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Three-in-one Tilt Column InstallWritten by on October 17, 2011 Options To Tilt
So, I have seen tons of stories—tech articles—about how to adapt a tilt column to an aftermarket IFS or Mustang II-style frontend. What I have not seen is how to adapt a tilt column to a stock steering box or even an aftermarket firewall such as the one that was installed in my pickup. What I plan on showing in this article are a few tricks that will allow you to adapt a tilt column to just about any situation you may cross in your classic truck build. On a '55-59 Chevy pickup the stock steering column is attached to a long tube that travels all the way down to the steering box. The inside of the tube has a shaft that travels from the steering wheel to the steering box. This shaft is ¾-inch solid round bar and can be adapted to fit onto an aftermarket column. In this case, we are using a Classic Performance Products (CPP) tilt column with and without gear selectors. I will be using a five-speed manual and the other truck has a 700-R4. For the sake of page space we will not go into detail about how to hook your automatic transmission up to the column.
Aftermarket floorboards and recessed firewalls give you the opportunity to move things around when it comes to column position. I filled the original hole in the firewall that the stock column went through and moved the column up 2 inches. This gave me some more leg space while still retaining a good steering shaft angle. Since my firewall had been recessed and widened I had no option but to go into the crease of the new firewall. The position where your steering column goes through the firewall could vary dramatically on what firewall, if any, you choose to install.
This leads me to aftermarket frontends like an IFS or Mustang II-style suspension systems. CPP has come out with a combo of cut-to-fit steering ¾-inch DD steering shafts and ¾-inch DD U-joints that help adapt an IFS to your tilt column. So whether you have a stock setup or one that's completely aftermarket CPP has options for you. CT
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Whether you need a steering column with a shifter or not, a tilt column is a much-needed improvement.With the stock column removed you can now remove the hanger that held the stock column. This requires some stretching of your arms to reach under the dash to hold the two nuts that were under the gauges.CPP offers several lengths of drop-down column brackets. We used a 4-inch drop for this column because the seat was lower than stock and the driver is 5 feet 10 inches tall. If you're taller I'd recommend a 3-inch drop-down bracket.I used some thick washers under the dash where the CPP bracket bolts went into the dash. This way the bracket was secure on the dash and would not fall through the stock, slotted holes.CPP offers this replacement plate to help with the install. The plate is minus the three-on-the-tree shifter hole that is on the stock plate on some trucks.Go ahead and slide the CPP column into the base plate and loosely bolt the drop-down bracket around the column. You will have to remove some shims on the bracket and also the shifter mechanism for the transmission at the base of the column. If you have the non-shifter version then the column should slip right through.The base of the column can be secured with this CPP column base. Set it to the bottom of the column and mark and drill the four holes.The column shouldn't stick out more than this. In this case we had some room to pull the column up a few inches. CPP also offers several different length tilt columns. Make sure to measure what size you need before you order.
Next, install the shifter so the spring returns the shifter when done shifting. The pin was a little tight to install so I put it in the freezer for an hour to help get it in. It worked well.In this step, John from Deuces Wild Hot Rods and Customs installed the ¾ Double D (DD) U-joints on the rack-and-pinion. He then slipped the shaft over one end of the joint and marked the length of steering shaft that was needed.On my recessed firewall I went a little wider to push the motor back as far as possible. I held the column in my lap with the Con2r steering wheel attached so I could get a feel for where the column felt good to me. I decided that it would work better a few inches higher than stock. But that left me right in the corner of the new firewall.Measuring the steering column's outer diameter at 2 inches I wanted to use a hole saw that was slightly under that size because the bit will drill a slightly larger hole than what the size is.I used a piece of tubing that was slightly larger than the steering column and sliced it down the middle.A thick piece of tubing was then cut and welded on the edge of the piece of tubing. Then I sliced the thick tubing to match the slice in the bigger piece. This way I can use a bolt to crimp the tubing to the base of the column.John held the column straight inside the cab while I tacked the piece of tubing to the firewall. I then removed the column to finish welding so I would not fuse the column to the piece of tubing. Then a Grade 8 bolt was used to crimp down the exposed piece of tubing to crimp down on the column. That sucker was tight after the bolt was tightened. Make sure install the top CPP drop-down bracket like the column in the above photos.
Moving on to the stock-style steering box. Here is the stock steering column that goes all the way to the steering box. On the left is the steering box that attaches to the pitman arm and has a part in turning the wheels. On the right, the column goes up into the dash and attaches to the steering wheel.For this application we are going to use the stock suspension so the stock steering column tube needed to be trimmed to reuse the steering box. Craig Chaffers from CPP measured the steering box to 6½ inches as a rough estimate. Remember that you need the inner shaft to stick out farther than the outer tube.A tubing cutter will work great to make a straight cut around the steering shaft tube. At this point it is wise to cut everything a little long and then recut to your final length.Give yourself a few inches of steering shaft to clamp the CPP ¾ DD U-joints. Plus, CPP is developing a bushing that will keep water and dirt out of the steering box.Craig removed the box's steering shaft/worm gear and had it machined to fit snug on the CPP ¾ DD U-joints. Remember, this is your steering and you need it to work every time so you shouldn't skip or take chances on connects to your steering column.CPP also offers a ¾ round U-joint on one end and a ¾ DD U-joint on the other to connect to the CPP column. The ¾ round end can be drilled by a machine shop all the way through the steering shaft (the steering shaft is on the left). Then a Grade 8 bolt can be passed through with a lock nut on the end to make a worry-free connection. Both options require a machine shop's help and the ¾ DD U-joint is something you don't want to weld to the steering shaft because of the difference in metals.Here is a shot of the stock steering column box after the modifications to the steering tube were made. Notice the prototype bushing on the inside of the steering tube that CPP made. Cool, huh.The last thing to install is the steering wheel and horn button. I used this really cool looking Con2r steering wheel with a Grant adapter to mount it to the CPP steering column. Also, I finally got a chance to see what the Classic Instruments gauges would look like with a cool steering column and steering wheel. Wow, I can't wait till it's done, and I am really happy with the way the CPP steering column feels.


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John McCain, Man of the People
First, he told us that you're not rich until you're making $5 million. Now, we have this from Politico:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own. "I think I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. "It's condominiums where I'll have them get to you." The correct answer is at least four, located in Arizona, California and Virginia, according to his staff. Newsweek estimated this summer that the couple owns at least seven properties.
Alex Koppelman's analysis is just right:
Obviously, there is but one logical conclusion we can draw from this: Barack Obama is an out-of-touch elitist.
UPDATE: Giving a new meaning to "rapid response," Obama puts up the obvious ad: (HT TPM)[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpmFd25tRqo[/youtube]UPDATE II: Here's the DNC's contribution (HT Salon):
About the Author
Eduardo Moisés Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of property and land use law.
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Good to see that the savior of America is sticking to his new kind of politics pledge.
I'm sure that Obama will never succeed in closing the hypocrisy gap with McCain. I guess you would consider it another weakness on his part.
McCain has never claimed to be a populaist "Man of the people" ... he is a former fighter jock who married a wealthy heiress--thus, while he is in an elite group he cannot be described as an elitist per se, which the dictionary definition notes invovles both snobbery and a "consciousness of being or belong to an elite: ... but McCain does not dwell on his success, he does not lord it over other people or look down on them ... indeed, not knowing exactly how many houses he owns is a demonstration of how little that sort of status means to him .. thus, he is a far more approachable man, a man that many men would aspire to be and many women can admire ... On the other hand, Obama IS an out-of-touch elitist who speaks down to people as if he were still a pedantic law professor delivering a lecture to a bunch of ignorant freshmen .. he describes the religious views and support of firearms of blue collar workers in negative terms ... he delivers long, drawn-out, analysis that minutely examines every possible side of certain issues (such as when life begins) rather than delivering the straightforward answer that most people would (regardless of which position they hold) ... he talks in terms of McCain offering tax breaks to those earning "2 point 5 to 2 point 8 million dollars" rather than the more colloquial "those earning more than two and a half million dollars," which again is how someone who is NOT an out-of-touch elitist would probably word it ... Obama changes his mind on issues such as accepting public campaign funding and then tries to explain why this change is actually BETTER for the concept of publicly fianncing campaigns than if he had actually kept his word ... he chooses not to wear a flag lapel pin and then wants us to belive that this gesture is actually MORE patriotic than if he had simply worn it or simply said he had forgotten to wear it ...
Finally, he's fighting back. All that was missing from the ad is a note that McCain thinks you are only rich if you earn more than 5 million.
Robert and Sean -- comical efforts. You can try to rationalize all you want, but you both know this little gaffe has legs.
Just want to add I love mcCain's "Town Hall" -in Las cruces yesterday, 500 by invitation only.Had to be lots of sharp questions (and daulation.)Not my idea of a town hall.
Eduardo,You're right that it might hurt McCain ... but I'm right in my description of how the two men differ. It's why McCain has closed the gap in so many polls and even taken the lead in others.If McCain's people are smart--and they have been so far--this will blow over. People know McCain and they like him. They respect him as a potential leader of the nation, even when they disagree with him on specific issues. They still don't know exactly who Obama is or what to make of him. If THAT does not change, Obama cannot win.
A good point from Mark Hemingway at NRO:But again, why does Obama want to make an issue of McCain's houses? He's just opening himself up. McCain (or Cindy at least) paid for his houses Obama bought his with help from someone who was just found guilty of six counts of wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, two counts of corrupt solicitation, and two counts of money laundering. Yup.
You betcha a lot of people care. Some say Bill Clinton won his first term in office because he knew what a half gallon of milk cost while George Bush looked at his watch in exasperation. It's the kind of thing idiots who don't want to think about issues can latch on to to make an uninformed choice.Deep background: While I don't care how many homes McCain has, I was inundated with e-mails from my fundie Republican in-laws during the last election noting that the taxpayers would have to provide protection for an ex-President John Kerry's umpteen mansions. (These are the same in-laws now sending me e-mails that Obama is a "Moslem.")I replied to said in-laws that all ex-presidents were afforded protection for life, and that if they didn't like that, they should take it up with Congress, which designated the protection many eons ago. In other stupid political news, Rush has been going haywire saying that if McCain chooses a pro-choice candidate it's going to set back the conservative cause and ruin the GOP. He was running around saying almost the exact same thing would happen if McCain were nominated.
Jean unintenionally raises another point - were you against Kerry in '04 because of his wealth- also gained from marrying an heiress - Eduardo?Just wondering.
I agree with Robert Reid - elitism is not a function of either income or wealth - more a state of mind and culture. Take the examples of Warren Buffet and George Soros - both share almost identical political views (admittedly Soros is further to the left but I think most would agree they are in the same ballpark politically) but I don't think anyone would call Buffet, who has lived in the same modest house in Omaha, NE for the last 40 years, elitist, despite being worth several tens of billions of dollars more than Soros (who as we all know is a multi-billionaire); whereas (and I realize not everyone here will agree) Soros would be considered by many non-partisan observers as quite elitist. I would also find it hard to believe that for voters to whom a candidate's "elisism" matters, that they would find Senator McCain "more" elitist than Senator Obama. The reality is Senator Obama is an urbane, Harvard-educated, multi-millionaire and McCain a multi-generational military brat and salty fly-boy who married a wealthy woman. Some voters prefer their president to be the former, some the later, but to think Senator Obama would not be considered an elitist by those who really care would be inaccurate, in my opinion. I understand most here want him to get as many votes as he can and feel very passionate about him personally, etc., but he is what he is - being elitist is not necessarily a good thing nor a bad thing - some want that in a leader, others don't. I think if he starts to try to be something he's not however, he runs the risk of donning a helment and jumping into a tank or "hunting" waterfowl in the OH wetlands wearing thousands of dollars of brand new Orvis hunting camo and looking like a total phony - which nobody likes.
Don't be obtuse, Mark. Of course not. Nor am I against McCain for being a gold-digger. I'm against him for a number of other reasons and, therefore, favor Obama using whatever (true) arguments are at his disposal in order to win. There must be votes in painting someone as an out-of-touch elitist, since the McCain folks have been doing it to Obama for some time and even today continue to mock Obama as an elitist in the face of their boy's misstep. Turn-about is clearly fair play.
Does, "First, he told us that youre not rich until youre making $5 million" count as a true argument? Or do true arguments have to be honest also?
Are you suggesting that McCain did not say that, Tom?Here's the YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q2sAFH7zj0
I am suggesting that the first sentence of your post is dishonest, as the YouTube clip you link to proves.
Did he say it or not, Tom?
Here's how the reporters at Politico put it: "McCains comments came four days after he initially told Pastor Rick Warren during a faith forum on Sunday his threshold for considering someone rich is $5 million a careless comment he quickly corrected." Are they dishonest too, Tom?
I thought the question of the number of houses was very revealing. It shows that McCain didn't want to throw a number out there and be called out on it later. He wanted to be sure an accurate number was given to the press. What I do find shocking is that the Obama campaign would want to touch the housing issue with a ten foot pole. Obama, not McCain, bought his property with the help of a man convicted of money laundering, wire fraud, and mail fraud.
Wow. This Obama attack must have really hit a nerve. It's brought out the concern trolls in droves.
This is hilarious. McCain wasn't unable to tell Politico how many homes he owns--he just wanted to make sure he didn't mislead the public. I wish I'd thought of that. And sent it to SNL.
Thomas Frank said it best here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120873309012529689.html?mod=mostpop"Consider, for example, the one fateful charge that the punditry and the other candidates have fastened upon Mr. Obama "elitism." No one means by this term that Mr. Obama is a wealthy person (he wasn't until last year), or even that he is an ally of the wealthy (although he might be that). What they mean is that he has committed a crime of attitude, and revealed his disdain for the common folk......."It is by this familiar maneuver that the people who have designed and supported the policies that have brought the class divide back to America the people who have actually, really transformed our society from an egalitarian into an elitist one perfume themselves with the essence of honest toil, like a cologne distilled from the sweat of laid-off workers. Likewise do their retainers in the wider world the conservative politicians and the pundits who lovingly curate all this phony authenticity become jes' folks, the most populist fellows of them all."But suppose we read on, and we find the news item about the hedge fund managers who made $2 billion and $3 billion last year, or the story about the vaporizing of our home equity. Suppose we become a little . . . bitter about this. What do our pundits and politicians tell us then?"That there is no place for such sentiment in the Party of the People. That 'bitterness' is an ugly and inadmissible emotion. That 'divisiveness' is a thing to be shunned at all costs."Robert, do you really think saying "two point five to two point eight million" instead of two and a half million is a more serious symptom of elitism than favoring tax breaks for those who make two and a half million? If it is, then elitism is, or should be, of no political importance. Class is really the issue here, no matter what its accent or pedigree.
I liked it better when we were arguing about the Democratic Party platform plank. At least it was a real issue.Homework assignment for concern trolls on both sides; no essays accepted until everyone cools off for 24 hours:Issue #1 for Democrats: How many homes does McCain own? Does his failure to know the exact number make him a liar? A prevaricator? An elitist? Does it indicate a weak memory? Are the homes part of an investment portfolio that he could not recall off the cuff? Explain the significance of McCain's many homes and explain how his answer to the reporter will affect his performance as president. Support your answer with careful references to credible reports and verifiable facts.Issue #2 for Republicans: Before he was charged or convicted with a crime, a crooked businessman provided assistance to the Obamas in purchasing a home. Does this mean Obama approves of white-collar crime? Does it mean Obama doesn't care how he gets his money? Does it mean that he was unwittingly helped by someone whose misdeeds were unknown to him? Decide which scenario is most likely based on credible and verifiable information and explain how this will affect his performance as president. Cite your sources.
Eduardo,No, McCain did not tell us that youre not rich until youre making $5 million. He gave an outrageous answer to what he suggested was an irrelevant question. And then he laughed.He can be criticized for dodging the question, or for not wanting to tax the rich. But even Obama, as he was making political hay out of it, allowed that "maybe he was joking."I really don't care about Obama's latest attack. Politicians do what politicians do.I am, though, appalled enough to comment at your encouragement of the ongoing cheapening of discourse "using whatever (true) arguments are at his disposal in order to win." Cynical pandering for votes is immoral, as is formal cooperation with it.
Matthew Boudway: You do realize that based on the donor information available to date, the "hedge fund managers who made $2 billion and $3 billion last year" are supporting Senator Obama by a wide margin, correct?From Matt Taibbis piece in this months Rolling Stone (also referred to in Eric Bugyis's post on dotCommonweal dated 19 August 2008):"Obama is flat-out kicking McCain's ass when it comes to Wall Street contributions, raking in nearly $9 million from securities and investment executives, compared to $6.2 million for McCain. Obama has received more contributions from Goldman Sachs than from any other employer more than $627,000 at this writing not to mention $398,021 from JP Morgan Chase, $353,922 from Lehman Brothers and $291,388 from Morgan Stanley. Even among hedge-fund executives, who have an unequivocal interest in electing McCain, Obama is whipping the Republican, collecting $500,000 more than McCain."
MAT,I take your point. What can I say except that I am glad if they are supporting a candidate who will tax them more? Better make that "I am glad they are supporting him if he's going to tax them more -- much more." Much depends on that "if." As Frank writes in the passage I already quoted, "No one means by this term that Mr. Obama is a wealthy person (he wasnt until last year), or even that he is an ally of the wealthy (although he might be that)." He might indeed, and more's the pity, but who can doubt that McCain is an ally of the wealthy. The phenomenon you mention is, I think, mainly about the universal desire to bet on a winner.
"This is hilarious. McCain wasnt unable to tell Politico how many homes he ownshe just wanted to make sure he didnt mislead the public. I wish Id thought of that. And sent it to SNL."I'm sorry. But as the son of someone who makes a substantial portion of her living by investing in condos, I didn't find his answer to the question to be as controversial as you want it to be. I imagine McCain has an accountant who manages properties that his wife owns. Still, you could send the line in to SNL and it would be about as funny and relevant as the show has been in the past decade.
I don't know why you're apologizing. I don't take McCain's inability to tell a reporter how many homes he owns (and they're married, for Pete's sake, can we dispense with the dicing?) to be controversial. I simply find it amusing in light of his campaign's efforts to pin Obama with the "elite" tag. Besides, it's not as though they're not using the homes. Or at least the beach-front ones.
Cindy McCain discussed the timing of the second condo purchase in a June interview with Vogue magazine (not online) that's newly relevant in light of the explosive controversy over John McCain's inability to recall how many homes the McCains own.And in another fun fact that could pour fuel on this controversy, Cindy told her interviewer that the reason they needed a second beach condo in the Coronado building was that the first was too crowded because her kids were staying there and as a result she "couldn't get in the place."
I do know how difficult it can be to keep track of one's homes when they number seven.
"I do know how difficult it can be to keep track of ones homes when they number seven."It's because there was a previous discrepancy about the number of homes that his family owns. From the McCain camp: "He referred the questioners to his staff because this is a question that has been debated at the staff level with some reporters who, based on an inaccurate reading of Senate disclosure forms, have reported more homes than the McCains actually own, and some press reports that have indicated fewer homes than they actually own. So, by trying to avoid a debate about the holdings of the Hensley Family Trust, he simply attempted to move on to the next question."http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTBmNzA5ZTc2ZTdlOGRmOWY5MmFmYmF..., I still believe this is a silly fight to pick since McCain will obviously hit back by bringing up Rezko.
Matthew Boudway: I think you are partly right that part of it is about the desire to back a winner - I actually personally think it's more of a cultural thing. These hedge fund execs and Wall Street-ers are not dissimilar to Hollywood types - people who accumulated vast wealth at a very young age and whose worldviews did not mature as someone who accumulated their wealth later in life via payroll income. I am not making a value judgement about that and do not mean to disparage them, I just mean to say that a 50-year old engineer for GE who makes $250k per year for 20 years and a 30-year old hedge fund analyst who made $2 million last year may have similar bank account balances, but their worldviews will be very different.I should hasten to add that (1) I happen to work at a hedge fund - although I can assure you I did not make $2 billion last year, and (2) Mr. Bugyis is incorrect to say "hedge-fund executives" have an "unequivocal interest in electing McCain". The fact that the $2 billion is almost assuredly not payroll income and not subject to income tax aside (it is likely treated as carried interest and taxed as capital gains; in fairness to Senator Obama, he has said he wants to change this in the Code to have it taxed as income), Senator Obama's willingness to wield the government pocketbook would in fact be a very good thing for hedge funds (whether that is a good thing for the American people, I leave it to others to decide). By way of example, some of our competitor hedge funds purchase, at a significant discount, defaulted home mortgage debt (not dissimilar to Fortress Investments, btw, where John Edwards was employed). They have no intention of foreclosing on anyone - they are taking Senator Obama at his word that when elected he will do everything in his power to "fix" this housing crisis. What Senator Obama will do (or really expand on what President Bush and the current Congress have already done) is use government funds, via Fannie and Freddie, to purchase these home mortgages back from these hedge funds at par. E.G. I buy a $300k home mortgage from XYZ bank where the homeowner is no longer making payments for $200k, since federal banking regulations force the bank to get the loan off its books at any cost. Fannie and Freddie then assist the homeowner by buying that mortgage from me in a few months for $300k. The taxpayers of the U.S. just made me $100k in days (or weeks or months), but you get the point.
Ah, I got you Adeodatus. It's the fault of those reporters.
I'm sorry that you cannot concede any points whatever. But for what it's worth, I did a cursory search of recent blogs mentioning the number of houses John McCain owns, limiting my search to entries made prior to today's news. According to Matthew Yglesias, McCain owns eleven houses. Andy Stern, president of SEIU, insists that the number is ten as does Progressive Accountability.
MAT,Yes, I get the point, and it's a good one. But then, adequate regulation of the mortgage industry and of the financial institutions that bought and repackaged bad mortgages would have prevented all this from happening in the first place; and it is an axiom of Republican ideology that government regulation is a bad thing, that the market will always sort itself out as long as we don't get it in its way. I don't doubt that hedge-fund managers have found a way to profit from the federal government's effort to save homeowners -- and the economy -- from an epidemic of foreclosures. Of course, this doesn't tell us much about the wisdom of that effort. What is the alternative? As for your point about Obama's appeal to young billionaires attracted to glamor and fashionabe causes, who can doubt it? But it is at least conceivable that they could be right for the wrong reasons. It is also conceivable that some of them have thought about those who will not make as much in a lifetime of work as they make in a few months.
I can't believe this many people are wasting brain cells on such a silly issue. It happens on the right too, of course; I was in disbelief over how many bloggers were speculating about Obama's birth certificate.
If you read the exchange, it is clear that the implied subject is investment properties. It's not surprisin that McCain is unsure. Why should he be sure? Wouldn't a precise number indicate that he was unduly concerned with numbers? I do, however, find the level of discourse from Obama supporters on this blog to be distressingly anti-intellectual and unworthy of Commonweal. Those who disagree - and give evidence to support their views - are called "trolls." That's pretty hard to grasp.
Matthew: On the housing crisis, I fear we stray too far from the elitism topic on hand, but you're right - there are not many good alternatives, but I think history will show either a too lax monetary policy (Greenspan kept rates too low for too long, as his critics would argue) or a global savings glut (as Greenspan himself would likely say) played much more a role than lack of regulation. Even many (admittedly, not all) critics would not argue the lack of regulation per se, but lack of enforcement of what is on the books by the Fed, such as the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act. And I do not mean to disparage the motives of the ultra-wealthy who support Obama - they may indeed have non-self-serving motives for supporting Senator Obama. Which kind of brings us back to the perception (in my opinion) of Obama as elitist and not McCain, while the later is clearly more wealthy. I think Obama supporters are too defensive about it - he styles himself an intellectual who likes to hob-nob with the wealthy - whether they are hedge fund managers or movie stars or whatever. So what? I guess he could pretend to be something he's not to try to get some votes, but as John Kerry and Michael Dukakis, to name a few, can tell you, it will come off as phony and nobody likes a phony. Look as Ted Kennedy - he's an elitist who doesn't apologize for it, gets plenty of ethnic and blue-collar votes, and couldn't get voted out of office if he tried.
Tom - So I assume you've been equally critical of McCain for lowering the level of discourse with his absurd "celebrity" ads and his refusal to condemn the patent lies in Obamanation? At least I am endorsing only "true" arguments. I'm all for high-minded deliberation, but it doesn't really work when only one side practices it. Until I see some interest on the right in raising the level of discourse, I think we on the left have to play to win. Otherwise, we're just tools.Also, even if McCain was joking, which is hardly clear from the video (it is as plausible to me that the Politico is right and he meant what he said but immediately realized his error when the good pastor laughed in his face), the first line of this post is hardly dishonest.Finally, for those who seem to be confused about the meaning of "concern troll" and its supposed anti-intellectualism, it does not refer to anyone with whom one disagrees. It only refers to those feigning concern for the other side (even if the feigning is transparent or tongue-in-cheek). In this case, it refers to those who are attempting to sow worries about the impact of this housing issue on Obama because of the Rezko faux-scandal. Here's the wikipedia entry on "concern trolls": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concern_troll#Concern_troll
Eduardo:I really dont care about McCain's attacks. Politicians do what politicians do.If, though, I came across a Catholic praising the McCain campaign for cynically pandering for votes and justifying himself with "play to win" and "they started it" arguments, then yes, I would be appalled.And if he were so dishonest as to represent something Obama said jokingly as sincerely meant, I expect I would call him on it.
Grant - at 5.17pmThey're married? Has the first, discarded and divorced Mrs McCain died recently? Does adultery not matter any more?
Eduardo,Never said it wasn't a gaffe, although I don't think it will be a big one. Point was that Obama claims he's going to be "different" in his campaign. Here is a guy who makes hay off of his support for public financing of campaings, except when it doesn't give him an advantage - then not so much. He repeatedly tells us race doesn't matter and then consistently implies that people oppose him because of his.Don't get me wrong, politics ain't patty cake, and I can't stand all the hand wringing about "negative" campaigning. It's a crock. My problem is that Obama is an A-1 hypocrite on the clean campaing no personal attack front. How many times is he going to have to do the "John must be confused" bit before people start to see it as mean spirited agism? It's not just mean spirited, it's cowardly. If he thinks the man's too old, say so. But that's his MO. Don't out and out say anything, just imply that your oppostion is racist or that your opponent is a doddering old man, and then deny that's what you intended.I also think, as some have pointed out here, that this can backfire. Looking at their first meeting, I know who sounded "out of touch." I think tagging McCain as elitist is a losing proposition. We'll see.
Sister Mary Wood,McCain said, "My greatest moral failing, and I am a very imperfect person, is the failure of my first marriage." I thought it was interesting that the audience tittered when he said "imperfect person." But most interesting is that McCain saying "the failure of my first marriage" is kind of like saying "mistakes were made." There's no mention of his extramarital affairs or even his divorce and remarriage.
As far as the Obama/McCain housing crisis, we all need to grow up a little. With probably the singular exception of Abraham Lincolnwho failed at nearly everything he did before becoming president and saving the nationEVERYONE who becomes a major partys nominee for president is going to be a wealthy person, having been a senator, governor, held other major government office, been a successful general or businessman, etc. NONE of them is going to live a lifestyle even remotely like what most of us live. Thats why I focused on Obamas speaking style, his convoluted explanations for his actions, his arrogance toward the middle class, etc., when describing him as an elitist, while acknowledging that McCain married an heiress but Obama is also wealthy, having earned $4 million last year And by the way, Sister Mary Wood, since McCain is not Catholic, the church probably doesn't consider his marriages valid anyway (my mother was Catholic, my father was not--when my father died at a very early age and my mother turned to a priest for comfort and support she was instead told: What did you expect--marrying outside the church?
And Obama said "America's" greatest moral failure was to fail to abide by "whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers . . ." While his own brother lives in squalor.
Wrong brother Grant.
I think we should move on to more important things. Like that McCain said his favorite band was ABBA. Someone drawn to music that is scarcely above elevator fare shows a serious lack of discernment that is bound to cast doubt on his ability to make important judgments about national security and the economy. He needs a running mate who can balance the ticket--maybe a Patti Smith fan or a Dead Head. That would probably not be Joe Lieberman ...

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C and assembler on Linux
This is a page for the C and assembler on linux class, Tuesdays at 5:30 PM in Church.
Here's a write up that covers the first half of the first C on Linux class that I gave last Tuesday 20120619 in the Church classroom from 5:30 to 7 PM.Italic text
I hope to write up the balance of last Tuesday's
class before the weekend's out.
Note the To: list, please; if you know of anyone
who's missing, please let them and me know.
Complaints, suggestions, sarcasms, all are welcome.
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Learning C programming on Linux
- C programming language is a specification that defines keywords,
operators, and rules of syntax.
This may sound stupidly obvious or useless knowledge, but you may,
if you really get into using C, find that it's a practical concept--useful, intelligently obvious.
- C compiler is a software program that implements the C specification:
parser, keywords, operators, syntax rules.
The practical purpose of this idea is that there are different C
compilers for different machines and for different purposes. If you're just starting to learn C, this idea will seem pretty nearly as useless as the idea that C is a specification.
The tools you use to write C programs include an editor and a C
compiler at minimum. There are a lot more tools available, such as debuggers and profilers and more.
The process you follow is to use a text editor to write some ASCII
text that complies with the rules of the C language then use a C compiler to read your ASCII file and create a new file that contains executable machine code.
Look for C compiler-generated error messages. If there are any, even
one, then the compiler does not make an executable file; you have to fix all errors. You may see warning messages that indicate the compiler found one or more things that are not perfect but let the compiler continue. If you don't have too many warning messages, the compiler will probably make the executable file.
If you get an executable file, run it and see if it works as you
expect. If it does, you probably won't learn anything more from this exercise. If it doesn't, you get to learn about runtime and logic errors: you wrote a program that is correct according to the C language but incorrect in terms of implementing what you hoped it would do.
The following commands exemplify the process using a bash shell:
$ vi myfile.c $ gcc myfile.c $ ls a.out $ chmod 755 a.out $ ./a.out
You use a text editor such as vi to create a file of text that
conforms to the rules of the C specification.
You run the C compiler so that it reads what you wrote. The C
compiler sees your program file as an ASCII character stream that it interprets as a token stream.
So, what is a "token"? A token is one or more ASCII characters that
the compiler sees as a meaningful thing. To compare with the English language, think of a token as a word or a word ending or punctuation or some other element that's meaningful.
The C compiler is a software program that conforms to a particular
design: the design for interpreters and compilers. Generally, any compiler or interpreter includes an input stage that parses the incoming ASCII (token) stream and also has a set of keywords and operators that are reserved ASCII character(s) and a set of rules that the compiler applies to the tokens it reads.
When the compiler begins, it sets itself to a neutral state, which
is to say that it will examine the first ASCII characters to verify that it can parse it as a stream of tokens.
When the compiler identifies the first token, it verifies that that
token is of a class that can be a first token and then resets its (the compiler's) state so that the following token must be one of a limited set of tokens. For example: 1+2
The compiler reads the 1 and then the '+' character, at which point
it determines that it has at least one valid token:1. The compiler continues reading and sees the 2 and determines that it now has two tokens, 1 and '+'. The 1 token is an integer type of data the value of which is 1. The '+' token, because it occurs between the 1 and the 2 represents the addition operator. The compiler continues reading to find only whitespace and then is able to identify the ASCII stream as a set of three tokens--a value, an operator, and a value--that together form an expression.
An expression is at least one operand and zero or more operators
that must be resolved to a single value.
The compiler resolves the expression 1+2 to be a single value of 3. If you know how to write a C program that is exactly 1+2 and nothing
else, it's very likely your compiler will generate an error message (remember, a compiler implements the C programming language specification, and does so in its own way--the C specification is deliberately permissive in some aspects of implementation).
If you get an error message, very likely it will be a complaint that
there's not a complete statement or there's a problem at the end of the file or some such.
The C compiler is designed to read statements. A statement is a set
of valid tokens that follow the rules of the C programming language and end with a statement termination character, which is the ; character.
Try revising your program to read
The 1+2 is an expression: the C compiler sees 1 followed by +
followed by 2 and verifies that this is a valid sequence of tokens that makes an expression. It interprets the ; character as a statement terminator, which means the compiler creates the machine code for the expression and resets itself to a neutral state, ready to read the next statement (ASCII character stream of valid tokens).
The compiler may compile the program with only warning messages. If
so, it will make a new file that is named a.out. It is not a loadable program, nor is it executable. Very likely the entire contents is 3, which means the compiler did the addition as it did the compiling. You may think that the compiler would leave the 1+2 in the file as data and machine instructions that the CPU runs to create the sum, 3. That the compiler does the arithmetic before it is done is a matter of optimization.
The C compiler generally runs in four different phases:
1 preprocessor 2 compiler 3 optimizer 4 linker
Consider the program:
The preprocessor runs and sees nothing to do. The compiler runs and translates the ASCII to data and machine code,
which properly is a set of 1 bits and 0 bits that represent integer 1, integer 2, and the operation of addition.
The optimizer recognizes that this expression can be resolved now
without doing any harm to any other parts of the program, so the optimizer replaces the code with the integer value of 3.
The linker runs and does nothing: there is no code to which to link
this module.
Consider the following program:
1+2 3 + 4 ;
How many statements do you see? How many expressions? How many
There is a single statement that has two expressions and a total of
seven tokens: 1, +, 2, 3, +, 4, and ; (we're not counting the space characters or the newline characters).
Note that the C compiler sees 1+2 and 3 + 4 identically: two
expressions that add two integer values together. Very likely the resulting program will effectively be 3 7 after the optimizer pass does its thing.
Note that the 3 and the 7 are there in the program but the program
does nothing with them.
Now it may be that the optimizer of your compiler detects that there
are no machine operations for the CPU and the optimizer might eliminate the data itself. I doubt it, as it's possible that you may want to make a file that contains only data and link it to one or more other programs that you'll write at some time.
The discussion so far includes the terms ASCII stream, token stream,
values, operands, operators, expressions, statements, and the four compiler passes: preprocessor, compiler, optimizer, and linker.


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The Greenback Booster Club will be holding a hamburger feed along with its annual membership drive at Friday's Soap Bowl, the traditional kickoff to the Pratt High fall sports season. Lynn Perez, on behalf of the Boosters, said all Greenback supporters are invited to join the Club, one of the benefits of which is to partake of the hamburger feed.
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[aviation fuels]
[low carbon alternative fuels]
[industrial waste gases]
[grreen aviation fuel]
[alcohol to jet fuel]
[ATJ fuel]
We are in the midst of an energy revolution, with new types of
liquid fuels from new sources and an increased supply of
traditional fuels unleashed from existing sources thanks to new
While this is good news, it is tempered by the reality that
global demand is forecast to far outpace supply. According to
data from industry analysts at Cambridge Energy Research
Associates (CERA), we will face a supply gap of 35 million bpd
by 2030. Thats even taking into consideration the new
supply brought on by the
success of hydraulic fracturing in the US, new and forecasted
discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico and other areas around the
world, and the increased use of electric vehicles and other
high fuel efficiency cars and trucks.
The world needs more supply. Period.
And nowhere is this more important than in the aviation
fuels market, where alternatives to liquid fuels, such as
electricity or fuel cells, are not yet a viable option. While I
am sure many in the industry would love to see jets plug in
rather than fill up, its going to take some time.
Understanding this, the aviation industry has placed a
premium on developing sustainable, low-carbon alternative fuel sources that
not only address the carbon footprint issue but also
review the agro-economic, socio-economic and environmental assessments of next
generation fuels. Of course, given the huge volume of
consumption, the industry has a strong focus on sustainability, as well as price.
The cost for alternatives must be on par with, or better than,
My company believes theres a way to address many of
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sustainably and without diverting precious land or water
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With industry partners such as Swedish Biofuels and Imperium Renewables,
along with support from Pacific Northwest National Labs,
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identical chemical and physical properties to their petroleum
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At the successful completion of these projects, LanzaTech will have
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There are a number of co-benefits from all of this,
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CO2 emissions, and the avoidance of
land-use conflicts in feedstock production. Using waste
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We hope that success in our efforts will breed more interest
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For over a week now, I've been contemplating. What will I say about Christ to my readers this Christmas? Sometimes the Lord puts a message on my heart that can't wait to be written. Other times, the message is there, but the words aren't, and I have to wait. Wait for the Lord to let me know what He wants said. Wait until He's ready and until He's led the right people here to read them. Wait until those people are listening for Him.
This week that time came. I knew I would tell you that this was an important week for my family. Ten years ago, ten days before Christmas, we learned of my dad's cancer. We thought at that time that it would be our last Christmas together on earth. It was the beginning of a new understanding for us. It was the day that would change us from who we were to who we could be...people who experienced God more.
And so we have celebrated this week. I can't begin to write ten years' worth of experiences in this one post, but I have tried to share some of those things from time to time here. And I've appreciated the opportunity to do that. We've been given countless gifts as a family from the hand of God, including ten extra Christmases together we didn't think we'd have, unexpected blessings we don't deserve, and the gift of awareness of the brevity of life. But one of the best gifts the Lord has given us through the many ups and downs of this experience is PEACE.
Peace. It's what the whole world wishes for, but so few are truly experiencing. It won't come from leaders and law-makers or treaties and truces. That may bring temporary quiet from time to time. But, the peace we really need comes only from God into a heart that's open to Him. It cannot be explained. It can only be felt. It's the only thing that can comfort that person who just learned they have cancer. And the only thing that can help the parents of those precious children in Connecticut.
Who am I to ask an all-knowing, all-powerful God why certain things happen? His ways are not our ways. But, I do know that He has a reason for allowing everything. And I've learned that one of those reasons is to teach us what we cannot learn otherwise.
I cannot imagine experiencing some of the things other people do without God beside me. If you are searching for peace, God wants you to know He can give it. Stop searching all over for peace that isn't there and find real peace in Him. If you want to know how to find Him, contact me.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote it well in his song, "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day":
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."
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I came across this article and became curious. Can the futures market's open interest really predict market action?
CXO-Advisory investigate the claim of this paper and conclude that evidence indicates that changes in open interest in futures markets are strong predictors of returns for associated asset classes, even after controlling for a number of conventional predictors.
They state that investors may be able to exploit these predictive powers via tactical asset class allocation but nevertheless warn that the study does not explicitly translate this evidence into a realistic trading strategy.
Source: http://www.cxoadvisory.com/commodity-futures/futures-market-open-interest-as-return-predictor/
Maybe a better question title is "Can futures market open interest predict commodity, treasury, and equity returns"?
I saw this paper in an earlier form and it still baffles me. Superficially, it makes sense that price*quantity holds more information than just price when quantity can change quickly (i.e., outstanding futures contracts changes more quickly that outstanding equity shares). Open interest is the dollar value of outstanding futures contracts, so there are two sides to these contracts, and of course each side thinks that they're getting the better deal. So it's not really clear that this should be a bull or bear indicator. If the price component dominates, then this could just be a CPI precursor, which would drive the returns in treasuries and equities.
Also, the open interest term is a rolling average, which makes it highly autocorrelated. On this they regress treasury returns, which are also autocorrelated, so there could be some spurious regression in there. But Hong and Yogo are top of the field, so there's most likely something I'm overlooking and I'm interested in your thoughts.
After I saw this paper, I tried the same thing in equities. I got data from the OneChicago single stock futures market and tried to use open interest and open interest growth to predict equity returns. I couldn't find anything more powerful than short term reversal. The OneChicago single stock futures market has only been around since the mid-2000s and still has relatively thin trading. Maybe in a few more years there will be enough volume to get better tests?
So, I don't think open interest predicts returns in a profitable way. It can predict returns, but not any better than short-term reversal or other documented mechanisms.
My main concern when I read this paper was that they appear to not be lagging the CFTC data appropriately. The open interest data is reported with almost a week delay. They are using 1yr smoothing of 1mth changes, so that will mitigate some of the look ahead bias, but I think the paper is untradeable.
I just skimmed the paper, but it looks like Tables 6 through 10 hold the "predictors". Notice the R^2 values. I assume that their R^2=3% is my R^2=0.03. If that's true, I would guess that trading frictions would dominate any of their predictions.


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The Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office, along with Okeechobee City Police Department and the Florida Highway Patrol will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint on Thursday, July 24, 2014. The checkpoint will be set up on Highway 441 South, Okeechobee, Florida.
DUI checkpoints are a proven enforcement tool effective in reducing the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes. Research shows that crashes involving alcohol drop by an average of (20) percent when well-publicized checkpoints are conducted often enough.
Deputies will be contacting drivers passing through the checkpoint and looking for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment. Deputies will also check drivers for proper licensing and will strive to delay motorists only momentarily. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect jail, license suspension, and insurance increases, as well as fines, fees, DUI classes and other expenses that can exceed $10,000.
If you're going to drink...
Designate a driver
Call a cab
Stay home
Call a friend or family member
DUI Takes Its Toll...
A decision by the Supreme Court requires Law Enforcement to publicize DUI checkpoints. While it is widely argued that DUI Roadblocks / Sobriety Checkpoints are violations of the 4th Amendment of the Constitution (being stopped without probable cause or a search warrant), they are in fact legal in the United States and specifically in Florida ((483 So.2d 433 (Fla. 1985). Because of this, Law enforcement agencies in the state of Florida established guidelines to notify the public that a sobriety checkpoint will be conducted in specific locations at certain times.
Their legality was established by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Michigan Dept. of State Police v. Sitz (1990). While the Supreme Court acknowledged that DUI Roadblocks infringe on a constitutional right, Chief Justice Rehnquist argued that the state interest in reducing Driving Under the Influence outweighed the infringement, and that Sobriety Checkpoints were in fact effective and necessary. Upon notifying the public of a sobriety check point location and time, this helps to fulfill the obligation "of being stopped without probable cause or having a search warrant". This notification is usually completed by means of advertisement to a local newspaper, however can also be accomplished by means of a radio broadcast or internet social media correspondence such as Facebook.
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Rings, groups, and fields all feel similar. What are the differences between them, both in definition and in how they are used?
They should feel similar! In fact, every ring is a group, and every field is a ring. A ring is a group with an additional operation, where the second operation is associative and the distributive properties make the two operations "compatible".
A field is a ring such that the second operation also satisfies all the group properties (after throwing out the additive identity); i.e. it has multiplicative inverses, multiplicative identity, and is commutative.
You're right to think that the definitions are very similar. The main difference between groups and rings is that rings have two binary operations (usually called addition and multiplication) instead of just one binary operation.
If you forget about multiplication, then a ring becomes a group with respect to addition (the identity is 0 and inverses are negatives). This group is always commutative!
If you forget about addition, then a ring does not become a group with respect to multiplication. The binary operation of multiplication is associative and it does have an identity 1, but some elements like 0 do not have inverses. (This structure is called a monoid.)
A commutative ring is a field when all nonzero elements have multiplicative inverses. In this case, if you forget about addition and remove 0, the remaining elements do form a group under multiplication. This group is again commutative.
A division ring is a (not necessarily commutative) ring in which all nonzero elements have multiplicative inverses. Again, if you forget about addition and remove 0, the remaining elements do form a group under multiplication. This group is not necessarily commutative. An example of a division ring which is not a field are the quaternions.
I won't explain what a ring or a group is, because that's already been done, but I'll add something else. One reason groups and rings feel similar is that they are both "algebraic structures" in the sense of universal algebra. So for instance, the operation of quotienting via a normal subgroup (for a group) and a two-sided ideal (for a ring) are basically instances of quotienting via an invariant equivalence relation in universal algebra. A field, by contrast, is not really a construction of universal algebra (because the operation $x \to x^{-1}$ is not everywhere defined) -- which is why free fields don't exist, for instance -- though they are a special case of rings.
A group is an abstraction of addition and subtraction—except that the group operation might not be commutative. But the important part is that there is an operation, which is something like addition, and the operation can be reversed, so there is also something like subtraction.
To this, a ring adds multiplication, but not necessarily division.
To this, a field adds division.
(Going the other way from a group, we have the monoid, which has addition, but not subtraction.)
Any group $G$ is isomorphic to its opposite group $G^{\text{op}}$ via the map $g \mapsto g^{-1}$, however there is no such natural map for rings and in general it is not true that a ring is isomorphic to its opposite ring.
Therefore, it is always possible to obtain a right action of a group $G$ if a left action is given whereas it may not be possible to equip a left $R$-module with a right $R$-module structure.


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After being rescheduled twice, the regional semifinal game between CWC and Mt. Carmel finally took place at Eckerle Park on Saturday. The Bulldogs took advantage of the home field and picked up the win, 6-5.
"We had a good win today," said Coach Craig Winter. "Everyone contributed in some way to help us win. It was a total team effort."
Tyson Russell helped to propel the team to the win offensively with a two-run home run in the fifth inning.
Russell led the team with three RBIs and Travis Thompson added a pair as well.
Russell, Thompson, Andy Vaughan, Lukas Matsel and Tyler Barbre all scored a run in the win.
Vaughan pitched a nice game, going six innings, allowing five runs on six hits with four walks and three strikeouts. Jamey Steed came in and got the save, going an inning, allowing nothing with two strikeouts.
The regional title is on the line this afternoon at Mt. Carmel at 4:30 p.m. against Flora.
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This is a weird scenario.
user needs to create a document library when a calendar event is created, and show in the calendar event a link to the document library. My solution: create a feature receiver that detected when items are added, detect if the new column is already created, if not create one. and then programatically create a document library, and update the column contents with the link to the new library.
user wants that after 30 days the entire document library is archived, can this be done? If this is possible, then the link on step 1 would be broken, any workaround?


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I'm using Facebook to login people into my website. Now, does this mean I will need a separate Facebook application for each domain name? And if I also have a dev and test server .. i need separate applications for them also?! (EEKS!)
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Michael Gerstein is a sophomore philosophy major at Michigan State University. He works as a Capital News Service correspondent where he covers state politics and policy for the Sturgis Journal, Three Rivers Commercial News, and South Bend Tribune. He grew up in Sturgis.
As debates about gun control continue to rage in response to the recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary, a new United Nations report warns that 2013 could be a year of worldwide food shortages as a result of widespread droughts.
Southern Michigan was no exception to the rule.
Heat waves and lack of precipitation caused a 40 to 60 percent crop yield drop in Lenawee county last summer—just two hours from Sturgis—according to a Daily Telegram report in the Sturgis Journal.
That's a trend that may continue due to rising temperatures worldwide.
The Guardian reports: "Failing harvests in the US, Ukraine and other countries this year have eroded reserves to their lowest level since 1974.
"The US, which has experienced record heatwaves and droughts in 2012, now holds in reserve a historically low 6.5% of the maize that it expects to consume in the next year, says the UN."
2012 was the hottest year ever recorded; at least in the U.S.
And as the mercury inside of our thermostats climbed, our soil dried and cracked.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that natural changes in weather patterns could have played a role, but the sweltering heat wave would not have been possible if not for human influenced climate change.


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Fantastic piece of work you have here. I have encountered a problem with RTextScrollPaneText, Gutter, and RSyntaxTextArea. This should be elementary, but for the life of me, I can't get it to work.
Here're the details. I construct the text area and set its initial text after an event. When I do as prescribed on the constructor and put the text area into the scrollpane through setViewPortView, the gutter shows and works just fine. Problem with this is, the scroll pane does not scroll any further below the initial line size of the text area. So what I did was, I added the text area to the scroll pane through getViewPort.add(textArea). It now scrolls perfectly, but is also now throwing a NullPointerException when it hits:
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..., which I do in a SwingUtilities.invokeLater() call. I looked at the RSyntaxUtilities.getGutter() code and it returns the gutter just fine (not null), so I'm baffled as to why it's not working as it should.
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Learn that what constitutes "An acceptable degree of precision" to you is "Annoying goddamn nitpicking" to most of the world.
Learn how to listen to people (or users of your product).
Too many programmers are fast to jump to "this user is an idiot" instead of listening to what the person or user has to say. There's something to learn from everyone in this world.
Biggest non-programming mistake I've ever seen:
Not learning how to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
Take two programmers of equal programming skill, one with good communication skills and one without. The former will go farther, faster every. single. time.
Spare normal people from any unnecessary technical details. They don't care.
And don't drool on your female coworkers.
Ergonomics. Get a real professional to evaluate your workstation and recommend placement of monitor, keyboard, and chair.
Gently stretch out your hands, wrists, and arms before you begin an extensive keyboarding session. Pay attention to your posture too.
I started getting a lot of wrist pain in 1998 and I had to change a bunch of my habits. To this day I wear wrist braces while working at the computer (I use the IMAK SmartGlove).
Don't play too many video games, that just increases the hours you spend torturing your hands and wrists.
Also, drink plenty of water and exercise regularly. Lay off the soft drinks.
Not learning as much about the business domain, users, content you are writing software for.
Never eat anything larger than your own head
Geeky programmers and developers should avoid saying what they really think about project managers, QA testers, DBAs, and other non-programmers to their face.
In essence, be nice.
Treating everyone else you meet like a programmer. You have to understand that not everyone around you cares about computers as much as you do. It's a hard pill to swallow, but unfortunately, a very real one.
Realize that if you are in a waterfall development environment, requirement documents, BRDs, etc. are, in general, fairy tales. Requirements and software projects as a whole are in a constant state of flux and it is extremely rare to have a set of requirements that don't change throughout the lifecycle of the project. Business people are finicky and like to change their minds a lot. This being said, most software shops still operate with a waterfall mindset. There is a growing movement that supports Agile methodologies (change is inevitable and should be embraced), but I, personally, have never seen or heard of a modern, enterprise development project that had concrete requirements, practices, etc. for its entire lifetime. The key take-away is that things pretty much always change. In my experience, the likely degree to which things change is directly proportional to the length of the project... which is also in a constant state of flux.
"It works on my machine!" is an excuse that can only go so far. Make sure you consider multiple unbiased environments. Your development machine, unfortunately, is well-built to run whatever you program on it!
Learn to admit what you don't know. If you don't know the answer, say so. Don't try to make something up just so you can give an answer. That will get you in trouble in the long run.
Thinking you will be fairly rewarded for your efforts. In other words, you might think that you will be rewarded for working hard and making good code and that you will be punished for spending all day on stackexchange.
But this is not the case. In many cases, you will work with/for clueless people who will just guess how much you work, what your value is, and condescend you.
Learn to estimate.
A 'non-programming mistake' I see people make (especially the guy in the mirror) is 'stubbing your toe'.
By this, I mean, getting overly excited over a little mistake, like stubbing your toe. Then taking an excessive negative reaction. The frustration ultimately snowballs and a bunch of little problems end up causing massive heart ache and sorrow. When something goes wrong, take a quick break, breath then reengage.
In the first decade or so of my career, this happened to me all the time. I was my own worst enemy more often than not. I still fall prey to this trap, but far less frequently.
-- Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
Avoid being overly dramatic when mistakes do happen. A typo isn't the end of the world. Just because a task took a little longer than initially estimated isn't the worst thing possible. The tale of the Norden Bombsight would be an example where while someone had a good idea and good intentions in making a new device, there can be various other things that happen to reduce the effectiveness of the new thing created. Definitely a cautionary tale as he hopes to get the spaghetti sauce talk behind him from Feb. 2004.


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Memorial Stadium has been the home of the Huskers since 1923. The stadium has grown substantially from its original 31,000-seat capacity. In 2010, Nebraska averaged nearly 86,000 fans per game while extending its NCAA-record sellout streak to 311 straight games.
(Entering 2011 Season)
Growing Tradition
Nebraska's continuing NCAA record of consecutive home sellouts reached 300 when the Huskers defeated Louisiana-Lafayette at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 26, 2009, and grew to 311 after a win over Colorado in the 2010 regular-season finale. The sellout streak started on Nov. 3, 1962, when 36,501 attended the Homecoming game against Missouri. The last non-sellout came Oct. 20, 1962, when NU and Kansas State drew 30,701.
Since the first sellout in the streak, Nebraska's capacity at Memorial Stadium has increased by nearly 50,000 fans, and the stadium has continued to grow with the rich Cornhusker tradition.
The Huskers unveiled the newest major additions to Memorial Stadium before the 2006 season. More than 6,500 seats were added to the stadium's North end, along with a massive HuskerVision screen and Skyline Suites. The additions sit atop Nebraska's new Osborne Athletic Complex, which houses the Huskers' technologically advanced athletic medicine facility, massive weight room, and sparkling new football locker room, football offices and administrative offices. The first phase of the project also provided the Huskers with a second indoor workout facility, the Hawks Championship Center.
The additions pushed Nebraska's capacity above 80,000 for the first time. On Sept. 26, 2009, the Huskers drew a Memorial Stadium record crowd of 86,304 for their non-conference win over Louisiana-Lafayette in the 300th consecutive sellout at Memorial Stadium. Nearly 600,000 fans watched Nebraska play at Memorial Stadium in 2010, as the Huskers averaged 85,664 fans per game.
Memorial Stadium's history dates back nearly 90 years. In the fall of 1922, a drive for $430,000 in stadium construction funds was undertaken by faculty, students, alumni and friends of the University. The quota was over subscribed. The stadium was named Memorial Stadium to honor all Nebraskans who served in the Civil and Spanish-American Wars; the 751 Nebraskans who died in World War I; the 3,839 in World War II; the 225 in Korea; the 422 in Vietnam; and those in Iraq. Construction was completed in a few more than 90 working days and Memorial Stadium was dedicated on Oct. 20, 1923, at the Homecoming game in which Nebraska was held to a scoreless tie by Kansas.
Inscribed on the four corners of the stadium are the following words, written by former UNL professor of philosophy Hartley Burr Alexander:
- Southeast: "In Commendation of the men of Nebraska who served and fell in the Nations Wars."
- Southwest: "Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game; In the deed the glory."
- Northwest: "Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."
- Northeast: "Their Lives they held their countrys trust; They kept its faith; They died its heroes."
As part of the continuing improvement of athletic facilities at the University of Nebraska, several major projects have been completed throughout the past 80 years enhancing the facility. The $1 million Hewit Center dining/study hall area was opened in March of 1985, underneath the West Stadium adjacent to the strength complex. The weight room and the Hewit Center were expanded and remodeled in 1989.
Before the fall of 1994, NU installed two 17 feet high, by 23 feet wide replay boards, now known to Nebraska faithful as HuskerVision screens.
Following the 1997 season, construction began on a $36-million improvement project completed in 1999. The project included the Don Bryant Media Facility and 42 suites, each of which house 25 fans. Club seating rose from approximately 350 to 1,500 per game. The improvement project tripled the number of restrooms on both the East and West sides of the stadium, doubled the number of concessions in both East and West concourses and included concrete repair and waterproofing throughout the stadium. FieldTurf was also introduced at Memorial Stadium in 1999. The renovations raised the capacity of Memorial Stadium from 72,700 to 73,918.
87 Years In Memorial Stadium
For the past 87 years, Nebraska football teams have gladly called Memorial Stadium home with an impressive 379-115-13 (.760) record posted by the Huskers in their home since it was opened in 1923.
Under the Lights
Nebraska's first night football game was Nov. 30, 1951, at Miami's Orange Bowl when the Huskers lost to the Miami Hurricanes, 19-7. Ironically, NU's first night football home game came in the 1986 opener against another team from the "Sunshine State," Florida State. Nebraska is 75-28-3 all-time under the lights, including 31-5 at home.
Memorial Stadium Improvements
A chronological listing of Memorial Stadium expansion and improvement from the original 31,000-seat structure built in 1923:
1946–Completed Schulte Field House (construction began in 1941, but was interrupted by World War II).
1964–South end zone section installed, making the stadium a horseshoe, raising capacity to 48,000
1965–Center portion of north end zone section added, raising capacity to more than 53,000.
1966–Both wings of the north end zone added, raising capacity to more than 65,000 and making Memorial Stadium into a bowl.
1967–New press box and guest section added.
1970–Installed new AstroTurf playing surface.
1972–South end zone extended, 9,400 seats added, raising capacity to 73,650.
1973–Athletic office building completed with dressing and training facilities for varsity football.
1977–Replaced AstroTurf and added new scoreboard over the North Stadium.
1981–New West Stadium weight room and new visitor's locker room in the North Field House.
1982–Expanded North Field House indoor practice area.
1984–Artificial All-Pro Turf installed.
1985–Completed Hewit Center (dining area/study hall) in West Stadium.
1989–Expansion of strength complex and Hewit Center.
1992–New Astroturf-8 artificial turf installed.
1994–Installed Mitsubishi Instant Replay boards and completion of Michael Grace production studio (HuskerVision) in West Stadium. Remodeled Section 14 for disabled, reduced seating to 72,700.
1995–South Stadium training room remodeled and new interview room and player lounge completed.
1997–Groundbreaking began on a $36-million stadium improvement project to take place over a two-year period. East concourse was renovated with new restrooms and concessions and stadium lights were installed on the east side.
1998–Stadium was rededicated on April 24, and the football field was named in honor of Hall of Fame Coach Tom Osborne, who retired as the winningest active coach in college football with a 255-49-3 career record. Lights installed on the west side.
1999–Stadium Improvement project completed with 42 suites, club seating, stadium view lounge, new press box and renovated concourses, concessions and restrooms. Seating raised to 74,056. FieldTurf installed in August, making NU the first Division-I program to use the synthetic surface.
2000–Increased club seating reduces capacity to 73,918.
2001–Expanded team meeting room/players' lounge in South Stadium. Expanded HuskerVision and Hewit Center in West Stadium.
2004–Additional lockers added to South locker room to house entire football squad during construction of Tom and Nancy Osborne Athletic Complex on north end of stadium. North Field House torn down in summer 2004, and work on new project begins.
2005–Replaced FieldTurf, changing subsurface of field.
2006–Completion of the Osborne Athletic Complex and Hawks Championship Center on North end of Memorial Stadium. Addition of Skyline Suites and seating for disabled in North Stadium and addition of giant HuskerVision screen in North end zone.Tunnel Walk entrance of Huskers moves from South end zone to North end zone. Nebraska's football offices, locker room and administrative offices move from South to North Stadium.
2009-Addition of two HuskerVision replay screens on the North towers and upgrade of all HuskerVision screens to high-definition format. Ribbon boards also added on East and West sides of stadium.


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Kiang is a round tabletop computer for general use.
- Zytouch capacaitive touch screen built into it, and a small x86 embedded system underneath that..
- VIA Eden board with a code name 'Esther' processor on it. It clocks at 400mHz but cat /proc/cpuinfo shows it may be able to go up to 1Ghz (with active cooling?)
- bluetooth
- wifi card
- Ubuntu 10.04 installed on a 3.5 IDE drive. The generic install works fine out of the box, but optimizations for an older memory and speed limited system would never hurt.
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top-level of wiki: organization, library, concepts, infrastructure, space seem a bit spaghetti coded. e.g. space has a sub-page called infrastructure. e.g. library and concepts seem too similar in purpose. e.g. organization seems too loose a title for the current sub-pages.
One attitude we might try to instill in the culture is the idea from camping of "leave it cleaner than you found it." If enough dedicated people cleaned up one or two little things each time they visit the wiki it would balance out the wiki-entropy we've got going on now in the long run.


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