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I never played RDR's multiplayer, but in Max Payne 3 I preferred free aim
They get the music spot-on every time.
environment art looks unbelievably good
But character models don't. They look ok. Which is good, because now I believe those are console graphics.
Jesus fucking Christ, that looks gorgeous. The missions go full on Bad Boys 2 in action, too.
This is definitely current gen but seriously good looking. Everything looked great. Bravo to Rockstar.
That trailer was magnificent. It looks like 3 Leaf Clover and Gay Tony amped up to 11. I can't wait!
Also, they have this uncanny ability to choose the perfect track for the trailers they make. Hell, making trailers in general.
I hope there's a special edition with a Rockstar phallus so I can suck it like the vacant whore I am.
God I want that so much, I might be willing to go out to some corner and sell my ass for some bucks
That's seemingly their MO this gen, with Max Payne being an exception. I'm fine with the delay since the games are still intrinsically fun without mods, and I'll have to upgrade my PC anyway, so no rush.
Last Gen too.
I will have to get it on console then, play it there a lot and then wait for a steam sale and get it cheap on pc, when all DLC comes out
Xbox 360 Day One. Going to lock myself away for a week with it.
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It would be nice to allow users to mark a change in an answer (or question) as minor (e.g. for a simple spelling or grammar correction). A change marked as minor wouldn't push the question on top of the list of questions on the home page or in the feeds. It wouldn't trigger any notification. This could be implemented with a "Minor change" checkbox when editing an entry (a la Confluence). What do you think?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
Implementing any sort of "don't bump" functionality would also delay accountability and transparency for those edits.
Notifying users of edits in the system allows them to take a look at the content and make sure there isn't something fishy going on. Imagine if people could make changes to the system without anybody noticing. That is very exploitable.
It would be good if this request were re-evaluated, in light of modern edit reviewing technology.
Paŭlo Ebermann speaks correctly about this issue when it pertains to slower sites. A site that only gets 50 questions per day is still a good site. But if you make 20 edits, you're pushing good questions off the top.
I see this happen on Gamedev.se all the time, when one of the mods goes on a re-tagging spree. It's important to do that kind of maintenance work. But it shouldn't clutter the front page.
This isn't an enforced thing. We're not even asking for the option to be default. Just to have it be there for those who need to make a minor change to a post that doesn't warrant it bumping other content off the front page.
We have tools to see people editing posts. We have tools to see people making edits to old posts. We have tools to prevent these people from making malicious edits.
In short: Robert Cartaino♦'s argument about exploitation is simply no longer valid.
(I just was typing this for a question which then got closed as a duplicate before I finished. I'll post it here, thus.)
There are several points to think about, here.
The edit bumps questions to front page feature has these goals:
On the other hand, bumping many old questions to the front page has the effect that people don't see the new questions anymore.
For example, in the last some days I edited all questions with "question" in the title on tex.stackexchange.com. After about 6 such edits I got a comment request to slow down ... since my edited questions came faster than new ones. I then changed to a "one per hour" rhythm (on average).
(Some of these questions were further edited then by other users, and I think some even got new answers.)
This is particularly bad for small sites - Stack Overflow has no such problem (for normal editing speeds), though it might affect people who follow the tags which I'm just editing.
So, if you simply don't do this too often, the bumping is not a real problem. (Of course, if multiple people do the same, it again gets a problem ...)
I'm not sure how to solve this - maybe have a kind of "approve" feature so another user will confirm that this edit both
Or, as Michael said, simply put a size limit. But some edits (like adding/removing a "not") can quite change the meaning of a post.
As I understood Mr. Cartaino's answer, this suggestion was declined, because misusing the "minor edit" function could make easier to make destructive or invalid changes below the radar. This is right, but the Wikipedia has a solution for this, and a similar solution is what I suggest:
On the list of the recently changed questions, a "without minor changes" checkbox could exist.
On my opinion, this would solve the problem of the danger of the misuse of the suggested functionality.
Apologies if this has already been mentioned (there are several more-or-less similar proposals, with multiple comments and answers each, but I have not found the same combination).
How about the following?
The advantage for an editor is that the edit is less likely to be rejected for being too minor. S?he will get some points for helping a little, but not many points since helping only a little.
The advantage for SO is that cosmetic edits will get done instead of being avoided, improving readability and thus communication. There might be fewer comments asking for clarification etc., as users help each other by cleaning things up in "insignificant" ways.
An editor can decide at the time of saving whether s?he thinks the edit is worth normal points (and thus risk being closed if a reviewer thinks it is too minor) or worth only minor-change points. IOW, the editor judges the editing result when done, and makes a bet wrt its worth.
#4 might take care of the problems mentioned wrt minor edits being sent to the top/front and crowding out normal edits and creating extra work for reviewers. A reviewer would see them only by explicitly asking to see them.
Minor changes might not get accepted as quickly, since some reviewers might not bother with them, as they are worth less. And that might not be altogether bad -- they are after all less important. But at least they would have a chance at being accepted -- they are some help, even if not a great help.
Again, apologies if these suggestions have been made before. I didn't find this combination suggested.
Postscript: Perhaps another possibility would be to have reviewers of an edit click a new button,
I really think it's a shame to reject edits that improve things, even if in only a minor way. Such edits are being rejected not because they reduce the quality but only to fit the SO rewards system, which in this case is fairly coarse-grained: significant improvement or none. That's not ideal.
Recently Jeff repeated his opinion about not supporting a trivial edit checkbox:
(This matches Robert's answer, and I agree, even though nowadays there's peer review for those <2k.)
Instead of being denoted manually, some sort of heuristic could be used - e.g. if fewer than 1% of the post's characters have changed, it's a "minor edit". It might be tricky to get right though.

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8 Oct 2012 8:24 AM #1
object.hasOwnProperty usage
I think the way the hasOwnProperty method is used in Ext JS is not very efficient.
See my modification below. The new code avoids long property lookups all the way to Object by caching the hasOwnProperty method in a local variable. This should improve performance.
Ext.define('Ext.util.Observable', { ... removeManagedListener : function(item, ename, fn, scope) { var me = this, ..., hasOwn = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty; // <-- added if (typeof ename !== 'string') { options = ename; for (ename in options) { // if (options.hasOwnProperty(ename)) { if (hasOwn.call(options, ename)) { config = options[ename]; if (!me.eventOptionsRe.test(ename)) { me.removeManagedListener(item, ename, config.fn || config, config.scope || options.scope); } } } } ... },
Performance improvement is minor, but it still might be worth it because it's a simple change.
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10 Oct 2012 4:22 AM #2
Hmm... no comment?
I see that Ext JS is already using the 'caching' technique in the context of the Object.prototype.toString method, but the Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty method is left out.
Keep in mind that Ext JS has fairly long prototype chains, so it would be a good idea to save a reference to core methods such as hasOwnProperty. I checked some other JS libraries, and they use this technique.
Of course, this won't provide a knockout performance gain, but such small improvements will add up and are worth considering.
16 Nov 2012 4:29 AM #3
The ticket was closed and there's was no comment. I was at least expecting a comment about this issue. This is disappointing.
Please note that this is not a bug that can be reproduced, but a suggestion for improvement. Other JS libraries use this technique and it's well known JS pattern for improving performance.
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In this video Bob uses the Day 3 example to call the TerraService passing the coordinates from the phone's GPS to the web service in order to retrieve the city, state, and country. These values are saved in a private member variable of the class, which can be used when the note is saved.
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Hi! I'm still stuck on that one. I've got those nasty warnings and errors. Does anyone have a solution? thanks
Sorry, I got the solution : just don't launch VS with admin rights and it works fine!
I always get stuck on this. I always get those errors, and the one time that I didn't, I was unable to properly get my location.
I live in London Canada, and when I got to msrmaps.com, only the states are green. Does this mean that the terra service will not be able to tell me where I am in Canada? If not, is there another service that will work in Canada?
I got it to work. I needed to have
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For security reasons I have to boot Linux from u-boot with all output hidden (silently) until a password is entered. I've configured uBoot to do this correctly using the
CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED macro and can successfully boot silently.
The issue I am having is that when uBoot boots the Linux kernel and silent mode is enabled, it passes
console= as part of the bootargs to Linux kernel. This is fine for silent booting, but I can't seem to find a way to re-enable the console again after bootup.
I've also tried to boot normally and append
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to try to set the Kernel loglevel back to KERN_WARNING (4) without luck. These commands work properly when I boot the Kernel normally.
The best guide I've found on the matter is Silencing the boot process on blackfin.uclinux.org.
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4 Sep 2012 9:42 AM #1
Ext.Media "preload" configuration variable ignored
Ext version tested:
- Sencha Touch 2.0.1
Browser versions tested against:
- Safari 6
- Chrome 21.0.1180.89
DOCTYPE tested against:
- Setting the "preload" variable on a media element such as Video does not actually have any effect.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- Create an Ext.Video
- Use "preload" config attribute (which defaults to "true")
- Note how nothing actually happens in the DOM with the preload attribute and the video will preload no matter what (default handling by browser)
The result that was expected:
- Setting preload to false should prevent preloading and add an attribute to video element 'preload="none"'
- Otherwise, preload should be 'preload="auto"' or just non-existant (this works because of default behavior)
The result that occurs instead:
- The preload attribute has no bearing on the DOM or the preloading of the video
Test Case:
Ext.create('Ext.Video', config:{preload: false, url: '<VIDEO URL HERE>'});
Debugging already done:
- Preload just simply has no bearing on anything once set
Possible fix:
Ext.define('YourProject.Media', { override: 'Ext.Media', applyPreload: function(preload) { if (preload === true) { preload = 'auto'; } else if (preload === false) { preload = 'none'; } else if (Ext.isString(preload) == false) { preload = 'auto'; } return preload; }, updatePreload: function(newPreload, oldPreload) { var media = this.media, dom = media.dom, el = Ext.get(dom); el.set({preload: newPreload}); } });
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Should make it into 2.1.0 b3. You can pass true or false but also the strings 'auto', 'metadata' and 'none'.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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Did this make it into the 2.1.0 final release? I still see this bug on our site and looking at the Sencha source it seems nothing is done with the preload attribute.


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This is a column about a 6-8 football team that failed to make the playoffs, and you may legitimately question the need for a column about a 6-8 football team that failed to make the playoffs, but let's be real: There are only a few days before Christmas, and nobody in your office is doing any real work anyway. That guy next to you has been looking at khakis on the J.Crew website since mid-October. Three other co-workers went out to a long holiday lunch and never came back. Someone in sales just ate the gingerbread house in the lobby. Not part of the gingerbread house. The whole house. It was built in 1979.
This is a column about the New York Jets. I don't know why people get furious at the New York Jets. They are the most entertaining team in football. Jim Carrey hasn't made a classic comedy in ages, and Adam Sandler's looking for one as well, but the Jets keep cranking out the laughs, week after week, like a hardworking vaudeville revue. The jokes are broad and accessible. Football likes to view itself as a sophisticated, intricate endeavor, but the Jets play a type of football a toddler could love. The quarterback—he ran into a guy's butt, and fumbled!
Monday, the Jets lost their eighth game of the season, to the Tennessee Titans. Both of these teams had as much of a chance of winning the Super Bowl as the Milwaukee Brewers, but the game was still a spectacle, because of the manner in which the Jets unraveled. Once again, the focus became the inefficiencies of New York's fourth-year quarterback, Mark Sanchez, who led the Jets to consecutive AFC championship appearances in the first two seasons of his career, but since then has regressed, as if his internal clock has rotated backward, like Benjamin Button's. Sanchez threw four interceptions in the game, and that happens to the best of them—Tom Brady has done it six times—but Sanchez's misfires can be excruciatingly laborious and forced. At times, Sanchez looks less like a professional quarterback throwing a football to his receivers, and more like a hotel guest flinging chair cushions off of the balcony into the pool.
Monday's game climaxed on a comical bungle, when the Jets—deep in Tennessee territory thanks to a botched punt—fumbled away a snap and the Titans recovered. The Jets finishing a season with an inexplicable fumble is the equivalent of Springsteen closing a four-hour concert with "Born to Run." Mike Tirico, the ESPN play-by-play announcer, was almost gleeful. "That's the way this game should end, that's the way the Jets season should end. Ugly, and a loss!" It was hard to watch Sanchez and New York's coach Rex Ryan try to get through their postgame news conferences. "It's a devastating loss," Ryan said, frozen-eyed.
A day later, Ryan announced that Sanchez would not be the quarterback for the season's penultimate game, that this Haz-Mat assignment would go to third-stringer Greg McElroy. McElroy is young and did lead New York to a modest 7-6 victory over Arizona a couple of weeks ago, but the team didn't even make him eligible to play against Tennessee. Watching the Jets make personnel decisions is like watching a manic person make a casserole out of items found in his car's glove compartment. It's all madness, no method.
Naturally, the big take-away wasn't Sanchez's benching or McElroy's ascension but the conspicuous snubbing of the team's quarterback understudy, Tim Tebow. Tebow was a bizarre acquisition for the Jets. Last season, the 25-year-old briefly ignited the NFL with a string of dramatic victories as quarterback of the Denver Broncos, but then Denver signed Peyton Manning and Tebow was off-loaded to the Jets, happy as ever to hoard insanity. But after making loud noises about a "wildcat" offense and employing Tebow as a kind of special-ops backup, the Jets haven't made much use of Tebow at all. For a team with no institutional history of self-control, this has been mystifying restraint. Tebow seems exactly the kind of irrational fun a reeling football team should seek. What do they have to lose? It's as if Rex Ryan got himself a hot pink Jet-Ski and left it out on the front lawn to rust.
Presumably the Jets have seen enough of Tebow in practice to decide he's not capable of leading them to four-interception losses. There's also the dubious conspiracy theory that the Jets coaches passed over Tebow because if Tebow were to play well in the final two games, it would make the coaches look more foolish than they already look now. Is McElroy the future? Last year after the Jets finished 8-8 and out of the playoffs, McElroy gave an interview with an Alabama radio station in which he said the Jets locker room was "not a fun place to be" and said it was the first time in his football career he'd been "around extremely selfish individuals." Now he appears to be the sane survivor.
This is the point at which common sense should take hold and the detached observer should ask, WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT A 6-8 FOOTBALL TEAM? This is a reasonable ask—and to state the obvious, the over-obsession with the Jets is mostly driven by New York's profound, irritating love affair with itself. But there's also something to the very naked, public way that the Jets fall apart. Football teams enjoy styling themselves as polished, secretive, almost covert operations, but the Jets are a delicious hot mess, entertainingly uninhibited. The cameras from HBO's "Hard Knocks" left after one preseason of covering the Jets, but the reality show never stopped.
The Jets play the San Diego Chargers on Sunday, another tormented franchise that essentially operates as Jets West. This game was originally scheduled for prime time, but NBC has decided to downgrade it from 8:20 p.m. to 1 p.m., like a wedding planner calling a bride and regretfully explaining the wedding has been moved from the grand ballroom to the parking lot. Oh well. It should be a meaningless and brutal afternoon. It also should be pretty amusing. There are only a few days before Christmas, and all the Jets want is a break.


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During an open debate at the United Nations on the situation in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia confirmed that it regards the Palestinian issue as a top priority and reiterated its support for Palestine's request for full U.N. membership. Speaking in New York last night, Saudi Permanent Representative to the U.N. Ambassador Abdullah bin Yahya Al-Moalimi advocated the establishment an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders and with Al-Quds [Jerusalem] as its capital, as well as a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Arab territories.
Ambassador Al-Moalimi condemned Israel's ill-treatment of Palestinians, as well as the expansion of Jewish settlements and the attacks on Islamic holy sites in Al-Quds. He stated, "The most accurate description of the illegal settlement acts carried out by Israel is that they are a cancer threatening the two-state solution and a clear violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the occupation authorities from taking any action that could lead to changing the geographic and demographic character of the occupied territories."
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The following figure depicts the paths from home to work. SAM never travels through the park when going to work.
The following figure depicts the paths from home to work. SAM never travels through the park when going to work.
He has to pass through exactly one of E, F, and C. If he passes through E or C then there's trivially only one path (for each) he can take. If he passes through F, there are $\binom{2}{1} = 2$ ways he can get from A to F and $\binom{3}{2} = 3$ ways he can get from F to K, for a total of $2\times 3 = 6$. So in all there are $1+1+6 = 8$ ways he can get home.
Write the number of possibilities of reaching a vertex $X$ from $A$. It starts like $A:1$ as getting to $A$ is unique, both $B$ and $D$ also have only $1$ possibilities. They simply add up, for example the possibilities to arrive at $I$ are the possibilities arriving at either to $H$ or to $G$ (plus the unique $GI$ path, resp. $HI$ path). $$A:1,\ B:1,\ D:1,\ F:2,\ E:1,\ G:3,\ H:2,\ I:5,\ C:1,\ J:3,\ K:8 $$
If the park were not there, there would be ${3+2 \choose 2}=10$ possible paths.
Adding the park cuts off one possible line segment Sam could walk along (from the $BC$ midpoint to $H$). There is only one way he could get to the top of that line segment, and $2$ possible continuances once he reaches $H$. So the total number of paths that don't go through the park is $10 - 1 \cdot 2 = 8$.


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I have been trying and trying to get Qgis Server to working on my Windows 7 machine with no luck. I have read every thread out there on the web related to how to install and nothing works. I'm beginning to think that it's all just a nasty joke that someone is trying to play and that there isn't really a Server available. If anyone has any step-by-step directions that actually work, would love to hear.
As per QGIS home page Qgis server actually exists. You can try the procedure mentioned by 'underdark' in the following link.
You may be aware 'underdark' is a moderator of gis.stockexchange.com So the procedure can't go wrong. All the best.
I ran into the same problem using the old 32bit OSGeo4w installer from september 2013.
Apache installs without error logs, but the service throws only 500-Errors. alternatively, it downloads the qgis.mapserv.fcgi.exe instead of executing it.
After searching around I read about missing libfcgi.dll causing such problems.
The advanced installer of OSgeo4w offers a fcgi library, but that is not selected as dependency when choosing the qgis-server package. Alternatively I took the driver from my running ms4w installation.
The new 64bit installer of OSGeo4w has included the package fcgi as dependency, but is missing the whole apache package (up to now). So that's not working at all. By the way, qgis-server does not include qgis desktop as dependency, but will not run without that, I assume.
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6 Ridiculous History Myths (You Probably Think Are True)
Everybody knows that people in the past were insane. They wore funny hats, used words like "wherefore," and don't get us started on the pants.
But some of the historic anecdotes we love repeating again and again simply aren't true. As convenient as it may be to think of our ancestors as murder-happy torture enthusiasts, they were crazy, but they weren't that crazy.
#6. Gun Fights in the Violent Wild West
The Insanity:
A gloriously mustached man sits at a card game in an old saloon, surrounded by cowboys and surprisingly fresh-faced prostitutes. He looks up, and notices that the player opposite him is hiding an extra card up his sleeve. He calls him on it, the word yellow is pronounced as 'yeller,' and pretty soon they're facing off in the city square. There's a long moment before the cheater moves for his hip holster, but he's not fast enough. Quick as lightning, the gambler draws his revolver and shoots the cheat dead between the eyes.
The cowboys and prostitutes go back to their drinks, well-accustomed to this sort of random violence, as the man nonchalantly twirls his pistol and says: "Guess he couldn't read my poker face."
A typical western saloon, moments before everyone in the room shot each other.
A hundred years of Westerns have taught us that this is how you lived and died in the Wild West. The quicker draw lived to gun-fight another day. It was essentially a roving single elimination rock, paper, scissors tournament that didn't end until you were dead.
But in Reality...
How many murders do you suppose these old western towns saw a year? Let's say the bloodiest, gun-slingingest of the famous cattle towns with the cowboys doing quick-draws at high noon every other day. A hundred? More?
How about five? That was the most murders any old-west town saw in any one year. Ever. Most towns averaged about 1.5 murders a year, and not all of those were shooting. You were way more likely to be murdered in Baltimore in 2008 than you were in Tombstone in 1881, the year of the famous gunfight at the OK Corral (body count: three) and the town's most violent year ever.
As for the traditional Western gunfight as depicted in movies, the inaccuracy of handguns at the time would have made quick-drawing skill irrelevant: It was simply so unlikely you'd hit a guy on the first, second or third shot that it didn't really matter which guy got out his gun first. The closest history got to high-noon show downs was dueling, where people just stood across from one another with their guns out, aimed and fired until someone got lucky, and someone else was dead. Forget about "fanning," rapidly cocking a single-action revolver between rounds like Clint Eastwood does in A Fistful of Dollars. You'd be lucky to hit a henchman if the duel took place in a closet.
Why Do We Believe It?
Because famous gunfighters like Billy the Kid wanted you to believe it. If you've seen Young Guns on cable, you probably know the guy was gunning somebody down every ten minutes!
"... then I was all like 'pow' 'pow' and all the minotaurs exploded!"
Well according to sources who aren't Billy The Kid, his lifetime kill count was four. Criminals inflated their murder stats for the same reason guys today inflate their sexual experience: It made them look cool. Towns like Deadwood talked up their violent, lawless natures in order to attract adventurous settlers. Books were written about them and movies were made as soon as cameras were invented, and nobody who'd been out west was rushing to correct the misconceptions because, why the hell would they. A century and a half later, we still love that lie.
We believe it because shooting a nameless bad guy in the heart is infinitely more satisfying than filing a complaint with the cops or writing a strongly worded letter to the editor. No checks and balances, no second guessing. Just you and a gun.
Pardon us, we have a certain Bon Jovi song we need to play right now.
#5. Stock Brokers Jumping Out of Windows When The Market Crashes
The Insanity:
After the Wall Street crash in 1929 that eventually led to the Great Depression, ruined investors jumped en masse from the windows of their towering buildings. They plunged to the ground in a fatal metaphor for the value of their stocks, leaving the streets below covered with splattered puddles of failed capitalism.
Knowledge of this historical event is so widespread that references to it can be found everywhere, from RoboCop to modern protests against the Wall Street bailout:
But in Reality...
Unfortunately for the angry guy in that picture--and fortunately for the people whose job it is to clean up the sidewalks in New York--the legendary string of dramatic Wall Street suicides never actually happened.
The sweet relief of used condoms and vomit.
A popular comedian at the time made a quip about speculators needing to "stand in line to get a window to jump out of." The myth grew from there, until the "suddenly bankrupt stockbroker leaping from a window" became a stereotype.
Failed early attempts at jetpack commuting didn't help.
In reality, only two suicides by jumping occurred on Wall Street between the crash and the end of 1929, and one of those was that of an elderly female clerk named Hulda Borowski--not really the image that comes to mind when you hear "corporate fat-cat."
Why Do We Believe It?
First of all, we love a good dramatic symbol. An oil tanker spills a million gallons of oil on a beach? Ah, that's just a number. But show us a picture of an otter coated in oil? Holy shit! It's a disaster.
Likewise, saying the market lost 12 percent doesn't quite stick to the mind as well as the idea of stock brokers splattering their brains on the sidewalk rather than face another day of losses.
Also, take another look at the dude's sign up there. We root for this sort of thing to happen to the Gordon Gekko types who play Blackjack with billions in other people's money. They're the ones to blame. So when we lose our jobs or retirement accounts due to a crash, it makes us feel a little better to know the guys with gold watches and slicked-back hair got a face full of concrete.
#4. Feminist Bra Burnings
The Insanity:
For a few decades the "bra-burning feminist" was as much an archetype as the "dope-smoking hippie." On The Simpsons, Marge met Homer because she was in detention for participating in a bra burning.
The story goes that at protests in the late sixties, feminists raging against the male-dominated world defiantly removed and set fire to their bras. It was a powerful statement, symbolically declaring the women's desire for their feminine power to burst out of its patriarchal restraints and bounce free, no longer confined by the lace and spandex of traditional social mores.
We at Cracked support sweet bouncy freedom.
But in Reality...
This one literally never happened as far as anyone can tell. Women protesting against the 1968 Miss America contest in New York did toss several items into a trash can, including bras, girdles, high heeled shoes and women's magazines, labeling them "instruments of torture." But no fire was involved, except for the fire of burning feminine rage. Neither did the women actually remove their bras at the protest, inexplicably opting to gather the bras beforehand, and remain fully clothed.
It wasn't long after the era of Vietnam protesters burning their draft cards, and a journalist or two presumably conflated one of the concepts with the other. After all, they're all hippies, right?
Why Do We Believe It?
There's the fact that it involves topless women. Even the Wall Street Journal knows you get more readers if you can tie the story to unrestrained titties. Also, most of us want to believe people with non-mainstream opinions are all on the far-out fringe, doing crazy things they'll be embarrassed by later in life.
It saves us the trouble of listening to them. A woman demanding equal pay for equal work is making a point you have to address. A woman burning a bra and claiming it's a torture device is just a silly sideshow you can safely dismiss after a few minutes of vigorous masturbation.


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Reaction rolled in after President Obama's speech in Osawatomie this week, and we're seeing some of the impact his words are having, about being fair, by having the wealthy and middle class play by the same rules. That reaction has ranged from Rush Limbaugh saying "it's not the Republicans fault the economy is in trouble, it's Obama's fault.." to others saying on Twitter it may have been Mr. Obama's most significant speech on the economy during his 3-year Presidency.
One CNN web article was headlined as saying Teddy Roosevelt may be Barack Obama's best campaign friend in 2012. So it got me wondering about that earlier famous Presidential speech in Osawatomie, and the tone of TR's speech to the much larger crowd that day in Miami County.
I am turning to Lewis Gould, the author of "Four Hats in the Ring," about the interesting race of 1912 and the attempted return of Teddy Roosevelt to the political scene. Mr. Gould says in his book,
"Roosevelt began his campaign with a speech in Denver on August 29, 1910. He had long resented the way courts had imposed limits on the ability of the federal government to conduct regulation of business through executive agencies. He now charged that federal and state courts had "tended by a series of negative decisions to create a sphere in which neither nation nor state has effective control; and where the great business interests that can call to their aid the ability of the greater corporation lawyers escape all control whatsoever." Since such rulings were "fundamentally hostile to every species of real popular government, " he argued that the people, through their elected officials, should "have complete power of control in all matters that affect the public interest." For conservative Republicans (including TR's own choice for the White House at the time) William Howard Taft, Roosevelt's attack on the judiciary seemed radical and dangerous."
"At Osawatomie, two days later, Roosevelt confirmed the fears of traditional Republicans and enlighted the party's progressive wing. Speaking in commemoration of John Brown and his role in Kansas before the Civil War, Teddy Roosevelt showed how far his political ideology had evolved. He called the address "The New Nationalism," a phrase he borrowed from author Herbert Croly, whose book, "The Promise of American Life," (from 1909) echoed Roosevelt's thinking on social problems. Some 30,000 people heard Roosevelt enumerate a program of government activism more sweeping that what any major Republicans or Democrats had proposed before him. His remarks addressed the influence of corporations on politics, asked for revision of the tariff by experts, and called for legislation to provide workmen's compensation and regulation of child labor. His summary statement moved well beyond his previous positions on the role of government embodied in the "Square Deal" of his first presidential term. "I stand for the square deal," he said, "But when I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service."
"A key element in his proposal was the role of the President. "This New Nationalism," he went on, "regards the executive power as the steward of the public welfare." A president must be even more of a champion of reform than Roosevelt had been before 1909. He had words for the judiciary, too. Judges must be "interested primarily in human welfare rather than in property," while legislatures at every level should "represent all the people rather than any one class or section of people."
So I'm back now.. in reading that, you can see the White House did their homework in channeling this message for modern times. Remind you, Theodore Roosevelt was already out of the White House trying to get back in when he made this speech in Osawatomie. And he failed to garner the support through the Progressive Party in 1912 to win. Here we have this message re-tooled for 2012. And another year from now, we'll find out if this message will be strong enough to keep Barack Obama in the White House. If that's what most Americans want. Ralph
"Four Hats in Ring," by Lewis L. Gould is published through University Press of Kansas.


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I understand there comes a point where you can be so fatigued/stressed/distracted that continuing to work on a project will be less productive than if you were to step away to do something else.
Simply put, what is the best possible way to select a point to pause working to maintain optimal productivity?
In my personal experience I seem to have several "stages" of productivity loss. At first I notice my eyes strain, or a wave of fatigue coming on. If I continue to push through the issue may resolve itself. But, if the issues do not resolve I tend to have attention issues ("Maybe I should check my email?" or "I should call/check up on my family.."). In my third stage I notice an intense drop in productivity, often times working at half to one-quarter speed. If by some chance i'm still pushing through the final stage is me hitting the productivity wall - repeating the same actions over and over without noticing (essentially 0 productivity).
I'm worried if I stop working at the slightest notice of productivity loss that will instead lead to greater productivity loss.. how can I help find my "sweet spot" to pausing and refreshing myself?
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I am working on ArcGIS JavaScript API, I need to display route from one point to another. Thats why I need any Network Route Service for India. Is there any?
Apart from what has been mentioned already, you might consider using Bing Routing service that should be available in ArcGIS API for Javascript. I have personally seen the sample working with ArcGIS API for Silverlight though. The Bing Maps seems to cover India geographically, so the routing service should be available there even when accessing programmatically.
Some other alternatives are consuming the routing services from Nokia or TomTom (TomTom might not cover India though) with their APIs and then parsing and visualizing the response in JS API since it comes back what I've seen so far in JSON with the geometry and such.
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I like the idea and taste of this dish, but the execution/method needs work. I envisioned a creamy stew with a lemony zing complemented by the unique flavour of dill. As far as taste goes, everything worked. The potatoes and asparagus blended well with the spices, while the chickpeas provided an earthy undertone (and the tofu packing an extra protein punch). The problem lay with the cream sauce. I knew that lemon would make soy milk curdle, but I figured it would all come together when I thickened the sauce with flour. Not so much. The sauce remained "grainy" and so the dish did not look all that great.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Creamy Lemon Dill Stew: A Dish in Process
I like the idea and taste of this dish, but the execution/method needs work. I envisioned a creamy stew with a lemony zing complemented by the unique flavour of dill. As far as taste goes, everything worked. The potatoes and asparagus blended well with the spices, while the chickpeas provided an earthy undertone (and the tofu packing an extra protein punch). The problem lay with the cream sauce. I knew that lemon would make soy milk curdle, but I figured it would all come together when I thickened the sauce with flour. Not so much. The sauce remained "grainy" and so the dish did not look all that great.
29 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Why not make a creamy sauce with lemon zest instead of the juice...that way you get an intense lemon flavour..
If you're not a fan of zest in your food, you could always simmer the soy milk with the lemon zest and then strain it
- September 29, 2008 at 9:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
Adding acid to cream usually doesn't produce the curdling that happens with acid and milk. Maybe soy cream would work? Or, add lemon zest instead of juice for a lemony taste. Or, forego the soy milk altogether and add just thicken the lemon (and water? Veg broth?) liquid w/flour water. I love trying to figure out new recipes!
- September 29, 2008 at 10:17 PM
- Bex said...
I don't have an answer for the curdling but the flavor usually don't go off with the curdling. Blending should solve the problem, breaking down the lumps. Or trying a non-soy option.
It sounds like a good idea, I look forward to trying it.
- September 29, 2008 at 10:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
Maybe you can find some ideas with this recipe: http://www.randomgirl.com/recipes.html#cauliflower
Perhaps using a cashew cream instead of soy milk will help. You may not even need the flour for thickening. When I make the above soup, I usually decrease the amount of corn starch because I think cashew cream thickens considerably when you heat it.
Great site!!!!!!
- September 29, 2008 at 10:44 PM
- Jenn said...
Maybe rely on the zest for the primary flavour instead of the juice?
- September 29, 2008 at 11:04 PM
- Vegetation said...
This sounds yummy! Sorry about the curdling. Being soy free none of my milk curdles. You could try just using oat, almond or cashew nut milk in place of the soy and you won't have the curdling problem (raw cashews and water blended with lemon make a particularly thick and creamy sauce and you shouldn't even need the flour if you use enough cashews).
- September 29, 2008 at 11:11 PM
- vegan addict said...
You could try using cashews to create a creamy sauce. It might work to blend the cashews with lemon juice in a food processor and then add whatever other ingredients you decide on. If cashews are blended extremely well, they become smooth and creamy, plus they have a mild taste which might work with your recipe. Good luck! This sounds like a lovely fall meal!
- September 30, 2008 at 12:39 AM
- tiffany said...
i'm not sure if this would work, but what if you added the lemon to the flour and create a lemon/flour/water (if needed) type of thickener?
it sounds good in theory...
hope you find a solution!
- September 30, 2008 at 12:50 AM
- Naryllek said...
Maybe you could use lemon zest for flavor (instead of lemon juice).
Even with the grainy sauce, your stew sounds delicious :)
- September 30, 2008 at 12:52 AM
- Lily Girl said...
I have three ideas. Perhaps if you were able to cut the quantity of lemon juice, but keep the flavor by incorporating a generous amount of lemon zest, you could mitigate some of the curdling from the acid. Also, you might try a different non-dairy milk; I've noticed that hemp milk does not curdle nearly so much. Finally, waiting until the very end to add the lemon juice, after you've incorporated the flour into the milk, might also help keep the milk from reacting so strongly to the acid.
Hope those ideas help, it sounds like a yummy dish!
- September 30, 2008 at 1:48 AM
- Mark said...
Hey Vegan Dad, I love your blog and your recipes. You've actually helped my boyfriend get into veganism with your posts. Thanks man!
Ok, re: creamy sauce with lemon. I have found the low fat content of Soy Milk is the real problem, I have tried cooking a creamy lemon sauce with Edensoy Cream (it can be hard to find though, and you have to use a double-boiler on the lowest heat). Instead, I go the easy route and use a lemon pepper seasoning (provided you don't mind using black pepper in a white sauce) and finish the dish by garnishing with lots of lemon zest...
Hope this helps! And, if you get some good vegan-tips, let us know!
- September 30, 2008 at 1:51 AM
- Mark said...
ooops, I meant Belsoy cream, not Edensoy.
- September 30, 2008 at 1:57 AM
- pc crochets said...
I'm no chef, but 1/2 c of lemon juice seems like a lot. Maybe 1-2 TB or lemon zest instead?
Love reading about your creations!
- September 30, 2008 at 1:58 AM
- Mom said...
The sauces I know have 2 tbsp - 1/3cup of lemon juice and 1 tsp - 1 tbsp lemon rind blended into egg - and then added to milk SO
you could try blending less lemon juice and some rind with some pureed tofu and then into the milk and cook.
- September 30, 2008 at 5:56 AM
- Anonymous said...
Why not use the lemon zest instead?
- September 30, 2008 at 8:52 AM
- Calimaryn said...
This is such a great idea. Have you considered using lemon zest to impart that tangy flavor rather than juice? You might need a healthy couple of tablespoons minced finely to do the trick but it may not curdle the soy milk! Good luck with the experiment.
- September 30, 2008 at 9:42 AM
- JohnP said...
I wonder if you should switch out the milk? I find oat milk and almond milk are much less likely to curdle. In any event, it sounds good!
- September 30, 2008 at 9:42 AM
- Natjenn said...
I wonder if you would get the same lemon flavour using zest instead of juice? This would avoid the curdling factor.
- September 30, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- Claire said...
i think both of those examples (the desserts) used a silken tofu, which of course is solid or gelataneous when heated. It's probably wanting liquid form, heated, and creaminess altogether that is the problem.
Hmmm....i know i do a tofu alfredo that blends the flavors together beforehand, then you stir it with the hot noodles right away, but it cools and thickens quickly. you could try extra oil with that idea, or what about a high protein flour (chickpeas) and oil based sauce? i could give it a test run and let you know- i have bean flour.
i love questions like this. if i could, i would do a vegan "good eats" show. do you know that one, with alton brown, up north?
whew, meta-comment.
- September 30, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- Claire said...
what about a base like your vegan mac and cheeze?
- September 30, 2008 at 11:28 AM
- Donna said...
Hi - Love your site. Here's how to create a creamy sauce with a lemony flavor. Don't know if you use Mimicreme but I order it by the case and use it all the time. It's the perfect vegan sub for cream. I make a great lemon cream sauce with it for pasta (just thin it with lemon and a little olive oil or margarine - doesn't seem to curdle if you apply heat plus oil or margarine, plus some lemon zest to boost the flavor of the lemon). You could also try this with soy creamer but I don't like the taste of soy as much as the undertone of nuts that Mimicreme has. Let me know how it turns out.
- September 30, 2008 at 11:58 AM
- Angela said...
I like using pureed white beans in my cream soups, thinned with a little veggie broth.
I like the zest ideas, I wonder if you could steep the zest with a tea bag, so there are no surprising bites?
- September 30, 2008 at 1:48 PM
- Angela said...
Another thought I had, you could puree some of the soup and add it back to it, not beans or milk required!
- September 30, 2008 at 2:47 PM
- Janet said...
The dish sounds delicious. There are so many great suggestions already, so I'll suggest something a bit different...maybe you could cook the potatoes in lemon water so they absorb the lemony taste, and then do your creamy dill sauce without the lemon?
- September 30, 2008 at 6:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
VeganDad, add your lemon juice at end of your cooking time, just before serving. You will probably need less to acheive the same taste and you should not have any problem with curdling. If you want to use cashews instead of tofu, blend your nuts with the soy milk. This will give you a richer tasting sauce, but remember that cashews have natural thickening properties when heated. You will need far less cashews than tofu. Personally, I have made vegan sauces using lemon juice and soya creamer with no curdling problems, but I always add it at the end of the cooking time. To make a creamy salad dressing I add lemon juice directly to soya creamer without cooking it and it helps thicken the sauce and does not curdle it.
- September 30, 2008 at 8:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
What about using dried lemon powder? No worry about the little pieces of zest and it has lots of lemon zing! Someone gave me a bag as a gift and I love it...I am not sure where she got it (an Indian spice store I think), but I found this link which looks similar to what I have:
- September 30, 2008 at 10:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
Two suggestions:
Start with a roux – 1 part margarine to 1 part flour (I'd guess for 2 cups soy milk and used as a cream soup base, 1 or 2 tablespoon each of margarine and flour) and cook a few minutes on low to get rid of the raw flour taste and get them well blended. Next, add in the non-dairy milk and cook until it begins to thicken a bit. Then, add and blend in the lemon juice and cook a bit more to re-thicken a bit. Add to the rest of the stew ingredients. Heat though
Make a white sauce for a base. Then I'd take some of the white sauce (perhaps a two or more tablespoons) and add and blend in the non-dairy milk. Let that then add the lemon juice and let it cook a bit more and re-thicken a bit. Then add in the cooked veggies and tofu. Heat through.
- November 25, 2008 at 10:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
I should have included ...
I have had success making lemony cream sauces starting with a white sauce and adding the lemon juice (usually the freshly squeezed juice of one lemon) after the sauce has thickened, blending in well with a whisk, and heating it through and it re-thickens. I think adding the lemon juice last, after the flour and non-dairy milk (and the bit of fat from the margarine) have already done some of their magic, is a key.
~ DeniseC
- November 25, 2008 at 10:41 PM
- Emma said...
I don't know if you've figured out a way to make this cream sauce yet, but citric acid would work. I am Indian and we always have dried granuals of cirtic acid in our pantry. Add a LITTLE bit to the sauce at the end and you'll get the perfect lemon flavor without the crudle.
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Do you nap?
I'm not someone who naps unless I'm really beat. But, others seem to nap daily, or at least on certain days. And, when they do it doesn't seem to effect their sleep pattern. With me, it does.
Do you nap? Does it affect your regular sleep schedule when you do? Or, does it affect your schedule when you don't?
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Not intentionally, but if I sit reading or at the computer long enough, I often wake up after having drifted off without even knowing it! I never feel tired enough during the day to actually take a formal nap; and when I do take the unintended ones, it does not affect my sleep at night. I only sleep about 6 hours at most anyhow.
I don't really at all. I'm a night person and I used to fall asleep for a while when my girlfriend went to bed at night but now she works nights too.
Nope. Makes me feel like crap the rest of the day if I doze off prior to actual sleep.
I never take a nap, but wish I could sometimes. :(
at work, as much as possible
I love to take a quick nap in the afternoon. Working from home allows it, and I feel so much better the rest of the day. It is only 15-30 minutes, but I actually miss it when I cannot nap for a short period each day.
I am a power napper. 15 minutes around 2 pm and I am set for the rest of the day. Drives my wife crazy, because she needs 90 minutes or more for a quality nap....
I love a good siesta!
I hate taking naps because they always make me feel so groggy for the rest of the day an then I can't fall asleep later on. I never really intend to take a nap, I sort of just collapse on my bed and doze off and then wake up 2-3 hours later.
I am a firm believer that naps are wasted on the young who don't appreciate them. :)
I nap fairly regularly on the weekends. I love a quick lay down about 3 or 3:30pm for about 15-20 minutes. There are many days at work when I think that my afternoon would be so much more productive if I could only close my eyes for 10 minutes. Sadly that's frowned upon in cubeville. Getting up and going for a walk in the halls helps out most day like that, but it's not quite the same.
Naps are essential.
A brief 20-30 minute nap can stretch my powers of concentration.
Only in my hammock. Or in class. Or church. Or any other important meeting.
For many years I couldn't and didn't nap. I blame my old hard contact lens. Sleeping with those things in was a prescription for disaster. Once I gave them up (first for glasses, then for lasix), I discovered the joy of yielding to the call of my nice, soft pillow for a 15 minute power nap or an occasional 30 minute snooze. What luxury!
Never. Only when I am extremely ill and dont have any reason to be awake cause I am so miserable. Nighttime is for sleep. Daytime is for activity.
I seem to be physiologically incapable of taking a nap any shorter than 4 hours (which isn't really a "nap").
Occasionally, though, I just lay down for 30 minutes and rest my eyes. It does have a reinvigorating effect, even if it may not be as potent as a true nap.
Yes , before and after I go to sleep.
I take daily naps when my son is in his room for his. I work late into the night and then have to wake up in the morning when he does. If I don't take that nap, I crash hard in the evening.
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No. I always wake up with a headache, a crappy feeling and even more tired than I was before.
Is there any way to prevent that craptastic feeling after taking a nap?
I always wake up from a nap too shaky and unstable to do anything productive.
I don't sleep much at night (5 hours or less in the summer), so, I will typically take one or two naps of 20-30 minutes per day.
@zzzaap: Don't go into REM sleep; less than 30 minutes typically. I awake refreshed and alert.
Yes. Took one this afternoon, in fact.
@gt0163c: Bathroom break, set your phone to vibrate and set an alarm and lay down on the floor for 8-10 minutes or so. I guess it really only works if you have single person restrooms that are kept to a certain degree of cleanliness, but I couldnt count how many times that has helped me make it through the day.
And yes, I nap in a lot of forms. Sometimes it is like above, but mostly it is coming home from work and laying down on the futon and sleeping for a couple hours. I dont sleep much (4 hours a night is pretty average) so it is more of an exhaustion thing and to supplement my sleep. It doesnt interfere with my sleep schedule, because I have had issues sleeping for a lot longer than I have been collapsing from exhaustion. My doctor isnt found of this habit, but the way I look at it, I will stop when he can figure out why I dont sleep. Until then, I nap.
Everyday if possible. I consider the ability to fall asleep quickly and enjoy a nap is a blessing. It's healing of your mind, body, and soul.
I was actually napping when this question was asked and look what good that did me. (it was a one hour nap but I still can't fall asleep at 3:23 am)
Finally going to sleep at 5:18 AM. Naps can be the worst thing ever sometimes.
I LOVE falling asleep in moving vehicles. (obviously not while i'm the driver) ...I live in New Jersey and commute to New York City. So, every morning I get an additional 30-45 minutes of sleep. That's always nice.
But otherwise, generally no, no napping... but I agree with the posters that, if needed, 15-30 minute power naps can make you much more productive for the day than not taking one.
Yes, as often as possible. Sometimes, within an hour of waking up (after am dog outing). Many times, mid-afternoon for multiple hours. None of that "power nap" stuff here--a real power nap lasts for 3 hours. Strength.
Whenever possible!!
Never been a napper. But then, I don't sleep a lot either. 5 hours is the usual. A cup of coffee in the afternoon is usually all I need to stay productive.
@wlknlight: This is my life.
I don't so much nap as flat out pass out for a few hours. If I'm tired, I will start to nod off no matter what I'm doing. Sometimes it effects my sleep schedule, sometimes not.
I do about 3-4 days per week, usually when I'm putting my 2-yr old son down for a nap. NOTHING better than laying on the couch with a sleeping baby on your chest. He's getting close to that age where naps won't be a frequent occurrence, and I'm really going to miss that. for 7+ years I've been doing this with 3 kids, and it hasn't affected my regular sleep patterns.
@zzzaap: keep it under 25 minutes. Getting into deep REM sleep is what causes that feeling. If you do get into REM sleep, a good 2 hours is typically required to complete a full sleep cycle to avoid waking up tired.
Occasionally on the weekends. If I'm that tired during the week, I'll just go to bed early.


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2-Inch Webbing: Military grade nylon webbing with custom "Corbeau Racing" embroidery.
Release Buckle: Push button release buckle for easy disengagement.
Bolt-In: End of the straps are equipped with a bolt, which will bolt to your mounting points.
Snap-In: Eye bolts bolt to your mounting points and the end of the straps snap to those eye bolts.
Waist Pad: All 2-Inch belts are equipped with a pressure reducing waist pad to provide extra comfort and support.
History and information about Corbeau and their products.
LMPerformance carries CORBEAU car seats, seat brackets, harness brackets and harness belts. All the aftermarket seating parts you need. LMPerformance also carries Reclining and BAJA seats by CORBEAU all with easy ordering and Fast Free Shipping. You can't do better than a CORBEAU racing seat from LMPerformance for comfort, quality, price and customer service. Buy Corbeau seats for the most incredible design and quality you can find!
The CORBEAU A4 is the perfect adjustable racing seat for tight spaces and minimal headroom applications and comes with high wear patches placed to protect your seat from abuse in the high wear areas. The CORBEAU A4 racing seat is available in cloth, with leatherette high wear patches, microsuede, with leather high wear patches, and 100% black leather.
The CORBEAU GTS II seat is the perfect seat for the daily driver looking for a sporty stock look and comfort. The CORBEAU GTS II has deep thigh and kidney supports while maintaining the "stock" look. The CORBEAU GTS II is available in cloth, microsuede, leather/suede combo, and 100% black leather.
The CORBEAU CR1 racing seat is one of the best-looking aftermarket seats available today and is available in Cloth, with leatherette high wear patches, Microsuede, with leather high wear patches, and 100% black Leather.
The CORBEAU LG1 racing seat is designed for comfort. The CORBEAU LG1 racing seat is available in Cloth, with leatherette high wear patches, Microsuede, with leather high wear patches, and 100% black Leather.
Lastly there is the CORBEAU TRS racing seat. This is one of CORBEAU's most aggressive reclining seats. The CORBEAU TRS's high thigh bolsters along with tight kidney and shoulder bolsters allow for a comfortable drive with hardly any body shifting. The CORBEAU TRS racing seat is available in Cloth, Microsuede, and 100% black Leather.
You can't do better than a CORBEAU racing seat from LMPerformance for comfort, quality, price and customer service.
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