggling with a specific skill (or set of skills), it is always a good option to present a class that defines the skills but also demonstrates all of the ways they can be used within the program guidelines.


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Downsizing Blog
Governors Love Federal Funding
ObamaCare gives states the option to expand Medicaid to cover all individuals below 138 percent of the federal poverty level, which is approximately $33,500 a year for a family of four. To encourage states to expand, the federal government agreed to fund 100 percent of expenditures for the newly-eligible participants until 2016, and then slowly decrease the match to 90 percent in 2020 and into the future.
Regulations and Taxes: Democrats Then and Now
In recent decades, the Democratic Party has moved far to the left on economic policy. I have discussed the leftward shift on tax policy, which was illustrated once again by President Obama's generally awful proposals in his new budge
Admitting FutureGen's Failure
The Department of Energy (DOE) is admitting that it failed. Last week, it announced that it will stop development of FutureGen 2.0, a federally-financed, coal-fired power plant in Illinois. FutureGen, and its successor FutureGen 2.0, wasted millions of tax dollars, and was beset with multiple delays and cost overruns.
Obama's Transportation Plan
President Obama proposed an expansive spending plan for highways, transit, and other infrastructure in his 2016 budget. Here are some of the problems with the president's approach:
Rising Cost of Net Interest
One of the largest and fastest growing items in President Obama's new budget is often overlooked. Net interest expenses will skyrocket over the next decade, growing by 250 percent.
Federal Infrastructure: Often Low Value
President Obama's budget would raise taxes to fund a $478 billion infrastructure spending plan for highways, transit, and other items. The budget (on page 26) cites an International Monetary Fund study that "highlights the importance of choosing high-efficiency infrastructure projects based on rigorous benefit-cost analysis."
The President's 2016 Budget Request
The president released his budget request this morning. As expected, his plan is heavy on new spending and new taxes, and very light on structural reforms.
Cutting Spending Is the Best Approach
On Monday, the White House will release President Obama's budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2016. The president is expected to reemphasize his previous fiscal approach of higher spending coupled with higher taxes, while completely ignoring the country's long-term fiscal problems.
Expand Trade by Repealing Monopoly Unionism
Republicans say they favor cutting regulations to spur growth and create jobs. And they generally favor expanding international trade. They can attain those goals by reforming labor union laws.
Taxing Us to Spy on Us
Reading some Frederic Bastiat last night, I circled his observation that the government takes advantage of citizen passivity to increase its power, often by promising to "cure all the ills of mankind." The government initiates "in the guise of actual services, what are nothing but restrictions; thereafter the nation pays, not for being served, but for being disserved."


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Assassin's Creed: Ezio Trilogy: AC: 2, AC: Brotherhood, and AC: Revelations PS3 for $29.99
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i'd be buying this if i hadn't just bought assassins creed 3 on amazon yesterday...
Great series at a great price.
@callaway17: You got the better end of that deal.
Do they include DLCs ?
@chennai8: according to the Amazon reviews, all DLC for AC2 is included but neither the Davinci Disappearance nor the Copernicus Conspiracy for AC:B are. This set also requires installation of AC2 and AC:B to your PS3's harddrive.
This might only apply to ACII and Brotherhood since I haven't had a chance to play Revelations yet but...
Does anyone else notice that every time after Ezio has in game sex something terrible happens?