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Was 9/11 an Inside Job?
Did the U.S. government plan and execute the 9/11 attacks?
Does one internet video hold the shocking evidence?
What does this man...
...Have to do with this man?
If you own a computer, odds are you have seen Loose Change, a slickly-produced viral internet video making the case that the U.S. government planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. No, I don't know why it's called "Loose Change."
If you haven't seen it yet, you will soon. The Loose Changers will make sure of it. They sell this thing like they're getting a commission. In a single day I had four different people on four different forums try to get me to watch it.
How viral videos are spread
And most of the people who watch it, come away convinced.
The film is a rapid-fire collection of video clips set to techno music, attempting to prove that:
- No plane hit the Pentagon - it was a cruise missile;
- The hijacked planes didn't bring down the World Trade Center, the buildings were wired with explosives ahead of time;
- Flight 93 didn't crash in Pennsylvania and in fact landed safely elsewhere. The passengers were in on the conspiracy.
They've sold more than 100,000 copies of this thing on DVD. It's been downloaded millions of times.
But is it bullshit?
There are basically two views on the subject, and I intend to provide both equally. You can make up your own mind. One side says...
1. The 9/11 Conspiracy guys are liars.
Here's how it started.
There was a teenager named Dylan Avery.
According to his own site, when he was 18 he was doing construction work on a bar owned by James "Tony Soprano" Gandolfini. No, I didn't make that up.
Anyway, Avery wanted to be a movie director. At a party he seized the opportunity to buttonhole Gandolfini, and the two had this conversation:
Avery: Mr. Soprano! I'm a huge fan!
Soprano: That's great, kid.
(Glances at bodyguards)
Avery: You know, I want to be a director...
Soprano: Like I give a shit. The deformed kid who cleans my fuckin' gutters wants to be a director. You got an idea for a movie?
Avery: Well, no...
Soprano: Then what the fuck are you comin' up to me talkin' about bein' a director?
Avery: I've always wanted to-
Soprano: Shut up. Listen to me...
(Nods toward bodyguards, who approach from across the room)
Soprano: ...Let me tell you the problem with kids like you. You don't wanna direct. You don't wanna tell stories. You wanna be a director. You wanna walk down red carpets with a fuckin' starlet on your arm. You ain't got nothin' to say to the world. For you, the movies, the work, it's just a means to an end. Limousines and cocaine, right?
Avery: Yes! That sounds great!
Soprano: People like you are a cancer. You're the most dangerous people in the world because you'll do anything for the spotlight. You'd tattoo a Swastika on your head if you thought it would get you a movie deal. The people who make it, the people who deserve to make it, the ones who get respect... they're the ones who got something to say to the world.
Avery: I don't under- Ooomph! My crotch!
(Soprano's bodyguards deliver several vicious blows to Avery's body, then dump him into an alley).
That's pretty much how Avery tells the story, if you read between the lines. Dylan Avery wanted fame. Badly. How far would he go to get it? With Loose Change, we would find out.
He sat down and started writing a FICTIONAL SCREENPLAY about he and his buddies finding out 9/11 was a government conspiracy. Fictional. Sort of an The X-Files episode. Avery mentions this in every interview he does.
Since he had no money to film his own movie, he started cutting together video and photos off the internet, creatively editing them to make them scary and ominous, cutting the visuals to fit the story, making a fake documentary. Like Spinal Tap, only about mass murder.
So, for instance, in his screenplay, the Pentagon was hit with a missile and then was covered up for the public as a plane crash. Avery sifted through photo after photo of the Pentagon attack, all showing hunks of airplane scattered everywhere...
Including big pieces that have the Airline logo right on it (background)...
...And close-ups of burned-up landing gear wheels (shown side-by-side with a regular 757 wheel, for comparison).
All these pictures blink across Dylan Avery's monitor until FINALLY he finds a shot that doesn't show any wreckage. He saves it, puts it in the video, and writes voiceover that says NO PLANE HIT THE PENTAGON and NO PHOTOS SHOW ANY EVIDENCE OF A PLANE.
From Loose Change. "Where's the wreckage?!?!?"
Now obviously, hundreds of people were in the Pentagon that day, dozens of witnesses saw a plane crash, hundreds of people cleaned up airplane parts and charred bodies, air traffic controllers saw the plane fly in on radar, pairs of light poles more than 20 feet apart were knocked over when the massive wings of the airliner mowed them down like grass. But that's okay. He's just making a fictional movie, it's all in fun.
So he does the whole video like that. He cuts sound bites in half, saving the part where a flight instructor says something like, "I met the hijacker and he was a bad pilot," and deleting the part where the same guy says, "but you don't exactly have to be fucking Chuck Yeager to crash a plane into a building." Without that second part, it sounds like the guy is saying the hijacker couldn't have done the flying. He has literally edited the words to make the guy say the opposite of what he said.
But again, it's just fiction, a "what if" movie, a "War of the Worlds" broadcast. It was supposed to be a student film, his resume for the world, a viral video that would get his name out there. I have to admit, it was a great idea.
But then...
Conspiracy buff Phillip Jayhan ambles into Dylan's life, waving around a sweaty wad of money. Jayhan, by the way, says the world is run by a massive satanic cult that enslaves prominent politicians by delivering kidnapped boys for them to molest and then blackmailing them about it later.
World leaders gather for massive Satanic ritual
Okay, that's probably true. But the point is Jayhan offered to pay for Avery to get his little film off the ground. Only, the thing is, Jayhan didn't think it was fiction. Jayhan, who believed in every available conspiracy prior to 9/11, believes that the WTC planes had missiles on them that were fired at the towers and that's why they fell down. Oh, and also there were bombs in the towers. Or something.
Avery, realizing now that the financial future of his film and his dreams of fame and fortune lie entirely in selling Loose Change as a factual documentary, miraculously discovers that, in fact, the plot behind 9/11 is real.
After all, which is going to have a bigger impact on you:
A friend who comes to work and says, "dude, I totally sat down and wrote a ghost story last night, wanna read it?"
The same friend running up in a panic and saying, "DUDE, A FUCKIN' GHOST SHOWED UP IN MY HOUSE LAST NIGHT!!!"
You're going to get the same story either way. But it's a much bigger impact if he presents it as fact. Now, if his goal is just to be creative, he'll have no problem admitting it's fiction and letting people criticize it as such, even if it means the work goes unnoticed. But if he's Dylan Avery, and his goal is to become famous, he'll do the one that he knows will get him noticed. From that point on, Loose Change was a "documentary."
And man, it got Dylan Avery hella noticed. Now, at age 22, Avery is doing four or five interviews a day with the likes of Salon and TIME magazine and dozens of talk radio shows.
He, along with friends Korey Rowe and Jason Bermas, have knocked out updated and prettier editions of Loose Change. They are the stars of a 9/11 "Truth" movement (as they call themselves), a cabal of smaller conspiracy groups, some of whom believe no planes hit the towers (they were missiles with airplane holograms around them) and others who simply believe Bush hired the hijackers to do it.
People have asked me, "why would he do it if he didn't believe it was true?!?!?"
I know why. You do, too. Why do people have blogs? Why do people line up for American Idol auditions? Why is Hollywood full of food service workers dreaming of stardom? Where do Japanese game shows get their contestants?
Why do I write for this website?
Everybody wants the attention, the validation. It's just that some will do more to get it than others.
You see, there's a dark underside to this thing. Those conspiracy buffs who have catapulted Loose Change into stardom, you surf their sites and a similar theme comes up again and again. They'll talk of "Zionism" and the "Zionist" conspiracy. They'll talk of Jewish bankers who secretly run the world.
They'll talk about how maybe the Holocaust didn't happen, or wasn't such a big deal after all.
That's a common theme among the 9/11 conspiracy crowd. I'm not suggesting that Avery denies the Holocaust. In fact, other 9/11 "Truth" members have snidely dismissed Avery and his crew as "Holocaust promoters."
No, what I'm saying about Avery is that he will gladly align himself with neo-Nazis if that's what it takes to become famous.
For instance, Loose Change is filled with screen grabs of newspaper headlines that mention things like missing planes and bombs at the World Trade Center... but all of those shots are from the American Free Press...
...A Neo-Nazi newsletter obsessed with the Zionist takeover of the world (yes, that's DavidDuke.com on their "links" page).
Every time you see a newspaper headline in Loose Change, it's pretty much always from the American Free Press.
Meanwhile, I had a good chuckle the first time I saw the Loose Change end credits, where they boast research done by "Killtown."
Now, memory told me "Killtown" was a white 80's rap group...
...But a quick Google search turns up a "Killtown" who is a member of the Loose Change forums. Here we have him talking about, you guessed it, how the Holocaust was no big deal.
But hey, which of us wouldn't hitch our wagons to some neo-Nazis if it meant career advancement? That doesn't make him a bad person, does it?
Well, this does. Listen to Avery laughing his ass off about the hijacking victims:
(Dylan Avery, being interviewed by radio talk show host Jack Blood):
Avery: Ha Ha Ha Ha! Have you seen how small those things [box cutters] are? Like, if I was on a flight, with, you know, at least 50 other people - because that's the smallest number I think was on 9/11* - if I was in the cabin, with 50 other people, and five people - I don't care if they're Muslim or not - stand up with box cutters and say they're gonna hijack the plane, I'm gonna laugh in their face!
Blood: And these pilots, I mean, we interviewed Debra Burlingame, whose brother Chick was the one sup-posedly flying that plane that hit the Pentagon-
Avery: Oh, that's right! I heard about that!
Blood: -And of course she is a TOTAL shill for the Republican Party, she also spoke at the [Republican Na-tional] Convention. And is it ABSURD that she went on and on about how her brother was ex-military, how she knows that her brother and the other pilots fought for their lives, against these deadly terrorists-
Avery: Yeaaah, yeah. Whatever.
Blood: (mocking an Arabic accent): It is my preevilege to keel you with thees box cutter!
Avery: Ha ha!
Blood: Didn't Rumsfeld say, right after this happened, that they had actually done this with plastic knives and not box cutters?
Avery: Yeah, he said that in the same interview where he said that a missile hit the Pentagon.
Blood: OH MY GOD! HE'S GOT A PLASTIC KNIFE!
Avery: HAHAHA!
Blood: RUN!
Avery: HE'S GOT A BUTTER KNIFE FROM BREAKFAST! OH, NO!
Blood: Take the plane, sir. We don't want any trouble.
Avery: HE'S GOING TO SCRATCH ME A LITTLE BIT! HUH HUH!
Blood: UN-BELIEVABLE! Well, that's exactly what we're saying. That's an overused term, or underused term, "unbelievable."
Avery: (Still laughing): It's ABSOLUTELY unbelievable!
Blood: (doing accent again): It's un-bee-leevable!
Avery: What's even MORE unbelievable is how people will DEFEND this!
Or maybe you'd like to hear the guys talk about Bernard Brown.
First, picture Avery sitting at his computer, sorting through those Pentagon photos, all the ones showing the plane crash. Picture him writing his fictional screenplay.
Bernard Brown was a Pentagon employee. His 11 year-old son died on board Flight 77 (the one that hit the Pentagon). The father happened to not be at work that day, or else you could have had the horrific situation where the son would have been a hostage on the plane that, upon crashing, killed his own father. Remember this is a real, actual person, who actually lost his son.
Now listen to Avery say that Bernard Brown was in on the conspiracy and intentionally took a day off to "go play golf" while his own son...
...was being burned alive in a plane crash he helped plan. Playing golf, while his son dies.
That link was the text. Here's the audio. Dylan Avery, who knows this is fiction. Who has seen the evidence he left on the cutting room floor proving these planes were hijacked. And he accuses this grieving father of murdering his own son...
...Because it will help sell his movie and advance his film career.
Really, the whole Loose Change thing would be funny if it wasn't for the murderous lies and horrific deaths and the Nazis.
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My understanding of AC is that an enemy must roll higher than your AC to take any damage on you. However, if this is the case, wouldn't a player only need an AC higher than 20 to be invincible? I am level 1 and my AC is already 17 so even now I don't see how monsters can hit me very well. I am aware of monsters with bonuses to attack rolls, but are these the only monsters that can really hurt me?
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It's d20 + attack bonus vs. AC, not just d20 vs. AC.
For example, the basic ogre in the Monster Manual makes attacks at +8. So that ogre can hit AC 20 on a 12 or higher.
Rolling a "natural 20" (i.e. the die itself comes up 20) is a hit regardless of AC, so opponents have at least a 5% chance of inflicting some damage on you. (Damage tends to scale with levels, though, so that level 1 goblin isn't a huge threat to a level 10 character even if he does get lucky and roll a 20.)
Beyond that, a lot of enemies will have special abilities — especially spells — that Armor Class doesn't protect against. So saving throws (Fortitude, Reflex, and Will) are just as important as AC for avoiding damage. At higher levels, magical effects that can straight-up nullify attacks also become very powerful.
If you're asking "I am aware of monsters with bonuses to attack rolls, but are these the only monsters..." then right here is the misunderstanding.
Four things you should consider are:
So in conclusion, an AC of 20 does not make you invincible. To put this in perspective I am in an epic level campaign with a level 22 character who has an AC around 40 and I still get hit frequently by enemies such as Balors. The effectiveness of AC is relative to what you are fighting.
In D&D there are different times at which AC is effective. In the early game, between levels 1-10 or so AC can be a reliable way to avoid getting hit, after that point Monster To-Hit and other special abilities that avoid AC entirely begin to scale far past what an unoptimized character is capable of having. At that point its more cost effective to just buy some miss chance. Blur, Displacement, Mirror Image or something like that.
That being said no one attribute ever makes you Invulnerable, you could have infinite Armor Class and still be killed by level 1 wizards casting magic missile. You could have Infinite DR and still be burned to death. Infinite hit points and you can still be drowned to death.
All attacks have bonuses, and as you level up, those bonuses keep growing pretty much automatically. Early on in the game, you get a big chunk of AC for very little (your Dex mod, your armor and shield's base AC), but getting more AC after that requires expensive magical items.
As a result, AC is actually quite weak: as you level up, you have to pay a lot of gold just to keep your AC relevant against enemies of your new level, who have higher attack bonuses just by virtue of being a higher level. If you can keep up, it's fairly useful, but plenty of things can just ignore it, which means you are putting a lot of resources towards a defense a lot of things won't care about.
Generally, the best strategy for AC is to take whatever you can get for cheap (the best armor you are proficient in, having a reasonable Dex score, casting basic spells like mage armor, whatever), and then not sink too many more resources in it.
While I'm not talking about touch AC (we're talking about invulnerability from "hitter" monsters, right?), your assumptions still do not hold up. I think the basic assumption we need to debunk here is that "some monsters have a bonus to their attack rolls".
Every creature in the D&D universe, be it a monster or a NPC with class levels, has a base attack bonus akin to the one the player have, tied to its HD. They often have a positive strenght or whichever ability influences their to-hit roll and they sometimes benefit from feats. They might get a size bonus (or a penalty, really, but this is often compensated by a lot of strenght) or be able to buff themselves with spells and/or spell-like abilities.
An enemy rolling to hit you very rarely has a +0 modifier to its attack rolls, and this is usually only true for low level monsters with a CR lower than 1 (which are supposed to swarm you and get some hit sooner or later, I suppose).
AC, however, plays an important role only until level 7~9-ish. Raising AC means spending a lot on money on it and to-hit rolls raise even without spending money there (because of BAB and monsters with better ability modifiers showing up), so AC becomes very easy to bypass if not specialized into (a thing only spellcasters can really afford), especially for high-HD monsters, buffed people and high BAB classes / racial HD.
In the meantime, other ways to harm characters show up, such as spells that requires Saves, spells that can only be stopped by Spell Resistance or even worse spells that hit the target no matter what.
You are right that AC is powerful, but as the other answers have said it's only powerful against one specific attack and there are ways to reduce the effectiveness of AC.
For example against a heavily armoured target switch to touch attacks. Vs a target with high dex scores try and make them lose their dex bonus...or you can flank for flanking bonuses, etc. As enemies increase in levels their attack bonuses and abilities that bypass armour all increase too.
As a level 1 character with AC 20 then most enemies you fight will have only a small chance to hit you, however if they do manage to hit you then you do not have many hit points to survive those hits.
By dedicating too much time to bolstering your AC you can actually reduce your defence against other things that matter just as much. AC 20 is no help at all if you are grappled and held to the floor, or if you fail a will save and start attacking friends, or if you fail a reflex save and fall into a pit trap, etc.
You can roll higher than 20 on a d20, if your bonuses are high enough. In fact, you have to do this to beat any DC higher than 20 (the natural-20-always-succeeds rule notwithstanding).
I put it this way because while it does in fact keep AC from making you invulnerable to physical attacks, it also affects many other aspects of the game. You probably won't face such high-DC rolls while you're still Level 1, but you'll start facing them soon enough.
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Nicole Pietz's body turned up in the woods of Burien in 2006, and on Thursday her husband David finally went before a jury to face charges that he killed her.
In opening statements, prosecutor Carla Carlstrom said the case will take time to prove, saying the defendant left behind very little evidence and concealed the rest.
"The defendant did all the right things when he murdered his wife," Carlstrom said.
She went on to explain how David Pietz wasn't happy in his marriage and had been caught cheating on his wife. She said when he didn't get a promotion at work, he came home one night in January of 2006 and the couple fought.
"He was upset about his lack of promotion and they argued. At some point his temper boiled over and he strangled her to death," Carlstrom said.
Pietz's defense team said the prosecution has no eye witness and built a flimsy case on questionable DNA and wild theories.
"It's not based on any direct evidence and it's not going to show that David Pietz took Nicole's life," said attorney Connor Offenbecher.
Pietz claims he came home on the night in question, said goodnight to his wife, and only learned she was gone the next morning.
"The argument that there was some kind of argument or struggle at the condo is pure speculation," Offenbecher said.
Investigators considered David Pietz a suspect from almost the start, but only gathered enough evidence to arrest him in 2012. It was a tortuous wait for Nicole's family and friends, and they hope prosecutors can finally bring them some answers.
"The only way is for them to go through their process and for us to stay out of it and hope that justice is made," said Shelley Sexton.
The trial will resume on Monday, and prosecutors plan to spend a lot of time on David's alleged infidelity. They'll also accuse David of spiking his wife's non-alcoholic drinks with ecstasy, despite that fact that she had been clean and sober for eight years.


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One of the biggest productivity drains in my life seems to be unreliable technology. I really do see the potential for technology to simplify and streamline my productivity, and am a keen user of all sorts of fantastic tools. But... I seem to spend far too much time dealing with stupid, niggling computer problems that get in the way of real work. I'm talking about silly but annoying things like dropped connections, hardware glitches, random slow-downs, corrupted data, reboots... As an IT guy, I am generally capable of dealing with the issues as they arise, but really do have better things to be doing outside of my job.
What are some good ways to avoid these problems? Are there any general approaches to minimise the amount of grief I get from poor technology?


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A majority of engineers surveyed look for equations at least once a week, and increasingly they search via the Internet first, rather than references, handbooks and other sources.
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César Morales
It is really disappointing to realize that too many engineers look for equations, quick online answers, 'rules of thumb', and simplified solutions for everything, while deeply ignoring and overlooking fundamentals.I do believe that if things continue like this, we will have entire generations unable to read and understand anything that is beyond 140 characters. I mean it seriously! and I'm afraid that we are already in this scenario.A good professional, a "best of class" engineer, must always be able to understand the rules, laws and fundamentals behind equations (that are just an author's simplified way of explaining a physical behavior). Equations do have constraints, and do have ranges of validity, and do have conditions for which they can be used. However, fundamentals are universal.If someone is able to dominating the fundamentals of a discipline, the most complex equation or problem may become simple (because you will get "know how").The internet has spread out the doors of instantaneous information any time, anywhere. We are now able to do research without even putting one foot out on the street (something unimaginable just a few years ago), but we all have to be careful on what we read. Not all information that we find on the internet is reliable, so we cannot just trust on it because it was published on a web page.Engineers are professionals that are trained to develop critical thinking. If critical thinking is replaced by software, search engines, and 'equations', I believe that we'll end up having good computer operators, and too many unskilled engineers.
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The engineer on line search as a "bird´s eye view" fail is up to "what kind of equations they are looking for, because internet does not substitute engineering experience time and standars code use & also internet is not a tool to avoid use of long time to learn how to do something.Therefore, engineers,must look onlinet for technical fundamentals then aplicate them to integrate their own equations they are searching for... Because, for example: there is not a way to avoid time to find out energy balances without use of Bernoulli´s equation balance ... and include thermodynamic balance view also, indeed. One wayor procedure to integrate engineering equations isA: make a mass and energy balance.B With M&E balance make calculations for dimention the systemC with such sytem dimentioned make specification using standarsWith the long mastering practice of such "ABC" engineer" of every specialization can do properly their designs. Therefore, later with such ABC domination can do their own equations at last
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This applies only to small companies as the major companies have approved and verifiable methods of performing most calculations. The method is usually dictated by the Technical Authority and QA department. It goes without saying that the calculations must be checked by someone higher up the food chain. Such calculations especially those out of the ordinary must state the source basis and the checker must be satisfied that the source is a reliable one or demand that an alternative method be employed as a check. Two sources such as the Internet are not normally of required reliability and useful only as a rough guide. Industry standards should only be the ones to follow.
Some engineers use Simulation/engineering software like playstation without understanding the underlying principles and theory. This creates problem when they are asked for interpreation of the results. This is for example the situations where one makes bad or wrong entries and gets in turn (off course) wrong outcomes.
This looks about right to me. My experience is all the code calculations are in proprietary software but any first principle stuff is more difficult and excel is the software of choice for many equations
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Very Strawberry Pie
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This strawberry pie features five cups of the delectable berries, along with another cup of their juice.
Serves: 8 servings
- 1 prebaked Lite Graham Cracker Pie Crust made with plain graham crackers
- 5 cups halved strawberries
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 cup cran-strawberry juice or another strawberry juice blend
- 1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
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- To make the glaze, place the sugar and cornstarch in a 1-quart pot, and stir to mix well. Add the juice, and stir until the cornstarch is dissolved. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly with a whisk. Reduce the heat to low, and cook and stir for 1 minute, or until the mixture is thickened and bubbly.
- Remove the glaze from the heat, and sprinkle the gelatin over the top. Whisk for about 1 minute, or until the gelatin is completely dissolved. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
- Place the berries in a large bowl. Stir the glaze, and pour it over the berries, tossing gently to coat.
- Spread the strawberry mixture over the prepared crust, and chill for several hours, or until the glaze is set. Serve cold.
- To save time and effort, substitute 1 1/3 cups of ready-made strawberry glaze for the homemade glaze.
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Metalworking: Build A Metal Fab Shop At HomeWritten by John McGann on August 2, 2011 A lot of readers are slowly warming up (no pun intended) to the idea of welding and shaping up their own metal. We'll tell all the basics you need to know when you take up this venture.
Traditionally, the best-selling issues of Car Craft are those with a paint and body theme. As much as we like to read about engine builds or suspension upgrades, a lot of that stuff is assembly. Metalworking is more artistry. It takes skill, creativity, and lots of practice to fix damaged metal, and even more of each of those elements to build things out of a pile of raw sheetmetal or tubing-and that has kept many people from trying to learn this intricate craft.
Metalworking: Budget Another prohibitive factor has been money. Until recently, the parts and tools were often too expensive for the home enthusiast to justify the investment. However, prices have declined in the last few years, partly due to major manufacturers like Miller and Lincoln Electric investing in their hobbyist lines of MIG and TIG welders. You can buy a great MIG welder for less than $500 and an equally good TIG welder for about $1,000. Consider that for a second. Barely 10 years ago, TIG welders were giant monstrosities that took up half a room and ran on three-phase power. Now you can plug one in to any outlet in your house and go to town. OK, so it won't weld up a 1/2-inch plate, but how often do you need something that heavy duty?
With the cost of entry becoming more affordable, we are hearing from more readers who are buying welders and shaping tools, taking on more metalwork jobs in their home garages. Here we present a few different tools and workspace setups, working with Miller Electric, Harbor Freight Tools, and the Eastwood Co. to show you the range of options from the very basics to what would be considered the ideal man cave for the home hobbyist.
Metalworking: Just the Basics
It wasn't that long ago that metalworking was done with fire and hammers, and you can still get by today with a basic acetylene torch and a hammer and dolly set. If you were really trying to get by on the cheap, you'd use coat hangers as your filler rod. We don't recommend this practice, however, because coat hangers make terrible filler material.
An acetylene torch is an extremely versatile tool. You can use it to cut or weld nearly any metal that melts. It's also good for heating stuck parts, annealing metal, and impressing your neighbors. Use it to practice your welding technique-if you are proficient at gas welding, TIG welding will be a breeze.
Couple your acetylene torch with a MIG welder and you can tackle most any job your car will throw at you. In the top photo, we featured Miller Electric's Millermatic 140, its entry-level MIG machine. Miller's suggested retail price is $860, but we've seen online prices about $100 less than that. Though this price is higher than competitors' entry-level welders, the Millermatic 140 offers a lot of usable features you won't find on the other brands. With an amperage range of 30 to 140 amps, the Millermatic 140 welds 24-gauge to 3/16-inch steel and 18- to 14-gauge aluminum using an optional spool gun. It also has an infinitely adjustable voltage knob rather than a clicking, fixed-stop adjustment, meaning you can make fine adjustments to the settings as you weld. The Millermatic 140 runs on 115V household current.
Metalworking: Next Step Up
MIG welders have been affordable for several years, so it is reasonable to assume that many of our readers own one already and may have their eyes on a TIG welder. Miller is right on target with its Diversion 165 TIG welder. Selling online for about $1,200, it is an incredible value. By eliminating some of the frills, Miller was able to offer the practicality of a more powerful machine for a very reasonable price. The display is simple-just a polarity toggle switch (to select whether you're welding aluminum or steel) and a knob to control amperage.
The Diversion 165 welds 0.030- to 3/16-inch aluminum and 0.0250- to 3/16-inch steel, but you'll need extra power in your workspace-it operates on 230V power and plugs into a standard clothes-dryer outlet. It only draws 25 amps at full power, so you may not need to upgrade your breaker box if you have an existing 220V circuit in your garage. Additionally, it comes with a Weldcraft LS17 torch with thumb controls, but a foot pedal is optional.
Also in this photo is Miller's new 30FX welding table, a great value at $250. The steel top weighs about 70 pounds, and the table itself will support 500 pounds. It folds into a compact shape for easy storage when you don't need it, and it includes the very useful X-pattern cutouts for clamping your work.
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|Diversion 165
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|Diversion 180
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|Portable work stand
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|Running Gear welding cart
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|Arc Station 30 FX
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|Arc Station 60SX
|Miller Electric
|Arc Station vise kit
|Miller Electric
|Arc Station tool chest
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|14-inch bandsaw
|Harbor Freight Tools
|4-inch x 36-inch belt/disc sander
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|5-speed drill press
|Harbor Freight Tools
|6-inch bench grinder
|Harbor Freight Tools
|Oxyacetylene torch kit
|Harbor Freight Tools
|Corner magnets
|Strong Hand Tools
|Torpedo mag-level
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|Economy throatless shear
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|Copper-backing set
|Magnetic plug-welding tool
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|Spectrum 375 X-TREME
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|Spectrum 625 X-TREME
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You don't need to spend a fortune to get into welding and metalwork. The setup in this picture will cost about $1,500.Novice welders will especially appreciate Miller's Auto-Set feature. Found on all MIG welders in Miller's enthusiast range, Auto-Set takes all the guesswork out of wire-speed and voltage selection. Set the machine to the diameter wire you are using and the thickness of the material you are welding (0.030-inch wire and 22-gauge steel in this instance) and the machine takes over from there.Guess what? The machine was right, too. After tacking either side of this lap joint, we ran a single bead using Auto-Set. The wire speed and voltage were spot-on. And looking at the backside of the weld, you can see penetration was good....The wire speed and voltage were spot-on. And looking at the backside of the weld, you can see penetration was good.The Millermatics are incredibly easy to set up. The drive roller is reversible depending on what diameter wire you are using, the spindle comes with an adapter to run a large spool of wire, and the machine is shipped with a small spool of 0.030-inch ER70S wire. We had the machine set up and running in about 10 minutes.Also seen in the photo at the top of this section is what we think has to be the most affordable new (as in "not used") welding table you can buy. This combination is available from Auto Body Toolmart and includes Champ Tools' heavy-duty tabletop and fender stand. They support 500 pounds, and the total for both is less than $120. Short of making your own welding table out of an old Cadillac hood (which may be a good story idea), this is about as cheap as it gets.The Ultimate Cave We dare you to come up with an automotive job that couldn't be accomplished with the stuff here. And no, welding axles onto a battleship don't count as automotive work.We featured Miller's Diversion 180 TIG in the Jan. '11 "Build a Catch Can" article. It employs the same functionality as the Diversion 165 but includes a dual-plug power cord, giving you the option of plugging it in to a standard household outlet. It also includes a standard foot pedal, which many guys prefer over the torch handle's thumb controls. Its max output is 180 amps, but it is rated to 3⁄16-inch steel and aluminum, the same max material thickness as the Diversion 165. The difference is that the Diversion 180 is drawing less power to do the same amount of work at max power—it draws 26 amps from your 115V outlet but only 20.5 from a 230V outlet. Both the Diversion 165 and 180 are inverter-based, square-wave machines. That's industry jargon for a precise and accurate arc at the tip of your torch.
You'll need a bench grinder, especially if you're new to TIG welding. It is easy to dip the torch into the weld puddle, but you have to grind all that foreign material off your tungsten. Harbor Freight Tools provided this 6-inch grinder. Priced at about $40, it's a no-brainer.As you get into making parts, you'll find you need to drill lots of holes and square up pieces of tubing. Harbor Freight's 6-inch disc/belt sander makes fitting tubing segments easy. Its tabletop drill press is also extremely affordable and versatile—and compact, so it doesn't take up valuable floor space.Miller ships each Diversion welder with a regulator and a fully assembled torch with a ceriated tungsten electrode. You need to provide the appropriate filler rod. ER70S-2 is a general-purpose filler for mild steel and is available in a variety of diameters. We picked up several tubes from Sims Welding Supply for about $30 each.This is Harbor Freight's 14-inch, wood-cutting bandsaw. With the drive pulleys set to turn at the slowest blade speed, we were able to cut through this aluminum tube. However, we weren't so lucky when we tried the same thing with a piece of 11⁄2-inch to 1⁄4-inch wall stainless steel tube. The blade just deflected, barely leaving a scratch on the tube. We are looking into how to modify a wood bandsaw to cut metal—look for that article in a couple of months.Cutting sheetmetal for panel repairs is easy with Eastwood's throatless shear. It will slice through 18-gauge steel without any stress, and it is easier to control the shape of the cut than when using a cutoff wheel.At 30 by 60 inches and weighing 350 pounds, Miller's ArcStation 60SX practically requires its own ZIP code. It will support 1,000 pounds, and you will find more than 1,000 uses for it. Spring for the optional tool chest—it is so convenient to have your clamps, hammers, and torch supplies close by. You will also appreciate the crossbar for holding Vise-Grips and the optional bench vise.It's the small items that will nickel-and-dime you to death, as most people don't plan their budgets to include things like hammers, dollies, hand shears, and holding devices. This is an assortment of holding magnets and a magnetic level from Strong Hand Tools, copper-backing strips from Eastwood, shears from Sears, and a Matco hammer and dolly set left over from our old shop.The can of brake cleaner was included to show scale. These plasma cutters are small. Plasma cutters are becoming popular items for the home enthusiast. Miller offers both the Spectrum 375 X-TREME and 675 X-TREME to these folks. The 375 cuts 3⁄8-inch steel and 1⁄4-inch aluminum, while the 675 cuts 5⁄8-inch steel and 3⁄8-inch aluminum. The 375 runs on either 115 or 230 volts. If you want the 675, you'll need more juice, as it only runs on 230 volts. Be sure your electrical circuits can handle the loads. Both of these machines are capable of drawing about 30 amps operating at full power. Also, plasma cutters require shop air, so you'll need a compressor that will supply enough air and enough power in your garage to support running the compressor and the plasma cutter simultaneously.


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I want change the groupset on my Scott Addict R2 from Shimano to Campagnolo. Is Campagnolo fully compatible or will I need to make frame changes?
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I don't think you will need to change the frame, I looked at one of the bianchi series a while back and I saw the same frame (the Oltre - I can but dream) offered at different prices depending on the groupset. But the groupsets available were from both shimano and campag. There's variations with Dura Ace, Ultegra, Athena, Super Record etc. I can't imagine the actual frame would be different between these groupsets, otherwise surely it would have a different name?
Here's the link to that page: http://www.bianchi.com/Uk/Bikes/Bikes_List.aspx?RangeIDMaster=74825&CategoryIDMaster=74829
You may want to visit the Scott site, you may find something similar
However I can imagine you're going to have to change just about everything else, though, including wheels (well, as far as the freehub at least).
No. There are no frame changes required. The only time I could imagine this would be required is if you are looking at the electronic groupos, and frames that have specific battery mounts for one particular groupo. However, even then I'm sure there'd be a workaround.
You'd have to change the rear wheel or have it rebuilt on a campy hub (the shimano hub is not compatible with campy cogs), and of course all the components. That said, nothing should need to be changed on the frame itself.
As your Scott is a modern bike, I'd be inclined to agree with some of the other answers here and say that I don't think you will require any modifications to your frame if you switch from Shimano to Campagnolo. There are some areas which are not strictly frame related where you may need to be careful.
If you're switching to an EPS groupset then it's likely that your frame won't have specific mounts or routing for the electronic cabling. However, in my experience you've often got options to run the cables externally quite neatly.
As already mentioned, you will need to either change your wheels (or the freehub body if possible on your current set) so that they can take a Campagnolo specific cassette. If your frame was much older, I'd also suggest that you check the spacing between the dropouts to ensure there was sufficient room. One area I have run into that's worth checking, is that if you intend to use an 11t sprocket at the rear with a compact chainset (or triple) that there is sufficient practical space between the chain and the chainstay.
You should be mindful of the bottom bracket setup on the R2 and make sure that any new Campagnolo system is compatible with it, or that you have a relevant converter if required. The same goes for the front mech, make sure your new one is the same (band or braze on) as the existing Shimano one.
Again, not a problem for the R2, but if your frame was setup for longer reach brake calipers, I'd also suggest that you measure the existing ones before you order, to ensure that the new ones have sufficient depth.
If in doubt or if you want extra reassurance, I'd check in with your local Scott dealer to get their confirmation, they may also be able to offer advice on subtle changes they make when setting up for Campagnolo which will make your transition smoother.


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6 Baffling Video Games Adapted From Famous Movies and Shows
It's easy to see why so many crappy licensed games get made -- your cheap, slapped-together fighting game is going to sell way more copies if you can stick the title Fight Club on it. The problem is that sometimes the programmers are apparently in such a rush to finish the game before the deadline that they don't actually have a chance to watch the show or movie they're basing the game on. So, you wind up with deeply confusing titles like these ...
#6. Home Improvement Features Tim Allen Fighting Dinosaurs, Aliens, Sanity
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In the 1990s, Home Improvement was popular enough that it made sense to release a game based on it -- at least until you stopped to think about it and asked yourself, "How do you make a game out of a sitcom about Tim Allen dicking around with tools?" Absolute Entertainment answered that question with a decisive "You don't." So they made this instead:
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No, that isn't an illustration for our fan-fiction novella about Tim Allen seducing dinosaurs: There really was a Home Improvement game for the Super Nintendo that sent Allen's character on an adventure across exotic landscapes, all the while grappling with a drill and shooting nail guns and Harry Potter spells at pterodactyls. Apparently the programmers were halfway through the game when they found out Home Improvement isn't that Spielberg movie set in a park.
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"Sorry, we got distracted by the Heidi motion capture tests."
Astoundingly, there's an explanation for this madness, and it has nothing to do with someone suffering a cocaine relapse: Tim is on the set of his show-within-a-show, Tool Time, when he learns that his special tools have been stolen, so he goes on a tour of various movie sets to recover them. As for why the presumably animatronic dragons and shit are trying to kill him, that's not explained -- it's just assumed that everyone and everything naturally hates Tim Allen.
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"We saw The Santa Clause, you inhuman monster."
Although the first part of the game features Tim Allen swinging around the forest like Tarzan while chainsawing prehistoric creatures, the next levels range from an Indiana Jones Mayan temple to the final boss fight, which is a giant robot battle on Mars. If we accept the "This is Tim's coke-fueled fantasy" theory, this is the part where he starts a street fight with a hooker.
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After this, they cut to him naked, trying to wrestle Richard Karn's beard.
Even if you managed to ignore Tim Allen's likeness and tried to enjoy this as just another good old fashioned dinosaur-punching, robot-killing SNES game, it still wasn't worth playing. The gameplay was tedious and the controls were unclear, since the instruction manual was more of a novelty item thanks to this sign in the middle:
"Or plot ... or logic ... or ..."
Then again, if you bought this game after watching the TV commercial, which showed no gameplay at all, you deserved to be disappointed.
#5. Porky's for Atari Is Frogger With Pixelated Boobs
Fox Video Games
"In retrospect, we were a tad hasty awarding 'Game of the Century' without playing literally any other video game."
In case you're one of those people who missed the 1980s entirely, Porky's was a massively successful sex comedy where a bunch of high school students sneaked into a strip club to get laid, got kicked out, and eventually got their revenge by sinking the club in a swamp. Also, at one point they spied on girls in the school locker room and one of the kids got his dick stuck in a hole in the wall. Clearly, with a premise like that, it would have been a huge missed opportunity not to turn this movie into an Atari game.
The game features four levels that adorably try to recreate scenes from the movie using the Atari 2600's finest pixels. First, you have to cross the street Frogger style to get to the titty bar. In a total inversion of the spirit of the original, you actually have to avoid the strippers instead of going after them.
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If you get hit by anything, you fall into the swamp and have to pole vault your way back up (surprisingly, we're talking about an actual pole).
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Porky's Strip Club is located on an old nuclear waste burial ground.
The next scene takes place in what is supposedly a gymnasium and features what is supposedly a naked girl taking a shower. Or at least that's what they were going for, according to the manual -- in truth, this looks more like the dungeon where Custer from Custer's Revenge probably keeps his victims.
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Note that the dick holes aren't even at dick level.
Once you get back to the street and successfully avoid those terrifying strippers, you must climb the scaffold while avoiding Porky himself, and then finally blow up the club.
Fox Video Games
"That's what you get for not letting underage kids illegally solicit your strippers for sex, motherfucker!"
And that's it. That's the entire game. You can beat the whole thing in like two minutes. Amazingly, the game was successful enough to be remade on the Atari 800 home computer, albeit with slightly better graphics.
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"Now these are pixels you can be proud to masturbate to!"
#4. March of the Penguins Is a Ridiculous Lemmings Knockoff
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You probably won't recognize this cover without the 99-cent stickers.
Possibly the first game ever based on a French nature documentary, March of the Penguins was released on the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance in 2006, a year after the original movie grabbed an Academy Award and broke box office records across the world. The movie, if you haven't seen it, is about the brutal conditions this flock of penguins endures in order to keep their breeding cycle going. Now imagine you're a room full of programmers who have been told they need to make a child-friendly portable video game out of that concept.
The first level, "Journey to the Breeding Ground," has you guiding the lovable penguins to the remote, magical place where they'll make sweet penguin love to one another (aka the other side of the screen). They are marching nonstop, in the most literal sense, and it's up to you to place objects in their path that will alter their movement, like fun trampoline tents, ice slides, ramps, and other elements that suggest the programmers watched a very different, much more insane movie than the one we remember.
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Honestly, Morgan Freeman's "WEEE!" and "BOING!" sound effects are pretty dope.
The main game is basically that over and over again, with mini-levels peppered in that have you guiding your penguin baby-daddy through a maze of eggs and other tedious penguin-related bullshit. Overall, the implication here seems to be that you're playing the role of an unscrupulous filmmaker jerking some birds around to get the shots he needs for his pretentious "documentary."
DSI Games
When an underwater level is your high point, you're in trouble.
We're not saying they should have taken away March of the Penguins' Oscar for endorsing this shit, but they could have at least downgraded it to a Golden Globe.


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Introduction: With VSTO v3.0 the attraction to write managed code in order to customise Office applications is huge. However, if you already have investments in VBA code, you do not need to throw it out just yet. Just interop, like I show in this 8' video. For other resources, start at my blog post here.
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Im trying to do a redirect to a certain bp profile page but for some reason it keeps going to the home page on the login.
this is my code im not entirely sure what the problem is and why it keeps going to the home page.
add_action('login_form', 'redirect_after_login');
function redirect_after_login() {
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I created a few new users in Oracle. However, when running sqlplus, they all need to fully qualified the table names in query. What's the best way to set a default schema for these new users?
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There is nothing like PostgreSQL's
The closest thing I can think of would be a logon trigger for the user that run's an
If the list of users isn't too long, you can create a database logon trigger so you don't have to create that trigger for each user:
Of course the list of users where you want to change the default schema, can also be taken from a table. In that case you only need to insert or delete rows from there in order to "activate" this feature (rather than re-creating the trigger each time).
Another option would be to create synonyms each time you create user that point to the real tables. You could automate that using a stored procedure that loops through all tables in one schema and creates the synonyms for them in the other schema.
Unless all your Oracle users work on the same tables I would strongly advise against using public synonyms which you would have to create only once - they can cause a lot of trouble if different application users exist in your installation.
Following Alex's suggestion, here is a logon trigger that checks the role rather than a username:
I wouldnt think there is a way to set one. The user is the schema. AFAIK you can only set default tablespace.


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Barges are docked along the Mississippi River. The 2012 drought has left the river 12 feet below its normal level in parts, choking barge traffic and making navigation dangerous. (CBS)
(CBS/AP) MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The U.S. Coast Guard says 97 boats and barges are waiting for passage along an 11-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that has been closed because of low water levels.
Coast Guard spokesman Ryan Tippets told The Associated Press on Monday that the stretch of river near Greenville, Miss., has been closed intermittently since Aug. 11, when a vessel ran aground.
Tippets says that the area is currently being surveyed for dredging and that a Coast Guard boat is currently replacing eight navigation markers. He says 40 northbound vessels and 57 southbound vessels are currently stranded and waiting for passage.
Tippets says it is not immediately clear when the river will reopen. He says the stretch of river that has been closed was a possible site for more groundings.
Further upriver near Memphis, Tenn., there have already been multiple groundings due to low water levels, reports CBS News' Karen Brown.
The river is a superhighway for the nation's commodities. Barges transport 60 percent of U.S. corn for export, 45 percent of soybeans, 22 percent of gas, and 20 percent of coal. And one barge can move as much as 70 trucks.
"Everything depends on the river being open," says Derrick Smith, a 22-year veteran with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "In high stages tow boats are like on a freeway all by themselves. They can maneuver anywhere you want. Today, towboats are basically on a one-way street. Have to pull over and wait for oncoming traffic, wait, slow down."
Smith says the Army Corps can keep the river open.
"We have dredges and we'll go out and dredge the low areas. $160 billion of cargo a year moves up and down this system. You have to keep it going. We do. We have to keep it going," Smith says.


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Virtual CPUs effect on Oracle SGA allocations.
By glennf on Nov 08, 2008
The UltraSPARC T1/T2/T2+ servers have many threads or virtual CPUs. The CPU_COUNT on these systems is sized no different than before. So, the newly introduced T5540 with 4xUltraSPARC T2+ processors would have 256 threads and CPU_COUNT would be set to 256.
So, what does CPU_COUNT have to do with memory?
Thanks to my friends in the Oracle Real World Performance group, I was made aware that Oracle uses
CPU_COUNT to size the minimum amount of SGA allowed. In one particular case, the DBA was trying to allocate 70 database instances on a T5140 with 64GB of memory and 128 virtual CPUs. Needless to say, the SGA_TARGET would have to be set fairly low in-order to accomplish this task. A SGA_TARGET was set to 256MB, but the following error was encountered.
ORA-00821: Specified value of sga_target 256M is too smallAfter experimentation, they were able to start Oracle with a target of 900MB, but with 70 instances this would not fly. Manually lowering the CPU_COUNT allowed the DBA to use an SGA_TARGET of 256MB. Obviously, this is an extreme case and changing CPU_COUNT was reasonable.
Core and virtual CPU counts have been on the rise for some years now. Combine rising virtual CPU count with the current economic climate and I would suspect that consolidation will be more popular than ever. In general, I would not advocate changing CPU_COUNT manually. If you had one instance on this box, the default be just fine. CPU_COUNT automatically sizes so many other parameters that you should be very careful before making a change.


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25 Nov 2012 7:44 AM #1
can unselect text from combobox where allow blank is false
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If I create a combo box where "allow blank" is false, a blank entry is not available in the drop-down selection (as expected). However, if I type quickly enough, I can blank out text, tab out of cell, and the cell would be blank.
I was expecting that the combo box would revert back to the previous value. Especially since "Force Selection" is also true. Blank is not a selection, so it cannot be a "forced" selection (it isn't any selection).
In provided test code, select a value. Then do a select all of the text and do "delete" and then "tab" as quickly as possible. The combo box will be left w/out a selection.
comboBox.setAllowBlank(false); comboBox.setSelectOnFocus(true); comboBox.setEditable(true); comboBox.setTypeAhead(true); comboBox.setForceSelection(true); comboBox.setAutoValidate(false); comboBox.setMinChars(1); comboBox.setTypeAheadDelay(0); comboBox.setQueryDelay(0); comboBox.setTriggerAction(TriggerAction.ALL); comboBox.setValidateOnBlur(false);
25 Nov 2012 7:59 AM #2
if I type "b" and tab prior to the type ahead / force selection works, I can also get a blank entry.
A similar issue is that I want to be able to turn off "type ahead", but would like force selection to still apply causing the first item that matches what is typed to be selected (and fire the select event prior to blurring). Unfortunately, I have scenarios where user can leave combo box w/out the selection event firing.
I am looking into alternate ways to get my invariants to remain invariant, but right now I get into an invalid state, since the selection even does fire on one combo box as the user navigates to the next.
I have tried to add in onblur events, but at that time, if the user has partially typed something w/out forcing a selection (or with type ahead) the selected value is NULL.
I will be trying to create a more proper scenario on this issue and reporting it as a defect; provided I can express it better than in this response.
4 Dec 2012 8:56 AM #3
Does this solve your issue?
4 Dec 2012 9:06 AM #4
No, this still allows for a blank entry, it just says it isn't valid.
I want to prevent a blank entry, which is what I would expect with "allowBlank=false".
Also, we are not using your validation in our application, so I wouldn't want the validation icon and decorations to show, either. We want a combo-box that once a valid is entered, it cannot be undone.
We have combo boxes that affect the behavior of other combo boxes. Once we trigger a change in one combo box it triggers changes in the others. By making it not allow blanks, we don't have to worry about "resetting" the UI back to the initial state. There are also other usability issues to why we want allowBlank=false to prevent (and not just give a validation).
5 Dec 2012 7:33 AM #5
The allowBlank property isn't designed to say 'this field may under no conditions be blank' - that would result in (for example) un-clearable NumberField, TextField, etc, instead of reporting an issue to the user.
Typically, the setEditable method is used to restrict the use from entering any keys at all, but using the drop down instead, but it sounds as though you want to a) let them type whatever they want, then b) if the value doesn't match exactly to a value in the dropdown, restore the previous value to the combo? This is a little further from the default functionality of the ComboBox than can be built just by config options.
I might start with setEditable(false) and a key handler, and either invoke doQuery with each accepted key, or just select the first item in the store that matches the current input. Track and display inputs by directly modifying the contents of the ComboBox.getInputEl(), and use the provided text selection methods to manage which chars are selected. Alternatively, leave it editable, but .preventDefault() any key event which doesn't match existing items.
Another approach could be to list for valuechange/select/invalid, and replace the value with an earlier one. Here you may need to defer the setValue call, since it might be in the middle of a re-render, or about to perform one.


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Simple Definition of comprise
: to be made up of (something) : to include or consist of (something)
: to make up or form (something)
Full Definition of comprise
transitive verb
1 : to include especially within a particular scope <civilization as Lenin used the term would then certainly have comprised the changes that are now associated in our minds with "developed" rather than "developing" states — Times Literary Supplement>
2 : to be made up of <a vast installation, comprising fifty buildings — Jane Jacobs>
3 : compose, constitute <a misconception as to what comprises a literary generation — William Styron> <about 8 percent of our military forces are comprised of women — Jimmy Carter>
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Although it has been in use since the late 18th century, sense 3 is still attacked as wrong. Why it has been singled out is not clear, but until comparatively recent times it was found chiefly in scientific or technical writing rather than belles lettres. Our current evidence shows a slight shift in usage: sense 3 is somewhat more frequent in recent literary use than the earlier senses. You should be aware, however, that if you use sense 3 you may be subject to criticism for doing so, and you may want to choose a safer synonym such as compose or make up.
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Comprise has undergone a substantial shift in usage since first appearing in English in the 15th century. For many years usage commentators insisted that the usage of comprise meaning "to be made up of" (as shown in our first example) was correct and comprise meaning "to make up," as in our second example and in phrases like "the players who comprise the team," was not. (This disputed use is often used in passive constructions such as, "The album is comprised of ten classic songs.") Until relatively recently, this less-favored sense appeared mostly in scientific writing, but current evidence shows that it is now somewhat more common in general use than the word's other meanings.
Origin and Etymology of comprise
Middle English, from Anglo-French compris, past participle of comprendre, from Latin comprehendere
First Known Use: 15th century
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My daughter moved to the 'big kids school' this year to attend Pre-K. The school goes through eighth grade and so is perceived by my kids as the 'big kids school'. Prior to that she went to nursery school at another place. The nursery school started a kindergarten program that we feel will better serve her, compared to the one offered to her in the school she currently attends. We will be moving her back to this school for first grade.
Are there any suggestions on how to help her understand why we are moving her and to help her not think we are moving her back to a little kids school?
An added complication is her younger brother is moving to the 'big kids school' for pre-k.


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The Separex membrane systems will be installed aboard the FPSOs to remove carbon dioxide and water from 7 million standard cubic meters/day of natural gas. Earlier this year, UOP announced a similar project with Petrobras for eight FPSO units to be operated in Brazil's Santos basin oil fields.
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