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Joao Plata had a goal and two assists as a first-half red made life difficult for the visitors.For the second time in nine days, Real Salt Lake and the Portland timbers met in MLS play and produced a thrilling match. Unline the previous 3-3 draw however, this clash had a clear victor, with RSL winning 4-2 at Rio Tinto Stadium to extend its lead in the Supporters' Shield race.
The Claret-And-Cobalt sprang to life early, netting twice in the first quarter-hour. First, Kyle Beckerman's pass was flicked across the top of the Portland penalty area by Joao Plata to Luis Gil, who picked out the low far corner to beat Donovan Ricketts. Then Plata beat Portland defender Andrew Jean-Baptiste on the outside with pace to lash his own shot in past Ricketts.
The Timbers pulled one back in the 31st minute, when poor defensive pressure allowed Darlington Nagbe to set up and rip a shot from distance, though Nick Rimando will take a sizeable share of the blame for failing to keep the effort out.
Two events conspired to dent the odds of the Timbers pushing for an equalizer. Diego Valeri, arguably Portland's most dangerous player, was taken off with an injury shortly after the goal, and just before halftime, Ben Zemanski was shown the red card for a studs-up sliding challenge on Ned Grabavoy.
Poor set piece defense from Portland gave the hosts the next two goals. All alone in the box, Javier Morales had time to set himself up for a bicycle kick in the 55th minute, before Alvaro Saborio beat out the Timbers back line to head Morales' free kick in the 67th minute.
Sal Zizzo sored Portland's second in the 78th minute, following up a save from Nick Rimando on Jose Valencia and tapping home the loose ball.
The league-leading Royals move onto 48 points, seven ahead of Eastern Conference pace-setter Montreal, and eight ahead of Western Conference rival Los Angeles, although the Galaxy do have three games in hand.


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What is the "Random Oracle Model"? Is it an "assumption" akin to the hardness of factoring and discrete log? Or something else?
And why do some researchers have a strong distrust of this model?
What is the "Random Oracle Model"? Is it an "assumption" akin to the hardness of factoring and discrete log? Or something else?
And why do some researchers have a strong distrust of this model?
A random oracle is described by the following model:
So a random oracle is like a kind of hash function, such that we know nothing about the output we could get for a given input message $m$, until we actually try $m$. This is a useful tool for security proofs because they allow to express the attack effort in terms of number of invocations to the oracle.
The problem with random oracles is that it turns out to be very difficult to build a really "random" oracle. First, there is no proof that a random oracle can really exist without using a gnome. Then, we can look at what we have as candidates: hash functions. A secure hash function is meant to be resilient to collisions, preimages and second preimages. These properties do not imply that the function is a random oracle.
Indeed, see SHA-256 (or SHA-512 if you wish). It suffers from something called the "length extension attack". This is an artefact from the Merkle–Damgård construction: to hash a message $m$, the message is first split into fixed-size blocks (64 bytes for SHA-256), the last block being padded with some bits which include the length of $m$, and some ones and zeros such that we end up with a full block. Each block is then processed over a running state, the hash output being the last block value.
So suppose that there is a message $m$, that I do not know, but I know the length of $m$ and its hash $h(m)$. With that information, I can rebuild the padding bits which were added (let's call them $\pi$). Then, I can envision the message $m'$: $$ m' = m || \pi || x $$ for some value $x$ that I choose arbitrarily. I then know that the computation of $h(m')$ will begin by splitting $m || \pi$ into blocks and processing them, and after having processed the last bit of $\pi$, the current "running state" will be exactly $h(m)$. So, if I know $h(m)$, I can finish the computation of $h(m')$ by taking it from there, and I can do that without knowing $m$. In particular, I end up with $h(m')$ while not having presented $m'$ to the gnome.
This property proves that SHA-256 is not a random oracle. Yet, it does not endanger in any way the resistance of SHA-256 to collisions or preimages. Therefore, being a random oracle seems to be strictly harder than being a secure hash function.
It has actually been shown (by Canetti, Goldreich and Halevi) that random oracles cannot exist "in all generality" in the following sense: it is possible to build pathological signature and asymmetric encryption schemes, which are secure when they internally use a random oracle, but which are insecure whenever an actual computable function is used instead of the mythical gnome-in-the-box.
Summary: proofs in the random oracle model are fine, but are never complete enough to cover a practical implementation: we know that any function we will use in lieu of the random oracle will not be a random oracle; so security relies on the fervent hope that the parts where the actual function is not a random oracle do not impact security. This justifies a bit of mistrust. Still, a proof in the random oracle model is much better than no proof at all.

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Life is a game. In order to have a game something has to be more importantthan something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.
Werner Erhard
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I recently upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10, but I get "Not enough free swap" error when trying to put my laptop to hibernation.
I have 2GB of physical memory and 3GB of swap. Besides, the hibernate worked fine in 11.04.
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Profiles in Scholarship
Step by Step
Elizabeth Scott
Family law and juvenile justice expert Elizabeth Scott is hitting her stride at the Law School.
Four or five times every week, Columbia Law School Professor Elizabeth S. Scott laces up for the five-minute walk from her home to Central Park, where she runs along the scenic footpaths. "It's such a beautiful setting," she says, adding that she limits her runs to two or three times weekly during New York City winters. When asked if her husband, Columbia's Alfred McCormack Professor of Law, Robert E. Scott, comes along to help keep her motivated, she lets out a quick laugh.
"No. No. No."
There are distance runners, there are sprinters, and then there are those who—like Bob Scott—prefer to walk. Still, when the Scotts' son, Adam—a 2008 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law—ran his first-ever marathon in Philadelphia just before Thanksgiving, both parents "went down to cheer him on."
An avid strider, Elizabeth Scott took up running some 30 years ago, and the professor's habit of going the extra mile extends to her legal pursuits. At UVA, where she began teaching in 1988, Scott was the founder of the interdisciplinary Center for Children, Families, and the Law. As the center's co-director, the juvenile justice and family law expert tackled contentious issues such as the regulation of marriage, divorce, and cohabitation. After serving as a visiting faculty member at Columbia Law School on four occasions, she finally settled in permanently at Morningside Heights in 2006. The leap was significant, since Scott had spent the greater part of her career on the Charlottesville, Va., campus of UVA. She earned her J.D. from the school in 1977. Two years after graduating, she was named legal director of UVA's Forensic Psychiatry Clinic at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. It was at this institute, over the course of eight years, that Scott honed her interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, applying behavioral economics, social science, and developmental theory to legal policy issues.
This fall, Harvard University Press published Rethinking Juvenile Justice, which Scott co-wrote with Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University. The book grew out of investigations into juvenile crime the co-authors conducted between 1995 and 2006, as part of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice. The network, headed by Steinberg, was created in response to the increasing number of state laws that made it easier to try juveniles as adults.
"What we do is offer a developmental model of juvenile justice," Scott says, in explaining the authors' proposed reforms. The Scott-Steinberg prescription calls for treating adolescents as a distinct legal category—not as children, but also not as adults. "The basic argument is that if lawmakers paid attention to scientific knowledge about adolescence, legal policies regulating juvenile crime would both be fairer than contemporary law and would promote social welfare to a greater extent than the law does now."
With her teaching schedule clear last semester, Scott focused primarily on scholarship. But she also indulged her passion for opera and the theater. The Scotts, who married as undergraduates after meeting at Oberlin College, scored good seats to the plays All My Sons and Equus. The latter, about a disturbed stable boy who commits a terrible crime and the child psychiatrist who treats him, no doubt will make for lively classroom discussion come spring.


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The Fifth Mountain (Paperback)
A Struggle of the Spirit and a Search for the Truth
Written with the same masterful prose and clarity of vision that made The Alchemist an international phenomenon, The Fifth Mountain is Paulo Coelho's inspiring story of the Biblical prophet Elijah. In the ninth century B.C., the Phoenician princess Jezebel orders the execution of all the prophets who refuse to seek safety in the land of Zarephath, where the unexpectedly finds true love with a young widow. But this newfound rapture is to be cut short, and Elijah sees all of his hopes and dreams irrevocably erased as he is swept into a whirlwind of events that threatens his very existence. In what is truly a literary milestone, Coelho gives a quietly moving account of a man touched by the hand of God who must triumph over his frustrations in a soul-shattering trail of faith.
About the Author
Paulo Coelho, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, is one of the bestselling and most influential authors in the world. The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, Brida, Veronika Decides to Die, Eleven Minutes, The Zahir, The Witch of Portobello, and The Winner Stands Alone, among others, have sold 115 million copies in more than 160 countries.


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You might be coming to college with a major in mind, but you'd like to be sure of your choice. You might have several options for majors and need assistance in sorting them out. You might enter college knowing you want an education, but have no clear career focus. Ferris State University offers you the opportunity to explore careers at any stage of the career decision-making process.
The Career Exploration Course
The Career Exploration Course is a three-credit hour class that guides you through the career decision-making process. CARE 102 offers you opportunities for self-evaluation, vocational and educational planning, and the development of decision-making skills. CARE faculty members help you explore career development as a lifelong process through the use of self-assessment inventories, group discussion, individual projects, assessments and consultation with Educational and Career counselors.
The Academic Advisor
The Academic Advisor for all CARE students is the instructor of the Ferris State University Seminar courses - FSUS 100 and 101. This advisor, selected from the many faculty and professional staff who specialize in helping to guide students who have not yet selected a program, can help you define and develop realistic goals, identify special needs, match you with available resources, monitor progress toward educational and career goals, and discuss linkages between academic preparation and the world of work.
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Through the Educational Counseling and Disabilities Services Office, you have the opportunity to complete interest and personality indicators under the guidance of licensed professional counselors. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the most researched and popular personality instruments used to help individuals understand and appreciate personality gifts and differences. The Strong Interest Inventory (SII) is a valid and reliable interest assessment used for career counseling.
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The Ferris Career Exploration Program is an ideal way to begin college and make progress toward a degree while looking at different career options.
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Romaji is somewhat of a conversion from kanji and kana to the Roman alphabet.
What are the disadvantages of learning only or mostly romaji aside from being unable to read/write in kanji? I don't think there are many advantages.
Your question body contradicts the title, so I'll answer both questions:
Advantages of roomaji (I never thought I'd say this!):
Disadvantages of roomaji:
The real question is "Advantages/disadvantages for whom?".
For students of Japanese, Romaji is really useful when they start out, because they don't have to learn anything to be able to read it (although without learning Kana, they'll probably end up reading it incorrectly, especially if they're native English speakers :(). Another advantage is that Romaji text (unlike normal Japanese text) has spaces, which can really help the beginning student recognize word boundaries. Another minor advantage is that Romaji (especially Nihon-shiki or Kunrei-shiki, which is not so common in western Japanese teaching materials nowadays) sometimes makes it somewhat easier to catch verb conjugations where the stem-final consonant remains the same but the vowel changes (e.g.
These advantages make usage of Romaji acceptable for beginners, but there are disadvantages that make it a terrible burden for students who want to progress beyond that level. Most of them have already been described by Matti, so I wouldn't repeat them.
Japanese speakers are the second audience for Romaji usage, and they are often ignored in such debates. Most of the advantages and disadvatages for learners of Japanese don't apply to them, since they can already perfectly read and write kanji and kana. The reasons they would choose to use Romaji (as they, indeed, do quite often) is different:
By transcribing everything into latin alphabet (heck, even to hiragana/katakana syllables), written Japanese will lose most of the legibility than if it were to be written in full kanji+kana. It may be hard to describe, but let me give you a nonsense english sentence:
The above is what Matti was saying in his third point about homophones/homonyms.
Not only that, by not using kanji, you lose the ability to instantly make out what is being said in a text, something that is very essential in speed reading (which is also why I have a hard time playing those FamiCom games; they lack kanji for the most part).
I've softened significantly from my beginner-level "all romaji should be purged from the earth" fanaticism. There are two related questions here, "Should I avoid a roomaji-based textbook like the plague?" and "Can I get away with learning Japanese without studying kanji?"
The TLDR version is "No" and "Yes, but you obviously will be illiterate".
"Should I avoid a roomaji-based textbook like the plague?" - No, roomaji does have some significant advantages in some contexts
"Can I get away with learning Japanese without studying kanji?" - Sorta... but here's where you'll face issues
** Some have claimed that using roomaji somehow retards development of proper pronunciation. This is simply false, and I have to question if those adhering to this idea have ever studied a western language. Does "ll" or "j" in Spanish cause anyone any trouble after the first 2 weeks?
I personally think there are no advantages to using romaji whatsoever. I think it's just a crutch beginners use to not have to memorize them, but it should be something you embrace. Hiragana and Katakana do not take that long to learn (assuming you have the motivation). Once you can read and write them well, it's almost hard to go back to reading/writing romaji. From there, you go on to kanji. It's also difficult to go back to using pure kana once you're comfortable with kanji.
I think learners should try to spend 99% of their time using the Japanese writing system and not romanization:
So I definitely would not recommend romanization for learners in general.
There are advantages to romanizing! And as long as you spend 99% of your time using kana and kanji, it shouldn't hurt to romanize when it's to your advantage to do so. Most of these advantages are related to pronunciation or to being able to divide kana into CV pairs:
You've probably noticed these are all related to linguistics, and I don't think that they're things beginners need to worry about. Personally, I'd say you should learn to read kana and kanji first. Worry about this stuff down the road, after you're already comfortable reading Japanese as it's normally written.
The disadvantages are all in the corner cases. Some romanizations represent づ and ぢ as "zu" and "ji" respectively, which is less than perfectly accurate since those are also used to represent ず and じ (I represent them as "dzu" and "dji" myself, but one can't force others to do so). And that's not even touching upon the issues with katakana and strange combinations such as ウィ and the like.
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OK so I took my first pano today with my new NN5. I got to say I was really really impressed with the NN5.
When shooting indoors do you use a flash? I found that there were some dark spots in my house that I normally would use a flash with to light them up. I also had to adjust the exposure with every shot, since the lighting changed thoughout the 360.
Once the shots are done do you guys normally bring them into photoshop or something to work with the lighting levels before stitching them?
My setup is the following.
Canon 40D
Sigma 8mm
I used PTGUI Pro (Trial Version) to do the stiching
I used Pano2VR (Demo Version) to do the movie
Movie File - No flash was used.
Movie File
In the pano you can see areas where it is a little blotchy. I guess this is do to the light differences between pictures after they were stitched.


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I mean beside the common English, Italian, German and Spanish leagues.
I mean beside the common English, Italian, German and Spanish leagues.
Mexico is good fun, infact any of the south american leagues are interesting compared to the european leagues.
Not really done any but few FM's back I did try the Swedish league with Djurgarden and was going well until my team suddenly crumbled, everyone's morale hit the skids and we couldn't win period, no idea why it happened but ever since then I kinda stick to the bigger teams.
Belgium is always Top Trump when it comes to crazy & interesting leagues.
On FM11 the Finnish first division was great fun, since around half the teams got relegated due to restructuring =D. I generally prefer the shorter leagues with 30 games max.
I have enjoyed Romania in the past. Also Poland was quite fun.
I take it you mean why?
Its just a different set of rules and a different way of things working compared to our leagues here. The Brazilian leagues are good but very very long seasons, the Mexican league is not as long but still a bit of a slog. I believe the A league is also decent but i havent given it a try yet, and obviously the MLS is a rule on its own.
Right now, I'm very much enjoying this fictional US-based league structure. It's a nine-tier pyramid with the top three leagues nationalised, the following three regionalised as East/West, and the bottom three regionalised even further. Nothing too complex, but it just works. It also incorporates both regional cups and division-based cups, as well as an unseeded cup open to every team in every division. Having a lot of fun with it.
Sweden,Norway and Iceland are great fun.
Faroe Islands is equally fun,but also very frustrating if you unlock it with the editor.
Korean League. But a little odd as your best player can get plucked out of your squad for 'military service' and your left filling holes on the fly. But I liked the challenge of the ACL very even with all the countries in it. But Korea has good talent and if you can keep them you'll have a hell of a squad.
Gotta agree with Barside on Belgium. If you want a good European-based game, it's a lot of fun. There's enough home-grown restrictions for the domestic league to make building for European success a challenge, but it's still reputable enough in the beginning that you can attract some decent players, and older ex-Prem guys.
You also learn French, so it's a decent step if you're playing a Journeyman career and want an early shot at international management, with a number of francophone countries in western/central Africa.
Had a lot of fun in recent years managing in Ireland, Argentina and MLS, as well as stints in the lower leagues of Bulgaria, Japan and Indonesia. Some great leagues to head to when you've grown tired of the same old, same old alternatives!
I'd say Scotland was good fun, I played from the lowest tier to the top and after 10 seaons both celtic and rangers are relegation candidates with hearts and hibs the new dominant pair (till Clyde beat them all to it!)
Slovakia is my current destination and whilst fun it is very difficult to catch Trnava (who win the league every season and get all the champs league money), which means I will have to persevere to catch them and become worth more than them, so I imagine in a few seasons it will become boring. There is a non-EU quota of only 3 players too so I've had to invest heavily in academy players, it pays off
My custom Super League is challenging at the moment but also good fun. Playing in the same League as Barcelona, Santos, PSG, Bayern etc is difficult but fun.
The MLS is a bit mental. Brazil is quite fun, bit hard to get the hang of at first but certainly quite entertaining.
For me it would be Poland, Norway, MLS and Uruguay. Of those 4 countries I think I had most fun in MLS.
I'm enjoying my latest career game in Cameroon at the minute, have a look at my career thread if you want to find out more....
Mexico or the MLS for me.
Germany .
I enjoyed managing in Brazil a lot. So many games though!
What leagues have the least amount of games? I like Belgium but 40 league games is too much after a while.
I've had good experiences in Indonesia. No particular reason, just enjoyable.
Japan is a challenge. At least for me, as all I did was manually unlock it. With the licensing restrictions, that means all the teams start from scratch unless you invest a TON of time in editing (and I don't remember seeing a quality Japanese update for FM11). Within the league, a couple good signings is enough to make you a contender right away. But, man, play anyone outside the league you get smoked. Even lower league Japanese teams are somehow set up better than what the game gives the J1 teams. I twice lost to lower league opposition in preseason and half the J1 was out in the first round of the Emperor's Cup.
Even if I keep pace and qualify for the ACL next year I don't know how I'll compete. I'm theoretically doing AcidBurn's challenge but I don't forsee getting out of Asia for years.
has anyone heard of a good Japanese update for this year or last year then??
Enjoyed a spell in Brazil, they play something like 80 games a year and almost everyone plays the 4-4-2 box midfield formation.
galata, check the forum called "Editor's Hideaway." I haven't looked for FM12 updates myself as I'm still on FM12. I only know the last serious one I saw was for FM10.
like people said above the belgian league is great to play. I'm currently in belgian and been one of my best games so far on fm2012 the league has phases and split mini league in the top division at the end of the season which freshens things up for promotion relegation and european places.
The most fun I've had on this game has been in the Romanian and Ukranian leagues. Had great games playing as Timisoara and also Dnipropetrovsk.
Israel and Turkey are quite fun. Both leagues have like a mini playoff after the season so the last few games of the season are always a little tense (I managed in Turkey before the patch changed to a non playoff system after the first season)!
Which countries leagues have the fewest games?
Managed in China on FM08. No foreign keepers allowed in China lol.
This is tricky to fix in the database though as clubs outside Brazil and Argentina change squads a lot more often, so by the time they are sure a player deserves a higher rating, the player is gone (often to Brazil and Argentina, like LDU's goalscorer Barcos joining Palmeiras, for example).
It's not impossible for teams from outside BRA/ARG/MEX reach the final in Libertadores in the game though, I have seen Peñarol and LDU doing so.
Colombia are the next strongest league of the rest, but no team stand out. Uruguay are closer to Colombia, but with a bigger gap between top teams and the rest.
Out of the playable leagues, Peñarol are the best of the rest team, but LDU (Ecuador) and Libertad (Paraguay) are strongest than them, but Ecuador and Paraguay are not playable leagues (unless you add via editor).
Can you manage the "Military Service" team? It would be quite interesting to try to keep winning (and finding roles for players) with a pretty much random set of players every season!
I simulated this in England with a fictional team that had loan agreements with roughly 40 clubs (also relaxed the loan rules, obviously!). I would just wait until August, see who i'm getting, and improvise from there...then figure out how to blend in the next batch of random players coming in January!
The clubs wouldn't all loan at once, so i'd have a September squad of about 15-20 loan players and a January squad of 25-30 (minus anybody i sent back), NONE of whom i actually selected myself.
Would become a nightmare when i'd get 9 strikers and 1 Centre Back...just to get 5 more strikers in January!
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The norwegian leagues are interesting. The clubs are financially stable and there are some very good players even in the second and third levels.
This year's semis have three Mexican clubs plus one Canadian. Last year had 2 Mexicans, an American and a Costa Rican. Mexicans obviously won. Year before that all four semi finalists were Mexicans. Year before that we had three Mexican teams plus Puerto Rico. The last time a Non-Mexican club won it was 2005 so please stop talking utter crap. Maybe you are the one who should be educating themself on the state of North American football? That is if we want to use your own phrase.
Btw no American team has won the tournament since 2000 and only two have won in the history of the tournament since it started in 1962. Very strong league compared to Brazil and Argentina for sure. The same amount of winners as Trinidad & Tobago. I am not saying this because I have anything against your teams. It's just clear that Mexican teams could do with a step up in competition and the only clubs that can offer that outside of Europe are the South American ones. They need to do what Australia did in leaving Oceanan competitions and improving their quality of clubs by playing in Asia.
Compare the players in the South American elite clubs (guys like Neymar, Ganso, Damiao, Lucas) to the North American elite and if we compare their potential suitors and ability according to most people they would be rated far higher. Same with the average player from these leagues. Just consider for a moment how many players are signed by elite European clubs from for example the Brazilian and Argentinian leagues compared to the MLS. MLS players are barely ever mentioned in the European press apart from the old famous guys on big paychecks. This is because they are not being linked with moves to the elite clubs as the South Americans are.
You can claim all day long that the MLS or other North American leagues are as strong as South American leagues but the ability of the players that they produce would suggest otherwise.
Some could also claim that playing the games at the start of their season could be an advantage due to not feeling the fatigue that players feel towards the end.
What is so ignorant about posting the facts on the situation? The fact is that American clubs sides have dreadful records in their regional tournament. Mexican clubs sides have lots of money and are not handicapped by a salary cap and therefore can compete with South American clubs. They should be allowed to send their elite to face them rather than facing bums from the MLS or Costa Rica.
While I doubt MLS teams would win any South American club competition nowadays, I think they are almost certainly better than teams from Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela and more likely similar to teams from Colombia or Paraguay.
If Mexico send their best teams, they would probably win the title every now and then, in fact Pachuca once won Copa Sudamericana and Cruz Azul and Chivas both reached the Libertadores final.
As for the rest, I would be surprised if they were any better than Bolivian/Venezuelan/Peruvian teams. The few times they played South American competitions they were pretty awful:
Alajuelense in Copa Sudamericana 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U62AAncn-uM
Motagua in Copa Sudamericana 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPgtDJuqmFw
DC United played Copa Sudamericana twice and while they didn't go far, they had good results (1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats).
The main issue with MLS teams is lack of depth (due to the salary caps), but overall there is probably more talent in MLS than even in the other leagues I compared them to (Paraguay and Colombia) but in MLS that talent is spread over several teams while in Paraguay it's concentrated in a few teams. In Colombia it's spread too, but not in 10+teams like MLS, but rather in 6 or so teams.
Anyway, I am certain MLS will be a huge league at some point in future, it keeps growing year after year while most other leagues (be them in the Americas or Europe) are either stagnated or declining.
MLS is young and its in a country that has yet to fully embrace football.
I completely forgot to mention the most interesting league I've played in
The J-League would be my pick. It feels like anyone can win it every season. Competition makes for a more fun experience.
I know you are not fully serious there, but I am sure it will happen in a regular basis in the future, and at national team level as well.
And while football is not the main sport in the USA, there are more football fans there than in most countries, the problem is that many of those fans don't follow local football and prefer Mexican or Euro football instead,
Still, MLS already have higher average attendances than most leagues, including Brazil. Sponsorship and TV deals need to improve though (while for example in Brazil they are very good already).
I have always enjoyed managing in Russia!
Poland! I am thoroughly enjoying my save there. Big stadiums because of Euro 2012, many clubs that can compete for title, top notch fun.


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Let $F\subset F'$ be a field extension such that $F$ is algebraically closed inside $F'$, i.e. if $x\in F'$ is algebraic over $F$ then $x$ belongs to $F$ itself. Let now $F\subset L$ be a finite field extension generated by one element, i.e. $L=F(\alpha)$ for some $\alpha\in L$. Is then $L$ also algebraically closed inside $F'\otimes_{F}L$ ?
let $F$ be a non-perfect field of characteristic $p$.
Let $L$ be an extension of $F$ of degree $p^2$ such that $L=F(a,b)$ with $a^p,b^p\in F$.
The polynomial $f(Y):=Y^p-(a^px^p+b^p)\in F(x)[Y]$ is irreducible, where $F(x)$ is the rational function field in the variable $x$.
Consider $F^\prime := F(x,y)$, where $y$ is a root of $f$.
Then $F$ is algebraically closed in $F^\prime$: let $K$ be the algebraic closure of $F$ in $F^\prime$. Then $[K:F]=[K(x):F(x)]\leq [F^\prime :F(x)]=p$. Hence $K\neq F$ implies $F^\prime =K(x)$ and thus $y=g(x)\in K[x]$ with $[K:F]=p$ -- in contradiction to the choice of $y$.
The tensor product $F^\prime\otimes_F L$ is not a field: the tensor product $F^\prime\otimes_K L$ equals $L(x)[Y]/(f)$. However $f$ is a $p$-th power in $L(x)[Y]$.
I might was a bit too quick. Assuming your first statement, we then apply it to the case $L\subset F'\otimes_{F}L$, right!? So don't we first need to know that $F'\otimes_{F} L$ is a field to apply your criterion? Which is actually also the original statement I was interested in and which brought me to the above question. So maybe I should state my original problem:
Given $F$ algebraically closed inside $F'$ and $F\subset L$ a finite field extension, is then $F'\otimes_{F}L$ again a field?
If $L$ is simple, then this is easy seen to be true. Then I wanted to do an induction argument on the number of generators and for this I needed the above statement (given in my first question) to be true.
I am not quite sure it is actually true. Normally one needs something like $F\subset F'$ to be separable for general $L$. But one might can drop this condition for finite extensions $F\subset L$. So any suggestions regarding this problem/question?
Let me have a punt at this. $F$ alg closed inside $F'$ iff $\overline{F}\otimes_FF'$ is a field, right? So now it's easy because $\overline{L}$ is an algebraic closure of $F$, and I don't think I even assumed $L$ was simple over $F$. Did I miss something?
Edit: my first assertion needs justification and I can't justify it so I could be mistaken. It's clear that $\overline{F}\otimes_FF'$ is a field iff $L\otimes_FF'$ is a field for all finite extensions $L$ of $F$ (union of fields is a field; integral domain finite over a field is a field). Moreover, if $F$ is not algebraically closed in $F'$ then choose some $\alpha\in F'$ algebraic over $F$ but not in $F$, and $L=F(\alpha)$ is finite but $L\otimes_FF'$ is not a field (it contains $L\otimes L$), so one way is OK. The problem is the other way. First say $K=F(\beta)$ is finite and simple over $F$. Then $F$ alg closed in $F'$ implies $K\otimes_FF'$ is a field because if the min poly of $\beta$ factors in $F'$ then the factors are algebraic over $F$, so in $F$. But as the OP quite rightly points out, that isn't enough for me. So this is not yet an answer to the question.
Second edit: I couldn't justify my first assertion because it is false. The counterexample posted looks good to me.


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Harrison Central senior Nick Pelegreen has been selected to the first-team defense of the Division IV all-Ohio Associated Press football team.
"He deserves it," Huskies coach Justin Kropka said. "He had a heck of a year and a heck of a career. We'll miss him - to say the least."
Pelegreen, who was named the Eastern District Defensive Player of the Year two weeks ago, finished his career as Harrison Central's all-time leading tackler.
"He is everything you want in a young man, and that has nothing to do with his football ability," said Kropka, who led the Huskies to their second postseason appearance in school history this year.
"Nick is someone you want representing your school, your community and your program. He's a good player, good student and good kid and that's what high school football is supposed to be all about."
Teammate Maurtice Hython was selected first-team all-Ohio running back.
The senior tallied 1,803 yards on 231 carries with 19 scores in the regular season on his way to becoming one of the area's all-time career rushing yard leaders.
"He's been the anchor of our offense for three years," said Kropka." "We leaned on him heavily. His stats are impressive, but more impressive is that everybody we played for the last two years was focused on trying to stop him.
"That's a credit to him and our linemen."
Earning all-Ohio special mention status are Harrison Central seniors Rashaen Mitchell, Rhett Kuryn, Tyler Rose and Josh Moore.
"Let's just say we have some big shoes to fill for next year," said Kropka.
"I have been very fortunate since I got here that our best players have always been our hardest workers.
"Eventually, there comes a point in the season when it becomes their team. It's still my program, but it's their team.
"The kids have to set the example to the rest of the kids in the program - not the coach.
"It's a lot easier to coach when the kids who took the reigns are your best players."
It was the first time in school history that six Harrison Central football players were recognized on the state level.
"To me, when you get those kids to be recognized, it really shows how far our program has come," said Kropka, "that we have that much respect. People respect them as good players and that makes me very proud and happy for our kids. When you see things like that happen, you realize that people do respect what we're doing out here and that they know how good they are.
"It's nice that people are looking our way. I'm a perpetual junior - I get to keep coming back. I hope every football player gets everything out of Harrison Central football they possibly can."
Indian Creek senior quarterback Alex Young and Steubenville Big Red running back Dashon Redmon have been selected to the Division III all-Ohio third team.
Young had a tremendous regular season, completing 60 of 128 attempts for 887 yards with 14 touchdowns and eight interceptions. He rushed for 360 yards on 65 carries with eight more scores as well. He also returned two punts, a kickoff and an interception for touchdowns while kicking 17 extra points and two field goals.
"We took a very athletic kid and asked him to go from wideout to quarterback," said Indian Creek head coach Andrew Connor. "His maturity from game to game got better and better. He was the spark that made us go. He developed into a very good quarterback. I thought he made a lot of big plays for us."
Redman carried the ball 140 times for 758 yards and scored eight touchdowns in the regular season. He also led the team with 60 tackles from his linebacker position.
"Dashon was put in a tough position on offense and defense this year," Big Red head coach Reno Saccoccia has said of Redmon.
"On defense he moved into the Mike linebacker position. It's hard for a senior to be a first-year starter at Mike linebacker because you have to progress from three keys and you have to be able to see more of the field.
"He wasn't able to spend two or three years improving his eyesight in that regard. On offense he had to move from fullback to tailback and it took time to adjust there. He did a great job adjusting to both positions."
Earning Division III all-Ohio special mention status are Steubenville's Luke McCourt and Indian Creek's Levi Flesher, Montel McClelland and Shane Winland.


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Softball Travels to Carson-Newman for SAC Showdown on WednesdayApril 8, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Riding a league-best seven-game win streak, the Anderson University softball team goes on the road for a South Atlantic Conference twin bill at Carson-Newman on Wednesday. First-pitch at the Vickee Kazee-Hollifield Softball Complex is set for 2 p.m.
The Trojans
On the strength of its win streak, Anderson (31-9, 9-5 SAC) continues to move up the league standings and is currently tied for third, alongside Lincoln Memorial, as the two squads are one game behind Lenoir-Rhyne and trail league-leading Wingate by two games.
The Trojans have won 10 of their last 12 games after pulling off a pair of one-run victories over Catawba last weekend. Anderson has posted a 14-4 mark away from home on the season and will play six of its final eight regular-season contests on the road. AU leads the South Atlantic Conference in runs scored, home runs, RBI, total bases and slugging percentage, while ranking second in total hits, doubles, walks, on-base percentage and batting average.
Four of the Trojan hitters rank among the league's top 14 hitters, with sophomore Molly Child ranking third in the SAC with her .420 batting average. The center fielder is tied with her sister, Abby, for the league-lead in home runs, with 11 on the season and ranks second in the conference with her 44 runs scored and .740 slugging percentage. Child is third in both hits (55) and total bases (97) and ranks fourth in the SAC with her .490 on-base percentage. Molly Child has reached safely in 23 of the last 26 games and her grand slam in last Thursday's nightcap was AU's second in four contests. Junior Jessica Neidigh ranks sixth in the league and is second on the team with a .397 batting average and has reached base safely in six straight games and 20 of AU's last 23 games. The Trojans' leadoff batter is a perfect 20-of-20 in stolen bases on the season, which leads the league. Neidigh paces the SAC with 47 runs scored and is fourth in the SAC with 54 hits on the season.
First baseman Danielle Swygert, who enters Wednesday's doubleheader tied for first place in Anderson's record books with 54 career doubles, currently holds the top spot with 385 total bases and a .660 career slugging percentage. She is 11th in the league in hitting at .378, while reaching base safely in 11 of the last 12 contests and recorded the game-winning RBI in three of the Trojans' last seven victories.
Fellow senior Abby Child is hitting .372 on the season and is tied with sister, Molly, for the league lead with 11 home runs on the season. Earlier this season, Abby Child took over the top spot in AU's record books for career home runs and now has 43 career round-trippers. She ranks 14th in the league in hitting and leads the conference with 27 walks and ranks fifth in total bases (87), slugging percentage (.719) and on-base percentage (.487). The LaGrange, Ga. native is tops in AU's record books in both RBI and walks.
Junior outfielder Rebecca Martin is hitting a career-high .345 and has belted a career-best seven home runs on the season, which places her eighth in the SAC and ranks third on the team with a .644 slugging percentage. Freshman outfielder Courtney Czentnar is hitting .333 on the season and is fourth on the squad with her .640 slugging percentage. Senior catcher Laura Jansky has six hits in the last three games and has driven in six runs, including multiple RBI in AU's sweep of Catawba.
In the circle, freshman hurler Lauren Rudesheim (14-4) has won five consecutive decisions and is tied for sixth in the conference with her 14 victories. The right-hander has allowed just four earned runs in her last six starts and has lowered her ERA by nearly a full run during that span. Junior Katelynn Howser (11-4) leads the squad and ranks seventh in the league with her 1.98 ERA. Freshman Augie Pena (6-1) has earned wins in her last four decisions and has struck out 66 batters, including 12 Flying Fleet hitters last week. The right-hander has walked just 16 in 48 1/3 innings of work. Her 9.36 strikeouts per contest rank second in the league.
The Eagles
Carson-Newman (28-12, 7-7 SAC) was a preseason pick to finish tied for fourth with Catawba in the coaches' preseason poll, with each garnering one first-place vote. The Eagles finished 30-18 overall last season and posted an 11-7 mark in conference play, while finishing tied for third in the SAC standings with Lenoir-Rhyne.
C-N lost All-American catcher Bri Shoemake and utility slugger Cassie Elliot, however, the Eagles returned 81 percent of their run production from last season. The conference's reigning Player of the Year, shortstop Brittany Hefner, who recorded a SAC and school-record 75 RBI a year ago, returned, along with outfielder Kelli Hensley, utility player Elayna Siebert, third baseman Sara Kelley and Braleigh Angel, who hit better than .300 last year. Two others, Caitlyn Lance and Jessica Morgan, returned after seasons where they hit better than .285. Hefner, Hensley and Siebert each a spot on the Preseason All-SAC First-Team.
Hensley and pitcher Kalyn Davis swept the SAC weekly honors in mid-February, after Hensley collected a four-hit day against Belmont Abbey in a sweep for the Eagles. She produced an inside-the-park home run in game two of that series, while Davis picked up a complete game shutout. Davis began her sophomore season with 16 consecutive innings of shutout ball and scattered four hits in the Eagles' win over Belmont Abbey. Hensley earned the honor for a second time this season on March 11, after helping lead C-N to doubleheader sweeps of Concord and GRU Augusta with multiple hits in each game. Hensley had four RBI for the week, a double and a pair of triples.
Kelley earned league Pitcher of the Week accolades in late February, following a 5-1 week for C-N where the Eagles saw Kelley drive in a run in every contest and notch an extra base hit in every contest. The senior from Ooltewah, Tenn. hit .579 for the week with 11 hits and nine RBI. Kelley drove in three for the Eagles in C-N's 6-0 victory over Limestone to set up head coach Vickee Kazee-Hollifield's 1,000th career win.
The Eagles, who are currently tied for sixth in the league standings, have won two of their last three, including a split with league-leading Wingate last weekend. Carson-Newman is an impressive 19-5 at "The Vick", which is the nickname for the Eagles' home field, after C-N renamed its softball complex the "Vickee Kazee-Hollifield Softball Complex" in honor of 29-year head softball coach Vickee Kazee-Hollifield in October. The SAC office announced in March that Kazee-Hollifield is slated to be inducted into the league's Hall of Fame on June 5 at the conference's annual meetings.
The Series vs. Carson-Newman
The Trojans and Eagles have met 31 times on the diamond, with Carson-Newman holding a decisive 26-5 advantage in the overall series. The Eagles claimed 24-of-25 meetings, including 19 straight, during the early 2000s, but Carson-Newman's edge is only 4-3 since Anderson joined the South Atlantic Conference in 2011. The Trojans have won the last three meetings, including a sweep of last season's double header and a 2-0 shutout victory in the 2012 South Atlantic Conference Tournament.
In last season's Senior Day doubleheader, Abby Child was 4-for-7, with a walk-off three-run home run in the nightcap and a double. Molly Child was 3-for-6 with a pair of RBI and two runs scored, while Laura Jansky added two walks and a pair of singles. Swygert also notched two singles and an RBI.


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Your first kiss. Your first date. Your first anniversary as a couple. The first dance at your wedding. Official milestones like these celebrate stages of intimacy, bring couples closer and legitimize their bond. But what about those unofficial milestones or private moments that aren't card-, gift- or champagne-worthy but signal the growing comfort and caring between you? Step off beaten the path for a guided tour of these lesser-known landmarks along the relationship journey. Been there with some-one special? Y'all are boo'd up for real.
1 The third glance. You haven't met—yet. But the fact that you've made eye contact more than once, and that this latest gaze lingers a moment, means someone's gonna make a move.
2 The first phone call. Ideally, you'll ring her cell the minute you've loaded her number into yours. That way, you know it's the right number, and now she has your digits.
3 The second coffee. The first cuppa joe you had together came with a paper sleeve and a double shot of skepticism. Twenty minutes of vetting over a venti latte screens out the ditzy chicks, dogs and douchebags. But your second round of coffee arrives in ceramic mugs, along with a single order of red velvet cake and two forks. That means you clicked over dinner. Nobody talked with a full mouth, cursed out the waiter or went on a rant about his or her ex. And you've decided to savor a little more warmth and sweetness before the check arrives.
4 The third date. The first one made an impression. The second confirmed it. But the third date is the game changer. It's where the fun begins.
5 The first kiss hello. A kiss goodbye on the mouth means, "We had a great time doing something." A kiss hello on the mouth means, "We have something great."
6 First nickname. Maybe (s)he doesn't know about it yet. But the fact that you've got a little nickname for your new boo means (s)he's got a special quality you can't stop thinking about.
7 First time you broke "the two-day rule." It's been hours—not days—since you parted. So what? Games are for kids. You text, "When can I see you again?"
8 First PDA that's in questionable taste. It's more than a quick squeeze or a fleeting smooch. It is the kind of action that makes onlookers think, 'Get a room!' And that means your private time is about to get interesting.
9 First time you make him dinner. Because cooking an amazing meal is the second-most sensual thing you can do for him. And because the bedroom's down the hall, he'll go wild thinking about another major first.
10 First get-together with no specific plans. It's not about the ball game, the blockbuster movie or the best barbecue in town. It's about you and your new honey. And if that means sweats, frozen pizza and reruns of Scandal, cool.
11 First night out with the girls. No, not her girl-
friends, bruh. A few fum-bles with those hook-and-eye fasteners, and what was once Victoria's Secret is now breaking news. One look, and you're officially a happy dude.
12 First time he delivers the package. His ego is marked "fragile," so handle this sitch with care. Whether modestly sized or large enough to require extra postage, show him he's got your stamp of approval.
13 First time you see her "O" face. Does she grimace and groan? Wince and weep? Squeeze you and sigh? Ahh, one of life's most exquisite mysteries solved. That look on her face may be contorted beyond recognition, but you're the one who put it there, and it's as sweet as her smile.
14 Third time he hangs in your 'hood. Let's face it: You live 15 exits (or train stops) from downtown. Your apartment's tiny, moo shoo pork deliveries take forever and you don't have premium cable channels. Chalk up his first two visits to chivalry. This one's for the sheer joy of seeing you.
15 First time you sleep with her—without having sex.
16 Fifth time in a row he calls you "just because." Checking in has become a habit—and signals that he's been thinking about you all day.
17 First fart in her presence. You let one rip. She didn't trip. You're nearly as relaxed while with her as you are while alone. Next time you serve up a hot, stinky air biscuit, maybe you'll trap her under the covers with it. She'll scream at you, but then she'll laugh. 'Cause she's cool like that.
18 First time he's in on your beauty secrets. You took off your wig, your Spanx, your concealer. You put on your head scarf or your padded bra. You forgot to pack your curl moisturizer, so your 'do has gone from Afrolicious to awfully frizzy. And he tells you how pretty you are.
19 First poop at his


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CEDAR PARK, Texas (January 12, 2013) – Rampage rookie Drew Shore opened the scoring on the night, but the Texas Stars (21-11-3-2) rattled off three unanswered goals, as the San Antonio Rampage (16-20-0-4) fell, 3-1, at Cedar Park Center on Saturday night.
Rampage netminder Dov Grumet-Morris saved 35-of-38 shots, but took the loss. The Stars have won all five meetings between the two clubs this season as the Rampage have struggled at Cedar Park Center, winning only four times in their 20 attempts.
San Antonio recorded their first goal of the season at Cedar Park Center at 6:31 of the opening frame when Shore banged home a rebound off a point shot. Shore has now scored four of the five goals the Rampage have tallied against Texas this season and has recorded goals in back-to-back games. In addition, defenseman Nolan Yonkman recorded an assist on the goal to give the Rampage captain his first point-scoring streak of the season (two assists).
The first period continued with excellent pace, as both teams upped their physical play. The Rampage were outshot 12-5 in the opening frame and Texas forward Alex Chiasson tied the game at 1-1 when he lit the lamp with 54 seconds remaining in the period.
Texas took a 2-1 lead while on the 5-on-3 power play at 12:18 of the second period. Jordie Benn fired a shot from the left faceoff circle that snuck by Grumet-Morris on his stick-side. With the goal, the Stars have recorded a power-play goal in their last 10 games.
Grumet-Morris made several quality saves down the stretch of the second period, including a great blocker save on Tomas Vincour on a 2-on-1 rush with 50 seconds remaining in the frame. At the end of the second period, Texas held a 2-1 lead and had the edge in shots, 28-16. Entering the game, when Texas held the lead after two periods, they were an undefeated 14-0-0-0.
Texas made it a 3-1 game with a goal from Matt Fraser at 12:46 of the third period. Fraser received a cross-ice pass and beat Grumet-Morris high to make it a two-goal game. The Stars forward has been a thorn in the side of the Rampage, as the goal was his 14th in 17 career games against San Antonio.
The Rampage had a power play with five minutes in the third period and were able to generate several chances, but couldn't beat Nilstorp. With 1:20 remaining and Grumet-Morris out of the net in favor for an extra attacker, Greg Rallo rang a shot off the post. San Antonio continued to pour on the pressure offensively in the final minutes, but was unable to light the lamp.
San Antonio finished the game 0-for-2 on the power play, while Texas was 1-for-2 with the man advantage. The Rampage were outshot, 38-28, on the night and are still looking for their first divisional win away from the AT&T Center (0-8-0-1).
The Rampage will play a two-game road series at Oklahoma City on Jan. 18-19 before returning to AT&T Center on Friday, Jan. 25 for a tilt against the Texas Stars at 7:30 p.m. on a KZEP Dollar Drink Night. Individual, and season, tickets start at $10 and can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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1951 Mercury No Limit Engineering Installs Trailing Arm Rear Suspension - Mercury Rising (And Dropping)Written by on April 1, 2010 Contributors: Rob Fortier No Limit Engineering Installs Trailing Arm Rear Suspension On A '51 Merc
I'm a big fan of trailing arm rear suspension, especially under customs. Not only does it offer a smooth ride with great handling and traction, but there are no upper arms to worry about, or even the upper section of a ladder bar. This means they'll fit under the floor of a custom with minimal or no modifications, especially advantageous when dealing with low cars with scant room underneath! I've installed this setup a couple of times, including on the Rod & Custom project '49 Chevy. This type of suspension also has the benefit of no wheel hop, unlike the parallel leaf systems they usually replace, and is the type of setup widely used in NASCAR racing. It's rugged, simple, and it plain works.
No Limit Engineering also likes the trailing arm system, offering a number of kits for '37-57 Chevy cars as well as '47-54 Chevy pickups, available with airbags or coilover shocks. They recently undertook a trailing arm install on a '51 Mercury chassis belonging to No Limit Owner Rob MacGregor, and while previous kits have used Chevy pickup arms, and even fabricated tubular arms, No Limit Engineering kits will use the box section arms, as shown here, in the future. In addition to being adjustable (before they're welded) for length depending on application, the box section arms eliminate the need to transition from a tube to a flat section for the axle mounting pad, but also offer more rigidity when it comes to axle wrap, reducing the possibility of pinion angle change under acceleration and braking.
The comprehensive kit comprises the trailing arms, axle saddles and U-bolts, Panhard rod and brackets, shock absorbers, airbags, front and rear mounting crossmembers and hardware. Though obviously easier to install on a bare frame, there's no reason this job couldn't be undertaken with the body in place, and with the exception of a new driveshaft and brake plumbing, should be an easy weekend project, offering improved ride quality, air suspension, updated brakes, and modern wheel stud pattern all in one fell swoop.
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With the bare frame sitting on jackstands, it was checked to ensure it was level in all directions before work began. Shims between the frame and the stands would rectify any issues, but were not needed in this instance.Though the stock axle was removed, the leaf springs were left in place. Using a plumb-bob hung from the chassis rail and aligning it with the axle locating pin on the spring, the axle centerline was transcribed to the inside of the chassis rails. The springs and hangers were then removed.Axle saddles are available from a number of suppliers, but are designed for parallel leaf springs. In order for them to be used with trailing arms, where they are not perpendicular to the axle tubes, the front of one side of the U-section and the rear of the other, where they'll be welded to the axle, had to be clearanced. No Limit Engineering supplied the pads that were made for the angled trailing arm mount. They supply all of the parts and little, if any, mods are required.No Limit Engineering uses these huge pivot ball bushings at the front of their fabricated trailing arms. Modified versions of off-road joints, No Limit has them manufactured with urethane inner bushings for street applications.The arms were bolted to the front mount and the assembly set up level on a couple of lengths of box section on the floor. Note the axle tubes on the 9-inch that will be used have been relieved of the stock bracketry and ground clean. The observant amongst you will also notice the axle saddles are placed on the opposite arms in this picture!Switching them side for side, the saddles were temporarily tack-welded to the arms at this stage, ensuring the mounting holes were aligned. You can see here how the axle tubes can now sit in the modified saddles at the required angle.Tack welding the saddles to the arms meant the rearend could be manhandled around and located centrally without worrying about dislodging the saddles.From above it's clear how the rearend sits in the saddles, and how the Panhard bracket will place the Panhard rod perpendicular to the centerline of the car.
Diagonal measurements were also taken, which ensure it'll be central. You can't take enough measurements when modifying components that will effect a car's wheelbase and tracking, as it'll never handle correctly if the front or rear axles are mounted offset or at an angle!A couple of shims under the pinion yoke brought the pinion angle up to match that of the transmission output shaft, before rechecking the measurements.With the axle and trailing arm assembly squared and tack-welded, the front mount could be clamped in place on the stock X-member.Again, diagonal measurements were taken to ensure correct location before welding. If the front mount is misaligned, the rearend will sit crooked in the car once mounted.The trailing arms could now be bolted to the mount. The high angle of the joints used at their forward ends allow the brackets to be welded to the plate at 90 degrees, meaning all four are the same, cutting down on production time and costs.The shock absorber top-mount crossmember, which also mounts the airbags at its outer ends, is made in three pieces, the center tube sliding inside the outer sections, allowing for it to be easily installed on a chassis with the body in place. Note the righthand side is tack-welded, while the left will be once everything's located in the chassis.
Here's the bolt used for location purposes, passing through an original hole in the frame. The crossmember locates just before the top of the rear chassis kick-up, in front of the stock shock crossmember, which remains in place.Once located correctly and adjusted for the correct width, the end plates were tack-welded to the inner rails, and the center tube tacked to the end sections.With the rearend lifted into position it was attached to the trailing arms using a pair of U-bolts, in the same manner as a Chevy pickup. In fact the U-bolts are the same size as Chevy ones, but are the correct length for this application.With the axle bolted in place, and measurements taken once again to ensure everything's square, all that remained was to fully weld everything and install the Panhard rod.Once the Panhard bar was bolted to the bracket on the end of the lefthand trailing arm, and set to allow some adjustment, Michael welded the bracket to the underside of the righthand chassis rail.After everything was tacked in place, the whole assembly was torn down again for final welding. Here, the axle saddles were being fully welded.Included in the components is this gusset for the Panhard bracket, required to prevent side loads from tearing the bracket from the chassis.The endplates of the shock and airbag crossmember were welded solidly around their perimeter, shown here midway through.
Fully welded and with the airbags plumbed temporarily and inflated, here's the suspension at full height......while here it is at full drop. With 9 inches of travel, this system offers an improved ride and adjustable ride height, yet is simple and above all, safe.No limit Engineering offers the same style of trailing arms for use with coilover shocks, shown here under an early '50s Chevy with urethane bushes at the front of the arms, and a different crossmember design to suit the wider chassis. Note the coilovers mount to the rear of the trailing arms, with the Panhard rod bolted to a bracket on the axle tube.


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I must disagree with the writer who thinks the state needs to give Boeing more tax breaks so that they will keep the 787 assembly line here in Washington state. (Thursday letter, "State needs to compete with S.C.") If we keep giving more and more concessions to the big corporations, where will the tax dollars come from? You guessed it -- small business and us, the citizens, who are already paying more and more every year. The biggest reason Boeing feels it must do business out of this state is the Machinists union; what have they done to keep their cash cow here in state? I refuse to give more of my hard-earned money to the state so that the Boeing workers can go on strike every three to four years and demand better benefits and wages. Keith Ebensteiner Lake stevens
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Are there any responses by Rishonim or Aharonim (even contemporaries) against those who criticize the Kabbala and the Zohar done by many people? Like this accusation. Some people claim the Zohar doesn't fit into the Torah. They claim it contradicts the Torah. They claim the Eser Sefirot are against the Torah because it Has WeHalila "split Kudsha Berich Hu into ten." Are there any Gedolim who discuss this topic?
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You might want to check out "Iggeret Chamudot", by R' Eliyahu Chaim Genazzano, an Italian Kabbalist of the 15th century. Part of the main focus of this work (actually a letter, I think) is to rant against those who employ "speculative reasoning" and philosophy in their quest for religious truth instead of kabbalstic tradition. The sefirot come up, of course, as well as other kabbalistic concepts, but I don't think it is much of a detailed defense of kabbalisitc ideas found in the Zohar.
If you're looking for explanations of how the sefirot don't contradict God's "indivisibility", I have come across explanations for this in the works of Rishonim, but I can't point to exact sources at the moment. The general idea is that the sefirot express God's attributes, not His essence. The same way we would be able to say "God is kind" without necessarily saying that "kindness" is "part of" God's essence as a separable part of His being.
Also what comes to my mind is Abarbanel's lengthy defense of the Zohar's concept of reincarnation (which, incidentally, is one of the ideas that the linked video calls antithetical to Judaism) from those followers of Aristotle who denied its veracity.
Look in Derech Mitzvosecha [Mitzvas Ha'amanas Elokus (Mitvah of Belief in G-d) Chapter 3 and onwards] where the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch discusses the question concerning unity of Hashem and the Sfiros.
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Dear Editor, Tell met they are not "Serious" about ending coal production in our nation. Coal mines have been around since the beginning of tim....
First paragraph, second sentence in a letter to the editor titled "serious".
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Last One: In May, PetroVietnam signed an agreement with Australia's Ensham Coal Sales to import around 3 million tons of coal annually for two 1,200-megawatt power plants in southern Vietnam.
By 2020 Vietnam should be burning 67 million tons of the polluting fuel annually, from 12 million tons in 2012, under government long-range economic development plans. Coal now provides 27% of its energy needs, a figure that will rise sharply given plans to increase domestic coal use to an annual 171 million tons by 2030.
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WSJ Cont.:Vietnam's coal exports have nose-dived from a recent peak of 25 million tons in 2009, although in January-June this year exports recovered slightly, rising 7.5% from year-earlier levels to 7.8 million metric tons.
Mr. Bien predicted exports will slow for years ahead, given that several large coal-fired power plants are under construction and more are planned. Vietnam recently started to import coal for the first time, and it will need more foreign coal to meet ambitious domestic energy targets.
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The coal view in another part of the world provides perspective - from Wall St Journal 7/10/13: By VU TRONG KHANHHANOI—Vietnam will cut coal exports in the second half of the year and divert shrinking output to a fleet of coal-fired power stations being built to help meet its fast-growing energy needs.
The Vietnamese government early this week increased a coal export tax to 13% from 10%, prompted by stagnant coal output, the exploitation of abundant gas reserves being held back by commercial disputes and sovereignty issues, as well as electricity demand growing at double-digit rates. Vietnam, which had 5,800 megawatts of coal-fired electricity capacity in 2011, wants to raise this more than fivefold by 2020, to 36,000 megawatts
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Source(s) please.
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"Coal mines have been around since the beginning of time..." anyone ignorant enough to make such a stupid statement deserves to be ridiculed.
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If people are laid off they collect unemployment.
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"Even with the guidance already issued by the IRS, employers still had a lot of questions, particularly around the reporting requirements for 2014," Piro said. "This postponement will give employers more time to understand the rules and implement these changes effectively within their organizations."
The Obama administration's move doesn't impact the implementation of health care benefits for most other Americans who will join the ranks of the insured next year. HOW DOES CUT AND PASTE TASTE?
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By virtue of being employed by the government, the President, senators, congress,etc. are all automatically enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, an insurance plan for which they PAY and cannot "opt out of", though they can make various additional choices as "add-ons"...
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...I did...saw no answers to my inquiries...so let me repeat them: WHY did obama himself delay obamacare?....WHY is obama himself EXEMPT from it?.....WHO is going to pay the TAX PENALTY for workers who have lost their jobs (and insurance benefits) because of obamas war on coal and industry?
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Turley, don't get your pants in such a wad. I was answering promo61's question scroll down and read.
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If I am not mistaken, this letter is about obama and his gestapo EPA putting miners out of work....it is NOT about the absurd socialized medicine disaster known as "obamacare"....but since you bring it up, Oluh---please post your address so that all of the steelworkers, coal miners and other unemployed can forward you their bill for the TAX PENALTY that they will incur for having lost their health insurance! Further, if its such a great plan for the masses, WHY did obama himself delay it???...and WHY is obama himself EXCLUDED from it???....and you are right, obama would NOT have been elected 50 years ago, but that has nothing to do with his race....he would not have been elected 50 years ago for the very same reason he should have never been elected in 2008 and 2012...he is NO LEADER...he is a maker of flowery speeches and false promises and that is ALL he is. In tired boring response, you can now proceed with your worn out"racist" accusations that even your "
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WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. government posted a budget surplus in June, the latest sign of rapidly finances that could reduce the urgency in Congress to strike a deal to raise the nation's limit on borrowing.
Rising tax revenues, public spending cuts and big payments to the Treasury from state-backed mortgage firms helped the government take in $117 billion more last month than it paid out, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday. *Yahoo Finance page
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Like desegregation, The Affordable Care Act will take time to implement. Fifty years ago Barack Obama would NEVER have been elected. Maybe 50 years from now the poor won't have to fear going to a doctor---because they have no money.
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Its all offense in Liberal Land. Its a waste of time yet I'm an optimist. Can any liberal poster mount believable support for anything this administration has done build up America? Please leave the name Bush out of your argument.
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The GOP has become the party of old, ignorant white men.
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Its OK turley. It's not what a progressive believes that matters. It's what a progressive believes TODAY.
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We are all too busy laughing at the final two obama defenders in the Ohio Valley....and by next year, neither of you will admit having supported him either!!...LOL....Judas is the patron saint of liberalism....just ask Trumka!!LOL!
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The ONE (so far) disagree with BCF"s "Adapt or DIE" statement shows the stupidity of the far right mind. They prefer to live in the past and fear the future.
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The future is coming whether you are ready for it or not. Fossil fuels are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Adapt or die.
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where is the leadership of the UMWA, Mr. Rogers, and the head of the AFLCIO Mr. Trumpka on the issue of coal and the EPA ???????????? This group certainly helped elect Mr. Obama ! With funds and vocal support !!
do they represent the rank and file ?
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There are already proposed EPA regulations to ban certain wood burning stoves. That will be next. This administration passes laws to make everyone a criminal somehow.
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Right on Turley. I agree 100% the valley is getting what they asked for. A good democratic president and officials who continually screw the pants off of you and you still vote for more.
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Not to worry, Mr. Lucas. After all, barack obama and the "party of the working man" wouldnt let anything bad happen to miners, would they???....look at what great care they have taken of steelworkers!!...By the way, you wont be paying those double and triple power bills....because the money for those bills will be taken as your "penalty" for no longer having insurance!!....In America, the working class gets its tragedy and disaster the old fashioned way---they ELECT it.
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