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I just joined Tennsipolis and came across your information. I play in Redlands CA, I am a 4.5 - 5.0 player. If you are still looking for hitting partner, please let me know.
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Production of the Mustang started in Dearborn, Michigan on March 9, 1964 and the automobile was presented to the public on April 17, 1964 at the New York World's Fair. It is Ford's 3rd earliest nameplate currently in production. Original sales projections forecasted less than 100,000 systems for the very first year. This mark was exceeded in three months from rollout. Another 318,000 would be offered during the model year (a record), and in its first eighteen months, more than one million Mustangs were built.
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All of these were VIN-identified as 1965 designs, however several changes were made at the standard opening of the new design year (start August 1964), consisting of the addition of back-up lights on some designs, the introduction of alternators to replace generators, and an upgrade of the V8 engine from 260 cu into 289 cu in. When it comes to a minimum of some six-cylinder Mustangs fitted with the 101 hp 170 cu in Falcon engine, the rush into production consisted of some unusual quirks, such as a horn ring bearing the 'Ford Falcon' logo below a trim ring emblazoned with 'Ford Mustang.' These attributes made adequate distinction to call for designation of the 121,538 earlier ones as "1964 1/2" model-year Mustangs, a distinction that has sustained with purists. Mustangs For Sale in Lincoln IL are easy to find now with online shopping.
The 1973 OPEC oil embargo brought with it more strict contamination laws and the desire for fuel-efficiency. This was also the very first time in vehicle history that the Big 3 were needing to compete with imports. The new Mustang II was smaller sized than the first variation however, due to the extra devices required to meet brand-new US emission and safety policies, was much heavier than the very first model. Efficiency was decreased and in the first year just 385,993 cars were sold.
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text: St. Mike's featured in Princeton Review's "The Best 377 Colleges", 2013 edition News Home 08.20.12 Saint Michael's College is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2013 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 377 Colleges, Princeton Review, 2013. Only about 15% of America's 2,500 four-year colleges are profiled in the book, which includes detailed pictures of the colleges based on The Princeton Review's surveys of students attending the colleges. "We commend Saint Michael's College for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our selection of schools for the book," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's Senior VP / Publisher and author of The Best 377 Colleges. "Our choices are based on institutional data we collect about schools, our visits to schools over the years, feedback we gather from students attending the schools, and the opinions of our staff and our 30-member National College Counselor Advisory Board. We also work to keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character." The full list of colleges can be viewed here. "We're very pleased to be endorsed by the Princeton Review," said Saint Michael's President John J. Neuhauser. "Saint Michael's provides a strong liberal arts curriculum with opportunities in the classroom, and out, for research with professors, engagement with service activities, and a range of options to hike and ski the mountains of Vermont, to enjoy the urban excitement of Burlington, and much more. So we are delighted that more people will become aware of us," he said, "thanks to our inclusion in the Best 377 Colleges guide." Saint Michael's profile In its profile on Saint Michael's College, the Princeton Review praises the school, saying "Though undergrads at St. Mike's take their academics seriously, they also love to take advantage of life beyond the library." The book quotes extensively from SMC students surveyed for the book. Among the student comments are these: "Tucked away in 'the heart of Vermont ski country,' Saint Michael's College offers a 'close-knit and familial atmosphere' where everyone 'will always value and support you.' 'Small classes' help to ensure that 'you are not just another number in a lecture hall.' Indeed, the college 'really wants to help its students realize their full potential.' SMC students said further, "Classes are often 'discussion-based' and 'require a conscientious student who will actively participate in discussion.' And the book says, "Moreover, undergrads here speak effusively about their professors. As one English and theater double-major shares, 'the professors strongly encourage you to visit them during office hours and are always working hard to engage students and keep them interested in learning. It is clear that the majority of the professors at St. Mike's care about what they are teaching and seem genuinely interested in the subject matter.' A history major succinctly adds, 'Whether you like it or not, your professor will know your name'." Surveys of 122,000 students The Princeton Review reports are entirely based on The Princeton Review's survey of 122,000 students (about 324 per campus on average) attending the colleges in the book. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their own schools on several topics from assessments of their professors to opinions about their financial aid and campus food. Various categories are provided in the book with rankings. Saint Michael's College is number 8 nationally on the Best Town-Gown Relations list in The Best 377 Colleges. In a "Survey Says" sidebar in the book's profile on Saint Michael's, The Princeton Review lists topics that SMC students surveyed for the book were in most agreement about. The list includes: "students are happy," "students are involved in community service," "student publications are popular," and more. Download a PDF of Princeton Review's article on Saint Michael's College.


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Like everyone else, Stieg Larsson's longtime companion Eva Gabrielsson, has watched with amazement as sales of his "Millennium" series crime thrillers – "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and its sequels – have hit dizzying heights, reaching more than 17 million in the United States alone and 60 million worldwide. And now it's her turn.
Later this month, Gabrielsson will arrive in the US to begin a Larsson-size cross-country book tour – something that Larsson, who died in 2004 before the publication of his books, never had the chance to experience. Gabrielsson will be promoting her own book, "' 'There Are Things I Want You to Know' About Stieg Larsson and Me."
The Swedish architect and author will be holding book-signing events in major cities across the US following her book's June 21 publication by Seven Stories Press. Her tour will include New York; San Francisco; Seattle; and Washington, D.C. In New York, she will be interviewed by Gloria Steinem, the author and feminist activist (who says Garbrielsson's book is "not to be missed"), and in the nation's capital she will participate in a "literature evening" with NPR's Diane Rehm.
"Her story is about the life she shared with Stieg Larsson," according to the Swedish Embassy, which is hosting the Washington, D.C., event, "the man everyone wants to know more about, and about whom so little is known."
But the woman we know even less about also plans to use the trip, according to friends, to discuss issues that matter to her.
Since Larsson's death in 2004, at age 50, Gabrielsson has been involved in a highly public, name-calling dispute with the author's father and brother, who, under Swedish law, inherited essentially everything from Larsson, including the rights to all three of his books – "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," The Girl Who Played with Fire," and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" – and the many millions of dollars they continue to generate.
There have also been questions about who controls the unfinished manuscript – said to be a fourth book in the "Millennium" series – that Larsson left behind on a laptop computer.
Gabrielsson and Larsson never married, even though they lived together for 30 years, and while he had a will (which, incidentally, would have given his estate to the local branch of the Communist Workers League in Umea, Sweden), it was not witnessed and therefore not valid. His father and brother reportedly offered to settle the dispute with Gabrielsson for 20 million Swedish kronor, or roughly $3.3 million. But she declined.
"This is a proud woman," her friend, Jan M. Moberg, a Norwegian IT executive, said in a telephone interview with the Monitor. "She will not be bought."
Mr. Moberg said that he first learned of Gabrielsson's case – and of the intricacies of Sweden's law concerning common-law relationships – in the spring of 2009 when he saw an hour-long Swedish television documentary, "The Millennium Millions," which detailed her case. "It just got to me," he said. "I wanted to do something to help."
Within weeks, he had launched a website asking for donations to help with her legal bills, and over the next 18 months he raised more than $25,000.
"This gave her a lot of support through difficult times," Moberg said, adding that the fundraising campaign has now been halted with the publication of her new book. It has already been published in Sweden, France, and Norway.
Moberg said that, in his view, Sweden's law regarding unmarried couples will only be changed under pressure from the international community, which is where Gabrielsson and her US book tour could be helpful.
But first, according to Britt-Marie Svensson, head of the legal office at Swedbank, it might be helpful if the Swedes themselves knew the law. She says that a new study published in the June 13 issue of the national daily Dagens Nyheter shows that only 17 percent of unmarried Swedish couples know that a Swedish law – which has been in effect for more than 20 years – does not provide for them to inherit each other's property.
This lack of awareness about the laws governing inheritance is particularly surprising, as the feud between Gabrielsson and the Larsson family has been making headlines in Sweden for several years now.
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If you can't get the php_fdf.dll working in PHP 5.3 on Windows, one possible work around is to use the activeX version from the "FDF Toolkit for Windows" from the Adobe website. Here is part of a class I built for one of my projects.
class FDF{
public $NormalAP = 0;
public $RolloverAP = 1;
public $DownAP = 2;
protected $fdf;
public function __construct(){
$com = new COM('FdfApp.FdfApp');
$this->fdf = $com->FDFCreate();
public function setFile($fileName){
$this->fdf->FDFSetFile(str_replace(' ', '%20', $fileName));
public function setValue($name, $value){
$this->fdf->FDFSetValue($name, $value, true);
public function setAP($field, $whichFace, $fileName, $pageNumber){
$this->fdf->FDFSetAP($field, $whichFace, $fileName, $pageNumber);
public function savetoFile($saveFileName){
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The code suggested by greg@... and adam@... is extremely helpful, but I've found out (the hard way) that unclosed parentheses within strings contained in the input array ($values in greg's code or $pdf_data in adam's) will cause Acrobat to issue an error to the effect that the file is corrupted. In other words, if there are strings such as "a) my first point; b) my second point" in the input array, the resulting PDF/FDF file will be considered corrupted by Acrobat. This apparently happens because all the field names in the structure of an FDF file are enclosed in parentheses.
The solution I've devised is to escape all opening and closing parentheses with a backslash, which in turn means you need to escape all backslashes. The code below does all that.
function output_fdf ($pdf_file, $pdf_data)
$fdf = "%FDF-1.2\n%����\n";
$fdf .= "1 0 obj \n<< /FDF ";
$fdf .= "<< /Fields [\n";
$search = array('\\', '(', ')');
$replace = array('\\\\', '\(', '\)');
foreach ($pdf_data as $key => $val)
$clean_key = str_replace($search, $replace, $key);
$clean_val = str_replace($search, $replace, $val);
$fdf .= "<< /V ($clean_val)/T ($clean_key) >> \n";
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return $fdf;
function parse($file) {
if (!preg_match_all("/<<\s*\/V([^>]*)>>/x",
for ($i=0;$i<count($out);$i++) {
$pattern = "<<.*/V\s*(.*)\s*/T\s*(.*)\s*>>";
$thing = $out[$i][1];
if (eregi($pattern,$out[$i][0],$regs)) {
$key = $regs[2];
$val = $regs[1];
$key = preg_replace("/^\s*\(/","",$key);
$key = preg_replace("/\)$/","",$key);
$key = preg_replace("/\\\/","",$key);
$val = preg_replace("/^\s*\(/","",$val);
$val = preg_replace("/\)$/","",$val);
$matches[$key] = $val;
return $matches;
Maybe you have to use Header-function that your browser will regonize xfdf-file. Like this:
Header( "Content-type: application/vnd.adobe.xfdf");
This is for users who are looking for a way to merge HTML form data with a PDF Form, then output the PDF Form with data populated in it, to a web browser.
This is a pure PHP solution which does NOT require the FDF toolkit. Contributed by www.TUFaT.com
// the full http path to the PDF form
$form = 'http://my_domain.com/my_pdf_form.pdf';
function create_fdf ($pdffile, $strings, $keys)
$fdf = "%FDF-1.2\n%����\n";
$fdf .= "1 0 obj \n<< /FDF << /Fields [\n";
foreach ($strings as $key => $value)
$key = addcslashes($key, "\n\r\t\\()");
$value = addcslashes($value, "\n\r\t\\()");
$fdf .= "<< /T ($key) /V ($value) >> \n";
foreach ($keys as $key => $value)
$key = addcslashes($key, "\n\r\t\\()");
$fdf .= "<< /T ($key) /V /$value >> \n";
$fdf .= "]\n/F ($pdffile) >>";
$fdf .= ">>\nendobj\ntrailer\n<<\n";
$fdf .= "/Root 1 0 R \n\n>>\n";
$fdf .= "%%EOF";
return $fdf;
// Fill in text fields
$strings = array(
'date' => '10/17/2004',
'full_name' => 'Joe Doe',
'phone_num' => '123-4567',
'company' => 'ACME Widgets',
'amount' => 'USD 100.00'
// Fill in check boxes/radio buttons
$keys = array('
gender' => 'male',//radio button
'is_adult' => 'Off',//checkbox
'urgent' => 'On'//checkbox
// Output the PDF form, with form data filled-in
header('Content-type: application/vnd.fdf');
echo create_fdf($form, $strings, $keys);
Do not use version 6 of the fdftk.dll (windows) with PHP4.3.4, use the one that comes with PHP.
If you use the newer DLL fdf_create will not return a valid handle.
If you get the new fdftkv5.tar.gz from adobe's site (per the link above), you'll get some totally new spacing and capitalization of files. To make the current 4.3.1 configure, you need to do a few things.
untar fdftkv5.tar.gz into /usr/local
cd /usr/local
#for ease of use
ln -s FDFToolkit\ for\ UNIX fdf
cd fdf
ln -s Headers\ And\ Libraries HeadersAndLibraries
#may need to modify the following for your OS
ln -s LINUX linux
cd linux/C
ln -s LIBFDFTK.SO libfdftk.so
cd ..
cd ..
ln -s Headers headers
cd headers
ln -s FDFTK.H fdftk.h
And that should get you going... and to whoever is maintaining the configure script, please be aware there are changes in the FDF Toolkit.
I have tried to use the scripts above by adam and Toppi and I have been unable to get them to work unless I save the generated fdf file and then open it manually in acrobat.
I tried a lot with FDF -> PDF and merging these documents...
in my opinon xfdf is more handy than fdf... for those who'd like to try: feel free to use this little function to generate an xfdf document from an array.
function array2xfdf($xfdf_data, $pdf_file) {
// Creates an XFDF File from a 2 dimensional
// Array Format: "array ("key1" => "content1", "key2" => "content2");
$xfdf = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>\n";
$xfdf .= "<xfdf xmlns='http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/' xml:space='preserve'>\n";
$xfdf .= "<fields>\n";
// Loop -> Array to XFDF Data
foreach ($xfdf_data as $key => $val) {
$xfdf .= "<field name='".$key."'>\n";
$xfdf .= "<value>".$val."</value>\n";
$xfdf .= "</field>\n";
// XFDF "Footer"
$xfdf .= "</fields>";
$xfdf .= "<f href='".$pdf_file."'/>";
$xfdf .= "</xfdf>";
return $xfdf;
For those of you struggling with FDF in Internet Explorer, here is your solution:
This will fix the page not found error.
If you want to add FDF support without rebuilding your RedHat EL3 / Fedora PHP RPMs, see instructions at http://phprpms.sourceforge.net/fdf
The simplest thing to do is get the FDF data from $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA. (unless you have the server library installed none of the fdf data gets parsed!) This is typical of what you get:
1 0 obj
/FDF << /Fields [ << /V (0)/T (amount0)>> << /V (0)/T (amount1)>> << /V (0)/T (amount2)>>
<< /V (0)/T (amount3)>> << /V (0)/T (amount4)>> << /V (0)/T (amount5)>>
<< /V (0)/T (amount6)>> << /V (0)/T (amount7)>> << /V (0)/T (amount8)>>
<< /V (0)/T (amount9)>> << /V /0102 /T (chase_bk)>> << /V (0)/T (count)>>
<< /V (0)/T (invtotal)>> << /V (12/21/2000)/T (sent_ap)>> << /V /Off /T (spec_hand)>>
<< /V (041232)/T (transit_no)>> << /V (THIS FORM IS NOT COMPLETE!!!)/T (X)>>
/F (http://x.com/forms/AA00390q.pdf)>>
/Root 1 0 R
kill everything before the [ and then parse it down into key value pairs.
I wrote this to create an FDF, make sure you do a
header("Content-type: application/vnd.fdf");
before you echo the returned value to the user.
function FDFput($FDFpage){
$A = "%FDF-1.2\n1 0 obj\n<< \n/FDF << /Fields [ \n";
$C = " ] \n" ;
if ($FDFpage>"" ) {$C .=" /F ($FDFpage)>>\n";}
$C .= ">>\n>> \nendobj\ntrailer\n\n<</Root 1 0 R>>\n%%EOF\n";
while (list($key, $val) = each($FDFData))
if (strlen(trim($val)) > 0 && is_string($key))
$B .= "<</T ($key) /V (". $val . ")>>\n";
//echo "<</T ($key) /V (". $val . ")>>\n";
return $A.$B.$C;
It ain't perfect - but it works. (I use HTML for posting to the server, FDF to the browser)
Basic FDF data is easy to create using native PHP; you don't need Adobe's FDF Toolkit. I wrote a function for this purpose called forge_fdf(). You can download it from:
I created it for my book, PDF Hacks. An example of forge_fdf() in action can be viewed online:
Download the full code for this online example from:
Note how the PDF form data is submitted back to the server via POST rather than FDF. No need to parse FDF.
Sid Steward
Here is yet another example of generating pre-filled PDFs without using the FDF functions. This function takes two args: a URL to the PDF (like "http://domain.com/path/to/form.pdf" and an array with all the field's values.
WARNING!! THIS FUNCTION SENDS HTTP HEADERS! It MUST be called before
any content is spooled to the browser, or the function will fail!
void output_fdf (string $pdf_file, array $pdf_data)
$pdf_file: a string containing a URL path to a PDF file on the
server. This PDF MUST exist and contain fields with
the names referenced by $pdf_data for this function
to work.
$pdf_data: an array of any fields in $pdf_file that you want to
populate, of the form key=>val; where the field
name is the key, and the field's value is in val.
function output_fdf ($pdf_file, $pdf_data) {
$fdf = "%FDF-1.2\n%����\n";
$fdf .= "1 0 obj \n<< /FDF ";
$fdf .= "<< /Fields [\n";
foreach ($pdf_data as $key => $val)
$fdf .= "<< /V ($val)/T ($key) >> \n";
$fdf .= "]\n/F ($pdf_file) >>";
$fdf .= ">>\nendobj\ntrailer\n<<\n";
$fdf .= "/Root 1 0 R \n\n>>\n";
$fdf .= "%%EOF";
/* Now we display the FDF data which causes Acrobat to start */
header ("Content-Type: application/vnd.fdf");
print $fdf;
Here is an easy script to output fdf data to the browser without using the fdf toolkit or creating an actual fdf file on the server.
By the way acrobat is very picky about line breaks so you must leave the "\n" in the script. The script reads the variables posted to it from a form use POST and creates a fdf file from them. The field names posted to this script must match the field names in the pdf. Acrobat will ignore any that don't match.
//path to pdf file
$fdfdata = "%FDF-1.2\n%����\n";
$fdfdata .= "1 0 obj \n<< /FDF ";
$fdfdata .= "<< /Fields [\n";
//loop that adds the field names and values
foreach($values as $key=>$val)
$fdfdata.="<< /V ($val)/T ($key) >> ";
$fdfdata .= "]\n";
$fdfdata .= "/F ($url) >>";
$fdfdata .= ">>\nendobj\ntrailer\n<<\n/Root 1 0 R\n>>\n";
$fdfdata .= "%%EOF";
/*** Now we display the FDF data which causes Acrobat to start ***/
header ("Content-Type: application/vnd.fdf");
print $fdfdata;
You can use javascript in the pdf to read the values from a GET method posted directly to the pdf. you can see both methods here: http://laundrymat.tv/pdf/
re. g8z at yahoo dot com 18-Oct-2004 06:46
I think there is a line missing in
foreach ($keys as $key => $value)
$key = addcslashes($key, "\n\r\t\\()");
$fdf .= "<< /T ($key) /V /$value >> \n";
I have changed it to read
$key = addcslashes($key, "\n\r\t\\()");
$value = addcslashes($value, "\n\r\t\\()");
$fdf .= "<< /T ($key) /V /$value >> \n";
Now all the check boxes and radio buttons are populated, not just the last one in the form as was happening before.


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O'Reilly does the tech community a great service by publishing their quarterly analyses of tech book sales. Yesterday, Mike Hendrickson posted part 4 of the Q1 07 analysis, which details programming languages.
The book sales statistics aren't meaningful in and of themselves, because they simultaneously overstate and understate what's actually happening within the tech world. The general opinion is that Java is important, Ruby is hot, and Fortran is deader than dead, and the book sales statistics seem to back this up. Other data, like counting job postings on the web, can lead to similar conclusions. However, this isn't the entire story -- Fortran is still an incredibly useful language in certain circles (physics and climate simulations, for example), even if the people who rely on it don't buy books or hire frequently.
Although book sales don't paint the whole story, they do provide show some interesting trends and point to questions that deserve further investigation.
For example, Java and C# books each sell at a combined rate of over 50,000 units per quarter, which reinforces (but does not prove) the view that most of the 'developer mass' is focused on these languages. JavaScript, Ruby, and PHP are among the languages that are now shipping over 25,000 units per language per quarter.
In Mike's 'second tier' grouping are languages like Perl and Python, which are now shipping roughly 10,000 units per quarter. That probably deserves some additional analysis; Perl is somewhat stagnant, due to Perl 5 appearing to be in maintenance mode as Perl hackers wait (and wait, and wait) for Perl 6. Also, many recent Perl titles have been hyper-focused on specific modules that aren't widely used, or are only marginally better than the online documentation. So perhaps this indicates that Perl programmers don't buy many Perl books, or perhaps it means that Perl programmers are moving to Java/C#/Ruby to pay the mortgage. Either way, this data is inconclusive.
In the penultimate tier are languages that sell less than 1,000 units per quarter, and include Tcl, Lisp, Scheme, Lua and Haskell. Interestingly, 345 Haskell books sold in Q1 07, compared to 47 in Q1 06, an over 600% increase year-on-year. However, Mike also points out: "[t]he four Haskell titles are averaging fewer than 30 copies per month".[1]
Again, this data is interesting, but inconclusive. Ruby titles experienced a meteoric rise a couple of years ago, when the Pragmatic Programmers released two bestsellers around Ruby. Before that, Ruby titles sold poorly; recently, they are selling over 25,000 units per quarter, and the trend is increasing.
Maybe the answer here is that Haskell is poised to make a similar meteoric rise, and leave the functional programming ghetto. Maybe the answer is that people interested in learning Haskell aren't buying expensive new books, but rather buying used copies, borrowing books, or learning from online references. Maybe the answer is that the four English-language titles on Haskell aren't delivering what the book-buying public needs, indicating that the time is right for a Pragmatic Haskell to repeat the success of Programming Ruby.
Somehow, I think the answer lies in a combination of these three possibilities.
I know that when I was going through Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming and The Haskell School of Expression, I read through them to figure out what the compiler was trying to do with the code I was trying to write. Once I got comfortable, I didn't refer back to them at all. Instead, I read through numerous papers and online tutorials. The online docs and ghci were what I referred to most to explain what was going on. Today, I am quite comfortable lending out my Haskell books to a close friend. When I was programming in Perl for a living, I would have been much more likely to order a second copy of a Perl book (through work, of course) to lend to a friend than to let go of my only copy of a book.
I wonder if my experience is typical or aberrant, and what that means to the future prospects of selling Haskell books in 2008 or 2009...
[1] The same analysis points out that Practical OCaml is selling under 40 units per quarter. With so little data to analyze, I wonder if this reflects the lack of buzz around OCaml, a general lack of interest in OCaml, or a general lack of interest in this particular title...
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Analyzing Book Sales
Posted by Adam Turoff at Thursday, May 17, 2007
1 comment:
- Jon Harrop said...
We sold 37 copies of the book OCaml for Scientists in Q1 2007, at £85 each.
I think the moral is: if you want to make money from programming books then publish it yourself.
- May 18, 2007 at 11:44 AM
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Exterior Color:
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Interior Color:
2.2L 4 Cyl.
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2007 Chevrolet HHR ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Retro-SUV gets power boost for 2007.
The Chevy HHR is a handy wagon that celebrates a heritage that dates to the 1949 GMC Suburban panel delivery truck. HHR stands for Heritage High Roof, and the roof of the HHR is high. The Chevy HHR is built on a smaller scale, but there are no bones about its retro styling. Its retro look is best exemplified in the HHR Panel Van.
We found the Chevy HHR to be fun to drive. It isn't a sports car, but it's nimble and we were pleased with its acceleration. The HHR feels more responsive than its horsepower, torque, and transmission ratio numbers suggest. Plus, it gets decent fuel economy.
The interior wasn't as functional as we'd have liked, however, and the base cloth fabric left us wishing we'd ordered the optional leather.
The Chevrolet HHR was launched as a new model in 2006, and it remains relatively unchanged for 2007 with the exception of slightly more powerful engines and a few additional new color choices. New exterior color options for 2007 include Imperial Blue Metallic and Golden Teal Metallic; a new interior color option is Ebony.
The HHR is built on the platform of the Chevy Cobalt compact and incorporates its best features: engine, transmission and suspension. The HHR is meant to compete against the Chrysler PT Cruiser, as well as the Honda Element. It also serves as an alternative to a Jeep Liberty or Ford Escape.
The Panel Van LT features smooth, windowless side panels and rear cargo doors with no handles. The rear cargo doors open via an instrument panel button.
The Chevrolet HHR comes in LS and two grads of LT trim, 1LT and 2LT. The LS comes standard with GM's solid 2.2-liter, double-overhead-cam four-cylinder Ecotec engine, making 149 horsepower; the 1LT offers an optional 2.4-liter version of that same engine rated at 175 horsepower; and the 2LT makes that powerplant standard. All three models come standard with a five-speed manual transmission; a four-speed automatic is optional ($1,000) and comes packaged with remote starting.
Standard equipment on the LS ($16,595) includes cloth upholstery, air conditioning, power windows and locks, power mirrors, remote keyless entry, front intermittent wipers, rear-window wiper, power driver's seat with lumbar support, and 16-inch aluminum wheels.
The 1LT ($17,595) adds an MP3 player with a jack for an iPod, eight ways to adjust the driver's seat, and satin chrome trim.
The 2LT ($19,395) adds the 2.4-liter Ecotec engine, anti-lock brakes, traction control, fog lamps, a 260-watt Pioneer sound system with seven speakers, 17-inch aluminum wheels, sport-tuned suspension and bright chrome trim.
The HHR Panel LT ($18,005) comes with the Satin Chrome exterior package, the sports suspension, 17-inch painted aluminum wheels. The Pioneer sound system is optional.
Safety features include optional front and rear side-curtain airbags ($395). ABS comes standard on the 2LT, and is optional for the LS and 1LT ($400). Electronic stability control is not available.
If there's ever been a case of a picture of a so-called SUV being worth a thousand words, the HHR should be it. It looks like a 1949 panel delivery truck, with the edges smoothed over. Today we call such fenders flared, and they are sculpted for effect; back in those days, they were designed to be functional rather than for an edgy look.
Actually, that flared description seems to apply only to the rear; the front fenders simply hang out there over the tires, as they should to be truly retro, and they are nicely rounded, at least to their outside edges, where they are flattened.
The tail lights are two round red vertical bulbs on each side. The big grille is chrome, every inch of it, and looks almost exactly like the '49 Suburban grille. The headlights, however, are modern glittering wedges, containing one big beam and the turn signal.
The front and rear bumpers are molded plastic, unlike the steel in the body. Technically, they may be part of the fascia, but because they take the conspicuous shape of bumpers, they are more like square lumps extending from the extremities of the vehicle.
The glass runs neatly uninterrupted all around the vehicle, with five rectangular windows from B-pillar around the rear to B-pillar. There's something about the simple shape of these windows that gives the HHR a low-rider look, although the roof itself is relatively high, as the name declares. Our test HHR was fitted with chrome roof rails, and we suggest not getting them. Roof rails are almost useless without crossbars. If you're planning to strap stuff to the roof, we think this vehicle would look more appropriate with a functional black aftermarket rack.
The Panel Van features smooth, windowless sides that give a cleaner, more retro, more hot rod look than the standard models. It features shaved rear door handles. The lack of windows adds security for valuables inside. This design also lends itself to wraps and customization.
The tan cloth interior, despite its name of Cashmere Cloth, looks like upholstery that might be found in an inexpensive furnished rental unit. Many other SUVs have nice-looking, rugged cloth interiors nowadays.
We couldn't find a comfortable seating position; the problem seemed to lie in the contour of the seatback. And unless the seat was in its lowest position, our head hit the headliner (5-foot, 10-inch driver). Speaking of headroom, there isn't a lot of it, in spite of the high roof.
There's no significant storage in any console between the seats; two cupholders and one slot is all. The door pockets are small. There's a useful flip-up compartment on top of the dash, however, as well as a small glovebox.
In the rear, there's one cupholder and small door pockets. The back of the front passenger seat has a tight storage net, but not the back of the driver's seat.
The windows are controlled on the console by four buttons located just forward of the gear lever. So if you park with the windows down, and want to lock the car, you have to reach down with two hands in front of the gear lever, and hold the buttons down two at a time (or reach with one hand, and hold the four buttons down consecutively, and wait). Even operating the driver's window, at toll booths for example, requires leaning forward and reaching down. Window switches should be on the driver's door.
The turn signal makes a loud, rapid, annoying click. The rearview mirror blocks a significant chunk of forward visibility out the smallish windshield.
The gauges and controls are standard GM issue. Superfluous chrome rings and trim, and instruments designed to look cool, rather than to be easily readable. One good thing (even if it is bright chrome) is the door handle, an ergonomically correct ring which actuates with a horizontal inward pull.
If the HHR misses on the little interior things, at least the cargo storage possibilities are excellent, although the total cargo area of 55.6 cubic feet is 8.4 less than in the PT Cruiser. The rear split 60/40 seat folds flat very easily, as does the front passenger seat; and since the 60-percent side of the rear seat is on the left, a long item like a ladder can be slipped in diagonally, a nice feature. The rear cargo floor flips up to reveal a five-inch-deep tray useful for storage. The rear liftgate is one piece, and raises easily.
Legroom is lacking in the rear seat. Kids are always fine, as long as three of them can share one drink. We actually carried six 10-year-old boys on a soccer team for 60 miles in the HHR, and they were all happy, even the two who squeezed into the way-back. Adults wouldn't be as happy in the HHR's back seats.
The Panel Van has a rubberized floor that should be good for delivery or business or hobby uses. Rearward visibility is poor, however.
Driving Impression
The Chevy HHR's 2.4-liter Ecotec is a wonderful little engine, and it has a slight boost in horsepower and torque numbers for 2007. It's an aluminum four-cylinder, with 16 valves, electronic fuel injection and variable valve timing. It makes 175 horsepower and 165 pound-feet of torque at 5000 rpm, numbers which don't indicate anything special. In fact, that torque peak suggests that the low-rpm pulling power might be weak. But it's not. We drive up a steep, slow hill every day, and the HHR plugged up the hill like a tractor, with no shifting-down of the automatic transmission.
Transmission ratios have a lot to do with this efficient delivery of power. Curiously, there's nothing in the ratios of the HHR four-speed automatic that indicate it should make this hill so easily, either. All we can say is that the pulling power of the HHR 2LT is excellent.
We suspect the five-speed Getrag manual transmission (same as in the PT Cruiser) would be a better bet for the HHR than the automatic, but we have no complaints with the four-speed automatic. The automatic includes remote starting, and climbing into a toasty car on icy mornings after starting it from a warm house during morning coffee is a nice luxury. We liked the way the automatic could be easily manually downshifted, even though it doesn't feature a separate manual mode. And we liked how it held second gear going down that same steep, slow hill.
Acceleration was equally impressive. Onto the freeway, foot on the floor, and the HHR 2LT really scoots, which makes it a lot of fun. The 2.4-liter engine is quiet, thanks partly to special laminated steel in the firewall.
The 2.4-liter engine is efficient, also. It gets the same EPA-rated 22/27 mpg City/Highway (with manual transmission) as the standard 149 hp, 2.2-liter engine. Premium fuel is recommended but not required for the 2.4-liter. During one week in the 2LT, we averaged 23.4 miles per gallon, as indicated by the digital data on the dash. That included mostly around-town driving, plus about 120 freeway miles with a full load of passengers and the cruise control set at 70. The HHR got slightly better mileage at that freeway pace than it did light-footed around town.
The 2LT has a sport-tuned suspension with 17-inch aluminum wheels, as well as anti-lock brakes. There is no harshness to the ride around town, or over freeway bumps for that matter. The HHR is nimble, though the suspension shows its limitations when driven like a sports car. Chevrolet said it put a lot of time into the calibration of the rack-and-pinion steering with power assist, and we would say it feels just right, around town.
The brakes are 11.65-inch discs in front, 10-inch drums in rear, and have an easy feel. Electronic brake-force distribution, which electronically adjusts the braking so that the rear wheels don't lock up, is not available.
The Chevy HHR is an SUV that celebrates the classic looks of the 1949 Chevy panel delivery truck. It's available with a great little engine, the 2.4-liter Ecotec. It's front-wheel drive, so it's not ideal for winter weather or going off the pavement, and it offers a mere 55.6 cubic feet of cargo space. The fact that the seats can fold flat helps increase the utility. But in the end, it's all about styling.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Sam Moses filed this report from the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Valley.
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Thanks, Craig.
When a system is experiencing severe cache buffer chain (CBC) latch contention and many of the child latches are active, one of the common Oracle focused solutions is to increase the number of CBC latches. This typically yields some benefit because both the CPU time and the non-idle wait time per SQL statement execution decreases. But why is CPU time and non-idle wait time reduced? This is what this blog entry is all about...
If you just want the "bottom line," scroll down to the last section.
Getting a time perspective.
For the experimental results to really make sense, we need to look at performance from a time and also a unit of work time perspective.
One way to categorize the time related to processing a piece of Oracle work (e.g., buffer get, SQL statement) is to place the time into two buckets; CPU time and non-idle Oracle wait time (i.e., wait time). For example, if on average a SQL statement consumes 1 second of CPU time and 2 seconds of wait time per execution, then the elapsed time is 3 seconds.
For reference, a buffer get is sometimes call a logical IO or for short LIO or lio. This statistic can be gathered from v$sesstat and v$sysstat with the statistic name session logical reads.
It turns out that the CPU consumption per piece of Oracle work is very consistent regardless of the workload intensity. (This is a key subject in my Oracle performance courses and I will not get into the details in this blog entry.) What continues to slow performance is as the workload intensity increases the wait time increases.
So it follows that there are three fundamental ways to reduce the time it takes to process a buffer get, SQL statement, or a group SQL statements. You can either reduce the amount of work required (i.e., workload intensity), the CPU consumption, or the non-idle Oracle wait time. Increasing parallelism is also another option, but I'll save that discussion for another time.
When we talk about time, it needs to be related to a task. Like the time related to driving to work, mowing the lawn, having a conversation with someone, or completing a SQL statement. These tasks are actually made up of many small movements or pieces of work. When referring to driving to work, a movement that makes practical sense can be the number tire revolutions. When referring to a SQL statement, a practical movement could be a buffer get. I commonly call a movement a unit of work or a piece of work.
Let's focus on a buffer get as the movement, that is a unit of work. The elapsed time of a SQL statement can be expressed as the sum of the time for doing all the necessary buffer gets, that is, all the movements as expressed as buffer gets. For example, if a SQL statement's elapsed time is 3 seconds and 10000 buffer gets are required to complete the statement, then the average time to complete each buffer get is 0.0003 seconds or simply 0.0003 seconds per buffer get.
One of the advantages of working at the unit of work level is we can take advantage of all the research, theory, and mathematics related to Operations Research. In my next blog entry, I will demonstrate how this blog's experimental results match Operations Research.
As mentioned above, there are three fundamental ways to reduce the time it takes to process a piece of work, that is, a unit of work. We can reduce the CPU it takes to process the piece of work, reduce the wait time related to the piece of work, or we can reduce the number of pieces of work we must process. For example, suppose a SQL statement's elapsed time is 3 seconds, 10000 buffer gets are required to complete the statement, 2 seconds of CPU are consumed, and there is 1 second of Oracle non-idle wait time. With just these bits of information we know, can generalize, and can quantify the performance situation like this:
- 10000 buffers were processed over the 3 second elapsed time. This means the workload was 3333.333 buffers/second or 3.333 buffers/ms. (10000/3 buffers/sec X 1/1000 sec/ms = 3.333 buffers/ms)
- It took 2 seconds of CPU to process all 10000 buffers. This means the CPU time required to process a single buffer was 0.0002 seconds or 0.0002 sec/buffer or 0.020 ms/buffer. (2/10000 seconds/buffer X 1000/1 ms/sec = 0.200 ms/buffer)
- There was 1 second of non-idle Oracle wait time involved when processing the 10000 buffers. This means the wait time associated with processing each buffer was 0.0001 seconds or 0.0001 sec/buffer or 0.100 ms/buffer. (1/10000 seconds/buffer X 1000/1 ms/sec = 0.100 ms/buffer)
E = Work X Time per Work
E is the elapsed time (e.g., 2 seconds)
W is the amount of work to be completed (e.g., 10000 buffer gets)
Time per Work is the CPU and the wait time associated with processing a single piece of work. (e.g., 3 seconds.
Taking this a step further:
E = Work X ( CPU time per work + wait time per work )
And there we have it! We can reduce the elapsed time (E) by either reducing the work (Work), the CPU time per unit of work, or by reducing the wait time per unit of work. While this may seem rather theoretical (and it is to some degree), as I will detail below this is important to understanding why adding CBC latches to a system that is experiencing severe CBC latch contention can improve performance.
A warning: While this a very simple way to model elapsed time and valid in many cases, it is also limited...much like a paper airplane models a commercial jet or a benchmark models a real production Oracle system. But just as with many models, we can learn a tremendous amount about a specific area of interest in a very complicated system...that for practical purposes is impossible to replicate.
How does this relate to adding CBC latches?
Note: This is probably the most important section in this blog, so please read it carefully.
Answer: Because when we add CBC latches, Oracle does not have to spin as many times and/or sleep as many times when acquiring a latch. Spinning on a latch consumes CPU, therefore reducing spinning reduces CPU consumption, which reduce CPU consumption per unit of work. Sleeping less often reduces non-Oracle wait time (latch: cache buffer chains), which reduces wait time per unit of work. Said another way, when we spin less, we consume less CPU. And when we sleep less, we wait less.
Another way of looking at this is to understand that when a process spins, it is actually executing lines of Oracle code. For example, suppose each spin executes 5 lines of code and to process a buffer it is currently taking around 4000 spins. However, through Oracle tuning it is now only taking 100 spins to process a buffer. This means the lines of code executed went from 20000 (5 X 4000) down to 500 (5 X 100). Since each line of code executed consumes CPU, we have purposefully and truly reduced the CPU required to process a buffer get and consequently also a buffer get dependent SQL statement's elapsed time. But it gets better! If a process spins less they are more likely to sleep less also, reducing wait time.
From a conceptual perspective, think of it like this: If there are more latches available yet the number of sessions competing for the latches remains the same, a session will be competing with fewer sessions when attempting to acquire the latch. In addition to this, a session is less likely to be asking for a latch that another process already has acquired. This results in less spinning (CPU reduction) and sleeping (wait time reduction).
But is this what really happens in Oracle systems?
Short answer: Yes. To demonstrate this an experiment is needed.
Experimental Design.
I created a system with a severe cache buffer chain load. The workload consisted of many queries in which all the blocks reside in the buffer cache. The server consists of a single 4 core Intel CPU, running Red Hat Linux, and Oracle 11.2.
I actually did two experiments. They are related but with one key difference. One only alters the number of CBC latches (Experiment 1) and the second alters both the CBC latches and the number of chains (Experiment 2).
The Downloads.
Here are the download links:
- Click here, to download and view online the text file containing the various data collection and reporting scripts.
- Click here, to download and view online the PDF file of the Mathematica notebook for Experiment 1.
- Click here, to download and view online the PDF file of the Mathematica notebook for Experiment 2.
- Click here, to download the source Mathematica file for Experiment 1.
- Click here, to download the source Mathematica file for Experiment 2.
- Click here, to download all the above five file in a single zip file.
Experimental Design - Experiment 1: Altering the CBC latches
The workload consisted of 20 processes running queries in which all the blocks reside in the buffer cache. This created a massive CPU bottleneck with an OS CPU run queue consistently between 12 and 20 with the CPU utilization pegged at 100%.
I was disappointed I could not simply reduce the number of CBC latches to as low as I wanted. This would allow a very nice trend to develop...but Oracle is not interested in my experiments...they want to ensure a DBA does not make a CBC change that will clearly, as we'll see, hurt performance.
For this experiment I altered the number of CBC latches (parameter, _db_block_hash_latches); 1024 (minimum Oracle would allow), 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, and 32768. For each CBC latch setting I gathered 90 samples at 180 seconds each. This means 540 samples were gathered for a total of 97,200 seconds...but this does not include the instance restart time, stabilization time, etc. ...I gathered lots of samples!
Experimental Design - Experiment 2: Altering both CBC latches and Cache Buffer Chains
The workload consisted of 12 processes running queries in which all the blocks reside in the buffer cache. This created a massive CPU bottleneck with an OS CPU run queue consistently between 5 and 12 with the CPU utilization hovering around 94% to 99%. The bottleneck intensity was not nearly as severe as in Experiment 1 and probably more realistic then the Experiment 1 bottleneck.
For this experiment I altered the number of CBC latches and chains to; 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, and 65536. For each CBC latch setting I gathered 60 samples at 180 seconds each. Which means 540 samples were gathered for a total of 97,200 seconds...but this does not include the instance restart time, stabilization time, etc. ...again, I gathered lots of samples.
Experimental Results Summary - Experiment 1
With each increase in the number of latches, both the CPU and wait time per buffer get decreased. (The decrease is statistically significant with an alpha of 0.05.) While the CPU time per buffer get decreased around 4%, the wait time decreased from 19% to 55% resulting in a total time per buffer get decrease from 11% to 28%.
To keep things simple and to the point, I only included four figures below. You can view/download the entire statistical analysis, which contains around 30 graphs and all data samples by clicking on the "view PDF for Experiment 1" link in The Downloads section above. Here are the details...
- CBC latches is the number of latches during the sample gathering.
- Avg L is the average number of buffer gets processed per millisecond. L stands for Lambda, which is the common symbol for the arrival rate.
- Avg St is the average CPU consumed per buffer get processed. This is also called the service time, hence St. This is calculated as the total number CPU consumed divided by the total number of buffer gets during the sample interval of 180 seconds.
- Avg Qt is the average non-idle wait time per buffer get. This is also called the queue time, hence Qt. This is calculated as the total non-idle wait time divided by the total number of buffer gets during the sample interval of 180 seconds.
- Avg Rt is the time to process a single buffer get. This is also called the response time, hence Rt. It is calculated as simply the service time plus the queue time, that is, the CPU time plus the non-idle wait time per buffer get.
Figure 3 below is a response time graph based on our experimental data (shown in Figure 1 above) integrated with queuing theory. The three plotted points are based entirely on our sample data's arrival rate (buffer get per ms, column Avg L) and response time (CPU time and wait time ms per buffer get, column Avg Rt) for 1024 latches (blue point), 2048 latches (red point), and 4096 latches (orange point). When we integrate key Oracle performance metrics with queuing theory, we can create the classic response time curve, which is what you see in Figure 3 below. (This is one of the topics, including constructing the below graph, we delve into in my Advanced Oracle Performance Analysis course. This is also introduced in the last chapter of my book, Oracle Performance Firefighting.
In contrast to the typical "big bar" graph which shows total time over an interval or snapshot, the response time graph shows the time related to complete a single unit of work. In our case, the single unit of work is a single buffer get. The response time is the sum of both the CPU time and the wait time to process a single buffer get.
Also, notice that the blue dot is further to the left then both the red and orange dots. If the workload did not increase when the number of latches was increased, the response time improvement would have been much more dramatic. However, the system was allowed to stabilize and in this case, more worked flowed through the system. This workload increase diminishes the response time improvement... which probably makes the business very happy and possible the users as they "get more work done."
If you would like to visually see how the CBC structure works and also the buffer cache in general, I have created a free interactive visual tool you can experiment with. You can download it here. It's pretty cool! I also blogged about the initial release (think of this as the user guide) here.
In this experimental system, Oracle was clearly able to achieve additional efficiencies by increasing the number of CBC latches up to 4096 latches and buckets.
Figure 7 below is a response time graph based on our experimental data (Figure 5) and queuing theory. I explained this graph in some detail above related to Figure 3. In Experiment 2, the blue line is based our 256 latches and chains data, the red line on our 512 latches and chains data, and the orange line is based on 1024 latch and chain data. The results are similar to Experiment 1 in pattern, but the drop in the CPU time per buffer get, the drop in the wait time per buffer get and the resulting workload when the system stabilized is much more dramatic. I suspect this is due to the fact that the initial number of latches was significantly lower (256 compared to 1024), the number of chains was significantly lower (256 compared to probably over 100,000), and the load was not so ridiculously intense as in Experiment 1.
If you really want to dig into the statistics, which is actually pretty cool for this experiment, click on the "view PDF for Experiment 2" link in The Downloads section above.
Significance Details (for those who can't get enough)
If you are fascinated with statistical significance testing or just plain confused about how a P-Value relates to reality, take a look at the two figures below; Figure 9 and Figure 10. For background, if two sample sets match exactly (basically comparing a sample set to itself) and a significance test is performed, the resulting P-Value will be 1.0. If the P-Value is less than 0.05 (a standard threshold or cutoff value) then we will say there is a statistically significant difference between our sample sets. Also, while many of the sample sets were not normally distributed, the response times for sample set 7, 8, and 9 (16384, 32768, and 65536 latches and chains respectively) are indeed normally distributed. Mathematica automatically chose the T test for the significant test (specially what it calls, K-Sample T).
In our two cases, the visual comparison leads us to the correct conclusion because the P-Value comparing sample set 7 and 8 (Figure 9) is 0.0000 whereas the P-Value comparing sample set 8 and 9 (Figure 10) is .64605. The P-Value for Figure 9 clearly is below our 0.05 cut off and is therefore our sample sets are deemed different. However, the P-Value for Figure 10 is clearly above our 0.05 cut off and therefore statistically there is no real difference between sample set 8 and 9. If you look closely at Figure 5, Figure 6, Figure7, and Figure 8 above we can also infer this, but doing the actual significance test is always better... especially if you're going to stand up in front of management and make a statement.
1. A CPU bottlenecked CBC constrained Oracle system's performance will likely be improved by increasing the number of CBC latches beyond Oracle's default values... up to a point.
The bottom line for my experimental system is this: With a clear and very intense CPU bottleneck along with severe CBC latch contention, the CPU time and non-idle wait time per buffer get decreased as the number of CBC latches increased and also as the number of CB latches and chains increased... up to a point.
The bottom line for any Oracle system is this: With a clear and very intense CPU bottleneck along with severe CBC latch contention, the CPU time and non-idle wait time per buffer get decreased as the number of CBC latches was increased beyond the Oracle default value. But the benefit diminished as the number of CBC latches continued to increase. This statement is based on my experiments and field observations and is in no way a performance guarantee.
2. Performance improves because when we add CBC latches, Oracle does not have to spin as many times (CPU consumption reduced) and/or sleep as many times (wait time reduced) when acquiring a CBC latch.
3. If a SQL statement is constrained by CBC latch contention and buffer gets, as the time to process buffer get decreases then so will the SQL statement elapsed time.
4. Oracle tuning is required for optimal performance.
This experiment should reaffirm that tuning Oracle can make a significant performance difference. Of course tuning SQL, running SQL less often, and increasing OS capacity can increase performance. But if you want optimal performance, with very little effort in this case I would argue, you need to be able to tune Oracle as well.
I hope you enjoyed this blog entry as much as I did when creating it!
Thanks for reading,
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1-how did the first male and female human beings appeared?
2-is there moses, jesus, mohammed _peace be upon him_??
3-why are we on earth ? what is the purpose of living??
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Does the Quran tell me how I will know when I've found the religion that is worshiping the right god?
Quran will not tell u
it is a book :)
if u have a questions u can ask me :)
i will answer if i know and if i dont i will think and come back to u :)
Thanks for ur reply
So the Quran offers no means by which one might tell which religion follows a real god?
One of my questions, Hersham, is what is the distance, in miles, of a light year - I didn't find it in the video that you assured me would answer all of my questions, can you show me where it can be found in the Quran?
@archaepteryx i edit my reply mate with a video link
and btw i was replying doubtful questions not urs
yours can found in a physics book :)
or u can google it
That's OK, I can do it in my head - just a simple calculation of how many seconds in 365.25 days, times 186,282.3971 mps, or about 5 trillion, 878.5 million miles - I was just curious --
@Hesham - my mistake, but in all fairness, you weren' exactly clear.
Wouldn't be from Down Under, would you, mate?
Hey mate sorry can u explain the expression down under
english is my not main language
sorry for that again
"Down Under" is an expression designating Australia, where the word, "mate" is probably used more often than anywhere else in the world.
i am from Egypt
Hesham - then here is a TA site you might want to visit:
الملحـدين المصـريين - Egyptian Atheists - Think Atheist


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text: It's been a long time since we've seen anything from the fine folks in Corbin's car department. Well known for the banana-and-golf-ball shaped Sparrow, and the always-over-the-horizon Merlin, it seems they've got a running prototype of another model - the Raven. We're not here to judge, but we're going to go out on a limb and say its got a face only its designer could love. Really great gas mileage is a noble cause to strive or, but fer cryin' out loud the Prius effect only goes so far. There seem to be no details on pricing or availability, so based on the track record of the Merlin, this little Raven will be quoth'd nevermore. [Ravencar.com]