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On September 16, 1999, Dia Center for the Arts will open the third and final part of an exhibition of the work of German
artist Thomas Schütte. This installation, entitled "In Medias Res," will be on view on the fourth floor of Dia's galleries at
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Thomas Schütte was born in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1954. Since graduating from the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1981, he has had numerous solo exhibitions in Europe, and he participated in both Documenta 9 (1992) and Documenta 10 (1997) in Kassel. This tripartite exhibition at Dia Center for the Arts will be his most substantial to date.
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With an aggressive bid from EA looming over it, videogame maker Take-Two announced revenue of $240.4 million for the quarter ended January 31, down 13 percent year-on-year from $277.3 million. The company says the top line was hurt by fewer new game releases over the holiday season. Net loss widened in the quarter to $38 million ($.52 per share) from $21.5 million ($.30 per share). The company did, however, raise its guidance for the coming year year to $1.25 - $1.4 billion, based on a fresh slate of new titles. So far, it looks like investors will want more to be convinced of the merits of an independent EA. The company's stock has been slammed this week, it even dropped slightly today on a huge up day. After hours, it's up 3 percent. The announcement makes no specific mention of the EA bid, other than it remains an operating risk for the company.
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I want to forward my viewers on my site to a different place if they are using an iPhone. Is there a way to do that using iWeb?
The only reasons to ever have a separate mobile site are cheapness and laziness.
The right approach is to have your visitors all get the same content; the only thing that should change how that content is styled—and doing that doesn't need a separate site, or even a special page.
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Beautiful Kirstenbosch – Flickr pic of the day
This image of the back of Table Mountain as seen from the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Ranveig, aka ~Ranveig Marie~.
Ranveig says: "We wanted to go to Kirstenbosch for just an hour or so, to see how it was there before we went to Table Mountain. It was much more beautiful than we had imagined, so we stayed there for four hours.
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We're still grieving for the loss of Maurice Sendak, creator of Where The Wild Things Are. And last night, Stephen Colbert featured some brilliant extended excerpts from his Sendak interview from earlier this year.
Including Sendak saying he has no clue what a children's book is — and explaining why his books don't sugarcoat childhood. "I think childhood is a period of great torment. We learn all these things — what is and what isn't, what you can do and what you can't do, and it's really very hard." And the best thing you can do is, "love him or her," and "take them for what they are." Really beautiful stuff. [via Explore]


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(FREEPORT, Ill.) - Columbia College-Freeport awarded $500 scholarships to Cynthia A. Martin of Freeport and Rhonda Schwarze of Monroe, Wis., in honor of Frank S. Westling. Westling was a former dean of the college's Extended Studies Division, which serves adult learners and military personnel nationwide.
Martin is a senior business administration major and is employed with Foresight Financial Group. She is an American Red Cross volunteer and current board chairperson of the Northwest Illinois American Red Cross. Martin also cooks and delivers meals to a homeless shelter.
Schwarze is a senior business administration major and is employed with Swiss Colony. She volunteers for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County and has organized a program to sponsor low-income families during the holidays.
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"Columbia College is proud to offer this scholarship to students at our extended campuses," said Mike Randerson, Columbia College vice president for Adult Higher Education. "Frank Westling was instrumental in establishing the Extended Studies Division to serve working adults and military personnel, and he would be pleased to know the scholarship is helping fulfill the educational goals of students around the country."
Prior to joining the college, Westling served in the U.S. Army for 31 years and retired as a colonel. He was a highly decorated infantry soldier and was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal and Silver Star.
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Filling up someone's fruit bowl with gourmet fresh fruits is a sweet (and healthy) holiday gesture. Harry and David offers a Fruit-of-the-Month-Club collection with options ranging from three to 12 months, and fruit selections that include pears, pineapples, peaches, and cherries.
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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan have squabbled over the economy, taxes, Medicare and foreign policy in their one and only debate.
The 90-minute face-off was fast-moving and feisty from the start and marked by sharp disagreements and interruptions.
After Ryan attacked the administration's foreign policy as being weak, the vice president called the assessment "a bunch of malarkey." About the interruptions, Ryan said Biden was "under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground." That was reference to last week's presidential debate in which even President Barack Obama concedes he had "a bad night."
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22 Jun 2010 2:55 AM #1
how to include pinch in a Carousel ?
First of all Sencha is a great idea / project!
I've made an app with 2 tabs composed of 2 Carousel, it works fine.
I want to add the pinch function on the images in the Carousel, Iv'e made like this, but it doesn't works:
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Ext.fly('picture').on({ pinchstart : function(e, t) { this.startScale = this.scale; }, pinch : function(e, t) { this.scale = e.scale * this.startScale; t.style.webkitTransform = 'scale(' + this.scale + ')'; }, scope: {scale: 1} });
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It is hard to answer without seeing this code in context. My first guess would be that you are trying to bind the event listener before the component is rendered (and thus before the picture element exists).
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With this code it works in a simple page but not in the carousel, so I wonder if it doesn't come from the carousel
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It might have something to do with the Carousel intercepting some of the touch events. This is a very specific case that I haven't tried or ran into yet. There are some things on our list that have high priority right now, but I definitely want to come back to this and see if we can get this to work. Is there a way you can work around this functionality for now?
18 Oct 2010 2:14 PM #5
Hello. Just checking if any progress has been made on including a pinch function in a carousel -- I'd like to see a Sencha Touch photo album viewer that implements some of the functionality in the native "Photos" app on the iPad. Specifically, swiping left or right to view the next or previous photo, and pinching to zoom-in/out on the photo.
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+1 to be able to pinch images within a Carousel!
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Antitrust commissioners voted 3-2 that Pemex's legal monopoly over the production and sale of motor fuels doesn't extend to distribution of the fuel, and that it can't force gas station owners to use its distribution network. The regulatory body gave Pemex 30 business days to present a plan for compliance.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's antitrust authorities said Tuesday
they have fined state-run oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or
Pemex, 653 million pesos ($50 million) for maintaining a
stranglehold on the distribution of gasoline and diesel to
privately-owned gas stations, and that they have ordered Pemex
to end the practice.
The ruling comes in the middle of a contentious debate in
Mexico over opening up the oil sector to more private
investment, both in oil and gas exploration and production, and
in refining.
Pemex said it will contest the ruling, arguing that the
Federal Competition Commission, or CFC, doesn't have
jurisdiction over its constitutionally established
Antitrust commissioners voted 3-2 that Pemex's legal
monopoly over the production and sale of motor fuels doesn't
extend to distribution of the fuel, and that it can't force gas
station owners to use its distribution network. The regulatory
body gave Pemex 30 business days to present a plan for
compliance. It said that Pemex, through a series of agreements
reached with the oil workers union, has gradually squeezed out
competing third-party distributors.
Ending the distribution monopoly could save one billion
pesos a year in transportation costs. As a result, those costs
wouldn't be passed on to taxpayers in the form of fuel
subsidies, the commission said.
Government-set fuel prices and subsidies are established by
a complex formula that includes transportation costs.
Pemex said Monday that the CFC was on questionable legal
"The CFC resolution was taken with two "no" votes out of the
five commissioners on the grounds that the commission does not
have jurisdiction to interpret regulations in the energy
sector, and that the transportation and distribution of refined
products are strategic activities that must be carried out by
Petroleos Mexicanos," the company said in a prepared
The commission's ruling, should it stand, "would cause
serious damage to Petroleos Mexicanos and its workers," the
company added.
David Shields, an energy analyst based in Mexico who
publishes the magazine and website energiaadebate.com, said the
distribution chain of gasoline and diesel from refinery to fuel-station appears to
exist in a legal void in which the only authorized distributors
are Pemex and companies holding Pemex contracts.
The gas station industry group Amegas, which represents
about 11,000 Pemex franchises, has asked that the government
address ongoing problems in Pemex's franchise system as part of
its energy-overhaul proposal.
In a July presentation, the association complained of a
large black market in motor fuels, and of Pemex fuel tankers
that deliver less fuel than they bill for.
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TEMPLE (January 21, 2012)--A dog that a Temple couple gave away four years ago in Mississippi is back with its original owners after a passerby found the animal on the side of a snowy highway.
Kevin and Amber Fletcher bought their blue shepherd, Maddie, a leather collar when they first got her six years ago in Mississippi, where they used to live.
And that collar is what led to the reunion because it included their contact information.
The Fletchers say they were thrilled when they got Maddie as their first pet after they got married.
"It didn't take her long to become part of the family," Kevin said.
But they had to give the dog to one of Amber's students when they moved into a smaller apartment and then later to Texas.
"I kicked myself every day after we got rid of her," Kevin said.
The Fletchers didn't remain in contact with the dog's new owners and never expected to see Maddie again until they got a voice-mail just a few days ago.
"I didn't listen to the whole voice-mail…(I) just hung up and called her right back," Kevin said.
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It was apparent that Maddie recently had puppies, but the pups were nowhere to be found.
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5 Awesome Movie Robots with Inexcusable Design Flaws
#2. The Iron Giant Is Unstoppable (as Long as It Doesn't Bonk Its Head)
In The Iron Giant, a young boy playing in the woods comes across a colossal amnesiac space robot whose head was damaged during a meteoric skydive down to Earth like Tony Stark swooping in to sing the national anthem at a lingerie football game.
The two become friends until the dent in the robot's iron head eventually pops itself back out, causing it to immediately resume its mission (and entire purpose for being sent to our planet), which is to kill everything that has ever lived with approximately all of the guns in the universe.
"Oh, now I remember. Fuck you, kid."
Not only is it a terrifying harbinger of doom (because whoever sent it will probably be stopping by to check on its progress before too long), but it's pretty much indestructible. The army throws everything they have at this mechanical titan: tanks, battleships, the love of a small boy and a nuclear missile. None of it matters, because even if the robot is blown completely apart (which it totally is, by the nuke), its individual parts crawl back together and reassemble like the T-1000 (it really was the perfect robot, we can't stress that enough).
The best weaponry the 1950s has to offer can't even scratch the Iron Giant, which is baffling considering that we already know that all it would take to scramble its robo-brain is a bonk on the noggin (which you may notice could be accomplished by the best weaponry the Three Stooges have to offer).
"Bwoo bwoo bwoo bwoo bwoo!"
The Iron Giant's skull dome is a clear exploitable weak point -- it even tucks down beneath a protective shield when the giant goes into battle mode, which suggests that its alien creators were both aware of this shortcoming and designed it that way on purpose. Why, during the whole "construct a plexiglass bubble for Deathbot's cranium" phase, did no one clear their throat and ask why the hell they were even giving him a head in the first place?
Think about it. The robot is built exclusively for destruction, and when in destruction mode, its head retracts like a cold, frightened penis and must be protected at all costs. Wouldn't it be easier to just not have a head? Seriously, it's not like aliens sent a 20-story robot to Earth to blend in. For that matter, why is "destruction" even a separate setting if killing everything in space-laser range is the robot's sole reason for existing? It should just be a huge metal box with guns sticking out of it, all of the time. Put the important programming chips and memory banks in the center of its body encased on all sides by 100 feet of interstellar steel. What you should absolutely never do for any reason is put your murderbot's most delicate circuitry in an obvious extremity molded directly after the most sensitive anatomical area of the beings you are trying to destroy.
"We've placed all of his pain sensors in the crotch area. Hopefully nobody fires a missile into it."
It doesn't even get to that point, though -- the Iron Giant gives himself brain damage like a Chevy Chase routine and spends most of the movie behaving like Arnie from What's Eating Gilbert Grape? because apparently the aliens decided to include "Play hide-and-seek with a latchkey kid" in its default programming string.
#1. R2-D2 Can Literally Do Everything but Speak
In Star Wars, R2-D2 is an astromech droid, which on paper means that he was specifically built to work in and around spaceships but in reality means that he does whatever the screenwriters need him to do to advance the plot. This giant waddling suppository is a renaissance man -- he hacks computer systems, picks electronic locks, co-pilots spacecraft, welds things, fights robot crabs, flies and sets things on fire, and also records and replays crucially important messages that set the entire saga in motion.
"But only for Obi-Wan Kenobi. If your name isn't Obi-Wan Kenobi, go fuck yourself."
Except he can't speak. Not one word.
Sure, he can bleep and whistle, and if that mincing butler C-3PO is around he can translate it for you, but R2-D2 was designed to be around people 100 percent of the time. As an astromech droid, when he has to make navigational choices or roll out onto the hull mid-dogfight to make crucial repairs, the ability to speak directly to the pilot and/or the flight crew could mean the difference between life and death. Yet as we clearly see in The Empire Strikes Back, the only way this can be accomplished is if he farts his alarm clock noises into the ship's computer to be printed out as text on a screen in the cockpit. Luke is only able to patiently read R2's message because nobody is zooming around firing death lasers at him. If they were locked in a space battle, he would have no idea what R2 was trying to tell him, and it could be something along the lines of "There's a crack in your canopy and your body will be turned inside out by the callous vacuum of space unless you do exactly what I tell you, right now."
Or "OH FUCK, THIS HURTS SO BAD! FUUUUUUUCK!"
That's the other thing -- R2-D2 clearly understands English. He replays messages in English, he responds to commands given in English and he participates in intricate, Han Solo-rescuing plans that had to have been explained to him in English. So why in the name of Yoda's pruned-up Shrek taint can't he speak it? Why can't he speak any language, for that matter? The ability to verbally communicate with people is crucial to every aspect of his design, yet he absolutely cannot do it.
Remember the scene where Luke first hears Leia's message to Obi-Wan? R2-D2 plays the message in English, Luke asks about it in English and R2 totally understands the question, but then R2 responds in his bullshit language and C-3PO has to translate it back to Luke. That's like an Abbott and Costello routine. And R2-D2 was designed so that every single one of his interactions would take place in this manner. We wonder how many astromech test pilots were killed in crashes borne of sheer irritated frustration.
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Officials from the country are heading for England as part of the exchange programme which is intended to benefit the game's governing body in the west African nationManchester City have struck a deal with the football association of Ghana to help develop football in the west African nation, with officials set to visit the United Kingdom.
The trip is at the invitation of the Premier League champions, who have agreed to allow coaches from the country to tap into their expertise.
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"They have invited us to discuss issues of coaching, player development and the exploitation of commercial activities. We will meet their coach in charge of youth development and their staff responsible for commercial activities."
The programme will also allow the City officials to visit Ghana to see to other areas of cooperation. Nyantakyi added that he is looking forward to seeing some of the best coaches from both clubs and the Ghana national team leaving for England occasionally for training.
The visiting officials will attend the Premier League match between Manchester City and Tottenham at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.


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Is it possible to get information from questions on Stack Overflow and post it to my blog?
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Yes, through a variety of methods. All data is licensed CC-BY-SA, which you should understand before you do this, but in short it allows you to take and use the questions, answers, comments, etc as long as you provide attribution (ie, a link back to the original question).
You can get the entire database through a data dump which is produced every two months, or more conveniently you can get data on the fly and up to date from the stack overflow API.
Many blogging platforms have plugins to take rss feeds and repost them to your blog — or even better, just queue them (so you can approve just the ones you want). Usually appropriate credits will be added, and you will need to make sure this is configured to follow the license terms specified by Stack Overflow (click the cc image link at the bottom). Obviously, if these are your own answers/questions, then as author you retain copyright and can do whatever you want.
Stack Overflow has numerous rss feeds that may interest you: new questions, per tag, and per user, for example.
Take a look at this StackTack application
StackTack, a JavaScript widget you can stick anywhere
You can embed the questions in your blog, and since it is using api, you don't need to worry about new answers or update info also.
You can just post a link to the question?
In this case,
Can you be more specific about what you're after?
Sure it's possible but not a good idea. Duplicate content can(and will) seriously hurt your blog ranking. If you decide to do that, you should at least get a permission and provide a link to the original question, though.


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Awesome deal, thanks!
I like polk audio, but I know nothing of these speakers. My sub, rear, front and center speakers work very well.
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Seems like a great deal,I'm really tempted to get these
Sweet deal! I bought these on black Friday actually for $15 more and they have awesome sound. They are my front surround speakers, but can handle some good volume with good range when you're playing music too. They make it sound like you're in the movie/game :)
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Discrete choice models
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Data on contestants' choices in Italian Game Show Affari Tuoi are analysed in a way that separates the effect of risk attitude (preferences) from that of beliefs concerning the amount of money that will be offered to contestants in future rounds. The most important issue addressed in the paper is what belief function is actually being used by contestants. The parameters of this function are estimated freely along with the parameters of a choice model. Separate identification of the belief function and preferences is possible by virtue of the fact that at a certain stage of the game, beliefs are not relevant, and risk attitude is the sole determinant of choice. The rational expectations hypothesis is tested by comparing the estimated belief function with the "true" offer function which is estimated using data on offers actually made to contestants. We find that there is a significant difference between these two functions, and hence we reject the rational expectations hypothesis. However, when a simpler "rule-of-thumb" structure is as- sumed for the belief function, we find a correspondence to the function obtained from data on actual offers. Our overall conclusion is that contestants are rational to the extent that they make use of all available relevant information, but are not fully rational because they are not processing the information in an optimal way. The importance of belief-formation is confirmed by the estimation of a mixture model which establishes that the vast majority of contestants are forward-looking as opposed to myopic.
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TRAINING DAY: Valley Hospice Wellness coordinator Judi Hladek championed the cause of healthy living and its impact in the workplace when she spoke at the 2011 Health and Safety Training Day in the nation's capital earlier this month. More than 350 members of the Office of Health and Safety Securities for the Department of Energy were in attendance.
Hladek was invited to speak to the DOE by Fletcher Whitworth, a nuclear engineer for the DOE who had heard her speak on wellness before members of the Voluntary Protection Programs organization, an OSHA program for employers and workers in private industry and federal agencies throughout the country. Whitworth served as chair of the presenters and exhibitors for the one day event in Washington, D.C.
Hladek, founder of the Wellness Bridge, presented a motivational and educational speech that stressed that although wellness is an individual process, it is one that can positively affect the workplace and those in it. Although she acknowledges that there is no "cookie-cutter" approach to wellness, she said there is a way to individualize education for a healthy-living style that results in people in the workplace getting "psyched up" on the job.
DISCOUNTS: Frontier Communications is offering active members of the Armed Forces as well as reservists an additional discount on their Frontier-bundled services.
The company is offering an extra $5 off a double-play bundle or $10 off a triple-play package to active members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard, as well as active and reserve National Guardsmen. The Armed Forces discount may be combined with some plan discounts they already may be receiving.
Frontier, which entered into a Veteran Employment Partnership Program agreement with the U.S. Army Reserves and National Guard a few months ago, has a veteran employee base of nearly 10 percent, or 1,500.
HONORS: Weirton Medical Center received four awards in a national study that rewards hospitals for delivering high quality care in key clinical areas.
The study was conducted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Premier, a health care performance improvement alliance.
Based on year-six results from the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration project, Weirton Medical Center received awards for attainment and top improvement in the clinical areas of heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care improvement. Due to its successes, Weirton Medical Center will receive a bonus payment from CMS, which awarded incentive payments of approximately $12 million to 211 hospitals.
Dr. Joseph P. Endrich, president and CEO of Weirton Medical Center, said the successes "are a testament to our ongoing efforts to improve health care delivery to residents in our services area."
HQID is the first national project of its kind, designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals are effective at improving the quality of inpatient care. In the project's sixth year, Premier collected a set of more than 30 evidence-based clinical quality measures from 216 hospitals across the country. The quality measures were developed by government and private organizations.
Weirton Medical Center also has been named to the 2011 HomeCare Elite, a compilation of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States.
Now in its sixth year, the HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of agencies and further highlights the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall. Winners are ranked by an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, process measure implementation and financial performance.
SEMINAR SET: Area residents can recognize the signs and symptoms of use, abuse and dependency, family dynamics and what to do when they encounter abuse at a free chemical dependency seminar set Dec. 7 beginning at 9 a.m. in room 2100 at Eastern Gateway Community College, 4000 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville.
Registration opens 30 minutes prior to the start of the seminar. Motivational Trainer Karen Vadino, M.S.W., LPCC, OCPC, is the speaker. The course has been approved for three counselor and social worker hours through the Jefferson Behavioral Health System, an approved provider of the State of Ohio Counselor and Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board. The nursing board accepts counselor and social worker hours. It is sponsored by Jefferson Behavioral Health System, Jefferson County Anti-Drug Coalition and Jefferson County Prevention and Recovery Board.
Contact Sandy Madzia or Dan Obertance at (740) 282-1300 for information or to submit information for certificates.


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Why are there a lot of duplicate file finder applications which are using MD5 Algorithm? What is the strength of MD5 in terms of searching duplicate files in hard disk or flash driver or any other storage device?
MD5 is ok here as usual cryptographic attacks do not apply in this scenario. The probability of accidental MD5 collision is much less than usual probability for soft error. For details read more.
MD5 is currently considered too weak to work as a cryptographic hash. However, for all traditional (i.e. non-cryptographic) hash uses MD5 is often perfectly fine.
MD5 has one important benefit above SHA1, SHA2, and upcoming SHA3: many platforms allow faster implementation of MD5 than other hashes. The performance in this use case varies highly according to used hash function.
The practical attacks against MD5 are mostly against collision resistance. If these are not an issue, MD5 can be fairly ok. (See earlier question Is a second pre image attack on MD5 feasible?.) For instance, where MD5 is considered fine by many is HMAC-MD5.
To get back to this question. It can be assumed that find duplicate files is not something where collision resistance is such of an issue (you likely do not have $2^{64}$ files), so chances of collision are much smaller than in many cryptographic uses where it is assumed adversary tries to find collisions.
Thus, for usual hash uses, the space of MD5 (128 bits) is large enough. The probability of collision in usual situations is small enough, it is much larger probability to for example, detect false duplicates due to random hardware failure (like soft error).
For more accurate mathematics, see earlier question What is the probability of md5 collision if I pass in 2^32 sets of string?. This is applicable in scenario where user has less than four billion files, and you may use the formula for other values. One million files gives $2^{-89}$, which I would consider very small.
Even more efficient for duplicate file finding than MD5 is to consider all file sizes. Files which are not the same size are not duplicates. Only files that have size which is not unique need hashing. If file duplicate program using hashing wants to be safe from MD5 hash collision, the program may want to perform byte-per-byte comparison to ensure files are unique.
MD5 is less CPU intensive than other cryptographic hash functions. For example, the SHA1 algorithm is more complex than MD5 meaning it is less efficient to calculate. This may be the reason MD5 is used.


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Known to throw darts w/my eyes. This would probably be more effective.
@gmwhit: imagine how effective it would be if you could throw LAWN DARTS with your eyes!!!


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For Instructors Spinning
Do you kick their butts every time?
03/26/2011 11:31 am
Instructors often have the mind set that they need to always teach a "kick butt" class in order to have a good following of students. If "kick butt" means hard hills, break aways and sprints in every class, then that instructor may be doing a disservice to the clients, not to mention to him/herself. If we apply the FITT Principle, which comes out of years of research into the effects of exercise on the human body, then we will understand that working into the anaerobic zones at every training does not promote fitness. It is considered overtraining. Overtraining has negative results which list includes but is not limited to: sleep deprivation, weight gain or loss, irritability, increased rate of injury and a lower immune system. The human body is amazing in that it can get used to numerous forms of abuse. The need to survive is so strong in the human body, that it will learn to function in the worst of conditions, just as it will thrive in ideal conditions (proper food/water, enough rest, stress control and appropriate exercise). I find it pretty easy to identify instructor who are teaching kick butt classes all the time. They often have horse voices from all the yelling, they seem wired like they are always drinking too much coffee, they often are detached and don't look at their students when they teach, they ignore newcomers and don't know how to cue to their level, they go into class wanting their Spinning® fix, they get sick a lot, they get injured a lot, and clients and co-workers will shake their heads at the mention of the instructor's name and make comments like, "He's the crazy one. Don't take his class unless you want to crawl out." there are guidelines that all instructors should have memorized and should be utilizing when training. The FITT Principle, created by doctors, physiologists and trainers at the highest levels of education, stands for frequency, intensity, time and type of exercise. Frequency for cardiorespiratory training is 3-5x per week, intensity is 64-94% of maximum heart rate (updated in ACSM's 8th addition of Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 2010), time is 10-90 minutes (also updated in 2010) and type includes cycling, walking, jogging, running, swimming, or aerobic based group exercise classes like step. When one exercises more intensely, by going running or practicing sprinting on a bike, then the amount of time and the frequency should be limited to the lower end of the recommendations. When one exercises less intensely, such as walking, or working in the seated flat in Spinning®, then the amount of time and frequency may increase to the top of the recommendations. Instructors must consider all of these elements when teaching classes and should educate their students to the guidelines. Anaerobic training should only be done once or twice per week, even on superfit athletes due to the amount of recovery necessary to gain benefit from the training. Learn to pad the anaerobic sessions with aerobic sessions the day before and the day after, so the body enters the high end training rested and the session afterwards promotes recovery of those systems (heart, lungs, fast twitch muscle fibers, tendons and ligaments). Behaving differently causes inflammation in the body which leads to a long list of unfortunate chronic problems down the line. The education of your clients is simple. If I am going to offer sprint work, or anaerobic intervals in a class, I tell people that if they did sprints, or had a very hard workout the previous day, to avoid them today. I also tell people that they should strive for two really hard workouts per week and make the rest of them more moderate to really gain the benefits of their training without causing undue stress in the body. Consider how you have been teaching and how you may integrate these guidelines created by doctors, physiologists and trainers in order to create the ideal fitness level possible, with the least amount of negative side effects. Written by master instructor Sabrina Fairchild for community.spinning.com blog on 3/26/2011Share


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Because of accumulation, I have far too many tasks that qualify as a "next action" (say, 200+). Many of these tasks are independent and do not belong to a project. For example, it could be [1] "learning the main shortcuts in software A", [2] "learning theorem B", [3] "copy file C from the laptop to the desktop computer", [4] "install software D". There can be a lot of these tasks.
I do not want to see them all in the next actions. This would be too much. Do you have a solution?
My current idea is to create fake projects, like "Training" and "Computer". The former could receive tasks [1] and [2]; and the latter would include [3] and [4]. And I would assume only [1] and [4] (for example) are next actions, and I keep track of [2] and [3] in my projects' reference material. Once [1] is finished, I go to the reference material of "Training" and move [2] into "next actions". If I do not have too many fake projects, then my next action list will not be too long, and the other actions (maybe still 200+) are kept in the reference material. Do you think this is the way to go?
I was also considering moving the tasks to the list "someday/maybe" but I would have the same problem again in this list. It would become far too long and, as a consequence, I would never review it.


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Hi there,
I've had my NN for about a year now and to be honest i've yet to produce a perfect 360 panoramic! I always end up with the faint remnants of the NN's arm showing in shot, multiple shadows emanating from the nodal point. They are a nightmare to remove. Either that or there is always one point that refuses to line up perfectly. I have been using a 40D and sigma 8mm 3.5, but the quality was poor so now I have a 5D and 17-40mm f4.
And how do you get that tripod out of the shot?! At the moment i stitch the panoramic 360 jpeg in Stitcher Ulimited, or PTGUI, then I have to convert it to a cubic image, then import the 'base' image into photoshop - where I try to remove the tripod (or give up and put a 'tripod cap' photo over the mess!) then re-import the cubic images back into the software, then re-create the 360 Jpeg then generate an immersive .mov file or flash or Java file using 'Pure Tools'. A very long-winded process.
Does anyone have any advice for me? (apart from to give up!). I am now starting to use the 5D with a 17-40mm lens and was wondering if anyone had any good info on using this set-up? Which indent ring to use when at 17mm and how many snaps to take and at what angles, for the best results?
I have all the software available, PTGui seems to be the best although Stitcher unlimited and autopano are good for creating flat panoramics , but I still haven't found a software program that's good for panoramic 2D images and creating immersive photo's in all main formats...ie flash and java. What do other people recommend for a work flow?
A lot of questions, I know...but i'm really confused and frustrated with all this stuff! Thanks for anyone who's brave enough to try and help )


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I'm using an ArcGIS REST map service, and my question is how do I construct the URL to the service?
Specifically, what relationship is there between the Service Name, the Test Server, and the folder directory structure?
This is the relevant information to the service I am trying to use:
Service Name: Louisville/LOJIC_LandRecords_Louisville
Folder: Louisville
Test Server url: http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services


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What are some good exercise programs to lose as much body fat possible in a short period of time, but still keeping it healthy. A treadmill and elliptical is available to me 24/7. I am 5'11" and weight 185lbs, and I have lots of body fat.
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You need to do enough exercise to burn more calories than you consume in a day. For every 3500 calorie deficit, you'll lose approximately a pound. The more strenuous your exercise is, the more calories you'll burn and the longer your excess post oxygen consumption phase will last. Anywhere from 30 minutes to about an hour and a half is considered healthy, as long as you aren't overworking yourself by doing this routine more than every other day.
Just remember, fat loss has very little to do with exercise, it's simple mathematics of calories in/calories out. If you eat more calories than you burn, they get stored as fat for later. If you consume 5000 calories a day and burn 3000 with lots of exercise, you'll still put on a 2 pounds every 3.5 days.
If you are eating a proper healthy diet, you should be able to healthily lose 2-4 pounds each week. Considering that with exercise, one will doubtfully burn more than 3000 calories in a day, so on a 2000 calorie diet, burning 3000 calories, you'll lose 2 pounds a week.


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I learned 3ds Max two months ago. I am not perfect in it, but I used it to make a model of a house. I am interested in house architectures. I used to model everything in Max.
I have just started to learn AutoCAD and it has been two weeks. I realized that AutoCAD is very accurate in modelling floor plans, doors, windows, etc.
The teacher told me that every thing from a chair to a pen to a bed, etc., can be modelled in AutoCAD.
Now I am confused as to which is the right way to model house interiors, AutoCAD or Max.
I want to know at what point should I finish things in Autocad and then move to Max?


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January 27, 2012
The New York University Bookstore has launched a weekday story time for children at its 726 Broadway location (between Waverly Place and Washington Place). Every Wed. and Fri., 11 a.m. to noon, children aged 2 to 8 and accompanied by an adult can come to the NYU Bookstore's Kids Corner and listen to stories read by bookstore staff. Weekday story time begins Wed., Feb. 8 and runs through Fri., May 4.
Free and open to the general public, the weekday story time is part of the NYU Bookstore's Event Series. For more information, call 212.998.4667 or go to www.bookstores.nyu.edu. Subways: Subways: N, R (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place).
NYU Bookstore's Kids Corner (located in the center of the store near Think Cafe) is a friendly place to meet other local kids and parents and offers a selection of board books, picture books, young adult, and parenting books.
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
NYUToday-feature, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions
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What tips can one provide to get the best programming results when working from home?
When kids and spouse are home, is it possible to get any programming done in these circumstances?
Please share your success tips and strategies for making the most out of your working from home experience.


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'Old-fashioned Valley atmosphere' expected for Woodland vs. Naugy
BEACON FALLS — Woodland quarterback Tanner Kingsley was only 8 when his older brother, Shane, played before an estimated home crowd of 5,000 in the Hawks' 2004 rivalry game against Seymour.
Tonight, Tanner and the rest of the Hawks hope to draw the biggest crowd to Beacon Falls since then when they take on Naugatuck in a crucial battle of unbeatens.
"Finally, it feels like the atmosphere is back from when my brothers played," said Kingsley, the Hawks' record-setting senior. "When Shane played, those big crowds would come. I'm really excited that it's back."
Storylines from all different directions will converge at the 6:30 p.m. kickoff. For one, Woodland has beaten Naugatuck in nine of 10 all-time meetings, including a perfect 5-0 record at home.
"I've brought it up," Naugatuck first-year coach Craig Bruno said of the series history. "We're well aware of that, but you really have to stay away from revenge. These guys do know the history, but they have their own history."
In last season's meeting at Veterans Field, which ended in a 56-30 victory for the Hawks, Kingsley threw for 502 yards and eight touchdowns — both of which set Naugatuck Valley League records that he broke and tied, respectively, a few weeks later against Seymour.
Only 10 of those 502 yards were caught by a player on the current roster, Jack Pinho. But Woodland has reloaded its receiving corps, led by Mike Kenney (eight catches, 330 yards, six touchdowns), and still has Kingsley slinging with his left arm.
"I've watched him on tape and in person, and he's excellent," Bruno said of Kingsley, who has completed 70 percent of his passes for 823 yards and 14 touchdowns with two interceptions. "He really drops the ball in there. Their receivers are good and they run the ball well. We have to be able to stop the run on first down and put them in deep passing situations."
Naugatuck plays with three down linemen who average 235 pounds, and likes sending linebacker Jour'dan Hopkins for added pressure. The secondary is led by cornerbacks Nate Franklin, Maleek Brooks and Kevin Robinson and safeties Bryan Coney and Matt Burke.
"When you have a precision passing game, most teams aren't intimidated by the corners," Bruno said. "They drop the ball where they're going to throw it and they run good routes. I think we can match up with the guys we have out there; it just depends on how well they play."
Naugatuck will counter with its unpredictable offense, which is led by junior quarterback Jason Bradley. He has completed 56 percent of his passes for 656 yards and seven touchdowns with two interceptions, and he's added three rushing scores. The 6-foot-5 Ryne Griesenauer (14 catches, 330 yards, four touchdowns) is Bradley's top target.
"Our line is probably one of the biggest in the league (average size: 6 feet, 249 pounds) and I'm very comfortable behind them," Bradley said. "I guarantee if you ask Tom Douty he'd say the same thing, the way he's running the ball behind them. We have big targets to catch the ball and they get yards."
Woodland also has strength in its back end with cornerbacks Coby Vaccarelli and Taylor Tucciarone and linebackers Levi Fancher, Chris Slavin, Chris McDonald and Zack DeBrizzi.
"It's about their wrinkles and our wrinkles," said Tim Shea, Woodland's head coach and a former Naugatuck standout. "It's a more balanced matchup than most people think. We have very similar offenses and defenses, so every play is going to be a war."
There's plenty more drama involved in this game. The winner becomes the NVL Copper Division favorite, and nobody tries to hide the fact that the schools really don't like each other.
"We can't get caught up in all that stuff," said Shea, who said he thinks the crowd could reach 3,000. "It should make for a loud, old-fashioned Valley atmosphere."
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Area organizations, along with WBKO suited-up and put on their basketball shoes for a good cause yesterday.
A team from Cave City and Glasgow Police Departments took on Bowling Green Fire Department, while Team WBKO played Kentucky State Police.
The basketball games were put on to support a staff member at Caverna High School.
"Anita Mauldin is the secretary book keeper at Caverna High School. She was diagnosed with esophageal cancer a little over a month ago, and she has been incurring some major costs. So we took it upon ourselves to go ahead and start doing some things-- selling t-shirts , bracelets, things like that for the foundation and it goes to support their family," says Caverna High School Principal Brad Phipps.
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YOKOHAMA, Japan, 1 June 2013 – Leaders from Japan and African countries participating in the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V), which opened today in Yokohama, said that the African Union Action Plan for the Accelerated Industrial Development (AIDA) was crucial for the development of the continent.
The Chairperson of the African Union Assembly and Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn, referring to the role of UNIDO, said that Africa should become "the next industrial frontier". Over the past 10 years, the economic growth of Africa has reached 5 per cent, while economic forecasts continue to be promising, he said.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chair of the African Union Commission, highlighted the relevance of AIDA and industrialization in general. "Africa's renewed commitment to industrialization, and the development of diversified industrial capabilities must build on its key natural endowments to spur sustainable and equitable growth: addressing its infrastructure backlogs to improve regional trade and spatial development; revolutionizing agricultural production and agro-processing, and ensuring that the exploitation of African natural resources, especially its mineral resources, results in a fair sharing of the proceeds, are saved and invested in developing productivity capacity, and that mining contribute to industrial development through backward and forward linkages," she said.
For the last two decades, UNIDO has been actively involved in TICAD. A UNIDO delegation, headed by Director General, Kandeh K. Yumkella, is taking part in this year's event, and will organize several events, including one on clean technologies for Africa's sustainable industrial development taking place today.
Acknowledging the leadership of the African Union Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan as UNIDO's crucial partners, Yumkella said that industrialization was at the heart of creating jobs and incomes for the young people in Africa, and means of providing a decent life for all.
"But experience globally, and unfortunately also in selected cases in Africa, shows that industrialization without consideration for the environment did not and will not bring lasting benefits, as communities, often the weakest, are left with environmental legacies like land erosion, deforestation, and mine tailings," said Yumkela.
He added that of particular concern at the global level were the likely impacts of climate change, of which early signs already appear at drastic scales, in particular in Africa. "However, let us not overlook the local problems, including pollution of land and water ways and industrial and chemical risks," he said.
"Many of today's environment, resource and climate concerns can be traced back to the inefficient use of natural resources. Materials, water and energy are being wasted throughout value chains. Our global economy has flourished over the decades from ever increasing productivity of labour, yet now is time for a paradigm shift. Labour is not in short supply, but resources and environment are, as we ultimately have only one planet Earth to provide currently 7 billion people, and many more in the foreseeable future," added Yumkella.
"The key challenge is to do more with less, or decouple economic development from increased use of natural resources and wastes. This requires solutions that bring more wealth and health, goods and services, while using less materials, water and energy. Workable solutions for resource efficiency exist and can be applied in Africa, amongst others through the work of National Cleaner Production Centres. They typically involve the introduction of better environmental practices and clean technology, and at enterprise-level can bring attractive savings on operational costs. Yet, only few enterprises have followed suit, and concerted efforts are needed to scale up resource efficiency. The challenges remain significant, and in this regard we are glad to have the chance to discuss, here at TICAD, practical ways to scale up the transfer and deployment of clean technologies for sustainable industrial development in Africa," said Yumkella.
At TICAD V, UNIDO will also hold side events on green growth and productivity enhancement, investment and technology promotion in Africa, as well as on youth and women employment.
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Clean Offering
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Absolutely love my new Load Warrior with the 18" extension! It works perfectly on my 2009 Honda Element with 58" Yakima Round Bars. This thing helps us consolidate gear up top which allows for comfortable carpool options when driving to our next camping adventure. The Load Warrior will work well with many different accessories from Yakima which is a huge plus. Definitely would recommend to anyone looking for more storage for trips.
Killer Rack
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
I bought this for my younger brother as he'll be moving up north for college within the year. We put in on his 2007 Subaru Forester over the holidays and it went on in minutes. Incredibly easy install. It is a super burly piece of equipment and looks great on the Fozzy!
If purchasing this I would double check your car racks load limit as the limit of this is 150 lbs but your cars racks load limit may be lower.
Cats love it!
Hahahah! This is awesome!
I purchased this a while back as a gift for my dad, and he loves it. He has a Toyota Tundra that has a fair amount of bed space, but with two dogs and 3+ people's gear, it can get a bit cramped back there! This is easy to put on and take off, and frees up some extra room for the pooches. Plus it looks good up top, and not at all junky. I will most definitely be getting one for myself, as the dog has started taking over more and more room in the car.
good product, easy install
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
i have a 2002 subaru impreza wagon with factory load bars and it was very easy to install. only took me about 20 minutes. i didnt need to buy any additional mounts or adapters, everything was included to mount to factory bars. if im not mistaken, the mount system will work on both the newer flattened aero bars as well as the square steel cross bars.
I have a 2007 impreza wagon. I am looking at this and am trying to figure something out. With this basket, would you have room for a bike on the side as well (meaning to the side of the basket instead of on top)? I will be moving in the next 6 months or so and would like to bring as much as possible instead of selling it. Thanks.
if you have the factory aero bars you might not have enough room for a separate bike rack. the square bars would accommodate a rack to the side if you had long enough cross bars.
Haven't mounted yet, but rack seems well built. No brittle welds or excess slag. Smooth and taut. Will post update with pics later. Best bang for buck!
Extra Space
Installed on 2011 Nissan Xterra
Works perfectly when you need to haul some extra gear, and looks even better ;)
Awesome,Yakima LoadWarrior
Bought a Yakima LoadWarrior from Dogfunk. Great price and free shipping! Installed on my 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Fits Great! This is my first basket for the rooftop, had a old rocketbox16 but it would not fit on my short Jeep rooftop. Slight wind noise, but basket is easy to put on and solid as a rock. This will enable us to pack more irregular shaped gear for tailgating.
Yes Sir
This basket has been so helpful with my wrangler, going to and from college, up to the mountain and back, or down from Alaska to Colorado it has got the done perfectly! Add the net and you have one of the greatest external storage options available out there. I have mine on a Kargo Master Congo Cage that can hold up to 2,000 lbs, I don't put more than 200 in there so I don't roll over on every turn. I love this basket .
Road Trip
Nice rack, especially because of the price
Assembly and installation is easy, instructions are adequate, looks good, finish seems durable, is in fact a roof basket which was what I was led to believe.
I should have purchased the extension, as well as the spare tire accessory since I put my spare tire in it which doesn't leave much room for anything else.
Dogfunk communicated well, shipped on time, and was the best price at the time. I usually give a 3 in a 5 star rating assuming the product is what it is supposed to be and the vendor does what they say, because a normal transaction isn't "A+++ the greatest seller evaaar!!!1!L!!" Thanks a lot ebay, hyperbole is now the norm. I gave this a 4 because of the price.
Awesome Product... buuuuut...
This rack is everything it says it is. It's practical, rugged and let's face it... looks sweet. however, be prepared to feel significant wind drag and a slight drop in fuel efficiency. If you're getting it to haul bikes, the Yakima Boa clips are a nice accessory, but force your faring forward even more.... causing more drag. you can overcome this by adding the extension and pushing your boa clips back to the middle of the rack. I highly recommend this rack, as long as you're willing to put up with the wind issues.
LoadWarrior on Avalanche
LoarWarrior rack on my avalanche.
2 points for LoadWarrior and Seahawks, -1 point for Avalanche.
More Room and Killer Looks
I bought this item back in 2000 and it has seen it's fair share of weather and it still looks great. If you need extra room for gear, this is a great option. No wind noise!
Words of caution. When I was installing the system by myself, it slipped and dented the roof of my vehicle. So, I recommend a two person install just to be safe.
If you need space, get it.
This is great if you are looking for more space in the car. This rack is the answer for those looking for a utility piece for the car that looks great and has a rugged mountain look to it as well. Durable, and ready for your next move or road trip.
This Guy is MONDO
Got this bad boy to keep from trading in the Subaru for a Mini Van. I found myself running out of space on long hauls with the kiddies. Now that we have two rug rats we needed to have more room. The warrior easily doubled by hauling capacity, and that is without the extension in. The only thing I don't like about it is it drops my MPG (miles/Gal) by about 5 miles. Other then that, fantastic. It also makes the car look super Bad A**.
This cargo rack is GREAT
If your stuffing the back of you truck/car full every trip, you'll love this rack. It's hell on the milage though. My truck goes from 22mpg to 15 mpg on the highway with the rack up top.
Load Warrior mounted on Shell
Here a pic of my old '94 Toyota with a Yakima Load Warrior mounted on the shell. Notice the second spare tire as well as road tool mounted to the rack. Included extension for extra length. I no longer have this truck, but I do still have the rack!
Awesome Rack
I have owned this rack on my 4runner for about a month and a half now and let me just say that its one of the best things Ive ever bought for my vehicle. Its so handy for those days when you have to cram 4+ people in your car AND all their gear. We could do it before...but now we can do it comfortably. I also have a ski rack that fits right on top of the basket so we dont have to cram the boards and skiis in the back. Great for outdoorsman or the the dude who has the girlfriend with wayyyyy to much luggage
This rack rocks
I have owned this rack for many years. This is one of the best things I have ever bought for my jeep. Sure it says that it has a load limit like what one of the other reviews mentioned but that is what they figure the rack bars on your vehicle can hold. I could easily stand on mine and it would hold up. Buy the extender as well.
I'm looking at getting this rack, how can...
I'm looking at getting this rack, how can I still mount my bike to my roof? are the crossbars of the rack itself compatible?
it works, pretty well.
Woah, mine didn't come with the kitty option!! sweet!
Can someone tell me how much room there...
Can someone tell me how much room there is vertically between the crossbar/s and the floor of the basket? I want to know if my stand-up paddelboard will fit in between this (this hasn't been recommended anywhere but it is what i like about this basket). The fold down fairing makes this even more appealing for what i want to do. Having my SUP in the rack along with my bike mounted above is the ideal goal.
i dont think it would fit. its less than a couple of inches, you can mount additional racks on top of the basket though. if you can just buy something like Thule Hull-a-Port Pro Folding Kayak Carrier that would still give you plenty of basket space in addition to keeping your paddle board secure.
Will this fit on a 1997 Subaru Outback...
Will this fit on a 1997 Subaru Outback Sport?
Jordan, yes it should. However, keep in mind you will need to visit the Yakima website and start with Fit My Car link. This will select the type of clips, towers and accessories designed to fit your vehicle with or without factory mounted roof rack. The only issue you might have is having to remove your roof antennae. You also might have an issue with the hatch touching when fully raised, but only when you have accessories attached.
I used the Yakima fit guide for this rack for my 2011 Escape and was told it would not fit. Ironic since the image on their site for this and the Mega rack are both sitting on the roof of a Ford Escape. Haha.
Will this Yakima basket fit a Chevy Traverse...
Will this Yakima basket fit a Chevy Traverse with factory cross bars??
Debbie,you might take a look at the previous answer I left for Jordan. It should also apply to your Chevy Traverse.
Is this compatible with a Jeep Cherokee...
Is this compatible with a Jeep Cherokee Sport 1999? I have the roof rack (with cross bars) already on the Jeep... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hey ws45070108,
I checked with Yakima to see if the Yakima LoadWarrior could fit on your Jeep Cherokee Sport 1999 and I unfortunately found that it does not.
All is not lost though as you do have basket options in the Yakima BasketCase and MegaWarrior depending on what you have up on top of your roof:
If you have just a regular rook with no crossbars, then the MegaWarrior with either Q towers or raingutter attachment with crossbars will work.
If you have factory tracks running along the length of the roof, then all you would need would be the Control Towers with Crossbars. Then the BasketCase or MegaWarrior would fit.
If you have a full factory rack with crossbars, then neither will fit on top and you will most likely need a custom set up.
Sorry if this is a lot of info, but I hope it helps.
Will this fit on the factory cross bars...
Will this fit on the factory cross bars of my 04 Nissan Xterra without any additional purchases or parts? Also what bike racks fit directly to the load warrior for a roof top solution for my road and mnt bikes?
I had a 03 xterra and I needed The mighty Mounts to fit the oversized cross bar.
I have an 06 subaru outback with factory...
I have an 06 subaru outback with factory roof rack, will this fit?
If you have the factory crossbars, yes. Yes it will. Huzzah!
I have a 2009 Subaru Impreza with oem...
I have a 2009 Subaru Impreza with oem factory roof rack. Does anyone know if this would fit that well? I had to send back a previous roof rack because of ill fitting.
Yes , this fits the impreza flat crossbars perfectly. Subaru racks are made by Yakima and are compatible with most yakima accessories.
My husband has a 1999 Jeep Wrangler Sahara...
My husband has a 1999 Jeep Wrangler Sahara and would like a roof rack for it. Will the Load Warrior fit his vehicle?
this is a perfect size basket for a jeep wrangler, but this is just a basket, u need a base rack and crossbars to mount this on.
Michelle, Wranglers require either a hard top specific rack, such as this one:
or a 'cage' of sorts for mounting a basket/rack on, like this:
which will also work with most soft tops, as well. Then once you have those, you can pick a basket such as this one to mount on the crossbars, which will be specific to each different type of rack/basket.
Do you need to get the extension for the...
Do you need to get the extension for the load warrior basket in order to mount a snowboard rack in the basket??
Yes. The rack as it is measures 44 x 39 x 6.5 inches, with the extensions, it adds 18" to be 62 x 39 x 6.5". 62"= 157.48cm. So if you're board is 157 cm or smaller, go for it. You could possibly add two sections to be 80"/203cm but that's almost 7 ft and probably longer than most roofs. If carrying a snowboard longer than 157cm is your main concern, just get a cargo box, you can throw all your winter and summer gear up there as well.
How much weight can you load into the...
How much weight can you load into the Yakima LoadWarrior? Someone told me I can't put but a few pounds in it? That seems strange... so I need to know how much weight. I have mine mounted on a Toyota Rav $ (new generation) 2006.
The LoadWarrior is rated for 140lbs of cargo. However, you need to keep the total weight of the rack and cargo under the weight limit of your rack. The LoadWarrior weighs 25lbs itself.
You'll need to check with your rack manufacturer (Yakima or Toyota) to determine the limit of your base rack. Most racks have a limit of 100-175lbs.
Got a new Toyota FJ Cruiser with a rack...
Got a new Toyota FJ Cruiser with a rack on it. Can the Load Warrior or the the Mega Warrior be mounted on this?
Do I need any extra hardware to mount this...
Do I need any extra hardware to mount this unit to my 94 jeep wrangler's hard top?
you will need some kind of foundation to put them on. You will most likely need a rain gutter tower and bars. Look on your hardtop and see if there are rain gutters just above the doors.
Thinking of purchasing a Yakima LW. Have...
Thinking of purchasing a Yakima LW. Have a concern about weight on factory racks for a 1994 Jeep Cherokee. The factory cross bars seem a bit loose as it is. Would factory racks work or should we put out the extra money for new towers and bars?
It depends on total weight of load you gonna carry. Factory racks don't support more than 100lb total weight, including your Load Warrior. If you get yakima bars, they will carry 200lb. so decision is yours
Would the universal hardware fit my 04...
Would the universal hardware fit my 04 Jeep Grand Cherokee factory cross rails?
will this cargo rack fit on my 2009 Subaru...
will this cargo rack fit on my 2009 Subaru Forester with my aero cross bars?
Yes. How do I know? I purchased the Subaru-brand Heavy-Duty Cargo Rack and lo-and-behold, the box was from Yakima and the instructions displayed the model name 'LoadWarrior'.
Will this work on a 98 Honda CRV
Will this work on a 98 Honda CRV
Sure will, but you might need the Yakima base rack system. It might fit on the factory installed rack, if you are lucky.
will this rack work on my 2003 subaru...
will this rack work on my 2003 subaru forrester
Check the Yakima website. They are constantly updated the site with a vehicle fit guide.
would the universal hardwear fit my '95...
would the universal hardwear fit my '95 Jeep Grand Cherokee factory rack?
Sure would.


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In last week's column, I outlined four self-defeating behaviors that women do that hurt their chances of having a healthy relationship. Men, particularly Black men, seem to catch a lot of flack nowadays for their supposed universal aversion towards love and commitment. As much as we're led to believe that they aren't interested in anything more than a little bump and grind, men do want and need to be loved just as much as women.
Of course, women don't have the market cornered on fear based ways of interrelating that I like to call "Dubious Dating Behaviors." Given the expectation that a 'strong Black man' is in control of his emotions at all times, it's no wonder that there is often a disparity between what they say and how they act. Men feel fear and anxiety just as much as women. However, due to the prevailing cultural expectation that real men "suck it up," they are often uncomfortable expressing a full range of nuanced emotions that include vulnerability or tenderness, emotions which if acknowledged could improve their overall emotional health and that of the relationship.
So in the spirit of levity, I want to offer my brothers the following four common behaviors they I've observed them make when dating. Again, I know that missteps aren't limited by gender, but I've seen many men actively sabotage what could be an otherwise healthy relationship by taking a largely passive approach towards relating.
- Failure to plan in advance: The future isn't guaranteed and neither are your cousin's courtside seats to the Knicks game. Since you never know when he'll invite you (or when your frat brothers will want to have an impromptu drinking outing at TGIFridays), make sure to keep your calendar as open as possible. Basically, don't commit to any plans until you're 100% certain that there's no male bonding opportunity on the table for the day. Besides, women love, love, love the game of "Beat the Clock" that comes with getting dressed for a date with less than three hours' notice. And it's common knowledge that we emotionally thrive on unpredictable male behavior. Message sent: "My needs come first. Your time is less valuable than mine."
- Keeping your relationship status a secret: There's no need to destroy an opportunity for true love over something as changeable as relationship status. Any man with common sense knows it's never a smart practice, in love or in business, to eliminate all your options. Plus, if she's really "the one" she'll forgive you for not being 100% upfront about the "roommate" whom you have been sleeping with for three years. Because if she can't forgive you for something as small as this, Lord knows she doesn't have what it takes to be your wife for the long haul. Message sent: "I'm too afraid of rejection to tell you the truth. My expectations of a woman's understanding are fantasy based and unreasonable."
- Having undefined sex as quickly as possible: Unexpressed sexual tension between two people is so, well uncomfortable. The best way to alleviate this feeling is to get it over and done with, preferably before you've defined the boundaries of your relationship. Being the giving, considerate lover that you are, you want to make sure that she gets what she needs out of your shared sexual experiences…after all, she might not be as responsive if she knew she wasn't the only one. Besides, what she doesn't know won't hurt her and if you're meant to be together it'll somehow work itself out over time. Message sent: "I need immediate gratification and enjoy drama. My need for sexual variety will come before the health of our relationship."
- Only knowing one strategy - defense: Real men know that knowledge is power, so in keeping with The 48 Laws of Power, your beloved primer on balanced and healthy human interactions, always say less than necessary because it's a proven fact that women love to read between the lines. Real men also don't leave anything to chance and are always prepared for the worst. So don't say a word to her about that mental checklist you've been silently keeping of the 1,001 things that could go wrong between you. It's very hard to leave a relationship without any resistance on her part when she's had time to prepare a prosecutorial argument on her and the relationship's behalf. Message sent: "I'm afraid you will use what you know against me. I'm more committed to protecting my position than supporting our relationship."
If you are having the same issue repeatedly in your intimate relationships, it's probably time to stop focusing on what your partner is or isn't doing and start looking at exactly how you're contributing to the problem.
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