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Is it possible to delete some or all user session logon datetime records from Windows Vista? Is there any mechanism to give me confidence that individual records aren't deleted even if there isn't a public API call for that action?
You can clear an entire event log, but not individual entries.
If you're an administrator on the machine, you can go into Event Viewer and clear the Security log, by right clicking it and going into Properties, then clicking Clear Log. This will remove all logs, then add one entry that states the time and user ID that cleared the log.
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Technically it is not possible to delete single events within the EventLog. Atleast, I do not know of a publicly known API that does this within the EventLog call. There is a "Clear" method which removes all the entries, not just the specific ones.
All we can do is filter the logs.

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The noun steam refers to water in its gaseous form, but does it connote only the hot gas achieved (for example) from boiling, or does it equally connote the vapour that rises from an open body of cold water in colder temperatures?
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To answer your question, does the word steam equally connote the vapor that rises from an open body of cold water in colder temperatures: yes. Just Google "steam rising from a lake" and you will see all sorts of photos and videos and poetic descriptions about the vapor that appears over bodies of water in the morning. I don't know if the term is being used correctly (from a scientific standpoint), but people surely do use the word steam in the way that you describe.
It is actually much more common to speak of something "steaming" when it is emitting mist (droplets of liquid-phase water suspended in air) than when actual steam (involving gaseous-phase water) is being produced. Hardly anybody actually cares about the pedantic point involved.
Two definitions of steam, as given by the New Zealand Oxford Dictionary, are "a mist of liquid particles of water produced by the condensation of this gas [water vapour]" and "any similar vapour". When I went to school, our science teachers always stressed this as the correct definition of steam - the gaseous phase of water is called "water vapour", not "steam". Maybe times have changed, and definitions have loosened, but I've always been pedantic about only saying "steam" for the mist that you can actually see.
For example, when you boil water in a jug, you get visible clouds of steam; but between the top of the spout and the bottom of the steam clouds, there's a wee gap, where there is invisible water vapour.
The NOAD defines steam as:
Steam is a technical term used to water vapor obtained when water boils. This is because there isn't any technical application of water vapor not obtained by boiling water; water vapor not obtained from boiling water is not useful for electricity production, or to power locomotives.
It depends on the context. You know there's a thing called dry steam.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - While Armani Reeves spoke to a semicircle of reporters after a recent Ohio State practice, the person he was discussing was about 50 feet behind him seated in an ice bath cooling off after another hot day of work.
The distance was more than a little symbolic.
Bradley Roby, the Buckeyes' standout cornerback, isn't doing any talking these days, at least not publicly. He also isn't even practicing with the first team.
Roby, like fellow stars Carlos Hyde, the Buckeyes' leading scorer last year, and Hyde's top backup, Rod Smith, is suspended for the opening game, Aug. 31 at home against Buffalo.
All got into trouble. All are paying a price.
Some fans think it's a high price since no one was hurt and there were no serious charges. Others believe the matters have been swept under the scarlet-and-gray rug outside coach Urban Meyer's office.
Players like Reeves will carry the load for the Buckeyes.
"I was always willing to be a hard worker on and off the field," said Reeves, tabbed to start at Roby's cornerback spot. "I still learn from the older guys like (Roby). Whether the situation is good or bad I'm just going to take advantage of any opportunity I have and play to the best of my abilities."
Ohio State's coaches spent nine months making plans to fill the holes left from last year's 12-0 team.
Now, with the opener just over a week away, they must come up with three more replacements.
Hyde will miss the first three games after an alleged assault against a woman. Roby will sit out at least the opener after a skirmish at a bar in Bloomington, Ind. Rod Smith, who was expected to take Hyde's spot, was benched for the first game after a violation of team rules last winter.
Roby had his misdemeanor assault charge reduced to misdemeanor disorderly conduct, then The Columbus Dispatch reported on Wednesday that the latest charge was dropped on the condition that Roby not face any legal problems in the next year.
"He'll be suspended one game just because there's an issue," Meyer said.
There are worthy candidates - like Reeves - in the wings. But it's still not the ideal way to go into a season.
Hyde and Smith will likely be replaced by a committee: H-back Jordan Hall, second-year players Bri'onte Dunn and Warren Ball and freshmen Dontre Wilson and Ezekiel Elliott. Wilson has been the talk of camp, with water-bug moves and incredible speed.
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The coaches have heaped praise on the three chastened players, saying they have refrained from sulking and have taken an active role in preparing the players who will take their spots.
"He was wrong. He screwed up. He's paying a price," cornerbacks coach Kerry Coombs said of Roby. "He works hard at his craft, he studies film, he takes care of his business and he wants to be as good as anybody in the country. He's not yet. I don't find him to be different (this season after the suspension). I find him to be embarrassed and I don't blame him. But I find him to be a guy who's going about his business as a pro."
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2. Containing Overall Healthcare Spending: The commission recommends containing overall health care spending to inflation plus 1 percent. This may well mean that out of pocket health care costs will rise for many people but, of course, it's ridiculous that rich seniors get subsidies. (That some of the methodologies recommend doing this seems very problematic to me.)
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2. Instituting a Minimum Social Security Benefit: Although this idea has a number of high-profile supporters (including some on the right) it would demolish the concept that Social Security is social insurance and transform it into some type of welfare. Even if such a minimum-income for the old is a good idea (and it has a number of serious high-profile supporters), it's probably best to fund it outside of Social Security.
3. Not Balancing the Budget: The plan doesn't get to a balanced budget until 2037 which, basically, means "never."
4. Not Making Enough Defense Cuts: America needs a strong military and should be able to beat any country in the world. But the Pentagon continues to invest in weapons needed to fight one-on-one battles with other nation states. This just isn't necessary. We can fight terrorists pretty well without doing it.
5. Eliminating Funding for Commercial Spaceflight: Ever since it first landed men on the moon in 1969, NASA has struggled to find a purpose. The Obama administrations' plans—which focus on seed funding for private companies—promises to improve access to space (which has enormous defense and commercial utility) without spending more money. Cutting off the private sector now would be a mistake. Cutting the non-scientific portion of NASA's budget—everything from airplane research to the international space station—will offer more savings and do more good than ending funding for commercial spaceflight.


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Let $S$ be a smooth surface (let's say over an algebraically closed field) and let $D$ be a smooth divisor in $S$. Let also $G$ be a connected algebraic group. Assume that we are given a principal $G$-bundle ${\mathcal F}$ on $S\backslash D$. Under what conditions can we extend it to all of $S$? Do I understand correctly, that this is always the case when the derived group $[G,G]$ is simply connected?
Nick Shepherd-Barron once asked me this question, and I think I can remember what was eventually concluded.
The short answer to the original question is negative for the additive group $\mathbb{G_a}$. Map $SL_2(\mathbb{C})$ to $X=\mathbb{C}^2-(0,0)$ by letting a matrix act on the vector $(1,0)^T$. This realizes the group as a torsor over $X$ for the group of unipotent matrices \[ \begin{pmatrix} 1 & a \\\\ 0& 1 \end{pmatrix}. \] We can trivialize it over the vectors $(v_1,v_2)^T$ with $v_1\neq 0$ with the section \[ \begin{pmatrix} v_1 & 0 \\\\ v_2& v_1^{-1} \end{pmatrix},\] while it trivializes on the set $v_2\neq 0$ via the section \[\begin{pmatrix} v_1 & -v_2^{-1} \\\\ v_2& 0 \end{pmatrix}.\] The transition function on the overlap is easliy computed to be \[\begin{pmatrix} 1 & (v_1v_2)^{-1}\\\\ 0& 1 \end{pmatrix}.\] This represents the standard non-trivial generator of $H^1(O_X)$, and hence, the bundle is non-trivial. On the other hand, if you could extend it to $\mathbb{C}^2$, it would trivialize, since there are no non-trivial $\mathbb{G}_a$-bundles on an affine variety.
There is indeed a correspondence between principal bundles and tensor functors from representations to vector bundles. But if I recall correctly, the functor is required to be exact. In the case at hand, the extension of vector bundles is the direct image with respect to the inclusion $X\hookrightarrow \mathbb{C}^2$, which fails this.
Added: OK, I see this was just an elaborate way to say: take any principal $\mathbb{G}_a$-bundle corresponding to a non-zero element of $H^1(O_X)$. Note, anyways, that the derived group is trivial in this example. Certainly the statement is false for general connected groups, contrary to some of the comments.
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This question came back to me today while I was thinking about something unrelated. It occurred to me then to point out that for the example above, if we work in the analytic category, we have $$H^1(X, \mathbb{G}_a)\simeq H^1(X, \mathbb{G}_m),$$ via the exponential sequence. On the other hand, $$H^1(\mathbb{C}^2, \mathbb{G}_a)=H^1(\mathbb{C}^2, \mathbb{G}_m)=0.$$
So the desired extension property is false on analytic spaces even for reductive structure groups.
Wait, are you assuming that G is a reductive group whose derived group is simply connected? In that case, I believe Serre's Conjecture II implies that the G-torsor is trivial over a dense Zariski open subset of S. So you can extend it across the codimension 1 points as a trivial torsor.
P.S. Sorry for writing this as a separate answer, as opposed to a reply to Sasha's comment, but I don't know how to make replies in MathOverflow (maybe you need to be registered).
For extension across codimension 2 points, in the case of a reductive group, you can use Hartog's theorem / S_2 extension. As t3suji suggests, you embed G into GL_n and first extend the GL_n-bundle to a bundle E defined over all of S. Via its embedding in GL_n, G acts on E. Form the quotient space E/G. Then the original G-bundle structure away from D gives a rational section of E/G. Since G is reductive, E/G is affine over S. So if you extend your section of E/G at codim 1 points, then Hartog's theorem extends across codim 2 points. And the inverse image of this section of E/G in E is an extension of your original G-bundle.
Just a quick idea on how I would proceed if the field was $\mathbb{C}$. Let see $S=S\setminus\mathcal{N}(D)\cup \mathcal{N}(D)$ where $\mathcal{N}(D)$ is a normal neighborhood of $D$. You have a $G$ principal bundle $\mathcal{F}$ over $S\setminus\mathcal{N}(D)$ and you want to extend it to all $S$.
Basically you could do so if there is a $G$ principal bundle, $P$, over $S$ such that $\pi^*(P)=\mathcal{F}\vert_{\partial\mathcal{N}(D)}$ where $\pi$ is the natural projection from $\partial\mathcal{N}(D)$ to $D$.
I have the feeling that the only obstruction is that $\mathcal{F}$ has to be trivial when restricted to the fibers of the unit normal neighborhood of $D$ in $S$.
As we are talking about surfaces then $S$ is of real dimension $4$, if $D$ is of real dimension $2$ then those fiber have dimension $1$. And since you assumed that $G$ was connected then it is necessarily trivial on the fibers...
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What is the Midrash method of interpreting a Biblical verse and what application does it have in Christian studies as a hermeneutic principle?
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For the Jewish perspective of midrash, I refer you to this answer.
Bob Jones' answer covers Sensus Plenior, which uses many of the same methods as midrash and is uniquely Christian.
Martin Pickup's article in the June, 2008 Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society documents the attitude of current evangelical scholarship: reluctant acceptance that New Testament writers used midrashic techniques to interpret the Hebrew Bible. He also documents that liberal critics sometimes assume New Testament texts (especially the Gospels) are examples of early Christian midrash explaining the life of Jesus. Neither camp, however, uses midrash to understand their texts. Rather they see midrash as a part of the intellectual background of the 1st and 2nd century Judah.
It could be argued that Jewish midrash has links to various mystic disciplines such as hesychasm in that interpretation is more of an art than a science. Meaning doesn't arise from impersonal rules, but from the interpreter developing a deep, mystic connection to the mind of God as expressed in the Scriptures. However, these ideas may be more a legacy of ancient Greek thinking (such as Pythagoras and Plato) than ancient Jewish thinking.
Personally I struggle with how the midrash methods ought to be blended with the inductive method I prefer. I know that the Apostles practiced something like midrash and that I'm singularly ill-equipped to follow them. Perhaps one answer lies in understanding the Bible as True Myth. C. S. Lewis wrote in "Myth Became Fact":
As Jon Ericson said:
The Midrash can be applied in Christian studies, moreover if we want to understand the Word of Jesus, to know His cultural and historical context, get to know Him better.
The Midrash was part of "Jewish traditions of interpretation and exegesis" of the time, so as Joseph Shulam wrote: ignore it "is to miss a very important tool for understanding the Word of God." It is like start to see a movie in its second hour.
You can find an example in this: Hidden Treasures, pages 13-14. Here is explained a relation between an ancient rabbinic midrash, Micah 2:12-13 and Matthew 11:12, the extract is:
The Midrash is taken from the Tana Debi Eliyahu, Ish-Shalom Edition, p. 82.
A well-known acronym for the Midrashic method of biblical interpretation is the acronym PaRDeS (meaning orchard, garden, or paradise), which comprises four levels of meaning, from the literal meaning to the deepest of meanings. They are peshat, remez, derash (or midrash), and sod, which are, respectively,
When Moshe struck the rock and water gushed out, he struck a real rock with a real rod, and real water issued forth. When Jesus turned the water into wine at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, the water was real water, the wine was real wine, and the clay pots were real clay pots (the ones used, perhaps, for ceremonial washing).
Peshat may often be taken for granted, but it is foundational, as it requires knowledge of denotations, literary styles, historical and cultural settings, and context (within the canon of the OT scriptures; viz., TaNaKh, or the acronym for the three-fold division of the OT into Torah, Nevim, and Ketavim; see Lk 24:27,44).
From the ridiculous: A sketch in Monty Python features a guy who is trying to talk to a married man about sex, but instead of coming right out and saying he's curious about marital sex, he keeps saying, "Wink, wink; nudge, nudge." To the sublime: Remez is the spiritual equivalent of a wink. It's deeper than the surface, literal, or peshat meaning.
As Dr. Keita Kenyatta points out in his brief article "Principles of Biblical Interpretation, when we read in Proverbs 20:10,
there is obviously a peshat meaning, and one has to understand what an ancient scale is and how it worked in the days of Solomon. In weighing out produce, for example, a merchant when asked for a pound of figs would take the one-pound weight, put it on one side of the scale and the figs on the other side so that the two sides balanced each other. What would happen, however, if he used what appeared to the customer to be a one-pound weight which was actually closer to a three-quarters-of-a-pound weight?
That's when the remez meaning kicks in. The merchant who used the full one-pound weight with one customer and the less-than-a-pound weight for another customer is obviously cheating one customer. That literal act brings the text into the realm of everyday ethics, fairness, and honesty in one's dealings with people, which is remez interpretation.
When my wife was growing up in the Middle East, she noticed that the live chicken her mother bought from the butcher shop and brought home to kill, de-feather, cook, and eat, had a wad of undigested corn in its gullet. Why? Because the merchant who sold her the chicken wanted it to weigh more than it did, sans the corn stuffed down its gullet! That trick is the equivalent of a differing weight and measure.
In a sense, the drash takes the peshat and/or the remez, and draws out a law, an application, a teaching, an exposition, or a sermon from one or both levels of meaning. The Midrash, a compendium of folklore, historical anecdotes, moral exhortations, practical advice, and homiletic and non-legalistic texts from the rabbinic literature of Judaism, pre-dated the Mishnah by hundreds of years. The more important material in Midrashic interpretation was halakikh content in Collection #2, and the less significant, aggadic material in Collection #1.
The former, the Halakikh Midrashim, interpreted the traditionally received laws from the text of the Tannach, whereas the latter, the Aggadic Midrashim, were explanatory, homiletical stories, deriving sermonic or hortatory content from a text and other material contributed by rabbinic sages over many years.
The concept of sensus plenior (or the analogy of scripture) is relevant in this regard. According to sensus plenior, scripture is its own best interpreter, especially when spiritual light increases through additional revelation over time.
We know, for example, that the Mosaic law, the tabernacle, the Levitical priesthood and the sacrificial system are replete with "shadows" (He 8:5; 10:1) that became substance with the appearance and accomplishments of Jesus of Nazareth.
This rule is important when trying to understand Jesus' many parables. Usually, each of Jesus' parables has one primary meaning. To make each and every detail of the parable mean something would be tantamount to eisegesis, something the prophets of old did not do, according to Peter (2 Pe 1:20,21).
Likewise, in both Testaments, there are numerous metaphors that are meant to be interpreted spiritually. God, of course, was never literally a shepherd, and yet He chose the metaphor of the shepherd to communicate certain aspects of the relationship He had with the descendants of Israel. As in an analogy, there are points of comparison, or analogs, between the literal and the figurative meanings of a metaphor.
One must not take these comparisons to an extreme, however. All analogies and all metaphors "break down" at some point. That is why allowing scripture to interpret scripture is so important. Christians, for example, insist that YHWH as Shepherd in the Old Testament is an extended metaphor that applies not only to YHWH but to the Son of YHWH, who said
The fourth element in PaRDeS is
The sod meaning is the deepest of the four, and it cannot be understood readily, if at all. If God had not intervened in the life of the prophet Daniel, revealing to him the meaning of King Nebuchadnezzar's dreams, Daniel and his compatriots and fellow exiles from Judah would certainly have lost their lives. Daniel realized, however, that
The applications of Midrashic principles of interpretation to the interpretation of texts from both the Old and the New Testaments, are quite clear.
During Jesus' final seder meal, He revealed even more to His disciples about His body and His blood when He gave thanks for the bread, broke it, and said to the 12,
And in the same manner after supper, He took the last cup of the seder, the "cup of salvation," and said to the 12,
Rabbi Hillel the Elder is reputed to have said to a scoffing Gentile who came to him one day, asking the master to teach him the law while he stood on one foot,
Likewise, when explaining the Scriptures to the two disciples on Emmaus Road, Jesus said in effect:
From the perspective of Sensus PLenior:
When Jesus was 12 he taught the teachers how to read the scriptures in a way they had never seen before. As a Jewish child he was taught to ask "What are these stones, referring to a pile of rocks by the water. But instead he asked about the cleft in the rock where Moses hid, and the five smooth stone which David put in his "shepherds pouch", the stone that gave water, etc. Since God said that he was the rock...
...the boy Jesus would say that all the rocks spoke of God.
SP says that the teachers saw the hidden pictures of the Messiah for the first time.
According to this doctrine, over the next 18 years they perverted the method so that when Jesus began his teaching, they would not lose their control over the people. This is why they were called 'vipers' not misguided teachers: they knew the truth but lied about him.
Midrash and Sensus Plenior use the same methods of solving riddles, but Sensus Plenior adds consideration of Jesus as an answer. In the parable of the four rabbis they were warned: "When you see the white rock, don't say water, water". In sensus plenior, Jesus is the White Rock, and "Water, water" means the "Word of God in heaven and on earth".
The apostles use the methods of Sensus Plenior as their focus is ALWAYS on Christ.
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Here's a silly example: To translate
I hear a cat and a horse
this is what I was told was correct
Oigo a un gato y a un caballo
But if "a cat" or " a dog" translates to "un gato" or "un perro", then why is "a un" needed?
Here's a silly example: To translate
this is what I was told was correct
But if "a cat" or " a dog" translates to "un gato" or "un perro", then why is "a un" needed?
In Spanish it is mandatory to use a before the Direct Object in most cases when it refers to a person or persons. You can find a full explanation in the Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas.
Your example would be covered by case 1.1.e in the link above if you were talking about people; but, of course, a cat and a horse are not such a thing. So the correct translation is:
If you write Oí a un gato y a un caballo, you are somehow assimilating them to people. At least, you are implying an affective affinity with them. Since this is not the case (you are talking about an unknown cat and horse), I would advise not to use a in this sentence. Compare this with the case when you heard, for instance, your aunt's cat. This is an animal you know and you can express this affective affinity using a:
I can tell you that should be:
even if I think is incorrect it's very common listen
La preposición
Tiempo/Time: Llámalo a las diez. (Call him at ten)
Causa/Reason: A petición del público; una nueva canción. (On request of the public; a new song)
Precio/Price: Venderá el carro a diez mil bolívares. (He/She's selling the car at ten thousand bolivares)
Medio/Way: Ambos se fueron a pie. (They both went walking. afoot(?))
Distancia/Distance: De aquí a mi casa hay dos kilómetros. (From here to my house there are two kilometers)
Dirección: Ella irá a casa de Manuel. (She's going to the house of Manuel)
Finalidad/Finality: Vine a traer comida. (I came to bring food)
Modo/Mode: Dejarás las cosas a medias. (You're going to leave the things half-done)
Lugar/Place: Se movió a la derecha. (He/She moves to the right)
It is correct to translate
What happens here is that the word
This is much more common in Spanish, in particular it would be odd style in English to say
Notice in English it says
Notice again in English it does not say
Note 1: using
Note 2: In English you will probably not specify the flute is a
As counterexample consider:
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We also serve as the liaison between the University and the religious organizations and advisers who provide pastoral counseling and other religious services for our students (see "Religious Affairs Committee" below).
The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life strives to foster mutual understanding and respect among students of all religious backgrounds (whether religiously observant or not); to promote dialogue; and to provide appropriate support for and heighten awareness of the diverse religious and spiritual traditions which are present on our campus.
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I have some valid subdomains in my httpd.conf file. Now how do I redirect anything that's not a valid subdomain to the main website? What I mean is, if I have a valid subdomain hello.example.com, it should go to hello.example.com and if its blah.example.com which is not a valid subdomain, it should go to example.com. How can I make changes in my httpd.conf file to follow everything I just mentioned?
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Setup a new default site in your apache-config and rewrite the url via .htaccess if this default site is called. Maybe something like /var/www/invalid-subdomain/.htaccess:
The above example is working well for my apache2 squeeze server.
If you use Apache and if you have virtual hosts enabled, you got it automagically:
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Which significant battle enabled Andrew Jackson to become the President of the USA? Considering his leadership and contribution to this war he was catapulted to the White House.
This battle was the battle of New Orleans, early in 1815.
The peace treaty for the War of 1812 had been signed in Europe, but the Americans didn't yet know it (in the days before telecommunications). Nor did the British attackers headed to Louisiana.
Jackson adopted a fortified position and let the British attack over rough terrain. The result was a lopsided American victory, about 2,000 British killed and wounded (including their general), versus 20 American casualties.
This "sealed" the peace after heavy American defeats in 1814 (when the British had captured and burned Washington D.C.), because the last battle was an American victory. The British weren't about to overturn the peace and suffer another defeat at the hands of a general like Jackson. New Orleans made clear that Jackson was one of the greatest generals in American history, and paved the way for his Presidency.


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Miniature Ponies: What's Inside a Model EngineWritten by Elana Scherr on January 24, 2013 Roddin' @ Random
Model-Engine Scale
How many machinists does it take to build a 10hp engine the size of a pumpkin? No, it's not the start to a joke—it's the story of the Black Widow 1⁄3-scale model V8. If you're wondering exactly how one-third of an engine measures up, pull out your calipers now. A complete Black Widow V8 is 15 inches long from fan to flywheel, 71⁄2 inches across head to head, and 12 inches tall from oil pan to blower. We had to stop ourselves from pinching its cheeks, the little cutie.
The Black Widow is a Chevy-based, gas-burning model engine built by Ken Hurst and Dwight Giles of the Bay Area Engine Modelers (BAEM)club in northern California. Like its fullsize brethren, a scale-model engine is the result of designs and redesigns as each new builder adds his touch to the process. The Black Widow started as a series of patterns by machinist John Vlalvianos, who was dissatisfied with other model V8 casting kits in circulation. John made some initial castings but passed away before completing a full engine. Fellow BAEM club members Ken and Dwight rescued the patterns and added a supercharger. Ken and Dwight offer casting sets of the Black Widow, but don't think that means you can just buy one, insert Tab A into Tab B, and fire it up. As it says on the BAEM website, "Unfortunately, it isn't a simple matter to machine a functioning internal-combustion engine."
Yeah, that's a bit of an understatement. We spoke with Ken, Dwight, and more recent model-engine enthusiast Jim Kipp about what it takes to get one of these little mills up and running. Jim has a collection of model engines, and he's currently working on assembling several Black Widows with changes and redesigns of his own. He invited us to his shop to see exactly what's inside a miniature engine. The answer is, everything that's inside a big one, only smaller. As for how many machinists it takes to build one? It appears to be an ever-expanding number best described by the equation V8/3 = (M+B) x I. That's 1⁄3-scale V8 equals machinist plus billet times innovation.
Scaled-down engines are nothing new. Modeler Paul Knapp says he has one from 1919 in his collection, and we've seen even earlier references to models of hit-and-miss engines (which only have a power stroke every few cycles to limit rpm, usually for agricultural needs). The BAEM club encourages all forms of model-engine building, and if you think you're up for the challenge, see BAEMclub.com to find out how to get started on a miniature engine of your own. There's also an online magazine, ModelEngineBuilder.com.
Jim had all the supercharger parts made and has been experimenting with different finishes to get a vintage magnesium look, but the blower isn't just for show. It makes ¾ of a pound of boost. Dwight mentioned that during initial testing on a drill press, Ken Hurst placed his hand on the intake and gave himself a blood blister from the suction.
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Thinking of tiny engines got us to wondering about the smallest-displacement production V8s for American cars. Here's what we came up with for the tiniest gas V8s from each manufacturer, in order from smallest to largest.
Ford: 136 ci for the little V8-60, '37–'40
Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac: 215 ci from '61–'63 (the Olds engine was used in the Pontiac; the smallest Pontiac-designed V8 was the '78–'81 265-incher)
Mercury: 221 ci, the first Windsor, introduced in 1962
Studebaker: 224 ci in '55–'56
Dodge and Plymouth: 241 ci, available as a Hemi for the Dodge and only in a poly-headed version for Plymouth in '53
Nash, Hudson, and Rambler: 250 ci, from '56–'61
Cadillac: 250 250ci, the turdly HT-4100 from '82–'85
Chevy: 262 ci 262 ci in '75–'76, even smaller than the 265ci first small-block in '55
DeSoto: 276ci 276 ci Hemi, '52-'54
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The valve covers are also custom billet jobs. The rocker arms on the Black Widow are nicer than what we have on most of our fullsize engines!Jim had custom nuts machined for the adjusters because the commercially available options had larger outside diameters that seemed out of scale and caused clearance issues.The twin Walbro carbs are from a chainsaw. "If you build one of these," Jim says, "make sure you keep track of where you source things in case you need replacements. It took me months to track down the correct carburetors."Something we kept hearing during our model-engine research is, "Electricity doesn't scale." Ignition is one of the trickiest parts of a miniature engine project. Most early models used magnetos, but the Black Widow makes use of an electronic ignition.The distributor houses the rotor and pins for the spark-plug wires. The rest of the ignition is a four-magnet Hall Effect system near the back of the engine. Jim machined Chevy-style hold-downs for his distributor.Where do you get 1/4-32 spark plugs? Enter Paul Knapp who offers a variety of teeny tiny plugs. The Black Widow plug shown here is life-size; 1-inch long with a 5⁄16 hex. We were so startled by the $18 per plug price that we forgot to ask if it's hard to gap a plug you can barely see. If you want some wee spark plugs for your collection, contact Paul through the BAEM club.The solid-lifter cam is a Ken Hurst grind, with a lobe-separation angle of 114 degrees, 0.093-inch lift, and 280 degrees of seat-to-seat duration. The lopey little stick rides in the block without additional bearings. "We aim for true engine machining tolerances," Jim says. There's only about two thousandths clearance between cam and bore.Inside the 7-inch-long block, you'll find all the expected stuff. The crank is 14 inches of 4340 steel and is another Ken Hurst custom grind featuring a 1-inch stroke. With the 1-inch bores, the engine is 6.28 ci. The pistons (1 inch from top to skirt) and rods (a mere 21⁄2 inches centerline to centerline) are aluminum, and Jim uses sets made by Dick Pretel from Damgood Engineering in San Jose, California. "I make most of the parts down here because I have to," Ken tells us, "but why reinvent what other guys have figured out?"
The cooling and oiling systems are tested and effective. Jim Kipp gets the fans from Dwight Giles, who hand forms every blade.The Widow boasts a five-main block and larger journals and mains than in previous models, which is a good thing since the blower atop the twin carburetors is fully functional.The compression ratio is 9.5:1, but race gas is recommended. Front and rear plates with all mounting holes and cooling passages close off the block and allow for accessory mounting.Intakes come in the casting kit and can be naturally aspirated or used with a supercharger. Jim modified his slightly to allow for the use of a gasket and to make it easier to remove the heads once the engine is assembled.


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8 Filthy Jokes Hidden in Ancient Works of Art
No matter how far back you go, dick jokes have been the driving force behind mankind's sense of humor. Even ancient figures and civilizations we tend to think of as wise and dignified weren't shy about whipping out some solid boner jokes, even when creating works of art for royalty.
Which is why we wound up with ...
#8. The Medieval Dick Tree
When we think of Medieval Italy, we think of what was arguably the cultural hub of the Middle Ages -- the birthplace of the Renaissance, Machiavelli, Dante and da Vinci.
Their influence is still felt today.
Italy saw the development of some of the most enduring literature, sculpture and art the world has ever seen. It also produced a painting of a tree of dicks.
The Age
Pictured: a tree of dicks, and what appears to be Snoopy's dog house.
Now before you light up the comments section claiming that this isn't a tree of dicks but merely a bunch of dicks standing around a tree, take a closer look at the branches:
The Nonist
Boom. Dicks.
What's going on here? Nobody really knows. Some think the dicks are meant to symbolize fertility, while others argue that the dicks are actually there as part of a political propaganda movement against a rival faction, because when you want to crush someone's spirits, you make a crude painting of some dudes in a penis grove getting attacked by crows. We like to believe that the artist just got so tired of painting historical battles and scenes from the Bible that he went dick crazy.
"To hell with Leviticus. The next 30 pages are all dicks."
#7. Medieval Monks Doodle Poop Jokes (and Worse) on Their Scrolls
Medieval monks were even more dedicated than medieval painters. They would literally spend years hunched over their work in dimly lit scriptoria, slaving away to produce stunning illuminated manuscripts, painstakingly reproducing and illustrating the world's knowledge so it wouldn't be lost. Being the keepers of recorded human history combined with their devotion to religion tends to make us think of them as infinitely wise and spiritual, sort of like if Jesus and Morgan Freeman teamed up to open a library.
They're basically the same person.
With all the limits their work and their religious vows put on them, the monks needed a way of entertaining themselves, and what they came up with was marginalia. Marginalia are little doodles at the edges of manuscripts, and they are not only irrelevant to the text, but also completely and utterly fucked up beyond anything that could be mistaken for rational thought. We can only assume that the monks either thought nobody would ever notice (since pretty much the only people who could read and write back then were other monks), or they just didn't give a shit.
Here we have a stork with a man-ass and a giant dangling scrotum shitting out Ernest Hemingway:
You describe it better.
And here's a goat farting diarrhea at a squire:
There are hundreds of these drawings, and each one does its best to defy any kind of explanation.
They're essentially the medieval equivalent of a Monty Python cartoon.
#6. Shakespeare Liked the F-Word
Since he's widely considered the greatest writer in the history of the English language, we tend to think of William Shakespeare as well-educated and dignified, a true master of his craft. However, what you might not have realized is that he liked to toss F-bombs around like Tony Montana breaking his foot on a trampoline.
"Motherfucking cocks. Verily."
Here's an excerpt from Henry V, Act IV, Scene 4, wherein the awesomely named "Pistol" tells a French prisoner, in clever alliterative language, that he's going to rape him.
PISTOL Master Fer. I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. Discuss the same in French unto him.
If you think "firk" sounds like "fuck," it's because it totally does and that's totally what it means. Shakespeare's heroes didn't just like to declaim odes about bands of brothers. They also liked to tell prisoners of war they were going to straight fuck them in the ass.
Also, in the Merry Wives of Windsor, one of the characters inquires:
SIR HUGH EVANS Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative case, William?
Yep. "Fuckative," a play on words, since Sir Hugh is actually referring to the vocative case of the Latin language.
"Fuckative you, ma'am."
It's worth bearing in mind that these plays were performed in front of an audience that didn't have a script to follow. Exchanges like these would easily be lost among the massive amount of other lines being delivered, and anyone who caught them would probably just assume that they'd misheard. But Shakespeare knew, and the actors knew, and it must have been fun to know they were being paid to stand up and yell "fuck" to an audience that often included the royal family.
#5. The Bayeux Tapestry
When we think of ancient cathedrals, we tend to picture massive ornate buildings constructed with absolute care and precision and decorated with intricate paintings, tapestries and stained glass windows. The Bayeux cathedral in France is no different, and when it was built in the 11th century it had its very own tapestry to go with it.
It also has a pool table.
The Bayeux Tapestry is an absolutely massive, graphic-novel style depiction of the Norman conquest of England in 1066 that measures almost 70 meters long and is embroidered in careful, minute, painstaking detail. It is a wonder of medieval art and justly famous for being an almost perfectly accurate historical representation of what happened during the conquest.
And then we get to this panel:
Here we see Harold (King of England) and William (soon-to-be William the Conqueror) arriving in the city of Rouen. Seems normal, right? Take a closer look at that guy on the right, next to the rocket ship:
There are two things to notice here. First, that's a priest punching a woman in the face. European history wasn't exactly kind to women, so this normally wouldn't be too shocking, but this dude literally has nothing to do with the story whatsoever. The caption to the image, loosely translated, reads, "Here's a priest smacking a woman." Also, some scholars theorize that the woman's name as it is written is actually medieval slang for "babe." So essentially, the caption reads, "Here's a priest smacking some broad."
But then we have to look below her, to the left:
Nobody knows who the hell this naked guy pointing at his swinging man-salad is, or what he's doing there at the bottom of the tapestry. It's like whoever made it simply thought, "This son of a bitch is 70 meters long, who the hell is going to notice one tiny naked boner?"
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I've just been shown a brilliant calculator app called Soulver which is only available on Mac OS X
Maths on a Mac as it should be
Soulver is a new kind of calculator application which uses a simple yet powerful word-processor style interface instead of the traditional "button" approach to doing math.
Main Features
- No equals button - Soulver instantly calculates as you type.
- Multiple lines - Soulver lets you do math over multiple lines and edit previous expressions.
- Flexible to words - Soulver doesn't mind if you include words or labels between numbers.
- Basic functions - Soulver includes every standard calculator function, like sin(), cos() & tan()
- Clever English functions - Soulver includes some "English" math functions. For instance you can type "10% off $200" and get $180
- Floating palettes - Soulver's answer & stats palettes will give you conversions and statistics on your work as your type
- Save your work - like a word processor, Soulver allows you to save and reopen your work
This is a fantastic concept and I would really like to find it's equivalent for Windows and/or Linux.
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BELTON (January 16, 2013)—Darrell Wayne Parker, 42, was jailed Wednesday, charged with one count of capital murder in the shooting deaths of his mother and stepfather, whose bodies were found Tuesday morning in their rural Bell County home.
A second capital murder charge will likely be filed against Parker in the deaths of former high school and middle school coach Chuck Youngblood, 62, and his wife Cathy, 63, authorities said Wednesday.
He's held in lieu of $1 million bond.
Acting on information provided by neighbors, deputies arrested Parker Wednesday at a home in Little River-Academy, where the couple's missing Chevrolet Trail Blazer was found.
Investigators have not recovered the weapon used in the shootings, authorities said, and no motive has been determined.
Investigators also haven't determined when the Youngbloods were shot.
They were last seen on Thursday, authorities said.
Parker is cooperating with investigators, authorities said.
Deputies found the bodies Tuesday morning inside the couple's home at 13127 Willow Grove Rd. after responding to request for a welfare check from a Temple Daily Telegram reporter who knew the Youngbloods and was concerned because she hadn't been able to reach them.
The Youngbloods, who both were shot repeatedly, were pronounced dead at the scene and autopsies were ordered.
Chuck Youngblood was a former head football coach at Evant ISD.
Youngblood also coached at Carver Middle School in Waco from 2003 until January 2009, district spokesman Dale Caffey said Wednesday.
He left Waco to join the Beeville ISD, Caffey said.
From 2000 to 2002 he was a special education teacher in the Belton ISD, the district confirmed Wednesday, and from 2002 to 2003 he worked for the Lorena ISD.
Cathy Youngblood had worked at Texcell Credit Union in Temple for more than 15 years.
Her supervisor, Amy Merriman, remembered her Wednesday as an exceptional person liked and respected by all of the staff.
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GATESVILLE (January 8, 2013)--A Gatesville man was held Tuesday in the Coryell County Jail after police say his ex-wife was assaulted and another man was threatened with a gun outside of a local supermarket.
Christopher Edwards Evans, 34, is facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and illegally carrying a weapon, police said.
Gatesville police Chief Nathan Gohlke said officers were sent Monday evening to the 1200 block of North Lutterloh Avenue outside the H-E-B store, where a woman reported she had been attacked and that her boyfriend had been threatened with a gun.
When police arrived at the scene they arrested Evans and took him to the county jail.
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6 Classic Songs That Were Supposed to Be Jokes
#3. "Cum On Feel the Noize" -- Quiet Riot
"Cum On Feel the Noize" was originally released by the glam rock band Slade in 1973, but the version everyone knows is the one done by Quiet Riot in 1983, which reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and propelled their album Metal Health to the #1 spot. This is truly an amazing accomplishment, because the band tried their best to make sure it was the worst song they'd ever recorded.
When their producer took the idea of doing a cover of "Noize" to them, the band was less than thrilled. Lead singer Kevin DuBrow hated the song outright, to the point where he and drummer Frankie Banali conspired to sabotage the recording and make it impossible to release. The band didn't rehearse the song at all and let their production engineer, Duane Baron, in on what they were planning to do. When the time came, he really only hit the record button for shits and giggles.
Banali tooled around on the drums, making things up as he went along, and when it came time for DuBrow to sing the lyrics, he tried his best to make it sound terrible. He screamed loud and off-key, doing his best not to give a fuck while ironically forgetting that rock music is all about not giving a fuck.
Well, that and "actually making good music." A lot of bands forget that.
So DuBrow's vocals just ended up sounding like raw, hard rock awesomeness to everyone else, especially once backing vocals were added to smooth things out a bit, and the track went on to enjoy massive success. Years later, he admitted that covering "Noize" had been good move for the band.
"The rest of our songs were all terrible by accident."
#2. "Stuck in the Middle With You" -- Stealers Wheel
Many of you only know this as the tune that accompanies the ear-severing scene from Reservoir Dogs (NSFW). If you heard it on the radio, you probably thought it was a Bob Dylan song:
But "Stuck in the Middle With You" was actually written and recorded by a band called Stealers Wheel. Would Gerry Rafferty, the band's lead singer, have been offended by your confusing it for Dylan? Probably not. Odds are he would have thought it was hilarious, since sounding like Bob Dylan was the whole point because they specifically wrote the song just to make fun of him.
Normally a man who commands the highest degree of respect.
"Stuck in the Middle With You" was written as a parody of Dylan's more paranoid, drug-induced ramblings, which is another way of saying it's a parody of every single Bob Dylan song ever recorded. The line "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right" is a dig at how Dylan would often generalize a group of people by cleverly referring them to as clowns or jokers. Rafferty also borrowed Dylan's distinctive singing style, which sort of sounds like Neil Diamond trying to eat oatmeal while having a stroke.
We have a whole laboratory in the basement for checking such things.
Rafferty couldn't believe it when their little joke hit big and peaked at #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1973. Exactly how much of its success it owed to people mistaking it for a Dylan song isn't clear, but all told "Stuck in the Middle With You" sold over a million copies, so we're betting Stealers Wheel didn't really give a shit.
As long as the checks were in their name.
#1. "Sweet Child O' Mine" -- Guns N' Roses
"Sweet Child O' Mine" boasts one of the most recognizable guitar riffs of all time (the "greatest guitar riff ever," as voted by readers of Total Guitar magazine). Hard to argue with this shit:
Thanks to that riff, a generation of rock fans can identify that song within three notes. So how does Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash feel about that?
Not great, considering the riff was just a string skipping exercise he was doing for practice. It was never meant to be an actual song. It'd like if Beethoven got a standing ovation for performing chopsticks.
"Beethoven, you've done it again!"
You see, "Sweet Child O' Mine" was written in a total of five minutes. Slash and Izzy Stradlin were just having a jam session, tooling around on their respective instruments while singer Axl Rose was upstairs playing with his action figures or something. Slash started doing his string skipping exercise and thought it sounded kind of like circus music, so he kept playing it and making goofy faces at his bandmate. Rose, on the other hand, heard the riff and came downstairs to tell Slash that it was going to be their next song. It went something like this:
"Dude! That shit is awesome. It's going to be our next hit!"
"What? No man, I was just ... I was joking around. That can't be a song. It's just nonsense."
"No no, it's perfect! I wrote this poem about my girlfriend a little while ago. We can use it for lyrics!"
"I don't think you understand ..."
It took a while for Slash to begrudgingly get the unusual riff to match with a drum beat, but they eventually started recording. Their producer listened to what they'd put together so far and told them that they should add a dramatic breakdown in place of the last verse, with Slash busting out a killer solo and Rose singing something. After thinking for a moment about what that something could be, Axl asked "Where do we go now?" As in, "Where do we go with this song?"
Nobody had any better suggestions, so for a solid chunk of the song, Rose just keeps shouting, "Where do we go now?"
"Anywhere but here, you crazy bastard."
It could have just as easily been any other sentence someone decided to say at that particular moment, like "Where are my cigarettes?" or "Why does Slash's hat smell so bad?"
"Sweet Child" went on to hit number one on the charts, helping Guns N' Roses' album Appetite for Destruction secure its spot as the top-selling debut album of any band in the U.S. So let this be a lesson to every creative person reading this: What you like, and what your audience likes, are probably going to be very different. It's probably best to just go with it.
We've got plenty more music trivia for you in 10 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Albums and 6 Pieces of Music That Mean The Opposite of What You Think.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - Works by Brahams, Mozart and Rimsky-Korsakov will highlight the opening of the Geneseo Symphony Orchestra's spring season Feb. 26 in Wadsworth Auditorium. The concert begins at 3 p.m. and is open to the public without charge. James Walker, distinguished service professor of music, will be conducting.
The program will feature Brahams' "Academic Festival Overture," Mozart's "Double Piano Concerto in E-flat Major," and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnole." Performing the double piano concerto will be Amy Stanley, head of Geneseo's piano department, and Louis Lohraseb, a junior music major.
Walker surmised that Brahams must have had a wonderful time composing the "Academic Festival Overture."
"Instead of the stuffy, heavily orchestrated, overly contrapuntal work that the University of Breslau expected as a result of bestowing an honorary doctorate upon Brahms, they got a wonderful potpourri of student songs - drinking songs, actually - that culminates in the most famous drinking song: 'Gaudeamus igitur,' - let us rejoice while we are still young."
Mozart's concerto is the composer at his most playful, said Walker.
"The dialogue and competition between the two pianos makes it one of the more joyful works in the concerto repertoire."
Rimsky-Korsakov's work is actually a concerto for the orchestra cloaked as a series of Spanish dances, said Walker, which demands "virtuosic performances from every section of the orchestra. It's a great chestnut!"
Rimsky-Korsakov was member of the "Russian Five," a group of composers who espoused using folk material as the basis for serious composition.
The Geneseo Symphony Orchestra is a collaboration of the best wind, percussion and string players in the SUNY Geneseo student body and members of the music faculty who coach and perform in the ensemble. The result is the performance of some of the finest literature written for a large orchestra.
For more information on the concert, call 585-245-5824.
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