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The 5 Creepiest Parenting Tactics Ever Attempted
Let's face it: Most parents don't really have a plan for their kids. They kind of just tell them to go play on their own and make sure the matches are out of reach and the liquor cabinet stays locked. And maybe that's for the best, because when fathers decide to get too involved with mentoring their kids, things can get a bit weird ...
#5. Father Refuses to Speak to His Son in Anything but Klingon
The most underrated benefit of having children is that you are free to conduct experiments on them to your heart's content. You've got your own little human being, why not tinker with it? That's why D'Armond Speers decided that, rather than teach his son, Alec, a traditional second language like Spanish or German, he was going to speak to him exclusively in Klingon, a made-up fantasy language that has never been used to conduct a single professional conversation in the history of time. Just to see what would happen.
"Mom! Johnny just called me 'The honorless bastard of a bi'hnuch'!"
As a student of linguistics at Georgetown University, Speers was curious to see if a fabricated language like Klingon would be more or less difficult for a child to learn than a real language that might actually come in handy later. He also insists that he isn't a hardcore Star Trek fan while maintaining a straight face, which must have taken a heroic effort considering he admits to owning a Klingon costume and being the only person in America trying to raise a child to be fluent in Klingon in the same interview.
Maximilian Reininghaus viaWikipedia
"What's weird about this? Those are back scratchers."
To be fair, it's not like the kid won't learn English -- Alec's mother refuses to speak to Alec in anything but English. So, in theory, the child will be fluent in both, and Speers insists it's no different from teaching a child Spanish. However, when you consider that there are almost 500 million Spanish-speaking people in the world today, and approximately two dozen Klingon speakers, some flaws in Speers' reasoning become immediately apparent.
Memory Alpha
Like the fact that Klingons and children don't mix very well.
At any rate, little Alec spent the first several years of his life growing up in a household where one parent spoke English and the other gurgled out harsh throat farts randomly strung together as words created for the explicit purpose of making Christopher Lloyd sound like a more-convincing alien. The experiment eventually fizzled out as Alec got older and spent more time around English speakers. Fortunately he still has his bat'leth training.
#4. Man Turns His Son into an 8-year-old Bodybuilder
In the mid-'90s, Ukrainian immigrant and martial arts instructor Pavel Sandrak decided that he would transform his newborn son, Richard, into a muscle-bound freakzilla, because he was a middle aged man with no marketable talents who really wanted to be famous.
So, Pavel started putting Richard through a daily regimen of stretching exercises to improve his son's flexibility when Richard was just 2 months old. We hasten to point out that a 2-month-old infant can barely move, doesn't yet have the strength to support its own weight, and believes any person or object removed from its direct line of sight has simply vanished from the face of existence. We cannot imagine what these "training" sessions could have entailed beyond a sternly concentrating Pavel tugging his infant son's limbs in various directions while listening to a Gloria Estefan CD.
As soon as Richard could walk, Pavel started him on martial arts training that segued into bodybuilding, resulting in the most bafflingly un-Photoshopped human being to ever walk the Earth.
Ah, so that's where the Hulkamania wound up.
Pavel kept his son on a strict diet of vegetables and protein powder and home-schooled Richard to allow for their daily eight-hour training sessions, because those so-called "education professionals" would've only tried to hold Richard back by pointing out that trying to turn a prepubescent boy into a diamond-chiseled muscle farm is a form of reckless endangerment. Richard wasn't allowed to interact with any other children besides his younger sister, presumably for fear they might tell him about the strange world of pizza, little league, and video games that existed beyond the walls of his sweaty free-weight prison, and was required to sleep on a hardwood floor instead of in a bed to maintain perfect posture.
Letting a kid built like Lou Ferrigno play tee ball might not be entirely sporting.
We're not saying it didn't work -- by the time he was 8, Richard could bench press 210 pounds, three times his own body weight. This earned him the title of "Strongest Boy In The World," the sort of instantly regrettable moniker that an 8-year-old can't possibly recognize the full implications of until he's trying to convince women to have sex with him 10 years later. He went on publicity tours, earned thousands of dollars from endorsements, and became an overnight celebrity on the same level as giants like Tony Little and the ShamWow guy.
Many doctors believed that Richard was being put at serious risk, primarily because of the fact that muscle requires testosterone to grow, and testosterone is simply not present in a boy that has yet to reach puberty. This would seem to indicate that Pavel was giving Richard anabolic steroids, because otherwise it would've been impossible for Richard to sport huge pec meat and rock hard flexin' arms without wearing an elaborate costume. Richard also reportedly had less than 1 percent body fat, which is fatally low for adults and probably not much better for someone whose internal structure hasn't completely solidified yet.
Raising a toddler isn't challenging enough? Add roid rage.
Despite this overwhelming scientific evidence, Pavel emphatically denied any claims of child abuse and insisted that he never forced Richard into doing anything he didn't want to do, because, as we all know, 2-month-old infants have both the speech and the cognitive awareness to demand a calisthenic training routine. Pavel further defused allegations of abuse by gallantly assaulting his wife (Richard's mother) and getting sent to jail for three years. Meanwhile, Richard went on to pursue a film career, rewarding humanity with the memorable classic Little Hercules in 3-D.
#3. Man Decides to Raise His Children as Chess Prodigies Before They Are Even Born
Laszlo Polgar, an educational psychologist from Hungary, fully believed in the idea that genius is something people learn rather than a trait they are born with, a radical viewpoint hotly contested by the docudrama Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2. Laszlo decided he would test his theory on his own children by seeing if he could hone them into brilliant chess players simply by exposing them to the game at a young age and having them train constantly throughout their adolescence. Makes sense. The problem was, he didn't actually have any children. Laszlo had devised an experiment wholly dependent on a group of test subjects that didn't exist.
It seemed only fitting when you consider all the hardcore fans of competitive chess.
So, he got together with his wife for what was presumably the most romantic dinner of all time and "submitted a request for research materials." The end result was three children -- Zsuzsa, Zsofia, and Judit, because Laszlo could apparently see into the future and wanted to frustrate Internet comedy writers and their spellcheck programs by drowning his children's names in unnecessary consonants. With a ready pool of subjects now available to him, Laszlo could begin testing his theory. We aren't necessarily saying that the only reason he had children was to prove his master thesis, but it was clearly his favorite reason.
Second favorite reason? Finally having someone to refer to as "his pawns."
Laszlo home-schooled all three of his daughters, starting their day off with a few hours of table tennis practice followed by a full eight hours of chess playing and research, because he apparently wanted to arm his daughters with all the tools necessary to get the shit hammered out of them at recess. Not that interacting with other kids was ever a problem -- his daughters never spent a day in an actual school, despite the fact that the government at one point threatened to toss him in a mental institution if he didn't have his children enrolled in the education system (he finally pacified them by agreeing to have his girls take the appropriate final exam each year to prove he wasn't destroying their futures).
The girls weren't allowed to play with any toys or any friends, because it would take up valuable time that could be devoted to perfecting their chess game. They were essentially raised as guinea pigs by a batshit Hungarian Santa Claus:
metuchess via alearningaday.com
Fun is relative. Right?
However, it would appear that Laszlo was crazy like a fox -- all three of the girls became Grand Masters, while Judit is ranked among the top 20 chess players in the world and is considered the greatest female player of all time. And they're all grateful to Laszlo for his efforts, because pathological obsession, like genius, can be both taught and inherited.


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I've basically settled into Unity, but one constant that is kind of giving me agita is that in LibreOffice Calc (and Writer)
ctrl-f does nothing. I can go to
edit > find ... and the edit menu even suggests
ctrl-f as a keyboard shortcut, but actually typing it doesn't do anything.
ctrl-alt-f works fine. The only thing that doesn't work is
ctrl-f. I had a really hard time getting settled with Unity (mostly trying to get my old Gnome-do and Compiz settings back) so I spent a lot of time monkeying with the Compiz Settings Manager. But I can't figure out where I would have unset/ overrode this. Plus, it isn't like
ctrl-f does something unexpected. It just does nothing.
I've basically settled into Unity, but one constant that is kind of giving me agita is that in LibreOffice Calc (and Writer)
You need to re-map the Ctrl-F keyboard action to 'Find & Replace'.
NOTE: The dialog box (Tools >> Customize >> Keyboard) is hard to use, and I was unable to find the existing 'quick find' that is currently mapped to Ctrl-F.
After several attempts, I was able to map:
( This clearly needs work, by the LibreOffice maintainers. )
Try this: go to View > Toolbars and check 'Find'. This adds a 'Find' dialog on the toolbar. When you click
Here I found a simple solution: after deleting $HOME/.libreoffice it worked again. Magic.
I don't seem to have enough karma right now to comment after geoffrey's answer.
However, this could help: first I detached ("undocked") the Find toolbar. This seem to prevent it from materializing docked but out of signt.
Then, I noticed that pressing CTRL+F once make the toolbar appear, but not focus it; pressing it a second time does focus it.
Granted, this is a bug and should be fixed; but in the meantime, this workaround proved quite useful.

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5 Reasons Immortality Would be Worse than Death
#2. Time Speeds Up Until You're Insane
How many of you out there are old enough to notice time speeding up? For those of you who aren't, can you remember when you were a kid and the school year finally ended and the summer was about to begin? It seemed like you'd been waiting half your life for it, while at the exact same time your mom was going, "Gah! Summer is here ALREADY?! " The fact is your perception of time speeds up with age. It's just math.
Every year of your life seems shorter than the previous one since each passing year represents smaller and smaller portions of your life. It's the same reason a gift of a thousand bucks would be huge news to you, but meaningless to Bill Gates.
So when you're 100 years-old, a minute will seem six seconds long compared to a minute when you were 10. If you live for 1,000 years, a 50-year marriage spent with a woman for her entire adult life, will have the same significance to you as the girl you dated for a few years back in college. If you live for 100,000 years, she'd basically be the nameless chick you made out with at a Weezer concert.
"What was her name? Ah..."
Live to be a million, and people will seem to be just exploding in and out of existence around you, like a time lapse video of a mountain slowly eroding over eons while cities and nations appear and disappear around it, unnoticed. Entertainment will become a dull blur, as you see the same trends and ideas emerge, go out of style and then emerge again for a new generation who thinks they're brand new. You'll have the pleasure of seeing vampires go out of style, then become cool again in 2060, then 2150, then 2200, before you just stop going to the movies.
See, this is why Dr. Manhattan turned into such a dick in Watchmen. But it could be worse...
#1. You'll Eventually Get Trapped Somewhere (Forever)
We spend so much time being afraid of death that we forget the one, overwhelming benefit death offers every species: cutting short suffering. Obviously when we talk about immortality we're picturing always being young and healthy, not laying in a bed suffering from lung cancer forever and ever.
But it's a dangerous world out there, and any number of freak accidents could get you stuck somewhere, with no escape, for the rest of time.
Say an earthquake strikes the building that you're in, and it collapses while you're in the basement parking garage. You're pinned under a million tons of concrete and drywall. All you can do is wait for rescue. Only don't count on being rescued, because the people in charge of doing that tend to give up when shit gets too hard to dig through and they've pulled enough people out to say, "We tried."
"...Or we could just skip it and go straight to Chick-fil-A."
The only hope you might have is that when they build on the newly vacant spot a decade later, they might discover you along with other dead bodies while moving the rubble. But if the city of Savannah is any indication, people find it easier to just build on top of all the corpses instead of moving them somewhere else.
OK, but really what are the odds you'll be caught in an earthquake (or any other disaster of that nature)? Well, if you live forever, the odds are pretty much 100 percent. Unless the world ends before it has a chance to happen. So now instead of getting trapped in a building, you have to worry about being the lone survivor of a nuclear war, or a giant meteor strike, or another Ice Age, or collision with another planet, or the sun dying.
Or a giant [space] dog mistaking the planet for a meatball.
Even if you make it out unscathed, you're now alone. You'll be forced to live out your life slowly going crazy like a less awesome Will Smith without any zombies to shoot. You won't even have the dog.
And that's assuming the Earth stays intact. A comet could come smashing into the planet like the Kool-Aid Man and send you hurtling through infinite space. Best case scenario is you only float through the void for a few decades before you crash on Mars. At that point you're basically passing the time until intelligent life evolves there. You're going to get really good at making sand castles.
Now what?
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Last Modified: December 17, 2004
Authors: Hasegawa T, Kondziolka D, Flickinger JC, Germanwala A, Lunsford LD
Source: Neurosurgery June 2003; 52(6): 1318-26
The incidence of brain metastases as a result of systemic cancer is 20-40%. Many cases are identified in asymptomatic patients by screening neuroimaging. Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) extends survival in these patients by 3-5 months, but is associated with morbidity including alopecia, fatigue, long-term cognitive problems, and it may delay delivery of other treatments for extracranial cancer. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in combination with WBRT has become an important approach to treat patients with a few small brain metastases. However, some have questioned the added value of WBRT after SRS. SRS is a minimally invasive alternative to surgical resection. The authors present a retrospective study of their experience with SRS alone to treat brain metastases.
According to most reports, patient survival after radiosurgery alone was not different from that in patients who had combined SRS and WBRT (because patients died from progression of extracranial disease rather than brain metastases). These results are confirmed in this study. Initial avoidance of WBRT may lead to improved patient quality of life. However, information on quality of life is not available in this study. These results are not a product of a randomized study, and therefore there may be a selection bias for patients who had better prognostic factors and it may not be appropriate to compare their median survival to historical standards. In addition, 30% of patients were lost to follow up. This subgroup may have had less favorable outcomes and the intracranial control rate may not be as good as reported. In addition, most intracranial recurrences were remote recurrences (38% were remote tumor recurrence whereas 17% were local recurrence). These recurrences were not in the radiation field, and they probably would have been decreased with WBRT.
In conclusion, this article demonstrates that SRS may be a reasonable alternative to surgical resection. Patients treated using SRS may have improved quality of life when contrasted with patients treated using WBRT. A reasonable future study would be SRS vs SRS + WBRT with improved quality of life as primary outcome goal. However, at the current time, WBRT remains a part of standard of care treatment in patients with brain metastases.


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Does anyone have experience with or a package for the creation of forest plots in Mathematica 9?
For instance for subgroup analyses of cox model or meta-analysis (e.g rmeta package in R)?
Does anyone have experience with or a package for the creation of forest plots in Mathematica 9?
For instance for subgroup analyses of cox model or meta-analysis (e.g rmeta package in R)?
The plotting is a little more cumbersome than the computation assuming you want relative risk shown in your forest plot. As you point out, one can use
The larynx cancer data features the variables
Creating the plot is a little ugly if you want a lot of control over the appearance. Here is a first crack at it using graphics primitives that allows the diamonds to scale with the plot.
With the larnyx cancer data we get...
You can work with RLink to create native R graphics - this and this examples. I guess forestplot is no different if you install related R packages. I may be far off here, but can't you replicate these plots with built-in Mathemtica functionality? - like these examples on "Compare the distribution of salaries for several departments at a university:"
I appreciate that the (somewhat critical) commentary regarding the lack of specificity of my question.
I have written my own function for the plotting (once the calculational aspects from the model or meta-analysis have been collected).
The form of
The following utilizes the laryngeal cancer dataset and functions for extracting the point estimates, standard errors and then calculation of 95% confidence intervals.
I would suggest that for new and inexperienced (but interested) users like me asking experts regarding functionalities is within the purview and purpose of this exchange. Further, despite the nominal release of Mathematica 9, I am certain that many contributors to this exchange had access to its functionality (as I saw at IMS2012 in May in London).
Finally, comments and commentary that are personally critical or make assumptions regarding the ignorance or other attributes are at the very least unhelpful. (Having surveyed this site there are a spectrum of users with diverse backgrounds and aims. This diversity would appear to something to be encouraged rather than crushed. I have previously fully accepted the NARQ of a previous question I submitted. In my naive opinion, this question is legitimate. ).


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Federal Work-Study (FWS) is a program where you can work part-time (typically no more than 15 hours per week) and earn money for your education. Earnings are paid to students based upon the rate of pay and the hours worked on a bi-weekly basis. The FWS at SLU does not reduce the tuition, but rather provides a resource for a student's living expenses. Funds are limited and are awarded to students with financial need as determined per federal regulations. Students must complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to be considered.
Students in programs outside the United States such as study abroad or the Madrid campus are not eligible for Federal Work Study as labor laws may differ. Students initially not awarded Federal Work Study for the above reasons, but who plan to return to or study in the United States, may apply for consideration by contacting their Student Financial Services Counselor. Awards will be offered as long as funds are available. The request may be made at any time during the year. Awards for the upcoming academic year will begin March 1.
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Information for faculty/staff to request federal work study students:
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How many website owner accounts is too many for deals.woot?
Upon clicking the "fresh" tab, I'm bombarded with garbage deals posted by the websites themselves. These are just but a few examples I copied from just the first page-ish before posting this question:
Now don't get me wrong. I can appreciate a deal....if there really is one. But nearly every single one of these accounts just spams the board with random items that aren't deals at all. Thank God Woot condenses them all into an expandable chain, but even still. My entire page is slammed with some random marketing schmuck trying to promote their website. So I've gotta ask... how much is too much? What's the Wooter consensus?
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Well, I don't mind the way most of those users post their deals. And occasionally they do post a deal I am interested in.
In their defense, lots of non-website owner accounts post deals I think are garbage as well...
Wouldn't it be great if they could prevent spam somehow like they do with being able to vote. For example, you cannot vote unless you have made a purchase from woot.
So how many site owners post deals that are good deals? Not too many but there are some exceptions and those exceptions are usually posted by someone else eventually if the site doesn't do it themselves. For example the 1saleaday will post their own stuff but someone else will do it too if they dont.
For the low, low price of FREE, I will share with you my patented four-step technique for making money over the internet:
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I honestly think @wootbot is far worse than all of those acounts combined. All I see are pages and pages of terrible buy.com "deals" posted from that account. And they're never expired either, which adds to the frustration. If woot won't get rid of their own spambot, I highly doubt they'll get rid of the others. I had to go to the 3298th page of @wootbot's deals (thats 40,000+) to start seeing some that are actually expired.
I'd echo the @wootbot deals being worse. I don't understand why Woot even still bothers with those. The vast majority are either 0 or negative. They're just not deals.
At least most of what the site accounts post are deals in one way or another. If nothing else, coming from a deals site. I dont think it's inherently bad, if they add something to the community then it's all gravy. We do ask that they not spam deals back to back, but even if they do, it's their loss because they're condensed.
So long as what's being posted is generally quality, I don't see much of a problem. Honestly, if they didn't post the deals themselves, regular users would post the same things.
Agree about wootbot. My thought is that this bot was created when deals.woot was initially launched and they needed some deals to be posted. Today, several users are posting deals so the need for an automated system to do it is no longer.
Regarding why they are 0 or 1 votes probably has to do with rep score. If you care about your reputation, you will never vote for a wootbot deal because the second you do, it will be hidden by another wootbot deal and nobody else will vote up the same deal. You get your rep score by the number of people that vote after you voted (before it goes popular) and that will not happen with those deals.
Anyway, at least wootbot does have items that are less than regular price. Some of these other retailers are posting items you can get from their site any day for that price and are not reduced any further than normal.
The @wootbot deals posted from buy.com was a program that the nerds at woot wrote to see if it would work. I don't remember who posted that info, but it was one of the staff.
I think we should let @girlwootbot give her defense of @wootbot
Off topic, but why can't @wootbot's deals auto expire instead of taking up 4,000 pages?
@kylemittskus: yeah they were smart enough to get it to work, therefore they should also be smart enough to realize it is annoying and should at least be limited if not removed. I guess not removed since he is quite iconic now
Leave @wootbot alone!! He is just a regular working Joe, trying to keep his job and keep @girlwootbot in, well, whatever @girlwootbot wears. Like all good bots, he just follows instructions. Blame whoever gave him his marching orders.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – After finalizing his coaching staff for the 2014 season on Thursday, Anderson University men's soccer head coach Michael Zion has announced his first-ever recruiting class as the head coach of the Black and Gold, signing seven recruits who will look to make an immediate impact in 2014.
Zion returns a strong portion of a team that earned its fourth straight trip to the South Atlantic Conference Tournament championship last season, before falling to conference newcomer Queens. With a projected six seniors on the current roster for this season, a key recruiting class will look to fill the voids left by the experienced class.
Name: Alexander Beck
Position: D
Hometown: Smorum, Denmark
Previous School: Ledoje-Smorum
Beck began his youth career with Broendby I.F. and local club, Ledoje-Smorum Foldbold, where he has been an iatrical part of helping the team win the U-19 Third Division championship and earn promotion into the Second Division. Following the season, Beck was honored with the team's "Fighter of the Year" award for his hard work on and off the field. Beck has been recently featured with the first-team of Ledoje-Smorum, scoring on his debut with the club. In the classroom, Beck will pursue a degree in Psychology, in hopes of becoming a sports psychologist.
Zion on Beck: "Alex is a natural left-sided player that we see competing at the left-back position right away. He has the ability to defend as well as attack, which will create some fantastic attacking options for us on the left side."
Name: Michael LaGreca
Position: D
Hometown: Lithia, Fla.
Previous School: Spartanburg Methodist / Coker
LaGreca is a transfer from Spartanburg Methodist where he was featured in 18 of SMC's 20 matches. The Lithia, Fla. native helped the Pioneers reach a 14-6 overall record before falling short to Louisburg College in the NJCAA Region X final.
Zion on LaGreca: "Mike is a natural left-sided defender who will bring a great deal of maturity and experience to a relatively young team. Mike is an experienced player who knows what it takes to compete and win at this level. We are very excited to have him at Anderson University."
Name: Magnus Larsen
Position: MF
Hometown: Brondby, Denmark
Previous School: Brondby Gymnasium
Larsen joins the Black and Gold from Brondby Gymnasium in Denmark. As a youth player, Larsen has been a part of Brondby I.F., playing against historical European clubs such as: AC Milan, Inter Milan, Dortmund and Bayern Munich. Magnus studied sports science in high school and will pursue a degree in Kinesiology once he comes to AU.
Zion on Larsen: "Being involved in a top youth program in Denmark, Magnus will bring a great deal of professionalism and experience to our team. We expect him to make an immediate impact and strengthen or midfield core."
Name: Jonathan Love
Position: D
Hometown: Charlotte, N.C.
Previous School: Hickory Grove Christian H.S.
Love comes to AU as a two-time all-conference selection, after leading Hickory Grove Christian to an undefeated conference record. Love was named captain of the squad and was later named the team's MVP following his senior season. Love has played for both Charlotte Soccer Academy and, most recently, for the Wesley Chapel-Weddington Athletic Association (WCWAA) Academy team.
Zion on Love: "Jonathan has a great mentality and strong leadership qualities. We are looking forward to seeing him impact this team in a positive way."
Name: Jonathan Low
Position: D
Hometown: Summerville, S.C.
Previous School: Pinewood Preparatory School
Low was a two-year starter during his prep career as he helped Pinewood Prep reach the state finals in 2013. Low was selected to participate in the prestigious Boys State Program and, as a result, has been selected for the Presidential Leadership Scholarship. A member of the Beta Club and National Honors Society in high school, Low plans to major in biology at AU.
Zion on Low: "Jonathan is a strong athlete and has a good defensive presence on the field. We know that he will make an impact at Anderson."
Name: Malik McDonald
Position: MF
Hometown: Charleston, S.C.
Previous School: Charleston Charter H.S.
As an all-state selection, McDonald was an instrumental part of helping Charleston Charter reach the 2014 South Carolina State championship. McDonald also played club soccer for the North Area Soccer Association (NASA) out of Charleston, S.C.
Zion on McDonald: "We are excited to have Malik join us at AU. He is very athletic and has the potential to be a great attacking asset for us."
Name: Nans Noel
Position: MF
Hometown: Toulose, France
Previous School: Toulouse School of Academics
Prior to coming to Anderson, Noel has played with the youth teams of Pau FC and Rodez Aveyron. Most recently, Noel was a member of Blagnac, helping his team capture a regional championship.
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This reply about belt-driven belt got my interest here. It does not need lubrication at all according to the replier. What are other properties with belt-drive chain? Where does the idea come from? Are belt-driven chains used in cars or some machines? Are they durable? Do they last in all kind of weather? Like in freezing winter to sunny summer? Do they stretch like steel chains? When should you change them?
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The main difference with belt drive is that you can't break the belt, so you need a specially built frame that allows the belt to be fitted. On a chain-driven bike the chain usually runs though the frame between the seatstay and chainstay. This makes retrofitting a belt drive impossible on most bikes. Similarly, you're limited to the belt lengths available from the manufacturer.
I have seen bikes with exposed belt drives but that does not seem like a good idea to me. Once you get mud or dust in there it's going to grind away the belt and pulleys, and parts are usually expensive (because they're uncommon). I don't know much about how they wear as I've never seen one that's had much use (which in itself should tell you something).
Once the belt is fully enclosed it becomes just like an enclosed chain drive, except that it can't be serviced by bike shops. I suspect this is the real deal-breaker for most people.
Belts usually have higher losses than chain drives, making them unattractive for high-performance bikes and hindering their adoption in other bikes (because much of the profit for bike shops is in the more expensive bikes).
I've never ridden a belt-drive bicycle, but I've ridden both belt and chain drive motorcycles and the belt drive is considerably smoother and quieter.
One of the features being used to tout belt-driven bikes is that they don't require lubing, so that would be a plus. In addition to not needing to take the time to properly lube your drive-train, the lack of lube would mean less attractant for dirt/dust etc.
Each manufacturer would probably have their own recommendations about operating temperature range and how often to change them.
Belt drives can't be used with derailleurs so the bike will be single speed or need an (expensive) hub gear.
There were some cars that used a belt drive, usually with a v-belt and split pulleys to give a continuously variable gear - haven't heard of any bike doing this.
Main differences compared to using a chain:
The idea is very old. It was used in the first steam engines (and probable even earlier).
Yes, they are quite common. In particular, the alternator in a car is usually driven by a belt.
I don't know specific numbers, but they should last at least as long as a chain, and modern belts should have no trouble with high/low temperatures (they are used in cars as well, after all).
Actually, steel chains don't strecht (noticeably), the just get longer from wear. Belts on the other hand do strech under load (see above).
No idea, but they should last considerable longer than a chain (less wear).
(I know that this is an old question, but nobody has answered it with real-world experience.)
I have a 'Scott Venture 10' as a suburban utility bike since two years. I don't ride it as much as my road bike, but it has seen its share of use.
It has a carbon-fibre reinforced drive belt, and Shimano Alfine hub gears.
There a couple of advantages that I can think of:
The main disadvantage is (as mentioned above) that it requires a split frame, which one would naively think would reduce rigidity. The manufacturers claim that this is not the case, however... It's also quite a bit more expensive (and specialized) to replace.
An ideal chain is more efficient than a belt, but in most real-world scenarios there is no real difference.


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The idea is very good and very prommising. However the 'edit' functionality is not there yet (not for the demo Word en Powerpoint documents). Is this because you are waiting for http://docs.live.com/">http://docs.live.com to get those updates to edit documents on skydrive ?
It's a shame this is yet another sepperate Lab (incubation project) , it should have been part of Skydrive and Windows Live from the beginning (since you can integrate facebook contacts). Documents on skydrive should have this "share" functionality and then skydrive itself should have an API (Live Framework) and a Facebook App build on top of it...
It's a really good idea and looking forward to the rollout but it's yet another side project...
I would argue that this is more of an experiment as opposed to being some random side project that should have just been a piece of a currently executing puzzle inside of a larger strategy (I guess I'm saying I don't really agree with you, man )...
Labs like FUSE are designed to get new ideas out into the world to learn how they'll be utilized in realistic contexts... These aren't incubations. These are explorations. You should check out the FUSE labs website to get more insight into what they do and why.
Mmmm.....fuse labs released docs for facebook BEFORE windows live docs (wave 4) ..... shame on windows live teams.
ok but it ask me for invitation code
anyone have one for me?
Click the Sign Me Up button on the main page. There's a waiting list so they can stagger new users: http://docs.com/Main/Home
hey...the code name for docs is .... felix ! ...now thats sweet
Docs is much better branding than Skydrive Webapps. Microsoft can use this to really fight at Google Docs. Too bad this is limited to people who use Facebook. What if I do not want to use facebook but want to use Docs? Be careful Microsoft, push this make it good.
If this is done right, students will soon have a great way to collaborate. Google Docs has such a great penetration now, this is going to have to be good.
Prelimary screenshots of WL Wave 4 seem to indicate SkyDrive will be referred to as Docs. Coincidence? Probably not, though I wouldn't expect Docs.com UI/features to be integrated in Windows Live. Docs.com is going at this from a different angle.
I know it is an expriment but allready you can see people in the comments getting on the wrond way. Intelman talks about "branding" witch should not be an issue with an experiment... Also it would be stange that Docs offers Document editing before Windows Live Skydrive does (it is using the same code)...
Still think it's confusing. On skydrive you can also comment on document share and view them. They basicly created a new UI for that (not windows live tied) and integrated facebook...
I can't watch the video atm, but would it be possible for any third party (maybe with the appropriate Sharepoint licenses or something) to run the Office Web Apps on their server and integrate them into their public site like you've done with Facebook?
Yes, it will be possible, I tought the windows live team said you would be able to 'Include' via iFrame or something a document in any html website/blogpost...
A cool thing about this is you can very easily share your docs with your Facebook friends- where so many people, especially the younger generation, live today online.
We designed it thinking about the Facebook user first, and of course people who need want to share docs-- so a few key things...
-sharing with people you already know on Facebook
-making the design and UI model the way Facebook users share photos -- so for example, great integration with your feed, like being able to comment on the doc or in facebook for one stream.
-making the Office Web Apps available to all the folks who might not already be using Microsoft stuff like Office or Windows Live, and giving them access to these great tools with the people and sharing model they already use.
If you keep those goals in mind, I think you'll get a sense of our motivations and goals for the project..
Its day 2 for us and response has been so fantastic. thanks channel 9 and charles!!!!
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Where is the document on Docs.com actually stored - is it on SkyDrive? Will I be able to open the documents and edit it using the full Office 2010 client?
Apr 23, 2010 at 2:24 AM, damaster wrote
Where is the document on Docs.com actually stored - is it on SkyDrive? Will I be able to open the documents and edit it using the full Office 2010 client?
Just added one to docs. It's not in my skydrive. That's kind of lame.
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I'm in a bit of a dilemma here. I have bought a new laptop with no antivirus installed. I'm wondering how to choose an appropriate antivirus software to install.
Measuring real-world antivirus performance is difficult to do because malware risk is hard to quantify.
AV-Comparatives and AV-Test are two independent Antivirus testing organizations. They perform periodic tests from multiple features such as detection, performance, enterprise functionality, etc.
Here is a summary report of AV performance for 2012 split into categories so you can chose what is best suited for you.
Free AVs are good choices too because they provide all the basic features and the same signature database as the premium version. They lack extra features such as SPAM and phishing protection, firewall or parental controls.
What you want for software in general is that it:
Windows 8 comes with Microsoft's antivirus already included (it is called "Windows Defender"), which fulfills point 3 (you already paid for it, so it is technically "cheap") and point 2 (the software which is easiest to install is the software which is already installed). As far as I know, it also does the job, and since it is backed by a big company (Microsoft) which has a vested interest into this antivirus keeping on doing its job properly, I tend to think that it is a reasonable choice.
For previous versions of Windows, the same antivirus is known as "Security Essentials" and can be downloaded and installed for free. It is also a reasonable choice.
(I have used other antivirus in the past, but most had some irksome feature, such as "nagging" the user with ads for the full, non-cheap version. Also, this is only for Windows; the main OS on my laptop happens to be a Linux, which can safely operate without any antivirus.)
AVG Free 2013 has received positive reviews and rankings on independent lab tests. The latest Webroot and Norton(I suppose) has also scored well but are around $40 per year. If you're trying to avoid firewalls, stay away from 'Internet Security Suite' software and look specifically for Anti-Virus.
The latest Bit-Defender scores were pretty good according to AV-TEST.
The most effective thing you can do is keep your software, especially web browers+plugins(java, adobe *, etc) up to date and be mindful of the sites that you visit. Try running firefox, adblock, and NoScript if you're really concerned.
You can try http://www.av-comparatives.org/ . I really can't vouch that they aren't paid to make certain companies look good, however they have comprehensive reports that show which AV's picked up on what. Seems bias-free.
Some basic ones that might help: -Microsoft Security Essentials -MalwareBytes -AVG
All free, and will certainly get the job done!
It doesn't matter which antivirus software will you by, but which package. So It all depends what is the type of work that you gonna do on your laptop.
If you just going to surf on the Internet and such stuff then you can install some free antivirus software like Avast or AVG.
But if you are going to work on your laptop and other important things then I recommend to you that you use some professional Antivirus Package or maybe Internet Security (or some Total Protection or how it is called).
So it all depends on your type of work.
Oh and by the way I recommend to you that you choose some antivirus like : Kaspersky, Norton, AVG, Avast, BitDefender, G-Data or McAfee.
Antivirus software should be one layer among many in your computer defense kit.
You will want to search out reviews and keep an eye out for the following criteria:
Some reputable websites to gather information about software, including security/AV software:
Antivirus is fine but not too good when it comes to prevent security the right way.
Install a good antivirus (Personally I like Kaspersky, and that is what I am using), and monitor what you really is doing considering there are many 0Day exploits coming which no Antivirus provider would be able to detect early unless it goes into wild.
So :
You should know that antivirus cannot block all of viruses. So you should definitely, first and most important thing is to BE CAREFUL while you are surfing. Secondly, I offer you to use behaviour based tools. My favourite one is, Zemana. With one word, it is awesome. My third suggestion is to use SandBoxie. If a virus enters your computer, it couldn't copy itself to other places in PC, and at the end of the day you can just delete it.
I have used many antiviruses but Emsisoft is the one making me feel safest.


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Microbes can produce several gasses other than methane.
Additionally some metabolic pathways produce other gases.
There may be others that I am not thinking of but these are some of the major players...
Well, some bacteria can produce Hydrogen Sulfide gas. For example, Proteus and Salmonella. The presence of $H_2S$ producing bacteria is actually clinically significant and we have a way to test for this, which is via the use of TSI (Triple Sugar Iron) media.
Assume you set up the test correctly, $H_2S$ producing bacteria will generate dark deposit within the media.
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I have a bunch of albums that I need to delete from Picasaweb. Is there a way to do this, or do I have to go through them one at a time to delete them?
You could use the Google Command Line tool.
You would have to create a batch file to delete multiple albums by name.
Or try typing in part of an album name as a wildcard. Experiment with it. It will prompt you with a confirmation on every album that matches the wildcard as seen below:
This Linux shell script will delete all albums from your Picasa account. It uses
There doesn't appear to be a way to delete multiple albums from the web interface. You'll need to do them one at a time. (It makes sense, really. Imagine the mess you would make if you deleted whole swaths of your albums at once in error.)
There may be something you can do from the Picasa application itself, but I can't check on that from here.
You can remove multiple PWA online albums from within the Picasa application: http://support.google.com/picasa/answer/187407
Tools → Batch Upload → Remove Online → Simply select the albums you'd like to remove and click OK.


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Why does my guitar sound better when plugged straight in to my amplifier as opposed to running it through a pedalboard without a true bypass strip?
Why does my guitar sound more natural when plugged directly into a tube amp vs through a pedal board?
There are many factors that can cause the loss of frequency response problem.
You can attack the problem several ways.
Basically, your best sound will always be straight into the amp with the shortest high quality cable length available. Anything in the way has potential to mess with the signal.
Often it's because of low quality cables and jumpers. There's also the fact that many pedals, when bypassed, still route the signal through the circuitry, which degrades the signal. Here's an article about true bypass and buffers that I think will answer some of your questions.
When the guitar tries to feed a signal to some other device, the other device will, in a sense, "push back". A measure called "impedance" describes, at any given frequency, both the behavior of the input, which is "pushing back", and the signal source (which may respond to that "push-back" by pushing somewhat harder itself). The construction of some devices will cause them exhibit impedance which varies in "interesting" ways with frequency. Many modern electronic input and output stages, however, are designed to have impedance characteristics which are relatively uniform. If a guitar pickup with "interesting" impedance characteristics is passed into an amplifier which also has "interesting" impedance characteristics, the pickup and the amplifier may interact in "interesting" ways which would not occur with a guitar pickup that was driving a pedal input stage which has uniform impedance, nor when a uniform-impedance pedal output was driving an "interesting" amplifier input stage.


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I've seen Mixxx seems to be one of the few that's not proprietary, but I'm having a hard time choosing what to at least start out with What choice are there? What are some of their strengths and weaknesses?
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The major players seem to be Serato, Traktor, and Virtual DJ. I hear a lot of people like Mixxx and Deckadence, although they don't seem to have quite the user base.
There's also Ableton Live if you don't necessarily want to use something that looks like turntables. It's sort of a fundamentally different way of DJing though. It's like having a giant looper instead of decks.


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How do we write mathematically that "information" cannot go faster than light? And along a similar line of thought, how do we relate "information" with special relativity. Lastly, what is the relationship between Special Relativity and the fact that the phase velocity of a wave packet can go faster than light (light speed here being the group velocity). Is there a reason we cannot consider the frame of reference of a specific phase in a wave packet?
Since you are looking for an equation (you say "mathematically"), I would undoubtedly choose this: $$\left[\hat O (x),\, \hat O' (y)\right]=0, \, \mbox{if}\; x-y \; \mbox{is spacelike}$$ where $\hat O$ and $\hat O'$ are the (linear self-adjoint) operators corresponding to two physical observables —in particular, both may be the same observable and therefore the same operator ($\hat O=\hat O'$)—, and $x, y$ are two points in space-time. This equation summarizes the fact that information cannot travel faster than light because it says that the results of two experiments separated by a space-like interval cannot be correlated. And this is what "information" means since one codes information with physical effects. Please, see this Definitions: 'locality' vs 'causality' if you are interested in the different usages of the terms "causality" and "locality", which are physically more relevant or why entanglement do not imply faster than light propagation.
The previous formula assumes that the physical laws obey the principles of quantum mechanics and special relativity, and are thus quantum field theories. This is the case for the electromagnetic, the weak and the strong interactions and also likely for the case of the gravitational interaction in the weak field limit and in the sense of an effective field theory; which are the fundamental interactions that we know.
Sometimes defining the speed of a wave is tricky. The signal or information velocity is often the group velocity (which is the velocity of a wave packet), even though in some media (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_velocity) it is not. But the phase velocity (the rate at which the phase of the wave propagates) cannot carry information (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_velocity) and may be faster than $c$.
You may take any inertial frame provided its speed be lower than $c$. Note that according to special relativity one needs an infinite amount of energy to cross the speed of light $c$ threshold.
Edit: SMeznaric points out —and I agree with him— that space-like separated measurements may give correlated results. What is not possible is to send information one has control over, such as the choice of measurement operators.
Information as we know it is either carried by a physical object or a field. They both must obey special relativity and thus are thus c limited.
Rather than information, it may be clearer to say that causality cannot go faster than the speed of light. That is to say, a particle is only affected by events that happened in its backwards light cone. This is expressed mathematically by the equations of motion for a particle not being dependent on anything outside of its light cone. Of course, if a particle cannot be affected in any way by events outside of its light cone, it also cannot receive information about those events.
As for your second question, regarding a superluminal phase velocity, the answer is that the frame of reference of the phase would not be an inertial frame. That is to say, your focus of attention can of course follow the wave crest but you cannot speak of an observer who is at rest relative to the wave crest. This is because an observer cannot be moving faster than the speed of light. There is no Lorentz transform associated with such a frame.
If neutrinos went faster than the speed of light, then all bets are off. We would discard all the physics that was developed in the last 100 years and start from scratch.
In order to see how special relativity implies that information cannot go faster than light, one must first consider the physical properties of information. Definition of information usually used in physics is the minimum length of a message needed to encode it. For example, given prior probabilities $p_1, \ldots, p_k$ for an outcome $k$ of some random variable, the minimum length of a message needed to represent the information of which outcome occurred is given by $H({p_k}) = - \sum_k p_k \log_2(p_k)$. You can read in great detail about this as it is a well developed field known as the Shannon information theory, as a start see for example Wikipedia. This is intuitive: given $n$ equally likely outcomes, we would need $\log_2(n)$ objects with two completely distinguishable states each to represent the information on which outcome occurred, as $m$ such objects have $2^m$ possible states. If one has objects with more states, then the base of the logarithm is changed. There is no loss of generality if we use 2, and this is the typical use with the unit of information known as bit.
This brings us to physics of transmitting information. In order to actually impart information on another observer, one needs to prepare $H({p_k})$ physical objects and send them to the receiver. Since special relativity limits how fast such objects can travel to the speed of light, this then implies that the receiver will not be able to learn anything about our part of space until our objects have reached them.
However, there is another potential way that one could send a message without moving an object. This is to instantaneously (in some frame of reference) change the state of the objects already present at receiver's end so as to match our desired message. Here our understanding of physics implies that objects need to interact through a field (i.e. particles, which are physical objects). Now special relativity requires that fields cannot propagate (translation = particles cannot travel) faster than the speed of light and therefore we are back to not being able to transmit any information.
Of course there is a but coming at the end. The existence of tachyons would throw everything I said above out the window, so everything I have said you should take it in the context of the current theories and experimental evidence. Here by tachyon I mean a particle that can travel faster than the speed of light. Whether nature really works like this or not we do not know.
As an aside, quantum entanglement does not allow one to overcome this requirement. While measurements at the would-be sender's and receiver's sides are correlated, the sender cannot determine the measurement outcome of the receiver through choice of measurements or otherwise. Quantum mechanics is thus fully compliant with the requirements of special relativity.
The speed of light can be derived from Maxwell's Equations. So information carried by light cannot go faster than c. But neutrino's were briefly in the news for possibly going faster than light, and the only problem was that there should have been energy radiating from them that was not observed. So it is just a matter of no such energy being observed that we deduce that they do not go measurably faster than light.
The phase velocity can go faster than light for the same reason that you could point a laser at the Moon and observe the reflection spot travelling faster than light. There is no object there. You could use that motion as a frame of reference, but the usual published formulas make the assumption that the speed of the observer is less than c, so those formulas won't work in your example.
The "exchange of information" (a.k.a. "signalling") between participants is arguably a foundational and self-explanatory notion of (special as well as general) relativity:
This question seems to consider the exchange of "light" as being distinct from the exchange of "information" in general. However, if so, then necessarily in some more specific "mode" (perhaps "electro-dynamically", or "chromo-dynamically", or "by curvature").
Accordingly, the correct statement would be that "information exchange in some specific mode cannot go faster than information exchange in general";
For suitable setups and specific modes (of "light" exchange) the corresponding ratio of "(general) information speed" to "(specific mode) light speed" can be expressed as the "group speed refractive index, $n_g$"; cmp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_refraction#Group_index
A "frame of reference" is primarily considered of some specific participant (such as Alice), as a specific geometric relation to other participants (such as "Alice and Bob having been at rest to each other"). In the context of relativity (at least), the underlying though-experimental method of establishing some specific geometric relation between suitable participants is of course based on their mutual exchange of "information", as described above.
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With an f/2.8 maximum aperture, the HD Helmet HERO is a GoPro video camera which provides exceptional performance even under low lighting conditions. The 1080p maximum video HD resolution of this GoPro video camera lets you shoot high quality videos with exceptional clarity. The 5 mega pixel still image resolution of this GoPro camcorder offers sharp and detailed pictures. The HD Helmet HERO has a 32 GB maximum storage capacity that allows you to store all your videos, pictures and recordings. The USB 2.0 port of the HD Helmet HERO offers excellent connectivity with other devices. The 1100 mAh lithium-ion battery of this GoPro camcorder lets you shoot for 2.5 hours in a single charge.
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No deal here, $200
You really should put the price in the title
Ebay? Seriously???
Yep, eBay :D This is the lowest price online and beats Amazon's price by $20. Most sellers won't break MAP for GoPro but this guy is fine with it.
Anyone interested in these should look up the Contour Cameras. Just purchased the ContourGPS which maps your speed and elevation on google maps while recording. I paid $235 after shipping for it. Felt it was more streamlined for my motorcycle helmet/faster speeds as you can see the GoPro would be like a strapping a parachute on my head, would act like a wind block.


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Particularly spectacular are the highways, which boast impressively engineered tunnels and bridges that are a monument to modern road-building techniques. For example, the road through Al-Hada Mountain has cut the distance from Taif to Makkah by about 30 miles.
And the first highway tunnel in the world to use solar photovoltaic technology – converting solar energy into electricity – was built in the hilly Abha region of Asir Province.
The King Fahd Causeway
Perhaps the most spectacular road in the Saudi network is the King Fahd Causeway, which links Saudi Arabia to the island nation of Bahrain.
At 15.5 miles, it is the second longest causeway in the world, an engineering masterpiece that spans long stretches of sea and reclaimed land. Its five bridges rest on 536 concrete pylons, with seven embankments in the Gulf's shallower water. One embankment is actually a sizable artificial island complete with customs and immigration facilities, a mosque and a restaurant.
Since its completion in 1986, the causeway has streamlined commerce and strengthened the cultural and social bonds between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Under consideration is a second causeway that would link Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The 9.24-mile causeway would run across the Red Sea to connect the Saudi coast with Egypt's Sinai peninsula, linking the eastern and western flanks of the Arab world.
Railroads that Facilitate Industry
Saudi Arabia's rail network is managed by the Saudi Railway Organization (SRO). In the 1990s, the SRO carried around half a million passengers and nearly two million tons of goods annually.
The network consists of the 449-mile Dammam-Riyadh line from the Arabian Gulf port to the capital that includes stops in Hofuf and Abqaiq. A second, 556-mile Dammam-Riyadh line travels via Haradh, on the edge of the Empty Quarter.
There are plans to extend the railway to the Jubail Industrial City on its eastern end and, eventually, to Makkah, Jeddah and Madinah on its western side. Yet another extension would link Riyadh to the mining areas in the north. This expansion is being carried out by the private sector.


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I am considering installing a few pocket doors in our "inner hallway", these will be behind built-in bookshelf's. Ideally I wish to reuse our heaver weight 1930 doors, as they match the rest of the home.
There are a number of pocket door appraches. Usually is makes sense to buy a frame kit such as this one
There are many grades and sizes, some of which are meant for heavy doors. You do need to make sure that the thickness of your doors do not exceed the limits of the kits. If they do, you may be able to buy parts and create your own combination that will suit. Also, there are standard heights, which could be adjusted for (e.g., with bottom blocking) if your doors are especially tall.
There are other brands that may provide additional features, such as this one which has a color matched header insert, and this one which can be used in thicker walls , and perhaps with thicker doors.
You should consider that pocket doors rattle, if air pressure changes due to window or HVAC.


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Has anyone installed a Talismoon Whisper Slim fan on their Xbox 360?
I think I may need to replace the fan on my Xbox 360 Slim and I was wondering if I should get an OEM part or so with this Talismoon version. Thoughts?
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I use the Nyko Intercooler, and i've never had any overheating issues, however I just looked it up and apparently it's not the best for your system.
Now that i've typed this, i realize it's unhelpful, but I refuse to delete it cause it took so much effort to type.
My system hasn't been over heating It's just a little loud like a whirring sound.
@jeremytheindian: Keep in mind aftermarket parts will void the warranty if it can be proven they've been used. It's almost better to let your system die so you can get the replacement.
@woothulhu: Thanks for the concern but, I'm already out of warranty because I bought the system used... :)
I dont spend all day or play my 360 every day. But im gonna get an intercooler though. I aint had my 360 that long. By me not playing it every day it should last me a good while.


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6 Sci-Fi Technologies With Suspiciously Unaddressed Problems
#3. Looper -- Why Entrust Loopers With Killing Themselves?
In a dystopian future, criminals have developed a foolproof plan to get away with murder: time travel. They capture their hapless enemies, hogtie them, and shove them 30 years into the past, where assassins, called loopers, are waiting to blow their heads off and dispose of the bodies. All parties are happy: the loopers are paid richly for their services, the mob bosses get to evade present-day authorities, and the soon-to-be-dead guys at least get to take a cool trip through time.
And Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets to pretend he'll turn into Bruce Willis.
One tiny drawback for loopers, however, is that they know too much to be allowed to roam free in the future, so their contracts state that they'll eventually be sent back in time to be killed by their own younger selves. But other than that, they are free to do whatever they want (without having to worry about the state of their livers or lungs) until the past literally catches up with them and shoots them in the face.
The Problem:
Why send the loopers back to the one person who has a reason not to kill them, though? All time-traveling victims have their faces covered, but the movie shows us that there's nothing stopping them from humming a melody that only their past version will recognize -- or, you know, talking, since their mouths aren't completely covered.
As a result, occasionally a looper will hesitate and his future self will escape, creating a whole mess of complications (it's what sets off the entire plot of the movie). The only practical purpose of this system seems to be that it allows the bosses to send the loopers the extra retirement bonus they get for completing their last job, but they could just as easily send that money by itself, or with a dead mule, once they've confirmed that the looper was killed by someone else.
"Here's the payment for the job you haven't completed, amoral killer. Don't try to con us or anything."
Oh, and did we mention that in the future, time travel is about as illegal as murder? The crime bosses are setting themselves up for failure; if they don't get in trouble for breaking the laws of man, they will get caught for breaking the laws of physics.
#2. Surrogates -- Robotic Surrogates Would Squash Our Babies
In the world of Surrogates, human beings spend all day sitting in comfy futuristic chairs while their remote-controlled robo-avatars go about their daily lives. It's kind of like playing World of Warcraft, only you never leave the hou- actually, it's exactly like playing WoW. Your surrogate even looks like an idealized version of yourself.
Which means at some point, Bruce Willis' character said, "Yes, I want that comb-over."
Pretty much everyone has a surrogate in this future, to the point that it's incredibly unusual to see real human beings out in the real world. And why should they come out? This way, you can do anything you want without risking any bodily harm -- the chair itself makes sure your body stays in shape, so you don't get bed sores or butt cramps. If some dick hadn't started using surrogates to kill people, it would have been a utopia.
The Problem:
Except for one thing: How the hell do you raise kids in this world? At one point, we're shown an ad for "Surrogates for Kids," so we know that the whole "human beings start out as fragile screaming midgets" problem hasn't yet been solved in this future. Kids still exist.
They don't seem to understand how skateboards work, though.
But surrogates are incredibly strong -- they can jump insane distances and pick up lampposts and so forth -- and we're explicitly shown that the low-budget models used by a big chunk of the population have really terrible coordination. At one point we see one trying and failing to put a key in a lock. Now imagine that super strong, super clumsy robot trying to change a baby's diaper.
You can see the problem, right? But even if you can afford one of the more expensive models, there's another problem: When do you give the kids a surrogate? They can't survive in a world of careless robots without a robot of their own, unless they enjoy being accidentally hip-checked into a wall by a powerwalking surrogate.
"PleaseletthatbegumIsteppedon. PleaseletthatbegumIsteppedon. Ple-"
Of course, we're just avoiding the bigger issue here, which is: If everyone stays in all day, how do they conceive babies in the first place? Are the robots anatomically correct? You failed to address the issue of robot penises, movie.
#1. Star Wars -- Blasters Are a Stupid, Stupid Weapon
We're using Star Wars here because it's the most famous and beloved example, but every self-respecting sci-fi franchise has them -- laser guns are the coolest guns ever, and in every futuristic universe where they've been invented, they've also completely replaced regular guns. We've never seen a Stormtrooper shooting a rifle -- after all, why would you bother with bullets if you have freaking lasers?
Bullets don't go nearly as well with Pink Floyd and LSD.
The Problem:
You have to understand something about the guns armies use right now: They're not designed to put a neat hole in the enemy. They're designed to create ragged, horrific wounds that bleed a lot. But like all energy weapons in the Star Wars universe, blasters do the opposite. They cauterize wounds -- that's why we never see any Stormtroopers or Rebels bleeding after being hit by those things, and why when Luke's hand got chopped off by a light saber (which presumably works the same way as blasters), it didn't turn into a Tarantino-esque bloodsplosion. That's like creating a sword that instantly disinfects and patches up any wound it creates.
"Stop whining. These were originally invented for Padawan circumcisions."
And then there's the fact that they also give up your position. If you're in the middle of a war zone and shooting at your enemies from cover, it's pretty important that they don't know where you're standing so that they can't, you know, shoot back. But if you're using a Star Wars-style blaster, every single shot fired is like a big neon sign pointing in your direction. Hell, that's actually understating it -- the thick, slow-moving energy beams are a hell of a lot more visible than neon, even in broad daylight.
But almost none of that can hold a candle to the one thing that, in the real world, would render the blasters utterly useless: Laser shots appear to move much slower than bullets, or even arrows. Characters easily dodge them or deflect the beams with light sabers. We don't care if you have "Jedi reflexes" or not: If you tried that shit with a bullet, you'd soon find yourself sans hand. Also, we've seen non-Jedis dodge laser blasts, too, once while sitting three feet from the guy doing the shooting. You remember that scene, right?
We're just gonna leave this here.
Chris blogs over at Laffington.com.
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So I set my HTTP proxy via Settings -> Preferences -> Network setup, and am getting this error:
Looking up irc.us.gimp.org
Looking up <IP>
Connecting to <IP> (<IP>) port <PORT>...
HTTP/1.1 502 Proxy Error ( The specified Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) port is not allowed. ISA Server is not configured to allow
Proxy traversal failed.
Stopped previous connection attempt (pid=4696)
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Without that setting (the IP:PORT is left empty), I'm getting this error:
Looking up irc.us.gimp.org
Connecting to irc.us.gimp.org (126.96.36.199) port 6667...
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Today I installed Ubuntu on to a pre-existing partition (I also made a swap partition during the installation) and when my machine went to restart, my screen went dark and did nothing, I did wait. There was power going to the machine.
I did a forced restart but now I have no clue how to boot to the partition that I have Ubuntu on. I have Windows 7, by the way. I have poked around my BIOS settings and I didn't see anything in the boot tab about choosing a partition to boot off of.


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EPA Says Raese Filled in Streams For Golf Course
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Republican Senate candidate John Raese filled in wetlands and damaged more than 2 miles of streams when he rerouted them to create waterfalls on a private, 18-hole West Virginia golf course that federal regulators say he built without the required permits.
The years-long construction of Pikewood National Golf Club near Morgantown is "probably the biggest violation we've ever seen in this district," Sheila Tunney, spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Pittsburgh, told The Associated Press.
More than two years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered Raese, the club's president, to develop a plan to mitigate the damage. Tunney says work on that plan is ongoing.
Raese, who's challenging incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin, recently called Pikewood "the nicest golf course in the United States" and a local job creator. He didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
The businessman campaigns on a platform that includes abolishing several federal agencies, including the EPA, and the government regulations that he says squelch economic development.
EPA officials have repeatedly declined to answer questions about the violations but did provide the AP a copy of a six-page compliance order issued in March 2010. The last page says EPA "reserves the right to seek any remedy available under the law," including pursuit of any civil or criminal charges it deems appropriate.
Tunney said the corps first learned about the 1,300-acre golf course, which sits on the Monongalia-Preston county border, from a farmer who complained he was no longer getting water from a local stream.
The course took several years to build, and aerial photos show the waterfalls are at par-3 fifth hole, dubbed "Mow Green." The website describes it as a small, peanut-shaped green with a limestone ledge on one side and a "reflection pond" on the other.
"Designed to fit the lay of the land, Pikewood National has a natural look," its website proclaims. "In fact, the only earth that was disturbed in the making of this course was that used to build greens and tees, and the rest of the land is allowed to lie as God intended it."
But the corps says the waterfalls and ponds are not natural; they were created by rerouting waterways.
"I can only assume what they mean is they kept the natural forest around it, which they did," said Jon Coleman, a project manager in the corps' regulatory branch who has been investigating the work since mid-2009.
In all, the construction diverted, buried or otherwise disturbed nearly 2.3 miles of streams and about one-seventh of an acre of wetlands, Coleman said. Workers also built dams that disrupted Laurel Run, a tributary of Deckers Creek.
"The ponds and stuff, those are some of the big violations," Coleman said. Damming a waterway not only changes the quality of the water but could dry up downstream areas.
Reconstructing the damage is difficult, he added, because it occurred so long ago.
"It's like an autopsy," Coleman said, only with tools including historical maps and satellite imagery.
By law, Raese should have sought a permit to place dredge and fill material in waterways under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, the same section mining companies use.


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Unanswered: Navigation view in a navigation view
I have a problem as follows:
I have a navigation view (home) and get to another navigation view (module) through a button.
Now, in the module I have another button to open another navigation view (moduleA). Now, in the moduleA view, i have two bars at the top but I only want to have one.
navigationBar: {
hidden: true
this doesn't help either. Now: is this possible to have navigation views in navigation views in navigation views or is there a better way to do it?
6 Dec 2012 11:55 AM #2
navigationBar: false
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This works on the module view (same as my posted solution) but when I click a button on the module view to go into the next view (moduleA), I have 2 navigation bars on the top.
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I would guess then that you're doing something wrong when you push the new view onto the navigation controller.
The better question is why are you putting one navigation view inside another?


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Lion's Head emerging from the mist – Flickr pic of the day
This image of an unusual perspective of Lion's Head was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Helen Scrimgeour aka Ottie.
Helen says, "This shot was taken on one of those days with lots of interesting clouds around. Lion's Head in particular had clouds and mist rushing around it, constantly breaking up and reforming, alternately revealing and hiding the peak.
"What I like about Cape Town is having so many different attractions and such great scenery in close proximity: farmlands with rolling wheatfields; the winelands and of course our great wines; mountains that showcase our geological history; rivers and forests; wonderful coastlines and your choice of crowded or deserted beaches; nature reserves where you can discover our incredible floral kingdom and wild animals. Cape Town is a great place for taking a day drive and just exploring," she continues.
Every major city in the world has its parks, and seaside towns across the globe can surely boast a clean strip of beach or commanding urban forest. But few human centres in the world can come close to matching Cape Town's array of locations and activities relating to the natural environment and its fauna and flora.
From the nature trails of the mountain complex itself to the Peninsula's bird and sea life – not to mention that is it the setting of the country's most famous Botanical Garden, Kirstenbosch – there's an abundance of attractions for lovers of the natural world.
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!
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