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My game keeps crashing on this date and I can't advance.
My game keeps crashing on this date and I can't advance.
Hacked copy of the game?
Hmmmm....have heard a rumour that that is down to a pirating issue. May of course be wrong and apologies if I am.
Apologies for the comment then!
Yup, same here.
I have a 100% copy of the game. I don't pirate anything. I can post a picture of it if I have to.
they have now closed that thread because they know what the problem is.
So I now have a game and save I am playing and I can't get past that date.
So what are my supposed to do play one season only or maybe not load the italian leagues?
It looks like it is a problem with the Serie C Cup that is causing your save games to crash.
Try another league?
I had a 46 league career game going, so I am a bit gutted.
I am now running a holiday game with just down to serie b running to see if it gets past that date.
I think SI should get a small hotfix out for this asap.
I remember a couple of years back there was an issue with the Spanish Leagues where there was a problem with player registration that virtually made playing the Spanish Leagues unplayable, it was eventually rectified in a patch, took a while though iirc. Think it was FM06?
I think SI should put a sticky up telling people not to run Serie C until its fixed.
3.2 ghz quad core, 8gb ram(FM only uses 2 gb despite all of that ram I have.
Go on holiday to overide the crash, hopefully.
Did go on holiday and it did not avoid it.
OMG Thanks for the warning, Im glad I did some reason before starting a game AGAIN!
So this Serie C bug only happens if you have it running? If so I'll just run Serie B.
No way in hell am I waiting till end of feb for ta fixable patch.
BTW I'm gutted for those who have ready have this league running, it is actually one of the default recommended leagues for most computers.
Must say don't like the way SI say we will fix it in the next patch. Who i the hell is going to wait till Feb to play their saved game?
I completely agree its ridiculous that we have to wait until the next patch to be released surely they could just release a quick fix now?
No such thing as a quick fix.
It has to be thoroughly tested to make sure that there are no knock-on effects.
Why don't you put a sticky up? Would be very useful, no?
Saying what?
And nobody looks at them anyway, they post yet another thread.
Besides, it's working for some people. Even some people who it hasn't been working for, it suddenly works one day and they advance as if nothing was wrong.
do you have 3 divisions of the Iatalian league running. I know this causes a problem summer 2009, if so try a search. I think its a known issue they hope to fix in a future patch
If not do you have an earlier save you can go back to?
Mine works, I even played in serie C past that date. I think it's only for some people.
Mine is doing exactly the same. Crashing at a certain date wich is 24th July 2009. I have quite a few leagues selected as playable. I have tried going on holiday but it wont get past this date whatever i do. Should i try starting a new game with less leagues or is there a way to fix this problem?
i'm playing in italy right now but i've turned off serie c cup in editor. i encountered the dump as well, in my first career game. v frustrating.
can we all please stop with the piracy hysteria? its bad enough we have the drm without everyone getting neurottic.
what on heck??? I was playing serie A with juventus and it just crashed.... darn!!! when are they going to release the fix... hope it is savegame compatible... just won euro cup and italia cup...
I wish someone would explain all the conditions for the Serie C crash. I have Serie C selected and playable, and while I'm only in December 2008, I was able to go on holiday and come out fine on Aug 1 2009.
it seems like a fixture crash rather than a league issue.
this expalins why it is not consisyently reproducable.
anyway it is fixed. si have announced this. just await the new patch.
there are many reasons why they havent released a hot fix: deliberately annoying people is not one of them i am sure. there is probably cascade issue or the crash is linked to multiple tiers of interaction that cannot simply be hacked around without causing problems to other bug fixes. fm has more than one bug remember!
I only have Serie A selected but still got the same error. Thank God, the game was saved a bit earlier than this date so i didn't miss a lot.
I deleted the file which was created under in my documents/sports interactive/ crash dump folder and managed to pass that date.
I only have Serie A selected from Italy, and I am getting this issue, although I get it on September 4. Has anyone come up with a solution that works?
I have the same problem...Crash dumps 24-july -2009.do we have to wait till the new patch comes out or what? What if I start a new game,will the same problem appear?(without Serie C)
Agree, no such thing as due diligence testing either...No such thing as a quick fix.
erm is there anyone this bug DOESN'T affect with serie c on? if so, could you do me a BIG favour please. load this game; http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mlyyixgnmxn (save it to documents/si/fm09/games etc) just continue til the 25th of july (i'm on the 23rd) and leave/delay all pressing news etc. i'd love you to bits. i REFUSE to start a new game i am desperate to continue with this one!
I'll do it... Just wait a couple of minutes
I haven't played with Serie C, so I don't know if this will afeect me..
I'll report back...
I'm sorry, but I got the same thing...
You have a good squad though...
lame! thanks for trying. yeah it's taken a while to assemble, so desperate to continue
it happens on the 28th may 09 without serie c selected.
disgrace. i dont pay £30 to get told 'wait for a patch'.
si games have lost my loyalty over this issue.
yeah i can take every single other issue i've found with the game but one that has stopped me being able to play it. there's literally no way i will ever buy another version again until the second patch is released, at the earliest.
Will the patch be savegame compatible?
When will it be released. I'm frustrated and I want to play on my current career. No way in hell I am starting alle over again!!
Happened to me too FFS.
Ive got English, Spanish and Italian leagues loaded.
Is there any word on when we can expect a fix for this?
There seems to be a total lack of information on this issue on here, the mods just close the thread, and just say "we know what the problem is"
I'd like to know if there is any sort of timetable for a fix. Cant a small fix be made available for this issue. Its affecting a great deal of people, and makes the game useless until its fixed. Im not wasting my time starting up a new game. (as has been told to people) What's the point in that....the same thing is more than likely to happen.
Seeing as my thread got closed.
I'll ask it again in here.
Can Mac users expect this problem to be fixed in the (hopefully) soon to be released first patch?
Originally when the game started crashing, it was always at 19.45......but ive been continually trying to see if by luck it can somehow fix itself. Its managed to get to 22.00 now. But it seems to not want to go any further at all.


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Just a silly question, can you run 99 Relentless Rats in commander? Maybe that and Sphinx of the Chimes and some juicy commander that plays off creature types.
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Yes, you can, for the same reason you can in other formats.
The first Golden Rule:
They'd have to ban or restrict the card to limit its use, but it's legal in that format.
Sheldon (EDH Rules Committee) has answered this question directly.
Although some rules differ from the official MtG rules (i.e. "outside the game" ,Living Wish, is handled differently than other casual formats), Relentless Rats' ability is covered in CR 112.6m. If Relentless Rats were banned in EDH, you couldn't use any copies, but since it isn't you may use any amount from 0-99 copies because [CR 112.6m] specifically allows you to ignore [CR 903.5b].


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Dr. Peter Fanning: Mayor foes' scare tactics
Published: Friday, July 4, 2014 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 2:58 p.m.
The opposing views and scare scenarios repeated each time a member of "The Citizens Voice" sends a letter to the editor or writes a column about the proposed new Sarasota city charter -- which, among other things, would establish an office of mayor within city government -- makes one wonder why this group works so hard to obfuscate the facts of the proposed initiative and tries to deny you, the voter, an opportunity to weigh in on the discussion with a vote.
The writers with their arguments and fantasies of impending corruption and chaos, who try to lead voters away from having an executive with strong leadership authority in a real office of mayor, build their case on what might be -- rather than what is.
Instead of the stated disasters of the future, why aren't the Voices of the citizens upset about what actually has been and presently is happening, such as: a $27 million lift station that has been in the planning process since 2006 at an original budget under $10 million; or the half-million dollars worth of parking meters that are in storage losing their entire worth day by day; or a regulated mooring field that took over 10 years to wend through several failed attempts and lawsuits; or a State Street Parking Garage facility that was supposed to be a $7 million must-do project that is now costing taxpayers more than $11 million?
Why haven't the opponents pointed out that this has all occurred through the administrations of several city managers, with their vast experience and expertise that is being extolled as an effective and efficient form of city management?
Maybe the answer is that the revised city charter doesn't have a recall provision like the one we have in the current charter for removing elected officials who egregiously fail to provide fiscal management and effective oversight.
The recall provision that apparently is a litmus test for the Voices to determine whether a charter is worthy of their support is so crucial that through all the debacles of the past decade, and those presently occurring, it has never once, in that time, been used.
Or maybe the answer is that the naysayers really only want to make sure that a small group of voters, between 17 percent and 20 percent in our last city elections, maintain a system that assures that fewer voters can or will turn out in an election held in March rather than November.
One can only hope that such self-interest isn't clouding this group's judgment to the point of causing them to avoid telling voters that November rather than March elections encourage more citizen participation in the democratic process and save the city taxpayers more than $100,000 per election?
The only worthy advice that I can see from The Citizens Voice that is not built on fantasy, scare tactics and omissions of facts is the advice to read the proposed charter on the website, ItsTimeSarasota.com.
After you do, you will have enough credible information to encourage and support the current city commissioners to exercise the power to give you the vote on this crucial change to effective government and to put the revised charter on the ballot.
Dr. Peter Fanning has been active in several downtown Sarasota issues and is a member of the It's Time charter caucus.
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People who pay attention to the news will certainly remember the mobs thronging Wisconsin's capitol in 2011 and the recall election that quickly followed, all over a bill and then law that restricted teachers unions. Now that the mobs have gone home, Gov. Scott Walker won the recall, and Act 10 is in effect in Wisconsin, how is it affecting school districts? Christian D'Andrea, an education policy analyst at Madison's MacIver Institute, recently wrote about just that for the journal Education Next. He joins the podcast to discuss what Act 10 has meant for schools, its future, and what other states can learn from Wisconsin.


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The class will be over in 10 minutes.
The class will be over after 10 minutes.
I know the first is correct but why?
I know the first is correct but why?
In OP's examples, "in" and "after" both specify a future time relative to the present moment. There's no grammatical rule saying either preposition is correct or wrong - it's just idiomatic preference that most people would use "in".
Given that "in" is a somewhat "metaphoric" usage here, I suspect there's a tendency to only use it in simple constructions where it's relative to the present moment.
When speaking of some situation in the past, there is no "present moment" - so we need to explicitly state the time/event that we're counting our 10 minutes from. In such contexts, we're more likely to use after (or within, following, etc.) because the whole situation is more complex, so we choose our words more carefully. "I went to the bar, but I left after 10 minutes".
They are both correct; although, if I wanted to be more precise, I would probably say it like this:
Going back to your two examples: right now, class is in session, but in ten minutes, class will end, and after 10 minutes, class will have ended, (or, put another way, class will be over).
In a scientific paper describing some low-level process, we might need to pay more attention to our prepositions, and not say "after" when we mean "in", and vice-versa. For the end of class, however, either preposition suffices.
To me, 'After ten minutes' suggests certainly not before ten minutes have passed, and might be quite a bit later. 'In ten minutes' is fairly precise but might mean a little less than ten minutes.
In this context, I believe 'in' and 'after' are prepositions because there is a time constraint. I think 'in' is used for near future and 'after' is for far future.


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"My professional career is different than it would have been if I'd stayed in New York," Gertmenian says. "The law firm has given me a platform to get involved in the community in a very real sense."
Since joining Vorys, Gertmenian has served on the boards of various companies (including retailer Abercrombie & Fitch) and worked to further the goals of nonprofit organizations such as the Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation, among others. (He has also advised family foundations and worked with the local art museum.) During that same span, the firm has grown from approximately 40 lawyers to more than 350, and Vorys has opened offices in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, and, most recently, Houston.
When Gertmenian became managing partner of Vorys in 2007, he spent his first nine months talking with every partner at the firm—sometimes for 45 minutes, occasionally for six hours. "I had probably 120 different expectations of me," he says.
It has not been an easy time to be a managing partner, after all, with the legal market squeezed since the economic downturn. For Gertmenian, the financial climate led to an increased focus on the firm's sustainability and market share, rather than efforts at maximizing profits in the short-term.
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Here's my current function,
class emailer {
function notifyHeart($post_ID) {
$interests = get_user_meta(get_current_user_id(), 'interests');
$post = get_post($post_ID);
foreach($interests as $interest) {
if(has_tag($interest, $post)) {
$to = get_the_author_meta( 'user_email', get_current_user_id() );
$email = $to;
mail($email, "An article about Heart", 'A new post has been published!');
add_action('publish_post', array('emailer', 'notifyHeart'));
So far it only works with one user, the other user isn't receiving an email when there's a tag from post that match their interest.
Ideally, I would like to retrieve an email only when a user's $interest matches a tag from a post, then the appropriate email address will be selected and sent.


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The recent question about the most prolific collaboration interested me. How about this question in the opposite direction, then: can anyone beat, amongst contemporary mathematicians, the example of Christopher Hooley, who has written 91 papers and has yet to coauthor a single one (at least if one discounts an obituary written in 1986)?
Lucien Godeaux wrote more than 600 papers and not one of them is a joint paper. He cowrote a textbook in projective geometry. Mathscinet records only 15 citations to all these papers! But there is something called Godeaux surfaces which is mentioned in the literature. This is about the weirdest example I know.
Until well into the 20th century, collaboration was more the exception than the rule among mathematicians. As an example, define the Betti number as the distance to Enrico Betti in the collaboration graph. Well, it seems that your Betti number is infinite (unless you are Enrico Betti): indeed, according to the link below, Betti is an isolated point in the collaboration graph: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umhistmath&idno=AAN8909
How about Marina Ratner. I believe she has had no collaborators.
Leopold Vietoris (1891-2002) wrote more than 70 papers, only one of them with a coauthor see here.
I always like William Veech (57 papers) although it's unlikely, he will catch up. But his citation count is higher (after mathscinet).
I think amongst the Field medal laureates, Atle Selberg would be a good candidate: He wrote 48 articles, and only one is a collaboration (with S. Chowla), see this link.
Here is what Zentralblatt (which now includes Jahrbuch der Mathematik) says about Godeaux, Lucien.
https://zbmath.org/authors/?s=0&c=100&q=Godeaux%2C+L Author-ID: godeaux.lucien Published as: Godeaux, L.; Godeaux, Lucien Documents indexed: 1213 Publications since 1906, including 28 Books Co-Authors 1 Brocard, H. 1 Errera, Alfred 1 Mineur, Adolphe 1 Plakhowo, N. 1 Rozet, Octave
And about Vietoris, Leopold
Author-ID: vietoris.leopold Published as: Vietoris, Leopold; Vietoris, L. Documents indexed: 80 Publications since 1916, including 1 Book Co-Authors 1 Tietze, Heinrich
I have just noticed that MathSciNet lists a total of 81 publications for John H. E. Cohn: among them, there is only one paper written jointly (viz.: J. H. E. Cohn; L. J. Mordell, On sums of four cubes of polynomials. J. London Math. Soc. (2) 5 (1972), 74–78.). Fibonacci-numbers enthusiasts will surely recognize the name because it was J. H. E. Cohn the individual who proved around 1964 that the largest perfect square in the Fibonacci sequence is $F_{12}=144=12^{2}$; Y. Bugeaud, M. Mignotte, and S. Siksek would establish some forty-odd years laters that, in point of fact, the only non trivial perfect powers in the Fibonacci sequence are $F_{6}=8=2^{3}$ and $F_{12}=144=12^{2}$.


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I need to show the following result:
$$ \int_{-\infty}^\infty \frac{1}{(1+x^2)^{n+1}}dx\, = \frac{1\cdot 3\cdot\ldots\cdot(2n-1)}{2\cdot 4\cdot\ldots\cdot(2n)}\pi $$
With n=1,2,3,...
This function has a pole at i and -i. I've tried a semicircle in the upperhalf of the plain, but the residue then goes to infinity. I've also tried a rectangle in the upperhalf that stays beneath i, but all 3 sides that do not include the integral we're looking for go to zero because of the R in the denominator.
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I just finished Episode 5 and wondered, if there were alternative endings or game branches. I brought the whole group with me, and am wondering what would have changed if different people accompined me, and if the episode is possible to play out differenly.
On my playthrough, Lee killed the stranger, and on the run back to Christa and Omid, was to weak to continue. Clementine shot him. Kenny died along with Ben after he fell off the building. And Lee was cut off Christa and Omid after they went over the "bridge" first.


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Tohjo Falls is a location in between the Johto and Kanto regions. After obtaining the eight Johto League badges, trainers pass through here to enter the Kanto region.
It is said to be a trainer's first step into the Kanto region. This statement is true, due to the fact that is the first place in Kanto, one can access after leaving Johto.
If you look on the Town Map, you can see that you're in Kanto now.
In HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Celebi Event revealed that Giovanni, the ex-leader of Team Rocket, hid here during the Goldenrod Radio Tower takeover and evidence of this is a new room with a broken radio and breakable rocks.
The "Tohjo" part in Tohjo Falls is combination of Kanto and Johto.
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Do you like to look at the stars? We sure do and were excited to hear about a fellow young astronomer who made an out of this world discovery. On January 2nd, 10 year old Kathryn Aurora Gray found a supernova. A supernova is an explosion of a star. The huge release of energy that occurs during the explosion creates a bright burst of light that is billions of times brighter than the star was before it went supernova.
The supernova that Kathryn discovered was in a distant galaxy, about 240 million light-years away from Earth. She identified the supernova by comparing images taken by telescopes – in one picture, there was a bright spec that didn't appear in the other pictures – that was the supernova!
Astronomy runs in Kathryn's family, her father, Paul has found seven supernovas. Follow this link to listen to an interview that Kathryn did for NPR.
There's an opportunity to go star gazing coming up this Saturday, January 8th. The folks at Westcave Preserve host monthly Star Nights where visitors can go out and look at the dark night sky and gaze through a high quality telescope. Follow this link for more information about this month's Star Night.
You can even make astronomy discoveries during the day by participating in the Zooniverse project. Zooniverse started with the Galaxy Zoo project, and invited users to classify the shapes of galaxies. Now there are other Zooniverse projects including one that studies the surface of the moon and one that explores our own galaxy, the Milky Way.


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Charlotte, N.C. – The Charlotte 49ers Department of Athletics had three teams receive the NCAA Public Recognition Award, based on the NCAA Division I 2013-13 Academic Progress Rate (APR). The NCAA listed Charlotte's men's and women's tennis teams and the men's cross country team among the programs with outstanding numbers.
The NCAA honors teams that earned multi-year APR scores in the top-10 percent of all squads in their respective sports. There were 1,049 NCAA Division I sports teams (631 women's and 418 men's or mixed teams) honored by the NCAA for earning Public Recognition Awards.
The scores required to be in the top ten ranged from 980 to a perfect 1,000, depending on the sport, with the majority of top 10 teams earning a perfect APR.
The Charlotte women's tennis program made the list of honored teams for the sixth consecutive year.
"I am extremely proud of our academic success," Charlotte 49ers women's tennis coach Michaela Gorman said. "Our student athletes work tirelessly and I am happy for them that the NCAA recognized them for this."
The men's cross country team has appeared on the recognition list four straight years.
"Year in and out, I'm impressed by our athlete's commitment to both academics and athletics," Charlotte 49ers cross country coach Ed Schlichter said. "They dedicate so much time and effort to their personal and professional success that it energizes the entire team. These gentlemen continue to make me proud and help raise the profile of the program. It is great for them to not only set high goals but, to also put in the work to get there."
The men's tennis program appears on the recognition list for the third straight year.
"I'm very proud of our student-athletes," Charlotte 49ers men's tennis coach Billy Boykin said. "They work hard in the classroom and it's nice for the NCAA to recognize their efforts."
Charlotte has had at least one team honored by the NCAA in each of the nine years of the program.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete. The APR includes both retention at an institution and academic eligibility in its calculation.
Eight different programs at Charlotte have been honored by the NCAA for outstanding APR scores, with seven earning multiple-year recognition.
A total of 275 Division I schools (and seven in other divisions who have a sport competing in Division I) placed at least one team on the top APR list, up 19 from last year.


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Air France 447 - many lessons to be learned
July 05, 2012, 11:02:39 AM »
Yet another crash that "never should have happened". So sad.....
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Here's the link to the official BEA report and appendices in english, it includes the complete CVR transcript in the appendix.
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Question: The pilots of AF 447 apparently had no idea of what the aircraft was doing. Wouldn't the altimeter
have shown them that they were falling out of the sky ? Also, I was wondering what the pilots out
there think. Was this more of a mechanical thing ( systems peculiar to the A330 ) or more of a cockpit
management issue. I understand that, like almost all accidents, it was a combination of many things....
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(I'm not a pilot)
Yes, they had working altimeters. It seems they realized at 10,000 feet they were falling fast.
I think poor CRM is at the heart of the accident rather than an A330 issue (although the pitot probes were later upgraded). They never called for the unreliable airspeed checklist and seemingly ignored or didn't trust the stall warnings for a long time.
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I agree with dereckjackson. Poor CRM was defiantly a factor, but the pitot tubes were a pretty big factor as well. The age old saying is that an accident is a chain of events, with never one factor. Break the chain, and the accident doesn't happen. If Air France had changed the pitot tubes on that airframe (Air France had the new tubes and the time of the crash. This airframe was scheduled for the upgrade with-in the next month.), or the weather hadn't been bad, or if they had flown around the storm, or if they had a reference point like the horizon, or if it was simply day time, they may have been able to fly the airplane, and deal with what the airplane was throwing at them. and it all goes back to NORMAL LAW vs. ALTERNATE LAW. When the computers lose a parameter such as the airspeed information from the pitot tube, the airplane switches modes. In NORMAL LAW, the airplane protects itself in several different dimensions. One such protection is stall, meaning, quite simply, the pilot can pull the side stick to full back deflection, and the airplane WILL NOT STALL. However, when the airplane switches to ALTERNATE LAW, most of those protections are lost. The autopilot and auto throttle are instantly disconnected, leaving the pilot to fly the airplane, as well as deal with the annunciator panel lighting up like a Christmas Tree, and trying to figure out which warnings are real, which are not. Which gauges are accurate, which are not. Out over the ocean, in bad weather, at night, add into that the failing computer system on the airplane, overwhelming.
At 2:10:22, the copilot sitting in the left seat knew the airplane was in ALTERNATE LAW. They both should have known that the airplane can be stalled, but they continued to climb, as indicated by the conversation around the 2:12:27 mark.
"High Angle of Attack Protection (alpha):
When alpha exceeds alpha prot, elevator control switches to alpha protection mode in which angle of attack is proportional to sidestick deflection.
Alpha max will not be exceeded even if the pilot applies full aft deflection
"All protections except for load factor maneuvering protection are lost."
The airplane CAN be stalled in Alternate Law
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I am a student private pilot, so, I can't "analyze" too much (being an "outsider" in the ATP world) other then what I can observe from the information, especially on the AvHerald.
I really think that you can boil the problem down to one thing. And that is,
lack of situational awareness
. I think that both pilots really didn't have a complete idea of exactly what was going on...I think that this is clearly shown in the cockpit transcripts. But, I also think that there was another thing that was involved and that is,
too much trust in technology
. I think that the one pilot knew that the plane had switched to an alternate mode but I don't think that it quite clicked as shown by him holding the stick back for over 2 minuets. I think that he still thought that he couldn't stall the plane regardless of what he did, even though that he acknowledged the computer switch over.
Oh, and in reference to joeyb7474 and derekjackson, I would agree that poor CRM is a big factor and I guess that I just restated (above) what joeyb747 has already said!
Just my two cents
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October 10, 2012, 08:29:25 PM »
Previous poster was absolutely correct - this accident should never have happened. Someone on that flight deck needed to go back to aerodynamics 101. With the attitude of the aircraft 12-15 degrees ANU, and the VVI showing 10,000 FPM down, the list of probable causes is really short. Can you shout STALL! Someone needed to remember basic pitch/power instrument principles, stick the attitude at, or slightly below the horizon, and check for maximum thrust. The airplane would have started flying again, with or without an airspeed indication. Once under control, FMS ground speed could have been employed to fly a final approach to the nearest airport where they could have fixed the pitot tubes. Sadly, this isn't limited to Airbus. I've read reports where pilots of small single engine aircraft have crashed and died because a mud wasp had caused a blockage of their pitot tube. No student of mine ever solo'ed without demonstrating an ability to fly a traffic pattern with the airspeed indicator covered up.
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Quote from: ZetaByte on October 10, 2012, 08:29:25 PM
Sadly, this isn't limited to Airbus. I've read reports where pilots of small single engine aircraft have crashed and died because a mud wasp had caused a blockage of their pitot tube.
Large and small aircraft alike have fallen to the mud wasp. Birgenair 301 was a Boeing 757-225 that crashed in 1996 after leaving Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. The probable cause listed in the report was a blocked pitot tube, most likely blocked by the nest of mud dauber wasps.
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(Sorry I didn't find a good way to get the URL to show as a URL instead of as the video itself; the URL would be wwwREMOVE.youtube.com/watch?v=2ei-qss0sPQ, remove the word REMOVE)
It is my understanding that one of the biggest questions is why the pilots totally ignored all the loud and continued stall warnings. Had they even just wondered whether the warnings were worth some credit and thus checked if they actually were in a stall, I don't think they might have concluded that they weren't in a stall.
Unlike many, I do not feel like quickly pointing my finger at the pilots and wonder how can anyone miss those warnings, how could they have panicked to the extent of ignoring those warnings, etc. Nobody who can clear a middle-school exam can be stupid enough not to care about such warnings, and I do not believe that 2 or 3 experienced, skilled, trained pilots can panic at the same time to the extent of ignoring those warnings for such long time.
I always thought they must have had
a reason
- although a wrong one - for not even considering the possibility that the stall warnings were worth some credit during the whole descent.
The only clue I found about what that reason could be, is in this documentary:
shot shortly after the accident, where at 18:13 a French pilot representative of a pilots union clearly confirms that the Air France procedure instructs to respect the stall warnings while the Airbus procedure instructs to ignore the stall warnings.
Let's try for a moment not to mind his patronizing laughter and the weirdness of the idea that Airbus would manufacture a stall warning system and then instruct to ignore it (there are probably missing details, maybe the Airbus manual meant the warning should be ignored at high altitude, or something like that). If it's true that in such situation one procedure instructs to do one thing and the other procedure instructs to do the opposite thing, then wouldn't that matter
a lot
I'm just an air safety fan with no specific aviation knowledge.
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Wait a minute. Didn't himself Saddam admit he released intelligence to lead the US into thinking he was developing nukes? I think Kane is playing the stupid game of not admitting his god Obama and his administration made a blunder.Hide replies
Actually Chuck, Kane is not PLAYING stupid....
it was colin powell's support of wmd in Iraq that had the most influence on America making a huge mistake and getting involved in Iraq, what does richard nixon and barrack obama have in common? both lied, covered up the lie and obama will never finish his 4 year term it took 2 years to get through nixon's lies, it will take longer with obama due to the main media being in his corner, this friday patraeus testifies, it could be another "john dean" moment in american history, blind faith , the down fall is starting , you can lie to "we the people", but a cover up will cost you tour job!Hide replies
You're out of your mind.
He will be impeached. Someone, somewhere will start telling the truth about Bebghazi
Let's compare.
Condi Rice had intelligence reports from domestic and foreign sources that said that Iraq likely had the weapons.
The Iraqi dictator did everything in his power to make the world believe that he had the weapons. He also had a history of possessing and using WMDs.
The Iraqi dictator would not allow UN inspectors to verify or negate the possibility of his possession of the weapons, in direct violation of UN resolutions that most of the world had agreed upon.
Sounds like a fairly defensible position for Condi to take. None were found but it's better to err on the side of caution, don't you think.
Now we have UN Ambassodor Rice. What did she have?
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Finally, she had a lie from the Obama administration about an obscure internet video.
Yeah, you're right EK. They are exactly the same situation. It's completely understandable why she went with the lie from the administration.Hide replies
You forgot that WIkileaks actually showed proof that WMD DID exist.
But Kane can't be expected to keep up on current events - after all that was only 4 years.
But Kane is still spouting the talking points from last decade.
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You people are complete idiots. You are so partisan that you lie even to yourselves. All of the UN inspectors said Saddam had no weapons of destruction period. At no time did these idiots in the Whitehouse look to verify any weapons. They sent thousands of Americans to their death because they didn't even understand the terrain or the logistics of such a war.
I don't blame Condi Rice, it was the whole Bush/Cheney lie that got Americans killed, you want to go after someone try Bush/Cheney.Hide replies
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I think people need to be less partisan and more understanding...it's not like these people are dealing with questions like "paper or plastic"...my god, reading some of these posts, you would think that insuring that the world remains somewhat safe from terrorists is an easy job....cut Rice some slack....and way to go Obama for letting McCain know where the buck stops...accountability is awesome!!
smokeater1, "you people are complete idiots", ?? how is that helpful or productive?, you can disagree without being disagreeable, personal attacks should have been left behind on the playground,Hide replies
you are right that was harsh, but it just infuriates me when people make up things as they go, poor language yes , but my point is the same
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Obama is simply the most incompetent and most unqualified boob to ever hold the office. It would stand to reason that everything he does and everyone in his administration is equally an abomination. More people will die due to his negligence and stupidity.
Sen. McCain also happened to miss his classified briefing about the situation. I guess the political points were more important than the truth this time.
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Disc brakes are now common on road bikes, even racing road bikes in the professional peloton. Most of the major bike manufacturers offer disc and non-disc options for most of their bike models. Some "endurance", "adventure", and "cyclocross" (drop bar bikes sold under "road" category, but intended for some off-road use) models only offer options with disc brakes now.
However, there is some opposition to their use in certain types of road racing. If a rider's leg contacts a disc rotor while the bike is going fast, that rotor will likely cause a serious injury (it's spinning fast and pretty thin, so cuts flesh easily).
The advantages of disc brakes are primarily in wet and/or muddy conditions. In dry conditions, a good rim brake can lock both wheels up just as well as a disc brake. So for road-racing under dry conditions, there's no real advantage to disc brakes, and appears to be some disadvantages.
Many of the "racer" style road bikes follow what's allowed for professional road bike racing, so it's possible that the current opposition to disc brakes in professional road racing will eventually lead to them becoming less popular on road bikes.
Personally, my next new bike will definitely have disc brakes. I don't race in a peloton, I do sometimes ride in the wet, and it's much cheaper to replace a rotor than to replace a rim or wheel. (rim brakes eventually wear down the rim and make you replace it)
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I think it mostly comes down to one primary thing: disc brakes weigh more and road bikes are supposed to be light. Also, you need a heavier wheel and heavier fork to handle the forces of disc braking, which compounds the weight.
Additionally, the advantages to disc brakes (working better in mud/dirt, easier to work with a suspension, work with really wide tires) generally don't apply to road bikes or aren't what the road bike was designed for. For any bike on the road the only likely advantage of disc brakes would be that they're more likely to work after you've ridden through something nasty (mud, puddle with oil on it, etc) that's deep enough to get on the rims, and you probably want to be avoiding any puddles you can't see the bottom of anyways.
Probably the final reason is simply that disc brakes (generally) cost more than rim brakes.
I have seen bikes made for the road that had disc brakes, but they're generally not the typical "go fast" road bike. (Example: Kona Sutra)
Keep it Simple
Not everyone knows how to setup and maintain disc brakes. I know that it does not take a lot of work to read the manual but people sometimes prefer to stick to what they know and are hesitant to purchase a bike they do not feel they can confidently work on.
Flawed Technology
Disc brakes are far from perfect. We all should know that the front disc brake design on most mountain bikes that have discs is flawed. Apply the brake and the force wants to shoot the spindle out of the dropout or at least push the wheel across to one side. 'Lawyer lips' go some way to remedy what is a far from sound design but you do not want 'lawyer lips' on a road bike (even if they are mandatory on new bikes).
Fair weather cycling
Most bicycles are designed for fair weather cycling in California, not year round riding in Scotland. They do not have mudguards and their owners are unlikely to ride in the rain. Mudguards have been around for almost as long as the bicycle yet very few bikes are sold in wet places, e.g. the UK, with mudguards. With this, the simplest wet-weather adaptation, not considered a good idea by the cycle trade, why include disc brakes?
Strong/Light/Cheap - have any two of the three
Everything on the bike is a choice of strong/light/cheap - have any two of the three. When it comes to brakes light and cheap are the preferred options except for with a few niche bikes specifically designed for commuting.
Not much point with the rear brake
When decelerating the centre of gravity moves forward. (Some people learn this the hard way by going over the handlebars.) Even with poorly maintained rim brakes in the pouring rain it is relatively easy to lock up the back wheel, resulting in an uncontrolled skid. This may take 5-10 metres to do in very wet conditions, what possible benefit could there be in having a rear disc brake that has the potential for an even quicker 'loss' of rear braking?
Contact patch with the road
The tyres are where the real braking happens and on a road bike you have coin sized contact patches with a smooth surface. This contrasts with the mountain-bike situation where you have chunky tyres and an uneven surface.
Inherently weaker wheels
The disk brake takes up space in the hub. As a consequence the spokes are not spaced as far apart. This loss of 'dish' means that a disk brake equipped wheel is not as strong.
In summary, a disk brake on the rear is not needed (given that maximum braking on the rear wheel can be readily achieved with a rim brake) and a disk brake on the front is flawed (due to how it pushes the spindle out of the fork dropout with current designs). Then it is going to cost more, weigh more and impose a learning hurdle come maintenance time. Plus you have lost the design elegance of the rim brake and the forces placed on the spokes are plain ugly. Admittedly there is more control when braking on discs and there isn't that scary feeling of 'my brakes are not working whatsoever' when applying the brakes in the wet but most bikes are designed for fair weather cycling in daylight hours and anyone experienced at riding in the wet soon learns to ride within the limits of their brakes.
If there really was a problem with rim brakes on bikes then the papers would have corresponding tales of woe. Actually there have been more stories of woe regarding front-wheel ejection from disk brake equipped bicycles over the last few years.
Check out this link for a recent post by ex frame-builder Dave Moulton about disc brakes. He discusses the reverse-directed stress to the spokes due to disc brakes as a potential problem.
He also points out that the standard caliper brake can be viewed as a disc brake with a much larger diameter disc (the rim) and without the problem of transferring the force through the spokes.
Another good point brought up in the above linked article is the following
Even most lower level road bikes have radial spoke patterns. Changing to a tangential spoke pattern would increase the weight of the wheel.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned, and probably trumps any mechanical advantages or disadvantages of disc brakes, is the fact that the UCI currently doesn't allow disc brakes in professional road races. This has a trickle down effect to you and me.
Most, if not all, of the national racing federations follow the UCI's lead on equipment rulings. This means that they don't allow disc brakes either. Since bicycle companies want to mass produce frames that are going to be useful to the widest consumer segment, they don't produce road frames with disc brakes.
Someone else mentioned that the UCI recently started allowing disc brakes on cyclocross bikes and there's a good amount of speculation that they will allow them on road bikes in the future. The pros would actually love them for mountain descents since rim brakes heat up the rim and can cause their tubular tires to come unglued. If the UCI does allow them, I suspect that we'll start to see them on road bikes more and more. As that happens, manufacturers will sink more money into R&D and the mechanical disadvantages will begin to dwindle and perhaps disappear.
I think it's because they haven't been invested in much so far by the big bike companies. But, I think they are coming, and will become more common place in the next few years. See:
After cycling my mountain bike which has discs and then moving back onto my road bike, I find I miss the discs. On any future bike I get - road or otherwise - I will definitely be looking for discs. Even if they add a little bit of weight, I just trust them to stop me more reliably than I do with any other type of brake, and I think that is worth a bit of a weight penalty.
I wouldn't want hydraulic disc brakes on a road bike due to the chance of failure due to heat buildup on long descents caused by boiling of the hydraulic fluid. See related article at BikeRumour.
If I were to ride disc on a road bike, I'd keep it mechanical.
However, due to recent changes in UCI regulations allowing disc brakes for cyclocross racing, many cyclocross bikes have been adapted for disc brakes.
This will probably drive the evolution of lighter, more road friendly disc brakes in the next couple years. It will happen, there is a demand, but there are still some technical hurdles for parts manufactures to overcome before it will be readily adopted. Also, until it's UCI legal in road racing, a lot of big names will avoid touching disc brakes on their higher end offerings.
The tiny surface area of the tire doesn't give the most grip. It's pretty easy to lock up a road bike tire with STI or modern Cyclocross Cantilever brakes. The power of a disc brake would often leave one skidding out of control.
I also agree that the extra forces applied to the hub, spokes, fork, and head tube could cause structural defects or failure.
My commuting bike has discs - I think they're great (for these reasons)
Weight is an issue, but I think the downsides outweigh (sorry!) that - but it's fairly flat around here and I'm doing it for the exercise anyway!
Good rim brakes perform just as good as a light disc brake would. I love disc brakes on my mountain bike, And up till last year, I hated rim road brakes. But then i upgraded my road bike and the new one has Ultegra brakes. Wow they stop amazing. Flying down 2000ft descents over 5 miles with no issues at 45mph.
In addition to the other reasons given here, most framebuilders are also wary of using curved steel fork blades with disc brakes. Since many folks want a raked fork on a road bike for handling or aesthetic purposes, that tends to rule out disc brakes as an option.
I had a touring bike with disc brakes made by John McBride of Roseland Cycles, and ended up using straight fork blades (actually a picture of my fork is on the top of their page at the moment). After talking to several other framebuilders, John said it wasn't a good idea to do a curved/raked steel fork with disc brakes. Any curving of the fork blade allows for flexibility in the direction that the brake pushes on the fork blade. That can affect the ride (since only one fork blade is bending while braking, and also can un-spring when you let up on the brakes) and might also contribute to a chance of the fork blade breaking.
All that said, however, I know of at least one mainstream commercial example of raked steel fork with disc brakes, the Jamis Aurora Elite. Maybe they just made the forks blades heavier to compensate for the flexing.
Road bike don't need disk brakes.
I ride a Marin lightweight hybrid and a touring tandem. Both use V-brakes on the rims. The tandem has tungsten-carbide rims, but there's nothing special about those on my solo.
In both cases, unless I'm carrying a lot of luggage, I can brake hard enough to make the wheels skid on a dry road, so any additional power would be wasted, but then I am fairly light.
The reason rim brakes can be so powerful without hydraulics is simply because they act further from the pivot point, the hub. This means they get more leverage. It's also the reason that larger disks are more efficient than smaller ones. A larger piece of metal as a braking surface also helps with heat disapation.
In theory you could get the same advantages by having a disk nearly as large as your wheel, but this would be heavy and impractical. Instead it makes sense to use the rim you already have.
Just to add a few points that have been missed ( or I didn't see )..
Misconception #1
Disc brakes overheat.. This may have been an issue on really old, really crappy calipers but I've had rotors hot enough to burn my arm but I've never "boiled" the brake fluid. If you have tried to bleed your brakes an done it improperly, you will have introduced air to the brake lines. Air will rapidly expand and create the spongy feeling attributed to "boiling". If don't trust me, pour some dot5 in a sauce pan and try to boil it.
Misconception #2
Disc brakes are for power...
Disc brakes ( aside from wet performance ) have always been about modulation and control. A well bled set of shimanos have always been able to provide linear control with one finger in any condition. Far better than any caliper, canti or mini-v setup. (Yes I ride TRP Mini-Vs on my trail bike and I love them... simplicity is king!) Keep in mind, old hayes brakes were the equivalent to a boat anchor and got love for that from the old school downhill crowd since you should either be on your brakes or pedaling your ass off.
Truth #1
disc brakes require a more rigid (heavier) wheel build.
Carbon wide section rims might change this for road bikes but.. a disc set up requires a lot of spoke tension and a lot of spokes since the braking force is generated at the hub and the spokes essentially act as a lever. This means it has to be strong in order to transmit the braking force to the tire since the caliper is slightly eccentric to the hub ( Class 3 lever where the fulcrum is the hub ). Compare this to a rim brake where the braking force is applied directly to the rim/tire complex itself meaning the wheel only has to content with the vertical and lateral forces of riding as opposed to the additional torsional force of disc brakes. How many radial spoke disc front wheels do you see?
Please think of your highschool physics class and forget the FUD.
Just to be clear, I ride rigid mini-v regardless of road or mountain and ditched my discs years ago... got tired of bleeding.
Here's another reason that hasn't been discussed: rim brakes are better for "feathering" - where you very lightly engage and/or disengage the brakes to make very minor speed adjustments, which is incredibly important in the middle of the peloton. You don't want to surprise anyone with sudden changes, you want to be able to respond instantly and smoothly to what's happening in front of you.
I understand (apologies, no reference) that disc brakes have better absolute stopping power, but for fine speed adjustments and feathering control rim brakes are superior, hence their dominance on road bikes.
When you say 'road bike' I think you just meant "not an off-road bike" ... you didn't necessarily mean "racing bike" ... you might have meant to include, I don't the term, a 'town bike' ... for commuting.
On that kind of bike, if you're not seeing disc brakes, I think that's because of the price range that you're looking at. When I looked into a bike shop full of bikes which cost up to about $650 then I don't see disc brakes. If I look at bikes whose prices start at about $750 then maybe they do have disc brakes.
As a reference point, last week I was on a 6-day ride with about 120 other cyclists, from several states. There were bikes of every shape and description, a few near museum pieces (ca 1980) and maybe 30 brand-new fancy carbon bikes. Maybe 20 recumbents, and maybe 5 tandems, both recumbent and upright.
Of these, I did not observe a single case of a non-recumbent, non-tandem bike with disk brakes (and I specifically looked for this, when we were camped). This is not because of economics -- several very wealthy people were on the ride and most of the rest would be considered upper middle class, plus, as I said, there were a number of very expensive bikes. If they believed that disk brakes made sense they would have them.
The tandems and about half the recumbents DID have disk brakes, since there are valid reasons to have disks on those bikes.


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Is one allowed to use the glass cups provided by a hotel (usually in the bathroom) for drinking? Or is there a Kashrus problem?
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Good question.
Assuming the cup is clean, and you're using it for cold stuff, it's okay.
From a shiur I heard (I think an OU workplace kashrus one? Or was it a kashrus Q&A? It was on yutorah): the rule is that clean non-kosher dishes can be used for cold kosher food "once in a while." R' Hershel Shachter's psak is that "once in a while" is once in thirty days. So you could definitely use the glass the first day you check in; beyond that, if there's a reasonable chance that housekeeping brought you a new glass, then you haven't used that glass for thirty days, so drink away!
Sephardic Jews have the rule that glass never absorbs and thus (if clean) can never become a kosher issue at all, which would give you carte blanche here. But Ashkenazic Jews treat non-kosher glassware the same way we'd treat non-kosher metalware (at least before the fact), hence it took a few more steps to permit it, as discussed here.
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I've read that you should avoid computing a matrix inverse, as you generally don't need to, but I don't know the best way to avoid it. I need to compute:
$$x = \mathbf v \mathbf A^{-1}\mathbf v^\top$$
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Why ZFC is placed in top of the proof system hierarchy? How it can p-simulate other systems?
It is an open problem if there is an optimal propositional proof system. Therefore we don't know if ZFC as a propositional proof system is optimal either.
ZFC as propositional proof system can p-simulate any propositional proof system whose soundness (if there is proof for a formula then the formula is true) as a propositional proof system is provable in ZFC. The trick (which I think is due to Steve Cook) is based on the fact that proofs are concrete finite objects, if there is a proof for a formula in a proof system, then ZFC can prove its existence (i.e. ZFC is $\Sigma_1$-complete), combining this with the provability of the soundness we derive the truth of the encoded formula in ZFC. The rest of the argument is translating this first order proof in ZFC to a propositional proof in ZFC as propositional proof system and proving the equivalence of a propositional formula with the formula itself in the proof system. This can be done in $\mathsf{TC^0}$-Frege and any system that contains it. See Logical Foundations of Proof Complexity, 2010 by Cook and Nguyen for the details.