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EcoNova Hotchkis Performance Suspension - Getting A Handle On ThingsWritten by on November 1, 2012 Hotchkis Performance cures the EcoNova's sloppy suspension and steering
We spend a lot of time hanging out around autocross and road courses throughout the year watching some of the best handling muscle cars in the country cut corners around cones, so our level of expectation for our own cars gets correspondingly elevated. As a byproduct of this, we just don't have much patience for wallowing, worn-out suspension systems. We want to actually be able drive our cars with abandon.
While crawling in and under the EcoNova during the drivetrain swap, wiring, exhaust, fuel system, and so on for the E-Rod LS3 conversion, we noticed that the suspension system was in terrible shape. All the bushings were original and in very poor, disintegrated condition front to rear. No one makes upgraded suspension parts for fourth-gen Novas—or do they?! The key here is that Novas after 1967 were basically parts bin cars that were outfitted with components from other Chevys on the production line. In the case of the fourth and last generation of Novas ('75-79), the front suspension, steering, and brakes are all standard second-gen ('70-81) F-body stuff from Camaros and Firebirds, since the subframe is very similar in design. In the rear though, they're the same as third-gen ('68-74) Novas and first-gen ('67-69) Camaros and Firebirds, so all we had to do is find a company with great bolt-on handling parts for both cars, convince them we were right, and we'd be in business.
Hotchkis Performance fit the bill with their Total Vehicle System (TVS) suspension kits for both platforms, and having felt firsthand how well they function under other muscle cars, we gave them a call to discuss our plan. They were intrigued since it would be the first time they'd be able to create a new application for a full TVS suspension without designing or fabricating a single new part, but a bit doubtful on fitment since they'd never actually worked on a fourth-gen X-body. So we dropped the EcoNova off at Hotchkis' R&D and installation facility for verification of part numbers to create the first commercially available full suspension system for fourth-gen Novas. You're welcome X-body lovers!
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Hotchkis' 1.25-inch tubular upper and lower control arms work magic on otherwise stock subframes by increasing caster for better high-speed stability (key in our book) and improving the camber curve to increase front end grip and traction; the arms are built with 1.1 degrees of camber, and 5.2 degrees of positive caster. The deep spring pockets in the lower arms also allow for easy tuning of ride height with spacer plates.Most of the revised geometry is in the upper arm, but together the upper and lower allow up to 3.5 degrees of negative camber and 9 degrees of caster while keeping bumpsteer at a minimum. Note that arms come fully assembled with new ball joints, bumpstops, and sway bar endlinks.The control arm bushings are made from tough Delrin for minimal deflection; an easy-access zerk fitting makes it simple to keep them lubed for smooth motion and long life.Here is one of our dry rotted original rubber bushings in the factory control arms. All of the bushings looked similar to this, which is pretty common for 35-year-old rubber—yours may be worse depending on where the car is from.The silver zinc-plated 4130 chromoly billet cross-shafts on the upper control arms are offset so they can have static negative camber without a large alignment shim stack. It's also great for header clearance since it keeps the shaft tucked as tightly as possible.A little lube on the outside of the bushings and a light tap from a dead blow hammer are all that's needed to install the lower control arm.Hotchkis offers shims that can be added under the spring isolator to tailor ride height. A .25-inch shim is good for about .5 inch of ride height. We left ours out for now since the lightweight E-Rod LS3 and engine setback made the EcoNova's nose lighter than a standard small-block equipped car.The stock springs were rated in the 300-lb/in range for a too-cushy-for-good-handling ride; Hotchkis' sport springs are rated at 600 lb/in. The 2-inch drop will also give us the stance and lower center of gravity that we want for handling, plus the shorter free height makes installing them much easier than the tall stockers.
A great cornering suspension won't do much good if the steering is sloppy; quick, precise response, and feedback through the steering wheel are critical for driver control. That's why Hotchkis carries premium steering linkage components, from tie-rod ends to idler arms and drag links, plus their own very trick hex-shaped tie-rod adjusting sleeves that allow for quick, accurate alignment changes.Hotchkis also recommends Classic Performance Products' (CPP) 500 Series steering box as part of a full TVS package, especially if the original box is exhibiting slop or leaking like the EcoNova's. No one wants a leaker out on the track or autocross course. The CPP 500 box is a completely new part and has a ratio of 14:1, making it quick enough for autocross and suitably stable at high speeds. Make sure to pick up a new �-inch 30-spline rag joint coupler as well since it'll also be well worn. We'll reuse the original pitman arm, though.Urethane works wonders on sway bars versus squishy rubber mounts, but make sure to apply the required lube preassembly or binding between the bar and bushing will occur.The massive 1.375-inch front sway bars is roughly double the diameter of the stock one and offers much more roll control, but remains lightweight since it's a tubular part fabricated from DOM mild steel. Our mounts are the standard style, but Hotchkis also offers very nice billet versions as well.These special endlinks are a big part of the sway bar's effectiveness; by using a Heim joint on the control arm, Hotchkis eliminates the flex and distortion found on endlinks that use urethane or rubber bushings on both ends. The upper bushings still allow the bar to travel with the suspension without bind.Speaking of bushings, while under the EcoNova we noticed it had the worst body bushings we'd ever seen. They were so bad the front bumper actually dropped an inch when the car was lifted on a two-post lift due to subframe flex. These urethane body bushings from Energy Suspension will cure that permanently. Look for a full video on the benefits and installation of these on PopularHotRodding.com and our YouTube channel.While fourth-gen Novas use second-gen F-body parts up front, they use '68-74 X-body springs in the rear. We opted for Hotchkis' 1.5-inch lowered sport leaf springs for now, but a 3-inch drop is available if more drop is needed. The springs are 150 lb/in (versus 100 lb/in stock) with a three-quarter length overload spring to reduce axlewrap, and will work on both mono and multileaf-equipped cars. Typically we'd also have a 0.875-inch rear sway bar to install here, but the Currie Enterprises 9-inch rearend has caused us to seek a less bolt-in route if it's determined to be needed.Hotckis' leaf springs use a rubber bushing up front in the spring pocket to reduce NVH, but to control movement in the rear, urethane bushings are paired with heavy-duty shackles almost twice as thick as the stockers.

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Traquair Tabbed Women's Soccer Head CoachMarch 8, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Anderson University Director of Athletics Nancy Simpson announced on Saturday that former Wesleyan College Head Coach and Young Harris Assistant Coach Ciaran Traquair has been named head women's soccer coach, effective for the remainder of the spring and upcoming fall seasons.
Traquair comes to the Upstate after spending two seasons at Wesleyan (Macon, Ga.) where he turned the program around in two seasons after a 0-19 year to the best season in 12 seasons at 9-9. Prior to the turnaround, Traquair brought in the largest recruiting class in the program's history with 17 players, trying to bring stability to the program, as 10 players were named the postseason all-conference teams. While with Wesleyan, Traquair managed and organized "Kick ALS Night" where he helped collect over $1,700 this past year for the ALS Association of Georgia.
"We are thrilled to have Ciaran join the Trojan family," Simpson said. "He is tremendously talented and brings a passion for the game and a commitment to student-athlete success. I look forward to the future growth of our women's soccer program under Ciaran's leadership."
During his time at Wesleyan, Traquair was the Director of Girls Select at Central Georgia Soccer Association (CGSA) where he coordinated weekly training sessions for several teams within the club. While working with youth to high school players, Traquair worked with at summer and preseason camps preparing high school prospects for the college level.
"I'm very excited about the challenges ahead at Anderson University," Traquair said. "I want to thank Nancy Simpson and the search committee for making me feel very welcomed when I visited. I felt the committee and I had the same vision for this program and this is a great opportunity for me. I'm looking forward to making an immediate impact at the Division II level and within the Southeast Region."
Prior to his stint in Macon, Traquair spent three seasons at Young Harris where he was an assistant with the men's soccer program. While with the Mountain Lions, Traquair was a major part in one of the top recruiting classes in Division II, as he saw his team reach as high as No. 1 in the country, according to the National Soccer Coaches of America Association (NSCAA). With YHC in transition into Division II, Traquair worked with the NCAA on the jump and worked with compliance to prepare the program for the move to the NCAA.
In 2008, the native of Coatbridge, Scotland joined the staff as an assistant at his alma mater, Shorter, a current member of Gulf South Conference located in Rome, Ga. Prior to Shorter's move to Division II, the Hawks were a member of the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) where he helped lead the team to an SSAC regular season championship and an NAIA National Ranking as high as 16th. While at Shorter, he helped organized pregame scouting reports and worked specifically with the goalkeepers.
Traquair began his collegiate coaching career at Young Harris in 2007, serving as the assistant women's soccer coach in 2007. He spent two seasons with the women's program, as his first stint with YHC was highlighted by a Georgia Junior College Athletic Association championship and a national ranking as high as No. 1.
Throughout his coaching career, Traquair has earned a NSCAA Premier Diploma, a NSCAA Advanced National Diploma, a NSCAA National Diploma and a Scottish Football Association – Early Touches E and D License. Also, he served as a select coach for the District Training Centre for Olympic Development Selection.
As a former collegiate player at Shorter, Traquair was named the team's most valuable player in each of his final three seasons with the Hawks. As a two-year captain, Traquair was named to the All-SSAC first team following his senior season.
While as a student-athlete at Shorter, Traquair received his Bachelor of Business Administration in 2007, while later getting his master's in the same field from Shorter in 2010.
After his time at the collegiate level, Traquair saw some time at the professional level as a member of Mississippi Brilla FC in 2008 and National Professional Soccer League's Chattanooga FC in 2009 and 2010.
Traquair is married for Lakyn Newton Traquair, who was an All-American softball player at Shorter.


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Following-up a previous question, what Biblical basis does the Catholic church claim for the special role of Priests, Cardinals, and Popes in the structure of the church?
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What is the Biblical basis for the special mediatorial position of the Pope, Cardinals, etc in the Catholic church?
The Pope
The Pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth, the direct successor of Peter who was handed the Keys to the Kingdom by Jesus. (Matthew 16:19) This makes his role a mediator for consciences, or an arbiter of what is right and wrong, true and false in terms of faith and morals, but not science and logic. (ccc 891)
Catholics claim apostolic succession, meaning that what Jesus said the His apostles applies specifically to the episcopate, the Bishops especially.
So, when Jesus says:
(Matt 28:18-20 NAB)
He is commissioning the Apostles and their successors to act in His name. Not baptizing like John baptized, but baptizing like Christ baptized.
Jesus established or sanctified all 7 sacraments in his short ministry and expects His priests to carry them out.
Biblical Sources for sacraments
Priests (as well as the Pope and the Bishops) act 'in persona Christi'. They forgive sins ,through God, because Jesus forgave sins and told the apostles to act accordingly (John 20:23). The very definition of priests is one who offers sacrifices for the people. You don't have to poke very far into Leviticus to find a biblical basis for priests acting like priests. Priests in the new covenant 'do this in remembrance of me', and they say this, not 'do this in remembrance of Jesus' during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Eucharistic prayer before communion.
One thing to point out is, not all cardinals are currently Bishops (and historically there have been lay cardinals, so it's an error to conflate their position with Bishops, they do not act as cardinals as mediators in any way.


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Let $n > 1$ be a fixed integer. Does there exist a field $F$ with the following properties?
- $F$ is not algebraically closed.
- Every polynomial $f(x) \in F[X]$ of degree $n$ is reducible.
I cannot think of any such field, even for $n=2$. All I can prove is that $F$ must be infinite.


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25 Sep 2012 5:13 AM #1
Unanswered: Getting Started App - Load more than four blog posts into Blog tab?
I've just completed the Getting Started video tutorial with the Sencha docs with the intention to create an app that will receive a blogspot feed in the same way the SenchaBlog is loaded.
However, after much use of Google and getting nowhere, I haven't found a way to load any more that 4 blog posts at once to the app. Is there a way to do this? I've been struggling to find out what actually makes it default to 4 blog posts out of Sencha, Google's AJAX API or the JSON request.
Am I completely on the wrong track here, or what? Is it actually possible?
Cheers, in advance, for any help!
26 Sep 2012 4:31 AM #2
I completely missed this. Where is this getting started app located?https://moduscreate.com/wp-content/t...es/favicon.png
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26 Sep 2012 5:19 AM #3
Right here:
I followed along with the video and have the same end result app, but I wouldn't mind being able to show more than the four blog posts the JSON query retrieves, if it's possible.
The section on the blog starts at about 14mins and goes on from there.


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Recall: Hooded Jackets and Sweatshirts
On 2010-09-16, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published a recall regarding Hooded Jackets and Sweatshirts due to a potential strangulation and entrapment hazard. This product sold new beginning in January 1995 for about $7 to $30.
About 10,000 units are involved in this Burlington Coat Factory / Baby Depot jacket recall. Learn more and find out what to do if you own this product below.
This was the 32nd recall of products in the Outerwear & Sweatshirts category in 2010.
Since 2005, there have been approximately 160 similar recalls,
involving about 2 million product units.
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Company Contact Information:
Website: www.burlingtoncoatfactory.com
Phone: (888) 223-2628
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What is the problem?
The hooded jackets and sweatshirts have drawstrings through the hood and/or waist which can pose a strangulation or entrapment hazard to children. In February 1996, CPSC issued guidelines to help prevent children from strangling or getting entangled on the neck and waist drawstrings in upper garments, such as jackets and sweatshirts.
How can I tell if I own this product?
Based on available records, the following items are included in this recall.
|Brand Name
|Boys' pullover
sweatshirt with
Aeropostale printed
on front
|Boys' size Small
|Apple Bottom
|Girls' zippered velvet
jacket with "Apple Bottom"
embroidered on back
|Girls' size 7 - 16
|Deere Park
|Boys' zippered jackets
|Red and Blue
|Boys' sizes
|Disney Winnie
the Pooh
|Zippered jackets with a
picture of Winnie the Pooh
on the front of the jacket
|Blue with white sleeves
with green and blue
stripes on the sleeves
|Gray Wolf
|Zippered jacket with
Grey Wolf tag inside
jacket and drawstring waist
|Dark Blue
|13 - 14
|Jonathon Stone
|Zippered jacket with "55"
printed on front. "J.stone"
is printed on tag on back
of neck of the garment
|Blue, red and white
|Kani Gold
(sold from 10/24/2008)
|Boys' zippered
|Brown, black and grey
|Youth L (16/18)
|Zippered Jackets
|Black with faux fur
cuffs and hood
|Medium (9 - 10)
|Girls' zippered sweatshirts
with embroidery on sleeves
|New York
|Girls' zippered
sleeveless Sweatshirt
with "33 New York"
embroidered on jacket
|Light Blue
|Ruff Stuff
(Date approx. 1995)
|Boys' zipper and
snap close jackets
|Blue and light blue
|Size 14 - 16
|Sergio Benini
(Sept 2007)
|Zippered heavy jackets
with snaps
These items were sold new+ at Burlington Coat Factory and other retailers nationwide from January 1995 through September 2009 for between $7 and $30.
What should I do if I own this recalled product?
First, stop using the item.
Then, add the item to a free, private Items I Own account. This will enable you to easily access the CPSC and recalling company's remedy instructions as well as track your progress toward getting the item returned or fixed. Click "I Own THIS Item" to continue.
The CPSC provides the following remedy information:
Consumers should immediately remove the drawstrings from the sweatshirts to eliminate the hazard or return the garment to Burlington Coat Factory for a full refund or credit.
For additional information, contact Burlington Coat Factory toll-free at (888)223-2628 between 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or visit the firm's website at www.burlingtoncoatfactory.com
Incidents & Injuries Reported as of Recall Date
None reported.
+WeMakeItSafer cautions consumers that recalled items may have been acquired at different locations, prices and times than specified in the CPSC recall announcement. This is especially true for items purchased in online marketplaces, resale shops or yard sales. More information may be available at CPSC.gov.
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I'm planning a new feature on our product to support a LAN. Since the installation will be done by relatively non-technical people (it's for boats) I was thinking it would be useful to automatically detect whether we needed to provide a DHCP server or not, depending on one was already on the network. Is there an official way of checking whether there's already a DHCP server (or more than one) on the network?
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As software delivery becomes more important then so does the discipline for supporting it. ALM is that discipline, providing the structure, tools and practices to enable software to be planned, delivered and maintained. But as software delivery velocity increases, certain reduces and globalization takes control what of ALM? Has it stepped up? Or is it still a confuse combination of discipline and tools? In this talk Dave West, research director at Forrester Research describes the dirty truth about ALM. He describes what needs to happen to the discipline and tools to enable ALM to be a key transformation component to modern software delivery organizations.
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Pronounced: bo-SU-ti-nib
Classification: tyrosine kinase inhibitor
About Bosutinib
Bosutinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor. It works by blocking proteins that cause the rapid growth of certain types of leukemia cells. This helps the bone marrow to start making normal blood cells again.
How to Take Bosutinib
Bosutinib comes as a tablet to take by mouth. It should be taken once a day with food. Take bosutinib at around the same time every day. Do not crush, break or chew bosutinib tablets. If you miss a dose and it is more than 12 hours until the next scheduled dose, you should skip the missed dose and resume the medication with the next scheduled dose.
Bosutinib is broken down in the body by an enzyme called CYP3A4, which is affected by certain foods and medications. These foods and medications should be avoided while taking bosutinib and include: grapefruit, grapefruit juice, dexamethasone, ketoconazole, rifampin, phenytoin, St. John's wort, and modafanil. Be sure to tell your healthcare provider about all medications and supplements you take.
Bosutinib is best absorbed by your stomach, in the presence of stomach acid. Medications called proton pump inhibitors (Prilosec, Prevacid, Nexium), which reduce stomach acid, can interfere with bosutinib absorption and should not be taken. You can take medications that neutralize acid up to 2 hours before or 2 hours after bosutinib. These medications include: cimetidine, famotidine, ranitidine, Tums or Rolaids (or similar products).
Storage and Handling
Store your medication in the original, labeled container at room temperature and in a dry location (unless otherwise directed by your HCP or Pharmacist). This medication should not be stored in a pillbox. Keep containers out of reach of children and pets.
If a caregiver prepares your dose for you, they should consider wearing gloves or pour the tablets directly from their container into the cap, a small cup, or directly into your hand. They should avoid touching the pills. They should always wash their hands before and after giving you the medication. Pregnant or nursing women should not prepare the dose for you. Ask your oncology team where to return any unused medication for disposal. Do not flush down the toilet or throw in the trash.
Where do I get this medication?
Bosutinib is available through select specialty pharmacies. Your oncology team will work with your prescription drug plan to identify an in-network specialty pharmacy for distribution of this medication and shipment directly to your home.
Insurance Information
This medication may be covered under your prescription drug plan. Patient assistance may be available to qualifying individuals without prescription drug coverage. A co- pay assistance program, which reduces the patient co-pay responsibility for eligible commercially (non-government sponsored) insured patients, may also be available. Your care team can help you find these resources, if they are available.
Possible Side Effects
There are a number of things you can do to manage the side effects of busutinib Talk to your doctor or nurse about these recommendations. They can help you decide what will work best for you. These are some of the most common side effects:
Nausea and/or Vomiting
Talk to your doctor or nurse so they can prescribe medications to help you manage nausea and vomiting. In addition, dietary changes may help. Avoid things that may worsen the symptoms, such as heavy or greasy/fatty, spicy or acidic foods (lemons, tomatoes, oranges). Try antacids, (e.g. milk of magnesia, calcium tablets such as Tums), saltines, or ginger ale to lessen symptoms.
Call your doctor or nurse if you are unable to keep fluids down for more than 12 hours or if you feel lightheaded or dizzy at any time.
Your oncology team can recommend medications to relieve diarrhea. Also, try eating low-fiber, bland foods, such as white rice and boiled or baked chicken. Avoid raw fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads, cereals and seeds. Soluble fiber is found in some foods and absorbs fluid, which can help relieve diarrhea. Foods high in soluble fiber include: applesauce, bananas (ripe), canned fruit, orange sections, boiled potatoes, white rice, products made with white flour, oatmeal, cream of rice, cream of wheat, and farina. Drink 8-10 glasses on non-alcoholic, un-caffeinated fluid a day to prevent dehydration.
Low White Blood Cell Count (Leukopenia or Neutropenia)
White blood cells (WBC) are important for fighting infection. While receiving treatment, your WBC count can drop, putting you at a higher risk of getting an infection. You should let your doctor or nurse know right away if you have a fever (temperature greater than 100.4), sore throat or cold, shortness of breath, cough, burning with urination, or a sore that doesn't heal.
Tips to preventing infection:
Low Red Blood Cell Count (Anemia)
Your red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen to the tissues in your body. When the red cell count is low, you may feel tired or weak. You should let your doctor or nurse know if you experience any shortness of breath, difficulty breathing or pain in your chest. If the count gets too low, you may receive a blood transfusion.
Low Platelet Count (Thrombocytopenia)
Platelets help your blood clot, so when the count is low you are at a higher risk of bleeding. Let your doctor or nurse know if you have any excess bruising or bleeding, including nose bleeds, bleeding gums or blood in your urine or stool. If the platelet count becomes too low, you may receive a transfusion of platelets.
Liver Toxicity
This medication can cause liver toxicity, which your doctor may monitor for using blood tests, called liver function tests. If you develop elevations in your liver function tests, your healthcare provider may need to lower your dose or stop the medication. Notify your healthcare provider if you notice yellowing of the skin or eyes, your urine appears dark or brown or pain in your abdomen, as these can be signs of liver toxicity.
Fluid Retention
Bosutinib has been reported to cause fluid retention. This may result in swelling of the arms or legs, fluid in the lungs (pleural effusion) or heart (pericardial effusion). Notify your healthcare team if you develop swelling in your arms, legs, feet or abdomen, have an unexpected weight gain, racing heartbeat, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, or if you develop a dry cough.
Kidney Problems
This medication can affect your kidney function. Your healthcare team will monitor your kidney function throughout your treatment with busutinib. If you experience changes in the frequency or amount of urination, contact your care team.
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@vistaseas: yeah... it seems that Deals.woot does that to you...
Would this take the place of the black spray paint mentioned in that deal regarding a musical instrument?
@caver2130: lol well phrased :) and yes I was thinking the exact same thing
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What are some pitfalls or pieces of good advice when designing levels or maps for a (presumeably 3D but not necessarily) game?
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Don't make a bunch of "jump" puzzles.
There is nothing more frustrating than having to do the same jump about ten times until you get it perfectly right (or you have to redo previous jumps because you missed the Xth jump and have to start over).
No water levels please.
You can generalize this to a few good tips:
There are other things you can learn about how (not) to design levels if you just do research (by which I mean Google) on "why water levels suck".
Valve's games with developer commentary (particularly: Half Life 2: Lost Coast, Episode 1 and Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal) are well worth checking out for some good tips on level design.
(L4D also has commentry, but I can't remember if it had much about level design in it.)
Somethings to add to already great advice given.
When everything is special, nothing is special.
Make sure that your level/game has a 'comfortable average' that is fun, but that the attention-grabbing moments can rise above.
Use silence to you advantage!
If your game is going to be scary in anyway silence is key! With a long duration of silence the player gets stressed and scared wondering when something is going to happen. So right in the middle of the level make some guard "Hey! Get back here!" or make some explosion out of no where happen near the players character.
Be careful though. Because where you place the sound is very important. It is entirely an art. I can only give one piece of advice that is essential for the silence to pay off:
Make sure the player cannot see right away where the sound is coming from. Otherwise the scariness will be less intense.
Give the player the information they need to succeed. If the solution to a level relies on something obscure or some new ability then teach the player about it. There doesn't have to be some specific tutorial where you spell it out, rather you can teach the player using cut scenes or making small puzzles at the start of the level that introduce new concepts at a basic but explicit level.
In a linear context, provide the player with challenge, but also rest. Gradually increase the difficulty in an upward wave, something like
Just a few that just came to my mind while i came across this...
Some more thoughts...
Wish i'd have time to write more - i love this subject ;) Need to do some work now... Maybe later...
Auntie Pixelante has some excellent posts on level design where she deconstructs classic game levels
Check out:
Make user stories for the type of play styles the game is supposed to appeal to
If the focus is on exploration, try to avoid penalizing the player for it, both in terms of deaths that send the player back, as well as in time spent backtracking.
If the game is to appeal to players who like speed runs, consider different ways that the player can optimize their path - have some weapons kill enemies faster than others (Megaman), have some paths with fewer obstacles or further away from bottomless pits (Sonic 3&K).
If the game is intended to appeal toward players who try to make perfect runs, make sure that "game over" isn't a significant penalty (Ikaruga, Megaman). Also, keep in mind that difficulty is combinatorial: If an obstacle has a 10% chance of being beaten on a given try, 3 of those obstacles in a row gives a chance of 0.1% - sure, players get better with practice, but they make mistakes, too, so make sure to add checkpoints in between, or lower levels for the player to fall onto.
If narrative is a significant part of the game, keep the pace slow to ensure the player becomes attached to the scenery. Vary scenery intentionally - not just to keep the player engaged with the narrative, but as a visual cue for change in game mechanics (ice, water) or difficulty. ColourLovers is your friend.
Consider whether randomly generated levels would benefit or detract from your design:
Keep rewarding me
I like being rewarded for my actions. So loads of small bonus items, small upgrades, gold/points something that immidiately gives me pleasure so I want to continue grabbing more and more.
Dont punish me with time-limits
What I dont like in a game is when the developers finds it too easy and uses TIME as the only thing keeping me from completing a level. That is bad level design. You could use time as a "bonus", but never as a punishment. Sometimes the phone rings, the dinner is ready or even a toilet has to be visited. A pause is not enough here. If I am close to the goal and the level ends just because I was 5 seconds short, there is not much reason for me to try once more for 7 minutes.
My approach is to keep the player happy and occupied even in stressed situations.
So, none or a minimum of "Whoops dead, replay the last 5 minutes to get right back here"... instead, make it attractice to try again, not a punishment.
Design your first level to teach players how to play. The original Mario Bros. games are good examples of this:
Avoid slippery-slidey ice levels.
Or at least keep the ice to a minimum.
@Sean James is for linear games, fine. I somewhat disagree.
if your game is linear, for god's sake don't pretend it's not. A linear game that fakes being non-linear should burn in hell (hello, Metroid Fusion).
non-linear is fine and much fun, as long as:
To sum it up, the ideal is doing like Castlevania, but better.
Here are a few links about game design and level design collected on my webpage: http://www.newarteest.com/game_dev.html
Especially take note of the link "evaluating game mechanics for depth" because that is a really informative article about level designers.


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Perfect Little Ladies (Paperback)
Nobody knows that better than Elinor Young, one of the posh housewives of Westchester County. She's worked hard all her life to get where she is. With her perfect husband, gorgeous grown-up children, and a house with more rooms than she can count, Elinor has it all—including her own personal blackmailer. Somehow, someone has figured out that she hasn't been spending her afternoons in Manhattan with ladies who lunch but with a major married politician, and now she's got to shell out a whole lot of money or the truth about her life will be exposed. If her family learns everything it would be embarrassing—besides she never set out to hurt them—but if the town finds out she's really screwed!
So she gathers her friends around her, spills the beans to them, and decides to do whatever it takes to prevent scandal. But when Elinor and friends set out to track down the extortionist, none of them expected other secrets to be told.
About the Author
Abby Drake is a Mayflower descendant and has one sister with whom she's kept lots of secrets. She's the author of Good Little Wives and Perfect Little Ladies. Drake lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, but enjoys wandering off from time to time.


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What are the reasons that lead to terrible high Paging faults.
The following is the topas information and background about the Environment.
Softwares: Oracle 11gR2
Paging Space:30720 MB , %Used 0, %Free 100
Real,MB 31616 ; %Comp 58; %Noncomp 33; %Client 33;
Network KBPS I-Pack O-Pack KB-In KB-Out
Total 592.0 1837.0 1595.0 289.5 302.5
Disk Busy% KBPS TPS KB-Read KB-Write
Total 23.0 684.0 122.0 0.0 684.0
CPU is always below 50% loading.The problem occurs where the PAGING Faults goes up to 32362K
Steals PgspIn PgspOut PageIn PageOut Sios
0 0 0 0 141 139
Cswitch 4094
Syscall 47816
Reads 4585
Writes 1732
Forks 16
Execs 9
Runqueue 2.5
Waitqueue 0.0
Application Environment:
The application has a heavy writing and updating job for some table A. Some records on the table A will be deleted on a scheduler. Delete operations will be executed on each hour abour 5~10 times. Insert operations happen almost 70~100 times/second.
The number of records on table is near 13 million, which have 3 indicies.(almost ~2G) Updating usually happens 5~10 times /min.
VMM settings follows the AIX 6.0 default setting.Use 4k and 64K page size.It seems that use no record swap out to the paging space.
VMM memory load control whose level is the 220.127.116.11.
memory_max_target big integer 25152M . Oracle database memory use automatical management but the Parse time CPU to parse time elapsed = 0.07921 the db block changes has high value.
Can anyone can give some suggestions / hints to help me?
I need some experienced DBA to help me.
In addition, the application uses the connection-pool to keep near 350 connections. (proxool & c3p0 )


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5 Great Movies That Were Turned into Terrible Books
In the days before home video, fans who wanted to relive their favorite films were able to do so through the wonder of movie novelizations. Or they would have done so, if those books weren't hastily written cash-ins based on early versions of the screenplay that, on top of everything, often added totally insane subplots seemingly designed to make you hate the original movie.
These authors were being asked to produce a full novel based on someone else's screenplay, featuring characters they didn't create and probably didn't give a shit about, knowing that nobody at the studio was likely to ever read it. Why wouldn't they completely tank the job in the most hilarious ways possible?
#5. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial Turns E.T. into a Perverted Old Man
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Steven Spielberg's beloved E.T. has remained a wholesome pop culture icon despite appearing in exactly one movie 30 years ago (the Amblin logo doesn't count). The character truly encapsulates the feeling of childlike wonder. Who wouldn't want E.T. to be their best friend as a kid? Answer: You wouldn't. Not after reading the novelization.
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial in His Adventures on Earth by William Kotzwinkle adds details not seen in the movie, starting with the fact that E.T. is 10 million years old. And, as a fully developed adult, he of course gets sexually frustrated.
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Hey, ever notice that E.T. has no junk down there? Wonder where -- oh dear God.
We're confident that this is a prime example of the author saying, "Eh, they're not going to read this shit anyway," and just seeing what he could get away with. Thus, Kotzwinkle's E.T. is a book rife with references to sexuality -- everything from Elliott's mother fearing her children's burgeoning sexual maturity to the totally unnecessary and disturbing detail that Elliott's former principal had been "a sexual offender, retired early after several private incidents in the supply closet became public." We are not kidding about any of this.
But the worst part is that E.T. himself is not above being corrupted by this novel -- Kotzwinkle conveys the alien's inner monologue, and guess what -- he has the hots for Elliott's mom. E.T. refers to her as a "goddess, the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen." To be fair, this plotline was filmed for the movie and ultimately cut, but the novel goes into disturbing amounts of detail regarding E.T.'s obsession over Mary, whom he affectionately calls "the willow-creature":
"How ironic it was that the willow-creature, the lovely Mary, pined for her vanished husband while in a closet, close at hand, dwelt one of the finest minds in the cosmos."
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He then uses the Speak & Spell to invent sexting.
E.T. watches Mary while she sleeps and kisses a framed photo of her, and when Elliott puts an ailing E.T. in the shower, we get the most horrifying revelation of all:
"The water came on, soaking Elliott and E.T. The aged voyager shook his head as the water hit. Ah, yes, the shower, where the willow-creature dances."
Yeah, so it starts to border on serial killer shit at that point.
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"To love her, I must become her."
Strangely, not only was it not necessary to devote an entire landfill to storing the unsold copies of this book, but Kotzwinkle even penned a sequel with the assistance of Spielberg, who declared himself a huge fan of his work. This is yet more evidence that it's a good thing E.T. only appeared in one movie 30 years ago.
#4. Total Recall Ruins Everything People Like About Total Recall
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The main thing that prevents the original Total Recall from being just another shitty generic action movie is the ambiguity -- you're never really sure if Douglas Quaid's (Arnold Schwarzenegger's) adventure is actually happening or if it's all the result of a memory implant gone haywire. The film includes subtle hints that the entire thing is a dream, but it never makes it obvious, leaving the audience puzzling over whether Quaid is a true hero or some bored guy sleeping in a futuristic beauty salon chair. It's that ambiguity that keeps us coming back to this movie over and over again. OK, that and "the triplets."
TriStar Pictures
Sorry, we meant "the twins."
That's Total Recall the movie; Total Recall the novel is another story. Actually, it's the same story, just a whole lot dumber. Either the novelization's author intentionally decided to crush the thing that made the movie special or he was just tragically bad at being vague about the crucial "Is it a dream or reality?" dilemma. For starters, after "Quail" (Quaid's original name in the script before Dan Quayle ruined it for everyone) has a fight with his "dream girl," Melina, we get this passage:
"... no prepackaged dream would have included that scene with Melina, where instead of fulfillment he had received a painful setback. Only reality did that kind of thing to a man!"
That's not an inner monologue, by the way -- that's the book's narrator clumsily doing away with any mystery the story might have had, basically just to say "Women, am I right?" Then, if that wasn't clear enough, we get this line after Quaid spits out the pill that is meant to bring him out of the dream:
"But this wasn't the end of the dream! This was the confirmation of the Mars reality!"
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In this version it's a suppository, though.
You can tell it's exciting! Because every sentence ends in an exclamation point! The novel even goes out of its way to point out that Melina is a model, thus explaining why Quaid saw her face on a monitor before the "dream" started, simply to quash any last trace of incertitude that may be left. And then there's the famous ending: In the movie, Quaid and Melina triumphantly gaze upon the Martian landscape as the image fades to white, and it's up to the audience to decide whether Quaid is in some kind of coma or the two of them are about to have passionate Martian crater sex. In the novel, not so much:
"Quail cast the specter away. He took Melina in his arms and kissed her robustly. He was through with dreaming; reality was much better."
TriStar Pictures
"And then he saw her real boobies and sexed her with his real penis. For real."
The most baffling part is that the movie was already based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, so we're not sure why they didn't just reprint that in size 72 font and call it a book.
#3. Jaws: The Revenge Introduces Magic to the Jaws Universe
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When discussing Jaws: The Revenge (the third sequel to Steven Spielberg's killer shark extravaganza), scholars seem to agree that it did exactly one thing right: Sure, it's a terrible movie in almost every aspect, but at least it didn't explain that the shark eats people because of a supernatural voodoo curse.
The same thing can't be said about the novel.
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"This time, it's mystical!"
The even-more-terrible Jaws: The Revenge novelization doesn't just shit on that particular movie (which would be like going on a used toilet without flushing first), but on the entire franchise -- it indirectly suggests that when Chief Brody and Quint were hunting a savage force of nature in the first film, they might have actually been battling a wizard who was remote-controlling that shark with his mind. Which is a perfectly fine premise for a motion picture, now that we think about it, just not this one.
Admittedly, the novel didn't have a lot to work with. The movie's central plot concerns a great white shark following Chief Brody's widow, Ellen, to the Bahamas, where she's visiting her son Mike after her other son was killed by a different shark ... or possibly the same shark, it's not really clear.
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Jaws: The Ride had a more cohesive plot.
While it didn't really make sense that a shark would have a vendetta against a particular set of humans in the first place, author Hank Searls carried on the great literary tradition of saying "Oh, fuck it," then writing something even more ridiculous. Searls' version of the events includes an evil witch doctor named Papa Jacques who seeks revenge against the Brody family. We learn right off the bat that Papa Jacques "hates Michael," and the novel heavily implies that the witch doctor is able to enter a trance and control a great white shark to attack the Brodys:
"It was one of Michael Brody's shirts, stolen by a devotee from his washerwoman's line that day. The houngan fingered his shark's-tooth necklace, sent his mind beneath the sea, and went into a trance himself."
The most frightening part is how much sense all of this makes with the movie. How did a creature with the mental capacity of a fetus know to target a specific family? Because magic, of course. On the other hand, the fact that this is a universe where witches exist would probably explain much of Jaws 3-D.
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And Mario Van Peebles' accent.


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This is a story about me and my life. I was born a planet considered outside of the republic. In those days the mandaloring tribes where feared, and we were mandoloreings we were and are outcast of the republic. Why, you may ask, because we raided worlds for honor and glory, but we only wanted to fight the best. The republic was not the best I'll go into that later. In the begging you live with your family until you are 5 years old, and then you train until you are 11 then. We were in the middle of a war with the sith so my people need all able men to fight so. I was thrown into immediate fitting this is were I'll begin.
4000 years before the fall of the last sith. My fist engagement into war was the war of Exar Kun. He was a fallen Jedi and tried to take the republic. He had betrayed the jedi and his master Voda Siosk-Bass. Then he went to Dxun where he was seduced into the dark side by Freedom Nadd. Then he want to Korriban were Nadd forced him into surrendering to evil completely or he would die. He choose to become evil, and went to Yavin IV to make his base.
While the forces of Lord Mandalore attacked the Empress Teta system, which Ulic was in control of. Which is Exar Kuns apprentice. The final battle we lost on Harkul when Ulic killed mandalore. By winning he won are loyalty. My squadron was to infiltrate there main base with the Jedi we were able. My job was to drop 30 miles from in the air. I was able to shoot down there super lasers so the republic could land. My squadron was also the fist ones to go into the base. We had to blast the force protected door the Jedi had to help of course my powers had not taken shape yet but the Jedi did say I was strong in the force. Half of the mandalorians died because of the sith and there light sabers, but the rest of us used some sort of stragy. We were able to get to Ulic by that time I had found a light saber and was fighting with it. I was about to go after Ulic, but mandalore himself got there first and they dueled Ulic and slashed mandalor that was when I explode with the force and brought the temple down. I was able to get me and other mandaloreins out. Then the Jedi tried to capture me but they were unable too they were always looking for me. Ulic did not die and scene he had beaten mandalore we lost and were forced into an alliance to him.
Ulic was the first one to train me, but I was really more like a slave. He led us and some other forces to Coruscant were we lost, because the krath ran away so we were defeated. Ulic was capture so we went to kun for help and told him of the treachery of the krath. So he assembles us and the sith go to coruscant to free Ulic, and kills his Jedi master and has all his students kill there master to. We free Ulic and attack the krath for running away. Exar Kun fails in his conquest for the galaxy.
Twenty years after The War of Exar Kun The Mandolaring Wars begun. In the begging we concurred worlds on the outer rim. As long as we didn't attack the republic world they would not attack us. We gained resources from these worlds then attack the republic in three different sectors. While we were concurring worlds I concurred 3 of them my self. By this time I was the general of about 300 warships with about fifty fighters in each. My most remember able fight was when I was order to attack from behind as they were retreating, and we caught them by surprised. When the sith came to us to start the war they had told me to use my powers during this war.
Then the next battle I remember was one of the ones when Revan was there. Revan was falling back with Mallak to Koribin I saw mandolor go after them so I flowed him. Revan dueled mandalor to the death and mandalor him self died. I blew up again with the force. Then Mallak need to prove himself to Revan so to prove himself he capture me and he succeed. I had no choice but to show them what the sith showed us. They told us about the star forge and star maps and I gave them the holograms of it all. I had to prove my self to Revan by using my battle mediation it really did nothing because it was just a form of it, it was nothing like what Bastila could do, for the republic and insure there victory.
Then they told me they had already been to the one on Dantooine, so we found the one on Korriban and we did. We then went to Manaan, Kashykk, and, Tatooine. When we found them all we new that we had been out right next to the stare forge, but then we didn't now what to look for it must have some type of defense mechanism to hide it if you don't now what you are looking for. When we found it had some type of disrupter field, and the republic was helping us, because they thought Revan was going to the mandaloring strong hold. When we got there the disruptor field forced us to land on an unworld. Of Rattakan they had an empire before the republic. The Rattakan agreed to help us only if we would help them figure out why the force had left them. So we agreed they did there ancient ritual to let us in, but only force sanative people could go in, that is why the want to know how they could get the force back.
So we go into the temple shut down the disrupter field and get off the planet. They thought the were only letting Raven in because if more than one person went in they would be cursed. But me and Malak fowled Revan in. After destroying simple droids we made it to the top were we shut down the disrupter field and we could open the temple door from the inside so we let some of the fallen Jedi into the temple to discover what ever they could about the ancient sith. So when we made it to the star forge we were surprised that the factory had never stopped producing ships we were able to control its speed up, and we increased it speed by 50%. So with the republic fleet that had betrayed the republic plus the fleet the star forge had already made we were equal to half of the republic fleet already.
I trained under Malak, but was Revans servant boy that he taught when he felt like it. I learned of a lot of sith magic like how to preserve your body to be awaken someday, poses somebody, and become a sprit. learned about the ancient artifact used by Kun to destroy the Jedi strong hold and library, and he taught me how to use it to prove my self a sith. I had to use it on my home world, but what he did not know is that there was know one there so I did and became a full-fledged sith. Malak had to prove him self by retrieving the artifact for me, but it was very protected he killed many Jedi. Saul commander of the republic fleet that allied with the sith had to prove himself by bombarding his top student home world.
We were ready to lead our finial assault on the core worlds when Bastila inter feared using her battle mediation she was stronger than me in battle mediation, so I could not use mine to balance it. They won a couple of battles then the Jedi sent a couple of ships into battle but that was the distraction while a Jedi strike team used Bastille and her battle mediation to board revan's flagship which he and me were on. Revan called all men to the bridge except me and my apprentice he wanted us to cut of the Jedi escape if they were to succeed. We went to the hanger to lunch all of there ships into battle just to make sure if they were to succeed they would have to take me and my apprentice to. When Malak shoot at the bridge trying to take the Jedi and his master down. When the Jedi got to the hanger bay me and my apprentice fought them. My apprentice died but I was able to escape they found some other ship to get in before the ship below up.
Then Malak became lord of sith and I learned what I could form but nothing of great importance that Revan hadn't taught me. After Malak told me how Revan died with so much rage I bombarded 4 of most loyal plants to the sith I took them for my self. Then Revan come to me in a vision he told to fall from my dark path and go to Dantooine to see him and Bastila working together. So I went to Dantooine were Revan and Bastila were training Revan recommended that the council train me. They did train me and in about 6 months I was a Jedi knight. I did not join with Revan or Bastila I stayed and trained my battle mediation.
When they got to the star forge I was in command of some of the republic fleet, my fleet form the mandaloring war, and some loyalist to me when I left the sith they became Jedi again. So the republic fleet grew. When we got there I was apart of the strike team with Revan and Bastila. Bastila went as for as she could before she had to use her battle mediation. I went back to the ships to prepare for a quick get away. Revan went on to fight malak he killed him. Then he went to go get Bastila and get off of the star forge before it blew up. We barley got out. I assembled the rest of the forces working together to securer the republics victory. Some got away so I went after them and killed them.
I finished my training I was the fast in my class and became a master in 3 years. After ten years I went to some far out space and found an impossible asteroid field with out the force but even then it was hard I was really lucky to get threw and went to a world that had the technology of the stare forge inside a temple were there was this massias type animal that Kun had made, but it was much more powerful I defeated it and then I learned in a vision that I had defeated the guardian of an ancient light saber know as the shadow blade. I became the guardian, became immortelle, and extremely strong in the force. I could not wield it but one of my students would I would now go train, make alliances, and become a very respected Jedi for 3000 years.
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How do I fix the GPG error "NO_PUBKEY"?
I am using 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx, I shutdown the computer while one software updates running. Then after i restart my computer and when the updates manager is running, the following error occurs.
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GPG error: http://toolbelt.herokuapp.com ./ Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY C927EBE00F1B0520Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/rabbitvcs/ppa/ubuntu/dists/DISTRIBUTION/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
I gone through the link How do I fix the GPG error "NO_PUBKEY"? and I ran the following command
sudo launchpad-getkeys
Please wait... launchpad-getkeys is running an update so it can detect the missing GPG keys
Trying to import all the missing keys
gpg: requesting key 0F1B0520 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpgkeys: key C927EBE00F1B0520 not found on keyserver
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
launchpad-getkeys has finished importing all missing GPG keys.
Try running sudo apt-get update - you shouldn't see any key
errors anymore
But when I run
sudo apt-get update again, it again shows that the key was not found on the keyserver. How to solve this problem?


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Don't worry... I won't actually do it, just would like to know how.
closed as not a real question by David Z♦ Jan 20 '11 at 18:06
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The physical process that might best be described as "destroying the universe" would be vacuum decay. Our entire universe might be in a metastable state, much like a supercooled liquid, and at some point quantum or thermal fluctuations could send some region of the universe into a lower ground state. If the region that tunnels to this ground state is large enough, it will expand at the speed of light, swallowing up the rest of the universe and converting it all to the lower state. This type of vacuum decay, in theories involving gravity, was calculated in a famous paper by Coleman and de Luccia. Anyone with the relevant background knowledge should read the paper, which like much of Coleman's work is beautifully clear and comprehensible. One passage in the paper is particularly famous (though it arguably shouldn't be taken too seriously now, given some of the assumptions it involves, including that our vacuum has exactly zero cosmological constant):
If we live in a metastable vacuum (and, due to the observed positive cosmological constant, most physicists working on high-energy physics, cosmology, or gravity believe that we must, though there might be some unknown loopholes), then the universe will eventually decay. Luckily, the production of critical bubbles is quite rare, allowing us the time we needed to evolve and live in this metastable universe before the inevitable catastrophe. [Edited for clarification due to Marek's comment: it's only "inevitable" if our universe really is metastable, which despite strong suggestive arguments we don't definitively know.] You would have to wait around for billions of years to witness the end of the universe. If you're more ambitious (let's hope not), you could try to cause the decay by producing a region of the true vacuum, thus catalyzing the process instead of letting it happen naturally. A number of crackpots have tried to start a panic over accelerator experiments by suggesting that they can do this. However, higher-energy collisions happen in nature, and we're still here, so this is nothing to worry about. (There are more quantitative versions of this argument, of course. The risk really is effectively zero.)
The vacuum decay processes I've mentioned don't necessarily "destroy" the universe, they just radically alter it by leaving it in a completely different state. There is one type of vacuum decay, discovered by Witten and known as the bubble of nothing instability, which is more radical and leaves behind nothing, not even a new vacuum state.
Kill all the turtles on which it rests.
We are only humans. We don't know how to destroy the universe.
You can't. Anything you do will only have an effect that effects an area that expands (at most) at the speed of light, so it only effects at most a sphere of radius $c t$ after time $t$. Anything else would violate the no-signalling principle which appears fundamental in physics. This means that the photon that just bounced off you into space will outrun the edge of any such an attempt to destroy the universe.
Find antiuniverse somewhere and annihilate it with what we have here.
Black holes does not work as they evaporate when growing.
I think that only an Universe can destroy an Universe (there's a lot of energy implied in doing so). If there is enough mass in our Universe, maybe its end could be a Big Crunch.
At CERN's website, there was - for the time being - a page (which I cannot find now, someone please help?) about how the LHC could possibly "destroy the earth, the solar system or the whole universe altogether" with possible speculations.
These included creating black holes, strange matter that is more stable than the regular one, and a bunch of other ideas which I don't remember. All of this of course rather bogus, because such collisions occur naturally in cosmic radiation at sufficient frequency.
Inverse the forces in nature is the fastest way to destroy it.
First one will increase radiation and will decay matter to energy instantaneously and second one will explode atom nucleus.
Dear Splashhit, the easiest way to destroy the Universe is to continue to drive cars for years.
Whether you do it or not, the global mean temperature will increase from 15 °C to 16 °C or so in a century. When the temperature of the materials and organisms increases by as much as one Celsius degree, they will - according to the IPCC - transform into a deadly plasma that will kill all living life forms and evaporate all stars, ending with a complete cataclysm where the vacuum itself (scared by watching the horror on its most important planet) is eaten by nothingness. If you've ever experienced the staggering heat of 16 °C, you must know what terrible thing I am talking about. It's worse than hell.
Just kidding. There is obviously no threat whatsoever that would be linked to "climate change" as this meaningless tautology is often called. The IPCC is not destroying the Universe but it is surely destroying the ability of the people to think rationally about very basic things - and it is trying to destroy the world economy, too.
Cheers LM
Find a logical inconsistency and use it to prove that the universe does not exist.
You could kill all observers, that would make the existence of the universe an unprovable proposition.
Alternately you can just wait for the Big Crunch.


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There are lots of "Ext groups" in homological algebra which measure extensions of various things. I'm sure there must be a homological algebra machine for computing the following, and I'm hoping that someone out there knows about it.
I'm interested in the following situation. Let R and S be commutative rings and fix a ring homomorphism $f:R \to S$. Also fix a commutative S-algebra A. I'm interested in understanding/classifying those R-algebras B, together with a (surjective?) ring homomorphism $g: B \to A$ which intertwines the algebra structures in the following sense:
$ g(rb) = f(r) g(b)$
for all $r \in R$, and $ b \in B$. Is there a homological algebra way to do this?
A particular example that I am interested in is when we have the equality $B \otimes_R S = A$, but I am also interested in other cases as well.


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There is a nice tool in representation theory, the Howe duality, which as I know works for certain pairs of classical Lie algebras (the reference to the complete list of Howe dual pairs is appreciated very much). Is there any extension of the Howe duality for exceptional algebras?
There is a theory of dual reductive pairs and examples for exceptional Lie algebras. For example, in $E_8$ we have dual reductive pairs $(A_1,E_7)$, $(A_2,E_6)$, $(G_2,F_4)$, $(D_4,D_4)$. These are used implicitly in constructions of $E_8$; for example $(G_2,F_4)$ corresponds to the Freudenthal-Tits construction and $(D_4,D_4)$ corresponds to the triality construction.
A reference is:
MR1264015 (95b:17010) Rubenthaler, Hubert
These seem to be of interest from the point of view of automorphic forms which I know nothing about.
Yes, and it was studied both from the point of view of the local theory (correspondence of the infinitesimal characters) and automorphic forms. The following review of Jian-Shu Li's paper contains a nice selection of references:
MR1682229 (2000b:22014) Li, Jian-Shu, The correspondences of infinitesimal characters for reductive dual pairs in simple Lie groups. Duke Math. J. 97 (1999), no. 2, 347--377.
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49.99 pre-order on best-buy right now, amazon sounds like a good deal to wait a few days extra
@nflemming2004: What do you mean a few days extra? Amazon pre-orders arrive on release dates.
I don't think I can be convinced to pre-order blu rays anymore. I got burned on The Avengers since I thought I was getting a great deal getting the 2 disc version for $20 and then release day, the four disc version was $20 everywhere. Some even had special bonuses.
Seems with all the competition to sell these things on release day, you can pretty much wait until then and let everyone fight over you.
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@dhillinmkewi: Details. 3 movies for the deal here. Your link is for the recent release only.
@starbob: this happened for my son's birthday. was a bit annoyed that we could've had the super duper Avengers combo pack for the same total cost.
@skipatrolkid: that wasn't the case when i pre-ordered Hunger Games from Amazon. it shipped the release day so i waited a week o get it while Target had pies in stock for the same price
maybe that's only for Amazon Prime? I don't have that
@skipatrolkid: you could buy the 4-disc at target, and it came with an extra disc with more featurettes.
Pretty pricey for 3 average movies. Nothing special here.
@spyder69696969: Movies 1 & 2 of this trilogy are anything but average, but different strokes...
@starbob: Hey I agree with you, BUT - I must say, with Amazon at least, if the situation you described happens, I can simply return the disc(s) for credit, and get the version with the super special features sent to me instead. Some things about Amazon I don't like 1) The reviews are not for specific 'editions' 2) they make one version available early, and a better one at the last minute -- I pre-ordered this Batman Trilogy just now, and if something bigger, better and cooler comes out the day I get the discs, or the day after, even, I will be happy to return them, and get a better version.
@jonjohns65: I asked about returns in my particular situation, but paying for the shipping would have made it roughly the same price as if I had bought the four disc in the first place so I just kind of said 'screw it' and left it the way it was. Besides, for The Avengers, the big box stores all had their own versions of it that were the same price and had bonuses. It's not a big deal, but I've just come to the realization that it's much easier to wait until the release day and see what's available because most likely the price won't go up and could potentially go down.
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