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Raybestos Roadster Pickup Triangulated Four-Bar Suspension - Hang 'Em LowWritten by on February 1, 2011 Old-Time Up-To-Date Hot Rod Suspension
Everywhere you look, there it is-that Jeff Norwell illustration of the highly hot-rodded red '32 Ford open-wheeled roadster pickup with the all-steel body, an engine that looks an awful lot like an injected Ford 427 SOHC race motor, and the familiar Raybestos shield-shaped logo on the doors.
As we reported four months ago, the Raybestos Roadster Pickup is being built by Hollywood Hot Rods (HHR) in Burbank, California, and will eventually be given away in a sweepstakes sponsored by Raybestos.
The body is a '32 Brookville rpu repro and the engine isn't a 427 cammer at all, but Ford Racing's brand-new Coyote engine. We'll be taking a closer look at the 32-valve DOHC Coyote in the future-but this one stands alone, due in part to those custom valve covers and lakes pipes, and a Hilborn fuel injection system combining old-timey stacks with an up-to-date electronic engine management system to efficiently feed the 32-valve twin independent variable camshaft timing 5.0 liter.
Contemporary technology disguised in traditional styling is a growing movement in hot rodding and is the signature look of rods rolling out of HHR, where Troy Ladd and his crew keep coming up with cool ways to crossbreed the heritage of the old and the performance advantages of the new. The Coyote engine we just mentioned isn't the only part of the Raybestos rpu to get this treatment. The truly unique suspension, designed and fabricated at HHR, has the appearance of traditional-style front and rear hairpin radius rods, but-as we figured out from the engine-looks can be deceiving. For example, those rear hairpins are really the lower arms of a triangulated four-bar rear suspension.
Thanks to simplicity and performance advantages, parallel four-bars have become a very common rear suspension choice among rodders. The upper bars help maintain pinion angle and control axle rotation, while the lower bars serve to control front to rear motion of the axle. Lateral (side-to-side) motion of the rearend is controlled by a diagonal Panhard bar running from the rearend housing to the frame.
A triangulated four-bar system is similar, but instead of running parallel to the lower arms, the upper arms are mounted at the center of the rearend on either side of the pumpkin and extend at an angle forward and outward to the framerails. The lower arms provide front-to-back control like they do on a parallel setup. The angled design of the upper arms provides the same control as parallel upper arms, in addition to lateral control, centering the rearend without the need for additional support from a Panhard bar. The result is greater stability and a more compact package, which is an especially valuable benefit on small applications like a Deuce roadster pickup.
HHR built a similar "subterfuge" suspension about a year and a half ago on a '32 highboy. On that car, they had used wishbones as the arms, so that the triangulated four-link had the appearance of split 'bones. On the Raybestos rpu, they've taken the concept to another level.
Along with the rear four-bars, they also used front and rear torsion bars-not typically found on hot rods, but more frequently on race cars. HHR has used this type of suspension on a project before, too, when they built Ron Lee's '31 roadster pickup for the La Carrera Panamericana race, adding front and rear torsion bars by Steve Moal at Moal Coachbuilders (for a close look at torsion bar technology, see our coverage of the '31 rpu chassis buildup in the Feb. '09 issue). The advantage of torsion bars, which function as springs, is that they are adjustable for weight changes or handling requirements-a huge plus in race applications.
You've probably already noticed that the chassis is painted in some of the photos and in bare metal in others. Obviously we made more than one trip to HHR to follow the progress of the chassis buildup. We thought it was helpful to show both earlier shots of the chassis as it was going together and later shots, closer to the final effect.
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Even with kickups in the front and rear, HHR still ended up adding a C-notch over the rear axle to position the car low to the ground. You may have noticed the rear brake is reversed and missing a couple bolts. During the mock-up assembly period, the brakes were on and off the car constantly and sometimes got switched. In the later photos, they are complete and correct.This is the driver side torsion bar (arrow) connected at 90 degrees to the torsion arm in the front and running rearward. Troy told us that the Vega steering box was mounted high up on the frame due to the car's low-to-the-ground stance.The front torsion bars are similar to the suspension on the HHR La Carrera Panamericana car. The outer ends of the drilled torsion arms (driver side and passenger side) pivot on roller bearings attached to this hairpin batwings built by Steve Moal from Moal Coachbuilders.The rearward ends of the front torsion bars (arrow) connect to the frame at the right and left front crossmembers. The driver (left) side is shown here.Unlike the front-to-rear position of the front torsion bars, the rear torsion bars run laterally (from side to side), connecting in the center of the frame. The torsion bars (arrow) attach to the forward ends of the torsion arms on each side. The back of the torsion arms attach to the rear axle. The whole setup is seen in the first photo on the previous page.HHR cut a slot in the lower 'rails of the bed to slide it over the torsion bar. When the project was finished, the slot in the sheetmetal was covered with a housing to hide the torsion bar and add a retro design element. Here is a look at the bracket that attaches the hairpin to the axle.Adjustable torsion keys on each end of the rear torsion arms at the center connector plate allow for adjustment of the ride height. Changing the length of the torsion arms and the diameter of the bars also allows adjustment of the spring rate.
What appears to be a hairpin rear suspension is really a triangulated four-bar system, with the hairpins serving as the lower bars. From underneath the chassis, one of the upper four-bars (arrow) can be seen. Here's another look at the rear hairpin bracket.From the outside, the upper bars are invisible. To all appearances, these are vintage outboard-mounted hairpins. The hairpins acting as lower arms are attached to the 'rails with traditional-appearing tie-rod ends fit into bungs extending through the boxed frame. The hairpin bracket allows the front mounting point and the rear lower mounting point to maintain the correct parallel-to-the-ground position at ride height, and to pivot on the axle.Since Raybestos is sponsoring the roadster, Troy Ladd wanted the brakes to be as cool as everything else on the car, choosing track roadster-style "Skeleton" Buick drum brakes from Wilson Welding and Machine. Since Raybestos does not manufacture the Ford shoes and drums for this specific application, HHR adapted the brakes to accept Cadillac brake components from the Raybestos catalog, including 12x2-1/2-inch drums and shoes. They have no backing plates, to better show off the Raybestos products.Even the front discs contribute to the mid-'60s race car theme, featuring GM rotors combined with jumbo '65 Corvette calipers-the type used on race cars 45 years ago.


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Let $G$ be a countable amenable group and $f\in\ell^\infty(G)$. Denote by $L,R,I$ respetively the sets of left-, right- and bi-invariant means on $G$. Denote by $M_L(f)$ (resp. $M_R(f),M_I(f)$) be the sets of values attained by the integral $\int f(x)d\mu(x)$, when $\mu$ goes over $L$ (resp. $R,I$).
Question: Is it always true that $M_L(f)=M_R(f)=M_I(f)$? Counterexample?
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Here was my argument against this, the second law of thermodynamics, in effect says that, there is no heat engine that can take all of some energy that was transferred to it by heat and do work on some object. So, if we can not take a 100% the thermal energy of an object, and use it to do work, what about the thermal energy that is rejected to the environment, can we use all of that energy to do work on an object? No, if energy is supposed to be the ability to do work, well that's a contradiction.
"The ability to do work" is certainly a lousy definition of energy.
Is it "merely" a lousy definition, or is it actually an incorrect definition? I think it could be either, depending on precisely how the word "ability" is interpreted. But if the words are interpreted as they would be in everyday speech and everyday life, I would say it's an incorrect definition.
UPDATE -- What is a definition of energy that is not lousy?
This is a tricky issue. Defining a thing that exists in the real world (like you do in physics) is quite different than defining a concept within an axiomatic framework (like you do in math).
For example, how do you "define" Mount Everest? Well, you don't exactly define it, you merely describe it! You describe where it is, you describe what it looks like, you describe how tall it is, etc. Since there is only one mountain that has all these properties, you wind up with a "definition".
Likewise, if I start describing energy (i.e. listing out various properties of energy), I will eventually wind up with a definition of energy (because nothing except energy has all these properties). Here goes:
All these properties are interrelated, and out of them bubbles a completely precise and unambiguous understanding of what energy is.
(I'm sure that some people will claim that one bullet point is the fundamental definition of energy, while the other bullet points are "merely" derived consequences. But you should know that this is a somewhat arbitrary decision. The same thing is true even in mathematics. What aspects of "differentiable manifold" are part of its definition, and what aspects are proven by theorems? Different textbooks will disagree.)
But can you boil that understanding of energy down into a one sentence "definition" that is technically correct and easy to understand? Well, I can't, and I doubt anyone on earth can.
I've always liked and used Feynman's definition of energy as articulated in The Feynman Lectures (don't have the specific reference in front of me, but it's in volume one in the chapter on conservation of energy). Feynman defines energy as a number that doesn't change as Nature undergoes her processes. Of course, there are quite a few such numbers, but nevertheless energy is one of those numbers. You may also find the book Energy, the Subtle Concept: The discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein by Jennifer Coopersmith a useful reference.
Your statement of the Second Law is incorrect. Your version should be "there is no heat engine that can take all of some energy that was transferred to it by heat and do work on some object in a cyclic process." (My added words are in italics.)
It is certainly true that in a non-cyclic process all the heat can be converted to work. Think of the expansion of a gas in a cylinder with a movable piston raising a weight.
As for the definition of energy, defining it as the capacity to do work seems to be as good a definition as one can easily get.
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As a lay person I apologise if this is the wrong forum please let me know if it isn't.
In flat taxation regime you pay x% of some value (income for arguments sake). This remains at x% as value decreases or increases.
In a progressive taxation regime you pay a varying % dependant upon some variables bases on a function of the 'some value'.
So for example the rate may be y% (where y < x) for where some value is less than the above or possibly be z% (where z > x) for some value is greater than in the able example.
What I'm trying to find is if there is name for a function where a proportion varies according to the size of the whole. If you see what I mean.


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The 5 Most Baffling Spin-Offs in Television History
A TV spin-off is almost bad by definition: it's whatever is left when an executive draws a big circle around the characters people actually care about and says, "let's write a pilot without these people."
But the truly terrible TV spin-offs are awful on a whole different level. They take these characters and wedge them into some pointless or ill-fitting premise that makes us care about them even less. Here are five spin-offs that truly make us wonder what the fuck they were thinking.
#5. Baywatch Nights
Spun Off From: Baywatch
Bored in his position as resident police officer of Baywatch, Sergeant Garner Ellerbee forms a detective agency with Baywatch lifeguard and former Navy Seal Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff) with the intention of solving the apparently countless paranormal mysteries that plague the beaches of Los Angeles.
Ridiculous Because:
Given that 90% of American males envision their retirement from the corporate grind as some variation of an episode of Baywatch, it's hard to imagine that a man whose job responsibilities include "watching breasts bounce" and "confiscating recreational drugs from surfers" would endeavor to transition into a more demanding, more dangerous line of work.
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But beyond the Baywatch gang's incomprehensible motivation to change careers, the storylines of some of Baywatch Night's episodes are downright ridiculous. For example, take Episode 24: The Creature, wherein the detectives come face-to-face with an amphibious, serial-killing woman hell-bent on procreating. Or Episode 38: Zargtha, in which a man-wolf torments teenaged runaways living in an earthquake-prone abandoned building.
As you've probably deduced by now, the show was a cheap attempt to cash in on the X-Files craze. But there's a reason Mulder didn't wear zinc on his nose and Skully wielded a gun instead of a whistle: otherworldly encounters just don't occur on the beach.
Not pictured: A realistic setting for a show about monsters.
#4. Golden Palace
Spun Off From: The Golden Girls
Rejuvenated by seven years of living in a house together and discussing their unfathomably active sex lives, three of the four Golden Girls (minus Bea Arthur) open an upscale hotel in Miami. Because running a hotel slightly more work than these spunky 70-year-olds can handle, they hire Chuy Castillos (Cheech Marin) to run the kitchen and Roland Wilson (Don Cheadle) to manage the front desk.
Ridiculous Because:
While some projects, like putting together a bookshelf, only require elbow grease and a can-do attitude, we're pretty sure that opening an upscale hotel in one of the most expensive cities in the world takes millions of dollars and years of industry experience.
But that's not to say that these lively gals don't have one thing going for them: the second any of them mentioned sex in front of a guest, they wouldn't have to worry about paying the kitchen staff overtime that day.
"Picture us fucking!"
The show was canceled after one season, and producers resisted the temptation to generate another spinoff where the girls buy and run their own island nation.
#3. Women of the House
Spun Off From: Designing Women
After Suzanne Sugarbaker's (Delta Burke) fifth husband dies, the former Atlanta beauty queen assumes his congressional office and, along with her mentally-handicapped brother, her spry, vivacious daughter, and her sassy administrative assistant, enters the bureaucratic power-labyrinth of Washington D.C.
Ridiculous Because:
We can buy Delta Burke's marriage to a parliamentarian (although in the deep South we think they're called Grand Wizards). But even before the first poorly-scripted one-liner about Congress being full of more nuts than momma's pecan pie can signal to the audio tech that it's time to light up the "APPLAUSE" sign, the show asks us to accept that not a single person would object to a dead senator's elected position being taken over by his sassy wife.
The show lasted just nine episodes, when CBS abruptly pulled it off the air when they saw that episode 10 featured a "montage of women being brutally abused." CBS demanded the scene be cut (whatever for?) and then just decided to kill the show completely.
To be clear, the scene was not of actual women being abused on, like, a hidden camera or something. It was a montage of movies and TV shows, and was supposed to be making some kind of point about the way women are treated in popular culture. Way to stand up for feminism, Show About Wacky Lady Who Marries Her Way Into Congress.


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We have two external servers, Dev and Prod. We are a software house and in the code we have a subdomain metrics.company.com that points to Prod.
Development is continuous and our internal and external developers and testers will need to switch from Dev to Prod and back again. It is not an option to have a different sub domain in the code during development and change this for production.
The way we wish to switch between Dev and Prod is to use DNS. We need a public DNS server that behaves normally apart from routing metrics.company.com to Dev. The users will be able to swap their DNS back and forward to hit the different servers.
What is the easiest way to do this? Is there a company that hosts this service or am I going to have to rent a server and set it up myself?
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Shadow Play
- Thick tape or thumb tacks
- White sheet
- Portable light
- Dark room
- Hang up the sheet in a way that doesn't damage the wall or ceiling.
- Put the light behind the sheet.
- Turn off the lights and act out a play between the sheet and the light.
- Get a few family members or friends to be the audience and see if they can guess what play you are acting out.
- The audience might want to try acting as well!
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Let $f(z)=\sum_{n\geq 0}a_n z^n$ be a Taylor series with rational coefficients with infinitely non-zero $a_n$ which converges in a small neighboorhood around $0$. Furthermore, assume that \begin{align*} f(z)=\frac{P(z)}{Q(z)}, \end{align*} where $P(z)$ and $Q(z)$ are coprime monic complex polynomials. By developing $\frac{P(z)}{Q(z)}$ as a power sereis around $0$ and comparing it with $f(z)$ we obtain infinitely many polynomial equations in the roots of $P(z)$ and $Q(z)$ which are equal to rational numbers so this seems to force the roots of $P(z)$ and $Q(z)$ to be algebraic numbers.
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I using Ext.Ajax.request for get/post data with Cakephp 1.3 service backend.
It work fine on Google Chrome but on Safari i get error 403 (Forbidden)
Any help for me!
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i found error. Reason is my action controller authentication on server. But so far, i don't know why it work fine on google chrome.


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WACO (November 9, 2012)--A purple balloon release Sunday will commemorate a mother who was killed by a drunk driver, leaving behind 2 boys.
Tina Saldera was killed on New Year's Day in 2010.
Her two boys, now 7 and 8, are in the care of their grandmother who wants to make sure her memory stays alive.
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Champion is a Houston-based global energy specialty products and services company with approximately 3,300 employees in more than 30 countries. Its 2011 sales were $1.2 billion. Closing is expected to occur by year-end 2012, subject to regulatory clearance and other customary closing conditions.
Technology company Ecolab on
Friday agreed to acquire privately-held engineering
services group Champion Technologies in a transaction
valued at approximately $2.2 billion.
The deal includes Champions related company,
Corsicana Technologies. The acquisition will be paid
through a mix of approximately 75% cash and 25% stock.
Champion is a Houston-based global energy specialty products
and services company with approximately 3,300 employees in more
than 30 countries. Its 2011 sales were $1.2 billion.
Closing of the deal is expected to occur by year-end 2012,
subject to regulatory clearance and other customary closing
"As a premier company and proven innovator committed to
delivering outstanding technology and service, Champion
represents a very attractive business that opportunistically
became available, enabling us to acquire an outstanding
operator," said Douglas M. Baker, Jr., Ecolab CEO.
"Champions technology and product strengths in the US and
Canada are very complementary to our innovative technology and services in the
offshore and international energy markets.
Baker sadded that Champion offers "very attractive growth
and an annuity-like revenue model generating steady and
predictable earnings patterns similar to our legacy Ecolab
Meanwhile, Steve Lindley, chairman for Champion Technologies,
said" This is a compelling strategic deal that provides
us the possibility to fully capitalize on significant energy
market opportunities around the world. We have always regarded
Ecolabs Nalco global energy services as a
leader in this marketplace with a similar culture and
like-minded focus on serving the customer."
Ecolab will pay approximately $1.7 billion in cash and issue
approximately 8 million shares of Ecolab common stock, subject
to certain adjustments at and after closing.
Ecolab said it expects to realize attractive synergies from
the Champion transaction totaling a run-rate of approximately
$150 million by the end of 2015 through integration activities wholly within
the global energy services sector. The deal will not
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I think recycling will be a good invmtseent, especially anything that has now ways of recycling plastic. There was one guy who turned all the un-recyclable plastic into railway sleepers and made a fortune. Just remember, in recycling the raw material is free, and in some cases people will pay you to take it away. Its got to be a boomer! Also, plastic is made form oil, and so is a limited resource. There will be an ever increasing need to harvest plastic waste. There are some companies already doing that. mining old land fills for the plastic and the methane fuel form rotting waste. Dirty money .
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'Tiny dynamo' now at rest
|The Rev. Mother (Patricia Ann) Placid Dempsey. Credit: contributed
Born Patricia Ann Dempsey, Placid died Thursday at the Abbey, where she has lived since 1949 — or nearly since the Abbey's inception in 1947. Wise, impish, witty, given to sharp spiritual insights and equally pointed (and earthy) quips, the consecrated nun was 85. An abbey spokeswoman, referring to Placid as a "tiny dynamo," said Placid worked as an artist, poet and guest mistress at the Abbey for more than 50 years.
"She pre-dates everybody," said Lady Abbess David Serna. When she entered the monastery as a postulant on Aug. 18, 1949, the former Patricia Dempsey became one of the first American postulants — and the only one of that group to persevere in the monastery. Asked how Placid was able to persevere in the strict monastic community, which follows the fifth century Rule of St. Benedict, Mother Dolores Hart said, "Because she loved — and the others were there for reasons that didn't have that intensity. Mother Placid loved and that's what kept her here."
Hart, a former Broadway and Hollywood actress, added, "The only reason I've stayed here is because Mother Placid kept me going when I was a sniveling postulant."
Serna added, "Mother Placid brought in anybody who dropped on our doorway."
Hart recalled a night in the 1970s when she woke about 2 a.m. and could not find Placid. Searching the enclosed convent, she finally discovered her in the Abbey's small reception area, talking to a teenager. "Mother Placid said, 'I'm all right. This is Joe. I just had to sit and talk to him because he just lost his mother and he needs to talk,'" Hart said. When Hart asked Placid how long she expected to counsel the teenager, Placid replied, "'I'll stay with him until he has the capacity to go.'" Hart said. "That was Mother Placid."
Dempsey was the youngest of four children of William Ambrose Dempsey, a New York City trial lawyer, and Kathleen Costello Dempsey, a teacher and housewife. The Dempseys emigrated to the United States at the time of the Great Famine in Ireland, settling in Pennsylvania where Patricia Ann Dempsey's grandmother ran a saloon in the mountain mining town of White Haven. The Costellos had been metal craftsmen for centuries in Ireland. Dempsey's maternal grandfather was instrumental in bringing the Knights of Columbus to Brooklyn.
Dempsey grew up in Brooklyn, and later described the atmosphere of her home as "... warm and intellectually stimulating with discussions of cultural matters, philosophical questions, and legal matters," the Abbey reported in a statement. After graduating from St. Angela Hall Academy High School, she received her bachelor's degree in art from Marymount College in 1949.
While at Marymount, Dempsey attended a talk given by Mother Mary Aline, co-foundress of the newly established Benedictine Monastery. She came to Bethlehem with a friend in 1947, arriving in the midst of a blizzard. She later recalled what she found: "It was so cultured, so simple. There was a freshness here, a mystery — like going into some huge stillness, going into God."
Added Mother Margaret Georgina Patton, smiling, "We were all just dead birds Mother Placid picked off the beach," . "She made you look at your gifts and use them. She translated the values of the monastery into a language you could understand."
Placid's work as monastic artist included painting, graphics, vestment design, enamel, wood, stone and concrete sculpture, and book illustrations, notably the covers of several of the "Classics of Western Spirituality" series. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in this country and Europe, especially in New York City and Paris. Her well-known "Stations of the Cross," hand-carved out of a neighbor's cherry tree, grace the walls of the lower monastery chapel at the Abbey. Placid designed scenery for several Abbey plays as well as buildings used for the Abbey fair. She was instrumental in the development of monastic crafts and supervised the renovation of the Monastic Art Shop to include an art gallery and display space.
Inside the Abbey, Placid taught classes in monastic history and spirituality, philosophy and the Rule of St. Benedict. She was much influenced in her early life by the writings of Jacques and Raissa Maritain whom she later met when they visited Regina Laudis in 1949. Among her most cherished relationships was the one with renowned children's book illustrator Tomie dePaola, who first came to Regina Laudis as an art student.
In a statement, the Abbey said, "Her deep sense of culture and breadth of education, and her frank love of people were supreme assets in this work. Moreover, she brought a depth of wisdom and understanding, in her inimitably playful way, to the work of forming communities of laypersons desiring to give themselves to Christ, through their professions."
She once described monastic life in this way: "Religious life is generally misunderstood, mostly by people who never get to know what it's about. Entering is like the first day of creation for you. You come to find out what God has put you here for. You walk in, and this place will set off all the light and dark places in you. It's a pressure cooker. You will walk into all the trials you need to clean up your act and learn to love."
Besides her monastic community, Placid is survived by her numerous nieces and nephews, including Mother Praxedes Baxter, also of Regina Laudis, and by great-nieces and nephews.
Placid was buried Saturday in the Abbey cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the New Horizons Renovation Project are suggested, in care of The Abbey of Regina Laudis, 273 Flanders Road, Bethlehem, CT 06751 or online at abbeyofreginalaudis.org.
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Has anyone tried the chew back-anneal in vitro DNA assembly method (known as Gibson Assembly) for difficult sequences, like GC-rich sequences? How big constructs could you efficiently assemble? Did you use the original protocol or some optimizations?
I haven't tried Gibson Assembly myself, but I do know the Cambridge iGEM Team in 2010 and 2011 developed a web-based tool - Gibthon - for automatically generating primers for Gibson Assembly.
You could try running your difficult sequences through their tool to see what it suggests for primers. It apparently gives you a "value for the Gibbs free energy of the worst case secondary structure of the primer."
I also haven't tried it, but theoretically GC-rich sequences will interfere with Gibson assembly. Since unique homology between the ends is key to the assembly process, repetitive sequences which cause non-unique overhangs will increase the possibility of incorrectly ordered assembly. One solution would be to use alternative codons where possible to decrease repetitiveness.
I'm sure all the overlap design tools will try to avoid repetitive overlaps. Prof Jim Hasselhoff at Cambridge Plant Science is a big proponent of Gibson assembly, it was one of his students who wrote Gibthon. If you email him I'm sure he'll give you specific advice.


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WHEELING - Lynn never planned to become pregnant, but the experience has changed her life forever.
Lynn, a 16-year-old whose name has been changed to protect her identity, is a West Virginia resident currently living at Crittenton Services in Wheeling. She said before she became pregnant, she was "wild'' and didn't care about anything other than having fun. She said she thought everything in life was easy.
"It's not easy anymore,'' she said, referring to being a mom. "You don't worry about your friends like you used to. It's not about your friends, and it's not all about you, either. It's a whole other life you have to take care of. (I) don't get to do much now."
When Lynn found out she was pregnant, she said she was scared and she didn't want to tell her mother. She considered terminating the pregnancy because she didn't think she would be able to raise a child at her age. Her mother advised her to keep the baby, however, assuring Lynn that she would help take care of him.
Teen moms such as Lynn are not alone. According to a new report from the 2012 West Virginia Kids Count data book, West Virginia is one of the 10 worst states for teen pregnancy rates in the nation. Forty-five teen girls out of 1,000 in West Virginia gave birth in 2010, significantly higher than the national rate of 34 per 1,000.
After she had her son, Lynn's attendance at school dropped dramatically. She said she didn't want to entrust her son's care to anyone but herself and would skip school to care for him.
Her truancy caused her to be court-ordered to Crittenton Services, where she is currently undergoing a therapy program.
"Since he came into this world, I finally realized what life is really about. I was wild before I had him and now that he came into my world, I woke up and realized that life is not easy. I used to think everything was easy, but it's really hard,'' Lynn said. "There's not being able to leave whenever you want, you have to watch them and everything they do, you have to feed them, change diapers. ... It's hard, but I'm doing it.''
Lynn's son is now a 1-year-old and Lynn is in ninth grade at Wheeling Park High School while she goes through therapy at Crittenton. She is doing well academically and makes As and Bs and has a grade-point average of 3.1. Her son goes to Crittenton's day care center while Lynn attends class. Lynn said before coming to Crittenton, she never realized the importance of an education.
"If I'm not going to school, what is his life going to be like? What's his future going to be like? If I don't have a good job, how am I supposed to raise him? If he sees me doing all these good things, he's going to look up and do the same thing,'' she said.
After she finishes the therapy program at Crittenton, Lynn will move back to her home town to live with her mother who will care for Lynn's son during the day when she is at school.
Lynn said she plans to attend college after she graduates.
Lynn's parents are deaf, so she has been able to communicate through sign language since she was a toddler. She hopes to put her skills and experiences to use and eventually become a social worker and a sign language interpreter. Before coming to Crittenton, Lynn said she never thought about what she wanted to be in life.
Though it is hard to be a teen mother, Lynn said there are good parts to being a parent and in many ways, the experience has helped her grow as a person.
"Watching him grow, wondering what he is going to be like, how he acts. His personality gets different and different as he gets older, that's fun. He always puts a smile on my face,'' Lynn said.
"If there was a teenager that was pregnant, I would explain to her that it's going to be hard, it really is. Just because you have a kid, it doesn't stop you from future goals. You can always be what you want. Like I want to be a lifeguard this summer and I'll do it. It's not going to stop me from anything.''
Kathy Szafran, president and chief executive officer of Crittenton Services, said she believes the key to Lynn's success is the amount of support she received during her time at Crittenton. She said the key factor that keeps teen pregnancy rates high in West Virginia is lack of support and poverty.
"For many girls, there is no way out and the adult males in their lives, they see them as the answer. A lot of our girls come from broken and abusive families. These girls are looking for a way out, they don't see a future. A lot of these ladies have been so abused, they don't feel a personal sense of worth and value. Sexuality is the only thing they have,'' Szafran said.
Pregnancy, Szafran said, is often a way for teenage girls to escape their sense of isolation.
Starting sex education at a young age and instilling young girls with a sense of self-worth may be a solution to combating teen pregnancy rates, Szafran said.


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In the Bible is there any mention of how smart or stupid large groups of people are?
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I'm not sure I would really use this to make a case for 'crowdsourcing' though.
No, not really. Half the time 'crowds' are mentioned the word is basically synonymous with 'mob' and the other half it's just a big group of people.
There is advice about seeking counsel from wise friends. The company you keep is important, and there are lots of stories (both good and bad) to show that. Most importantly, the Bible says that true wisdom always starts with knowing and rightly fearing the Lord, and that any understanding comes after that.
As Christians our source of wisdom should always be first and foremost God's word, and having a few sound counselors to help us in understanding it rightly. If we do not know and fear God it cannot be said that we are wise.


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Last month we kicked off (what we hope is) a fun contest to challenge the community to be on the look out for the magical number '33' in their everyday lives. If you don't find yourself out in the world very often, then creatively manifesting the number is also a welcome method of entering.
Your potential reward for submitting the best photo? A voucher for Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network or Steam!
Nine of El33tonline's friends and regular readers submitted a total of twenty-seven photos for February's contest, all of which perfectly demonstrated how prevalent 33 really is in our everyday lives – in our food, our Gamerscores, on our dashboards, on signs, in books, moments in time… 33 is everywhere.
Who had the best sighting in February, though?
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Brendon Bosch sent through no less than eight photos to reveal his sightings for the month of February, but it's the very first photo in the gallery below that has won him the voucher – it perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the competition and it's clear that Brendon had 33 on his mind when his brain stitched these two separate numbers together into one magical combination. Congratulations Brendon!
Flick through a gallery of the images Brendon sent through last month, and then continue on down below to see the rest of the entries – they're all terrific, thanks to everybody for submitting their photos last month!
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I wonder whether the hat is "Made in China", or if it's "Made in USA using imported materials".
@satyenshah: Does it matter? It sends a message that needs to be seen.
ACE uniform here in San Diego has the real ones, actually they have mexican "policia federal' to ICE to border patrol. They were like 15 bucks though. I got the Policia Federal so I could wear last halloween and say I took from it from a cop that tried to shake me down.
Oh, its a FELONY to pretend to be a US GOVERNMENT agent or dress up as such,dont be an idiot !!!!!
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The 126th session of the Supreme Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Foreign Ministers was held in Riyadh today, under the chairmanship of Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmad bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa. The Kingdom's delegation was led by Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal. Other participants included Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah; Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al-Thani; UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan; Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi bin Abdullah; and GCC Secretary General Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani.
In a statement released following the deliberations, the GCC Foreign Ministers called on Iran to respect the principles of good-neighborliness and to abide by international conventions. In this respect, they demanded that Tehran end its interference into the internal affairs of other countries, end its occupation of the three islands belonging to the UAE, and take steps to remove the legitimate doubts of the international community regarding its nuclear program.
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"The kids know him. The staff knows him, and everybody is excited to see him. He's excited to be here. He said sometimes this is the best therapy for him if he's having a bad day to come see the kids," says McIntyre.
During Scott Eddy's time living in Bowling Green, he has made it his mission to give back to the community.
On cause that Eddy lends his time and effort to is the American Cancer Society, because he himself is a 25 year cancer survivor. He was asked to speak at Relay for Life to share his story, which was an opportunity he jumped at.
Angie Geron, Community Representative for the ACS, says "Of course he did that immediately, he didn't even have to think about it. He always goes the extra mile in whatever is asked of him."
In addition to his work with cancer awareness, Eddy also is a voice for the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) and SAM 100.7 and Tony Rose's "Stuff the Bus" campaign each summer.
The organization that is closest to his heart is the Bowling Green Boys and Girls Club. Through his job at Pepsi of Bowling Green, he was able to give the club a "Refresh Grant" to furnish a new computer lab for the kids to use.
Executive Director of the Bowling Green Boys and Girls Club Pam McIntyre says of the lab, "We use it for our programs. It helps tremendously. We wouldn't have been able to do that without the grant."
Additionally, Eddy is a fixture of the club, stopping by nearly every week to visit with the kids and staff.
"The kids know him. The staff knows him, and everybody is excited to see him. He's excited to be here. He said sometimes this is the best therapy for him if he's having a bad day to come see the kids," says McIntyre.
Now, Bowling Green is losing one of its champions, as Eddy is moving from the community for his job. However, he says he will continue his work in his new home, as well as here in Bowling Green, ""The community has certainly touched me and whether its spending a night at Stuff the Bus with Tony Rose, coming back and playing golf with the Boys and Girls Club outing, or being part of a NAMI Christmas dinner, those are things I'll still be a part of."
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Just changed oil on 3, yes three, DHX yesterday using your guide, I'm banging my head why I have not done it sooner!
The oil on those were muck filthy! All 3 were 8.5x2.5 from a Quake, Bighit (2010), and a Demo 7.
The IFP depths from the Quake and Bighit measured at 35mm. Mine (Demo7) was only 26mm!, I was a bit surprised, was it intentional i.e. the shock tune for the demo? I understand that this would make the shock more linear?
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Here's a picture of American rower Henrik Rummel receiving his new bronze medal while sporting a boner. He's the second one from the left, in case you missed the giant erection. All told, U.S. rowers won two bronze medals and one gold. Below is a video of the ceremony. [UPDATE: Rummel claims he was 'not erect.']
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I was reading about the planet TrES-2b which is less reflective than charcoal. What could possibly be its composition?
The article mentions exotic compounds that are not naturally found on Earth (either at all or in the same form), like vaporized sodium, potassium, and titanium oxide. However, since this is explicitly disparaged as not sufficient to explain all of its absorption, we have to search for other reasons.
Honestly, my first guess is experimental error or some unexplained discrepancy that means it's not actually that dark, because it's hard to imagine a gas giant not primarily composd of hydrogen, or completely enveloped in some black substance.
The next most plausible theory I can think of is that there is some sort of preferred-direction optics (like a sun pillar) redirects light towards the planet, very effectively trapping it, or reflecting it in a direction not towards Earth, e.g. towards the planet's poles, making it appear dark.


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From whose perspective is the opening movie in Dead Island?
You meet the four playable characters through the course of the drunken shenanigans, so who is this guy?
From whose perspective is the opening movie in Dead Island?
You meet the four playable characters through the course of the drunken shenanigans, so who is this guy?
I don't think it's conclusively any named character (future DLC notwithstanding).
You can see the person in the intro for a moment in the bathroom mirror, I've taken a few screenshots:
Considering that the characters seem to retain their clothes and general look from the intro, it doesn't appear to be Ryder White since Ryder's apparel has a button-down military style shirt and intro guy just has a tan collared shirt on. Example:
It's hard to tell from screenshots but their hairstyle and facial hair seem different as well, Ryder has very short hair and no facial hair while intro guy seems to have slightly longer hair and a goatee.
At this point intro guy seems to be a throwaway character to introduce everyone else. It's possible that he'll show up in DLC at a later time but the only DLC I've heard of is Ryder-centric.
To be honest, I think it's Ryder White.
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It is the player basically, they tried to make the opening homogenic. You kinda meet yourself in the opening and its all kind of weird and stuff... but on the other hand you were drunk. So who knows if you actually met yourself or you thought you met yourself.
The reason why it is you, is because basically you start the game in the same room where you passed out.
On the other hand if you look closely at the arm while you are drinking you can see Logan his hand... which doesn't make a lot of sense either since you met yourself.
It's not the same room. If you pay attention the room from the intro and the room you start in are different, so it may just be a random drunk dude to show you how the playable characters personalities are.
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Was Rich referring to ensuring that the test codes checked that their
payloads were correct (and not re-assembled in the wrong order)?
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> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:46:10PM -0500, Richard Graham wrote:
>>> This is better than nothing, but really not very helpful for
>>> looking at the
>>> specific issues that can arise with this, unless these systems
>>> have several
>>> parallel networks, with tests that will generate a lot of parallel
>>> network
>>> traffic, and be able to self check for out-of-order received -
>>> i.e. this
>>> needs to be encoded into the payload for verification purposes.
>>> There are
>>> some out-of-order scenarios that need to be generated and
>>> checked. I think
>>> that George may have a system that will be good for this sort of
>>> testing.
>> I am running various test with multiple networks right now. I use
>> several IB BTLs and TCP BTL simultaneously. I see many reordered
>> messages and all tests were OK till now, but they don't encode
>> message sequence in a payload as far as I know. I'll change one of
>> them to do so.
> Other than Rich's comment that we need sequence numbers, why add
> them? We
> haven't had them for non-matching packets for the last 3 years in
> Open MPI
> (ie, forever), and I can't see why we would need them. Yes, we need
> sequence numbers for match headers to make sure MPI ordering is
> correct.
> But for the rest of the payload, there's no need with OMPI's datatype
> engine. It's just more payload for no gain.
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Obviously masturbation is a very serious sin. However, if someone has already transgressed that sin, does his status change vis-a-vis things like learning Torah or davening? Does he need to go to a mikvah before engaging with things that are related to kedusha?
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Does the act of masturbation cause a change in one's spiritual/religious status vis-a-vis what he may and may not do?
Masturbation per se does not change one's halachik status at all, although it does generate an obligation to repent.
Ezra originally established that a man who is impure from any seminal emmision (not just masturbatory) cannot say shema, pray or say other blessings until he has gone to the mikva. However this decree was later rescended, and the law and the popular custom is not to change one's liturgical practices if one is impure. (Shulchan Aruch OC 88)
In general, one's status does not change, and one should not feel that one is prohibited from learning or davening. That said, it is important to take steps to rectify this very serious sin.
Aside from the necessary steps for teshuva regardless of the sin, one should go to the mikvah as soon as possible - if one is not available, a shower will do - and recite the Tikkun HaKlali. It is preferable to do so in Hebrew but English works if one cannot read Hebrew. These ten psalms were set out by Rebbe Nachman of Breslev zy'a as a means by which to completely repair emissions outside of normal marital relations.
Beyond this, the Baal HaTanya recommends fasting, but in our day the amount of fasting required is not possible, so it suffices to give substantial amounts to charity.
If you are serious about avoiding this sin, there are many excellent resources available, including Guard Your Eyes and Bris Kodesh. Also consider installing a web filter such as K9 Web Protection.
Above all else, the main way to fight this is to get married as soon as possible!
Let me add a couple things, based on English-language responsa on the Institute for Dayanim website.
"Cleaning off Zera" says the principal halacha is that you can pray even with semen on your clothing. It adds that if you masturbated, it's "proper" to wash your bedsheets to remove semen. The responsum uses the term "proper", not the term "obligatory". Read it yourself and decide if washing them is really required or not.
"Contaminated Clothing" adds that washing items in the normal way is sufficient to deal with all halachic concerns.
The website doesn't specify who wrote each responsum. The site's responsa section's chief halachic editor is R' Yehoshua Pfeffer.
He is disqualified to serve as a witness in a beit din, or at a wedding. This is not unique to someone who masturbates, rather any person who has violated a torah law or a rabbinic law, and who has not repented, is disqualified.
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Are there any proven or benchmarked methodologies that can be leveraged to balance the challenge between maintaining quality in spite of strict timeline through a disciplined and consistent approach? The challenge I face is the more we try to improve and perfect output, the time factor might play a spoilsport...would love to hear views and perspective on how to maintain a balance and practical experiences and prioritization facets
Classically there are three factors:
Since you can't usually have it all a common approach is:
This doesn't mean the 'third' item is completely ignored. Rather it just tries to emphasize what is most important.
This is also a great interview question to ask. Just be aware that the answers are usually indirect and require some interpretation and additional follow-up questions.
In programming projects it's all about getting the right quality from the start. If you start quick and dirty you end up loosing all your time fixing it later. So when you do every little piece of work in the right quality from the very beginning, you spend your time both doing quantity and quality. You have to write the lines of code to make the programm work, so why not do it in good quality straight away?
To get this thing going you need to put a little more effort into planning your whole process as a first step. The kind of programming process I describe here is called Agile software development. I'm quite sure the method can be transfered to projects that don't deal with sw development.
The starting point here is to define what is the minimum level of quality of your work that you are willing to accept.
The next step would then be not to release any of your work before it meets those quality standards.
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Her game is not easily quantified by numbers.
It�s not one of great flash, of pomp and circumstance, but rather a subtle substance.
It�s the kind of game her team can�t thrive without.
Elena Benavides is the engine in the central midfield that makes the Fort Lewis College women�s soccer team go, the thread that connects the defense, wings and forwards with a neat bow.
She�s become so adept at it her head coach paid her the ultimate compliment, comparing her to FC Barcelona�s finest.
�She likes to have control of a game in a different way than most players,� FLC head coach Damian Clarke said. �You think, to be honest, she�s more of probably a Xavi or an Iniesta, someone who�s going to assist and playmake, but sometimes the play that�s made is so far away from the assist that it�s not even recognized.�
Benavides, one of just two active seniors on the roster, didn�t come in as a ball-control specialist. She had a quality career as a goal scorer at Sandia Prep High School in Albuquerque and played up top early on in her FLC career. But the central midfield affords her the ability to play with the ball at her feet more often than not, something she craves.
�I came to the conclusion that as long as my team�s winning, I�m happy. ... I find it more fun because I get to find the ball more at my feet instead of running a lot. It�s better running to get the ball than running in space and not getting it,� Benavides said.
That said, it takes a particular mindset to play the position, one that doesn�t mind not scoring the big goal or making the big save. A person who�s content to scramble back and forth repeatedly to facilitate the offense.
Numbers-wise, Benavides doesn�t stand out much, with just eight goals and 19 assists in her career. But it�s the unquantifiable that makes her so useful, both as a player and a captain.
�To be honest with you, she probably runs five miles a game,� Clarke said. �She also has to do it with exquisite technique. If you make bad passes, then obviously the other team is on top of us the way that we play.�
Last year, the Skyhawks had quite the combination in the middle with Benavides and partner in crime Sara Egbom, who formed quite a potent ball control tandem as FLC advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year.
Benavides, understandably, misses Egbom because of the connection built after so much time playing together. But she quickly added how pleased she was with the way Egbom�s replacements � notably Therese Romero, Emily Walters and Brooke Milliet � have made life after Egbom as easy as possible.
�Actually, it�s made me happy that I haven�t had to direct other midfielders as much as I thought I would, missing Eggy,� Benavides said. �I think they learned in the spring when we played together or even just watching how to play with me, which I�m very grateful for.�
But the most valuable quality of all in the central midfield, besides maybe endurance, is vision. The person in the middle has to be able to see the next pass before it happens, to exploit passing lanes and perhaps start the chain reaction that leads to a goal a few passes down the line.
Think chess. And Clarke�s convinced he�s got his Garry Kasparov.
�Her head has to be on a swivel. As the ball�s coming in to her, or even two passes ahead, she�s looking over her shoulder to check what�s behind her and what�s available,� Clarke said. �A lot of times she�s playing the ball into someone and telling them where to go next.�


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I am reading a paper, and I do not understand why the author said the following term when integrated twice will become,
$\int\limits_\Omega {{\rm{d}}\Omega {{\bf{\psi }}^{\bf{u}}}\cdot\nabla \cdot\left( {2\nu D\left( {{\bf{u}}} \right)} \right)} = - \int\limits_\Gamma {{\rm{d}}\Gamma {{\bf{\psi }}^{\bf{u}}}\cdot\left( {2\nu D\left( { {\bf{u}}} \right)} \right)\cdot{\bf{n}}} + \int\limits_\Gamma {{\rm{d}}\Gamma {\bf{n}}\cdot\left( {2\nu D\left( {{{\bf{\psi }}^{\bf{u}}}} \right)} \right)\cdot {\bf{u}}} - \int\limits_\Omega {{\rm{d}}\Omega {\bf{u}}\cdot\nabla \cdot\left( {2\nu D\left( {{{\bf{\psi }}^{\bf{u}}}} \right)} \right)}$
Where both $\bf{u}$ and ${\bf{\psi }}^{\bf{u}}$ are vector field (velocity and adjoint velocity), and the strain rate $D\left( {{\bf{u}}}\right)=\frac{1}{2}\left( {\nabla {\bf{v}} + {\bf{v}}\nabla } \right)$.
Could anyone help me, see if it is correct and how to integrate it?
Thanks a lot!
Here is the link of this paper,
Please see How equation 12 is integrated into equation 13.
The term appears in deriving adjoint equation that is very similar to the primal navier stokes equation during shape optimization.
And frozen turbulence assumption is used.
$\nabla \cdot\left( {2\nu D\left( {{\bf{u}}} \right)} \right)$ is what is called the diffusion term (for incompressible flow).
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Showing $21.66 PLUS almost $9 in shipping
Still $12.99 w/ no tax and free budget shipping to FL.
As far as I can tell, this is the older model of the current M525 mouse, which shows up here from time to time for this price, or cheaper. Unless you really need this mouse, I'd save your money. If you're currently on the market though, this is a good deal on a nice, basic wireless mouse.
Was $21.66 plus like $11 shipping for me when I clicked earlier now its back :/ .
Don't buy a Logitech mouse unless it's a newer one with a "unifying receiver." This isn't one of those.


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Consider an idealized classical particle confined to a two-dimensional surface that is frictionless. The particle's initial position on the surface is randomly selected, a nonzero velocity vector is randomly assigned to it, and the direction of the particle's movement changes only at the surface boundaries where perfectly elastic collisions occur (i.e. there is no information loss over time).
My question is - Does there exist such a bounded surface where the probability of the particle visiting any given position at some time 't', P(x,y,t), becomes equal to unity at infinite time? In other words, no matter where we initialize the particle, and no matter the velocity vector assigned to it, are there surfaces that will always be 'everywhere accessible'?
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I am not sure how common is this, but I experience loss of interest pretty often. Unlike many people, my problem is not in starting things but in sustaining the interest.
One day, I decide that I am going to do a specific project/task. I will be highly interested and full of energy to get it done. After spending some time in it, I start thinking that the output may not be really worthy enough. I get doubts about the utility of the project. I lose the interest. Other projects appear more luring and I get distracted. I abandon the project and jump into new one.
Not, just any project. Even tv series/websites/friends/relations everything is the same. I lose the interest much before the task is finished.
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you may wonder apple just removed ethernet port from new macbooks which means we have to use wifi! i made a wifi hotspot with my windows laptop to use for my macbook (my modem don't have wifi because i hate wifi!). but i think WEP encryption is broken, WPA encryption which i can't see on mac is even broken. so Wifi is mean no security right ?
WPA2 is the only secure method. WEP and WPA are "broken". Also, WEP is easier to crack than WPA. However, any security, even WEP, is better than no security as it will effectively prevent opportunistic connections to your network.
I just checked and indeed the new Mac Books Pro don't have an Ethernet port. All I can say is WTF?!?
wpa2 is still the best choice currently.
watch out for wps brute force attempts against a pin, make sure you have a router that you can turn wps off.
Use WPA2 and turn off WPS if ur router supports it since this is a major security flaw.
802.11 until "802.11ad" uses unencrypted management packets no matter what encryption type you use, and will be vulnerable to DOS from a wristwatch that could throw De-authentication packets. Even enterprise grade RADIUS implementations have recently been proven to be vulnerable within 24 hours or less. Now, when your dealing with autonomous quadrotors, swiping your handshake, and using a distributed computing cluster to crack your personal/WPA2 using multi-instance Dictionary-Supplemented-bogosort-bruteforce, MAC spoofing your client, even a 63-Character(64 HEX) CCMP VLAN won't help you.
Now with cognitive Radio, it opens a new level of spoofy goodness. Now an attacker will have to implement a "brutespoof" of their MAC spoofing algorithm(similar to aireplay-ng) to attempt to resolve the victims MAC CR algorithm.
Perhaps a ghetto CR MAC implementation could be thrown together using Cron Jobs on a DDWRT/Openwrt router so that both the client, and the router are constantly spoofing their MAC at a mathematically synchronous rate. Unfortunately it then becomes a matter of hardware speed & luck.


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So I've baked some apples just yesterday, and today they are extremely sticky. Not because of the glaze or anything, it's just that they're sticky to the touch. I didn't add a lot of sugar, so I wonder, why would it appear like this? It just seems very annoying, because if I pack it into a box or something, it will stick to it and is inconvenient to me.
I only used 3/4 of a cup of brown sugar. Also, my glaze starts to melt, even though its freezing cold here.


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Are there any legal issues with publishing and sharing an application that loads a humanity system icon as default .desktop?
disclaimer: I am not a lawyer
An excerpt from
So, the work uses the GPL version 2 license. AFAIK, this means that you can use it freely providing you've put a note in your program that you're using the Humanity Icon Theme which use the GPLv2 license.
disclaimer: I am not a lawyer either
In a .desktop file you only reference the icon you are using. This means you are not copying or redistributing the icon so you can legally redistribute the application, even if it is under an incompatible licence.
If you copy or redistribute the icon, you need to adhere to the GPL v2 as Lekensteyn has said. Howeverh, as far as I know, the GPL requires no attribution, so you don't need to say you are using the Humanity Icon Theme.
You should note that if you merely reference the icon from the Humanity icon theme, this will require users to have the theme installed for it to show properly. You can solve this issue by distributing this icon as part of your application, storing it in
Even if your application is closed source, you could potentially distribute it as two packages - a closed source application package and a free icon package. However, I'm not entirely sure of how this would work legally.


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Gallup: Obama disapproval in the 60s on the economy, budget deficit
posted at 2:21 pm on August 16, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
A little over two weeks ago, Gallup found that the most important issues on the minds of voters are the economy, jobs, and the federal budget deficit. Today's Gallup poll shows Obama more than twenty points underwater on all three issues, and above 60% disapproval on two of them:
Three months before the election, President Barack Obama gets good marks from Americans for his handling of terrorism, fair marks for education and foreign affairs, but poor marks on immigration and three big economic issues: the federal budget deficit, creating jobs, and the economy generally.
Historically speaking, this is bad news for Obama's re-election efforts:
Obama's ratings on the economy are significantly worse than all three prior successful presidential incumbents at this same point in their first term, according to the available Gallup trends. His 36% approval rating on the economy is well below George W. Bush's rating in August 2004 (46%), Bill Clinton's in August 1996 (54%), and Ronald Reagan's in July 1984 (50%). Still, in terms of comparisons to presidents who lost, Obama's economic rating is substantially better than that of George H.W. Bush in July 1992 (18%). Gallup did not measure Americans' approval of Jimmy Carter on the economy in 1980.
Reagan was, however, at 48% on job creation at that time as well as 50% on the economy, and 52% overall in job approval rating. Carter was at 37% overall and Bush 41 at 32% overall approval, the only two presidents since Ford to be under 50%. Of all the predictive indicators, this one might worry Obama most, currently at 45% and dropping.
The low marks on the most vital issues at this time, though, show the difficulty for his campaign to run on his record, or even new ideas … if Obama had any. His campaign hasn't even yet articulated a second-term agenda except to continue the policies that have him at 36/60 on the economy and 30/64 on the federal budget. Even the Associated Press has given up pretending that today's economic conditions are expected and cyclical.
Small wonder that the entire Obama/Biden strategy this week has been Seamus the Roof Riding Dog and a dog-whistle reference to slavery. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan continue to focus on jobs, the economy, and budget deficits — the most vulnerable place to hit the Obama/Biden ticket.
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Teach Them the Value of Money
When your children finally grow up and leave home, you don't want them getting into debt. Very possibly you want them not only staying out of debt but also not wasting their money, or spending when they could be saving. Nor do you want them to be insensitive toward other people who have less than they do, whether it's a friend on a lower salary, or a child starving on the other side of the globe.
Give Them Some Money So They Can Start to Understand It
It's not as if the kids aren't costing you enough already. But, yes, it is the norm to give your children money as well. You could insist they have only what they can earn (which is pretty tough when they're small), but the vast majority of parents do give their children an allowance or money in some form. We look at earning money later on.
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Recently, I realized I should really reduce my bookmark count. As in the 80/20 rule, I probably use less than 20% of my browsers bookmarks. This might be highlighted by the fact that currently I have 1021 bookmarks and 21 folders according to Chrome. Many folders are way too large.
Yet two important assumptions that I want to consider: 1). I usually bookmark websites with diigo for archival / reference, but the fact that I put them in my "bookmarks bar" means they are slightly more important or actionable than others. 2). While I will sure find outdated bookmarks (I hope that I'll find many such), I am sure that it will be hard to reduce the count, because I have no system for it yet.
Thus my questions:
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2). Where (and how) would you archive these links, assuming I want to try to keep them for quick reference, but outside my bookmark bar? Make a simple list in Evernote with a short link title?
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The list continues to grow of the names that will be featured on a local monument honoring military veterans past and present.
The Heath Springs Veterans Association is asking individuals and families if they want to honor a serviceman or woman by having their name engraved on a granite monument that will sit at the corner where the old water tower stood in Heath Springs, facing North Main Street.
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With the primary just four days away, residents are asking if GOP candidate Rob McCoy lives in the district or not.
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As a Pennsylvania native, Howard, 54, got her start with the Philadelphia Police Department in 1978, just as women were being accepted to the force.
"It started out for me as a challenge because when I came into law enforcement in the 1970s, it was traditionally an occupation dominated by males," Howard said. "The more I learned, the more experience I gained, and the more I grew to love the job."
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Who knew that a fascination with numbers would one day put Jerry Witherspoon in a position to positively affect hundreds of lives?
A Lancaster native, Witherspoon is executive director of the Lancaster Housing Authority, which oversees the Caroline Court and Frank L. Roddey public housing units.
He has served in that position since 2003, and has had a lot of stops along the way to get to this point.
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The dust may have settled but questions continue to pile up about the transparency of a proposed landfill deal.
During the last few weeks, hundreds of county residents spoke out against a plan to transfer the Palmetto Landfill from Spartanburg County to the area of the current Mining Road Landfill in Lancaster County. And with new details emerging every day, many are questioning who was responsible for the process, how long did county officials know and was anyone misled?
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In less than a week, local voters will decide which GOP candidate will represent that party in the District 16 state Senate special election.
Brian Carnes of Indian Land, Greg Gregory and Rob McCoy, both of Lancaster, Wendy Petzel and Mike Short, both of Fort Mill, will face off in the Republican Party primary on Tuesday.
District 16 covers most of Lancaster County, Fort Mill and other areas of eastern York County.
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A Lancaster man remains behind bars following an incident in which he hit a police officer during a traffic stop over the weekend, according to a police report.
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