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1932 Ford Roadsters - Two Means To An EndWritten by on August 1, 2008 Contributors: Brian Brennan A Pair Of Deuces With Similar Lineage
As a hot rodder in the 21st century, it's often misunderstood why we do the certain things we do. Tall, skinny bias-ply tires stand out amongst the wide, fat radials. Multiple-carb'd Flathead motors clatter and leak amongst the fuel-injected, computer-controlled contemporary modular motors. Drum brakes pull and fade compared to modern performance disc brakes. Transverse-spring suspension designs are stiff and ill-performing compared to independent suspensions with adjustable coilover springs, and the like.
There are drawbacks to virtually every aspect of hot rodding that not only don't make sense to most people in today's society but don't make sense even to some car guys. The musclecar and street rod guys laugh when you mention running a Flathead or early Hemi motor, but the thing they don't get is it's all about style, aesthetic, and tradition.
Granted, it's hard to do anything that hasn't been done before when building a hot rod today; nobody's out there reinventing the wheel when it comes to building a '32 Ford. But, given the vast amount of aftermarket parts and accessories available today, one can build a car that would be next to impossible to have built not only way back when, but even 10 years ago.
Build options began to shrink as the supply of original steel dwindled, and guys started looking at alternatives. Building a '32 roadster back in the 1940s was one thing-there were still original cars around-but fast forward 60-plus years, and it has become painfully obvious that option just isn't there anymore.
Enter the aftermarket reproduction-body industry. Beginning in the early 1970s, fiberglass reproduction '32 Ford roadsters, among other years and styles, began to be manufactured. All of a sudden, it was once again possible to build a Deuce roadster, thus becoming popular for a second time. The 21st century kicked off, and, lo and behold, the '32 Ford is not only being reproduced in 'glass but in steel, as well, 75 years after its inception. And, not only in its original, factory guise but in the form of a legitimate convertible design, complete with roll-up windows and a hideaway drop-top. Old Henry himself would be hard-pressed to believe his humble '32 roadster would still be receiving the attention it is 75 years later. But, the popularity of the Deuce roadster continues to grow even today, with more on the road than when they first rolled off Ford's production line, and guys like Charles Franklin and Mark Trostle are firm believers in the fact that the '32 Ford roadster is one of the most iconic cars ever built.
Like a lot of hot rods built today, the comparisons between the Franklin and Trostle highboys can be drawn like a line in the sand; but, when it comes time to split hairs, the two cars actually have less in common than one would first think. Yes, they're both '32 Ford highboy roadsters built in a similar vein, but other than a few simple styling cues, that's about where the similarities end.
One of the biggest differences is the fact that, other than the Brookville body and Vintique grille and insert, every item on the Franklin roadster is gennie vintage Ford. From the wheels to the chassis to the original Deuce column, it was all built from parts that Charles has been searching for over the years. Mark's car, on the other hand, technically isn't even a roadster. It's actually a Dearborn Deuce convertible body, complete with roll-up side glass and a hideaway top. And, every major component of his highboy, from the wheels to the chassis to the Juliano's column, came from an aftermarket source. Here are two cars that are distinguishingly similar yet completely different.
From the ground up, both cars roll on traditional rubber-Dunlop racing bias-plies on Mark's car, and N.O.S. Firestone Ascots on the rear and Firestone skinnies up front on Charles' roadster. A set of Dayton wire wheels were ordered up for Mark's highboy, while Charles opted to use a pair of 18-inch '38 Ford accessory wheels in the back and V8-60 wheels up front. Suspension systems were kept traditional up front with a transverse leaf design on both cars-Pete & Jake's equipment for the front of the Trostle car with a dropped axle and split hairpins, while a drilled Deuce heavy axle was attached to stock, unsplit '32 Ford radius rods on the Franklin '32.
Mark went with SO-CAL Speed Shop disc brakes, hidden inside Buick-style finned drums, while Charles utilized '40 Ford backing plates coupled with '38 Ford drums. Out back, a Ford 9-inch rearend hangs on Aldan coilovers under the Dearborn Deuce, while Charles' Brookville car rides on a '34 Ford banjo fitted with a stock transverse spring and '40 Ford backing plates with '36 Ford drums.
The drivetrain package for the two highboys, while both of Ford origin, are also distinctly different. Beneath the original '32 Ford hood on Charles' roadster sits a '47 Ford 239ci Flathead backed by a '37 Ford transmission. The Flattie is equipped with a pair of original Edelbrock block-script heads and dual Stromberg 48 carbs on an Edelbrock 2x2 Super intake manifold. Mark's Deuce, on the other hand, is slightly more contemporary, with a 351ci Ford Sportsman V-8 engine backed by a Tremec TKO-600 five-speed manual trans. A single Holley 670-cfm four-barrel carb feeds the engine through a Ford Racing Performance Parts intake manifold, and Holman Moody valve covers dress up the small-block.
When it came time to add some color to their respective rides, both opted for the venerable hot rod black, with PPG providing the material in both instances. Green Dayton Wire Wheels offset the color on Mark's car, while the matching wheels on Charles' roadster add to the black-on-black effect. And, like the paint scheme, the interiors of both hot rods are similar but distinct. Mark had matching green leather stretched and stitched over a modified Wise Guys bench seat, while Charles modified a rear seat from a '34 Ford four-door sedan before pulling a hide of oxblood leather over it.
Both cars were upholstered in a traditional tuck 'n' roll manner, from the seat to the kick panels. Juliano's steering components were used in Mark's car, while an original '32 Ford column topped with a 17-inch Bell Auto Parts steering wheel was installed in Charles' hot rod. The dash panels on both cars are decidedly hot rod, with the Franklin roadster remaining low-key with a simple stock insert plugged with a trio of vintage Stewart Warner gauges, while the Trostle car has a set of Classic Instruments gauges set into a Knecht gauge panel. Vintage Air climate controls rest under the dash on Mark's convertible, while the stock cowl vent is the only sort of creature comfort found on Charles' roadster.
In a side-by-side comparison of these two highboy hot rods, it seems they share quite a bit of similarities; when the specs are perused and the cars broken down, it becomes apparent they are actually more different than alike. These are two cars built in the 21st century to look like those from the years directly following the big war, using both new and old components alike. If that doesn't put the current state of our hobby in a nutshell, I don't know what does.
Facts & Figures
Charles Franklin
Orange, California
1932 Ford roadster
|Frame / Manufacturer
|'32 Ford
|boxed front framerails, lowered front crossmember 1 5/8"
|Rearend / Ratio
|'34 Ford / 4.11:1
|Rear suspension
|'34 Ford radius rods, un-split; transverse spring w/ rolled eyes & 2" de-arch; '32 Ford shocks
|Rear brakes
|'40 Ford backing plates w/ '36 Ford drums
|Front suspension
|drilled '32 Ford heavy axle; unsplit '32 Ford radius rods; transverse spring w/ rolled eyes & 2" de-arch; '32 Ford shocks
|Front brakes
|'40 Ford backing plates w/ '38 Ford drums
|Master cylinder
|'39 Ford
|Steering box
|'32 box machined for needle bearings & seal
|Wheel covers
|'38 Ford
|Front wheel make, size
|'38 Ford, 16x3 5/8"
|Rear wheel make, size
|'38 Ford, 18x3 5/8"
|Front tire make, size
|Firestone, 450x16"
|Rear tire make, size
|Firestone Ascot, 700x18
|Gas tank
|'32 Ford modified to accept Stewart Warner (Lancaster, PA) sender
|'47 Ford
|239 ci
|Machining / Assembly
|Vintage V8 Restoration (Orange, CA)
|Water pump
|59AB w/ motor mount tabs removed
|Cooling fan
|'46 Passenger
|'32 Ford V-8
|'47 Ford converted to 12V
|Edelbrock (Torrance, CA)
|Manifold / Induction
|Edelbrock 2x2 Super / Stromberg 48s
|'47 Ford
|Exhaust / Mufflers
|1 ¾" / 20" glasspacks
|'37 Ford
|Clutch disc
|11" Ford truck
|modified original
|shortened '34 Ford
|Body style / Material
|'32 Ford roadster / steel
|Body manufacturer
|Brookville Roadster (Brookville, OH)
|Body mods
|shaved door handles
|'32 Ford
|Vintique Inc. (Orange, CA)
|Vintage V8 Restoration
|Paint type / Color
|PPG / Black
|Joe Morisette (Orange, CA)
|Headlights / Taillights
|Guide / Austin Healy
|Other body items
|'32 Ford windshield chopped 3"
|'32 Ford roadster
|Insert / Gauges
|'32 Ford / Stewart Warner
|canvas by Vintage V8 Restoration
|Steering wheel
|17" Bell Auto Parts
|Steering column
|'32 Ford
|'34 Ford four-door sedan mounted on sliding seat tracks from Speedway Motors ({{{Lincoln}}}, NE)
|Carol Knapp (Whittier, CA)
|Material / Color
|leather / oxblood
|black wool w/ oxblood piping
Facts & Figures
D. Mark Trostle
Plymouth, Michigan
1932 Ford Dearborn Deuce
|Frame / Manufacturer
|Lobeck's Hot Rod Parts (Cleveland, OH)
|shortened & thinned framehorns; capped rear horns
|Chassis plumbing
|stainless steel
|Rearend / Ratio
|9" Ford / 3.70:1
|Rear suspension
|Aldan (Carson, CA) coilover shocks
|Rear brakes
|Ford drum
|Front suspension
|Super Bell (Peculiar, MO) axle, transverse monoleaf spring & hairpins
|Front brakes
|SO-CAL Speed Shop (Pomona, CA) {{{Buick}}} drum-style hidden disc
|Master cylinder
|GM power
|Steering box
|Flaming River Industries (Berea, OH) Vega
|Wheel covers
|Dayton Wire Wheel (Dayton, OH) knock-offs
|Front wheel make, size
|Dayton Wire Wheel Triple Lace, 15x6"
|Rear wheel make, size
|Dayton Wire Wheel Triple Lace, 17x7"
|Front tire make, size
|Dunlop Racing, 5.50x15"
|Rear tire make, size
|Dunlop Racing, 7.00x17"
|Gas tank
|Tanks Inc. (Clearwater, MN)
|Other chassis items
|notched front & C'd rear
|351 ci
|Machining / Assembly
|by John Vermeersch (Detroit, MI)
|Ford Racing Performance Parts
|Cooling fan
|SPAL 2,500 cfm
|Walker Radiator Works (Memphis, TN)
|Ford SVO aluminum
|Valve covers
|Holman Moody (Charlotte, NC)
|Manifold / Induction
|Ford Racing Performance Parts / Holley (Bowling Green, KY) {{{Avenger}}} 670-cfm
|Mallory Ignition (Cleveland, OH) Unilite
|Sanderson Headers (S. San Francisco, CA)
|Exhaust / Mufflers
|stainless / Flowmaster (Santa Rosa, CA) Hushpower
|Tremec TKO-{{{600}}}
|Clutch disc
|Centerforce (Prescott, AZ) clutch
|Lokar Performance Products (Knoxville, TN) 12"
|Body style / Material
|convertible / steel
|Body manufacturer
|Dearborn Deuce (Branford, CT)
|Body mods
|grille & hood line dropped 1", rolled rear pan
|Rootlieb (Turlock, CA)
|Brookville Roadster (Brookville, OH)
|American Speed Company (Plymouth, MI)
|Paint type / Color
|PPG / Black
|American Speed Company
|Headlights / Taillights
|Guide / '39 Ford
|Outside mirror
|SO-CAL Speed Shop swan neck
|Other body items
|chrome by Finney Plating (Detroit, MI)
|'32 Ford
|Insert / Gauges
|Knecht Equipment Co. (Arlington, TX) / Classic Instruments (Boyne City, MI)
|Air conditioning
|Vintage Air (San Antonio, TX) Mini Gen II
|American Autowire (Bellmawr, NJ)
|Steering wheel
|Juliano's Hot Rod Parts & Interior Products (Ellington, CT)
|Steering column
|Juliano's Hot Rod Parts & Interior Products
|modified Wise Guys (Elkhart, IN) bench seat
|Scott Clampet, American Speed Company
|Material / Color
|leather / green
|black, Bill Hirsch {{{Mercedes-Benz}}}
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Now in reproduction, the Vintage V-8 roadster boasts an original set of much sought-after block-script Edelbrock heads.An N.O.S. 17-inch Bell Auto Parts steering wheel holds court in the roadster's confined cockpit, attached to an original '32 Ford column with functioning headlight controls and ignition switch.The '34 Ford four-door sedan seat was bolted to a set of sliding seat tracks from Speedway Motors before being covered by Carol Knapp in oxblood leather in a tuck 'n' roll pattern.N.O.S. vintage Firestone Ascot racing tires are mounted to '38 Ford 18-inch accessory wheels with '38 caps.Mark's Deuce is Ford-powered, as well, but is slightly more contemporary in nature, with such modern amenities as air conditioning, an alternator, and an electric fan. Polished aluminum dress-up goodies include Holman Moody valve covers and an O'Brien Truckers air cleaner.
The '32 dash received an Auburn-style gauge panel, courtesy of Knecht Equipment Co., and was filled with Classic Instruments gauges. A Juliano's Banjo steering wheel and column fit the vintage-themed interior perfectly.SO-CAL Speed Shop hidden disc brakes provide plenty of stopping power while retaining a vintage look, as do the other aftermarket items on the frontend-from the Super Bell dropped axle to the Pete & Jake's shocks to the monoleaf transverse spring. Original Guide headlights mount on a chromed stand that doubles as an upper shock mount.The green leather upholstery was stitched up by Scott Clampet at American Speed Company over a modified Wise Guys bench seat. The rest of the panels were custom-fabricated to fit the Dearborn's dimensions.One of the neat features of the Dearborn Deuce body is its side door glass that completely seals the cockpit when the top is up.Out back, a Tanks Inc. reproduction gas tank mounts between the capped rear framehorns below the pair of '39 Ford taillights, Michigan '32 plate, and license plate frame Mark's father had since the 1950s.


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#3. The Worldwide Love of Jeans Dyes China Blue
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The market for denim is absurd -- in 2006, over $15 billion was spent on jeans alone, and that's not even factoring in jackets, skirts, accessories, or acid wash (which, while technically just a style of jeans, presumably occupies its own wedge on the pie chart). Like many commodities, denim production is outsourced to China -- specifically Xintang, which makes around 200 million pairs of jeans every year. And the combination of bleach and indigo dye used in the manufacturing process is poisoning the ballshits out of China's Pearl River, a 1,500-mile waterway that supplies drinking water to over 12 million people in Guangzhou.
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Blue water is normally a good thing. Unless it looks like this, in which case it is a bad thing.
You see, the waste runoff from denim factories contains heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and selenium. Each one of those things is either a neurotoxin or a carcinogen on its own, but when piled together in a boiling stream of Smurf Piss, they essentially become a stew of brain-detonating cancer juice.
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Chinese officials insist that there haven't been any reports of widespread illnesses from any of the countless population centers that depend on the Pearl River system for fishing, transportation, or drinking water, but churning out what is literally toxic waste into a major water system and dying it an unnatural blue that can be seen from space cannot possibly be a good thing.
#2. The Romans' Love of Sugary Syrup Gives Them All Lead Poisoning
Food back in the day was horribly bland, but the ancient Romans discovered that if they took a bunch of fruit and boiled all the water out of it, they would be left with a really sweet syrup called defrutum, which sounds like a German fable about flesh-eating apple trees but is essentially just a sugar reduction. They put defrutum in everything, from meat to cheese to wine, and even used it as a preservative. Kind of like what we do with high fructose corn syrup now.
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Judging by this article, there's no possible way for this to backfire on us.
The problem, however, wasn't rampant obesity, but that defrutum was made exclusively in lead pots and pans, because bronze or copper pots would taint the batch and make it taste like loose change on the floor of a taxicab. Modern re-creations of the fruit-boiling defrutum recipe, using the same type of lead cookware, created a substance containing more than 1,000 times the acceptable dose of lead. Meaning the majority of Rome was almost certainly suffering from chronic lead poisoning as a result of their defrutum addiction.
Lead poisoning has a number of effects, including weight loss, anemia, irritability, and delirium, so historians have started to make the connection that the widespread use of defrutum may have been the cause of some of the famed craziness and bizarre indulgences of certain Roman emperors. It seems particularly more likely when you consider that the emperor, of all people, would certainly be one to douse his flavorless lunch of goat-hoof porridge and chicken brains with the tangy sweet nectar of the gods and then wash it down with goblets of defrutum-laced wine.
"Hmmm ... fruity, with a mild undercurrent of psychosis."
What makes this situation even more ridiculous is that the Romans seemed to be completely aware that consuming too much lead could turn you into a gibbering weakling, shouting obscenities at ghosts and wearing a toga soaked in farts and confusion. However, by all accounts, they simply didn't give a shit (see arsenic, above).
#1. The Demand for Rubber Bike Tires Leads to Genocide in the Congo
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In the 1890s, bicycling fever reached epidemic levels in Europe and America, because the 19th century kind of sucked and people were ready to dive headfirst into whatever frivolity they could find. In the U.S., there was one bike for every seven Americans, and by 1895 cycling was so popular that the New York Times felt fully confident suggesting that anyone who didn't own a bicycle was either a cripple or hopelessly square.
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"Why, if you don't cotton to the bicycle, then you're crackers, fella! Crackers!"
One cause for the surge in bike ownership was the invention of inflatable tires. Bikes had previously used wooden or metal wheels, and riding one of those would've been like piloting an El Camino down a brick-paved road on nothing but four bent, tarnished rims. But inflatable tires made bicycles awesome, and people bought them by the millions. So where do you get rubber for all those bike tires? By enslaving an African nation and making them harvest it for you, of course.
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"Just once could white people try the non-slavery option?"
You see, King Leopold II of Belgium ruled over the Congo at the time, and used it primarily as a source for exporting ivory and rubber. And he was more than happy to meet the increasing demand for bicycle tires (and, later, automobile tires) by imposing strict rubber quotas on the Congolese people. If a village didn't produce a sufficient amount of rubber, Leopold would burn the village down, kill all their children, or cut off the workers' hands (or sometimes all three, because why the hell not).
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It would remain Belgium's worst human rights crime until Jean-Claude Van Damme.
One former Belgian official went on record saying, "Everywhere I hear the same news of the Congo Free State -- rubber and murder, slavery in its worst form." Slavery was technically illegal in most parts of the world at the time, but Leopold kept the Congo so isolated (more so than it already was) by completely controlling all of the trade routes, essentially turning the entire area into one giant unregulated factory. During the golden age of cycling, the number of bicycles in the U.S. increased by over 10 million, and the population of the Congo decreased by nearly 10 million. It doesn't take a statistics professor to point out that these two figures are almost certainly related and not just a staggering coincidence.
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I'd like to wish all of you "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2013".
Special Thx to Nick and Bill to keep NN Fanotec going on and on to develop and get new products on the road.
Was a busy year for you!
Same Thx to all the friends working at NN Store trying to do their best for the customers.
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I dare to tell you you'll see some more new special products in 2013: The M2 Series.
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Nslookup YES
Ping YES - Only within network
HTTP NO - Apache, Mysql "appear" to be running fine though
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13 Pirated Game Covers Way More Awesome Than the Originals
Video game box art has to tell potential buyers what the game's all about in one eye-catching image. Zelda shows you an elf with a sword, Call of Duty shows you a soldier with a gun, and SoulCalibur shows you a nearly naked woman with physics-defying tits. They are all absolutely accurate depictions of the game within. But those are the success stories, and as we've seen before, it often goes hilariously wrong. And nobody manages to screw it up more hilariously than game pirates -- while most just lift the original cover, a select few decide that stealing is wrong halfway through the theft and have to scramble to create original content themselves. It never turns out well:
(With the money you save buying hilarious bootlegs, why not buy the Cracked De-Textbook?)
#13. Pac-Man
And now, a brief retrospective of Brazilian bootleg Pac-Man covers. Put on your learning monocles, this here is art history:
CCE, the company responsible for bringing countless pirated games to the land of Pele, started off with this vaguely sane approach. Maybe they didn't want to use Pac-Man's classic look for fear of a lawsuit, and maybe the enemies are furious germs assaulting the ghost of a murderous clown because the artist was getting paid in mescaline. Still, it makes a certain tenuous sense, but it's all downhill from there:
This one made him French when everyone knows he's Canadian.
The second cover makes it look like the Pac-People were brutally slaughtered by giant, lightning-spewing robots. Are Pac-Man and his wife the sole survivors of the robot apocalypse? Is that why they nurture such terrible pill addictions, lost in the maze of their own madness, hounded by the ghosts of their loved ones who died in the uprising? And also cherries?
"But they're joysticks, what do they use to contro- eh, fuck it."
This artist must have gotten terribly lost on the way to the bootleg Brazilian Star Wars convention. We appreciate that gamers might be intrigued by the thought of piloting the legendary spaceship Supergame against a squad of F-14 Frisbees, but it's a bit intellectually dishonest when they're going to open the package and find they can only navigate a fat yellow blob through an endless labyrinth.
#12. Snake It
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"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to take a defenestrated cobra to the face."
Snake is best known as that game you played on your cellphone back before your cellphone could play games. We're pretty sure it was about a depressed snake just trying to commit suicide in the Tron world, and not a furious giant cobra attacking James Bond at a urinal.
#11. Oh Shit!
"Oh Shit!" were presumably the first words uttered by the artist after he finished hours of painstaking painting and looked up to find he'd drawn a ravenous, disembodied Winnie the Pooh head consuming the ghosts of giant pills while seemingly terrified of his own existence.
#10. Mario
Pirates, just like Nintendo itself, quickly learned that slapping Mario onto anything was a license to print money. Here we see caveman Mario trying to rescue Princess Peach before a dinosaur erotica novel starts playing out. Unfortunately, this seems to have led to a case of the butterfly effect, because past-Mario's antics inadvertently created this:
The Cap'n had some of the "good" crunch berries for breakfast.
In this bizarre alternate universe, all-American Mario has to use the power of carrots to rescue Snow White from the clutches of a pissed-off dragon and Slendergoat, with only Cap'n Crunch and an anthropomorphic testicle to aid him. Although, from Snow White's "come-hither" look, it's totally going to be worth it.
#9. Mega Rockman 3
In this version, you gain their powers by molesting them with your robo-tendrils.
Mega Rockman 3's cover is a mash-up of the American and Japanese version of Mega Man (it's called Rockman in Japan), mixed with a healthy dose of sass. Either that, or it's a teaser poster for a new musical starring Robby the Robot and Bomberman's gay, shark-themed cousin.
#8. Dratula: Crazy Vampire
"Whatever, we still made more money than Son of the Mask."
Apparently someone really, really wanted a Dracula/The Mask crossover and wasn't about to let little problems like logic and reason get in the way. This pirated copy of Dratula: Crazy Vampire ostensibly replaces the cartoon count with Jim Carrey and Dracula with "Dratula," Dracula's nonunion Mexican equivalent. "Drat that Dratula!" the game-over screen better say.
#7. World Heroes 2
Cony Soft
Seconds before Sonic and Andy invent Rule 34.
World Heroes 2 was yet-another-fighting-game in the era of yet-another-fighting-games. But that wasn't good enough for Cony Soft. No, this bootleg company wanted to create something special, so they crammed all the great fighters into their unauthorized rip-off game: Ryu, Chun-Li, Goku, Bowser's BDSM-obsessed ginger cousin, cross-eyed Sonic, indiscernible naked people enveloped in flames, and the shadowy, disembodied head of Mario cosplaying as a sinister M. Bison-type character ... right next to M. Bison. That had to be an awkward conversation.


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Darling Makes Most of Chance
WHEELING – Happy to be here? Scott Darling is thrilled to be in Wheeling.
The Nailers goaltender rode the bench for most of the first month of this season just hoping to get a chance. Tonight at 7, he'll make his fifth consecutive start when Wheeling battles defending Kelly Cup champion Florida at WesBanco Arena.
Ironically, Darling, a Lemont, Ill., native's first opportunity in the ECHL came last season with the Everblades. It didn't go so well as he allowed five goals on 27 shots, so the soon-to-be 24-year-old wasn't sure if he had blown the only opportunity he would get.
"I got lit up, just like my first game here," said Darling, who has bounced around – mostly in lower levels like the SPHL and CHL – since leaving Maine University in 2009.
"That was because it's such a dog-eat-dog world. One bad game and you're out of there."
Darling thought that might be the case again after he allowed another five goals, this time on 22 shots in an Oct. 20 loss against Elmira during his Wheeling debut.
"The first game I definitely felt that way because it's not easy this year," Darling said. "It's hard enough to be in this league (because of the NHL lockout).
"It's the longest I have been in this league."
A funny thing happened, though. Darling was signed to a professional tryout agreement with Hamilton of the AHL. Even more surprising to Darling, he was called upon in relief during the Bulldogs' 4-1 loss to Rochester on No. 14. He stopped all eight shots he faced in front of 10,649 fans.
"I was just honored to be up there and when they put me in the game it was the most nervous moment in my life," Darling recalled Thursday after practice. "It's just like a dream come true.
"That's where everybody wants to be right now.
"It was a long time, a long road to get there and I am happy I got there and would like to go back some day."
Wheeling coach Clark Donatelli thinks Darling has the chance to move on to the AHL. He's been impressed with his attitude and work ethic.
"He's played really well since he came back from Hamilton," Donatelli said. "He's a big goalie – he's 6-foot-7 and he's agile.
"He's moving well and I think he's playing with a lot of confidence right now and the guys are playing well in front of him."
Darling finished the month of November with a 3-2-0 record, including his first ECHL shutout, a 1.81 goals-against average and a save percentage of .923. It helps that his defense limited the opposition to an average of a little more than 23 shots during that span.
"In a perfect game you would have 23 nice, simple shots. The guys played a couple games where I only had in the teens for shots, so I can't really ask for much more than that," Darling said. "(Elmira) had a couple more the last game, but they scored four goals for me. It makes my life easy."
Where Darling stands on the Nailers depth chart remains to be seen.
Darling is going under the assumption that Patrick Killeen is still the No. 1, but says he'll take whatever opportunities the team affords him.
"I knew coming in that Killer is a great goalie and he's been here for three years," Darling said. "I knew that it wasn't like I was going to step in and play right away, and I was fine with that.
"You know, if Killer starts playing again I am going to keep practicing hard.
"This is a dream come true."


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So I was working and everything was ok until a PC crashed which made me re-install windows and adobe products. Until then my gradients were perfect, but now as I try to make one they are full of huge stripes as if I were on a 256 color display from 15 years ago...
I have tried probably everything. I saw things about similar problems on the internet but they all were about the printing job and I have issues on the display.
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I know that throughout the Bible Angels met with humans for very specific reasons. An obvious example can be found in Luke 1:26-38. Gabriel speaks to Mary and informs her she will give birth to a son who is to be named Jesus. Do Angels still visit us on earth and interact with humans today?
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They certainly exist, they exist in the past, present and future. The Bible speaks of them in all three tenses to the last age of man.
Do they interact with humans today? I can see no reason they would not, but it is not an absolute thing, where the Bible says this is the way it is exactly, as far as when and how they interact with men.
My best guess is that they interact all the time, they seem to deliver messages a lot, I suspect they still do. I have read and heard stories and perhaps had a few interact with me and I never knew it. They can appear like men and save your life. Carry you over a mountain pass through snow and then disappear.
Hebrews 13:2 reminds us to show love and hospitality towards all, "for in doing so, some have entertained angels," unaware. When Samsons parents were told they were going to have a child, they too were unaware that they were in the presence of an angel, until after they sacrificed, the angel went away dramatically revealing what he was.
There is nothing to suggest that angels no longer visit Earth*, but nothing says that says we will recognize them as such when they do.
*ok, possibly one could say that because we have the Bible, God no longer requires messengers (and by definition an angelos' job is a messenger) but that would just be speculation.
There are numerous stories, particularly in the lives of the Saints. But traditionally every Christian is regarded as having their own guardian angel. So to answer your question in perhaps a less spectacular and significant fashion, Yes, and constantly.
No angels do not still intervene in the world today. If every Christian in the world had a Guardian Angel, bad things would not happen to any Christian because they would be protected. The Bible also says that the sole purpose of the creation of angels was for them to worship God, not protect his people.
As for the "stories" of angels that help you in the form of a human, what's to say that isn't a person full of the Holy Spirit? What happens when the person is then suddenly gone? In Acts, the spirit teleported Philip to speak to the Ethiopian Eunuch, then he teleported him back to his home immediately.
Certainly Angels would exist even today, as well have the same authority God has intended for them. No your likely not going to notice them and if u think u do u may consider it the possibility u just saw a demon. Demons would hope to allude you from the truth and in doing so will attempt to taint the faith in regard to what u believe rather than attempt to discredit it altogether. Just because you have a Guardian Angel doesn't make you exempt from bad things. If it did we wouldn't need prayer. This is how God answers our prayers many times by sending our angels to intervene when truly necessary. And remember that just because a Guardian Angel is appointed to you that I you have no faith then you also receive very little of any assistance. However, should someone else pray for you it exists the great possibility that the unfaithful may be influenced by their Guardian Angel. Interesting topic and wondrous to think about. When you pray to God please don't discount these facts and watch miracles happen in your life as they continue to happen in mine. Simply put, a prayer answered in any form is a miracle of intervention by our Heavenly Father who really does care when we need him. Not so much to the frivolous requests. Think about your prayer before you make the request so it is meaningful and not in vain.
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I am having some issues at work and there is a new network admin in place. I think I am being monitored so decided to run ArpSpy X in two scenarios:
- Over WiFi bridge pluged into cisco router to took a note of the router IP and MAC address. Then i did a vendor look up and it shows as a cisco router (which it should) but I also have another Mac entry for the same IP (the router IP) of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
- Then through Hardwired via Ethernet I only see the FF:FF.... address for the router IP.
At the moment I only use the network via VPN (OpenVPN) to an external VPN provider to be safe.
Can someone please tell me if the double MAC address via wired and the single FF:FF:FF....is normal or am i just being paranoid?
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Jared Fries is entering his third year as Athletic Academic Advisor with the AAC. Fries joined the AAC in July 2012. Fries serves as the advisor for golf, volleyball, men's and women's track and field, and men's and women's cross country.
Prior to Charlotte, Fries was an Academic Advisor from 2011-2012 at Southern Illinois University, where he worked with baseball, football, men's tennis, and men's and women's golf. From 2008-2011 Fries was the Academic Coordinator/Tutor Coordinator at East Tennessee State University. As a graduate assistant at the University of Florida, Fries was a tutor for student athletes. Prior to his time in athletic academic services, Fries worked for Wachovia bank as a financial center manager.
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I have some midi files, and I'm playing them back with Microsoft GS synthesizer. Are there alternative synthesizers or methods for improving the sound reproduction to be more like real instruments?
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Yes there are!
MIDI is a set of instructional codes to tell the synth what notes to play and when. There's a standard ("General MIDI", GM for short) that gives numbers to common instruments, so that the synthesizer can know that some notes for instrument X should be played with a grand piano sound, but instrument Y refers to a violin sound. I forget the exact numberings but that's the idea.
So any synthesizer you might have that implements GM can play back the MIDI data from those files. Many hardware synthesizers have done this (it's really common on keyboards, and I've also seen rackmount synth boxes and even MIDI drum modules that implement GM). I don't know of any standalone software synths that do, but there's no reason why they couldn't. I know there are some synthesizer plugins (Synth1 by Ichiro Toda, for example) for larger audio tools which have a default instrument mapping that matches the GM numbers.
The quality of sound reproduction is entirely up to your synthesizer. Generally a synth tends to have some instruments that it can model better than others.
It's way easier than all that. Download this app: coolsoft virtual midi synth
and one of the many soundfonts listed there, configure it to and voila!.
You can get a better synth or use samplers. Audio samples will make your sounds more realistic, since they are actual recordings of instruments. There are hardware units and software (plugin) units. Some sound cards have better GM synths onboard too - this might be the easiest option, but it still won't sound realistic, as it's being synthesized.
As you want a software solution, you could try a GM soundfont software synth. For exmaple RGC's SFZ. It looks like Cakewalk (cough) has bough RCG: http://www.cakewalk.com/products/SFZ/default.aspx
It looks like this is still free however.
There are a few others if you look around that may serve you well: http://www.synthfont.com/


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Tegan and Sara perform in The UBS Forum
Tegan and Sara's recording careers started in 1997, when they used their school's recording studio to record their first demo. In 1999, the Canadian sisters independently released their debut LP, "Under Feet Like Ours." Their poppy, emotive indie-folk style attracted the attention of Neil Young's label Vapor Records, who signed them in 2000. Later that year, they released another album, "This Business of Art."
The band released another studio album, "If It Was You," in 2002, followed two years later by their fourth, "So Jealous." In 2007, their album "The Con" found the band experimenting with a more complex, mature, and varied sound, while their latest full-length, 2009's "Sainthood," finds the duo returning to their simple, melodic roots while continuing to try on new styles.
Tegan and Sara stopped by Minnesota Public Radio's UBS Forum for a live performance in front of a studio audience.
Songs performed: "On Directing," "Alligator," "Nineteen" and "Living Room."
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Is there any even Schwartz function whose restriction to $[0,\infty)$ is monotone and whose Fourier transform is compactly supported? In other words, is there any entire analytic function satisfying the condition of the Paley-Wiener theorem that is even on the real line and whose restriction to $[0,\infty)$ is monotone?
The answer is yes :
I think your question is true or nearly true. I interpet it as "Can we find a non-negative even Paley-Wiener function $f$ with $f'$ non-negative on $\mathbb R_{>0}$?" As in AH's answer, $$f(y)=\int_0^\infty g(x)\cos(xy)\ dx$$ where $g$ is a smooth function of compact support. I'll make a general statement that is not quite what you want, then give an example that is nearly (at least) what you want.
It has been proven (see here) that if $g(0)\ne 0$, then $f^{(n)}$ has only finitely many zeros. (Conversely, if $g^{(n)}(0)=0$ for all $n$, $f$ changes sign infinitely often, see here.)
This isn't too hard to prove. Take $n\ge 1$, then $$f^{(2n)}(y)=(-1)^{n}\int_0^\infty x^{2n}g(x)\cos(xy)\; dx$$ Integrating by parts $2n$ times makes this $$\Bigg[{\cos(xy)\over y^{2n+1}}\big(x^{2n}g(x)\big)^{(2n)}\Bigg]_0^\infty-y^{-2n-1}\int_0^\infty \big(x^{2n}g(x)\big)^{(2n+1)}\cos(xy)\; dx$$ The last integral is the Fourier transform of a smooth compactly-supported function, so decays in $|y|$. Thus we have, as $|y|\rightarrow\infty$, $$|f^{(2n)}(y)|=y^{-2n-1}(2n)!|g(0)|\big(1+h(y)\big)$$ where $h(y)\in o(1)$. Since $|h(y)|<1$ for $y$ sufficiently large, $f^{(2n)}$ can only have finitely many zeros. Noting that if $f^{(n)}$ has infinitely many zeros, Rolle's Theorem would imply that $f^{(n-1)}$ has infinitely many zeros, we see that $f^{(n)}$ only has finitely many zeros for all $n\ge 0$.
So you can easily find $f$ with every derivative having finitely many zeros. But, it turns out, $f^{(n)}$ always has at least $n$ zeros. This isn't as bad as it sounds, as $f$ being even implies that $f'$ has a zero. And just because a function has zero doesn't mean it is negative. Unfortunately, I can't find anything that gives a definitive answer here.
From here (p. 82), for $m\ge 4$ an even integer, $$f(x)=-\int_{-\infty}^x {\sin^m(\pi t/m)\over (\pi t/m)^{m-1}}\ dt$$ is a positive PW function (at least with the more relaxed definition of $L^2$ on the line), with $f'$ non-negative on $\mathbb R_{>0}$. Since the integrand is odd, $f$ is even as $$f(x)=-\int_{-\infty}^{-x} {\sin^m(\pi t/m)\over (\pi t/m)^{m-1}}\ dt-\int_{-x}^x {\sin^m(\pi t/m)\over (\pi t/m)^{m-1}}\ dt=f(-x)$$


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My group is trapped wandering the Mists of Ravenloft currently and I am looking for creative suggestions on returning to our home in Mystara ASAP. In the current realm we are in, there isn't an obvious Lord that we could go to, and it is looking like we are lining up a fight with the Drow... not a great plan because my character is newly wed and in a "delicate" state.
We have two mages, a psionicist, a fighter, and a boatload of rogues. I think we are all level 10-15. That's right, not a single healer/priest/paladin.
We have a few wishes, but the GM says that will not get us out of there. We also have the Deck of Many Things, but I'm hesitant to pull it out in Ravenloft. Are there any creative ideas for escape, and/or how to use wishes to find the way home – for the newlyweds at least, preferably in 3 months game time or less.


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The almond that we think of as a nut is technically the seed of the fruit of the almond tree, a glorious medium-size tree that bears fragrant pink and white flowers. Like its cousins, the peach, cherry and apricot trees, the almond tree bears fruits with stone-like seeds (or pits) within. The seed of the almond fruit is what we refer to as the almond nut. Almonds are off-white in color, covered by a thin brownish skin, and encased in a hard shell. Almonds are classified into two categories: sweet (Prunus amygdalu var. dulcis) and bitter (Prunus amygdalu var. amara). Sweet almonds are the type that are eaten. They are oval in shape, usually malleable in texture and wonderfully buttery in taste. They are available in the market either still in their shell or with their shell removed. Shelled almonds are available whole, sliced or slivered in either their natural form, with their skin, or blanched, with their skin removed. Bitter almonds are used to make almond oil that is used as a flavoring agent for foods and liqueurs such as Amaretto. They are otherwise inedible as they naturally contain toxic substances such as hydrocyanic acid. These compounds are removed in the manufacturing of almond oil. A high-fat food that's good for your health? That's not an oxymoron, its almonds. Almonds are high in monounsaturated fats, the same type of health-promoting fats as are found in olive oil, which have been associated with reduced risk of heart disease. Five large human epidemiological studies, including the Nurses Health Study, the Iowa Health Study, the Adventist Health Study and the Physicians Health Study, all found that nut consumption is linked to a lower risk for heart disease. Researchers who studied data from the Nurses Health Study estimated that substituting nuts for an equivalent amount of carbohydrate in an average diet resulted in a 30% reduction in heart disease risk. Researchers calculated even more impressive risk reduction--45%--when fat from nuts was substituted for saturated fats (found primarily found in meat and dairy products). In addition to their cholesterol-lowering effects, almonds' ability to reduce heart disease risk may also be partly due to the antioxidant action of the vitamin E found in the almonds, as well as to the LDL-lowering effect of almonds' monounsaturated fats. (LDL is the form of cholesterol that has been linked to atherosclerosis and heart disease). When almonds are substituted for more traditional fats in human feeding trials, LDL cholesterol can be reduced from 8 to 12%. Generally thought of as white chocolate raisins and chopped almonds. Can also be applied to any confectionary with "Almond" flavoring


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By the way - forgot to pass my congrats on to both of you for excellent seasons respectively. PRDH, amazing work domestically! As you say though, it now has to be about progress into the semi-finals of the CL! Good luck.
And corinthiano, the only thing you wanted was to survive and you did just that - keep it up.
So much like real life - the CL quarter final draw just took place in Nyon. And it went very well indeed. We drew Marseille in the quarter finals, which, looking at the other options, was the best possible draw. If we beat them we will face the winners of Man Utd and Real Madrid. That's when it gets tough!
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To the editor: During his uplifting and inspiring inaugural speech delivered on March 4, 1933, our great nation's 32nd president, the Democratic icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt, stated, "The only......
Get out of the way? And let YOUR illustrious, lying and conniving Obama continue to destroy what's left of America. Per chance are you familiar with and aware that latest polls indicate that 30% of voters believe that force might very well be needed in order to take this country back. You seem to blame everything on the republicans and media (especially the Fox commentators). At least Fox isn't afraid to go toe to toe with DC. Regardless, I happen to have a different opinion and tend to blame the American public for allowing such nonsense to go on with our elected leaders. Republican or Democrat, its all the same; business as usual. It's the powerful wealthy ruling class that is destroying America and we the people have no one to thank for it but ourselves.
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The GOP's current idea of leading is to obstruct Obama, do everything possible to restrict non-white voters, cater to the NRA, and smear Hillary. And by 2016, if possible, actually come up with a bright idea that makes THEIR base (angry white men) happy while still appealing to a voter base inclusive enough to actually win an election.
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Strong accusations, pilk00, got proof? Or, is that just what you have been told?
You mean cater to the 2nd Ammendment, correct?
Angry old men? I've seen a lot of Tea Party rallys. No angry old men present. Now, the liberal supported Occupy folks are an entirely different matter. Destructive, dirty, angry old, young, men, and women.
Reality. Gotta love it.
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Great Video Rory-
This looks awesome.
Nice add in for Visual Studio for devs.
Nice web interface for both devs and non-devs.
Tools like these are going to bring even more and more people into development - this is going to be a great tech!
Great video, popfly will realy rock when it comes out
One thing bothers me though - I am not that much of a web developer although I have some experiences, just not with ASP.NET/web services etc - I am kinda basic scripting lanuage+sql guy. So the question is - do I need IIS/Windows machine to run Popfly? Or
is it completely static content and you can run it from let's say OpenBSD with Apache/Lighttpd (that's what I would do) so everything is executed on client machine in a browser?
Where is it hosted/executed? Thx for answers
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so is this why c9 ver 4 is taking so long? will it have Popfly support (ie; the sandbox gadgets etc ?
V4 is written on a completely different code base. That is the reason it's taking a while to complete... It's a monumental task and the dev team has been cranking really, really hard. It has nothing to do with Popfly support, though that's an interesting idea, Jamie.
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Dan Fernandez is a woman? Who knew?
Why do you laugh with Dan because he has a high voice?
I just watched the video. ZippyV, stop messing w/ me!
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6 Ways Your Body Loves to Screw You (Explained by Science)
The males in the audience know that the jokes about your penis having a mind of its own ring terrifyingly true. It has its own agenda. Most of the time, you and your penis might be in perfect agreement, but at others, you may find your erection fails even with an attractive lady ready and willing in your bed. Then the erection returns the next day when it's unwelcome, like while you're trying to perform the Heimlich maneuver on your choking best friend.
So What's to Blame?
In a twist of cruel biological function, the same part of your brain that controls the "fight or flight" response is also a major component in activating and deactivating your dong or, if you are a woman, your girl-dong.
Girl-boner material.
As you have probably guessed, having the part of your brain that controls orgasms share space with the part responsible for you running away from confrontation can cause miscommunications on a Three's Company-esque scale. That puts those functions squarely in the "involuntary" category, which means they are controlled by the autonomic nervous system. It's really a biological recipe for hilarity.
"Please, Weinermobile, just stick around for a... DAMMIT!"
All of those non-voluntary functions are constantly being controlled by two conflicting chemicals: epinephrine and norepinephrine. These two chemicals are a lot like cops in any generic buddy cop movie. Epinephrine is the partner who's always on edge and constantly pushes the boundaries of good taste and legality, while norepinephrine is the wiser, older, often Danny Glover partner who would rather do things by the book.
When the "fight or flight" mechanism is triggered (as it is when you get excited), the balance of these two is thrown off. The possible outcomes are equally bad. If there's too much Danny Glover, your erection will wilt faster than a malnourished rose and you'll be hard-pressed to get it up anytime soon. Alternately, if there's too much rogue cop, there'll be a quick finish followed instantly by overwhelming shame and/or tears.
"You're a loose cannon, Boner Cop!"
#2. Tip-of-the-Tongue Speechlessness
It feels like the verbal version of the brain fart. You are asked a question that you know the answer to, that you've always known the answer to. "Hey, who played the coach on Coach?" asks your dad. Sure, you could just go look on the entire shelf full of Coach DVDs across the room, but you shouldn't have to.
Answer: Craig T. Nelson.
Hell, you can provide outrageous amounts of information about the answer, you can name 20 movies the guy has been in, all while the name hovers elusively in the corners of your consciousness, taunting you, berating your intelligence, even screwing your girlfriend in your presence. The best you can do is come up with a similar sounding word, knowing it's nowhere near the right answer.
"Uh... Greg... Be... Hell, son?"
So What's to Blame?
When you learn a word your brain stores it in three different places. You learn the letters of the word, the way it sounds and its meaning, and three different parts of your brain handle those three tasks. Easy enough, as long as they all communicate with each other. Fortunately, the more often you use that word, the stronger the connections are between the letters/sounds/meaning and the more reliable the wiring between those three parts of the brain.
But sometimes if you're put on the spot to recall a word, your brain turns on you like the two-timing slut she is. If someone just gives the description of the word ("the guy in Coach"), your brain has more work to do. Instead of comprehending the physical traits and sound of the word, it has to start with the meaning and try to make the connections from that. And sometimes the connection is wrong.
It's the attempt to recover from one of those misfiring connections that leaves you staring at the floor, snapping your finger and saying, "Come on, I know this."
Worst of all, focusing on the wrong answer actually strengthens the incorrect connection between that word and the description.
"Ah, I got it. Jerry Van Dyke."
#1. Soiling Yourself in a Panic
By now, you're probably worried about sabotaging any chance you'll ever have at happiness. Sorry, but there's just one last thing that you should know: You can actually shit your pants out of terror. It's not just a figure of speech.
So What's to Blame?
When our ancestors made up their minds to flee from various dinosaurs, they very well could have left a line of fecal matter in their wake. It's another part of the "fight or flight" response, which served them well for thousands of years but is kind of inconvenient in the era of expensive pants and roller coasters.
When the fight or flight mechanism is activated, a few things happen. Respiration and blood circulation increases to make your muscles operate better. But in order to make your legs run faster and your arms flail more girlishly, blood has to be redirected from other parts of your body. To do that, "non-vital" operations are put on hold.
One of these people will shit themselves while struggling to keep up.
Included in that list of non-vital operations are the muscles that right now are holding in your urine and poop. Whoever deemed the ability to stop waste from running warmly down your legs as "non-vital" obviously had different priorities, though ours would probably also change if chased by a T-Rex.
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Police say an October 5th credit card theft resulted in one woman losing hundreds of dollars.
She told police her card was stolen at Hobby Lobby.
She later realized more than $700 had been charged to her card at Walmart.
These two women made several purchases at the Morgantown Road Walmart.
"Coming into the Christmas season we will receive more of these because the number of thefts go up. There's more people moving about in the store," says Public Information Officer, Ronnie Ward with Bowling Green Police, "We find that women will actually have their purses open in their shopping cart. They'll turn to get something off of a shelf and the thief will just walk by and pull their wallet out."
While keeping your purse zipped while in a store is important, what is most important is being aware of your surroundings.
Allstate.com says "shoulder surfing" has become popular in many states, where thieves are using some sort of video recording device to get your credit card number.
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Larry Gregory - How do you know you have a potential hot company?
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The business model is an interesting question, considering Weblogs Inc and Gawker Media. Instapundit is making nearly 10K/month. I recently sold my blog for a reasonable amount. There is talk of more networks of blogs starting up.
Interesting piece. Can we see some of the other footage from this interview?
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We've known that Final Fantasy X HD is heading to PS3 and PS Vita ever since Square Enix made this announcement at a PlayStation Vita conference held in Japan in September 2011, but the inclusion of FFX-2 in the Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster was only revealed in March last year.
Fast forward twelve months and there's now only one week separating us from getting our hands on these two lengthy JRPGs starring Tidus, Yuna and their memorable band of allies. With this in mind, Square Enix recently unveiled a new TV spot for the collection providing the briefest of sneak peeks at these two innovative games remastered in HD. Take a look below:
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I'd like to use the half-qwerty keyboard layout on my mac, without actually buying any (ridiculously priced) hardware. I found a auto-hotkey script, but that appears to be windows-only. Are there any alternatives?
I'm the developer of the one-handed typing Mac apps below. Should be just what you're looking for.
One-Hand Keyboard is the best option, as it has predictive text. Just type the one-hand keys and it will automatically figure out which word you meant. Type
Mirror-QWERTY is the non-predictive-text version. You hold spacebar to "mirror" the keys. So to type
I hope one of these solutions works for you! Would love to hear your feedback.
I found One Hand Keyboard, but at €79,99, it's a little too expensive to try out.
Edit: There's now a free demo available on the Mac App Store:
The Magic Frogpad also looks promising, but isn't quite half-qwerty, and still forces me to buy expensive hardware (even though I already have the touchpad).


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I want to know if numbers should be written alphabetically in educational contexts, for instance:
10 plasma samples out of 1016 cannot be ignored.
Ten plasma samples out of one thousand and sixteen cannot be ignored.
I want to know if numbers should be written alphabetically in educational contexts, for instance:
For a technical journal, you would want to use numerals, not spell out the numbers.
Our journals follow The Associated Press Stylebook style (for the most part), which means that we do spell out numbers less than 10, but use numerals for numbers 10 and greater. We also use numerals when the numeral is followed by a unit of measurement, even if the numeral is less than 10. And we would not use a numeral to begin a sentence. (So in your example, we would use this: "Ten plasma samples out of 116 cannot be ignored." Or "Ten plasma samples out of 1016 cannot be ignored." (If you actually meant to write out one-thousand and sixteen.)
Also, if your paper is accepted, most journals will have editors helping you with the style in your back-and-forth communications.
There is no single standard, but some things to consider:
Also, please note that the expanded word form of 116 should be "one hundred sixteen", and that there is an inconsistency in your original post: is the value 116 or 1016?
Just a late thought: It depends on the impact you would like the number to have, if you use digits the visual reception of the quantity is immediate. The spelled-out words has lesser influence and to some extend obfuscates the number.
So I would think if the number is important it should be shown as digits, and if the application of the number is of greater concern it should be spelled-out.


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Preservation professionals and modernist enthusiasts from all over the country journeyed down to the Lone-Star State last month to celebrate Docomomo US' second annual National Symposium where everything is big from the hats, hair, and modern architecture. Co-sponsored with Houston Mod, the Symposium took place at Houston's University of St. Thomas, designed by Phillip Johnson in 1958, a location that facilitated the weekend's discussions about modern architecture's significance and role today. The jam-packed, three-day event offered guests a birds-eye view of modernism in Texas, the current state of preserving modernism, the ground-breaking work of architectural archivists and challenge to preserve the ephemeral.


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Archie McPhee has been keeping Seattle Strange since 1983. Time flies when you're having fun and we're about to celebrate our 30th anniversary and we'd like you to join us.
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