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Code Reviews: A Framework for Startups
You know how your teachers and parents always told you to get a friend to proofread your paper before you handed it in for marks? Well, it's age-old advice for a reason.
There's a lot of electronic papers, ie. code, being handed in here at Summify and when most of that code will be affecting a @#$@ load of data, reviews become critically important. Until last week, our squad captains, Mircea Pasoi and Cristian Strat, were reviewing all the Summify code – not the most sustainable practice. It was time to bring the entire team into the code review process, but we needed a structure to help guide the move. The following framework has been working well for us and we wanted to share it with you.
Our tool of choice for code reviews is Review Board.
Getting Your Review On
1) Goals
Eliminate bugs as early as possible
Share knowledge to learn other sections of the code, new libraries, tricks, and algorithms
2) Take your time
Doing so will speed things up. It may sound like a paradox, but finding bugs in later stages, such as post-release, can cost 10-100 times more than it would cost to catch them during review. The following data on fixing bugs is from the book Code Complete.
If you ever catch yourself thinking "Oh, I'm kind of busy, should I really bother nitpicking this piece of code?" the answer is always Yes. You might find a bug which will save your team hours upon hours of work down the road – think longer term.
3) Ensure correctness
When done properly, a code review is one of the most effective ways of detecting bugs. A proper code review will detect about 55% of bugs, double the effectiveness of unit tests (see the below table from Code Complete).
Everyone has experienced those moments when someone looks at your code for 10 seconds and points out a ginormous filthy bug, right under your nose, despite the fact that you were looking at it for the last 3 hours. Sadly for them, it doesn't mean they're 12,000 times smarter than you; they just have the fresh eye and the clear mind.
When you're reviewing someone's code, you're the fresh onlooker and you're in a very good place to spot bugs, so do it.
4) Demand quality
Don't be afraid to ask for unit tests, good refactoring, and adherence to coding style. Never accept code that's of lower quality than the average code found in the repository.
Demanding quality during reviews begets quality further down the road, leading to faster test writing, second nature coding style and fewer lazy habits, refactoring code when necessary. Remember, you're not slowing things down, you're just forcing people to learn how to write good code, fast.
Also, always ask for screenshots when the change involves UI.
Besides being a code reviewer, it's equally important to submit good code for review. Here are some tips:
Submitting Quality Code – That's Your Job
1) Don't rely on reviewers to find bugs – submit code with confidence
You should be so sure of your code quality, personally unable to find any more bugs, that you'd be happy to deploy it into production right away, even without a review process. Your reviewer may come up with something you haven't thought of, but never lower your own standards.
2) Reviewers have a tough life
Understand that your reviewer only sees a diff and some bug types are very hard to detect this way. For instance, if your change requires that you search for all occurrences of function X in the code, your reviewer cannot confirm you did an exhaustive search. That's your responsibility.
It's also your responsibility to think about the implications of your changes. Does it break the iPhone? Does it break the archiving process? Does it grind the website to a halt? Realizing these implications is 80% of an engineer's job. This is the meat, the hard questions engineers must think through. Remember the time when you thought something over for five hours and then made a two-line change? The hard part was figuring out if that was the right change, and that's your job; it's not the reviewer's.
If you find yourself thinking "Hmm… I'm gonna change this but I don't know if I'm breaking stuff," then you're not doing your job, and you're offloading your work to the reviewer.
3) Run the tests
Reviewers won't do this for you and they can't figure out if you break tests. Better yet, implement continuous integration – we use Jenkins.
4) Leave no comment behind
When submitting a second or third diff for the same change, your reviewer assumes that for every comment he or she wrote you either
a) implemented the change, or
b) replied to it
Don't expect the reviewer to go through the list of previous comments and validate that you've addressed each one. That's your job.
5) Attach screenshots if you've made a UI change.
6) Learn and improve
Learn from mistakes and shape up your code. Shoot for a 90% "perfect ship-it" rate. Every time your reviewer has to return your code, a kitten dies. When you pass 90% it means the code review process really works and everyone's doing a great job.
Sharing the code review responsibilities across our team is really paying off and soon we'll be leaps and bounds ahead of where we were just a few weeks ago. It feels like we've upgraded to Summify v1.1. A few more upgrades like this and we'll be an unstoppable kick-ass team, sort of like a Canadian version of The A-Team, or an organized crime syndicate – the Summify Mafia. Anyways… until then, we'll continue asking ourselves "how can we improve team processes and communication to increase productivity?"
Are you doing code reviews? Share your thoughts, productivity tips and questions below.


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As I pull up to the Emporia Country Club, music is pumping, discs are flying and the baskets are ringing. There are no golf clubs in sight, no silent sighs among the crowd nor anyone shouting, "fore!"
Instead the spectators are excited, cheering loud for their favorite players and following amateur master foursomes around the green landscape on this warm July day.


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If a room has no oxygen, does opening the doors help replenish the oxygen more quickly? In other words, does oxygen equalize between adjacent rooms with open doors?
Experiment Setup
I moved my whole crew up to the front of the Red-Tail, and evacuated the back half of the ship, leaving oxygen in only the three front rooms. This reduced my oxygen total to 20%. Then I closed doors and started timing every 10% increase.
First I closed all the doors. Each 10% increase took 9.7, 10.5, 10.6, 10.2, 10.2, 10.6, 10.0, and 10.6 seconds. So it's very slightly less than 1% per second (1% per 1.03 seconds or 0.97% per second, possibly from 0.96% per 1 second which is a common math error when programming a game that runs at 60Hz).
Next, I closed only the outside doors, and opened all the inside ones. This took 66.3 seconds (8.2; 8.3; 8.3; 8.4; 8.2; 8.2; 8.3, 8.4). So oxygen does diffuse (faster?) through open doors. The background of the previously pressured areas turned slightly pink.
Next, I opened all the doors between depressurized areas but left closed the doors in the front which were still pressured. 82.6 seconds, basically the same as my first test.
Finally, I depressurized only the back three rooms of the ship, turned off my O2 generator, closed the outer doors, and opened all the inner ones. The three back rooms re-pressurized despite my generator being turned off until they equalized with the rest of the ship, which was also steadily losing oxygen; eventually the whole ship depressurized.
This behavior is explained by a model where the O2 generator works by supplying a fixed amount of oxygen to each room per second, oxygen is naturally consumed slower than this replenishment, and oxygen diffuses only between open doors. This means if a room with a high oxygen level has an open connection to a room with a low oxygen level it is giving oxygen to that room and receiving replenishing oxygen from the generator nearly as fast as it is giving it up and the other room is receiving oxygen from the generator, resulting in overall faster replenishment. If the doors are closed the new oxygen in the already-pressurized room is just "wasted".
Because the oxygen level required to keep your crew alive is fairly low it's often good to open doors to help re-pressurize areas faster assuming your oxygen generator is working.
FTL's model of oxygen seems to match our intuitions about how fixed volumes of gasses in an enclosed space work.
One interesting prediction of this model is that a sufficiently long path length of rooms may make it possible to survive indefinitely with a working generator despite a door open to hard vacuum. I've been testing this prediction on the Osprey for several minutes now, and it seems to be true.
If I open the second door on the top left, the room Mr Buga and Liam are in de-pressurizes. If I close it but leave the top one open, it re-pressurizes.
It's a bit difficult to say since the game doesn't give accurate feedback on a room's oxygen levels. The game does have some sort of oxygen flow system. That much is evident from the fact that we can a series of doors to the space and vent out the air from all the rooms.
My experience says that the oxygen levels try to equalize, but there seems to be a limit to the rate at which they do so. The visible difference between two rooms with a door open between them tends to linger for a good while.
I've also noticed that if I open all the doors (except the outer ones), my overall oxygen level (the percentage shown in the upper left corner) will regain faster.
In short: All signs point to yes. Altough, to a limit.


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Has anyone ever won money off of those shopping receipt surveys?
You know the ones I mean. You can win supposedly thousands of dollars if you call in and do the survey within a certain number of days. I have never won anything.
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Nope. But I always figured my chances were around the same as winning the lotto.
No, but that doesn't stop me from trying again. Like the lottery, but prepaid.
I only do the ones that give me free food or a coupon for my next visit.
Nope. But, I do the survey for Subway noted at the bottom of my receipt, and get the free cookie next time I go in :-)
No, but I do know somebody who did win $10k from Qdoba, the burrito chain, from doing the survey. So at least some of them are legit!
only some useless gift...
Nope. But I usually only do them when I want to make sure that the person who helped me gets credit for being awesome.
Yeah. Got $100 Visa gift card from Sonic for doing a survey.
Nope. The ones for restaurants tend to be managed by a national survey company. The drawings are among all the entries they received from ALL the restaurant chains that employ them. So your odds are a lot smaller than you'd expect, especially since some of them are multinational survey companies and you're also fighting against Canadians for a chance to win.


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7 Awesome Super Powers (Ruined by Science)
#3. Invisibility
Hey Guys, Check This Out!
Well, we would, except... we can't see you. Apparently you're invisible, along with Susan Storm, the Invisible Woman and most gases. Though you have to admit, this one would be a Hell of a lot more useful for committing crime than stopping it.
Oh Shit...
Ironically, the rest of the world will be as invisible to you as you are to it. After all, the sense of sight works by having the waves of visible light reflect from an object onto our retinas, where it forms an upside-down image and is transmitted to the brain where it's converted into the image of whatever you were looking at.
You being invisible means that all those light waves are passing through your body. So, sure, they aren't bouncing off you to return to someone else's eyes, but this in turn means that they aren't hitting your own retina, either. So, whenever you're invisible, you're also blind.
Then we get into the whole bizarre question of where exactly your invisibility ends. If it's just your body, then foreign objects that aren't a part of you, like food, can still be seen. Good luck getting a dinner date--we don't exactly think your ability to demonstrate the full process of digestion will help you get the ladies, since they'll be talking to a floating glob of vomit the whole time. Then you get into the dust and moisture that lands on your body, turning you into a clearly visible, if ghostly, shape that will totally defeat the point.
If you somehow get around those problems, we're still assuming your invisibility doesn't somehow make all clothing turn invisible, then you're walking around naked the whole time. This sounds awesome until you're passing through a crowd and some dude accidentally smacks you in the nuts with his briefcase. Since he doesn't know you're there, he's swinging his arm freely, flattening your junk with the full impact of the briefcase's hard, unforgiving metal corner.
Then he's stopping to wonder why suddenly there's a puddle of puke on the ground.
#2. Super Senses
Hey Guys, Check This Out!
The human powers of perception, for the most part, are pretty damned limited. Hell, we can only see and hear a small part of the spectrum of waves. But you, you've got super-senses: your sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste are all far beyond what the rest of us experience. You're like Daredevil, only not blind.
Oh Shit...
You don't get to turn off your senses. No senses work that way, and if they did, they'd be useless. How would you know, for instance, to only listen to the crime happening 10 miles away, and not the 50,000 televisions playing between here and there? But it gets much, much worse.
As we mentioned, there's a lot of shit humans can't see or hear. Visible light, for instance, only runs the electromagnetic spectrum between 400 and 700 nanometers. That's about a thousand times less than the width of a human hair. Outside that are radio waves, microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays and pretty much everything else you could think of.
Those billions of particles that gatecrash through Earth's atmosphere from the Sun? Yep, you see them. The shitty "Top 40" songs you hear on the radio? You get to see rippling along the airwaves. You can't look at people without being disgusted--all the hairs and clogged pores and flaking dead skin would make you want to throw up your burrito.
That's just sight. Hearing's something else. You can hear heartbeats, breathing, the gurgle of food digesting. You want to have a hot dirty-talking session with your girlfriend? Better do it in a soundproofed room or you won't hear shit. Actually you will hear shit; you'll hear everyone who's shitting at that moment, clear as a bell.
Someone just got an earful of shit.
Taste and smell would be just as bad. Think about it: cologne, perfume, and the like are strong enough on their own. No matter how good it might smell, if an odor's strong enough it's going to be unbearable. Imagine smelling or tasting it at 10 or 100 times its normal intensity--you'd want to claw out your tongue and plug up your nostrils. And that's good smells--inevitably, there's always going to be a baby that just shit its diaper.
#1. Immortality
Hey Guys, Check This Out!
Mortal coil? What the fuck is that? Most people have existential dread to worry about, because they've only got a few short decades to live before they take that final dirt nap. But you're immortal, just like Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen. No pain, no sickness, no aging can harm you. You have all of eternity to do whatever the fuck you want to do, so take your time.
Oh Shit...
Okay, after the first, say, few hundred years, everything's still fine and well. You've seen a few generations of people live and die, and had this happen to your family. Oh well, they were likely douches you could live without anyway at some points. Companionship is companionship, or so you think.
Not so fast: You know how when you were younger (by human terms, a child), an hour seemed like forever to you? As people grow, their brain starts to perceive time differently. An hour feels like less time. Now extend that logic to a year, or a decade, or a century. This means that eventually, you will be completely unable to form relationships with human beings because their lives and deaths will flash past you like a tape on fast-forward.
Let's keep going into the future, since you're a sociopathic recluse and think you're still okay with this whole immortality thing. There are so many things that could go wrong with the planet, an asteroid strike, nuclear war, the LHC, but let's assume the planet somehow makes it through all that without being reduced to dust.
Five billion years from now or so, the Sun expands into a red giant. You survive the first roasting, but nothing else does. The Sun eventually rips planet Earth into rubble with gravity. So now there you are floating in outer space, drifting along, or getting a bitching tan at the heart of the Sun so you can pick up some killer alien chicks in the Andromeda galaxy if you ever get there (you won't).
Either way, a few trillion years later, the universe starts to really show its entropy. Every where is the same. No stars, no planets, no black holes, just an empty, cold mass of subatomic particles that can never come together again. And you, floating along in the void. Forever.
Check out Brockway's column, in which he digs into 5 Scientific Reasons People Act Like Assholes. And check out The Galactic Empire's Official Defense Strategy in our Death Star page.
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The railroad is so closely tied to the Kansas story of adventure, opportunity and progress that it only seems fitting those visiting the state should take the time to ride the rails. Amtrak service is limited in our state, but excursion trains to provide a unique and relaxing opportunity to enjoy this piece of history.
Riding the Rails: Taking a Heritage Train Ride in Abilene
Posted on May 23, 2013 8:28AM by Karen Ridder


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The CU 4 Reality Education Program, sponsored by local credit unions, has given students at middle schools in the United States and US Armed Forces installations in Germany a chance to learn about managing finances and how to calculate earnings and expenses. CU 4 Reality is a program cooperatively developed across a number of credit unions and is now in its fourth year. The partnership between the CU 4 Reality program and credit unions has benefitted approximately 9,000 students worldwide.
The program uses an in-class curriculum during the school year to teach participants important skills that will equip them to handle money responsibly, set and adhere to budgets, and avoid the pitfalls of debt. The program culminates with a simulated real-world CU 4 Reality Fair, where the student participants create a spending plan based on a salary, and balance needs versus wants, to make sure they are living within their means.
To complete their course of studies, the students attend a fair where they speak with representatives of auto dealership, cable TV, clothing, food and utility representatives and others to help them understand the many expenses they will face in adulthood.
According to recent reports, nearly a third of all high school seniors use at least one credit card or use ATM cards. In addition, more than three-quarters of seniors have a savings or checking account. However, just 20% of high school seniors graduate with any formal instruction in personal finance.
The CU 4 Reality curriculum creates a fun and interactive learning environment where students can practice specific financial management skills and learn early on the consequences of debt when it comes to financial matters.
Developed by the Financial Literacy Education Committee of Americas Credit Union Museum, in conjunction with the New Hampshire Credit Union League, the CU 4 Reality Program, which is in its fourth successful year, gives students the opportunity to participate in a hands-on event that propels them through the personal financial management process, including career selection, budgeting for housing, transportation, luxuries, and more.
At the CU 4 Reality Fair, each student receives a file detailing the personal information specific to their career choice. It includes their monthly gross income and students calculate their take-home pay and create a monthly spending plan as they progress through booths representing various categories of expenses they can expect to incur. Students make decisions about what they would spend on various items such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, insurance, home furnishings, savings, investments, entertainment and credit.
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Taxi cabs tend to be linked to various colors or symbols, one I have noticed repeated over and over is the checkered pattern of alternating white and black. Is there an origin of this and how it became linked to taxi cabs or services? While it seems to be used in some countries, not all, and in some companies, not all, there has to be some kind of association between the two for it be a sort of global symbol (as much as many things are) for taxi services.
I wasn't able to find a definitive proof yet, but most likely it was because of the largest taxicab company (associated with both livery service AND manufacturing of taxicabs) that was called "Checker Taxi".
The cars themselves had distinctive checker-marks on the sides, matching the company logo:
I have read unsubstantiated rumors as to the origin of the company's logo to be:


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Did you know today's shirt is printing on... yup, you guessed it!
(I couldn't bring myself to reuse a question title for the third time in four days!)
RoyalBlueBlankGate2012 continues: @tjost's Rhyming Orange is being offered on AA in women's and men's sizes. If you're interested, order today: Sunday's shirt (@walmazan's Recurring Dreams and Friday's shirt (@kevlar51's Counting Sheep) printed on AA, but it were only available to purchase on Friday and Sunday respectively; each has been listed as "sold out" since. In addition, woot may have very limited stock of 2XL and 3XL (and maybe WS), so if you wear one of those sizes, order sooner rather than later.
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Woot hasn't publicly mentioned their plans for how they plan to handle the impact of RoyalBlueBlankGate2012 on the Reckoning standings. If you have suggestions or comments, head on over to shirt.woot and share your thoughts!
This is all a test to see if we really like AA shirts better. Just like all any other temporary thing i have seen it usually becomes permanent.
@cowboydann: Uhm.... no.
@thunderthighs: I guy can dream can't he?
I REALLY like Woot bringing back AA. I'm not a huge fan of today's design but glad to see AA back in the mix.


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MORGANTOWN - They called it a success.
Certainly not the end, but the effort from a defense that had been taking its lumps for the better part of two months.
Yes, West Virginia lost again (39-38), and yes, the defense wound up giving up 39 points, but there were signs of improvement all over the place from one of the nation's most maligned units.
Ultimately, the players simply played better than they had, but defensive coordinator Joe DeForest was talking about the big picture.
And who could argue with him? Head coach Dana Holgorsen ordered a switch with his co-defensive coordinators, putting DeForest in the press box and bringing Keith Patterson on the field for the game.
From that view, you can see half of the city, much less all of the field.
"In the big picture," DeForest said, "we got better. If you get better every day, then things are going to build."
It was the first time in 23 years of coaching DeForest coached from the box.
"I loved it," he said. "I thought I was calm. It's so surreal up there. I don't think I'll ever leave. I could see what was going on in the secondary, which is the most important thing. I was calm making plays. And I think that had a lot to do with how we played."
What DeForest saw was guys getting pressure on the quarterback. They had three sacks, forced a pair of fumbles, got six three-and-outs, and picked off a pass in the red zone.
"That's good defense," DeForest said. "It was probably the best game we played defensively as a whole. It just doesn't look that way (because of the loss)."
The three-and-outs were significant. Kansas State scored on all but one possession in the last time the WVU defense was seen on the field attempting to get off of it. TCU was 4 of 17 on third down in this one.
Still, it wasn't good enough. There were still occurrences in which you could tell things hadn't changed that dramatically, none more reprehensible than the 94-yard touchdown pass the Mountaineers gave up with 1:28 left that allowed TCU to tie it at 31-31 and ultimately send it into overtime.
It was a repeat of what we saw before halftime of the Baylor game. What we saw before halftime at Texas Tech.
"We just busted a coverage," DeForest said. "It was a lack of communication. We had the game won. All we had to do was stay in coverage. The problem, you can't give up the big one. As well as you play throughout 60 minutes, that's what we've got to continue to work off of."
Still, how does this keep happening?
"Lack of focus," DeForest said. "We've got to do a better job of getting them to understand the situation. It was something that we've done right all of the last two weeks (in practice). We've never made that mistake and we made that mistake. That's on us for not harping on it even more. Ultimately, they have to do what they have to do, but we have to coach them better to make sure do."
Holgorsen, who wasn't happy about much, liked what he saw from the defenders.
"I thought they played good," Holgorsen said. "They responded to all the criticism and scrutiny that they've been under. They practiced hard for two weeks and got better."
So at the end of the day, giving up 39 points and 405 yards is not much to write home about. Unless you've been where the Mountaineers defense was.
Steubenville's Shaq Petteway did this regularly in high school.
On Saturday, he introduced his game to West Virginia fans.
Petteway led the Mountaineers with 10 tackles and was in on 1.5 sacks, including one for a 10-yard loss on a third-and-6 play late in the first quarter. It was the first sack of his career.
Defensive coordinator Joe DeForest suspected a guy like Petteway was well-suited to make plays against TCU because of what it does on offense, so he unleashed his sophomore.
"We were counting on Shaq versus what they did offensively. We needed him on the field more," DeForest said. "We gave him an opportunity to play. We've moved him around from Star to Buck to Will linebacker and he did a good job of adjusting."
At times, Petteway looked like he was playing against Sir Wilfrid Laurie.
"The coaches came to me and they challenged me so I took advantage of my opportunity I was given," Petteway said. "I just went out there and tried to make plays. I think I did that."
Still, it wasn't enough, as the Mountaineers lost their third in a row, this one on a two-point conversion play in overtime.
"It's a hard one to swallow," Petteway said. "I feel like we should have won it multiple times throughout the game. I'd rather get blown out than lose like that."


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Llathos wrote:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181019
Why doesn't a product like this exist for GPUs...?
Waco wrote:My 5970 is watercooled - I went from the stock clocks (which I don't really recall...but they were relatively slow by any measure of the word) to well past 5870 clocks. The VRMs still get a bit toasty even under water, but I've tweaked it so they stay under 100 C at all times. 1 GHz core, 1.2 GHz memory.
cynan wrote:Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do you measure VRM temps for your 5970? I'd like to be able to check mine...
mortifiedPenguin wrote:What water blocks are you guys using? I'm thinking of buying a new card (or two) since I discovered my 6950 isn't quite up to the task of driving my new 3x monitor array. If it happens, I'll probably add the GPU(s) to the loop. I am considering universal blocks though, I don't really care for the notion of having to buy an entirely new block for each GPU upgrade...
Even if it doesn't happen, it's probably time to change tubing; it's turned an odd shade of green even though the water is still clear . Any idea if DangerDen DreamFlex is as good as they claim?
Madman wrote:I always follow what's going on, but I have never tried the water cooled setups.
What I'm looking for is total silence, and if water cooled setups would allow for that, I would probably try. Zalman reserator some 5+ years ago seemed pretty neat.
But the PSUs are always air cooled, and this sort of breaks the whole fun.
Also, I'm afraid of leaks. I tend to leave my PC unattended from time to time, and some pipe getting loose over hot wires seems to be pretty dangerous.
lilbuddhaman wrote:H60 + Zipties = GPU Water cooling on the cheap
Threw mini heatsinks on all the exposed chips / ram
Dropped temps 20'C on my 6870, has been stable for more than 6 months.
cynan wrote:... the full block coolers really do a much better job cooling the VRMs on the HD7970 (and memory as well).
cynan wrote:I'm using the XSPC 7/16 internal diameter tubing. Been pretty good. Nice and flexible and resistant to kinks. I also find it a nice compromise in size between the more popular diameters. I have a bit of clear tubing in my loop, but it's still fairly new, so no word on how it discolors over time.
Arclight wrote:I have a question:
Is there no dielectric liquid that could be used to transfer heat instead of H2O?
mortifiedPenguin wrote: As an overall brand, I'm pretty satisfied with XSPC's stuff... the rad, pump, block, and res are all from XSPC since I bought a kit but I don't think I'll be trying their tubing again. When I redo the loop I think I'll try out either DreamFlex or just use Tygon.
mortifiedPenguin wrote:So, to further the discussion:
Think my RX240 can dissipate two 7970s and a 2600k @ 4.8? For that matter... I wonder if my kit pump can handle it.
Arclight wrote:I have a question:
Is there no dielectric liquid that could be used to transfer heat instead of H2O?
SecretSquirrel wrote:Arclight wrote:I have a question:
Is there no dielectric liquid that could be used to transfer heat instead of H2O?
3M Fluorinert FC-84 or FC-72, but it cost several hundred dollars per liter.
Waco wrote:Water is best for a reason - it's heat capacity. There aren't any good alternatives.
As for dual 7970s and an overclocked i7 on a single RX240...that's pushing it a bit far. A single RX360 cooled my dual 4870X2s and an overclocked Phenom II X4, but not well. At high loads my water temperatures were a good 20-25 C over room temperature. I would imagine even a single 7970 and i7 would be pushing it unless you don't mind high water temps (in which case...why are you watercooling?).
I run dual 360mm radiators now (with 12 Yate Loon low speed fans) to keep my temperatures WAY down. Even at full load I don't see a 5 C delta over ambient.
I thought as much. I think I might want to start planning for a second rad then (pretty sure I have a D5 in my dual bay res). I think I can fit an RX120 or similar where the rear outtake fan is... assuming my Gentle Typhoons aren't in the way. Maybe add a second res for more water. Though going by Waco's comments, that probably won't be enough for a second 7970.cynan wrote:One 7970 and a 2600k would probably be fine, if you are not trying to overclock much beyond what you could do on air. 2x 7970s plus the CPU I think is a pushing it a bit - even with the RX.
That's... impressive. I don't suppose both those rads are internally mounted (I don't see your case in your sig).Waco wrote:I run dual 360mm radiators now (with 12 Yate Loon low speed fans) to keep my temperatures WAY down. Even at full load I don't see a 5 C delta over ambient.
cynan wrote:Are you talking 5 deg C delta in water temp? Surely not in CPU core temp
mortifiedPenguin wrote:That's... impressive. I don't suppose both those rads are internally mounted (I don't see your case in your sig).
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Here our label's vision and what were looking for, i you think you have the sound to be on ITR, please sont be shy to send us your track! i'll try to keep passing around here, but always a good idea to send it directly to us too! :-) "The original idea of InterTech Records is to build a type of "new" versatile style that could be playable in clubs and in raves as well. An hybrid style that has the rythmic, tribal feel and powerfull bassline of techno, but at a tempo range in between 130bpm to 134bpm about. With some tech-house feel and ambiance... so it's tech-house with attitude!!" cheers all! Alex @ ITR" http://soundcloud.com/inanna "Cariad Original and Cariad Dubstepish Mix (dubstep 4/4 kick) just uploaded. I run a label La Folia Recordings that is played and supported by Konrad Black, Luciano, Axel Barsch, Signal Delux, Sascha Funke and many others but I'm looking to release these on a different label, uk or european based. A label with more of a dubstep and ambient edge. 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Most Memorable Moments of 2013-14: No. 12July 3, 2014
For the first time, AUTrojans.com is counting down Anderson University athletics' 25 most memorable games, matches and meets from the 2013-14 academic year. This season's countdown began on Monday, June 16 and will continue throughout the summer.
Be sure to check AUTrojans.com during the offseason to relive all the highlights of another successful year at Anderson.
Seniors Propel Trojans Past Erskine in Extra Innings, 8-7
April 21, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Despite seeing archrival Erskine take leads in the ninth and 11th innings, Anderson University answered both deficits and captured an 8-7 walk-off victory as the program's seniors took part in their final home game Monday evening at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
With the victory, the Trojans close the regular season with a 19-30 overall record as they prepare for their first ever trip to the Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament on Thursday. Erskine drops to 32-12 overall as it heads into the Conference Carolinas Tournament later this week.
Anderson started nine seniors for the day, as the senior-led outfield of Nathan Galliford, Paul Como and Josh Hickman combined for eight of AU's 14 hits for the evening, highlighted by two extra-base hits from Galliford, including a walk-off double. Junior Ryan Mills, who started at first base, posted two hits, including a two-run double in the seventh inning.
Jonathan Zalud, who was also playing in his final game at Memorial Stadium, recorded a sixth-inning double, as the catcher has now tallied a hit in seven of his last eight contests. Seniors Ben Pendleton and Harrison Monda each nabbed a hit, while the duo combined for two RBI and two runs scored.
On the mound, senior right-hander Will Walls completed five innings and held the Flying Fleet scoreless on two hits. Walls faced just 20 Erskine hitters in the span and struck out three in his first start of the year. Freshman Hunter Crompton came into pitch in the sixth and shutdown the Erskine attack for three innings until the Fleet offense, which ranks first in Conference Carolinas in average (.341), came alive in the top-half of the ninth inning with six runs on six hits for their first lead of the contest.
Facing the deficit, Anderson answered with two outs in the bottom of the frame when Galliford split the right-center field gap with his first triple of the season. When Erskine tried to relay the ball from the outfield, the throw got away from the EC defense and Galliford scored on the defensive miscue. Unable to score following the run, the game headed into extra innings knotted up at 6-6.
After a scoreless 10th inning, the visitors found the scoreboard once again when substitute Hanlon Maivelett singled, bringing in Zack Jones and giving Erskine a one-run lead.
With the game on the line for the second time, AU responded in the bottom-half as Monda drew an inning-opening walk. Sophomore Steven Cooper came in to pinch hit on the ensuing at-bat and single to right field, advancing Monda to third.
Next, Mills sent a single through the right side, scoring Monda from third and placing Cooper on second. With an out in the inning, Galliford made the most of his final at-bat at Memorial Stadium with a double to left-center field, scoring Cooper and giving AU the win in its regular season finale.
For the second time this season, the Trojans outhit Conference Carolinas' top-hitting team, with a 14-13 advantage for the evening. Monday marked the 27th time the Trojan offense has recorded double figure hits for a game.
AUTrojans.com's Most Memorable Moments of 2013-14
25. Women's Tennis 6, Carson-Newman 3 – April 11, 2014
24. Setro Finishes Sixth at State Farm Intercollegiate – Oct. 14, 2013
23. Baseball 5, Southern Wesleyan 2 - March 5, 2014
22. Women's Cross Country Finishes 4th at SAC Championships - Oct. 14, 2013
21. Katie Eskew Earns All-Tournament Honors at Patsy Rendleman Invitational – Oct. 15, 2013
20. Men's Tennis 5, Erskine 4 - April 10, 2014
19. Men's Cross Country Finishes Third at SAC Championships – Oct. 26, 2013
18. Women's Soccer 1, Lincoln Memorial 0 – Oct. 19, 2013
17. Freshman Ben Boerma Sets School Record in 5000 meter (Outdoor) – March 21, 2014
16. Jones Drains Game-Winning Shot to Lift Trojans over Carson-Newman – Jan. 29, 2014
15. Men's Soccer 2, Young Harris 1 – Sept. 11, 2013
14. Swygert's Walk-Off Grand Slam Propels Trojans to Sweep of Tusculum - April 1, 2014
13. Women's Basketball 71, Lenoir-Rhyne 70 – Nov. 23, 2013
12. Baseball 8, Erskine 7 – April 21, 2014


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Published on Tue, May 21, 2013
The AIC's Executive Director, Ben Johnson, was quoted in an article in the New York Times. The article, titled "Veteran Senator Emerges as Player on Immigration Overhaul," focuses on Senator Orrin Hatch's role in the Senate Judiciary Committee's mark-up of the immigration bill.
"Though he backed away from immigration reform when he faced a tough primary challenge in 2012, many immigration advocates believe he is now ready to come around to their side.
"I think there is the political space now for Senator Hatch to talk about these issues that he has a track record of being supportive of," said Ben Johnson, the executive director of the American Immigration Council."
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MORRISTOWN - When that perfect onside kick takes just one bounce too many, it usually doesn't work. To the dismay of Union Local's vastly-improved Jets, their onside kick with 2:29 left was perfect, but not perfect enough.
With Austin Marshal and Devan Pyciak returning to the Buckeye Local backfield after missing last week's loss to Martins Ferry and the Panther defense held off a second half Union Local comeback to register a thrilling 18-16 win in Morristown Friday night.
Coach Phil Pest's Panthers covered a bouncing onside kick just seconds after the Jets cut the lead to a pair and held on to notch its fourth win in seven outings this season. Buckeye runs into the meat of its schedule starting next week when they travel to St. Clairsville to face the unbeaten Red Devils then follow that with games against once-beaten Indian Creek and Harrison Central.
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Mark Cisar's hard-working Jets fell to 1-6 on the season. They are in action on Saturday with an afternoon tilt at Bellaire.
"I thought we were going to roll after we started with a score after just three plays," Pest said after the game. "But we missed on a couple scoring opportunities early and our special teams gave up a a safety.
"We did have some bright moments out there. There was a couple nice Kirk to Duncan passes and Marshall ran the ball very well tonight. Austin Flaherty did a good job after moving to defensive tackle.
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Buckeye Local 18, Union Local 16
Buckeye Local 12 0 0 6 - 18
Union Local 0 2 7 7 - 16
BL - Pyciak 16 run. Kick failed.
BL - Marshall 1 run. Run failed.
UL - Safety
UL - Porter 19 run. Dunfee kick
BL - Marshall 4 run. Run failed.
UL - Porter 1 run. Dunfee kick.
RUSHING: Buckeye Local (49-189) - Marshall, 26-97-2; Pyciak, 11-50-1; Stock, 8-54; Kirk, 4-(1-14). Union Local (32-132) - Porter, 23-1072; Dunfee, 622; Blake, 2-14.
PASSING: Buckeye Local (5-8-96-0-1), all by Kirk. Union Local (11-18-157-0-0) - Porter, 10-17-117-0-0; Dunfee, 1-1-40-0-0
RECEIVING: Buckeye Local - Duncan, 4-96, Pyciak, 1-0. Union Local - James, 4-75; McDiffitt, 3-34; Kemp, 1-33; Dunfee, 2-18; Blake, 1-1
FIRST DOWNS: Buckeye Local, 15; Union Local, 12
PENALTIES: Buckeye Local, 1-5; Union Local, 4-58
PUNTING: Buckeye Local, 2-71-30.5; Union Local, 3-90-30.0
FUMBLES: Buckeye Local, 0-0; Union Local, 3-3
"Hats off to Union Local though.. He (Cisar) has them trying to win every week and there is no quit in them.
"We had to use a lot of subs out there on the line tonight. Our two starting tackles are out, so we have had to make some changes. Of course, we knew coming in that we were going to be lean and young on the line."
In the second half, UL put together its first scoring drive despite some big efforts on by the Panther defense. A big stop by Brian Zeroski and a QB sack by Dylan Dokes and Austin Flaherty was quite enough as the Jets drove 64 yards on 10 plays.
UL's scoring drive was highlighted by an 11-yard run by Tater Blake and passes of 10 and 17 yards from Gavin Porter to Kaleb McDiffitt and another for 16 yards to Travis James. Porter capped off the dive with a 19 blast through the middle with 2:17 left in the third. Dunfee booted the PAT.
After the ensuing kickoff, Buckeye bounced back with a long scoring drive that was bolstered by a near blocked punt that ended in the Panthers' Eric Bell recovered a fumble at the UL 45. Kirk quickly struck with a 29-yard toss to a diving Shane Duncan. Three plays later, Marshall covered four yards to score with 8:30 remaining.
Blake's fourth down QB sack with 4:32 on the board, set up the Jets final score. Starting from the UL 40, Porter connected on a 33-yarder to Austin Kemp and later for 15 yards to Dunfee to set up Porter's score from the one with 2:29 left. Dunfee booted the PAT.
UL's ensuing onside kick took three high bounces over the Panther players before Chase Hopkins covered the ball at the 32 and the Panthers managed to close out the clock.
"We had a game plan coming in and the kids knew what they had to do, but you can't start a game any worse than that," Cisar said afterwards. "We dropped two touchdowns. The kids played extremely well.
"I thought we moved the ball real well but we had a couple fumbles and dropped some passes. We are getting better every week. We are getting the effort from the kids and I can't ask for more than that."
Buckeye struck quickly, scoring in the first minute on a drive that was set up by Austin Marshall's 12-yard kickoff return to the Panther 27. Senior quarterback Nathan Kirk connected with standout receiver Shane Duncan on a 17-yard pass to the 44.
Kirk followed the pass to Duncan with a quick handoff to Andy Stock who swept the left side on a slick 40-yard along the sideline before being stopped at the 16. On the Panthers third offensive play, Devan Pyciak bulled trough the middle covering 16 yards for the score with 11:14 on the clock. The PAT kick was off the mark.
Defense stymied the offenses through the middle of the frame with Pyciak grabbing a Jet fumble to spark the Buckeyes, while a big stop by Jesse Keith stalled a Panther drive.
Buckeye regained possession on their own 42 with 6:03 on the first quarter clock. Staying on the ground with the exception of 27-yard toss from Kirk to Duncan, the Panthers put together an 11-play drive that culminated in a one-yard run for a score by Marshall with 052 left in the session. The Panther drive featured the running of Pyciak, Marshall, Stock and Kirk. Again the Panther PAT try came up short.


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Indoor Mini Golf back in Woodbury
|Mini golf opens in Woodbury this weekend. Credit: contributed
This year's Indoor Mini Golf Open will be held at the Woodbury Senior Community Center, beginning Friday at 10 a.m. and concluding Monday at 5 p.m.
The event will be open to all community members, including youth, families and seniors.
The nine-hole mini golf course, constructed by Charles Bartlett and a group of community volunteers, will offer challenges for young and old — including the opening and closing door on a replica of Woodbury's historic town hall, or a moving bridge near the blinking lighthouse.
Each area on the mini golf course will offer fun and a chance to prove one's skills.
As in the past, affordable fees will be available. Ages under 10 are $2 when accompanied by an adult; adults, when accompanying a child, and seniors are $3; teens and adults are $4.
Net proceeds will benefit Woodbury local charities.
For details, call 203-263-0430 or email cbartsbart@ charter.net.
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Featuring charming courtyards just steps from all Mont Tremblant has to offer resides Château Beauvallon, a luxury hotel blending casual elegance and country chic. This full-service hotel offers onsite fine dining and a scotch bar, as well as fitness facilities, indoor and outdoor hot tubs and swimming pools. Château Beauvallon guests enjoy services like concierge, valet and in-room spa treatments. Château Beauvallon offers spacious one-bedroom through four-bedroom suites with kitchenettes or full kitchens, dining tables, HDTVs, private balconies and fine linens. Bathrooms featured heated floors and separate showers and baths. Many suites offer countryside views. Additional amenities at Château Beauvallon include complimentary Wi-Fi, ski storage and banquet rooms.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A man has died after a shooting in southeast Topeka. Police continue to investigate the early Thursday morning shooting that killed him.
Topeka police officers used canines and canvassed the area for clues. Authorities got the call at 3:50 a.m. that a shooting victim was in the 2800 block of SE Highland Court.
Authorities arrived to find a 29-year-old Brian Andrews with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
A short distance from him, there was a car stopped against the front of 2854 SE Highland Ct., a duplex in the Pine Ridge housing. 13 News spoke with the man who lives there. He said knew Andrews personally and believes Andrews was looking for a safe place to hide before he was shot.
Andrews was taken to the hospital where police say he was pronounced dead.
Authorities blocked off Highland Court to the intersection of SE Gilmore and forced residents to stay inside for much of the day.
Police are awaiting autopsy results before releasing any further information. They're asking anyone with information to call Crimestoppers at 234-0007.


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Your work is true illustration, it shows literally your view on how you see the world around you. I love that you have the ability to do it. Its dark, crude, TRUE, sad and beautiful. thank you for sharing your work, and I hope to keep seeing more.
Nice work
Found you via Sketchswap. Loved the drawing there. Love the drawing here.
Your artwork is simply beautiful and AMAZING, i admire your imagination so much!
your art is so atmospheric! I absolutely love it! Please draw more))
Your work is not only excellent in art and style, but also in creating a social message! I love it! Thank you for blessing us with your art!
Your style is brilliant MI, i wish i could get my own style happening...Just wondering how many hours would you work on your illustrations a day?? Big Fan
Yeah of course! I'm not always the fastest, but I try to get back to people and I'll certainly give you whatever advice I can. I'm glad you're enjoying my work.
Thank you. That's a difficult question to answer, it varies wildly. I'm working pretty much every day though.
Yes I completely understand the whole finding your niche and skills over time, im yet to upload my work, but Im trying to get some stuff done everyday to find a unique style. One day if you would be ok with it, maybe i could get some advice on my work.
Once again, I think your work is very easy to enjoy, and a true inspiration to people like myself who are yet to hit the industry (as horrible as that sounds).


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In Control Panel, double click on the sound icon. You will see this screen:
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Select your USB audio device by clicking on it. It will be highlighted by a darkened background. To make it the default device click on the "Set Default" button. The default device is indicated by a green dot with a white check mark in it. Next, click on the "Properties" button.Figure 2
In the Playback General Window, you can name your device and pick an icon for it. This name is shown only in the Sound configuration application. Nothing is written to the device. In this case the ClearChat Comfort headset is the device being configured. There is no "Jack" information as USB Audio devices are seen by the Operating System as a Sound Card. At the top of the window are tabs for General, which you are currently in, Levels, Enhancements and Advanced. Click on the Levels tab.
Figure 3
You will see a "Speakers" volume slider with a speaker mute icon and a balance button and you may see a Microphone volume slide rand a mute icon if that is enabled on your device. Be sure to set the Speaker volume high enough to hear. Be sure that there is not a red line through the speaker icon. This indicates the headphones are muted. Unless you are running a mono application the balance settings do not need to be adjusted.
The "Microphone" volume slider and mute icon control the "sidetone" or voice feedback volume. This is NOT the microphone output volume. This is the feature that allows you to hear what you are saying through your own headset. Turning this up too loud can cause severe feedback of other sounds in your environment, such as game sounds from your speakers, music or even your own voice. If you do not like hearing this feedback simply click the feedback mute icon. Now click on the Enhancements tab.
Figure 4
You can change settings here to customize your listening experience. If you wish, you can reset to the original configuration which is no enhancements by clicking the "Restore Defaults" button. Now click the Advanced tab.
Figure 5
No changes are necessary for normal operation of your headset. If you wish, you can reset to the original configuration which is no enhancements by clicking the "Restore Defaults" button. Now click back to the "General" tab.
Figure 6
In this window, click on the "Properties" button.
Figure 7
Now click on the "Driver" tab.
Figure 8
As you can see the driver is provided Microsoft. This is the driver installed when the OS is installed. If you are having Audio issues, a simple remedy can be clicking the Uninstall button and reinstalling this driver. Click "OK" until you are back at the General window. Click on the " Recording" tab.
Figure 9
Click on your headset name and click the "Set Default" button. You will see a green circle with a check mark to denote this is the default recording device. Click on the "Properties" tab.
Figure 10
You can change the name for your device here from Logitech USB headset to the market name or nick name for your headset. You can change the icon here as well. As you can see there is no "jack" information as the USB device is a stand alone sound card. Click on the "Levels" tab.
Figure 11
As you can see there is one setting here. It is for microphone volume. If the volume is set too high you may experience feed back or squealing noise. There is also a microphone Mute button. If you wish to use the mic, do not have this muted. Muted is indicated by a red line through the speaker icon. A place to start for volume is 50 % and work higher as needed. This setting is not to be confused with the "Feedback" volume, discussed earlier. Now click on the "Advanced" tab.
Figure 12
There are no changes necessary here for normal operation. If you do change setting here and do not like them, you can revert to default settings by clicking "Restore Defaults". Click on the "General " tab, and then click on the "Properties" button.
Figure 13
Click the "Driver" tab.
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Microsoft is the provider of the driver for your Logitech USB headset.
Your Logitech headset is now ready to use.


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The Crystal Gallery collection has been expanded to include a cut crystal decoration which depicts an endearing family of penguins.
The crystal "Penguin Family" decoration is the result of the
The new "Penguin Family" figure w ill be issued in a limited
魔法鱼水晶为2012年限量水晶系列产品. 此款美
轮美奂产品由设计师Iva Pasecká成功设计.该天才
魔法鱼为水晶画廊系列, 该系列采用捷克经典切割
The cut crystal decoration of the "Blue Jay" is a limited edition piece for 2011 which has been launched in the Crystal Gallery collection. It
Blue Tit is a new addition to the Crystal Gallery collection and is a limited series ground class decoration for 2010. It is a most accomplished work from the studio of the successful artist Iva Pasecka.
This designer has long sought after a way in which to express the desire for happiness and love in life. It was indeed St. Valentine, the patron of all those in love, who led her to her inspiration. She recalled, you see, a short pearl of wisdom by St. Valentine, which says: "Should an unmarried girl wish to see what man life has in store for her, all she needs to do is watch the birds as they flock across the sky on St. Valentines day. If they see a blue tit, then the love of a very happy person will enter their life.
The new figures, "Blue Tit" are issued in a limited edition of 300 pcs.
A new collection of crystal tigers has been specially prepared for the year 2010. According to the Chinese horoscope, this is the year of the Tiger.
This is a wonderfully acomplished work of art from the studio of the successful artist Iva Pasecka. The artist chose this figure after searching for a symbol of masculitnity, courage and leadership, all of which the tiger trully symbolizes..
In Chinese mythology, the tiger is the symbol of strength and power. People born under this sign are very popular, intelligent, and attractive. As they are very confident in their own abilities, they are successful.
Our White Bengal Tiger is part of the 2009 Limited Edition Crystal Collection, a series of only 300 pieces.
Kingfishers come in a variety of sizes ranging from 10cm (4 inches) to 45cm (18 inches). Inspired by the River Kingfisher, or common kingfisher, our master artisan Iva Pasecká created this sparkling homage to one of the smallest species of this Alcedinidae family.
In Egyptian mythology these birds represent harmony. Ancient Egyptians believed that when they saw the characteristically blue-orange feathers of the kingfisher on the river shores it would bring peace and serenity to the home for forty days.
Our two River Kingfishers are part of the 2009 Limited Edition Crystal Collection, a series of only 500 pieces.
The Coral Reef Fish is the 2008 Limited Edition crystal figurine released as part of the Crystal Gallery Collection. Inspired by Francis Bacon's quote that "friendship multiplies happiness and halves grief" Veronika Běloušková designed this piece to express the theme of lifelong friendship and faithfulness. The two colourful companions swim together in perfect harmony underlining how true friendship is an inseparable part of human hapiness.
The cut crystall figurine Coral Reef Fish is a small celebration of true friendship that multiplies happiness with its brilliance and sparkle in every-day life.
The Coral Reef Fish is part of the Limited Edition Crystal Collection with only 500 pieces produced worldwide.
Designed by our very own Master Artisan Iva Pasecká, Two Parrots bring to life the fine elegance and magical brilliance of genuine Bohemian cut crystal. As in nature, these two love birds are huddled together in perfect harmony, personifying their Greek roots for their true name, Agapornis, which stems from the words agape and ornis, or love and bird.
Our two friends are special in another way as well.
Not only are they part of our exclusive Crystal Gallery series, but the two love birds are also part of the 2007 Limited Edition Crystal Collection of which there are only 500 pieces worldwide!
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I'm looking to buy an actual Shulchan Aruch, not a Kitzur. I already own the Artscroll Kitzur and, while it is an amazing work, doesn't help very much when I want to research the actual halacha, where it comes from, and how it applies to a Sefard like myself. Is there an edition out there which is the whole original Shulchan Aruch by Yosef Karo in Hebrew and English?
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Some partial English translation are available, see here:
But to answer your question, no there is no purchasable Hebrew/English Shulchan Aruch available. (If you just need Orach Chayim, the English translation of the Mishneh Berurah might suffice, although of course it lacks all of the other commentaries)
don't think there's. as jake mentioned there's a translation of the mishna berura, it covers orah haim. there are some parts but I also didn't find it all translated.
in any case my suggestion is to learn hebrew, even if there was a translation they are not always perfect as a general rule and more so to a book like shulhan aruch that each word is chosen and has dierent impact but no good relections in english, like using אין instead of asur. what I mean is that using a translation is like asking for someone to read it for you, you can get and idea but you are not really going to the source


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Islay Runs Dry
The whisky island of Islay is running on empty. The stills are being turned off as distilleries end whisky production for the foreseeable future. The oil has finally run out.
And it's nothing to do with the Middle East. To run their stills, the island's eight distillers are dependant on nine oil deliveries a year, brought to the island by sea.
An oil delivery scheduled for 17th November was turned back forcing distilleries to shut off their stills and close down production as supplies dwindled and finally ran out today.
250 barrels per day of new whisky are made on the island which equals to a liability of £988,000 of Alcohol Duty a day.
Despite benign conditions at the time the tanker returned to harbour without unloading. Since then, there has been a series of gales lashing the island preventing further supply.
A re-supply attempt is anticipated once a period of calm weather arrives. But that is not expected soon. Islay is buffeted by 25 gales a year from low pressure systems.
With no road tankers available for this type of oil delivery and exceptionally high freight charges by State-run ferry operator Calmac, there is no viable alternative source.
The cause is a piece of well-meaning European legislation that requires that enlarged, double skin tankers are used exclusively by 2008 to prevent spillage of oil at sea.
Argyll & Bute Council controversially spent £4m altering the existing pier despite strong local opposition claiming the design was not fit for the island's exposed Atlantic location.
To avoid the risk of pulling the new pier apart, the large new tankers are unable to unload their cargo except in totally calm weather conditions - which are rare in winter.
Bruichladdich Distillery Managing Director Mark Reynier:
"Shell have left the island in the lurch. They approved the pier as fit for purpose when it plainly isn't. The island needs distilling - and distilleries need oil."
"This isn't the Mediterranean; this is the North Atlantic. It is windy here especially during the winter. We did warn them. The whole new pier scheme has been a fiasco."
"We managed to finish our 2006 Islay-grown Bere barley distillation overnight before running out - but it was touch and go. To have lost that harvest would have been disastrous."
"Luckily we installed a new boiler in the spring. Duncan, Bruichladdich's distillery manager and engineering genius, will hopefully be able to adapt it to run diesel."
"With £1m worth of alcohol Duty a day is being lost. I wonder what the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have to say?"


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Why does Unix time start at 1970-01-01? Why not 1971-01-01 or any other date?
I wouldn't have known the answer except google was there for me:
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Because Unix was born in 1970. So no file can be created before 1970-01-01. Therefore 1970-01-01 is an ideal start time.
@Shen Unix isn't born in 1970.
I like the question :-)
Let me attempt to answer it (ofcourse source: internet)
Unix Time is represented by a 32 bit whole number (an integer) that can be positive or negative (signed). Unix was originally developed in the 60s and 70s so the "start" of Unix Time was set to January 1st 1970 at midnight GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) - this date/time was assigned the Unix Time value of 0. This is what is know as the Unix Epoch.
A 32 bit signed integer can represent whole numbers between -2147483648 and 2147483647. Since Unix Time starts at 0, negative Unix Time values go back in time from the Epoch and positive numbers go forward in time. This means that Unix Time spans from Unix Time value of -2147483648 or 20:45:52 GMT on December 13th 1901 to Unix Time value of 2147483647 or 3:14:07 GMT on January 19 in 2038. These dates represent the beginning, the pre-history and the end of Unix Time.
The end of Unix Time will occur on January 19, 2038 03:14:07 GMT. On January 19, 2038 03:14:08 GMT all computers that still use 32 bit Unix Time will overflow. This is known as the "Year 2038 problem". Some believe this will be a more significant problem than the "Year 2000 problem". The fix for the Year 2038 problem is to store Unix Time in a 64 bit integer. This is already underway in most 64 bit Operating Systems but many systems may not be updated by 2038.


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The emails are particularly focused on American riders. Mr. Landis said in them that during his career, he and other American riders learned how to conduct blood transfusions, take the synthetic blood booster Erythropoietin, or EPO, and use steroids. Mr. Landis said he started using testosterone patches, then progressed to blood transfusions, EPO, and a liquid steroid taken orally.
I very much want to believe he's making this all up, but it seems a little to naive to think this kind of thing wasn't (isn't?) going on in professional cycling.


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January 17, 2013
What's new in Cape Town
The festive season in Cape Town saw quite a few newbies pop up in the city, much to our delight. Here is a list of the latest and greatest in food, fashion and frozen yoghurt:
Lionshead Bar
Don't expect to find pretty decor here. This is your typical guy hangout, or man cave, minimalist and functional, serving everything a man's heart desires, from biltong to beer. The bar offers a wide array of craft beers, homemade biltong, cured meats and real Mexican tequila. The best part is the hidden courtyard inside, with a dartboard and video games to play. On the cocktail menu is a local favourite, the Maroela Mampoer, but coffee and milkshakes are also served for the more conservative drinker. In the evenings, live music gigs happen here too – proof that Lionshead is a bona fide drinking hole.
Opening times: Tuesday-Saturday, 15h00-02h00
103 Bree Street
Wakaberry Frozen Yoghurt Bars
In the nick of time for the summer season, Wakaberry descended on Cape Town in November 2012, opening two stores: one in the city centre and one in the Southern Suburbs. There's a wide range of flavours here (including Red Velvet!), with the unique aspect of this yoghurt bar being that you serve yourself, and pay per weight. Customers can pick and choose their flavours on tap, and decorate with toppings accordingly. With so many options on offer, you might end up with more toppings than yoghurt (I speak for myself).
Opening times: Monday-Sunday, 09h00-21h00 (Rondebosch); Monday-Thursday, 10h00-23h00, Friday-Sunday, 10h00-midnight (city centre)
47 Dean Street, Rondebosch / Shop 2, 98 Kloof Street, City Centre
Paul Smith
Adding even more fashion credibility to Cape Town's Bree Street, Paul Smith, the iconic UK menswear retailer, has opened on the corner of Wale and Bree Streets. Their focus is less formal, and more on leisure wear for both men and women. The bright blue building is hard to miss, and is soon to become familiar sight in Cape Town.
Opening times: Monday-Friday, 09h00-18h00; Saturday, 09h00-14h00; public holidays, 09h00-14h00
137 Bree Street
Waterfront Market on the Wharf
This is a food bazaar on steroids. You can find anything and everything here, as long as it's fresh from the farm, organic and edible. The market is situated at the V&A Waterfront's old Power Station, with over 60 carefully selected traders to ensure the highest quality control. You can also sample a wide array of cooked foods from various parts of the world here, with pop-up kitchens creating delicacies to delight you.
Opening times: Wednesday-Sunday, 09h30-19h00
Dock Road, V&A Waterfront
This is an amazing double-volume design space, with a very relaxed and liveable feel. A combined restaurant, art gallery and clothing store, Latitude33 is another great addition to the "Bree Street Collective". An added bonus: a local favourite, Truth coffee, is also served here. It's inspired by the owners' surf trips to Bali, who hoped to bring the laidback lifestyle to their Cape Town store, which I believe they have succeeded in doing. The eatery serves breakfast and lunch, and delicious baked goods. They also have a fireplace, beanbags, a library and free Wi-Fi. What more could you ask for?
Opening times: Monday-Friday, 07h00-16h00
165 Bree Street
Shimmy Beach Club
You will find that the V&A Waterfront does not lack for much, and that now includes its very own exclusive beach Club. Shimmy Beach opened there in December 2012, and is already a hot spot to visit for locals and visitors alike. It boasts a restaurant, bar and club right on the water's edge, with an infinity pool and sun loungers to enjoy beach life in style. And the best part? The cocktails are just a waiter's call away. It even has a whiskey room and champagne bar, and if you're into house music, the dance floor opens after 10pm.
Opening times: Tuesday-Sunday, 12h30-late (lunch: 12h30-14h00; dinner: 19h00-21h30)
South Arm Road , V&A Waterfront
Food Lover's Market in St George's Mall
There's an exciting addition for those looking for healthy and fresh food in the CBD: the Food Lover's Market has everything you need and it's a stone's throw from the Cape Town Tourism Visitor's Centre in Burg Street (good news for tourists and for locals working in the CBD.) Situated in Newspaper House in St George's Mall, the food emporium works on a pay-by-weight system, with ready-made salads, pastas, pizza and sandwiches on offer. There is also a sit-down sushi bar and coffee area to enjoy lunch.
Opening times: Monday-Friday, 07h00-18h30; Saturday, 07h00-17h00
Ground Floor, Newspaper House, 122 St George's Mall
Agua Dreamz
A bikini shop in the Bo-Kaap? Yes, it's true! And it has some lovely things in it, all imported from Brazil and Colombia. You can expect to find the most exotic creations here, and in the most colourful setting of our historical Bo-Kaap district. Colombian swimwear brand Agua Bendita and the Brazilian brand Sobral are found exclusively in this store. Opening mid-January 2013, this is the newest and hottest addition to Cape Town's boutique offerings.
Opening times: Monday-Friday, 10h00-17h00; Saturday, 10h00-14h00
142 Buitengracht Street, Bo-Kaap


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How to sum the following series $$\frac {x} {2!(n-2)!}+\frac {x^{2}} {5!(n-5)!}+\frac {x^{3}} {8!(n-8)!}+\dots +\frac {x^{\frac{n}{3}}} {(n-1)!}$$ n being a multiple of 3.
This question is from a book, i did not make this up. I can see a pattern in each term as the ith term can be written as $\frac {x^i}{(3i-1)!(n+1-3i)!}$
but i am unsure what it going on with the indexing variable's range. Any help would be much appreciated ?


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An application has the following logic:
- client => created *.cpp => sent to the server => cl.exe + *.cpp =
- client => created *.cs => sent to the server => csc.exe + *.cs =
- client => created *.pas => sent to the server => PascalCompiler +
*.pas = *.exe
- etc.
The language - C#. I hear that MSBUILD can help me, but I don't understand how to change compiler on server at runtime. Does anyone know of options other than Process class?
I'm trying to write an online system to test programs in programming contests. The programmer selects the compiler and sends the source code to the server for verification.
And I do not need to build the project, I just need to compile a single file.