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Per a previous question on this topic -- markets generally fall fast and rise slowly: what options strategies or other strategies can one use to take advantage of this common occurrence?
Given markets usually fall fast and rise slowly, are there trading mechanisms to take advantage of this?
To avoid confusion, this only applies to most equity/index option. In a return distribution, there's a measurement called skewness which measures the asymmetry of upside and downside. Let's define that as 30d Put Premium/ 30d Call Premium. It's already priced in because most of the time, skew > 1.
However, if you trade commodities or companies that might get bought, you'll often see skew < 1. You'd expect skew < 1 for a commodity because it's the safe heaven when the market tanks. For companies that might get bought (especially for a big premium), people are willing to pay for calls in case of a big upside gap move.
Typically mega cap companies have larger skew than a mid/small cap because it probably won't get taken out, doesn't have much upside because it's so established and so people are paying for the puts to protect against a black swam event like the BP spill.
So you can't really "take advantage" of that statement given there's implied skew already. It comes down to what you think about skew versus implied skew.
After all, realized skew is generally lower than implied skew so you'd expect to make money by shorting skew. However, in crisis times like 2008 and now, you need a lot of capital to stay short skew.
Are you sure of what you advance ? Because I pay the same volatility for my 90% puts and my 90% calls.
Nassim Taleb has a strategy that he described in Active Trader magazine (partial interview here. As I recall, he would buy deep out-of-the-money puts, anticipating the faster fall.
He is called the actions of some traders, to sell deep OTM puts, to be "picking up pennies in front of steam rollers." In this case (buying those puts), he is the steam roller.
Of course, he is losing money every day due to time decay, so this strategy is for those with a long-term view.


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6 Real People Who Turned Their Homes Into Death Traps
There's nothing wrong with home security, but if you find your "protection" involves shotguns hidden in cereal boxes and electrocuting microwaves, you've probably crossed a line somewhere. That would be the line between "safety conscious" and "deranged lunatic."
On the plus side, hey, you made a Cracked list!
#6. Louis Dethy's Death-y House
The Backstory:
Louis Dethy was a Belgian family man. He had a wife and 14 kids and if that seems excessive to you, then holy shit keep reading.
Put yourself in Louis Dethy's position: You had a wife and a bunch of kids, but you cheated on your wife, because you are a cockhammer, and she took all of those kids away in the divorce. You, in turn, refused to forgive them for leaving you, and then your whole family turned on you (and rightfully so). Your mother (who paid for the house in which you live), is cutting you out of her will and leaving the house to your daughter. What do you, Louis Dethy, with your proud history of total dickishness, do? (Please just stop trying to think of what Louis Dethy would do, there's no way you're quite as street-rat-crazy as he is. You're never gonna get it.)
The Execution:
Dethy decided that, in the event that he got evicted from his house, whoever moved in was in for a festival of firearms. As a last-ditch revenge plot against his family, he rigged more than a dozen shotguns all over his house: a crate of beer that would trigger a shotgun when enough bottles were removed, a trunk full of money in the attic rigged to blow your head off, the television had a shotgun rigged to it and even the water tank had more shotgun.
"This'll teach them to get cheated on by me! Haw!"
He wrote out a series of codes and riddles to help him remember where the shotguns were hidden, because he was clever; but he forgot to consult them and eventually shot himself in the head, because he's retarded.
The traps were so well-hidden and elaborate that it took a military anti-mining team three weeks to disarm 19 of them, which involved taking the entire three-story house apart. By the way, there were supposed be 20 traps, according to Dethy's notes. The anti-mining team couldn't find the 20th, so they just assumed he hadn't built it, the kind of "eh, fuck it" attitude we look for in the Belgian military. Want to drive yourself crazy for a few hours? The final clue was "The 12 Apostles are ready to work on the pebbles." Our best guesses so far: 1) A shotgun wedged between a Bible and a DVD of Flintstones episodes or 2) A statue of some religious figure aiming a shotgun at your junk.
#5. Jumer Selimovski's Electrified Roof
The Backstory:
In 2004, a man tried to stab Jumer Selimovski, who retaliated by shooting the man in the hand. Since then, Jumer hasn't felt safe, so he picked up his family and moved elsewhere. Even in the new house he didn't feel safe, believing he heard footsteps on his roof and swearing to cops that he was the victim of "disturbing events." We couldn't find any details, but this is Australia, where they wake up and have to kill five of the most deadly insects on Earth to go to the crapper, so we're guessing this was a bit more intense than your usual drunken shenanigans. So, with a family to protect, he did what any sane man would do.
The Execution:
Namely, he electrified the living shit out of his roof. Selimovski screwed two exposed wires into his gutters, carrying a 254-volt punch. If that doesn't sound like much to you, it's because you don't know much about roofs, or electricity--or if you do, you certainly don't know anything about combining the two. It was more than enough to give anybody hanging off his gutters burns, painful shocks, cardiac arrest and death.
Unfortunately, area fires that were astonishingly unrelated to the electrified death trap that was Jumer's roof ended up destroying the house entirely. Also, since Jumer was fairly new to the area and not officially a resident of the town, he was not eligible for disaster relief. And since the police had to inspect his house after the damages, he has since been convicted of laying a trap without caring who got hurt by it and will likely face fines. Well, that's what you get for... shooting a stabber and trying to protect your family? Really? This is the worst story we've ever heard.
#4. Langley Collyer's Trash Mansion
The Backstory:
Let's go back to the early 1900s. Langley and Homer Collyer were both kind of nuts, but Langley takes the crown. Once Homer went blind, Langley dedicated himself to his brother full time. This sounds touching until you realize that meant he made sure his brother didn't visit a doctor or, really, anyone ever again. Did we mention Langley was a compulsive hoarder, winding up with 103-tons of useless shit by the time he died? Like, as in, a canoe in his attic and a car in his basement, neither of which he ever used? It's true, the mansion was like a lunatic museum of horseshit and the Collyer brothers were the curators, patrons and security guards.
The Execution:
Langley, since he had an engineering degree and a seemingly limitless desire to drag home huge piles of garbage, set about filling the mansion with this trash and turning it into a maze only he could navigate through. The maze was littered with tripwires that would drop massive amounts of the crap right on top of your head at any given moment. Not that you'd even get a chance to die in the maze. When a local bank tried to evict the Collyers, a team of locksmiths found that pretty much every actual entrance to the place was blocked by massive amounts of immovable garbage. The bank gave up trying to throw the Collyers out because they couldn't get into the place, and banks love throwing people out of houses. They eat that shit up. So, you know, point: Langley.
The logic of sticking your blind brother in the middle of a deadly maze for his "protection" notwithstanding, this was all part of Langley's plan. See, Langley wasn't paranoid, like Jumer, and he wasn't a drooling moron, like Ian Price; all he ever wanted was to be left alone. Is that such a crime? What about when it involves barricading your blind brother in a twisting fortress of garbage, loose antiques and (eventually, we'd imagine), human feces? Then is it a crime? Yes? Oh.
In 1947, after years of troubling gossip and persistent whispers about the strange Collyer brothers, the cops got a call that Homer was dead and finally went in to investigate. They broke in through a window and, sure enough, Homer was dead of a heart attack. A couple of weeks later, they found Langley, who in a fit of irony had triggered his own booby trap and been crushed to death under a huge pile of newspapers.
By the way, the chair Homer died in, better known as the "Collyer Death Chair" is currently owned by Babette Bombshell, star of the movie CockHammer. That has little to do with this story, it's just so rare that we get a chance to use the word "cockhammer" in an article.


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I tested D300s, New Fanotec Plate U3, QR40A mounted to CP-2 fixed to NN5 upper rail. It works. Rare design, but the long nose gives a better Anti Twist to QR40A than for QR55 cause of the curved lines As Nick already mentioned. Plus QR40A is smaller than QR55.
Now to mount it to CP-2 the bottom Of QR40A has to be plain, all outstanding small Anti Twist Screws have to taken out. You can quite easily use the Cp-2 without any need for drilling sockets or something else. In case you can not reach the QR40A with the long Flange of CP-2, you just have to change the place of the small silver screw to get more space to move the top part of CP-2.
The Camera Plate U3-QR40A adds 20mm to your lower rails setting. D300s on NN5 NN4 = 60, now 80.
I am afraid that it does not work on NN3MKII cause the rail in most cases should be too short.
Result: the New Fanotec Camera Plates will work on NN5 NN4 with the help of CP-2 Camera Plate that came with NN5 NN4.
This is the clamp you have to order plus your camera plate: http://store.nodalninja.com/products...pper-Rail.html
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Thank you Nick, I eagerly await...
Do you plan to get a plate for Pentax 645D ? the ones I found are not very nice, Kirk one is in the wrong direction to attach it on M1L, and RRS doesn't work well with the security pin of the M1L and is a little narrow on open side :(
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- Spinach improves learning capacity and motor skills while slowing down age-related brain function.
- Eggplant skin contains a nutrient called nasunin, which improves focus.
- Red cabbage contains the antioxidant polyphenol, which can reduce brain cell damage, and is helpful in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
- Broccoli is a great source of vitamin K, which helps enhance cognitive function.
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CAIRO, Egypt (From CBS News) -- Following the U.S. Embassy protests from Tuesday over the controversial anti-Islam film, President Obama told the president of Egypt in a phone call that the U.S. rejects efforts to denigrate Islam, but he added there is never any justification for violence. Meanwhile, there were more protests at the embassy in Cairo Thursday.
The protesters have become rioters, fighting running street battles with the Egyptian police who were out in force.
On Thursday, there was chaos, as young men threw stones and Molotov cocktails, while security forces countered with tear gas.All of it triggered by an American-made film that deeply offended many Muslims.
Dr. Wisam Abd el-Wares is a businessman and ultra conservative Muslim, who organized the earliest protests. He insisted he couldn't walk side by side with a woman because it's against his religion.
He told CBS News he didn't mean for the demonstrations to turn violent, and has now called for them to end. But he doesn't accept responsibility.
When told the film was a low-budget effort, made by a handful of people, and doesn't express the beliefs of a majority of Americans, he responded: "It doesn't matter if only a few people saw the film. Any insult to the Prophet Mohammad is unacceptable."
The film may have been the spark, but these protests feed off deeper tensions laid bare by a revolution that forced Egypt's longtime dictator from power last February. With an Islamic party in power now, anti-American feeling is growing.
More than 48 hours after the protests began, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi vowed on Thursday to protect foreign embassies. But he also denounced those who insult the Prophet Muhammad.
It was a show of unity with the Islamists who support him, and a clear sign of how Egypt's relationship with America is changing.


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Let us fix a torus $\Sigma=S^1 \times S^1$. We consider a cylinder $\Sigma \times I$ and a data $(\Sigma\times I, \Sigma\times 0, \Sigma\times 1, f_{0},f_{1})$. Here $f_{i}$, called parametrization, is a homeomorphism from $\Sigma$ to $\Sigma \times i$, for $i=0, 1$. Two such data are equivalent if there is a homeomorphism $\Sigma \times I$ to itself such that on the boundary it commutes with parametrizations.
Let us consider the composition
$H_1(\Sigma; \mathbb{Z}) \to H_1(\Sigma \times 0; \mathbb{Z}) \to H_1(\Sigma \times 1; \mathbb{Z}) \to H_1(\Sigma; \mathbb{Z})$.
Here the first and the third ismorphism are induced by the parametrizations $f_{i}$, $i=0, 1$ respectively and the second isomorphism (let's say $h$) is obtained by pushing loops in the bottom base of $\Sigma \times I$ to the top base using the cylindrical structure on $\Sigma \times I$.
Note that $h$ might not be the identity and might differ by each data.
The composition $f_{1}^{-1}hf_{0}$ of these gives an element of a mapping class group $M(\Sigma)$ of $\Sigma$.
Question: If two data induce the same element in $M(\Sigma)$, are these two data equivalent? Can you give a concrete homeomorphism $\Sigma \times I$ to itself that gives an equivalence?


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Phillips 66 is selling its downstream businesses in Ireland, including the Whitegate refinery in Cork. The move reflects the challenges refiners are facing in Europe, where lower demand for fuel and higher costs of feedstock have put pressure on profits and led some companies to close down plants.
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Phillips 66 is selling its business in Ireland, including
the 71,000-bpd Whitegate refinery in Cork, the company said
Rich Johnson, a spokesman for the US refiner, said in a
statement that Phillips 66 has retained Deutsche Bank to market
the Ireland assets, which include the sole oil refinery in the country, its
associated wholesale marketing business and a storage terminal
for crude oil and refined products in Bantry Bay.
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continue operating the assets as usual during the marketing
process, which is expected to last for several months," Mr.
Johnson said.
The move reflects the challenges refiners are facing in Europe, where lower demand for fuel
and higher costs of feedstock have put pressure on
profits and led some companies to close down plants.
"If you look at key drivers of refining profitability -- none are
really favorable for Europe," said Morningstar analyst
Allen Good.
Most of Phillips 66's refining capacity is in the US and
the company has been focused on growing returns there, aided by
access to the country's booming output of inexpensive crude oil
from shale formations.
Mr. Good said importing fuel to Ireland might make more
sense than producing it there -- a potential buyer could turn
the Whitegate facility into a storage terminal than operating
it as a refinery.
"If it's not working for Phillips 66 [as a refinery], it's
unlikely that it's going to work for anyone else," he said.
Earlier this year, Larry Ziemba, Phillips 66's executive
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told analysts that the company would be open to selling the
Whitegate facility, saying that the refinery is "not sophisticated" and
not central to the company's strategy.
At the time, Mr. Ziemba also said Phillips 66 would also
consider selling its stakes in refineries in Malaysia and
Mr. Johnson said Tuesday that the company isn't currently
marketing any other assets for sale.
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cheers looks good
Will the updates apply (in terms of competition scheduling, etc) in a current saved game? Or do I need to restart?
how will the "X Hero" fix work? do I need to replay my promotion game or if I just load a post-promotion save it will work? thanks.
Is there ever going to be a data update?
thanks SI
don't need to start a new save right?
No, as with all updates you never need to start a new save game - you're fine to continue your game.
However some changes (such as competition rules and scheduling changes) you'll need to start a new game for them to take affect.
I'm getting: 'This game is currently unavailable' when trying to launch and Steam is showing no downloads?
Let me know how you get on, thanks.
Thank you very much for the update!
Just installed the update, but now FM keep's freezing on the startup?
It's always at the exact same point:
It's done this 4 times now, I've had to to end the FM process in the task manager.
The only people for whom I would recommend starting a new game are those specifically looking for a tough challenge, ie taking on a big club as an ex Sunday League player.
Why get rid of the colors showing promotion and relegation zones on the new patch and what is up with the history graph
Merry Christmas to All the SI Staff
What about Celtic and Rangers match expenditure? This being more than Man Utd's etc?
As said lmarsha_926, it's not the case here, I'd suggest refreshing your skin cache in the preferences. Let me know how you get on, thanks.
I am delighted to discover that, given that I was in Offline Mode, the patch did not download automatically, and I had to go Online to get it. Although this might read like sarcasm, it's genuine- I do not want the game updating itself without me telling it to, as some have previously reported.
Happy Christmas to all at SI & Sega.
Any reason why i cant load my own skin? Only have the optio for the Light & Dark SI options...
Adjusted expenditure at B-clubs - How is this one done, and by B team dill it mean second team in Spain?
how can i update this by myself ?
Does this really appear? My Malaga board had the Build New Stadium greyed out with the tooltip "Board request is being actioned". I assumed the problem had been solved with the fix quoted above but there are no indications of any new stadium being constructed by my board?- When the board decide to build a new stadium the game now adds an entry in the board request progress panel.
Why hasn't the match engine ai been patched? the defenders don't work, they just let attackers run past them.
Cant find that they fixed scoring from corners all the time? Was this fixed? Patch seems good though.
Thank you for fixing this. Does this also mean successfully tutored players won't slightly dislike their tutor ala "gained little"?- When tutoring when asked to change a player's personality is used the competition news item no longer states little was gained.
i've just started my update via steam, i probably missed it when i checked the fixed list, but have you fixed that problem where the game pauses when you minimize it from full window?
I didn't see it in the list of changes but was the FA Cup 'Big Four Youth/Reserve Team' issue tackled? Because I'm seeing some mixed results over a few tests I did with the FA Cup. Matches set to full detail.
Thanks for this big patch. Im ready to start my career game now
Long list... very hard to read as it's all bunched together - a paragraph return might have helped
No better ability added to the UI for offering contracts?
Did the bug of a youth player on the transfer list getting a Champions League medal when he's never played a game for the club get fixed? That is - I had a youth player, never played for my team. And he got allocated one of the medals after I named a 20 man squad (rest were u21) - however, youngsters in my first team didn't get a Medal, but John Doe in u18 on the transfer list did. (For anyone that doesn't know, if you don't name a full squad for Champs League, then the club decide where the extra medals of the left over places, what player gets them.)
What about the Ref wearing the same colour jersey as the opposition team?
What about the Captaincy being too easy to change in the Team Meeting with a simple mistake of an extra click?
What about players getting called up for International duty that are i) Not at a club ii)At a club but played only 26 games in 6 seasons (e.g). FWI, that player was at the same team as a fellow National buddy, and the other player was playing regularly and wasn't called up?
Reports from old clubs? If I change club and scout a player - I had a former scout who never scouted england and had no knowledge - give me a scout report and then also compared him to my old team?
What about putting a "Pause" dialog to warn about proceeding to a Match without a Team Talk?
What about the Scout Reports slowing down the Player Search?
Signed a player that had no English. Journalists ask if the lack of communication will be a problem. Under my own Languages I'm noted as a native speaker....
Players getting unhappy with their current manager for not allowing team talks. Where it was I that cancelled talks.
I've reported so many bugs. Am I wasting my time? There's way more than this from me alone? I realise that there's only a certain amount doable in a certain time. I appreciate all the hard work and Merry Christmas. I guess the patches thus far are a lot of hard work.
Long list to read :|
So,anyone can resume in one word? Corners bug is fixed or no?
The clashes should be resolved, we can't guarantee they will all be there as there's so many thousands of combinations but I've been through every one reported to us with save game uploads and they were all resolved.
The other issue isn't a bug and is more a feature suggestion.
Deleting the cache did not fix the promotion/relegation colours issue.
Neil - I have a question which is only partly related to this, although I'm guessing you've tested more than most (or at least have overseen testing), and I know you're on this forum now, so I thought I'd ask - I was just wondering how far the game has been tested this year? It seems to me to be the most playable game for years when you get far into the game (20+ years - I'm currently in 2032) - do you know what the furthest the game has been tested is, and how well it works deeper into the game, both speed-wise and in terms of playability?
Oh - and deleting the cache didnt fix my promotion/relegation colours issue either. I really do need this fixed!
I have downloaded the patch but its not showing up on FM 12. I have restarted steam and still doesn't work, what do I do?
Would just like to point out if I may that Dejan Lovren still appears to be uncapped at international level for Croatia which is incorrect.
Also was wondering if Fabio Capello steps down in the game from the England role after Euro 2012 as he has said he would in real life?
Thank you very much SI/SEGA !!
Quick question if somebody can answer, will there be HD skin version released in future updates of FM12 or is this something you are looking to do for next years version ?
To elaborate slightly further, as I am towards the end of a season- it appears that teams who are guaranteed playoffs/relegation are coloured. 1st position is also always coloured.
It is only positions which have not been confirmed which are not coloured, when they should be.
In the Championship, nobody is yet confirmed for the playoffs or relegation. The top team, West Ham, are, however green. They are the only highlighted team in the division.
In League One, with five games to go, Sheffield Utd and Charlton are 1st and 2nd respectively, both guaranteed Playoff spots. They are both coloured, green and yellow, as they should be. The other playoff spots are not coloured, nor are the relegation spots, as nobody is confirmed relegated yet.
In League Two, both 1st (Sw*ndon) and 2nd (Bristol Rovers) are confirmed automatic promotion, and their colours are both green, as they should be. Again, there is no colouring for relegation, as nobody is yet confirmed down.
In the Blue Square Premier, where Southport are bottom and confirmed relegated, they are highlighted in red, as they should be.
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just tried to open editor after the update completed and got this cant do anything now as cant load database or save file that im working on
now hating this auto update through steam
everything was working perfectly till now
Merry Christmas SI and thanks! Some very nice fixes indeed I was expecting.
If that doesn't work let me know. Thanks.
On a serious note - if anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know - I find this really irritating - it's amazing how much difference tiny features like this do make to the experience. Things like judging how many points I need to confirm promotion - seems so simple but seeing the colours means I can do it without thinking.
EDT: Neil - have done this. Is it normal that the game is updating before re-launching? I've already updated it with the patch....
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I'm actually glad no ME changes were in this patch as it would have messed up the tactic I was using
So glad to hear the players out injured losing CA has been adjusted as it did seem quite harsh.
Thanks SI!
Wahey the match engine finally runs smoothly now.
PS Verifying game cache seems to have fixed the problem. Cheers!
What about scouts returning after one day when they have full knowledge? Has that been fixed? Can't see it on the list...
The skins I had downloaded are now not available - I had been using flex12 skin which is still in the corect folder but does not appear in the dop down box under preferences. Any ideas?
Another minor problem, with the line in the history graph being blue for every team.
It seems most of the problems relate to graphics and the UI.
Thank you SI.
Yay ! Happy holidays everyone
Just got to say... I Love you SI GAMES.
Lots of little tweaks here and there
Can I ask for the notes on the "very minor tweaks to ME v987"? Thanks!
Just finished posting in the Bug Forum with info relating to the Promo/Relegation colours, hopefully it's something that just got borked by accident and can be quickly remedied.
And it's bad enough to see that team at the top of the division on my save, let alone having to type their name on this forum
EDIT: Just caught up with the "verifying cache" route- I'll give that a go.
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Ok, I verified skin cache and I can play the game, does that mean the patch is downloaded? It's not saying anywhere that it is. It says my most recent download was to 12.0.4 patch?
Any plans to increase AI transfer aggression in the post-January patch? There doesn't seem to be anything about it here. I fear the changes required are too wholesale to make it into a patch and we'll have to wait for FM13, but it would be good to have confirmation.
i don`t have any problems with Promo/Relegation colours
Hmm could be some fun I guess and a bit more realistic so will give it a go thanks guys


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Bogotá is one of the most dynamics cities in Latin America and the Sonesta Hotel Bogotá offers a spectacular home while you explore why it has such a wonderful reputation.
Unicentro Shopping Center is a very upscale mall located across the street, Zona Rosa/93 Park offers a stretch of cafés, bars, designer shops, nightclubs and fine restaurants that draw huge crowds to the northern end of this city (less than 2 kilometers); the City Biking Trail; the Botero Museum of Art; and the Usaquen handcraft marketplace are all nearby. La Candelaria, a historic colonial neighborhood with great restaurants, is just 11 kilometers from the hotel.
The hotel is also located in close proximity (ten minutes) to many corporations including:
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HyperFiber Magic Carpet Self-Hardening Weave Material - How To Do ItWritten by on July 1, 2010 A New Self-Hardening Weave Material That Makes Custom Fabrication A Breeze
Sometimes we wish we were artists with sheetmetal. Sure, we can make a bracket and weld a floorpan in place, but we're in awe watching someone hammer and massage a flat piece of steel into a complex curved fender or custom engine cover. Guys who can do that are true craftsmen.
Since we are not in that category when it comes to working sheetmetal, we were pretty jazzed when we learned about a new product from Percy's High Performance. This is the company that has come up with great solutions to age-old problems, like its Adjust-A-Jet that lets you alter jetting in a Holley carburetor externally with a screwdriver and wrench. One of its new products for 2010 is HyperFiber, which gives anyone the ability to create custom parts like a pro.
HyperFiber is a fiber-weave material like fiberglass or carbon fiber. In fact, the weave type is 2x2 twill, which is exactly like carbon fiber. The difference is this weave is pre-impregnated with a resin that hardens in sunlight or ultraviolet light. If you have worked with fiberglass or carbon fiber, you know that mixing the resin in the right ratio and applying it to the fiber weave evenly is a pain. And the process is messy no matter how good you are at it. HyperFiber overcomes these challenges because the resin is already mixed and applied. It's held in place on the weave between two layers of dry film (plastic). Literally, you pull the amount of HyperFiber you need out of the box, work it into the shape you want, and the put it in the sunlight to cure.
This sounded too good to be true, so we couldn't wait to get our hands on some to try. We experimented with the stuff, layering it, making various shapes, drilling it, and painting it. Finally, we tried our hand at making an actual part-a switch panel for one of our cars. But as you can see, the sky is the limit on all the different stuff you can make with it.
Overall, we think HyperFiber is a great solution for people who are interested in making some custom parts but don't have metal-fabrication skills. The company says HyperFiber will withstand typical underhood temperatures if used as an engine cover or to make an air cleaner panel that will mate to a cowl-induction hood or hoodscoop. You could also use it to make your own hoodscoop. For interiors and trunks, this is just the ticket to create whatever custom shapes you desire.
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The fiber weave is very flexible and can be worked into complex shapes. To make stronger parts, you can add a second layer, which makes the final product six times stronger. You can purchase additional resin to bond the finished product to existing metal or another substrate. You can also overlap the edges of two pieces to make a component wider than 24 inches.For our test, we decided to make a switch panel cover. It would not be too complex but would have a 90-degree bend, a lip that would extend over one side. The addition of the lip would be difficult to make from steel and have a smooth, seamless part.For a smooth part, it's best to make a form out of wood to wrap the HyperFiber around. With your hands, smooth the fiber weave and resin and wrap the edges around the form. You shouldn't get any resin on your hands, as both sides of the material are covered with a dry film. If you do get some on you, wash it off before it cures in the sunlight.This is the part that would be very complex with metal, requiring cutting, welding, and grinding for a smooth part. With the HyperFiber, we simply wrapped it around the form and smoothed it with our hands.Once you have the shape you want, put the part in the sunlight to cure. Cure time is about five minutes. If sunlight isn't abundant in your part of the world, Percy's offers an ultraviolet light that will do the job.When the part is cured, simply peel the dry film off both sides. If you want to build up your part in multiple layers, let the first layer cure, remove the dry film, and apply a second layer with the dry film removed from the side that will mate to the first part. You can also add a captured nut to a part with a small piece of HyperFiber and a bit of extra resin.Once cured, you can cut HyperFiber very easily and cleanly with a cutoff wheel. The material didn't fray when we cut it and was smooth even where we cut through the memory wires. You can sand it and prime it for paint, similarly to how you would prep fiberglass for paint.The part we made was pretty simple, but it showed us that HyperFiber is easy to work with. A person without any previous fiberglass or carbon-fiber experience can use it to create parts. We'll cover this part with upholstery and attach it with a hook-and-loop fastener.


text: I had so much fun with this lesson because it is based on one my favorite foods in the entire world. How many of you out there just LOVE noodles? If you're like me and your a fanatic about noodles, you will definitely love this Asian inspired lesson on "how to draw noodles", step by step. I simply can not believe that I have never made a tutorial on a bowl of noodles with a pair of chopsticks before. At first I didn't know if I should make stringy noodles, or a bowl that looked full. I tried both concepts and from the image you can guess which one I chose. I was going to make the noodles stringy, but that concept came out looking like spaghetti. I like the way that this delectable, delicious, tasty, universal food came out. I love anything that has to do with Asian cuisine, although I must admit that I haven't tried 'everything' yet, so I may come across some dishes that I'm not to fond of. Until that day comes, I will enjoy my solitude eating a bowl of hot noodles. Have fun with your drawing guys and be sure to let me know if you are a noodle lover too!


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How prevalent was torture by the regular police force and the army in 19th and early 20th century in the US and Western Europe? When it was practiced, are there documented instances of it being effective?
You didn't define "torture" so it's very hard to answer.
One example would be Wickersham Commission report in 1931. While its main focus was avoidance of Prohibition and the latter effect on society, it also produced an infamous critique of the use of violent interrogation.
A lot of examples from early 1900's are listed in "Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force" by Jerome H. Skolnick, James J. Fyfe.
Torture is best and most effective in getting immediately verifiable information and as a tool in the fear arsenal of an organisation. The SS and Gestapo used it to great effects during the Nazi regime. Those are well documented in any history books. Note that Russia and the Soviet Union used torture as well as part of its repression and control methodology but arguably is not in "Western Europe". The East German Stasi used torture on a similar model to the Soviet.
What torture is not effective at is to give you long term intelligence on an organisation that the victim belongs too. Too much bias enter the questioning making it useless. However, fear of torture (or rendition) may prompt the suspect to be more cooperative.
Note on terminology: I have seen "showing female breasts to a prisoner" defined as torture. Many interrogation techniques used by Police forces could be described as coercion or torture depending on your agenda. Some things, everyone will agree are torture: electric shocks for example.


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Given a node list and a current node within that list, is there a way to use javax.xml.xpath (or org.apache.xpath perhaps) to evaluate position dependent XPath expressions, for example:
javax.xml.xpath contains:
evaluate(String expression, Object item, QName returnType) Evaluate an XPath expression in the specified context and return the result as the specified type.
I guess I could create a temporary node, add the nodes in the node list as children, and pass the child corresponding to the current node to evaluate as the context, but (assuming that even works) is there a better way?
Alternatively, in XSLT 1.0, suppose I have these three things (the node list, the node, and the xpath expression (as a string) ) as variables. Is it possible to apply this expression to the node, using the node list as context, and get the result as a variable?


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'70s And '80s Musclecars - Street Machines!Written by David Freiburger on November 3, 2009 Contributors: HRM Archives The '70s And '80s Return As We Present The Retro-Tasteless Looks We Want To Own Today.
You know you dig it. For nearly three years we've been hearing from fortysomethings about secret cravings for blowers, tunnel-rams, raised-white letters, Cragars, and even (gasp!) graphics. It's the predictable, "back when I was in high school" scenario. But then the rebel twentysomethings started to catch on to it, spellbound by the concept of wheels as small in diameter as, say, 15s and awestruck by the power-hungry carbon footprint of dual quads atop an 8-71. So call us harbingers of ghastly retrogaudiness, but we'll go ahead and say it: '70s and '80s street machine style is back.
Thing is, though, just like the still-booming craze for '50s- and '60s-style hot rods, the best retroriffic car builders of now need to filter out the repugnant elements of history and crank up the stuff that everyone recalls as icons of cool. In the hot rod world, it's easier to strike the right pose or get close enough that guys love your junk even when you miss a few cues here and there. With muscle car street machines, you have to be bolder with your '70s- and '80s-inspired choices so people know you mean it and not just that you're a guy with dated wheels. That means digging deep into the look, taking risks, and applying the stuff that really works.
This story is here to help you do that. We rifled through the dustiest portions of the HRM archives for examples of street machines from the 1978 to 1982 time frame and picked the ones we thought still looked cool today. Some seen here are a bit over the top, but we'll guide you with our opinions of what works and what doesn't, gladly assuming the roles of throwback Mr. Blackwells of horsepower and headbanging. This is about fashion, even if it is bell-bottoms and concert-jersey fashion. Whether you agree with our assessments or not, let us see your retro-style muscle rides. They're what's now. Again.
The Stockers
There was a time when Roots blowers were as commonplace as today's 17-inch Torq-Thrust wheels. The formula was easy: Take a bone-stock muscle car, add dish mags or Cragars and white-letter meats, and cut a hole in the hood to clear your 6-71, or preferably, 8-71. Here are four examples of that look.
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Model photos: Robert Kerian
 Model: Nikki Gray
 Stylist: Hollie Williamson
 Makeup: Jessica deBenWheelie bars should never be allowed on cars that don't need them-and we still can't overlook that in the name of nostalgia. But the May '80 issue claimed that Al Woodward's 543ci Vette ran 10.40s, so who knows? Knock off the bars and toss on some Cragars and drive it anywhere.Gassers from the '60s are white hot these days. A lot of those former drag cars became street machines in the '70s, as all it took was a new paint job and some Center Line Auto Drag wheels to bring them up to date. This is Jeff Heller's '55 shot by Gray Baskerville in Palmdale, California, in 1980.Here's another example of a Gasser gone street machine with wheels and tires, lots of chrome, velocity stacks, and kandy apple flames; a wilder paint scheme would have bumped this one into the Street Freak category in 1979.HOT ROD produced annual Corvette issues in the '70s and early '80s, each one loaded with stuff like this. To us, this '68 shows a perfect execution of a Stingray street machine, though we'd top our 427 Rat with a huffer rather than a tunnel-ram. We absolutely love the metalflake paint that was done at home by owner Del Saxhaug of Michigan in 1977. If any custom painters out there want to help us with a scheme like this for an HRM project car, we're all over it. Seriously.Marlan Davis shot this at the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals West in 1979. As today's most senior staffer, he probably has not photographed a car feature in 25 years. The car is Tom Faust's '68 Hemi GTX that he bought in 1977 as a high school car. It was white and blue with panel graphics, but Tom modernized it (for the time) with a blackout and gold-anodized Center Lines and cad-plated trim. We can't see replicating this look today, but if you found a car like this in a barn somewhere, it would be supercool.This is a stance that has been known to give us the dry heaves, but in the context of 1978, there's something aggressive about it. Jim Chenhall's Pontiac, Michigan, '70 Chevelle sits high on 15x4 and 15x10 American slot mags with Goodyear L-78-15 and 29x10.50 rubber. The 396 is stacked up with dual quads on a tunnel-ram.This car has long been one of our inspirations, probably because it's more street racer than street machine and more '71 Pro Stocker than '78 cruiser. Steve Lisk's Troy, Michigan, '71 Hemi Challenger was a standout with a Lenco trans and 5.38 rear gears, not to mention wheelie bars that were actually used. The graphics, hoodscoop, and Cragar Super Tricks cinch the era look.
We had to include a V-8 Vega. This one almost looks contemporary and would be easily replicated in House of Kolor Organic Green. Robert Meyers' '74 Kamback from Columbia Heights, Minnesota, was shot at the '79 NSRA Street Machine Nationals (yes, the National Street Rod Association had muscle car events back then). It's stuffed with a blown 327.Les Sutak's '69 Camaro absolutely had it all when it appeared on the cover of HRM's Nov. '79 issue: the panel graphics, the blower, the Cragars, the slapper bars...it even had a Doug Nash five-speed. To make this a cool cruiser today, we'd just tuck the tires a little tighter and drop the back end an inch or two and call it good.Allen Owen's '72 Plymouth starred alongside the Eastwood & Barakat '32 sedan on the Nov. '82 cover of HRM and was painted by Kustom Kolors in El Cajon, California. This look, with bold, solid colors, is similar to the work that famed SoCal painter Bill Carter was creating at the time. With gauges on the hood and polished Center Lines, the car was typical of the more-show-than-go cruising cars of the early '80s.Remember Matt and Debbie Hay? They became famous for several Pro Street cars, including the pink Thunderbird that was released as a Revell model. In 1978, Matt and then-girlfriend Debbie Yoder had this at the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals. The black blower was fresh, as were the gold Center Lines, and magazines had not yet started to complain about rubber hanging out of the quarters (and that's a retro look we still can't endorse). Have you noticed anything else wrong? The '66 Mustang's engine is a 350 Chevy.We're unsure of the origin of this '70 Challenger, but with wires, the diamond-pleat interior, and the chain steering wheel, it seems that only the carbs through the hood separate it from a lowrider. Even so, the lace paint and metalflake almost make it contemporary with today's custom-car trends.Rich Hall of Lebanon, Tennessee, was just 23 years old when Gray Baskerville shot his car at the '78 Street Machine Nationals. The Carousel Red '69 GTO Judge was powered by a 462ci Poncho mill with a 6-71 Dyer blower. It was normal in 1978 to whack holes in rare hoods, but this one is a fiberglass reproduction.
In the Nov. '79 issue, this car was credited to Alonzo Cole, though the techsheet listed the name Scott Cole. It's a '69 Mercury Cougar Eliminator that Alonzo or Scott bought for $1,900 and spent another $2,100 on 14-inch Cragars, traction bars, and a built 351 with a Dyer 6-71 and twin 600 Holleys.


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I'm not averse to the concept of others improving my answers. However an answer I provided to a question has been edited and the edit's don't sit well for me because they aren't really what I would consider as solutions:
The bit that bothers me is the edit at the end:
You may consider doing the following:
Maintain an active session for each user:
- Session("PersistMe") = true
Grab SessionID, and use it to store values in the ASP.NET Cache where you may utilize a TTL value.
They're a bit vague and to be honest they're the OP's idea of possible solutions, not mine.
Would it be ok to move these up to the original question? I guess I'm trying to be as tactful as possible here as I think the edit was with good intentions judging by his/her past activity.


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I would like to know if this question on Stack Exchange can be generalised. We generalise the problem as follows. There are k types of object and n boxes each which may contain any number of objects (a box may contain different types of objects). We are allowed to look inside the boxes, then have to select a set of boxes that contains at least half the number of each type of object. What is the least number of boxes for any given k and n to guarantee that this is possible, regardless of the distribution of the objects?
If $n=km$ with $m$ odd, and for each type of object you have $m$ boxes with one object of that type and no objects of the other types, then you need $(n+k)/2$ boxes. I couldn't think up any situation where you'd need more, so I'll go out on a limb and suggest that maybe $(n+k)/2$ is the answer. It certainly works in the trivial cases $k=1$ and $k=n$.
I agree with Gerry's conjecture. I am stymied in proving it though. I'd further conjecture that $\lfloor{k+\alpha(n-k)}\rfloor$ boxes (but no less) are always enough to get at least $\alpha$ of each type (here $0 \le \alpha \le 1$ ). I think that using the ceiling instead of the floor allows strictly greater than $\alpha$. That is true for $0 \le \alpha \le \frac{1}{n}$ but I didn't see how to continue that to an induction proof.
A reformulation which is not really any more general: You are given $n$ non-negative real vectors with sum the all ones vector, how many do you need for the sum to have all entries at least 1/2 (or $\alpha$)?. The $2^n$ points corresponding to subset sums sit in the (solid) unit k-cube (perhaps some on top of each other). Draw a segment between two points if they correspond to sets related by adding in one more vector and/or removing one. The $n$ segments leaving the origin each yield n-t congruent parallel segments going from t-sets to t+1-sets. The $\binom{n}{2}$ segments between points corresponding to 1-sets (some perhaps degenerate) each yield $\binom{n}{t-1}$ congruent parallel segments going between t-sets. The average of the points corresponding to t-sets has all entries t/n. Complementary sets are symmetric about the middle. At this point I grind to a halt
I think Gerry's answer is correct.
If there are any empty boxes, they can be ignored. Say we have $k$ types of items with $n_1, ..., n_k$ items of each time. Suppose we need less than $M$ boxes for this distribution. Consider adding $n_{k+1}$ items of a new type $k + 1$. At worst, these items can be placed in new boxes, with one item per box. In that case, we will need $\lceil \frac{n_{k + 1}}{2} \rceil$ new boxes. Thus, by induction the most boxes we will need, assuming each box contains one item is:
$$\lceil \frac{n_1}{2} \rceil + ... + \lceil \frac{n_{k+1}}{2} \rceil \leq \frac{n_1 + ... + n_{k + 1}}{2} + \frac{k}{2} \leq \frac{n + k}{2}$$
If more than one item is placed per box, then the number of boxes we need will not increase. Hence the upper bound is solid and by Gerry's argument tight.


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Seattle Parks and Recreation Jesús Aguirre, Superintendent
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PROJECT STATUSThank you, Seattle! This project is complete.
This project included excavation of 650 lineal feet of new creek channel and enhancing a total of 850 lineal feet of the Ravenna Creek channel.
Other project work elements included clearing and grading the site, installing new pathways, stairs, railings and a pedestrian bridge, installing artwork, restoring the stream corridor, revegetation with native plants, and seeding. The project will be complete in late spring 2006.
PROJECT DESCRIPTIONThe Ravenna Daylighting project included work on two segments of the creek (one in Ravenna Park, and one in Cowen Park).
See separate fact sheet for daylight project in Cowen Park.
Within Ravenna Park, the project daylighted the creek, bringing new creek corridor habitat an additional 650 feet.
The creek had been diverted into a sewer, but now connects to a culvert that takes the creek into a stream flow transfer pipeline, which was constructed by King County Metro. The pipeline takes the water to Union Bay Slough -- its natural outfall.
Restoration provides a variety of associated benefits including increased habitat, drainage improvements, and aesthetic opportunities.
Seattle Parks and Recreation coordinated this project with King County Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Wastewater Division, which funded the construction of creek daylighting through the park. Artwork within the park and along the route of the King County conveyance pipe will serve as a memorial to the former creek.
Project History/Background:
Ravenna Creek
At the turn of the century, Ravenna Creek flowed from Green Lake, along what is now Ravenna Boulevard, into Cowen Park. It carved a deep ravine through what is now Cowen and Ravenna Parks. As the watershed was developed, most of Ravenna Creek and its associated wetlands were gradually reduced, diverted and filled. Green Lake was lowered by seven feet in 1911 to create more park shoreline. The remaining stream above Cowen Park was directed into a sewer pipe, leaving only the springs within the parks as source water. Springs within Cowen and Ravenna Park continued to feed the stream.
Today one branch of Ravenna Creek starts out as a wetland in Cowen Park just below the park entrance at 62nd and Brooklyn. A second branch begins near NE 65th Street and 23rd Ave NE. The branches join in Ravenna Park. The creek is fed by several springs throughout Ravenna Park.
In 1990 Metro proposed a new pipe conveyance project to separate Ravenna Creek from the sewer system. The Ravenna Creek Alliance (RCA) formed in 1991, with the alternate proposal of daylighting the creek from Ravenna Park to Lake Washington. Metro/King County delayed construction of the conveyance pipe while the feasibility of daylighting through the neighborhood was studied. Ultimately, the City decided against the full daylighting proposal but supported daylighting the creek within Ravenna Park. In spring of 2000, the City and King County exchanged letters agreeing on the scope, funding, and responsibility for the project.
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATIONThe original scope of the project was limited to the lower playfield at Ravenna (based on funding restrictions from King County). During the public process, King County agreed to allow their funding to pay for ballfield relocation, and a search for alternative athletic sites was conducted. Several alternate sites were suggested, but all sites with the exception of the upper Ravenna playfield were eliminated as candidate sites due to a variety of constraints (size, previous programming, etc). The preferred alternative that emerged based on public input at Workshop #3 involved relocating the Little League field to the upper playfield (Alternative #3). However, significant opposition from users of the upper playfield, who were not in attendance at Workshop #3, led to an extended public process to resolve issues which threatened to split the community.
Two additional workshops were held to bring all users into the discussion. The final workshop was held on September 5, 2002. Eighty-five people, representing a cross section of interest groups, attended the final conceptual design workshop. There was consensus on preserving the upper playfield as open space - no one supported a ballfield there. There was not consensus on the other options. The board of Ravenna Creek Alliance advocated that the ballfield be removed from the park entirely so that the creek can be "the best creek it can be". Given that there is no alternative for baseball replacement outside Ravenna Park, most of the attendees were in favor of accommodating the ballfield on site. Most in the room felt they could live with Alternative #2.
> Minutes of March 14, 2002 workshop
> Minutes of April 18, 2002 workshop
> Minutes of June 20, 2002 workshop
> Minutes of August 20, 2002 workshop
> Minutes of September 5, 2002 public meeting
> Minutes of October 9, 2003 Public Meeting
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Time from Exposure to Development of Mesothelioma
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How long after being exposed to asbestos does mesothelioma take to develop?
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Most patients have an exposure to asbestos at least 10 years before their cancer developed, and usually twenty-five or more years after exposure. However, mesothelioma can even develop 50 years after asbestos exposure. Learn more about exposure and the development of mesothelioma on OncoLink.
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Cohen Syndrome
It is possible that the main title of the report Cohen Syndrome is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
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Disorder Subdivisions
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General Discussion
Cohen syndrome is an extremely variable genetic disorder characterized by diminished muscle tone (hypotonia), abnormalities of the head, face, hands and feet and mental retardation. Affected individuals usually have heads that are smaller than average and a short upper lip through which the incisors are exposed. In many, but not all cases, obesity is present, especially around the torso and is associated with slender arms and legs. A lowered level of white blood cells (neutropenia) is present from birth in some affected individuals.
Cohen syndrome is an autosomal recessive genetic disease caused by an abnormal gene located on chromosome 8 at 8q22-q23.
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What is the one piece of advice you'd give a man who wants to be successful in business?
Make the contacts before you need them
What is your favorite man-made attraction?
The Louisville Clock. I've loved it since I was a kid at the original launching on Fourth Street.
Do the clothes make the man?
Am I not living proof?
Who's your favorite male role model?
Every Louisville fireman or policeman.
Do you have a man cave? If so, please describe.
I used to in my house but my wife recently invaded it with regular use so I am on the prowl for a new one!
What's one thing every man should attempt?
What does the phrase "be a man" mean to you?
Remembering that chivalry is not dead.
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Walking weekend worth trying
The event features 53 free guided tours throughout The Berkshires of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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7 Horrible Ways The Universe Can Destroy Us Without Warning
#3. Cosmic Radiation
You know what the universe is? A total dick, that's what.
You know what else it is? A giant microwave oven.
If you tune your TV set between channels, part of the "snow" that you see on the screen is background noise caused by cosmic radiation. You can also hear this phenomenon as a low, humming hiss behind all other noise. It was first found when two lab rats were trying to calibrate a giant hearing horn yet kept getting this strange farty sound no matter how they filtered the results. Of course, that's just the background radiation. There are also plenty of other, more lethal types bombarding us from space at all times.
Via Wiki Commons
This is called a horn antenna. Scientists use it to hear just how screwed we are.
How It Will Get Us:
While cosmic rays aren't able to deliver microwaves powerful enough to do what an actual microwave oven does (i.e., explode us like hot dogs), other kinds of rays out there are more than capable of harming our machinery and turning us into walking tumor farms. The only thing protecting us is our atmosphere, especially the ozone layer. You know, the ozone layer? That thing we were all going to save back in the 90s and then completely forgot about?
Hey, is it cool to start spraying CFCs again? We've got like, a billion cans out back we still need to use.
OK! So now there's harmful radiation leaking in every day. And it gets worse the higher up you go in the atmosphere. Do you fly often? Say "hi" to cosmic radiation! Pilot or stewardess? There's an actual measuring system for determining exactly how well-done space wants your ass.
So at least you know one thing is getting cooked up there.
And what about the cosmic microwave background? That stuff just lurking in the snow of our televisions and the background hiss of our audio equipment? Well, it's not going to do much more than loiter, but that doesn't mean it can't still get to us. For instance, if you happen to have a stroke, you'd better hope the paramedics aren't carrying an old-model defibrillator. Because if they are, cosmic microwaves may have already drained the battery, right when you need it most. Maybe that's not the most spectacular way to go out, but it is the most damning and direct evidence that the universe wants you, specifically, as dead as possible, and that it is constantly trying all sorts of things to make that beautiful dream a reality.
"Damn you, space. Damn you to hell."
#2. Gamma Ray Bursts
While cosmic rays can be harmful and even fatal, they're stopped just short of eradicating all life on Earth by our built-in defense system. This shield has given us just enough time, as a species, to develop and understand the concept of smugness, before the universe brings out the big guns.
Enter the gamma ray burst.
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Or Intergalactic Hadouken.
The GRB is nothing less than a Death Star-style destruct-o-beam, but on a cosmic scale. It's caused by a particularly massive star collapsing into a black hole, which initiates a supernova explosion, which in turn emits twin energy flares in opposite directions. Each of these flares has energy levels that make even the supernovas that birthed them blush. A typical burst releases as much energy in a few seconds as our sun will in its entire 10 billion-year lifetime.
Maybe if the sun would apply itself a little more ...
How They Will Get Us:
If one happens in our galaxy -- basically anywhere in our galaxy -- it could effectively end us by boiling away most of the ozone layer and, following up for a two-hit combo, bombarding the Earth with insane amounts of UV radiation. Luckily, our current measuring equipment says these happen relatively rarely in the universe:
Just once a day.
Via NASA
The universe fires off drunken ion cannon shots as often as you poop.
#1. Magnetars
Magnetars are a type of neutron star, and they're what's left when a massive-enough star expends itself in a supernova. They're composed of an ultrathick material called neutronium, a thimbleful of which weighs approximately 100 million tons. Magnetars have powerful magnetic fields that emit huge amounts of high-energy electromagnetic radiation (such as X-rays and gamma rays) as they decay. So basically, a magnetar is an omnidirectional gamma ray burst combined with a cosmic-level EMP.
Come on, universe. At this point, you're just bringing a tank to a knife fight.
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It's actually more like spinning around in the Orphanage District and firing a shotgun wildly into the air.
How They Will Get Us:
There are no magnetars in our immediate vicinity, but the radiation from even the distant ones could very well damage the Earth. In fact, minor blasts already have: In 1979, a bunch of Soviet spaceships, idling after a satellite drop, were saturated with extreme magnetar radiation. The pulse then went on to screw up three Department of Defense satellites, and we only noticed the damn thing coming when it was already gone. In 2004, another magnetar blast hit. This one was so intense it actually affected our ionosphere. Again, we didn't see it coming until it was too late to do much more than slap at each other in panic. And we certainly didn't expect it to be nearly as powerful as it was. That blast came from 50,000 light-years away; the nearest-radiation emitting magnetar to us is 9,000 light-years away.
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What can you say to that, except "shitbricks" or "I've always loved you, Gary"?
Oh, and it should go without saying at this point, but we find more magnetars all the damn time. We guess that's the main thing you should be taking away from this article: There are so very many dramatic ways that vast, incomprehensible galactic phenomena can kill you, that every single day that you go unmurdered by space is a miracle.
Cherish it.
"Let's do it till space melts our faces."
Pauli Poisuo is a freelance writer.
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Suppose $\frac{dx}{dt}=ax+b$ and then assume that $a=c+g$ where $g$ is a Wiener process.
I think that 'Stochastic Differential Equations' by Bernt Oksendal is a good book about SDE.
According your equation, lets rewrite it:
$$dx = ax\,dt +b\,dt$$
and add noise
$$dx = (cx+b)\,dt + xg\,dt$$
If $g$ is a Wiener process, then $g\,dt$ is a Brownian motion, so your SDE equation is
$$dX_t(\omega) = (cX_t(\omega)+b)\,dt + X_t(\omega)dB_t(\omega)$$
You should distinguish white noise and Brownian motion. Let $\xi_t$ be $\mathcal{N}(0,1)$ white noise, then if $$ dy_t = \xi_t dt $$ then $y_t\equiv$const (from the Law of Large Numbers).
In fact it's better to obtain ODE from SDE, vice versa can be done in the following way: you write perturbed equation $$ dX_t = (aX_t + b)dt+\sigma(t,X_t)dB_t $$ where $B_t$ is a Brownian motion ( = Wiener process). If you put $\sigma\equiv 0$ then $$ dx_t = (ax_t+b)dt $$ Also, for arbitrary $\sigma$ it's true for the expected value of the perturbed system $m_t = \mathrm{E}[x_t]$ we have $$ dm_t = (am_t+b)dt. $$ You can choose any $\sigma$ you like - for example constant, linear in $X_t$, linear in time and so on. I suggest to put $\sigma$ independent of time to leave the system autonomous.
P.S. You can read in Oksendal that for the white noise $\xi_t$ it's not interesting to consider process with increments $\xi_t dt$ because of its triviality. In fact it's more "correct" to use agreement $dB_t = \xi_t\sqrt{dt}$.


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My recipe calls for a pound of DME at the beginning of the boil and 6 pounds at 15 minutes to go. What's the point of that?
Hop utilization - the amount of acid bitterness extracted from hops - is greatly affected by the gravity of the boil, or the concentration of sugars in the boiling wort. The more concentrated the sugars, the less the hops will be utilized. If you are trying to attain a certain level of HBUs in your recipe, you can do one of two things - go with a more diluted boil or use more hops. Hops are expensive, so diluting the boil is a good choice. Once you've decided to dilute the boil, there are two ways to do this - you could go for a full 5 gallon boil or you could do a partial boil, say 2.5 gallons, with less extract in for the majority of the boil time. Given that most extract brewers, myself included, are not set up to do a full 5 gallon boil, adding your LME late is a good way to get the desired level of HBUs without using loads more hops.
When you brew light-colored beers using extract, you risk what's sometimes called kettle caramelization. Caramelization is actually a misnomer, as the lowest caramelization point for any of the sugars in wort would be above the boiling point of water.
The culprit is the Maillard reaction, which, in cooking, is responsible for a huge amount of deliciousness, but in brewing, provides a not-very-pleasing brown color.
If your recipe calls for a late addition, here's some tips:
You can't add all your extract as a late addition because the sugars in malt extract are beneficial to the isomerization of the alpha acids in the bittering hops (possibly by bringing the pH of the wort down?).


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I have a good motivation to ask the question below, but since the post is already a little long, and the problem looks rather natural and appealing (well, to me, at least), I'd rather go straight to the point.
Let $n\ge 3$ be an integer. If $E$ denotes the standard basis of the vector space ${\mathbb F}_2^n$, then for any subset $A\subset{\mathbb F}_2^n$ we have $|A+E|\ge|A|$. This trivial estimate is easy to improve in various ways, but this is not my concern here. What I am interested in instead is the sumset $A{\stackrel2+} E$ consisting of all those vectors of ${\mathbb F}_2^n$ with at least two representations as $a+e$, where $a\in A$ and $e\in E$; that is, vectors at Hamming distance $1$ from at least two elements of $A$. How small can this sumset be?
It is not difficult to find a linear subspace $L<{\mathbb F}_2^n$ of co-dimension ${\rm codim}\,L=\lfloor\log_2 n\rfloor+1$ such that every two elements of $L$ are at least distance $3$ from each other. Clearly, $L{\stackrel2+} E$ is empty, showing that if $|A|<2^n/n$, then, in general, no lower bound for $|A{\stackrel2+} E|$ can be obtained. Let's assume, however, that $A$ is large; what can be said in this case? A simple double counting shows that $$ |A{\stackrel2+} E| > \Big( 1-\frac{2^n}{n|A|} \Big) |A|. $$ My question is: assuming that $A$ is large enough (say, $|A|=2^{n-1}$), can this estimate be improved to $|A{\stackrel2+} E|\ge|A|$? Here is a way to put it in a particularly simple, notation-free form:
Suppose that half of the vertices of the $n$-dimensional hypercube are colored, say, red. Is it true that under any such coloring, at least half of the vertices have two (or more) red neighbors?
Notice that, if true, the estimate $|A{\stackrel2+}E|\ge|A|$ is best possible: equality is attained, for instance, if $A$ is the set of all vectors of the same parity (alternatively, all vectors with the first coordinate equal to $0$, or all vectors with the sum of all coordinates, but the first one, equal to $0$).
Another remark is that $|A{\stackrel2+} E|\ge|A|$ holds true if $A\subseteq{\mathbb F}_2^n$ is an affine subspace with $|A|>2^n/n$.