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I'm delighted to welcome Author Carmen Peone, who shares about her new books about Americana, the west in the great time of sorrows and change. I'm sure you'll find these stories great for Holiday Gift Giving.
About the Books:
Change of Heart – Book One:
After fighting with her sister, thirteen-year-old Spupaleena bolted from their Arrow Lakes pit home into the dead of winter. Spupaleena didn't know where she was going but knew she could no longer live at home. Haunted by the deaths of her mother and baby brother, Spupaleena ran until she'd run too far.
Upon discovering Spupaleena's body, Phillip Gardner, a trapper, brings her home to his cabin. This wife, Elizabeth, does her best to help heal Spupaleena, although with a broken heart and a mangled body, she is not likely to survive. But when Phillip doesn't return from a trip into town, a pregnant Elizabeth and a weak Spupaleena are forced to find strength not only in each other but in God as well. In this story of hardship, grief, and eventual hope, Spupaleena learns all she needed was a Change of Heart.
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Spupaleena was not about to back down. Knowing she encompassed the skills to race against young men, Spupaleena would begin her intense training. However, Rainbow, her trusted middle-aged mare, would only carry her so far. She would need to find a new horse, but where? She was tired of her fellow racer's cruel insults, one boy's in particular. She was determined to not only race him, but to win. She drew her strength from God and exhibited a Heart of Courage. But at times, wondered if that was enough. Spupaleena's father was against her. Would she have the spirit to compete and win? If so, would her father ever learn to accept her dreams of training and racing horses?
Books can be ordered off my web site at: carmenpeone.tateauthor.com
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I love the historical accuracy of my books and the Sinyekst language that has been included. The setting is where I live now: up and down the Columbia River north of Coulee Dam to Kettle Falls, WA. The characters are of my husband and son's people called the Sinyekst or Arrow Lakes band of the Colville Confederated Tribes who originated in British Columbia and became a part of the Colville Confederated Tribes when the reservation was put into place in 1872. My books all have a lesson in them and point to hope in God.
I have learned that in a series, characterization still has to be thorough in each book. If a reader picks up the second book in the series, they will need to know everything that has already been stated about the characters in the beginning, each book has to stand on its own.
My best marketing strategy has been to show up in person at different events. Start with niche and include fairs and festivals. We authors need to be seen and heard. Word of mouth: social networks, web sites, blogging (this I still need to do) Writer's conferences, these are all necessary and valuable to a writer.
A third of this series will be released in the Spring of 2013.
About the Author:
Carmen Peone has lived in Northeast Washington, on the Colville Indian Reservation for twenty-three years. She had worked with a Tribal Elder, Marguerite Ensminger, for three years learning the Arrow Lakes Language and various cultural traditions. She has owned and trained her horses for thirteen years and competed in local Extreme Challenge Competitions for three years. She lives with her husband Joe. They have four grown sons and five grandchildren. With a degree in psychology, the thought of writing never entered her mind, until she married her husband and they moved to the reservation after college. She came to love the people and their heritage and wanted to create a legacy for her sons.

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I've read good things in reviews about the co-op experience in Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - specifically, that the puzzles change to accommodate both characters with their unique abilities.
Does playing co-op really change all the puzzles so that they require cooperation, or only a few select ones? Does this include the skull tombs? Does anything in the game change except for puzzles - for example is the combat more difficult, now that there are two gun-wielding players?
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Looking to see what the level of effort is for implementing a screen capture command into PS3 game by a mid-level PS3 game developer.
Bonus for a description of what is involved in the process...
Not sure how to get back my question since it was the first but let me clarify some things. @Nate Bross, nope I am not the actor although i've fielded calls for him on occasion
@coderanger my intent was to try and speak to other PS3 developers, however coming from a web development no one in my social circle close or extended develops on the PS3. Additionally i'm interested in hearing the effort required in terms of hours so that this information can be passed on to a client. A client who has a game on the PS3 using the unreal engine. Convo with devs sometimes go something like "can you implement feature a" which gets a response "this will take us 8 weeks and an army". Trying to be educated before the ask. I hope that helps
If anyone here is a PS3 game dev and would like to respond off site so as not to break NDA that would be awesome.
@Roger it would be from within the game, something that users can use. Something akin to the iphone screencap utility. No need to get fancier than that.


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In Bridge CS5, I've been updating my photos' metadata and IPTC fields. There are a lot of fields available...How much of them do you typically fill out? I can tell I'd at least want to put in my name, and the location of the photo along with keywords, but I'm not sure how far to go. For example, should I bother filling in the creator contact information?
In addition to the obvious things like keywords, I use a metadata preset in Lightroom to automatically add my name, contact information, website URL, and copyright information to every photo as it is imported.
Proving copyright infringement is significantly easier if you have contact info in the metadata, since most infringers aren't savvy enough to remove it.
short answer: I never feel I add enough. there are always keywords and etc I feel I should add, but I don't except on my absolutely best images.
But I do the same as jrista; all of my images have that data in it, most of it added via a standard default in Lightroom. I also geocode all of my images, at least to a location that can get me back to where the shot came from (at the least, say, a parking lot in the area so I can always get back there)
Besides the standard stuff, like keywords and copyright info, I try to give most of my work that I "pick" or "flag" as much detailed information as I can. The more information you supply on your images, the more information you have to find your work later on. Tooks like Lightroom and Aperture offer some very rich search capabilities, which makes working with huge libraries (or catalogs) of images much easier.
Here are some of the things I tend to add:
There are plenty of other metadata values, and I don't use even half of them all. Much of the info I have configured in Lightroom presets, so if its standard stuff, I never actually fill it in manually. Most of the time, I add the IPTC metadata, title, and caption, while the rest is added automatically on import. Every so often I have to update a preset (i.e. January of a new year, I change the copyright year.)
I've set my camera to automatically add my name and website URL to every photo I shoot. This can be done using supplied software at least on Canon DSLRs.
Contact information should, of course, be added. But the questions I always aim to answer by entering metadata: who, what, and where. That typically translates to tagging the people in a photo, the activity/event, and the location. With those basics covered I can typically find anything I want at a later time.


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I want to implement visitors tracking on a php site, to estimate the conversion rates. What every site tells me is that we should divide the the number of completed transactions to the number of visitos. But to what should we count as 'visitors' I haven't yet found a definite answer.
I may guess, there could be different methods, well let's talk about these that would be more reliable then, and provide for a more accurate calculation.
So, what is that? Should we take a number of let's say unique ips every day, or a number of pages loaded, or what? I'm completely lost, what should we track?


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I was curious what the limit was on the number of people you can add to an iMessages group. Assuming everyone was on iMessages (i.e. everyone shows up as blue).
I read nothing about a limit in the different user guides for iOS devices (e.g. iPhone User Guide [PDF, 17MB]). Because of that I think there is no limit for groups.
I believe 9 members is the maximum amount that can participate in a single iMessage group thread.
I don't know the reason for this arbitrary number but people in my company have discovered this on their own. We are organized into groups of 12 and have not been able to include the entire group without a third-party app.
With regards to other comments made earlier in this string, there are countless reasons businesses would use group texting in fairly large groups. For example, sales teams, management team, or dept. teams can use messaging for rapid means of communication.
Messaging is quickly becoming the preferred means of communication where I work when rapid responses from groups are required or when everyone is spread out geographically. Email tends to be slower even if it is pushed to users devices. We primarily use email for longer messages and less urgent matters.
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I am running a test on a new Rails app and am doing an open beta from the start. You see these companies with private betas, and I'm wondering, what is the exact point of a private beta. If you inform users, shouldn't they just be allowed to use it?
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There are a number of reasons for a private beta that I can think of:
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In a problem I am asked to find $\Bbb P(X=1|\frac{X+Y}{2}=2)$, and $X$ and $Y$ are independent random variables. In a previous part of the problem I defined $X+Y$ to be $Z$. So I simplified the problem to look a little better saying $\Bbb P(X=1|Z=4)$ which by law of conditional probability would be $$\frac{\Bbb P(X=1\cap Z=4)}{\Bbb P(Z=4)}$$ Is it correct to say $$\frac{\Bbb P(X=1)\Bbb P(Z=4)}{\Bbb P(Z=4)}$$ In which can be simplified to $$\Bbb P(X=1)$$ Given that $X$ and $Y$ are independent and that $Z=X+Y$?
Not quite, $X$ and $Z$ are not independent. To see this, note that $Y$ cannot be equally likely on all integers, so if $Y$ is more likely to be $a$ than $b$, then $\mathbb{P}(Z=0)$ is higher if $X=-a$ and lower if $X=-b$. So information about $X$ tells us about $Z$ and the two cannot be independent.
The term $\mathbb{P}(X=1 \cap Z=4)$ is equivalent to $\mathbb{P}(X=1 \cap Y=3)$ which are independent events. I don't think any further simplification can be done without knowing more about the relative distributions of $X$ and $Y$.
Suppose $X$ and $Y$ can each take each of the values $0,1,2,3$ independently with equal probabilities $\frac14$. Then $\Pr(X+Y=4)=\Pr(X=1,Y=3)+\Pr(X=2,Y=2)+\Pr(X=3,Y=1)=\frac{3}{16}.$
So $\Pr(X=1|Z=4) =\frac13$ but $\Pr(X=1)=\frac14$ is a counter-example to your assertions.
Note that $\mbox{Cov}(X, X + Y) = \mbox{Var}X + \mbox{Cov}(X, Y) = \mbox{Var} X$ since $X$ and $Y$ are independent. Hence, a nessecary condition for $X$ and $Z$ to be independent is that $\mbox{Var}X = 0$, i.e. $X$ is equal to some constant (almost surely). If $X$ is equal to a constant, then it is straight forward to check to that $X$ and $X + Y$ are independent, so your proposed assertion holds if and only if $X$ equal to some constant almost surely. So, in all but the most trivial of situations, your assertion does not hold.


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Any tips for seasoning wooden spoons? I found a couple different methods on the web but they vary quite a bit. What I've done so far is to sand the new spoons starting with 280, then 320, and finally 1000 grit sandpaper. Then I put it in water to raise the grain and sanded some more with 1000 grit. I repeated the last step 4 times and the spoon is nice and smooth. Is there a final step to season the spoon?
I cannot imagine that sanding and buffing a wooden spoon would have any useful culinary applications, although I suppose it might feel smoother to the touch.
Generally when you season something wooden for food preparation, the purpose is to create a protective layer to avoid warping or impregnation.
If I really wanted to season a spoon, I would season it the same way as a wooden cutting board: Use a food-grade mineral oil and rub it in thoroughly with a cloth or paper towel, then repeat as necessary after it is dry.
Like hobodave, however, I have never done this nor heard of it being done. The cost of a wooden spoon is probably less than the cost of the mineral oil you'd need to season one. If your spoon starts to warp or take on strange odours, just buy a new one.
N.B. I can think of one exception, which is if the spoon takes on a fuzzy texture when you get it wet. In that case, sanding it would be done in the context of raising the grain. But once again, it's extremely rare that you'd need to do this with a cooking utensil - this is a far more common requirement for homemade (i.e. DIY) wood products.
I seasoned a set of wooden utensils that I bought rough. Here's what I did:
Eventually this built up a nice layer of food-grade paraffin embedded into the utensils, which made them repel water and stains MUCH more effectively. Unfortunately, I much must confess that it would have been cheaper in time and money just to buy a set of properly finished utensils.
As just an old Arkansas hillbilly that likes wooden products I've been making cook spoons and dishes/platters. I have used Walnut, Pecan, Hickory, and Cherry so far. I have found that the fruit woods have alot less "fuzzing" after washing but all need periodic attention. I've used bacon grease, olive oil, cooking oil, peanut oil and they all work about the same. I havn't tried the heating your oil approach (except for the bacon grease-more of a viscosity thing for me) The maintenance of your spoons and dishes is a labor of love for those who actually make the items...kind of the same reward a hunter gets from cleaning his/her guns.
I am in favor myself of using a flaxseed oil to season the wood for a few reasons, 1) it is food safe 2) It is actually food 3) it is the ONLY edible drying oil that I am aware of (i.e. an oil that will dry out on its own when exposed to air.) and when I have used it on cast iron it IS TOUGH! It can take an accidental cycle in the dishwasher after it has a few layers! (Though I dont recommend it. Why start ALL OVER again?)
I am trying heating it to accelerate its drying effects as done on cast iron. 1 problem though. It thins on heating so all of the seasoning done thus far comes dripping out. I unfortunately have neither the right size container to hold at least 1/2 of the spoon or enough flaxseed oil to do it that way nor something heat proof up to 500-550 degrees. (which is the temperature for cast iron). If I did though I would surely do it. Flaxseeds durability has EASILY outperformed anything I have seen thus far.
Bon Appetit,
Tim Danielson
P.S. I just tried this. I found that at about 525-550 the wood I had (cherry wood) started to get burn marks (only in the areas where it contacted the pan). I found something that showed it could have been lowered to 450. I Since flaxseed apparently polymerizes at 450, I would try that. I heated it, pre seasoned on a cookie sheet, to 550. I believe 450-500 would be a better range than what I did and would have similar results.
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I think the basic premise is that by that temperature (and more so by the 450-500 deg temps called for in this seasoning process) any flaxseed oil is polymerized to an extent that it cannot go rancid.
When I tried out the method initially under Canter's instructions, I certainly didn't notice any rancid taste or smell. The problem was just that the seasoning was too slow to build and didn't form an especially great non-stick surface even after 7 coatings.
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Skip the mineral oil (petroleum product) and use something more culinary, like olive, coconut, flax seed, or beeswax (you need a heat gun or oven to force beeswax into the wood).
Olive oil go rancid? Sure. But it is safe and it doesn't smell impregnated in the wood. Not significantly, and it won't "off flavor" anything.


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Isn't the Balanchine Ballet a bit of a straw man for Kaufman?
I had the same thought. The Soulless Balanchine Ballet is like that Purist Balletomane of John Rockwells that Leigh used to talk about.
Perhaps it's because I grew up with Balanchine's style--I generally find his 'surprises' predictable.
Couldn't agree less. As you say, Hans, different tastes.
Nice to see that we're getting so many different points of view here.


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by Melissa Brunner
I turn 39 years old today.
It's really not that big a deal to me. However, I do admit there's a small part of my brain screaming, "What?! How can this be my last year in my 30s?!"
I don't feel 39. I work with a lot of younger people, which I think helps. Some days my knees remind me, but, for the most part I don't think I'm staring 40 in the face. Of course, then I stare in the mirror and see the white along my part line and am reminded that the days just keep right on marching past.
But 39? Aren't there things I am supposed to accomplish before I hit 40? I still haven't recorded an album to win my Grammy. I still haven't written that book that will put me on the nationwide speaking circuit. I still haven't invented that next great thing that you just can't live without. I still haven't won a marathon - although I have learned that I really don't want to do that - continuing to run 13.1 is just fine by me!
Actually, a lot is just fine by me. I have a great job that continues to challenge me. I live in a great community with great people who allow me to be involved and make a difference in so many areas. I have a great family. And I look at all those celebs we admire so much and notice how many of our most popular "idols" are in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.
I am blessed. And life is just getting started!


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Here's my scenario:
I have three specific jobs sites: LAMPJobsLA.com, MobileJobsLA.com, SocialMediaJobsLA.com
I'd like to run them under on "master site": TechJobsLA.com but keep the URLs intact when a visitor lands on the page with the posts matching the categories or tags (taxonomy).
For example, if someone visits MobileJobsLA.com, the two URLs that would both work are: http://techjobsla.com/tag/mobile-ios-android/ or http://mobilejosbsla.com/ default page redirects to ---> http://mobilejosbsla.com/tag/mobile-ios-android
Hope that makes sense.
I see from some of the previous questions/answers, WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin might work for me.


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ROSWELL, N.M. (October 14, 2012)--Felix Baumgartner became the first skydiver to break the speed of sound Sunday in a daring free fall from roughly 24 miles above the Earth.
At a news conference Sunday afternoon, Brian Utley of the International Federation of Sports Aviation, said Baumgartner reached a maximum speed of 833.9 miles per hour during his jump Sunday over the New Mexico desert, which amounts to Mach 1.24, faster than the speed of sound.
No one has ever reached that speed wearing only a high-tech suit.
Baumgartner came down safely in the eastern New Mexico desert about nine minutes after jumping from his capsule 128,097 feet.
He lifted his arms in victory, sending off loud cheers from jubilant onlookers and friends.
He took off in a pressurized capsule carried by a 55-story ultra-thin helium balloon and jumped from more than three times the height of the average cruising altitude for jetliners.
Baumgartner was expected to hit a speed of 690 miles per hour before activating his parachute about 5,000 above the ground in southeastern New Mexico, but he exceeded that speed by more than 140 miles per hour.


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I've been reading Waterhouse's book "Introduction to affine group schemes", in part to help prepare myself for an (oral) advanced topic exam in algebraic geometry. There is one exercise in chapter 1 that has been giving me trouble. Let $G$ be an affine group scheme with associated Hopf algebra $A$. The exercise says that I should prove the following Hopf-algebraic fact about $A$ by translating it to a basic fact about the group theory of $G$ : "The map $A \otimes A \rightarrow A \otimes A$ sending $a \otimes b$ to $(a \otimes 1)(\Delta(b))$ is an algebra isomorphism".
The other parts of the exercise give Hopf-algebraic facts corresponding to really basic group theory facts, like $(x^{-1})^{-1} = x$ and $(xy)^{-1} = y^{-1} x^{-1}$ and $1^{-1} = 1$. However, I can't figure out which group-theoretic fact the above corresponds to. It almost seems like it is saying that there is some automorphism of the group corresponding to the above Hopf-algebra isomorphism; however, the only group automorphisms I know that exist in general are the inner ones, and those don't seem to do the job.


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The current site footers include text links to each site:
This design has the advantage of removing any doubt about where a link goes, but it:
- Takes up more space; to compensate normal sites only include links to other normal sites and betas only include links to other betas
- Is hard to quickly navigate (try to rapidly find "bicycles" in the above screenshot)
- Rather lacks aesthetic appeal
All the sites already have nice logos designed; is it possible to use those instead of textual links?
This fixes the problems I listed above; the only downside I see is increased difficulty for new users who don't know which logo corresponds to which site. I made the icon tooltips for that mockup show the site title, but that requires users to actually try mousing over them:


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It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.
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Kudos to Judge Stewart for his review of Fate Is The Hunter. That has always been one of my favorites, and now that I have ordered the DVD I can let go of my grainy bootleg version.
I do feel the need to expand on one point that was alluded to by the Rebuttal Witnesses. Although the movie can stand on its own very well, readers of the original Ernest K. Gann novel will realize it bears little resemblance to the book. So much so, in fact, that Gann demanded (unsuccessfully) to have his name removed from the credits. The book details the life of a pilot (based loosely on Gann) from his early days as a trainee with American Airlines through the WWII years flying with the Air Transport Command, to his postwar career with some seedy non-sched carriers. The crash and subsequent investigation portrayed in the movie were nowhere to be found in the book. Devotees of Gann's novels need to realize this movie must be taken on its own, and not to expect to see the book recreated on the screen, or they will be sorely disappointed.
One other item, my wife saw the movie with me once, and said she couldn't believe it was made as late as 1964. The orchestral soundtrack and the black and white presentation (at the time when most "disaster" movies had already gone to color) made it seem like something from 10 years earlier.
A bit of trivia about the "jet" used in the movie, it was a Hollywood mockup based on a DC-7 propliner. They took the engines off and bobbed the nacelles, added fake swept wingtips, hung the "jet engines" under the tail, and added some Boeing 707 style antenna probes to make it look like a jetliner.
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STOCK, Joseph F., age 65, of Wellsville, OH, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, at the Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, OH.
He was born Aug. 14, 1947, in Steubenville, OH, the son of the late Joseph A. and Ella Geraldine Little Stock.
Joseph was a very active and dedicated member of the Liberty Church of God Prophecy, Girard, OH; a 1964 graduate of Stanton Local High School; a Vietnam Era U.S. Army veteran and enjoyed traveling with his wife, Ruby.
He was retired from the Ohio Edison (First Energy) Company, W.H. Sammis Plant, Stratton, OH.
Joseph was preceded in death by his parents; son, Daniel A. Stock; brothers, William "Rock" Stock, Thomas "Plumber" Stock and Charles "Bessie" Stock. He is survived by his devoted wife of 40 years, Ruby E. Lafferty Stock, whom he married May 13, 1972; son, Michael (Kim) Stock of Maryland; daughters, Angela (Kevin) Shook of Sharon, PA and Sharon Stock of Toronto, OH; brother, Edward (Darlene K.) Stock of Toronto, OH; sister, Myrtle M. Stock of Olcott, NY and Wilhemina L. (Nelson) Stock of Warren, OH; grandchildren, Andrea, Kyle, Haley and Zachary.
A celebration of Joseph's life memorial service will be held 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 at the Liberty Church of God, 1729 Tibbets-Wick Road, Girard, OH with Pastor Barbara Hays officiating.
Arrangements for Joseph are in the care of the Clarke Funeral Home, 302 Main St., Toronto, OH (740) 537-1234 or 1 (855) 847-1240.
To view the obituary, sign the guest register or send condolences to the family go to www.clarkefuneralhome.com.


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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas outfielder Tyler Spoon can't really explain it.
The Razorbacks love Baum Stadium. They enjoy playing in front of their home crowd, too. But there's just something about playing on the road that has brought out the best in Arkansas during Southeastern Conference play.
"When we go on the road we have the mindset that we're there to beat somebody," Spoon said. "We're locked in. It's really fun on the road. I like it on the road."
Well, there's good news for Spoon and Arkansas: The 14th-ranked Razorbacks (30-15, 13-7 in SEC) are back on the road for the second straight week, traveling to No. 23 Kentucky (26-17, 9-12 in SEC) for a three-game series that begins Friday night.
Arkansas carries a 7-1 SEC road record into the series and plans to enjoy more success. So far, there have been series wins at South Carolina (3-0), Alabama (2-1) and Georgia (2-0). It has helped Arkansas' conference road record rival that of SEC leaders Vanderbilt (8-1) and LSU (9-3) with nine conference games remaining.
It's a welcome change from earlier in the year when Arkansas went 0-4 on its first road trip in Surprise, Ariz. But catcher Jake Wise said the Razorbacks have learned to be "comfortable with being uncomfortable" and it is paying off in SEC games.
"I don't think playing on the road bothers us one bit," Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said. "There's some teams that just don't like it. … I just think sometimes you get away from school and you get away from the ticket list and this and that and worrying about this person. You just go from the hotel and the game and you get loose and you go out and play. Sometimes it's a little easier."
It also helps to have experience on the roster. Arkansas' returning players have been in plenty of pressure-packed moments on the road throughout their careers.
Last season was the best example. The Razorbacks reached the College World Series the hard way, winning a regional and super regional on the road.
Arkansas first baseman Dominic Ficociello said the super regional at Baylor was one of the toughest environments he has played in, but the Razorbacks learned what it takes to win in front of hostile crowds. Closer Colby Suggs said it helped Arkansas develop a mentality that has been rediscovered in SEC play this season.
"We felt like the underdog last year, and I feel like we have kind of that same mentality at this point of the season," Suggs said. "We're going into somebody else's park and trying to ruin their homestand. I feel like that's something we really pride ourselves on, is taking it to people at their own place."
Arkansas set the tone with an impressive win in its first SEC road game, beating South Carolina 15-3. It led to a weekend sweep, which was Arkansas' first on the road against a top 10 team since 2004. It also was the first time South Carolina had been swept at home by an SEC opponent since 1999.
"It kind of started off at South Carolina," Spoon said of the road success. "We went there with a purpose. We were going to beat them and we knew it."
Arkansas hasn't enjoyed nearly as much success in SEC home games, going 6-6 against Ole Miss, Mississippi State, LSU and Texas A&M.
Even more puzzling: The Razorbacks haven't had any success playing nonconference games outside of Baum Stadium. Arkansas is 0-6 with the trip to Arizona (0-4) and a doubleheader loss at Nebraska (0-2) two weeks ago.
"Midweek games, I think we kind of let up a little bit," pitcher Barrett Astin said. "Some of it has to come back on us captains. We're not getting our team motivated enough during the midweek's and we've lost some games we shouldn't have lost.
"But in the SEC we know we have to bring it and we bring it every day. It's showing."
Arkansas has won five of its seven SEC road games by two runs or less, squeezing through tight games behind the strength of its pitching staff. Steady defense and key at-bats have been important as well in the wins.
"This team's tough," Wise said. "It takes tough teams to win on the road."
That toughness will be tested this week against Kentucky and again in the final regular season series at Auburn. Six of Arkansas' final nine games are on the road and its success could play a big part in determining whether the Razorbacks host an NCAA Regional when 16 sites are selected at the end of the season.
But traveling in the NCAA Tournament may not be the worst thing for the Razorbacks if their road success continues through SEC games.
"I think the guys on this team that were on it last year, they're fine with it," Van Horn said about playing on the road again. "The way it turned out, it didn't matter. It was more about having a chance to continue to play. That carries over. …
"There's some tough venues in this league to beat somebody in. But if you play well, you can take the crowd out of it in any sport. I think we've done a good job of that."


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March 7, 2013
WHEELING — West Virginia may reduce tax rates on blackjack, poker, craps and other table games from 35 percent to 25 percent — and the annual casino license fee could drop from $2....
OH, my income dropped this year and I have to have license and inspections on the car. I was wondering if the State, city, and county could cut my taxes and fees.
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11 Oct 2012 9:29 PM #1
SASS compile the apple.scss- and the layout changed..??
I have a selectfield connected to a store with numbers 1-12.
And when you like to change the number a picker comes up.
use picker: fales, so no done,cancel.
The thing is that the layout container is smaller after compiling,
so some buttons is not viewed.
plus that the picker looks different,
I sent a screenshot, sass_error.png
The container is changed so the container is smaller,
plus that the selectpicker has more then one 'v'.
Like to have the picker to looks like this example:
Just apple blue and a white 'v'.
Then the sass_error_scorecard.png,
it should also show up to four columns,
but the container is smaller.
Please help me as soon as possible.
/ Mike
30 Oct 2012 9:52 AM #2
It looks like you are missing some of the relevant CSS. If you revert to the absolute plain stock sencha touch css. What does it look like?Aaron Conran
31 Oct 2012 2:01 AM #3
When I have no css added, it works find.
then shen I have the SASS with all included,
no extra added.
The selectbox is looking different.
plus that the buttonicons got in the right align,
but in the program I had it to the left.
So just have to change to align right to get the icon to the left.
Just so you know.
I had a dynamic width,
so depending on how many players it should be 1 column for each player.
first I have get width for the first columns and then the width for one player.
It works find before compiling SASS,
then the get with of the first two columns does not work.
so I have to write the number directly,
and it works.
but still like to know about the doubble 'v' in select picker.
/ Mike
31 Oct 2012 9:55 AM #4
No idea, some of the new css you have put in seems to be interfering. Check it out via the web inspectorAaron Conran
1 Nov 2012 2:08 AM #5
I´m new to this so that´s why.
I´ll check it out.
/ Mikael


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I have a laptop that has a damaged screen. The 24 pixels (approximately) on the right side of the screen are damaged (this is definitely not a driver problem, it is physical damage). It is not a straight bar, but rather a lot of black pixels that ebb and flow with some multicolored pixels around the edges. I got this from someone so don't know the root cause: possibly water damage?
Anyway, the "power menu as well as any scroll bars (when applications are full screen) are hidden behind this damaged area. Is there a way I can adjust the screen resolution or dimension so that these right side 24 pixels are not used? So, the laptop is 1024 x 768. Can I modify so that it is 1000 x 768 (and the 1000 are the leftmost 1000 pixels, not centered?)?
I was able to try using "xrandr" to force the screen to be 1000 wide, but then it is still centered, so it still only ignores 12 pixels on the right.
Thanks for any help. This is with Ubuntu 11.10.


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November 26, 2013
Will Teach in New York and at NYU Global Sites
Kwame Anthony Appiah, a renowned philosopher whose scholarship spans a range of academic disciplines, will join the New York University faculty in early 2014, holding appointments in the Department of Philosophy and at NYU's School of Law.
He will spend half the year in New York teaching in the Department of Philosophy and School of Law; the other half of the year he will teach and lecture at NYU's other global sites, principally Abu Dhabi.
"I am looking forward enormously to working with students and faculty in NYU's global network as we seek to think together, across the boundaries of race, religion, and nation, about the ethical challenges that face us all," Appiah said.
Appiah, currently the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and a member of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, has published in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, political theory, moral philosophy, and African and African-American literary and cultural studies. His prize-winning books include The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism; with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., he is the editor of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience.
"Kwame Anthony Appiah has been a seminal, driving intellectual force behind the new cultural scholarship about African and its Diaspora," said Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University. "The rigor and breadth of his humanism have been an inspiration to his students and to his colleagues in the fields of philosophy, the law, cultural studies, and African and African-American Studies. His appointment is quite an impressive coup for NYU."
His current work centers on the ways philosophical problems of individuality and identity are manifested in law as well as in the philosophical foundations of liberalism; he is also exploring questions of method in arriving at knowledge about values and the connection between theory and practice in moral life.
"Anthony Appiah's appointment at NYU is an especially happy one: a world-leading theorist of culture, identity, and cosmopolitanism for a culturally plural and global university," said Don Garrett, chair of NYU's Department of Philosophy. "His extraordinary contributions across a wide range of fields are deeply influential, and rightly so; his work is a model of the way in which original and rigorous philosophy can contribute powerfully to the public good. He will join a distinguished tradition at NYU in moral, political, and legal thought that crosses departmental and school boundaries."
"Professor Appiah was a visiting professor at the Law School in 1998, and we are delighted now to welcome him back," said NYU Law Dean Trevor Morrison. "A scholar of great brilliance and tremendous breadth, Professor Appiah has long been a leading thinker on issues of race and society. His work on cosmopolitanism will be of particular interest here at the Law School, where careful attention to globalization is central to so much of what we do."
Appiah has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and, in 2008, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has served as president of the PEN American Center and of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, as well as a trustee of the National Humanities Center and the American Academy in Berlin and as a past board chair of the American Philosophical Association.
Among his many honors, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2012, and Color Conscious, which he wrote with University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, won the Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association. He is also the recipient of the Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association for his book In My Father's House and the Arthur Ross Award of the Council of Foreign Affairs for Cosmopolitanism as well as the Joseph B. and Toby Glitter Prize from Brandeis University in recognition of his contributions to racial, ethnic, and religious relations. He is the recipient of numerous honorary doctoral degrees.
Prior to Princeton, Appiah taught at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Duke, and the University of Ghana.
Born in London, Appiah grew up in Ghana and was educated at Cambridge University, where he received a Ph.D. in philosophy.
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Founded in 1831, NYU is one of the world's foremost research universities and is a member of the selective Association of American Universities. NYU has degree-granting university campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai; has eleven other global academic sites, including London, Paris, Florence, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, and Accra; and sends more students to study abroad than any other U.S. college or university. Through its numerous schools and colleges, NYU conducts research and provides education in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, business, dentistry, education, nursing, the cinematic and performing arts, music and studio arts, public administration, social work, and continuing and professional studies, among other areas.
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
School of Law, Arts and Science, Research, NYU Abu Dhabi
Type: Press Release
Press Contact: James Devitt | (212) 998-6808


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I know that you can use custom vertex and pixel shaders using SpriteBatch but I can't figure out how to apply colors to individual vertex points on a sprite generated by spritebatch. All I can do is apply a blanket color to the entire sprite rather than being able to blend between the 4 points that should be available in a quad. Can anyone give me a hand with this?
Edit - Changed to another solution that allows a source rectangle to be used.
The color you choose when calling
But there's a hack that you can use that relies on looking at the vertices' texture coordinates (which bu the way are automatically generated by
I can think of many variations, but the trick I used was to pre-calculate what the texture coordinates would end up being at the center of the quad, so that in the vertex shader you can simply compare to see if the X and Y components are lower or higher than the center in order to determine which corner we're dealing with. You also need to pass it the color for each of the vertices, obviously. So here's the complete effect file code I used:
And now the XNA side code. When you create the
And when rendering I used the following code. Notice how I calculate the
And finally here's the result:
The best part is that there's no need for any pixel shader code - colors are automatically interpolated between vertices thanks to gouraud shading. This is the only solution I could come up with, but I'd be interested to know of a more proper way to solve the problem too.


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The Teton Mountains. The Mojave Desert. The Everglades. These are not your typical Spring Break destinations. Then again, these are not your...Read more
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So, what about Karl Rove?
The San Francisco Chronicle yesterday ran an overview of blogs and op-ed pieces summing up the departure of Karl Rove from the Bush administration. Lots of links there to appeal to a variety of political persuasions.
Love him or hate him, Rove influenced political strategy and introduced the concept of "narrow-casting," that is, picking out a hot-button issue and pitching it to a normally non-voting segment of the electorate in order to get them to the polls. Yes, it sounds manipulative, but John Kerry and the Democratic Party realized it worked and latched onto it pretty quickly.
Thoughts about Rove's legacy to American politics? Maybe we could go deeper here than "ding dong the witch is dead" or "boy genius will be missed."
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I confess (yes, I do) that my first thought and worry on the announcement of Rove's departure was: Will George W. Bush know what to do? (Hoping, of course, that Cheney will not jump into the lacunae.) Then, I thought about Lee Atwater, who engineered the election of George H.W. Bush, and who, at the time, seemed a merciless political consultant--though I don't think he followed HW into the White House as directly as Rove has. And then, having grown up in Chicago, so familiar with the jokes about voting early and often, I mediated on the rather low-key corruption that once won--or not--elections for the Democrats. And then, I thought about the fallen bridge in Minneapolis and those (such as, Bush and Rove) dedicate to remaking government by cutting taxes, with the result that Americans are woefully naive about how much it costs just to keep a country going, to say nothing of dealing with unattended problems. If Rove was Bush's brain, as pundits liked to say, will Bush do better or worse without him. Better or worse not politically, but just getting us through the next 17 months without a major tragedy. Lord, hear our prayer!
I left Chicago as a baby and have rarely been back, but my late father, who worked for Harry Truman in 1948, used to claim that the Chicago vote manipulations did no more than offset the stuff that went on downstate.Anyone know if that is true?That is all, and rather more than all, than I have to say about Mr. Rove, except that if he comes anywhere close to Mr. Atwater's late life revelation I will be very, very surprised.
Gene,I had heard that this is why Nixon did not challenge the Illinois vote in 1960, i.e., because he knew downstate could not bear scrutiny any more than Chicago could.
Karl Rove, and Chaney, represent a political animal that is unacceptable and truly unamerican. Most allow that a political campaign can be bloody and it is not for the delicate. But when the elections are over there is a traditional coming together for the good of the country. Not this group. These guys are into building dynasties rather than good government and have disgraced the country terribly.As a result the democrats will win by huge landslides in 2008 unless they get as insane as this group.Karl Rove is synonomous with winning elections and bad government. It is not a partisan issue. It is a departure from a great American tradition.
Rove's gone -- Big Deal. First, he was never the Machiavellian genius he was made out to be, not only by himself but by the Democrats, who've now lost a useful Medusa's head with which to raise support. Rove didn't put Bush in the White House -- five Supreme Court Justices did. After the 2004 election, Rove advised Bush to put Social Security privatization and immigration reform at the top of his agenda. We've seen how well that worked out. Now that Bush's Presidency lies in ruins, Rove is jumping ship. And don't salivate over any prospective indictments -- he's always been able to dodge bullets. Focusing on Rove was always ridiculous; if there's a "brain" in the White House, it belongs to Cheney, not to a mean-spirited little autodictat like Rove.Because Rove was a useful demon whose invocation could draw attention away from their own fecklessness, the Democrats are going to wish that Rove was still in the White House. They've demonstrated utter incompetence and cowardice on the issue of the war in Iraq, and their supine deference to Bush over domestic surveillance should demonstrate to everyone how spineless they are. All of us who voted for Nader can now feel vindicated, if also far from happy.
As a life-long Democrat, and as much as I detest Rove et al, I think Democrats should not be too quick to totally demonize Rove. A look at the history of the Dem party in the US will reveal less-than saintly behavior. DC's Marion Barry, the Chicago Daley machines and ongoing Boston politics come immediately to mind.That said, Rove and Newt Gingrich knew how to galvanize the Republican Congress and voter base to accomplish well-disciplined goals and objectives. Well-disciplined is NOT a trait that applies to the Democratic operatives and, hence, we are still sitting with a mediocre Congress today. Pelosi and Reid could take lessons from the how Gingrich transformed the Contract for/on America objectives into concrete actions once they took over.I almost dread it if a Democrat becomes president in 2008 and the Dems pick up a slightly bigger majority in the Congress then as well.
I agree with Professor McCarraher's assessment. At best, Rove's departure is a tactical retreat and hardly warrants the triumphalism of the left-wing blogosphere. If anything, that triumphalism is a distraction from the fundamental problems of trying to forge the coalitions needed for progressives to win in 2008.At any rate, after rescuing the Bush candidacy in 2000, Rove will still be viewed as an operative who can turn dross into gold. I don't expect him to be unemployed for long, if at all.
In my world, I hear rightists say that what Rove does is "just politics", just like the way I often hear them say that the things they do are "just business". So I suppose we should ask ourselves whether it is possible to bracket out aspects of life as amoral and expect that some of this won't bleed back into everything else.
Karl Rove and other so-called smash-mouth political consultants such as Lee Atwater and James Carville are simply products of the post-Tip O'Neill / Jim Wright politcal envirnment, so in that respect, there is not much novel. I do think you have a point on the narrow-casting. I would posit that his "metrics" methodology will be his true legacy to the political consulting world. On the partisan front, it is probably his central role in the realignment of Texas politics in the 1980's that will be his most important contribution.


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On Tuesday at approximately 2:44 a.m., Kentucky State Police responded to Jones Schoolhouse Road in Hart County, in reference to trying to locate a wanted person. Troopers made contact with the resident, 48-year-old Deonna D. Breithart of Magnolia.
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Here is a problem I have been asked that I do not know the answer. Consider two ideal wave generators (it can be sound generator or whatever) separated by a distance L and facing each other. At t=0 they start to emit a wave. Basic calculus show a standing wave is created. So the energy flux through any surface on the path of the wave is in average zero. In the same time, the generators continuously feed energy into the system. Question: where does the energy emitted by the generators go ?
I agree with you that the the issue can be specified theoretically without general losses.
The error in your reasoning is that you assume an actuator has a dynamic nature independent of the wave medium, so that you'd always pour energy into each actuator and thus a paradox ensues since, as you note, a standing wave pattern in a medium has a zero energy transport.
In the limit of a perfect medium where you create the standing wave (or any other wave in general), for example with two actuators and an ideal wire, you get a coupling of the two actuators which disallows you to lose energy in them in total, that is, any voltage drop due to driving current in speaker/actuator A will present as a voltage gain in speaker/actuator B (acting as a microphone) and vice versa. More specifically in the standing-wave situation both ends will lose all driving impedance they had before.
That is, without losses, the setup in total is just an ideal transmission line.
In the setup with one actuator and one perfectly reflecting wall, the sole actuator will lose all its impedance and be infinitely easy to drive.
There are related questions that usually arise about energy conservation and "complete" destructive interference, with the accompanied confusion of thousands of forum posts :)
The standing wave relies on the travelling waves being reflected at each end of your distance, and this reflection is never 100%. In addition to this you get viscous losses because the propagation of the wave requires shear motion in the fluid i.e. the non-zero velocity gradients.
In the case of your loudspeakers, hi-fi loudspeakers are specifically designed not to reflect sound, so without an energy input your standing wave would be lost very quickly. I would guess this energy loss is far greater than viscous losses in the air.
In the case of water waves, most of us must have discovered that it's easy to set up a zero mode standing wave in a bath (usually to our mother's dismay) and this wave will persist for quite a while. In this case the main energy loss would be viscous losses where the water moves over the walls of the bath and viscous losses in the bulk. I would guess the biggest velocity gradients are at the walls so most of the energy would be lost there.
Response to comment: if you split your standing wave into it's left moving and right moving components there is only no net energy flux if the two components have the same amplitude. However the energy losses due to viscosity mean that the amplitude of the left moving wave decreases with distance to the right, and conversely for the right moving wave. This means there is a net energy flux.


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I'm currently trying to upload a package onto Launchpad's PPA service but I'm having problems with a path name which includes a space character. I'm trying to make a file install into a directory with a space character in it. The following is an example of the kind of directory I'm trying to install files into using the Makefile:
(/usr/share/themes/Example Directory/gtk-3.0)
I've tried the \\ escape character and have tried putting the entire path name in single quotes ('/usr/share/themes/Example Directory/gtk-3.0') in the Makefile and debian/install file in the source of the package, but it's still failing to build on Launchpad's servers.
Does anyone know any escape character that I can use in order to make Launchpad successfully build the package and make it work when I'm installing the package to my computer or are spaces in directories not supported by the Debian package system?
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#2. Equip Cats With Real-Time Video
Cats naturally perch and observe. It all goes back to their hunting behavior in the wild. The higher a cat climbs, the more territory it can observe, and the better chance it has of spying something it can hunt. So even in your home, a cat looks for optimal places from which to sit and watch, such as a tall bookshelf or the top of your head. I'm guessing your home does not have many woodland creatures scampering about (at least let's hope). So perching is basically lost on the modern cat, which waits in vain all day for a sparrow to knock on your front door. But that doesn't mean your cat's perching can't be of some use to you.
This is a living, pooping security system.
Equipped with a video camera, your cat can effectively spy on roommates whom you believe might be guilty of eating your Bugles or napping in your bed, which you totally know they're doing. The video feed would be hooked up to your laptop and streamed live to wherever you are. Ideally, you'd be able to control your cat's head movements remotely and issue warning meows when a roommate gets too close to your stuff. Ideally. The science just isn't there yet.
#1. Hire Morgan Freeman to Narrate a Documentary About Cats
Did anyone care about penguins before Morgan Freeman narrated that March of the Penguins documentary? No. No one did, except that weird girl at your school who wanted to be marine biologist. There was a reason no one cared. Penguins are flightless sea birds that live in an unforgiving climate whose main goal in life is not to become killer whale snacks. They're useless. Who cares? But now EVERYONE loves the penguins, and it's all Morgan Freeman's fault. Add Morgan Freeman's voice to video of anything and people will fall in love with it, be it the penguins or the Luftwaffe.
March of the Penguinazis debuts this summer.
Read this description of cats (filched from Encyclopedia Brittanica) with Morgan Freeman's voice in your head:
The house cat is a domesticated member of the family Felidae, order Carnivora, and the smallest member of that family. Like all felids, domestic cats are characterized by supple, low-slung bodies, finely molded heads, long tails that aid in balance and specialized teeth and claws that adapt them admirably to a life of active hunting. Domestic cats possess other features of their wild relatives in being basically carnivorous, remarkably agile and powerful, and finely coordinated in movement.
Now imagine him saying, "Who's a cute widdle kitty? You is! YOU IS!" in the highest tone possible.
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New York University chemist Nadrian Seeman will deliver "DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life," on Wed., Feb. 26, 4:30-5:30 p.m. at NYU's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB) Auditorium (12 Waverly Place, between Greene and Mercer Streets).
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While DNA is known for containing the genetic information for all living organisms, Seeman, a professor in NYU's Department of Chemistry, has shown that its information can be used to control the structure of matter on the nanometer scale to produce objects, crystals, and nanomechanical devices.
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Q: My 14-year-old daughter got her first menstrual period just after she turned 13. After 6 months of regular periods, they stopped, and she has not had a period for 5 months. There is no chance she is pregnant. Is this normal?
A: While it is common for girls to have irregular periods during the first year they start menstruating, it's not normal to go five months without a period, after having them regularly for many months. The medical term for not having periods is amenorrhea, and when this condition goes beyond about three months, then further evaluation is usually needed.
One of the common reasons for girls to stop having their periods for many months is that they have lost weight. Amenorrhea often occurs when the level of body fat in a girl goes below about 12 to 15 percent. Girls who are athletes -- particularly runners, gymnasts, and dancers -- are more prone to this as they intensify their training. It's also a common consequence in girls who have eating disorders.
There is also the possibility that there's no underlying abnormality, and that within another month your daughter will start to have menstrual cycles again. Various hormonal problems, however, can cause the menstrual cycles to stop in teenagers. Most of these problems are quite treatable, and it makes sense to try to diagnose them early.
Make an appointment for your daughter to see her physician as soon as possible to sort out the reason for her amenorrhea. The hormones that are present during the menstrual cycle are important in helping to increase and maintain bone density in teenage girls. Girls who have prolonged periods of amenorrhea do lose some bone density, and thus have an increased susceptibility to fractures now, as well as a greater susceptibility to osteoporosis and fractures later on in life.
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Shari Nethersole is a physician at Children's Hospital, Boston, and an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Yale University and Harvard Medical School, and did her internship and residency at Children's Hospital, Boston. As a pediatrician, she tries to work with parents to identify and address their concerns.


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When camping in areas where mosquito-borne diseases are endemic, what options are there in terms of mosquito nets? The mosquito nets I've seen are meant to be hung above a bed and tucked under the mattress, but would any make sense to use in a tent? If not, what are some options for mosquito (or other insect) protection while sleeping?
There are several types and configurations of mosquito nets that you can use:
Depending on your situation, each has its advantages and disadvantages.
Choosing a net:
Permethrine: After 2 years of living in the tropical rain forest, and suffering the tenacity of mosquitoes and no-see-ums which manage to find their way through any tiny imperfection in the net, I just started treating my nets with Permethrine
This stuff is highly toxic to fish, and insects, so care should be used when applying it - however I have found it to be highly effective in keeping mosquitoes and no-see-ums away from the net so they don't ever find those imperfections.
DEET: Although highly effective as a repellent, prolonged exposure, to high quantities especially in hot sweaty environments, has been linked in some toxicological reports to some ailments. Regardless, I don't much care for doping up before I sleep - so tend to avoid it, though spraying clothes can be a good added measure of protection.
Mosquito Coils: I am not sure the chemical agent involved, or the safety of prolongued inhalation of the smoke, but mosquito coils burnt around the sleeping area reduces the number of insects visiting.
Citronella: Some people swear by citronella and lemongrass, either as an oil applied to the skin for short-term reduction, or a candle that provides a smoke repellent.
Eucalyptus Oil: Provides a short term repellent, and can provide some relief for itching from those bites that already snuck through.
As a final precaution, setting a (controlled) smoky fire burning in the corner of your hut, or tarp will help reduce the number of mosquitoes hanging around throughout the night.
Typically a tent itself will not let mosquitos in, but if you are in a tent that will, like a canvas army tent, hanging nets does a decent job. In some situations a bivy may do better. Some are primarily made of netting and designed specifically for bugs, and some are even shaped to fit standard military cots.
I have had some luck with fabric treatments. Permethrin sprays are available for clothing and some may work on tents or netting. Follow the instructions on the bottle regarding fabric compatibility.


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Welcome to the first edition of the Wii U Friday Night Fights! Now, I don't know how long I'll be handling the forum posts but I figure I might as well be the first the start it off, being a huge Nintendo Fanboy and all.
The Wii U FNF will work pretty much the same way as the Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Vita and the Wii did. The details on how to host are below.
Now get out there and show Nintendo that you appreciate them stepping in to the future (which can be a scary place) and implementing an online system that not only works, but works rather well (i'm looking at you Miiverse)
Oh and here's a lil cheat sheet of all the current MP games for the Wii U. Have fun!
Assassins Creed 3
Black Ops 2
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Each week, a bunch of us Dtoiders get together to play video games online! It's a 100% community-run event, so feel free to join in or even host something yourself!
The planning for FNF starts here in the forums, where community members volunteer to host matches and post their pertinent details (game, time, Gamertag, etc.). Then, every Friday, reminder posts go up in the cblogs followed by a recap post on the front page for last-minute planning.
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Lets say I've got a number line from $1$ to $100$. I want to randomly select $20$ integer numbers from the number line. But I want the numbers to tend to come from say $1$-$50$, with only a few coming from between $50$-$100$.
My initial thought on how to solve the problem is to use an exponential function, say $2^n$. Then, until I've reached $20$ numbers, select a random decimal between $1$ and $\sim 6.65$ for $n$. Rounding the result to the nearest integer to use as my next number.
I'm wondering if there is a better solution.