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I've found some Emerald, Diamond and Amethyst but haven't seen what I can do with it. I'm still in the beginning stages, trying to outfit myself in gold armor and weapons. I was curious if I should sell these minerals or keep them around for crafting purposes.
You can use ten of the same gemstone, plus 20 Meteorite Bars, to craft a phaseblade. All phaseblades are identical except for color, which is based on the color of the gemstone. You only need ten total gemstones, all of one type. You do not need ten of each.
As of 1.05, they have other uses! Six to ten each of two gemstones are required to craft Jungle Armor set pieces. You will need ten emeralds and sapphires, eight amethysts and topaz, and six rubies and diamonds. (for a total of 48 gemstones.) Additionally, rubies are used to create the Robe and Gold Crown, while topaz are used to create the Sandgun. (Source: http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/)
As of 1.1, each of the gemstones can be combined with 3 torches to produce 3 colored torches (shows off Terraria's new lighting engine!).
As of 1.2, each of the gemstones has an associated ore that it can be crafted with to create a "_ Rod" item, which is a rod made out of 15 of your gemstones and 10 bars of a particular ore. The Diamond and Ruby rods are First-and-second best, and use Platinum and Gold bars respectively.
All gemstones can now also be used to craft new grappling hooks that don't require a Hook to create, making them ideal for new characters. The Ruby and Diamond hooks also have a longer reach than the Ivy Whip.
In addition, these gems can be used to create Large Gems for the Capture-The-Flag game, so it would be wise to hold onto some in case you ever wish to host said game for some of your friends.
As of patch 1.04, Rubies are used in two non-phaseblade recipes -- the "Robes" and the "Golden Crown" vanity items.
The robes requires 3 rubies and 30 silk, while the Crown requires 1 ruby and 30 gold bars.
As of patch 1.05, Gemstones are used to create the pieces of Jungle Armor as well.
You'll need one of each to craft the whole set.
5 Topaz can be used to make the Sandgun with Antlion mandibles and Illegal Gun Parts.
Finally, as of 1.1, each of the gemstones can be crafted with 3 torches (no workbench, etc. required) to produce colored lights (same respective colors as the phaseblades).
The main thing that you can craft with them is the phaseblade, which takes 10 of one type (changes color), but other than that, sell sell sell.


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Buffalo Niagara International Airport
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Telefon: (716) 630 6000.
Website: www.buffaloairport.com
The airport is situated 14km (9 miles) east of Buffalo.
How to get there
From the centre of Buffalo, take SR33 East/Kensington Express. From elsewhere in New York State, take the I-90 (NYS Thruway East) and leave at exit 51 to join SR33 East-Kensington Expressway. For detailed maps and driving directions, consult the airport's website.
Information about parking possibilities at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Access by public transport
NFTA-Metro (tel: (716) 855 7300; website: www.nfta.com) operates bus services between the airport and various places around Buffalo. The Airport-Downtown Metro buses 204 and 24 Express run from the airport to downtown Buffalo approximately once an hour (travel time approximately 35 minutes). Bus 30 runs between the airport and Niagara Falls (travel time: around 45 minutes). From May through October, an express bus 210 runs directly to Niagara Falls (travel time approximately 25 minutes). Tickets can be bought on the bus. Buses depart from the lower level, outside Arrivals.
The Airport Taxi Service (tel: (716) 633 8294; website: www.buffaloairporttaxi.com) operates taxis to/from the airport. Fare information is posted inside the taxis and passengers can obtain an estimate from the driver before setting off. The company also offers shuttle services to downtown Buffalo hotels and Niagara Falls, with shuttles departing on the hour every hour.
Information desk
An information centre is located on the lower level of the terminal, next to baggage reclaim. The centre can provide maps and regional information, as well as bus timetables and brochures; there is also a courtesy paging telephone. During busy times, Volunteer Hospitality Ambassadors are available to assist passengers with information.
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Noticed how many of these posts have popped up lately?
This was one of my best mate's epic'd characters… I stress the one of.. he had many.. he is one of my close circle of friends…
I hope some punk comes and burns down your friggin house you scumbag gold buyers!
I don't give a shit about the gold sellers.. they are earning a living… you are scumbags are buying a living.
PS: Thanks to another old mate, Snuff, for proofreading! (cause I am a little to angry to worry about the details… like who I am going to stick the screwdriver into)
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Are you the kind of expectant mom who buys nothing for her baby until the child has arrived safely and the gender is known? Or are you the kind who has already bought everything the child will need for the next five years? In either case, the baby eventually will need certain things. When you shop, keep these tips in mind:
Some hospitals and the Red Cross offer free or low-cost car seats. If all the new baby paraphernalia is hurting your pocketbook, this is one expense a community agency might be able to cover. Call your local hospital and ask.
Car seat: By law, all children under age five must be strapped into a car seat when riding in a car. This is so important that most hospitals will not release a baby until they are assured she will sit in a car seat on the ride home. This is one time that you have to start thinking like a responsible parent even before the baby is born.
You should buy the car seat this month before you deliver the baby. It's an important purchase that will require some comparison shopping. You'll also need time to practice getting it in and out of the car. Always put the car seat in the back seat-that way it's not directly in the path of an exploding air bag.
Car seats are made in two basic styles:
Cribs: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that cribs meet the following standards:
If you are using a rocking cradle, make sure it has stops so the baby won't be thrown out. And keep in mind that you can use it for no more than three months. By that time the baby will be too big to be left alone in a cradle or bassinet.
Don't pretend you're not interested in shopping for the baby. Jump in there and help your partner pick out important baby items. All these things will be a big part of your life very soon, so you might as well grab the chance to have a say in what you purchase.
Bundling the new baby up in a blanket for a trip home in cold weather sounds like a good idea, but if you're using a car seat on the drive home, the legs need to be free to straddle the seat belt. Instead of bunting or blankets with a sacklike bottom, use a cozy warm fleece suit with legs so that baby can be easily clicked into the car seat.
Infant seats: These little reclining chairs for babies are very handy. They let the baby sit up and watch you while you work around the house and they hold the baby in a good position for feeding. (They are not to be used as car seats!) Unfortunately, these seats cause many injuries when they fall, especially off high tables. Look for an infant seat with a nonskid, wide bottom that will discourage tipping. Never leave your baby alone in an infant seat, and place the seat only on the floor-never on top of furniture.
Strollers: When shopping for a stroller look for one that won't tip over. As your baby grows and begins to wiggle and turn, the stroller should hold its ground. Also look for a sunshade and front wheels that pivot. It's also nice to have a model that reclines for comfortable napping.
Baby clothes: Who can resist buying a carload of those adorable baby outfits? But as tempting as this is, the fancy little dresses and three-piece suits are rarely used and quickly outgrown. You're better off focusing on a practical day-to-day wardrobe that includes the following:
These are the basics for now. After the baby is home, you'll find there are several hundred other items you'll need to purchase. But this list of essential items will make you feel well-equipped, at least when the baby first arrives.
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First Team
Olivia Barker Lakewood (Golfer of the Year)
Emily Barker Lakewood
Tyler Reeves Belding
Becca Snyder Portland
Victoria Hager Lakewood
Second Team
Kennedy Hilley Lakewood
Katie Blake Portland
Kristin Lawless Portland
Jordan Conroe Belding
Margot Cook Ionia
Honorable Mention
Bryonna Barton Lakewood
Erika Ketchum Ionia
Lauren Fuller Ionia
Alyviah Mason Belding
Emily Quinn Portland
Sydney Cody Portland
The 2012 All-Ionia County Girls Golf Team is compiled of golfers from the Belding, Ionia, Lakewood and Portland varsity teams. Nominees were selected by their respective coaches and selections determined by comparing average scores for nine-hole matches and 18-hole tournaments.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I can't believe the holidays are already here! This season will be a great time for celebrating with friends and family over food and drinks. But with just a little preparation, you can keep off the extra holiday pounds and still enjoy all that the season has to offer.
If you are cooking this holiday season you can reduce fat and calories without sacrificing taste by swapping out a few ingredients in your favorite recipes.
*Using two egg whites in place of one egg can reduce the cholesterol without changing the taste.
*Use low-sodium, fat-free chicken broth in your mashed potatoes to add flavor and cut back on added butter or cream.
*Substitute applesauce for oil, margarine or butter in muffins and breads.
*For dips, sauces and pie toppings, use fat-free yogurt, sour cream and whipped topping.
*Use sliced almonds as a crunchy topping in place of fried onion rings.
Choose reduced-fat or low-fat cheeses for salads and casseroles.
Also, load up on all the yummy and healthy foods of the season such as sweet potatoes, winter squash, broccoli, cranberries, fresh green beans and carrots. And remember…MODERATION is key! Some additional tips include…
Balance Your Meals
Don't fill up your plate with only the calorie dense foods. Instead, have a little of everything, but be sure to include lots of fruit and vegetables. That way, you'll still be able to enjoy your favorite holiday foods while still eating healthy.
Avoid the sugary foods
Remember that sugar has a way of making you crave even more sugar. First fill up your plate with some turkey and veggies. If you do have a craving for something sweet, try to satisfy it with a piece of fruit or a bit of dark chocolate, or take half a serving of that piece of pie (or share a piece) that you just can't resist.
Stock Up on Healthy Snacks
Planning ahead is the best way to choose healthy foods. When you go shopping, be sure to pick up some healthy snacking items. Keep plenty of fruits and vegetables on hand, such as carrots, celery, and apples; these can make a quick and easy snack in times when you feel tempted.
Moderate Alcohol Intake
Remember that your glass of wine or bottle of beer contains calories — and plenty of them. A 12-ounce bottle of beer has around 150 calories, and four ounces of wine carries approximately 100 calories. Try and manage the amount of alcohol you consume over the holidays, and be careful not to overindulge. There are a variety of lower-calorie beers and wines available that can help you manage your liquid caloric intake. Moderate alcohol consumption is defined as up to one drink per day for women and up to two drinks for men.
On a side note…keep in mind, even a single drink will affect your reflexes for several hours. If you plan to drink, keep your holidays safe for everyone by designating a driver who won't be drinking.
Be Assertive
Don't feel you must say yes to everyone that offers you something to eat or drink. If you are not hungry, then just say so. Don't let yourself be pressured into eating something that you really don't want.
Eat Before You Go to Parties
Never go to a party or event feeling hungry. If you arrive to a party feeling really hungry because you have been "saving up" your calories all day, you risk being so hungry by the time you get there that you lose control over how much you eat. Instead, eat well throughout the day. Have small healthy snacks like a handful of almonds, fruit or some rice cakes and peanut butter. And be sure to drink LOTS of water.
Don't forget to exercise!
In addition to making healthier food choices, it's important to not be lazy during the holiday season. Extra exercise will help you burn off stress accompanied by the holidays and also keep your waistline in check.
Heres one of my favorite Vegan, Gluten, Dairy, Yeast, Corn & Nut Free recipes I plan on making this Thanksgiving...
Gluten Free Apple Crisp
6 cups diced apples (I like a mix of Granny Smith & Macintosh)
⅓ cup coconut, maple or palm sugar
3 tablespoon fine ground brown or white rice flour
1 tablespoon maple syrup (the secret ingredient)
juice from ½ lemon
⅓ cup palm sugar
¾ cup quinoa flakes
⅓ cup sorghum or fine grown brown or white rice flour
¼ cup coconut oil, room temperature
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
*Preheat oven to 350F. Oil a 9×13 dish or large casserole dish with a dab of coconut oil and set aside.
*Combine filling ingredients in a large bowl and toss to coat apples in the mixture. Make sure everything is well mixed before dropping into the prepared casserole dish.
*Place topping ingredients in a medium-sized bowl and mix with a hand mixer until well combined.
*Sprinkle topping over apples.
*Place in preheated oven for a total of 50 minutes, covering with a loose fitting glass lid or sheet of aluminum foil after 20 minutes to prevent the top from burning.
*Once complete, allow to sit with lid off for 20 minutes or so. Then top with a small scoop (remember, moderation!) of healthy low sugar ice cream or topping of choice!
Enjoy & have a healthy & happy holiday season!!!
Tips by Terri Turner, IFBB Figure Pro, Nutritionist and Trainer
Helpful Tips for a Happy & Healthy Holiday Season & A Gluten Free Dessert Recipe
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I can't believe the holidays are already here! This season will be a great time for celebrating with friends and family over food and drinks. But with just a little preparation, you can keep off the extra holiday pounds and still enjoy all that the season has to offer.
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The single-train, 300,000 tpy plant will produce TDI and expand additional plants as precursors for polyurethanes at the BASF site in Ludwigshafen. Production is set to begin in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Fluor has secured a contract for engineering, procurement
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services for BASFs toluene diisocyanate (TDI) project in Ludwigshafen, Germany,
the companies said on Tuesday.
Fluor booked the undisclosed value into its backlog for the
fourth quarter of 2012.
The single-train, 300,000 tpy plant will produce TDI and
expand additional plants as precursors for polyurethanes at the
BASF site in Ludwigshafen. Production is scheduled to begin in
the fourth quarter of 2014.
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- "I mark the hours, every one, Nor have I yet outrun the Sun. My use and value, unto you, Are gauged by what you have to do."
- —Inscription on Hermione Granger's borrowed Time-Turner[1]
A Time-Turner is a special timepiece in which an Hour-Reversal Charm has been encased, for added stability. It is a device used for time travel, and it resembles an hourglass on a necklace. The number of times one turns the hourglass corresponds to the number of hours one travels back in time (although, it should be noted that the longest period that may be relived without the possibility of serious harm to the traveller or to time itself is around five hours).
- "Hermione's immense workload finally seemed to be getting to her. Every night, without fail, Hermione was to be seen in a corner of the common room, several tables spread with books, Arithmancy charts, rune dictionaries, diagrams of Muggles lifting heavy objects, and file upon file of extensive notes; she barely spoke to anybody and snapped when she was interrupted."
- —Hermione's workload due to her Ministry Time-Turner[src]
Hermione Granger received one from Professor McGonagall in 1993, so that she could attend more classes in her third year than time would allow. Since McGonagall made her swear to not tell anyone about it, she did not mention it to Harry Potter or Ron Weasley until the end of the school year, when she and Harry used it to travel back in time and save Sirius Black and Buckbeak from certain death. Special permission from the Ministry of Magic had to be sought to allow Hermione to use one, but her academic record ensured that permission was given.
Hermione found her third year stressful with the extra class load, and therefore decided to drop Divination, which she despised, and Muggle Studies, which she did not find very useful, given that she was a Muggle-born. This allowed her to have a normal schedule once again, and she returned her Time-Turner. Ron was disappointed that Hermione did not tell her friends about it, despite her promise to McGonagall.
The entire stock of Time-Turners, located in the Time Room, in the Ministry of Magic were rendered useless during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996. While not "destroyed" per se, due to the way one of them fell when their counter was knocked over, the entire stock was trapped in an endless loop of falling over, un-falling, and then re-falling, in an endless cycle for all eternity, and are thus unable to be used. [2][3]
Time-related magic is unstable, and serious breaches in the laws of time result in catastrophic events. Possible scenarios include a wizard or witch killing their past or future selves by mistake, or altering one's life path in such a drastic fashion that it can result in temporal anomalies such as un-births. As such, the Ministry of Magic seeks the strictest guarantees if it permits the use of Time-Turners: Time-Turner possession is hedged around with literally hundreds of laws, and the most stringent laws and penalties are in place to prevent their misuse.
The longest period that can be travelled back in time without serious chance of harm to the traveller or time itself is around five hours. [4]
Behind the scenes
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, while the importance of not being seen while travelling back in time is stressed, Harry and Hermione pass by the Clock Tower Courtyard while following their past selves. However, the executioner was sitting there, sharpening his axe, so he must have seen two pairs of Harrys and Hermiones. Although it could be explained that he was too busy sharpening his axe that he did not notice the second Harry and Hermione coming through.
- In the book, when the Time-Turner is used it takes the person back to the location where they were present at the time they'd gone back to. However, in the film adaptation, when the Time-Turner is used it leaves the person in the same place they were when they turned time back. The GBA video game version has the user appearing at an entirely random place (i.e. Harry and Hermione use it in the Hospital wing and appear at the Forbidden Forest).
- The possibility of time travel within the Harry Potter universe may seem to allow many plot holes, but characters appear to use them for trivial tasks that have no effect on existence as a whole. The one notable use of a Time-Turner within canon, the Rescue of Sirius Black and Buckbeak, obeys the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle. This theory of time-travel, stating that "Nothing can be changed because anything a traveller does merely produces the circumstances they had noted before travelling," is incidentally reminiscent of J. K. Rowling's employment of self-fulfilling prophecy. However, references to catastrophes that can take place when time travelling (a reference to a wizard travelling to the past and being killed by his past self in Prisoner of Azkaban, or Eloise Mintumble's time-travelling mishap in Pottermore in which several people end up un-born in the present) seem to go against Novikov Principle, indeed creating paradoxes.
- Knowing that time-related magic is unstable, there might be different ways to experience time through magic. This would explain catastrophic events as with Eloise Mintumble, and also paradoxes as result of poorly performed time-related spells.
- It is unknown what the effect of excessive Time-Turner use might produce. The user might still age while within an hour produced by the Time-Turner, and if so, then for wizards or witches such as Hermione, constant use might age them faster, adding days, weeks, or even months onto their internal chronological clock. It is also unknown how this applies to later on in life. If Hermione was perhaps a month older by using the Time-Turner during her third year[5], then biologically her seventeenth birthday might arrive a month earlier than her calendar birthdate might indicate, which might cause the Trace to have been lifted earlier as well.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, there are grandfather clocks throughout Hogwarts which allow Hermione to use her Time-Turner to transport herself and her teammates back in time to complete certain objectives. One of these includes a mission where Harry and Hagrid hatch Norberta's egg.
- The Time-Turner is one of the many collectibles offered by the Noble Collection.
- Hermione Granger's Time-Turner is David Heyman's favourite prop from the films.[6]
- You can hear quiet ticking as a background sound during nearly the whole Time-Turner episode of the film.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
- LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Harry Potter for Kinect (Mentioned and appears on a illustrative photograph)
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- J. K. Rowling's Official Site
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter: The Character Vault
Notes and references
- ↑ This quote comes from the "Harry Potter Sticker Kit", containing a plastic replica of the Time-Turner used on the film.
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ Blue Peter (CBBC) interview with JK Rowling, confirming that all the MoM time-turners were destroyed.
- ↑ Pottermore
- ↑ Assuming an average usage of 3 hours per day, 5 days per week, for a period of 9 months, this would add up to approximately 24 extra days.
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3FP-nmkFL0&feature=relmfu


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Smaller breast-only turkeys may serve well for some families. The large 22 pound bird is best for others. Your choices are generally frozen, Kosher, and fresh.
If your turkey is frozen and is listed as 'self-basting' or 'added broth', then this turkey has already been brined, and doing it again will add too much salt and may render it inedible. Kosher turkeys have been dry-brined with salt.
A FRESH turkey is a perfect candidate for brining.
6-8 pound turkey breast will need 1 /2 cup table salt (or 3 /4 cup Kosher) + 1 gallon water
12-17 pounds = 1 cup salt (1 1 /2 cup Kosher) and 2 gallons water
18-22 pounds = 1 1 /2 cups salt (1 3 /4 cup Kosher) and 3 gallons water
Other flavors can be added to the brine. These suggestions are per gallon of water:
2 tablespoons peppercorns (Telicherry or black)
1 /4 cup whole garlic cloves
1 Bouquet Garni or Spice bag
1 bay leaf
Brine Timing:
For under 8 pounds, the turkey should be submerged in the brine and refrigerated for 3 to 6 hours. For 8 to 22 pounds, at least 6 hours are needed, and it can brine up to 12 hours. Most folks put the turkey in the brine just after those late-night family talks following everyone's arrival, and remove it in the morning to get it in the oven quickly.
Preparing the stand-alone turkey breast for roasting:
Pat the turkey dry with paper towels and prepare the rubbing mixture.
2 teaspoons Kosher salt and 2 teaspoons baking powder blended together and patted on the skin creates a tasty crispy crunch. If you do not have a V-rack or a roasting rack, then fashion large chunks of carrots, celery and onions in the bottom of the roasting pan to raise the bird for air circulation and proper cooking of the underside. I also add fresh herbs right under the breast to add flavor while oven-roasting.
Roast Timing:
The table below has the standard guidelines for roasting a turkey, however, please use an instant read thermometer to assure doneness. The thigh on a large turkey should register 175F, and the thickest part of the breast should be 165F. If other items are also cooking in the oven, allow extra time so that all of the meal cooks properly.
Raw Turkey Weight – Starting at 350F , raising to 425 for the final 30-45 minutes
12-14 pounds, 10-12 servings, 2 – 2 ½ hours
15 to 17 pounds, 14-16 servings, 2 ½ - 3 hours
18 to 22 pounds, 20-22 servings, 3 – 3 ½ hours
Use gloves when handeling raw food and put plastic down over the cutting board. After you are finished preparing remove gloves, throw the plastic away, and wash hands to avoid cross contamination.


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This is an upcoming Noisebridge China Trip!
Because the first Noisebridge China Trip was so successful,
I am planning another Hacker Trip To China, including all cities that currently have a hackerspace, and which will culminate at the Beijing Maker Faire.
When: 4-April-2012 through 24-April-2012.
Flight, transportation, and hotel Info: We'll each be on our own to book our own air fare to the meeting point on the meeting day: Hong Kong on 4-April (please note that to arrive on 4-April, your flight must leave on 3-April).
I'm organizing the itinerary and the hotels and other transport. I will pay in advance for all of this.
Where: In each of the four cities we go to we'll visit their local hackerspace, and be shown around by local geeks to see geeky things of interest. We'll also have plenty of time to do "normal" tourist things too -- and the places we'll be going have spectacular sights!
- We'll explore Hong Kong for 4 days, visiting Hong Kong Hackjam hackerspace, and be shown around by local geeks.
- We'll then go to Guangzhou, Shenzhen for a few days to visit the Chaihuo Makerspace there, visit Seeed Studio to meet the cool folks there and to see their facilities. We'll also go to the famous electronics mall in Shenzhen.
- Then Shanghai for a week to visit my manufacturer (Etonnet) that I use for TV-B-Gone remote controls, where we'll all get to see how products are made, from start to finish, learning how manufacturing works. We'll also visit XinCheJian hackerspace in Shanghai, Onion Capsule Makerspace in nearby Hangzhou, and there will be time to visit the Shanghai electronics mall.
- Our last stop will be Beijing, where we'll be for a week. We'll visit the new Beijing Maxpace hackerspace, and we'll go to the Beijing Maker Faire, the first Maker Faire in China! (which they're calling Maker Carnival China 2012). We'll have a booth there at the Carnival, so please bring a project (or many) to show off!
We'll fly home from Beijing on 24-April. (But, of course, you are free to leave whenever you like.)
Cost: For the first Noisebridge China trip, I paid about $1k total, including air fare from SF and food and everything.
This trip will probably be more expensive, since Hong Kong is more expensive than the rest of China. Also, the exchange rate for Chinese currency (Yuan, aka RMB) is now doing better on the world market.
Info on the previous Noisebridge China Trip is available on its own wiki page:
Noisebridge China Trip 1
That first Noisebridge China Trip was inspired by Bunny Huang's "geek tour".
-- Mitch.
People interested in going to China from 4-April-2012 through 24-April-2012:
You do not need to be a member of Noisebridge to go on this trip.
Please email me if you are interested in joining us:
maltman23 *AT* hotmail *DOT* com
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Right before I left Colarado.At one of the parties,Ice asked me 2 go dance w/this guy that was on acid or something.He was so gone,but I did
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Part 5 of a series of screencasts looking at the new Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in the Silverlight 4 beta.
MEF is a framework that simplifies the design of extensible applications and components. It can flexibly and dynamically discover a set of loosely coupled components and analyse their dependencies in order to compose them together at run time.
In this screencast, we look at an additional catalog in the Silverlight Toolkit Preview for Silverlight Beta 4, the PackageCatalog. This catalog adds the key ability of being able to download XAPs dynamically at runtime and ask MEF to discover and
compose the types contained within those XAPs into a pluggable application.
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I'm working to get together a Live Meeting in early 2010 with people from the MEF team in order that people can chat more about MEF in Silverlight. Stay tuned.
The next screencast in this series is here.
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Excellent screencasts,
Half way through the screencast I get a failure. Is it possible to fix this?
Is there some code we could download?
I am a newbie uisng MEF, what can we do with MEF that we cannot do with PRISM?
Wonderful series of screencasts. Immensely informative for me.
At approx 10:06 & 18:30 the video stops and there's a "Media Failure" notification. I just refreshed the page and dragged the time slider to past that and it resumes.
I've just played the video and, like you, I got a media failure at about 10 mins. I'm not sure what's causing this but, in the meantime I'd suggest a workaround using the "Downloads" drop down menu to download the HIGH WMV version, save it to your disk and watch it from there.
Ironically, that should be the same file that's appearing in the video player so I'm not sure how it works in one place and not the other but I'll see if I can get it resolved and will post here as/when that's done.
Thanks & sorry for the file problem,
[I posted this question to your blog - but it didn't show up, so I'm not sure if it went into a moderator inbox, or the blog was broken. So, apologies if it got posted multiple times. Not *trying* to spam you].
Hi Mike. Thanks so much for these videos. You're a gifted communicator.
I had a question about this PackageCatlog video.
The way you structured the application was to divide it up into the various class libraries AND create corresponding Package (SL Apps) which were really just there to tie various configurations of DLL's together.
I was wondering if that was a hard-n-fast best practice? Would it also be sensible that if your application logic did cleave fairly readily around the XAP files, that you just create a set of SL-Apps (XAPs) and put the module's logic straight into that project (rather than seperate ClassLibrary assemblies)?
Many thanks!
Thanks Mike. I got your response over on your blog, here:
Why is better download XAP package ?
It is possible download single DLL files from web site, not XAP file ?
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If I put high priced objects on display many customers (escpecially the little girl, the husband and Louis) aren't willing or able to even afford a 10 percent raise. In fact, when Louis asked to buy a metal armor, he wasn't able to give me the reduced (!) price of 80%. Man, Louis, I'm trying to make a living here!
But with low priced objects I will never get the necessary 30k in a week. Also, I've noticed that the more often I open my shop the fewer customers come in.
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ENOREE, SC-- Myrtle Heatherly Roberson, 81, formerly of 160 Bill Roberson Road died Sunday, March 3, 2013 at Oakmont of Union.
A native of Union County, she was the daughter of the late Harley and Geneva Henson Heatherly and the widow of William J. "Bill" Roberson. She was a member of Cedar Shoals Baptist Church where she was a former Sunday School Teacher and lead the Children's Ministry for many years. She was a retired textile employee with Inman Mills.
Surviving are one son, Ronnie Roberson and his wife, Angie of Union; three sisters, Mary Ellen Moore of Union, Ruby Fowler of Union and Thelma Heatherly, formerly of Union; two brothers, Ed Heatherly of Buffalo and Martin Heatherly of Buffalo; sister-in-law, Deanna Heatherly of Buffalo; two grandchildren, Jill Brooks and her husband, John and also Jenna McAbee.
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How can one find out if a Martial Art school is legit/registered? I took a style back in the 90's called Chung Moo Quan. The school eventually closed because of some investigations into it being a cult and the master, John C. Kim, went to jail for tax fraud for 5 years I think. So basically did I waste my time on a martial art that was just a school that took peoples money and wasn't even legal?
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Is "vertorama" a real photography term, or is it simply something that people use to describe a vertical panorama? I never thought that panorama was limited to horizontal landscape oriented images, but is it? In other words, is every wide-angle horizontal image a panorama and every wide-angle vertical image a vertorama, and are they mutually exclusive or not? Further, is hororama or similar a term?
A panorama is, in its original usage, a wide angle horizontal image. In fact, it's a horizontal image painted in a complete circle around a room. That was in the late 1700s, though, and by the time the idea got to photography, it had been watered down to some degree, generally describing any image with a field of view greater than 100º, and then eventually any really wide image at all. Through that same elasticity of language, it's clearly come to encompass vertical images as well, and continuing in that vein, there's not a clear-cut answer to your question.
On the one hand, "vertorama" is clearly a term people use, and it's pretty easy to understand immediately what's meant. It's hard to argue that it's "not a real term" when there's 12,000 pictures in a Vertorama flickr pool; simply pragmatically, it's a real enough term for that.
But, is it a term with a legacy in photography (or the English language!)? For that, I turned to Google Books search, and couldn't find a single use before 2010. And in 2010, there's this:
That's not particularly a ringing endorsement of the term, and what's more, it's the only book I find indexed that uses it. So, I'd say:
If you are the sort of person who enjoys newly-invented portmanteau words, I'd say feel free to use it, but don't be surprised if others view that as a bit ecccentric.
A word created by combining two or more existing words is called a portmanteau, and they're quite common. A few examples that come to mind: Spanglish, Franglais, brunch, frenemy, motel, prosumer. It remains to be seen whether vertorama is useful or catchy enough to see widespread adoption, and it's surely not an acceptable Scrabble word yet, but I wouldn't hesitate to use it when it fits.


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What is exacly the statement of Poincaré duality for smooth projective varieties over finite fields and twisted constant $\mathbf{Z}_\ell$ sheaves? Where can I find a proof?
By twisted constant $\mathbf{Z}_\ell$ sheaf, I mean a system of $\mathbf{Z}/\ell^n$-sheaves that are constructible and étale locally constant, e.g. the system $(\mu_{\ell^n}) = \mathbf{Z}_\ell(1)$.
I'm interested in the finite field case of Poincaré duality. Presumably, the formulation is something like $H^i(X, F) \times H^{2d+1-i}(X, F') \to H^{2d+1}(X, ?) = \mathbf{Z}_\ell$. Now, I want to know what $F'$ and $?$ is.


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I'm trying to start an application within Ubuntu (xfce or gnome) and via the command line and was wondering if there's a generic way to set the dimensions of a given window of a given app that is currently running?
This is easier to do if you install something like
replace "window name" with a name or reg ex appearing in the window title (you can also search by window class and a variety of other things), and the two numbers appearing after windowsize are the width and height, respectively. (You can also use percents, etc.) See
If you're on Lucid or earlier, I recommend going to the xdotool website to get a newer version, however.
To resize Firefox, for example:
If the window manager supports Xlib there is. This uses Python to set the window's size to 500x300:
The hard part is getting the window ID; in the above code it got the ID of the active window. If you want another ID, you can use something like this to get the title and controlling PID of each window, and choose the right ID based on those:
Specific to XFCE there is pyxfce which will allow you to do that using python language. Pyxfce is an API that, among other things, lets you communicate with the window manager. To use this from the command line would require you to prepare a script first.
Depending on your use, the importance of using a X-based API using X window IDs (such as python-xlib or xdotools mentioned in another answer) versus others that use strings matching window titles (like wmctrl), is that there can be no confusion between windows, which may have the same keywords in their respective title.


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How are the finite flat group schemes $\mathcal{A}[\ell^n]$ arising from an Abelian scheme $\mathcal{A}/S$ singled out among other finite flat commutative group schemes of exponent $\ell^n$?
Is the abelian scheme you consider a fixed one?
If the base is of characteristic $p$, and $l = p$ then the Lie algebra of $A[l]$ is isomorphic to $Lie(A)$, so you get a dimension condition.
For example, $\alpha_p \oplus \alpha_p$ cannot be embedded in an elliptic curve.
There are also more general condition your group scheme $G$ should satisfy. Assume that $S$ is the spectrum of an Artinian algebra and that $G$ is $p$-torsion with a trivial bi-nilpotent part. We have an exact sequence: $$ 0 \to G^{mult} \to G \to G^{et} \to 0$$
then the orders of $G^{mult}$ and $G^{et}$ must be equal if $G$ is the $p$-torsion of an abelian scheme.
On the other hand, in section (15.4) of the book "Commutative group schemes" of F. Oort, there is the following result:
Every finite flat commutative group scheme is a subgroup scheme of some abelian variety $A$.
I'm reminded of two papers by Maja Volkov, an erstwhile student of Jean-Marc Fontaine. They are
MR2148801 (2006a:14027) Volkov, Maja A class of $p$-adic Galois representations arising from abelian varieties over $\Bbb Q_p$. Math. Ann. 331 (2005), no. 4, 889–923.
MR1837096 (2002d:11067) Volkov, Maja Les représentations $l$-adiques associées aux courbes elliptiques sur ${\Bbb Q}_p$. J. Reine Angew. Math. 535 (2001), 65–101.


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EAST LIVERPOOL - Now just a vacant lot in Chester, the Taylor, Smith & Taylor pottery was once an economic engine that typified America's manufacturing prowess in the 20th century, a former executive said Friday.
"We had our own airplane. We had our own chain of retail stores. The company was very successful," said David Conley, former general manager of TS&T's retail division.
Conley's talk at the Museum of Ceramics was part of the 2013 Ohio Valley China Collectors' Convention being held in East Liverpool. It was preceded Friday morning by a presentation on TS&T's popular Lu-Ray dinnerware line.
Conley said TS&T was so successful in its production of affordable dinnerware that it was exceeded only by the Homer Laughlin China Co., where he eventually became director of retail sales and marketing. In its heyday, TS&T was known for attractive, economical china that it sold through department stores and, later, supermarket chains such as Giant Eagle, Publix and Winn-Dixie.
Conley, who oversaw TS&T's own chain of retail stores, said he remembers grocery store clerks wearing pins that read, "9 cents / Ask me." The promotion enabled customers who bought more than $20 in groceries to buy a piece of TS&T dinnerware for 9 cents.
"If you shopped there every week, by the end of the year you'd have an entire dinnerware set," he said.
Founded in 1899 by John N. Taylor, Joseph Lee and Charles A. Smith, TS&T started out as Taylor, Lee & Smith. Smith's brother, William L. Smith, also was an early investor, Conley said.
The Chester company began production in 1900 and was reorganized twice in its early history. It became TS&T in 1901 after Lee left the company and John Taylor brought his sons William and Homer on as managing partners, Conley said.
Conley said his research of TS&T's history was aided by the archives of the now-defunct U.S. Potters Association, of which William Smith was an active member and which had its national headquarters in East Liverpool.
The 1920s was a period of major changes in the U.S. pottery industry, Conley said, and TS&T kept pace or led the way. At a time when there were still 60 potteries in the USPA, TS&T switched from bottle kilns to continuous firing tunnel kilns in 1927, he said.
"Any of the plants that could afford to, converted their plants to the tunnel kilns," Conley said.
In 1938, TS&T introduced its popular Lu-Ray line, with an array of pastel colors, and its brightly-colored Vistosa line, its answer to Homer Laughlin's Fiesta dinnerware.
Conley joined TS&T as a "22-year-old kid" in 1964 after being recruited by Chairman of the Board Ed Morse. By that time, there were only 12 potteries left in the USPA. He stayed on for 18 years, including the nine years that TS&T was owned by glassware manufacturer Anchor Hocking.
The last years of TS&T were hard years, Conley said, in part because Anchor Hocking was an absentee owner with a penchant for letting people go.
"Anchor Hocking got rid of all the sales people and turned it over to their glass sales people, who didn't know anything about pottery," he said. "I'd rather work for the people who live right here."
TS&T closed in 1981, and, for 30 years, the plant sat vacant on the shores of the Ohio River. In 2011, the property was bought by the Business Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle, and in 2012, all the buildings were demolished. The property currently is being marketed for economic development purposes.
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I've been doing a bit of research on Pano heads and have pretty much settled on the NN5 Starter Package.
I'm using a Nikon D300 with a 16-35 VR lens (or may use my Tokina 12-24mm). The camera currently has a Really Right Stuff mounting plate attached to the bottom. The RRS plate is Arca-Swiss compatible.
I have several questions that I hope someone can assist me with:
1) Since I'm using a cropped DX sensor (sigh, haven't convinced the wife that I "need" the D700 yet) I would like to have the capability of doing multi-row panoramas (but NOT 360 degree panos, more like 120 degrees or so). Will the starter kit allow me to do that?
2) Does the Starter Kit come with an Arca-Swiss clamp so that I can quickly attach my camera to the NN5 arm? Or is this an additional option? If someone could tell me the part number that would be great.
3) I currently have a Feisol Tournament carbon fiber tripod (without a center post for more stability) and one of Markins' larger ball heads using an Arca-Swiss style clamp. Do I need to purchase an additional plate to attach to the bottom of the NN5 head? I see there is an Arca Swiss plate (p/n ARCRP1) that I can get BUT the description says its meant for the bottom of the camera, not the NN5 mount. Or would it simply be wiser to purchase the EZ-Leveler II and remove the ball head when I'm shooting panos? If I have to purchase a RRS MPR-73 plate to work with this setup, it will cost $55 and it may just be worth it to spend the extra $50 and get the EZ-leveler II at that point.
As always, I'm hoping to keep costs down if possible. Thank you for your time.
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I remember reading somewhere that Witten argued that if the Poincaré symmetry of spacetime were nontrivially combined with internal symmetries, then the S-matrix would be so constrained that the scattering amplitude would be non-vanishing at discrete angles only.
I would like to know more about this:
- At which angles would the scattering amplitude be non-vanishing
- By crossing symmetry, wouldn't this mean that in the crossed channel, the amplitude be non-vanishing at discrete energies?
- Is there a reference that contains more information on this?


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Investigators and experts for the prosecution told the jury back in 1988 that certain patterns found on the floor of the shed could only mean the fire was set with an accelerant, but recent findings by arson experts may indicate other causes, and Waco attorney Walter (Skip) Reaves thinks they could lead to a different verdict.
Graf and the two boys were the only people at home on Angel Fire Drive in Hewitt on the day of the fire in August 1986.
Graf had picked the boys up from daycare and arrived home around 5 p.m. Just 10 minutes later the boys were dead.
Former McLennan County District Attorney Vic Feazell maintains there's no that doubt Graf set the fire that killed the boys and that the conviction in 1988 was appropriate.
"It is true that science knows a lot more about fires than was known back then," Feazell said. "It was other evidence that led to the jury's decision," he said.
Feazell said his investigators accumulated an incredible amount of circumstantial evidence that pointed to Graf's guilt, including insurance policies bought on the 8- and 9-year-old boys within weeks of their deaths.
Feazell, now a private practice lawyer in Waco and Austin, remembers the prosecution in detail.
"There was a lot of evidence that we presented and the jury considered it and found Mr. Graf guilty," Feazell told News 10.
Reaves' contention, however, is that the boys themselves started the fire inside the shed. He thinks the door was open and the flames were so intense the boys were unable to escape. A neighbor has told Reaves he saw the doors open at the time of the deadly fire.
Hewitt police had the burned-out shed bulldozed the night of the fire to prevent the boys' mother from having to see its remains when she awoke the next morning and as a result some vital evidence could have been destroyed. Feazell sent investigators to the city dump to recover the door and frame from the shed and says he clearly remembers the door latch was closed from the outside; something the boys could not have done from inside the shed.
"The latch was closed and that door and pictures of that door with the latch closed were entered into evidence at trial," Feazell said. "Those boys could not have closed that latch on the outside of the door from inside the shed," he said.
But even if the trial court had barred introduction of the fire evidence, Feazell says the outcome would have been the same.
"He was an extremely meticulous man and he kept detailed records of events and completed tasks on a close schedule, yet he failed to attend to things regarding those boys in the days before their deaths. I believe because he knew they wouldn't be around much longer," Feazell said.
As to the evidence, Feazell believes the original trial transcript will erase any hope Graf has of a new trial.
"I don't believe Mr. Graf will get a new trial because I truly believe in my heart he killed those boys, but I think the process is good," Feazell said. "But I think it's good for Reaves to be looking into this because any time we revisit evidence and criminal prosecution issues, it just makes our justice system stronger," Feazell said. (Paul Gately)
WACO (January 11, 2013)—Combustion science expert Douglas James Carpenter of Baltimore testified Friday that the evidence that sent a suburban Waco man to prison nearly 25 years ago for the fiery deaths of his two stepsons in 1986 was based on a hypothesis that new studies have debunked as myth.
Ed Graf is seeking a new trial based on modern forensic techniques that could prove he didn't start the Aug. 26, 1986 fire that killed his two stepsons ages 8, and 9, in the backyard of the family's home in Hewitt.
Carpenter testified Friday that he thinks the fire started accidentally and he said the doors of the shed had to be open based on the carbon monoxide levels in the lungs of the two boys, not closed as prosecutors maintained during Graf's original trial.
Graf was convicted of capital murder in 1988 after a McLennan County jury found that he set fire to the shed after locking the boys inside.
Investigators and experts for the prosecution told the jury in 1988 that certain patterns found on the floor of the shed could only mean the fire was set with an accelerant.
But recent findings by arson experts may indicate other causes, and Graf's attorney, Walter (Skip) Reaves of Waco, thinks they could lead to a different verdict.
A second witness, arson expert Robert Paul Bieber of San Jose, Calif., testified Friday that he presented Graf's case to 33 top arson investigators who concluded that the findings of the original investigation were unreliable.
If retired State District Judge George Allen, who presided over Graf's trial in 1988, finds the new evidence sheds doubt on guilt, Graf could be set free and prosecutors would then have to decide if he should be re-tried.
Another hearing is scheduled for Jan. 24, after which Allen will make his recommendation, which will be sent automatically to a state appeals court.
Graf's conviction is among between 25 and 50 nationwide involved in a study conducted by New York-based John Jay College, that says that because arson investigations prior to 2005 were flawed, many people convicted of arson murder prior to 2005 could have been wrongly convicted.
It's high science that has to do with burn patterns and findings of the use of accelerants based upon those patterns.


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Everything that I read regarding Set Theory states that the Axiom of Choice is independent and undecidable within the context of Zermelo-Frankel Set Theory. My question is this: Is there any consistent form of Set Theory stronger than ZF in which the Axiom of Choice IS decidable?
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SQLObject is a popular Object Relational Manager for providing an object interface to your database, with tables as classes, rows as instances, and columns as attributes.
SQLObject includes a Python-object-based query language that makes SQL more abstract, and provides substantial database independence for applications.
Examples are good. Examples give a feel for the aesthetic of the API, which matters to me a great deal. This is just a snippet that creates a simple class that wraps a table:
>>> from sqlobject import * >>> >>> sqlhub.processConnection = connectionForURI('sqlite:/:memory:') >>> >>> class Person(SQLObject): ... fname = StringCol() ... mi = StringCol(length=1, default=None) ... lname = StringCol() ... >>> Person.createTable()
SQLObject supports most database schemas that you already have, and can also issue the CREATE statement for you (seen in Person.createTable()).
Here's how you'd use the object:
>>> p = Person(fname="John", lname="Doe") >>> p <Person 1 fname='John' mi=None lname='Doe'> >>> p.fname 'John' >>> p.mi = 'Q' >>> p2 = Person.get(1) >>> p2 <Person 1 fname='John' mi='Q' lname='Doe'> >>> p is p2 True


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Bachelor of Arts in Music with concentrations in general performance, jazz performance, music technology, and music entrepreneurship
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The School of Music is a fully accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).


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The reports are starting to come in that Toshiba is giving up and killing HD DVD.
This really sucks, but with the news the last few weeks that Netflix, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc. are either abandoning HD DVD or strongly favoring Blu-Ray, it shouldn't be a big surprise that Toshiba would soon pull HD DVD off life support.
The competition was great while it lasted. I don't believe that prices for players and discs would've dropped as low as they are now if there was only one format. And those sales. Buy One Get One Free or 50% off sales are nothing to sneeze at and have made prices of brand new movies in both formats much more tolerable.
A common refrain in discussions was that people were waiting until one side "won" the format war and then they would adopt whichever format that was. While on some level this makes sense, maybe moreso when the cheapest players were several hundred dollars, I don't know that only one format is the best for consumers. People seem to do ok with multiple video game consoles coexisting each cycle and driving competition (although it can be brutal for the losers). Often one or two exclusive games are enough to influence a purchasing decision. Similarly, with nearly all of the movie studios exclusive to one format, purchasing decisions were strongly influenced by the movies available and which studio was aligned with which format. However, the differences between HD DVD and Blu-Ray for most people were very minor and don't usually factor in to decisions as much as they do for video game consoles. Now that Blu-Ray has effectively won, it'll be interesting to watch the next few months to see if the rate of uptake changes and if prices continue to fall or start to settle.
We're definitely going to hang on to our HD DVD player. Maybe someday the ten or so movies we have now will also be released on Blu-Ray, and also cheap enough to pick up again, but I don't see that happening for some time. Additionally, the player works well as an upscaling DVD player, so we'll still get use out of it that way. The big question now is if it's worth picking up a few more HD DVDs while they're cheap. Amazon.com and DeepDiscount.com are making me think 'yes'.


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Why doesn't this work?!
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Why doesn't this work?!
:( Any hints? All the other formats work.
Put this in your function.php
function akv3_query_format_standard($query) { if (isset($query->query_vars['post_format']) && $query->query_vars['post_format'] == 'post-format-standard') { if (($post_formats = get_theme_support('post-formats')) && is_array($post_formats[0]) && count($post_formats[0])) { $terms = array(); foreach ($post_formats[0] as $format) { $terms[] = 'post-format-'.$format; } $query->is_tax = null; unset($query->query_vars['post_format']); unset($query->query_vars['taxonomy']); unset($query->query_vars['term']); unset($query->query['post_format']); $query->set('tax_query', array( 'relation' => 'AND', array( 'taxonomy' => 'post_format', 'terms' => $terms, 'field' => 'slug', 'operator' => 'NOT IN' ) )); } } } add_action('pre_get_posts', 'akv3_query_format_standard');More information here.
When you assign a non-Standard post format to a post, a record gets added to the wp_term_relationships table. This record contains your post number and the term_taxonomy_id, which joins via wp_term_relationships to the post format in wp_terms. When you assign a Standard post format to a post, no record for post format is added to wp_term_relationships. If it was previously assigned another post format and changed to Standard, the record is removed from wp_term_relationships. Unfortunately, get_post_format_link relies on having that record in wp_term_relationships, so won't work with Standard post format.
For example, when I changed a post's post format to image, a record was added to wp_term_relationships, which eventually pointed to wp_terms >> post-format-image. When I changed the post's post format to Standard, this record disappeared. In WP's codebase, get_post_format_link uses get_term_by('slug', 'post-format-' . $format, 'post_format' ), and with the missing related post format record for Standard, we all lose. :-D
This might answer your original question of why it doesn't work. I wish that I could offer a slick solution, especially given your immensely helpful WordPress posts!


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GURPS Melee Attack Modifiers
Part of the GURPS For Dummies Cheat Sheet
In GURPS, being successful in hand-to-hand combat involves skill and the right weaponry — melee weapons like daggers, smallswords, sabers, and large knives are effective. When your character is making a melee attack on an opponent during combat, figure your effective skill by
Taking your base skill with the weapon or unarmed attack you are using.
In some situations, another skill — e.g., Free Fall, Riding, or Environment Suit — will limit this skill.)
Applying the relevant modifiers below.
Modifiers are cumulative, but combined visibility penalties cannot exceed –10 (–6, if used to blindness). If any modifier marked with an asterisk (*) applies, adjusted skill after all modifiers cannot exceed 9.
A roll of this number, or less, is a hit.
Attacker's Maneuver
All-Out Attack (Determined): +4
Move and Attack: –4*
Attacker's Posture
Crawling or lying down: –4 (if attacker is crawling, he can only make reach "C" attacks)
Crouching, kneeling, or sitting: –2
Attacker's Situation
Affliction (coughing, retching, etc.): See Afflictions on p.428 in GURPS: Basic Set: Campaigns
Bad footing: –2 or more (GM's option)
Grappled: –4
Holding a large shield: –2
Major distraction (e.g., all clothes on fire): –3 or more (GM's option)
Minor distraction (e.g., part of clothes on fire): –2
Mounted, and mount attacked on its last turn: –2
Mounted, and mount's velocity relative to target is 7+: –1
Shock: –HP of injury received last turn (maximum –4)
ST below that required for weapon: –1 per point of deficit
Wearing a shield in close combat: –DB of shield
Other Actions by Attacker
Deceptive Attack: –2 per –1 penalty to foe's defense
Dual-Weapon Attack: –4/–8 with primary/off hand (–4/–4 w. Ambidexterity)
Evaluate: +1 per turn (maximum +3)
Off-hand attack: –4 (no penalty w. Ambidexterity)
Rapid Strike: –6 on both attacks (–3 with Trained By A Master or Weapon Master)
Striking into close combat: –2
Wild Swing: –5*
Target (choose one)
Hit location: 0 for torso, –2 for arm or leg, –3 for groin, –4 for hand or foot, –5 for face, –7 for skull; impaling and piercing attacks can target vitals at –3 or eyes at –9
Hit location, through chink in armor: –8 for torso, –10 anywhere else (e.g., eyeslits)
Weapon, to damage: –5 to hit a reach "C" weapon (e.g., knife) or pistol; –4 to hit a reach 1 weapon (e.g., broadsword); –3 to hit a reach 2+ weapon (e.g., spear) or rifle
Weapon, to disarm: as above, plus an extra –2 if not using a fencing weapon
Cannot see anything: –10 (–6, if used to blindness)*
Cannot see foe: –6, or –4 if you know his location to within 1 yard*
Partial darkness, fog, smoke, etc.: –1 to –9 (GM's option)


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We provide Educational Technology (ET) leadership, expertise, infrastructure, and services in support of the Offices of the Dean for Medical Education, Admission & Student Affairs, Undergraduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Education, Continuing Medical Education, and Medical Alumni.
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Information provided by the Department of Community Affairs
What is radon?
Radon is an odorless, tasteless radioactive gas produced by the natural decay of uranium found in soil and rock all over the US, including Georgia. Although radon is present throughout our environment, when high levels of radon enter a home or building, people are exposed to more of its radiation. The type of radiation that it produces is mainly an internal hazard and produces damage when we breathe air that contains radon, increasing our risk for lung cancer. Such a situation can easily be discovered and corrected, however.
Why is radon a problem in Georgia?
Because of its geology, much of the soil and rock in Georgia contains widespread uranium, especially in the Piedmont area of north and northeast Georgia. Uranium has a long decay chain that eventually breaks down to release radon gas. Therefore much of our state's geology provides an ongoing supply of radon. However, no area of the state is radon-free.
How does radon enter a home?
Radon is a gas able to move through spaces in the soil and rock under a home's foundation. It can enter a home through the floor and walls anywhere there is an opening between the home and the soil (see list of Major Radon Entry Routes below). Examples of such openings include dirt floor crawl spaces, unsealed sump pumps, cracks in slab-on-grade floors, utility penetrations, and the tiny pore spaces in concrete block walls. A basement, of course, provides a large surface area that contacts soil material.
A. Cracks in concrete slabs.
B. Spaces behind brick veneer walls that rest on uncapped hollow-block foundations.
C. Pores and cracks in concrete blocks.
D. Floor-wall joints.
E. Exposed soil, as in a sump or crawl space.
F. Weeping (drain) tile, if drained to an open sump.
G. Mortar joints.
H. Loose fitting pipe penetrations.
I. Open tops of block walls.
J. Building materials, such as brick, concrete, rock.
K. Deep Well water (not commonly a major source in Georgia homes)
Why should I test my home for radon?
The Surgeon General of the United States issued a press release in January 2005 saying that every house in the US should be tested for radon. Testing is the only way to know if your family is at risk for lung cancer from breathing radon coming into your home. Homes with high radon levels should be fixed to lower that level.
Where can I find reliable information about testing my home or business and mitigating high radon levels?
The Georgia Radon Education Program is a partnership funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency and coordinated by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for its partners the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) Extension Service and Southface Energy Institute to educate Georgians on actions to take to protect themselves from the risk of developing lung cancer caused by the unwelcome entry of radon gas into their homes and businesses.
Visit the University of Georgia (UGA) Radon Education website, www.ugaradon.com, for information on home radon testing, finding certified radon testers and mitigators, selecting a mitigation contractor and purchasing a low-cost test kit.
You can also get a free test kit at Southface Energy Institute in Atlanta, but you have to pick it up at their office downtown. You can call them at 404-872-3549 for directions or go to www.southface.org/green-building-services/programs/radon for information on their programs, including education for builders on radon resistant new construction techniques and much more.
For real estate transactions, we recommend that you use a professional radon testing company, not a home test kit. If you need information on how to deal with radon during a home sale or purchase, you can download the USEPA Home Buyers and Sellers Guide to Radon at www.epa.gov/radon/pubs/hmbyguid.html. If a radon test has been done previously by the seller the results should be discussed as part of the disclosure process.
Regarding testing and mitigation (the term for reducing radon levels) there is no required state licensing for radon professionals in Georgia, but we strongly advise homeowners and others to only use testers and mitigators certified by one or both of the two national training and certification organizations. You can go directly to their websites to find a certified professional in your area:
- National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) www.radongas.org
- National Radon Safety Board (NRSB) www.nrsb.org
If you need to contact a UGA Radon Educator about home radon testing or other matters, please email Ms. Ginger Bennett at email@example.com or call 770-535-8290.


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I've been trying to find an interview with Mike Myers where he supposedly mentions the inspiration for the Fat Bastard character. My friend swears that Mike Myers said he saw an obese guy in Nashville, TN playing the bagpipes and that was where he got the idea for Fat Bastard. So who is the inspirational character for Fat Bastard?
I cannot find any mention of any interview with Mike Myers where he reveals the inspiration for Fat Bastard. That does not mean that there was none. But I'd like to venture that if such a revelation had ever been made, then it would have been mentioned here, here, here, or here.
My first impression when I saw Fat Bastard (and this opinion is shared in a number of locations) was that he was modelled on the legendary character of Mr. Creosote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Myers grew up with Monty Python and would have undoubtedly encountered the double Jeroboam swilling Creosote.


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Top 10 Wintertime Neighborhood Games
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Snow Baseball
Start off by having everyone make a big pile of snowballs. Once that's done, make your baseball diamond by making four snow mounds for home plate, first, second, and third base, with a mound in the middle for the "pitcher" to stand on.
Place a bottle or can on top of the four mounds in the diamond.
Taking turns, have each player stand on the pitcher's mound and try to knock the bottle off each mound by throwing snowballs at each one.
The player who uses the fewest snowballs to knock each bottle over wins.
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I got thinking about how webcams over MSN Messenger worked. After some digging on Google, I found that the camera stream on a port in the 6000's.
It then occured to me - I don't allow that reem of ports to be open on my router - yet the webcam stream works when I chat with a contact?
How is this? If I initiate a connection to a remote service on my client machine, does that somehow by-pass any Port Forwarding on my router and connect anyway?
Is Port Forwarding only for when someone tries to establish a connection to you first?


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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, recently signed an order wiping away generations of limits on women fighting for their country.
Women in the military will soon have the same opportunities as men to take on grueling and dangerous combat jobs.
Women on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan have been fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade. Of the more than 6,600 U.S. service members who have been killed in those conflicts, 152 have been women.
Modern warfare doesn't consist of a classic military front moving forward across miles of ground. Lines constantly shift and the front is wherever the next roadside bomb or terror attack hits.
Leaders say no physical standards will be lowered to send more women closer to the battlefront.
Good. But women, already dying in war, deserve the chance to fight in front-line units if they are moved to do so.
More than 230,000 jobs, many in Army and Marine infantry units, could be opened to women.
The right to serve in combat will open up advancement opportunities currently limited for women.
In addition to questions of strength and performance, there also have been suggestions that the American public would not tolerate large numbers of women being killed in war.
We don't like it when our soldiers die in war. But serving in combat sometimes requires service members lay down their lives.
But are our son's lives worth any less, or more, than our daughters?


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I have a 32bit 10.04 server has 32gb ram
I am running opencart e-commerce sites (php)
Max How much ram can use by opencart? (32gb or 4gb?)
If you use a PAE-kernel a 32 bit operating systems like yours, can use up to 64 Gb of memory (RAM).
If you have a PAE kernel installed, your 32 bit operating system should be able to address up to 64 GB of RAM.
As far as I know, each single process should be able to address not more than 4 GB RAM. Now since opencart is a PHP application and I assume that each visit of your website by another browser spwans a new PHP process, your system and therefore opencart should be able to use more than 4 GB of RAM.
Also, PHP has various tuning parameters, including


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The engine options for the Audi A5 Sportback include the following diesels: 2.0 TDI with 170hp and 350 Nm of torque, 2.7 TDI with 190hp and 400 Nm and Audi's popular 3.0 TDI. For the petrol customers, the Audi A5 Sportback offers two engine options: the 2.0 TFSI with 210 hp and the 3.2-litre V6 engine with 265 hp.


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Feetures! Light Cushion High Performance No Show Tab Sock
Product Information:
The athlete of any sport competes and trains in the Feetures! Light Cushion High Performance No Show Tab sock. With iWick™ fibers wicking moisture and mesh construction, you stay cool and dry with every wear. Unbeatable support and fit come with SnugFit Technology™, a Y-heel construction keeps the socks in place and you stay protected with every powerful stride thanks to high density cushioning, which protects in impact areas.
- Great for the athlete of all sports
- High-density cushioning protects in impact areas
- iWick™ fibers wick moisture, keeping you cool, dry and odor-free
- SnugFit Technology™ unique power bands of Lycra® hug your foot for support
- Snug fit reduces movement to cut down on blisters
- PerfectToe™ provides a non-irritating toe seam
- Mesh construction on the top boosts ventilation and breathability
- Y-heel construction keeps socks in place
- Fabric: 74% iWick™, 23% nylon, 3% lycra spandex
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