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We remember seeing our first Weber-carburetor setup on a V8, probably some time in the mid to late '70s and very likely the work of Inglese. Back then, a rack of four IDA or IDF two-barrels on a small-block Ford was pretty lofty stuff--the height of trick for trick's sake. Inglese became the go-to name for making that stuff run and pretty soon had manifolds and complete carb-and-linkage kits for many other V8s. The company still sells plenty of that stuff. In 2007, Inglese was bought by the Comp Performance Group, and while we can't say we weren't initially befuddled at the news, the reason is now clear: When you own the FAST fuel-injection company, you can make throttle-bodies that bolt on like Weber carbs and can be used with all those trick, eight-barrel intake manifolds to create a hard-core wow factor. You get to have that old-school look--but with a classier, more sports-car vibe than that of a Hilborn-style stack injection--with the efficiency and driveability of electronic fuel injection. Control the injectors in those eight throttle bodies with the FAST EZ-EFI self-learning electronics, and you get decent power and driveability without having to be an OE-level computer tuner.
When we first saw the EZ-EFI version of the Inglese Eight Stack setup, it was obvious it was made for our Race Rod project car, the Factory Five Racing '33 Hot Rod we built in five days back in the spring of 2009. That car has a 415hp Ford Racing Boss 347 crate motor that's been running a Holley 750-cfm HP carb on an Edelbrock Victor Jr. intake for three years. The 2,300-pound car with that engine combined with a Tremec TKO600 five-speed and a Ford 8.8-inch rear with 3.73:1 gears is as brutal as you would expect--it won't hook up at all on the street, but that makes it a lot of fun.
Inglese sent us the Eight Stack kit, and after studying it awhile, we installed it on the Race Rod's small-block. We went to our long-time pal, Joey Granatelli, at Granatelli Motor Sports in Oxnard, California, for the installation, knowing he had some real-world experience with the system. It comes with everything needed, save for the fuel lines and fittings. It has the high-pressure electric fuel pump and filter, a wiring harness, injectors (sized to the power level you state), the EZ-EFI controller (that you don't need a laptop computer to use), and everything else you need to install it in place of a carb. The fuel fittings and lines cost us almost $400 at Hawaii Racing in Moorpark, California.
The installation requires little more than an intake-manifold swap and some wiring. The computer must be wired directly to the battery. A junction block, cutoff switch, or anything in the system other than the actual battery terminals on the battery will probably create problems. Ask us how we found out--twice. Also, pay attention to the wiring diagram in the instructions, and follow it to the letter. We learned the hard way and took two days to figure out that you must wire the injector/start circuit to a circuit that has 12 volts at both key-on and crank. Our problem was we'd turn the key on, the fuel pump would come on, the fuel pressure would be fine, and the injectors would cycle as they should--but then we'd fire the car, it would bark once, and never start again. We'd pour fuel down the throats of the stacks, hit the key, and it would fire up and run. What was happening was that the raw fuel we dumped in would fire the engine and run long enough to let go of the key and return the computer to 12 volts, and then everything would run OK. The issue was that we had it wired to a circuit that went dead during crank, so when we hit the key, it wouldn't fire the injectors and therefore wouldn't fire the engine, unless we manually dumped fuel into it. Quickly changing the main power wire to the EZ-EFI computer fixed that, and the car now fires right every time--hot or cold--and settles into a smooth idle, even dead cold, that we never could generate with the choke-less carb.
However, one thing that must be pointed out about the idle is that while it is dead steady, it's high. Because of the combined cfm of the eight 50mm throttle-bodies, we cannot get it to idle below 1,400 rpm. The idle screw is backed all the way out, but due to the massive amount of airflow through those throttle-bodies, even closed, it won't idle down. While it is idling, you can stick your fingers in the bores and physically push the blades closed, and it'll drop about 400 rpm, but it won't return there via a realistic throttle return spring. In this car, it's not a big deal. In a regular driver, it might bug you.
Power-wise, we were shocked at how much better the Inglese system was over the four-barrel. We had tuned the carb with an Innovate air-fuel meter mounted inside the car to around 12.5–13.5 a/f ratio, and when we ran it on Grantelli's dyno, it was near perfect. While our single-plane intake was almost certainly giving up torque compared with a dual-plane, we thought the very short stacks of the Inglese system (you can get them a few inches longer, but we were concerned about hood clearance) would murder low- and mid-range torque. Instead, the EFI on the individual-runner Inglese intake made way more torque in both places than did the carburetor. Peak numbers were also surprisingly up by 26 hp and 11 lb-ft, but the mid-range torque was much better, and the car is even more of an animal to drive.
That really shocked us. But looking at the air/fuel numbers from the dyno runs with the carb, it wasn't a tuning issue at all. The Inglese system just made more power over the entire curve. It also starts immediately, idles smoothly (though high), has improved gas mileage by a totally unscientific 5–6 mpg, and looks a thousand times cooler. At $4,000 and change (not counting fuel system parts), it's more expensive than even the priciest race carb and intake on the market, but not too much pricier than an Inglese system with Weber carbs.
In our first cruise night at the legendary Bob's Big Boy in Toluca Lake/Burbank, California, the car drew a lot more attention with those EFI stacks than it ever did with the old Holley chrome air filter. That attention, better driveability, better mileage, and less cold-start hassle has us sold.
Weber Carb Info
Weber carburetors are the brainchild of Edoardo Weber, an Italian who founded the company in the early '20s. The carbs were used on many Italian cars, and when Weber himself died in 1945, Fiat acquired the carburetor company and still owns it under the Magneti Marelli division. In the U.S., the companies most known for swapping the Weber carbs onto V8s are Inglese and Redline.
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01 The Holley 750 on an Edelbrock Victor Jr. single-plane intake has performed well, even considering our initial way-fat mixture setup (look at the main body's blackness). We fixed that condition before the baseline tests.02 The Inglese kit comes with a high-pressure inline fuel pump, billet filter (not shown), FAST regulator, pressure gauge, and wiring harness. You'll have to provide fuel fittings and lines.03 We mounted the fuel pump and filter on the framerail with clamps and wired it according to the instructions. Our existing fuel system had a stock 5.0 Mustang–style pre-filter near the tank, so we retained it and have had no issues.04 The fuel system must have a return line, which was difficult to install on our Factory Five Hot Rod's impossible-to-get-to fuel tank (to access the top of the tank, the body would have to come off--c'mon!). We plumbed the return into the fill neck right near the tank, which is fine since the cap is sealed tight and the return goes straight into the top of the tank. A muscle car with a droppable fuel tank wouldn't be nearly as hard.05 The fuel-pressure gauge and regulator were mounted low in the engine bay just after the pump to be easily visible. We set the regulator to 40 psi, according to the instructions.06 We had to get a longer throttle cable to mate up to the bellcrank mounted in the middle of the intake, between the injectors. Make sure to securely fix the cable to its mount here. We learned the hard way that if it's not tight enough, the cable will pop loose, meaning you have to remove the fuel rails, take a dose of high-pressure fuel in your face, and then set it again. Since that lesson was learned, it's been fine.The fuel rails can be flipped so the fuel enters from the front of the engine or the rear; we kept it clean and went in from the rear. We used AN fittings and black push-lock hose for the whole system.It's electronic fuel injection, so a wideband oxygen sensor (included) must be plumbed into the exhaust as close to the header collector as possible.
The instructions advise mounting the EZ EFI computer at least 2 feet away from an ignition box, but our short street-rod wiring harness and tiny interior didn't allow that, so we mounted it to the firewall, just under the MSD 6 box hidden behind that panel. It hasn't been a problem.This EZ-EFI handheld tuner is used to plug in some basic information like engine size, injector size, and a few other parameters. Once that's done, the engine should fire right up. Once we figured out our wiring issues (see the body text), it did. You can unplug this unit at any time--the car doesn't need it to run--but it shows air/fuel ratio, temperatures, fuel trim, and some other stuff, so it's nice to have. Granatelli mounted it under the dash in a very sano way, and we plug it into our generic parts-store cigarette lighter outlet.It's a thing of beauty, isn't it? You'll want to drive the car around for a week or two so the computer can learn the engine and it's different wants. But even right away, the thing fires right up and idles great, if not a little too high.On the Grantelli Motor Sports Mustang chassis dyno, the carbureted engine put down 343.6 hp at 5,703 rpm and 325.3 lb-ft at 5,250. That was with an average air/fuel ratio across the pull of 12.7:1. With the Inglese/EZ-EFI setup, air/fuel averaged 13.1 and the power picked up to 369.6 at 6,134 rpm and 336.8 lb-ft at 5,215.


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I am thinking of proposing to setup a stack exchange clone at our company intranet. The idea is to have a place where anybody can ask a question about anything work related, especially about our IT systems, in-house software, internal processes and whatnot.
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In the phrase "baker's dozen", why does the apostrophe indicate possession of a (single) baker? Shouldn't it indicate possession of all bakers in general? Shouldn't it be "bakers' dozen"?
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Because the dozen isn't the collective property of all bakers, but of a generic baker. It's the same reason it's a carpenter's square, a driver's license, or a greengrocer's apostrophe.
You see both farmer's market and farmers' market because there are several farmers selling at a farmers' market, so you can also think of it as a market that collectively belongs to these farmers.
It is a particular "dozen" of a particular person, an individual baker — it is the "dozen of a baker," 12+1 items. The phrase is not about a group of bakers coming together to count out a dozen, or about the total number of "dozens" of the n bakers in existence, which would be (12+1)n items.
I have heard the label genitive of source applied to this construction; the 's indicates an origin or dependency which affects the meaning of the phrase. It is actually quite common in English: we may say it's a man's world but never it's a men's world, even though the former could be interpreted as saying the world belongs to an individual man. Consider expressions like soft as a baby's bottom (not babies' bottoms) or rare as hen's teeth (not hens' teeth). We wear soldier's caps, collect a day's pay, and live a dog's life.
If you know the origin of the expression you realize that the "dozen" belongs to the occupation of being a "baker" rather than to an individual baker.
So "A baker's dozen" should be understood as A + (baker's dozen) where "baker's dozen" is seen as an expression meaning thirteen rather than as (A baker)'s dozen.
It refers to a particular baker. Since we are concerned with 12+1, the collectivity of bakers is not important so we start with the origin which is one baker.


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Lawmakers grilling Mary Jo White, President Barack Obama's nominee for chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, on Tuesday will have to weigh two seemingly contradictory versions of the attorney.
In one version, Ms. White is a no-holds-barred crime fighter known for stretching the law to jail mob bosses and international terrorists. In another, Ms. White is a friend of Wall Street who worked for the past decade for the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where she represented giant banks such as J.P. Morgan Chase JPM -0.20 % & Co.
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When Ms. White first took the job on June 1, 1993, the investigation into the World Trade Center bombing had already begun. She had been briefed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation about an undercover probe into suspected terrorists who were plotting to bomb major U.S. landmarks, said Matthew Fishbein, an attorney who worked alongside Ms. White at the time.
In late June, the FBI arrested eight members of the terrorist ring. Sheik Abdel Rahman was later detained on charges of violating immigration laws. Ms. White faced a tough decision: She could indict the Egyptian cleric for plotting to blow up major U.S. landmarks or seek to throw him out of the country for lying on his entry documents.
The sheik wasn't an operative in the bomb plot and he had never set foot in the Queens safe house where a group of his followers were caught on videotape mixing a bomb. And prosecutors didn't have today's laws for locking up terrorists before they act to kill Americans.
Some high-level law-enforcement officials feared that losing in court would hand the cleric a victory against the U.S. he could use to recruit more followers. Meanwhile, convicting him could turn him into a martyr. Some believed deporting Mr. Abdel Rahman was the "easy out," said Robert Khuzami, the SEC's former enforcement chief who was one of the lead prosecutors on the case.
Ms. White, Mr. Khuzami and another prosecutor made the case for indicting the cleric for the plot at a high-level meeting at the Justice Department in Washington, according to people familiar with the meeting.
At least two Justice Department officials raised concerns that the case infringed on the sheik's First Amendment rights to free speech.
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Soon after, she charged Mr. Abdel Rahman with violating a Civil War-era statute outlawing plots against the U.S., a law that had been used only once in the modern era.
In October 1995, a federal jury convicted Mr. Abdel Rahman for the bomb plot.
At about that time, Ms. White started putting together the first full-time terrorism prosecution unit in the country. Prosecutors in the unit flew to Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Jordan and elsewhere hunting leads on terrorists alongside agents from the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Gil Childers, the lead prosecutor in the case against the planners of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
They soon started investigating Osama bin Laden. In 1998, Ms. White charged him with masterminding a conspiracy to blow up U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and with plotting to kill Americans outside the U.S.
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Why does it seem like a broken magnet's poles flip?
I have experienced that if we break a bar magnet into two pieces and try to bring those broken faces together it gets repelled each other. Why is it so?
consider a bar magnet,
$NN$ for north pole and $SS$ for south pole.
I broke that into two pieces, So one piece would be
$ NN--SS'$ and another piece would be $'NN--SS$ .( $'$ indicates the broken part).
Now if I bring those two together, $SS'$ of first should attract the $'NN$ of the other. But in the reality it is getting repelled.
or is there any pole exchange occuring? $$NN--------SS$$
gives either $$NN---SS'$$ and $$'SS---NN$$ OR $$SS---NN'$$ and $$NN'---SS$$
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Please explain why is this happening?
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8. Christmas stockings hung with care, holiday table runners, holiday placemats – all of them can be sealed up until post Thanksgiving in a space saving bag.
9. It's All Saints Day, the day after October 31st. November 1st comes around and the ghouls and goblins need to be banished until next season. Halloween costumes can be tucked into the attic inside of a space saving bag.
10. Guest bedding doesn't need to be covering the guest bed year round. Store them in a space saving bag and save space in your linen closet for the bedding you use all the time.


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ROWLAND, Rick, 60, of Wintersville, Ohio died Sunday, January 13, 2013 at Valley Hospice North. He was born June 7, 1952, in Steubenville, Ohio.
Rick was a 1970 graduate of Wintersville High School and 1974 graduate of Fairmont State University. In 1978 he joined his father in the operation of Rowland Nationwide Insurance Agency and later merged with Daily Agency from which he retired in 2001. Rick was a member of Unionport U.M. Church, Life Underwriters and Dapper Dan. An avid golfer with a five handicap, he had held membership at both Steubenville and Cadiz Country Clubs.
Rick is survived by his parents Eugene E. "Skip" and M. Jeanette "Nep" Wood Rowland of Bloomingdale; brother Ron (Pat) Rowland; sister Lynn (Charlie) Hlusko; nephews Ryan and Adam Rowland and niece Katelyn Hlusko all of Fairmont, WV.
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Preceding Rick in death were his brother Randy and grandparents Ralph and Estelle Wood and Archie and Emma Rowland.
Friends may call at Dunlope-Shorac Funeral Home in Wintersville on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. until the time of a Celebration of Life Service at noon with Pastor Chuck Mehl and Rev. Bill Hibbs co-officiating. Private burial.
In lieu of flowers, the Rowland Family strongly suggests memorials be directed to Valley Hospice, Inc., 10686 State Route 150, Rayland, OH 43943. www.valleyhospice.org
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Given a number field $K$, when is its Hilbert class field an abelian extension of $\mathbb{Q}$? I am going to be on the road soon, so pleas don't be offended if I don't respond quickly to a comment.
The genus class field of an extension $K/F$ is defined to be the largest extension $L/K$ with the following properties:
Thus the quick answer to your question is: the Hilbert class field of $K$ is abelian over ${\mathbb Q}$ if and only if the Hilbert class field of $K$ coincides with its genus class field.
The not-so-quick answer would tell you more about the construction of the genus class field. For abelian extensions of the rationals, the construction is easy: everything you'd like to know should be contained in Frölich's book
Basically you will have to look for the largest abelian extension of ${\mathbb Q}$ with the same conductor as $K/{\mathbb Q}$.
Obivously, if the Hilbert class field $H$ of $K$ is abelian over $\mathbb Q$, then $K$ (which is a subfield of $H$) must be abelian over $\mathbb Q$. So suppose that this is the case. In general, there is then a maximal subfield of $H$ that is abelian over $\mathbb Q$; call it $F$. It certainly contains $K$, and is called the genus field of $K$. By class field theory $Gal(F/K)$ is a quotient of the class group $Cl(K)$ of $K$. Which quotient? At least when $Gal(K/\mathbb Q)$ is cyclic, it is the maximal quotient on which $Gal(K/\mathbb Q)$ acts trivially.
If $K$ is quadratic then $Gal(K/\mathbb Q)$ acts on $Cl(K)$ by inversion, so $F/K$ corresponds to the maximal 2-elementary abelian quotient of $Cl(K)$. In particular, in this case $F = H$ if and only if $Cl(K)$ is an elementary abelian 2-group. (E.g. $\mathbb Q(\sqrt{-5})$, whose class group is of order 2.)
Is there a good/intuitive way to generate a stock of examples of non-abelian unramified extensions? The only examples I know of are a bit unintuitive (eg in Janusz's book). Intuition might suggest to start looking at Galois extensions with group equal to semi-direct products. I was originally interested in this question by the necessity of "ab" on the rhs of $H^{1} (X_{Zar}\,, \mathcal{O}_{X} ^ {*}) = \pi_{1} ^{ab} (X), \; \; X = Spec\; \mathcal{O}_K$ ` (re-interpretation of unramified global cft).
I happened to come across this question again today. In some cases at least, the Hilbert class field $H$ of an abelian extension $K$ of $\mathbf{Q}$ will have to be abelian over $\mathbf{Q}$ for purely algebraic reasons.
Let $F$ be any field, $K|F$ an abelian extension of group $G=\mathrm{Gal}(K|F)$ and containing a primitive $n$-th root of unity for some $n>1$, $\omega:G\to(\mathbf{Z}/n\mathbf{Z})^\times$ the cyclotomic character giving the action of $G$ on $\mu_n$, and $H|K$ an abelian extension of exponent dividing $n$. Then $H=K(\root n\of D)$ for some subgroup $D\subset K^\times/K^{\times n}$, by Kummer theory. It can be checked that $H|F$ is galoisian if and only if $D$ is $G$-stable. When such is the case, the conjugation action of $G$ on $\mathrm{Gal}(H|K)$ coming from the short exact sequence $$ 1\to\mathrm{Gal}(H|K)\to\mathrm{Gal}(H|F)\to G\to1 $$ is trivial if and only if $G$ acts on $D$ via $\omega$. In this situation ($H=K(\root n\of D)$ for some subgroup $D\subset(K^\times/K^{\times n})(\omega)$), a sufficient condition for $H$ to be abelian over $F$, is that the order of $G$ be prime to $n$, because then $\mathrm{Gal}(H|F)=\mathrm{Gal}(H|K)\times\mathrm{Gal}(K|F)$.
I'm sure this situation can be realised when $F=\mathbf{Q}$, for example when the finite abelian extension $K$ has odd degree $[K:\mathbf{Q}]$, $n=2$, the class group of $K$ has order ($1$ or) $2$, and $H$ is the Hilbert class field of $K$. In this case the extension $H|\mathbf{Q}$ will be necessarily abelian.
I think $K$ has to be an abelian extension of $\mathbb{Q}$ of class number one. Because if the Hilbert class field is abelian over $\mathbb{Q}$, then it is contained in a cyclotomic field, so $K$ itself is inside that cyclotomic field so $K$ is abelian, but an extension of fields inside a cyclotomic field is always ramified (not 100% sure here but I think it's OK) so the Hilbert class field cannot be a proper extension of $K$.
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Salvation Army in Africa Considers Response to Ivory Coast Refugee Situation
Friday, April 15, 2011
As a result of the constitutional crisis in the Ivory Coast, many people are fleeing to neighboring Liberia and Ghana for safety. Since there is no Salvation Army presence in the Ivory Coast, The Salvation Army's Ghana Territory and Liberia Command are both determining how to best respond.
Our personnel along the border have described the distressing condition of hundreds of escapees who have recently crossed into Ghana, saying, "They have little clothing, shelter or personal resource."
The Salvation Army of Liberia sent a team of three officers to the border where more than 30,000 refugees had been registered by the United Nations High Council for Refugees (UNHCR). The team reported that conditions for the refugees were very poor and that there is a great need for food, water, bedding, medicine and clothes – particularly with the rainy season ahead.
Leaders from both countries have applied to Salvation Army International Headquarters for funding so they can begin work with the refugees.


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Southington, Prep to finally play 'LL' title game
Pending a survey of the playing surface and facility at West Haven High by members of the CIAC football committee, the thrice-delayed Class LL football championship game between Southington and Fairfield Prep will be played at West Haven tonight at 6:35.
"The folks at West Haven have done a tremendous job under difficult conditions to get the field and facility ready for competition," stated CIAC Associate Executive Director Paul Hoey on Wednesday.
"We are excited that the weather seems to have finally cooperated, and that Fairfield Prep and Southington will be able to play and determine a Class LL champion."
The game, originally slated for Central Connecticut State University, was postponed Saturday because of the snowstorm, and rescheduled for Sunday and then Monday at West Haven. But poor field conditions and ice around the facility prompted the CIAC to repeatedly postpone the game.
Tickets purchased online for the game will be honored, and presale tickets can still be purchased at www.ciacsports.ticketleap.com.
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According to the National Association of College Stores, every textbook dollar goes toward the expenses of the publishers, the author, shipping costs and the operations of the college store. (WRDW-TV / July 27, 2011)
TEXOMA -- The steady rise of college textbook prices is a concern for many Texoma students starting college this week. This Mom's Everyday Money segment, focuses on ways your college student can work around these increased costs.
Today the average amount college students spend on textbooks has soared from about $900 a year to almost $1,300 in just the past three years. That's according to 20 Million Minds, a foundation that aims to reduce textbook costs.
College students like Abdurrahman Allawala, a senior at Austin College in Sherman, have ways to cover these increased prices.
"I've been really blessed with a great internship over the summer and they paid for a lot," he said. "It's how I was able to buy textbooks, it's how I was able to fund a lot of what I'm doing now. My parents have also been a great help but my internship really helped me out.
But for students like Austin College senior Sameen Wajid, it's been a different road. "I worked part time and that's how I funded all of my texbooks," she said.
A report by the Government Accountability Office, attributes the rise in textbook prices to several factors including publishers charging higher prices by adding supplemental products, or supplying books with cheap production cost such as a loose leaf paper format but still selling each for over $100.
Bookstore employee and Austin College senior Blake Barnes says the book store there is sympathetic to this dilemna. Besides selling new and used books, the bookstore also offers a rental service along with digital textbooks.
"So there's about four different options that you can use," said Blake. "Just depending upon if you want to actually purchase the book and keep it versus if you just want to rent it and still use it and mark it if you just want to keep on your ipod or iphone or your tablet whatever you want."
Not everyone is a fan of electronic books. Abdurrahman said he didn't like the fact that he wasn't able to highlight and the software wasn't compatible for all computers. "I can understand for copyright reasons the reasons why they didn't allow that," he added. "I just thought they'd be a little bit more open-sourced friendly but I know they're making changes."
Still, bookstore employees say e-books and rentals are still popular options. Sameen especially likes rental books.
"I rent instead of buying because it's easier," said Sameen. "You can get the books right here in the store the same day your professor assigns like two chapters for you to read and so I just rent it and that way they allow you to highlight and take notes in the textbook. It's very convenient."
Finally, another option is found outside the university. Robert Crowley Branch Manager at one of Denison's American Bank of Texas says students with savings accounts can have more peace of mind when it's time to buy textbooks.
"We can help you come up with a plan to maybe raise your savings amount that you put back each month and we'd be happy to help you look at your financial picture and see if we can provide some information for you," Crowley said.
And if you don't already have one, he advises you to open a savings account as soon as possible and "the best thing to do is just to make monthly contributions or weekly contributions."
For more information on how you can set up a savings account for your college student's textbook and other college fees, call American Bank of Texas in Denison at (903) 463-3510 or visit http://www.abtexas.com for other Texoma locations and lobby hours.
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Below is my pagination code. It can be seen in action at this link. When I start on page one it displays the first 3 pages and page 9 (the last page). When I go to the second it displays the first 4 and page 9. I find this to be odd behavior and expect the numbers to be added in a traditional behavior, like that code found on CSS tricks. Does anybody know what I've done incorrectly in my code below?
// the block for pagination
global $wp_query;
$big = 999999999; // need an unlikely integer
echo paginate_links(
'base' => str_replace( $big, '%#%', get_pagenum_link( $big ) ),
'format' => '?paged=%#%',
'current' => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
'total' => $wp_query->max_num_pages


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The outside temperature was somewhere between the hot and cold that blows on the inside through the car's vents. I know the condensate is on my side because I can reach forward and write on it with my finger. When I blow hot air on it, it stays there, but when I blow cold air on it, it disappears. I would have thought blowing hot air on it would give the water molecules enough energy to escape the surface and blowing cold air would cause water vapor molecules in the air to lose energy and get 'stuck' to the surface, but the reality is the opposite of what I expected. Can anyone explain?
Condensation has to do with two factors, temperature and humidity. Specifically, in order for condensation to occur, you need a body of warm, humid air (humidity is necessary because otherwise there wouldn't be any water to condense) and a cold surface (the window), specifically colder than the dewpoint of the humid air, on which the condensation is to take place.
With a car window, this can happen on either side. In your case, you're getting condensation on the inside of the window because the interior air is warm and humid, but the outside air keeps the window cooler than the dewpoint of the inside air. So as long as you blow warm air on the window, you're just feeding it with more water to condense. In order to make the condensation evaporate by heating it, you'd have to be blowing enough air at a high enough temperature on the window to override the effect of the outside air and significantly heat up the window itself; your car's heating system probably isn't capable of doing that. (At least not while you're driving.) In contrast, as you pointed out in your comment, blowing cool air (cooler than the outside air) on the window means that the dewpoint of the inside air is necessarily less than the temperature of the window, so you don't get any condensation occurring. And as long as the air is less than 100% humid, any existing condensation will evaporate. This is especially likely if you're running the air conditioner, since it doubles as a dehumidifier.
The reverse situation occurs if it's hot and humid outside; you'll probably be running the air conditioner, so the cold air inside the car will cool down the window. Since the window is cooler than the outside air, you'll get condensation occurring on the outside. The solution in this case is to run the defroster to heat up the window and the condensed water molecules, giving them enough energy to evaporate.
Please correct my answer if its wrong:
I think that condensation of water inside the car has to do with taking into consideration the temperature and humidity outside and inside your car.
You only get condensation whenever its colder outside, I think.
Outside is colder than Inside:
So, I think that your car acts as an insulator of heat. Your car's air temperature inside is hotter than the outside, and therefore water is evaporating and expanding in all directions. However, there's no where for the water to go, so it builds up on your windows.
If you blow hot air, you'd end up heating the inside car's air temperature even more and end up with more condensation. If you blow cold air, you make the inside car's air temperature to be closer to the outside and therefore the water molecules have less energy and won't expand out in all directions and end up condensing on your windows.
I think that if you open your windows and let the inside temperature and outside temperature of air to come to equilibrium, you'll end up with no condensation on your windows from the inside.
Please test this and tell me if I'm wrong. Thank you.


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This is a 2 hour on-water beginner class that will get participants safely in a kayak and paddling comfortably. Co sponsored by GVSU Health and Wellness and the Outdoor Adventure
Topics will include:
Basic kayak/paddle design, safety gear and concerns
Entering and exiting kayaks
Basic paddle strokes focused on handling
Efficiently moving the kayak
...and much more!
Register at www.gvsu.edu/seminar
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From the MSDN page:
Update and Draw are called at different rates depending on whether IsFixedTimeStep is true or false. If IsFixedTimeStep is false, Update and Draw will be called sequentially as often as possible. If IsFixedTimeStep is true, Update will be called at the interval specified in TargetElapsedTime, while Draw will continue to be called as often as possible.
What is the point of calling Draw potentially more often than Update? Why is Draw not upper-limited to the number of Update calls?


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The Civilization series of games is famous for having a way to play by e-mail. This allows people to take a long time on their turn without holding up the other players, as you do in a real-time game. Yet, I can not find any method to play by e-mail in the game menus. Does it exist? If so, how do you do it?
Civilization 5 does not yet support Play by Email
However, they would like to add it soon. Source
A quick search of the Manual shows the only play modes supported right now are:
Now you're thinking you can just start a multiplayer game and email the save file? There's a big problem preventing that:
You won't both be able to take turns. As far as I can tell, you'll have to wait till they add support.
Yes, it's possible.
Although Civilization V does not support it directly, it supports it indirectly since June 2011 by using the hotseat multiplayer mode and just sending the save file to the other player(s) by e-mail.
So how does that work?
I was able do play this way myself and it works fine.
One final tip - you can also play hotseat with custom mods, if you like; see this question about it here on Arqade.
Thanks go to Rapida for helping me here :)
You can use a service like Giant Multiplayer Robot which automates the handling and sharing of CIV 5 save game files.
They actually added Pitboss mode in this month. Here's some instructions:


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March 15, 2011
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Let's Talk: Social Media
March 04, 2011
A few months ago, we asked you about your favorite social networking sites—including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and Twitter— and now we want to know a little bit about how you use social media. Read More »13 Comments
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February 23, 2011
In 2010, NIDA assembled its first Teen Advisory Group (TAG) to get authentic teen feedback on how to improve our Web sites and materials for teens. Read More »5 Comments
Real Teens Ask: Is Addiction Hereditary?
February 18, 2011
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Well, I have been starting habits of self studying (for the purpose of self improvement) and was making some progress (two months so far). However, one thing I'm not able to do well is blog about my progress learning.
The situation for me is usually like this on weekdays:
- I study before and after work when I reach home
- About 30 mins before sleep time, I decide to blog.
But my mind tells me that by blogging, I will lose 1 study session, thus "slowing" my learning progress. Even though I'm going to blog about what I have learnt for the day, which can act as a review as well as getting public feedback (if any for a hardly known blog), it still; feels like lost time. So instead I tend to study more and sleep.
So how useful is blogging about ones' learning as compared to using it as 1 more study session? What kind of return on investment is there that I might be missing in my cost-benefit analysis?