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|when I use a butt-weld I lay up the old panel and cut thru both at the same time using .040 cut-off wheels three to four inches in diameter any wheel thicker than that and your looking for trouble getting the gap to shrink. harbour freight has clamps made for butt-welding that hold the panels precicely .040 apart...a butt-weld is a strong weld, the problem of cracking comes from a number of conditions...such as wire used...most wire feed wire used in shops is of higher strenght than the mild steel of your panel. higher strength realates to less flexibility...after repeated vibrations, such as years of road use can cause cracks, tho not common it does happen, also the pocess of grinding the welds causes the welds to be hardend as if it was heat treated..easy cures include grinding the weld in the same manner in which you applied them a little at a time..also when doing panels use wire known as easy-grind wire .023 its harder to find and cost considerably more than ordinary wire but the time saved grinding is well worth it.
|Unstable... the point that I was trying to get across is that by cutting the patch panel large enough to use lap joints, which is a stronger repair, you will not have the problems of trying to fill gaps when the patch is smaller than the hole you are trying to patch. I don't mean to put you down for asking the question, but quite frankly, if you knew what you were doing you wouldn't be asking. For someone that is experienced in this, a butt weld may work, although not as strong. For someone that is starting out, besides being a stronger joint, the lap joint allows some room for error. Even those of us that have been doing this type of thing for some time need that from time to time. Since there is no place on a car that sheetmetal is butt welded from the factory, that should give you some idea where I am coming from. If the factory could cut 1"-2" of metal from every joint by using butt joints without loosing the strength, don't you think they would? Think of how much they would save in a year. Food for thought. Do it however you want. It is your project. I just wanted you to have the information available in case you wanted it. When I started out the only way to learn was from the people around youor if lucky, from magazines. Usually the photos were useless, as were the directions. Good Luck.
I butt welded everything on this project. Used MIG w/ .027 solid wire CO2/argon gas. Just did quick spot welds - 1" the 1/2", then 1/4" etc. spacing 'til it was welded solid. No heat distortion whatsoever.
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I'm just going off what I read in the article. If you get a chance, go to http://www.brotherstrucks.com and look under "tech articles" for the 55-59 door patch panel.
I agree with you on the 3/8th statement of the blade...that is very true. But I don't understand the other point you are trying to get across.
Again, I come here to get good input on stuff, people who have actually done this before would know better than little old me...the guy who reads articles. This article just seems to make sense. You could zig-zag through both panels and in the end you should still have a match.
|How are yuou planning on cutting? You have to figure for the thickness of the cutting tool. Let's say you are using a 1/8" saw blade. That means that the patch piece will be 1/8" smaller than the hole, all the way around. That will make a weak butt joint even weaker. You cannot cut a hole and the patch panel at the same time, by placing the patch piece over it, and have them the same size.
To the best of my understanding, if you use the method they show on the brothers-trucks site, you shouldn't have any need to trim.
Procedure is as follows:
++Mock the patch panel on the existing metal, making a mental note of where the rusted-out areas are.
++Cut through both the patch panel, and the original sheet-metal (which is rusted).
++You are left with two "loose" pieces of metal.
1-the old rusted crap
2-the new patch panel
Both should match precisely
++clamp the new panel in place and weld.
You guys would know better than me, as this is going to be my first attempt (after I practice a little of course). But the logic involved seems to make more sense to me than what you guys are proposing...I just wanted to get the "experience" factor involved in this mix.
|I probably wouldn't butt weld a very large patch panel in a door, as I would use a lap joint. If you really want to patch it that way, make sure that you don't cut the patch panel too small. Trim, and trim, and trim until you get it as close as possible to the size. Mig welding is the only way to go for the average person at home. I understand that some may have TIG set-ups, but most don't, and it is harder to control the heat to prevent warping. Also weld only short areas at a time, allowing the metal to cool. That will reduce the chance of warping.
Hopefully this link works.
http://www.brotherstrucks.com/techarticles.shtml
55-59 Lower Door patch panel installation.
My buddy who is a wood worker suggested using a circular saw. He said that they make blades that will cut through mild steel. Just wondering if this is feasible...I do have a cut-off tool, but even making the smallest cuts I seem to be all over the place...might have something to do with how much coffee I drink, can't keep a steady hand to save my life.
The panel that is going to be put on is normally larger than need be. Mark it out to the size that you need to cover the area that you are going to repair. Trim this new panel straight using either a GOOD set of snips or preferably a set of electric shears. After trimming it to satisfaction, lay this panel over the panel you intend to replace and mark the old panel. Cut the old panel out leaving 1/2" to 1" of extra material. After cutting out the old lay the new up and make sure you still have some material to trim. Start trimming down until you are satisfied with both panels fitting with a butt joint. Another way that some do it is to purchase a flanging tool to flange the original panel and lay the new into it. It will only flange enough to make both panels flush when put together. Usually you can pick one of these flanging tools up at the local swap meets at almost any tool vendor. One side of the tool flanges while the other side pierces a hole. With this you have a hole to spot weld thru. Then finish as with your desired coatings and fillers.
I use a MIG, Hobart Handler 175 at home for basic bodywork and repair. For motorcycle tanks and other goodies that will need to be leak and flaw proof I use a TIG at work. I don't normally use gas anything because I'm a person thats keeps it simple, to much going on and I don't know if I'm coming or going. I'm learning slowly to use the TIG for frames and other structural things. I'm new to structural welding, usually my late bro did it for frames and etc. Sheet metal and repairs are easy.
I moved last week tuesday, love it here. Had a waiting list a few thousand years long. I had to give a few people CPR and adrenalin shots to get bumped up the list.
Hey HK, what do you use for welding a patch pannel in? Do you prefer MIG or gas welding or something else? Oh ya, when did you move? :p
Your never going to get a panel cut perfectly straight unless you do it on a ban saw with a guide. The only way to cut your door reletively straight is by using some sort of guide to steady the blade if your using some sort of saw. Easiest way would be a plasma cutter, but who has one of these unless they are a metal worker.
You don't need to cut both panels on top of each other, sure it would probably work, but be a pain in the ars. Just cut out the rust and after you clean the edge and straighten it out with a file if need be. Then just place the peice of sheet metal you plan to cut the patch panel from on the outside of the hole and from the inside out use a rattle can of anything and spray the edge. The sheet metal will have the identicle shape of the hole needing to be patched. Just cut it out and weld it in.
Patch panels and cutting?
I've read a few articles that said the best way to install a patch panel is to clamp the new panel OVER the existing panel and cut through BOTH pieces of metal..this will give you an exact fit in which you can BUTT the new metal against the old (after removing the rusted stuff you just cut out.
Question of the day is...what's the best way of cutting STRAIGHT? I guess at the end of the day it doesn't matter, if both pieces match up perfectly...but I'd much rather cut straight than zig zag across my door.
Any tips on this?
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I have been looking into South Kora recently and have read some disturbing reports concerning the English teaching industry's attitude towards foreign English teachers.
This site ( http://blacklist.tokyojon.com/ ) has several reports of schools installing spy cameras and microphones in the classrooms (without the teachers knowledge). To a certain extent I can understand the cameras, but to not tell the teachers about it - to keep it secret - sounds machiavellian to me.
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|Bought a 1070 Dodge 440R/T a few years back, and car would go dead and owner said "just beat the dash a few times and it'll start right back up!!) As I wasn't too happy with that arrangement, I went hunting and it was the Amp gage. Had white powdery corrosion inside/outside, Replaced it with a under the dash oil/amp gage set-up and life was fine. Good luck.
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|Hey magnus thanx for response will try new amp meter and see if that does the trick, thanx for your help! drew
Well from my experience with 70's dusters the amp meter is always live and if it goes to bad the whole electrical system can fail.
So have you checked / replaced the amp meter? Possibly explain no power unless running.
Mine was literaly cooked, burnt around the post, and it would fade in and out. I would lose all electric, motor would even die. I had to go outside the car and do the old starter relay bridge to kick the starter.
Also when you replaced the alternator did you make sure your fied wires where on the right pins. If they are wrong the alternator will over charge.
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Any help would surely be welcomed. 70 roadrunner sitting in body shop for 9plus months. Turn key, car engine starts but when let go of key won't keep running, so body shop guy hot wires coil to battery, car starts and runs, diconnect hot wires and car turns off. This is my first problem.Next, while i was attempting to replace light bulbs in dash,stupid me forgot to disconnect battery and bumped amp meter against metal dash board,than see small puff of smoke come from voltage regulator. I replaced voltage regulator, alternator, starter relay, and battery, all were old. Now I start car up and everything gets very bright, blows a few bulbs and i turn car off. After this i now have no power to my dash, when i open door, i have no dome light, parking lights ect. Only when i start car I have dome light, headlights,ect. Could i have blown out switches in my dash? What else could i have hurt by bumping amp meter on metal? Thanks for help, sorry this is such a long message.
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p38fln replied to Mitu Pappi's topic in Ford Focus ClubIt will get worse as the weather cools off. The cooler air is denser and harder to push through, lubricant in the axles and drive train is also stiff until you've driven for a bit. Heat being on should not have a noticeable effect on MPGs, its not like air conditioning.
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I just remembere this thread while looking through some old photos - here's a few more pictures from that Escape in snow This was after taking it down a road with snow high enough to blow over the hood as we drove along This is one of the dirt roads that I liked to drive on, as you can see it is plowed but really sloppy This road just got BAD after this point. It says "Minimum maintenance road. Travel at your own risk" on the sign. It got really, really muddy. There was mud on top of the car after driving on this road, it was like driving in soup.
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Yeah the Titanium gets all of that, but its cost quickly approaches that of a luxury car. For example, the base model is $22,000, but the Titanium with AWD that I just bought was $37,000 (MSRP). I got it for about $4,000 off after rebates and a VERY nice trade-in valuation. The sunroof, navigation system, all-wheel drive, full-leather seats, and parking assist systems were the only options I had to get, everything else was in the base. We also get massively overpowered engines in ours :) Mine has a 240 HP, 270 lb-ft turbocharged gas engine and will do zero-60 MPH in well under 7 seconds. That's 243 PS and 365.6 Nm. The 1.8 liter Ecoboost is also offered here, but as the mid-range engine producing basically the same power output as the 1.8 liter in the UK.
Up to this current model year, Ford used XL, XLS, XLT to describe the trim levels. Higher trim levels usually get a word (Like Lariat, Platinum, Titanium, King Ranch, Harley Davidson, Eddie Bauer) rather than an alpha code. Not sure why they changed to S, SE and SEL, other than they had been using those trim levels for decades. GM uses LS, LT, LTZ and then just like Ford use a word for the highest trim level (Now they use "Denali" but they used to use "Silverado") I'm very surprised Ford released the new vehicle styles here first - we've been complaining for years that Ford makes amazing small vehicles in Europe but their American small vehicles were the butt of jokes, the Festiva being the worst.
That radio isn't available here in any configuration I could find. We both have the premium Sony radio, but mine uses a touch display instead of physical buttons. Trim levels from least expensive to most expensive - S, SE, SEL, Titanium SEL and Titanium both have the MyFord Touch 8" display that mine has, the SE is the only trim level to have the MyFord display like yours has. The S trim level has no My Ford display at all, intended for rental fleets.
I think that may just be from having different trim levels than any real difference between the two vehicles. The center console I have is a fairly expensive upgrade from the base radio. Is your engine as packed in there as mine is? I don't think Ford could possibly cram a larger engine into the thing.
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Where do you see tire damage? I just see snow, ice and water.
The tread design is a bit odd to say the least. Never really looked up close at it before. Pictures attached. We actually wound up getting quite a bit of snow - I think one of the roads I was on had over 8 inches on it. I probably should have slowed down a bit :)
Any vehicle with traditional 4WD will want to go in a straight line when 4WD is engaged - there is no differential between front and rear axles. They are locked together and at least one wheel on both axles will turn at the same speed. It won't matter how good the tires are - in deep snow, with 4WD engaged, a traditional 4WD vehicle is not going to turn well. These Kugas/Escapes have all-wheel drive (Ford calls it Intelligent 4WD over here) - they dont exactly have a differential between the front and the rear, but the clutch pack system should just be called a differential for lack of a better term. The system works very well, and you can turn with ease even in deep snow. The tires themselves look like they would hate snow - no cross-siping at all, just three grooves al the way around. I'm really surprised at how well they perform. I'll try to get a picture of one on here to see if they are the same pattern as yours.
I took it down every unpaved snow covered road I could find :) I need some mud flaps before the snow melts, I winced every time I heard a rock bounce along the undercarriage on the bare patches of dirt. Both the roads in the pictures are paved with asphalt, the dirt roads don't really offer any convenient areas to pull off and snap a photo.


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Located near the slopes, this Keystone condominium resort is in the mountains, within 1 mi (2 km) of Keystone Lake and Keystone Ski Resort, and close to winter sports such as snowshoeing and snowmobiling. Keystone Conference Center is 0.8 mi (1.3 km) away.
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 402, March 31, 2009
- ARSC is a DSRC
- Mount Redoubt Has Awakened!
- A Parallel I/O Benchmarking Story
- Row/Column Major Array Disposition
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ARSC is a DSRC
ARSC is now one of six centers designated by the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) as a DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC). HPCMP has six DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers throughout the country: two in Mississippi and one each in Maryland, Ohio, Alaska and Hawaii. ARSC provides open research systems and is the only DSRC in the program that is not affiliated with a branch of the military.
Mount Redoubt Has Awakened!
Following a week of increasing seismic activity and volcanic water vapor emissions, large scale eruptions of Alaska's Mount Redoubt began on March 22, 2009. At this time, Redoubt has erupted 18 times in the past nine days, producing an ash cloud topping 65,000 feet. Situated on Alaska's southern coast, Mount Redoubt's last phase of large scale eruptions began December 14, 1989, exploding 23 times by April of 1990.
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center DSRC, located in interior Alaska hundreds of miles away from Redoubt, remains well insulated from the commotion, except for flight cancellations. Anybody expecting to fly in or out of Alaska in the very near future should not be caught off guard by abrupt flight changes, and may wish to plan accordingly.
For more information and updates, please visit the Alaska Volcano Observatory's Mount Redoubt web page at:
A Parallel I/O Benchmarking Story[ By Kate Hedstrom ]
When timing any model, there is a processor count at which the model doesn't get faster as you add more processors. This is known as a limit to the scalability. For the model I use, the horizontal domain decomposition works great for modest processor counts, but the I/O all happens on the 'head' processor, creating a bottleneck. When we were talking to vendors about the acquisition of Midnight, two vendors made a big deal about the need for parallel I/O to get better scalability. I've been wanting to try parallel I/O ever since (but it's not supported on Midnight).
Enter Pingo with it's support for MPI I/O. Also, the advent of NetCDF4 based on HDF5 and its use of MPI I/O makes it possible for us to use parallel I/O without an outrageous amount of coding. Note that you need to use versions of the HDF5 and NetCDF4 libraries which were compiled with --enable-parallel. On Pingo, such libraries are in
First, we need to set a baseline. The model comes with a benchmark case in three sizes. I'm going to focus on the largest, starting with a processor count of 32 in a 4x8 tiling.
Some Midnight walltime numbers:
Without I/O:
4-way nodes: 387 seconds 16-way nodes: 1030 seconds
With I/O:
4-way nodes: 462 seconds 16-way nodes: 1136 seconds
The big message here is that I should stick to the 4-way nodes.
Now for Pingo (where all nodes are equal):
32 cores:
no I/O: 428 seconds creating classic Netcdf3 files: 489 seconds creating serial HDF5 files: 477 seconds creating parallel HDF5 files: 1481 seconds
256 cores:
no I/O: 90 seconds creating classic Netcdf3 files: 138 seconds creating serial HDF5 files: 124 seconds creating parallel HDF5 files: 817 seconds
Clearly, we'd be saving time by not getting any output at all. Also, the HDF5 writing is slightly faster than that of NetCDF3. The parallel I/O is so slow I thought it was hanging at first! It has to be in independent mode, since it blows up using collective mode (two MPI I/O options) with errors from the HDF5 layer. I don't know why I'm not getting the great speedups out of parallel I/O that I'd hoped for, but I'm running back to serial mode for now.
[ Editor's note: We are aware of another Pingo MPI I/O test that saw a performance improvement of 10-20% although it wasn't using HDF5. ]
Row/Column Major Array Disposition[ By Craig Stephenson ]
In my "Valgrind's Cachegrind Profiler Tool" article from Issue 401, I had reported some interesting results arising from accessing multi- dimensional arrays in the least efficient order for both Fortran 90 and C:
I had declared the array with the largest dimension first. In Fortran 90, the array declaration looked like this:
Accessing array elements by row in Fortran 90, a column-major language, produced 92,258 D1 cache write misses.
In an attempt to created an analogous example in C, I had declared an array as follows:
int A[1000][100][10];
As with the Fortran 90 example, I deliberately stepped through this array in the least efficient order. Since C is a row-major language, I stepped through the array in column order. This produced an alarming 623,193 D1 cache write misses, compared with Fortran 90's 92,258. This was noted as a curiosity, but not explained.
Newsletter reader Jed Brown was quick to point out that it is not fair to C to treat the two array declarations above as equivalents. The differences between row/column major languages affect the data structures themselves, not just how they are accessed. From a performance perspective, a more fitting C "equivalent" to my Fortran 90 array should order the dimensions from smallest to largest:
int A[10][100][1000];
Indeed, when I changed the array declaration in the C example to this (and adjusted the array indexes accordingly in the "for" loops), stepping through the array in the least efficient order produced only 92,978 D1 cache write misses, comparable to Fortran 90's 92,258.
The code examples in Issue 401 produced a situation where Fortran 90's least efficient order was many times faster than C's least efficient order. Why? Because if we are accessing the array in the least efficient order for either language, if the array declaration is biased towards column-major access, the row-major language will take longer strides through memory. This, in turn, leads to more cache misses. We see again that Valgrind is very handy for gaining insight into the behavior of our code.
Many thanks to Jed Brown for bringing this to our attention!
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:[[ I saved an important file in the local /scratch directory on one of [[ 20+ Linux workstations, but I don't remember which one. The file [[ name is "coastline.inp", and it may or may not be in a subdirectory. [[ Since the /scratch directory is not shared between the workstations, [[ I need to find the specific machine that has this file. With so [[ many workstations available, what's the most efficient way to [[ determine which workstation has the file I need? # # Jed Brown, Greg Newby and Rahul Nabar submitted similar solutions # using a shell "for" loop and ssh. Greg explains the benefits of # passing a single command through ssh: # You can use ssh to execute a single command on the workstations, rather than needing to login to each one separately. For example, if I want to look for a file on aphrodite (one of the workstations), I could do this: ssh aphrodite ls /scratch/newby/data50v80.mat Much faster than logging in and getting a shell prompt. With quotes, I can use a wildcard to look for matching files: ssh aphrodite ls /scratch/newby/"data50v80*" If I know a list of hostnames, I can put this in a loop. Using sh/ksh/bash, it would look something like this: for i in dionysus demeter hades hera hestia ; do ssh $i ls /scratch/newby/"data50v80*" done Or, if I have a file with system names: for i in `cat sysnames.txt` ; do ssh $i ls /scratch/newby/"data50v80*" done This assumes you know the system names you are interested in. Get them here (among other places): http://www.arsc.edu/support/status/systemstatus/ The only downside of this approach on the ARSC systems is that you get a long pre-login banner. To suppress seeing it, try this: for i in dionysus demeter hades hera hestia ; do ssh $i ls /scratch/newby/"data50v80*" 2>&1 sed '/^#/d' done (The 2>&1 is needed to combine standard output with standard error, because the warning banner comes on standard error. Try without that part, to see what I mean) It would be easy to make this into a script that takes an argument for a filename and destination to search through. # # Ryan Czerwiec provided an excellent solution once again: # I don't know too much about the networking side of things, so there may be a command that can tell you any machine names that are on the local domain. I'll start by assuming the user can create a text file containing the names of all the candidate machines they want to try. Something simple like this will work in csh: ------------------------------ #!/bin/csh -f set a = `cat $1` set index = 1 while ( $index <= $#a ) ssh $a[$index] find /scratch -name "$2" @ index++ end exit ------------------------------ Unfortunately, the security needs of the modern world will often confound this. Ideally, you'd be on a system where you have a ticket such that you can ssh or rsh to other machines without retyping a password. This script would prompt you for a password on each machine in the list if retyping it is necessary (I've never found a way to automate that), and will fail if ticket forwarding fails or is disabled. So this might well not work on your particular system, but if you get lucky, use it as: ./scriptname.csh <file listing machines to check> <file name to search for> # # Focusing on efficiency, Tom Baring's solution adds a twist to the # "find" solution by backgrounding each ssh "find" process: # You can use "find" to search for the file. For efficiency, limit the search to directories and files owned by you (-user ${USER}) and stop searching as soon as the file is located (-quit). To shorten the wallclock time, let each system perform its own find and let them run in parallel by starting all the find commands with ssh and backgrounding the ssh commands, so they can all be issued without waiting. Have "find" echo the name of the system where the file is found using -exec: ------------------------------ #!/bin/ksh SYSTEMS="hera mallard aphrodite zeus delta beta " FILE="coastline.inp" for SYS in $SYSTEMS do CMD="find /export/scratch -user ${USER} -name ${FILE} -exec echo -n FOUND ${SYS}: \; -print -quit" ssh -qq ${SYS} ${CMD} 2> /dev/null & echo "Started on ${SYS}" done ------------------------------ The output's a little ugly because the script ends and the local prompt is printed before the remote output from the backgrounded process is returned. If it mattered, this could be cleaned up: pedro:/scratch/baring % ./where_it_is.ksh Started on hera Started on mallard Started on aphrodite Started on zeus Started on delta Started on beta pedro:/scratch/baring % FOUND hera:/export/scratch/coastline.inp # # Also, a trick from an editor: # Granted, "efficiency" could refer as much to human efficiency as computational efficiency. But if you had some extra time on your hands and hope to perturb as few Linux workstations as possible, you might try the following trick... If you use ssh regularly, presumably every workstation you have ever connected to from your own local workstation has an entry in your ssh known_hosts file. Assuming you've only connected to a handful of these workstations in the past, you may be able to leverage the ssh known_hosts file to substantially reduce the number of workstations searched. First, create a text file listing the 20+ workstations. E.g., beta delta aphrodite apollo ... Once this file has been created, it can be compared against your known_hosts file: cut -d ',' -f 1 ~/.ssh/known_hosts cut -d ' ' -f 1 grep -f workstations.txt This admittedly inelegant command will compare all of the hosts in your known_hosts file with the list of workstations in workstations.txt. Hence, the command will print only those Linux workstations that you have connected to in the past via ssh, which (making several assumptions) are the only workstations that could possibly have the file you seek. This command can be combined with the other answers provided to this quick tip question. Modifying Tom Baring's script, for example: ------------------------------ #!/bin/ksh SYSTEMS=`cut -d ',' -f 1 ~/.ssh/known_hosts cut -d ' ' -f 1 grep -f workstations.txt` FILE="coastline.inp" for SYS in $SYSTEMS do CMD="find /export/scratch -user ${USER} -name ${FILE} -exec echo -n FOUND ${SYS}: \; -print -quit" ssh -qq ${SYS} ${CMD} 2> /dev/null & echo "Started on ${SYS}" done ------------------------------ Q: My code just crashed and generated over a hundred core files. The log files don't have anything meaningful, so I have no idea which task(s) were having problems. How can I get a stack trace from each of these core files in an automated fashion? I'm getting really tired of running gdb on one core file at a time!
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As cold as it gets in the winter time up there and they still have mosquitoes.
Yep lots and lots of spray. Its amazing when you get out to go look at a glacier you have to keep swatting at them or you will be covered. Do a search onyoutube for mosquitos in alaska.
Well, Danno, you gonna show us that picture or not?As for mosquitos, gnats (black flies?) look into mosquito proof clothing, also into possibly treating your clothes (there are products in most camping sections for this) and by all means as mentioned bring at least one mosquito proof veil.Other than that, an idea? Yeah, bring my wife and I with you! I would have said bring me with you but she wouldn't go for that! :-D...JP


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Driftwood coatrack
Turn a scavenged piece of driftwood into an organic-chic entryway rack in 30 minutes or less. (For regulations on collecting driftwood, check with your local state beach authority.)
1. Our piece of driftwood happened to lie flat against the wall; if yours doesn't, use a band saw to cut off one-third of the driftwood lengthwise.
2. With four round hook screws (available at home improvement stores) and a handheld electric drill, drill four holes into the bottom of your driftwood, angling them forward slightly so the hooks won't lean against the wall. Use a drill bit the width of your screw's shank.
3. With the help of a wrench, screw the hook ends into the wood, tightening them so they all face forward.
4. Secure your driftwood to a wall using two long screws, spaced so each is secured in a wall stud.


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Aaron Ramsey makes his first Arsenal start in over a year at West Brom today.
The Wales midfielder hasn't been in Arsène Wenger's starting XI since February 27, 2010 when he suffered a broken leg against Stoke.
Returning goalkeeping Jens Lehmann is on the bench for the Premier League trip to the Hawthorns, as is young central defender Ignasi Miquel.
Cesc Fabregas, Theo Walcott, Alex Song, Johan Djourou all miss out through injury.
Team in full: Almunia, Sagna, Koscielny, Squillaci, Clichy, Wilshere, Denilson, Nasri, Ramsey, Arshavin, Van Persie
Subs: Lehmann, Rosicky, Eboue, Gibbs, Chamakh, Miquel, BendtnerCopyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Time and the Art of Living
Time and the Art of Living, Robert Grudin, selected passages (2002, Harper and Rowe)
"They do not easily grow sad or old; they are seldom intimidated by the alarms and confusions of the present because they have something greater of their own, some sense of their large and coherent motion in time, to compare the present with."
"The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time. Deprived of the continuum, we lose not only the sole valid alternative to a present-centered existence but also the nourishing context which can give substance and value to the present itself."
"We can avoid it, as I�have said earlier, by concerning ourselves regularly and vigorously with new beginnings. And we can attempt the even more profound renewal, available I think only to the old, of partially shedding our individual selves and participating in a grander social and biological identity."
"Love...is impossible without the gift of time...We love only when we love across time, when love offered is love remembered and love promised."
"Happiness (as suggested, for example, by the French word for happy, heureux) may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present:...They choose and patiently develop lengthy projects, so voluminous in time that the work of a single day is no more than a strand in the weft of a rug. They love remembering past experiences and making plans; they speak of past and future, not as external contexts, but rather as esteemed confederates, quiet extensions of their own being. One almost feels that their lives possess a kind of qualified eternity: that past and future, birth and death, meet for them as in the completion of a circle."


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The 2012 Olympics are underway and there is plenty of Arsenal interest at the London Games.
Four Gooners will be in action on Wednesday, August 1.
Bradley Wiggins will represent Great Britain in the men's cycling time trial at Hampton Court Palace. Harry Martin will be part of the men's hockey squad that faces South Africa at the Riverbank Arena.
Moe Sbihi is back on the water at Eton Dornay as the men's rowing team go for gold. And super heavyweight Anthony Joshua will compete in the last 16 of the men's boxing tournament.
Meanwhile, Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey is expected to line up against Uruguay as Team GB conclude their group fixtures at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff (kick-off 7.45pm).
Keep an eye on our daily Olympic Watch for updates.
Steph Houghton, Kelly Smith, Alex Scott, Kim Little, Rachel Yankey, Ellen White (women's football)
Great Britain 1-0 Brazil
Steph Houghton's prolific form continued with a third goal in as many Olympic matches as Great Britain's women sealed top spot in Group E with a 1-0 win over highly-rated Brazil. Arsenal Ladies star Houghton collected a pass from Karen Carney and skipped past Brazil goalkeeper Andreia before scoring from a tight angle in the second minute to give Team GB a perfect start.
Hope Powell's side could have won more comfortably but another Arsenal player, Kelly Smith, saw her penalty saved in the second half. A record crowd for a women's game in the UK - 70,584 - also saw a fine display from Kim Little in midfield while Alex Scott impressed at right back. The remaining two members of Team GB's Arsenal contingent - Rachel Yankey and Ellen White - came off the bench in the second half.
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Great Britain 5-3 South Korea
Tuesday, July 31
Ashleigh Ball helped Great Britain's women secure a thrilling 5-3 win over South Korea - their second straight victory in the Olympic hockey tournament. Late strikes from Georgie Twigg and Chloe Rogers made the difference after the Koreans had fought back from a 3-1 deficit in the second half.
Elsewhere NBA all-star Luol Deng and fellow Gooner Eric Boateng could not stop Great Britain slipping to a second successive defeat in the men's basketball as Brazil snatched a 67-62 victory. Nathan French was part of the men's volleyball team that lost 3-0 to Australia at Earls Court while Bobby White was in the men's handball side that was beaten by Sweden.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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The interpretation and application of basic descriptive statistics and an introduction to statistical inference, including chi square and analysis of variance. Computer laboratory experience included when appropriate.


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Dreamringer Studios are developing a new MMORPG called Riding High.
It will be an equine based game that will have superb graphics, a huge variety of horses, quests, lands and challenges. It is going to involve 'a deep storyline, with open-world-matches and the intention to develop the most cinematic MMO-experience out there'.
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This is a build that i´m working on for quite some time, one or another might have seen it on the RPF already. So the older posts are copy and paste of already done work.
Ladies and Gentlemen - the Jabbas palace guard blaster:
I already disassembled it a little bit. Couldn´t wait.
Yes, it´s a original Umarex:
The rear sight - if i remember right it was reused as a part of the ROTJ-E-11s scope rail - up up and away into the "real parts" box
The dissassembled parts of the front sight:
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Colmes confronted Williams with inconsistent statements on No Child Left Behind
Confronted by FOX News host Alan Colmes with Media Matters for America research detailing [1] his criticism of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education policy before being paid by the Bush administration to promote it, conservative columnist and TV and radio host Armstrong Williams maintained that he was "unwavering" on NCLB, yet added: "[W]ith anything you don't support it 100 percent, but I would say 98.9 percent of the time on this issue I've stood fiercely beside this issue."
In December 2003, Williams accepted $240,000 from the Bush administration to promote NCLB despite -- as Media Matters reported [1] on January 11 -- having claimed in a May 16, 2001, column [2] that President Bush's decision to drop school vouchers from the bill had "scooped out" the legislation's "soul" and criticizing NCLB on FOX News' The Edge with Paula Zahn on June 25, 2001, as the "[Senator Edward] Kennedy plan."
From Colmes's interview with Williams on the January 28 edition of FOX News' Hannity & Colmes:
COLMES: By the way, Media Matters points out that you criticized this plan before you got paid to promote it. You criticized the No Child Left Behind plan in a column on May 16, 2001 --
WILLIAMS: What?
COLMES: -- where you said, "By letting vouchers fall by the wayside," which they were doing at [sic] the plan at the time, so you actually went against the plan, and then you wrote more columns in favor of the plan after you signed on to this.
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Where was the Raider stored for the two weeks it wasn't in use?I'm thinking maybe rodents chewed up a plug wire or two.After 5 or 6 tanks it can't be the fuel.Disregard my input if the bike was stored in a pest free zone.
Got my hands dirty with the bike today. Did some needed maintenance and tightened the suspension while I was at it. Today she got new plugs, oil change with new oil filter, seafoamed the throttle bodies (that was fun...and loud...and smokey hahaha), and I checked all ignition type wiring (coils and all the wires under the tank). The battery was pretty much dead though, and this is a newish battery. I think I need to switch to a slower trickle charger. (Mine is minimum 2A, whereas the battery recommends 1A slow trickle over 5 to 10 hours).No signs of worn or broken wires. I made sure the spark plugs wires were down firm when I put the new plugs in.Went for a 15 minute ride with no problems. Guess I'll know for sure on my next commute (tomorrow)
A battery tender is basically for people who let their bikes sit up over winter right ? Or would it still be a good idea to have on on their at night when its not bein road ?
So it sounds like your whole issue was the battery? Not that doing all the other stuff would hurt anyway. Glad you got it worked out.
They are both from earlier models, before the part # changed..I wonder if they are the ones that there seemed to be a production problem with..? Both are used.. I'd rather wait for the factory new.. on there not being a problem with them... Cool for looking though..
That's a very good idea. I think I expect a lot from my electrical system this time of year.The days are shorter, so I use my running lights full time on my commute. (there are 2 of them at 55W each) + I wear my full suit of heated gear (socks, pants, jacket liner and gloves) That's got to be eating up that battery.


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text: Well, the USFS probably did ultimately favor Evan over Johnny, beginning, I think, with the 2006-07 season. They cultivated different images. Evan - perhaps with Frank's guidance - cultivated the responsible hardworking image, and Johnny was the funloving, zany Russophile with a penchant for Louis Vuitton bags and a stated distaste for being a team player. Evan always colored inside the lines, and Johnny.. not so much. Evan was the ant and Johnny the grasshopper. And USFS has always favored the ant over the grasshopper, and for good reason, the ants have brought in an awful lot of hardware over the years. (Don't get me wrong; no doubt Johnny worked hard too, but that wasn't the image that he cultivated.)


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Sea-level rise: Where we stand at the start of 2013
This week an expert elicitation by Bamber and Aspinall was published in Nature Climate Change, which confirms that the body of expert opinion expects much higher sea level rise than the 4th IPCC report. The median contribution from ice sheets alone by 2100 was estimated as 29 cm, with a 95th percentile value of 84 cm. The paper compares a range for total sea-level rise for the RCP4.5 scenario of 33-132 cm based on their expert elicitation to our recent semi-empirical range (Schaeffer et al., Nature Climate Change 2012) of 64-121 cm.
Recent progress in understanding sea-level rise
Just before Christmas an overview of process-based sea-level estimates for the 20th Century was published by Gregory et al in Journal of Climate, a paper with many authors that presents a whole suite of estimates for individual sea-level contributions, partly data-based and partly model-based. The paper then looks at the sum of all these components, see Fig. 2.
Fig. 2: Comparison of timeseries of annual-mean global-mean sea-level rise from four analyses of tide-gauge data (lines) with the range of 144 synthetic timeseries (grey shading). Each of the synthetic timeseries is the sum of a different combination of thermal expansion, glacier, Greenland ice-sheet, groundwater and reservoir timeseries. Source: Gregory et al in Journal of Climate.
This diagram shows the range of sea-level histories that is obtained by combining all the single estimates in various combinations. It shows that the observed sea-level history can be obtained when combining the individual components in all possible combinations (144 in all), but the observations lie at the very edge of the range. The authors write:
We would judge that a given synthetic timeseries gave a satisfactory account of observed global mean sea-level rise if it lay within the uncertainty envelope for 90% of the time. Very few of the synthetic timeseries pass this test.
If we take the mid-point of the grey range, this shows that the central estimate of 20th Century sea-level rise, based on adding up all processes, is ~11 cm. The central estimate of observed rise is ~16 cm and ~40% larger.
The authors conclude that a residual trend is needed to make up for the discrepancy and argue that this must come from a long-term ice loss in Antarctica. They write:
If we interpret the residual trend as a long-term Antarctic contribution, an ongoing response to climate change over previous millennia, we may conclude that the budget can be satisfactorily closed.
I guess it depends on how easily one is satisfied. The estimated required residual trend is given as 0 – 0.2 mm/year, so it explains at most 2 cm of rise over the 20th Century and does not make up for the shortfall mentioned; as I understand it, it just increases the synthetic range enough to bring most observations into its 90% confidence interval, though still near its edge.
In any case the now higher sea-level estimates from process models for the 20th Century naturally also imply higher projections for the 21st. Here it is important to compare like with like – same emissions scenario, same time interval. E.g. for the A1B scenario over the interval 1990-2095, the 4th IPCC report's central estimate is 34 cm while the semi-empirical estimate of Rahmstorf (2007) is 78 cm. While we do not want to enter discussions about the draft 5th IPCC report (this would be premature, given there will still be numerous changes), given that it is in the public domain now it is no secret that for this scenario it projects 59 cm – a whopping 73% increase over the 4th report and much closer to my 2007 semi-empirical estimate. However, the more recent semi-empirical models have tended to give higher projections, so there remains a substantial gap between these two modelling approaches.
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- J.L. Bamber, and W.P. Aspinall, "An expert judgement assessment of future sea level rise from the ice sheets", Nature Climate Change, vol. 3, pp. 424-427, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1778
- M. Schaeffer, W. Hare, S. Rahmstorf, and M. Vermeer, "Long-term sea-level rise implied by 1.5 °C and 2 °C warming levels", Nature Climate Change, vol. 2, pp. 867-870, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1584
- J.M. Gregory, N.J. White, J.A. Church, M.F.P. Bierkens, J.E. Box, M.R. van den Broeke, J.G. Cogley, X. Fettweis, E. Hanna, P. Huybrechts, L.F. Konikow, P.W. Leclercq, B. Marzeion, J. Oerlemans, M.E. Tamisiea, Y. Wada, L.M. Wake, and R.S.W. van de Wal, "Twentieth-Century Global-Mean Sea Level Rise: Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts?", Journal of Climate, vol. 26, pp. 4476-4499, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00319.1
- S. Rahmstorf, "A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise", Science, vol. 315, pp. 368-370, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1135456


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Tennessee track and field senior Allison Outerbridge and junior J.R. Creekmore were named to the SEC Community Service Team, the conference office announced Monday.
Outerbridge, a triple jumper from Sandys, Bermuda, has been very active volunteer at the East Tennessee Children's Hospital. She also spent time working with the Emerald Youth organization in Knoxville. She assisted with the Run for Hope 5K and also took part in the Let's Move initiative. She helped with a holiday dinner for the Knoxville community in December and assisted with the Ronald McDonald House, among many other community activities.
Outerbridge recently graduated in May with a degree in nutrition. She is a three-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Creekmore, a cross country and distance runner for the Vols, is wrapping up his third year at Tennessee. In April, the Wilmington, Del., native earned the Volscars award for Male Scholar of the Year among all male student-athletes at Tennessee. Creekmore, who is majoring in materials science and engineering, is a two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll member.
In the community, Creekmore participated in a workday at the Beardsley Community Farm in Knoxville and also participated in VOLoween, a Halloween event on campus.
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I went to the car wash today (touch free) and my mom and sister got a lovely dose of water from the car wash through the sun roof. After getting out, I looked at indeed there's a leak to the right side where the plastics are. I'd take a picture but too lazy right now
Anyone else got this problem? I'm bringing it to Volvo Villa tomorrow after the male service advisor at Volvo of Unionville pretty much said, "The sunroof is designed to block wind, not water. Sorry."


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Thankfully, gratefully we all don't live in Finland :-DFinski; if you're bored by other beekeeping methods (that seem to be working for them and you even agree with once in a while) why do you keep coming around? You can't even get the topic right in this case and seem hellbent on confusing every one.
allowing for a minimum of two rounds of brood to be reared before the start of the flow-it is possible to make surplus----even in finland-- :lol: RDY-B
Many of Mr. Finski's methods or even rdyy-b methods would not work (as well) here in Wisconsin or Manitoba, Canada.
Funny boy, my belly hurts from laughing.
At least you can admit (an interesting admission but one just the same) to 'learning' something 'from canadians' even if you then claim those methods as 'your own' methods in the same sentence.....ohhh boy, now my jaw hurts from laughing. We all know where you're coming from fin ;) never fooled me man.
YYURYYUBICURYYforme :-D(language barrier my a=======) :evil:
.Besides the good patty, the more important thing is size of colony after winter.You start to feed a big colony, you have a month later 15 frames brood. Then month and half later you have 5 boxes bees to hit on canola fields.If you have 5 frames bees after winter, you have 3 frames brood after a month and 2 box hive on canola. That will not get honey.
[quote It would seem to me that there should be a happy medium somewhere between not enough bees and too many bees if that makes any sense. I can remember my dad talking about being one of nine children and the thought at the time was that 'one more person to help work on the farm'. What wasnt considered was that it was also one more mouth to feed, clothe, and educate. Seems to me it was one step forward and two steps back way of thinking. Randy Oliver from my aim is to get hives early into foraging condition. So I get 2 months yild period.If the hive is after winter small, its yiled period is only one month or 2 weeks.I do not step tree forward and 2 backwards. And I have nothing to do with almond pollination. My productive hives are 5-7 boxes and have allways been.After 50 beekeeping years and after 22 spring protein feeding I jump 5 steps forward. Nothing odd id that. And not a step backwards.When I started my beekeeping, my dad said that stop beekeeping at once.When I was 55 y and he 80y, he asked when do I stop that stupid beekeeping.i said, soon, very soon.I did not say go to hell. I knew that he was going there..


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text: hey tj, i just picked up a P220 Carry Elite with the SRT (is that what you meant when you say "short trigger?") ....i was wondering myself if there's supposed to be a lot of take-up before i feel any resistance (about 1/2 ") --- do you have the same thing happening? -- is this normal?


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I recently went on a small-group tour to Laos (with a little time in Vietnam and Thailand) and our local (Lao) guide introduced us to what he saw as the essentials of Buddhism. I was interested in the way his priorities cast a new light on Western Buddhism.
As far as he knew when he gave the talk, none of us (Aussies and a few Brits, aged in our twenties to our fifties) had any knowledge or much interest in Buddhism, but introducing us to the religion was part of his job of introducing us to the culture. It was also, as I found when talking to him later, something he believed in.
He sat with us on the floor of a temple in Vientiane and said a few words about where and when the Buddha taught, then went through …
• The Four Noble Truths
• The Noble Eightfold Path
• The Five Precepts, and
• The Ten Paramitas
The whole talk took, I guess, less than half an hour, and that was about as long as the interest of most of the group lasted. None of it was new to me, of course, but I was a bit surprised that the paramitas were given equal status with the eightfold path and the precepts.
His focus was quite strongly on sila. He didn't speak at all about what I see as the devotional side of Buddhism – making offerings, praying for worldly benefits, etc – in spite of the fact that we were sitting near a very typical altar with its incense and flowers. Nor did he spend any time on meditation apart from mentioning it in the lists.
He took questions at the end and I talked with him and our (Thai) tour leader separately over the following day or two. Points that emerged in those discussions were …
• The fifth precept, for him, did not mean that lay people should abstain from alcohol, just that they should be sensible and restrained about its use. Part of that restraint was that you shouldn't drink on days that you go to the temple.
• Likewise, the first precept did not mean that Buddhists should be vegetarian, just that they should not kill animals themselves for meat. And the butcher could compensate for his bad kamma by 'making merit' (that was his exact phrase) in other ways.
The conversations did go further but I probably need your questions about them to jog my memory.
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Apple's next-generation MacBook Pro is about as thin as a MacBook Air, as fast as high-end desktop computers, and features the highest-resolution notebook screen ever made. And, according to industry analysts, the new notebook pushes Apple at least a year ahead of the best competing ultrabooks and high-end PC notebooks.
"It will likely take rivals a year or two to catch up," Forrester analyst Frank Gillet told Wired. "Anybody can go buy the processors from Intel, but even the track pads from these companies can't match Apple. Apple has more discipline and control over every aspect of these machines, so it's tough for the other guys, the Windows guys, to compete."
Weight, processing power, display, track pad and build quality — Apple is delivering premium products at a premium price. The new MacBook Pro with Retina display starts at $2,199 and can fetch as much as $3,749 with added options. The strategy of most of Apple's rivals, so far, has been to undercut Apple on price in the shrinking PC market, Carolina Milanesi, a Gartner analyst, told Wired.
"The new MacBook Pro is the evolution of a species," said Milanesi. "All computers will have to be thinner and lighter because, as consumers, we are taking them different places. But there really is nothing out there like the MacBook Pro Retina yet. Apple raised the bar today."
Officially known as the MacBook Pro with Retina display, Apple's latest top-of-the-line notebook features a display with a 2880×1800 resolution, or more than 5 million pixels sprawled out across 15.4-inches of glass. By comparison, the regular 15-inch MacBook Pro has a 1440×900 resolution screen, and the 13-inch MacBook sports a 1280×800 display.
On the inside, the MacBook Pro with Retina display, along with its non-retina counterparts, offer desktop-replacement-level power, Milanesi said. This includes the latest Intel Core i7 quad-core processors clocked at up to 2.7GHz, as much as 16GB of RAM, up to 768GB of flash storage, and updated graphics, too, with Nvidia GeForce GT 650M graphics cards built in.
The MacBook Pro with Retina display ditches the optical drives available in previous Pro generations, allowing Apple to slim the laptop down to 0.71-inches thick and only 4.46 pounds. The thickness of the new MacBook Pro is actually near identical to that of the wedge-shaped MacBook Air at the Air's thickest point — pretty astounding for such a high-performing machine.
For connectivity, Apple is including two Thunderbolt and two USB 3.0 ports, an SD card slot, and an HDMI port for connecting to displays for HDTVs.
"The only thing that you could argue against the MacBook Pro with Retina display is that it's heavy compared to an ultrabook, at about four and a half pounds," Gillet said. "But it isn't an ultrabook. The MacBook competes with ultrabooks, but there isn't an ultrabook on the market that fully matches the Air right now."
A more proper comparison for the MacBook Pro with Retina display would be Apple's iMac, a full desktop computer, Gillet said. The Apple iMac line wasn't updated Monday, but Apple did revamp its MacBook Air line and non-Retina-display MacBook Pros. Across the Air and MacBook pro ranges, the company added new USB 3.0 ports, faster processors, more RAM and larger Flash storage options. Apple also discontinued its 17-inch MacBook Pro Monday.
The new MacBook Airs feature either Intel's Core i5 or Core i7 dual-core processors, with up to 2.9GHz clock speeds available for the 13-inch model, and up to 2GHz for the 11-inch unit. Both the 11-inch and 13-inch models can handle up to 8GB of RAM.
The Mac Pro, Apple's high-end desktop, hasn't seen a major update in about two years. But on Monday, the tower received a quiet spec bump that pushes the Mac Pro to utilize as much as two 3.06GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon processors, offering up to 12 cores of computing power. Such a machine would start at a price of $6,199 and, unlike every laptop Apple now produces, it wouldn't feature even a single USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt port.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Developing tricks and tools to keep their enzymes in order is one way thermophiles survive. They also use techniques to keep their DNA from falling apart under intense heat. Like proteins, the parts of the long, spiral ladder-shaped DNA molecule start to unravel and break apart under high heat. One way thermophiles keep that from happening is with a helper enzyme called "reverse DNA gyrase" <jeye-race>.
This enzyme makes DNA coil up and twist upon itself in a certain way that makes the DNA more stable in high heat. (If you've ever seen a telephone handset cord that gets twisted and bunched up on itself, then you know what DNA coiling is like, only coiled up DNA is thousands of times more tightly twisted and bunched.) Microbes that live at normal temperatures have regular "DNA gyrase" instead, which also makes their DNA coil up, but in a different, looser way.
Thermophiles also have lots of DNA binding proteins. These binding proteins do just what their name suggests, running around gluing the pieces and parts of the DNA molecule back together when they start to come undone, much like the chaperonin proteins discussed above.
There's a lot that scientists still are learning about how these amazing heat-loving microbes live happily at such high temperatures. They may well have other tools and tricks that we don't know about yet. The more we learn, the better for us because some of these techniques and tools could become useful products for us. For example, an extremozyme called Taq <tack> from one thermophilic bacterium is what makes DNA testing and DNA fingerprinting possible. Thanks in part to Taq, scientists have been able to sequence the entire human genome—everything on the whole humongous human DNA molecule—and the genomes of lots of microbes and other living things, too.


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Howard Jacobson, writing in the Independent, raises several interesting questions about why is there such intense hatred of Israel among British university protestors and intellectuals in the United Kingdom. I have been fascinated why the level of hate to Jews in Israel far surpasses the hatred directed at those who kill hundreds of thousands of humans. There is something particularly angry and vicious about the manner in which those opposing Israel policies explode in righteous hate when the word "Israel" reaches their lips. I have never seen any demonstrations against the killing of five million people in the Congo which is characterized by hate toward the perpetrators of the killing. In fact, words such as "killing" are employed while killing by the Israel army is termed, "slaughter" or "massacre." I wonder why.
For years Hamas sent rockets into Israel, and those who express hatred toward Israel argue the rocket attacks were ineffective so there is no reason to become upset at those actions. Actually, Hamas deliberately sent rockets into civilian areas including those which had children and to justify these actions on grounds the rockets were "ineffective" begs the question of what does one say when a group aims rockets at civilian areas? Certainly, the hope of Hamas was to KILL JEWS, not just to fire ineffective rockets.
Mr. Jacobson points out that Cheryl Churchill was quoted as saying "Jewish children are bred to believe in the 'otherness' of Palestinians. An interesting observation, particularly from someone who I doubt has ever visited Israeli schools or talked with Israel teachers. How does Ms. Churchill know that hatred toward Palestinians is part of the Israeli curriculum? Of course, in every Muslim nation in the Middle East, teachers preach hatred of Jews and Israel. Every day I read newspapers from the Middle East and the cartoons depicting Jews are vicious and writers boast that young people must believe in the truth of the Palestinian struggle. I am not arguing if the Palestinian view of the struggle is right or wrong, but could Ms. Churchill cite any example in any Arab newspaper where the views of Israelis are presented?
I constantly see placards with slogans about the "Holocaust in Gaza." There is no Holocaust in Gaza and there never will be one. The Holocaust was a government program aimed at killing every single Jew in Europe with the ultimate goal of killing every single Jew in the world. No Israeli politician, even the foul mouthed Avigdor Lieberman, has ever stated such a goal.
I oppose the Israel invasion of Gaza as I oppose mistakes made by Israeli politicians over the past few years. But, how can anyone just focus on Israel mistakes without commenting about those of demagogic Muslim leaders who would rather see death and destruction than live in peace with Israel?
I must conclude that the intensity of hate toward Israel reflects hidden anti-semitism. How else can one explain the viciousness of the hate toward one country and the absence of such hate toward the murder of 200,000 in Darfur and the expulsion of millions? In Uganda, rebel armies have killed 60,000 people but not one British demonstration has been held at which protestors denounce the Holocaust in Uganda. Why?


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1983 Nighthawk 550... need help getting back on the road
ok, so a buddy and I are working on a 1983 550 sc. We cannot seem for the life of us to get it started, even with ether straight into the carb.
New plugs, are getting spark, seems to be recieving fuel from the tank (took apart petcock and everything seemed kosher).
What might be keeping it from wanting to kick over? right now we had to jump it off of another battery, starter is kind of cranking a little bit slow, but we can't even get the motor to catch AT ALL (even with fluid).
I do not know what the firing order is on these bikes or how to determine which plugs go where (in case they had been switched in previous tinkering) and the manual doesn't seem to help much here.
I am thinking most likely a timing issue? the bike was running fine for a while and slowly just got harder and harder to start and has sat for a year or 2 now. the old finger over the plug hole lets me think there is compression, but we are kind of at a loss for what to do here. We are going to replace the fuse thing between the battery and starter (some kind of relay) because that might be part of the problem i think with the starter running slow. Just drives me nuts that it won't even kick over at all. Am even thinking of pushing it down a large hill to see what hapens on a jump start.
how hard is the timing to set on these bikes? just an old fashoned timing light gun and go to town? we have a manual or 2, but are having hard time getting good troubleshooting out of there, but we know how many N-m to crank bolts to lol
Thanks, and if need any clarification i will try to help. We are fixing 2 bikes at once and got the other one running again (might be my future bike), and are both trying to learn something along the way
Cliffs notes: bike isn't starting, i think it's timing or out of firing order... maybe you can help
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