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Is it possible to download and install Diablo III before purchasing a license; either online from Blizzard, another retailer, or a physical box with a paper slip with magic numbers on it?
Blizzard has released the Diablo 3 downloaders. They allow you to pre-load the full setup (around 7 GB) on your PC without asking any credentials. Of course without a valid key these files are completely unusable, they will only work when Blizzard decides to make the game playable on servers through Battle.Net login authentication.
Blizzard Downloaders
Here are the downloaders so far available:
For Windows
For Mac
Links above have been listed by Diablo Inc Gamers. Moderators on Blizzard official forum have not had any problems with them and they are already helping people have trouble with downloader so I consider "them safe to use".
I just got hold of official Diablo III installer downloader (EU client)
Friend sent me a link which he used to download the downloader and it works for me also. I have used the link -> downlaoded the downlaoder -> now I'm downloading the client.
I have seen no EULA, agreed to nothing. So as far as law in my counry goes - I'm 100% legal.
BTW the dowloader is disguised torrent client
Thanks to bummzack here is link to all clients http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/qxyxm/diablo_3_windows_and_mac_download_links_all/


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How did you feel when you got your black square?
I just took a look and realized I've finally hit my 100th Woot and made it into the Black Square Club! I made my first Woot purchase December 2009 (crappy Digital picture frame) then wandered off again until July of 2010 when I bought 144 of those Kooz bands for my little cousins (that worked out EXACTLY as awesomely as I thought!).
REALLY discovered Woot! again in July 2011 when I started wooting regularly and the rest is history! I'm glad I'm able to support such a great website and retailer. Woot really has something special here. Not because of the great deals or the flashy website, or even the elusive Bandoleers of Carrots. But the way they've brought people together and really given people a sense of community and partnership that differentiates Woot from the rest.
So thank you Woot! for some fun times and my Black Square. I'm looking forward to achieving my Slightly Darker Black Square next!
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I am looking forward to eventually reaching the Blacker than Black category. Which means, I ought to get to work on that...
Congrats!! Sounds like a great reason to celebrate on a Monday!
I'm not there yet, it's a double edged sword since you got to buy to get there, so I'm in no hurry! :)
The first time I got my black square (25+), I felt like I belonged to a great community. Then Woot went and stole it from me and added new colors. Now that I have it back (100+) I just feel like I've spent way too much money. Thanks to the changes made at shirt.woot, my spending on Woot is much more controlled.
Like a boss.
How will I feel when I get my black square? Broke.
@barnabee: Depends on what you buy, I suppose!
Strange sense of accomplishment, and shock at my own buying propensities all at the same time.
Once I got over 100, I stopped looking. Thanks for making me shock my own self at 219!
@inkycatz: With or without the black square, I still feel broke. Maybe it's because of all of the Winnie the Pooh Band-Aids I just bought?
@barnabee: I don't know, those are an awfully good deal.
I've been here since aught-5, still not there yet.
Working on it slowly, as I'm a bit...frugal.
also: Woo! That LoTR deal I posted got me on the leaderboard (albeit at 14, but still)
Great - like being a popular kid back in school or the "in" crowd. I was there for about a month...
Now, I'm docked back to purple triangle while getting my lunch stolen again by the black triangles.
I wish Amazon purchases counted.
Honestly, I don't like/need most of the crap that's constantly on Woot.
@kbsig106: (Psssst.....we're talking about squares, not triangles.) As for the OP, when I got mine I was excited, then realized that all it signified was that I had spent a lot of money over the 7 years I've been here.
@jsimsace: Man my eyes must have been playing tricks on me, I just logged back on and it was Black Square, not triangle. My bad.
@kbsig106: Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. :)
I don't know yet, I'll tell you in 5 woots! (Obligatory grumble about those woots coming faster if AA blanks were back /hijack)
@kbsig106: Don't worry, I basically did the same thing. I started reading it about being 100+ deals, and I was like, what, I haven't done that...oh....nevermind...
@kbsig106: I'm only 37 from a black square - need to get to buying...


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WEIRTON - The new Sheetz on Three Springs Drive is slated to open in a couple weeks.
"We're almost there," Sheetz Public Relations Manager Monica Jones said. "As of today, we're set to open Nov. 15. It's not set in stone until next week ... but that's our plan. Everything should be ready to go."
The new store, which occupies the former LaPosta dealership site, features 6,500-square feet of retail space, she said. That's about 1,000-square feet more than the original location, located at the intersection of Penco and Cove Hill roads.
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READY TO OPEN — Weirton's new Sheetz is days away from opening. It features 6,500-square feet of retail space and likely will employ between 35 and 45 people. - Linda Harris
"That's the reason we typically do these rebuilds," Jones said. "Sometimes we're able to do it right there, on the same piece of property, but if not we try to pick a place close to the original location so we can maintain our customer relationships and still have (the extra) room."
While the original store is relatively new - it was built in 1997 - she said the Sheetz model "has just advanced and grown so much" over the past 15 years. The menu is bigger, for instance, and that means the kitchen and floor space have to grow, too.
"Older stores don't accommodate what we like to offer these days," she said. "The new site will be much larger. The lot itself is a lot larger, there are more parking stalls, and the building itself is larger."
She said Sheetz typically employs 35-45 people at similarly-sized stores.


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I've been trying to remember what movie this is and can't find it anywhere on google. All I remember is that it took place in a hospital (or something similar) that had house a certain number of patients who had all died (I think they were burn victims?) While investigating, one of the characters found a file for a patient who I thought was known as V (as in 5--though I could be getting it confused with V for Vendeta). The patient was known by some sort of numerical name. I believe the patient's name helped the entire story tie together in the end. I think the patient might have been the only one to survive or something.
Note: I realize it sounds very similar to V for Vendetta, but it's not that movie.
If anyone has any ideas about what movie this is, I'd really appreciate it! I realize the details are extremely vague and generic..


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I am implementing a password vault program with java. I have programmed a triple DES for encryption and a SHA256 for hashing.
My question is would it make any difference if I first hash the raw data (password) and then encrypt it, or first encrypt the data (password) then hash the encrypted data. I am mostly concerned about, would it make any serious differences between them in terms of security.


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Marvel Assembles an Official Title for Third "Avengers" Movie
Comic Books, Film
Yo. So last week, a bunch of us spent time covering the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, which most folks just call C2E2. As part of the show, Jonah "Uncle Moneybags" Weiland sponsored the bar at the Hyatt, making everyone who knew me for the weekend do some variation on that "So the CBR Bar is an open bar, right?" joke in my presence. Here are some photos from over the weekend:
Here's the core of CBR's full-timers who were at the show (L-R): Videographer Alex Kropinak, me, Reviews Editor/Staff Writer Steve Sunu and Staff Writer Shaun Manning (who was actually at McCormick for a totally different convention but spent his evening hours drinking with us and eating out in Chinatown). There were a ton of other rad folks chipping in on the site over the weekend, and you can see an index of stories here.
Team blog-o-sphere was out in full force as well, and here's a pic of Robot 6ers Michael May (whom I saw across the con floor several times but never got to talk to – sorry, Michael! – and whose great photo diaries of the con are well worth your time) and Brigid Alverson (who crushed it as part of team panel coverage) alongside Matthew J. Brady (whose great Warren Peace Sings The Blues I don't comment on or link to often enough).
Here are some other pics taken on a busy Saturday night:
God only knows what was going through those bartender's heads as they had to wear our logo while serving drinks to guys in TRON costumes.
Oh, and because I had nowhere else to put it, here's the only cosplay photo I took all weekend:
See y'all next year.


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I have to describe what it means, when a function is discontinuous in a. I also have to use quantification notation.
I have tried following:
$$\exists \varepsilon > 0, \exists \delta > 0 : |x-a| < \delta \Rightarrow |f(x)-f(a)| \geq \varepsilon$$
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Balanchine's Angelsvs. Alonso's Matryoshkas
Posted 05 December 2009 - 09:49 PM
Posted 05 December 2009 - 11:58 PM
Communist regimes don't recognize angels, do they?
The Cuban version goes back to 1953, and it was staged by Mery Skeaping, Charles Dickson and Fernando Alonso, with the inclusions of Fedorova's Sugar Plum Fairy PDD and the Ballet Russes Snow PDD. The choreography has barely been touched-(with perhaps some extra pointe dancing for Clara in Act I)-including the entrance of the Dolls. Communism didn't get to Cuba until 1959.
Just like they have to explain magical transformations as dreams.
Didn't Christensen's 1944 staging included this Soviet-Social-Realism-driven awakening ending...?
Posted 06 December 2009 - 07:18 AM
Communist regimes don't recognize angels, do they?
Just like they have to explain magical transformations as dreams.
Didn't Christensen's 1944 staging included this Soviet-Social-Realism-driven awakening ending...?
I'm not familiar with Christensen's staging but as long as we are exploring history, let's look at the time and place Christensen was in when he did his work.
In 1944 WWII was in progress and the USSR was the Allies partner, Stalin being "Uncle Joe" to many Americans.
There was much fascination with the Soviet culture as well as a perception of great innovation occurring. Many things "Soviet" were considered very
chic ("moderne" was a term often used).
So, in theory, it's quite possible that some Soviet reworking of traditional story telling elements to support the official dogma would have seemed shiny and new
to Western audiences.
It was only in the later 40s, 50s and 60s during the cold war that Soviet innovations were looked at differently and not embraced so enthusiastically by
the creative community in the west.
Just speculation of course but I agree with Carbro that Marie's "awakening" would have easily been a Soviet "solution" to a non-realistic plot device. And I can see how during the 30s and 40s there was a fascination with "Soviet chic" in the US.
And once in place, tradition takes over and details have a life of their own. Look at the tenacity of the odd cut in the music used by the BR and later stagings.
Posted 06 December 2009 - 11:35 AM
I want to respond to something rg posted last year:
In her autobiography, Farrell quotes several letters that she wrote during her first season at SAB. :
if memory servers Suzanne Farrell might even have appeared as one at the very start of her NYCB career. or maybe i've hallucinated this thought.
Farrell comments:
December 9, [1960] Dear Diana -- You'll never guess what happened! I was chosen for a part in The Nutcracker. I will be an angel with several other girls. We don't do anything but stand, but I'm thrilled all the same ...
December 15. This evening at 5:30 P.M. was our first rehearsal for angels. It wasn't on stage. though. I thought the rehearsal would be just us eight, but everyone was there. The first person I saw was Diana Adams. Then Mr. B and then Jacques d'Amboise. I push in the throne. I'm enjoying this so much.
December 16. At 5:00 P.M. we had a rehearsal on stage. I pushed in the throne and then two girls brought on the table which Lucy and I then hooked on. Mr. B came up and took my hand. He asked me my name and gave me some directions to do in regards to my "huge" part. Tonight at 8:30 P.M. was the first performance. Diana and Jacques did it. They were perfect. I'm just in another world now.
Today the angels in The Nutcracker are performed by the tiniest girls in the School, but in 1960 they were the biggest, thus my part. Before pushing on the throne, we sailed onstage in our angel gowns with halo hats and pretended to play little gold musical instruments.
Regarding "bats" in The Nutcracker. This isnt' as crazy as it might sound. Despite being Hoffmann-esque, as Mel suggests, weren't bats at one time considered to be "flying rodents," and therefore close relatives to rats and mice?
Posted 06 December 2009 - 11:57 AM
[size=2]"The curtain went up and I was in heaven. The Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier-(Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch)-came in a little wheeled boat, but as he stepped elegantly out of the boat there was a huge noise, and all the scenery shook. Youskevitch had tripped. He nonetheless retained his noble bearing and I was very much impressed. After the performance I asked Alicia Alonso for her autograph, and she was very kind. She sat me down, and holding a silk stage lily, told me the story of 'Giselle' while my mother took photographs"[/size]
I keep looking for any references of the matryoshkas in this pre-Balanchine productions of the Nutcracker, but can't find anything. I wish someone could recall what was going on back then with these characters.
Posted 06 December 2009 - 12:05 PM
Posted 06 December 2009 - 12:09 PM
Posted 06 December 2009 - 12:15 PM
Sorry, I must have missed that. I was using the index and went straight to the quotations.
Thanks for the Farrell quotations, Bart. Just want to point out that they're not from letters but from Suzanne's diary, which she named for Diana Adams.
Cristian's questions relate to the issue of cultural influences. Along the way, the political sub-plot of the ballet (the Prince is the actual ruler Confituerenberg; the Sugar Plum Fairy is his regent) has been lost. We do not care as much about such things as the Romanovs did. It seems inevitable that other of the peculiarly Russian details (the Russian dolls skimming the stage; the fact that they are the prince's sisters) have been lost also, at least in the United States. On the other hand, I can understand why these details would be retained in Cuba, where preserving the imagery of the old Ballets Russes days seems to be the rule.
Balanchine spoke about the specific religious aspects of the ballet's (German) Christmas setting. ("... [I]t's religious. Christ is born, so grown-ups never gave each other any presents out of respect for religion. But children are told beautiful stories about it, and they have to have presents.") This mind-set leads to images of angels, and specifically little angels when you need to provide roles for lots of children.
Posted 07 December 2009 - 08:28 AM
From what I remember though, there was a brief encounter with demons before the land of the sweets. The triumphant Nutcracker emerged and took Clara by the hand to the land of sweets. (talk about a shoe-string version---this poor Nutcracker did not have a mask on his head, but what looked like a white head covering made of o-tag, and the funny part was that there was not a piece covering the top of his head. From my seat in the second balcony of the City Center you could see the dancer's head.) There were no children in this production, the dancers played the children. The second act began with the dance of the snowflakes. I did not see a more elaborate production until Balanchine's in 1954. But, the highlight was the Grand Pas.
One interesting note about this production----in some performances the young Svetlana Beriosova played Clara.
Posted 06 February 2010 - 11:40 AM
Ballanchine loved his long-legged ladies. He adored them as a man who appreciates the beauty and sensuality of women. I don't think it is a big step for such a man to consider an identifiable stage presence as angelic or comprising "angels", just as we might say, "Oh, she is an angel!" in adoration of both a feminine form and some supporting feminine roles.
I'd go further. In fact, although male angels have always been around, culturally we have leaned toward female angels. Traditionally women who somehow nurtured men (maybe reminding us of a motherly know-all wisdom or omniscience we feel as children) have often been called angels or angelic. I think we simply like to attribute angelic qualities to special women, even children ("oh, she's just a little angel!) and so I think Mr. Ballanchine simply let his appreciative fantasy take wing.
I'm glad he felt that way. Ballet itself feels that way. It is not an exercise in turning out one's hips. It is a spiritual form of harmony in which the whole is so very much greater than the sum of its parts. It is pure magic, and that is the thrill of the thing. I believe that many angels, yes, and devils too, have danced upon ballet stages.
But that is merely conjecture.
Posted 06 February 2010 - 02:20 PM
Communist regimes don't recognize angels, do they? Just like they have to explain magical transformations as dreams.
It is certainly true that they are less likely to have recourse to supernatural explanations for natural phenomena. Not necessarily a bad thing.
Posted 06 February 2010 - 03:44 PM
Communist regimes don't recognize angels, do they? Just like they have to explain magical transformations as dreams.
It is certainly true that they are less likely to have recourse to supernatural explanations for natural phenomena. Not necessarily a bad thing.
No...not a bad thing at all, but I suspect that the waking up of Clara from the Cuban prouction has nothing to do with dialectic materialism.
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Pentaho is very fortunate to have such a fantastic community. There are a few community rockstars that find time in their uber busy lives to write books about using Pentaho. The latest book published, the Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook by co-authors Adrián Pulvirenti & Maria Carina Roldán is making its way to the top of the Amazon bestseller tech list. Even more impressive – this is Maria's second book about PDI in just 15 months! (In April 2010 she published PDI 3.2: Beginner's Guide). We were interested to learn more about the book and the authors. Check out our interview below to get the inside scoop about the PDI 4 Cookbook.
Read below to learn how to win a FREE copy of the PDI 4 Cookbook and for a special discount offer from Packt Publishing
1) What inspired you to write the PDI 4 cookbook so soon after "PDI 3.2 for beginners"?
Maria: At the time PDI 3.2 for Beginners was published there was a clear need for a book that revealed the secrets of Kettle, in particular for those who barely knew about this tool. The book had a great acceptance especially coming from the Pentaho Community. Today I can say that the main inspiration was definitely that rewarding feedback.
On the other side, at the time that book was published, Pentaho was about to release PDI 4. From a beginner perspective, there aren't big differences between Kettle 3.2 and Kettle 4. Thus, there is nothing that refrain you from learning Kettle 4 with the help of the Beginner's book. However Kettle 4 brought a lot of new features that deserved to be explained. This was also a motivation for writing this new book.
2) What is the main goal behind the book? What do you aim to bring across?
Adrián: This book is intended to help the reader quickly solve the problems that might appear while he or she is developing jobs and transformations. It doesn't cover PDI basics – the Beginner's book does. On the contrary, it focuses on giving the PDI users quick solutions to particular issues.
- Can I generate complex XML structures with Kettle?
- How do I execute a transformation in a loop?
- What do I need for attaching a file in an email?
- These are common questions solved in the book through quick easy-to-follow recipes with different difficulty levels.
3) Where did you find the inspiration for this new book?
Maria: The main inspiration for this book was the PDI forum; many of the recipes explained in the book are the answers to questions that appear in the forum again and again, as for example: how to use variables, how to read an XML file, how to create multi-sheet Excel files, how to pass parameters to transformations, etc. Just to give an example, the recipe "Executing part of a job once for every row in a dataset" explains how to loop over a set of entities (people, product codes, filenames, or whatever), which is a very recurrent issue in the Kettle forum.
Besides that, Kettle itself was an inspiration. While outlining the contents of the book and with the aim of having a diversified set of recipes we browsed the list of steps and job entries many times thinking: Is there something that we aren't covering? Are there steps that deserve a recipe by themselves? Many of the recipes that you can find in the Cookbook came out after that exercise. "Programming custom functionality," a recipe that explains how to use the UDJC step and quickly explains other scripting related steps, is just an example of these set of recipes.
4) What do you like so much about Pentaho (Data Integration) to make you write books about it?
Maria: I have used Kettle since the 2.4 version, when many of the tasks could only be done with JavaScript steps. Despite that, I already admired the flexibility and power of the tool. From that moment Kettle has really improved in performance, functionality and look & feel. Its capabilities are endless and this goes unnoticed for many users. That's what makes me write about it: The need to uncover those hidden features, and explain how easily you can do things with Kettle.
Adrián: In my daily work I integrate all kinds of data: xml files, plain text files, databases, and so on. Anyone facing these tasks knows about the time and effort required for accomplishing them. Meeting Kettle was love at first sight. Thanks to Kettle I realized that these formerly tedious tasks can be done in a fast, fun and easy way. I liked the idea of writing this book to share my own experiences with other people.
5) When can we expect the next book(s)?
Adrián: Just as Kettle, the whole Pentaho Suite has grown a lot in the latest years. There is undoubtedly much to write about it.
However at this time we'd like to enjoy the recently published book and look forward for the feedback of the Pentaho community.
Win a free Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook. Like Pentaho on Facebook and leave a comment here about which chapter(s) or recipe(s) you think will be most useful for you and why (you can see the full index in the book here). You also have the chance to win on Twitter by following Pentaho and tweeting your comment with the hashtag #PDI4. Maria and Adrián will pick their favorite comment to win. Deadline to leave a comment is July 26 at 12pm/EST.
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***Update July 27***
The winner of the free book goes to Mike Dugan. As Adrián explains, "Because he expressed in a few words the essence of chapter 7, which is one of our favorites."
Mike's response to his favorite chapter and why, "Chapter 7 is the key here. Who wants to recreate the wheel??? Just like Newton I believe in the conservation of energy…. Especially MY energy. Do it once, use it a lot, look like a rock star with minimal effort."
Well said! Congrats Mike, you will receive a free copy of the PDI Cookbook courtesy of Packt Publishing soon.
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(Please, if you would like to join the ModelEarth group at Solutions, apply directly to modelearth()gmail.com. Thank you, H.S.)
The Need for Designing the Future Collaboratively:
To Whom the Future of the Earth Might Concern.
I propose that the differences that there exist among all our ideas--ideas of all who share this planet--about what our common existence on this planet should ideally look like be resolved by what-so-ever expedient, appropriate means first by modeling (computer, or any other kind), round table style discussions at the community level, and any such--before those differences resolve in real life, causing real waste of lives, resources, and time occurring in real world.
Once there is a clear idea of what we all agree that our common existence in this world should look like, it would be practicable to achieve this commonly held ideal.
This contrasts with the way in use now when we are mostly trying to improve our existence in this world by forever fixing the infinite problems stemming from our past mistakes that plague us--and usually causing new problems to arise with our fixes--never knowing well what kind of existence we are trying to achieve, and therefore never achieving any kind of existence that would be fully acceptable by all.
Please read "Designing a Lasting Peace Together" - http://www.modelearth.org/peace.html, where the need for collaboratively designing the future of the world could be seen best.
Please see Some Suggestions for Designing a Sustainable Earth Co-operatively(http://www.modelearth.org/princmodsus.html).
The concept of designing the future collectively described in these pages owes its existence to the Mahayana philosophy ( http://www.modelearth.org/mahaecosoc.html ) and to ideas presented in The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz, which I paraphrase and quote from often, not always necessarily acknowledging this.
Capitalism with a Human Face: A Proposal for the Establishment of a Sustainable Capitalism.
Capitalism with a Human Face:
A Proposal for the Establishment of a Sustainable Capitalism.
online: http://www.modelearth.org/modest.html
Preventing a Ton of Cure: Disaster Preparedness.
Preventing a Ton of Cure:
Disaster Preparedness.
online: http://www.modelearth.org/art01.html
Disasters, be they natural or human made, do occur--they have been occurring all throughout human history, they occur even nowadays; they are nothing new to us. They do not surprise us.
Grassroots Government: The World's Ombudsman.
Grassroots Government: The World's Ombudsman.
online: http://www.modelearth.org/world-gov.html
Today most people are not represented in their government properly, if at all, regardless where this might be in the world.
Even in the most advanced democracies of the "first world" countries it might take a long time before wrongs being committed on minorities are addressed to a satisfaction; Wrongs committed on individuals might never be considered at all, in most instances, mostly due to the impossibility of people having an equal access to justice.
An open letter to the Obamas.
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Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama,
I wish that you are well!
If we, the people, were really interested in establishing a lasting peace in the world, we would spend more on ways that would achieve peace non-violently than what we spend on the military!
Home: The Very "Leverage Point".
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This did the trick for me :)
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I haven't done too many proofs, but I'd like to attempt more and thought I'd take a shot at this one, which is from Penrose's book "The Road To Reality."
The problem is to prove that the function given by $y = 0, x \leq 0$ and $y = e^{-1/x}, x > 0$ is $C^\infty$ smooth.
When x is less than 0, there's no problem as obviously the function is infinitely differentiable. Similarly, when x is greater than zero the function is infinitely differentiable, by the properties of the exponential function. As I see it, the difficulty arises in what happens right at 0. For the function to be differentiable there, the function needs to be continuous at 0, and for that to happen both the right hand and left hand limits need to equal 0. So for the function to be infinitely differentiable, one would need to show that in the limit the function $e^{-1/x}$, and all its derivatives, go to zero as x goes to 0.
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Probably the coolest way to see sound waves is with fire. In 1905, German physicist Heinrich Rubens invented the Rubens' tube, or the standing wave flame tube. The Rubens' tube demonstrates acoustic standing waves through fire.
The Ruben's tube is a length of pipe that has evenly-spaced holes along the top and is sealed at both ends. One seal is attached to a speaker or frequency generator while the other seal is attached to a propane tank. The tube is filled with gas, and the gas that comes out of the holes is lit on fire. You can now see the sound waves, etched into the air by way of fire.
If a constant frequency is used, then the inside of the tube will have a standing wave, and will create points with oscillating pressure and points with constant pressure. The flames will be lower at the points of oscillating pressure because less gas will escape through the holes in the tube. Naturally, the flames will be higher at the points of constant pressure.
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Ladies - what do you think when you see a guy wearing a T-Shirt like this?
I use to be a young, foolish, teenager, but since growing up, I am wondering if I was naive to think that wanting shirts that had sexual innuendos on them were cool. Take this poster for example:
It appears to my demographic (Men over 30) since we grew up with that stuff and I have seen this on a T-Shirt, but I find that if I wore that today I would probably get some stares and disgusted looks. What do you ladies think of guys who wear these type of shirts? I mean I have seen much worse shirts than the one on the poster, but has anyone ever worn a shirt like this and been called classy?
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(Not a lady but) I typically find these to be fairly lame. The innuendo typically isn't very clever and often strikes me as kind of douchey. Particularly the ones that are blatantly sexual, not even a joke.
If it's a very reserved person (such that such a shirt would be out of character) or the innuendo is exceptionally clever or even not obvious right away, then it could be funny. I get the appeal to the general young male demographic, but it's really not my thing. I can't think of any lady friends that have really ever liked them, either. A couple with particularly good senses of humor might appreciate the joke, but still not be a fan.
Good luck with that, dude.
Most t-shirts with slogans are just for "bros".
If someone is 30+ and wears this as a shirt, we can assume a few things:
Single (never-been-married), works but doesn't put money into a savings account or retirement fund, has a significant other but won't commit, hangs out with friends from the high school football team on a daily basis, drinks a six-pack every night, wears a baseball cap with the brim either off to the side or completely backwards...basically all the signs of an immature adult male.
On a side note, people still buy posters at 30? I never found this practice appealing at any age.
i think "Regular Price: $14.00 Our Price: $0.99 (you save 93%)" pretty much speaks for itself.
I wouldn't take anyone who tried to talk to me while wearing that seriously. Indeed, I think that if anyone had ever worn such a shirt in their lifetime, I'd feel the residual douche baggery lingering on their skin and avoid them at all costs.
If I remember correctly, some of those video game cartridges would only work if you blew on them or jiggled them once placed into the console. Thus explaining the shirt.
However, anyone wearing that today is clearly showing a totally lack of maturity. It may be an in joke to those of us old enough to remember, but it is still immature by any standard.
@thetexastwister: No, it's a shirt that uses that to conjure up childish things in their heads. It's not an homage to classic video game systems. It's a childish design using that as an excuse.
From a male perspective, just no. Don't.
I'm grateful to the guys who choose to wear these types of shirts. It makes it easier to identify and eliminate those that are... not my type.
I'm not knocking the fun in making an obviously stupid innuendo comment at just the right moment with just the right people. I'm definitely guilty of making these types of "jokes" or guffawing at them like some hormonal 13 year old. But! I only do that with friends with whom I've already established a close rapport that allows this kind of loucheness. I would never ever ever broach this type of humour with a stranger or casual acquaintance, much less advertise it on my clothing. That's just... well, to be all snap-judgement-y about it, I feel that the kind of guy who would wear this in earnest is the kind of guy who wouldn't know how to please a woman--other than what he's "learned" from mainstream porn.
I looked at that and loled because I remember the kids doing just that. Then, I asked my son if he would wear such. He declined with an eye roll.
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How do you usually warm up your database ?
I run a similar queries to this for every table in DB:
SELECT * FROM ip_log ORDER BY ID;
SELECT ip, member_id FROM ip_log ORDER BY ip, member_id;
Is that the best way, or there is something cooler ?
How do you usually warm up your database ?
I run a similar queries to this for every table in DB:
Is that the best way, or there is something cooler ?
If you would like to warm your MyISAM Key Buffer you could run this:
Here is the output:
This displays every possible query you could run against MyISAM tables selecting index column fields only. Running those queries will populate the MyISAM Key Buffer.
Here is a similar query to make queries that preload the InnoDB Buffer Pool
Here is a similar query to make queries that preload the InnoDB Buffer Pool and the MyISAM Key Buffer (I posted this back in November 2011)
If you see the same query appear more than once in a display, this indicates the presence of redundant indexes.
Give it a Try !!!
While one can create caches dedicated to MyISAM via as follows:
you must still decide to load all indexes or specific ones. The script I provided simply shows you the list of all possible indexes you can load. You are not obligated to load all indexes, just the ones you know are used the most. If you have the hardware and budget, you load as much as you like into the dedicated MyISAM caches.
Here is something else to consider: All the queries mentioned are actually accessing covering indexes. Running those queries will only access the MyISAM pages of the .MYI file and only the index pages of an InnoDB tables. Table data is never retrieved. In light of this, all or selected queries populated index pages regardless of storage engine.
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Quick note about InnoDB vs MyISAM. You can cache data pages for InnoDB. MyISAM no.
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Is the Old Testament a Jewish religous book and should it be discarded by Christians today? If not what does it add to Christians today?
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The opening to the book of Hebrews sheds some light on this:
This affirms that long ago (well before the time of the New Testament), God was speaking to mankind. As Jesus pointed out in Luke 6:45, "out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks," so spoken words reveal the heart of the speaker. In the same way, the spoken words of God reveal God's heart as well. So, the Old Testament reveals the heart of God in many ways.
Paul also mentions the benefit of the Old Testament, stating that hope can come through the Scriptures--and at the time he wrote Romans, there wasn't much Scripture outside of the Old Testament.
Luke also notes that the people of Berea were considered noble for the very fact that they studied the Old Testament.
These people searched the Old Testament Scriptures and concluded that Paul's messages was, indeed, true and that Jesus was, indeed, the Messiah. This verification is very important today, as the Old Testament continues to show that God had prepared the world for the coming of the Messiah, and that the Son of God became a Man named Jesus who was that Messiah.
Jesus Himself noted that the Old Testament Scriptures actually spoke and testified about Him:
Finally, the Old Testament was not written just for Jews. In the lineage of Jesus Himself, there is mention of a Hittite (Urriah), a Moabite (Ruth), and a woman of Jericho (Rahab). The promise to Abraham was that he would be a blessing to all people--not just his own descendants through Isaac.
Even in Egypt, the purpose of the plagues was to show the Egyptians that the God of Israel was the one true God.
The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them. Exodus 7:5 ESV
Also, Genesis is believed by many to have been a collection of writings from Adam, Noah, and others. If so, Adam and Noah were not "Jewish", but the ancestors of all people alive today.
So, the Old Testament can be considered a Jewish book, written by Jews (with the possible exception of Genesis) under the inspiration of God, to proclaim God's name to all mankind.
It should also be noted that the New Testament is written entirely by Jews as well. In fact, Christianity is inherently Jewish and was begun by all Jews. It could easily be described as Gentiles (as well as Jews) recognizing Jesus as the promised Jewish Messiah of the Old Testament.
Lastly, Paul's letter to Timothy emphasizes that all Scripture is of value. At the time of his writing, he certainly intended to include the Old Testament.
Both the Old and New Testaments are the revelation of God, and, as such, are the primary means by which we can know God Himself.
You are asking two completely separate questions.
1. Is the Old Testament a Jewish book?
Insofar as the Torah was revealed first to the Jews, yes. As Romans 9 points out
But, is the promise made to Jews alone? Paul continues:
Whether or not we are descended from Abraham (or even Isaac) here is irrelevant - Paul admits it is not the children by physical descent who are God's children. Whilest I am always a little bit leery of putting the church in the place of the Jews in all things, it is fair to say that we are heirs of the same promise.
2. Should it be discarded?
Jesus himself said in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5:17)
Futhermore, Paul - the biggest opponent of "the law" if there ever was one - even he says (Galatians 3:17):
He goes on to call the law a "pedagogica" - think of it as a nanny - that leads us to Christ. It is the thing that makes us aware of our sin
In Romans 7, he makes the same point:
In all these things, the OT law still has a purpose - it makes us aware of our need for God.
Frankly, it also tells us who God is.
So, in short, no, we can't discard the OT - it's the foundation without which grace makes no sense.
The books of the old Testament were written by Jews for Jews, so yes, it's a Jewish book.
It's also the history of the chosen People of God to whom the redeemer Jesus Christ was promised, who fulfilled the law and the prophets and guided the People of God into the new testament as Christians. So it's our book too as Christianity is the continuation of Israel, the true People of God here on earth.
First the Old Testement isn't 'one' book its lots of books. Second many of the books that are in the current version the Old Testament are in the Jewish religious book the Torah. So it is technically 'a Jewish book' Third, The New Testament was in fact written by Jews. God had to command Peter to take the gospel to others because they were Non Jewish.
As for what it adds today it is very appropriate for depicting good and bad behavior in the gospel. Also there are many prophecies in the Old Testament that have not been fulfilled... Which means if for nothing else there are still things we can learn about the Second Coming from the Old Testament.
My opinion is this...
According to the bible, the Jews (Israel) are the wife of God the Father. We as Christians (non Jewish belivers) and also Jews who accept Jesus as the MESSIAH are the bride of Christ.
I love the OT and agree almost totally with the answers given above. Accept for my belief that all OT prophesies are not intended for Jews and Christians alike. While you could probably still apply some of it to your spiritual life, there are many prophecies that clearly don't apply.
The OT clearly foretells the happenings in Revelations and that I would say applies to both, but the rest about being carried or driven away to foreign lands because of their unfaithfulness and how God will bring them back and save them with His own hand, is not applicable to Christians. God will take Israel back as His estranged wife. We as the bride of Christ will be fetched by the Groom. Then the wedding celebration will take place. After that only God will come and save Israel.
In short, I do not believe that the OT is for Jews only, but not all of it applies to Christianity. I would say only end time prophecy applies to both.
The Old Testament is a Christian book. It's based on the Jewish bible with often the same books (Catholic Church uses variations in books compared to the Protestant groups, and it all overlaps with but isn't identical to the Jewish inclusions.)
However more importantly, the translations for Christian versions (aka Old Testament) include translations that would not be considered accurate in Judaism to the Hebrew Bible that Judaism uses.
The term Old Testament was invented by an early Christian (I'm not recalling his name), who's goal was to say that Judaism was defunct and their texts were "old" and "superceeded." It's part of the whole anti-Judaism theme that ran through parts of Christianity's implemntation over the years. So from a Jewish perspective it's considered very negative to refer to their texts as "OT."
Also in Judaism it's not considered testament. In Christianity there is that concept of giving testament to the truth. In Judaism it doesn't make sense to Judaism's themes & purpose.
This source points out passages in NT that quote from OT and do so incorrectly. http://www.islamawareness.net/Christianity/old.html It's not quite on point to answering the question. However, with this it becomes possible to see how OT could be different from Jewish bible too. I haven't looked at the rest of the site, but these passage issues are familar to me from other times & sources I've seen them in.
There is one way in that it can be distinguished from Jewish scripture in the sense that the order of the canon is different, which certainly leads to a different reading of the texts. But from the time of the epistles it is clear that these (new testament) writings were being treated as just as authoritative as their Old Testament counterparts 2 Peter 3:16


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Mercedes Benz repair manuals are very well kept by the company. Haynes or any other repair manual providers usually don't touch upon these vehicle. The reason is due to the complexity of the the vehicles systems.
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A total of 39 people face charges in federal or state court as a result of the investigation into illegal drug trafficking in the Newell and Chester areas, which officials close to the probe characterized as a "significant" network.
The probe began in September and involved "extensive surveillance and many controlled purchases of narcotics," U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld II said at an afternoon press conferencing announcing the crackdown.
Ihlenfeld said the investigation and subsequent arrests dealt "a major blow" to the drug activity that has plagued northern Hancock County, and credited interagency cooperation for the success of the operation. The sweep was spearheaded by the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug Task Force with support from the Ohio Valley Drug Task Force of Wheeling, Marshall County Drug Task Force, the Mountaineer Highway Interdiction Team, the Greater Harrison County Drug Task Force and U.S. Marshals.
"The biggest problem in this area is heroin, we're seeing more people overdosing and dying," said Ihlenfeld, adding the number of teens and young adults overdosing is "shocking."
Hancock County Prosecutor Jim Davis said the problems aren't all home grown- of the 39 people facing charges as a result of the probe, nine are from Ohio and six are from Pennsylvania. The other 24 are residents of Chester, Newell, New Cumberland, Weirton and Colliers.
"We've always had drug issues, but it's gotten much worse over the last decade," Davis said. "A lot of people are dying. The problem is we have Pennsylvania on one border, Ohio on the other ... these aren't exactly home-grown people."
Davis said the arrests put a dent in the drug distribution network, "but I'm not naive enough to think this ends our problem."
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"All the breakings and enterings, all the people stealing copper throughout the Newell and Chester areas, it's directly related to drugs," Fletcher said. "It's all related to people looking to get enough money to make their next buy. I don't have exact numbers, but I'd bet you 90 percent of all the different property crimes can be traced back to some type of drug problem, some addiction ... drug addicts start out stealing from their families, but end up branching out."
Fletcher said the arrests will cut into drug activity in the community, "but there's still a long way to go."
"The fact of the matter is there's a lot more problems out there," he said, adding voters he talked to when he went door to door during his campaign made it clear they were concerned with drug abuse and vexed by the increase in break-ins and thefts. "I can't tell you how many people reached out. Everybody had a story, everybody had a very intense, very strong desire to get something done."
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WELLSBURG - From members of the Wellsburg Women of the Moose to the athletes in the Brooke County Special Olympics program, those who knew Margie Henthorn remember her cheerful, giving nature.
It's fitting, then, that the next American Red Cross blood drive to be hosted by the Wellsburg Moose Lodge on Nov. 16 has been named in her honor.
The drive will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the lodge at 844 Main St. There will be doughnuts for morning donors and a hot lunch for those who give in the afternoon. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments also may be made by calling Linda Porreca at (740) 264-4286 or (304) 737-1552.
"Margie rarely missed giving at our blood drives, unless her iron was too low. And then she was not too happy about it," Joyce McAlpine, a fellow member of the Wellsburg Women of the Moose, said of Henthorn, who died on Aug. 4 of cancer.
Henthorn, who was 46, also was a long-time athlete in the Brooke County Special Olympics program, where she participated in cheerleading and bocce.
Asked what her daughter liked best about Special Olympics, Laura Henthorn said, "She liked it all - she loved the friendship and the competition."
She said through Special Olympics her daughter made many friends, both locally and away, and while participating in regional and state competitions, enjoyed seeing athletes from other counties she had met at previous events.
Diagnosed with cancer in November 2012, she continued to participate in Special Olympics, as much as her health would allow, until June, when she lacked the strength to do so.
Laura said of her daughter's battle with cancer, "she gave it a fight and she hardly complained at all."
At her request, several Brooke County Special Olympics athletes served as her pall bearers.
Margie, who also was a member of the Tower of Power Church in Steubenville, joined the Wellsburg Women of the Moose with her mother.
"She always enjoyed doing whatever they did to help the community," Laura said.
But most of all, she loved to give blood, she noted.
Asked how she would feel to have a blood drive named in her honor, Laura said, "she's watching over us and she's loving it."
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Softball Travels to Mars Hill on WednesdayMarch 18, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – After dropping back-to-back decisions for the first time since last year's NCAA Southeast Super Regional at Armstrong Atlantic State, the 14th-ranked Anderson University softball team will look to get back in the win column when the Trojans visit Mars Hill on Wednesday. First-pitch versus the Lions is slated for 2 p.m.
Both Anderson (20-6, 0-2 SAC) and Mars Hill (12-8, 0-2 SAC) suffered a pair of losses in their respective conference-openers last Saturday, with the Trojans falling to preseason league-favorite Lenoir-Rhyne and MHU dropping back-to back decisions at Catawba. AU has dropped four of its last six, while the Lions have suffered setbacks in three of their last four outings after posting a four-game win streak.
The Trojans
Junior Jessica Neidigh enters the midweek doubleheader on a nine-game hitting streak and has recorded multiple hits in eight of those nine contests. The native of Lawrenceville, Ga. has jumped into second in the league in hitting with her .443 batting average, and also ranks second with 39 hits on the year. She has yet to be thrown out on the base paths, going 14-for-14 in stolen bases. Sophomore center fielder Molly Child is second on the team and sixth in the conference with her .410 batting average on the strength of a team-best 12-game hitting streak. She is second in the SAC with six home runs and ranks third in RBI (26), hits (34) and runs scored (29).
Senior Abby Child is hitting .395 on the season and leads the league with eight home runs. The hard-hitting shortstop also leads the SAC in slugging percentage (.829) and RBI (36), while ranking third in runs scored (29) and fifth in on-base percentage (.510). Senior Danielle Swygert is fourth on the team and ranks 13th in the league with her .383 batting average and is in the top-10 in four additional offensive categories.
Junior Rebecca Martin continues to post career numbers at the plate, boasting a .372 batting average and has a career-high five home runs on the season. The outfielder would rank 16th in the conference, but does not own enough at-bats to qualify. Freshman outfielder Courtney Czentnar is hitting .359 and is a perfect 5-for-5 in stolen bases.
In the circle, junior hurler Katelynn Howser (8-2) has a 1.52 ERA, which ranks eighth in the conference and has recorded 62 strikeouts in 69 innings of work. Freshman Lauren Rudesheim (9-3) leads the pitching staff with 17 appearances and has tossed a pair of shutouts on the season, while earning a save in the 7-5 win over Georgia College on Feb. 22. The right-hander has recorded 42 strikeouts in 61 innings of work. Newcomer Augie Pena is 3-1 on the season in 13 appearances and ranks second in the conference with her 10.50 strikeouts per game average. She struck out five of the 16 batters she faced in last Saturday's nightcap.
The Lions
Mars Hill was a preseason pick to finish eighth in the South Atlantic Conference in a poll of the league's coaches after tying for the eighth spot in last season's league standings. The Lions posted a 26-16 overall record and a 10-8 mark in the SAC a year ago.
Junior Robyn Stanek was named to the Preseason All-Conference First Team at third base after earning a spot on the 2013 All-SAC First Team. Last season, Stanek started all 42 games and led the Lions with a .372 batting average, .419 on base percentage, 11 doubles, five home runs and 41 RBI. Her .372 batting average was fourth-best in the league.
Returning first baseman Jamie Hockaday earned a spot on last year's Food Lion South Atlantic Conference All-Tournament Team. Her two-run homer provided both runs in the Lions' upset victory over the tourney's top-seeded Tusculum Pioneers. Hockaday batted .273 with a .385 on-base percentage in four games in the SAC Softball Championship, homering, driving two runs and drawing a pair of walks as Mars Hill eliminated Tusculum and the second-seeded Trojans before being eliminated by Wingate.
Hockaday currently ranks third in the league with her .441 batting average and her .547 on-base percentage is second in the conference.
The Lions are 12-8 overall and, like the Trojans, are looking for their first conference win of the season after suffering a pair of shutouts at Catawba three days ago. Wednesday's twin bill opens a four-game homestand for the Lions, who are an undefeated 6-0 at home on the season.
The Series vs. Mars Hill
The Trojans and Lions have squared off 16 times since the 2006 season, with seven of the meetings occurring since Anderson joined the South Atlantic Conference for the 2011 campaign. Mars Hill leads the all-time series, 10-6, while the Trojans have won four of the seven league matchups. The Lions claimed seven consecutive victories in the series from 2007-10, with AU sweeping last year's regular-season doubleheader. Mars Hill offset the losses by eliminating the Trojans in the SAC Tournament with a narrow 4-3 win.
In the three meetings last season, Swygert was 7-for-9 with a pair of doubles, three RBI and scored three times, while Charlotte Sieber was 3-for-4, with a solo home run and scored twice, while driving in three runs. Molly Child added five hits and a pair of RBI in 10 at-bats.


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1956 Chevrolet Pickup Patch Job - Do-It-Yourself Corrosion CuresWritten by on May 29, 2012 Contributors: Ryan Manson Patching A Porous Pickup
Deep inside the Custom Classic Trucks world headquarters is the Source Interlink Tech Center. There, under the capable supervision of Jason Scudellari, many of the tech stories in the company's various magazines are created. That's a politically correct way of saying Jason does the work while the editors take photos, hand him tools and ask dumb questions.
Along with working on just about everyone's magazine projects, Jason occasionally has the opportunity to turn his attention to his latest acquisition, a '56 Chevy pickup. In rather rough shape, about the only positive observation that could be made about the cab was that from the door handles up it wasn't bad.
To begin its resurrection the sheetmetal was sent out for media blasting. Upon its return, it was obvious that a number of patch panels would be required and that some poorly done repair work would have to be corrected. Undaunted, Jason thumbed through the Brothers Truck Parts catalog and found everything that would be required to bring the cab back to pristine condition:
Brothers' Part Numbers
|DHRP900 left
|lower door hinge repair panel
|DHRP900 right
|lower door hinge repair panel
|LDH8900 left
|lower door hinge brace
|LDH8900 right
|lower door hinge brace
|FRP5900 left
|floor pan with toe board
|FRP5900 right
|floor pan with toe board
|FDPR900 left
|door rear pillar
|FDP900 right
|door rear pillar
|LCC5900 left
|lower cab corner
|LCC5900 right
|lower cab corner
|ICC5900 left
|inner cab corner
|ICC5900 right
|inner cab corner
|ISPR900 left
|inner step plate and rocker
|ISPR900 right
|inner step plate and rocker
In addition, Jason turned to the Eastwood Company for a couple of items to help the process:
|Spot-weld removal bits
|Black Anti-Rust paint
At one time saving a cab that needed this much work was way over the head of anyone but a very experienced and skilled metal worker. And if someone like that could be found, the labor rate to make those repairs would likely be far more than the end product would be worth. But two things have changed that—readily available patch panels and wire feed welders.
The Brothers patch panels are made from the same gauge material as the original body with all the correct contours for specific areas eliminating any trick metal forming. Wire feed welders like our Lincoln (Power MIG 180) are easy to use even for beginners, so rescuing a rusted cab is well within the realm of a do-it-yourselfer.
With time, patience and the necessary patch panels a rough truck can be brought back to life. Just cut carefully, keeping in mind it's easier to take a little more off the body to make a patch panel fit than to add it back on. And you've probably heard this a million times—weld a little at a time to keep from warping the area out of shape. Then, when you're all done comes the really cool part—you can say "I did it myself."CCT
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A delicate touch with a cut-off wheel was necessary to slice through the tack welds holding the patch in place. The corner patches had been laid over the top of the adjacent panels, which meant lots of body filler was required to blend them together and cover the rivets.There was considerable ugliness under the patch panel, and the other side had the same issue—a patch panel covering rust rather than replacing it.With the right side panel completely removed the extent of the rust was obvious. Because moisture settles in these low spots, damage like this is not an uncommon condition.Before the step plates, rockers, and portions of the floor were removed temporary braces were installed to maintain the cab's shape.
The rear corners of the car were in rough shape. Jason positioned one of Brothers' inner repair panels to mark where the body would be cut.Rather than overlap the panels, Jason took his time to trim the body precisely and butt the new and old. Note the factory spot welds have been cut with the Eastwood bit.Satisfied with the fit, Jason tack welded the panel in place. Widely spaced tacks are made, then additional tacks are made in-between those. The trick is to weld a little at a time to prevent warping the area.Brothers' inner patch panel overlaps the floor just as the original sheet metal did. Look closely and the locations of the original spot welds can be seen.
Properly positioned, the front and rear hinge post repair panels welded in place with the Tech Center's Lincoln wire feeder.After removing a section of the floor damage the floor support could be seen. Sheetmetal patches were fashioned and welded in place.
To check the alignment of the rocker portion of the panel, the door was installed. Pleased with the fit the welding was completed.The floor and toe board replacement panel was trimmed and welded in place. A body mount bolt goes through the repaired floor support.


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We're preparing a Franz Ferdinand coverband and I would like to get as close as possible to Alex Kapranos's instruments' look & sound. What do I need to do this?
For the look I'll need a Fender Telecaster, but will the model matter for the sound? Can I reproduce the sound purely through effects, do I need an amp, etc.? (Cheaper is better.)


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Country music star Toby Keith has been announced as the latest act in this year's Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson.
The Hutchinson News (http://bit.ly/YpxxmW ) reports the "Should've Been A Cowboy" and "American Soldier" singer is slated to perform at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at the U.S. Cellular Grandstand. Ticket prices range from $20 to $100.
Keith joins a lineup that already includes Kansas, the Eli Young Band, Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers with Billy Dean, and Jars of Clay.
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Orange, Massachusetts Dragstrip Reunion HighlightsWritten by on August 2, 2013 Dragstrip Delinquents
Drag race historians and veteran hot rodders call it "the airport era." Decades before the arrival of mega-plex race arenas with air-conditioned observation suites rising five stories above the tarmac and manicured concrete launch pads and massive rows of stadium seating, hot rodders had but two places to run their machines: darkened side streets and borrowed airport runways.
Between 1950 and 1964, scores of military and civilian airstrips were opened to drag racers across the country, often as a means to combat illegal street racing and so-called juvenile delinquency. And while much has been written about the early drag meets in Southern California, airport drags were also happening simultaneously in virtually every state. Even in Massachusetts.
One such airfield that served both air- and land-based flying machines was located in Orange, where the New England Timing Association—with assistance from the Orange Kiwanis Club—held regularly scheduled quarter-mile weekend races between 1954 and 1970. Naturally, the racing was seasonal, with weekly action between April and October. The dormant months were a time for swapping slicks for snow tires—and building a quicker machine for next season.
Responsibility for getting the original Orange airport drags off the ground fell on many shoulders. Efforts began with the forming of the New England Hot Rod Association in the early '50s. Consisting of members from five New England hot rod clubs (the Torque Masters of Rochester, NH, the Piston Pushers of Concord, MA—who soon became the Ty-Rods and are still active—the Lords of Lowell, MA, the No-Mads of Newton, MA, and the Cam Snappers of Newburyport, MA) the association politely lobbied the Orange town fathers for permission to use one of the airport runways for supervised acceleration trials. After no fewer than three years of gentle persuasion, slicks smoked the quarter-mile on July 18, 1954.
As New England's first permanent drag race facility (the equally popular Sanford, Maine, track opened 12 months later), Orange airport attracted visits from many touring professionals, like Don Garlits, Jack Chrisman, Connie Kalitta, Tommy Ivo, and even the Ramchargers, who ran their altered-wheelbase Candymatic Dodge in 1965. New England–based stars included appearances by exhibition stockers from Tasca Ford, Bill Flynn's Yankee Peddler Hemi match-racers, Ralph Ridgeway's Deb's Automotive Modified Production '55 Chevy (sporting Ridge Runner tunnel-ram induction, the aftermarket's first specifically-cast aluminum tunnel-ram intake manifold), Gus Zuidema's Harr Ford sponsored Dragonsnake 427 Cobra, and others.
With such rich local and national history, it was just a matter of time before somebody aimed the nostalgia beam at the Orange airport for a dragstrip reunion show. This time, the ritual of approaching the town fathers for runway access was handled by John Durfee and Lance Ferrell, Massachusetts entrepreneurs with a deep passion for drag race history. They hatched a plan to celebrate the glory days of the Orange Dragstrip with a car show and swap meet. The first event ran in 2010 and was such a success that everyone agreed to do it again—this time with a 330-foot double-lane dragstrip for burnouts, wheelies, and hole shots.
Herewith are highlights of the Orange Airport Reunion show. Attendance at both events was staggering, creating Woodstock-style traffic jams in and around Orange's narrow two-lanes. The long lines were worth the wait. Thanks to heavy pre-date publicity and numerous targeted invitations, veterans of the Orange scene heeded the call and rolled out an amazing assortment of vintage race machines, many of which were displayed for the first time in decades.
By the time you read this, a third reunion has already taken place in September 2012, but with a twist. The '12 show moved to the airport in nearby Fitchburg, where there's more space. So even with these changes, the 330-foot drag racing "airport-era" vibe will continue to thrive, To learn more about future Orange Dragstrip Reunions, dial into www.DragReunion.com.
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Supercharged Studebakers were nothing new in 1963 (Stude had offered McCulloch-blown cars since 1957), but this Avanti's Jet Thrust 289 V8 packs the optional Paxton beltdriven huffer, which upped output from 240 to 285 hp. Though a BorgWarner T-10 four-speed was offered, this one's backed by a BorgWarner three-speed slushbox. The enthusiast press loved the Avanti and 3,884 were sold in 1963. Unfortunately, the rest of the tired lineup was a showroom dud and Studebaker ceased automobile production in 1966.Mike Shea's '66 Nova Gasser is a recent construct and features a cross-rammed Chevy small-block beneath its one-piece, tilt fiberglass nose. The tube-front frame was improvised from the Bill Thomas Chevrolet Instant Funny Car Kit for '62–'67 Chevy IIs and Novas. The beauty of the first-gen Chevy H-Bodies (the internal GM designation) was that the entire clip is secured to the firewall with 14 bolts. Unscrew 'em, roll away the stock engine-width-challenged clip, and you've got a blank canvas for a straight-axle replacement frame. Shea's a principal at Palmer Paving, which sponsored the '11 reunion and set up the 330-foot dragstrip.We didn't get owner info on this delightful '56 Ford B/Gasser but dig its parallel leaf-spring front end, Radir mags, full-floater rear axle (pirated from a 3⁄4-ton Ford pickup), and zany fenderwell header outlets (capped with an aluminum plate in this photo).Another unmolested relic fresh from 40 years of storage is the Whiting-Klinefelter B/Altered roadster that was last run in 1968. Note how the builder juggled the framerails and transverse-spring front suspension to reduce ride height. Like the frame, the arched, bolt-together rollbar isn't graceful, but the honest, home-brewed vibe more than makes up for it.Hardcore flathead racers didn't take kindly to the arrival of the Chevy small-block in 1955. The Halberg-Purinton digger raced at Orange (and other New England strips) until 1970, using a variety of flatheads. Clearly the guys felt the Chevy 265 valve cover was better suited to scooping air than powering their Chassis Research K-88–based race car. One of the team's engines was a 296 flattie utilizing the 37th flathead injection unit sold by Stu Hilborn's fledgling enterprise.Owner Antone Alferes tells us Don Garlits stepped up to this car—completed in 1962, a full decade before the rear-engine Top Fuel dragster revolution—at an early '60s match-race at Sanford and said: "That's the way to go." Campaigned as a B/Dragster until 1968, this skate raised plenty of eyebrows with its mid-mounted, Hilborn-injected Chevy small-block. With the car restored and capable of running low 10s, only the modern Moroso/Goodyear rolling stock and vivid Accel ignition goodies spoil the illusion of being transported back half a century.Long before Summit and Jegs, drag racing was an entirely do-it-yourself affair. Fran and Ralph Bannister built this car in 1954 and campaigned it extensively until 1958. One of the first purpose-built dragsters in the northeast, its 296ci 59-AB flathead mill pushed it to 131 mph. The GMC 4-71 blower manifold and drive—like the rest of the car—were homebuilt by the Bannister boys.Stored in a barn for more than 40 years, the Albert Bros. (Fred and Albert) raced this Pontiac powered '46 Ford Super Deluxe coupe at Sanford, Colchester, CT, Epping, NH, Lebanon Valley, NY, and Orange. Driver Albert "Al" Albert passed away in 2010 at age 70, but Fred (shown) dusted it off and showed it to honor his brother.Underhood artillery consists of a 421 Poncho sporting a rare M/T Power Ram dual-quad intake manifold and a twin Carter AFBs. The copper tubing connects the opposing plenums to stabilize the vacuum signal to the carbs. This trick improves idle quality and low-speed driveability. The homemade headers dump behind the front tires in true Gasser fashion.
Lance Ferrell, 2010 event co-producer, proves the point, "They'll let anybody into this show." Kidding aside, with partner John Durfee, these guys have started something big.Wayne Zuidema has owned the Dutchmans Goal '51 Ford Deluxe B/Gasser for more than 50 years. Brother of noted Ford 427 engine guru Gus Zuidema, Wayne's run a variety of Ford powerplants over the years. A straight front axle located by parallel leaf springs supports the one-piece tilt nose.The '11 swap meet turned up this gem—a real-deal 138 code '67 Chevelle SS396 with a straight axle shoved under its snoot. A four-speeder with its original 12-bolt rear end, the surface rust on the beam axle and leaf springs prove the job was done long ago. Like many such conversions, the installer severed the stock Chevelle frame under the cowl and replaced it with square tubing to simplify the leaf-spring mounts. With an asking price of $14,500, the dilemma is: Restore it to stock or keep the beam?The Dutchman's heavily modified firewall intrudes into the cockpit, thanks to several inches of engine setback—another gasser trick intended to redistribute static and dynamic loads rearward onto the slicks. Note the massaged clutch, brake, and gas pedals. Function dictates form in this office. Wayne's stormer made the pages of National Dragster in September 1966, by running 12.79 at 108.5 to take Top Dog honors at a Lebanon Valley, NY, match race.NHRA honcho and Hot Rod Editor Wally Parks brought the NHRA Safety Safari (with Eric Rickman snapping photos) to Orange in the summer of 1955. Here he's interviewed by WTAG, a major AM radio station based in Worcester, spreading the word on the positive aspects of drag racing. In the November 1955 issue of Hot Rod, Parks wrote: "Our crew's casual observance was that this general area now leads California in the number of on-the-street hot rods—good equipment, too."According to Chrysler, this car doesn't exist. Remember that for 1967, the only way to get a 426 Hemi in your Plymouth was to buy a flashy GTX or a limited-production RO23 Super Stock. Hemi-powered, low-line sedans (aka pillar coupes) like this one were technically not available. But don't tell Bob Brodmerkle. Wearing Sox & Martin team colors, Bob brought his '67 Street Hemi sedan to the '11 event and blew minds. With its original RL21J71180259 VIN, there's no doubt it's a real car—one of a handful of '67 Street Hemi sedans that slipped through the cracks. Some did question Bob's definition of "restoration." To purists, its Ford 9-inch, CalTracs rear suspension, rollcage, frame connectors, aluminum radiator, Race Hemi, and non-stock graphics were major boo-boos. Then again, it's Bob's car.The jaunty little King of Beasts II BB/A blown alcohol T-bucket pickup was built in Walpole, Massachusetts, in 1966 by Dave Tucker, Larry Richard, and Doug Willey and campaigned throughout New England. Sold in 1978, it remained in storage until its recent unearthing. The new owner says the blown all-iron 392 whale motor starts and runs. The single-hoop rollbar and other safety shortfalls bar NHRA race action, but why not leave this time capsule as-is and haul it to every cackle fest in the country?A B&M adapter mates the King's Chrysler 727 cable-operated '64 TorqueFlite to the early Hemi. The black push-pull cable connects with a vintage Art Carr "Nifty Shifter" stalk fitted with a square-pattern Chrysler pushbutton control unit. The Olds rear end is fed by a shortened driveshaft with a Chrysler ball-and-trunion front coupler. Can you imagine punching the buttons to upshift the TorqueFlite on an 8-second, 180-mph pass, while the GMC blower cranks 7-grand three feet in front of your face?Joe Conlon brought the former Dawson & Brady '631/2 Galaxie lightweight to the 2011 show. Not some wannabe tribute, this is a true 427 Galaxie built with the AS-225-39D Special Lightweight Performance Vehicle package. Features include aluminum bumpers, brackets, transmission, and bellhousing, with the hood, fenders, doors, inner fenders and decklid made of fiberglass. The car was delivered new to Front Royal Motors in Virginia to be raced by Dawson & Brady, and Conlon displayed vintage issues of Mid Eastern Drag News showing the Galaxie in match-race action at legendary venues like Aquasco Speedway, Mason-Dixon Drag-O-Way, and York US30. The lightweight package added $1,400.15 to the window sticker. A little more than 200 packages were sold.


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We've been running an SSD (Intel X25-M) in a Linux (RHEL 5) server for a while, but never made any effort to figure out how much write load it was under for the past year. Is there any tool under Linux to tell us approximately how much has been written to the disk over time or (even better) how much wear it has accumulated? Just looking for a hint to see if it's near death or not...
Intel SSDs do keep statistics on total writes and how far through it's likely lifespan it is.
The following is from an Intel X25-M G2 160GB (SSDSA2M160G2GC)
The Host_Writes_32MIB raw value shows how many 32MiB units of data have been written to this drive.
The Media_Wearout_Indicator value shows you a normalised percentage of how far through its useful wear-lifespan the drive is. This starts at 100 (or 099, I forget which), and proceeds down to 001, at which point Intel consider the drive to have exceeded its useful life. Intel use the MWI as part of warranty claims too - once the MWI reaches 001, the warranty is expired.
The MWI reaching 001 does not mean the drive will fail immediately however! Intel will have tolerance built in to deal with variances in flash units. I've seen drives last well past this point, and I'm actively wear-testing some Intel 320 series SSDs to see how much longer they last.
However, as the warranty expires when the MWI reaches 001, I'd replace any drives at that point.
Corsair drives also export a similar percentage-life-left indicator. In their case it is attribute 231:
(Note that if smartctl is displaying this as a Temperature you need to update your device database. On my Debian system that means running
A Corsair blog post seems to show that the value never goes below 10% so I presume it should be replaced at 10%.
I also have an OCZ drive with the same Sandforce controller which also exports the same SSD_Life_Left value.
The Media_Wearout_Indicator is what you are looking for. For 100 means your ssd has 100% life, the lower number means less life left.
Output from my laptop
If you want to see more details and full attributes from your drive, you can run
and the output
Not really. If the drive doesn't keep statistics, you wouldn't know for sure. Even then the drive would abstract the write-leveling algorithms and such to try to optimize things under the hood, away from the system calls and interfaces. In other words, the drive could easily lie to you about where the data is actually written on the "media" so you wouldn't know what cells are getting activity.
That still doesn't guarantee when/if you'll see failures or errors. Drive could fail tomorrow, could fail in three years.
Best bet is to keep it in a RAID configuration and have a plan in place to replace it when it does fail (before the other drive fails) and makes sure your backups are current.


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Does a certificate contain the complete chain of all certificates up to the trusted root certificate, or does the program that verifies certificates have to fetch each parent certificate individually in the chain to reach a trusted root certificate?
In Theory
Sending only the one certificate could yield better bandwidth usage (the verifying party still has to request other certs in the chain, but these could be cached). But, the certificates then must embed information on how to retrieve the next link in the chain. This creates problems because if that information ever changes. In the case of SSL, then, the server would have to constantly be checking if the location was still valid and accessible. This could lead to DOS attacks on any server in the certification chain causing the server to be inaccessible.
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I'm wondering about the question, "If we have a finitely presented __, is it necessarily finitely presented with respect to any finite generating set for it?" I know this is true for groups and for R-modules. Does anyone know whether this is true for A-algebras? Commutative A-algebras? Other things people might happen to know about it for?
Yes in general.
See Adámek and Rosicky, Locally Presentable and Accessible Categories Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (1994).
T. 3.12 p. 143.
Of course "in general" I mean: every "algebraic theory" (many sorted) Set models.
For topological algebraic structures, (like profinite groups) this equivalence isn't true for the Yiftach Barnea example
It is true for any algebras (sets with operations) satisfying any set of identities (laws). Indeed, if $X, Y$ are finite generating sets $R=\{u_i,v_i\mid i\in I\}$ be a finite set of defining relations over $X$, $Q$ is any set of defining relations over $Y$, then for every relation from $R$ there exists a proof of that relation using relations from $Q$. The proof involves a finite number of elements of $Q$. If $Q'$ is the (finite) collection of all elements of $Q$ involved, then the algebra has a finite presentation $\langle Y, Q'\rangle$.
This is not a definite answer, but I suspect that for profinite groups this is wrong. The reason is that there are finitely generated profinite groups which have minimal generating set which is infinite. For example if you look at $\Pi_{n \geq 5}A_n$, then it is $2$-generated as a profinite group, but it also has a minimal generateing set which is inifinite. The point is that profinite words could be infinite and may contain infinite number of distinct letters.
It would be nice to see an example.
EDIT: First, a simpler example of a profinite group which is cyclic, but has a minimal set of generators is $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}$. Now, look at the category of abelian profinite groups. We can look at $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}$ as a qoutient of $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}^2$ by $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}$. Then we found a presentation of $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}$ with two generators and in one case with one relation and in the other case with infinite number of relations.
Admittedly, this is not the minimal number of generators. Maybe this can be improved.
Final Answer (I hope): Okay, so I can even give an example with one generator. Take $G=\Pi_p \mathbb{Z}/ p \mathbb{Z}$, where $p$ goes over all the primes, in the category of profinite groups or the category of abelian profinite groups. $G \cong \hat{\mathbb{Z}}/N$, where $N=\Pi_{p} p \mathbb{Z}_p$, where $\mathbb{Z}_p$ are the $p$-adic integers. Now, $p\mathbb{Z}_p \cong \mathbb{Z}_p$. So, $N \cong \Pi_p \mathbb{Z}_p \cong \hat{\mathbb{Z}}$ and again $N$ is one generated but has a minimal generating set which is infinite.
I cannot add a comment now for some reason, so Richard thanks a lot!