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Can Helium disappear? As we know Helium is lighter than air, so basically Helium fly off from Earth. Is it possible that in the future we will run out Helium?
Yes, helium can leave the Earth, and yes, we will run out of helium, but because of different reasons. When you buy a helium balloon and its contents get released, this helium goes into the atmosphere. It isn't gone, and it could in principle be purified out of normal air. However, the total amount of helium in the atmosphere is so small it is technologically not feasible to do that. At some point the technology might be developed, but it is unlikely to be economical.
On top of that, helium does also escape from the atmosphere. Since it is so light, it drifts naturally to the upper layers, and there it is easily torn away by the solar wind. However, this process will occur on geological timescales, unless we were to waste so much helium that the total atmospheric content changed appreciably. Keep in mind, though, that even if the helium doesn't leave Earth it is lost to us once it's diluted in the atmosphere.
So: yes, we will run out, and yes, it will make everything awful. And yes, you should cringe when you see helium balloons at a childrens' party.
Short answer: yes.
Given the value of helium, we should be making every effort to conserve it. When we run out of fossil hydrocarbon fuels we can find alternative sources of energy, but when helium is gone, it's gone.
I cringe every time I see a kid's birthday party with helium filled balloons.
Just because Helium is lighter than air doesn't mean that it flies off Earth. At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth you can read that
This has the consequence that Helium is equally likely to be found at the surface of the earth as at the top of the homosphere (up to ~100km). The ratio of Helium here is 5.24 ppmv (from Wikipedia page).
The fact that a helium balloon rises is due to the fact that the helium is kept together. If you would just release a lot of helium into air, it would spread out and mix, and not rise indefinitely as one might expect.
In the heterosphere (>~100km), however, the pressure is low enough to allow the gases to stratify by molecular weight (related to the Mean free path, see the Wikipedia page). So if you would release helium above 100km, it would rise above other gases, even without a balloon, which is why helium and hydrogen tend to be found further out in the hetereosphere.
It would probably hang around just around the atmosphere, because even though being lighter than air, it still has mass.
Since Helium is so light it can actually escape into outer space. See here. Most of the helium we use comes from radioactive particles decaying underground. Yes, we can run out, and yes, it will make everything awful.
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5 Sci-Fi Ad Techniques That Are About to Make Life Creepier
#2. Eavesdropping Through Your Computer
Tired of being bombarded with sci-fi marketing messages from all directions, you decide to spend the rest of the day indoors idly browsing the Web. Sure, there are commercials and whatnot, but you're well-trained in the art of tuning them out.
It's just a matter of smashing your head against the wall in the right place.
Then your roommate walks in and says, "You know what I wish I had? A blanket for my face." Just as you are about to turn around and tell him that he is too stoned for conversation, a pop-up ad appears on your computer, inviting you to buy a Face Blanket at Getyourfaceblankethere.com.
"It's full of BOOgains!"
Ha! You think. It's almost like it can hear us!
The Creepiness:
What's going on is your computer's microphone has been listening all along. And it's not a thing of the distant future, nor necessarily even of tomorrow: Google has already developed the technology to listen in on ambient sounds around your house, then fire off relevant ads to your Web browser. It can even keep up with your TV while you're channel surfing.
"Google: Expect that secret volcanic base any day now."
And while they're only talking about using it in synch with broadcast TV content (advertising products that tie in to whatever is playing on your TV), this acoustic fingerprinting technology could be applied to any and all sounds coming from within the reception area, including the ones made by you.
"We heard loud screaming! Would you like this noise-canceling headset for only $19.95?"
But we're not going to have to speculate for long -- acoustic fingerprinting technology is actually going to be rolled out by AsSeenOnTV.com any day now. Their plan is to listen to the television infomercials that your cellphone picks up and then take you directly to a mobile website where you can purchase the product pretty much instantly. But hey, it's all about convenience and not at all about listening to whatever is going on in your house. Certainly no potential for abuse there.
#1. Eavesdropping on Your Phone Calls
With every ad executive in the world seemingly on board the Invading Your Privacy Train, it's at least comforting to know that there are some aspects of your life that you can control without any commercial messages. Like, for instance, phone calls. Hell, think about the trouble the cops have to go through to listen in on a phone call. The thought of some advertiser trying to do it just to throw conversation-relevant ads at you is laughable. Right?
"Let me listen to this housewife's inane chatter in the name of capitalism!"
Well, tell that to Pudding Media, a marketing company that is doing that very thing.
The Creepiness:
Here's how it works. Much like Google scans your Gmail account to throw content-relevant ads at you, Pudding Media's Internet phone service agrees to provide its technology to you free of charge -- as long as you allow them to eavesdrop on your phone calls via voice-recognition software in order to show you ads that tie in to whatever you're talking to Mom about.
"Ha! That's weird. My browser is giving me ads for divorce lawyers again!"
Privacy is, naturally, a huge issue here -- big enough that even other players in the business express concern over the idea. But don't worry, Pudding Media's CEO Ariel Maislos has squashed any potential issues with privacy: He says that their target group is young people, and they don't care about privacy.
"We often watch teenagers undressing at night through their windows. They don't even notice."
Seriously, their justification for the whole business model is that since kids use Facebook and shit and basically live in the open anyway, they should have no problem with a marketing company listening to their private phone calls. But don't worry, Maislos promises they're not going to store any data, and we certainly can't imagine a former military intelligence officer turned marketing executive would ever deceive us.
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The Pre-Fall Collections: A Guide
Just entering stores, the oddly named pre-fall collections are chock-full of great clothes to buy now and wear when weather-appropriate.
THOUGH FASHION'S in-between seasons—resort and pre-fall—have become increasingly important to designers, the logic behind them remains confounding. Why is there an influx of (mostly) fall clothes just as summer is kicking into high gear? Well, it's too nice out to ponder such industry-specific issues. What you need to know: The delivery of new merchandise called pre-fall is rich with great clothes. The majority you'll have to stow for a couple of months, but some can be worn right away. A dash of forethought and a modicum of patience will pay off handsomely. Below, what to buy and when to wear it.
The pre-fall selection is light on lighter clothes, but there are plenty of summer-worthy dresses from Carven, Erdem, Chloé, Jonathan Saunders and Jason Wu.
Carven Dress, $480, Scoop, 212-925-3539; Suede and Patent Leather Sandal, $895, Nicholas Kirkwood, 646-559-5239
True to its name, pre-fall offers lots of transitional pieces like printed pants, boxy tops and light sweaters from Michael Kors, Stella McCartney and 3.1 Phillip Lim.
Rochas Casentino Top, $780, Shopbop, 877-746-7267; Michael Kors Samantha Lace Print Pant, $895, saksfifthavenue.com
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What if on a rainy day like today you didn't have the comfort of your home?
The Realtors Hope for the Homeless event aims to bring awareness to homelessness in Bowling Green.
Starting yesterday they are braving the elements and camping out through Monday to collect canned goods and hygiene items to benefit Family Resource Centers and Hotel Inc.
By staying outside they hope to get a better understanding of what it truly means to be homeless.
"We're in the business of selling homes but if you think about it we have so many homeless people who want to be able to afford homes, that's the American dream. We need to be aware of how many people here are homeless, especially children. We are trying to be under the elements and experience what a lot of kids and adults are experiencing."
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Camilla d'Errico is pleased to announce her upcoming 2-Person Exhibition with contemporary Pop Surrealist painter Brandi Milne. The exhibition, titled The Candy Escape, will run October 12-November 4 at Tara McPherson's Cotton Candy Machine Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.
Opening reception will be held October 12 at The Cotton Candy Machine Gallery from 7-11pm. Camilla and AdaPia d'Errico will attend the reception in person, being in New York exhibiting simultaneously at New York Comic Con Artist Alley table B7.
Camilla will debut a new series of petite oil paintings and framed ink drawings for exhibition and sale. Cotton Candy Machine Gallery, in keeping with the curatorial mandate of Tara McPherson's smashingly successful Tiny Trifecta exhibition goals, will list the original fine artworks found in The Candy Escape at USD$1500 and below.
Camilla expresses her thoughts on her new paintings for The Candy Escape "I want to keep developing my artwork to reflect how I'm developing, and what I'm experiencing right now". Pushing the Surrealist envelope, Camilla's beautiful feminine forms continue to disambiguate in a new form of hauntingly beautiful portraiture.
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I'm looking for a metadata solution. My environment is Windows.
Like XMP facial tagging, is there a way to visually tag other areas of the image as non-facial… notes, other items?
I'm having trouble finding a definitive answer to your question. This may well be something that has yet to be properly addressed by the relevant standards bodies, and thus something you "can't do" (yet).
That said, here are some pointers to areas for further research. I've investigated them somewhat (though in less detail than is possible, by a long shot), and will give notes on what I've found in each:
Hopefully, this answer is somehow useful to you, and/or will help someone else find an even better answer.
In the mean time, perhaps filing a feature request with the software provider for whatever piece(s) of software you're using, will help drive the changes necessary to make this possible??
Because clearly, it'd be useful. :)
And it has been done, in ways... e.g.: One option is that the Flickr API (and web user interface) offers a way to add "notes", which have specific regions associated with them. If doing the tagging on flickr would be of use to you, then you might try that -- look at the API docs for the various calls that start with "flickr.photos.notes", or (depending on exactly what you're trying to do), just upload a picture, and then click-and-drag across it on its page, and it'll prompt you for adding a note. There may be other programs, sites, etc. that have done this as well, I'm not sure.


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The number to call the Department of Public Safety to ask for assistance or to report a crime is 977-3000. The Communications Center is located in The Wool Center, Room 129.
The safety communications unit provides:
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- Dispatching of public safety officers for all emergency and non-emergency calls on campus.
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In the recent Operation Pillar of Defense against Gaza, many Palestinian civillians were killed by Israeli air-strikes (the Palestines claim the number is as high as 158, while according to the IDF the correct number is 57 [source]). Israel has stated that they do everything in their control to minimize casualties (utilizing precision strikes, issuing preemptive warnings to Palestinian residents and aborting strikes because of civilian presence) and in any war it is inevitable that there will be civilian loss. What does halacha say about this topic; it seems clear that we can and may defend ourselves but does halacha specifically address the issue of civilians getting killed in a military operation?
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See Rabbi Michael Broyde's excellent essay (entitled, in various versions, either "Only the Good Die Young" or "Judaism is Not a Suicide Pact!") here.
An excerpt:
Rabbi Aaron Soloveichik zt"l (quoted by his son Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik in an mp3 about the halachas of drafting yeshiva students) similarly points to a Tanchuma -- "be aggressive to the Midianites and strike them, for they are aggressive to you -- from here the Sages deduced: one who is approaching to kill you, kill him first." Rabbi Soloveichik commented that the concept of self-defense for the individual civilian is found more plainly in Exodus, absolving someone for killing a thief who broke into their house (as we assume the thief may have been willing to lethally silence the homeowner). He said the Tanchuma is referring to actions on a national scale -- a country's army can go to war in self-defense, and does not have to perform a calculus regarding every single person on the battlefield, "am I certain that this person is a lethal threat to me right now?"
Rambam addresses this (Melachim 6:4): "And do not kill women or children".
This is talking about a case where the women and children are not part of the war - as opposed to cases where children and women are part of the war effort, for instance, by being soldiers themselves, or the nations which we are commanded to annihilate.
Sifri (page קפז) says
This is the practice in our wars today, also regarding "innocent" poeple who are in close proximity to soldiers so that killing the soldiers will result in their death as well (Rabbi Shmuel Elyahu, Rabbi Neria Guttel (see summary and footnotes), Rabbi S. Yisraeli - Amud Hyemini 16, Rabbi D. Lior - here and other various places)
here's what Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu zt'l, the former chief rabbi of Israel, ruled on this (he was also known as a great kabalist and a miracle man):
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This continues my question about smooth Gelfand-duality. In the book
Juan A. Navarro González & Juan B. Sancho de Salas, C∞-Differentiable Spaces, LNM 1824
it is shown that $M \mapsto C^\infty(M)$ is a fully faithfull contravariant functor from the category of manifolds (smooth, separable and without boundary) to the category of $\mathbb{R}$-algebras. Isn't this nice? It would be even more nice if there is an algebraic description of the essential image of this functor, so that we have an antiequivalence of categories between manifolds and certain $\mathbb{R}$-algebras. Thus my question is:
- Which $\mathbb{R}$-algebras $A$ are isomorphic to $C^{\infty}(M)$ for some manifold $M$?
Of course, you could just formulate that $Spec_r(A)=Hom(A,\mathbb{R})$ with the obvious structure sheaf is a manifold and that the canonical map $A \to C^{\infty}(M)$ is an isomorphism in terms of the ring structure of $A$. But this does not seem to be handy at all. I want some nontrivial purely algebraic formulation. If possible avoiding structure sheaves at all.
Here are some necessary conditions:
- If $f \neq g$ in $A$, then there is some $\mathbb{R}$-homomorphism $\phi : A \to \mathbb{R}$ such that $\phi(f) \neq \phi(g)$. In particular, $A$ is reduced.
- For every $p \in Spec_r(A)$ with corresponding maximal ideal $m_p$, then the maximal ideal $\overline{m_p}$ of $A_{\mathfrak{m}_p}$ is finitely generated, say by elements $f_1,...,f_n$, and the canonical map $\mathbb{R}[t_1,...,t_n] / (t_1,...,t_n)^{r+1} \to A_{\mathfrak{m}_p} / \overline{m_p}^{r+1}, t_i \mapsto f_i$ is an isomorphism for all $r \geq 0$.
- With the notation above, the canonical map $A/m_p^{r+1} \to A_{\mathfrak{m}_p} / \overline{m_p}^{r+1}$ is an isomorphism.
- The function $Spec_r(A) \to \mathbb{N}, p \to \dim_\mathbb{R} \mathfrak{m}_p/{\mathfrak{m}_p}^2$ is locally constant.
Are they sufficient [no, see Michael's answer]? Finally [solved by Dmitri's answer]:
- How can we characterize the algebras (at least within all the $C^{\infty}(M)$'s), that come from compact manifolds?
You might admit that "$Spec_r(A)$ is compact with the Gelfand topolgy" is not a satisfactory answer ;-).
Addendum: At first glance, it appears too optimistic to find an algebraic characterization. But many famous problems started like that and involved unexpected methods. I don't claim that this applies to my problem. But at least I invite you to think about it. The properties of the algebras above are just an approximation. Even if we add some of the conditions in the answers (such as $\cap_{r} \overline{m}_p^{r+1} \neq 0$), it would be a great surprise that the conditions are sufficient. But I'm not convinced of the contrary as soon someone provides a counterexample. It is fun trying to deduce some of the differential geometric theorems such as IFT from the properties above (if $A \to B$ is an isomorphism in one tangent space, then it is a local isomorphism). Perhaps a first step is to characterize the local rings $C^{\infty}_p(\mathbb{R}^n)$.


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SAN FRANCISCO (January 9, 2013)--Google is investing $200 million in a Texas Panhandle wind farm, the Internet search leader's latest big bet on the future alternative energy.
The Spinning Spur Wind Project, which is in Oldham County about 35 miles from Amarillo, was developed by EDF Renewable Energy and can produce as much as 161 megawatts of electricity.
The commitment to the project announced Wednesday brings Google's total investments in alternative energy to about $1.2 billion.
The company has backed 11 different projects with a combined capacity to produce 2 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power about 500,000 U.S. homes for a year.
Google has been pouring money into alternative energy since 2010.
It believes the investments will prove profitable as the demand for cleaner sources of power rises because of increasing concerns about the pollution caused by oil and coal.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company is consuming more power as it builds more data centers to run its Internet search engine and other online services used by more than 1 billion people throughout the world.


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The University of San Diego has a large, robust wireless network for our students, staff/faculty, alumni and guests. We have collected together tutorials and resources to help you get connected.
Tips before you start
- Start early! Try connecting to the wireless before you need it, in case you experience any problems. Don't wait until 5 minutes before a presentation
- Are you bringing a guest to campus? Send the instructions before they arrive and supply them with contact information in case they have trouble.
- Ask for help if necessary. The ITS Help Desk is here to help with connection problems, signal strength, and technical education. We're available extended hours!
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- Are you new to campus, or just setting up a computer for the first time? This tutorial will show you how to get connected to our 'eduroam' network, which allows your computer to automatically connect without requiring a login.
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Following a quick-fire retail leak, the existence of Batman: Arkham Knight has just been confirmed as per the reveal of the latest cover of next month's Game Informer magazine, with fresh details on 2014's Rocksteady action adventure game.
Game Informer writes that Arkham Knight will "raise the bar even higher" after Rocksteady innovated on the action genre with its excellent freeflow combat system and open-world exploration games, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City in 2009 and 2011 respectively, and may just bring to a close the Dark Knight's journey in the Arkhamverse series.
Set after the events of Arkham City, Arkham Knight will feature a fully driveable Batmobile which Game Informer says is "a core element of the gameplay." A new area of Gotham City will also feature in Arkham Knight which is apparently "far larger than Arkham City," with wider streets for driving in, all designed to make use of Batman's traversal options like gliding and grappling.
Villains including Harley Quinn, Two-Face, Scarecrow and Penguin are also confirmed for the game, due out in 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. According to today's retail listing leak, the Batmobile has been uniquely designed for Arkham Knight, while an additional set of Harley Quinn challenge maps will be on offer for those who pre-order the game.
Game Director at Rocksteady Studios, Sefton Hill said of the game:
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"We're excited to be developing the game for next-gen platforms, which has allowed us to bring to life the design elements that we envisioned from the beginning such as the Batmobile and how it augments Batman's abilities, to the fully detailed and realized Gotham City."
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January 30, 2012 | Carin Berkowitz
2012 is the 25th anniversary of CHF's Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry. To celebrate the Beckman Center's remarkable achievements and its many accomplished fellows, we will be profiling one former fellow each month over the course of the year. This month we'd like to introduce you to Seymour Mauskopf. Seymour (Sy to those who know him) was one of our very first fellows; with us in 1988-89 as an Edelstein Fellow studying the history of explosives and gunpowder, he was also a Price Fellow in 1999-2000, looking at the experimental study of munitions.
One of the leaders in the field of history of chemistry, Sy is responsible for the resurrection of the Forum for the History of the Chemical Sciences group within the History of Science Society (a group about which he was so enthusiastic that he even did a little dance outside the hotel elevators on his way its early morning planning meeting).
Sy received his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in the history of science. His fields of research interest are the history of chemistry and the history of marginal science (parapsychology). In 1998, he received the Dexter Award for Outstanding Contributions to the History of Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. He taught history of science at Duke University since 1964 (receiving the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2006) and retired at the end of 2010. He is currently working on a book on Alfred Nobel's interactions with British munitions scientists in the late nineteenth century.
We are proud to call Sy one of ours (twice over). If you are interested in learning more about his work, take a look at some of his books: Crystals and Compounds, 1976, Chemical Sciences in the Modern World, 1993 and The Elusive Science (with Michael R. McVaugh)1980.
Carin Berkowitz is the associate director of CHF's Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry.
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Put on your pressure suit and commence docking procedures, because we have a Spacestation powerful enough to take you to the moon and way, way beyond. See the stars like you?ve never seen before with a view from an all-new Tasco Spacestation telescope featuring a cosmically inspired new design. Its variable LED electronic Red Dot Finderscope takes you to visit your favorite constellation in a flash by quickly finding any object in the sky. Partially pre-assembled and super-sturdy, these Spacestations come ready for blast off, so let the countdown begin.
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7 Nov 2012 11:28 PM #1
Unanswered: Grids' scroll bars stop working after multiple loading of data of various sizes
I've got a serious problem with grid's vertical scroll bar when I load data into the grid frequently and specially when the loaded data has a size of zero. It comes from that the user can set some time periods to get the time series data between the period, and when the set period has no data I load an empty store into the grid, so when the user change the period to a one that has some data, the scroll bar stops working as dragging it up and down has no effect on the grid's view. The ridicules point is that it doesn't happen all the time with this scenario but most of the time. I searched community and tried everything that has mentioned about the grid's scroll bar problems but no one worked.
I use the grid in a panel and it's layout is fit and autoScroll is enabled.
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before reloading a store I always do this
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9 Nov 2012 8:56 PM #3
hi tvanzoelen.
thanks for your answer. but i tested your approach and my problem didn't resolve.
12 Nov 2012 2:53 AM #4
I guess you are using some version before 4.1. Try to upgrade - they have mostly eliminated use of virtual scroll.
Also you may try to set Ext.panel.Table.scroll to 'vertical'.
14 Nov 2012 10:47 PM #5
Yes. I'm using 4.0.7 .but currently i cant upgrade.
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Big Bang TheoryWritten by on September 5, 2011 What Is the Real Boost and Horsepower Limit of a Stock GM LS Engine? We Try To Find Out, and There's a Whopping Surprise Ending
We get an understandable amount of flack from readers about doing so much editorial on the GM LS-series engines, but there's a reason behind our madness: They're the most popular performance engines today and make completely stupid power when you throw boost at them via a supercharger or turbocharger. Internet forums are all atwitter about just how far up the power scale you can go before the LS finally yells ôuncle,ö but we have yet to see any real proof of its limits. So we decided to find out for ourselves. How much boost can we throw at one, and how much power will it make (and for how long?) before it goes pop in one way or another?
Our guinea pig was a 5.3L truck motor, while the punishers were a pair of 76mm turbos from CXRacing plumbed into a homemade twin-turbo system. When we got it, the engine was a grimy core from a junkyard. We took it apart and found a pretty significant rust spot in the No. 8 bore that a ball hone wouldn't remove, but it was halfway down the bore so we thought, What the hell, we're trying to kill this thing anyway. It won't matter. The motor was reassembled using the original crank, rods, flat-top pistons, rings (a little rusty but they cleaned up OK), and bearings. The sole modification to the short-block (at the advice of Jerry Stetler from Ace Machine) was to increase the gap of the top rings from 0.015 inch to 0.028-0.030 inch (we reused the original rings). The second (factory gapped at 0.028 inch) and oil rings were left untouched.
Since the exercise was designed as a strength test for the stock short-block, we opted to make a few changes topside. The stock 5.3L heads were ported by Total Engine Airflow and received larger intake valves and an appropriate spring upgrade. Fel-Pro MLS head gaskets and ARP studs hold the heads on, and the cam is an off-the-shelf 228/230 grind from Comp. The cam was run with a new set of Comp hydraulic roller lifters, as the originals were clogged and unusable, but we retained the stock pushrods and rockers. The final upgrade was a swap of the stock truck intake for a FAST LSXR intake, 75 lb/hr injectors, and matching 102mm throttle-body. In normally aspirated trim, the 5.3 produced 451 hp and 380 lb-ft of torque. It seemed odd to us that the motor produced peak power all the way out at 7,000 rpm, but we had a lot of boost to add and little time to ponder the issue.
The pair of 76mm turbos was combined with a twin-core, air-to-water intercooler, a pair of 45mm Hyper-Gates, and a single RacePort blow-off valve, all from Turbo- smart. A pair of JBA shorty truck headers with short tubing sections feed the turbos. Run with the wastegate springs set to provide just 7 psi of boost, the engine easily produced more than 600 hp. With proper tuning, we safely worked our way past 10 psi up to nearly 15 psi, where we ran into our first issue. The combination of 7-psi springs and the manual boost controller would only allow us to reach 15 psi. While this may seem like a lot of boost on the stock short-block, the 900hp mark had come and gone, and the motor was just laughing at us.
We stuck in a pair of 14-psi springs that, when combined with the manual controller, allowed us to reach nearly two bar-just over 26 psi. Surely that would be enough to break something. It bears mentioning that we performed all the testing on 118-octane Rockett Brand race gas, as we wanted our big bang to come from lack of component strength and not detonation. Our respect for the designers of the LS engine family grew with each successive pound of boost. Stock internals be damned, the 5.3 had come to party. The 1,000hp mark was eclipsed, followed soon by 1,100 hp and then, finally, the peak power of the night, an amazing 1,203 hp at 26.8 psi! Remember that this was on a well-worn, stock 5.3 short-block with nothing more exotic than increased ring gap. Think about that next time you hear of someone complaining about exploding an LS with only 8 psi of boost.
After eclipsing 1,200 hp, we kept going. Raising the boost beyond 27 psi resulted in what we suspect was an ignition failure. The motor was still in perfect shape internally and worked well up to 26 psi, but unfortunately we were out of available dyno time. The motor survived more than 60 runs, the majority of them more than 1,000 hp. We hammered this motor like we stole it, with repeated back-to-back pulls, but the little LS never missed a beat and was ready for more.
Then something dawned on us after pulling it off the dyno: 5.3s don't come with flat-top pistons (we know the few exceptions). Combine this with the fact that this combination produced peak power at 7,000 rpm, and we started to suspect that it might not be a 5.3 after all. Off came the oil pan and sure enough, connected to those flat-tops was set of 121 connecting rods and a crank that featured a casting number of 12553482. That's right, this 1,203hp 5.3 was actually a 4.8L. That's just 294 ci for a stunning 4.09 hp/ci.
The longevity of the combination is still in question, but having survived about 60 pulls under big boost means it could easily run a full season at the strip, making at least 1,000 hp. It might lose ring seal and drop power, but you can simply replace the rings. If the whole motor grenades in spectacular fashion, replace it with another $500 takeout. We'd caution that eventually you might drive over the crank at the drags and get oil under the tires, but as a detuned 700 or 800 streeter, this little sucker will be amazing.
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Run on the engine dyno with a Fast LSXR induction system, a Meziere electric water pump, and 17⁄8-inch headers (the only size we had) from American Racing, the normally aspirated LS produced 451 hp and 380 lb-ft of torque.The one change we made to the short-block was increasing the gap of the top rings from 0.015 to 0.028 inch. Piston failures can usually be traced to the rings butting, sticking on the bore, and snapping the ring land. Extra ring gap cures this issue. If you look closely you can see the sizable rust stain midway down the No.8 cylinder.Keeping things cool was a dual-inlet, single-outlet, air-to-water intercooler from CXRacing. Capable of supporting more than1,500 hp, the dual-core system was supplied dyno water for this testing. CXRacing also sells the necessary 3.0- and 3.5-inch aluminum tubing, couplers, and clamps to complete our custom kit.Wanting big power to go along with our elevated boost levels, we elected to replace the stock cam with an XR281HR from Comp Cams. The hydraulic roller profile featured a 0.571/0.573 lift split, a 228/230 duration split, and a 112-degree lobe-separation angle.With a base power level of 450 hp, we started at just 7 psi of boost and eventually worked all the way up to 26.8 psi, where the stock short-block withstood an amazing 1,203 hp. And it did it a bunch of times. That is huge power for any LS, but monster power for one equipped with stock internals displacing just 4.8 liters—and we're still waiting for the big bang. HRM


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There are so many articles about the benefits of doing deadlifts for the back. But I am curious if there are alternatives to the deadlifts which still gives the same benefits?
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Yes, there are alternatives to deadlifts. However, let's take some time to understand what deadlifts do:
Your replacement would have to fill these roles.
Squats Now, squats are an excellent tool, and they hit many of the same areas, but they also get the quads, shins, and even a bit of the upper ab muscles. A good strength routine will have both squats and deadlifts.
Back extensions Weighted and unweighted, back extensions will get your glutes and hams as well as your core. The stresses are different in that you are leaning forward, and the weight of the upper body is pulling down in a different way than deadlifts work. In short, your back will be part of performing the lift as well as keeping the thoracic portion in a neutral position. That said, they are still a good assistance exercise. These do not get your lats at all.
Pullups Pullups will exercise the lats, as well as the neck muscles. They get a few more muscle groups as well, but they play a part in what deadlifts do.
Summary Essentially you would need to include all three of these exercises to get the same benefit of deadlifts. The unfortunate truth of the matter is that deadlifts let you do one exercise at very high weights in comparison to the other three, so there is just no full replacement.
Back exercises to fill in for deadlifts
Leg exercises to fill in for deadlifts
Theres no substitute for deadlifts but if i had to choose two exercise to carry over to your posterior chain aka lower back, glutes, hamstrings it would be 45 degree hyperextentsion and RDL's. Dont forget core strength it carries over to your lower back when under a load.


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6 Insane Early Drafts of Iconic Buildings
Everything mankind has ever built started out as a rough draft at one point. But you assume that the general idea was always there; you can easily imagine that an early version of the Golden Gate Bridge was going to be blue instead of red, but you assume that it always looked roughly like the Golden Gate Bridge and not some crazy bunch of bullshit.
You'd be wrong.
#6. Epcot Center Was Supposed to Be an Entire City (With Skyscraper)
Known within the park as "Spaceship Earth," the EPCOT Center at Disney World is one of the most recognizable structures in the world, mainly because it looks like a huge golf ball:
A golf ball slowly gaining limbs and sentience.
But it was originally supposed to be something far more ambitious -- a massive self-contained city with a towering skyscraper in the center:
All they need is to implant life crystals into people and it would be Logan's Run.
Wait, What?
It's hard to believe, but EPCOT was originally designed as a city. A city that you and the children of the world would never have to leave.
In the late 1950s, Walt Disney wanted to make a city in Orlando for employees at his new and up-and-coming Disney World theme park. It would be called EPCOT: Experimental Prototype of the City Of Tomorrow.
"Frowns count as illegal dissent."
He came up with a circular model with a theme park in the middle, apartments forming a wall of buildings surrounding the park, smaller family houses just outside the apartments and disturbing "research laboratories" dotting the outside of the circle.
"What do we research on? Don't worry about that. Just BRING US YOUR CHILDREN."
In 1966, Disney expanded on the EPCOT idea to propose linking the park, apartments, houses and laboratories with a system of monorails, with smaller people movers linking the homes outside the fortress, er, city. And right in the middle would be the centerpiece giant skyscraper.
But before Walt Disney could implement his design and have things possibly go all Westworld, he died. The company was stuck with the land and plans, and decided that running an entire city would not bring in much of a profit. They cut pretty much all of the design and redeveloped it into a new amusement park in the late 1970s. While the Epcot Center we know today is nothing like the original, many of the ideas would later be put into place in a new, toned-down Disney city, Celebration, Florida.
"We only have three Disney-related shootings a year!"
#5. Mount Rushmore Didn't Stop With the Heads
When you think of Mount Rushmore, you have visions of the stone faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln staring back at you, representing the founding principles and general awesometude of the nation. You tend not to think, "I wonder what the bottom parts of their bodies are doing." But the original draft would have answered that question:
"This is the most uncomfortable elevator ride ever."
Wait, What?
After originally proposing that the carving be made on the Needles, a formation of thin, brittle rock in South Dakota, common sense prevailed and Mount Rushmore was chosen. After that snafu, sculptor and white supremacist Gutzon Borglum pretty much had the design idea down pat. Except he conceived a much grander image: His approved plan in 1927 had not just the presidents' heads, but their bodies down to the waist, standing tall over the surrounding countryside.
"We estimate that nine men will die to build each button."
In addition, Borglum thought that since it was a giant mountainside and all, he could totally add a huge relief of the Louisiana Purchase and write out both the Constitution AND the Declaration of Independence. Congress was so pleased by the design that they drew up a bill in 1937 to add woman's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony to the mountain. That's when Borglum began to have a few problems.
AS IF A WOMAN COULD EVER SYMBOLIZE AMERICA. Oh.
Early in construction, it was decided that writing out the Constitution and Declaration of Independence would be a bit much, so all work already carved (The numbers "1776") was blasted away. With funding drying up and his health starting to fail, Borglum scaled back to only carving the faces, although Washington's cuff and preliminary body work was already done.
In 1939, Congress withdrew the part about adding Anthony and, with WWII coming up fast, the whole thing was turning into a rush job. After Borglum died and his son Lincoln inherited the project, the job was rushed even further before finally being "finished" in 1941 (they moved so fast they forgot to add President Lincoln's ear).
Either that, or Roosevelt ripped it off with his teeth.
#4. The Golden Gate Bridge Was a Gray Erector Set
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco might literally be the only bridge in the world that you can immediately picture in your mind the moment we mention it. That's what a distinctive design and bright red paint job can do for you:
Slightly less chance of being hit by an errant fighter jet.
So it's probably a good thing they didn't go with the original design, which envisioned it more like a lopsided bridge model a kid had tried to assemble without instructions:
"I was going to build a suspension bridge but then I thought, 'Fuck it. Rocket ship.'"
Wait, What?
Prior to its construction in 1937, the only way to get across San Francisco Bay was a 20-minute ferry ride. Still, it wasn't until 1916 that the idea of a bridge really gained any traction when the San Francisco city engineer challenged someone to come up with a bridge design that would cost less than the $100 million (in 1916 dollars) estimated to make such a bridge. Only one man could, claiming his design would cost just $17 million. That man was Joseph Strauss.
"You really save a lot of money when you substitute steel with used chewing gum."
Although experts said a bridge couldn't be built because of high winds, heavy fog and the 335-foot depth of the water (not to mention that the bridge needed to be a mile long), Strauss came up with an idea anyway. The problem was Strauss had only designed things like draw bridges and a couple of cantlever bridges before getting on board the Golden Gate project, and nothing nearly as long. After he bragged about his idea to connect the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia with an intercontinental railroad, officials grew a wee bit nervous. City officials grew even more wary of him when it came time to submit his first design and he showed them this:
"Don't thank me, thank decades of alcohol abuse."
They hated the design, as a) it probably wasn't going to do well against earthquakes, which were known to happen there from time to time, and b) it just plain looked ugly to them. It looked like something you'd make with an old Erector set.
Pfft, hahaha. Mysto.
While Strauss persisted with his suspension monstrosity, planners got Leon Moisseif, who designed the Manhattan Bridge in New York, to plan a suspension bridge, which he did, and which they immediately loved. Plans were changed further when the public rejected the color choices of gray and silver in exchange for the then-radical color choice of orangey-red.
Charmed would never have been quite the same.
Strauss did indeed get the bridge done in four years, and he made sure he got full credit by either firing co-architects and planners or just completely downplaying their roles in turning his original outrageous design into a San Francisco icon.


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STEUBENVILLE - These are exciting times in the Tri-State Area.
Our region is home to the Utica and Marcellus shale formations, which means we are sitting in the center of the nation's - and the world's - next great energy finds.
All indications are that the Marcellus shale region will be the second largest natural gas field in the world, and that's not taking into account the much larger Utica formation. When you add up all the numbers, the region could yield 5.5 billion barrels of oil and 15.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
The exploration for and removal of those natural resources will generate an economic boom in our area. Energy companies are buying land at a record pace. Workers are staying in area hotels and eating at area restaurants, and equipment is being purchased from area dealers. It presents the potential for thousands of local residents to find good-paying jobs.
It's a lot of activity to keep track of. That's why the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times are launching a new bi-weekly publication, Shale Play.
Shale Play, a free, stand-alone publication, will offer an in-depth look at the activities of the oil and gas industry in our area, and will allow readers to explore the opportunities that exist now, and more importantly, in the future.
"The oil and gas industry has the potential to bring about big changes in our economy very quickly, and we want to make sure our area's ready to take advantage of those opportunities. That's why the time is right for Shale Play," said Alex Marshall, publisher of the newspapers.
Shale Play will be distributed on the second and fourth Thursday of each month, with the inaugural edition to be published on Thursday. The publication will be mailed to area business owners. Copies also will be available at hotels, restaurants and other high-traffic locations throughout the Tri-State Area.
Linda Harris, business editor of the newspapers, will coordinate the publication.
"I'm excited about the opportunity to be able to do in-depth reporting on the local oil and gas industry," said Harris. "The industry is just in its infancy, but area businesses are already starting to see positive effects."
Oil and gas exploration covers all parts of the Tri-State Area, and Shale Play will be able to draw from reporting resouces from throughout the region to offer you the most in-depth package of stories and information in our region.
Shale Play will be targeted to those who work in the industry and the businesses which support it, which makes the publication a great avenue for advertisers.
"The oil and gas companies are looking to deal with local businesses. They are the people who know our area best," said Jason Mayberry, newspaper advertising director. "They are able to provide quality goods and services in a timely manner, which puts them in a great position to be a part of this explosive growth. Shale Play will offer an efficient way for those businesses to get their message to the people who make the decisions."
The oil and gas contained under our ground will help to make our country less dependent on foreign energy sources, and that's good for our nation, as well as our region.
"There's a real sense of optimism and excitement about what the oil and gas industry will do for our area," said Ross Gallabrese, executive editor. "Everyone is strapped for time, and that makes Shale Play a must-read for anyone involved in the industry."
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With the exception of the Baby, the 0 is our smallest guitar and is offered with the same shorter scale found on the 12-fret 00. Although measuring only 13.5 inches in width (smaller than a typical classical guitar), the Collings 0 has tone and volume that belies its first impression as being less than full-sized. It can double as a travel guitar or a small OM, performing both roles equally well. The same neck and woods options offered with larger Collings models are available on the 0 as well, giving players an almost infinite range of tonal possibilities.
Standard Features Include:
- Select sitka spruce top
- East Indian rosewood back and sides
- Cross-cut grained ivoroid and wood nitrate rosette
- Grained ivoroid top/back body binding
- Herringbone trim with matching 2-style backstrip
- Pre-war scalloped bracing
- Tortoise-style celluloid pickguard
- High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- Mahogany neck
- Square headstock with volute
- 15 degree headstock angle
- Ebony peghead overlay with inlaid Collings logo
- Ebony fingerboard with ebony belly-style bridge
- Mortise and tenon hybrid neck joint
- 20 Frets, neck joins the body at the 14th fret
- Modified V neck profile with 2 3/16" string spacing
- 14"-26" Compound fingerboard radius
- 1 11/16" Bone nut and drop-in saddle
- 24 7/8" Short scale Length
- Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire
- Abalone diamond and square fingerboard inlays
- Fully adjustable truss rod
- Ebony bridge pins and end pin
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This short documentary film examines acoustic guitar building at Collings Guitars and the focus on quality that has come to define the company culture.
- Body Length: 18 3/16"
- Body Depth at Side: 4 1/8"
- Lower Bout Width: 13 7/16"
- Total Length: 38"
- Scale Length: 24 7/8"
- Standard Nut Width: 1 11/16"
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- Interview: Bill Collings interview from Acoustic magazine
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Sister John, as she's called, joined the convent in Rome, and ever since this feisty Italian stepped foot in the Brazos Valley, she's truly touched the lives of all who've been around her. But before she arrived, she endured many hardships.
"I grew up in the war time, the Second World War," she explained. "It was rough. When they talk about poverty, I say you don't know about poverty. When you don't even have a piece of bread to eat, then you know what poverty is."
After living through some of life's toughest times, Sr. John chose to dedicate her life to serving God and answering that call has brought her to the Brazos Valley. Her path started in Rome, and since the early 1960s, she's called Somerville home, but if she were to be honest, and had she been allowed to pick her own path, she would have chosen elsewhere.
"My dream since I was a little girl was to go to Africa," she said. "That's always been my dream. When they sent me here, I cried for months. I didn't want to go, but you don't have choice. You have to go where they send you."
When she arrived in Somerville, besides helping a young priest build a parish with the help of his struggling parishioners, she was sure their fund-raising endeavor was different.
"When I saw the first rodeo, I thought everybody was crazy," she said. "I said, 'I'm never going to write my family and tell them what I see because they're going to come and get me.'
"The first rodeo, rain was pouring down and the people say we cannot barbecue, it's raining," she continued. "He said, 'you go barbecue it's not going to rain.' So he sat outside of the door, crying and saying the Rosary and blessed the rain. I said, 'really, these people are crazy. They're really crazy.'"
But everyone, including Sr. John weathered that storm, and soon thereafter, she discovered she was entering another whirlwind. She was going to be a teacher.
"I ended with 18 kids," she explained, "and I looked and said, 'what am I going to do? What am I going to do?' The priest at the time was Fr. Mahoney and said, 'if I can picture terror, you were in terror, weren't you?' I just looked and said 'I cannot do this, I can't.' He said, 'yes you can.'"
More than 30 years later, she's still teaching, in fact, she's proud that she's taught three generations of the same families, and most will say she's done it the only way she could possibly have done it: Sister John's Way. That special way has earned her one big honor: a street named after her.
This no-nonsense nun has found a home in the last place she would have picked to call home.
"This is my family," she said. "I consider all my family, all my children. I will do anything for them...anything."
Friday, Sr. John and her kids are holding a trike-a-thon to help raise money for St. Jude Children's Hospital. It's something they've done for years, and over time, they've raised more than $20,000 for the charity, which is a record for a group so young.


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Do Christians believe that criminals should be punished on Earth by state authorities?
If so, why are they not satisfied with the promised divine punishment in afterlife?
Do Christians believe that criminals should be punished on Earth by state authorities?
If so, why are they not satisfied with the promised divine punishment in afterlife?
The basis is that God ordained it. The Books of the Law prescribe specific earthly punishments for earthly crimes as well as establishing the fact that these are sins that carry eternal consequences.
The idea of an earthly government, which executes judgement is established in several parts of the Books of the Law, but an interesting, specific set of guidelines for an organized government is given in Exodus 18:
There is simply no reason to assume that Christ's offer of forgiveness from sin in the eternal has anything to do with doing away with earthly consequences for sin.
Added to that, the fact remains that for the most part, earthly punishment for crimes is a matter of civilian government, not the Church. (Yes, there are exceptions, and we'll leave arguing about those exceptions, such as some of the inquisitions, for another forum/question).
As for why governments have authority from a Christian perspective, you need not look any further than Romans 13:1:
Beyond this is the fact that fear of punishment is a deterrent. If you've ever seen mob mentality, or riots that occur when government authority breaks down, you can see that authority is in and of itself, good, and necessary for maintaining order and safety for the "good" citizenry.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
and here
I believe that The Fourth Commandment "Honor thy Father and Mother" can be extrapolated to Honor authority.
From Wikipedia on the Fourth Commandment
It is not a dissatisfaction with the promised divine judgement, it is the governing authority's role from God to "ensure as far as possible the common good of the society."


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I have been participating in Zumba lately and I feel more stiff after I do something else rather than Zumba. Is Zumba a good choice to working out or is it more a fun choice if it was Zumba or nothing? What does Zumba do?
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A big part of choosing a weight loss regiment is choosing something you are going to continue doing. Zumba appeals to a lot of people because it has a dance aspect, which makes it fun for them. (There is a stigma associated with working out in a "boring old gym.") If you are going to continue to do Zumba over other workout routines, then definitely stick with it.
As to how effective it is, that really depends on the length and intensity of your workout. There is a lot of movement to it, and if you are actually working hard (and sweating), then you are burning off calories. That means, assuming you watch your diet as well, you will lose weight and achieve muscle tone.
I would suggest that you do a combination of activities (helps mix it up, too).
Keep those three things in mind, and make sure you're working out at the proper intensity level, and you will see the changes you are looking for.
I do a lot of salsa and other latin dances which Zumba is based on. Mind you I'll do about 3-4 hours of it a week. And it does burn off a lot of calories.
If you get really good at Zumba with proper weight transfers and balance and can follow the music, then you'll really enjoy it and the weight will almost fall off on its own. Zumba like any other dancing is all about enjoying yourself. Pushing yourself to do more complicated dance patterns and moves.
The trick is not to set a weight loss goal, it's to set a dancing achievement goal, that way you'll get addicted and never stop enjoying. Then maybe go take real Zumba classes to challenge yourself, trade tips, etc. Next thing you know you could become a Zumba instructor. It's all about the right motivation. You may not want to become an instructor, but still aim for it so you never stop.
Remember, step on toes first, strengthen the core to help with the weight transfers.
Zumba, like any physical activity will have benefit in weight-loss and toning. It just depends on how long and how hard you go at it.
The idea is to keep up your heart rate and keep moving. As long as you do this you will be burning calories.
As wikipedia says:
With the dance exercises involved in Zumba this definitely fits in the aerobic exercise category. For best results you should combine this with some resistance training.
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At the beginning of the movie Gangs of New York, Priest Vallon tells his son not to wipe the blood of the blade after he's cut himself shaving, saying "The blood stays on the blade". I've watched the movie multiple times, but can never find what the meaning behind that phrase is. Anyone able to shed some light on this?
I just did a bit of digging on your behalf regarding this line, and there seems to be no concrete definition of it from any official source.
That said, I found several interpretations along the way, including:
1) "You cannot wash away your sins.";
2) The blood is worn as a badge of merit on the blade;
3) The blood remains on the blade and not on your hands (meaning you are relatively guilt-free).
Personally, considering the overtly religious themes within the film, I would side with option 1, especially since Priest Vallon is saying the line.
Complex Danish and/or Celtic feelings of remorse for family honor/protectiveness and achievement.
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Cat man, if you know how much current the light draws, you can have a good estimate of the burntime on a battery, certainly on low currents it is really precictable!
Isn't it in the manual??
The question is, how much light are you producing at a certain current draw, there a lot of brands have strange outputs!
It is difficult to estimate the amount of light, I hardly see the difference between 120 & 140 lumen on the piko,the one next to the other,yet the manual indicates that the battery life increases from 12 to 18 hours on a 2,5 Ah battery (2 cel), and I noticed the manual tends to underestimate burn time.
But I compared the piko to a chinese claimed 140 lumen flashlight and I rather ride with the piko at 50 lumen setting than with that torch on full power!
For me, zombie mode in general means that i need more light, it takes longer to notice the potential dangerous situation, and it takes longer to react. With low light settings i will end up in the pothole, with a bit more light I'll drive around the pothole!
I wouldn't want to rely on the light of others!
I could take the piko with the 2,7 Ah battery, and at 120 lumen have around 20 hours of light, front and rear, for 185 gram. It would allow to turn up the light for short periods to search for landmarks or in the more difficult situations, but the moment visibility is a bit less it might become difficult/ dangerous.
On the other hand, on a clear full moon night you might just need 20-50 lumen to read the map and to be visible.
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I think this might be a case of slight ambiguity in notation, but here goes:
On a test question, I was required to expand the expression $\log (ab)^n$. Since the logarithm is a function, I reasoned as follows:
\begin{align*} \log(ab)^n &= (\log(ab))^n\\ &= (\log(a)+\log(b))^n \end{align*}
However, after having our tests returned, I found that the teacher reasoned as follows:
\begin{align*} \log(ab)^n &= \log((ab)^n)\\ &= \log(a^nb^n)\\ &= \log(a^n)+\log(b^n)\\ &= n\log(a)+n\log(b) \end{align*}
I thought about asking, but decided to look in the textbook first, and found that the textbook does something like $\log(a+b)^n =n\log(a+b)$, so here I am.
My question is, which expansion is correct? Is one of them more standard than the other, or are they both acceptable interpretations? If you can link to some sources using one way or the other, that would also be appreciated.


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New Standards Adopted by Nearly All States Are Finding a Growing Group of Foes
As more classrooms across the country roll out universal math and reading standards, a growing group of critics are pressing officials to slow their implementation or dump the learning goals entirely.
This is the first school year that most states are using voluntary academic standards known as Common Core, which lay out what students should know from kindergarten through 12th grade. Written by a group of governors, state school officials and other experts with the goal of better preparing students for college and careers, the standards have been adopted entirely by 45 states and the District of Columbia since 2010. A 46th state, Minnesota, has adopted only the language-arts portion.
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A sampling of learning benchmarks under the Common Core.
3rd Grade Math
- Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions (e.g., 1/2 = 2/4 or 4/6 = 2/3). Explain why the fractions are equivalent, perhaps by using a visual model.
3rd Grade Language Arts
- Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
8th Grade Math
- Apply the Pythagorean theorem to determine unknown side lengths of right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions.
8th Grade Language Arts
- Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story propel action, reveal aspects of a character or provoke a decision.
High-School Algebra
- Interpret complicated expressions by viewing one or more of their parts as a single entity. For example, interpret P(1+r)n as the product of P and a factor not depending on P.
9th/10th Grade Language Arts
- Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible).
Source: Common Core State Standards Initiative
Now, the Common Core effort is under attack from an unlikely coalition: conservatives who decry the implementation costs and call the standards an intrusion into local education decisions; union leaders who worry that states have tied, or plan to tie, teacher evaluations to new Common Core exams; and some parents who contend their children are ill-prepared for the Common Core tests.
Indiana's Republican-controlled legislature passed legislation Friday that calls for the state board of education to hold hearings on the standards and reconsider its 2010 decision to adopt them. Legislatures in Michigan, Alabama and several other states are considering anti-Common Core bills, and the Republican National Committee in April called Common Core a "straightjacket on academic freedom and achievement." Sen. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa) is seeking to prohibit federal funding for any Common Core efforts.
Tuesday, Common Core was dealt a blow by one of its staunchest supporters. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, called for a moratorium on linking teacher evaluations to Common Core assessments until the standards are "properly implemented and field tested." While teacher unions have complained about using test scores in performance reviews, Ms. Weingarten has championed Common Core. She said Tuesday the standards are "creating a serious backlash as officials seek to make them count before they make them work."
The Obama administration has embraced the standards and prodded states to adopt them in its $4.35 billion Race to the Top initiative. Education Secretary Arne Duncan acknowledged that some teachers are "pretty stressed about the pace and sequence of change," adding it is "a concern that we've heard and are thinking through carefully."
Common Core grew from an effort by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to create a list of college- and career-ready skills that students should possess before high-school graduation. Groups of subject experts created detailed goals. Most states have yet to roll out Common Core tests, but most have said they will do so by 2015.
Supporters say Common Core prepares students for college and for global competition better than earlier state standards.
David Coleman, president of the College Board and widely considered the architect of Common Core, said any public debate that prompts more people to study the standards would lead them to see that they include "work in high-quality fiction and nonfiction, math that is precise and demanding, and a platform for more kids to achieve at a high level."
Some critics decry the quality of the standards, including their focus on adding more nonfiction or "informational" text to classrooms, which they argue crowds out literature. Others worry implementation has been so rushed teachers aren't prepared to teach the standards and students aren't ready for the tests.
In Kentucky, the first state to replace state exams with tests based on Common Core, the percentage of students meeting math and reading goals dropped by about one-third last year. In New York, some parents and teachers said students froze or broke into tears because they ran out of time to finish new tougher tests in mid-April.
No state has completely pulled out of Common Core, but Utah and Alabama have backed out of the consortium of states working to create computer-based Common Core exams.
Indiana has gone the farthest in slowing things down, thanks to two Indianapolis mothers. Heather Crossin learned of Common Core in the fall of 2011 when her daughter brought home a math book linked to the standards that she found to be weaker than the previous textbook. She was incensed the standards were adopted with little public comment and teamed with another mom to lead a statewide effort to drop the standards. The proposal failed, but lawmakers voted last week to reassess the state's participation.
"This is an unprecedented loss of local control and we were not going to stand for it," Ms. Crossin said.
Ashley Hebda, an English teacher at George Washington Community High School in Indianapolis and a supporter of Common Core, said the fight over standards is causing "massive confusion" in classrooms. "I can see these standards are helping my students and a lot of us are worried this back and forth and indecision will only hurt our kids," she said.
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In Maryland, there is no doubt that immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators play an important role. Immigrant entrepreneurs bring in additional revenue, create jobs, and contribute significantly to the state's economy. Highly skilled immigrants are vital to the state's innovation industries, and to the metropolitan areas within the state, helping to boost local economies. Furthermore, local government, business, and non-profit leaders recognize the importance of immigrants in their communities and support immigration through local "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
Immigrant entrepreneurs contribute to Maryland's economy.
- From 2006 to 2010, there were 50,028 new immigrant business owners [1] in Maryland, and in 2010, 21.2 percent [1] of all business owners in Maryland were foreign-born.
- In 2010, new immigrant business owners had a total net business income [1] of $2.8 billion, which is 16.3 percent of all net business income in the state.
- Maryland is home to many successful companies with at least one founder who was an immigrant. Research by the Kauffman Foundation shows that immigrants started around 25 percent [2] of all engineering and technology companies in Maryland from 2006 to 2012.
- Furthermore, their research finds that between 2006 and 2012, 16 percent [2] of engineering and technology companies in Maryland were Chinese-founded, second only to California.
- In 2010, the foreign-born share of business owners was 21 percent [3] in the Baltimore metropolitan area.[vii] In the case of Baltimore, the immigrant business ownership rate was higher than the metro area's foreign-born share of total population.
Highly skilled immigrants are vital to Maryland's innovation industries, which in turn helps lead American innovation and creates jobs.
- Immigrants contribute to Maryland's economic growth and competitiveness by earning degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields from the state's research universities. In 2009, almost 26.6 percent [4] of STEM graduates from the state's research-intensive universities were foreign-born, and almost 54.3 percent of graduates earning PhDs in engineering in Maryland were not born in the U.S.
- In 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor certified 7,533 H-1B labor certification applications [5] in Maryland, with an average annual wage of $69,389, which is within range of Maryland's median household income [6] of $72,999, but higher than its per capita income of $36,056.
- An expansion [7] of the high-skilled visa program would create an estimated 8,300 new jobs in Maryland by 2020. By 2045, this expansion would add [7] around $3.4 billion to Gross State Product and increase personal income by more than $3.3 billion. The following are examples [8] of metropolitan area demand for high-skilled foreign-born workers.
- The Baltimore-Towson metropolitan area had 3,560 H-1B high-skilled visa requests [9] in 2010-2011, with 61.4 percent of H-1B visa-holders working in STEM occupations. Major employers with a need for H-1B high-skilled workers include Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore City Public School System, University of Maryland-Baltimore, HH Medstar Health Inc., and Merkle Inc.
- The Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan area, of which several Maryland counties and population centers are a part, had 14,569 H-1B visa requests [9] in 2010-2011, with 64.4 percent of visa-holders working in STEM occupations. Major employers include several universities in the area.
While the numbers are compelling, they don't tell the whole story.
- Immigrant entrepreneurs not only contribute to large innovative companies, but to small business formation in local communities. In cities across Maryland, immigrant family-owned small businesses contribute to the vitality of their local communities. Although initially aimed at other immigrant customers, many businesses quickly see an expansion of their clientele to include a diverse array of immigrant and native-born customers alike.
- For example, Sharad and Sonal Doshi, originally from India, employ around 100 people in various businesses [10], including a Subway restaurant on South Market Street in downtown Frederick.
- Maryland also attracts immigrant tech entrepreneurs [11], as the following examples illustrate.
- In Baltimore, Johan Sebastian Garcia, from Bogota, Colombia, started a digital marketing company [11], Eldorado Tech, geared toward developing software for restaurants to reward their clients.
- In Rockville, Yan A. Su, from China, started [11] GenProMarkers that provides biotechnology services to the Defense Department, the National Institutes of Health and other research centers. Specifically, his company uses biomarkers to measure disease progression to understand what treatments are most effective.
- In Silver Spring, Joan Wang, also from China, launched [11] iDesign Engineering, Inc. over a dozen years ago. Her company works with various private developers in several states as well as contracting with the Maryland State Highway Administration and the Architect of the Capitol.
- In Bethesda, Carmen Ortiz Larsen, born of Ecuadorian parents in Rome, Italy, is the founder [12] and CEO of Aquas Inc., an information technology company. The company focuses [13] on information technology solutions for public- and private-sector clients in the fields of agriculture and environmental science, healthcare, and transit and infrastructure.
- Regarding Hispanic-owned business growth [14] overall, Raul Medrano, a business development specialist at the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development, noted that Census figures show that Hispanic-owned businesses in Maryland grew almost 68 percent from 2002 to 2007.
- As Medrano stated [14], "It doesn't surprise me that the percentages were so high. The entrepreneurship spirit in the Hispanic community is alive and well." He also noted that immigrant communities are accustomed to "doing more with less…with taking risks…The mindset is to be resourceful, to seek opportunities, to adjust to change, to be flexible."
- In Baltimore, the Baltimore Sun stated [15] that "between 2000 and 2010, when the city's overall population declined by more than 4 percent, the city's Latino community grew by nearly 135 percent, according to the Baltimore City Hispanic Commission. In some South Baltimore and Southeast Baltimore neighborhoods, the percentage of Hispanic and Latino residents went from under 5 percent to more than 20 percent."
- Bill Villanueva, president of the Maryland Hispanic Business Conference, described [15] how the community's growing presence allows greater contributions to the local economy. He noted that since 2010, Hispanic-owned businesses in Maryland have increased from 21,000 to 40,000 in 2013, and that they represent the "fastest-growing business component" in Maryland. He also noted that "a city like Baltimore needs our tax base."
In Maryland, some localities have begun recognizing and supporting immigration through local "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
- The statewide Maryland Council for New Americans [16], created in December 2008, is an office of the state government whose goal is to review and recommend "new policies and practices to expedite immigrant integration into the economic and civic life of the State."
- In August 2009, the Council issued a report [17] about renewing immigrant integration in Maryland, with a particular emphasis on workforce, citizenship, financial services, and access to government services. The Council provides information about a variety of organizations and resources that can help newcomers to Maryland better integrate into their new communities.
- The City of Baltimore is also encouraging ways to attract and welcome immigrants as part of the city's growth strategy. Recent immigrant welcoming work in Baltimore is based on the findings [18] and recommendations in a report [19] issued by Baltimore's Abell Foundation in 2002. The report's conclusion noted that "immigration is the key to reversing Baltimore's population decline."
- In June of 2010, the Baltimore City Council approved a resolution [20] opposing the "Secure Communities" federal immigration enforcement initiative. "Citing the city's rich immigrant history and recent progress fostering trust between local law enforcement and immigrant communities," the press release about the action said, "the resolution decries the federal program's record."
- In March of 2012, Baltimore's Mayor signed an executive order [21] to protect new Americans from discrimination. She stated, "Throughout Baltimore's great history, we have strived to be a place that welcomes foreign-born residents to participate fully in civic life, recognizing that our city's ethnic and cultural diversity is a key element to strong and growing neighborhoods."
- The Montgomery County Charles W. Gilchrist Center for Cultural Diversity [22], an affiliate of Welcoming America's Welcoming Cities and Counties [23] initiative, is the county's official welcome center for immigrants and newcomers.
- The Center provides services to immigrants through partnerships with other organizations and through skilled volunteers. Services include [24] information and referral services, English as a second language, workforce development, civic engagement, computer literacy, citizenship, and pro-bono legal assistance.
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Beijing has four distinct seasons. The hot summer weather begins in May and runs through August, with temperatures rising to 100ºF or more. July and August are also quite rainy. Spring and fall are considered the best times to visit the city. Temperatures are more moderate – 68ºF to 86ºF – and there is less rain. In the fall, however, warm days may be followed by cold, frosty nights. Winter requires plenty of warm clothing. The weather is generally dry and sunny in the winter, but the temperatures don't rise above freezing.
A word about air quality in Beijing: On a typical day, pollution levels in the city may be as much as five times higher than what the World Health Organization deems safe. When there is no rain or wind, ozone and fine dust accumulate. China is making attempts to clear the air, but even healthy visitors may experience sore throats and coughing. Children, the chronically ill, the elderly, and anyone who suffers from asthma face the greatest risk. If you experience symptoms, try to limit your time outdoors. And you should, of course, avoid exercising outdoors.
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I can get a user to authorize my app and later on I can post on their wall with this code:
new Facebook(...);
$facebook->api('/'.$uid.'/feed', 'post', array('message' => 'My app says hi'));
This works but the post that appears on the user's wall is by the user (it has their face and name next to the post with "via My App" next to it). Is there a way to have the post appear to be by the app (or my page) with my profile photo and name next to it?
I have tried many variations of the above including getting the app access token explicitly as documented but this gives the same result.
Is it possible for an app or page to post on a user's wall as itself rather than pretending to be the user?