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- Bericht (22)
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- Konferenzveröffentlichung (2)
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- Formalisierung (2)
- Certifying Compilers (1)
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- A Case Study on Specifikation,Detection and Resolution of IN Feature Interactions with Estelle (1994)
- We present an approach for the treatment of Feature Interactions in Intelligent Networks. The approach is based on the formal description technique Estelle and consists of three steps. For the first step, a specification style supporting the integration of additional features into a basic service is introduced . As a result, feature integration is achieved by adding specification text, i.e . on a purely syntactical level. The second step is the detection of feature interactions resulting from the integration of additional features. A formal criterion is given that can be used for the automatic detection of a particular class of feature interactions. In the third step, previously detected feature interactions are resolved. An algorithm has been devised that allows the automatical incorporation of high-level design decisions into the formal specification. The presented approach is applied to the Basic Call Service and several supplementary interacting features.
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- Adding Position Structures to Katja (2005)
- This document introduces the extension of Katja to support position structures and explains the subtleties of their application as well as the design decisions made and problems solved with respect to their implementation. The Katja system was first introduced by Jan Schäfer in the context of his project work and is based on the MAX system developed by Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter.
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- An Outsiders Evaluation of PAISLey (1994)
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- Automata-Theoretic Criteria for Feature Interactions in Telecommunications Systems (1995)
- The feature interaction problem in telecommunications systems increasingly ob-structs the evolution of such systems. We develop formal detection criteria whichrender a necessary (but less than sufficient) condition for feature interactions. It can be checked mechanically and points out all potentially critical spots. Thesehave to be analysed manually. The resulting resolution decisions are incorporatedformally. Some prototype tool support is already available. A prerequisite forformal criteria is a formal definition of the problem. Since the notions of featureand feature interaction are often used in a rather fuzzy way, we attempt a formaldefinition first and discuss which aspects can be included in a formalization (andtherefore in a detection method). This paper describes ongoing work.
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- Certifying Compilers based on Formal Translation Contracts (2006)
- A translation contract is a binary predicate corrTransl(S,T) for source programs S and target programs T. It precisely specifies when T is considered to be a correct translation of S. A certifying compiler generates --in addittion to the target T-- a proof for corrTransl(S,T). Certifying compilers are important for the development of safety critical systems to establish the behavioral equivalence of high-level programs with their compiled assembler code. In this paper, we report on a certifying compiler, its proof techniques, and the underlying formal framework developed within the proof assistent Isabelle/HOL. The compiler uses a tiny C-like language as input, has an optimization phase, and generates MIPS code. The underlying translation contract is based on a trace semantics. We investigate design alternatives and discuss our experiences.
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- ChordNet: Protocol Specification and Analysis (2009)
- This work specifies and analyzes the ChordNet protocol. ChordNet is able to connect huge numbers of nodes in an efficient peer-to-peer network.
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- Deklarative Spezifikation von Datentransformationen (2012)
- Deklarative Spezifikation von Datentransformationen.
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- Embedding a Chained Lin-Kernighan Algorithm into a Distributed Algorithm (2004)
- The Chained Lin-Kernighan algorithm (CLK) is one of the best heuristics to solve Traveling Salesman Problems (TSP). In this paper a distributed algorithm is proposed, were nodes in a network locally optimize TSP instances by using the CLK algorithm. Within an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) network-based framework the resulting tours are modified and exchanged with neighboring nodes. We show that the distributed variant finds better tours compared to the original CLK given the same amount of computation time. For instance fl3795, the original CLK got stuck in local optima in each of 10 runs, whereas the distributed algorithm found optimal tours in each run requiring less than 10 CPU minutes per node on average in an 8 node setup. For instance sw24978, the distributed algorithm had an average solution quality of 0.050% above the optimum, compared to CLK's average solution of 0.119% above the optimum given the same total CPU time (104 seconds). Considering the best tours of both variants for this instance, the distributed algorithm is 0.033% above the optimum and the CLK algorithm 0.099%.
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- Evaluation eines Verschmelzungsalgorithmus für Lösungen des Handlungsreisendenproblems (2005)
- Das Handlungsreisendenproblem ist eines der bekanntesten NP-vollständigen kombinatorischen Optimierungsprobleme. Algorithmen mit unterschiedlichen Konzepten und Strategien wurden entwickelt, die sich in Lösungsqualität und Laufzeit unterscheiden. Ein vergleichsweise neuer Ansatz stellt jedoch das Kombinieren vorhandener Lösungen dar. Hier werden die Kantenmengen gegebener Handlungsreisendertouren als Ausgangsbasis für weitere Optimierungen verwendet. Erste Veröffentlichungen zu diesem Gebiet stellen bereits vielversprechende Ergebnisse vor, die nachfolgend vertieft evaluiert werden.
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- First DASMOD Workshop on Verification of Adaptive Systems (VerAS) (2007)
- This technical report contains the preliminary versions of the regular papers presented at the first workshop on Verification of Adaptive Systems (VerAS) that has been held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on September 14th, 2007 as part of the 20th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics. The final versions will be published with Elsevier's Electronic Notes on Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). VerAS is the first workshop that aims at considering adaptation as a cross-cutting system aspect that needs to be explicitly addressed in system design and verification. The program committee called for original submissions on formal modeling, specification, verification, and implementation of adaptive systems. There were six submissions from different countries of Europe. Each submission has been reviewed by three programme committee members. Finally, the programme committee decided to accept three of the six submissions. Besides the presentations of the regular papers, the workshop's programme included a tutorial on the `Compositional Verification of Self-Optimizing Mechatronic Systems' held by Holger Giese (University of Paderborn, Germany) as well as three presentations of DASMOD projects on the verification of adaptive systems.


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The Rockford Area Community Endowment is accepting grant applications for consideration by April 1, 2009. The Endowment mission is "to provide grants and gifts for charitable programs and organizations to encourage scientific, literary, recreational and educational activities throughout the Rockford community, including the encouragement of the arts."
It is the intention of the Endowment to provide funding opportunities that fill voids rather than compete with already established organizations.
The Endowment serves the greater Rockford area, which includes the townships of Algoma, Cannon, Courtland and Plainfield and the City of Rockford.
Past successful grant applications have included the funding of trailhead improvements to the new Cannon Township Trail, landscaping improvements to the entrance of North Rockford Middle School, National Night Out activities, and improvements to Algoma Townships Veterans Memorial Park.
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The bird in the distance is a male bufflehead from UBNA, the second picture is of a female bufflehead from the nearby Magnuson Park.
For more information on the habitat and vegetation of the Union Bay Natural area, please see the journal entry for April 12, 2012 in my written journal and, for information on the weather of the day this was found, please see the journal entry for April 19, 2012 (Union Bay Natural Area) here on iNaturalist. This picture of the bufflehead isn't nearly as good as it could be. The few buffleheads I saw in the Union Bay itself were diving for food too far off shore for me to get a better shot and the ones floating in the small pond in the center of the Union Bay Natural Area kept going behind trees and out of range of my camera. I was able to identify them as buffleheads by their black and white coloring, which was obvious even from that distance, and from their diving, as buffleheads are diving birds. These birds are known as sea ducks and they are among the smallest American duck species. I could not get an accurate idea of the size of the bird I observed, but I think it might have been about a foot long. It was most certainly male, as the females are brown with a small white patch on the sides of their heads. They are common in open inland waters and coastal areas on the east and west coasts of the United States, which explains why they were living in and around the Union Bay Natural Area. As I mentioned, they are diving birds and eat crustaceans, mollusks, insects, fish eggs, and aquatic plants. Buffleheads are monogamous and they go to the same breeding sites every year. They are popular among bird watchers for their black and white plumage.


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Those Little Orange Discs on Top of Street Lights? They're Photo Cells
Well, this one's a bit of a layup. For our new reporting project, I asked you to submit nominations for "city mysteries" -- things that have always bugged you about life in the New York area that we could try to get to the bottom of. City quirks that have an answer that lies just beyond the grasp of Google. Parking regulations, construction sites, bodega cat regulations, things like that...
The overwhelmingly popular request on Facebook -- if you're the type who is overwhelmed by six -- had to do with the little orange plastic things (LOPT) on top of street lights. You know the ones.
The LOPT debate quickly rose to the top of our thread, so in a brief detour into "let-me-Google-that-for-you-territory," here's the answer: they are photo cells that turn the the street light on and off, depending on how dark it is. Sometimes they are a small round disc, sometimes they are a little wand. But they are always mysterious (until now).
And guess what: a Department of Transportation spokesperson tells us that they are not always orange -- though we've yet to see another color.
But the mystery (or this blog post) does not end here, because several of you pointed out that there are other types of LOPT attached to some lamps. And you're right! What, then, are these bulb-like orange things you see on some light posts, often part way down the pole?
Turns out, they are vestiges of NYC's fire-box era (also known as pre-cell-phone era). The orange bulbs indicate that an emergency box -- which connects you directly to the FDNY -- is nearby. This tableau nicely captures the diverse ecology of street light appendages.
The city's 15,000 remaining fire boxes should still be functional, by the way, but according to recent FDNY data, only 2.6% percent of fire emergency calls originate from these boxes, and some 88% of those are false alarms.
One last note on the solar cells: Before individual sensors on lamps, each pole was connected to the next but equipped with isolation transformers or a circuit cutout that allowed the current to pass through the lamp even if that particular bulb was not working. The cells are more power-efficient, less susceptible to breakdown, and don't have to be manually turned on each evening and off in the morning. They are also independent from one another. The DOT tells us, by the way, that this is not the case for highway and parks lights -- those are group controlled by one large solar panel.
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The pressure was starting to get to Karoun Charkoudian, much like a teakettle when an entire family stares at it impatiently. She had completed grad school and was looking for a corporate gig, and this new phase in life was causing her a lot of confusion. But all of that went away when a friend brought her to a Bikram yoga class in 2003. There, she discovered newfound peace and clarity. In the years that followed, Karoun completed teacher training for several types of yoga, including Vinyasa flow and Iyengar, and became heavily influenced by the meditative movements of Chinese qi gong.
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Unfortunately it will be their word against yours in court and the mere fact you let them pick the car up does tend to swing in their favour. I.e. they pick the car up, offer a quote, you think the quote is too expensive so then what??...they then drop the car back to you? Im not saying you agreed to them doing the work before hand...I'm just saying what I think it tends to appear like. Hope it turns out ok in the end.


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One of the great estates of the Rhone Valley, Chateau Beaucastel has been run by several generations of the Perrin family, beginning with the late Jacques Perrin (who died in 1978), then the brothers Jean-Pierre and Francois, and now their sons Thomas, Marc, Pierre, and Mathieu. Beaucastel has nearly 200 acres in vine in Chateauneuf du Pape, and they have branched out with an impressive operation under the Perrin et Fils label, purchasing grapes and acquiring land (in Vinsobres and Gigondas, for example). Their goal is to become the most recognized name for high quality wines in the southern Rhone. As shrewd consumers know, one of the best values in under $10 a bottle wine is La Vieille Ferme. The Perrin et Fils cuvees include wines made from purchased grapes as well as their new acquisitions in Vinsobres, Gigondas (25 acres), and the Cotes du Rhone village of Cairanne (35 acres). The Perrins enjoyed tremendous success with their 2008 red wines, largely because yields ranged between 18 hectoliters per hectare for Beaucastel, to only 20 hectoliters per hectare for Coudoulet. The mildew that affected everyone was the culprit. The entire family acknowledged there was an extraordinary triage and culling out of the grapes at the sorting tables."
Famille Perrin Reserve Cotes du Rhone Blanc 2008
Rhone White Blends from Cotes du Rhone, Rhone, France
Winemaker's Notes
A blend of 50% Grenache blanc, 20% Viognier, 15% Marsanne and 15% Roussanne.
A fine bright straw-gold colour. An elegant nose that shows touches of toast. Good balance with no excess of alcohol, full-bodied and long.
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The Wine Advocate - "The 2008 Cotes du Rhone Reserve blanc (25% Viognier, 25% Roussanne, and 50% Grenache Blanc) reveals crisp, subtle orange, pear, and white currant fruit, excellent acidity, and a medium-bodied, refreshing style.
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Jean-Pierre, François and Pierre Perrin are proud to present their fine wines, inspired by the memory of their grandfather, Pierre Perrin. Using the same techniques employed at Château de Beaucastel, the Perrins have added some interesting appellations to their already impressive list of wines.
"Jean-Pierre and François Perrin - chosen among the Most Influential Wine Personalities of the last 20 Years. The Perrins believe in natural winemaking, unfiltered wines, and routinely produce long-lived classics that are among the finest in the world." -Robert M. Parker, Jr's The Wine Advocate View all Famille Perrin Wines
About Cotes du RhoneView a map of Cotes du Rhone wineries
The appellation of Côtes du Rhône encompasses much of the land of the area, not to mention much of the wine – over two-thirds of the wine produced here is of the Côtes-du-Rhône appellation. Wines here need only be from the Côtes de Rhône geographic area (which is fairly large) and consist of one or more of the 22 varieties permitted. Being such a wide classification, it's a surprise and joy that so many of these wines reach such a high quality. While there are areas in the Northern Rhône that meet the classification of Côtes du Rhône, most all of this appellation is in the Southern Rhône. Wines here are based mostly on Grenache, like other Rhône reds, while the whites focus on Marsanne and Roussanne. Viognier is also allowed although typically used in smaller quantities.
Notable FactsThere is one higher level in the Côtes du Rhône called Côtes du Rhône Villages. These wines are from specific village areas that have a few more standards the wine must reach to receive the village label. Some to take note of are Cairanne, Rasteau, Seguret and Beaumes-de-Venise. The good thing about both Côtes du Rhône and Côtes du Rhône Villages is that big producers of the smaller appellations are taking the opportunity and freedom offered by this broad appellation and creating wines of very high quality, and lower in price.
About France - Other regionsWhen it comes to wine, France is a classic. Classic blends, grapes and styles began in the country and they still remain. Think about it - people ask for a Burgundian style Pinot Noir, they refer to wines as Bordeaux or Rhone blends - Champagne even had to pass a law to stop international wineries from putting their region on the label of all sparkling wine.
The top regions of France are: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Rhone. And these regions are so diverse! It makes sense that wine regions throughout the world try to emulate their style. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah are no longer French varieties, but international varieties. They may not be the leader of cutting edge technology or value-priced wines, but there is no doubt that they are still producing wines of great quality and diversity.
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4 ratings, 4 with reviewsR. Rundt - Plano, TX47/13/2011we bought more. great dinner white.46/26/2010Superb value! Nose is clean, fresh and filled with pear, apple and pineapple scents. Flavorful on the palate, it is fresh and clean without being weak. This Rhone is faithful to the Rhone genre; full without being cloying. With a silky finish, it is a delightful white, suitable for all seasons. Lovely with duck, pork, shellfish and mild white fish, enhancing their flavors. It also stands on its own as an apertif, accompanying everything from nuts to pate, and it holds its own with all types of cheeses. Full bodied, it surpasses in nose and flavor savignon blancs, pinot grigios and chardonnays. Unless you prefer sweet wines such as rieslings, you will love this wine- chilled in summer and cellar temperature the rest of the year.Lydia P Barker - El Paso, TX17/10/2010At a wine tasting at my house this wine proved to be the very least favorite. I was put off by it.Bob Corcoran - Medford, MA37/31/2010Nice nose, fun summer-sipper on the deck - a bit of a bite at the end - probably good with food


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Vodafone may have received a vote of confidence from the City's experts today, but worried punters were preferring to focus on the short-term.
The mobile phone giant is updating the market next month, and concerns were rising that current expectations may end up being too high.
The bearish talk appeared to be sparked by Morgan Stanley's Nick Delfas, despite the analyst confirming he was a fan of the group by reiterating its "buy" rating.
Yet he also warned that Vodafone was facing "headwinds near term", with tough times ahead in both Italy and wider Europe, meaning there was "potential weakness" on the horizon.
As a result, he downgraded his earnings forecasts and reduced Vodafone's price target to 210p, as the group dropped 2.65p to 176.88p.
Mr Delfas was much more keen - at least in the short-term - on BT, which was also the subject of bullish comments from Nomura's James Britton.
Saying an increasing demand among broadband users for speed was only going to help the company, the analyst performed a U-turn by replacing his "reduce" advice with a "buy" rating as BT advanced 3.4p to 203.1p.
The FTSE 100 was ending the week on a modest high, ticking up 12.61 points to 5,675.03. It was still being buoyed by yesterday's successful Italian and Spanish debt auction, although the reaction to the latest bond auction from Italy today was a little more mixed.
Nonetheless, financial stocks were still rallying, including Royal Bank of Scotland. After yesterday's announcement of a massive shake-up of its investment bank operations, the partially state-owned group shifted a further 1.51p to 24.51p, meaning it has now gained nearly 20 per cent this week alone.
Initially it looked as if Tesco was heading for another terrible session. The world's third-largest retailer dropped 16 per cent of its share price on Thursday following a profits warning, and in early trading this morning it was again the worst Footsie performer as analysts rushed to downgrade their ratings. However, punters were tempted back into buying as the supermarket managed to move ahead, although it was up a mere 0.9p at 324.28p.
Given it is Friday the 13th, a horror story was inevitable, and it was provided by Invensys. The engineer lost more than a fifth after blaming a profits warning partly on delays to its work on Chinese nuclear reactors, prompting the group to plummet 50.9p to 176.1p.
Also deep in the red on the FTSE 250 (although nowhere as near) was Ocado. The online grocer advanced 2.8p to 71.33p as investors decided to bank profits in the wake of it climbing a third on Thursday after an encouraging Christmas trading update.
Troubled tour operator Thomas Cook, which was relegated to the small-cap index last year, was 0.75p higher at 15.25p amid vague and hopeful speculation it could soon announce some more disposals.
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Almost two years ago I had the upgraded TPC suspension installed for our testing article at VIR. That suspension included TPC's adjustable drop links. One of the known issues about the TPC links is that they can be noisy. Mine were and despite pumping gobs of grease into the dust boots (which did quiet them some) I still had annoying clanks from the front suspension at times. I had almost grown used to it when a passenger in my car recently remarked "what's broken?". I must admit that during the winter I bought a set of Anze Suspension adjustable drop links that have sealed ends and intended to put them on my car but with sub zero temps in the garage I never got around to it. So now, with the temps in the triple digits I thought what the heck, let's get under the car and sweat and see if these new drop links make any difference.
Here is a picture of the Anze drop links, they come sealed in a bag, disassembled, and with basic instructions.
I called Angelo at Anze and asked him if it made any difference whether or not I left the car on the lift or if I used my center jack to lift the front end off the front of the lift at let the wheels hang (and removed the tires for easier access to the suspension). He said it didn't really matter for the install but that for setting the drop links that the car should be on the ground, in fact if you want to simulate the car with a driver add your weight to the drivers seat. So I decided to simply drive the car up on the lift, raise the lift up, but leave the wheels and tires on the car and access everything from underneath.
The first order of business was to get the old TPC drop links off. To do this required a 17mm socket and wrench to loosen the bottom end of the drop link first and remove it from the sway bar. If installed properly there should be no tension on the drop link when the car is at rest and the bolt should slide out. In the next picture you can see the lower end of the drop link and the sway bar end, the rusty nut was fortunately mostly surface rust.
In the following picture I have now removed the nut and pulled the bolt back through the sway bar.
The next part of the removal operation is to remove the upper bolt that not only holds the drop link in place but also tightens the suspension collar around the strut tower. If you have the car up in the air with the suspension dangling then the strut tower will want to fall downward when you remove this bolt and loosen the collar by doing so. With the car parked flat you don't have that concern. So while space might be a little tighter, you aren't fighting suspension parts. I should note that TPC uses a large (Torx-T55 / hex equivalent) headed bolt that is a bit of a pain to get on with the proper tools and get loose but I managed to do it. Conversely the Anze pieces are simpler in that there is a collar that you'll hold with one wrench and then simply use a socket and ratchet on the other end to tighten.
After removing the TPC units I placed one side by side with the new Anze unit shown here:
You might notice the main bolt had more shoulder and less threads on the Anze unit, one of my TPC units looks like the threads were a little mashed so having more shoulder may be a good thing.
At this point we simply need to reverse the process with a few minor changes. In the following picture I have attached the upper bolt and drop link head to the suspension tower. I found it best to check what size wrenches I needed for the collar and for the nut because they are different on each end and different from the combo needed to install the lower end of the drop link. I used both metric and US standard tools and chose what I believed to be the "best fit" for each bolt I was working with in the confined space I was working in. You definitely need 17mm, 3/4, 11/16 and 14mm.
The next step was that I threaded the arm into the top drop link head all the way. Then I spun the bottom drop link head on all the way. This way I had the maximum number of threads in each head. Of course at this point the overall length was too short to get the lower end to go through the hole in the sway bar. You do NOT want to just spin the lower head downward until it fits as that would mean you'd have fewer threads in the bottom. What you want to do is spin the threaded arm out of the upper head one or two turns as well as spin the lower head in the off direction from the arm one or two turns and then check to see if it fits.
Continue to do this until the bolt in the lower head slides through the hole in the sway bar with no resistance. You may need to tweak up or down a little as you fish the bolt through the sway bar. By doing this in an even fashion you should end up with the maximum amount of bolt threads in both the upper and lower drop link heads.
Once you have the bolt in the lower head through the sway bar you can tighten the washer and nut on the other side to secure the lower drop link head to the sway bar.
Now if you spin the center threaded rod one direction or the other you should feel it getting tighter. One direction will be pushing the two drop link heads apart, the other pulling them together. I went in the direction of pushing them apart, but it really wasn't more than say a 1/4 to a 1/2 turn of the rod until there was resistance.
Now it is time to tighten the lock nuts (in the above picture they are towards the center). You can spin them by hand until they reach their respective upper and lower heads and then use a 14mm wrench to tighten them snugly. It helps if you use a wrench or pliers to hold the center rod at the point where it has a flat section for doing exactly that. Once the two jam nuts are tight you are done other than checking torque values provided by Anze in their instructions. I usually re-check torque after a few days of driving just to make sure nothing is working loose.
At this point I cleaned up my tools, lowered my lift and drove the car off. I took the car for a spin over roads that I normally drive, including some rather bumpy ones and the difference was like night and day. No more clunks, no more clanks, just a quiet suspension. I should have done this a LONG time ago, but am certainly glad that I finally got around to doing it!
I highly recommend these drop links to anyone who is thinking of changing out their sway bar(s). Anze carries a full line of suspension products so be sure and contact them for any of your needs.
In all I would say this process was a 3 out of 10 on the difficulty scale, certainly much easier if you have a lift, but the alternative is to jack up the front end of your car and put it on jack stands while you work on the suspension. Under no circumstances should you jack up only 1 side of the car as that puts force on the sway bar and you won't be able to get the drop links apart. Enjoy and Stay Tuned!


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The answer is of course yes, that is if you always drive 15 mph over the posted limit.
This is a discussion on Are CHL holders more likely to be stopped by police? within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; wow, i was way under. It appears there are over 20,000 members and 700+ people online now......
wow, i was way under. It appears there are over 20,000 members and 700+ people online now...
The answer is of course yes, that is if you always drive 15 mph over the posted limit.
My last speeding infraction where I was not ticketed after presenting my CHL was last year!
Yes, I am bragging.
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ALWAYS carry! - NEVER tell!
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I've had two tickets since I've had my CHL.........seven years. The rest were warnings.
The problem is sampling bias: here, we sample for those who carry concealed. Thus, ANYTHING reported here will have an inordinate number of concealed-carry people represented: for example, many posts talk about houses. One could conclude that a surprising number of concealed-carry folks live indoors.
The CLASSIC sampling bias problem was the Dewey-Truman election and a sample taken by phone. Richer associated with Republican, and at that time richer and phones were found together. Thus, all the folks who had phones were planning on voting for Dewey, and the newspaper published "Dewey Wins!" before the vote was counted. Truman won, and we've been ridiculing the paper ever since. Doesn't quite match the current thread's protocol, but you get the idea.
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"Liberalism is a Mental Disorder." -Michael Savage
GOOD Gun Control is being able to hit your target! -Myself
In FL, for example, only 1-3% of the population CCW...now you're going to tell me that 1-3% of the population get a majority of the traffic tickets...in your dreams!
I'll make that a definite, NO!
Stay armed...slow down...stay safe!
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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My sense is that most people when they start to carry become more polite, go out of their way to avoid situations that could escalate into a physical confrontation, tend to slow down when they are driving, and, in general, even for the younger rambo types, try hard to leave their egos at their doorstep when they leave the house.
Yes, I know that their are exceptions, but I believe that the statistics establish that they are a distinct minority.
"It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien
I think that part of the misconception comes from Hollyweird and the media and their comments about the accused didn't or did have a permit to carry a gun. This tends to give the impression that all BG's should have a permit which is the exact opposite of real life. I would like to see the stats for crimes involving guns and in general on how many had permits, didn't have permits and couldn't get permits. I think you would find that those who couldn't get a permit far outweighed the other two categories.
Those with a CHL are more likely to watch their actions and keep from being stopped by LE.
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Could it simply be that you are on a forum where I'm going to guess that 99.999% of people carry. Ever gone to a car forum and see how many people talk about getting pulled over for speeding?
Usually goes like this $*(#&$(*%& of a cop pulled me over for doing nothing.. .
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I guess we're getting ready for Thanksgiving around here! And no, it isn't because we are all eating pumpkin pie for breakfast. Last Friday night, we took a field trip (which involved crossing the river from Minneapolis to St. Paul) and enjoyed a night out together.
Sir Elton John and his band rocked the Xcel Energy Center and we were right there with them! We saw Elton in all of his sparkly glory, and our friends in the band - Kim, Matt and John - looked fantastic in their eyebobs. (We'll get Nigel and Davey in eyebobs one of these days!)
They played a great show and we some of the best seats in the house! What a way to start our weekend!
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Prime Minister John Howard is challenging Labor to do the sensible thing and pass the government's $22 billion tax package even though the opposition claims it is unfair.
Mr Howard today ruled out tweaking the package, dismissing calls by Opposition Leader Kim Beazley and key independent senator Meg Lees to make its tax cuts fairer for average wage earners.
However, he again left open the possibility of the tax cuts being delivered as planned on July 1, even if Labor and minor parties vote against them in the Senate.
"No, we won't be changing what was announced by the treasurer," he told the Ten Network.
"If Mr Beazley were to do the sensible, orthodox thing he would just get out of the way and say, look I disagree with this, I'd have done it differently but the government is the government, let people have their tax cuts."
Average wage earners stand to receive $6 a week tax cuts and high income earners about $86 from July 1 if the government's laws pass the Senate by June 23, the last day of sitting before the winter break.
The Senate then does not sit again until August 9.
Mr Howard has so far declined to say if he would recall parliament for an extraordinary sitting after July 1, when the government takes control of the Senate and could pass the laws.
Asked today if he conceded the government could still deliver the tax cuts on July 1, Mr Howard was coy.
"I am not conceding anything, I'm simply telling your viewers that we think these tax cuts that the treasurer announced are good for the country and they will go ahead," he said.
Last Thursday, Mr Costello said he had received advice from Tax Commissioner Michael Carmody that there was no way the government could put its tax cuts in place by July 1 without legislation.
But Mr Beazley disagrees, saying the government could still introduce its tax cuts retrospectively so that there would be no delay in people receiving the extra cash.
"The delaying bit is a furphy that the government puts out there," he told the Nine Network.
"John Howard made his reputation as a treasurer with retrospective tax legislation. That was taking money off people. Don't tell me he can't find a process of rebating (people)."
Under Labor's tax package, the weekly tax cut for people earning $50,000 or less would be doubled to $12.
But it would not start until January next year.
Mr Beazley has faced criticism over the policy from Labor state leaders Geoff Gallop, Peter Beattie and Clare Martin.
But he today insisted that he had support for the policy.
"The caucus is united behind the direction of policy and that's a good thing," Mr Beazley said.
Senator Lees, whose support the government needs so that the tax cuts can be delivered on July 1, has also called on the government to make the package fairer.
"I don't intend to pass the tax cuts as they are," she told AAP.
"So it's up to the government as to whether they want to talk (about possible changes) but if they are determined to pass them as they are they won't want to talk."
Australian Democrats leader Lyn Allison said her party wanted the government to provide more relief for low income earners and lift the tax-free threshold to $10,000.
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I hadn't gotten married yet when I was assigned to write about Valentine's Day for the first time. I had just gotten engaged, and was a month from getting married -- but I didn't know it, yet.
"An obligation is exactly what Valentine's Day has become to a lot of us," I wrote. "And it's not just an obligation to give a gift. For some of us who're single, it's a clear reminder that we've failed in our obligation to couple up."
Photo by I Love Butter (Flickr).
I interviewed my friend Madison, 47, a psychologist, for the piece.
"Valentine's Day is a psychological aggression," the married mother of four told me. "One: it's a torture to singles. Two: it creates the illusion that relationships must always have the intensity of romances. Let me tell you something -- when you've been married twenty years, you're not going to be as excited about showing up at your wife's office with a bouquet of flowers and a poem the way you were excited about it when you were first dating."
I was wholly in agreement with her. My boyfriend and I had made a point to discuss our disdain in regard to the holiday and effectively banned it in our relationship. There would no pressure to make a mockery of our union by selecting a single day to commemorate it -- not with Valentine's and not with our anniversary, either.
These things were an affront to the obvious joy we experienced just being together, and flew in the face of personal and mutual efficiency. After all, that time we spent stressing about what to get each other could be better spent doing something else -- like working to move our personal success forward, and therefore our union. And the resources spent on gifts could be better suited to things we really wanted -- like the down payment on another home or another car. You can't have too many of those, you know.
Fast forward two years. You have a relationship that is fairly efficient. Everyone knows what to expect and when. The frills had been cut away. We were the bare bones and organs of love: no fat, no bullshit. I didn't tolerate dinner parties, so I often skipped Sunday dinner at his aunt's. He didn't "understand" my friends, so he passed on that. We made each other nuts traveling together, so we took separate planes. He worked better in the day and I worked best at night, so we cleaved our life together into shifts.
We made time to be together, of course. Breakfast before I went to bed and he went to work, dinner when he got home and I was getting ready to start writing. Sometimes I would curl up in bed with him until he fell asleep, then sneaked out of the room to go write. Sometimes he turned off his phone when we drove out to our second home in the desert. Little things to show it was important to have each other in our lives.
Crumbs. That's what it was. I'll be the first to admit it. We starved the living hell out of our relationship.
Toward the end of things, I couldn't believe how much we were fighting. In retrospect, I realize that fighting was the only way we could sustain interaction for any prolonged period. We may or may not really had issues with the things we were arguing about, but what we were actually doing was trying to get something, some kind of emotional response from each other and hold it there. Even if it was ugly and only there for a couple of hours.
We had no real emotion outside of that. Efficiency doesn't fare well with that warm fuzziness. Efficiency is cold, collected and always in control. You tell me about your day, I'll center you. I'll tell you about my day and you'll neutralize me. If one of us doesn't understand or really care, we'll nod and smile and use the time to make a mental list of things we each need to get done next.
As a result, the only way to really express ourselves emotionally was to go to war over perceived infractions of our cherished efficiency. I suppose screaming during orgasm is a more socially-acceptable form of emotional expression, but no desire can grow on a landscape so sterile. We were emaciated.
This is an extreme case, of course. What I want to illustrate is that from the get-go, we trained ourselves to believe that our partnership could make manifest these displays of appreciation on its own, that every day could be a celebration of how much we cherished one another.
Let me tell you something about real life: that's not how it works.
Valentine's Day may be a farce of a holiday, pushed by companies to force you to buy things you don't need, but you know what? It's a reminder -- not just for couples, but for everyone -- that relationships need feeding and in this fast-paced world, we need every reminder we can get.
A man I adore once told me that romance isn't innate, that it must be inspired. This shook me to my core and I still wrestle with the notion sometimes. Romance isn't simply born of the moment? But I am a fount of explosive emotions, incredible acts of devotion, a door of passion that opens into a roaring fire...
No, actually, I'm not. I mean, I am. But mostly, I am capable of incredible precision. Left to my devices, I will find the quickest, most effective way to do anything. I can streamline everything from an incredible workload to a relationship. That is what our culture values and what's been inculcated in me: put in as little as possible, get out as much as you can.
Well, I say: enough. Since my divorce, I've made the decision to welcome the complicated, clunky, and time-consuming, to cherish the frills and allow for real soul feeding. I will not indulge myself when work allows. I will put work on hold to satisfy my soul and fill it to overflowing.
This is a silly confession, but it's a big deal to me: I've canceled meetings and deferred things to share a moment. I've taken time off completely. Dropped off the map. I've stopped viewing things like holidays as a weight on my mind and started to see them as opportunities to fill the souls of those who matter.
This being an economic climate of doom, I doubt many of us were gifting the treasures of the world on one another, but that's not really the point. We can do without the commercialism. It's about cherishing what you have, celebrating those connections that enrich you, and giving them a proper place in your life -- and schedule.
I had a million things to do on Valentine's Day and when my friends called me to tell me they were all getting together, coupled and not, to grab crepes, I almost passed on it. You have so much to do, efficiency said. This column included.
And I decided, you know what? Screw it. It can wait. I want to be with the people who fill me. That's what it's about.
Sometimes, a holiday can be a good reminder.
If that doesn't summarize it well enough for you, I leave you with the words of Catherynne Valente, a poet at whose words my own tremble:
This world is a beautiful place, but it is also often dark, and cold, and unfeeling, and life slips by, not because it is short, but because it is so difficult to hold onto. Holidays, rituals, these things demarcate the time. They remind us of the sharpness of pleasure and the nearness of death. They tell us when the sun leaves, and when it comes back. They tell us to dance and they tell us to sleep. They tell us who we are, who we have been since we lived on the savannah and hoped to taste cheetah before we died. I know we're all punk rock rebels, but the paleolithic joy of fucking in the fields and dancing around a fire doesn't go away just because certain of us would like to think we're beyond that. This world needs more holidays, not less. More ritual, the gorgeous, flexible, non-dogmatic kind that isn't about religion but about ecstasy in the sheer humanness of our bodies and souls. More chances to reach out, to sing, to love, to bedeck ourselves in ritual colors and become splendid as the year turns around.
And no, I'm sorry. It doesn't work to say "make every day special." First of all, most of you know damn well that you don't shower your partner with gifts and adoration and that most precious of things: dedicated, mindful time every day of the year. Even the best relationship is not a 24/7 orgiastic festival of plenty and perfect moments. No human can sustain it. If every day is special, none of them are. If every day is special, specialness becomes monotony. What makes days special is the time between, the anticipation of the day, the planning, the surprises, coming together, cooking, playing, reveling in sheer time, watching the dedicated colors and rituals that wire our brain for pleasure spring up in the world to remind us that we live in it. The entire purpose of holidays is that they are a kind of otherworld we step into, full of special symbols, that informs and shapes everyday life -- and some of life, no matter how some bloggers would like to deny it in their Grinchitude, is always everyday.
We celebrate the harvest. We celebrate the spring. We celebrate birthdays and death-days and the beginning of the year and the end of the year. We celebrate our parents and labor and Presidents. What in the world is so terribly wrong with celebrating love? I know not all of us have partners, but it is a rare soul who is without love of any kind. What kind of shrunken, sour heart does it take to insist that everyone else stop delighting in ritual and love? So few of us post about the magic of holidays -- I think they're ashamed to. It's not cool to take unabashed pleasure in the silly and the soft-hearted.
Is that clear enough? Let's quit bitching and start loving. Love yourself, love your friends, love your family, love your crush, love your spouse, love your lover, love the old flame, love the hope for something to begin anew. Dare to give in to something that defies reason, that eats up time and resources with no purpose other than to give you just a tiny flicker of hope.
That's what it's really about, you know.
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Originally Posted by BrianH I did it, and I hate working on cars. It just happens that I hate paying shop labor rates more than working on cars. If you can change your oil and follow simple directions you can change your cams on the Evo. The biggest part is just getting ahold of the tensioner tool. If you can follow directions and have the tools it's easy to do anything on a car.
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Earth in the Balance, Humankind on the Edge: Nathan MyhrvoldNathan Myhrvold
June 22 (Bloomberg) -- Complacency is baked into our species. We can't resist thinking that recent experience defines the future. Give us a run of good luck, and we are apt to turn that into an implicit expectation that our luck will continue -- even that we are entitled to it.
This kind of thinking was instrumental in the run-up to the financial crash of 2008. Too many private and public institutions assumed that an extraordinary run in prosperity, particularly in the real estate market, was just normal. It didn't occur to them that things could go so wrong. Even when token stress testing or risk assessment was done, it largely excluded the possibility of a bad shock or a protracted slump. Risk wasn't systematically measured; it was ignored.
It's easy to write this off to greed or foolishness on the part of Wall Street. But the truth is, our entire civilization rests on a foundation just as shaky. We assume that the very Earth is static and will always be as it is now, or as we remember it.
Yet geophysics tells us that is emphatically not the case. Bad things happen. In the past couple of years alone, we have witnessed a litany of horrific natural disasters. Early last year, Haiti, already one of the most impoverished places in the world, was slammed by a magnitude 7 earthquake that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, both directly and as the result of a cholera epidemic that occurred 10 months later during the recovery effort.
Flights Cancelled
In Iceland last year, a long-dormant volcano erupted, necessitating the cancellation of more than 100,000 flights, and causing an estimated $1.8 billion in losses across Europe (but no deaths). Just a few months ago, Japan was savaged by the fourth-most-powerful earthquake ever caught on seismographs and an ensuing tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people, brought down almost 200,000 buildings and (unfairly) tarnished the image of nuclear energy worldwide. This was only seven years after a tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed at least a quarter-million people.
When the Earth itself isn't tormenting us, the weather is. Within the past few months, the U.S. has been wracked by drought, wildfires and record-breaking flooding and tornadoes; the damage bill will total more than $32 billion. Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Joplin, Missouri; and, more surprisingly, Monson, Massachusetts, were flattened by tornadoes, which have taken more American lives this tornado season than in any year since 1927.
A Restive Earth
What's behind all this terrestrial unrest? The answer may not be comforting, but it is simple: A run of bad events like this is completely normal. Nature contains many phenomena that are usually benign but sometimes turn vicious. The probability that really bad things will happen is low -- but it isn't zero. Its rarity only lulls people into a false sense of security.
As a result, natural disasters are almost always compounded by human error. The buildings in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, were poorly constructed. That most of them would collapse in a severe earthquake, leading to enormous loss of life, was easily predictable. Worsening the situation, United Nations aid officials staffed the relief effort with personnel from Nepal, where there was an ongoing cholera epidemic. Unsurprisingly, those workers brought the disease with them, and so began an outbreak that is thought to have so far killed at least 4,700 Haitians.
It's easy to dismiss this kind of poor response when it occurs in Haiti, which has an infamously ineffective government. But a mortifying degree of incompetence was also on display after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, and again this year when the Japanese tsunami swamped four reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear-power plant.
Bad Decisions
Someone there had decided it would be safe to build the reactors behind a 16-foot (5-meter) sea wall in an area that experienced 125-foot tsunamis as recently as 1896. Then, in the crucial hours and days following the event, a string of bad decisions caused most of the problems -- the nuclear-plant operators just didn't know what to do.
Mistakes are common in big natural disasters. If such events happened frequently, response teams and the people who direct them would have practice, as trauma teams in hospital emergency rooms have. Unfortunately, responders rarely get the opportunity to rehearse large-scale disasters. When the inevitable finally occurs, and a tsunami hits a nuclear reactor, or an earthquake reduces much of a major city to rubble, the people in charge often are caught napping and react ineptly.
Lucky History
None of these catastrophes came entirely out of the blue. To the contrary, geologic history tells us that we've actually gotten off lucky. In 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted so violently that it killed perhaps a quarter of the country's population. That volcano put enough ash into the sky to change the weather in the entire Northern Hemisphere, causing crop failures and famines across Europe, India, Japan, Egypt and North America that pushed the total death toll to 6 million. It took almost a decade for the weather to recover.
Laki isn't even the worst Icelandic volcano on record -- far larger was the six-year eruption of Eldgja that began in 934.
One could recount many such examples, but people's eyes tend to glaze over when you talk about something that last occurred in 1783, much less 934. Surely things are different now, they say. The unfortunate truth is quite the opposite -- a millennium ago was yesterday as far as the Earth is concerned, and the relevant phenomena operate as vigorously as ever. Proud as we are of the many technological achievements of modern society, we are actually more vulnerable than ever because we live more densely, within a complex and sometimes fragile web of buildings, roads, bridges and the like.
No War Games
The military uses war games to prepare for unforeseen contingencies, but there seem to be few civilian equivalents. Unfortunately, people just aren't built to think about danger that way. A few rare risks -- such as dying in an airplane accident -- loom larger in our imaginations than statistics suggest they should. But we discount other low-probability perils straight to zero.
The lesson is simple to state, but hard to follow: Risks with heavy consequences must be taken seriously even if the probability of their happening tomorrow is low. That means incurring small, but real, costs in the here and now to mitigate the damage from some disaster that may lie far in the future -- even though "far" means beyond the present budget cycle, after the current chief executive officer has retired, or after the current politicians have left office. Only by thinking and training in anticipation of the inevitable can authorities avoid getting blindsided.
(Nathan Myhrvold is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Jay-Z Throws Shade at Drake on "We Made It" Freestyle
"Sorry Mrs. Drizzy for so much art talk," Jay Z spits. "Silly me, rappin' 'bout shit that I really bought/ While these rappers rap about guns that they ain't shot/ And a bunch of other silly shit that they ain't got." -Jay-Z
This in response to Drake's interview with Rolling Stone where he said, "It's like Hov can't drop bars these days without at least four art references," Drake said. "I would love to collect [art] at some point, but I think the whole Rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny."


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I was at a gun shop/range in Tampa,FL yesterday and I was confused by the rather large sign at the front entrance with red lettering saying "STOP" and continued to tell customers to unload.
Is this normal for a fire arms renter/dealer? I have only been to Gander Mountain until yesterday.


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Neeson's "Grey" wins box office weekend
By Lisa Richwine
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Survival story "The Grey" starring Liam Neeson in a battle against weather and wolves led the box office pack with a better-than-expected $20 million in ticket sales over the weekend.
"The Grey" knocked last weekend's winner, "Underworld: Awakening," to second place. The vampire and werewolf sequel starring Kate Beckinsale brought in $12.5 million from Friday through Sunday at domestic theaters, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters on Sunday.
In "The Grey," Neeson returns to an action role as a man who leads a team of plane crash survivors who must fight harsh weather and a fierce pack of wolves in the Alaskan wilderness.
The movie played at 3,185 North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters and earned a per-theater average of $6,279, according to the box office division of Hollywood.com.
Distributor Open Road Films acquired the film for about $5 million and had projected up to $12 million in debut weekend sales. The film beat that forecast because "it doesn't look like every other movie out there. In a crowded marketplace, I think it's important to be distinctive," said Open Road Films CEO Tom Ortenburg.
Katherine Heigl's new comedy, "One for the Money," finished in third place with $11.8 million, topping industry forecasts of less than $10 million for the film based on a best-selling book by Janet Evanovich. Distributor Lions Gate Entertainment said readers who loved the book helped the movie beat expectations.
"We think the audience that showed up are not frequent moviegoers. They're just huge fans of Janet Evanovich," said David Spitz, head of domestic distribution for Lions Gate.
In the film, Heigl plays a cash-strapped woman who joins a bail-bond business and must track down a wanted man who happens to be an ex-boyfriend. Audiences surveyed by exit polling firm CinemaScore game the movie a B-minus on average. Continued...