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An internationally known Grayson County artist plans to self publish his first major book containing all of his work.
But the journey towards turning his passion into a career was anything but easy, but Larry Elmore would embark on an adventure to gain artistic freedom.
From the moment he fell in love with fantasy art, to his days at Western, and then his major break in the 80's that would allow him to be the artist he is today, it may sound exciting but Larry Elmore's journey would be filled with obstacles, but as he told me it's all about the thrill.
"It's like a flash happens like an image, and it's like wow in color, and you got to find one frame to paint,"says Elmore.
And then with the stroke of a brush he opens the door to a fantasy world full of adventure.
" I wanted to paint some castles and I wanted to do the Celtic people and the Celtic people didn't have castles, so one of my first big paintings I painted Celts with an ancient looking castle,"says Elmore.
With a smile he recalls the moment in his fathers clothing store he fell in love with a fantasy.
"It was a big original oil painting of a Viking Long-ship, at sea with the sails out, and I looked at that and I had never seen a ship like that before,"says Elmore.
But artistic freedom would be something earned as he learned during his first art class at WKU.
"The teacher walks in and he wads up a giant piece of paper, throws it on the floor and says draw that and he leaves, and I'm like so this is art."
Elmore's dreams would be put on hold when reality in the form of Uncle Sam came knocking.
"Here I am with a college degree and I'm going off to Vietnam to get killed in a tunnel somewhere."
He would end up going to Germany and later to Fort Knox as an illustrator, but artistic freedom was still the goal.
"At night I would work on my own stuff and freelance on the side, and then finally I got a job with TSR the company who made dungeons and dragons,"says Elmore.
TSR would be Elmore's big break, he knew it meant having his work published worldwide.
"I was 32 and I still didn't believe I was good enough. I am my biggest critic, it was the greatest place I could have ever dreamed of working. The creativity was so thick you could cut it with a knife."
He left TSR in 87, and set forth on the ultimate fantasy, building a house in Leitchfield and working unfettered from the corporate world.
"You're in control of your own destiny. It's the riskiest thing you could do and I don't advise people to do it."
Next came the years of supporting his wife and three kids armed with a brush and paint, luckily he would sell a piece for $20,000 for the Everquest computer game
launched by Sony.
"You have to have a certain mental toughness to freelance. You'll be terrified every job may be the last you get."
The freedom finally earned allows him to put 100% effort into his work.
"I was like I don't know what a 100% of me is, until I got booked up doing my own work about a year ago,"says Elmore.
And his latest quest, a 300 page book of all his work.
"I just want to see it through really good,"says Elmore.
He says the ultimate adventure is making memories.
"I don't gamble in Vegas but I've gambled with my life a lot, even my occupation. But that's the thrill. The adventure is getting there."
While the book won't be released until August Elmore says it has already created $300,000 in sales, and the book will be worth nearly 40,000.
He hopes to do another book of all his black and white sketches in the future.


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Besides the right to vote, were there any other advantages or benefits in being a citizen in Pericles' Athens?
The third book of Aristotle's Politics is focused on citizenship and its merits, and from early on it provides enlightening information about the benefits of citizenship:
Aristotle's definition, "a citizen pure and simple is defined by nothing else so much as by the right to participate in judicial functions and in office", highlights the main benefits of citizenship, participation in the commons. This didn't only translate to a right to vote, but more importantly the right to actively participate in all forms of government, the key characteristic of the Athenian Democracy being its extremely high level of participation. Any willing citizen could propose, debate and contest (in court) laws, and act as a juror and a prosecutor.
Citizens were generally held to a higher status than non citizens in judicial matters, and were not obliged to produce a patron in court. In contrast, metics were required by law to have a guardian/sponsor that would stand for them, and failure to produce a guardian would mean they would lose their property and be sold as slaves. In general, masquerading as a citizen would lead to prosecution and punishment. Aristophanes The Wasps revolves around its protagonist, Philocleon, being (falsely) accused of not being Athenian and barely escaping convinction. Aristophanes himself might have been accused of xenia (being a foreigner) by Cleon, a statesman often caricatured in the comic's plays.
One important benefit available to all citizens was the honour of financially supporting the state (yes, at the time it was considered an honour ;). Contributing to the state was exemplified by liturgies, voluntary public services that were practically limited to the richer citizens.
As for Pericles' reforms, in 451 BC he introduced a law that reduced the number of citizens, stating that only the offspring of two Athenian citizens could be citizens, and Aristotle theorized that the law was a natural consequence of having too many people sharing the benefits of citizenship:
As Felix Goldberg already mentioned, compensation for participating in the Boule was instituted in the mid 5th century, and Pericles' reforms allowed payment for jurors in the Ecclesia. Aristotle is thus probably correct, and Pericles intend was to minimize the added cost for the state by reducing the number of people who could participate in the two bodies.
Pericles' reforms also shifted the family dynamics of the era, Athenian men were limited to marrying only Athenian women, or their children would not be citizens. In the 4th century what was until then a practical limitation became law, as Demosthenes describes in Against Neaera:
Ironically, Pericles apparently pulled a few strings and managed to get his illegitimate son with his Milesian mistress, Aspasia, recognized as a citizen and as his heir. Pericles the Younger went on to serve as a general in the Athenian army (an honour reserved only for citizens) and was executed for failing to pick up survivors in a storm after the Athenians' defeat in the Battle of Arginusae.
You were paid for participating in assemblies. You could marry Athenian citizens.
I found this interview with historian Josiah Ober on the economy of ancient Greece, particularly Athens, interesting on many counts. From the transcript:


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An expression of dissapointment and or frustration.
"Oh balls, I lost my chemistry homework..."
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something you say when something incredibly bad is about to happen. best used if you have enough time to say "oh.............balls."
a perfect example is in the the movie Posiedon when the giant wave is about to go into the ship. It is perfect because it takes a while to crash but a person watching knows that it will hit hard. "oh... balls." (spoken very slowly)
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Bone Health and Osteoporosis
After age 30, there is a natural slowdown in buildup of bone. Over time, bones become naturally thinner. This process occurs much more dramatically in women. Unfortunately, being female is a risk factor for having weaker bones. There are also other risk factors that can compromise a woman's strong skeleton, making bones thinner and weaker. Osteoporosis, the condition of thin, weak bones and increased risk of fractures, is known as a "silent disease" because it is sometimes not diagnosed until several fractures have already occurred. Thin bones can also occur in young, athletic girls and women, causing stress fractures, which can lead to muscle, tendon, and ligament problems and increase the risk of other fractures. Younger girls and women who have frequent stress fractures have a much greater risk of osteoporosis and associated dysfunctional posture and serious fractures later in life.
Women of all ages should make bone health an important concern to avoid the pain, fractures, and time lost from athletic and life activities that occurs with osteoporosis. Strengthening your bones will help guarantee a future of strength, mobility, and reduced hospital and doctor visits! It is very important to do the best you can to protect your bones. A preventive, proactive strategy as outlined here can help you meet this goal.
Osteoporosis is the medical term for the disease process of having bones that are fragile and more easily breakable. Osteoporosis bones look holey and thin under the microscope, similar to fragile sheer lace, rather than the tight-knit pattern of healthy bone. Osteoporosis bones have less dense structure with less hard strong calcium to hold them together and provide strength and stability.
The most common osteoporosis fractures are of the hip, spine, and wrist; these often occur in older women and can be debilitating, painful, and life-changing. Not only do the fractures themselves cause problems as immediate and sometimes ongoing pain and disability, but there can be other medical complications as well, including blood clots, pneumonia, constipation, and impaired nerve function. The cost of treating fractures due to osteoporosis, including surgery, hospitalization, and medical complications, is high. Because bones in osteoporosis are so weak, fractures can also happen without falling. For these reasons, osteoporosis has become a serious issue for medical clinicians and researchers.
Common Areas of Fractures Due to Osteoporosis and Their Consequences
- Wrist-motion and use might never be the same; two to four months to heal
- Vertebra (spine)-very painful, can occur without a fall; two to four months to heal with long-term pain
- Hip-requires surgery and hospitalization; can be very serious; full recovery takes 6 to 12 months
Long-Term Negative Consequences of Osteoporosis
- Fractures
- Dysfunctional and painful posture
- Surgery
- Loss of lung volume and breathing capacity
- Disability
- Poor endurance
- Pain
- Medical costs
- Loss of strength
- Hospital stays
- Loss of height
- Other medical complications
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I am doing my first photo shoot of a birthday party for a friend. I wanted to know which lens would be the better option to use for this. I have a Canon 50mm f/1.8 prime lens as well as the standard 18-55mm IS kit lens and a 55-250mm IS tele-zoom lens. So far, just getting to know my camera I have mostly played around with the kit lens. Now I'm not sure which of the others would be a better option.
Assuming that your camera has an APS-C sensor (18-55mm IS kit lens tells me that it does), the 50mm f/1.8 is probably a good bet for shooting portraits. Typically a photographer wants to use something around 85mm-100mm (on a full frame sensor) for a nice sharp portrait. Since your camera is APS-C and probably multiplies the focal length by 1.6x, you're looking at about an 80mm equivalent from your 50mm lens which gets you close enough to the sweet spot for portraits. Also the Canon 50mm f/1.8 is way sharper than either of the other two lenses that you mentioned.
Summary: Unless you're using a 5D or 1D, you'll be just fine with the 50mm lens for portraits. If you want more candid, far away shots, try the 55-250, but for sharp portraits, the 50 is your best bet.
I'd take all three lenses with me.
Since you don't mention it, I'm going to assume that you don't have an external flash and only the built-in one. The built-in flash will help you in a pinch, but it's not very powerful and it doesn't look very good. I would aim to either not use the flash or use it only for a little fill.
First, if it's indoors and dimly lit, the 50mm may be the best and only solution simply because you can shoot at a larger aperture to get a shorter shutter speed that you can freeze the action.
If you've got a little more light, you can use the 18-55. Personally, I would find the 50mm too long for indoors shooting and would probably use the 18-55 in the 18-30mm range to get some more environmental portraits or small groups.
If you want to work on the long end of that lens -- 55mm -- for some tighter shots, you might switch to the 55-250. On the 18-55 at 55mm the largest aperture is f5.6. On the 55-250 at 55mm the aperture is f4 -- one stop brighter! That may be enough to let you get a shot.
I have the same 3 lenses that you mention with the Canon 550D and a Metz flash. I've found that the 18-55mm kit lens does quite well when stopped down to f/8 and used with the flash indoors (bounce flash in particular). Make sure that you have the portrait picture style preset in use if shooting JPEG to make the portraits look warm. The lens covers the ideal focal lengths for indoor portraits including group shots. You can also get by without flash by bumping up the ISO - 1600+ is usable on the 550D, especially if you plan to share online exclusively.
The 50mm f/1.8 prime is also quite useful for individual and small group portraits. You can use wide apertures to blur the background. It gives pretty sharp results without having to stop down, and you can do without a flash to get decent shutter speeds.
Since you are planning to shoot a birthday, make use of the burst\continuous shooting mode to capture the important moments like cake cutting. This is also handy for group photos to reduce the chance of capturing people with their eyes closed. The prime again helps here, as it can be used in burst mode without a flash.
Also, be careful when changing lenses during the party - good time to get unwanted particles into the camera\lens.
I would suggest 50 mm and 18-55. Below are the reasons
Having said that, if you don't have a second camera, it is going to be a pain to keep switching lenses and you might miss the moment. If I were you, I'd shoot most pictures with the 18-55 and then after all the action is over, shoot portraits with the 50mm
I'd go with the 50mm f/1.8. Assuming you are on a crop-sensor camera a 50mm lens will be roughly equivalent of about 80mm. Combined with the wide aperture this will afford you the ability to shoot wide open or even at f/2 - 2.8 with a great depth of field and sharpness that the 18-55 just won't give you.


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zombies, silent hill nurses, headless bride and more
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A trip in the woods with zombies, silent hill nurses, headless bride and monsters.
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I just got my NN3 II in the mail today :001_cool: (and I must say that it is of better quality than I expected for the price, hats off to you!)
so I was trying to get my entrance pupil setting for my D50 + sigma 10-20mm lens. I could not tell using the "gap" method of lining up a close and a far item and seeing if there was a gap. What I did was line up the corners of two houses. I put one directly behind the other so I could just barely not see the far house. Then I rotated the lens away and the other house came into view. Then I moved my camera down the rail until the house disappeared. now the left rotated view looks exactly like the center view. This seems like just as good a way as any (maybe easier) does anyone know of any reason why this would not work I have a 360 tour to shoot tomorrow and I want to be ready.


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Addressing the importance of hygiene, health, sanitation, and toilet related issues, the World Toilet Summit 2013 will take place at the Sunan Hotel Solo, Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, from 2nd to 4th October 2013.
Featuring the theme "The Rural Meet the Urban Sanitation", the World Toilet Summit 2013 aims to empower the community by improving better sanitation to alleviate poverty, health and hygiene in communities both in rural and urban society.
Speakers include Prof. Geoffrey Lipman, Assistant Secretary General and Spokesperson of UN Tourism Organization, Dr. Clara Greed, Emerita Professof of Inclusive Urban Planning, University of West England, Prof. Jan Olof, Phd, Linkoping University, Sweden, Dr. M. Balquni, MA, Head of Masters and Doctorate Program in Tourism Studies, University of Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta, and many more.
This annually organized event brings together non-profit organizations, government bodies, academia and other industry players to address the sanitation crisis that affects 2.5 billion people globally. The inaugural World Toilet Summit was held in Singapore and over the past 12 years the summit has been held across the globe. Previous summits were held in Seoul, Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Belfast, Moscow, Bangkok, New Delhi, Macau, Philadelphia, Hainan and Durban. With the voices of influential leaders of the world coming together, the World Toilet Summit brings an opportunity to bring hope to the 40% of the world's population needing proper sanitation.
The Summit is presented by the World Toilet Organization (WTO) in collaboration with the Indonesia Toilet Association (ATI) and supported by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, the Ministry of Public Works, and the local Government of Surakarta.
The event will consists of 2 days Training the Trainers as Pre Event, the Welcome Dinner, The Summit; 2 days Plenary Session and 1 day Concurrent Tracks, Exhibition, Cultural Night and World Toilet Carnival.
Training the Trainers as Pre Event for World Toilet Summit will be held on 30 September -1 October 2013 and dedicated to all trainers ranging from government officials to private sectors in Indonesia.
The Summit itself will consist of 2 days Plenary Sessions with 15 interesting topics focusing on various topics such as Public Space, Hygiene, Poverty Alleviation through Tourism, Toilet as Catalyst, and other issues. The 1 day Concurrent Tracks will feature 25 topics which will be divided into 3 classes that discuss about 3 main topics in sanitation; School, Tourism, and Design & Technology sanitation. The Summit will involve some of the most reputable and competent national and international speakers from government and private sectors dealing in sanitation and toiletries industries. In the end of Summit, all delegates will have the opportunities to join Field Visit to see and feel directly the sanitation and toilet condition in some of the Tourist Destinations, Communal Toilets and School Sanitations. There will be 600 participants projected in these 3 days summit.
The event will also be complemented by a number of Social Programs including the Welcome Dinner which take place in one of the cultural heritage sites in Solo: Pendapi Gedhe Solo (Surakarta City Hall). At the end of the first day of summit, all delegates will have the opportunity to enjoy some of the most fascinating cultural and historical attractions of Solo and Central Java in the Cultural Night. Through the program, participants can enjoy various Javanese dances and traditional performances and also taste the delicious Javanese traditional culinary dishes at the historical site of the Mangkunegaran Palace. In World Toilet Carnival, all delegates are invited to join a thematic toilet parade along the main streets of Solo to promote and spread the awareness of hygiene and health sanitary in a unique way, together with students, and local public.
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GSU vs. New Mexico State
Kickoff: 2:00 p.m.
As the Atlanta Falcons, GWCCA and City of Atlanta begin construction on a new world class stadium to replace the Georgia Dome, construction could impact your route to an event. For more information on how each event could be impacted please click here. New Stadium Construction Page
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Want to see GSU from the luxury of a Georgia Dome party suite? Reserve your party suite today and seize your opportunity to take part in this college football season.
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Pouncetown is an exciting family friendly pre-game experience for all GSU Panther fans. Admission is FREE to Pouncetown.
Online and phone ticket sales through Ticketmaster will end 12 hours prior to kickoff (1 a.m. Saturday morning). All other tickets must be purchased, in person, at the Georgia Dome box office or at a Ticketmaster outlet.
Game day tickets can be purchased at the main Georgia Dome Box Office, which opens 3 hours prior to kickoff and is located between Gates B and C. Tickets can be purchased with cash or major credit cards.
The Kids Club Family Zone is located in Section 121.
All general will call windows are located between Gates B and C.
Will call opens at 10 a.m.
Most parking lots surrounding the Georgia Dome open four hours prior to kickoff.
Georgia State students are admitted free with their valid PantherCard ID. Students must enter at Gate A and show their ID.
Shuttles between the GSU campus and the Georgia Dome will be available beginning 3 hours prior to kickoff and running until one hour after the end of the game.
Shuttles will pick up on campus at two locations:
Drop-off and pickup at the Georgia Dome is at the Silver Lot.
Free parking is available on the Georgia State campus in G-Deck.
Fans parking in G-Deck are encouraged to enjoy the 20-minute walk to the Georgia Dome, or ride MARTA from the Georgia State station to either the Georgia Dome/GWCC or Vine City stops.
Our New INTERACTIVE ROUTE MAP will show you the quickest and easiest way to your parking lot.
The Georgia Dome is located to the immediate west of the downtown Atlanta area on the corner of Northside Drive and Georgia Dome Drive. The Dome is also accessible by the MARTA rail system via Vine City and Georgia Dome stations.
Parking is at a premium on event days, so taking MARTA is highly recommended. For complete information on MARTA visit itsmarta.com. Many MARTA stations offer free parking lots.
While traveling to and from the Georgia Dome, all drivers are encouraged to follow the directions of traffic police.
It is highly encouraged to purchase your parking in advance from one of the Georgia Dome's official parking lots. Parking is at a premium for all Georgia Dome Events.
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Accessible parking spaces are available in the Red Deck on a first-come first-served basis. Disabled parking placards will be checked by parking personnel and/or law enforcement to ensure the person who has been issued the placard by the State is present in the vehicle. Due to the limited number of spaces in the red deck the occupants of the vehicle must have valid ticket to access the parking lot.
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7 Essential Rules to a Happy Family Life
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Don't Pressure Your Family Just Because You Can
One of the things that contributes to family problems is that we sometimes treat our families in ways we wouldn't dream of treating anyone else. They get irritated by this, and rightly so. If your friends ask you to take your shoes off before you come into the house, you do it. If a family member asks you to do this, we're much more likely to reply, "You shouldn't be so precious about your house," or "It's fine, my shoes are clean." This is entirely unfair, and your mother or brother or whoever it is will be rightly irritated. None of their friends make a fuss, so it's not fair that you do it just because you can.
That's quite a small thing, but families pressure each other over big things, too. Parents put pressure on their adult children regarding child-rearing: "You shouldn't let them watch so much TV," or "That child needs a bit more discipline," or "You should hurry up and start a family." I hope you wouldn't dream of saying such things to your friends' children, so why should you say them to your own? It's even tougher on your own children, who don't want to disappoint you, but have their own ideas about how to run their lives --- and so they should.
Siblings put pressure on each other, too. In fact they can be the worst, as even grown up brothers and sisters vie for the attention of their parents. Mothers and fathers take note -- you have to make sure you are as fair and even with grown-up children as you were when they were little.
The pressure game is also played by aunts and uncles, in-laws, and grandparents. Whoever does it, it's not okay. It's unreasonable and unfair and it puts your family under emotional strain. They don't want to damage their relationship with you, but they're not actually happy to do what you're asking, and you know it.
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I came across the following and would like to find out whether the bolded part is properly formed:
To be honest it sounds like she's got the perfect relationship, in her eyes, going right now. So I don't think you should be swayed when she desires keep having it.
Should it be "keep" or "to keep"?


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BURGETTSTOWN - The PKA Karate Academy, located on the second floor at 1445 Main St., above Luanne's School of Dance, recently welcomed new instructor and satellite director Brandon Law.
His goal is to double the number of students currently enrolled at the academy, with classes in American Kenpo for children aged 3 through 15 and Kung Fu classes for adults aged 16 and up.
"(Martial Arts) are great for developing discipline and respect and helping people get into shape," said Law.
He added the children's classes in particular would focus on discipline, respect for others and self-defense.
"Studying martial arts has given me a lot of discipline," he said. "When I was younger, I had a temper, but when I started martial arts, people told me I had more discipline and more respect as a result."
His interest in martial arts was sparked by Jackie Chan and Jet Lee.
"I fell in love with the Chinese arts," he said.
Law enjoys Ed Parker's Kenpo system because, "there's no wasted movement - what goes around comes back around."
The children's classes are relaxed and family friendly and include both group and one-on-one instruction.
"Martial arts isn't just about learning to kick and punch, it's about learning to be a better person," he said. "We teach discipline and focus, and that's not just useful for martial arts, but for jobs, school - just about anything."
Children are allowed to learn at their own pace, with the group studying fundamentals in 10-week blocks, with testing available at the end of a block. There are eight steps in memorization and discipline to be mastered.
"It's a great way of teaching and growing character," said Law.
Classes are directed toward improving confidence and self-defense, not competition.
"I really enjoy working with the children - they aren't just my students, they're like my brothers and sisters," he said. "One of my biggest joys is sharing what I know and enjoy with them. The children are a blessing."
The adult classes are open to all interested adults and older adults can improve balance and flexibility through martial arts training.
"There is some cardio," said Law. "It's mostly reactive muscle memory and how to breath properly to maximize your body's capabilities. Chi is about learning to breath and focus. It's about learning to use what your body has more efficiently. I've known a few people who have done (martial arts) to lose weight, and it worked well for them."
Law has 15 years of experience in martial arts and is trained in several styles, including Southern Tiger, boxing, kick boxing, grappling, Kali, empty-hand Kali, Wing Chun, knife, Eagle, bo staff, Poekoelan Tjmindie and American Kenpo.
He has studied at the Society of the Arts Martial Arts/Survival club in Wheeling, where he earned a second degree black belt and certification as a sensei; Golden Valley Dragon Kung Fu School in Steubenville, where he earned a blue sash; Strike Force 2, where he earned a first degree white belt; and PKA Karate in Pittsburgh, where he earned a purple belt.
Law was rated fifth in the nation in fighting at the 2007 Professional Karate Commission National Championships and first in fighting at the Pennsylvania at the 34th annual Pennsylvania Karate Championships.
He was a stunt man for a fight scene in the independent film "Dark Target" and fight choreographer for indie film "The True Master."
Law is a member of the Professional Karate Commission and is a Steubenville, Ohio, resident. He is an Art Institute of Pittsburgh graduate.
Three- and 4-year-old classes are held at 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays; 5- through 8-year-old classes are held at 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays; 9- through 15-year-old classes are held at 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays; and adult classes are held at 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays.
For information, call PKA Karate at (412) 531-4411 or visit the website at pkakarate.com.
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1966 Chevelle SS
Rick Baumgart Swisher, IA
If you aren't jealous of Rick Baumgart's slick '66 Chevelle SS, then we're sure the amazing garage full of killer petromobilia will hook you. Rick's dad opened a Mobil station back in 1959, and that's when he fell in love with cars and collecting related service and fuel memorabilia. The Chevelle is a an original SS four-speed car now powered by a Motorheads 427 with Edelbrock heads and Air-Gap intake, roller cam, Demon carb, and Hooker headers. Behind that is a Richmond six-speed and a 9-inch Ford with 3.50 gears. Behind the 17- and 18-inch Billet Specialties wheels lurk Wilwood discs at all corners. When he found it in the desert of Arizona, the Chevelle was white, but debris on the freeway wrecked the paint about four years ago, so Rick decided to use the opportunity to reinvent it in Candy Blue. He wasn't afraid to get it right back on the road afterward, and so far Rick and his wife have racked up 38,000 miles on the freshened Chevelle. "I love every day that I get to drive it during the spring and summer," Rick told us, "and I can't stand looking at it in the garage during the winters here in Iowa!"
1967 Pontiac Firebird
Jerry Davis Adrian, MI
This '67 Firebird has been familiar to Jerry Davis for many years, but for most of that time it didn't look anything like this. Primed and unassembled, Jerry's uncle had it stored in his garage for about 25 years. Jerry was finally able to talk him into relinquishing the Firebird for a mere $1,500 after assuring him that he would restore it and get it back on the road. That was a pretty big promise for Jerry, since at the time he had zero experience in rebuilding muscle cars. Nevertheless, he wasn't afraid to dive in and learn by doing. Roughly a year later the Firebird is very close to being complete, and Jerry has done nearly all of the work himself including paint, engine, wiring, and interior. "Luckily we live in the age of YouTube," Jerry explained, "where I can see a how-to video on just about anything." It may have been his first, but Jerry says, it definitely will not be his last build. He says he can't wait to do another car because he'll improve on what he learns from this one and make the next one even better!
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i need help on who to put in this week Matthew Stafford vs Hou or Eli Manning vs GB. thanks for your help.
shane321 11/20/12 07:49 PM
Stafford is a stud. Eli is struggling and as they are both good defenses go with your stud.
enviroman 11/20/12 10:38 PM
hahah k thanks
shane321 11/21/12 12:31 AM
Stafford or Freeman? I don't consider Stafford a stud. If he plays well he its but I always fear the TDs won't be there. Thanks for the help in advance.
bcarey34 11/21/12 01:47 PM
Matt Ryan or Tony Romo?
thomasjohnson1932 11/21/12 03:08 PM
if julio plays Ryan
moonwalker31 11/22/12 02:06 AM
I have Ryan and RG3 as my QB's. After Ryan's epic failure to perform last week, I'm leaning towards starting RG3. Who should I play?
hoosiergirl7 11/22/12 09:02 AM
Aaron Rodgers vs Giants or Andy Dalton vs Oakland
tmtaz 11/22/12 09:55 AM
OK. Newton, Palmer or Kapaernick? Who starts?
TeeKJay59 11/22/12 11:37 AM
Which QB Should I Start For Week 12>(Josh Freeman-vs-Falcons) or (Colin Kaepernick-vs-Saints)? Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Six19R_OG-Mobsta 11/22/12 08:27 PM
Oh boy! Was ready for Eli to get it together but now I picked up Kaepernick. Toolbox says Kaepernick. I guess you agree??????
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I've been reading about D-modules, and have seen a proof that D_X, the ring of differential operators on a variety, is "almost commutative", that is, that its associated graded ring is commutative. Now, I know that with the Ore conditions, we can localize almost commutative rings, and so we get a legitimate sheaf D to do geometry with. But how far does the analogy go? What theorems are true for commutative rings but can't be modified reasonably to be true for (nice, say, left and right noetherian or somesuch) almost commutative rings?
Don't get too excited about the theory of algebraic geometry for almost commutative algebras. A ring can be almost commutative and still have some very weird behavior. The Weyl algebras (the differential operators on affine n-space) are a great example, since they are almost commutative, and yet:
Just having a ring of quotients isn't actually that strong a condition on a ring. For instance, Goldie's theorem says that any right Noetherian domain has a ring of quotients, and that is a pretty broad class of rings.
Also, what sheaf are you thinking of D as giving you? You have all these Ore localizations, and so you can try to build something like a scheme out of this. However, you start to run into some problems, because closed subspaces will no longer correspond to quotient rings. In commutative algebraic geometry, we take advantage of the miracle that the kernel of a quotient map is the intersection of a finite number of primary ideals, each of which correspond to a prime ideal and hence a localization. In noncommutative rings, there is no such connection between two-sided ideals and Ore sets.
Here's something that might work better (or maybe this is what you are talking about in the first place). If you have a positively filtered algebra A whose associated graded algebra is commutative, then A_0 is commutative, and so you can try to think of A as a sheaf of algebras on Spec(A_0). The almost commutativity requirement here assures us that any multiplicative set in A_0 is Ore in A, and so we do get a genuine sheaf of algebras on Spec(A_0). For D_X, this gives the sheaf of differential operators on X. Other algebras that work very similarly are the enveloping algebras of Lie algebroids, and also rings of twisted differential operators.
Check out the paper differential operator on noncommutative ring, Rosenberg-Lunts define the noncommutative version of Grothendieck differential operator. This framework works perfect for arbitrary noncommutative ring. As an application. They developed quantum D-module theory as a special case of Noncommutative D-module theory. They treated the much more general case in Differential Calculus in noncommutative algebraic geometry
As Greg mentioned above, considering example of Weyl algebra. In commutative geometry, there is not good notion for closed subscheme(at least for diagonal). So,the crucial step is to find what is the correct notion for closed subscheme for noncommutative ring which led to the definition of noncommutative subscheme(naturally goes to the content of noncommutative algebraic geometry). In the paper I mentioned above, they gave the correct notion for noncommutative subscheme and correct definition for diagonal. Then they defined noncommutative differential operator as certain kind of differential bimodule and developed localization theory for differential operators. Then one can localize differential operators.(Which means (noncommutative)D-modules automatically becomes noncommutative schemes)
Notice These framework works for any noncommutative ring, either noncommutative D-module(very noncommutative, such as ring of quantized differential operators) or usual commutative D-module(itself noncommutative but almost commutative)


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What is the real difference between "Ver" and "Mirar". They are quite close in meaning but what are the differences between them? What are the rules to know whether we should choose one or the other?
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In some cases, only one of these is acceptable. In many cases, both can be used.
The difference is related to your degree of concentration on the object.
"Ver" only implies your eyes are receiving light from the near objects, not a real attention to what you are seeing. If you start to look at something, that's "mirar". Anyway, the converse is not necessarily true, you could use "ver" if you are paying attention to something, but maybe not-too-much atention. However, in all cases it follows this order relationship for the degree of attention: Ver < Mirar
According to the RAE:
The difference degree of attention is also clear in the definitions.
For example, If you want to request another person's attention to some object, you would say "mira eso" no "ve eso". Actually, "ve eso" more usually is figurative to "take charge of that".
The following translations are pretty accurate:
Ver: watch, see
Mirar: look at


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Is there any characterization for the left primitive rings which are left duo ? Clearly division rings satisfy this property.
The class of rings in the question is exactly the class of Division rings. Here is another proof based on the characterization of primitive rings.
Proof. Since you have asked about primitive rings I can assume that you are familiar with the Jacobson's Density Theorem. Therefore $R$ can be regarded as a dense subring of linear transformations of a vector space $V$ over a division ring $D$. It is enough to show that $\mbox{dim}_D V = 1$ (since then $R$ would be equal to $D$) . Suppose not and consider two linearly independent vectors $u,v \in V$. By density there are $f,h \in R$ such that $f(u) = u , f(v) = 0$ and $h(u) = u , h(v) = u$. Now Take $I$ to be the left ideal generated by $f$ in $R$. We show that $fh \not \in I$ (which is a contradiction since by assumptions any left ideal of $R$ is two-sided):
If $fh \in I$ then there exists $g \in R$ such that $fh = gf$. Hence $u = fh(v) = gf(v) = g(0) = 0$ a contradiction !
Unfortunately, I'm afraid these rings aren't very interesting: a left primitive ring $R$ is left duo if and only if it is a division ring.
For the nontrivial direction, suppose $R$ is left duo. Fix a faithful simple left $R$-module, which up to isomorphism is of the form $R/M$ for a maximal left ideal $M$. As $R$ is left duo, $M$ is in fact a two-sided ideal. But for $R/M$ to be simple, this means that $M = 0$. Thus $M = 0$ is a maximal (left) ideal, and $R$ is a division ring.


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Between August 1992 and June 1993, Victoria Square was completely redesigned at a cost of £0.2 million. Only the statue of Queen Victoria remains in its original location. The square was re-opened by Diana, the Princess of Wales on 6 May 1993.
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Given that the weight gain was based on diet and exercise, but there is no change in exercise -- is there any way to project the rate of weight loss based on diet alone? Meaning the level of exercise/activity would remain the same for the duration of the weight realignment.
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There is currently no way to accurately estimate weight loss based on caloric intake. The 3500 calorie deficit = 1 lbs of weight loss idea is appealing, but it is a myth. It does not take into account that foods have different satiety and hormonal responses. Beyond that, the body releases hormones to try to keep you near your current weight.
The ATOZ study compared 4 very popular diets. As is very common with diets, weight loss began well, but plateaued at around 6 months before rebounding. As weight-loss stalled, people actually reduced calories further in order to try to start losing weight again to no avail.
A back of the envelope calculation for these people shows that they were in a minimum calorie deficit of 500/kcal/day (which increased over time) for an entire year. That would suggest weight loss of 52 lbs per person over the year. Actual weight loss was more like 10 lbs for atkins and 7 lbs for the other diets.
The national weight loss registry data shows that those that have lost a significant amount of weight, and have kept it off, have reduced calories further than those who have always been thin (see the nytimes article linked above).
So, it's not simple, and the truth is, no one has it figured out. If someone tells you they can predict your weight loss based on your diet, ask them for a study that shows it. So far, it does not exist.
I've seen several references say that 3500 calories is about equal to 1 pound of body weight (here's one: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/calories/WT00011). So, you could just note your rate of weight change at your current calorie intake (that will account for your activity level and metabolism), and then you can predict how that rate of weight change would be affected by changing your calorie intake.
For example, if you're currently holding a steady weight and you cut 500 calories per day (3500 calories per week) from your diet and don't change your activity level, you should end up losing approximately 1lb of body weight per week.
However, as you progress, the same level of activity might burn less calories, or you may put on more muscle, making you more efficient your activity, so that changes things, but this is all approximate anyway.


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The bottoms of their letters.
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That is VERY COOL! Teach me!!!
AllI see are blacks and bubbles! Are you concealing werty durds?
SO you cant see it on Road Runner?
Firefox is the web browser you should be using.
And really, what purpose does upside down tagging serve other than amusing Nick and being an eyesore?
And really, what purpose does upside down tagging serve other than amusing Nick and being an eyesore? Quote from: cleveland on October 08, 2007, 05:33:59 PMGood question.
Good question.
Must be the work of Halloween witches. Let's burn someone at the stake.
I didn't see it, but someone from "another forum" emailed me and told me you had quoted me there.
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As far as I understand if we have channel which has random capacity for each discrete time moment (for example Rayleigh fading ), then
the capacity is just average capacity.
I am trying to understand it.
It seems the following simpliefied situation should be understand first: consider the two channels assume we know that capacity of one of them is c1 , capacity of another is c2, but we do not know what channel has c1, what channel has c2. Nevetheless it seems that capacity is c1+c2, the same as as if we know what channel has c1, what channel has c2...
For example if we consider AWGN channels - can one suggest some simple proof of this ?
(Similar to proof of capacity for AWGN with balls filling )


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(CNN) – Carlos Gutierrez, the former secretary of Commerce, will lead Mitt Romney's Hispanic Steering Committee, the presumptive Republican nominee announced Wednesday.
The new leadership team, which Romney's campaign is calling "Juntos Con Romney," also includes Jose Fuentes, the former attorney general of Puerto Rico, and Hector Barreto, the former administrator of the Small Business Administration.
"The Hispanic community has been especially hard-hit by President Obama's policies," Gutierrez said in a statement. "Instead of spurring economic growth and creating jobs, President Obama has only expanded government and hurt job-creation. We need a leader who will bring back jobs, help small businesses, and ensure that the American Dream remains for future generations. Mitt Romney has a proven record of creating jobs both in the private sector and as governor."
Gutierrez will appear Wednesday on CNN's "John King, USA" at 6 p.m. ET.
Romney included several other prominent names on his new Hispanic council, naming four top backers as honorary chairmen. Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio were all named to Romney's committee, which the campaign said would "help guide the campaign on important Hispanic initiatives and outreach."
Latino voters are considered key to winning the 2012 presidential election since they make up an increasing large chunk of the American electorate. They also represent a significant part of the population in several important swing states, including Florida, Nevada and Colorado.
Romney faces a large deficit among Hispanic voters, who overwhelming went for President Barack Obama in 2008. The latest survey, from Gallup, showed Romney with the backing from 26% of registered Hispanic voters, compared to 67% who back Obama.


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In middle school, Aaron Velasquez dreamed of winning a state wrestling championship.
He did.
In high school, Velasquez dreamed of winning a state wrestling championship.
He won two.
Velasquez, one of the most successful wrestlers in Bayfield High School history, also dreamed of wrestling in college at the highest level.
He will.
Velasquez, the Bayfield senior and all-state football player as well as wrestler, signed a national letter of intent to wrestle at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley � NCAA Division I.
�I�ve always had a dream of competing at the (NCAA) Division I level in wrestling,� Velasquez said at the letter-signing ceremony at Bayfield High School.
�There is no division higher,� said Velasquez, who won state high school titles as a junior and senior.
�It�s kind of stressful, trying to see myself in four or five years,� he said of the process of weighing multiple options for his college wrestling career.
He visited several schools and entertained offers from Division I to Division II to Division III to junior college. His visit to Northern Colorado was the deciding factor.
�When I visited, I really liked what I saw,� Velasquez said. �I liked the fact that it was in-state, and I liked the fact it was a Division I program. �I�ll be able to test my abilities against the best wrestlers in the nation.�
Velasquez said the wrestlers and coaches in Greeley convinced him that UNC was the right choice.
�They (UNC wrestlers) are committed. We all have the same goals,� he said. �We all want to get better and win team championships and individual championships.�
He�s also expecting tough competition in the UNC practice room. And he�s looking forward to it.
�The practice room is competitive. That�s where you get better,� said Velasquez, who was undefeated during his state championship junior season. He lost only two matches en route to winning state as a senior.
Velasquez � one of Bayfield�s most versatile athletes � ranked third in the state in the discus this spring.
Last fall, Velasquez led the state in Class 2A rushing for Bayfield�s state runner-up football team.
He also was one of the area�s top middle school basketball players before he focused on wrestling in high school.
�I have to thank my coaches for all the effort they put into me,� Velasquez said at his signing ceremony. He specifically thanked head wrestling coach Herb Stinson and head football coach Marshall Hahn.
Hahn also was an assistant wrestling coach. And like Velasquez, Hahn was a two-time state high school wrestling champion. He, too, went on to an All-American career at the UNC-Greeley.
�My coaches stuck with me through the good, the bad and the ugly, Velasquez said. �And there were some ugly times. But they were the ones pushing me to be the best every day.
�I�ve got to thank them for getting me where I am now,� said Velasquez, son of Gus and Tina Velasquez.
�This is great,� Stinson said of Velasquez�s signing with UNC.
�There was a little growing up on everybody�s part along the way,� Stinson said. �There were adjustments on everybody�s part. And we�ve come away with a far better young man.�
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I am developing an web application, I recently purchased the domain from godaddy.com and the domain is use google apps, for email, calendar docs and other services as well. Now I just need to show that" my site is under construction" I have a static page which is put on S3 now I need to map "www.mydomain.com" to that static page which is stored on s3. I am kinda of newbie/novice to this so kindly help me.
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The best solution I can think of is point an A record in your DNS to the elastic IP from AWS. This has the advantage that it never actually hits your host - it goes straight from the DNS to AWS, so it should be faster as well.
Three simple steps for this:
Not sure I'm totally following, but you could do one of two things as a hack I think...
1) If you know the correct URL you could redirect from your domain to the other URL (this may be bad for traffic later though when your domain rolls to the correct "live" one)
2) You could set up a page on the new domain with a big iFrame that loads the other URL. The down side here is all the sub pages will not have updated URLs in the browser...
This may be closer to the solution you're looking for though...


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This high performance woofer features extremely long throw design for outstanding low frequency response, thought impossible of drivers this size. Optimized for vented enclosures, it is great for home theater or autosound applications, as a compact subwoofer, or as a woofer in a three–way design.
by dennymcclain
on 2/9/2016
Just installed two 55-2421 woofers in a pair of BIC Formula 2 cabinets. All original components work fine, but thought that upgrading the woofers wouldn't hurt. All I can say is WOW ! What an amazing difference ! I am using a Crown IC 150 preamp w/ Crown DC 300 for power, so pure and accurate signal is not a problem. Seriously, a world of difference at an amazing price ! I would, and do highly recommend these to anyone wanting to upgrade their older (or newer) cabinets. Smooth, efficient low bass at an awesome price !
by prizment
on 4/9/2015
Great replacement for bose 301 speakers. Really beef up the sound and bass. Put them in many speakers we use for our jukebox locations.
by misterman15
on 1/21/2015
I bought this 8" high excursion woofer by accident when i thought my 8"pioneer powered sub-woofer speaker blew- Fizzed out but it turns out it was the plate amplifier ...having invested and not wanting to go thru the hassle of returning it i matched it up with a new plate amp and sub-woofer Box /Cabinet and whoa i used a class D amp and the bass is outstanding low and handles the power easily
by rivilee
on 10/31/2014
The weakest thing about this driver is they are prone to cone separation from the spider. Easy fix. Just use 5 minute epoxy where the the glue has failed. I use a wooden tongue depressor to get to it. In fact I do it as a preventative fix on new drivers. Pretty bullet proof after that.As far as burning the voice coil... well, there is such a thing as observing the power rating.
by Blaise170
on 8/25/2014
I've had three of these and all three of them have blown. The first one ended up with burnt tinsel, the second with a bad coil, and the third with burnt tinsel. They do sound really good, I won't deny that, but their longevity is questionable. I finally purchased some Rockford Fosgates that have lasted me far longer and also sound better. As they always say, you get what you pay for.
by eastmtmike
on 2/18/2014
I have two tapped horns each loaded with two of these woofers. They sound great for about an hour of moderately loud music. After that the burning smell begins. I have gone through 8 of these woofers. The cone detaches from the spider and they're toast. I will be upgrading to something with a little more power handling. For what they cost you can't beat these, they're just not for me. On the other hand, I had nothing but great experience with MCM customer service.
by TheGDog
on 10/29/2013
This driver replaced a Kicker Comp 8" I originally used in a TLine enclosure for my home theater application. This driver having a much lower Qts value and Fs value lends itself much better to getting excellent lows. Just swapped-out the driver today. Wish I'd known about this company and this driver earlier so I could have saved money AND gotten the better woofer for the job right from the get go! I originally purchased this driver with intent to build an AutoTuba folded horn. After my free-air listen I got impatient to check this lil guy out. No doubt in my mind I will buy another one of these to build the AutoTuba.
by seanmcguire
on 10/10/2013
I experimented with making clones of the JBL 2800 model. The 2421 is good in a 2-way design, but would be better with a lower frequency tweeter than the Ultra 1230 (crossed @ 2.5kHz), or a 3-way with a little more help in the upper midrange. These are power hungry! I could see these handling 200w clean power daily. The sensitivity and range is nowhere near as good as the JBL 508, and not as crisp either (DUH!). I tuned the ports to 25Hz with satisfactory results, not subsonic bass, but it will quietly fart out the lows and play nicely up through the lower mids. The 2421 will tear up a small box and move it across the room, so do give it PLENTY of volume - 1.0746 ft3 is probably the MINIMUM MCM calculated for these. Give these plenty of time to break-in as well, and the paper cones will sweeten up. I am impressed with what this woofer can do, especially for the price and the crappy job I gave it to do.
by nigelrajah
on 11/12/2012
This sub thumps! No midbass coloration. I like it. May have to buy two more for the home speakers.
by decampo
on 9/19/2012
Great woofer for 8". The long excursion means it moves more air than another 8", with a shorter throw. In a ported box it will play the lowest frequencies as clearly as a much larger woofer, without taking up the room a larger woofer in a larger box would. Great for sub, or 2 or 3 way speakers. Home or automotive. Just a great combination of features, to make a variety of possible builds, and also replacements for your old 8" woofers. Just about guaranteed to be an upgrade. If they are on sale, grab a couple like I did. Check your mounting depth, they sport a giant magnet!
by D.J.RSB666
on 5/17/2012
excellent quality for money with a 200watt sub amp 50-6263
by MarleyMarl
on 1/13/2012
Great sound, deep bass. Made a big difference in my surround sound. Great vaule great price.
by Perfecto57
on 5/25/2011
Ok, so I got this little work horse back in December for a car audio application and I was very happy with the performance of this speaker. However, after just 3 1/2 months of use it failed on me. I think next time I'm going to go with another brand for a replacement sub. Not quite durable enough for me.
by Odougbow
on 12/13/2010
Extraordinary bass - use two woofers in an Isobaric design box (face to face). For example, construct a simple, slotted box: 11"W x 14- 3/4D x 18-1/4" T (outside dimensions) - using ¾" MDF. Install a 3/4" slot port at the bottom, 9-1/2"W x 10-3/4"D (inside dimensions). This will tune the box at 31 hz. Space the woofers 1/2" apart so they have plenty of room to move, wire the speakers in series (8ohm) and use a MCM 200 watt plate amplifier. No need for damping material. I have built two of these cabinets and the results are amazing, the lowest and most detailed bass that I have ever heard. This design will astonish any home theater enthusiast, even if they have sub-woofers that cost much much more.
by jcmbowman
on 3/15/2010
I bought this woofer for a horn-loaded car subwoofer (An Autotuba designed by Bill Fitzmaurice, to be specific) and was amazed at the output of this box. It went over so well that my wife stole mine until I built a second one for her car. I love the look on people's faces when I explain that all I've got running is a 100 watt 8" driver that cost less than $50.
It replaced a dual-10" loaded sealed box that cost $600 altogether and used 1200 watts. And the new box is louder and cleaner.
Awesome driver.
by tsloms
on 1/9/2010
I purchased this sub to build a tapped horn enclosure for it. I am using a cheap 115W amp to power it in a tapped horn enclosure about 2 cubic feet in size. This system by itself is powerful enough to hang with most 10" and 12" subs in much larger enclosures. For the price this sub cannot be beat.
by Odougbo
on 12/16/2009
I was impressed with this woofer in a 2 cubic foot ported enclosure tuned to 30 htz and a MCM 200 watt amplifier, the bass bubbles down extremely low. However, I decided to try two woofers face to face in a 1 cubic ported enclosure (excluding the slotted port, again tuned to 30htz). The results are incredible, tremendously low, powerful bass. I did switch to a 200 watt stereo amp set in a bridged mode. Speakers are connected in series so the speaker load is 8 ohms. This speaker has a noticeably smooth response from 25htz – to 100htz. A wonderful speaker and a great value, I may try the cast iron version next.
by hooviemoto87
on 2/8/2009
I installed this 8" woofer in a Toyota RAV4. I mounted it in a .24 cu. ft. ported enclosure (along with an 8" grill MCM 50-525 and matching blue carpet). It was hard installing a 13" port in that small of a box, but it was worth it! I powered this woofer with a Power Acoustik OV2-420 car amplifier. Let me tell you, this speaker surprised me after I installed it. It handles the 190 watts RMS well and complemented the stock speaker system well. I couldn't believe you could hear the woofer outside the RAV4. The stock system had too much midbass, so to balance it out, I turned down the bass knob and turned up the subwoofer. I would argue that this sub has better sound quality and more deep bass than some more expensive subs that I have heard that require much larger boxes. Why would you take up your whole cargo area when you can build a box the size of a sheet of paper? Only complaint I have is the paper cone. Hopefully it holds up to the elements and 140 degree heat. Great Speaker.
by chwojdak
on 5/14/2008
The high excursion along with the low Fs made this driver in a 1 cu ft enclosure outperform larger subs I have built. This guy and your 100watt module for less than $100 will wipe out way more expensive units.
by pemrich
on 11/23/2007
Great small vented design from AudioXpress produces outstanding crisp clear bass using the speaker and an MCM subamp like the 50-6272. Really shakes the floor. I built several of these, one speaker failed after a year, thus the low quality rating. Wait for these to go on sale for <$25 and the amps for ~$50, that's value!
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USB 2.0 at that capacity is just too slow. I refuse to get a flash drive larger than 32GB unless it's USB 3.0 because copying large quantities of files would take HOURS on anything less vs. 15 minutes on USB 3.0.
I really wanted to bite on this, but there are just a few too many reviews stating they overheat and had to be returned, lost data, etc. My search for a reliable, cheap, 32GB+, USB 3.0 drive continues...
I bought this (from Newegg via deals.woot) several months ago for right around $32. I've been very happy with it. I use it every day at work and have used it several time to move around large files to take advantage of the fast USB3.0 transfer speeds. If I had any need at all right now I'd pick up a second one.
I have owned this drive for a little under a year now and I can confirm that it is great. Read/Write speeds are fantastic, I can guarantee they are low-balling the statistics on newegg. The cap still fits after almost daily use during the year. Formatted to roughly 29.6gb so not a huge loss. I also have dropped it a good four feet with no damage. I've run material off the drive for 2-3 hours at a time without any heat problems.
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My sales reps have a long list (200+) of their accounts and they need to enter the last date they visited each account. Most of the time this date will be within the last 30 days. What's the fastest interface to enter or select a date?
I would say the number keypad. This isn't a normal UI pattern for dates, so keep that in mind; it may require a short explanation or training. Let them simply enter only the day of the month (1, 14, 30, etc) and then do something like the following process in the background:
To sum up, the user enters either one or two keystrokes indicating the day of the month and the system completes it for them automatically.
If you're not enamored with this method, you could always go with a JavaScript date selector. (MooTools, jQuery, Dojo, etc.) If you're unsure which way to choose, I suggest that you do user testing and see which way is faster for people.
Use a date picker widget showing a 2-month view (the current month and the previous month) with future dates disabled.
(That's the jQuery UI Datepicker.)
This arrangement allows one-click selection of any date in the last month (at least), and any other recent date can also be entered easily. It also means that reps don't have to mentally translate "last Friday" to "October 1st", as they would if they had to type the date.
If space is tight you could just use a text field to display the date, and have the date picker pop up when the field receives focus.
When you say "visited each account" that implies they are viewing them on a computer system. If this is the case the best method would have been to log the date every time someone opens that account.
Alternatively, I would go for something like this:
Depends on the user. That said, if one is entering lots of data, keyboarding is usually the way to go. If you have power users, let them type in the dates in a particular format.
Calendar widget (aka DTPicker). They're the best input method if you need to enter dates that are close to the current date. They takes a lot of space, so they aren't really suitable if you're space constrained; but otherwise, they're the perfect way for entering dates that close to the current date. If your date picking are mostly in the last 30 days, then you may want to give a 2-month view, with the current date always in the bottom part of the calendar (so that all dates within the last 30 days will be pickable within a single click).
However, if the rest of the UI is keyboard driven (i.e. there is no other UI that requires mouse), then you'd probably want to have a keyboard-driven date picker as well.
How about modifying the "visit form"? Instead of requiring the sales rep to enter the date of the visit and the name of the customer, they start where they left off.
For example, say that they last entered information on Friday, September 10. When they invoke your visit form, it comes up with the default date being the next business day, or Monday, September 13. The rep enters all the visits for that day. They click on an arrow or press a shortcut key such as Ctrl-RightArrow to move to the next business day and enter information for that day, and so forth.
This way, the sales reps are completely spared from having to enter a date.


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It is commonly asserted that no consistent, interacting quantum field theory can be constructed with fields that have spin greater than 2 (possibly with some allusion to renormalization). I've also seen (see Bailin and Love, Supersymmetry) that we cannot have helicity greater than 1, absenting gravity. I am yet to see an explanation as to why this is the case; so can anyone help?
Higher spin particles have to be coupled to conserved currents, and there are no conserved currents of high spin in quantum field theories. The only conserved currents are vector currents associated with internal symmetries, the stress-energy tensor current, the angular momentum tensor current, and the spin-3/2 supercurrent, for a supersymmetric theory.
This restriction on the currents constrains the spins to 0,1/2 (which do not need to be coupled to currents), spin 1 (which must be coupled to the vector currents), spin 3/2 (which must be coupled to a supercurrent) and spin 2 (which must be coupled to the stress-energy tensor). The argument is heuristic, and I do not think it rises to the level of a mathematical proof, but it is plausible enough to be a good guide.
Preliminaries: All possible symmetries of the S-matrix
You should accept the following result of O'Raferteigh, Coleman and Mandula--- the continuous symmetries of the particle S-matrix, assuming a mass-gap and Lorentz invariance, are a Lie Group of internal symmetries, plus the Lorentz group. This theorem is true, given its assumptions, but these assumptions leave out a lot of interesting physics:
What the Coleman Mandula theorem means in practice is that whenever you have a conserved current in a quantum field theory, and this current acts nontrivially on particles, then it must not carry any space-time indices other than the vector index, with the only exceptions being the geometric currents: a spinor supersymmetry current, $J^{\alpha\mu}$, the (Belinfante symmetric) stress-energy tensor $T^{\mu\nu}$, the (Belinfante) angular momentum tensor $S^{\mu\nu\lambda} = x^{\mu} T^{\nu\lambda} - x^\nu T^{\mu\lambda}$, and sometimes the dilation current $D^\mu = x^\mu T^\alpha_\alpha$ and conformal and superconformal currents too.
The spin of the conserved currents is found by representation theory--- antisymmetric indices are spin 1, whether there are 1 or 2, so the spin of the internal symmetry currents is 1, and of the stress energy tensor is 2. The other geometric tensors derived from the stress energy tensor are also restricted to spin less then 2, with the supercurrent having spin 3/2.
What is a QFT?
Here this is a practical question--- for this discussion, a quantum field theory is a finite collection of local fields, each corresponding to a representation of the Poincare group, with a local interaction Lagrangian which couples them together. Further, it is assumed that there is an ultra-violet regime where all the masses are irrelevant, and where all the couplings are still relatively small, so that perturbative particle exchange is ok. I say pseudo-limit, because this isn't a real ultra-violet fixed point, which might not exist, and it does not require renormalizability, only unitarity in the regime where the theory is still perturbative.
Every particle must interact with something to be part of the theory. If you have a noninteracting sector, you throw it away as unobservable. The theory does not have to be renormalizable, but it must be unitary, so that the amplitudes must unitarize perturbatively. The couplings are assumed to be weak at some short distance scale, so that you don't make a big mess at short distances, but you can still analyze particle emission order by order
The Froissart bound for a mass-gap theory states that the scattering amplitude cannot grow faster than the logarithm of the energy. This means that any faster than constant growth in the scattering amplitude must be cancelled by something.
Propagators for any spin
The propagators for massive/massless particles of any spin follow from group theory considerations. These propagators have the schematic form
$$ s^J\over s-m^2$$
And the all-important s scaling, with its J-dependence can be extracted from the physically obvious angular dependence of the scattering amplitude. If you exchange a spin-J particle with a short propagation distance (so that the mass is unimportant) between two long plane waves (so that their angular momentum is zero), you expect the scattering amplitude to go like $\cos(\theta)^J$, just because rotations act on the helicity of the exchanged particle with this factor.
For example, when you exchange an electron between an electron and a positron, forming two photons, and the internal electron has an average momentum k and a helicity +, then if you rotate the contribution to the scattering amplitude from this exchange around the k-axis by an angle $\theta$ counterclockwise, you should get a phase of $\theta/2$ in the outgoing photon phases.
In terms of Mandelstam variables, the angular amplitude goes like $(1-t)^J$, since t is the cosine of the scattering variable, up to some scaling in s. For large t, this grows as t^J, but "t" is the "s" of a crossed channel (up to a little bit of shifting), and so crossing t and s, you expect the growth to go with the power of the angular dependence. The denominator is fixed at $J=0$, and this law is determined by Regge theory.
So that for $J=0,1/2$, the propagators shrink at large momentum, for $J=1$, the scattering amplitudes are constant in some directions, and for $J>1$ they grow. This schematic structure is of course complicated by the actual helicity states you attach on the ends of the propagator, but the schematic form is what you use in Weinberg's argument.
Spin 0, 1/2 are OK
That spin 0 and 1/2 are ok with no special treatment, and this argument shows you why: the propagator for spin 0 is
$$ 1\over k^2 + m^2$$
Which falls off in k-space at large k. This means that when you scatter by exchanging scalars, your tree diagrams are shrinking, so that they don't require new states to make the theory unitary.
Spinors have a propagator
$$ 1\over \gamma\cdot k + m $$
This also falls off at large k, but only linearly. The exchange of spinors does not make things worse, because spinor loops tend to cancel the linear divergence by symmetry in k-space, leaving log divergences which are symptomatic of a renormalizable theory.
So spinors and scalars can interact without revealing substructure, because their propagators do not require new things for unitarization. This is reflected in the fact that they can make renormalizable theories all by themselves.
Spin 1
Introducing spin 1, you get a propagator that doesn't fall off. The massive propagator for spin 1 is
$$ { g_{\mu\nu} - {k_\mu k_\nu\over m^2} \over k^2 + m^2 }$$
The numerator projects the helicity to be perpendicular to k, and the second term is problematic. There are directions in k-space where the propagator does not fall off at all! This means that when you scatter by spin-1 exchange, these directions can lead to a blow-up in the scattering amplitude at high energies which has to be cancelled somehow.
If you cancel the divergence with higher spin, you get a divergence there, and you need to cancel that, and then higher spin, and so on, and you get infinitely many particle types. So the assumption is that you must get rid of this divergence intrinsically. The way to do this is to assume that the $k_\mu k_\nu$ term is always hitting a conserved current. Then it's contribution vanishes.
This is what happens in massive electrodynamics. In this situation, the massive propagator is still ok for renormalizability, as noted by Schwinger and Feynman, and explained by Stueckelberg. The $k_\mu k_\nu$ is always hitting a $J^\mu$, and in x-space, it is proportional to the divergence of the current, which is zero because the current is conserved even with a massive photon (because the photon isn't charged).
The same argument works to kill the k-k part of the propagator in Yang-Mills fields, but it is much more complicated, because the Yang-Mills field itself is charged, so the local conservation law is usually expressed in a different way, etc,etc. The heuristic lesson is that spin-1 is only ok if you have a conservation law which cancels the non-shrinking part of the numerator. This requires Yang-Mills theory, and the result is also compatible with renormalizability.
If you have a spin-1 particle which is not a Yang-Mills field, you will need to reveal new structure to unitarize its longitudinal component, whose propagator is not properly shrinking at high energies.
Spin 3/2
In this case, you have a Rarita Schwinger field, and the propagator is going to grow like $\sqrt{s}$ at large energies, just from the Mandelstam argument presented before.
The propagator growth leads to unphysical growth in scattering exchanging this particle, unless the spin-3/2 field is coupled to a conserved current. The conserved current is the Supersymmetry current, by the Haag–Lopuszanski–Sohnius theorem, because it is a spinor of conserved currents.
This means that the spin-3/2 particle should interact with a spin 3/2 conserved supercurrent in order to be consistent, and the number of gravitinos is (less then or equal to) the number of supercharges.
The gravitinos are always introduced in a supermultiplet with the graviton, but I don't know if it is definitely impossible to introduce them with a spin-1 partner, and couple them to the supercurrent anyway. These spin-3/2/spin-1 multiplets will probably not be renormalizable barring some supersymmetry miracle. I haven't worked it out, but it might be possible.
Spin 2
In this case, you have a perturbative graviton-like field $h_{\mu\nu}$, and the propagator contains terms growing linearly with s.
In order to cancel the growth in the numerator, you need the tensor particle to be coupled to a conserved current to kill the parts with too-rapid growth, and produce a theory which does not require new particles for unitarity. The conserved quantity must be a tensor $T_{\mu\nu}$. Now one can appeal to the Coleman Mandula theorem and conclude that the conserved tensor current must be the stress energy tensor, and this gives general relativity, since the stress-tensor includes the stress of the h field too.
There is a second tensor conserved quantity, the angular momentum tensor $S_{\mu\nu\sigma}$, which is also spin-2 (it might look like its spin 3, but its antisymmetric on two of its indices). You can try to couple a spin-2 field to the angular momentum tensor. To see if this works requires a detailed analysis, which I haven't done, but I would guess that the result will just be a non-dynamical torsion coupled to the local spin, as required by the Einstein-Cartan theory.
Witten mentions yet another possiblity for spin 2 in chapter 1 of Green Schwarz and Witten, but I don't remember what it is, and I don't know whether it is viable.
I believe that these arguments are due to Weinberg, but I personally only read the sketchy summary of them in the first chapters of Green Schwarz and Witten. They do not seem to me to have the status of a theorem, because the argument is particle by particle, it requires independent exchange in a given regime, and it discounts the possiblity that unitary can be restored by some family of particles.
Of course, in string theory, there are fields of arbitrarily high spin, and unitarity is restored by propagating all of them together. For field theories with bound states which lie on Regge trajectories, you can have arbitrarily high spins too, so long as you consider all the trajectory contributions together, to restore unitarity (this was one of the original motivations for Regge theory--- unitarizing higher spin theories).
For example, in QCD, we have nuclei of high ground-state spin. So there are stable S-matrix states of high spin, but they come in families with other excited states of the same nuclei.
The conclusion here is that if you have higher spin particles, you can be pretty sure that you will have new particles of even higher spin at higher energies, and this chain of particles will not stop until you reveal new structure at some point. So the tensor mesons observed in the strong interaction mean that you should expect an infinite family of strongly interacting particles, petering out only when the quantum field substructure is revealed.
Some comments
James said:
These statements are as true as the arguments above are convincing. From the cancellation required for the propagator to become sensible, higher spin fields are fundamentally massless at short distances. The spin-1 fields become massive by the Higgs mechanism, the spin 3/2 gravitinos become massive through spontaneous SUSY breaking, and this gets rid of Goldstone bosons/Goldstinos.
But all this stuff is, at best, only at the "mildly plausible" level of argument--- the argument is over propagator unitarization with each propagator separately having no cancellations. It's actually remarkable that it works as a guideline, and that there aren't a slew of supersymmetric exceptions of higher spin theories with supersymmetry enforcing propagator cancellations and unitarization. Maybe there are, and they just haven't been discovered yet. Maybe there's a better way to state the argument which shows that unitarity can't be restored by using positive spectral-weight particles.
Big Rift in 1960s
James askes
The history of physics cannot be well understood without appreciating the unbelievable antagonism between the Chew/Mandelstam/Gribov S-matrix camp, and the Weinberg/Glashow/Polyakov Field theory camp. The two sides hated each other, did not hire each other, and did not read each other, at least not in the west. The only people that straddled both camps were older folks and Russians--- Gell-Mann more than Landau (who believed the Landau pole implied S-matrix), Gribov and Migdal more than anyone else in the west other than Gell-Mann and Wilson. Wilson did his PhD in S-matrix theory, for example, as did David Gross (under Chew).
In the 1970s, S-matrix theory just plain died. All practitioners jumped ship rapidly in 1974, with the triple-whammy of Wilsonian field theory, the discovery of the Charm quark, and asymptotically freedom. These results killed S-matrix theory for thirty years. Those that jumped ship include all the original string theorists who stayed employed: notably Veneziano, who was convinced that gauge theory was right when t'Hooft showed that large-N gauge fields give the string topological expansion, and Susskind, who didn't mention Regge theory after the early 1970s. Everybody stopped studying string theory except Scherk and Schwarz, and Schwarz was protected by Gell-Mann, or else he would never have been tenured and funded.
This sorry history means that not a single S-matrix theory course is taught in the curriculum today, nobody studies it except a few theorists of advanced age hidden away in particle accelerators, and the main S-matrix theory, string-theory, is not properly explained and remains completely enigmatic even to most physicists. There were some good reasons for this--- some S-matrix people said silly things about the consistency of quantum field theory--- but to be fair, quantum field theory people said equally silly things about S-matrix theory.
Weinberg came up with these heuristic arguments in the 1960s, which convinced him that S-matrix theory was a dead end, or rather, to show that it was a tautological synonym for quantum field theory. Weinberg was motivated by models of pion-nucleon interactions, which was a hot S-matrix topic in the early 1960s. The solution to the problem is the chiral symmetry breaking models of the pion condensate, and these are effective field theories.
Building on this result, Weinberg became convinced that the only real solution to the S-matrix was a field theory of some particles with spin. He still says this every once in a while, but it is dead wrong. The most charitable interpretation is that every S-matrix has a field theory limit, where all but a finite number of particles decouple, but this is not true either (consider little string theory). String theory exists, and there are non-field theoretic S-matrices, namely all the ones in string theory, including little string theory in (5+1)d, which is non-gravitational.
Lorentz indices
James comments:
The group theory for an antisymmetric tensor is simple: it consists of an "E" and "B" field which can be turned into the pure chiral representations E+iB, E-iB. This was also called a "six-vector" sometimes, meaning E,B making an antisymmetric four-tensor.
You can do this using dotted and undotted indices more easily, if you realize that the representation theory of SU(2) is best done in indices--- see the "warm up" problem in this answer: Mathematically, what is color charge?
There is a fabulous explanation in Schwartz QFT and the standard model pg 153.
The absense of MASSLESS particles with spin > 2 is a consequence of little group invariance and charge conservation.
For massless particles you can take the soft limit in the scattering matrix elements
Lorentz invariance implies the matrix numbers should be the same in different frames but the polarizations certainly do not have to be the same.
Schwartz also winds up showing that massless spin 2 particles imply gravity is universal.
For massless spin 3 we end up with
The sum of a "charge times energy squared" (for the zero component of 4 momentum" of incoming particles equals the same thing going out.
This is sort of like conservation of charge only we also multiply by the sum of squared energy.
This condition is too constraining to get anywhere unless the charges = 0
It should be noted that spin > 2 MASSIVE particles exist.
Basicallyfor massless particles:
This argument was discovered by weinberg back in the 60s and it is just incredible


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I made these cookies for my teenage son who is very picky. Him and his friends all loved them.....I didn't tell them they were healthier!
Bev's Chocolate Chip Cookies
From EatingWell: Spring 2004, The Essential EatingWell Cookbook (2004), July/August 2012
EatingWell reader Beverley Sharpe of California contributed this recipe. She updated a favorite treat by cutting back on sugar and incorporating whole grains. To increase protein, she replaces the rolled oats with 1 cup almond meal.
179 Reviews for Bev's Chocolate Chip Cookies
I found this recipe and was hesitant. I have to start eating better. At first I didnt read the instructions just the ingredients. I didnt grind the oats. Came out just as good. More satisfying.
No big deal... But my dough mixture came out crumbly. I had to hand roll and flatten the cookies. Is there something I didnt do?
I made the recipe as directed except for using Splenda instead of sugar. Is this the reason the cookies did not flatten for me? Hope someone can help me with this.
I've looked for a healthy chocolate chip cookie recipes at a lot of sites/magazines, and this is the best one I have found! The hint of oatmeal adds a healthy touch to the whole cookie, not to mention the wheat flour. I accidentally used 1/2 cup of butter (measuring mishap) instead of 1/4 cup and I omitted the olive oil, and the cookies still turned out great! I'll definitely keep using this recipe in the future!
I found this recipe yrs ago and it is now my favorite. It is full proof, I have made every 'mistake' you can, mixing in the wrong order, under mixing, over mixing, forgetting an ingredient and they still turn out perfect! One tip, you don't have to grind the oats, just throw them in! I also love that this recipe doesn't make too many cookies, just enough for a few days (as cookies are best fresh anyway!) When I make them for parties or my coworkers they love them too!


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