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Can someone explain the main differences (pros/cons) between the Canon XS and XSi?
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DPReview's done a great job on that.
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Of these, the sensor & processor are worth the price of admission.
Mainly the XSi will have a higher resolution 12/10MP, more focus points 9/7, larger LCD screen 3in/2.5in, and a faster continuous drive 3.5fps/3fps.
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I write my emails in two languages. So system-wide spelling language setting is not very useful for me, since in span of working day I usually write half of my emails in one language and half in another. Now the current spelling language switching mechanism is not very good. First of all I need to invoke spelling window with
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Your family will love this healthy cherry cheesecake-in-a-cup.
Serves: Serves: 8 (2 each)
- 1 Pillsbury refrigerated unbaked 9-inch piecrust
- 1 (4-serving) package JELL-O sugar-free vanilla cook-and-serve pudding mix
- 1 (4-serving) package JELL-O sugar-free cherry gelatin
- 2 cups (one 16-ounce can) tart red cherries, packed in water, drained, and 1/2 cup liquid reserved
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 tablespoons (1/2 ounce) slivered almonds
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- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Unfold piecrust. Using a (2 1/2-inch) biscuit cutter, cut 12 circles. Press dough scraps together and cut 4 more circles, for a total of 16 circles.
- Place pastry circles into 16 miniature muffin cups. Press into cups to form shells.
- In a medium saucepan, combine dry pudding mix, dry gelatin, reserved cherry liquid, and water.
- Cook over medium heat until mixture thickens and starts to boil, stirring often.
- Remove from heat. Stir in cherries and almond extract.
- Evenly spoon mixture into prepared pastry shells. Sprinkle about 1/4 teaspoon almonds over top of each.
- Bake for 18 to 22 minutes.
- Place pans on a wire rack and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Carefully remove tarts from pans and allow to cool completely.
- If you haven't got a biscuit cutter, you can use a small glass to cut out the circles of dough.
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Top 20 warehouses: Forecast brightens for 3PL and public refrigerated warehouses
At Modern, we always write about what's happening "inside the four walls" of warehouses. In this article, however, we're talking about the actual warehouses—more specifically, the top 20 North American third party logistics (3PL) warehouses and public refrigerated warehouses.
To get the what's what on the who's who in warehousing, Modern contacted two industry insiders. Dick Armstrong, chair of Armstrong & Associates, weighs in on the 3PL side, and Mark Blanchard, president and CEO of New Orleans Cold Storage and current chair of International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW), shares his insight on the public refrigerated warehouse side.
Third-party logistics providers
This year, DHL Exel Supply Chain remains the undisputed No. 1 company with 94.6 million square feet of warehouse space spread throughout 491 facilities. While that figure is down 4.4 million square feet, or 4.44% from last year, it's still nearly triple the amount of space (35 million square feet) operated by Jacobson Companies. Jacobson moved up to this year's No. 2 position, trading places with GENCO Supply Chain Solutions. GENCO is currently No. 3 in the ranking with 34.7 million square feet of space. Rounding out the top 5 are No. 4 OHL with 30.1 million square feet and Caterpillar Logistics Services with 29 million square feet.
Combined, this year's top 5 companies operate 223.4 million square feet of warehouse space, or more than 43% of the total.
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Also Brandon Graham retweeted me and is following my twitter. I feel like Im gonna geek out way to hard when I meet him at ECCC.
Also Brandon Graham retweeted me and is following my twitter. I feel like Im gonna geek out way to hard when I meet him at ECCC.
About how he hates the movies they've done about his comics, like V for Vendetta and Watchmen
I was watching that cover of Batman and I was thinking: "They've ripped off Hellboy a Hellboy cover? What the hell?" Then I saw it was a Elsworlds and saw Mike Mignola name on it, and everything made sense
Been reading 'Terminator - Burning Earth' lately, it's only short but I'm loving it. There's a few dumb plot points but generally the story's really good, feels a lot like the original Terminator's future did and the art style seems to really fit - well-drawn and colourful but still sort of murky.
Trying to find something similar in tone but from the Aliens universe atm.
How I'd love to get back into the world of comics. Unfortunately I fail to find a decent independent store in my area.
Forbidden Planet can blow me.
Would anyone recommend any of the digital distributors should I choose to go down this path again?
my shop has a digital store...
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also... I am moist.
You are the first to see this. I havent even made it public yet. there's no description, This is just the DC video. it's long, but there's some good stuff in there.
Your shop does have a digital store and the link is: http://www.zanaducomics.com/buy-from-zanadu/
ComiXology is a great site for digital comics, and by buying from that link on that page you are helping Zanadu Comics a little
Also that trailer is fucking rad!!! I wanna read that now, i had no idea of that comic, mostly because I don't really care about European comics even though I'm European (and a terrible one I am)
Oh yeah and thanks for sharing that video, will watch it later on today!
I just bought the book, it's out of print so I paid 70 bucks for it...
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WHAT? So I guess I'm buying it cheaper on amazon UK and Hardcover!
Oh found another good price over, and you can order from this site to any part of the world -> http://www.bookdepository.com/Incal-.../9781906838393
Already ordered Sandman a week ago, guess I'll be ordering this one as well, there are lots of copies available in europe
I just got the one with the yellow cover, it's a nice size, matches my Before the incal and will look great next to that metabarons, and Diosamante, those Humanoid hardcovers are so fucking pretty...
in other news... I may or may not have spent nearly 200 bucks on comics today... Incal, Before the Incal, Cursed Pirate Girl, Wonder Woman 15, Thor #3, Saga #8, Multiple Warheads #3, Happy, #3, Avenger #2 (read this series if you are not... Jerome Opena's art is fucking brilliant...), Avengers arena #2, Hawkeye #6, Indestructable Hulk #2, Captain Marvel #8, And Captain America #2...
So many good books.
Wanted to pick up nowhere men #2 but missed it.
also yeah Umber, Runaways is awesome. well... the BKV stuff at least.
That's an awesome list for this week, will hopefully be reading some comics today, same comics except for Captain Marvel and Happy and Multiple Warheads (might have to look at this one someday).
Runaways is awesome, but I haven't read all of it, mot enough I think, have to read it proper now, since I only read single issues here and there
captain marvels art is fucking terrible but I'm loving the book... you need to get multiple warheads... it's pretty much amazing.
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What the fuck.
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5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen
We found out recently that if you try to leave a little kid in a graveyard late at night, he'll freak out. Even if you offer to leave him a gun to protect himself. Why? It's because on some instinctual level, all humans know it's just a matter of time until the zombies show up.
Our culture is full of tales of the undead walking the Earth, from our religions to our comic books. But, some sort of zombie apocalypse isn't actually possible, right?
Actually, yes. It's quite possible. Here's five ways it could happen, according to science.
#5. Brain Parasites
As seen in ...
Resident Evil IV
What are they?
Parasites that turn victims into mindless, zombie-like slaves are fairly common in nature. There's one called toxoplasmosa gondii that seems to devote its entire existence to being terrifying.
This bug infects rats, but can only breed inside the intestines of a cat. The parasite knows it needs to get the rat inside the cat (yes, we realize this sounds like the beginning of the most fucked-up Dr. Seuss poem ever) so the parasite takes over the rat's freaking brain, and intentionally makes it scurry toward where the cats hang out. The rat is being programmed to get itself eaten, and it doesn't even know.
Of course, those are just rats, right?
How it can result in zombies:
Hey, did we mention that half the human population on Earth is infected with toxoplasmosa, and don't know it? Hey, maybe you're one of them. Flip a coin.
Oh, also, they've done studies and shown that the infected see a change in their personality and have a higher chance of going batshit insane.
Chances this could cause a zombie apocalypse:
Humans and rats aren't all that different; thats why they use them to test our drugs. All it takes is a more evolved version of toxoplasmosa, one that could to do us what it does to the rats. So, imagine if half the world suddenly had no instinct for self-preservation or rational thought. Even less than they do now, we mean.
If you're comforting yourself with the thought that it may take forever for such a parasite to evolve, you're forgetting about all the biological weapons programs around the world, intentionally weaponizing such bugs. You've got to wonder if the lab workers don't carry out their work under the unwitting command of the toxoplasmosa gondii already in their brains. If you don't want to sleep at night, that is.
You may be protesting that technically these people have never been dead and thus don't fit the dictionary definition of "zombies," but we can assure you that the distinction won't matter a whole lot once these groaning hordes are clawing their way through your windows.
#4. Neurotoxins
As seen in ...
The movie The Serpent and the Rainbow, the upcoming Resident Evil 5 video game.
What are they?
There are certain kinds of poisons that slow your bodily functions to the point that you'll be considered dead, even to a doctor (okay, maybe not to a good doctor). The poison from fugu (Japanese blowfish) can do this.
The victims can then be brought back under the effects of a drug like datura stramonium (or other chemicals called alkaloids) that leave them in a trance-like state with no memory, but still able to perform simple tasks like eating, sleeping, moaning and shambling around with their arms outstretched.
How it can result in zombies:
"Can?" How about "does."
This stuff has happened in Haiti; that's where the word "zombie" comes from. There are books about it, the most famous ones by Dr. Wade Davis (Passage of Darkness and The Serpent and the Rainbow). Yes, the movie The Serpent and the Rainbow was based on this guy's actual science stuff. How much of it was fact? Well, there was that one scene where they strapped the guy naked to a chair and drove a huge spike through his balls. We're hoping that part wasn't true.
What is definitely true is the story of Clairvius Narcisse. He was a Haitian guy who was declared dead by two doctors and buried in 1962. They found him wandering around the village 18 years later. It turned out the local voodoo priests had been using naturally occurring chemicals to basically zombify people and putting them to work on the sugar plantations (no, really).
So, the next time you're pouring a little packet of sugar into your coffee, remember that it may have been handled by a zombie at some point.
Chances this could cause a zombie apocalypse:
On the one hand, it's already fucking happened! So that earns it some street cred right off the bat. But, even if some evil genius intentionally distributed alkaloid toxins to a population to turn them into a shambling, mindless horde, there is no way to make these zombies aggressive or cannabalistic.
#3. The Real Rage Virus
As seen in ...
28 Days Later
What is it?
In the movie, it was a virus that turned human beings into mindless killing machines. In real life, we have a series of brain disorders that do the same thing. They were never contagious, of course. Then, Mad Cow Disease came along. It attacks the cow's spinal cord and brain, turning it into a stumbling, mindless attack cow.
And, when humans eat the meat ...
How it can result in zombies:
When Mad Cow gets in humans, they call it Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Check out the symptoms:
- Changes in gait (walking)
- Hallucinations
- Lack of coordination (for example, stumbling and falling)
- Muscle twitching
- Myoclonic jerks or seizures
- Rapidly developing delirium or dementia
Sure, the disease is rare (though maybe not as rare as we think) and the afflicted aren't known to chase after people in murderous mobs. Yet.
But, it proves widespread brain infections of the Rage variety are just a matter of waiting for the right disease to come along.
Chances this could cause a zombie apocalypse:
If the whole sudden, mindless violence idea seems far-fetched, remember that you are just one brain chemical (serotonin) away from turning into a mindless killing machine (they've tested it by putting rats in Deathmatch-style cages and watching them turn on each other). All it would take is a disease that destroys the brain's ability to absorb that one chemical and suddenly it's a real-world 28 Days Later.
So, imagine such an evolved disease, which we'll call Super Mad Cow (or, Madder Cow) getting a foothold through the food supply. Say this disease spreads through blood-on-blood contact, or saliva-on-blood contact. Now you have a Rage-type virus that can be transmitted with a bite.
Just like the movie. With one bite, you're suddenly the worst kind of zombie:
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The state's pension funds, known as the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, generated a return on investment of nearly 12.1 percent for the 2013 fiscal year through March 31, State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier said Friday.
The net market value of the funds has grown by $2.3 billion since June 30, 2012, with assets valued at about $2.3 billion, Nappier said. The $2.3 billion net increase stems from a $2.9 billion increase in investment returns offset by about $600 million in net beneficiary payments, she said.
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Scholaris Gifted Academy
Connie Gordon has twenty years classroom experience working in the field of gifted education, and is the founder of Scholaris Gifted Academy. Under the guidance of Sharon Gerleman, Connie has developed and taught graduate level classes in gifted education and has designed adjunct programs specifically for gifted learners.
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Scholaris Gifted Academy had tremendous growth over the past year, as a school and as a community supporting gifted learners. Not only have we doubled our physical space since opening last year, but we have also doubled our student body. We are so grateful to everyone for your support and continued trust. This month parents in the SGA community will again be hosting monthly meetings for anyone interested in learning more about gifted learners and their unique needs.
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Scholaris Gifted Academy offers a full-time, multi-aged program for gifted learners in a non-traditional classroom setting. Through individualized instruction and an advanced curriculum, the school provides a safe learning environment for rigorous education in addition to building strong relationships, allowing for growth in decision making skills, fostering respect for the self and others, and providing opportunities for honest self-evaluation. We value families as partners in creating a nurturing environment that is unique to the academy.
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Parents and/or educators may not think a child is gifted if they are not receiving good grades. Underachievement describes a discrepancy between a student's performance and his actual ability. The roots of this problem differ, based on each child's experiences. Gifted students may become bored or frustrated in an unchallenging classroom situation causing them to lose interest, learn bad study habits, or distrust the school environment. Other students may mask their abilities to try to fit in socially with their same-age peers. No matter the cause, it is imperative that a caring and perceptive adult help gifted learners break the cycle of underachievement in order to achieve their full potential. We will be discussing Underachieving Gifted Learners at our next parent meeting on Wednesday, April 23, from 6-8PM at Fiddleheads in Mequon.
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Q: My husband and I gave up smoking while I was pregnant. I started back after our son was born, but my husband is still smoke-free. Our son is now 15. We've raised him to the best of our ability and are very proud of him.
Our son began dating a 16-year-old girl named "Lorrie" three months ago. She's very attractive and mature for her age. She has her driver's license and she smokes with her parent's permission. In other words, she's my worst nightmare, but I've always been polite to her.
They spend a lot of time at our house and I allow her to smoke while she's here because I smoke in the house and she has her parent's permission. To tell you the truth, due to her smoking, I never thought the relationship would last, but it doesn't seem to bother my son. He lights her cigarettes and I've even seen him kiss her while she still has smoke in her mouth.
In the past, when I tried to talk to him about my concerns, he told me he wasn't smoking and then he'd change the subject. Today I found a pack of my cigarettes rolled up in a sock while I was putting away his clothes. It's official, my son is smoking. I haven't told him I know yet because I don't know how to handle it. Would I be right to prohibit him from seeing Lorrie since I believe she's the cause of this?
A: Lorrie is not the cause of your son's smoking. At 15, he alone is responsible for his smoking. Forbidding him to see Lorrie because he is smoking will neither prevent him from seeing her nor cause him to stop smoking. You are conflicted and no doubt feel guilty because you have smoked for your son's entire life, exposing him to your example and second-hand smoke. You no doubt would feel hypocritical forbidding Lorrie's smoking in your home, since she smokes with her parent's approval and you smoke in your home in your son's presence.
This situation presents you, your husband, and your son with some worthy challenges. First, tell your son that you found your cigarettes in his sock and ask him to be truthful with you about his smoking. Let's get the truth on the table first. You and your husband both know how difficult it is to stop smoking. It's one of the worst addictions and very hard to kick permanently.
Congratulations go to your husband for quitting and remaining cigarette-free for the past 15 years. You and your husband need to help your son in any way that you can to stop smoking. Despite Lorrie's influence, you must help him and do so without any blame or shame. I would also ask to have a discussion with Lorrie about your worries about your son's smoking. Regardless of her own smoking, she realizes that smoking is terribly unhealthy. She also realizes, or should realize, the dangers of second-hand smoke. If she realizes the harm of second-hand smoke to others, then you can appeal to her not to smoke when she is with your son. You realize, however, that you cannot ask her to do something that you are not willing to do. If you ask Lorrie to refrain for smoking in your house with your son, then you must do the same.
Whether or not they remain girlfriend and boyfriend, your son may become addicted to cigarettes (becoming addicted happens very quickly) and remain a smoker after they have broken up. The chances of them breaking up, given the average length of teen romances, are very high. The chance that he will become addicted to cigarettes is also very high.
I am suggesting a reality check for you, your husband, your son, Lorrie, and Lorrie's parents. You have to decide whether or not you wish to continue damaging your family's health with your second-hand smoke. Your husband has to acknowledge that your second-hand smoke has been damaging his health and your son's health for the past 15 years. He has a right, as does your son, to demand that you stop smoking in the home or anywhere else in their presence. We know what smoking has done to your health.
Your son needs to do everything in his power to stop smoking. Lorrie needs to hear your concerns about your son's health and her smoking in front of your son. So do her parents. You can talk to her parents in a non-judgmental way about this, using your own addiction and guilt as part of the discussion. Even if you will not now agree to stop smoking inside your home, you and your husband cannot allow Lorrie to smoke inside your home. Simply put, you can at least prevent her second-hand smoke from harming your son and your husband.
My suggestions for dealing with your son's smoking set his health and the health of your family as the top priorities. You may choose to ignore them or you may choose to use this situation as your wake-up call. Your actions will show your priorities. Get all the help and support from family, friends, and professionals that you can to clear the air for those you love...and for yourself as well.
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F100 Build Up - Behind the Scenes at the Roadster Shop - Part 1Written by on January 2, 2007 Mike Crimaldi's '53 F-100Part 1: Back To Where Henry Started
About 20 miles west of Chicago, Illinois, the F-100 is being reinvented-not rehashed or restored, but taken to a new level. These trucks have been here for us since day one, or since 1953, if you want to put an actual date on it. Over the years they have done everything, and everything has been done to them, from the worst back-country in-a-pinch repairs to basic driver maintenance to having tons of time and money dumped into 'em for the sake of winning awards/shows and the recognition of a community or the country, for that matter.
Mike Crimaldi's story isn't much different from other classic car/truck owners. He had a '53 F-100 back in high school and used it for the kind of stuff kids do, like cruising and dating or both while attending the prom with his girlfriend, whom he wound up marrying. Mike found a possible '53 to fill the shoes of his long lost Ford, called up the guys at The Roadster Shop in Elgin, Illinois, and started a plan. The heads of the Roadster Shop, Neal Gerber and his two sons, Phil and Jeremy, got artist Eric Brockmeyer in on the whole deal to enhance and plant their vision onto paper for an initial draft of what Mike's '53 Ford F-500 dump truck would look like. That's right, dump truck! The Roadster Shop would only use the original cab and doors anyway, so it didn't really matter what the truck started out as. Regardless, one look at Eric's rendering and I'm sure even a few Chevy guys are amazed at the possible outcome.
The shop was excited about Mike's truck, but the only way this thing was gonna come to life was with plenty of old-fashioned hard work, so they jumped in with grinders a flyin'. Most people probably know The Roadster Shop builds chassis for just about anything you want, but they also do turnkey cars, trucks, and hot rods, so what you're about to see is a behind the scenes look at what The Roadster Shop is capable of doing amongst the 300-400 chassis they build every year.
Unfortunately, before Chad Glasshagel and Jeremy Gerber could get going on all the trick sheetmetal fabrication, they had to bring the stock tin back to ground zero. The truck was decent as far as dents go and didn't have many miles on it, which is usually the case with heavy-duty trucks, but they found rust up to their ears! What you'll see is the abbreviated story of all they had to go through to cut out and fix all the cancer after the cab was chemically stripped.
While the cab was out, the chassis was built so the '53 could go back together on a solid foundation comprised of all-new fabricated and back-welded 'rails built in-house by Chris Patzer. Once Chris was done with the boxed 'rails, Doug Leetzow installed the Heidt's Superide IFS that was pushed forward 4 inches to accentuate the modern design of the truck's stance. Out back there's a Heidt's triangulated four-link that keeps the 9-inch in place. The truck will sit on QA1 coilovers with Wilwood 12-inch cross-drilled and slotted discs to stop the monster World Products-built Merlin big-block that'll nestle down in the frame.
How's that for a tease? Read on for a pictorial introduction to what's happening to this '53 F-100 at The Roadster Shop, and stay tuned as we follow along until its completion, which will result in a full feature.
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Boy howdy! How many of these big guys have you seen in old towns across the country just rotting away? That's exactly what this '53 Ford F-500 ex-dump truck was doing until Mike Crimaldi bought the beast and hauled it to The Roadster Shop in Elgin, Illinois, for above and beyond the full treatment.Just opening the Ford's sunburnt door unleashes a plethora of rust. This is the tricky stuff, too, the kind that not only gets through the floor, but almost everywhere inside, out, and in between as well.This was all they used from the hulk of the truck-just the doors and cab; kind of humbling, huh? Anyway, it was off to get chemically stripped, which would reveal just how bad the body rot was.Never mind the frame for a minute, how about all that serious equipment around it! The guys at The Roadster Shop aren't messing around. Chris Patzer whipped up the 'rails for the '53 that he back-welded the inside seams in before welding in the boxing plate. He fabricated them from four major pieces since they didn't start with stamped 'rails.After Chris was finished, Doug Leetzow stepped in and set the chassis up by installing crossmembers, motor mounts, body mounts, and suspension components.The Roadster Shop builds a tubular dual-level center crossmember that adds plenty of beef to the chassis since it ties so much of the frame together.The dummy big-block, Tremec five-speed from Keisler, and Heidt's IFS are mocked up into place before the final mounts are made and everything is welded to the frame.The Heidt's triangulated four-bar and Superide IFS are installed complete with rack-and-pinion steering and Wilwood cross-drilled and slotted 12-inch rotors. What you can't tell yet is that the wheelbase was stretched 4 inches by moving the front axle centerline forward to give the truck a modern, more aggressive stance. The crew here delights and specializes in custom and one-off chassis.
Most of the brake lines were run while the chassis was in the jig, so with some "roller" wheels and tires the brand spankin' new underpinnings are on their way to see how the body is coming along.But first, here's a peek into the crate from World Products (who couldn't build a low-horsepower motor if they tried). We found a 509-inch Merlin big-block Chevy!Yes, that says the dyno at Bill Mitchell's found the Rat to push out a mere 564 horsepower and a modest 599 lb-ft of torque. Holy tire smoke, Batman!The cab returned from Wisconsin sans paint, surface rust, and a few square feet of metal from the bottom of the truck up. At least they now knew what they were dealing with.They are used to a little corrosion in this part of the country, so it probably wasn't much of a surprise, but needless to say, the floor was full of it, the cowl was full of it, the rockers were full of it, etc.Underneath the rear of the cab there was quite a bit of rust, but the bracing held it in place. This proved to be a common theme throughout the rest of the truck, but whatever patch panels they couldn't get from Dennis Carpenter Reproductions they made in-house.The whole rear floor section had to come out. To try and keep the finished product looking unmolested, the factory spot welds were drilled out to remove metal when there was any metal left behind it.Jeremy Gerber and Chad Glasshagel triumphed over one of Mother Nature's attempts to return the minerals in the truck back to the earth. Next they moved on to another battle. When any project's structural integrity is compromised this bad with rust, it's a good idea to weld in some sort of crossbraces to keep the body from moving during the repairs.
Almost as if it were in an automotive anatomy class, here's the area behind the lower cowl section that was severely rotted to the point that much of the inner bracing had to go, which will have to be fabbed from scratch.To make sure the '53 was up to snuff when it's done, a fender mount doubler panel was made. It goes on the inside of the cowl area where the rear of the fender bolts to the cowl.Speaking of structural integrity, this is the bottom of the cowl where it meets the floor and hinge pocket area and locates a body mount. There's some pretty important stuff goin' on here, huh? This is why temporary bracing is critical. Carefully dissecting the rust and remembering how an area goes back together is time consuming, but it will result in a better finished product.What a relief it is to see the all-new pieces back together on the driver's side. From here you can see the fender mount doubler in the cowl.Here's a shot with the cab on its back and the all-new rocker panel welded in. Luckily, there were a few braces under here that weren't rusted and could be used as a gauge to rebuild on.With that much rust in the cab, the doors were pretty bad, too. After all the crusty stuff was cut out, the new Dennis Carpenter inner bottoms were put in place.You can see the back side of the inner panel here and how much was cut out for it and the new skin section.Not a job for the novice, laying down a few feet of weld across a panel like this can seriously go sideways quick. Luckily, it's old hat to these guys as they fire up the TIG, do some skillful hammer-welding, and finish the job off with the same attention to grinding duties, which if done carelessly can warp what you're working on.
With the welder fired up, everything else on the body is going to be filled, like the cowl vent, side louvers, door handles, etc.How could we forget the cab corners? They were part of the Swiss cheese effect the truck had taken on over the years.


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A sergeant at the scene said two men in the Ford pulled into the area on Proctor between 20th and 21st and one of them got out of the car and asked someone to call 911.
The other man in the car jumped out and fled the scene.
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A neutron can decay into a proton, an electron, and neutrino. Could an antiproton, a positron, and a neutrino combine into a neutron? Could this be where much of the "missing" antimatter is?
Assuming that by "negatron" you mean a anti-proton, then no. It violated the conservation of baryon number (for aproton $B = -1$ and for a neutron $B = 1$) and in any case, free neutrons are unstable--it's not just that they can decay, they will decay.
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What exercises do you recommend, if one's main target is broad shoulders (and chest too, but less priority)? Does reducing exercises for other muscle group help? Any other tips?
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Wide pull-ups
Source: This blog.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet. The muscle that gives the overall appearance of 'broad shoulders' is the 'Latissimus dorsi' or your 'lats'. Wide pull-ups are a great exercise for targeting this region as well as your shoulders (deltoids), arms (both biceps and triceps), and forearms (from gripping the bar).
For proper form be sure to cross your legs and lock your knees to prevent swinging or cheating by using momentum (no frog kicking for 'just one more' allowed). Raise and lower yourself in a slow/controlled manner. I can't stress how important it is to maximize both the raising and lowering during the exercise. Forget about the number of reps you can do (this isn't an exercise to impress the 'how much can you bench?' guys at the gym). If you do them 'right' you'll feel it.
Note: If you don't have the strength to pull yourself up to the bar yet, grip the bar and start by jumping up the position where your eyes are level with the bar, then lower yourself down slowly. This will help you build up the strength needed to be able to do the full motion.
Source: Wikipedia.
If you're going for more of the 'thick neck' or 'no neck' look, or what I like to dub the 'meat head' look you'll want to target your 'Trapezius muscle' or 'traps'.
Source: Wikipedia.
The exercises that exclusively target your traps are:
It may surprise you but the 'broad shoulder' look has little to do with your shoulders and more to do with upper/lower body proportions.
Update: Added some more specifics about the wide pull-up exercise including tips on proper form and and easier variation for those who don't have sufficient strength to do the full motion yet.
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Standing Military Press
Another option for building your shoulders is the Shoulder Press.
Front Raises will also help build your shoulders.
To build any muscles, it's important to do a variety of different exercises that target different muscles in the same area.
As @Adam pointed out, military presses and exercises that target large muscle groups is critical to building mass. However, make sure you don't neglect the exercises that help target and strengthen supporting tissues.
Join a dragon boat team! Seriously, if there is a dragon boat paddling team in your area, consider joining it. I paddled for several years, and every person who started paddling and came to practices regularly grew broad shoulders, even if they started scrawny. It's an amazing full-body workout, and results in much stronger shoulders, abs, lats, and other parts of the body.
If you think this might be a good experience, feel free to ask me questions. If you live in the US, the US Dragon Boat Federation has a listing of many of the teams in the US, and you can always try just searching on Google for teams in your area.
One unexpected thing that worked very well for my trapeziums was carrying a heavy backpack during my University days.
I had a business-styled backpack with a flat back, with firm, comfortable and thin belts that would use the clavicle as hook and place all the weight from the backpack on the shoulder, which I believe wasn't designed for the heavy load I had to carry around. I generally carried around ~15kg/~33lbs: my 17'' laptop, it's AC adapter and a lot of heavy books. Every day, I would stand for several hours and spend an hour or two walking in a fast pace.
I would consider this as a supplement to your shoulder exercises. I had sore muscles the first month, but afterwards I wouldn't ever even notice the load I was carrying and it felt I could go for much much more before I'd feel any strain.


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Many times you don't have time to create the test plan, I have at times been in project planning meetings where a grand scope has been given and Engineering is then asked then and there - to give an estimate. Basically then its a sort of guessing game, which is what estimates are, and if you are being asked to give one you can be sure it will be wrong. That is what an estimate is. Although this will all depend on what sort of process you are using, but if this was a full-up project starting at the beginning with Dev and Test working in parallel I think of the following:
These are the ones that I would think of in additoin to what glowcoder mentioned, they will be a part of any project, and the more documentation you have to provide the longer things will take as well.
There's an excellent series of articles about test estimation that everybody involved in producing or using test estimates should read:
It starts by exploring a Monte Carlo simulation for a project, showing how a relatively small number of surprises can have a big impact, carries on to talk about strategies for managing that impact, and finishes up by looking at testing in particular.
The first thing to look at is similar testing jobs that took place. For a similar change, how effective was the testing job given the time provided? History is the best place to look for estimates in all fields.
A testing project should have a test-plan before doing your time estimate. Each element in the test plan should have an estimated time for completion. The estimate for the project is simply the sum of the time for each element, plus some overhead for things not directly related to the test:
If you're coming up with estimates without having a test plan, you're setting yourself up to get the estimate wrong.
I agree with the points above:
Some things that I faced in my projects and that we need to consider are:


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Topeka, Kan. (WIBW) - Local volunteers are helping to fight childhood cancer one cup of lemonade at a time.
Alex's Lemonade Stand is taking place June 1 and 2 at area Hyvee stores, including Topeka, Manhattan and Lawrence, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The stand raises funds for childhood cancer research.
In 2001, Jacob Mozer, a 7-year-old in remission from cancer, decided he wanted to help raise money for childhood cancer. He had his first lemonade stand at Hyvee in Blue Springs, MO that year.
His efforts expanded and now more than 600 volunteers participate in the lemonade stands at Hyvee stores in Northeast Kansas. The regional effort has raised more than $600,000 for childhood cancer research.
Taylor Gabel is a local teen who ran the stand at the Topeka Hyvee and has a special connection to Alex.
"I have a connection to cancer because I am a cancer survivor. It's back now but I feel like it's easier for me to do it because I have cancer," Gabel said. "I can connect with the girl that did have it even though she's not alive today. I still have that."
Each year, more than 12,500 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer in the U.S., which is the equivalent of two school classrooms each school day.


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Francis Hints About Same-Sex Civil Unions
In the same Corriere della Sera/La Nación interview referenced in Mollie's post below, Francis struck an ambiguous note on the topic of same-sex civil unions. Here's NCR's Joshua McElwee:
Asked about same-sex marriage, he responds: "Marriage is between a man and a woman."
"The secular states want to justify civil unions to regulate different situations of living together, driven by the need to regulate economic aspects between people, like ensuring health care," he states, saying he can't identify the ways different countries are addressing the matter.
"We need to see the different cases and evaluate them in their variety," he states.
HuffPo reports on the same interview, including a brief overview of the good news and the not-so-good news from Francis on civil unions:
While he was the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 2010 and Argentina was on the brink of legalizing gay marriage, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio support legalizing civil unions as a compromise. He also called same-sex marriage "an attempt to destroy God's plan" and said gay adoption was a kind of discrimination against children. LGBT rights organizations and gay Catholics have hailed Francis' for making more positive statements on gay people during his papacy.
The Pope makes the essential distinction between civil law and moral norms, pointing to the role of the state in legislating for the common good, not legislating the moral law of the Church in its entirety. This distinction isn't new-fangled, but is clear in the work of Thomas Aquinas, among others. Previous magisterial considerations of legalizing same-sex relationships have seemed to define marriage's social good entirely in procreative terms. Here's one example:
The inevitable consequence of legal recognition of homosexual unions would be the redefinition of marriage, which would become, in its legal status, an institution devoid of essential reference to factors linked to heterosexuality; for example, procreation and raising children.
That document mentions both civil unions and same-sex marriage, and then-Cardinal Ratzinger roundly condemned both.
Where's the ambiguity in Francis' statement? When asked about same-sex marriage, he reaffirmed that marriage is for straight people only, and made no distinction between civil marriage and marriage in the Church. His comments about evaluating civil union proposals "in their variety" may or may not indicate a willingness to consider same-sex unions that grant rights equivalent to marriage. In other words, is the comment on civil unions part of a response on the question of same-sex unions, or a related-but-different riff on society's role in regulating how the law recognizes people who cohabit whether in sexual relationships or non-sexual relationships? (Tyler Lopez over at Slate insists that the Pope doesn't intend any new approaches to same-sex unions: "Don't be fooled. Francis is not the first pro-gay pope.")
Even if he does want to open the question of same-sex relationships, it seems to me that the civil unions ship has sailed, at least in the US. By popular vote, legislative action and judicial decree, states are recognizing that civil marriage is a matter of civil rights. A "separate-but-equal" civil union for same-sex couples, while straights get to call themselves "married" has no future in civil law. Meanwhile, the USCCB is doubling down, its subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage expressing its support of a proposed constitutional amendment limiting marriage to straight people.
In a steady increase over the past decade or so, 55% of American Catholics now support gay marriage. A recent Univision poll found a similar level of support for same-sex marriage in the US, and also support in Spain, while the other 10 of 12 nations surveyed report opposition. And there's a strong generational tide at work, too, with young Catholics in favor 18 percentage points more than older Catholics.
Opinion polls don't determine doctrine. They do show the extent to which Catholics are convinced by the Church's argumentation on matters of civil marriage, though. This comes at a time when assorted bishops are calling for a reassessment of Catholic sexual teaching generally, in light of large-scale non-reception of the current teaching. (Here's one recent example.)
What next? At some point, Pope Francis is going to have to settle some of the questions he's raised, whether that of how to enhance women's authority in the Church without ordaining them or that of where he stands now on same-sex civil marriage. Until then, perhaps the best thing Catholics can do is to continue to talk about the matters the Pope raises. With any luck, the surveys on sexual teachings will be the occasion for the fundamental reexamination of sexual teachings, or at least how they're communicated to the faithful.
But the time's short--young people are leaving the Church at an alarming rate, often driven out by what they see as inhospitable teachings. Unlike the response to Humanae Vitae, essentially wide-spread "dissent in place" as Catholics rejected the teaching but continued to practice their faith otherwise, questions of same-sex marriage are public. Interesting times...
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Even the Vatican document condemning legal recognition of gay marriage and civil unions does have a little passage about the State's toleration of such unions, which is not to be confused with positive approbrate. I speak from memory because I have no wish to waste time reading that dismal document again. Francis is saying that the church will not accept gay marriage or unions, but that it is not the church's business to tell the state how to handle legal issues.
With his inadequate reaction to the abuse scandal and his being charged with involvement in child trafficking, is the knell of Francis's popularity about to sound?
I reccently read "The Pope and Mussolini" and, while welcoming contrary opinions about Pius XI and XII, foound it quite damning in multipple ways. I am trying to think about how the lack of their speaking out and the various alliances at that time affected millions and world history. One cannot easily second-guess that era, but this seems likea critical point in history regarding appreciation of homosexual attraction,expression, and commitment and the world is sharply divided in ways that we in the US only see the top of the iceberg.
Pope Francis has to address the wider dimensions of the topic of sexuality and human rights with more than his welcome calls for respect and care and justice for the materially poor and disenfranchised. Unfortunately, the American bishops show abysmal leadership in any of this.
Lent begins on a hard note...
On behalf of the Vatican, Fr. Thomas Rosica yesterday released a statement, regarding certain interpretations of the interview, that contains a severe mistake.
Rosica states :
-It is important to understand here that "civil unions" in Italy refer to people who are married by the state, outside of a religious context-
I'm Italian woman so I can say that this is false. In Italy we say civil MARRIAGES when we want to refer to people married by the state and of course we have already this . Now the new prime minister, Renzi want introduce in Italy civil unions that refer to people that don't want or cannot ( as gay people) marry.
I didn't read Francis' comments to oppose Civil marriage/unions. I think he is trying to thread the needle here and say in effect that a sacremental marriage is between a male and female but he won't oppose a same sex union which is authorized by civil authorities. In effect he is drawing a distinction between marriage and other unions which are not marriage in the sacremental sense, regarless of what you call them. That is really not so far away from current doctrine as it applies to Catholic marriages at least. Civil marriages/unions can occur between Catholics but they aren't considered valid without meeting certain conditions. This is quite a different view from Archbishop Lori and his ilk, I think, though no doubt he and his band will double down on opposing all things gay.
David - would suggest that the history of Pius XI and fascism, etc. is complicated.
Here is one such element: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humani_generis_unitas
If this encyclical had been promulgated after his death - it might have set a foundation that would have challenged both Nazism and Mussolini.
- The draft text condemned antisemitism, racism and the persecution of Jews
Here is another element:
America magazine also has an interesting article about Pope's comments on homosexuality, and about the process by which the Church should consider the issue in general:
Let's look at the semantics of the marriage/civil union problem. What is agreed upon: everybody agrees we're talking about some serious, committed, full unions of body an soul of two adults. What is the crux of the matter as far as the Church is concerned? That gays can't produce children in such unions.
The Church is saying that the union of man and woman, oriented as it is beyond the union of man and wife to children as well, is intrinsically different from a same-sex union. And I think that the Church is making an important point when it says that -- it says that because children are also the point of that union that it is similar but not the same in an important way.
So let's make "marriage" signify how both sorts of unions are *alike*, and let's have "matrimony" signify unions of male an female which includes their personal committment but also their committment to children. It's already been pointed out that that is the de facto meaning of "marriage" today in the USA -- it does not imply a committment to having children. Reserve the term "matrimony" for the unions oriented towards children.
True, some gays adopt children. The question then becomes: are they "matrimonied"? I say, why not? Until you show that gay parents are worse than non-gay ones, I don't see why a difference is involved in those cases. OK, so it's been shown that it's significantly better for kids to have two parents than just a single one, but that doesn't prove that they have to be of opposite sexes.
There was a podcast and article a little while ago about the book on the pope and Mussolini - pretty interesting .... http://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/265794658/pope-and-mussolini-tells-the-sec... ... it reminded me of an article I had seen some time ago in The Guardian ... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/21/vatican-secret-property-emp...
Bill C - thank you for that link to the John P Langan SJ article in America Magazine. Charitable and generous in tone, realistic and optimistic in what is possible, and a good deal of wisdom. Our leaders would be well-advised to read it and take it to heart.
Although the article is entitled "See the Person," I am not convinced that this treatment -even though it has some admirable qualities - really does that. Still seems like trying to fit human sexual attraction, expression, and commitment into categories that need deeper and more personal appreciation.
Ann O. has it right! Her last statement of "OK, so it's been shown that it's significantly better for kids to have two parents than just a single one, but that doesn't prove that they have to be of opposite sexes" is a change .... I think .... in here prior position.
It's time for the Vatican to clarify --- or make a distinction in the first place --- between marriage and matrimony. The first is the rightful prerogative of the State, the second of the Church. Mary, thank you for noting Pastor Rosica's erroneous statement.
I think if we approach marriage as a public institution, which it is, then the question for civil society is can you deny access to that institution to people on the grounds of their sexual orientation. I think the answer to that question is not.
Whether religious bodies acknowledge civil marriages as sacramental or valid according to their particularly criteria is a different matter altogether and is something that they can determine for themselves.
But the church has not jurisdiction over that institution in the civil sphere.
Thanks, BIll. I've read "The Pope's Last Crusade," "Hitler's Pope," and a few other books on this on this conflicted period... fascinating and at times extremely depressing in seeing the powers at play in the papacy. Still, I am struck by the complexities of this period and any learnings for us.
Jim McC. --
Whether or not same sex spouses should have the legal right to adopt hinges, I think, on the now independent legal issues of marriage and adoption (marriage no longer legally implies the likelihood of children). True, the research so far has been about the advantages for the child of two-parents over one parent, not the advantages of straight over gay.
I say that unless gay parents are shown to be on average *worse* than married or single ones are on average, then the sexual orientation should play no part in deciding who may adopt. And it certainly hasn't been shown that the gays are worse, though no doubt there are people who disagree regardless of the lack of much scientific data so far.
Further, if a country has an excess of adoptable children, I think the only question should be: is an adoptable child likely to be better off remaining in an institution or being adopted, regardless of sexual orientation of the parent(s)?
The State doesn't require straight parents to be optimum parents to adopt, so why should gay and single people be required to be the best parents possible?


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Do you know any programming language features that help to detect bugs early in the software development process - ideally at compile-time or else as early as possible at run-time?
Examples of well-known and effective bug-reducing features are:
- Static typing and generic types: type incompatibility errors are detected by the compiler
- Design by Contract (TM), also called Contract Programming: invalid values are quickly detected at runtime (through preconditions, postconditions and class invariants)
- Unit testing
I ask this question in the context of improving an object-oriented programming language (called Obix) which has been designed from the ground up to 'make it easy to quickly write reliable code'. Besides the features mentioned above this language also incorporates other Fail-fast features such as:
- Objects are immutable by default
- Void (null) values are not allowed by default
The aim is to add more Fail-fast concepts to the language. If you know other features which help to write less error-prone code then please let us know. Thank you.


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SARASOTA COUNTY - Sarasota County firefighters say sheriff's deputies summoned them Sunday afternoon to assist with an investigation of a possible meth lab.
At about 2:30 p.m., the Fire Department's hazardous materials team went to a home in the 6000 block of Carlton Avenue in the Gulf Gate area.
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Softball Opens 2014 Slate at Home Against Lees-McRaeFebruary 1, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – The 20th-ranked Anderson softball team begins its quest for a second consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament when the Trojans open their 2014 schedule by playing host to Conference Carolinas'-foe Lees-McRae in a twin bill slated to start Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Smethers Field.
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Anderson was a preseason pick to finish second in the South Atlantic Conference Coaches' Preseason Poll released last Tuesday, after recording the most successful season in school history. The Trojans were a stellar 40-15 in 2013, while earning the program's first-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament a year ago and a No. 12 national ranking in the final National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) poll. This year's squad features nine returning letterwinners, including eight starters and five seniors from last year's team that earned a berth in the Savannah Super Regional.
Seniors Danielle Swygert and Laura Jansky, along with junior Jessica Neidigh and sophomore Molly Child were named Preseason First-Team All-SAC.
Swygert, an Honorable Mention All-American last season, finished third in the conference with a .398 batting average, while driving in 62 runs and was fourth in the league with a .620 slugging percentage. Jansky earned SAC Player of the Week once and finished third in the conference with 45 RBI a year ago. She finished 10th in the league with seven home runs and tied for sixth in the SAC with 12 doubles.
Neidigh was named a First Team All-American following last season while leading the conference and ranking 15th nationally with a .457 batting average a year ago. She set a school record and led the league with 90 base hits. Child earned first-team all-conference honors last year after ranking third on the team and 13th in the league with a .335 batting average. She posted a 14-game hitting streak during the second half of February and ranked in the league's top-eight in six offensive statistical categories.
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Lees-McRae was picked to finish ninth in the Conference Carolinas Preseason Coaches' Poll, which was released on Friday. The Bobcats posted an overall record of 7-40 a year ago and finished 11th in the Conference Carolinas with a 2-18 mark, but are expected to return 11 letterwinners from last year's squad.
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Sunday's doubleheader marks the second meeting between the two programs since the Trojans joined the South Atlantic Conference for the 2011 campaign. Both schools were members of the Conference Carolinas until that season and the teams have met 27 times overall, with the Trojans holding a 15-12 advantage in the all-time series.
The Trojans swept Lees-McRae by identical 8-0 scores in last season's matchups at Smethers Field, with Neidigh and Abby Child leading the way for AU. Neidigh posted a three-run home run, a double and a walk, while Child was a perfect 3-for-3 on the afternoon. The shortstop added a pair of walks and a double, while driving in a run. Third baseman Bri Cason was 2-for-3, with a pair of singles and scored twice in the sweep. Center fielder Molly Child blasted a solo homer and crossed the plate twice.
The two teams were slated to meet during the 2010 campaign, but heavy fog in the Banner Elk, N.C. area forced cancellation of the doubleheader.