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A quick guide to premium aircraft.
#21 Posted 30 January 2014 - 04:55 AM
#22 Posted 01 February 2014 - 08:24 PM
#23 Posted 02 February 2014 - 08:07 PM
"Credibility down, Kill Ratio up!" - Joe 'Hoser' Satrapa
Aces (pre v1.9): Bulldog, A4N, Hawk III, F2A-1, I-16(e), Skua, Ar68, A6M1, P-36, XF4F-3, Bf-109B, Bf-110B, Bf-110 C6, Blenheim, Bf-109E, Bf-110E, P-40, P-40 M105, XFL-1, Spitfire I, M.20, Beaufighter, IL-2 (mod), XF4U-1, Mosquito, P-51A, Yak-7, Yak-1M, Bf-109F, La-5, Spitfire V, Me-410, F4U-1, Fw-190 A5, Yak-9, XP-50, P-39Q-15, Mustang Mk 1, P-38J, P-51D, Yak-9U, Bf-109G, La-7, Spitfire IX, A7M, Fw-190D, F7F, Yak-15, Me-262
#24 Posted 21 February 2014 - 07:12 AM
#25 Posted 26 February 2014 - 03:50 PM
My Wanted Planes: F5U Pancake, IL-20
My Hangar: F2A, I-15bis DM, Blenheim F, IL-2, A6M1 Zero, Ha 137, Hawk 75M, Ar 80, Focke-Wulf Fw 57
Key: = Premium/Reward Blue= Wanted Green= Wanted exclusive reward
#26 Posted 01 March 2014 - 02:36 AM
Panzer_In_Checkmate, on 26 February 2014 - 03:50 PM, said:
It is a special tester aircraft described at the beginning of this thread. It is not available to buy anymore.
#27 Posted 01 March 2014 - 02:43 AM
Is there a way we can collect the info on the promo code aircraft? How/When were they available... Odds of ever getting them.
Here a list:
- Polikarpov I-5 ShKAS
- Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stosser
- Curtiss F11C
- Curtiss Model 81A-1
- Curtiss P-36C Hawk
- Mitsubishi Ki-33
- Supermarine Type 224
#28 Posted 02 March 2014 - 06:23 AM
Chryses, on 01 March 2014 - 02:43 AM, said:
Is there a way we can collect the info on the promo code aircraft? How/When were they available... Odds of ever getting them.
Here a list:
Updated with "known" promotional aircraft of the NA sever. http://forum.worldofwarplanes.com/index.php?/topic/25302-a-quick-guide-to-premium-aircraft/page__pid__352706#entry352706
#29 Posted 03 March 2014 - 09:31 PM
Donnchadh, on 20 December 2013 - 03:05 PM, said:
So enthusiastic! I've never flown it, but this piques my curiousity - how would YOU compare it to the P-40 (and others in tier)?
SUPER late response...BUT:
The P-40-M105 has markedly less altitude performance and engine performance, but otherwise handles just like the P-40. (And they're buffing this specific 'con' a bit in the next patch, woot!)
Edited by TheGreenTank, 03 March 2014 - 09:31 PM.
#30 Posted 03 March 2014 - 11:22 PM
TheGreenTank, on 03 March 2014 - 04:31 PM, said:
SUPER late response...BUT:
The P-40-M105 has markedly less altitude performance and engine performance, but otherwise handles just like the P-40. (And they're buffing this specific 'con' a bit in the next patch, woot!)
Guns overheat way fast on the M105 as well, that is being adjusted this patch as well, but it's a definite con on the plane.
#31 Posted 04 March 2014 - 10:40 PM
#32 Posted 07 March 2014 - 06:14 PM
#33 Posted 11 March 2014 - 01:05 AM
Yes, it definitely needs to be said that 1.2 affected the Me.209V and XF4U-1
The 209V has gone from a boom and zoom "harasser" type fighter to a full fledged heavy killer. I've sawed multiple Bf.110s in half in a single pass from behind without the guns overheating. That is something the aircraft was completely incapable of before 1.2
The "Proto-sair" feels much more punchy now. Its guns don't overheat just by looking at the firing trigger and it's capable of downing aircraft in half a heat cycle now at close range.
Overall 1.2 has given both of these premiums a second wind and really made them quality investments rather than a circus side show that you pull out once a day for doubles.
Good hunting!
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787
#34 Posted 04 April 2014 - 06:27 PM
#35 Posted 08 April 2014 - 01:14 PM
#36 Posted 14 April 2014 - 01:36 PM
Chryses, on 01 March 2014 - 10:43 AM, said:
Is there a way we can collect the info on the promo code aircraft? How/When were they available... Odds of ever getting them.
Here a list:
AFAIK, the Model 81 is only available on the EU server, for now at least. A few months back, I saw 5 invite codes of this aircraft being given out on Reddit. It's also awarded for winning some in-game competition, something involving the training room mode IIRC. It's basically a stock P-40 placed at tier IV but with only two nose guns, resulting in poor firepower but better maneuverability.
Don't worry though, for there's another premium P-40 Tomahawk coming out soon, except that it's Chinese. Keep an eye out for it on the test server. =)
Brewster - for lasting mastery of the air
#37 Posted 14 April 2014 - 08:19 PM
Dreaming of better days. When this game had full matches, fiery dogfights, and hope for the future.
#38 Posted 17 April 2014 - 09:31 PM
#39 Posted 16 May 2014 - 05:38 PM
Aircraft available as of 1.3.0
Tier VI Grumman XP-50 "Mission Aircraft" Full price 3600 Gold.
The first of two aircraft made available for the "Getting the Goods" Mission for the month of May, 2014. The second ingame premium Heavy Fighter complements the American Heavy Fighter line with similar performance and flight characteristics.
- Good rate of climb with strong boost.
- Bombs are optional.
- Above average maneuverability (rated at 243. P-38J Lightning rated at 228 with optimal upgrades).
- Slightly below average hitpoints in it's class (rated at 300. P-38J Lightning rated at 310 without upgrades).
- Slightly below average firepower in it's class (rated at 179. P-38J Lightning rated at 241 without upgrades, Tier IV Bf 110 C-6 is rated at 292).
The mounted 20 mm M2 is a variant shared with the Lockheed P-38F Lightning and Lockheed P-38J Lightning. The mounted 12.7 mm AN/M2 is a variant shared with the Grumman XF4F-3, Bell XP-77 and Chance-Vought XF4U-1. The optional 100 pound bombs are shared with the Grumman F2F, F3F, F4F and Brewster F2A.
This plane is not currently available for purchase.
Tier VI Kawasaki Ki-88 "Mission Aircraft" Full price 3500 Gold.
The second of two aircraft made available for the "Getting the Goods" Mission for the month of May, 2014. This premium Japanese Fighter shares almost nothing in common with it's tech tree counterparts in terms of performance and/or maneuverability. The Ki-88 shares more traits with the North American P-51A Mustang, including the recommended playstyle.
- Good dive rate (with or without boost).
- Higher operational altitude then a typical Japanese aircraft of similar tiers.
- Above average firepower (rated at 194. Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero rated at 157 with optimal upgrades).
- Above average airspeed (rated at 553. Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero rated at 507 with optimal upgrades).
- Slightly below average maneuverability (rated at 284. Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero rated at 377, North American P-51A Mustang rated at 286, both with optimal upgrades).
- Below average climb rate, when not in optimal operational altitude range.
- Mounted 37 mm cannon is most effective at short range.
The mounted 37 mm Ho-203 is unique to this aircraft. The mounted 20 mm Ho-5 is unique to this aircraft.
This plane is not currently available for purchase.
Update 1.4. Both aircraft became available in the gift shop and through the ingame store.
Edited by Quesnel, 04 June 2014 - 08:13 PM.
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Rally Towels Are Back
The come-from-behind 12-11 win over the Rockies in a one-game stop in Denver on September 2 seemed like the pivotal game that could propel the Phillies to another postseason.
Well, that lasted 16 days until yesterday's four-batter, four-hit, four-run ninth inning that was capped by Jayson's walk-off homer.
Elias Sports Bureau: Werth's walk-off homer was the fourth time this season that the Phillies won a game in which they trailed by at least three runs in the ninth inning or later, the most such victories for any major-league team in one season since the 1979 Indians (also four). Philadelphia tied its single-season record for wins of that kind, set more than 100 years ago, in 1893.
Now, the Braves come to town for three trailing by three, instead two. 12 games left in the regular season, six against Atlanta.
The Phillies have their three aces set to start this series. Combined since August 1, Halladay-Hamels-Oswalt are 18-5 with 2.27 ERA. In September? How about 10-0.
Once gain, games aren't played on paper but on the field. And, the Phillies mode of thinking remains one game at a time.
Rally towels are back for the final six home games of the regular season. Thanks to Coca-Cola, tonight's sponsor; Citizens Bank, Tuesday and Pennsylvania Auto Theft Authority, Wednesday night.
National TV
MLB will carry tonight's game (blacked out locally).
ESPN will pick up Wednesday night's game (blacked out locally).
Go to the Lakewood BlueClaws who repeated as South Atlantic League champions on Saturday. Team was loaded with young talent that will be fun to watch as they move up the development ladder. Mark Parent, in his first year with the Phillies organization, managed the championship club.
The Phillies also won the championship in the Gulf Coast League under manager Roly deArmas.
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The rally towels make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside…lol It is almost OCTOBER!!
the Mets season is officially over

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- Top 10 Reasons to Give Up Soda
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Top 10 Reasons to Give Up SodaBy Steve Edwards
If you're looking for a scapegoat in the obesity epidemic, look no further than soda. It's the single greatest caloric source in the world, accounting for somewhere between 11 and 19 percent of all the calories consumed worldwide. It's cheap, addictive, and readily available, which generally means it'll take some willpower to avoid. But don't despair, as we at Beachbody® are here to help. We now present our top 10 reasons to give up soda. Drumroll, please . . .
- Soda may cause cancer. According to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, consuming two or more soft drinks per week increased the risk of developing pancreatic cancer by nearly twofold compared to individuals who didn't consume soft drinks. As reported, the study "followed 60,524 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study for 14 years. During that time, there were 140 pancreatic cancer cases. Those who consumed two or more soft drinks per week (averaging five per week) had an 87 percent increased risk compared with individuals who did not."
Then why, you're probably asking yourself, is this number 10 on our list, and why is soda still even on the shelf? Not that I'd challenge the ability of such large corporate power to hide such a thing but, in this case, the study slit its own throat. As one of the researchers noted, "Soft drink consumption in Singapore was associated with several other adverse health behaviors such as smoking and red meat intake, which we can't accurately control for," meaning that we have no way of knowing for sure if soda was the culprit. Still, it doesn't hurt to know that when you drink soda it lumps you into a fairly unhealthy user group.1
- It's not just about calories. Calories grab headlines, but recent science is showing that diet soda drinkers are still in the crosshairs. A 2005 study by the University of Texas Health Science Center showed there's a 41 percent increased risk of being obese—and a 65 percent increased risk of becoming overweight during the next 7 or 8 years—for every can of diet soda a person consumes in a day. Admittedly, this one should be higher on the list, but I wanted to make sure the article-skimming crowd knew the score up front: that diet sodas are very much a part of the problem.
- It's the water . . . and a lot more. Okay, so that was a beer slogan, but soda is also made up mainly of water, and when you're slinging as much of it as they are, and you need to sling it cheap, sometimes you can't help but run into problems with your supply chain. In India, Coca-Cola® has found itself in hot water, and not the kind they thought they were purchasing rights to. Two of their factories have been closed, but one continues to run amok.
According to a report in The Ecologist, "They accuse the company of over-extracting groundwater, lowering the water tables and leaving farmers and the local community unable to dig deep enough to get to vital water supplies. Since the bottling plant was opened in 2000, water levels in the area have dropped six metres, and when a severe drought hit the region earlier this year the crops failed and livelihoods were destroyed."2
- BPA: not just for water bottles anymore. Nalgene® and other water bottle companies took the heat when the dangers of bisphenol A (BPA) were made public a couple years back. While these companies went to great lengths to save their businesses, the soda companies somehow flew under the radar and continue to use it in their products. A recent Canadian study has found that BPA exists "in the vast majority" of the soft drinks tested. Most of these were under the national limits set for toxicity, but some were not. And remember how much soda the average person consumes, meaning odds are most soda consumers are at some risk.
"Out of 72 drinks tested, 69 were found to contain BPA at levels below what Health Canada says is the safe upper limit. However, studies in peer-reviewed science journals have indicated that even at very low doses, BPA can increase breast and ovarian cancer cell growth and the growth of some prostate cancer cells in animals."3
- Can convenience. As in the 1950s colloquialism: can it. Speaking of the 1950s, those were the happy days when most of our soda was consumed at soda fountains, obesity was a term hardly anyone had heard of, and the most feared epidemic was one involving atomically mutated insects taking over the world. Now instead of hoofing it down to the corner confectionery for one soda, we fill trucks with pallets of shrink-wrapped cans or bottles and quaff the stuff by the six-pack. Not only does this ensure that our diets will be out of balance, it wreaks havoc on the world around us. The bottled-water industry (which is mostly owned by the soda industry) famously uses 17 million barrels of oil a year, and the aluminum industry uses as much electricity as the entire continent of Africa. Not only that, aluminum mining accounts for a ton of toxic chemicals left behind for every ton of the metal produced.4
- The Frankenfood factor. Whether you consume diet or regular soda, you're getting all the genetically modified food you need and more, via high fructose corn syrup or aspartame. Both of these are under plenty of scientific as well as anecdotal scrutiny. Findings aren't pretty, but so far this multibillion-dollar industry has kept these sweeteners on the shelves while alternative sweeteners meeting cost requirements are explored. Since it's almost impossible to read health headlines without finding one of these ingredients in some type of controversy, I'll just use one example:
"The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition and food safety advocacy group, called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to review the claims, which stem from research conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation in Italy. The foundation reported that rats who consumed aspartame in exceedingly large quantities were more likely to develop cancer. CSPI executive director Michael Jacobson considers this an important finding that should not be overlooked." 5
I know, there I go again with the cancer. But some people need to be shocked in order to take action. For me, seeing the Diet Coke® and Mentos® experiment was all I needed to swear off the stuff.
- Foreign news cares how much soda we sell in our schools. How bad is your country's problem when the whole world is watching its daily actions? "Nearly one in three children and teenagers in the U.S. are overweight or obese and health experts say sugary drinks are part of the problem." 6 Yep, bad. The world is well aware of the problems soda is causing and is looking to us to lead. And we certainly are trying. Are you with the program?
"Under the voluntary guidelines, in place since 2006, full-calorie soft drinks were removed from school canteens and vending machines. Lighter drinks, including low-fat milk, diet sodas, juices, flavoured waters and teas were promoted in their place."6
And, while great and all, it appears that no one got the memo about diet sodas.
- Diet? Um, that's just like your opinion, man. When it comes to soda, treat the word "diet" as a slogan. A study at Boston University's School of Medicine linked diet soda with increased risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. To be more specific, the study "found adults who drink one or more sodas a day had about a 50 percent higher risk of metabolic syndrome," which is a cluster of risk factors such as excessive fat around the waist, low levels of "good" cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other symptoms that lead to heart disease and/or diabetes. And, for those of you only concerned about how you look in the mirror, "Those who drank one or more soft drinks a day had a 31 percent greater risk of becoming obese."
- Soda outkills terrorists. A study out of the University of California, San Francisco, shows that soda has killed at least 6,000 Americans in the last decade.
From ABC News: "The new analysis, presented Friday at the American Heart Association's 50th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, offers a picture of just how horrifying the damage done by excess consumption of sugary drinks can be.
"Using a computer model and data from the Framingham Heart Study, the Nurses Health Study and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, researchers estimated that the escalating consumption between 1990 and 2000 of soda and sugar-sweetened beverages, which they abbreviated as 'SSBs,' led to 75,000 new cases of diabetes and 14,000 new cases of coronary heart disease.
"What's more, the burden of the diseases translated into a $300 million to $550 million increase in health care costs between 2000 and 2010."7
- It's the "real thing" . . . not exactly. Should having the number-one source of calories in the world come from something that's entirely manmade be a metaphor for a dying world? It doesn't have to be this way. After all, there's nothing in soda that we need. In fact, there's nothing in soda that even comes from the earth except caffeine, and that's optional. It's a mixture of altered water (injected with carbon dioxide gas), artificial flavors (yes, "natural flavor" is artificial), artificial color, and phosphoric acid, along with its sole caloric source that is a by-product of genetically modified corn production and offers virtually no nutritional value. It's about as real as The Thing.
- Sources:
- 1 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/aafc-sdc020310.php
- 2 http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/373906/cocacola_just_part_of_ indias_water_freeforall.html
- 3 http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/03/05/popcans.html
- 4 http://www.pacinst.org/topics/water_and_sustainability/bottled_water/ bottled_water_and_energy.html, http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/books/eco/eech6_ss3
- 5 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=3317079&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
- 6 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8557195.stm
- 7http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/study-sugary-drinks-lead-early-grave/story?id=10019518 "
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Staying Fit While Traveling: Leave Jet Lag BehindBy Shaun T
As a performer and fitness presenter, I regularly travel through several time zones across the globe on my way to Europe or, well, you name the place, it's probably on my schedule. These long trips often have one negative result that everyone knows as "jet lag," and one of the most common symptoms I experience is a disruption in my normal sleep-wake cycle. Occasionally I find myself suffering from jet leg once I arrive at my destination, which can be really inconvenient because I need to be in peak performance mode. No one wants to bring in a choreographer from Hollywood just to have them napping offstage. I need to get off the plane and be ready to be dynamic as a dancer or fitness personality.
You don't have to be a performer to use these tips—so many of us travel for business or for family events and want to be at our best while away from home (and of course upon our return!).
If you've ever traveled for an extended period of time, you're familiar with the symptoms I'm talking about: sleepy during the day, wide awake at night, difficulty focusing, lack of memory, irritable, dizzy, headachy, sore muscles, and (often most uncomfortably) digestive upsets.
I've read various articles on this subject, and here are some tips that I've tried and personally find useful to combat jet lag:
- A few days before my trip, I try to reset my internal clock. For example, if I'm traveling to the East Coast from the West Coast, I aim to go to bed 1 hour earlier each night, and I get up an hour earlier than normal. This 1-hour difference in my internal clock really does minimize the jolt to my sleep patterns, so I try to put this tip into action any time I don't have a last-minute schedule and have a few days to prepare.
- I try to schedule daytime flights whenever possible in an attempt to avoid sleep loss and fatigue. I can then get settled at my destination, have a sensible dinner, and go to sleep pretty easily. Not to say that I can't be seen eating at a JFK Airport kiosk at midnight during a layover to Berlin, but I try to avoid that situation. And it goes without saying that you should avoid traveling when you're already sleep deprived.
- While on the plane, I wear comfortable clothes that allow me to be relaxed and not feel confined. The same goes for footwear as well. I often bring along a set of warm slipper socks with me so I can kick off my sneakers and chill.
- During the flight, I keep hydrated by sticking to at least one bottle of water and avoiding alcohol, sugary drinks, and caffeinated beverages.
- You may consider a mild sleep aid like melatonin or a "bedtime" tea (Yogi Tea has a good one) should you still suffer from sleep deprivation on day 2 or 3. This can finally get you back on track so you can snooze your way back on schedule. Most importantly, be patient with yourself and your body, as it may take you a day or two to acclimate.
Hope you find these helpful—I always find that sleep, like nutrition and exercise, is extra-important when you're on the go.
Peace out,
Shaun T
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P90X®/INSANITY® Fusion—Round 2, Days 1 to 180
DCIScreaminBugle adhered to his P90X/INSANITY fusion program with "hard work, sweat, tears, dedication, and motivation" from day 1 to day 180. Now watch his time-lapse YouTube® video to see his amazing results. You won't believe the change in his shoulders, back, arms—or especially his six-pack! We can't wait for round 3.
Recipe: Bubba's Bakalo Wings
While there's no shortage of athletes hawking chicken wings these days, they would've had pretty limited success in sports if they'd been consuming those deep-fried treats during their prime. Here's an easy-to-make recipe that'll give you a good shot of protein while you're watching the big game. This recipe's for the more cautious of palate, but if you've got a "hot tooth," we definitely recommend loading the recipe up with your favorite no-fat hot sauce.
- 1 lb. chicken drummettes (about 24 pieces)
- 2 Tbsp. honey
- 2 Tbsp. ketchup
- 1 Tbsp. Tabasco® sauce (or similar)
- 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
- No-fat hot sauce (optional)
- Paprika (to taste)
- Aluminum foil
- Resealable plastic bag (gallon size), or large bowl with cover
Remove skin from chicken. Mix honey, ketchup, Tabasco sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and your favorite no-fat hot sauce (optional, for added heat) in resealable plastic bag or large sealable bowl. Add chicken, shake thoroughly, and refrigerate for 4 hours or more to marinate.
When ready to cook, preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil. Remove chicken from bag or bowl, place on cookie sheet, and sprinkle with paprika. Bake uncovered until chicken is crisp and no longer pink in the center—about 30 minutes. Serves 12.
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Nutritional Information (per serving):
Calories Protein Fiber Carbs Fat Total Saturated Fat 89 10 g 0 g 4 g 2 g 1 g
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Large Hadron Collider Backgrounder
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Steve: Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk, posted on December 11th, 2011. I'm Steve Mirsky. Rumors are flying about the search for the long-sought Higgs Boson at Europe's Large Hadron Collider. The Higgs is the elementary particle hypothesized to be the origin of the mass of all matter, so finding it would be a pretty big deal. And our man in Europe, Davide Castelvecchi will be at the press conference on Tuesday, December 13th at which the LHC folks will tell us what, if anything, they've got. For a preview of that event, check out Davide's December 8th article on our Web site at http://www.ScientificAmerican.com. Also to preview the announcement, here's an interview I did months' back with Thomas LeCompte. Only one small section has been previously aired as a 60-Second Science podcast. Tom is with the Argon National Lab and is the physics coordinator for what's called the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. ATLAS is one of the two major detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. So Tom is in the thick of it. We talked about the instrument, the culture at the LHC and how he wound up at the most complex science experiment in history.
Steve: What about the energies that are currently being produced and where that's going to go? We're still going to get significantly higher energies than are currently being produced there? Is that right?
LeCompte: Correct. So we're running at seven TEV, trillion electron volts, which is three and a half times more than the Fermilab Tevatron which was previously the instrument that was able to get to the highest energies. We expected double that sometime over the next few years as we inch our way up. But for now, you know, a factor of three and a half is a lot. We're delighted to have this new round to be looking at, and it didn't seem to be worth the risk to really push the device. If you buy a brand new car, you usually don't drive it at 120 miles an hour out of the dealership parking lot.
Steve: Briefly, the ability to reach these higher levels of energy gives us what?
LeCompte: It helps us in many different ways. One is it just produces more particles that we'd like to look at, and it also produces heavier particles that we might not have been able to see before. So we win twice. Right, we're producing, we've got more of an energy read, so there are new things to see, but we can also see things much more clearly because we have many more events.
Steve: So, let's talk about your instrument within the instrument is the ATLAS and the ATLAS—A-T-L-A-S—stands for?
LeCompte: So, it's one of the worst acronyms ever. It stands for A Large Toroidal Apparatus. The ATLAS experiment is 44 meters long, 22 meters high, and it takes 3,100 people to build and operate. So it's really a scale well beyond anything we've ever done before.
Steve: And that unit is a detector within the vast ring of the LHC?
LeCompte: That's right Steve. So, there are actually four large detectors, two very large general purpose experiments. Then there's also two smaller specialized ones: ALICE, which looks at lead collisions, and LHC B, which looks at particles carrying the b-quark, the second heaviest quark. So these four experiments allow us to measure things in a complementary way, so that we don't have one experiment, you're not relying only on one experiment to tell you what's going on.
Steve: But you're involved in the ATLAS specifically?
LeCompte: Right, I was formerly the physics coordinator of the experiment, of ATLAS. But there are other things that we've done, you know, for example, in the U.S. one of the things we built is one of the sub-detectors in ATLAS called the calorimeter that measures the energy of these particles.
Steve: I used calorimeters in chemistry class, bomb calorimeters. Is this more sophisticated?
LeCompte: We like to think so. I'm not sure if that's the way we would characterize it. The word bomb is never supposed to appear anywhere near the LHC, but the idea is basically the same. You take a particle that contains energy, it gives up this energy in some way, and then you measure that. So in a bomb calorimeter, it's giving up this energy to the liquid that's inside it.
Steve: Just measure the temperature increase?
LeCompte: And you measure the temperature increase, and in our calorimeter, it gives up energy and instead of getting the temperature moving up, light is emitted, which we turn into electricity. So the idea is the same. That's why we use the word, even though the technology and the scale is completely different.
Steve: It's only about, what, 200 years better technology?
LeCompte: Right, and it's designed to do a slightly different thing, right? It's trying to measure, you know, what we think of is a lot of energy, but of course, you know, it's still microscopic. So to develop a device which can measure a fraction of an erg is really a remarkable thing, particularly when it's spread out over an area the size of a house.
Steve: So we're using these vast amounts of energy to then accomplish something that gives us a fraction of an erg to look at.
LeCompte: That's exactly right. And then we do it again and again and again. So there is, you know, we have to measure this energy and then in less than a microsecond, it has to completely clear out, so that we've got the next event and then the one after that and the one after that. So, the total energy is large, but the energy per collision is actually rather small, we just have very many of them.
Steve: So, the collisions are between protons. We're sending protons in different directions. They're going to smash into each other in the ATLAS detector, and then we're going to look at what happens?
LeCompte: That's exactly right. Would you like a job as my graduate student?
Steve: I've tried that already. I'm much better at this. So, what do we hope to see there and what do we—let me channel Donald Rumsfeld—what do we know we don't know and what do you think we might not still even know we don't know.
LeCompte: The unknown unknowns and the known unknowns.
Steve: Exactly.
LeCompte: So the thing we hope for more than anything else is the surprise, the thing nobody expected and could predict. And whenever I say that to reporters their first question is, "Well could you give me an example?" But we also know that the theory that we have now of how particles behave called the standard model is mathematically inconsistent at high energies. It gives you probabilities that are greater than one and less than zero. So, we know that something new has to happen at an energy scale somewhere above the Tevatron and probably within a factor of roughly 10. That's why the LHC has seven times as much energy and 10 times as much delivered beam than past experiments to give us this extra factor of 10 reach to see where things break down. Now people talk a lot about the Higgs mechanism. The Higgs particle is one of the many possible ways that this can happen, but it's certainly not the only one. So we're going to be looking very carefully in this new regime that we can look at to figure out exactly where our present model has to be changed. So that it becomes mathematically consistent. Now the more interesting question is, Will this get us to the true theory? Or will it just put a band aid on it and let us go up another order magnitude before we see where the problem is—you know, the next level. And of course, you know, we could guess that but until we have some real data, you know, speculation is just that—speculation.
Steve: So, for people who don't know, and I'm one of them, the protons smash into each other and you produce other particles and traceable energy. When you look at all that, what do you then do with it? What does it mean when you look at it?
LeCompte: So, this is collapsing many years of a PhD into a few moments.
Steve: That's what we like here.
LeCompte: Mostly what we do is we look for commonalities. We look for different events that share a common feature. So, one possible common feature would be events that have a large energy imbalance. Everything goes to one side of the detector and not the other. Now getting one or two of these, you expect to get a certain fraction of them from processes we know about, but you know, and also from mismeasurement, you know, we don't have a perfect detector; but if we were to see a large excess of this, this would be a sign of new physics. Another possibility is you see particles that when you combine them, they clump in a particular region; for example, they all have the same mass. That would be indicative that you've discovered a new particle that's decaying into these other guys.
Steve: You don't mean they physically clump with each other. You mean the qualities of the particle are similar to each other.
LeCompte: Exactly, that if you look at, you know, a large number of events that you see the kinematics—that is the decay properties, all looking very similar. So if you plotted them in a graph, you might see a bump or if you plot them in a 2-D graph, you'd see a dark spot; or a light spot, right, if you see an area which is unusually depleted of events that would also be something that's interesting. So, we look to find things in events that look like other similar guys, and then we're more convinced that what we're seeing is really something which is produced by nature and not something which is just an artifact of the experimental measurement. That's also why we have multiple experiments, right. We've got two independent teams, so that if one has a really clever analysis idea, you know, you can compare it with what's gone on in the other experiment to make sure that this analysis idea isn't creating new science, it's only discovering what's really there.
Steve: So, do you like to guess about what you think you might find or are you more sanguine with just doing the experiments and allowing yourself to be surprised?
LeCompte: Well, I could argue that I have professional theorists whose job it is to guess. But, you know, nobody ever got fired for discovering the wrong thing.
Steve: As long as you discover something. And, in fact, Steven Lindberg said, if we don't find anything that'll really be interesting.
LeCompte: Right, you know, and of course, something has to happen because if you ask how often a certain process occurs, and you get a negative probability, you know that can't be it. So we know that even in the world where nothing happens, something somewhere has to change. There has to be a qualitative difference in events, if you like, above the TEV threshold from events below the TEV threshold and by looking for them, we're hoping to be able to see something.
Steve: If you see popular accounts of what the LHC does, you'll often see described in terms of "trying to approximate the conditions at the big bang". What's wrong with that description?
LeCompte: So I don't think it's wrong. You've noticed I haven't used that analogy. One of the things that's different is this is a much simpler situation, right. We have a lot of energy in the small space, like you did at the big bang, but we don't have a whole universe in a small space. And indeed when we run protons, we only start with two particles, rather than the, I don't know, 1050, or however many particles there are in the visible universe. So it's a much simpler system, and it's a few-body system. If you really want to understand what's going on with the early universe, you have to understand how all of these interactions are going on. That said, it's not a completely bad analogy either. We know that the universe is expanding and cooling, so earlier on it was smaller and hotter, and we're studying the properties of small, hot things. But I don't like saying that because it gives people the idea that the only thing we're doing is really trying to, you know, turn back the clock. That's one direction we're looking at. We're also trying to just in general study the behavior of matter, energy, space and time on small scales.
Steve: What is it about this field that attracted you?
LeCompte: How much tape do you have here? (laughs)
Steve: It's digital—there's no tape at all.
LeCompte: So, my background is actually little bizarre. As an undergraduate, I went to M.I.T. and I was going to be some kind of engineer, and I really didn't know what kind of engineer. And the institute is very good about letting you explore. And then after a couple of years, I realized I had to graduate, and I looked at the classes that I took, and they were all physics classes. So it wasn't that I, you know, at one point decided, "Today I am a physicist." It was something that I was just, sort of, you know, slowly drawn to. "Ooh! This is interesting!" It's like getting a page-turner, you know? You really need to see: What's the next thing? What's the next thing? What's the next thing? I think this particular kind of physics attracts me because it's a very basic, it's a very fundamental sort of physics, but it also requires you to know an awful lot about applied physics. I am an experimenter; I need to make the detector work. So, I had to know a lot about the material properties of what I am looking at. The electronics, I need to know exactly what it's going to be doing to the signal. You were told that ATLAS is sitting, you know, many tens of meters, almost a hundred meters, underground, right? That signal has to get propagated up, right. Well I need to know what it looked like when it was produced, not a hundred meters later. So it's a real mix of the most fundamental plus the most prosaic. One of the things that we had to worry about is what kind of paint to use.
Steve: That's really interesting. Why was that an issue?
LeCompte: We have a detector made out of iron, and of course, you don't want it to rust, and you know, that would be bad, and it has scintillating tiles slid into it, which do the actual read out.
Steve: They'll let you know when some particle hits them.
LeCompte: Right they produce light. When the particle comes out, we can then collect the light. Well, it turns out, and of course, you want to have minimum amount of gap between the tile and the iron because you could have put more tile or more iron in, right. The air doesn't do anything for you. Well as it turns out, the paint we were using was a little bit too thick and the tiles wouldn't go in right. So we had to have a crash course in paint dynamics to understand the proper kind of paint to use.
Steve: So, some chemists actually got some work.
LeCompte: I don't think it was so much chemists, but a lot of technicians painted a lot of things, and we went through to measure the amount of paint that we had added. So these are the sorts of really prosaic kind of physics without which the experiment just never runs.
Steve: That's a fascinating story. Has that been covered? I don't remember seeing that anywhere.
LeCompte: I think this may be an exclusive, you know. Usually, we don't talk about paint when we're talking about these experiments.
Steve: You needed paint that would cover the surface, but in a thin enough layer with one coat.
LeCompte: Exactly. So that we could slip in the scintillating tile without damaging it.
Steve: Do you remember what you actually wound up with?
LeCompte: No, I don't remember what it was.
Steve: That's fine.
LeCompte: There is a sociological aspect, which I think is often missed, and that is if you have an experiment with a hundred people, your top 10 people are in the top 10 percent. If you have 3000 people, the top 10 people are in less than the top 1 percent. So I have had the opportunity to work for some extraordinarily talented physicists, and I think this is the sort of thing which, you know, you see 3000 people, and you think you will never make a difference on this sort of thing. But from someone whose seen every physics analysis go through, it's really remarkable how, you know, a few grad students who've got really good ideas can get them through a collaboration of this size. And, you know, not only does the cream float do the top, but we all learn from each other. The way you advance in this field is you collaborate with people who are smarter than you and you learn from them. So this is, you know, the sort of thing that the people who study the sociology of science, I think, really should be taking a close look at; because, you know, people, it's easy to see the organizational difficulties of getting 3,000 people to push in the right, or at least the same direction, the right direction might be even harder. But what's often missed is the chance to work with such really, really sharp people, and I think the experiment as a whole has gained more from that than we ever would have guessed at the beginning.
Steve: So you can talk to the theorists, but you wouldn't actually want to be one.
LeCompte: You know, some of my best friends are theorists. I don't, yeah, they work very hard, but I think that there's a difference between being attracted by coming up with possible ways that the world might be arranged, and being the guy who tells you, "This is the way the world actually is arranged" and that's what really drove me towards experimental physics. There's this idea that, you know, the good physicists are theorists and the bad ones are experimenters. I think part of this is because the books are written by theorists. You know, they're written in one of two ways: Either the theorists comes out with a brilliant idea and then the experimenter goes out and measures it, or the experimenter makes a bunch of measurements and the theorist explains it. But I think that it doesn't really do justice to the experimental side of things. This really does tell you how nature behaves, and there have been many times on ATLAS where I was the first guy to make a plot, and I realized I was the only person on the planet who knew exactly what nature was doing in one particular region.
Steve: Well that's pretty cool. I mean, probably the best example I can think of anyway, for what you are talking about, is the Michelson–Morley experiment.
LeCompte: Right, so what they were trying to do was to measure something called the ether wind. The idea was that light was carried by this material called ether, and they recognized that the Earth would be going through this in different directions as it went around the sun. If they go towards the ether into the wind, things would slow don, if they went away from the wind, things would speed up, and they were shocked to find out that, in fact, there was no ether wind and the speed of light moved in the exact same velocity, no matter what direction that you looked. And for that brief moment, everybody else in the world thought they knew how the world behaved, but in fact, Michelson and Morley realized that it was completely different.
Steve: And they wound up informing Einstein, but Michelson and Morley were not in the dark about what they had found. They also appreciated that it was overturning one of the big assumptions in physics.
LeCompte: Exactly. You know, they expected that they were going to get a number, and the only question is what that number was going to be. And the fact that number was identically zero and, you know, as good experimenters did, the first thing they did is they went out and measured it again, right? You know, ripped apart the apparatus, started from scratch to make sure that they didn't build into the zero, and they got exactly the same number out of it. There's a certain sense of responsibility, for lack of a better word, when you get something that's that surprising to make sure that you've double and triple checked it before you sent the word out. This is why the LHC, you know, some people are saying, "Well you're little bit slow with the results", but we don't want to produce a wrong result because that doesn't do anybody any good. As soon as we're sure that it's right, it goes out the door.
Steve: The difference between what you're doing in the Michelson–Morley work is they were surprised by what they found, but you hope to be surprised by what you find.
LeCompte: Right. I hope to be surprised, you know, I'm almost guaranteed some surprise, right. But what I'm really hoping for is the unpredictable surprise, you know, when you look at it and you say, "Wow, I would never have guessed that."
Steve: And how long do you think we're going to wait before we maybe see one of those unpredictable surprises?
LeCompte: That's a question a lot like "What kind of unpredictable surprises do you expect to see?"
Steve: True, but we're not going to just keep running it for 50 years without seeing anything.
LeCompte: Right. So, these experiments tend to have a lifetime of about 20 years. And what ends up happening in the early phase of the experiment, you know, the doubling time for the data is short. It's two weeks now, that's going to get longer and longer as the machine works better and better, and there's less room to grow. And at a certain point, you're going to be in a point, where it's linear, right. So if you run 10 percent longer, you get 10 percent more data. And it usually doesn't make a whole lot of sense to run much beyond that, right. At that point, you've seen what you're going to see, and you have to start thinking about is there some other way, some other instrument; which might be a bigger accelerator, it might be a more sensitive detector, it might be looking in, you know, some completely different region of—you know, for example, particle astrophysics didn't exist, you know, 10 or 15 years ago, but now it's one of the most active fields. So you have to decide after about 20 years or so, you have to do something that's different.
Steve: So that's pretty exciting, because you're a young enough guy where you'll be around to see whatever we're going to see.
LeCompte: That's right. I'm glad somebody is calling me young, but I'll be around for the full term of the LHC and be involved at least in the design of the next big thing after that, even though it will be up to my students to be the people who actually execute that. If you look around at the LHC, you'll see some old people, but you'll see a remarkable number of young people. So, it's not something which is being run by a bunch of 70-year-old bald men; you know, they're telling the younger folks what to do. The people whose careers are the LHC are the ones who are really pushing it and driving it.
Steve: Remember to check back into http://www.ScientificAmerican.com on Tuesday, December 13th for Davide Castelvecchi's coverage of the announcement from the Large Hadron Collider. For Science Talk, I'm Steve Mirsky. Thanks for clicking on us.


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Playbill.com offers a look at milestones (and trivia) from the 67th Annual Tony Awards ceremony, which was held June 9 at Radio City Music Hall.
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Cyndi Lauper, who penned music and lyrics for Kinky Boots, is the first woman to win the Tony Award (without a songwriting partner) for Best Score.
Tracy Letts became the first actor to have won the Tony Award for Best Play, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (both for August: Osage County) and also take the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).
The Trip to Bountiful star Cicely Tyson became the oldest individual to win a Tony Award, according to the New York Times, which reports the star to be 88 years old. Tyson has never publicly confirmed her age. The Assembled Parties star Judith Light is the first actress to ever have consecutively won in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play – having also earned the Tony Award for Other Desert Cities in 2012. … Other actors to have achieved this feat in other categories include Stephen Spinella (Angels in America 1993/1994) and the late Gwen Verdon (New Girl in Town and Redhead 1958/1959).
Patina Miller, who won in the category of Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Pippin, also charted new territory. Her win for her performance as the Leading Player marked the first time both a man (Ben Vereen in the 1972 original) and a woman won a Tony Award for playing the same role.
Jules Fisher, who along with Peggy Eisenhauer, won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of Play (Lucky Guy), now holds a record nine Tony Awards for lighting design. He first won for Pippin in 1973.
Nine African American actors were nominated for Tony Awards on June 9, a record in Tony Awards history. The four winners included Patina Miller (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for Pippin); Cicely Tyson (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for The Trip to Bountiful); Billy Porter (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Kinky Boots); and Courtney B. Vance (Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for Lucky Guy).
For the second time in Tony Awards history, two women took home the honor in the Best Direction categories. Diane Paulus won for Best Direction of a Musical (Pippin), and Pam MacKinnon won for Best Direction of a Play (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). Julie Taymor (The Lion King) and Garry Hynes (The Beauty Queen of Leenane) won prizes for Best Direction of a Musical and Best Direction of a Play, respectively, in 1998.
With four Tony Awards under his belt, host Neil Patrick Harris is closing in on veteran actress Angela Lansbury. The Mame and Sweeney Todd star holds the record, having hosted the Tonys five times. (Coincidentally, Lansbury has five Tony Awards of her own).
For more facts and tidbits from the Tony Awards, read Playbill.com's live blog from Tony night.
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|The Polybios-Corvina at the exhibition. Photo: National Széchényi Library
Four precious manuscripts from the famed library of King Matthias Corvinus, the Bibliotheca Corviniana are on view for a short time at the National Széchényi Library in Budapest. The four manuscripts are the ones which were returned to Hungary by Sultan Abdülaziz in 1869, so the exhibition is titled: The Sultan's Gift. Four Corvinian Manuscripts from the Serai.
The exhibition takes us back not only to the period when King Matthias (1458-1490) established the first major Humanistic library of Europe outside Italy, but also to the 19th century, when Hungarian aristocrats and scholars carried out a long-term struggle to reclaim at least a few volumes from the library of Matthias Corvinus. Works in the library numbered 2500 at the death of the king, while several manuscripts were still unfinished for him in Florence (these entered the library of the Medicis). Soon after his death, this library began to lose volumes - first western Humanists started taking volumes, as gifts from King Wladislas II (who was less interested in books). Then during the period when Hungary started battling the Ottoman Empire, and was beset by internal strife (between the Battle of Mohács in 1526, and the capture of Buda in 1541), this process accelerated. A lot of the volumes were then taken to Istanbul when the castle of Buda fell to the Turks. As a result of this long process, by the early 19th century, not a single Corvinian manuscript was known within Hungary. The first manuscript to return to Hungary (more specifically, to Transylvania), was a Tacitus volume acquired by Sámuel Teleki for his library at Marosvásárhely in 1805 (the manuscript today is at the Beinecke Library of Yale University). Several attempts after this were unsuccesful to acquire a Corvina manuscript for the nation's capital, Buda. Although the Dialogues of Ludovicus Carbo, a rather modest early Corvinian manuscript, was donated to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1840, this failed to create significant interest (but now it is available in a digital facsimile edition, with commentary). Finally, attention was focused to Istanbul, in hopes that some of the manuscripts can be identified there. In 1862, Ferenc Kubinyi, Arnold Ipolyi and Imre Henszlmann finally identifed some manuscripts in Istanbul, at the library of the imperial palace. Then in 1869, on occasion of the opening of the Suez canal, the sultan gave four volumes to Emperor and King Franz Joseph I. The ruler then duly gave the manuscripts the National Museum (from which they entered the National Library along with other manuscript material). The in 1877, Sultan Abdul Hamid II decided to donate a further 35 manuscripts to Budapest, which entered the University Library (it soon turned out that only about 13 of these manuscripts originate from the library of King Matthias - for more information, read the study of Csaba Csapodi on the history of the library).
|The title page of the Trapezuntius-Corvina. National Széchényi Library
The present exhibition features the four manuscripts returned to Hungary in 1869. The manuscripts are the following (with link to digital facsimiles):
Cod. Lat. 234: The Historiae of Plolybius, a Florentine codex dating between 1450-1470
Cod. Lat. 241: Plautus: Comediae, a Florentine codex from before 1459
Cod. Lat. 121: A Neapolitan manuscript of Augustinus' De civitate Dei
Cod. Lat. 281: The Rhetorica of Trapezuntius, a Latin translation of the work in a manuscript made in Buda in the 1480s.
|The binding of the Augustinus-Corvina, photo taken during
installation. Source: National Library Facebook-page
The exhibition was organized in connection with the Budapest Book Festival, the guest of honor of which is Turkey. Becauses of this, a few Turkish manuscripts are also on view, as well as the early 16th century genealogical roll of Turkish emperors (Genealogia Turcorum imperatorum) by Felix Petancius. The books are only on view until May 6th. The curator of the exhibition is Edina Zsupán - she is also featured in a well-documented article about the installation process (in Hungarian).
To receive more information on the Corvinian manuscripts, please take a look at these pages of my website and blog: New research on the Corvinian Library (with links to full-text publications), and my page on digitized Hungarian manuscripts, with direct links to over 100 Corvinian manuscripts. You can also get a lot of more photos on the Facebook page of the library.


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Statistics on gun ownership across the U.S. are hard to nail down; the ATF's National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record is not all-inclusive, and some guns go unregistered.
But "Injury Prevention," a scholarly journal, has released what may be the closest look yet. Their survey, published in 2015, asked a representative sample of 4,000 adults nationwide whether they own firearms. The findings helped the research group estimate gun ownership rates in each state.
Delaware's gun ownership rate is the lowest in the country, at 5.2 percent. That's far below the national average of 29.1 percent.
Here, revolvers are on display at Miller's Gun Center in New Castle, Delaware.
Credit: Miller's Gun Center
According to the survey data, the gun ownership rate in Rhode Island is 5.8 percent.
Here, Rhode Island State Police Capt. James Manni argues for legislation banning the sale of assault weapons.
Credit: Steven Senne/AP
The gun ownership rate in New York is 10.3 percent.
The illegal guns seem here were seized by the New York Police Department in 2013 in the largest such operation in city history.
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The gun ownership rate in New Jersey is 11.3 percent.
Here, a man checks out a handgun for sale at the RTSP shooting range in Randolph.
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The gun ownership rate in New Hampshire is 14.4 percent.
Here, a customer checks out a shotgun in Merrimack. The store owner said their sales doubled from 2015 to 2016.
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The gun ownership rate in Connecticut is 16.6 percent.
This photo from investigators shows firearms and ammunition found on or near the shooter's body at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
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The gun ownership rate in Ohio is 19.6 percent.
Here, guns are displayed at a show in Mansfield.
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The survey found Nebraska has a gun ownership rate of 19.8 percent.
The gun ownership rate in California is 19.8 percent.
Here, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti shows the results of an anonymous gun buyback program in 2017.
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The gun ownership rate in Maryland is 20.7 percent.
Here, a woman practices with a handgun at a National Rifle Association virtual shooting booth in National Harbor.
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The gun ownership rate in Massachusetts is 22.6 percent.
Here, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino looks at confiscated handguns in 2006.
Credit: Elise Amendola/AP
Maine's gun ownership rate is 22.6 percent.
Here, Portland Police Chief Michael Chitwood holds a confiscated MAC-10 assault weapon in 2004.
Credit: Robert F. Bukaty/AP
The gun ownership rate in Washington, D.C., is 25.9 percent.
Here, guns seized by Washington, D.C., police over the years are shown in the firearms examination section at police headquarters.
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The gun ownership rate in Illinois is 26.2 percent.
Here, Dr. Shandrea Boyd shoots at the Eagle Sports gun range during a concealed-carry certification test in Oak Forest.
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The gun ownership rate in Oregon is 26.6 percent.
Guns are shown here at Roseburg Gun Shop in Roseburg.
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The gun ownership rate in Pennsylvania is 27.1 percent.
Gun salesman Nathan Palermo is shown here holding an AR-15.
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The gun ownership rate in Missouri is 27.1 percent.
Here, gun rights activists march to the Ferguson police station with their weapons in 2015.
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The gun ownership rate in Washington state is 27.7 percent.
Here, a woman displays her rifle to fellow demonstrators during a pro-gun rally in Olympia.
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The gun ownership rate in North Carolina is 28.7 percent.
In this photo from 2000, the late actor and NRA president Charlton Heston holds up a musket at the 129th Annual Meeting & Exhibit in Charlotte.
Credit: Ric Feld/AP
The gun ownership rate in Vermont is 28.8 percent.
Here, officials display drugs and guns confiscated across the state.
Credit: Toby Talbot/AP
The gun ownership rate in Michigan is 28.8 percent.
Here, supporters of Michigan's open-carry law hold decorated Olympic Arms .223 pistols.
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The gun ownership rate in Virginia is 29.3 percent -- close to the national average in the survey.
Here, a protester wears a pistol on his hip during a demonstration in Charlottesville.
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The gun ownership rate in Oklahoma is 31.2 percent.
Here, the founder and president of H&H Gun Range looks over a Henry Golden Boy rifle in his store in Oklahoma City.
Credit: Sue Ogrocki/AP
The gun ownership rate in Georgia is 31.6 percent.
Here, Makenzie Wynn poses for her father while holding a Black Rain Ordinance rifle at the 146th NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Atlanta.
The gun ownership rate in Utah is 31.9 percent.
Here, the owner of Ready Gunman stands by guns for sale at his shop in Springville.
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The gun ownership rate in Kansas is 32.2 percent.
Here, Assistant Kansas Attorney General Amy Hanley shows a jury a Ruger Redhawk gun during a 2013 murder trial.
Credit: Travis Morisse/AP
The gun ownership rate in Arizona is 32.3 percent.
Here, the owner of Sarge's Sidearms near Benson displays an AR-15 "sport" rifle.
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The gun ownership rate in Florida is 32.5 percent.
Here, Brandon Wexler shows a customer a weapon at the K&W Gunworks store in Delray Beach.
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The gun ownership rate in Indiana is 33.8 percent.
Here, an NRA convention-goer holds a 24-karat-gold-plated Desert Eagle pistol at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
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The gun ownership rate in Iowa is 33.8 percent.
Here, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) looks at a handgun handed to him by a supporter during a campaign event at CrossRoads Shooting Sports gun shop and range in Johnston in 2015.
The gun ownership rate in Colorado is 34.3 percent.
Here, a Bush Master AR15 assault rifle is displayed at Firing-Line gun shop in Aurora.
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Wisconsin's gun ownership rate is 34.7 percent.
Here, a model walks the runway during the NRA Concealed Carry Fashion Show in Milwaukee.
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South Dakota's gun ownership rate is 35 percent.
Here, firearms instructor Shannon Hinrichs watches as State Rep. Sam Marty shoots at a target at the George S. Mickelson Criminal Justice Center in Pierre in 2014.
Credit: James Nord/AP
The gun ownership rate in Texas is 35.7 percent.
Here, a man walks around a gun show in Fort Worth.
The gun ownership rate in Minnesota is 36.7 percent.
Here, a Ruger .22 caliber semiautomatic and other guns are displayed in Woodbury.
The gun ownership rate in Nevada is 37.5 percent.
Here, recording artist Miranda Lambert attends the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena with a small pistol attached to her shoe.
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The gun ownership rate in Tennessee is 39.4 percent.
Here, convention-goers look at Old West handguns at the NRA Annual Convention in Nashville.
Kentucky's gun ownership rate is 42.4.
Here, Christian Florea, 10, looks over an FN MK 48 machine gun at an NRA event in Louisville.
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Mississippi's gun ownership rate is 42.8 percent.
Here, Jake Driskell, a police officer and owner of Gun Guy Tactical, helps first-time shooter Katherine Huffman in Petal.
Credit: Rogelio V. Solis/AP
South Carolina's gun ownership rate is 44.4 percent.
Here, Mike Jones poses beside a display of weapons in a gun store in Simpsonville.
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The gun ownership rate in Louisiana is 44.5 percent.
Here, Devereaux Sellers teaches his wife, Madelie, how to hold a .45 caliber pistol at Precision Guns and Indoor Range in Baton Rouge.
Hawaii's gun ownership rate is 45.1 percent.
Here, Jerry Ilo teaches a hunter-education training course in Honolulu.
Credit: Marina Riker/AP
North Dakota's gun ownership rate is 47.9 percent.
Here, Rick Berg target shoots at the National Guard Armory in Bismarck.
Credit: James Warden/AP
Alabama's gun ownership rate is 48.9 percent.
Here, Prince William County prosecutor Richard C. Conway holds a gun during a 2003 trial of a sniper suspect.
Credit: Davis Turner/AP
The gun ownership rate in New Mexico is 49.9 percent.
Here, salesman Nathan Williams attends to customers at The Outdoorsman gun shop in Santa Fe.
Credit: Morgan Lee/AP
Montana's gun ownership rate is 52.3 percent.
Credit: Matt Gouras/AP
Wyoming's gun ownership rate is 53.8 percent.
Here, the co-owners of Thunder Beast Arms Corp. prepare to shoot high-powered rifles at a range west of Cheyenne.
Credit: Ben Neary/AP
The gun ownership rate in West Virginia is 54.2.
Here, Ralph Schoolcraft looks through the scope on a hunting rifle at Spring Hill Rod and Gun in South Charleston.
Credit: Jeff Gentner/AP
Idaho's gun ownership rate is 56.9 percent.
Credit: Elaine Thompson/AP
The gun ownership rate in Arkansas is 57.9 percent.
Here, a semi-automatic handgun and a holster are displayed at a North Little Rock, Ark., gun shop.
Credit: Danny Johnston/AP
Alaska has the highest gun ownership rate in the country at 61.7 percent.
Here, children shoot a rifle in Newtok.


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After Elton examines rap, hip-hop and black gays in a very thoughtful and comprehensive survey, Taking the Homophobia Out of Hip-Hop: A Progress Report. Their findings: "Although progress has been made in combating hip-hop's entrenched homophobia, problematic issues remain," namely hardcore reggae-dancehall acts such as Buju Banton or the "faggot" dissing illustrated by Busta Rhymes and the Touch It remix.
The editors also note the positive: "It's possible that old anti-gay sentiments from the early careers of some rappers do not represent their current views on homosexuality. Case in point, U.S. rapper Common's first four albums contained some pretty rabid anti-gay lyrics. Yet in a change of heart his 2002 CD Electric Circus contains the thoughtful track titled "Between Me, You & Liberation". In it Common speaks of a childhood friend who reveals his gayness to him, and of his own conflicting feelings in confronting his own homophobia towards his friend."
Some of the best analysis comes on page six where they essay hip-hop homophobia as a symptom of larger social issues: "Solving the lingering problem of homophobia in hip-hop is inextricably linked to solving the larger problem of homophobia in society. In what may be a turning point, there currently appears to be a newfound, unprecedented opening up of discussion on gay issues in the black community" ... exactly what we've seen here and here.
The After Elton report is great reading, especially if you're about to take that morning coffee break.
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Ultimate GMAT Prep Strategy shared by a 760 (Q49:V46) scorer
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Kaplan Diag..... 630 Q39 V39 week 1
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Taken directly from mba.com, the format of the GMAT test is described below.
Earlier, ie till December 2005, the test was conducted by ETS, but now Pearson. The format has not changed much, only the break given between the sections has changed from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. Also, registering and navigating on the site has become easier. Here goes the format of the test:
GMAT Overview
The Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) is a standardized assessment—delivered in English—that helps business schools assess the qualifications of applicants for advanced study in business and management. Schools use the test as one predictor of academic performance in an MBA program or in other graduate management programs.
What the GMAT® Measures
The GMAT® exam measures basic verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing skills that you have developed over a long period of time in your education and work. It does NOT measure:
The GMAT® exam consists of three main parts, the Analytical Writing Assessment, the Quantitative section, and the Verbal section.
The GMAT® exam begins with the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA). The AWA consists of two separate writing tasks—Analysis of an Issue and Analysis of an Argument. You are allowed 30 minutes to complete each one.
Following an optional ten-minute break, you begin the Quantitative Section of the GMAT® exam. This section contains 37 multiple-choice questions of two question types—Data Sufficiency and Problem Solving. You will be allowed a maximum of 75 minutes to complete the entire section.
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Well, yes that's the truth.
We (Indian/IT/male category) do belong to a very competitive pool, both in quality and in quantity, of people applying to US B-Schools every year. Those guys must be sick and tired of us, or they are afraid of us. Some time ago, we used to hear that anything above 700 is a decent score. But that's not the story anymore. If you are an Indian and applying for an MBA to a US B-School, most likely you would belong to IT industry. And if that is the case, the requirement rises and 720 also is no longer competitive. Well, these two are true stories. Go through them. I'm planning to retake my GMAT now. ;)
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Marc Jacobs's Favorite Porn Star a Retiree: Women's Wear Daily's CEO Summit celebrated its kick-off last evening with a lavish dinner at New York's Plaza Hotel and a candid discussion with Marc Jacobs (moderated by WWD's executive editor, Briget Foley). But things really got rolling when dinner guest Martha Stewart got out of her seat to ask Jacobs a series of three questions pooled from her Twitter followers; the best of which, an inquiry into his favorite porn star. Graciously, Jacobs only offered that his name is Eddie—a salacious starlet that's now retired. [Fashion Beast Inbox]
A Song For Label IQ: If you're looking to brush up on some serious label pronunciation, downtown electronic group Muff Said has you covered with their new song 'Brands,' From Givenchy to Lanvin, you'll be swilling perfectly proper French in no time. [Lucky]
Claire Danes on POTUS: Claire Danes gets candid in ELLE's newest issue, speaking about her Correspondents' Dinner run-in with President Obama. "I said, 'I'm Claire Danes,' and he said, 'Oh, you're a fine actress.' And I said, 'You're a fine president!' And he said, 'Oh, you're a finer actress than I am president.' I didn't have any retort," she told the magazine. [ELLE]
Roberto Cavalli Must Sleep Naked: Roberto Cavalli allowed Harper's Bazaar to trail him for 24 hours in this month's issue—a profile that led to many discoveries about the designer. For one, he sleeps naked because he, "always feel I cannot sleep when I am dressed." He owns many pets, but has sworn off tigers and monkeys for the time being. He has two Twitter accounts—one for his fans, and one for his opinions on politics. Though thankfully, he doesn't work naked—instead he wears one of 50 pairs of jeans. [Harper's Bazaar]


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What Kind of Fool Are You?
The Bible warns us against being fools, but also tells us that we need to be fools for Christ. What are the different types of fools, and which one are you?
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Welcome to the Payphone Telecoms - Modern Telecommunications website. If you are looking for a good telecommunications solution for your business it can be confusing to have to choose from the vast array of options available to you. You need to choose something that will last you for as long as your business lasts.
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Choose one that focuses on your business needs, and compare as many business telecommunications solutions as you are able to in order to identify the one which will have the greatest positive impact on the growth of your business, one that will help you thrive in an ever-changing world and can act as a partner to your business in all of its endeavours.
Finding a good business telecommunications solution is not easy but if you are clear on what you need for your business you can find the right fit, that can increase both your efficiency and productivity, and all without breaking the bank. You will always have to pay your service provider for their efforts, but the right one will ensure you feel you are getting total value for money.
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We often talk about video game developers use music (in fact, just tonight we started listing the best music of 2011!), but it can be fun to look at how musicians incorporate video games into their work, as well.
Synth-pop musician Or Zubalsky has created a very cool new album that is designed to be played like a video game. The album itself stands on its own, but on his website, he has devised interactive music videos that allow viewers to click along with the music, lighting up a shifting backdrop while attempting to click on little Commander Video-lookin' characters. Each one you successfully click will net you a few points, which in turn will let you unlock downloadable "packages" that give you a track from the album and a fun text file from the artist himself.
The other upshot of the "game" part of the album is that by playing it, you turn yourself into a strobe-light operator for the music video, which causes the still images behind it to shift and give a neat sense of motion.
The whole thing is very cool, and must have been a fun project to put together. Go check it out!
Juviley: New Album [stuff.julify.com]


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Component Creation at Runtime
by Sapankumar Parikh
Often programmers come across a situation where they have to create components on the fly (at run time). Components can be anything, from layout panels to command buttons to input components. One way to do this is to use the JSF table component which is simple to implement, but enforces adherence to the table component by taking away the freedom to come up with one's own layouts.
In this tutorial, we will create some components like command buttons and input text at run time. The main idea is to understand the process of creating components and their action events at run time.
This tutorial works with the following technologies and resources:
- Tomcat Server 5.X
- NetBeans IDE
- Visual Web Pack
For any kind of JSF development, NetBeans comes as a natural choice because it not only lets you do basic things very easily, such as providing drag and drop, but it also empowers you to do advance things by directly going into JSP and Java code.
- Start with a new project and name it Tutorial.
- Drag and drop a GridPanel component from the palette and name it parentPanel, then drop a StaticText component and name it resultTxt as shown here.
- Now switch to the Java code of the page, find the method called getParentPanel() and add the following code to the method:
try{ FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(); UIComponent parent = parentPanel; TextField text1 = new TextField(); TextField text2 = new TextField(); Button btn1 = new Button(); Button btn2 = new Button(); btn1.setId("mult"); btn2.setId("add"); btn1.setText("Multiply them"); btn2.setText("Add them"); Class[] parameterList = { Class.forName("javax.faces.event.ActionEvent")}; MethodBinding mb = (MethodBinding) context.getApplication().createMethodBinding("#{Page1.operations}", parameterList); btn1.setActionListener(mb); btn2.setActionListener(mb); parent.getChildren().add(text1); parent.getChildren().add(text2); parent.getChildren().add(btn1); parent.getChildren().add(btn2); } catch(Exception ex){ ex.printStackTrace(); }Initially, some lines will be underlined red to indicate errors. Right click in the code editor and click on the fix import option. The IDE will give two options for choosing certain packages; select com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.TextField and com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.Button from the drop down lists.
The fundamental concept here is that like every other class UI components can also be initialized and instantiated in the code. These classes offer their own set of methods. In the code above, we are using three of them: setId, setActionListner and setText.
- setId(String id) sets the UI component's id.
- setText(String text) sets the text that will appear on the button.
- setActionListner(mb) sets the method binding of that UI component.
In a nutshell, we are telling the compiler that whenever btn1 or btn2 are pressed, to call the operations method of Page1.
Finally, in last four lines we are adding these objects (which are actually UI components) to the parent component, the parentPanel.
We are ready to test run the project. You will see something like this, but the buttons will still not work. We have to make a method called operations to make these buttons work.
Add the following method to Page1's Java code.
public void operations(ActionEvent ae){ String operation = ae.getComponent().getId(); if (operation.equals("mult")){ int a = Integer.parseInt(((TextField)parentPanel.getChildren().get(0)).getText().toString()); int b = Integer.parseInt(((TextField)parentPanel.getChildren().get(1)).getText().toString()); resultTxt.setText(new Integer(a*b)); } else{ int a = Integer.parseInt(((TextField)parentPanel.getChildren().get(0)).getText().toString()); int b = Integer.parseInt(((TextField)parentPanel.getChildren().get(1)).getText().toString()); resultTxt.setText(new Integer(a+b)); } }
In the very first line, we are trying to get the name of the component that called this method: ae.getComponent().getId(). The method returns the ID of the component, which can be "mult" or "add" depending on the name of the component performing the operation.
Inside the if loop, Integer.parseInt(((TextField)parentPanel.getChildren().get(0)).getText().toString()); gets the number from the text box and converts it into int. If we analyze this line in detail we can see that we are getting all the children of parentPanel and then retrieving the first component that was added to it and then getting the text that was typed in.
In if {...} , we are multiplying the values typed in both of the text boxes, and in else{...} we are adding them. These values are then displayed on the resultTxt component by using method resultTxt.setText(new Integer(a+b)).
Note that we are assuming in the above code that users will only enter numbers in the input component. To prevent users from entering other values we can use validators. An explanation of validators is beyond the scope of this tutorial.
At the end of this, we are ready to run the program. Try typing in numbers in both of the input boxes and click on either button. The result will be displayed in the static text box.
This kind of programming is very useful when designing dynamic forms, for example, several surveys or questionnaires for a job application. This kind of work needs extensive usage of runtime component creation because UI components in a questionnaire might change depending on the job type or application type.


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What A LOAD of Pious BS Outrage: Let He Without Sin Cast The First Stone!
Yes, this leaked audio may be a huge discounter for dumping #Trump; that is, to any and all who are LOOKING for ANYTHING to NOT vote for him in the first place.
I mean, how dare he be an overly braggagocious alpha-male, showing off, making himself out to be the biggest fish; talking, PRIVATELY, with another male, WHO was laughing along and actively participating in the conversation.
Yeah, because real men DON'T talk sex, quite explicitly as that, right? Bragging they can "hit" it and how, with how many and whom; and with who they'd like to "bag" next, along with BS techniques and those big, BAD, dirty #words when they're being just males, alone, talking locker room jive, just being "guys". Yeah, that NEVER happens! 😉
I KNOW regular guys DO talk smack like that (😲) with THOSE words… and, guess what? WOMEN DO TOO.
If people were HONEST, they'd admit that and this would be what it is… a non-issue, it's not NEWS! It's BS!
THIS is a diversion from the real NEWS: Hillary Clinton's leaked Wall Street Speeches supporting NWO – no borders, no America, but a North American Union, like the failed EU, her open disdain for the every day man and woman! She'll make the top 1% richer, RAISING taxes, on an already far too extended people.
And, if her failed tenures in the Senate and as Secretary of State, the murders in Benghazhi, the failed Russian reset, the Arab Spring, Libya, Syria, Iran and the FACT that the Middle East is on FIRE over this administration's failed policies, doesn't scare the shit out of you. I have no idea what will.
Our economy is in a complete fetal position begging for help, Our infrastructure is decaying, our government is bloated beyond belief, regulations are strangling small business and helping ONLY the very rich.
She's going to RAISE taxes, think she'll suffer? Our debt is insane, our Country is in complete chaos and this may all fall into Hillary's bloody hands.
Hillary Clinton: the biggest liar, most corrupt establishment politician – with 30 years of pay-for-play, lobbyist, activists and the uber rich owning her – being PROTECTED by an equally corrupt DOJ, FBI, State Department and their accomplices!
THESE are far more harmful #ACTIONS to this country than crude words!


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New Research Indicates That This One Thing Could Mean Your Partner Is More Likely To Cheat
You might want to get out the measuring tape.
Men & Women Have Fundamentally Different Perspectives On Sex: Here's The Reason
Turns out, men might not actually want sex more than women—they just want it for different reasons.
How To Deal When Your Partner's Fantasy Turns You Off
"If you ask someone their private turn-on and they open up, they're inviting you into their secret garden. If you are openly disgusted, you are...
New Study Indicates That Being With Your Partner For A Long Time Results In One Crazy Similarity
If it's only been a few months, don't expect this to happen anytime soon.