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Paul J. Balles argues that the Democrats' gains in the US mid-term elections will not lead to a change in US policy in the Middle East. He cites Democrat leaders' unconditional support for Israeli crimes and for possible aggression against Iran.
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The Democrats not only choose to cow-tow to the Israeli lobbies, but they fail to resist the "end-time" evangelists, eliminating any possibility of a Democratic majority making a difference in Congress.
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That Pelosi had been lured into the snake pit became unequivocally clear when she attacked Jimmy Carter for writing a book mentioning Israeli apartheid. Jewish organizations in Washington heaped praise on her for her straight-A record on Israel.
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The most daunting thing that she said during her presentation to AIPAC was "The greatest threat to Israel's right to exist, with the prospect of devastating violence, now comes from Iran."
To make matters worse, Representative Henry Waxman, in line to chair the House Government Reform Committee, said, in an online chat with Zionist supporters, "There will be some Democratic chairmen who may not share all my views or have as clear a perspective on Israel as I do, but they will not be chairing committees dealing with Israel and the Middle East."
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You're right.
And when you're right, you're right. But being right won't solve the problem.
You'd think that Israel's defeat in Lebanon and Uncle Sam's defeat in Iraq would combine to cause a rethink of US policy, but a rethink doesn't seem to be in the offing. Olmert's visit to Washington, I'm betting, is part of Israel's wind-up for an attack on Iran. The Zionist terror wants to make sure that when it launches its attack, it will enjoy the approval of the Democrat majority in Congress. Olmert will, of course, get the assurance he needs.
My only question about the Zionists' impending attack is that I wonder how savage it will be: will the Zionists use nukes (George Bush's plan) or will they not? Any predictions on that question from the wannabe pundits who hang here at AFP?

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Go to google and type in "miserable failure"...then click on "i'm feeling lucky" instead of search.
How about this one:Type in "French Military Victories" and then press "I'm Feeling Lucky"
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The WMD one didn't work, the others were hallarious though... Just what I needed... Even though if you go back far enough in the history books, the French did have SOME military victories... but not over the Russians :-DAs for an Ortho country... well, I thought we had some of those already (Russia, Serbia, etc...), however, if you're proposing a new one, find a nice tropical location.
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What do you do when
malloc returns 0 or new throws exception? Just halt or try to survive OOM condition/save the user's work?
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I'd avoid the OOM like avoiding a crash.
Avoid doing huge chunk of work (and allocate huge chunk of memory) at once. Keep the data on the disk, trust the OS disk cache and make use of memory-mapped IO as much as possible, and only operate on a small part of data at a time. If large amounts of data need to be on-line (served with low latency) then keep them in the memory across several machines, like all the big search engine companies do. Or buy a SSD.
Most people answering this question have probably never worked on embedded systems, where malloc returning 0 is a very real possibility. On a system I'm currently working on, there is a total of 4.25K bytes of RAM (that's 4352 bytes). I'm allocating 64 bytes for the stack, and currently have a 1600 byte heap. Just yesterday I was debugging a heap walk routine so I can follow the allocation and freeing of memory. The heap walk uses a small (30 byte) statically allocated buffer to output to a serial port. It will be turned off for the release version.
Since this is a consumer product, it better not run out of memory once the product has been released. I'm sure it will during development. In any case, about all I can do is beep the speaker a couple of times, and force a reboot.
To be fairly honest, in all projects I've done (keep in mind I'm not working anywhere yet), I've never considered that it could happen, and thus I suppose my programs would die a very fast death.
Besides, handling an OOM requires you to have preallocated the resources to display the error message or to save everything, which can be kind of inconvenient.
I feel that these days, memory costing less than peanuts, it's not something that should happen frequently. On the dawn of protected memory and before, maybe that was a concern, but now? The only OOM errors I've ever seen were from bugged code.
Unless you're developing for embedded systems, real-time systems, or systems that are so critical that failures can cost lives, or billions of dollars... Then it's probably not financially worth it to worry about out of memory conditions.
In most cases, there is little that can be done when you are out out of memory anyways, since there is no memory to create any new objects or perform any tasks that may do something. You have to weigh the cost of the app handling OOM versus the benefit you get from doing it.
Checking malloc return codes is usuall pointless anyway.
Modern operating systems overcommit memory: They give processes more memory than is actually available. The memory your process is granted is virtual, all mapped to a single zeroed-out page.
It's not until you write to the memory that a physical, unique, page is allocated for your processes. If this allocation fails the kernel will terminate a process (perhaps yours!) in an attempt to find memory. At that point there's nothing you can do any more.
I would always check for error. If something returns an error condition, then it has to be handled by your program. Even if it is a message that says "Out of memory, gotta go!", it is better than "Access violation", "core dumped", or whatever. One is an error condition you handle, the other is a bug. And the user will perceive it as such as well.
For your specific case, you could try to roll back the operation, freeing resources that you've allocated until reaching the point of failure, reporting the error, and continuing execution (maybe when you are trying to quit the application, you can give the option to exit immediately). This way, the user can decide what to do, or try to free up some memory by fiddling around, closing files, etc. Of course, how you can handle the situation is highly dependent on your program - a program that is not supposed to be interactive probably just needs to log the error and either quit, or continue.


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I am looking for a mathematical proof in terms of differentiating the BS equation to calculate Delta and then prove it that ATM delta is equal to 0.5. I have seen many books quoting delta of ATM call option is 0.5, with explanations like the probability of finishing in the money is 0.5, but I am looking for a mathematical proof.
Your question is not really well formulated since you do not specify at which time the delta is equal to 0.5. What you claim is in fact only true for an ATM call option at the time of maturity.
In the Black-Scholes model the price of a call option on the asset S with with strike price $K$ and time of maturity $T$ equals
$$c(t,S(t),K,T) = S(t)\Phi\left(\frac{\ln\frac{S(t)}{K} + \left(r+\frac{\sigma^2}{2} \right)\tau}{\sigma \sqrt{\tau}} \right) - Ke^{-r \tau}\Phi\left(\frac{\ln\frac{S(t)}{K} + \left(r-\frac{\sigma^2}{2} \right)\tau}{\sigma \sqrt{\tau}} \right)$$
where $r$ is the risk-free rate, $\sigma$ the volatility and $\tau = T-t$. The "delta" in the Black-Scholes model is
$$\Delta(t,S(t),K,T) = \frac{\partial c}{\partial S}(t,S(t),K,T) = \Phi\left(\frac{\ln\frac{S(t)}{K} + \left(r+\frac{\sigma^2}{2} \right)\tau}{\sigma \sqrt{\tau}} \right)$$
In the case of an at the money call option we have $K=S(t)$ which means that we get
$$\ln\frac{S(t)}{K} = \ln(1) = 0$$
and we are left with
$$\Delta(t,S(t),S(t),T) = \Phi\left(\frac{\left(r+\frac{\sigma^2}{2} \right)\tau}{\sigma \sqrt{\tau}} \right)$$
This expression equals $0.5$ when $\tau = 0$ that is when $t=T$. This is because $\Phi(x)=0.5$ if and only if $x=0$.
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If you look at the BS formula as you find it e.g. in wikipedia straight forward differentiation of the call price gives the call's Delta.
You find the formula for the Delta on the wikipedia page under "The Greeks". $\Delta=\Phi(d_1)$ where $\Phi$ is the standard normal cdf and $d_1$ is given by
$$d_1 = \frac{\ln(\frac{S}K)+(r+\frac{\sigma^2}2)(T-t)}{\sigma \sqrt{T-t}}$$
where I assume that all parameters are clear. You also find it on wikipedia. If $d_1=0$ then $\Phi(d_1)=\frac12$ per the definition of the normal cdf.
When people refer to ATM options having 50 delta they usually mean ATMF, or at the money forward, given by $$S=Ke^{-r(T-t)}$$ Note that sometimes forward prices are derived from put-call parity. Then the forward price can be different)
Thus, when the stock is ATMF, $\ln(\frac{S}K)+r(T-t) = 0$, but the terms with sigma remain. In this case $d_1$ is very small but not exactly zero, and $\Delta$ is close to 1/2.
Given that the mathematical proofs have already been given above, let me stress the intuitive aspects of it.
If you use a normal model, then you will find that the delta of an ATM option is equal to 50%, and at the same time, the probability of ending ITM (in the money) is also 50%.
Now, with a lognormal model, there is a difference between the probability and the delta. The reason is actually very simple. Imagine you run a Montecarlo to figure the delta of an ATM call option. Say you've got around half the paths ending above the strike, and half below. Then clearly, if you were to rerun the Montecarlo, but starting from a slightly higher spot (say 1% because you want to calculate the delta so you 'bump' the spot up), then roughly speaking
If you combine the 2 points above, the price impact of bumping spot up by 1% is going to be 50% x 0 + 50% x (something > 1% ), so the delta is going to be higher than the probability of ending ITM. You can even see that the 'something' is itself very tied to that actual value of the call option.
Obviously this relationship works irrespective of whether the option is ATM or not.
First of all, even though you can read it in many places, $\Delta_{Call} = \Phi(d_+)$ is not the probability of finishing ITM. For two reasons:
In the BS model under the historic probabilty $P(S_T>K) = P(S_te^{(\mu-\sigma^2/2)(T-t)+\sigma(W_T-W_t)} > K) = \Phi\left(\frac{1}{\sigma\sqrt{T-t}}(\log(S_t/K) + (\mu-\sigma^2/2)(T-t))\right)$. Basically you get $\Phi(d_-)$ but with the real drift $\mu$ instead of the risk-free rate.
So what does the Delta really looks like? As was explained: $$ \Delta_{Call} = \Phi(d_+) = \Phi\left(\frac{1}{\sigma\sqrt{T-t}}(\log(S_te^{r(T-t)}/K) + \sigma^2(T-t)/2))\right) $$ So if you are ATMF i.e. $S_te^{r(T-t)} = K$ then the log term cancels out: $$ \Delta_{Call}^{ATMF} = \Phi\left(\frac{1}{2}\sigma\sqrt{T-t}\right) $$ In particular, the volatility term is positive so $\Delta_{Call}^{ATMF} > 0.5$. We can then make a first order approximation: $$ \Delta_{Call}^{ATMF} = \Phi\left(\frac{1}{2}\sigma\sqrt{T-t}\right) \approx \Phi(0) + \Phi'(0)\frac{1}{2}\sigma\sqrt{T-t} \approx 0.5 + 0.2\sigma \sqrt{T-t}. $$ since $\Phi'(0) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \approx 0.4$. So you have a nice simple approximation for the Delta of an ATMF Call.
PS: You should ask yourself what happens when $\sigma \to \infty$.
i have a really interesting answer.. clearly delta of an ATM call is approximately 0.5 in BS setting since we can do a taylor series expansion of N(d1) = 1/2 + 1/root(2pi) *d1 which goes to 1/2 at maturity..assuming r=q=0
but above is a model dependent result...it assumes log normal distribution in stock price..
a model independent result.... at maturity...we know delta is either 1 or 0 depending on whether the stock is ITM or OTM.. But delta = - dc(T)/dk...which is a digital...and this can be replicated by 1/2dk of portfolio of call spreads...at maturity...the call spread value is 1/2...


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The terminal, now due for completion at the end of 2014, and the development of Poland's shale gas deposits are important components of the government's strategy to reduce the country's dependence on natural gas imports from Russia. The country also wants to lower its carbon dioxide emissions.
By PATRYK WASILEWSKI
WARSAW -- Poland on Tuesday postponed the completion
deadline for the country's first liquefied natural gas terminal
by six months, dealing a setback to the country's
energy-diversification efforts, as the prime minister pledged
support for the coal industry.
The terminal, now due for completion at the end of 2014, and
the development of Poland's shale gas deposits are important
components of the government's strategy to reduce the country's
dependence on natural gas imports from Russia and lower carbon dioxide emissions.
However, Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday also pledged
strong support for coal as a source of energy in Poland. The
country's pro-coal policy has put central and eastern
Europe's biggest European Union member at loggerheads
with Brussels.
"Energy independence...requires not only diversification of
energy sources, but most of all using domestic sources to the
maximum," Mr. Tusk said in a speech in Katowice, the heart of
Poland's coal mining industry.
"That's why we decided that renewable energy sources, a
necessary supplement for Polish energy, will be as limited as
much as is possible in Europe. [...] Hard coal, lignite and
in the near future shale gas will be key for us. This is the
future of the Polish energy sector."
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pollution limits in recent years.
The country's largest power station, the lignite-fired
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future and profitability of renewable energy in the
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TEMPLE (December 25, 2012)- The frigid temperatures were hard to miss on Christmas day in Central Texas.
The wind chill reached into the teens and could be in the single digits by early morning.
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When temperatures began to drop, warming centers opened up across central Texas.
Temple currently has two warming centers.
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The warming centers in Temple will be open from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. December 25 and December 26, 2012.
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A 1998 Bethany alum, Cruce played football for the Swedes under Hall of Fame coach Ted Kessinger. He also played at Hutchinson Community College where he was a linebacker. Cruce is a Salina native and a graduate of Salina South high school.
Before returning to coach at Bethany, Cruce coached linebackers at Northern State (SD) and Anderson University (IND). He became the Swede's head coach in 2007 after serving as their defensive coordinator since 2001. He resigned his position as Bethany head coach following the 2012 season "to pursue other professional opportunities."
Cruce's record at Bethany was 28-34 with a 21-33 slate in the KCAC. His best season was 2011 when his Swede's posted a record of 8-3 (6-3 conference.)
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We know that serif and sans serif can perform equally well, if you choose a body text size above 12 pixels. Below 12 pixels serifed typefaces don't render sharply enough, but on desktop monitors 12 pixels, I personally think that is definitely too small anyway. So my question is: do you think we should ban 11 pixels font-size on any of our design? Serif or sans serif? Should I include that in my functional/specs requirements documents?
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There are too many variables to consider before you can reasonably ban a particular sized font in a design.
That doesn't mean you should start using
If you're designing for a billboard, you may have to ban fonts less than 3 meters so that observers can actually read it from a distance. If you're designing for an array of lightbulbs, your font-size might be restricted to 6px because that's all you've got.
Additionally, some fonts become blurrier than others at small font sizes. A font-size of 9px might be reasonable for one font where another can't go any smaller than 13px.
As I noted in the comments on the question, our own ux.stackexchange.com site uses a
This "pixel" question is not relevant because 11 pixels looks different for each font and legibility is also dependent on screen resolution and many more parameters.
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From the outside of this Honda Civic there are no distinguishable differences. But look closer and you'll see this is not ordinary Civic. It's a hybrid.
General Manager of Gary Force Honda, Tim Kanaly says, "What it does, there's an electric motor that assists the gas motor and when the electric motor needs power, the gas motor engages."
Meaning you get more bang for your buck at the gas station. For instance, the Civic Hybrid gets 48 miles to the gallon. Whereas the Honda Pilot, a sports utility vehicle, gets only 17 miles to the gallon.
Kanaly says, "We've noticed some of the larger sport utilities have stated to drop in price because people are trading them in for more economical vehicles."
With rising gas prices, dealers that sell hybrid cars are having a hard time keeping the cars on the lot.
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In contrast, the second act will showcase one traditional story ballet, "Act III: The Enchanted Garden" from Le Corsaire a full-length story ballet. Set in King Pasha's palace, beautiful women dance and play tricks on the king. The ballet transitions into a dream sequence where "Medora, Gulnare, and the women of the harem join together to dance a fantastical Grand Ballabile in which they celebrate beauty, grace, and harmony in a garden filled with flowers and magic fountains".
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Independent developer Playdead impressed the gaming world with the studio's haunting 2D puzzle platformer, Limbo, some years ago, but the team hasn't simply been working on platform ports for the game since its release, as the debut trailer for the their next title, Inside, clearly shows.
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Program admission is competitive and fulfillment of the basic requirements does not guarantee admission. Class size is limited and is determined by the number of available clinical sites within each community-college district. Participating community college districts (in addition to Carl Sandburg College) include: Blackhawk, Heartland, Illinois Central, Illinois Valley, John Wood, Lincoln Land, Parkland, Richland, Sauk Valley, Scott (IA), Southeastern (IA), and Spoon River.
Student selection is based on course work, GPA, and TEAS AH scores. From the pool of applicants, those who are considered most qualified for the study and practice of sonography will be admitted. Candidates with allied health backgrounds will be given first priority on available classroom and clinical slots. Practicing sonographers seeking formal didactic instruction may seek enrollment in the classroom-only portions of the program, and may enroll with instructor permission without completing the formal application process.
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How To Wire Cooling Fans, Headlights, Fuel Pumps & Voltmeters - Custom Wiring You Can DoWritten by Marlan Davis on March 1, 1999 Contributors: Mark Hamilton
Are your old musclecar's headlights too dim? Want to add a new high-current accessory without overtaxing the existing electrical system? Perhaps you need to activate an electric fan or nitrous system by means of an automatic switch. You could accomplish these tasks by rewiring the entire circuit using heavy-gauge wire, but that's time-consuming, adds needless weight, and is electrically inefficient. A far better solution is to use a relay.
A relay is a type of heavy-duty remote-control switch able to handle high-current accessories, yet capable of being actuated by substantially less current. Relays are installed between the power source and the electrical accessory requiring on/off power. When the relay is energized (turned on), the high current required to operate the accessory flows from the power source, through the relay, and directly to the part.
Supplying high-current devices requires heavy-gauge wire; the longer the circuit the larger the required conductor diameter. In 12-volt automotive electrical circuits, even small amounts of resistance can cause significant amounts of voltage drop. Circuits with long wire length and multiple switches and connections inevitably have a certain amount of voltage drop caused by normal resistance buildup; deterioration from vibration, high temperatures, and corrosion only compound the problem. Relays provide a solution by shortening the required length of the heavy-gauge power delivery wire from the battery or alternator to the load.
Relays are typically energized through an operator-controlled dash-mounted switch, or by remotely mounted pressure-, vacuum-, or linkage-actuated switches. With only a small amount of current needed for the relay-actuation side of the circuit, you can use a low-amp on/off switch and small-gauge wire (even on long runs) to connect the on/off switch to the power source and relay. The diagrams on these pages show just some of many typical relay uses, as well as how to hook up the universal ISO relay sold by M.A.D. Enterprises, Jacobs Electronics, and other electrical suppliers.
Using a relay as a heavy-duty remote-control device ensures delivery of full power to high-load electrical components: Your headlights will burn brighter, your electric fan will run faster, and fuel pumps will operate at their peak efficiency. Voltage drop at the dash harness is reduced, and overall switch and electrical system performance and longevity are enhanced.
How It Works
This diagram illustrates the function and operation of the versatile ISO-style "1 Form C single pole/double throw" (SPDT) relay. It can be used to control both normally open (NO) and normally closed (NC) circuits, or it can act as a change-over device to switch current from one user to another. The low-current switch controlling the circuit sends current through the pull-in winding terminals (85 and 86). This energizes an electromagnet that pulls a movable arm, closing the NO high-load circuit (30 to 87). When the controlling switch stops current from passing through the magnetic winding, spring action pulls the movable arm in the opposite direction, completing the NC high-load circuit (30 to 87a).
The ISO relay's high-load circuits are rated at 40 amps NO/20 amps NC for resistive loads, and 20 amps NO/15 amps NC for inductive or lamp circuits. Other ISO relay variations may have only NO or NC circuits, but because of the terminals' universal numbering scheme, you can always figure out their function and how to wire them.
Cooling Fan
M.A.D. likes to use two relays to power up one large electric cooling fan. Even though the ISO relays are rated at 20 amps for this application, experience has shown a large fan motor will overheat a single relay. Installing two relays in parallel removes stress loads from each relay and improves reliability with redundant parts. (One relay per fan is sufficient for systems with two small fans.). Fans' relays are typically actuated via an engine- or radiator-mounted thermostatically controlled switch, but you may wish to install an extra manually operated switch on the dash as a fail-safe device.
Mounting relays near the front of the car makes it easy to route high-amp current directly to the headlights. The factory headlight switch and beam-select switch need only energize the relay for it to send full battery power into the front lighting system harness. This removes the load from the dash harness and is recommended for old under-wired musclecars or any vehicle upgrading to high-power halogen lights.
Fuel Pump
This circuit delivers maximum current to the fuel pump and enhances safety by using a factory GM oil pressure switch. With the ignition in "run," engine oil pressure closes the switch to complete the circuit from terminal "I" to terminal "P," which delivers power to relay terminal 86 and to the ground via terminal 85. This energizes the relay, allowing battery positive power to flow directly through terminals 30 and 87 to the fuel pump. When the engine stops running, oil pressure drops, the switch opens, and the relay de-energizes. This provides automatic fuel pump shutdown after a crash or engine failure, and also prevents the fuel pump from running if the ignition is left on. Wire the pressure switch's "S" terminal to the ignition "start" circuit to provide fuel pump pressure during engine cranking, and/or prime empty carb float bowls.
Mount the relay as close to the battery as practical, and install a fusible link two wire-gauge sizes smaller than the high-amp power feed fire. Wire the pressure switch using generic 1/4-inch female-blade terminals or a three-prong, weather-resistant, molded-on, 56-series connector assembly: GM 12101928 (AC-Delco PT200) has a black PVC connector-shell; slightly more expensive GM 12085529 (AC-Delco PT139) has a high-temp TPE shell.
Many cars experience voltage drop in the main-feed wire that delivers power to the dash area. The more dash switches that are turned on, the greater the power drop. This can cause the voltmeter at the dash to display a significantly lower voltage than the actual battery voltage. You may think there's a problem with alternator output, when in fact the alternator is working fine. The voltmeter can be made to show exact battery voltage by wiring up a relay as shown here. Be sure to route the wire from relay terminal 30 directly to battery positive, and that no other circuits use this wire.
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A relay is a heavy-duty, remote-control electromechanical device that supplies direct high-amp battery/alternator output to a power-hungry electrical part. It provides a shortcut for power delivery. The switch used to control the relay handles only a small amount of current.ISO relays are compact in design and easy to mount. The same basic relay design can actuate many different high-load electrical devices, including radiator fans, headlights, air conditioning, and fuel pumps.Compact universal ISO relays have become a generic part. The terminal pattern and the numbered terminal labels are the same industry-wide. Replacement units are readily available.Many GM cars use this proprietary relay (GM 14103304) to actuate the coolant fan(s). The relay is rated at 35 amps NO/20 amps NC. It requires a sealed Metri-Pack connector assembly (GM 12085493, AC-Delco PT115). Circuit hook-up is the same as the ISO relay.This '65 El Camino's factory wiring was OK, and it had a modern integrally regulated alternator, but its headlights were still dim. With the engine running at cruise rpm, the charging system put out 14.1 volts at the battery but only 11.4 volts at the back of the headlight.After upgrading the lighting circuit with relays, there were 14.0 volts at the battery and 13.96 volts at the headlight! With almost no voltage drop, the headlights were blazing bright.
If the voltmeter reads way low at the dash, but an output check at the alternator shows the device is operating normally (14 volts or higher), add a relay so the voltmeter reads accurately.The horn relay on '60s GM cars serves as the main power distribution point for the whole electrical system. If you upgrade the alternator/horn relay feed wire to 8-gauge, the horn relay's buss bar is a good spot to pick up the high-amp current needed for add-on relays.


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5 Things That Aren't Nearly As Dangerous As Hollywood Thinks
As we've previously explained, Hollywood has some weird ideas about how easy it is to survive falls from great heights and, say, explosions that occur 10 feet away from the hero. But it's almost stranger the way movies and TV exaggerate the dangers of other things. For some reason, it's not a big deal to jump away from an erupting fireball, but we're supposed to believe that encounters with the following are certain death.
#5. Scorpions
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Scorpions are deadly creatures that can incapacitate a man in seconds. Which is to say, a villain once tried to use one to kill James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. They're an instrument of torture for pirates, and should basically be approached with the same caution that one would use with a schizophrenic serial killer with radioactive lightsabers growing out of his body.
What short of a man in gloves, could best this mighty beast?
In Reality:
There are around over a thousand species of scorpions, of which 25 to 50 have venom that is dangerous to humans. OK, fine, but Bond assassins probably use one of the dangerous ones. Even then, the adult mortality rate for a sting is around one percent. So you'd really need a whole suitcase full of scorpions and for Bond to lay still for you for a bit while they get 100 stings in. And if he's being that cooperative, you could honestly just kill him with the suitcase.
How were we to know a movie in which James Bond hijacks a moon rover
is an unreliable source on entomology?
Unless you're a child (for whom the nasty ones cause death in about 10 percent of cases), a scorpion sting is painful and might be incapacitating in a bad case, but it's not going to kill you.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but a scorpion's natural behavior when confronted with something bigger than itself is to hide and try to escape. So the chances of being attacked by one are laughably small. In fact, the odds of dying from a scorpion sting are one in 300 million. To put this in perspective: Your odds of dying by simply falling over in the shower are one in 65,000. In other words, if you find a scorpion in your shower tomorrow morning, the shower stall itself may still be the greater danger.
"Would you mind using the 'No Tears' stuff?"
#4. Running Out of Fuel in an Airplane
According to Hollywood:
In a panic, the pilot looks out of the window and sees that the propellers have stopped spinning -- or his instruments show that the fuel gauge is on empty and his engines have ground to a halt. Cue the Kamikaze dive-bomber sound effects as the plane plummets toward a deadly crash.
They say small planes are the deadliest, but seasoned travelers know that the most
dangerous plane is whichever one you are on right now.
The heroes have a matter of seconds to find parachutes on board -- or if they have the skill, to bail out at the last moment, perhaps in a life raft, as in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Anything is better than staying in this plummeting deathtrap!
"This was the most logical action to take!"
In Reality:
Remember a few years ago when a jet flying out of LaGuardia lost both engines after a bird strike? The plane was at a mere 3,200 feet and still managed to stay in the air for four minutes and fly the length of Manhattan before ditching safely in the Hudson River.
We hope they'd had their shots.
The reason is that even if you lose power, you're flying a plane, not a jetpack -- the same principle of aviation that lets planes fly also means they can glide. Granted, jets make pretty bad gliders, but even they have glide ratios of between 10 and 20 to one -- meaning you can fly 10,000 feet horizontally for every 1,000 feet you drop. Get a jet up to a cruising altitude of 30 to 40,000 feet and you can travel over 100 miles before metal is going to meet dirt.
Your average private plane is surprisingly not as glide-worthy since it's got less mass and can't coast on inertia for quite as long. However, it makes up for distance with survivability. A typical prop-driven four-seater plane will keep gliding until it slows to about 40 to 50 mph, which means you don't need a hell of a lot of space to land and stop short of kissing a tree. Jets need to be traveling at least 140 mph to remain airborne, which means that you'd better find something long and paved (or long and wet) to land on.
Let's look back at that scene from Temple of Doom. As you might recall, the pilots had parachuted out of the plane, leaving it running on fumes, and both engines quickly failed. As the plane began to plummet toward the mountains ahead, Jones and his two companions (Floozy Girl and Annoying Boy) jump out on an inflated life raft, eventually hitting a snow-covered slope and going over a waterfall.
In reality, if a life raft could have made it to that slope, the plane certainly could have glided to the river they end up floating down. You can argue that Jones didn't know how to fly a plane, but even a ham-handed attempt to turn it around and ditch in the river probably offers better odds than jumping out of a plane in a life raft. Something to do with a large metal hull offering better protection than a flimsy piece of inflated rubber. But we're no scientists.
#3. Getting Shot with an Arrow or Crossbow
According to Hollywood:
These pointy projectiles are death with feathers. Get hit with one (especially if you're a bad guy or an expendable cowboy) and you pitch over and die. Legolas seemed to perfectly average one dead orc per fired arrow in Lord of the Rings. Before that -- for almost a century's worth of movies -- if a cowboy got tagged with one, he'd be on his way to the pearly gates.
There is no functional difference between that bow and an Uzi.
In Reality:
If you've got a strong stomach, take a look at the picture on this page. Yes, that's a guy with a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest. Not only did he survive the initial wound, but he survived a seven-hour plane ride to the hospital (it was in Australia, and he was shot in a remote location, presumably by a giant bow and arrow wielding spider we've yet to read about) before the sucker was removed.
How could he do this and survive, you ask? Basically, arrows and other type of longish projectiles tend to stay in the wound, providing a nice plug to hold in the blood and keep things intact. By comparison, getting shot -- something that Hollywood heroes survive in every other scene -- is more dangerous by magnitudes. When a bullet strikes a body, it starts chewing up everything inside, bouncing off bones, tearing major blood vessels open -- just generally doing all it can to kill you.
Ask any hunter who uses a bow, and they'll tell you that it's not uncommon to have to trail an animal for hours after it gets hit by an arrow.
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ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (23rd ed., November 2012)
Janis Voigtländer <jv <at> informatik.uni-bonn.de>
On behalf of all the contributors, I am pleased to announce that the Haskell Communities and Activities Report (23rd edition, November 2012) is now available in PDF and HTML formats: http://haskell.org/communities/11-2012/report.pdf http://haskell.org/communities/11-2012/html/report.html Many thanks go to all the people that contributed to this report, both directly, by sending in descriptions, and indirectly, by doing all the interesting things that are reported. I hope you will find it as interesting a read as I did. If you have not encountered the Haskell Communities and Activities Reports before, you may like to know that the first of these reports was published in November 2001. Their goal is to improve the communication between the increasingly diverse groups, projects, and individuals working on, with, or inspired by Haskell. The idea behind these reports is simple: Every six months, a call goes out to all of you enjoying Haskell to contribute brief summaries of your own area of work. Many of you respond (eagerly, unprompted, and sometimes in time for the actual deadline) to the call. The editor collects all the contributions into a single report and feeds that back to the community. When I try for the next update, six months from now, you might want to report on your own work, project, research area or group as well.(Continue reading)


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Aspiring autodidact, deliberate recluse.
Is the phrase deliberate recluse syntactically correct, or should I use deliberately reclusive instead?
I was touching up my profile when I came upon this:
Is the phrase deliberate recluse syntactically correct, or should I use deliberately reclusive instead?
That depends.
If recluse is an adjective, then it would be
If recluse is a noun, then it would be:
Note that recluse may be both, depending on context, although recluse as an adjective is very rarely used today. In your context I'd say it's a noun, therefore the original sentence is correct.
The original is correct: "Aspiring autodidact, deliberate recluse."
Let's parse this. "Aspiring" is an adjective to describe the noun "autodidact," which is a type of person. "Deliberate" is an adjective to describe the noun "recluse," which is also a type of person.
This original expression is a grammatically correct parallel structure.
If you want to use "reclusive," the adjective, then you would also need to modify the first part of the expression. For example, you could write "aspiringly autodidactical, deliberately reclusive." But this sounds overly complex and, frankly, silly.
There is little functional difference between the two. In technical terms, "deliberate recluse" refers to you, the person, while "deliberately reclusive" refers to your actions. However, in hearing or reading this, someone would get the general idea that you refrain from public activity with intent. Only by nitpicking or over-analysis would the difference surface. Use whichever you prefer.
"Deliberate Recluse" is a noun, whereas "deliberately reclusive" is an adjective. They are both correct. Let's look at the context to see which is better here.
Since this is a list of descriptions, they should be consistent. "Aspiring autodidact" is a noun, so "deliberate recluse" should be used for consistency.
Expanded to a full sentence, this would be
which, while correct, is less consistent. However, since it is a short list, it is not very noticeable. In a longer list, the different element would stick out. If you wanted to emphasize a particular element, though, that would be an effective way to do it.


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5 Reasons Twitter Isn't Actually Overthrowing Governments
#2. The Media Just Focuses On Twitter Because it's a Buzzword
Let's admit it: Most wars and revolutions are fought for complex political reasons -- the entirety of which most of us are unable to fully understand. For the average Joe, the Civil War was about slavery, the Iraq War was about oil and the Revolutionary War was about freedom. We want every war to be as simple as Star Wars.
And when a really good bad guy does come along, we merchandise him so hard
his name becomes yet another meaningless buzzword.
The news media is partly to blame, every event needs to be translated into an easily understandable story. It needs a hook to make it compelling. Thinking of these uprisings as a "Twitter Revolution" gives us an easy narrative: modern, free-thinking youth use new technology to overthrow the old guard. It makes the story interesting for an audience who otherwise has no reason to care.
"Keep it up, Egyptians! Or Iranians. Whatever, they're basically the same people, right?"
But this isn't a new phenomenon. In 2001, a revolution in the Philippines was credited to the power of the new technology of text messaging, not years of civil unrest. Go back further and you'll find that we gave the audio cassette credit for the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Or there was Tienanmen Square, where the modern wonder that was the fax machine was going to help beat China's oppressive government.
This was going to end communism.
There's yet to be a newsworthy event we haven't linked to some buzzword we're familiar with; it simplifies things, and helps us put a human face on the story. It's hard for us to identify with an impoverished old man in Syria who's getting pushed around by the government, because we have no idea what that's like. Picturing some middle-class guy with a boring office job sticking it to the man with Facebook is a lot easier, since most of us are middle-class people with boring office jobs who dream of fighting the system with our edgy status updates.
And not only is the idea of a revolution powered by social networking accessible, it's also kind of appealing. It's nice to think that websites we use every day are helping improve the world, because that's a lot better than thinking about how Facebook's only contribution to society is to tell our friends how totally drunk we got last night.
"I had 12 beers last night and I threw up on a cop, but I was
only doing it to express solidarity with the people of Moldova."
Which leads to our final point ...
#1. It's Letting us Take Credit When We Don't Deserve It
Another reason we connect Western technology to events around the world seems to be that it simply lets us brag about how awesome western technology is. The effect is even worse now that the technology in question is the Internet, because if there's one thing the internet enjoys more than pornography it's pretending to help causes.
Via helpiranelection.com
Above: Fighting the Revolution.
That's why we love the idea of a revolution powered by social networking -- we can't fly down to Egypt to take part in a street protest, but we can hit "like" on a Facebook page that's organizing one. All it takes is one click, and suddenly you're an activist! Sure, it won't actually accomplish anything, but it does let the world know how much you care.
"Yeah, not any old guy would make his Twitter background green in support of Iran,
but not everyone wants to make a difference like I do."
Slacktivism is nothing new, but it crosses the line from "pointless, but well-intentioned" to "jaw-droppingly delusional" once we claim more credit than we're due. In the wake of the revolution in Egypt it wasn't enough that the protesters used our social networking sites -- we had to pat ourselves on the back for teaching young Egyptians to use Google and Facebook. We're not sure whether it was the "type what you want to find into the little bar" or "don't get distracted by the thousands of results about tits" part they were having trouble with, but either way they apparently needed America's help to sort things out.
"So, you're saying that no matter what I type in, I'll get pictures of boobies? Thanks, America!"
So we have the Gene Sharp affair, where the New York Times made the prominent political scientist sound like a modern-day Laurence of Arabia who taught ignorant dissidents around the developing world how to revolt -- an idea that was promptly mocked by Egyptian bloggers. Likewise, if you ask either 4chan or Julian Assange what they contributed to the revolution in Tunisia, they're quick to claim credit for the whole damn thing.
"Yes, fine, I guess those protesters helped, too. A little bit."
When you stop to think about it, it's actually pretty insulting. We were quick to label Tunisia's recent uprising the "Twitter Revolution" and the "Wikileaks Revolution," both of which sound asinine when you remember that Tunisia's protests began after Mohamed Bouazizi, a disgruntled street vendor, set himself on fire. Maybe we should be giving him some credit, not ourselves. Then again, the "Holy Shit, That Guy Just Set Himself on Fire, What the Fuck, Man?! Revolution" doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well.
You can read more from Mark at Gunaxin. Or see him experiment with various pseudosciences at Zug.
For more reasons why this whole social media thing may not be so cool, check out 6 Things Social Networking Sites Need to Stop Doing and 5 Wacky Internet Pranks That Can Get You Jail Time.


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Less than a year after the unexpected resignation of Jack Brooks Regional Airport Direct Jennifer Hogencamp in July 2012, Jefferson County Commissioners voted at their meeting Tuesday, Feb. 13, to make interim director Alex Rupp the permanent head of their airport.
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It's been Jay Circosta's experience that 7-3 normally doesn't get a Monroe Central football team into the playoffs.
This year could be an exception.
''Normally, in our region you need to be at least 8-2 to get in,'' the veteran coach said. ''I think our kids understand and feel fortunate they still have a chance to get in.''
The Seminoles stand at 4-3 heading into Friday night's contest at Barnesville. A victory against the Shamrocks (1-6) and triumphs against Frontier (3-4) and Buckeye Trail (2-5) to round out the regular season, Circosta believes, would give his squad a good shot at a postseason berth.
''But you really can't look ahead,'' Circosta cautioned. ''Our main focus is on Barnesville and them only.
''If we're successful Friday night it sets up an interesting last couple of weeks. But we have to take them one week at a time. We can only control what we can control and that's trying to win the last three ballgames.
''We just have to see what happens.''
Monroe Central sits in eighth place in the Division VI, Region 21 computer ratings, comfortably ahead of Gahanna Columbus Academy and behind Fort Frye, a team it beat three weeks ago. Bellaire is third in the region, while unbeaten Columbus Bishop Ready tops it.
It's certainly been a tail of two seasons in Woodsfield. After starting the campaign with two losses, the Seminoles have won four out of five, including last week's 56-9 pasting of Shenandoah.
The hiccup in the run was a 32-8 loss at Magnolia two weeks ago.
''We just started off on the wrong foot in that game,'' Circosta said. ''We played pretty good defense, I thought, but we couldn't generate any offense.
''When you can't run the football it's tough to do anything offensively.''
Monroe Central's fortunes started to change when Curtis Nixon stepped behind center. And against Shenandoah last week, the change continued to pay dividends.
Nixon rushed seven times for 146 yards and three touchdowns. He also completed seven of 10 passes for 157 yards and another score.
''The Nixon kid is a good athlete and he can do a lot with the ball,'' Barnesville head coach Matt Johnson said. ''And Levi Brown is a good, hard runner. We're obviously going to have to do the fundamentals well and get them down.
''They're just fundamentally sound. They just do what they do and they do it really well. We'll have to be on top of our game and get a few breaks along the way.''
The Shamrocks enter play 1-6 coming off a 56-0 thumping at the hands of state-ranked Steubenville Catholic.
''Matt's done a lot of good things there and changed the whole atmosphere for the better,'' Circosta said. ''It's just unfortunate they've had a lot of injuries and what not.
''They've turned the ball over a good bit, too.
''It's a nice rivalry and I think it brings out the best in both teams regardless of records. I know they'll play hard.''
Daniel Brown rushed for 88 yards last week against the Crusaders.
''It's been frustrating, but it's not been because of a lack of effort,'' Johnson said. "We feel like if we do the right things and take care of the ball we can be in the game.''


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I've run into a problem that can only be solved if I had access to AutoCompletion's isPopupVisible method, which unfortunately is marked as private. I have a KeyListener that intercepts keyPressed in order to provide syntax indentation (among other things). It turns out that it overrides whatever key events are set up by AutoComplete, so if I press enter when the AutoComplete popup is visible, it is intercepted by my KeyListener and a newline is inserted.
I could solve this issue by simply not running my KeyListener when the AutoComplete popup is visible, but there is no way for me to determine this! I've attempted all sorts of ugly hacks to figure out when the popup is visible without any luck. I assume this will probably never be added, because I found a thread over a year ago in which the same thing was requested. If you have any advice, I would really appreciate it.


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Could you do something for me? When you go to a restaurant here in Spain, you have to eat this: JAMÓN SERRANO or JAMÓN IBÉRICO DE BELLOTA. It's delicious!! It's typical from Spain, especially from my state. Please, eat it, it's delicious, I'm not lying you!! And then, the most important thing: please, remember me, Nuclear Girl, who can't stay there with you because some fucking people say that rock music is not for girls like me. I would be very grateful if you do it, and I will be there with you, hundreds of miles away, listening to your music. THANK YOU for be the best band ever and thank you for make me smile when I have a bad day, THANK YOU. Yours sincerely, Raquel (Rachel in English)
Very brave! You did the load of energy for the show! :-*
Well you got the guts, awesome.


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It is the progressive income tax. This year, it turns 100. Its permanent establishment was set forth in two historic moments: 1) an amendment to the Constitution (the 16th Amendment), ratified Feb. 3, 1913; and 2) its signing into law by the progressive's progressive, President Woodrow Wilson, on Oct. 3, 1913. It was a major political victory for Wilson and fellow progressives then and still today.
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The Boston Conservatory congratulates all the Elliot Norton Award winners --- especially recent graduate Michael Tacconi, who won Outstanding Actor in a Musical Performance for his portrayal as "Gabe" in SpeakEasy Stage Company's Next to Normal. The awards ceremony was held Monday, May 21, 2012, at the Paramount Theater.
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The Elliot Norton Awards are named for the eminent Boston theater critic Elliot Norton, who remained an active supporter of the drama, both locally and nationally, until his death in 2003 at the age of 100. For 48 years Mr. Norton was a drama critic for Boston newspapers; concurrently, from 1958 to 1982, he was moderator of Elliot Norton Reviews on WGBH television.
The Boston Theater Critics Association, which presents the Elliot Norton Awards, has been a vital participant in the remarkable growth of the Boston theater community at a time in our nation's history when it seems that the arts have an even greater struggle to survive.
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