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6 Horrifying Implications of Classic Christmas Movies
#3. The Year Without a Santa Claus
The Jolly:
The Year Without a Santa Claus is a claymation movie about a crew of elves and children trying to convince a sick Santa to get off his lazy ass and work instead of just canceling Christmas because he's got the sniffles. The only way to do this is to convince the quarreling Miser brothers, who control the world's weather, to put aside their feud and allow it to snow in the South. They very reluctantly agree to work together for one day, it's a Christmas miracle, Santa is cured and the credits roll while good feelings and eggnog whiskey pour into your soul and mouth, respectively.
Freebase a mince pie; save a fat child.
The Horror:
The Miser brothers are, between them, the complete masters of the entire planet's weather. The Snow Miser controls the North and supplies it with cold, while his brother, the Heat Miser, controls the South and the warmth. But they're not benevolent forces: Santa and Mrs. Claus are terrified of anyone entering the Miser brothers' realm. When two of their elves may have done just that, Santa hurries out the door to find them before "the Snow Miser freezes them just for the fun of it or the Heat Miser puts the heat on them." These murderous, gleefully torturous monsters literally control the air you breathe, and they hate each other. Living in this world would be like living in a house with Crips on one side and Bloods on the other, but only if both gangs suddenly harnessed Storm-like mutant weather-control powers.
Sure, Mrs. Claus eventually intervenes and ends the hostilities, but she only got involved because it was close to Christmas and the whole holiday was on the line. The other 11 months of that year, and apparently all of every year before that, these two unhinged Elemental Gods were left unchecked to wage their war across the face of the Earth.
"I only got 364 days of holiday a year and I'm not gonna waste them on you brats."
So what happens when the magical Mrs. Claus isn't there to stand in their way? What if one of them eventually destroys the other? Or worse, what if they don't annihilate each other and the rest of eternity is just a constant power struggle between the two, with our home as their battleground? Temperatures would swing wildly, entirely on the whim of their cruel masters. You'd get frostbite and heatstroke on the same day, freak blizzards canceled out by lasting droughts, global warming and ice ages accompanying every temper tantrum.
But hey, maybe we're blowing this out of proportion. Surely neither of these children's movie villains could be so powerful as to destroy an entire plane --
Hope you enjoy city-killing tidal waves for Christmas.
#2. Home Alone
The Jolly:
Our yuletide hero, Kevin, is accidentally left home alone while his family visits France for Christmas. A pair of would-be burglars attempt, re-attempt and re-re-attempt wacky forced entries, until you just have to wonder if they're in this for the crime or the shenanigans. But in the end, Kevin's makeshift booby traps save the day, the robbers are thwarted and his family returns to find him safe and sound. It's the spirit of Christmas, encapsulated: A time of love, family and appreciating what you already have.
And then bashing a bald man's head in with a paint can.
The Horror:
Watch a little closer the next time Home Alone comes on TBS (it's always TBS). Notice anything strange about Kevin's situation? Let us give you a tiny hint: Where the hell are the people in charge?
No, we're not talking about Kevin's family abandoning him. We're talking about the fact that the McCallisters seem to live in a nightmarish version of Chicago where the cops are incompetent, evil or flat out nonexistent. You'll remember that the first thing Kevin's mom does when she gets off the plane is call the police to report that her 8-year-old son is home alone (heeeyyy, that's the title!). After being bounced around by two highly dismissive officers, the police begrudgingly agree to send someone to the house, presumably while rolling their eyes so hard that they actually physically leave their heads and go bouncing around the precinct.
"Maybe try those fake police officers. They do good work."
A police officer is sent over to check on Kevin, but after knocking a grand total of three times, he leaves the house, and the reportedly abandoned child, behind. Later, Kevin uses an old mobster movie to convince a delivery boy that he's being shot at by a psychopath, in order to get free pizza. The delivery boy quite understandably runs for his life, leaving the pizza behind.
So ... does attempted murder not warrant a call to the authorities anymore?
Kevin even flat out admits to a fake Santa that he's unattended and he wants his family back. Instead of, you know, trying to help a frightened child, alone on Christmas and begging for assistance, Home Alone's Santa Claus gives the kid some candy and sends him on his way.
"You're cutting into my tequila and suicide time. No, I didn't misspeak."
But don't worry! A cop does finally intervene in Kevin's affairs -- when he accidentally steals a toothbrush. Then it's on: The Chicago PD is on the scene, folks, and they are going to chase this son of a bitching child down for wanting healthy teeth.
"He's running. TAKE THE SHOT!"
#1. Elf
The Jolly:
Elf follows Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human orphan who was found in Santa's bag of toys after a night of deliveries. Santa and his elves raise the boy as one of Santa's helpers until the day he leaves for New York City to seek out his biological father. After finding love and saving Christmas, Buddy heads back home to the North Pole, where he truly belongs.
Aw ... Christmas, everybody!
You're going to need wider eyes than that to get anywhere in this business, Ms. Deschanel!
The Horror:
So wait, Santa finds a baby on Christmas Eve and decides to just ... take him?
Then he raises the kid specifically to work for him, for no pay, forever? Santa makes no effort to return the child to the orphanage from whence he came. But wait, why not? Doesn't he know everything? When you're sleeping, when you're awake, whether you've been bad or good? So shouldn't he know where he accidentally abducted this child from? It's even revealed that Santa knows who Buddy's real father is -- giving him the option to at least try to reunite a broken family -- but for some reason, Santa instead opts to raise the child in a hostile environment populated by, for all intents and purposes, aliens. In the movie, the North Pole is the exclusive realm of the elves -- mystical creatures whose biological makeup is considerably different from a human being's. Aside from the fact that Buddy grows twice as fast and large as his coworkers and literally nothing in his world is built to accommodate him, we're also, at one point, shown a diagram of the elf food groups.
Yes, they all have scurvy.
We really hope the medical clinic at the North Pole has insulin shots, because we're pretty sure that Buddy has hyper-diabetes, not to mention malnourishment and rotten teeth. Raising a human child in this environment is like finding a baby bird in your yard and opting to raise it in the toilet because you don't feel like getting the ladder out of the garage.
Even if you are maladjusted enough to think that keeping random children like lucky pennies is fine as long as they're orphans, remember: The day after Christmas, that orphanage is going to have to report a missing child. A child who is now at the North Pole, thus assuring he will never be found.
"So after a few years of litigation they closed the orphanage and I got lost in the syste --" "SNOW IS AWESOME."
That's right: An innocent social worker is going to prison because Santa had already changed into his comfy pants and didn't feel like going back out.
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I'm sure this is standard but I don't know where to look. Let $M$ be a contractible compact smooth $n$-manifold with boundary. Does it have to be homeomorphic to $D^n$? What about diffeomorphic?
[UPDATE: the answer is well-known to be negative as many people kindly pointed out. But actually I assume more about the manifold, namely the following:]
There is a Riemannian metric on $M$ such that every two points are connected by a unique shortest path. So $M$ can be contracted to a point $p\in M$ by sending every point along a shortest path to $p$. These paths can bend along the boundary and can merge because of this. But they are relatively nice (namely $C^{1,1}$) curves and their first derivatives depend continuously on their endpoints. Given all this, can one conclude that $M$ is a disc?
ADDED: These curves are of course gradient curves of a function (the distance to $p$) which is $C^1$ and has no critical points in the interior of $M$, except at $p$.


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Smash Bros Theory: 6 Absurd Classes Taught at Actual Colleges
#3. Tightwaddery
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This course is part of Alfred University's honors program and is supposed to prove that money can't buy happiness, though what it really proves is that you shouldn't base entire college courses on fortune cookie sayings.
In the course you are going to learn how living on the cheap will benefit the environment and improve your relationships. It also offers both instruction in theory and practice, which is awesome because there is no way you could understand how to save money without actually doing things like hitting thrift shops and yard sales. It also promises you'll learn how to avoid falling for rip offs, which ironically is a skill you clearly don't have if you paid for this course.
This brings us to the larger point, which is that unless your parents are rich enough to have a vacation home in Aspen, then the very act paying tens of thousands of dollars to attend a University has already taught you how to live with no money. Just two months of being a college student, regardless of which classes you take, will teach you that you can get two meals out of a single family-sized box of macaroni and cheese, and what exact combination of liquor will get you drunkest on a budget of twelve dollars. We don't need a professor to show us a Powerpoint presentation on the subject.
#2. The Science of Superheroes
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This course asks the question, "Have you ever wondered if Superman could really bend steel bars?" To which the answer would be, "Not since I was 5."
This UC Irvine course seems to be an attempt to address the concerns of a certain segment of the population that likes to debate important issues like whether sucking up gamma rays would turn you into the Hulk or a pile of boiling flesh.
Professor Mike Dennin has been profiled on several news programs and was in a documentary related to his "innovative" course. He is of the opinion that by giving the students something to relate to they won't fear science so much. We suspect it also gives him a chance to wear his Batman costume.
We don't have the credentials to teach physics but we think that a better way to teach science might be to examine scientific principles that were not completely made up by comic book writers. Teaching a science course by spending time looking at shit that isn't science seems about as useful as teaching English by pointing to gibberish and saying "This ain't English, and neither is this. See this? Not English!". Thanks, that's fucking useful.
If your grasp on science is so tenuous that you sign up for this class to validate your belief that, under the right circumstances x-ray vision is attainable, then you're in for a huge disappointment. Seeing how real life measures up to comics, we're thinking the comparison will serve only to turn the entire class off of real science forever.
Comic book.
Real life.
#1. Exploring Cybersexualities
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San Francisco State University.
We didn't expect a course like this to be offered even at a hippie school like SFSU. Then again, with a school motto like "Experience Teaches" this class probably fits right in.
The course is supposed to examine cybersex and its place in the world today. It examines difficult questions like "What is cybersex?" and "Why do we want cybersex?" and "Do we need air to live?"
The instructor is a lady named Mary Madden who has a Master's degree and lists "Online adult entertainment" as her area of expertise on her faculty page, which means she shares the same area of expertise as every fucking guy in America.
As for course work, you're required you to chat online, check out porn links and then design your own unique cybersexual experience to present to the class, finally giving you a chance to share your perverted fantasies with strangers without fear of arrest. Though if you're using one of the school's PCs, we'd strongly suggest that you begin every session by disinfecting your keyboard.
What's disappointing here is that this could be a useful course, if they bothered to teach practical skills such as "How to safely surf porn at work," "How to hide your porn from your girlfriend/spouse" and "How to hide your plainly visible erection from a classroom full of other students."
We don't think we'll find any of that in the syllabus.
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I have a problem with Facebook Like button in my site: adding this code (provided by facebook)
<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameBorder="0" src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://my.site.com/folder/&send=false&layout=button_count&width=120&show_faces=false&action=like&colorscheme=light&font&height=20" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:20px;">
button is correctly shown in any page as it is created, after a few days on some pages iframe remains empty because Facebook don't send the button code anymore.
I tried to solve eventual url problems and changing some urls I noticed that the button shows in new urls, after few days some page looses button.
I hope you can help me... thanks
Update: This is all the code coming from Facebook after page without Like button is loaded:
<html lang="it" id="facebook" class="no_js">
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<meta name="robots" content="noodp, noydir"/>
<meta name="referrer" content="default" id="meta_referrer"/>
<meta name="description" content=" Facebook è una piattaforma sociale che ti consente di connetterti con i tuoi amici e con chiunque lavori, studi e viva vicino a te. Puoi usare Facebook per rimanere in contatto con i tuoi amici, caricare tutte le foto che vuoi, pubblicare link e video o per saperne di più sulle persone che incontri."/>
<script>var onloadRegister_DEPRECATED=function(){},onafterloadRegister_DEPRECATED=function(){},ServerJSQueue={add:function(){}};
<style type="text/css"> div.fbNubFlyoutBody.scrollable{position:inherit}
<body class="opera Locale_it_IT">
<div id="FB_HiddenContainer" style="position:absolute; top:-10000px; width:0px; height:0px;"/>
<script>function envFlush(a){function b(c){for(var d in a)c[d]=a[d];}if(window.requireLazy){requireLazy(['Env'],b);}else{Env=window.Env||{};b(Env);}}
envFlush ({"fb_dtsg":"XXXXXXXXXX","ajaxpipe_token":"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX","lhsh":"XXXXXXXXX","user":"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"});</script>
The moste evident difference is in:
<html lang="it" id="facebook" class="no_js">
that in working pages has class="". In working pages there's also a lot of more code...
Can anybody help or give a hint to let me (and maybe facebook developers too :-)) understand what's going on? Thanks also to who's only reading
Thanks for the answer, but that's not the solution, this is the code as provided by facebook and as I said works at the time url is created and, only for some pages, stops working after few days. Anyway I found in facebook developer site that's a known bug whith medium priority. Hope they do something soon. Thanks


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The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: January 13, 2002
Will my weight change as a result of my breast cancer treatment?
Some breast cancer patients find that their weight does not change during treatment, while others find that they gain weight. This is typically due to certain medications, hormone treatment, lack of activity, or a particular type of chemotherapy that is being used. These treatments can increase appetite and fluid retention.
What can I do to avoid weight gain?
Talk to your doctor about the chances of possible weight gain. A low-fat, calorie controlled diet is generally recommended for many breast cancer patients. Some general tips include:
Setting realistic goals in light of your treatment program and overall sense of well-being is probably the most important thing you can do for yourself.
What should I do if I notice a significant weight gain?
Let your doctor know so that you can find out what is causing the change. Sometimes, the drugs you are taking cause your body to hold excess fluid, which may cause weight gain. In such cases, you may be advised to reduce your salt intake and to take a diuretic which can help your body get rid of the water. Together you can decide on a weight control strategy that is right for you.
Should I take vitamins?
A well-balanced diet should provide your daily vitamin and mineral needs. However, your treatments and the stress from treatments could increase those needs. A multi-vitamin that provides the Recommended Daily Allowances is a good idea. Not all vitamins are alike, however, so it's a good idea to talk to your doctor, nurse or nutritionist about which vitamins you are taking to ensure that they won't have a negative health impact.
Can I get help?
Yes. The Cancer Center's nutrition counselors can help you develop a diet that is healthy and appropriate for you. They can also meet with you throughout your treatment to discuss adjustments to your diet so that you can reach or maintain your desired weight and nutrition goals. The nutrition counselor can provide information and advice on different diet plans, vitamins, and herbal therapies you may have heard about or are considering. We also have periodic seminars on nutrition for our patients and families. Call 215-615-0538 for information or to schedule an appointment.


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Déjà Vu? Oracle EPM in 2013
By Jenntoomey-Oracle on Dec 20, 2013
As the year winds down, I wanted to share some of the highlights from EPM in 2013 and give a sneak peak about where we're going next year. 2013 was a busy year with new product developments, new research studies, as well as customer events like Oracle OpenWorld. Let's look back at some of these happenings and their associated blog posts.
New Product Developments
Early in 2013, we announced a new release of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management with new integrations and product capabilities and updates to user experience that help companies to Unlock Business Potential – by unlocking business potential, companies are able to drive to the desired business outcomes of Aligned Objectives, Accurate Forecasts, Confident Close and a more Accountable Enterprise.
We also released new product modules, including Oracle Hyperion Tax Provision to help with aligning tax information and financial reporting, and Oracle Data Relationship Governance for improving financial master data governance and managing change. In addition, we certified Oracle Hyperion Planning and Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management on Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine to help organizations Plan at the Speed of Business.
For the sixth consecutive year, Gartner recognized Oracle as a Market Leader in its 2013 Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites report. In this year's report, among the market leaders, Oracle is positioned with the highest ability to execute and the strongest in completeness of vision.
New Research
We conducted several interesting research studies in 2013. Over the past several years, as we have gone through and emerged from the Great Recession, the role of the CFO has transitioned to one of catalyst for change. New technologies and shifts in skill sets are also contributing to this changing role. To understand these issues more deeply, we partnered with Accenture and released new research about the CFO's changing role from financial overseer to corporate strategist and change agent.
To learn more about how Oracle customers perform Business Analytics processes (which includes Enterprise Performance Management, Business Intelligence and more), we launched the Oracle Business Analytics Customer Value Index (CVI) program in 2011, through which we collect valuable business process information from our customers. The EPM Blog featured some compelling results from the CVI around Enterprise Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Processes.
Customer Events and Videos
One of the highlights of the year was Oracle OpenWorld, and winning the America's Cup during that week certainly added to the excitement! The Business Analytics program this year was our strongest ever, with over 200 EPM, BI, Analytics, Big Data and Exalytics sessions delivered by Oracle, our customers and partners. We had the opportunity to catch up with a number of these customers and partners after their sessions, and you can view the interviews here.
In one of our blogs about Scorecards, we featured forward-looking DC Courts and their process for managing strategy and KPIs. DC Courts are making some great strides in setting strategy and executing on it, and are really setting the bar for other US Courts. On the topic of Profitability and Cost Management, we interviewed Ida Quamina of Oracle about the great strides being made in mastering the cost of Higher Education, and how these institutions can now address the issues of low or no visibility into individual programs, degrees and course costs, or the cost per student.
Next up – Cloud and Mobile!
As we head into 2014, there are many exciting developments in store, and you can expect to see us talk a lot about Cloud and Mobile technologies next year. Our blog called, "Taking your Business Scorecard Golfing" is just a preview.
Wishing you a very Happy Holiday and New Year!


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I'm using a huge database on arcgis desktop 9.3.1 and every time I do a pan/zoom I have to wait 0.5-1 minute for the whole database to redraw itself. Is there any way to decrease the amount of redraws ( like making the program redraw only once every five pan actions)?
Be sure to have all your layers spatially indexed. Then ArcMap (or any other GIS software) fast can pick out what is inside the rectangle you are trying to draw.
Next is to make every layer visible only in a scale where they make sence. If you are drawing a layer made for scale 1:1000 in scale 1:100000 it will take a lot of time and you will probably not see the details anyway.
The third thing is to not have many layers visible that are covering each other. Then all of them will be drawn (I think that is valid for Arc software too) but you only see the one in the front.
If it still is slow you are probably sending the data from another computer with a too bad connection.
Alternatively you are pushing the database to far. Then, maybe you should look at other software solutions (they might be open and free ;-) )
I guess you could stop it from redrawing automatically, but I am not sure that is what you really want to do.
Instead of toggling the pause drawing button, you can use the escape key to cancel drawing. That way, you can allow enough of the map to redraw for the next navigation operation.
If you are using a database alongside other data, it may be worth having them all in the same projection. This way, ArcMap doesn't have to reproject on the fly. Also ensure that the data within the database is all in the same projection (this will be enforced in Feature datasets, but projections can vary throughout other divisions of geodatabases).
Pause labels and pan to features instead of zooming to features (zoom may change scale while pan will not).
There are a couple of options I think may help you.
1- You can simply pause drawing (the || symbol in the lower left corner of the data view window). When you do this you can still pan and zoom, although obviously you can't see what you are panning or zooming to.
2 - You can use visible scale ranges to limit the rendering of specific layers to only when you are zoomed in/out of certain ranges. If you are repeatedly panning or zooming to similar locations you can make spatial bookmarks as well (and at those scale levels set the applicable layers you want rendered). (Nicklas's answer beat me too this point)
I imagine others can give suggestions about reducing file complexity, it may also help others if you describe the type of data you are rendering.
I like to use the MXDPerfStat tool when working with 9.x MXDs to analyze where performance improvements with drawing can be made. In 10.0, there are some similar functions with the Map Service Publishing toolbar that analyze layer performance with the goal of optimizing maps for ArcGIS Server.
Another option is to use the "Toggle Draft Mode" button on the layout toolbar. This is only useful if you're in layout view though. Unfortunately you can't actually see the data you're panning and zooming around. I have found this very helpful though when adjusting my sheet layout.
Scott La vanne gets the prize. "Toggle Draft Mode" is key when using multiple data frames in a large layout.


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X-FAB is the first foundry to offer inertial sensor COT-technology for consumer, automotive and industrial accelerometer and gyroscope applications. In conjunction with qualified design partners through our X-CHAIN network, X-FAB enables easy access to the rapidly growing inertial sensor market. The offering includes a portfolio of different accelerometer IP blocks covering multiple G-ranges.
Accelerometer - Block Diagram
Accelerometer / Gyroscope Applications
Accelerometers and gyroscopes are used for various safety features in modern vehicles. From crash detection for airbag release to electronic stability control systems, allowing the car to aid the driver during evasive manoeuvres at speed. Gyroscopes can also be used with navigation systems to provide fine location information and help when there is no GPS signal, e.g. in tunnels.
Mobile devices have accelerometers and gyroscopes used for screen orientation detection and enhanced navigation. Computer game consoles are using handsets with accelerometers and gyroscopes to enhance game play.
As well as supporting customer specific designs, X-FAB offers accelerometer and gyroscope standard processes with design rules and process specifications to suit your application. Design support is available to meet your individual requirements.
Accelerometer / Gyroscope Key Facts
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- Process and design rule specification available
Amplifier (AMP)
X-FAB offers a wide selection of primitive devices which can be used for amplifiers. Beside high ohmic MOS transistors other good matching devices are available for designing transimpedance, operation and other amplifiers. The selection of primitive devices is completed by accurate standard models. X-FAB's technology libraries contain a selection of different pre-designed operational amplifiers.
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
Depending on requirements Analog Digital Converters can be designed by using the standard core or additional modules for reduced noise, trimming devices or memory. The use of junction isolated devices makes the ADC design robust versus substrate noise. Zener zaps and fuses are available for trimming of parameters like offset during wafer probing or final test. Several robust ADCs (SAR until 10Bit) can be selected from X-FABs analog standard cell library.
Different digital libraries optimized for speed, low power, low noise and low threshold are available for all of X-FAB's process technologies allowing optimized designs. For low noise/low leakage applications special junction isolated digital libraries can be used. To store firmware for controller or other data a portfolio of non-volatile memories can be used. Unique to X-FAB is the possibility to use EEPROM and FLASH on the same chip. Hard- and software co-design allows fast, reliable and flexible creation of memory cells.


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The 2012 recipient, Joyce Ford, was recognized at the chamber's annual banquet held Feb. 28 at the Bastrop Municipal Center. She was honored to receive the award from her daughter, Dorothy Ford, the chamber's executive director and a past winner of the award.
Ford, a founding member of the Morehouse Humane Society, has been active with the chamber for the past six years. She attends chamber functions, helps in the office and with fundraisers and helps with setting up the banquet each year while still keeping her commitments with the Humane Society.
At the Humane Society, Ford spends 10 to 15 hours a week running errands, assisting in organizing fundraisers and doing all bookkeeping, payroll and regulation reports. She has been the treasurer of the organization for the past 15 years and served as president for 25 years. Due to her work, along with all of the members of the Humane Society, the organization has been able to build better kennels, a separate cat house and a separate house for puppies and their mothers.
The 85 year old mother of 7, grandmother of 9 and great-grandmother of 6 is one of two surviving active founding members of the Humane Society and because of her passion for the animals, has no intentions of slowing down any time soon.
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Assume that we planted floating solar cells on the ocean surfaces. Assume a 100km² solar cell field in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. All of the sunlight will be blocked by them. How would that affect the life in oceans?
How would ecology be affected if 100km² of an ocean surface was covered by a floating object? [closed]
closed as primarily opinion-based by James, rg255, Christiaan, March Ho, kmm Jun 8 at 20:14
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
It might, however, result in an increase of macrofauna, especially if the solar plates were anchored somehow at the bottom of the ocean. This may seem paradoxical, but for most groups of sessile macrofauna (cnidarians, tunicates, bryozoans, brachiopods, some molluscs, and so on), the limiting resource in the ocean is space, and any solid or semisolid surface is a good surface to live on, so at least along the margins of the solar plates, we should expect to see enormous amounts of macrofauna, in the same way as we see lots of it on the keels of ships, on jetties, oilrigs, and all other man-made structures in the sea.
I would expect that once such a sessile community is established, it would be beneficial to other organisms as well. Many polychaetes, molluscs, arthropods, and other groups are predators of the sessile community, and as the larval stages are often planktonic, I would expect to see these established in this community as well, given time.
This could in turn attract fish, especially if the platform is not too far from land, and is not cleaned, but the various shells and structures built by the sessile community is allowed to remain even after the actual organisms die off. The spaces between and inside dead sea shells are often very important places for egg deposition by fish, which may or may not remain in the area when they grow up.
Now, if the solar plates were divided into smaller connected discs, so that there is sunlight reaching the water between the discs, this margin effect would be even more profound, I would expect, as there would be sessile macrofauna around all the margins, and if sunlight comes down between the discs, that would allow some primary production even within the solar field.
So while rg255's answer is certainly also correct, I do not think the situation is necessarily as bleak as depicted in that answer, however, it would all depend on how the structure is built and maintained. Dividing the solar panels into smaller, connected units would be much better than having one solid platform (I assume this would be true also for mechanical and engineering reasons, but I'm not an engineer...), and there are certainly other ways to reduce the impact of such a solar system platform.
I would also guess that any platform placed in the middle of the ocean would have to include some system for keeping oceanic birds away.
The vast majority of light only penetrates the top 200 metres of the ocean, the euphotic zone, so your answer is roughly "what ever lives in the euphotic zone which requires light." In all likelihood I would expect this to cause:
Overall, the impact would be low because the area of the pacific is >165,000,000 km2 so the density of biota would only increase marginally in the top 200 metres of the pacific (the sunlit water volume decreases from 33,040,000,000,000 cubic metres to 33,039,080,000,000 cub. metres). Also, if we assume that the platform is free floating that means it would drift thus only causing short term loss of sunlight for the less mobile organisms.
EDIT: Upon reading @Kotatsu's answer I feel they have made a very good point and I should add the following:
By providing a solid surface it could also benefit oceanic life by increasing area available to live for sessile organisms (just like shipwrecks, oil rigs etc.). Further if the panels were broken up (I assume this would be the likely design because sitting a huge sheet across the ocean will leave it prone to twisting by wave motion) light would be able to pass between the gaps. I agree with @Kotatsu, and this "floating panel" could even be beneficial to the ocean ecosystem.


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Working in a large organisation, it is often the case that the members of the development team are not able to get direct access to the client to gather requirements. Is it possible/advisable to give a list of questions to an account manager so that they can gather requirements on your behalf?
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Requirements gathering ideally should be a series of detailed discussions between client and developer(s). Clients usually have very faint ideas of what they really want, thus implementing their first vague decription as is would almost inevitably lead to problems. So the developers should be able to tell the price of each idea/story/requirement, which helps clients prioritize their needs, and give technical feedback on what's possible and feasible. Also, they should understand the problem domain as deep as needed, in order to provide the best technical solution to the client's problem. And all along the way, they must ensure they understood the client properly, which means frequently asking back for clarifications and repeating what they understood with their own words during communication sessions (and frequently providing UI prototypes/mockups of client ideas). The best medium for this is oral communication - if it is not possible face to face, a video or phone conference is the next best option.
Having a nontechnical person as a communication channel between clients and developers severely limits the efficiency of communication. Even sending documents back and forth by e-mail would be better, where there is at least no intermediary, so there is one less possibility for misunderstanding.
While I agree with Péter Török that a go-between may limit efficiency, having a non-developer talk to end-users may well increase the effectiveness of the communication.
I have found that developers and end-users often times may talk together but still mis-understand each other because they come from "different worlds." While speaking the same words they may understand them to mean completely different things... A go-between who understands both the end-user's and the developers mindset/language, can be worth their weight in gold improving mutual understanding of what is needed/what will be developed.
That being said, asking a manager, be it an account manager or any other type of manager, is not the way to go. Bridging the gap between developer and end-user worlds is a skill and not something you do "as an aside."
In short, this way of working is fraught with danger and was one of the reasons that the Agile Manifesto was born.
{bad attempt at humour}Beg, borrow, fight, cheat, steal, charm, take to the pub, do what ever you can to actually get involved with the end user{/bad attempt at humour}
But seriously, if you can't get access then at least make sure there is a fast feedback cycle. So yes you can ask questions through the account manager (if you can access the client directly, even if remotely through email that is still better), but ask them every day and provide a prototype as often as possible for the client to try out.
Otherwise you have a massive risk of delivering something that the end client doesn't actually want.
I work in a medium-large size organisation and we have a business solutions team that have many business analysts. They do a important job as they understand the business process very well and translates what the business wants to what the developer understands. It works other way as well. If I detect some design and/or architectural issue or a propose a alternate way to solve the problem I talk with them and they in turn to business.
In a large business there many things to consider other than technical things when doing a requirement. Like the staff training issues, like not impacting a customer with a change, like a compensating process that exists to make your question a non-issue, or "John" is marketing uses this function and you cannot just change this etc.
To answer your question if you have a structure in place then use it. Give them the list of questions to follow up with the business account managers.
You're playing the requirements gathering version of the telephone game. At best, this will cause lots of communication inefficiency. At worst, it will cause incorrectly gathered requirements. The importance of this feedback loop and its efficiency is one of the primary reasons that the Customer Representative is one of the most valuable (and hardest to scale) roles in an Agile team.
Taking your question literally, the answer cannot be anything other than a resounding "NO! NO! A THOUSAND AND TWENTY-FOUR TIMES NO!" unless the "Account Manager" also happens to be a trained consultant, analyst, and developer
If there has to be an untrained middleman in the process, you are better off sending the users surveys via email and just CC'ing the account manager. He/She cannot possibly add value to the process, but can certainly garble the communications.
The proper role for the Account Manager in this process is to participate in the conversation as a stakeholder, not play middleware or amateur analyst.


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This where the Medrash Learns that Moshe alone was equal to all of Klal Yisroel .
Ramban: Yisro heard about the wonders that H' did for Moishe personally, ie the H' dealt kindly and beneficently with him in that he always came to Pharaoh with his demands without fearing him, and that he brought the plagues on Pharoah without retribution
The CHIDA in Rosh David answers that Yisro Had worshiped Idols all theses years was Unsure he could still become a convert. Then he heard of Moshe Accepting of the Eruv Rav and Hashem agreed to accept them and that the Jews themselves worshiped Idols. So it works like this:
כָּל אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה אֱ־לֹהִים לְמֹשֶׁה:That Moshe accepted the EREV RAV and Hashem agreed to allow them in. וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵל עַמּוֹ that they themselves where Idol Worshipers and Hashem accepted them too He heard this He knew he could come and join also.


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Now, people are picking up the pieces.
"I think I'm in survival mode. So I'm just going. I'm doing one step at a time," one woman recalled.
"You see U.S. Flags flying in every neighborhood in houses that you wouldn't think anybody would be living in, but there's a lot of pride. and there's a lot of community pride around here," said one Red Cross volunteer from South Central Kentucky.
The Red Cross Volunteers of South Central Kentucky have been providing food and water to those in need, in areas hit hard like Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Long Island.
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Sometimes I see pictures of screenshots with people with web applications and nice icons on their launcher, how can I set this up?
Ubuntu has this feature built in, see:
You can also use the more traditional webapp integration approach:
Since these can be time consuming if you use a bunch of webapps I created a "Web Applications" folder that I keep these in because I need a place to hold the icon as well. I sync this folder with Ubuntu One so that on reinstalls or new computers I have my applications all ready to go with the high resolution icons.
In chromium-browser or Google Chrome you can do this by going to the website you want to make into an application. Clicking on the Wrench icon and select, tools -> Create Application Shortcuts:
Then select Desktop to create a shortcut on your desktop:
You can also select "Applications Menu" in the create application shortcut, this will put it in the Dash for you, which is handy so you can use the search feature to launch the shortcut, however most web site's favicons don't scale very well so they look ugly. So instead I do this to pretty up the application:
Then move it to this "Web Applications" folder or wherever you want to keep it:
Download a snazzy version of the icon that is good looking. I recommend the Fluid group on Flickr. Download the icon to the folder, and then right click on the shortcut and select properties:
Drag and drop the nicer icon onto the shortcut's icon box, replacing the low resolution icon with the new one:
Drag and drop the new slick icon right onto the Launcher for the final effect:
And the final effect:
You create a launcher icon (meaning a
Then rename the epmty file to
This is not necessary but before dragging it to the launcher, you can
If you delete the *.desktop file the icon will disappear form you launcher. The usual place to store these files is ~/.local/share/applications/.
Currently there are two preferred ways to do this. In Ubuntu 12.04 you can use the the preview of the official Ubuntu Webapps by installing it from a PPA (comes by default with 12.10)
This only works for supported websites (currently about 40). When you visit the site with Firefox you will be asked if you want to integrate it into Ubuntu.
The other way is to use Fogger, the silver-prize winner of the Ubuntu App Showdown. Just install the fogger package from software-center.
Both options are better than the regular site-specific-browsing (ssb) features of Firefox Prism and Chrome, because they allow full integration with Ubuntu. This includes the launcher-menu, the HUD, indicators and notifications.
If you use the latest build of Chromium (>11.0.696.57) this now works with Unity. Create the app shorcut from within Chromium then drag it on to the Unity bar. This works on 11.04
I think it is good practice to make a different Chromium profile for every app. Your apps will run faster because the extensions installed in the default profile are not run. Also, you can install extensions specific for your app that won't run in your default chromium instances.
If you want to run your apps with a different profile, do this:
to the command and close.
If this doesn't work, do the following:
to the command and close.
I agree with @con-f-use that a .desktop file is the way to go, but I would suggest using
To create the shortcut, just create an executable file in your desktop folder named something like
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6 Songs That Were Decades Ahead of 'Groundbreaking' Music
Most great bands are considered revolutionary in some sense: You wouldn't expect anyone in the 60s to sound like Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails, just like you wouldn't expect anyone in the '30s to sound like The Beatles. That's why the songs on this list are so bizarre to listen to; they were so far ahead of the curve that their genres weren't even invented yet.
In fact, we're going to say that only time travel can explain songs like ...
#6. Cromagnon -- Caledonia (or, Industrial Music in the 60s)
Few things have scandalized more parents than the mainstream debut of Nine Inch Nails in the mid-1990s. "Is this what music has come to?" was the reaction of anyone over 40 after listening to the distorted, chaotic industrial noises Trent Reznor had forced into our living rooms. Sure, Hendrix and others could get pretty noisy back in the day, but nothing in the golden days of the '60s sounded like this:
Meanwhile, music critics fawned over NIN's second album, The Downward Spiral; even The New York Times praised Reznor for having "perfected the use of noise as both atmosphere and weapon." NIN brought industrial music to the mainstream, a genre that had existed since, what, the early 80s at most?
We always assumed "industrial music" was the inevitable reaction of snorting cocaine off a sound mixer.
But, decades before ...
Loud, pounding drums; harsh, whispered vocals; unusual instrumentation; and a somewhat catchy tune buried underneath. That old-timey bit at the beginning? That's sampling. Caledonia by Cromagnon has all the staples of modern industrial music (minus the angsty lyrics), and it came out way back in 1969.
What makes this even eerier is that the band released that one album and then simply vanished. As the legend goes, Brian Elliot and Austin Grasmere were two average pop musicians who got tired of writing non-insane music and decided to try something a little different (meaning, something completely insane). Calling themselves Cromagnon, they hooked up with a hippie commune called the Connecticut Tribe and recorded an album titled Orgasm.
But you could probably tell that from their cover art.
The album never really made any headway, and no one paid attention to the damn thing until 2000, when it was reissued as Cave Rock, which is probably the biggest step down in titles since Puff Daddy became whatever the hell he's called now.
If Gary Larson did the cover art for a prog rock album, this would be it.
Caledonia is pretty much the only song in the album that has any real structure to it: Yes, the rest is even crazier. Also, those guttural drum sounds weren't generated by a guy tapping on a drum machine -- they used actual sticks and stones.
"I'd do the same thing, but I don't wanna hurt my delicate hands."
#5. White Noise -- Love Without Sound (or, Radiohead in the 60s)
When Radiohead's Kid A came out in 2000, its weird electronic sounds blew the minds of critics and listeners alike. By the end of the decade, it was consistently rated as one of the most revolutionary albums ever. In 2009, both Pitchfork and Rolling Stone ranked Kid A as the best album of the '00s, calling it "that exceptional artifact of modern culture" and "a next development in rock music that was both logical and surprising."
Some fans hated it, of course, but that's because their brains weren't yet prepared to understand the future of music.
It was a different time, with lower standards for album covers.
But, decades before ...
That's Love Without Sound from 1968, over 30 years before Kid A.
In 1968, American classical bassist David Vorhaus got together with two composers from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and formed the band White Noise. Their first album, An Electric Storm, flew pretty much completely under the radar. It didn't sell well, no one reviewed it -- it's almost like people weren't eager to listen to a band named after the annoying noise your TV makes when something's broken. So, they were relegated to obscurity.
Along with other bands like "Nails on a Chalkboard" and "That Sound Your Dog Makes When He's Choking on a Ball of Hair."
But listen carefully to Love Without Sound: ethereal, jumpy vocals; synths and loops as the lead instruments; almost no percussion -- shit, all you need is an indecipherable video with a skinny guy dancing like he's having a seizure and it's practically a modern electronica track.
The secret of Radiohead's success, apparently.
If that type of music was hard to digest as recently as 2000, no wonder White Noise never found an audience: Their heads were too busy exploding. After their first album didn't do so well, most of the band moved on to other projects, with only one member, Delia Derbyshire, ever really making any kind of name for herself. Derbyshire is mainly known for composing the trippy Dr. Who theme song -- a gig she probably got thanks to the fact that she was obviously a time traveler herself.
"The controls are set, gentleman -- we're off to kill Hitler."
#4. Jean-Jacques Perrey -- E.V.A. (or, Daft Punk in 1970)
Everyone knows bands like Daft Punk are retro -- that's half their charm. What makes them special, however, is the combination of those funky, smooth sounds with modern synthesizers and techno beats. Daft Punk's 2001 album Discovery took the world by surprise and became a multi-million-selling classic. Pitchfork said: "Daft Punk's first album had helped refresh house music in the mid 1990s; the second went further, rewriting electronic pop's pleasure principles to such a degree that when it came out a lot of people thought Discovery must be a put-on."
But, decades before ...
Check out this track from 1970:
If that sounds like it was made with the same instruments Daft Punk uses, that's because it was created by one of the pioneers of electronic music, Jean-Jacques Perrey, using the predecessors of today's synthesizers.
That synthesizer gained sentience and evolved into a member of Daft Punk.
That's Perrey himself in a mask, much like the members of Daft Punk; apparently, in France being an electronic musician is shameful and sneer-worthy. After hooking up with Robert Moog, the inventor of the first commercially available (but still incredibly expensive) synthesizer, Perrey began releasing albums that were basically demo reels featuring Moog sounds. One of those was his 1970 album Moog Indigo, which contained the song above, E.V.A.
Above: Robert Moog and his terrible robot children.
E.V.A. was so ahead of its time that, when Fatboy Slim remixed it, they pretty much left it as it was. Currently, at age 82, Perrey enjoys his status as the oldest living hipster.
"I was being post-ironic before irony existed."
Don't think the Moog synthesizer was the first electronic instrument ever, though: Way back in 1957, researchers at Philips began experimenting with prototype instruments, producing stuff like this:
Slap some creepy visuals on that and it's almost an Aphex Twin track.
Of course, "creepy" is a pretty key part of Aphex Twin's style.


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Your question is a feature request of TeX Works. I think such questions should be asked at TeXWorks development page
At the linked page you will find Issue 18: Completion in references, citations.
The issue is well answered by Henrik Skov Midtiby who provided a script with your request functionality. The script is available at GitHub:
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1973 Chevrolet Camaro Suspension Install - Project F-Bomb - The HookWritten by David Freiburger on April 17, 2007 Contributors: Tom Nelson We Think There's a Remote Chance We Can Get 1,500 hp to the Ground. Here Are the Suspension Tactics for Project F-Bomb, Plus Detroit Speed and Engineering's First Minitub Kit for Second-Gen F-Cars.
Here's the biggest challenge with our F-Bomb project '73 Camaro: suspension. We want too much. The car's life is predicted to include street driving, drag racing, and top-speed racing. We'd be happy if we could squeeze in some open-track time while we're at it. No single chassis setup is gonna do all that perfectly, especially considering the fact that we can crank up 1,500 hp at the flywheel. So what'd we do? We left it stock.
Sorta. We thought long and hard about a custom four-link setup out back, which would be ideal for drag racing, and with a Watt's link or Panhard bar, could work for handling and land-speed racing. But it would be harsh on the street, all the Heim joints would be loud and might wear out often, and it'd be expensive. Ladder bars would be cheaper, but they'd be drag-specific with an even worse ride on the street. Up front, we thought about a conversion to Corvette control arms but decided that the factory second-gen ('70-'81) clip was significantly improved from the first-gen ('67-'69) and did not require such extreme tactics. We figured that stock-concept suspension with quality bolt-on upgrades was going to give us the best overall balance of our performance goals. After all, there are street racers running high 7s on leaf springs and slapper bars. We'll see if we can figure out how that's done. To lend some chance of keeping egg off our faces, we wanted the biggest rubber possible without a Pro Street tub job, so we minitubbed the car for the widest possible slicks.
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We wanted leaf springs not only for simplicity and reliability but also because it makes you kind of cool when you can run really fast and claim stock, bolt-on suspension. Our favorite way to do that is with CalTracs bars-a more advanced version of the old traction-bar concept. The design resists rearend rotation-and the resulting movement of the pinion angle-shifting the angle of force through the front spring pivot. To further reduce deflection, the front spring-eye bushing is solid aluminum, and while the solid bushing is not as compliant as a soft bushing for street use, we have not found it too objectionable on other cars we've used with CalTracs bars. Also, the preload on the CalTracs bars is adjustable, or the Force Transfer Link under the leaf springs can be removed to allow more spring movement during street driving. It makes a great street/strip combo. The CalTracs bars are $339 for virtually any leaf-spring application. For the Camaro, we told Calvert we had swapped the shocks to the aft-axle position to get the correct lower spring plates. We also used the Calvert Racing 2-inch-drop rear springs, which are similar to monoleaves but use two separate spring halves that are clamped in the middle.
While John Calvert did not feel it was necessary in this application, we decided to add a rear antiroll bar, just in case it was needed either in dragstrip or handling situations. This torsion-bar-type setup is based on a Dick Miller Suspension kit with custom-fabricated installation and end links by Red Zone.
Front Suspension
One of the advantages of doing a frame-off for a race car is that you get to inspect everything in bare metal, and in doing so, we found a hairy crack in one of our lower control arm mounts. The control arms and brakes were also mismatched side-to-side, telling us the car had probably been hit in the right front at some point. The crack was repaired and the entire subframe squared in the car before all the chassis work began. Aside from that work, the suspension components we used were direct bolt-ons, all from Performance Suspension Components (PSC).
The PSC kit includes Global West (GW) tubular upper and lower control arms, and though GW now offers its TLC-series drag-race only arms, we instead chose the conventional G-Series arms that retain the antiroll-bar tabs in case we ever want to add one to the front of the car; we're currently not using one. We also opted for GW's premium Del-a-lum bushings (nondeflecting Delrin plastic and machined aluminum), bringing the price for all four arms to $1,321.
The GW arms are also available specially made for coilover conversion systems, though on John Calvert's advice, we elected to stick with stock-type coil springs. Calvert says they may be heavier, but they also have more stored energy that can contribute to better dragstrip launches for this application with a heavy nose. Our current front coils are Moroso Trick Springs. We cut a coil off them for stance, and the car currently sits too low to steer. We'll need to fix that before our first track blast, and Calvert advises that we should try to get stock-rate springs that will support the car at an acceptable ride height without having to trim coils.
DSE Deep Tubs
Minitubbing is the act of widening a car's rear wheeltubs by moving the inner halves as close as possible to the outer face of the rear framerails. It's allowed in many street-racing sanctioning bodies as long as the framerails are left intact. While minitubbing does not allow as much tire room as a full-on Pro Street tub job, it is less invasive and allows the car's stock floors and trunk to be retained. Also, minitubbing usually keeps the stock outer wheeltubs in place whereas Pro Street fabricated wheeltubs are often butted to the insides of the quarter-panels without being firmly attached by anything but a swipe of seam sealer. This leads to leaks, rattles, and loose quarters. If fabricated tubs are welded to the quarter-panels, it leads to warping either during welding or after the car has made a few brutal dragstrip launches. So, to minimize fabrication and to maximize streetability and handling potential, we elected to minitub the F-Bomb rather than Pro Street it.
The shape of the rear framerails makes the second-generation Camaros and Firebirds some of the most difficult cars to minitub. Detroit Speed & Engineering (DSE) recently released its Deep Tubs to simplify the process, and we got the very first kit to try out. The installation was handled by Nick Miserendino at Red Zone Race Fab, the same shop that did all the rollcage work seen in the March '07 issue. The DSE minitub kit includes the stamped Deep Tubs, new fabricated front spring perches, an upper shock crossmember with mounts, offset shackles, leaf-spring pads for the rear axle, lower shock plates and U-bolts, Delrin spring bushings, and filler panels for areas of the stock framerails that need to be cut out with the provided templates. An instructional DVD is included, though we strongly suggest buying it first to make sure you understand the work you're getting into. The base kit is $1,699, or you can get one with shocks and 2-inch- or 3-inch-drop springs for $2,294.
We've used QA1 Stocker Star adjustable shocks in the past and have been very happy with them, so we're really excited to try the newest in the line: double-adjustable versions. While the originals were 12-way adjustable, these new ones have 24 compression settings and 24 rebound settings for 576 possible valving combos. Being able to set compression and rebound resistance totally independent of each other will be a huge boon to the multipurpose goals of this car. We'll share the tuning process with you once the car is on the track.
With the DSE minitub kit, eyelet/eyelet-style shocks are required in the rear rather than eyelet/stud-style.
The double-adjustable Stocker Stars bolt in to stock locations and feature 5/8-inch-diameter, centerless-ground, hard-chromed piston shafts and bright-anodized, forged-aluminum bodies. They are rebuildable by QA1 and sell for about $300 each. The single-adjustable versions are roughly half that price.
We had to think hard about our braking options, and in the end, it was clear that no one system was going to serve both our top-speed goals and our drag needs. The main issue was that we had to have 15-inch wheels to mount the best possible drag slicks, but we couldn't fit today's top-end six-piston calipers and big rotors behind the 15-inch wheels. Therefore, we knew we'd have to start with smaller street/strip brakes, then later step up to 18-inch wheels and far more serious street/track brakes once the F-Bomb's drag days are over.
We consulted Wilwood with the dilemma. It was important that the car be equipped with a reliable Stroud parachute for the dragstrip and that we wouldn't be driving 150-plus on the street. Therefore, we used a braking setup compatible with our 15-inch wheels, using 10.75-inch-front and 11.75-inch-rear rotors with Wilwood's Dynalite forged four-piston calipers. Rather than using drag-style, solid steel rotors, Wilwood recommended vented rotors for better street use and rotor cooling on this heavy car. Also, the company advised against drilled or slotted rotors, as holes and slots are mostly decorative and would provide points for cracks to begin during the cold stops associated with drag racing.
Steering and Hydroboost
It's unusual for a drag car to be loaded with power steering and power brakes, but again, we were thinking long term and wanted to add these features while the car was being built the first time rather than trying to integrate them once the rollcage and turbo-plumbing fabrication were complete. We also knew that power brakes would help crutch our slightly undersized drag-race brakes before we had a chance to upgrade.
Our choice from the beginning was to use a hydroboost setup from Hydratech. Hydroboost uses hydraulic assist from the steering pump rather than vacuum from the engine to power the brake booster. This is similar to the system used on older heavy-duty trucks and on current Hummers and Mustangs. The major advantages of the system for our car were that engine vacuum/boost would not affect booster operations and that the elimination of the vacuum booster would save us a ton of space. The complete '70-'81 Camaro kit from Hydratech runs $695, minus the master cylinder of your choice but including the plumbing.
Wheels and Tires
For the first round of dragstrip use, the F-Bomb uses Mickey Thompson ET Drag wheels that we had anodized black to match the theme of the car. The wheels are 15x3.5 with 2.5-inch backspacing and 15x12 with 6.5-inch backspacing. Tires are M/T ET Fronts in 27.5x4.50-15 and ET Drags in 28x10.50-15W. Note that the W means these are extra wide. The actual measured size of the rear tires mounted on 15x12 wheels with 15 psi of air is 28 1/4 inches tall; the overall width is 14 3/8 and the measured tread width is 11 1/2 inches.
Our Strange 9-inch rearend with the Wilwood brakes installed has an overall width from wheel-mounting flange to wheel-mounting flange of 58 5/16 inches. With the tires on 15x12 wheels with 6.5-inch backspacing and with the DSE Deep Tubs in place, the tires just barely clear with about 1/4 inch before they rub the leaf springs. They're OK for drag use, but street tires will need to have less section width.
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Shown here are the CalTracs bar and the Calvert Racing springs. The bar is installed incorrectly, as the spring stop bolt (arrow A) in the front pivot (arrow B) is supposed to be on top of the leaf spring, though our frame has not yet been clearanced to allow the pivot room to swing into the correct position. The spring stop bolt is what eliminates spring wrap-up, and its preload is set with the adjustable-length Force Transfer Link (arrow C). See a properly installed CalTracs bar on page 55 of this issue.To relocate the axle, the center-pin hole for the leaf springs was welded closed in the spring perches, then new holes (arrow) were milled 3/4 inch forward of the original location. This, in turn, moves the axle 3/4 inch rearward. There's enough adjustment in the stock CalTracs Force Transfer Links to take up this distance, and we moved the axle prior to ordering the driveshaft to custom length.The rear antiroll bar is a torsion bar that's mounted in the trunk, and it can be removed to change the bar diameter for different needs. Links extend forward off the bar and are connected to adjustable, Heim-jointed down rods that attach to the rearend housing. Just like with the conventional antiroll bars you're familiar with, the setup resists rearend articulation to keep both tires evenly planted. The adjustable rods allow preload for crossweight adjustments or 60-foot tuning, or they can be removed entirely to disable the bar. Those aluminum brackets are nitrous-bottle mounts from www.chassisshop.com.Here's the passenger side as seen from the trunk after removal of the inner half of the stock tub. The supporting sheetmetal (arrow) again provides a clean cutline.The DSE Deep Tub is a single stamping that replaces the entire inner wheeltub, unlike a typical minitub job that involves moving the stock inner half inboard and then filling the gap with a strip of new sheetmetal. Here you can see the Deep Tub after Miserendino cut the floors back to the edge of the stock framerail stamping and then welded the tub in place. Note the bump at the arrow.This arrow is pointing at the opposite side of the same wheeltub seen in the previous caption. The bump is in the Deep Tub to retain a bit of stock floor structure, and it will fit short, Pro Touring-style radials. However, it caused interference with our 28-inch drag slicks.Once we discovered the tire-clearance issue, Miserendino modified the tubs to remove the bump. He had to cut and weld the driver side with it already welded in the car, but he heated and metalworked this passenger-side tub prior to installation.Installing the Deep Tubs alone will not provide enough tire clearance because the stock leaf springs are still in the way. If you intend to convert to coilovers or airbags in the back, you could avoid this problem with a custom installation of your springs. In our case, a set of Calvert Racing leaf springs were used and had to be moved inboard on the frame. The DSE kit includes these new front spring pockets to help accomplish that.The complicated shape of the rear framerails requires them to be notched for leaf-spring clearance after the front spring pockets are installed. DSE includes templates and reinforcement plates for this notch that must be cut in the frame. However, we recommend notching the frame at least 1/4 inch farther inboard than the DSE kit suggests to ensure clearance. With CalTracs bars like we added, significantly more clearance and reinforcement are required near the front of the springs.
At the rear of the springs, DSE provides these custom, billet, offset shackles to match the new inboard placement of the leaf springs. The leaf springs will still encroach on tire clearance a bit, with the outer edge of the springs falling about 1/4 inch outboard of the inner edge of the Deep Tub. An extra offset bushing kit from DSE can move it about another 1/8 inch.The minitub kit also includes this beefy tubular upper shock crossmember. The stock second-gen Camaro uses staggered shocks-one in front of the axle, the other behind it-but this kit relocates them both aft of the axle and converts the shocks from stud-type uppers to eyelet-style uppers. The provided lower spring plates match the aft-axle position of the shocks.Kyle Tucker at DSE says that once complete, the minitub kit will accommodate up to 335/35-series Pro Touring radials on 12-inch wheels, though backspacing specs will depend on the overall width of the rearend. In our case, we trimmed the outer wheel lips to the max and mounted 15x12 wheels with drag slicks that have an overall height of 28 inches and a sidewall-to-sidewall width of 14 3/8 inches. They barely clear with about 1/4 inch to the leaves on each side. For street driving, a slightly narrower overall width would be required.Here's the Hydratech booster unit, clearly saving space over a vacuum booster. We used it with a 1-inch-bore Wilwood die-cast aluminum tandem-chamber master cylinder (PN 260-8555) that can be plumbed from either side. The cylinder wrapped in blue tape in this photo is the nitrogen-reserve cylinder that stores hydraulic pressure to allow up to three power-assisted applications of the brake pedal should the engine die and lose power-steering pressure. The brakes will operate in manual mode after that.This diagram shows how Hydratech suggests routing the plumbing when the system is used with a cooler. We used a mini Earl's fluid cooler.The balance of the steering system includes this bolt-in Flaming River power-steering box (arrow) with a 14:1 ratio (also available in 12:1, 16:1, and 17:1). These all-new boxes feature a modern-style rack-and-pinion valve spool inside with a plated, corrosion-resistant finish and a billet cap on the outside. We powered the box with a minipump and remote reservoir from DSE. Hydratech says the baffles in the DSE reservoir are critical in eliminating foaming in the power-steering fluid for optimum braking performance.


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STILLWATER — Costumes have filled the racks and bags of candy line the shelves. Children all over Oklahoma are trying to figure out what to dress up as for Halloween. In addition, children have visions of a trick-or-treat bag stuffed with sugary, sticky and sweet treats.
While the children are excited about trick-or-treating, many parents may be wondering how all of this candy will fit into a nutritious diet, said Deana Hildebrand, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension nutrition specialist.
"Before the big day arrives, discuss with your children how you plan to deal with the overload of candy they're sure to bring home. Between school parties, town-sponsored activities and trick-or-treating itself, kids will most likely bring home more treats than they could possibly eat," Hildebrand said. "Moderation is the key. Loading up on candy between meals can replace more healthful foods at meal time and also increases risk for dental decay. It's also a good idea not to eat any treats while out trick-or-treating. Parents should inspect all of the candy before any of it is consumed."
To help curb your children's consumption of treats, make sure they have a healthy snack before they leave the house to trick-or-treat. Kids who are not hungry are less likely to splurge on the candy when they return home.
"Parents may want to consider allowing their children a day or two to enjoy the Halloween candy, then dividing it into daily servings and letting their children pick out what they want once each day," she said.
Another idea is if your children receive a lot of miniature chocolate bars, consider freezing them and using them in recipes containing chocolate chips for upcoming holiday baking. To extend the Halloween fun, include the children in the baking activities.
"If you prefer not to hand out any candy, consider other alternatives such as sunflower seeds or small bags of pretzels or microwave popcorn," Hildebrand said. "Pencils, colorful erasers, trading cards or stickers also make fun alternatives to sweet treats. Just remember that a little bit of Halloween candy isn't such a bad thing as long as limits are set."


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Hi everbody, I have a question, I can't find information about set default value in my selectfield from the store, this is my code:
Selectfield: Data1,Data2,Data3,Data4
I want to make Data3 by default in the displayField.
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Hi mitchellsimoens, thanks for the reply, but still not working, if I use value config, only show me this:
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Short question:
How can I calculate $\dfrac{\partial A}{\partial L}$ where $A = \|Lx\|^2_2= x^TL^TLx$?
Is it $\dfrac{\partial A}{\partial L}=2Lx^tx$?
Long question:
I want to calculate the gradient of a Mahalanobis distance. More specifically, I like to calculate the gradient of $A$ in terms of $L$, ($\frac{\partial A}{\partial L}$).
$$A = \|Lx\|^2_2= x^TL^TLx$$
I expand the equation and calculate the gradient element by element and it seems it should be something like $\frac{\partial A}{\partial L}=2Lx^tx$. But, it's very slow! Would you please confirm the correctness of answer? and help me find a faster approach?