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Our friends at Massively and GamerDNA are at it again -- they're digging into their database of players, this time to determine some Death Knight demographics. They want to know what kinds of players are picking up the new Hero class. Unfortunately, their sample size is super small -- only 500, according to Sanya Weathers, which seems way too tiny to determine anything about the Death Knight class at large. But we'll go with it anyway, and see what we can get.
As you can see above, Blood Elves and Humans dominate the race choice in our little group, which seems about right, considering that those are the two most popular races overall. Death Knight players in this study generally tend to have reported themselves as male in real life. And GamerDNA also lays their Death Knights up against the Bartle test and while WoW players trend pretty well to the norm, Death Knights go way more towards the "Killer" and to a lesser extent the "Explorer" end of the scales.
So according to this little survey (and we'll remind you that this is 500 people, so there are plenty of exceptions out there), the average Death Knight is male, chooses whatever race is most familiar to them, and wants to go kill and do damage rather than worry about socializing or achieving. In other words, lots and lots of former Ret Paladins. It'll be interesting to see how this changes over time -- lots of these players are interested in the newest thing, obviously, since they've switched their mains to a new class at the first chance, but as things settle down and more people head back to get new alts, maybe we'll see a different crowd coming out of Acherus.


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NEMA's high intensity discharge (HID) lamp shipment indexes declined for the second consecutive year during 2012. Mercury vapor lamps declined 9.6 percent to an index value of 44 signifying that shipments during 2012 were 44 percent of the 2006 base level. The index for sodium vapor lamp shipments fell 6.2 percent, landing at 75. Metal halide lamps posted an index reading of 80, declining by 4.9 percent for the year.
The relative market shares for each HID lamp type were essentially unchanged with respect to the previous year. Metal halide lamps garnered the largest share with 63.5 percent. Sodium vapor lamps had a share of 32.5 percent followed by mercury vapor lamps with a 4.0 percent share for 2012.
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I mean I like OS/2 and had Warp 4 Fix Pack 15 installed for a long long time, but I realize and acknowledge that IBM was never going to keep on supporting the OS for obvious reasons:
Competition from mainly Windows became too much to cope with since everyone wanted Windows for home use and nearly everyone wanted it for business, with the exception of some large banks and the likes, that couldn't trust its security with Microsoft until the days of NT4/W2K.
Reason. If you can hardly sell your product, even when in some places it is arguably superior to the above mentioned competition, there's not much to do for funding of a niche product like OS/2. Plus, the corporate changes within IBM focusing on providing services for 'anyone' that'd generate cash flow made OS/2 seem like a bad choice. Not in terms of technology, but in terms of the work needed to be done to support a declining user base.
History. IBM never had the same obvious problems with AIX and its past. It's never been 'in bed with the enemy' and as such can live on an IBM life forever, I think.
...And there's a bunch of other legitimate reasons for this butchering of a fine, fine OS...
But what puzzles me is why IBM would license OS/2 4.5 to Serenity Systems without handing over the code base as well... It seems that there's some access, but it can't be 100%, I'm sure...
Why not release it for serenity to take care of and then let Serenity figure out what would be needed to actually make this OS live in peace for years to come? I don't get it... And I don't necessarily think that open source is the answer, albeit I'd love to see bits and pieces emerging in new shapes and forms, like e.g. a modern implementation of the GUI, based on the original one, but with the updates required to make it a Gnome / KDE alternative
Apart from that, though, I'd really have to say that it'd be interesting to see what OS/2 might have turned into, should the Taligent OS have had any real life!
A toast to object oriented greatness!!!
'OS/2 is dead!'
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The Kissinger Experience: American Policy in the Middle East
This book is enough to give criticizing Kissinger a bad name. It repeats and inflates every charge made against him, describing his admitted egotism as "bordering on pathology." It blames the very inception of the Yom Kippur war on him. It claims that he tried to engineer an Israeli defeat, and that he cheated the Israelis of the victory they achieved despite his efforts against them. It concludes that "the Kissingerian offensive may set back what chances there were for peace in the Middle East by perhaps as much as a generation." For, as the war died down, Kissinger "raced into the embrace of Sadat."
A member of the right-wing Likud party told a group of us who went to Israel last February that Kissinger's rescue of the Egyptian Third Army should rank, among US blunders, with Dulles's interference in the Suez raid of 1956. That is not strong enough for AlRoy, who finds the 1973 acts far worse than those of 1956: "For while it is true that the Eisenhower-Dulles team saved Nasser from the consequences of military defeat in 1956, it did not go beyond restoration of the status quo ante bellum. Kissinger's exertions in this case quickly restored to the Arabs all their territorial losses in a war they themselves had started, as well as areas they had not held before the war."
It is hard to take such total attack very seriously. But the book obviously reflects a strong current in Israeli thinking. There was always some distrust of Kissinger in Jerusalem. Now it is souring toward a fearful obsession with him. Premier Rabin, who once boasted his close ties with "Henry," recently told his notoriously leaky cabinet that publication of the minutes from Kissinger's meetings in Israel during his last Middle Eastern shuttle would lead to the American secretary of state's forced resignation. Rabin's popularity surged forward when he defied Kissinger during that series of negotiations. A few weeks ago William Buckley, trying to identify himself as a journalist leaving Israel, pulled out a copy of his new book, whose jacket photo shows him standing in Mr. Kissinger's company—that should do it, he thought. All it did was cause him extra trouble with the security man in charge of Lod airport. The Kissinger photos that stick in Israeli minds are those of him embracing Sadat. It did not help, either, that the book portrayed Buckley as a UN functionary. When he is not joking with Henry Kissinger, he must be meeting with Arafat!
It is understandable that Israelis should feel betrayed. But the praise given this new book by Americans is more startling. John Roche devoted a whole column to the book, saying anyone who wants to understand America's foreign policy must read it. Tad Szulc, Edward Luttwak, and Eugene Rostow weigh in with equal praise on the book's jacket. Rostow even calls the book "a…
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Do We Know What Causes Rhabdomyosarcoma?
Researchers do not know what causes most cases of rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), but they are learning how normal cells become cancerous because of certain changes in their DNA. DNA is the chemical in each of our cells that makes up our genes – the instructions for how our cells function. It is packaged in chromosomes (long strands of DNA in each cell). We normally have 23 pairs of chromosomes in each cell (one set of chromosomes comes from each parent). We usually look like our parents because they are the source of our DNA. But DNA affects more than how we look.
Some genes control when our cells grow, divide into new cells, and die. Genes that help cells grow, divide, or stay alive are called oncogenes. Others that slow down cell division or make cells die at the right time are called tumor suppressor genes. Cancers can be caused by DNA changes that turn on oncogenes or turn off tumor suppressor genes.
For example, people with Li-Fraumeni syndrome have changes in the TP53 tumor suppressor gene that cause it to make a defective p53 protein. The p53 protein normally causes cells with DNA damage to either pause and repair that damage or, if repair is not possible, to self-destruct. When p53 is not working, cells with DNA damage keep dividing, which can lead to further defects in other genes that control cell growth and development. This can lead to cancer.
Certain genes in a cell can be turned on when bits of DNA are switched from one chromosome to another. This type of change, called a translocation, can happen when a cell is dividing into 2 new cells. This seems to be the cause of most cases of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS). In these cancers, a small piece of chromosome 2 (or, less often, chromosome 1) ends up on chromosome 13. This moves a gene called PAX3 (or PAX7 if it's chromosome 1) right next to a gene called FOXO1. The PAX genes play an important role in cell growth while an embryo's muscle tissue is being formed, but these genes usually shut down once they're no longer needed. The normal function of the FOXO1 gene is to activate other genes. Moving them together probably activates the PAX genes, which may be what leads to the tumor forming.
Research suggests that embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) develops in a different way. Cells of this tumor have lost a small piece of chromosome 11 that came from the mother, and it has been replaced by a second copy of that part of the chromosome from the father. This seems to make the IGF2 gene on chromosome 11 overactive. The IGF2 gene codes for a protein that can make these tumor cells grow. Other gene changes are probably important in these tumors as well.
Changes in several different genes are usually needed for normal cells to become cancer cells. Scientists have found some other gene changes that set some RMS cells apart from normal cells, but there are likely still others that haven't been found yet.
Researchers now understand many of the gene changes that can lead to RMS, but it's still not clear what causes these changes. Some gene changes can be inherited. Others might just be a random event that sometimes happens inside a cell, without having an outside cause. There are no known lifestyle-related or environmental causes of RMS, so it's important to know that there is nothing children with RMS or their parents could have done to prevent these cancers.
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I have never really been comfortable with having the Feds in there in the first place. Anyone in government can potentially serve in a prosecutorial role, and the government has demonstrated over the years they are perfectly willing to demonize hackers if it serves a need. Thinking about Mitnick, Gonzales, and a bunch of other guys who got railroaded here, along with 2600 meetings where we would get interrogated just for showing up to have coffee.
It's a little like inviting the fox into the henhouse to have these guys around. Pretending that they care about the hacker community is a little hard for me to do.
Pretending that they care about the community is a little hard for me to do.
Fixed that for you.
Teaching the Feds about the difference in hacking and cracking, blackhat, greyhat and whitehat, seems to me not to be such a bad idea.
Problem with the Feds are they are puppets, and will do anything they're told to do to pocket their salaries.
Too often in such situations, knowledge of right and wrong goes out the window.
The problem with public knowledge and hardened security is that it's against grand interestrates for the 0.01%.
You can't teach a pig to bark. Well, maybe a really exceptional pig.
Problem with the software and hardware engineers are they are puppets, and will do anything they're told to do to pocket their salaries.
Too often in such situations, knowledge of right and wrong goes out the window.
fixed that for you.
(yes, we are to blame for doing ANY damned thing as long as The Man pays our salaries. but I've already ranted about this before...)
yes, blame the feds for being amoral. but blame us, too, for we usually will whore ourselves out to a company as long as we get healthcare, week
I'd say its more like inviting a legbreaker to a peace rally really,especially since they have been shown in the past to be happy to kill the messenger if anybody dares point out their security is shitty.
The weird thing is this seems to have happened all across the country with regard to LEOs, i know little old ladies that used to be as police friendly as can be that wouldn't piss on one if they were on fire now, its really become an "us VS them" mentality all over the place.
But how do you make sure that guy is indeed an undercover federal agent? You can be 99% sure, but, baring gross incompetence, you can't prove it.
Obvious joke: gross incompetence and Federal agents, those things don't overlap often.
Apparently, you only need to be 51% sure.
Engage in massive, illegal surveillance then hold a secret court to decide their "guilty".
Followed by a drone strike at his family barbecue.
It is a private convention and they are free to prohibit anyone they like.
They may be able to get their secret court to issue a warrant to have officers present, or to eavesdrop on the convention.
They just have to have one person suspected of a crime -- or persuade a judge of reasonable suspicion that illegal activities may be planned at this convention.
You can ban people by name, but there's no legal mechanism that allows you to select "No law enforcement activity on the premises"
Defcon hasn't been about Defcon for a long time now. Since, what, Defcon 5 or 6? Ever since they moved out to that dumb Alexis hotel.
The REAL conference is Blackhat Briefings, which goes on during the week and is attended by serious people. Then, on the weekend, we bring the freaks out for your amusement and cap off Blackhat with Defcon. It's all about $$$$$ for Darktangent.
hah I remember being at defcon in 2002 and some crew from Japan public radio or something started interviewing me, went something like this:
interviewer: Why did you come to DefCon?
me: I'm totally here to hang with my friends and party.
interviewer: You didn't come here to share information?
me: d00d, we do that every day, it's called the In-ter-net.
I'll be the one dressed as a lumberjack, covered in salt.
The Feds who show up and identify themselves as Feds aren't the Feds you need to worry about anyway.
The Feds who show up and identify themselves as Feds aren't the Feds you need to worry about anyway.
While saying that those weren't the feds we need to worry about... Did you wave a hand?
it would go "These are not the drones^HFeds you are looking for"
When you dance with the Devil, the Devil doesn't change - you do.
Look up Smedley Butler. He joined for patriotism, he was decorated for bravery and then he was used to murder civilians for agribusiness. Here we are a century later and the game is the same. Young men join for patriotism and end up murdering civilians for the profits of the 1%
In USA, Fed hacks YOU!
In an alternate universe the Def Con membership includes somebody by the name of Snowden... is he considered a Fed or not-Fed?
Although (as seen here on
But time, and the "law" is on their side.
And of course, they don't even have to physically go there to find out what's going on.
Showcase something smart, but borderline legal, and maybe you'll get a call after the conf. "inviting" you to join the team.
Heck, last year the NSA had a fscking recruiting booth there (and an enigma machine, which was frankly cool)!
DoD has been recruiting there for years. Fortunately being non-US, the conversations are shorter for me.
Would it be any more difficult to spot one of the vast numerous contractors that work at the behest of the feds?
Spot the fed may just turn into hack-the-fed
I hope you are not suggesting DEFCON might go Brazilian on them?
Who knows? An Orwellian surveillance state is a lot more serious than soccer.
I hope you are not suggesting DEFCON might go Brazilian on them?
We can haggle over a working definition of privacy, but unauthorized waxing in *that region* is way, way over the line.
If you think the Feds you knew were there were the only Feds there, you're an idiot.
Personally, were I an FBI wonk, I'd have long-ago made penetrating DEFCON a priority on so many levels and so long ago that I'd have deep-penetration spooks in the leadership today, guiding policy. That's practically Machiavelli 101.
Hell, I'd have even doubled-up, and sent honeypot Feds to BE hacked/cracked/busted, so the Defcon kids would feel like they were winning, ala:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8581/4puc.jpg [imageshack.us]
(SFW aside from PG13 language).
You know, most of the feds that go to Defcon are simply security researchers and hackers, just like half the other people there, who happen to work for a different organization.
If you think the Feds you knew were there were the only Feds there, you're an idiot.
DEF CON: It's Feds all the way down.
Does "Fed" include all the people in that room who are contractors for various federal agencies?
Does anyone believe that being once removed by virtue of a private company makes you any less part of the police state?
Does anyone believe that being once removed by virtue of a private company makes you any less part of the police state?
Sadly most either think so, or don't - but don't care.
Does it seem strange that someone working for the Federal Government (DHS) is asking other Federal Employees to stay away?
Openness to all & the free exchange of ideas and information with curious people doesn't seem compatible with the exclusion of any one group.
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Is that the string compare function? I have tried setting up a for loop with a counter, but was unsuccessful. Am I on the right track with this?
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – New Tennessee Tech women's
basketball coach Sytia Messer has named the first two members of
her Golden Eagle coaching staff, announcing the addition of Dee
Bell and Bett Shelby as assistant coaches.
Bell comes to Tech after serving the past three years as head women's basketball coach at Martin Methodist College, and has also been head coach at Maryville College and Reinhardt College.
Shelby was recruiting coordinator and assistant coach at Stetson University the past year, and also served on the staff for two years at East Carolina University.
"I'm really excited to have the first two hires completed, and to add coaches of the high caliber of Dee and Bett," Messer said. "Both coaches bring great positive energy and experience to this staff."
"The process of finding and hiring these coaches has been a great experience. It's been great getting to know the different candidates, and in doing the background checks the names of both Dee and Bett just kept coming up over and over with people I've talked to," Messer said.
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Bell graduated from Dawson Springs (Ky.) High School in 1993 and is a 1997 graduate of Maryville College. Bell was a four-year starter for the Scots, garnering numerous honors including 1,000 career points and first-team All-South Region as a senior. He ranked in the Top 10 nationally in field goal percentage.
Bell, 34, has compiled an impressive list of success as a coach, beginning in 2001 at his alma mater. He led the Lady Scots to five straight conference titles and built a 107-37 record, leading the squad to the NCAA Division III National Tournament five times. He was chosen the Great South Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2005.
After a brief stint at Reinhardt College, Bell joined the Martin Methodist staff in 2007. He led the team to a school record for wins in his first year with 16 and took the Redhawks to back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in school history including a 19-12 mark last winter.
"Dee Bell is a proven winner," Messer said. "He had four 20-plus winning seasons at Maryville College, and he was honored as his league's Coach of the Year. He is very well connected in Tennessee and has great communications skills, both on and off the court. He's a family guy, and he'll have a tremendous impact on this program."
Messer said Bell will assist in coaching Tech's post players, and will also coordinate Tech's scheduling.
"Tennessee Tech has a long tradition of outstanding women's basketball, and that was one of the things that was most appealing to me about this position, and I hope to be able to help in adding to that tradition," Bell said. "I was convinced from coach Messer's energy and enthusiasm that we can get things going in the right direction and be competing for a conference championship very quickly."
In addition to his collegiate head coaching positions, Bell has worked at numerous college and high school basketball camps, including Hoops Stars at Eastern Kentucky, the Kyle Macy Camp and the University of Tennessee Camp.
His coaching experiences also include several years on the AAU level. Most recently he was head coach of the Tennessee Tigers in 2008 and the Tennessee Flight in 2009. In 2004, he was chosen head coach of the USA National Team, leading the team to a Gold Medal in Barbados.
Bett Shelby, 26, spent her first year on the collegiate level as a team manager for coach Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee. She transferred to UNC Wilmington and played two seasons, helping the team to a 22-6 record in her first year. She played her senior season at Greensboro College, serving as team captain and leading the team to the USA South regular season and conference titles and the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a 22-8 record.
After receiving her degree from Greensboro in 2006, she was named Director of Basketball Operations at East Carolina University. She helped the Lady Pirates win the C-USA title and reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 25 years.
After two years at ECU, she was named assistant coach at Stetson University where she was recruiting coordinator.
Shelby helped recruit a class that was ranked No. 1 in the A-Sun Conference and among the Top 100 in the country, according to All-Star Girls Report. She coached the guards at Stetson, and also worked with the team's academic development.
"Bett will coordinate our recruiting," Messer said. "She's a proven recruiter who signed a Top 100 recruiting class at Stetson. She's a real go-getter and has tremendous connections throughout the country."
Messer said Shelby will assist with coaching the guards, the position she played while at Wilmington and Greensboro.
"Words cannot express how excited I am to be a part of the tradition of Tennessee Tech women's basketball," Shelby said.
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In addition to her roles at ECU and Stetson, Shelby also has several years of experience at camps and clinics.
Messer expects to add one additional assistant coach to her staff before the am opens official practice on October 16. Tech opens the year with an exhibition game Nov. 5 against Tennessee Wesleyan before embarking on a seven-game road trip. Tech's first regular season home game under Messer is Monday, Nov. 30, with an 8 p.m. tipoff against Lipscomb.
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Lionel Messi's recent goal spree came to an abrupt halt in Argentina's uninspiring 1-1 draw against Peru, as Colombia came out on top in the latest round of South American World Cup qualifiers that concluded on Tuesday.
Argentina lead the nine-nation group ahead of Colombia and Ecuador, but only three points separate the top six teams with the series set to reach its halfway mark next month.
Peru laid bare the failings in Argentina's rearguard that their brilliant forwards often disguise in tricky conditions at the Estadio Nacional in Lima.
Gonzalo Higuain's fine equalizer was one of the few Argentina highlights in a performance that also featured Sergio Romero's early penalty save from Claudio Pizarro.
Messi was almost unrecognizable as the world's best player, softened by a series of early fouls, but not subjected to the aggressive man-marking Diego Maradona endured in a 1-0 defeat in the Peruvian capital 27 years ago.
He was kept in check by Peru's heavily populated midfield, which still found space to carry danger to Argentina with defender Carlos Zambrano scoring in the 22nd minute and Luis Ramirez hitting the post in the second half.
"The pitch didn't help, you needed one or two touches more to control the ball. We left the pitch angry because we couldn't play our game, but an away draw is good," Messi, who had scored 10 goals in his last six internationals, told reporters.
"We're bitter at having only seven points when we deserve a few more," said Peru's Uruguayan coach Sergio Markarian, who is attempting to lead the team to the finals for the first time since 1982.
"Peru didn't surprise me. Nowadays, it's always tough, always very even," Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella said of the result and the tight standings.
Argentina have 14 points, Colombia and Ecuador 13, Uruguay and Chile 12 and Venezuela, looking to reach their first finals, 11.
At the end of the marathon campaign, the top four will qualify for the 2014 finals and the fifth-placed team plays off against an Asian nation for a berth in Brazil.
Colombia, with strikers Radamel Falcao and Teo Gutierrez scoring three goals apiece in two matches, followed their 4-0 rout of Uruguay on Friday with Tuesday's 3-1 away victory over an accomplished Chile side in Santiago.
"The team were confident despite falling behind in the first half," Colombia coach Jose Pekerman said. "This [confidence] has been very positive for us and confirms the team has potential. This is one of the hardest matches you'll get in the qualifiers."
Charged with putting Colombia back on track after a poor start by his sacked predecessor Leonel Alvarez, the Argentine said the key had been to spend the FIFA international date in August practicing, rather than playing a friendly.
"This double [qualifying] fixture has helped us a lot and I think we're now enjoying the fruits of our work, but it was painful when [critics] didn't understand our work," he said.
Ecuador, trained by former Honduras World Cup coach Reinaldo Rueda, picked up a good point with a 1-1 draw at Uruguay, who were thrashed by Colombia in Barranquilla on Friday.
"Uruguay had come from a tough time and were going to put their best on the pitch, but we were orderly, made the most of the lead [Felipe Caicedo's eighth-minute penalty] and had good control of the game [in the first half]," Rueda said.


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"We are thrilled to bring another season of PIONEERS OF TELEVISION to PBS and the American public," said executive producer Steve Boettcher. "It's doubly exciting to have our show led by Ryan Seacrest, who's both a major television star, and an ardent fan of television's pioneers."
Below are descriptions of PIONEERS OF TELEVISION'S THIRD season episodes.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
This episode offers surprising new insights about television's most-beloved variety star Carol Burnett. "Funny Ladies" also looks at the backstory behind Lucille Ball's breakthrough, I LOVE LUCY and the sitcom stars who followed, including Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White and Marla Gibbs. Featured television stand-ups include Joan Rivers and the late Phyllis Diller—whose final interview was for this episode. The episode also includes interviews with contemporary actresses Tina Fey and Margaret Cho.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
DALLAS and DYNASTY kicked off the nighttime soap frenzy in the late 1970s, a phenomenon that continued through the last season of KNOTS LANDING in 1993. The episode offers surprising new details about the legendary "Who Shot J.R." episode of Dallas, and reveals the backstage personalities that shaped DYNASTY and KNOTS LANDING. Interviewees in this episode include Larry Hagman, Joan Collins, Linda Evans, Diahann Carroll, Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy, Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark and Donna Mills.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
"Superheroes" crosses many eras: SUPERMAN in the 1950s, BATMAN in the '60s, WONDER WOMAN and THE INCREDIBLE HULK in the '70s and THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO in the '80s. The episode features in-depth interviews with Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, Lynda Carter, Lou Ferrigno, William Katt and others. It also includes comments from Robert Culp about his show THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO, recorded just days before he passed away.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
Miniseries still rank among the top-rated programs in television history. ROOTS was the biggest — interviewees about that groundbreaking series include stars LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Leslie Uggams, Ben Vereen, John Amos, Georg Stanford Brown and Ed Asner. This episode also considers the very first miniseries, RICH MAN, POOR MAN, as stars Peter Strauss and Susan Blakely offer fresh insights. All of the key stars from the landmark miniseries THE THORN BIRDS (the most-watched romance) provide surprising commentary about the romance seen by more viewers than any other in TV history. These new interviews with Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown mark the 30th anniversary of one of television's biggest events.
- DALLAS Update On The Return Gary, Val, Lucy & Afton; Plus, No Plans For Pam
- INTERVIEW: From Theater to TV to the Web - Joan Van Ark
- DALLAS Starts Production on Second Season - A Look At What Lies Ahead
- DALLAS Returns January 28, 2013 For Season 2
- Judith Light Joins DALLAS
- Annie Wersching Joins DALLAS


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I can't help wondering just how could a piece of code, which presumable didn't test its' input data for validity before acting on it, become part of a modern jet's onboard software suit?"
This, from the same company, while building the A380 megajet decided to upgrade half of their facilities to plant software version 5, while the other half decided to stick with version 3/4. And did not make the file formats compatible between the two versions, resulting in multi-month delays of production as a result.
Point being, in huge projects, simple things get overlooked (with catastrophic results). My favorite is when we slammed a $20 million NASA/ESA probe in to the surface of mars at high speed because some engineer forgot to convert mph in to kph (or vice-versa).
My favorite is when we slammed a $20 million NASA/ESA probe in to the surface of mars at high speed because some engineer forgot to convert mph in to kph (or vice-versa).
No, it was when two different softwares were used to calculate thrust. The spacecraft software calculated thrust correctly in newton-seconds.
The ground software calculated thrust in pounds force-seconds. This was contrary to the software interface specification, which called out newton-seconds.
The result was that the ground-calculated trajectory was more than 20 kilometers too close to the surface.
The engineers didn't "forget to convert", they failed to read and understand the specifications.
From out here it's hard to distinguish between 'forgot what the specification said they should do' and 'didn't bother to read it in the first place'. Even if your 10 testing guys knew it was in the specification doesn't mean they necessarily understood how to test it properly, and maybe did some sort of relative test (input of x should come out to be 10x in a simple example). The problem with using the wrong unit of measure is that the math is, in isolation all correct and self consistent, it's just off by a constant - which just happens to be enough to cause catastrophic failures.
In the case of an aircraft using only once sensor in the article, did it read in data from all the sensors, and just ignored some of the input? Did it average the inputs, (which, naively, isn't a bad answer, but fails badly when you have really wonky data), was there some race condition in their resolution between multiple sensors? That's a fun one, maybe it works on data on poling intervals and in very rare cases it can read data from only one sensor and not the others and so on. Even if you know the specification it can be tricky to implement (and realize all of the things that can go wrong, it's not like all of these people doing the calculations are experts in distributed systems necessarily, they might be experts in physics and and engineering). Doing something simple like taking an average of an array can fail in really bad ways - what if the array isn't populated on time? How do you even know if the array is fully populated? How does my average handle out of bounds numbers? How about off by 10^6 numbers? Does old data just hang out in those memory addresses, and if so what happens to it? A lot of those underlying problems, especially with how the array (or in this case probably how a handful of floats) is populated and is it aware if it is properly populated are handled by the implementation of the language, which is well beyond the people who actually do most of the programming. And not everyone thinks 'hey for every line of code I need to go and check to make sure the assembler version doesn't have a bizarre race condition in it', assuming you could even find the race conditions in the first place.
"I can't help wondering just how could a piece of code, which presumable didn't test its' input data for validity before acting on it, become part of a modern jet's onboard software suit?""
How about reading the darned final report, conveniently linked in your own blurb? There was lots of validity checking. In fact, some of it was relatively recently changed, and that accidentally introduced this failure mode (the 1.2-second data spike holdover). (Also, how about someone spell-checking submissions?)
Mod parent up. Anyhow, information from a sensor may be valid but inaccurate. I deal with these types of systems regularly(not in aircraft, but control systems in general), and it is sometimes impossible to tell with out extra sensors. Its one thing to detect a "broken wire" fault, and a completely different thing to detect a 20% calibration fault, for example, so validity checking can only take you so far. Its actually impressive the failure mode in this case caused so little damage.
Agreed, valid but inaccurate.
Though such an airliner will have more than one air speed sensor, no? Relying for such a vital piece of information on just one sensor would be crazy. And that makes it to me even more surprising that a single air speed sensor to malfunction causes such a disaster. But then it's the same kind of issue that's been blamed on an Air France jet crashing into the ocean - malfunctioning sensors, in that case ice buildup or so iirc, and as all sensors were of the same design this caused all of them to fail.
Another thing: I remember that when Airbus introduced their fly-by-wire aircraft, they stressed that one of the safety features to prevent problems caused by computer software/hardware bugs, was to have five different flight computer systems built and designed independently by five different companies, using different hardware. So that if one computer has an issue causing it to malfunction, the other four computers would be able to override this. And a majority of those computers should agree with one another before an airplane control action would be undertaken.
I'm sure they must have more than one sensor. Perhaps even more than one sensing principle is involved. The problem with the system of having multiple computers vote, is we tend to solve problems in similar ways, so if there is a logic error in one machine (as opposed to a typo) it is fairly likely to be repeated in at least 2 of the other machines. Some sets of conditions are very hard to predict and design for. Even in the most simple systems. I often see code (when updating a system) that does not account for every possibility because either everyone considers that combination unlikely, or nobody thought of it in the first place(until it happens of course...) Being a perfectionist in this business is very costly in development time.
The fact is a complex system such as an aircraft could easily be beyond human capability to perfect first time. And test completely.
The way to prevent typos (and with that, bugs) being copied to other systems is to make sure your systems are designed by independent companies. The chance of having the exact same bugs in two independently developed systems is really small. Make that three different systems, and set up a majority vote system to be pretty sure you've got the correct value.
Aircraft are very complex systems indeed. Yet the results of failure are generally pretty bad, and it's hard to make an aircraft fail safe - so everything
That only covers mistakes like typos. The bugs independent systems do not cover are logical and conceptual errors. If the functional specification is wrong to start with, all the versions will have similar or identical issues. Fail safe is a tricky thing in an aircraft. Systems and sensors will fail. No matter how many or how well designed. If two out of three air speed sensors fail for example, then there will be big problems. The point being that there is no 100% safety.
But then it's the same kind of issue that's been blamed on an Air France jet crashing into the ocean - malfunctioning sensors, in that case ice buildup or so iirc, and as all sensors were of the same design this caused all of them to fail.
The official report for that came out a week or so ago. The only effect that the malfunctioning sensors had in that case was to put the copilots back in control of the plane so they could proceed to attempt to climb above the limits of the aircraft, and continue to pull ba
How about reading the darned final report. [atsb.gov.au]
I highly recommend that. It's a good read. This was not a sensor problem. The problem actually occurred in the message output queue of one of the CPUs, and resulted in sending data with the label for one data item with the data from another. The same hardware unit had demonstrated similar symptoms two years earlier, but the problem could not be replicated. This time, they tried really hard to induce the problem, with everything from power noise to neutron bombardment, and were unable to do so.
There are several thousand identical hardware units in use, and one of the others demonstrated a similar problem, once. No other unit has ever demonstrated this problem. The The investigators are still puzzled. They unit which produced the errors has been tested extensively and the problem cannot be reproduced. They considered 24 different failure causes and eliminated all of them. It wasn't a stuck bit. It wasn't program memory corruption. (The code gets a CRC check every few seconds.) The code in ROM was what it was supposed to be. Thousands of other units run exactly the same software. It wasn't a single flipped bit. It wasn't a memory timing error. It wasn't a software fault. It looked like half of one 32-bit word was combined with half of another 32-bit word during queue assembly on at least some occasions. But there are errors not explained by that.
Very frustrating.
Posting anon because I moderated.
I had a very similar problem once with firmware on a TI DSP. The symptom was that a peltier element for controling laser temperature would sometimes freak out and start burning so hot that the solder melted. After some debugging, it turned out that somewhere between the EEPROM holding the setpoint, and the AD converter, the setpoint value got corrupted.
The cause turned out to be a 32 variable that was un-initialized, but always set to 0 by the stack initialization code.
Only the first 16 bits were filled in because that was the value stored in the EEPROM. The programming bug was that the other 16 bits were left as is. In >99% of the time, this was not a problem. But if a specific interrupt happened at exactly the wrong moment during initialization of the stack variable, that variable was filled with garbage from an interrupt register value. Since the calculations for the setpoint used the entire 32 bits (it was integer math) it came out with a ridiculously high setpoint.
Having had to debug that, I know how hard it can be if your bug depends on what is going on inside the CPU or related to interrupts.
There may only be a window of less a micro second for this bug to happen, so reproduction could be nigh on impossible.
It looked like half of one 32-bit word was combined with half of another 32-bit word during queue assembly on at least some occasions. But there are errors not explained by that.
This is why I like fuzzing. Sending random and/or corrupted data to software to evaluate the software's robustness and sensitivity to corrupted inputs. For a project like this I would like to send simulated inputs from regression tests and recorded data from actual flights to the software while fuzzing each playback, repeat. Let a system sit in the corner running such tests 24/7.
In theory some permutation of the data should eventually resemble what you describe.
In theory some permutation of the data should eventually resemble what you describe.
If it's a single 32-bit word, that can cause the issue, then yes, you can go through every single permutation fairly quickly. There are only 4,294,967,296 of them - nothing that a computer can't handle.
Suppose for a moment that the issue is caused, not by one single faulty piece of data, but two right after each-other. Essentially a 64-bit word causes the issue. Now we're looking at 18,446,744,073,709,551,616. Quite a bit more, but not impossible to test.
Now suppose that the first 64-bit word doesn't cause the fault on its own, but "simply" causes an instability in the software. That instability will be triggered by another specific 64-bit word. Now we're looking at 3.40282367 x 10^38 permutations.
Now, keep in mind that at this point, we're really looking at a fairly simple error triggered by two pieces of data. One sets it up, the other causes the fault.
Now let's make it slightly more complex.
The actual issue is caused by two different error conditions happening at once. If they are similar as above, we're now looking at, essentially, a 256-bit word. That's 1.15792089 x 10^77 permutations.
In comparison, the world's fastest super computer can do 10.51 petaflops, which is 10.51 x 10^15, and it would take that computer 0.409 microseconds to go through all permutations in a 32 bit word. About 30 minutes for a 64 bit word. 10^15 years for a 128 bit word and 10^53 years for a 256 bit word.
Yes, you can test every single permutation, if the problem is small enough. But the problem with most software is that it really isn't small.
Even if we are only talking 32 bit words causing the issue, will it happen every time that single word is issued, or do you need specific conditions? How is that condition created? As soon as the issue becomes even slightly complex, it becomes essentially impossible to test for.
we're going to see a huge change in programming methods coming pretty soon. Today, A.I. is still math and computer based. The problem is that data, input, and all of the algorithms you're going to write can result in a plane nose-diving -- even though no human being has ever chosen to nose-dive under any scenario in a commercial flight.
Why was an algorithm written that could do something that no one has ever wanted to do?
The shift is going to be when psychology takes over A.I. from the math geeks. It'll be the first time that math becomes entirely useless because the scenarios will be 90% exceptions. It'll also be the first time that psychology becomes truly beneficial -- and it'll be the direct result of centuries of black-box science.
That's when the programming changes to "should we take a nose-dive? has anyone ever solved anything with a nose-dive? are we a fighter jet in a dog fight like they were?" Instead of what is it now: "what are the odds that we should be in a nose-dive? well, nothing else seems better."
Instead of what is it now: "what are the odds that we should be in a nose-dive? well, nothing else seems better."
Probably more like, "the sensor spec sheet says it's right 99.99999% of the time. may as well assume it's right all the time".
The devil almost surely lives on a set of zero measure.
yup. all the while forgetting that the while altimeter shows altitude, it rarely actually measures distance to the ground, it measures air pressure, and then assumes an aweful lot.
Interesting one indeed. Could be a tough measure.
For starters: what is one's current altitude? What is your reference point? The ground level at that point? Changes quickly when passing over mountainous terrain. Or the height compared to sea level? Which is also tricky, as the earth's gravitational field is not uniform and sea level is far from a perfect flattened sphere around the Earth's centre.
And how about GPS based altitude measurements? That's easily accurate to within a few meters, less than the size
A better use of psychology will be to examine the heads of anyone who wants to throw maths out of the window and engage psychologists when designing AI algorithms.
we're going to see a huge change in programming methods coming pretty soon. Today, A.I. is still math and computer based. The problem is that data, input, and all of the algorithms you're going to write can result in a plane nose-diving -- even though no human being has ever chosen to nose-dive under any scenario in a commercial flight.
There are some humans alive today who have wisely done so to the point of causing injuries to recover from stalls real and imagined.
absolutely. and out of all who have, look at what it took for them to choose to do so. and look at how many times it's happened. it takes a huge dicision for a pilot to decide to do it. it's not a single reading from a single instrument.
i'd say that there's no single malfunctioning device that could get a pilot to do that. in fact, I don't think any incorrect information could do it. the only malfunction to make it happen would probably need to be in the pilot.
even though no human being has ever chosen to nose-dive under any scenario in a commercial flight. Why was an algorithm written that could do something that no one has ever wanted to do?
Is that something you are saying from knowledge or just making up? I was under the impression that getting the nose pointed down was a fairly 'normal' thing for a pilot to do when faced with a stalling plane. Indeed, keeping the nose up [flightglobal.com] can be precisely the wrong thing to do.
lowering the nose, yes, absolutely. nose-dive, no. the kind of thing that injures passengers is not standard anything.
That's assuming that the computer knows what a "nose-dive" even is, or why it's (usually) a bad thing. It would have to know every problem, every tactic, and every risk, and nothing would actually be safer, though the program would be far more complex..
Instead, the "psychological" program thinks "We're going a lot slower than we should for this altitude. Oh no! We're going to stall, and it's only by sheer luck that we haven't already! Why are we this high, anyway? The pilot told me to go this high, but mayb
Basing A.I. on psychology will be only a stop gap measure, on the way to the true solution to this sort of problems: basing A.I. on evolutionary anthropology. You see, both the crew and the passengers can be modeled as as tribe, trying to adapt their stable trajectory based culture to changing conditions, namely a nose dive. As more and more air tribes experience such disruptions to their familiar environment, you will find that some develop better coping strategies than others. After a number of generation
I can't help wondering just how could a piece of code, which presumable didn't test its' input data for validity before acting on it, become part of a modern jet's onboard software suit?"
I'm surprised there are people who think that we have the technology to program computers to make decisions about how to control things like airplanes better then a human being.
Computers excel at solving mathematical problems with definitive inputs and outputs, but our attempts to translate the problem of controlling an airplane, or an organism, into a simple circuit...will necessarily be limiting.
They can only test that the computer program will behave as expected, but there is no test to prove that the behavior we attempted to implement is actually a "good" way to behave under all circumstances.
Take a look at this [wikipedia.org] incident. The autopilot did everything right except that lack of action, poor decision making and disorientation by the pilots caused a 747 to roll out of control.
The pilots did the following things wrong;
1. Failed to descend to correct altitude before attempting engine restart.
2. Failed to notice the extreme inputs the autopilot was using that did not correct the roll(the pilot should have used some rudder to help the autopilot)
3. Became fixated on the engine issue when he should have l
"I can't help wondering just how could a piece of code, which presumable didn't test its' input data for validity before acting on it, become part of a modern jet's onboard software suit?"" - pdcull
What are you? some kind of person that doesn't read the actual articles or documents? Oh wait.. this is slashdot. Here let me copy paste some text for you
If any of the three values deviated from the median by more than a predetermined threshold for more than 1 second, then the FCPC rejected the relevant ADR for the remainder of the flight.
The FCPC compared the three ADIRUs' values of each parameter for consistency. If any of the values differed from the median (middle) value by more than a threshold amount for longer than a set period of time, then the FCPC rejected the relevant part of the associated ADIRU (that is, ADR or IR) for the remainder of the flight.
So there you go, there actually really was validity checking performed. Multiple times per second in fact, by three separate, redundant systems. Unfortunately all 3 systems had the bug. Here is the concise summary for you:
The FCPC's AOA algorithm could not effectively manage a scenario where there were multiple spikes such that one triggered a memorisation period and another was present 1.2 seconds later. The problem was that, if a 1.2-second memorisation period was triggered, the FCPCs accepted the next values of AOA 1 and AOA 2 after the end of the memorisation period as valid. In other words, the algorithm did not effectively handle the transition from the end of a memorisation period back to the normal operating mode when a second data spike was present.
injuring 12 people seriously and causing 39 to be taken to the hospital.
That is why you keep your safty belt shut.
If you don't like the feeling, losen it a bit, but keep it closed.
I really wonder why people keep taking such nonsense risks and open the seat belt directly after launch.
If you saw the procedures required to get airworthiness certification from the FAA for a critical piece of software, you would shake your head in disbelief. It is almost all about ensuring that every line of code is traceable to (and tested against) a formal requirement somewhere. In spite of greatly increasing software development costs (due to the additional documentation and audit trails required), the procedures do amazingly little to ensure that the requirements or code are actually any good, or that sound software engineering principles are employed. It does not surprise me that GIGO situations occasionally arise -- it is perfectly plausible that a system could meet the certification criteria but shit's still busted because the formal requirements didn't completely capture what needed to happen.
The cost of compliance can also warp the process. A co-worker once told me a story about an incident that happened years ago at a former employer of his. A software system with several significant bugs was allowed to continue flying because the broken version had already received its FAA airworthiness certification. A new version which corrected the bugs had been developed, but getting the new version through the airworthiness certification process again would've been too costly; so the broken version was allowed to continue flying.
Look up "DO-178B" sometime if you're curious...
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Quote from: Morticia on October 12, 2013, 01:05:54 PMA certain car rental place. We had reserved a car for the weekend and DH was supposed to pick it up at 11am. Except, they didn't have any for the 8 people who had reservations. It is a holiday weekend here so all rental cars are spoken for. They arg now saying they may have cars by 4. This so brought to mind the Seinfeld episode on reservations (I never actually watched the show but due to its popularity, I actually know a lot of its plot lines - this scene though is priceless!). "Agent: I'm sorry, we have no mid-size available at the moment.Jerry: I don't understand, I made a reservation, do you have my reservation?Agent: Yes, we do, unfortunately we ran out of cars.Jerry: But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation.Agent: I know why we have reservations.Jerry: I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car. See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7uvttu8ct0
A certain car rental place. We had reserved a car for the weekend and DH was supposed to pick it up at 11am. Except, they didn't have any for the 8 people who had reservations. It is a holiday weekend here so all rental cars are spoken for. They arg now saying they may have cars by 4.
Funny thing is that Bob Evans, while they do not take official reservations, they will still honor them. I called recently asking if they did reservations. The woman said "No, not officially but we will take down your name and time and try to hold a table for you." So I made the "reservation" and even though it was unofficial they did still honor it, which I thought was very nice of them since it was for a large party. So if they can honor it with a policy of "We don't do reservations" than a place that does do them ought to honor them.
My aunt got Verizon, DirectTV, ATT, and Ford to defer bills. ATT actually offered to simply defer until 30 days after the shutdown ended which was nice. Verizon is not charging us a late fee. DirectTV is also not charging a late fee. I'm not sure about Ford.I'm also unimpressed with your credit union. That is crazy that they won't defer the visa bill.
TGI Fridays. not so much that i refuse to go back. More I can't because of the way they run things.they do not take reservations. at. all. we went for a hen party and there were 15 of us. two girls got there at 6 to ask for a table and we were told an hour and a half wait. thats fine as every one was told to get there at 7 because they knew there would be a wait the Manager suggested we get one or to people there early to request a table for the group with the rest joining us later. At 8:45 we finally sat down. Thats nearly 3 hours. I would love to go back (I was driving so could not have any cocktails.) but no one is willing to wait that long and the one couple who might be up for it can't because He is diabetic and so can't sit around waiting for that long.Their vegetarian/vegan options are also shockingly bad, so the other person who might come with me can't. The thing that really makes me annoyed (rather than merely disappointed.) once sitting and having your meal any drinks you order from the wait staff means an automatic 10% is added to your bill. Even asking for water adds it on. In this case they shoot themselves in the foot. They want to charge me 10% for tap water, well the 15% tip I was going to give you is now not happening. you have your tip.
Went to Applebee's for lunch. The food was incredibly salty - so much so that I didn't take more than a couple bites of my meal. Manager came by to ask how everything was and I mentioned the incredibly salty food, he said that "most people like it that way." Really? Because my lips dried out like the sahara when I took a bite. And it's not like I'm snooty or anything, I go to chains a lot so I'm used to that standard of food, but there was a lot more salt on this than anything I'd had before. It was gross.Couldn't eat my food, still paid full price. On top of that, the same manager was loudly berating his employees in front of patrons. I HATE that. If it's bad enough to yell about, it's bad enough to take them in the back to do it.
Quote from: magician5 on July 19, 2011, 09:15:43 PMIMO the milk might be "iffy" but the meat and eggs would be fine. It's not like they were sitting outside unwrapped in the summer sun.If it's below 80, eggs are fine if they are let sit out for a week or so. When it gets to be 100 out the eggs sweet a bit which can allow bacteria in, and of course, if they are fertile, you start to risk them hatching if you leave them sit for 3 weeks or more.
IMO the milk might be "iffy" but the meat and eggs would be fine. It's not like they were sitting outside unwrapped in the summer sun.
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The vehicles in this article are equipped with a 10-pin speed control servo without a Standard Corporate Protocol (SCP) communication control system. Follow the Service Procedures and Diagnostic Tips in this TSB to assist with accurate diagnosis and repair of speed control issues.
Start by running speed control servo integrated self test diagnostics. The servo has integrated self test diagnostics which is a key tool in quickly and accurately diagnosing speed control system faults. Self test diagnostics are also the basis for starting speed control trouble shooting.
WARNING: This test is a Key On Engine Off (KOEO) test that is conducted only while parked with the parking brake fully engaged. Failure to follow these instructions may result in personal injury.
NOTE: This self-test is comprised of two parts. The first part is a static check of the speed control electronics module and system. The second part is a dynamic pull-test to check the actuator motor and gear mechanism.
NOTE: The module times out if each button is not pressed within 1 second of the previous button. If a module time out occurs (speed control lamp stops flashing part way through the test), the procedure must be re-initiated.
NOTE: On vehicles equipped with a manual transmission, the clutch pedal should not be depressed except for Escape/Mariner, which should be depressed, in order to correctly perform the self-test. On vehicles equipped with an automatic transmission, the transmission selector lever needs to be in the "P" position for the self test except for the Escape/Mariner which should be in "N".
NOTE: Review the following steps before carrying out the self-test diagnostic procedure.
NOTE: Monitor the PCM throttle position PID after the last button is pressed.
NOTE: There will be a slight delay from when the last button is pressed and the cluster lamp flashes diagnostic codes.
NOTE: If the self-test will not start or cannot be completed after multiple attempts, GO to the Symptom Chart. See: Diagnosis By Symptom
NOTE: The dynamic test occurs automatically after the static test passes. If the static test fails resulting in flash codes, there will be no dynamic pull test.
NOTE: The 2001-2005 Escape/Mariner holds the peak throttle pull for 3 seconds prior to releasing.
Servo Pin-Out Test Tips
NOTE: Measuring the resistance of a servo will indicate that a servo is bad if readings are outside the ranges specified below. However, a servo can have resistance readings within the specified ranges and still be faulty.
The following readings are the expected values for a good servo.
Resistance between Pins 6 and 10 should measure less than 5 ohms . This is the ground circuit through the module. Resistance between Pins 7 and 10 will vary with polarity, the type of meter, and source voltage of the meter. Also measurements between Pins 7 and 10 can be any of the following: an open circuit, increasing reading (as a capacitor charging), or changing value (re-apply leads and different value indicated), or a stable reading of 10,000 ohms or greater are all valid results as this is a solid state circuit.
DST Testing Tips (TPS PID)
With the vehicle speed above 30 MPH (48 Km/h) engage the speed control. Then check to see if the IPS PID returns to base voltage when the brakes are applied. If it does return to base voltage, then the speed control system is working. Need to advise customer that tapping the brakes deactivates speed control and that the brakes must be applied to make the vehicle slow down. On the Escape/Mariner the brake pedal should be depressed at least 13/32 inch (10 mm) in order to deactivate speed control.
NOTE: Check for calibration service messages relating to dashpot or idle speed control updates.
Check to see if the TPS PID returns to base voltage when the clutch is pressed. If it does then the speed control system is working. Need to advise customer that pressing clutch deactivates speed control and that the brakes must be applied to make the vehicle slow down.
NOTE: Check for calibration service messages relating to dashpot or idle speed changes. Also a slight engine RPM flare may occur on some vehicles when speed control is disengaged which is a normal condition.
Speed Signal Testing Tips
NOTE: A faulty vehicle speed signal to the servo can result in intermittent, irregular or inoperative speed control.
NOTE: For vehicles that have OSS or hall effect vehicle speed signals to the servo, refer to for diagnostics.
To verify that the speed control signal sent to the servo is valid, the following inspection may be done for ABS and PCM generated speed signals:
Deactivator Switch Inspection Tips
A faulty deactivator switch can result in intermittent or inoperative speed control. There are two types of deactivator switches; a brake line pressure switch which is integrated into the brake master cylinder, and a pedal travel switch, which is connected to the brake pedal arm.
Proper switch function should be confirmed. Inoperative switches of both types should be inspected for connector corrosion or pin push-out. Pedal travel switches should also be inspected for proper mechanical adjustment relative to brake pedal travel.
Speed Control Servo Operation and Function
NOTE: All functionality listed below is performed with connectors connected and key in run position unless otherwise noted.
PIN 1 - Indicator. (if used) Speed control servo grounds this circuit to turn the speed control lamp in cluster on during operation. This will not affect operation of system.
PIN 2 - Clutch/TRS Input. (Escape/Mariner only) Signal comes from clutch switch (MT) or TRS (AT). On the harness side the signal can be measured by connecting a DVOM, set to ohms, between Pins 2 and B-. With clutch depressed (MT) or in N (AT) you should read 0.0 ohms , which disables speed control. With clutch released (MT) or in D (AT) signal should read greater than 10,000 ohms , which enables speed control operation.
PIN 3 - VSS Input. (Note: Performed with engine running and vehicle driven.) Signal comes from PCM, ABS, OSS, hall effect sensor depending on application. Except for hall effect sensor, the signal can be measured by removing Connector C122 and measuring the frequency between Pins 3 and 10 with a DVOM set to AC Hz. The signal should measure 2.2 Hz/MPH . The vehicle must be traveling 30 MPH (48 Km/h) before the system will set, therefore a minimum of 66 Hz must be observed. Take note that on vehicles equipped with SVC (speed sensitive volume control), an internal problem within the radio can bring signal down to 0.0 Hz even though it reads correctly in PCM PIDs. If signal is missing disconnect radio and retest. Note, for vehicles with a hall effect input to the speed control servo, see the speed signal verification.
PIN 4 - Brake Switch Input (BOO/BPP).
NOTE: Ensure that brake lamps are functioning correctly.
Vehicles with automatic transmission and all Escape and Mariner vehicles (auto and manual): With a DVOM set to ohms, measure resistance between Pins 4 and B- with brake pedal not depressed, you should get less than 5 ohms . Then measure voltage with brake pedal depressed, you should get 12 V . Operation: The servo sends out a reference voltage on Pin 4 (4-7V) which is grounded through the brake lamps or switched directly to ground.
Vehicles with manual transmissions (except Escape and Mariner vehicles, see above): With a DVOM set to ohms, measure resistance between Pin 4 and B- with brake pedal not depressed and clutch pedal not depressed, you should get less than 5 ohms . Next, depress clutch pedal only, measuring resistance, you should get an open circuit / infinite resistance. Then measure voltage with brake pedal depressed, clutch pedal not depressed and you should get 12 V . Repeat with both pedals depressed and you should get 0.0 volts . Operation: The servo sends out a reference voltage on Pin 4 (4-7V) which is grounded through the brake lamps or switched directly to ground when the clutch pedal is not depressed.


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Monday, February 12, 2007
Now this is a good practical joke
Paul Fletcher, a U-M alum and chairman of the State Highway Commission, inserted the fake towns of "Goblu" and "Beatosu" into the 1978-79 official state of Michigan map just across the Ohio border (see below).
The state was not amused and new maps were printed with the offending "towns" removed. The original maps are now collector's items and fetch up to $150 in mint condition.
In a related story, the same sort of stunt was pulled by an Ohio official in 1987 yet it wasn't discovered until last fall, almost 20 years later. Apparently folks in Buckeye country thought it was completely normal for towns in Ohio to be named "Fuckmichiganville" and "Wolverinescansuckmydickberg."
(HT: Krish)
6 comments:
Lovely ... This is why i use this blog as my #1 news source in college football (and i'm far from a Wolverine fan). But are you guys still going to insist that OSU fans are more obsessed with UM than you guys are obsessed with OSU? me thinks not ...
great blog by the way.
- February 12, 2007 9:38 AM
OSU fans are absolutely more obsessed. As a UM alum, living in Cleveland, its ridiculous. There's a number of reasons for it. All the Ohio pro teams suck (Cavs are getting there) and haven't won anything in forever. (For the record I'm a huge Tribe/Browns/Cavs fan, but really, they're just terrible). There is no other rival, not one. While OSU may be UM biggest, having MSU and ND, definitely takes something away from a wolverine standpoint. Bo vs. Woody. Woody HATED UM, while Bo had coached at OSU, this mentality was defiantly passed on to the fans. It's all resulted in just a true hatred for all things Blue in the Buckeye state. You don't hear "Go Bucks" nearly as much as you do "F Blue". There are countless examples from the formerly "Dead Schembechlers" to to the Don't give a damn song.
- February 12, 2007 10:32 AM
- Chris of Dangerous Logic said...
My dad pointed out those 'towns' to me when that map first came out. I bet my folks still have it somewhere.
- February 12, 2007 11:55 AM
To be fair *all* cartographers insert fake items in maps. These may be streets, towns, etc. They are used to "watermark" the map data, so if it is re-used without permission (i.e. stolen) the ownership can be verified.
- February 12, 2007 1:59 PM
- Cris said...
What's wrong with Toledo, if you reallyl want to talk history, why not do the bit about how Toledo used to be in Michigan and how Michigan got the U.P. because Toledo ended up in Ohio. At any rate i'm from Toledo (huge Michigan fan) and it hurts to have my town bashed on. I've since grown up and moved away to sunny Sandie Eggo bitches, so freeze your asses off. Ha!!! Hopefully you understand that Toledo is not a bad place to be FROM.
- February 12, 2007 10:54 PM
Yeah Toledo's not that bad. I'm from Cleveland and go to school in Toledo.
There are a lot of Michigan fans here including me.
- February 14, 2007 11:38 AM


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Equity Fellowships help researchers dig deeper
13 December 2010
The University of Sydney has given academics an opportunity for deeper, more focused research with its latest round of Equity Fellowships.
Eight academics have been awarded Brown, Thompson and Laffan Fellowships, which provide academic staff with relief from routine teaching and administrative responsibilities to concentrate on research. A joint initiative of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and the Staff and Student Equal Opportunity Unit, each Fellow will receive $60,000 over two semesters.
"The three programs really seek to provide opportunities for all of us, over a more even playing field," says Professor Jill Trewhella, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research).
"It's wonderful to see how these fellowships impact research at the University, as well as giving the fellows an opportunity to find support across the many disciplines."
The University this year awarded four Thompson Fellowships, designed to enhance the careers of academic women and remedy the under-representation of women in senior academic positions.
"The Fellowships give us the opportunity to put all those bits and pieces towards deeper thinking," says Dr Belinda Smith, whose research focuses on how the law can be used to promote more family-friendly workplaces and greater gender equality.
"I am so excited and really impressed with the University for going ahead with this," she says.
The Brown Fellowships allow recipients to re-establish or enhance their academic careers after undertaking sustained primary-caring duties.
One of this year's three recipients, Dr Katrina Bosward, says the fellowship will provide an unparalleled opportunity to focus on her research, which explores strategies for low-cost molecular screening of contagious mastitis in cattle.
With a commute of more than an hour each way to the University's Camden Campus and three children under five, she says the opportunity to devote all of her working days to research will be "transformational".
The Laffan Fellowships support researchers who have, or who have previously experienced, a significant disability, and aims to assist recipients to re-establish or enhance their academic careers.
This year's recipient of the Laffan Fellowship is Dr David Price, whose research was significantly disrupted by his diagnosis with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Dr Price's research will focus on the synthesis and crystallographic structural characterisation of functional materials, which will have useful applications in a range of areas such as gas storage, gas separation, molecular sensing, electronics and data storage.
"The Laffan Fellowship provides the resources and support to employ someone to do the tasks which are more taxing for me than they were before, and this will enable me to focus a large part of my energies on publishing our research," Dr Price says.
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We've been doing this for nearly four months now. I think you know how it works.
We're celebrating our 16th year as Baltimore's sports media leader here at WNST. We're having some fun with our own Sweet 16 by tackling some "water cooler" topics that we've discussed during the course of the WNST era.
Oddly enough, this is the 16th week in our 16th year and we're tackling our 16th topic. Also odd? My favorite actress is Molly Ringwald! Would you believe that?
If you missed any of our first 15 topics, here's a look back.
(The "Sweet 16″ is driven by our friends at Jerry's Automotive-Jerry's Chevrolet & Jerry's Toyota Scion!)
Week 15: Nestor Aparicio-Sweet 16 games we've been treated to
Week 14: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 Masters moments of the last 30 years
Week 13: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 greatest pro wrestling moments in Baltimore history
Week 12: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 local sports goofballs/personalities
Week 11: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 local sports saints-athletes who gave back
Week 10: Nestor Aparicio-Sweet 16 events a Baltimore sports fan must attend
Week 9: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 greatest Baltimore college basketball players
Week 8: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 Orioles who didn't live up to the hype
Week 7: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 most underappreciated Maryland basketball players
Week 6: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 local sports "Heartbreakers"
Week 5: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 local Olympic sport athletes
Week 4: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 local athletes who deserved to win a championship but didn't
Week 3: Nestor Aparicio-Sweet 16 local sports people who "had a dream"
Week 2: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 local sports playoff moments
Week 1: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 "debuts" in local sports history
So we have to admit this didn't really play out the way we had hoped it would up to this point. You see, when we cooked up these #WNSTSweet16 ideas we thought the Washington Capitals would be in the throws of a first round matchup in the NHL Playoffs. I mean, it's been seven years since this has happened and all. We were pretty confident that hockey would be fresh on the minds of a number of Baltimore sports fans.
So can we just pretend like that actually happened? It will make this list a bit more relevant.
The NHL Playoffs have been GREAT thus far, with many overtimes allowing fans additional time to figure out where CNBC is on their cable package. Despite the Caps falling short of the postseason, this week's list has a hockey twist.
Drew Forrester takes the reigns again for the #WNSTSweet16 this week, recognizing the Sweet 16 "Greatest Players in Washington Capitals history."
You don't necessarily HAVE to be a Caps fan to be able to get in on the fun-you simply have to have an opinion.
How does the team's current MVP (Alex Ovechkin) rate against some of the franchise's best ever-like Dale Hunter, Rod Langway, Yvon Labre or Mike Gartner? Where does Peter Bondra fall on this list? What about goaltenders like Olaf Kolzig or Jim Carey? Who else from the Ovechkin-era Capitals needs to be a part of the sixteen? Nicklas Backstrom? Mike Green? Alex Semin?
Drew cares about this type of stuff as much as anyone I know but he needs your help. As always, we're not just trying to make Drew's list, we're trying to make something as close to an "official" list as we're capable of.
Drew wants your ideas. Leave them here in the comments or email him via email@example.com. We will be discussing the list throughout the day Monday on AM1570 WNST.net. We'd love to have you Tweet with us or discuss the topic via Facebook by using the hashtag #WNSTSweet16.
On Tuesday morning, Drew will unveil the "official" list here at WNST.net and then discuss it with Luke on "The D&L Window Tinting Morning Reaction" at 8am. He will then re-visit the list at 4pm Tuesday on "The Happy Hours" with Nestor Aparicio.
Consider this one final opportunity to enjoy Caps hockey for the season. And considering how things went, this will probably end up being much more enjoyable than anything else that happened during the course of the year. (As Drew and Ian Eagle might say: "It's not a low blow, it's just a fact.")
This is your chance to make your voice heard. Who are the greatest players in the history of the Washington Capitals? Let Drew know!


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Festival Ballet's 'Up Close On Hope' is dazzling dance experience
We have been fans of Festival Ballet's unique "Up Close On Hope" for years, repeatedly amazed by the dazzling dance experience.
"Up Close" means up close, as you sit in one of 80 chairs facing the rehearsal studio, while the talented dancers perform so close that you can hear them breathing.
The Spring Program offers six world premieres among the 10 brief presentations, with an intermission for you and the dancers to catch your breath and enjoy some wine, light snacks and an art exhibit. The dances vary from classical works to modern, with a spirited bluesy number danced by Louisa Chapman to the music of Eric Clapton.
There are two Pas de Deux, showing the talents of Eugenia Zinovieva and Toleu Mukanov, and in the second segment Vilia Putrius and Mindaugas Bauzys. If the names seem a bit foreign to you (my spell-check went crazy), it is because they are. Festival's Artistic Director, Misha Djoric, has recruited some of the finest dancers from around the globe, making for a truly international flavor.
If you don't like one of the numbers (we liked them all), another will soon follow, as Djuric mixes up the program, keeping the audience and dancers on their toes (pun intended).
You can catch "Up Close on Hope" this weekend (April 5 and 6) and next (April 12 and 13), Fridays at 8 p.m. and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. at 825 Hope Street on Providence's East Side. For reservations call 353-1129. Tickets are $50 and most evenings sell out quickly.