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Antibiotics for Lyme Disease
|Generic Name
|Brand Name
|Doryx, Vibramycin
|Erythrocin, Ery-Tab
How It Works
These drugs kill Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, which cause Lyme disease.
Why It Is Used
Antibiotics are used to cure early Lyme disease and to greatly reduce the risk of future complications. Antibiotics may also be used in the later stages of Lyme disease, when additional symptoms involving the skin, joints, nervous system, or heart may develop.
The type of antibiotic prescribed depends on your age, symptoms, any antibiotic allergies you may have, and the stage of Lyme disease. These medicines may be taken orally, as an injection, or through a vein (intravenous, or IV). The length of antibiotic treatment varies according to how bad the disease and your symptoms are, but treatment generally lasts less than 4 weeks.
Early Lyme disease
- For people ages 8 and older, the number of days the antibiotic is used depends on the antibiotic and the severity of the infection.
- Doxycycline should not be used to treat pregnant women or children younger than age 8.
- For children younger than age 8, amoxicillin is taken by mouth. Other medicines may be used if the child is allergic to amoxicillin.
Later stages of Lyme disease
- For Lyme arthritis, oral antibiotics are usually taken for several weeks. If treatment with the oral antibiotic is not successful, an antibiotic may be given intravenously (IV).
- For facial paralysis with no other nervous system problems, an oral antibiotic for several weeks is usually effective.
- For severe heart symptoms of Lyme disease or for other Lyme disease nervous system problems such as Lyme meningitis, IV antibiotics may be given.
Pregnant or nursing women
- Women who have early Lyme disease usually take an oral antibiotic for several weeks. Some doctors believe that pregnant women with early Lyme disease should receive IV antibiotics to prevent Lyme disease bacteria from crossing the protective membrane (placenta) that surrounds the developing fetus. But there is no proof such treatment is needed.
- In pregnant or nursing women who have late Lyme disease, IV antibiotics usually are used.
How Well It Works
Early treatment with antibiotics can cure the Lyme disease infection and help prevent future problems with arthritis, the heart, or the nervous system.1 But symptoms may not go away right away. Some symptoms may last for several weeks after treatment. This does not mean that the antibiotics were not successful, nor does it mean that you need additional antibiotic treatment.
Antibiotic treatment for early symptoms of chronic Lyme arthritis is usually very effective. Joints that have been badly damaged by Lyme arthritis may take a long time to get better after the infection has been cured, or they may not respond to treatment at all. A small percentage of people in the United States continue to have symptoms of chronic Lyme arthritis after treatment with antibiotics.2
Heart symptoms often begin to go away before antibiotics are given. If not, they usually respond to antibiotic therapy within days. Mild heart symptoms that may occur with early Lyme disease usually improve after treatment with oral amoxicillin or doxycycline for 21 to 30 days.
Symptoms of inflammation of the membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord (Lyme meningitis) begin to improve by the second day of therapy and usually disappear after 7 to 10 days.
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call911or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor if you:
- Develop hives.
- Have severe diarrhea.
- Still feel very sick more than 24 hours after starting antibiotics. During the first 24 hours of antibiotic therapy, you may have a higher fever, redder rash, or greater pain. This is not an allergic reaction to the medicine. It may mean that the bacteria are rapidly dying.
Common side effects of these medicines include:
- Nausea or upset stomach.
- Mild diarrhea.
- Bad taste in the mouth.
- Vaginal yeast infection.
Some people treated for early Lyme disease have headaches, muscle and joint pain, and tiredness that may continue for a while after treatment. These symptoms usually go away on their own within 6 months and do not require more treatment.
One large study suggests that people who take erythromycin along with certain common medicines may raise their risk of sudden cardiac death.3 The study showed that the risk of dying from a heart problem is greater when erythromycin is taken with some medicines-such as certain calcium channel blockers, certain antifungal medicines, and some antidepressants-than when these medicines are not taken together.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Doxycycline should be taken with plenty of fluids and not while you are lying down or right before bedtime.
Doxycycline is the drug of choice for treating early Lyme disease in people ages 8 and older. But it should not be given to pregnant women or to people who are allergic to tetracycline.
If you get intravenous (IV) antibiotics, you may have weekly blood tests to check your white blood cell count. The IV antibiotic treatment may lead to low levels of white blood cells (called leukopenia) that can make it hard for you to fight infection.
With the exception of pregnant women and people with severe arthritis or heart problems, most people who have been exposed to ticks but do not have symptoms are not given antibiotics. Even in parts of the country where Lyme disease is known to occur often, the risk of getting Lyme disease is too small to warrant treatment before symptoms appear.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
Sharma SK, Kadhiravan T (2009). Lyme disease. In RE Rakel, ET Bope, eds., Conn's Current Therapy 2009, pp. 136-139. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders.
Steere AC (2010). Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme Disease, Lyme Borreliosis). In GL Mandell et al., eds., Principles and Practices of Infectious Diseases, 7th ed., chap. 239, pp. 3071-3081. Philadelphia: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.
Ray WA, et al. (2004). Oral erythromycin and the risk of sudden death from cardiac causes. New England Journal of Medicine, 351(11): 1089-1096.
ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical ReviewerE. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Specialist Medical ReviewerChristine Hahn, MD - Epidemiology
Current as ofJune 4, 2014
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Let's say I have a linear regression model of the form $ y = B_x x + I_x + \epsilon $, where $B_x$ is the beta coefficient of the $x$ term, $I_x$ is the intercept term and $\epsilon$ is additive, normally distributed noise. If I have a dataset and perform linear regression, I get a value for $B_x$, which indicates the slope of the relationship.
If I swap the roles of the $x$ and $y$ data, and try to fit a model of $x = B_y y + I_y + \epsilon$, I would expect intuitively that $B_y = \frac{1}{B_x}$. A simple geometric argument can be made to show that swapping the roles of $x$ and $y$ shouldn't change the position of the regression line w.r.t. any data point, and from here it seems like simple algebra that if $y = Bx + I$ then $x = \frac{1}{B} y + \frac{I}{B}$.
Where is this reasoning wrong? Can someone explain to me why $B_x \neq \frac{1}{B_y}$, preferably without resorting to tons of linear algebra or direct derivation from the normal equation?

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It is believed by many Jews that the Messiah will redeem them, unite them, and establish the Kingdom of God on Earth. Some Christians believe that this prophecy will be fulfilled in the second coming of Christ. How is that possible, when the Jews already rejected Christ as Messiah in the first coming? What is the Biblical basis of the belief that there is still a chance of Jesus fulfilling this Messianic prophecy in the second coming?
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The idea is not that all Jews will be reconciled to God, but that a remnant will repent and return to the Lord in the last days. Paul explains it this way:
In summary:
According to the NT writings the whole World has been redeemed by the death of Jesus, including Israel. The act is finished. This understanding about the redemption of all was explained by Origen c. 250.
Huffington Post May 23, 2013 "Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today (May 23, 2013) when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists."
Redemption is, of course, not the same as salvation.
Okay here is some additional explanation - it is only a quick answer. I ought to spend a week thinking it out properly.
In the NT, the Greek word for redemption means a releasing effected by payment of ransom 1a) redemption, deliverance 1b) liberation procured by the payment of a ransom
It is the price that the Redeemer paid for our release from the bondage of sin. With this payment the virtues that God withheld from the children of Adam, are now offered to all mankind. We have but to ask sincerely and deeply to receive these virtues. The two virtues are summarized as "holiness and justice." As Origen has explained, the absence of these virtues in the children of Adam, and his descendants, was like a stain on mankind. This stain is washed away by the incarnation and sacrifice of Jesus - we are "washed clean" by His blood. Redemption for us then, is a washing away of the stains that were "original sin" - a term used by the Church Fathers - St. Augustine and St. Thomas. Origen before them, and others Fathers.
This is my understanding, I am sure that a Priest or theologian could explain it better.
Salvation, on the other hand begins with a life centered on God, trusting in God, and loving God. Someone must show us how to repent, for this is to love God with all our heart mind body and soul. The Hebrew practice is Teshuva, a lifetime of improving our aim so we get closer to the mark - as Paul taught.
Jesus said: "be ye perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect."
Paul showed his followers how to realize The Christ within them. Jesus said to the twelve "the kingdom of God is within you."
Simply put: redemption is the price paid for the removal of the stains on us that had, until the crucifixion, prevented us from re-entering Paradise. Salvation is the process by which God makes us worthy to enter Paradise. (As the NT puts it: We must have on our wedding garments provided by God to enter the bridal chamber.)
This is a simple explanation of very complex theology, and you should do the research yourselves. My explanation is taken from Anglican Doctrine.


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I'm running Debian Squeeze 6.0.5. Does the use of swap memory make my computer run slower? If so, how can I reduce the size of the swap memory after the system is already installed?
You don't want to reduce it, but rather increase its lazy usage — the more clean pages are already in swap, the better, it means they can easily be set off RAM when free RAM is needed. Linux VM, though, have some weird behavior regarding swapping — intensive disk I/O (like huge file
To turn off swap temporarily, use (as root) the command:
To turn it back on again (if you find your system is actually slower):
To turn it off permanently, edit the file
More swap does not always improve performance. There are times when reducing it or turning it off is better - it all depends on the mix of applications.
I did a quick google and came up with this good article on the subject:
Using it does, having it there does not. Slowing down will occur if you run too many memory hogging programs at once, which will cause the swap to be used.
If you really want to reduce it, boot a livecd and fire up
swap serves basically two purposes. It allows the system to continue to operate when physical memory runs out at a performance cost - run out of physical memory without it, you get crashes, lockups, and processes being killed with out of memory errors the second they ask for more memory than the system has. The reduced performance in this case is a symptom of being forced to use it for active processes, rather than a symptom of having too much swap.
It also lets physical memory be used more efficiently, by moving less-used pages in memory to disk until they are needed again. This frees up memory for cacheing purposes, which is usually a more efficient use of space than having infrequently used segments of program memory just sitting there locked in physical ram.
A long-standing best practice has been to size swap space at twice the physical memory, in other words, if you have 1GB of ram, devote 2GB to swap. This is still good advice, but in practice more modern systems with 4GB or more of physical ram can usually drop this to the same amount of swap as the system has of physical memory.
There are a few things you can do to improve performance when using swap. If you have multiple drives, moving swap to a faster or less used hard drive is recommended, and on a very IO-bound system, you may get significant performance increases by doing this. For traditional hard drives, moving swap closer to the center of the physical disk may help, as seek times are generally shorter at the center due to less travel of the drive heads.
Having swap on an SSD can help significantly as well, but I'd caution you that this may create a lot of wear and tear on a SSD, and will give it a shorter lifespan.
Of course, the best solution to improving memory performance is usually to throw more RAM into the box, and if you look at your memory usage and see heavy usage of swap along with little or no free memory, it's a good indication that it's time to invest in more ram.


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A pregnant women is advised by the gemara (Nidda 17a) to avoid stepping on cut human nails out of fear of miscarriage. What can she do if she has already stepped on them? Is there a way to "fix" things to avoid a miscarriage (chalilah)?
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One source for the two approaches everyone is talking about is in the Ri MiLunel here (second column third paragraph). He writes that some say it is because of her fragility and some say it is because of sorcery. Interestingly, the way he formulates the second option - because of sorcery, not simply spiritual dangers - it would appear that he would hold that this does not apply in an era where we are generally not concerned about sorcerers. Couple that with the fact that (as others pointed out) according to the first option it doesn't seem logical that the danger should last longer than the moment she steps on the nails anyway, and we can basically conclude that according to the Ri MiLunel the answer to the question is she has nothing to worry about.
I believe there are 2 possible approaches. 1st the approach stated by Seth J that we wish to avoid the woman stepping on something and the shock and or disgust will cause her to worry and then subequently cause the loss of the unborn child G-d forbid! So in this case it would be appropriate to simply not worry and put faith in HKB'H.
If however the reason is something spiritual (e.g. the Zohar HaKodesh states that the first drop of semen goes to the nails) then there may well be a spiritual matter.
With all aspects - davening to HaShem can erase any tekana. The is a sefer by the Mevaser Tov (current Biala Rebbe) that writes even if the knife is beginning to cut ones throat davening to HaShem can tear up the decree.


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Is it good to use a mouse movement as a 64-bit random seed for a Pseudorandom Generator like AES in Counter Mode?
Should I only need to get the X and Y coordinates of the mouse movement?
Is it good to use a mouse movement as a 64-bit random seed for a Pseudorandom Generator like AES in Counter Mode?
Should I only need to get the X and Y coordinates of the mouse movement?
I suppose as far as entropy sources go, you could have chosen much, much worse. In fact a user properly moving his mouse while you collect a bunch of samples and hash them all together to obtain a seed is a pretty good random bit generator. Be conservative in your entropy estimates, for instance I would estimate no more than two bits of entropy per sample if you collect them intelligently (e.g. avoid continuous duplicates and keep a reasonably large sampling rate).
However obviously, a single mouse position is a terrible seed to use, since it doesn't even cover the whole 64-bit space. Your monitor is probably at best 1920x1080, which corresponds to about 2 million possible positions. WEAK.
But while this may be useful to keep in mind, it's probably best if you use an existing CSPRNG for your randomness needs, that way you don't bother the user, and you delegate security to someone else (which may be a good or a bad thing). You should always use the CSPRNG provided by your operating system as it is best placed to collect entropy, whether you like it or not. Under Windows, you can use
It might seem counterproductive to use another RNG to seed your own, but entropy collection isn't exactly a trivial little thing that you just plug into a program. It has to be carefully and constantly monitored and tracked to keep a good estimate of the available entropy and ensure you don't lose any of it. Sure, making your own ultrafast PRNG using AES in counter mode for your specific needs might be worth it, but you need to consider the limits of your own random generator.
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The question is to find a general formula for the nth term, $a_n$, of the sequence: $${-\frac{2\ln3}{3} , \frac{4\ln4}{9} ,\frac{6\ln5}{27}, \frac{8\ln6}{81} ,\frac{10\ln7}{243},...}$$
Here is what I got, but when I plugged in a few terms, it did not work out right. I got the formula to be: $$a_n = (-1)^n \frac{2\ln(2+1)\cdot 2^{(n-1)}} {3^n}$$
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Okay, I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious... but I've been thinking about it for a day now and I still haven't gotten it!
On the StackOverflow sites, why do some dates have "Z" after them? E.g., on my recent history: http://superuser.com/users/recent/20269 - why does it say "2010-01-11 08:10:54Z to 2010-01-11 23:59:59Z" instead of just "2010-01-11 08:10:54 to 2010-01-11 23:59:59"? Is it supposed to be an indicator of timezone, or of the fact that it's using 24-hour time rather than 12-hour?


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The book details the Marine's early life with abusive parents and frequent moves and his early military career and service with the Flying Tigers in Burma and China. His feats as a Corsair pilot in the South Pacific and his time in Japanese prison camps are also given full coverage. Wukovits contends that Boyington performed miserably when shunted to the sidelines and amassed a spotty record with the Flying Tigers because they treated him as an outsider. He excelled, however, when others looked to him for advice. When put in command of the Black Sheep Squadron, where the men considered him a teacher and leader, he triumphed, making his squadron the most effective in the Pacific. Called one of the preeminent historians of the Pacific War, Wukovits paints a complete portrait of Boyington that allows readers to understand the colorful World War II ace as never before.
John K. Wukovits is a military expert specializing in the Pacific Theater of World War II. He is the author of many books, including Eisenhower: A Biography; Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island; and American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders, and America's First Special Forces Mission. He has also written numerous articles for such publications as WWII History, Naval History, and World War II. He is a resident of Trenton, MI.
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"Intensely researched and splendidly written, Black Sheep is a scrupulously honest treatment of the damaged and intense character that was Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington. Wukovits strips the cheap varnish that has distorted the Boyington legend for too long, and then reapplies a well-considered patina that fairly and accurately describes the man's faults and merits."
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—Col. Denis J. Kiely, USMC (Ret.), senior editor, Naval Aviation Museum Foundation
"Pappy Boyington was one of those rare military figures––colorful, unconventional, undisciplined, obstinate, disdainful of rules and regulations, a true maverick. Although an infuriating antagonist to his superiors, he was beloved by his men, who would have flown by his side if he had decided to attack Hell. John Wukovits' brilliantly insightful biography has allowed us to penetrate the myth and discover the real man. A joy to read, Black Sheep will become the final word on Boyington."
—Flint Whitlock, editor, WWII Quarterly
Click here [10] for John Keenan, editor of Marine Corps Gazette, interview with John Wukovits.


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A Moment of Silence for Greg Halman
Although I did not know Greg Halman personally, I'm sure a lot of fans, baseball players, friends and family did. It's a tragic ending to such a great start for Greg. I watched him play most of his 44 games at Safeco Field and I can tell you first hand that he would have made a great addition to the Seattle Mariners baseball organization.
I don't know why this happened but I'm sure eventually the facts will come to light. Until then, let's take a moment of silence for Greg Halman…
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Women Nobel Prize Winners for Literature
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Elfriede Jelinek (2004)
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian writer. She became a well-known and extremely controversial figure in her homeland with the publication of three novels, Die Liebhaberinnen, Die Ausgesperrten, and the semi-autobiographical Klavierspielerin. A fiercely feminist writer and an outspoken partisan of left-wing political views, she has often focused on issues of power and privilege, mainly the social subordination and violent sexual subjugation of women, and on Austria's Nazi past and nationalist present. She has been particularly praised for her powerful yet sensitive use of multilayered language.
Fun Fact: Elfriede Jelinek is a trained musician who also studied art history and theater.
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The Google WMT tool for "site performance" hasn't updated in 3 weeks for me. I'm getting enough traffic to the site and google crawls a few thousand pages a day on average. Any idea what's going on?
Mine has not updated for 3 weeks either. I've had the same issue before - the updates can be rather sporadic.
Actually, Google announced back in April that the Site Performance feature would be removed (within two weeks of the publish date) due to low usage. So I wouldn't count on the feature sticking around. As the above article states, Google Analytics can track site speed times.
But you might not be getting the right kind of traffic. From Webmaster Tools Help:
So, your "site performance" is only measured by users that have Google Toolbar with the optional PageRank feature enabled! I imagine this could be a very small percentage of your overall traffic. In my opinion the PageRank feature is something that only developers have enabled (this is a specific opt-in feature since it discloses all the URLs you visit to Google) so whether the "site performance" tool works at all for your site could even be dependent on your sites subject matter?! Is it a technical site that other developers visit?
Google will crawl the Pages according to which we have set the Frequency to Google Crawl the Pages.(Like Daily, Weekly, Monthly). So You can re upload Site map.XML ans set the frequency for daily.


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I am new to Trello and not too technology-savvy so thank in advance for your help.
How can I change the label or title of my lists?
The three default lists are To Do/Doing/Done, but I would prefer to use the board in a different way, using each list to organize a different component of the overall project. There was this question asked and the answer was that lists cannot be re-labelled.
However, on the Trello Development board the lists are labelled Ideas/Known Issues/Next up, etc. I saw another user's screenshot where her lists were labelled Idea Pipeline and Planning.
So it seems like it must be possible. Can someone explain this to me?


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Nothing is more basic to human well-being than having enough nutritious food to eat. Yet one in every eight people in the world — 842 million — are trapped in a cycle of hunger and poverty.
The reality is that most of the world doesn't have the benefit of picking up food from the corner store — they grow it themselves. Hunger is a crisis when disaster ruins the harvest. It is a cycle when families cannot grow or buy enough to lead healthy, productive lives, and when the effects of malnutrition are passed on to the next generation.
When food shortages occur due to drought and conflict, Mercy Corps helps prevent hunger and treat malnutrition in the most vulnerable — children, pregnant women, the elderly and the displaced. We distribute vouchers, cash or emergency rations, working with local suppliers to speed delivery, save money and boost local economies.
In addition to emergency responses, we focus on long-term solutions that build future food security.
Mercy Corps helps farmers manage their land, increase their harvests and diversify crops to produce a larger, more nutritious, and stable food supply. By teaching nutrition and hygiene, we ensure families can utilize their resources to boost their health. And we connect farmers with new markets and introduce more efficient methods of tending productive livestock and processing and storing crops to increase incomes for years to come.
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Villagers in southwestern Nepal gather to tell Mercy Corps staff about their needs and how they make use of their surrounding environment — land, plants, water. The work is part of an assessment to figure out how to reduce natural resource-based conflict in the area.
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Niger: Schools empty as food shortage worsens
Twelve-year-old Lauretta was forced to drop out of school to help keep house and watch her younger brother while her mother forages for food to feed the family.
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6 Brilliant Inventions That Look Like Gag Gifts
#3. Solar-Powered Flashlight
What You're Probably Thinking:
We're eventually going to find out that submarines have screen doors, aren't we?
Maybe there is such a thing as headlight fluid ...
After all, a flashlight that runs on solar power would come in very handy in situations when you need a flashlight not to actually light anything (since it's broad daylight), but, like, to show people that you own one or to generally be a dick. Otherwise, it's a completely useless item and yet another depressing sign that we will just buy any goddamned thing.
Actually ...
Ask a U.S. Marine in Iraq or a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan how awesome solar-powered flashlights are -- they use them all the time. These flashlights can be charged up only during daytime, but no one says you have to use them right away. They work the same way as solar panels, collecting power and storing it for later use (as in "when it's dark"). So these are almost as good as regular flashlights, right? Wrong: They're much, much better.
They aren't quite as good for clubbing unruly hippies, though.
For the troops, letting the flashlight charge itself during the day is much more practical than having to carry (and dispose of) a bunch of stupid batteries. And rechargeable flashlights don't help you much in a country where electricity is scarce and unreliable.
But that's not even the main reason solar-powered flashlights are so awesome: that would be the fact that they help poor people in Africa not explode:
They also allow them to work after sunset, do schoolwork and see where they're going without treading on anything that might bite their legs off, but the not exploding part is definitely the highlight for us. It goes like this: Loads of African people have no electricity and therefore must rely on old petroleum generators for light and power. These generators are in pretty shitty condition, and since they're maintained by pretty much whoever happens to be standing in their proximity, they tend to blow up. Like, a lot.
So, come sundown, the people have two options: make their way through darkness and possibly stumble on a sleeping African lion, or flip a light switch that may or may not have been rigged with a bomb. What do you do? What do you do?
It's the sort of conundrum Keanu Reeves might find himself in.
BoGo Lights spares them that choice by giving away one solar-powered flashlight to poor people in Africa (or U.S. troops, if you prefer that) for every purchased one.
Holy shit, is there anything else out there we should feel bad for mocking?
#2. Inflatable Anchor
What You're Probably Thinking:
Ahh, another classic from Grandma's corny joke email forwards. Let's see: an anchor is intended to sink, and all inflatable things are intended to float. We're absolutely, 100 percent confident that no one could ever figure out a way to make this idea work, because clearly we haven't been paying any attention to this article.
Actually ...
Not only do they work, but under certain conditions, inflatable anchors can be more effective than regular ones. You know, those extremely heavy things made out of metal that you would totally trust over a piece of plastic filled with air.
Real inflatable anchors are widely used as anchoring methods for sea areas with a bottom composed of sand or soft clay, where ordinary anchors struggle to find hold. So how the hell do they work? It's simple logic, really: If you fill the anchor with air before sinking it, it will be completely useless, but if you bury it deep in the soil and then inflate it, it will lodge so hard into the ground that its pullout resistance will be superior to that of a regular anchor.
Not only that, they're also easier to retrieve, since all you have to do is take the air out and suddenly that impressive pullout resistance disappears. The anchor is able to come out as easily as it went in, probably giving the soil some excuse about having to get up early in the morning.
OK, so this system is way too impractical to use in your average fishing boat. We admit it. That's why inflatable anchors are mainly used for less-exciting stuff, like securing giant offshore structures and remote-controlled science robots.
And you can buy one now for just $69.99.
#1. Doggles
What You're Probably Thinking:
Goggles for dogs? Seriously? You can find this invention in countless wacky articles about ridiculous inventions. And rightfully so. Fashion accessories for pets are the stupidest, most useless human invention in history and the main reason your dog secretly hates you.
Ninety percent of the dogs in these types of photos are contemplating eating your face.
At least, say, a sweater or little dog boots could be claimed to have some application (maybe your dog gets cold? And you don't want him tracking shit into your house?), but if you saw Paris Hilton walking a dog that's wearing strap-on sunglasses, you'd weep for Western civilization. Just look at the fucking Doggles website:
As seen on Regis and Kelly indeed.
Actually ...
The thing is, Doggles aren't meant for your dog. They're utility goggles for search-and-rescue dogs, police dogs and even military dogs.
Like Lt. Col. Ruffles here.
What shielded war dogs' eyes from the effects of desert sandstorms in Iraq and Afghanistan? Doggles. In the aftermath of 9/11, what protected the search-and-rescue dogs from being eye-raped by dangerous debris dust? You guessed it: fuckin' Doggles. Feel silly for making fun of them yet? That's because Doggles have done more for mankind than you ever will.
So has this dog. And that red thing, whatever it is.
Sure, the company that makes them also sells pink Chihuahua sunglasses, but the thing to remember here is that Doggles as fashion items are just an unfortunate byproduct. They are sold for pet owners much in the same way Hummers are sold for civilian use -- as unnecessary gadgets for schmucks with way too much money and no sense of ridicule whatsoever.
Like this stupid bitch.
But not all goggles-wearing dogs are the victims of obliviously cruel owners: Doggles can be used to help dogs with eye conditions, too. In one case, they saved the life of a dog that can't produce tears, a painful condition that's usually resolved with a one-way trip to the vet.
We'll stop making fun of dogs in party hats, too, just in case.
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Source: Official PlayStation Magazine
quote: Kinect aside, Xbox One has some media features the PS4 does not have such as HDMI in/out, media programming, xbox live, etc.
quote: Microsoft also closed the gap in the graphics performance as well by being able to increase the ES RAM Memory bandwidth by 88%
quote: 133GB/s throughput has been achieved with alpha transparency blending operations (FP16 x4)
quote: the original bandwidth claim derives from a pretty basic calculation - 128 bytes per block multiplied by the GPU speed of 800MHz offers up the previous max throughput of 102.4GB/s. It's believed that this calculation remains true for separate read/write operations from and to the ESRAM
quote: a peak theoretical throughput of 102GB/s - useful, but still some way behind the 176GB/s found in PlayStation 4's RAM set-up
quote: To the best of their knowledge, 800MHz remains the clock speed of the graphics component of the processor, and the main CPU is operating at the target 1.6GHz. In both respects, this represents parity with the PlayStation 4.


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what you do when you're smokin weed with ya dawgs
Pass the doobie down the left hand side
by Silky Smooth January 16, 2004
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1. A game in which everyone in a circle passes a spliff, bong or other smokeage. Everyone puts five on it. Each time you take a hit you say "puff puff pass." If you fail to say it, cough or pass out, you're out of the rotation. The last person holding the smokeage keeps all the money.
2. A reminder that someone is holding and should pass.
2. A reminder that someone is holding and should pass.
Dude, you're camping on the bong. Puff puff pass.
by Majik Fox October 28, 2004
A game in which a joint is made then passed around in a circle of people everytime a person takes a smoke of the joint they must say "Puff puff pass" if they fail to say this or get knocked out or cough while saying it that person is eliminated. You keep going around intill the last person is standing therefore they get the "pot" It cost $5 to enter a puff puff pass game.
Hey Bob lets get together and play PUFF PUFF PASS.
by ?? January 31, 2003
When you are smoking marijuana, herbs, the good stuff, with multiple people and each person takes 2 hits then passes it to the next in a rotation.
Hey, wanna go out back and have a sesh(puff puff pass) ?
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Edit thyself
Margaret Steinfels asked me in another thread, "You are a writing teacher; do you agree (with me) that self-editing and rewriting are among the critical skills writing students need to acquire?"
Yes, Margaret. I tell my students that the best way to self-edit is to a) know your weaknesses and b) know why youre writing.
I have a pretty good sense of my weaknesses (and so do most of the rest of you). In case you havent cottoned on:
Weakness 1: I free associate too much (though less than I am tempted to do) and I talk too much. I like other free-associators and talkers. I want to go to their houses and have coffee with them. Often, Im the last one commenting on a thread because I've taken the conversation so far afield I'm the only one left standing in it. A day I stay on topic and am not the last commentor is a good day.
Weakness 2: I've been to college, I have an advanced degree, and I teach at a university. But I'm not, at heart, an academic, and few of my friends are academics. I respond to and offer the personal, the anecdotal and the practical rather than the abstract, quantitative and theoretical.
Weakness 3: As a kid I was praised for my ability to play character parts in drama class and write stuff about things nobody else had thought of. So my original posts contain clever phrases, allusions, asides, dialectical embellishments and withering remarks that impress the hell out of me. Then I take them all out (mostly), like Samuel Johnson, the great essayist, told me to before I hit the "post" button.
Why am I writing? I offer perspectives cradle Catholics don't have because I was raised to be skeptical and suspicious of organized religion, especially Catholicism. I see and understand the beefs people have against Catholicism and can articulate them. I dont want to know just whats in the catechism, but how it plays out in real life. The responses I get, particularly from those with whom disagree most, are usually the ones that deepen my faith.
For the record, this post took me three hours to write and edit (roughly 30 minutes to write and the rest to edit), and I pruned the original verbiage by 50 percent. Writing is a lot of work and should be an exercise in humility.
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HI, Jean,Thanks for your self-evaluation. It made me think. Somewhat like you I come from a Catholic background that is not what I think of as typical Eastern American Irish Catholic -- the backgroung of those who seem to me to be the main contributors to and readers of Commonweal. Though I'm a cradle Catholic, I'm also the child of Sourthern liberals, my parents were very much influenced by a family friend who spoke in favor of freedom of conscience at Vatican II, I'm mainly of French descent, and went to a non-Catholic university, All of this inclines me to be much more critical in my thinking than Catholics of my generation, a trait which has it's good side and bad. It certainly hasn't made me diplomatic.Having been a philosophy teacher by trade, I'm particularly critical of people who are unwilling or unable to get down to the most basic issues (the ones *I* think are basic, anyway :-) and the issues that need clarification, linguistic and otherwise. I'm sure this seems like going off on tangents to some. The problem is I don't know how to make others see that philosophical questions are highly relevant, even most relevant.
Oops -- I'm sorry, Jean, I didn't mean that your background is Catholic. I did read your post carefully. I meant that like you my background is different in basic ways from many of my fellow American cradle -Catholics.Why is it that when I proof-read something I don't see a big problem with my writing, but as soon as I read it online I see the problmes *immediately*!!! Sheesh.
Jean--Reminds me of William Safire's words of wisdom on editing:"If you re-read your work, you will find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing."
Thank you, Jean. Excellent reflection. "Follow the pain" has been a useful guide for me over the years. Understanding wounds has for me been key to understanding the perspectives of others and for critically examining my own. Among other things, it shifts the focus from divergent content of our beliefs to common processes of engaging with beliefs. Aficionados of dotCommonweal and of Amy Welborn's OpenBook are equally engaged with the tradition and, perhaps, equivantly wounded by the church. Question: Does repudiating the views of persons and institutions that have wounded us move us closer to the truth?
Years ago, while Provost at U of Notre Dame, James Burtchaell, CSC (yes, that one) taught Biblical Theology for Freshman Notre Dame Scholars. Evidently these were the crme de la crme of their high school senior classes.When I first met Jim he told me that he was brutal in editing their papers for spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., and would quickly give true miscreants a failing grade on their papers, irrespective of content, if they remained lackadaisical in their use of the English language.I asked him why and he indicated that most of these kids had been led to believe that they were superstars and their small peccadilloes were to be overlooked in light of their (ontological?) blessedness. He set out to convince them that they needed to demonstrate knowledge of the basics if they wanted to be viewed as Notre Dame Scholars in his eyes.
Jimmy, I don't knock having high standards, and I will often grade down a student who is just being lazy.But I've seen teachers use the "demonstrate knowledge of the basics" arguments as an excuse to get through a lot of papers very quickly.It's really easy to grade 30 papers if you're only chasing down are misspellings, punctuation and style errors. It's much harder to try to engage in the ideas expressed in 30 papers, and then explain, in a note or two, what the main problem is and how to improve it. Not to say that James Burtchaell, CSC, was doing that.I've noticed (just to make one of my annoying asides) that mechanics have improved in the past 25 years.
Jean, excellent post.I'm no educator, but it does seem to me that in this era of spell check, grammar check etc., papers full of such errors would be particularly difficult to accept (or at least, particularly indicative of 'laziness') -- unless we're talking about hand-written essays and such (where quite possibly the reverse is true).RM
Jean,Do you think word processing has made for better writing --or lazier writing? I find that when I give take home exams with no word limits, I end up with everything but the kitchen sink. And even one or two quotes from Stephen Colbert. So what I have taken to doing is putting pretty tight word limits on the answer. They have to go for essentials, and they have time to polish.It works quite well--when forced to get to the essentials, and write well, they really shine.I would, of course, give extra words for the Colbert quotes--not for the kitchen sink, though.
Jean, brilliant post.In my humble opinion I view your "weaknesses" as your strengths. But I must agree writing is very hard work and self-editing is even harder.In this age of blogging, it separates the wheat from the chaff.
John, my weaknesses are "strengths" only because you don't see the unexpurgated me. Cathleen, I do put a word limit and a list of "must haves" on assignments. Students say they can't get it all in in the limit allotted, and I tell them they can if they've been paying attention.Robert, spell- and grammar-check certainly help, but there are few students who bypass that because "it takes too long."
JeanThere is no one who could not use a good editor. I had suspected you had one. Now I know who she is!
Hello Jean (and all),I suspect we are somewhat kindred spirits. Like you I'm a professor (and like Ann I teach philosophy), but in many ways I'm not an academic at heart, or at least not an academic in the mold of what's preferred in most American philosophy departments. Indeed, I very nearly left the academic profession a year and a half ago and only chose to remain when some of the juniors at the university I was leaving asked me to return for their graduation a year later. (I did go back in May to see my ex-students receive their diplomas, and while this was self-indulgent I think I needed it. A number of their parents took me aside and thanked me for working with their children. That was a better reward than getting an endowed chair at Harvard would have been.)I'm a pretty savage self-editor myself, and typically end up discarding large fractions of my essays and book chapters and invariably rewriting everything I decide to keep. (It's my understanding that Johannes Brahms, my favorite composer, trashed 90% of his own compositions without presenting them publicly because he thought they were substandard. I'm not quite that conscientious, but I do try to publish only quality work.) In a way it's fortunate that philosophy editors and referees are very slow, because by the time a piece of mine gets accepted for publication many months have elapsed and I have had a long rest from the accepted version and it looks like a relatively fresh document for me to revise.For most of the classes I lead, I tend to assign only in-class or take home exams. A few times for very advanced classes I have asked for a few short essays on very specific questions. As I tell my students, I think in most cases it's simply unreasonable to ask a university student who is a relative newcomer to philosophy and taking five or six classes to write a philosophy paper in only a semester when professional philosophers will take six dedicated months or more to write essays for publication, most of which are not even that good in the end.


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Are the popular speed tests (cable, dsl, etc) that are available accurate? if so, how? Also, it seems that they only measure download speed of one file and not responsiveness, latency, robustness, etc. Does anyone know how it should be measured? any links to good articles on that topic?
I'd say most speed tests are flawed if you want to measure web browsing performance (which is what a sizable number of people will be doing). Almost all tests use Flash or Java, totally bypassing your browser HTTP stack. These tests also normally use a single large file, totally bypassing the benefits of persistent connections and HTTP/1.1 pipelining only some browsers support natively. If you do use Flash or Java to download single large files, then these tests may be more relevant.
Also, I've seen great variability in results across browser for some flash tests, which has to do with the way browsers handle flash animation, thus skewing results with no relation to network performance.
To make these tests better, the methodology needs to reflect:
Not sure of a perfect resource for this, but Steve Souder writes extensively on web performance at least:
The tests others have suggested all fall foul of these technical problems. They will give you a rough number that may help generally, but you should be aware of the limitations. Particularly fancy flash animations seem utterly useless, and as I've said actually can skew results significantly.
A good connection is made up of key parts: Through put and responsiveness. There are more but I am sticking to the main 2 (in my opinion). Through put is how much data can be pushed or pulled through the connection (download/upload). Responsiveness is how fast does my request make it the destination and back. Both affect each other a bit.
Through put is a pretty easy test, just go to one of the sites listed here and it will test your upload/download speeds. Just remember that the connection you pay for from you ISP is an UPPER limit (most of the time). For example I pay for a 6mb down/ 1mb up connection. 6mb down/1mb up is the uppper limit of my connection. Some ISPs will have a lower limit. An example would be if an ISP says your connection will be between 3mb down and 6mb down. The other key part is the remote host that you are pulling from or pushing data too. If you connection is bigger, then you are limited by the remote host connection and effectively DoS the remote host.
Responsiveness is a bit hard to test. I am not 100% sure on the correct way to test it. commands like ping and tracert in window are a good start. They will give you a rough idea of how long a round trip to and from a remote host takes. This also takes into account the time the remote host takes to process your request and send it back so take this with a grain of salt. Responsiveness is not a big deal when surfing the web or chatting on line. It comes into play with applications like online games. A slow response time will cause you to "lag" and make the game less fluid to the point of unplayable. Online games rely on fast response over higher through put.
Other things to consider in evaluating a connection are Uptime, what ports are blocked, ISP policies regarding us of Bittorrent, IRC, SMTP, or other services.
DSLReports have been round for awhile and have a decent download, upload, and latency test.
speedtest.net is another popular service.
however, for most accurate results run a series of tests over a period of time, at different times of the day.
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/ are both very good.
In addition to using just a speed test often it's helpful to find out packet loss as that can give the appearance of a slow connection as well. Under both Unix and Windows you can use the traceroute command, or if you want a nice GUI program you can try something like Ping Plotter.
http://www.internetfrog.com/mypc/speedtest/ is another speed test tool you can try.
If your ISP provides a test that runs off of one of their servers, that will be your best choice.
There is a COX speed test available for COX customers.
The reason for this is that the Internet is made up of many connections, and your connection to your ISP is merely one of them. These speed test websites are convenient to use, but results may vary simply based on the Internet traffic between your ISP and that speed test webserver.
If you want to measure the speed from you to your ISP, then you need to use a server on their network.
On the other hand -- at some point you will want to connect to some server outside of your ISP. (Let's say, www.superuser.com) The connection from your ISP to the outside world is important too. A good ISP will have several connections to the Internet, so if there are problems in the AT&T network, you will still have connections with Global Crossing, and Level 3's networks.
To get an idea of this, you probably cannot do much better than to try various speed test websites, at different times of the day and days of the week, and see what patterns you notice.


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5 Embarrassing Failures History Class Turned Into Victories
History is written by the winners, as the old saying goes. But that's not exactly true -- sometimes history is written by wishful thinking. When the real event isn't quite inspirational or romantic enough, we just make up a prettier version and call it history.
Just consider the way we remember ...
#5. Live Aid
It was the beginning of the modern era of celebrity activism. Bono would not be out there doing what he's doing without Live Aid.
Which would be a shame.
How History Remembers It:
It was 1985, and the music world got together to raise money for starving children in Ethiopia via an intercontinental 16-hour music festival known as Live Aid. With record sales, merchandise and video sales, it was estimated that Live Aid had raised a massive 150 to 170 million pounds, or $250 million. You can feed a lot of damned children with that kind of cash. Probably more than once.
No question, it was one of the feel-good events of the decade, and was called "the greatest concert of all time." The event played to 77,000 attendees in England, and 100,000 more attended in the U.S. It was beamed to TV sets worldwide to an audience of 1.5 billion people. Organizer Bob Geldof was given an honorary knighthood in 1986, and to this day, the event is heralded as "the standard by which other all-hands-on-deck rock and charity events are known."
"Have fun, but not too much because of the children."
The Reality:
Here is where we learn about the sad, unintended consequences of African humanitarian aid efforts. As is often the case in Africa, the famine they were trying to fix in Ethiopia wasn't just a result of not growing enough food -- it was because people were A) being displaced by war and B) under the thumb of a bullshit government.
Now, when another government gives foreign aid to an impoverished country like Ethiopia, the donor government can set conditions, and enforce them. If you blow the money on weapons to fight your civil war, you don't get any more money.
"Toss the food. We'll break the crates up into cudgels."
But a fundraiser like Live Aid doesn't work that way -- the money is given to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and in order to do their work, they have to work under, and obey, the bullshit government. In other words, all those piles of well-meaning cash wind up propping up the assholes who helped create the famine. It's like buying Christmas presents for the poor kids down the street, only to see the abusive dad sell them for drug money.
Before inviting Castro over and shooting the breeze.
So for instance, the aid workers who traveled to Ethiopia were forced to exchange the aid money for the country's currency at highly inflated rates, thus inadvertently funding and reinvigorating the evil government. That money also helped fund the government's forced relocation program of thousands of starving people from the south of the country to camps in the north. It is estimated that one in six of those who made the journey died.
Did Live Aid feed a lot of starving people? No doubt. But as others have pointed out, it's entirely possible that the horrible things done with the cash killed as many or more people than the food saved. In the real world, good intentions don't always stand a chance against a bunch of shitheads with AK-47s.
"We're not poor, look at all the war we can afford."
#4. The Battle of Thermopylae (From 300)
You've probably seen 300. We're guessing that you didn't think that it was an exact portrayal of history -- something about the man with the axe for a hand should have given that away. But whatever liberties the filmmakers took with details like the number of monsters in the Persian army, the basic elements are surprisingly accurate.
That's an authentic ancient Persian weapon grafted onto his hand, we'll have you know.
How History Remembers It:
Xerxes actually did lead the huge Persian army to invade Greece via a narrow mountain pass with steep cliffs on one side and the sea on the other. They were met by King Leonidas (who really was a badass that spouted James Bond-like tough guy lines), and 300 Spartans (well, among others -- we'll get to that). Their brave last stand has gone down in history to the point that today, the word "Spartan" conjures connotations of bravery, heroics and dogged survival. Their name is attached to everything from football teams to engine chassis companies. Hell, they even entered our language as an adjective -- dictionaries define "Spartan" as "rigorously self-disciplined ... courageous in the face of pain, danger or adversity."
Waving a sword around your exposed dong is pretty adverse, we'd say.
There's even a Facebook group dedicated to renaming Trojan condoms to Spartan condoms, because "nothin gets thru em." Tell us Leonidas wouldn't be proud of that shit.
"What the hell are condoms?"
The Reality:
Regardless of how brave and selfless the Spartans were in their sacrifice, the facts have gotten a little skewed in the telling. First of all, you need to add a zero to the end of Leonidas's force -- there were about 3,000 troops, if you count the various groups who stayed to help the 300 Spartans.
"This is SPARTA! And THESPIAE! And THEBES! And ..."
But more importantly, here's the part they didn't mention in the movie. In 300, after Leonidas and his men make their valiant last stand and are killed, the film skips forward to the Persians about to get crushed by a wave of Spartan reinforcements. It implies that the brave 300 had delayed the Persians long enough for help to arrive and finish them off. In reality, Xerxes still managed to invade and ravage Greece, completely sacking Athens after the citizens were forced to abandon the city. They leveled the huge temples on top of the Acropolis and destroyed the city and all the surrounding countryside.
"It may look bad now, but come back in 2,000 years and there'll be a tree or two."
The Greeks would eventually get their shit together and beat back the Persians (specifically, the Greek Navy), but the Battle of Thermopylae was more like an amazing, miraculous play to stop the opposing team on the goal line, only to have them go ahead and score the touchdown on the next play. Yes, it makes for a great clip in the highlight reel. But it didn't win the game.
#3. The Tet Offensive
In 1968, the Vietnam War was steadily escalating. The North Vietnamese (the commie bad guys) attempted to make one really big overwhelming push and win the war once and for all. Known as the Tet Offensive, the attack involved more than 80,000 troops attacking more than 100 towns and villages, and was the largest military action at that point in the war.
How History Remembers It:
The Tet Offensive signaled the turning point of the war for the North Vietnamese, and against the U.S.-backed South. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., this had started happening:
Botanical warfare.
The people were starting to distrust their government in a serious way, and President Lyndon Johnson's administration found that it was almost completely unable to convince the American people that the war was still winnable.
"We have fire-breathing tanks! How can we not win?"
CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, who at the time was the most trusted and recognizable name in news, went on TV and declared that the U.S. should basically just "negotiate, not as victors," because at best "the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate." Upon hearing this, Johnson was rumored to say, "That's it. If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
"I think I left it in Arkansas somewhere."
After coming into office, President Richard Nixon initiated a policy of "Vietnamization" and withdrew troops from the region. This meant the North Vietnamese were free to take over South Vietnam, and the whole thing had been one huge, stupid waste.
"Don't feel bad, guys. One day, they'll turn this war into some pretty great movies."
The Reality:
The Tet Offensive resulted in a huge defeat for the communists.
Though initially the attacks caught the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces off guard, they pushed back hard and inflicted massive casualties, all but crippling the North Vietnamese military. The failure of the North Vietnamese was so great that far from being a demonstration of their imminent victory, American generals such as William Westmoreland believed that, after Tet, the North Vietnamese army was so damaged that it was finally on the verge of defeat.
Again, fire-breathing tanks.
But that wasn't the narrative that would survive in the press. Earlier we referred to these versions of history as "wishful thinking," but it's not that anyone short of the Viet Cong were rooting for the Americans to fail. It's just that those who believed the war was a dead end finally had their proof, whether or not the facts on the ground supported it. This was the story everyone opposed to the war had been waiting to tell.
If you hum "Ride of the Valkyries" loudly enough, you can ignore anything.
North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh actually called it a few years earlier when he said his side didn't need military victories, but only needed to hang on until the U.S. got sick of the whole thing and bailed out. So, who knows, maybe treating Tet as a disaster, and thus making it politically easier to start getting out, was the best thing that could have happened. But it's giving a whole bunch of credit to a North Vietnamese army that kind of got its ass kicked.


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Replacing Ring-& Pinion Gears - Layin' Track(s)Written by on March 1, 2005 Two-Steppin' With A Peg Leg Truck
It's a noise as recognizable as burning the tires of your car. The sound coming from the rearend announces to everyone within a one-block radius that there's a bearing going bad in your rear. First, there's the growling noise, and then, when the bearing gets really bad, it affects the backlash, and you now have a strange roar along with the growl. Our '98 Ram had both of those noises, and we knew it was time for a repair.
The old Dodge has dutifully hauled the Valiant (and now the Super Bee) on several occasions, but during a recent short trip, the noise finally got to the point of unbearable. The 9 1/4-inch Dana rear in the truck is definitely not a popular rear within the aftermarket. We learned this by searching the Internet, looking for parts. Used in trucks and vans from 1994-2000 (and in passenger cars in the '70s), it rarely went bad. Like many factory axles, the Chrysler 9 1/4 is a C-clip axle, meaning the axles are prevented from moving sideways by a c-shaped clip inside the differential. While off-roaders will prefer the strength of a collar and thrust bearing-type axle, for daily street use and towing, this type of axle is more than up to the task.
Before we started, we needed to come up with a plan. The Dodge is used mainly for daily transportation, hauling stuff and towing things. The factory had installed an open-type differential with 3.55 gears. We didn't want to lose the good fuel mileage we were already getting with the Dodge, but we did want it to tow a little easier up hills. To get everything we needed, we could have either spent an entire day calling everyone we could think of for each individual piece, or we could call one supplier and get a good deal on everything. We decided to call Randy's Ring and Pinion, and get everything from them.
We knew we needed bearings and a ring-and-pinion, but what ratio should we get? The 3.55s worked well, but a little more gear could be better, right? As we drive this truck all over the eastern states, 4.10s would definitely be too much. We finally settled on a set of 3.90 gears. This would help with towing, and we may want to play now and then.
Since the rear in the Dodge was an open style, we decided now would be a good time to put the power to both wheels. So we also ordered up an Auburn Limited Slip unit. While replacing a ring-and-pinion, it is a good idea to also replace all other wear items in the differential. In this case, we replaced not only the ring-and-pinion and differential, but also both wheel bearings and seals, as well as the bearings associated with the differential.
When doing an install like this, it is a good idea to purchase the complete installation kit. This kit came with all the necessary ringbolts, bearings, seals, gaskets, and marking compound. Never having attempted a 9 1/4-inch rear rebuild before, we decided to take the truck to Harrell's Automotive in Lakeland, Florida. Not only does Lonnie know what he's doing, but he's also close to home.
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Remove both rear wheels and pull the brake drums. Remove the set bolt that holds the center pin in the differential case and remove the pin.With the center pin removed, either axle can be moved slightly inboard, revealing the C-clip. Remove each C-clip, and pull the axles outboard to remove them. Once removed, inspect the axle splines and bearing location for wear.Once the axles are removed, loosen the two bearing caps, which hold the side bearing races in place. Mark the caps so you replace them on the same side. Now you need to loosen the side adjusters. Instead of using shims to hold the differential side bearings in place, the Chrysler 9 1/4 axle makes use of threaded adjustment spacers in the axle tube. These adjusters look the same as those in an 8 3/4 rear.Movement of the spacers requires a special tool. It's basically a specially shaped nut on the end of a long shaft with another nut on the other end for a socket. It reaches through the axletube to the adjuster. We got our tool from Randy's.Lonnie made this handy tool for holding the yoke still, so the pinion nut can be removed and replaced.With the center section and pinion gear out of the housing, we can see the pinion-bearing race had taken a beating.Now you can remove the ring gear from the differential. Even though we are using a new differential and gears...
The tone ring is then placed on the differential. The ring cannot just be pushed into place; it is a press fit. The ring is sandwiched between the ring gear and the differential.To install the ring, place it on the differential, and slowly warm the ring until it slides in place. Do not get it too hot; it only took a couple seconds to get ours warm enough to install.Next, the ring gear can be installed on the differential. New bolts are supplied with the installation kit, and they should be used along with Lock-tite. The bolts are left-handed thread and get torqued to 115 lb-ft.This is where things can get tricky. The pinion gear is shipped with a number written on it. Our number was 2.823. This number denotes the distance between the pinion gear face and the centerline of the differential.This distance is changed by adding or removing shims from between the pinion gear and the large inner pinion bearing.
Next, install the pinion bearing races. If you don't have a race installer, a brass punch can be used; just be careful and take your time.Slide the pinion gear into the housing. At first, until you get the pinion depth set up, you will not want to install the seal. To set the depth and bearing preload, install the pinion gear, slide the new crush sleeve and bearing in from the front, and install the yoke and nut.Tighten the nut to approximately 200 lb-ft to crush the sleeve and set distance for bearing preload. Next, loosen the nut until you get approximately 20-inch pounds of resistance when you spin the yoke. Make sure all bearings are coated with oil before you start to set up preload. After depth is set, remove the yoke and install the seal.With the pinion FINALLY set to spec, the differential can be installed. To get it close to the factory required spec, follow this procedure. Make sure adjusters are turned out so the differential can be installed. Put the differential in place, and install the bearing caps finger tight. Next, tighten the top bolt of the bearing caps to 10 lb-ft. Now adjust the driver side bearing adjuster so that there is approximately 3-6-thousands of endplay in the gears. Tighten the other side adjuster. That is the basic placement; now for setup.Now with the dial indicator attached to the rear, proper backlash can be set. Adjust the bearing adjuster on the driver's and passenger's side a little at a time until proper final backlash is set.This should be 6-8-thousands of an inch. Once final backlash is achieved, tighten the bearing adjusters to 75 lb-ft. and recheck backlash.With backlash achieved, it's time to check for gear mesh pattern. White marking compound is applied to the ring gear in three different locations, and the pinion is turned to rotate the ring gear, leaving an impression in the marking compound. By reading the guidelines in the instruction manual, you can see if your pattern is acceptable or not, and adjust the pinion shims as necessary. This may take several tries to get it right, but taking the time is worth it. It took us a couple attempts.
To make sure the bearing adjusters stay in place, Mopar uses these little metal tabs that bolt to the caps. Next, slide the axles back into place and reinstall the C-clips and axle pin.Reinstall the cover, and fill with fluid. We chose Royal Purple synthetic 75-80 Max-Gear lube. Max-Gear is recommended for automotive differentials and manual transmissions. Max-Gear is a tough, high-performance, GL-5 automotive gear oil designed to provide maximum protection to heavily loaded gears. Max-Gear also has hypoid friction modifiers for clutch or cone-style differentials already blended in the mix. This means you don't need to buy that also.


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A Siemens executive noted that over the next few years, the largest unconventional growth outside of North America will be in the gas sector, led by China, Argentina and Saudi Arabia.
By Ben DuBose
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HOUSTON -- The development of unconventional
energy sources will depend on progress made in water treatment
technologies and wastewater management, the CEO of the oil and
gas division of Siemens Energy said Wednesday.
Adil Toubia spoke at an IHS CERAWeek strategy session on the
globalization of unconventional resources. He noted that over
the next few years, the largest unconventional growth outside
of North America will be in the gas sector -- led by China,
Argentina and Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is particularly intriguing, the Siemens
executive said, because it has the resources and know-how to
make a big bet on unconventional energy.
However, further technology development is needed to
compensate for the lack of water in arid countries.
Toubia said that Siemens has a global footprint and is open
to partnering with companies in new unconventional plays around
the world, but stressed that Siemens will base investment
decisions on the potential for return on investment
and proper focus.
The panel, which included executives from Santos, Repsol and
Statoil, agreed that unconventional development requires a new
type of corporate mentality and focus for oil and gas
In particular, it will require an even greater emphasis on
having the right technical expertise and supply chain
management, as well as an increased willingness to seek
partnerships, the panelists said.
From a broader standpoint, the panelists expect
unconventional production to expand globally. But they
cautioned that the pace of development will be slower worldwide
than in North America because of regulatory constraints,
inadequate access to land and unattractive commercial
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Print Supple Florentine leather has the look and feel of fine saddlery and, like saddle leather, it develops a rich patina over time. This is the perfect makeup bag for a weekend getaway, providing just enough space for all your essentials in a convenient grab-and-go bag.
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