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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A spokesman for Afghanistan's president says Hamid Karzai will press a council of elders to delay signing a security deal with the United States until next year.
Aimail Faizi said Sunday Karzai will press his case for a delay in signing until after next April's elections in a speech to close a four-day meeting of 2,500 Afghan tribal elders and other regional leaders known as a Loya Jirga. Karzai convened the council, saying Afghanistan would likely not sign without its approval.
President Barak Obama's administration has said it wants a deal signed by the end of the year and warned that planning for a post-2014 military presence may be jeopardized if it is not approved by Karzai.
The deal could keep thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan for another decade.
BEIJING (AP) -- China's Defense Ministry has put out a map of an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone that includes a chain of disputed islands also claimed by Japan.
Beijing has also issued a set of rules for the zone, saying all aircraft must notify Chinese authorities and are subject to emergency military measures if they do not identify themselves or obey orders from Beijing.
The rules went into effect Saturday.
The move has triggered a protest from Tokyo.
A Japanese Foreign Ministry official calls the zone "totally unacceptable."
And U.S. officials say they're "deeply concerned" about China's "unilateral action."
Secretary of State John Kerry says it "will only increase tensions in the region and create risks of an incident."
And Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says China's announcement "will not in any way change how the United States conducts military operations in the region."
BEIJING (AP) -- Smog has lowered visibility to less than 50 meters (yards) in parts of northeast China, leading to the weekend closure of highways and an airport.
The transport authority in Liaoning province says seven expressways were partly or wholly shut on Sunday.
More roads and an airport shut Saturday farther north in Heilongjiang province, which borders Russia.
Xinhua News Agency said the airport in Harbin city cancelled all 209 inbound and outbound flights on Saturday. The airport said flights are operating again Sunday as visibility improved to a few hundred meters (yards).
Last month, Harbin practically ground to a halt with a particularly bad bout of pollution.
China's national meteorological center says the haze would gradually be reduced owing to a cold front and rain.
JFK's daughter says his spirit lives on
TOKYO (AP) -- The daughter of President John F. Kennedy says his spirit lives on even though his life was cut short.
Caroline Kennedy says in an interview with Japan's Yomiuri newspaper that she often meets people who tell her they were inspired by her father. She says it's a reminder that we all have a duty to work together for a better world.
Kennedy arrived in Tokyo nine days ago as the new American ambassador to Japan. The interview published in Japan's largest newspaper Sunday included her first public comments about the recent 50th anniversary of her father's assassination.
She noted her father's continuing legacies include the Peace Corps and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is providing humanitarian aid to the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan.
MILAN (AP) -- Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has erupted again, showering volcanic ash on towns dotting the mountain's slopes and nearby Taormina.
The eruption Saturday did not force any evacuations, but a highway was closed for half an hour as a precaution. Authorities also briefly closed two of four air corridors serving the nearby Catania airport but air traffic was not interrupted.
Etna erupts occasionally. Its last major eruption occurred in 1992.
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's interior minister says his forces have foiled several attempted terror attacks and arrested leading militants, accusing the Muslim Brotherhood of mobilizing and financing some of the country's most violent groups to cause unrest.
Minister Mohammed Ibrahim's comments Saturday were the first detailed examples offered by a senior Egyptian official to back claims that the Brotherhood, the group of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, is responsible for attacks against security, government institutions and the country's Coptic minority.
The Brotherhood repeatedly has denied government claims that it uses or condones violence.
Ibrahim told reporters that five senior militants were detained from two pro-Morsi sit-ins which authorities broke up violently in August. Ibrahim accused sit-in participants of stockpiling weapons. He said other militants arrested were released from prison by Morsi's government.
Ukraine marks 80th anniversary of Stalin's engineered famine; Biden to Ukraine: Disappointed in EU deal pullout
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukrainians are marking the 80th anniversary of a devastating Soviet man-made famine that killed millions amid public anger over the government's decision to snub a potential landmark deal with the European Union and its tilt toward Moscow.
Several thousand people marched through the center of Kiev on Saturday to commemorate the deaths of millions of Ukrainians who perished during a famine engineered by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1932-33, in an attempt to force peasants to join collective farms. Ukraine's parliament has labeled the famine, known here as Holodomor -- or death by hunger -- as genocide.
Meanwhile, hundreds of activists are protesting on Kiev's main square, days after the government froze plans to sign the EU deal after pressure from Moscow. A larger rally is planned for Sunday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (yah-noo-KOH'-vich) that he's disappointed over Ukraine's decision to pull out of a landmark agreement with the European Union.
The White House says Biden called Yanukovych on Friday and said the U.S. strongly believes that integrating with Europe will help Ukraine strengthen its democracy and restore economic prosperity.
The call comes a day after Ukraine's leaders stunned the nation by saying they were pulling out of the free trade and political cooperation deal, prompting mass protests. The move to suspend preparations for the agreement was a big victory for Russia, which has worked aggressively to derail the deal and keep Ukraine in its orbit.
The White House says Biden told Yanukovych the U.S. supports Ukrainians' aspirations for more integration with Europe.
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian activists say a string of government airstrikes on rebel-held areas in the north have killed at least 44 people.
Rami Abdurrahman, the director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says the deadliest of the three raids Saturday was the attack on the rebel-held town of al-Bab near the northern city of Aleppo. He says that strike killed 22.
Abdurrahman says fighter jets also bombed two rebel-held districts of Aleppo, Syria's largest city. In the Halwaniyeh neighborhood, he says government warplanes missed their target. He says the strike sent bombs into a crowded vegetable market, killing 15 people.
The Observatory said seven people died in a third airstrike in the Karam el-Beik district.
Syrian state television said the fighter jets targeted "gatherings of terrorists."
Also - Syrian activists say a rebel group with links to Al-Qaida has captured one of the country's largest oil fields.
Rami Abdurrahman, who is director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra captured the al-Omar field in the eastern Deir el-Zour province along the border with Iraq on Saturday, ousting government troops during an overnight battle. There was no confirmation from President Bashar Assad's government.
Before the uprising against Assad's regime began in early 2011, the oil revenues provided around a quarter of the funds for the government budget. Since the revolt turned into a civil war over the past year, exports have ground practically to a standstill, and Assad's government has been forced to import refined fuel products.
Official: Lebanon confirms ID of embassy bomber
BEIRUT (AP) -- A Lebanese legal official says the country has confirmed the identity of one of the suicide bombers who targeted the Iranian Embassy in Beirut in an attack that killed 23 people.
The official said Saturday that the bomber was named Mouin Abu Daher and is from the southern city of Sidon.
He said Abu Daher became as suspect after his father spoke to investigators.
The official said DNA samples taken from the father matched the remains of a suspected bomber. He spoke anonymously because he wasn't allowed to release the information.
Tuesday's attack was one of the deadliest in a series targeting Shiite strongholds in recent months. An al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility, saying it was payback for Iran and the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah group's support of the Syrian government.
PERTH, Australia (AP) -- A surfer has been killed by a shark off a notorious stretch of the west Australian coast.
Western Australia state police spokesman Samuel Dinnison says while no one had seen the attack Saturday morning off a beach near Gracetown, the surfer's injuries were consistent with a shark attack.
The sleepy community of Gracetown has now been the site of three fatal shark attacks on surfers in the past decade.
The victim has yet to be identified. Dinnison says he appears to be in his 20s.
The state Fisheries Department has closed beaches in the area, which are in the state's premier surfing region south of the capital Perth.
No details of the type of shark responsible have been released.


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WHEELING - U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld II wants you to know the catalyst that could turn your son or daughter into a drug user may not be lurking in a dark alley, but gathering dust on a shelf in your medicine cabinet.
Ihlenfeld joined school officials Monday at his alma mater, Wheeling Park High School, to announce "Project Future: The Right Prescription for West Virginia," a new drug education initiative coordinated by his office designed to raise awareness of the dangers of prescription medicine as well as synthetic drugs and other illegal substances.
During the next two years, Ihlenfeld hopes to bring the program to middle and high schools in each of the 32 counties in his jurisdiction, the Northern District of West Virginia.
Parental involvement will be a crucial element of the initiative, Ihlenfeld said. Another key is that it aims to go deeper than simply having people in suits and uniforms lecture students on the dangers of drug abuse.
"We're going to have real-life stories that are going to be presented to our children in the Northern Panhandle," he said.
Among those local students may hear from are Phil Bauer and Wayne Campbell - two fathers who each lost young adult sons to drug abuse - and Philicia Barbieri, a former teacher from Pittsburgh whose descent into addiction led her to steal thousands of dollars in computer equipment from her school and allegedly help her boyfriend rob a bank.
Supplementing the program during the school day will be a community awareness meeting that same evening, geared toward educating parents on emerging trends in substance abuse and warning signs that their children may be using drugs.
Representatives of local organizations such as the Ohio County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition and Youth Services Systems will also be on hand at those meetings.
"It's so important to get to the parents because they don't always know the warning signs to look for," Ihlenfeld said.
The first Project Future event is scheduled for Oct. 9 at John Marshall High School. Ihlenfeld also announced three others, at Brooke High School, Oct. 11; Wheeling Park High School, Oct. 22; and Magnolia High School, Oct. 25.
Ihlenfeld said his roots in the Ohio Valley, growing up in the Wheeling area and working all over the Northern Panhandle, convinced him that such a program could work here.
"If we reach only a few students, it's a worthwhile project. ... It breaks my heart every time my office has to indict someone who comes from this area," he said.
Mark Simala, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agent working in Ihlenfeld's jurisdiction, said the Northern Panhandle has the most serious drug crisis of all the places he's worked in 17 years with the agency, noting the availability of prescription pills and heroin is "at epidemic levels."
Simala took the opportunity to remind those in attendance of the DEA's National Take Back Initiative, set for Saturday at thousands of sites around the country, during which the public can surrender unwanted or expired pharmaceuticals for safe disposal, no questions asked.
A complete list of participating takeback locations can be found at deadiversion.usdoj.gov.
During a similar effort in April, the DEA and its partner agencies in local and state law enforcement across the country collected 276 tons of unwanted or expired prescription pills. In West Virginia alone, the haul was 4,795 pounds of medication, according to state Attorney General Darrell McGraw's office.
According to Ihlenfeld, efforts such as Project Future are made possible through the White House's recent designation of Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and Marshall counties as "high intensity drug trafficking areas" slated to receive additional federal funding to fight drug use in those areas.


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Does the entire surface of the earth contain organisms? My teacher mentioned that in some parts of the earth, there aren't any organism. Is this true?
Thanks in advance.
Does the entire surface of the earth contain organisms? My teacher mentioned that in some parts of the earth, there aren't any organism. Is this true?
Thanks in advance.
That will depend on many things. How do you define surface? Is one meter underground still "surface"? How about a kilometer?
Also, how large an area are we talking about? You could probably find a square millimeter in, for example, Antarctica that has no organisms. I don't think you would find a square kilometer with no organisms though.
There are organisms (called extremophiles) that thrive in the most hostile environments we know, they can survive extreme heat, cold, acidity, salinity etc. I found this very nice list:
As far as I know, there is no evidence of life in molten lava. Apart from that though, just about every habitat you can find on the earth has been colonized by life. Ask your teacher what parts of the earth she is talking about, and report back here.
MCM's very interesting answer prompted me to do some more research. It seems that life has now been found even in the Atacama (taken from Azua-Bustos et al):
So, it seems that life can exist even in the Atacama. That leaves only molten lava...
Azua-Bustos et al, Life at the dry edge: microorganisms of the Atacama Desert, FEBS Lett. 2012 Aug 31;586(18):2939-45
Barring the very obvious surfaces (the pits of active volcanoes), the only place I'm aware of that might not contain life is the Atacama Desert near the Andes Mountains in Chile and Brazil.
Whereas other places that seem inhospitable - Antarctic, Hot Springs, regular deserts, extremely high altitudes, etc. - the basic necessities for life still exist (carbon, water, nitrogen). In the Atacama, though:
It's the driest place on the planet. It's drier than every other desert by a long shot, and is so dry that NASA occasionally uses it to simulate Mars.
So while life might exist in the Atacama (signs of life do not always point towards currently-existing life), it's hiding extremely well. Probably beneath the topsoil, where no multicellular organisms have ever been spotted and unicellular organisms may not exist at all.
Ultimately your teacher is correct, although whether they meant the Atacama or erroneously considered other places on the planet you'll have to ask them.


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The idea is we have a website for free downloads
but there will be daily limit of daily downloads for each user (say 5 dl per day per user) so there will be users with multiple accounts.
- IP detection is not good; cause I have many users from one ip (users from one organization)
- email verification and unique email account is not good; u can create more than one account
- sms confirmation is not good; users can use his/her friend cell phone number to register another account
I saw a website that solved this issue (partially)
They detect users by computer name or MAC address or something else I am not sure, I registered 3 users there, they detected me, said :"these three users are using same computer" !! and banned all three accounts.
When I reinstalled another windows the problem solved, I have one user there.
So I asked myself, "how they did this"?
Is there any suggestion as to how I can handle this issue?


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| Bloch, H. P., Hydrocarbon Processing Staff,
[pump fires]
[rotating equipment]
While performing reliability audits decades ago,
pump-failure statistics were made available or could be
recovered with relative ease. But even then, the sources were
usually kept confidential because fire incidents are stressful,
to say the least (Fig. 1). In 1974, it was known that, for
every 1,000 pump repairs, there was a pump-related fire
incident. More recently and in a facility with approximately
2,000 installed pumps, the acknowledged meantime between
repairs (MTBR) was six years. This would allow us to calculate
that approximately 333 pumps underwent repair each year. Since
that particular plant experienced five pump-related
near-disasters over a 14-year period, doing the simple math
tells us that its rate of major pump issues tracked the 1
fire per 1,000 repairs within 6% accuracy.
Fig. 1. Assets and
human lives are at stake
when there are pump fires in refineries.
As we think about the reasons why the average process pump
requires a repair after approximately six years, we realize
that not all of its components are designed, fabricated,
assembled, maintained, operated or perhaps installed with the
same diligence as aircraft components.
It doesnt have to be that way. Alloys can be upgraded,
and better components are sold to owner-purchasers who insist
on such upgrades. Advanced computer-based and reasonably priced
design tools are available for the pump hydraulic assembly. It
has been shown that computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be
used to define the improvement potential of impellers and
stationary passages within pumps; Fig. 2 certainly attests to
Fig. 2. Relative
velocity plot of an optimized
vertical pump stage (Source: Pump Design,
Development & Diagnostics;
But the mechanical assembly (drive end) of some pumps also
deserves attention, especially since this portion of the pump
has been neglected in some brands or models. Fortunately,
expert advice is available for the specification and selection
of better drive-end geometries for process
Thoughtful specification and selection used to be par for
the course at best-of-class companies, and there is really no
reason why that thinking should have undergone change. What we
see lacking today is an awareness of the precise steps that are
needed for such specifying and selecting. Management has fallen
prey to consultant-conceived generalities, including lean
and mean and other similar, catchy utterances.
1 Bloch, H. P., Pump WisdomProblem
Solving for Operators and Specialists, John Wiley &
Sons, 2011.
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With the AGI conference just a few days away, I'm trying to get my thoughts in order. One thought that keeps circling in my mind, is that of specialised minds for specialised tasks.
For example, say we have a tram, and it is self-driving, controlled by a synthetic mind embedded inside the tram itself. Free thinking, with free will.
However, this mind has been engineered for the purpose. It has instincts built into it that give it instinctual reactions that line up perfectly with the road safety and courtesy laws. Additionally, it has been designed such that it feels happy when it is safely ferrying passengers, and feels physically ill when one of them gets hurt either by its own doing or that of another driver/passenger. A moral core is instilled which serves as an artificial conscience, forcing the mind along certain pathways beneficial for the transport service.
Is it ethical to create free-willed minds for a specific purpose, and stack the deck like this, to practically force them into designated behavior constraints from 'birth' if you will. To create a mind purpose-designed for a task, whilst still giving it the free will and imagination necessary for independent thought? Or would such a mind be ethically criminal to engineer?


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What barriers - of technology, physics and possibly economy (things that would be possible technologically but are simply too expensive) sets the upper bound on quality of telescopes for observation of the sky in visible spectrum - observing surface of distant objects at maximum resolution/detail?
Visual resolution of a telescope is directly proportional to the aperture of the telescope. The focal length, and hence the magnification that can be achieved, is then just following on the visual resolution.
The telescopes today are usually so well build that they are diffraction limited, which means optical resolution due to diffraction is the limiting factor. If you want to have "higher magnification" in a telescope, you always want to have a larger aperture. The longer focal length may help, but is not quite necessary.
And, as Jeremy said, the limiting resource in this is money. There are some engineering problems with building extremely large telescopes, but most of these can be solved, given enough money, time and resources.
To answer the question reworded as: "What limits the quality of telescopes currently?" The answer is mostly: money.
It used to be: atmosphere. But with advances in adaptive optics, ground-based telescopes are achieving what used to require a space telescope. Plus, we have the technology for space telescopes if we want, like the pending JWST.
So pretty much, it boils down to funding. Who is going to spend the money on the expensive technology to see better and further, when science is being squeezed for funding from all quarters, and astronomers can't put forward a business case for a return on investment like a biotech company can for developing a grass that will result in cows burping less methane.
Comparing telescopes that observe the visible spectrum to the radio spectrum, radio astronomers have been able to create telescopes with apertures of the order of kms, thanks to aperture synthesis. This is extremely hard in optical telescopes and the only telescope (afaik) that does so is the Large Binocular Telescope. The reason this is possible in radio astronomy is because we can measure the phase of the incoming wave using radio telescopes where as information about the phase is not captured by optical telescopes. Maybe in the future, technology will help us make optical detectors that can measure the phase of the wave.
coming to the size of the aperture itself, larger and larger sizes doesn't help as long as we don't account for the atmospheric seeing. the reason stars twinkle is because of atmospheric seeing. effects seeing can be negated using adaptive and active optics and advancement of these technologies will help astronomy move ahead.
coming to the actual detectors, the intrinsic noise from radio detectors (eg. bolometers) is much smaller than that in optical detectors (eg. CCDs). so again, maybe in the future, we have better detectors with extremely low noise.
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Why does this question get a pass, but I can't ask my own book recommendation question?
Can I ask my own book recommendation question in a way that is acceptable to the community, like the C++ book list question?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
Why is "The Definitive C++ Book List" question allowed, but other book recommendation questions are not?
The big problem with book recommendation posts - and similar questions - is that they tend to devolve into polls:
That's a quote from a quote from Real Questions Have Answers, a blog post that heralded a revised FAQ and a much tighter focus on questions that can be constructively, usefully answered. The relevant message there, ensconced in the FAQ on every site, is this:
Note that it is possible to have a question that asks for a list of things that does solve a real problem and doesn't treat every answer as valid. But it is very, very hard, and most questions of that sort degrade badly over time.
That question gets a pass because it solves a real problem identified by many - perhaps most - people in Stack Overflow's C++ community.
Probably not. If you have to ask, almost certainly not. That said, here are a few guidelines if you wish to attempt it anyway:
Sound hard? Like too much work to bother with? You're probably right, and that's the idea - when these things aren't hard-won labors of love, they quickly become dung heaps of obsolete and spammy no-content responses. If it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
Given the (high) degree to which almost all programming depends upon books (online resources are rarely a complete substitute), what should probably be done is every tag wiki should have a tab (or some other convenient way to access a section) devoted to the book list for that subject.
I should probably add, however, that it would probably be perfectly fine/sensible for the tab/section to be named something relatively generic like "resources" instead of being specifically a "book list". There may be some languages, libraries, tools, etc., for which online resources really are good/useful/preferred, and I certainly have no intent to discriminate against such cases.
There is a great need to have a list of most useful resources here.
However, we have tag wikis and we have StackOverflow blog, so such resouce lists should belong there.
I vote for locking that book recommendation question and moving the resouce list to the tag wiki or to the special blog entry.


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1928 Ford roadster pickup - Once BittenWritten by Chris Shelton on March 19, 2007 Contributors: Dale Moreau Rick Hanson Couldn't Shake The Black Widow, So He Built It
Art Linkletter, Nancy Reagan, and Sergeant Joe Friday would like you to think otherwise, but it was really model-car companies who made paint-huffing glue sniffers out of our nation's youth. Rick Hanson knows; he was 12 when Monogram released the Black Widow, a model kit based on a cut-down 1927 Ford roadster pickup. That was 1960, and there was Rick, Testors model cement in hand, staring point blank into the steely gaze of 1:24-scale King Bee headlights.
As the self-help gurus will tell you, there's no cure for addiction, and the recidivism rate for those who shake the habit is high. Sure, he fell off the proverbial wagon a few times and built a car or two; however, one time he fell hard-not for the little gateway jobs that initiated this slippery slope, either, but for the bigger, harder stuff. He built a hot rod, but not any hot rod; he built a fullscale version of the Black Widow.
OK, so we took some dramatic liberty with Rick's story, but he really did build the Black Widow. He calls his the Black Widow 2, as his isn't a nuts-and-bolts copy (Model A body, radial whitewalls, full fenders), but the connection is more than suggested. It's black, it wears polished Moon discs, and it sports a red-and-white gut and white top and tonneau. Even if it's not the Widow in body, it's the Widow in soul.
The project started as a very incomplete roadster pickup and stayed that way for some years in Rick's garage before he fully committed himself to building it. Instead of setting a realistic pace and never finishing, as most of us do, however, Rick took a different approach: He thought it'd be neat to debut the car at the 2006 Grand National Roadster Show-the same show in which his brother's car placed third in class in the mid-'60s. Now here's the catch: He made that decision in about April 2005.
Instead of leading you along for the duration of the story, we'll tell you right now: He made it. He met the same cast of characters that push us forward and set us back as we build our cars, but, due to this compressed time, they seem so much more ... interesting.
Consider his friend Cliff Heitman who, while he stored the car, chopped and leaned the windshield, patched some of the body's cobby areas, and found a way to wedge a '40 Ford dash between the A-pillars. Then take Bulgarian ex-pat Kiril Popov, the old-world master who straightened the bed and chopped it 8 inches, bobbed the fenders, and massaged the truck back to shape using nothing more than simple handtools and heat.
Factor in only two days of driving the car in bare metal as a shakedown run; then consider the discipline it took to actually disassemble the car for finish work. If Rick couldn't have done it without Kiril, he surely could've done without the unnamed painter who worked under a tarp-clad lean-to in a dusty marina-the guy who set Widow 2 back by a full month a mere month before its GNRS debut and still didn't finish the job.
If building a car under an impending deadline isn't stressful enough for you, do what Rick did and cancel those pesky obligations to your customers and do without income for the month leading up to an event. Rick's gamble did actually pay off, though, since people came out of the woodwork to help-people like Martinez Auto Body's Gary Hernandez, who finished the paintwork.
Trimmer Armand Annereau Jr. not only understood Rick's instruction to stitch wide pleats to match the model's seat, he coined the phrase "fullscale model car," a name that stuck. Leave it to 'striper Herb Martinez to not only work around Rick's crazy schedule, but to render the model kit's chunky pinstripes in 1:1 scale. Finally, good personal friends and artists Robert Lee and Susan Fair sandblasted the windshield with the model's web motif.
To understand the crush under which Rick worked, Kelley Hunter detailed the Black Widow 2 practically as it rolled into the Pomona Fairplex building four. Rick's ride was just another shiny car in a convention hall until sign painter of note Al Meadows delivered the hand-lettered acrylic show-car plaque. Suddenly a 12-year-old's 1:24 fantasy sat practically cheek-and-jowl at 1:1 proportions with America's Most Beautiful Roadster contenders.
Many a grown-up kid can recant our elders' pleas to change our ways. They told us those aromatic solvents would wreck our brains. They warned us we'd waste our lives by throwing good money after bad cars. And you know what? They're probably right. After all, here's proof on four wheels.
If that's the case, there's only one thing I can say: Pass that tube of glue, would you?
Facts & Figures
Richard Hanson
Pleasant Hill, California
1928 Ford roadster pickup
|Frame / Manufacturer
|Model A / Classic Street Rods (Ontario, CA)
|Don's Workshop (Pleasant Hill, CA)
|Chassis plumbing
|Don's Workshop
|Rearend / Ratio
|Ford 9", Currie Enterprises (Anaheim, CA) / 3.25:1
|Rear suspension
|ladder bars, Pete & Jake's (Peculiar, MO), coilover dampers, QA1 Precision Products (Lakeville, MN)
|Front suspension
|Pete & Jake's four bar, {{{Magnum}}} Axle Co. (Oakhurst, CA)
|Maval (Twinsburg, OH) Unisteer manual r&p
|GM disc front; Ford drum rear, Currie Enterprises
|Front wheel make, size
|Pete Paulsen's House of Wheels (French Camp, CA) OEM steel, 15x5
|Rear wheel make, size
|Pete Paulsen's House of Wheels OEM steel, 16x6
|Wheel covers
|polished screw-on spun aluminum disc, Mooneyes ({{{Santa Fe}}} Springs, CA)
|Front tire make, size
|Mastercraft, P195/75R-15
|Rear tire make, size
|Dunlop, 215/70R-16
|Gas tank
|29-gal, {{{Summit}}} Racing (Tallmadge, OH)
|{{{Chevrolet}}} 350
|355ci (.030" bore)
|Machining / Assembly
|Bill Sikes
|Bill Sikes, special
|Water pump
|GM, Short
|Engine fan
|Cooling Components Inc. (Memphis, TN)
|Walker Radiator Works (Memphis, TN)
|Manifold / Carburetor
|Edelbrock Performer (Torrance, CA) / Edelbrock 1450-series, {{{600}}}-cfm
|Distributor / Wires
|points-style window-cap GM / Standard Motor Products (Long Island, NY)
|block-hugger style, unknown make
|Exhaust / Mufflers
|2 1/2" steel, Broadway Muffler (Walnut Creek, CA) / Flowmaster (Santa Rosa, CA) Hush Power
|1940 Ford column, Lokar (Knoxville, TN) cable kit
|Trans mods
|shift kit, Macy Automotive Inc. (Concord, CA)
|Drive Line Service (Concord, CA)
|Body style / Material
|roadster pickup / steel
|Body manufacturer
|Body mods
|bitchin' recessed firewall, narrowed '40 Ford dash, windshield chopped & leaned back, windshield base molded to dash
|'32 Ford, Brookville Roadster Inc. (Brookville, OH)
|Cliff Hietman / Kiril Popov
|Paint type / Color
|PPG / Black
|Von Dutch style by Herb Martinez (Livermore, CA)
|Headlights / Taillights
|Guide 682-C / '50 {{{Pontiac}}}
|'40 Ford
|Insert / Gauges
|'40 Ford rebuilt by Lee Kelly
|Ron Francis Wiring (Chester, PA)
|Steering wheel
|'40 Ford, LeCarra Inc. (Oneida, TN)
|Steering column
|'40 Ford
|Glide Engineering (Rancho Cucamonga, CA)
|Armand's Auto Upholstery Inc. (Walnut Creek, CA)
|Material / Color
|Naugahyde Brand Fabric (Nappanee, IN) / red & white
|red nylon cut loop
|Armand's Auto Upholstery Inc.
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Like the Black Widow model, the Black Widow 2 has a Chevy; however, that's where the similarities end. While Rick runs a simpler four-barrel carburetor, he created the effect of a trip-deuce intake by topping the air filter lid with three slash-cut tubes la velocity stacks. The model sported 1955/56 exhaust manifolds and a generator, but Rick runs block-hugger headers and an alternator.Model designers have to exaggerate certain proportions so they'll translate well to mass production. Monogram did that with the seat pleats, but Armand Annereau Jr. picked up on the idea and chunked up Widow 2's pleats to match. It's usually tough to talk a 'striper into laying fat lines, but Herb Martinez also got the picture, as the fangs on the dash illustrate.From the discipline it takes to make the first cut to the finish work it takes to make it look right, it's tough to work a '40 dash into smaller cars. Cliff Heitman pulled it off, though, and Kiril Popov did a similarly smashing job fitting the matching column. The smaller '40 wheel is a LaCarra exclusive from Rod Parts Warehouse.The Black Widow as we know it from the box top was a Model T, not a Model A as Rick built, and as such, Rick's car and top is shaped far differently yet has the benefit of more room. Here's a tip for would-be pickup builders: Forego the blocky roll pan everybody else does in favor of a rear apron like the one Kiril Popov fabricated for the gap below the bed.By the late '50s, not even truck beds escaped the trimmer's scrutiny. Armand Annereau Jr. followed suit and finished Widow 2's to show-car standards, even if the show car was 6 inches long.Here's the kit that initiated Rick Hanson's slippery slope into hot-rod depravity. Check out the background and the getup on the flirty tomato; Monogram didn't even bother to hide the fact that they wanted you to think it was Bob's Big Boy in Burbank! A hot rod, the attention of a cool chick, and a hep scene; I ask you, what boy couldn't resist?


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The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth
#3. The Sedlec Ossuary
Remember when we said Aokigahara was the Niagara falls of suicide? Well, for centuries the abbot in the small Czech town of Sedlec has been the Niagara Falls for dead people, regardless of cause of death. Ever since someone sprinkled soil from the Holy Land on the local cemetery in the 13th century, people from all over Europe started demanding to be buried there and the Sedlec graveyard kept growing until 1870, when the priests decided to finally do something about all those surplus bones lying around. Something insane.
Bam! Chandelier full of bones!
Today, the Sedlec Ossuary is a chapel famous for being decorated with tens of thousands of human bones. This macabre style of interior design was the work of Czech woodcarver Frantisek Rint who, for some reason, was hired to organize the church's extensive skeleton collection. The results were huge mounds of human remains in the four corners of the chapel, a terrifying chandelier built from every bone in the human body, and a massive skull coat of arms adorning the entrance.
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We realize this is the Czech Republic and all, but it has been 27 years, surely Poltergeist was released out there already. Like, maybe last year or something? Why are they still playing with human bones as if they were Satan's Lego blocks and making them sit through Mass every single day for almost 140 years now? On the Tempting Fate scale, the only thing worse would be to start using some of the skulls as ceremonial mugs or chamber pots.
At this point, does it really surprise anyone that the church became the inspiration for Dr. Satan's lair in the Rob Zombie movie House of 1000 Corpses?
#2. San Zhi Resort
What do you get when you cross a series of abandoned, rusting, futuristic UFO-shaped buildings with a series of mysterious deaths covered up by the government? How about the ghost town-slash-tourist resort of San Zhi, located just outside Taipei and inside your worst nightmares.
The exclusive San Zhi resort in Taiwan was supposed to be the destination for bored, rich folk who always wondered what it would be like to live inside an over-sized hockey puck. Construction of Pod City started around the 80s but was quickly shut down after a series of mysterious on-site fatal accidents... or it could have been due to Godzilla attacks for all we know. There is actually very little official information on San Zhi. We can't even confirm how many people died there or if they screamed something about eyeless children eating their souls. The whole thing is shrouded in secrecy.
Currently, most of the information on the complex comes from the locals who--what a surprise--refuse to go near the damn thing. And thus the abandoned 90 pods just stand there, waiting for anyone foolish enough to wander in.
A hotel? No! This is a... a weather balloon!
Come on dude, don't be a pussy, this place looks legit.
Wait a second... abandoned resort town in the middle of nowhere, mysterious deaths, lack of any official information... where have we seen this before?
We also would've accepted "Our nightmares."
#1. Prypiat
A whole lot of you just got deja vu looking at the above picture. Specifically, those of you who have played Call of Duty 4, as there is an entire level that takes place there. If you thought the idea of a completely silent, abandoned, radioactive city was typical video game apocalyptic fantasy, you were wrong.
Prypiat is in the northern Ukraine and once housed the workers and scientists of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. Founded in the 70s, it held as many as 50,000 people. Then in 1986, according to a footnote in the official Soviet records, there was a small malfunction in the Chernobyl reactor, so for safety reasons the city was evacuated.
Since then, Prypiat has been desolated, its buildings decaying, the giant Ferris Wheel just standing there all alone with nobody to ride it. The city actually had an entire amusement park for the families of the Chernobyl employees. Because when you are living next to a nuclear reactor which was outdated even by 1986 Soviet standards, the only thing on your mind is bumper cars.
The city is located in what is known as the Zone of Alienation, the 30-kilometer radius directly affected by the Chernobyl "minor technical difficulty" over 20 years ago. Despite that, Prypiat is now opened to the public because the radiation levels have apparently went down significantly over the years. We guess we have a different view on radiation than the government of Ukraine. They obviously have a scale for it, while we consider any radiation a very bad thing.
Aside from the inherent risk of getting bit by a radioactive snail and becoming the lamest superhero ever, there is another reason why you will never see us among the tourists occasionally visiting Prypiat.
The fucking nursery. We told you this was a place built for families and wouldn't you know it, they have a nursery, which according to certain claims is currently paved with baby shoes and abandoned dolls. So, Prypiat is basically an abandoned radioactive ghost Soviet baby amusement park.
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How to build a native C compiler on a SheevaPlug?
September 10, 2010, 10:35:31 AM »
I have my SheevaPlug booting Ubuntu 9.04 from an eSATA disk, so I have lots of disk space and I'm not worried about possibly wearing out internal flash or an SD card ...
I'm trying to compile (natively) version 3.4.6 of the GCC C compiler. I know it's old, but I need it so that I can build a version of GPC (the GNU Pascal compiler) which exactly matches the version I am running on i86-based Linux boxes (GPC 20070904 based on GCC-3.4.6).
I've tried using the GPC version that I get with apt-get install GPC.
It identifies itself as:
david@ubuntu:~$ gpc -v
Using built-in specs.
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,pascal --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.1.3 --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-checking=release arm-linux-gnueabi
Thread model: posix
gpc version 20070904, based on gcc-4.1.3 20080420 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 2.1-4.1.2-22ubuntu1)
However when I build my application using that compiler I see various quirks. I'd like to get to a compiler that should be exactly the same as the one I'm using on the i86-based Linux boxes to rule out compiler differences as the source of the problems I'm seeing.
I'm failing dismally to build the GCC C compiler ...
After a lot of Googling, I eventually settled on a set of arguments to configure.
The arguments I have used are: --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-3.4.6 --enable-languages=c --with-float=soft --disable-libssp --with-arch=armv5te --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libmudflap --disable-libgomp
I'm also adding '-marm -msoft-float -march=armv5te -Wl,marmelf_linux_eabi' to the CFLAGS in the generated Makefile (and to the calls to xgcc) and I'm adding -marmelf_linux_eabi to LD_FLAGS and to any explicit calls to the linker.
I'm using the version of the C compiler that is installed by apt-get build-essential or possibly by apt-get install gcc, I'm not sure which now. It identifies itself as
root@ubuntu:~# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: arm-linux-gnueabi
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.3 --program-suffix=-4.3 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-mpfr --disable-libssp --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-arch=armv5t --with-tune=cortex-a8 --enable-checking=release --build=arm-linux-gnueabi --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-linux-gnueabi
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4)
The brick wall I've finally hit is:
/usr/src/gcc/b3/gcc/xgcc: /usr/src/gcc/b3/gcc/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.5' not found (required by /usr/src/gcc/b3/gcc/xgcc)
Can anyone suggest suitable arguments for configure to build version 3.4.6 of the GCC C compiler, any patches, or changes to the generated Makefile, or anything else I'm missing?
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September 10, 2010, 11:58:19 AM »
I don't have finished configure arguments for you but maybe some pointers. I believe it's odd that it would try to find a label indicating gcc 3.5 while you're trying to compile 3.4.6. Maybe some bits of the toolchain are taken from the Ubuntu compiler, some from the one you're trying to compile. How far does the compile process get?
Another thing you may want to try is to find a source package for gcc 3.4.6 in the Ubuntu archives and check the configure arguments in there (.../debian/rules). You'll probably have to change some of the flags, most likely the ARM/ABI-related flags, but it would be a starting point.
BTW, Debian Lenny has a package for 3.4.6 (source and binary):
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September 10, 2010, 04:29:53 PM »
Thank you. Those sound like useful suggestions.
I've now switched to Debian squeeze and am seeing if I get any further with that.
I'm new to Debian and Ubuntu (coming from RedHat and Fedora) so apt-get is a bit of a mystery to me ... is it simple to grab the Debian Lenny packages you have pointed to and install them into Debian Squeeze?
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I wouldn't try and install binary Lenny packes in Squeeze because the dependencies may be all screwed up. But compiling a source package with apt-get and dpkg-buildpackage is so simple that it surprises me every time. In your case:
add the Lenny sources to /etc/apt/sources.list:
lenny main contrib non-free
run "apt-get update" or "aptitude update" to update the cache with available packages and sources
run "apt-cache showsrc gcc-3.4"
find the entry with the correct gcc version if there are multiple. In my case, there was only 3.4.6ds1-9 but there might be a slightly newer one as I didn't run "aptitude update" for a few weeks
create an empty directory for the build and change into it
run "apt-get source gcc-3.4" in the build directory; if you need to pick a specific version, add the version number to the package like so: "apt-get source gcc-3.4=3.4.6ds1"
change into the source directory (gcc-3.4-3.4.6ds1 in my case)
run "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" to build the compiler
once the build has completed successfully, you'll find binary package files to install with "dpkg -i" in the parent directory (the one above the source directory)
You may have to change configure options (e.g. to select the proper ABI) or hack the dependencies section if there are dependencies to older packages -- things should work with the versions provided by Squeeze because you recompile using those packages. Configure options can be changed in debian/rules and dependencies hacked in debian/control.
If you miss packages for the build, run "apt-get build-dep gcc-3.4" to have them automatically resolved (as far as they can be resolved with Squeeze packages). Again, if Squeeze only offers newer versions of packages needed at build time, I would install those newer packages, manually if necessary, and hack the debian/control file.
Last but not least, if you have to build again and again to get things resolved, you can add the option "-nc" (no clean) to the dpkg-buildpackage command to avoid having to start from scratch all the time.
Hope this helps (and works),
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The reflective brand name tab on the rear of that seat bag is a light holder. You will most likely need to remove the light from the seat post. Hopefully it has a clip styled mount, otherwise you can get a light that has a clip mount.
If it's only reflective you have currently, then you might want to buy a separate battery operated active light, and place it below the bag on the stem.
I would assume the bag is designed to fill most space available, and hence would obstruct the existing light.
It's a little sad that the bag doesn't come with a proper reflector, but a clip-on unit can be added, as suggested. The flashing red LED clip-on tail lights are quite inexpensive, will run continuously for a week or two on one set of batteries, and are well worth the investment, though make sure that there is at least some degree of passive reflector function in the clip-on and/or the cloth of the bag as well.


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6 Fake Foods You (Will Wish You Didn't) Have in Your Kitchen
#3. Maple "Syrup"
Long ago, when Canada mattered, it provided the world with a nearly endless supply of beaver puns and maple syrup. Lumberjacks and mounties had their fill of both and the rest of the world was green with envy. Nowadays the syrup industry has been quietly hijacked by terrorists like Aunt Jemima, Mrs. Butterworth and their crew of maple fakers who can't be bothered to suck sweet, sticky goo out of trees (that sentence is so ripe with innuendo we refuse to even exploit it).
Speaking of exploitation...
Oh, they would like to still convey the image of a down-home operation involving buckets tied to tree trunks to catch the syrup that oozes out. They may even sneak some trees onto the label.
But what's in it? Most brands are just water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel coloring and various chemicals. Yeah, you could pretty much make the shit yourself in about five minutes. Though at least the log cabin people have switched from high-fructose corn syrup to actual sugar.
"First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women."
A company in Quebec, where this impostor syrup bullshit is still taken seriously, stirred up some trouble earlier in the year when they started selling fake syrup in containers nearly identical to the ones that contain actual maple syrup, confusing the easily muddled syrup buying populace into purchasing the wrong thing. That is, the thing most people thought they were getting this whole time.
It Could be Worse...
Last year, news outlets in China claimed that street vendors selling pork dumplings were actually stuffing them with wet cardboard flavored with pork juice, just like mom used to pack for lunches after a particularly rough bender.
After the news hit, the Chinese government was quick to say the entire story was false and the reporter who had uncovered it all on hidden camera was arrested for making a up such a damaging and lie-filled tale about a country that would never allow such chicanery to occur. Shortly thereafter they made children's Tylenol out of asbestos and then oppressed a few million peasants for no reason.
#2. Ginseng
Ever since energy drinks that taste like a mixture of Mountain Dew and ball sweat hit the ground running, much of the western world has been taken with herbal energy boosters, things like yohimbe, guarana and ginseng, because you can never convince an idiot that something is dangerous if it's "natural," no matter how much blood leaks from their ass after eating Hemlock salad.
"I bet all this blood in my stool is from that damn pasteurized milk."
The thing about herbal supplements, however, is that they're not regulated by the FDA, and the ingredients don't have to pass any kind of inspection for quality. It could be anything in there. It could be sawdust. It could be ground up issues of Bulgarian porno mags. And it often is.
What a waste.
Maybe not the Bulgarian porn, but according to one study in Britain of 50 different supplements sold, six didn't even have ginseng in them and one even had ephedrine, apparently because the makers wanted to scam their customers but still wanted them to have an accelerated heart rate and a chance at death.
Hey, a placebo is a placebo, right?
It Could be Worse...
Depending on where you stand on the issue, this may not be worse, but some herbal medications out of (guess where) China, reportedly for weight loss, apparently contain more than the expected amount of sildenafil. More being any at all, as sildenafil is the generic name for Viagra and arguably while humping your way to a slimmer waist line is a potential way to get results, the product probably wasn't advertised that way.
Of course the bigger question is, why wasn't it?
#1. Strawberry Flavoring
Making something taste like strawberries seems like a bit of a no-brainer. Now, most of us aren't naive enough to think that the Nesquik Bunny is squeezing fresh strawberries into every batch of powder. But, you know, you get some dehydrated strawberries or even the parts of strawberries other people didn't want to eat. Hell, even ground up strawberry stems wouldn't shock our jaded imagination.
But knowing big business as you do, you should not be surprised to learn they refuse to do things the old fashioned way. Strawberry flavor not only doesn't involve fresh strawberries, it doesn't involve anything that's even been in the same room as a strawberry.
In fact, strawberry flavoring (like the kind you get in fast food milkshakes) is a mix of about 50 separate chemicals and none of them have berry in the name. They include:
Amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone (10 percent solution in alcohol), a-ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, g-undecalactone, vanillin, and solvent.
But it does have orris butter, the most delicious butter you can squeeze from an orris, whatever the fuck that is.
This is an orris known for its butter production, apparently.
On the plus side, amongst the many ingredients found in your strawberry flavoring are things like diacetyl. Hey, remember that one? That was the stuff that made the popcorn guy sick.
It Could be Worse...
If strawberry's not your flavor and you're more into spice, you could try to add a bit of curry powder to add an Indian flair, the only downside being that occasionally Indian spices are doctored with substances like lead chromate--which improves color--to sawdust to make it bulkier or actual dried cow shit, which if it improves anything really speaks poorly for the quality of the spice to begin with.
"And some powdered cow shit for the lady?"
Oh, and do you like wasabi, that exotic spicy green Japanese paste you can get with sushi? Well, you've likely never had it. The vast majority of wasabi is just regular old horse radish mixed with green food coloring.
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Top Ten Irritating Phrasesgrrrr
Posted 12 November 2008 - 06:10 PM
1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It's a nightmare
8 - Shouldn't of
9 - 24/7
10 - It's not rocket science.
I don't often hear number seven here on the American side of the pond, but I've been guilty of the sloppy number eight. My own, personal list includes "going forward" for "now" or "in the future," and "go away" for "end," as in "when might this this recession go away?"
Posted 12 November 2008 - 06:19 PM
Always followed by something where you do.
Posted 12 November 2008 - 06:31 PM
I'm not wild about 'With all due respect' but it has its uses, especially when you're disagreeing with someone (not least on the internet).
I wouldn't flog yourself over #8, either, a misdemeanor I've also committed. It wouldn't surprise me if, many years down the line, it becomes more or less standard usage - such shifts do happen.
Any other pet peeves in this department, BTers?
Posted 12 November 2008 - 06:35 PM
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Posted 12 November 2008 - 07:04 PM
I'm not wild about 'With all due respect' but it has its uses, especially when you're disagreeing with someone (not least on the internet).
I hate it too, but agree with its irreproachable and unimpeachable importance. Actually, I find it amusing as well, because people used to say it all the time on the old 'L.A. Law' TV show, and that's where I learned it. Jill Eikenberry was good at it.
Listen, dears, I think you're all wrong about 'shouldn't of', at least part of the time, because even if I say full out 'he shouldn't have' (which I do), I will say 'he shouldn't've done that', which sounds like 'shouldn't of' but definitely isn't--it's a legitimate diminution of 'shouldn't have' .
Here's one that gets on my nerves: not using 'entirely' occasionally, but always using it. It is not forbidden to remember that 'completely' and 'thoroughly' exist. All theorists and wannabe philosophes do this, and even Joan Didion overuses it. There is an 'I'm an intellectual' swagger to 'entirely' sometimes, although not nearly always, and it is very often used to throw weight around in an obnoxious way
I don't like any of the 'rocket science' things and won't say them under any circumstances. I confess to having now begun to use '24/7', which overcame years of resistance, but I've decided things are too claustrophobic not to have some things you can slip in that will be understood by children of all ages.
Don't like 'YO!' and can't stand redneck 'yyyellooo...' on the phone.
I thoroughly dislke 'a couple drinks' and all variations leaving out the 'of'. This is maybe 20 years old, and now even smart bloggers like Josh Marshall will write, not just say, 'a couple clips'. It's 'a couple of clips', Josh.
One that has definitely entered common usage is 'different than', and we are all anachronistic curios who say 'different from'.
Also, there are many tacky overuses of 'actually', and some are in the same bimbo vein as 'I mean, it was like...' and don't even mean 'actually' anymore. Usually pronounced. 'you know, ACk-shu-a-leee...' and not even necessarily followed by anything at all.
Posted 12 November 2008 - 07:36 PM
Inevitably there will be one.
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Posted 12 November 2008 - 07:53 PM
If "It is what it is" was banned, the software industry would come to a halt
Posted 12 November 2008 - 08:08 PM
That's a good one. Waiting doesn't make one a waitor or a waitress.
For me it's "waiting on" instead of "waiting for".
Another phrase that bugs me ("This dress bugs me" -- thanks for the laugh, Jim Jarmusch) is "let's not go there." I don't know who first said it, but it showed personality then, I'm sure. By now, what's wrong with the descriptive "talk about" or "discuss"?
Posted 12 November 2008 - 08:11 PM
"let's not go there."
Yes, abhorrent, as is the related 'we are NOT gonna go there' by the overly maternal and paternal.
Posted 12 November 2008 - 10:10 PM
2. "ACKS" instead of "ASK"... The word is only 3-LETTERS!!! long and people still cannot pronounce it correctly?!!!
3. "The fact of the matter is/was..." Whatever became of, "the fact is/was..."
4. I actually heard an NPR anchor say "you betcha" tonight (Was he kidding? It didn't sound like that to me.)
5. "Wonk" (still have no idea what or who that actually refers to) A slang term that was never defined but used constantly in the 90's. I thought it might be the psychological definition of an obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Sorry, it's late, so will have to think of more (Noooo!) later.
Posted 12 November 2008 - 10:28 PM
I think the source of "No problem" for "that's alright" was the "Get Smart" television series. It has a vacuous quality--as if the speaker is not there. Recently someone in San Francisco said "no worries" in its place, which is a bit gentler and down home-like.
"Literally" happened (as opposed to "metaphoricially"?).
At a granular level the apostrophe before the s in the plural (like a decorative flourish) and in the pronoun possessive its. A friend of mine is certain that the gene that determines the sense placement of the apostrophe has been lost or compromised.
"Gradient" was the "paradigm" of the 1970s, everybody at CBS news used it whenever he or she could. And where have all the "parameters" everyone used to use gone?
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Dr. Mary Lee Barron, Director of Advanced Nursing Programs at Saint Louis University School of Nursing, and Dr. Margie Edel,retired Director of Master's Programs, were honored by Col. Diane L. Fletcher, Chief Nurse from the United States Air Force (USAF) School of Aerospace Medicine. Col. Fletcher presented an award and certificate for the School's support and contributions to the USAF Nursing Corp Critical Care/ER Trauma Fellowship Program from 2007 - 2012. The program involves nurses on active duty in the Air Force. It is designed to ensure nurses and other military personnel are more fully prepared for stressful environments before being deploy to areas of conflict. Col. Fletcher presented a "coin" to Dr. Edel in appreciation for her efforts in developing the program in 2007 with the USAF Nursing Corp. A military coin is given as a token of gratitude for excellence in performance.
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On Facebook, I noticed that the comments and likes for a photo I checked in are not showing up on my profile but they display when I click into the photo.
How can I get them to display directly on my profile?
The likes and comments on the photo visible in your profile/timeline because of you being tagged there/checked in/you shared that photo is one thing.
And the likes and comments on the actual photo (in the Facebook Page or Facebook Profile of the actual up-loader) is a completely different thing.
When you click on the photo in your Profile/Timeline, you go to the kind-of-full-screen-view-of-the-actual-photo.
In your Profile/Timeline you will see only the likes and comments that people posted on the photo through your Profile/Timeline (by visiting your Profile/Timeline). Also these likes and comments are not added to the actual photo.


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27 Apr 2009 10:46 PM #1
HI,I rewrite the Ext.ux.tree.PagingTreeLoader to support the ext3.0 rc1
this PagingTreeLoader has been tested in IE6/firefox3/chrome1/safari4
PagingTreeLoader suports client paging and server paging:
1.client paging uages:
HTML Code:
var tree = new Ext.tree.TreePanel({ applyTo:'tree-ct', width:300, height:400, autoScroll:true, plugins: new Ext.ux.tree.TreeNodeMouseoverPlugin(),//must use the plugin loader: new Ext.ux.tree.PagingTreeLoader({ //use the extend TreeLoader dataUrl:'getNodes.jsp', pageSize:10, //the count of the childnode to show every time,default 20 enableTextPaging:true, //whether to show the pagination's text pagingModel:'local' //local means client paging ,remote means server paging,default local }), root: new Ext.tree.AsyncTreeNode({ id:'0',text:'root' }) });
HTML Code:
2.server paging uages:
the js code just change the pagingModel value to 'remote'.
the server will receive some parameters:
node : the id of the node which is expending or paging
start : the start index of the children,when the node first expends,the start value is 0
limit : equals the jscode's pageSize,means the count of the node to show ervery time
total : the total count of the node's children,when the node first expends,the total parameter dosen't exist.
the server return the JSON like this:
HTML Code:
10 May 2009 8:28 AM #2
Hi xiexueze,
i am facing one issue in IE6. I tried resolving it but couldn't do that.
Although I am not able to reproduce this on the example you have attached.
Following is snapshot when I tried the plugin without any changes (in IE6).
When I commented out following line.
autoCreate: {style:(Ext.isIE ? 'display: inline;white-space:nowrap;margin:-2px 0px;vertical-align:middle':'')},
I have attached the IE6 toolbar snapshot as well in case of 2nd scenario.
Although the container Div has style as inline but still it is not able to align after root node.
Looking at the IE devtoolbar div is appened to anchor tag as per the logic in (Ext.isIE)
Please help me to resolve this or provide some guidance to resolve this.
This is working fine in FF3.
10 May 2009 9:29 PM #3
HI binod dokania:
thanks for report.
this is odd! It is working fine in my IE6.
could you post your code on here?
or you can try to increase the 100 corresponding in the code:
HTML Code:
config.width = (Ext.isIE ? 100 : this.width);
23 May 2009 3:36 AM #4
This is a good idea, but I think the presentation is a little awkward. All those floating paging bars looks a little clunky. So here's what I would do.
1. Put a node at the end of the page of nodes that is a paging node, this way its contained within the parent of the nodes being paged and doesn't have to always be visible.
2. Or put a single paging bar at the bottom of the tree control and have it page whatever parent node is selected.
Either of those approaches would be cosmetically more concise and aesthetic so I will find some time to modify this in that way so y'all can see if it works for you.
26 May 2009 11:19 AM #5
I am able to reproduce this in the example you attached.
If you add this line in the html, you can see this behavior (i.e. paging bar appear under root group in IE7)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
I need this line to make other functionality working and make my code w3c compliance.
21 Jun 2009 10:44 PM #6
I have managed to fix this issue by modifying following lines:
if(Ext.isIE){ el = Ext.DomHelper.append(el,{tag:'div',style:'display: inline;white-space:nowrap;position:absolute'},true);
autoCreate: {style:(Ext.isIE ? 'display: inline;white-space:nowrap;position:absolute;margin:-2px 0px;vertical-align:middle':'')},
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27 Jul 2009 8:50 PM #9
hi Jacky1234
I have download it again, the file can be extracted,and works fine, can you try again?
27 Jul 2009 10:35 PM #10
Thanks for your quick response, maybe the problem is on my winzip, anyway, I have got the file. Thanks lot!


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I was most interested in the historical aspects of the story, and that's where I took much of our conversation. There's a very nice JFK connection in the book, and a scene that is impeccably described. We talked about Iran-Contra, and the part he would have willingly played had he been in the wrong place at the right time. All through the conversation, I have to say that John Rizzo was right there. I think that he was relieved to talk with someone who had read the book, and he was clearly happy to discuss events in the book that were not the focus of recent media attention.


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I have a Samsung Nexus S which I bought off my friend. A system update popped up and I hit accept without even thinking about it but the phone said I had to charge it so I did and left it for an hour or two. When I came back and went to turn it on it just went midway through the reboot and turned off again, then without even touching it it would repeat this process over and over. I have absolutely no clue what to do - how can I get it booting again?
I'd suggest you start here:
The part that is relevant to you, assuming your device wasn't running a rooted custom ROM before, is 4B:
Tried to include as much as possible for posterity, but the files you need and so on are in the forum thread anyway so this doesn't really apply if the forum thread would go down.
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I recently received a used road bike. I took it to a bike shop where they told me the seat and handlebars had to be raised for my height, so I had them make the adjustments. I now have trouble getting on and off my bike, and when I have to stop my feet barely touch the ground. Would these be indicators that my bike's the wrong size for my height?
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While in the saddle, your feet should not touch the ground and your leg should be almost completely extended at the bottom of the pedal stroke. You ought to be able to straddle the top tube fairly easily with your feet flat on the ground.
Sheldon Brown's article on starting on a bicycle may help with getting accustomed to having the seat higher than you are used to. Do visit his site to see the video, but here are the basics:
No you shouldn't be able to fully touch the ground from your seat. Maybe with your toes totally pointed you can get them both down but that's about it.
As for getting on an off the bike, practice will make it easier. If you've never been riding a properly fit bike then I would anticipate it feels odd.
You should be able to place both feet flat on the ground while standing over your top tube with a bit of room to spare so you don't accidentally hurt yourself by landing on the top tube.
As for handlebars they should be at least 1 inch lower than your seat generally. The more flexible you are the lower you can go with comfort.
Your seat should be level with the ground (not the top tube) or slightly pointed down.
Your seat should be high enough that at the bottom of your pedal stroke your knee is slightly bent. If you're experiencing knee pain that doesn't go away after a few rides (to get used to the new setup) the general rule is to move your seat up if the pain is in the front of your knee and down if it's in the back of your knee.
Stem length changes based on your torso length so I have to assume that the shop provided you with the proper length/rise of stem to suit your body.
A proper bike fit is one of the best things to spend some money on with a bike. Just give it a bit of time as you get used to a bike setup properly.
From my understanding (certainly no fit expert), you're probably fine as long as you're not crunching your privates on the top tube. Your leg should be close to fully extended at the bottom of the pedal stroke, so you would be on tippy-toes or less when at a complete stop. You'll also probably find that mounting requires the use of the pedal as a "step" to get on.
Get measured 'properly' and then compare that to your frame - and also consider what you're planning to do on the machine.
If you have drop handlebars (e.g. like a road bike) and might be using them a lot, then you'll expect a different setup in comparison to using straight (or courier bars) or aerobars.
Also different bikes have different geometries, i.e. the lengths of the various tubes. I have a relatively long back and short legs and I know that certain brands are wrong for me (i.e. the frame is too short and I am very cramped over the handlebars because I've a downtube correct for my legs, but a top tube too short for my back).
@curtismchale gives a good set of things you can do yourself, but there really is no substitute for expert advice and measurement here. A few centimetres here and then, a spacer on the stem or longer cranks or dropping the saddle ...


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I downloaded the desktop ISO for Ubuntu 12.04 and burned the ISO to a DVD. When it boots, it loads up to the splash screen and stops until I get impatient and hit enter then it brings uup the language selection screen after which it loads the GUI with the options where I choose install. At this point the screen goes blank with a flashing cursor on the upper left corner of the screen and that is all it does. How do I get it to install.
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We've seen many new taxes come in under the radar over the past few years, but for me, this is probably the most badly thought-out, badly communicated of the lot. And once again, it's being left to accountants and tax advisors to communicate the bad news.
If you employ staff, you'll be familiar with the need to pay monthly PAYE and NI contributions to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) by the 19th of the following month.
Up until now, the legislation has been such that if you pay late, it doesn't really matter. HMRC might write nasty letters – or even send someone round – but ultimately, there was no penalty for paying late. The trick was to get everything square by 19 May annually, and there was no comeback.
This changed on 6 April this year, when the new legislation came into effect.
Here is a brief synopsis of the new rules and penalties for those on the main monthly scheme:
No due reflection is given to the extent to which you're late. If you are one day late, the penalty will apply.
From an administrative point of view, the law allows HMRC to charge penalties at any stage during the tax year, or after the end of the tax year up to two years of the due date.
In 2010-11, penalties will be charged after the end of the tax year. Therefore, penalty notices will not be sent out until April or May 2011. So please don't test the system and think you've got away with it – you will get a nasty shock in April next year!
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I'm currently using the Oddmuse wiki to document things, both personal and work related. What I'd like to do is to find an Android app along with a wiki engine which enables me to read and make changes to the wiki with my phone. Using only the browser is unintuitive and hard to use.
How can I do this? I'd rather use MediaWiki or DokuWiki, but I don't know of any apps which can both display and let me log in to edit the wiki.


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How did ancient armies like the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Chinese, or even in later times, the Arabs and Mongols keep the route of supplies going to support their armies marching through the vast areas they covered? Did they build supply centers in the places they conquered and use caravans to send the soldiers supplies from there? What did they do when they failed to conquer a city where they laid siege for years? What would happen if there was not any food sources nearby?
In most cases, they would forage (or pillage) from neighboring areas. As in invading army, they had no qualms about taking whatever they wanted or needed. In situations where they were sending troops considerable distances or for prolonged periods of time, they had to develop other methods.
In some situations they would create relay stations, which would basically be a small camp where supplies could be delivered and then re-distributed to troops further along the supply line. If these stations were in areas where they were subject to attack, then they would be expanded into outposts or forts. In those cases, a contingent of troops would remain to protect the supplies that were stored up, and also possibly as armed escorts for supplies that were being passed along.
An important way to supply an army always was the transportation by water. Persian invasions of Greece were actually large scale combined ground force-fleet operations, as it is clearly seen from Herodotes description. Same applies to Hannibal's campain and to several operations of Alexander the Great.
In general, rivers and sea was one of the important ways of transportation, in many places the only way to transport large quantities of supplies.
A couple of quotations from The Art of War (Sun Tzu, ca. 500 BC):
My interpretation of this is that suppying armies from afar was considered possible but unreliable and inefficient, and thus one would rely on foraging as much as possible.
Foraging is only part of the solution. Once you start pillaging the locals, supplies will dry up fast. Also, pillaging takes a lot of time and makes your men vulnerable. It's not really a viable option if you have an enemy army within striking range.
The truth is that foreign campaigns are always financed by money. Commanders would have a big chest full of money and this would be used to cover expenses. Things are no different now. The US army always tries to source supplies locally and pay for them. We only ship things from the USA when there is no local option.
In many armies soldiers were expected to feed themselves from out of their pay. So, the general would pay the soldiers, then the soldier would buy his food locally. For example, here is an extract from a British army manual published in 1816:


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I'm usually a purist when it comes to vimming. I don't like remapping keys, or learning to rely on a bunch of plugins. I like to feel just as powerful on foreign boxen as I do on my own dev box. I do, however, believe in syntax files. Even though the solution may not be a syntax file (bindzone.vim is what I use), I want it bad enough to do whatever.
I regularly view or edit tab (or comma, but that would be a bonus) delimited data. I hate having to set my tabstop to some ridiculous number in order to have everything line up. Example: The BIND zone files are ~40+,6,2,5,15+. So, even though I could view them on a single screen, if I set ts=40, I cannot. I have been searching for a "dynamic tab size" solution for years, but no luck.
I hate that my only good way of editing or even visualizing tabular data is to scp it to my work station and open it in Open Office. There has to be a better way.


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suppose we have $k$ points placed uniformly at random in the unit cube in $\mathbb{R}^n$. what is the probability that their convex hull has all of the $k$ points as extreme points?
[if it would be easier, "unit cube'' can be replaced by "unit ball".]
this question was posed on yahoo.answers [of all places] a while ago. it seemed a bit out of place there. hopefully this site is a better match.


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I just successfully unlocked an old AT&T iPhone 4 and 4S using AT&T's unlock process. They are not jailbroken. As I've gone online to sell the phones, the selling phrase is "Factory Unlocked." Is there any difference between factory unlocked and my successful "carrier unlock"? If so, what are the differences?
Good question.
Yes, there is a bit of a difference, though I largely agree with bmike. I guess I should add that while there might not be a difference in the outward functionality of the phone, there are differences between the phones provided by carriers, the procedure used to unlock those, and the unlocked iPhone sold by Apple.
This past July, I went through the same unlock procedure that you did when my wife's parents gave her an iPhone 4S that was sent to them by AT&T via an insurance policy that replaced a phone they believed was lost. Anyway, their phone was located right after the new one came in the mail, so they gave it to her. The problem was that we are on Verizon, so we couldn't use the phone. I wrongly believed it was the "world" iPhone that Apple sold, so I went through the process of getting AT&T to unlock it. Unfortunately for me, I didn't pay close enough attention to the rear of the packaging, which clearly indicated that this was a GSM-only phone. Undaunted, I called the nearest Apple Store to arrange an exchange for a CDMA phone - a simple enough thing, right? After all, it was still in the shrink wrap. I spoke with the store manager, gave her the serial number of the phone, and was shortly informed that this was not a phone stocked by Apple stores. The kind of phone I had was marked to be sold only by AT&T, either out of their retail establishments or shipping centers. I called AppleCare, and they informed me of the same thing. As it turned out, no one would even accept a brand-new, still-in-the-shrink-wrap, Apple iPhone 4S. Apple could not take it's own, brand new product in return for an essentially identical device. Only AT&T could accept it as a return, and they obviously didn't have any CDMA capable phones to send in exchange. Ultimately we sent the phone back to my in-laws, and ended up purchasing our iPhone 4S devices directly through Verizon.
To add to all this as sort of a general FYI, the unlocked iPhone sold by Apple is not the same thing as the "world" model, either. From Apple's Web Site regarding the unlocked iPhone:
And here is the info for the "world" iPhone from the "tech specs" page:
The reason for posting all of this is both as a response to your question and as a general information filter for prospective buyers.
No. Both mean that the carriers have agreed that this device will be registered into a database that Apple uses to unlock the device when it gets restored and powered on the first time (and the first time after major software upgrades).
I suppose some people say Factory unlocked when it is sold with a carrier unlock and the latter can be accomplished at any time if it is originally sold to a consumer as carrier-locked.
Someone buying wouldn't care either way since the devices work the same and would both still be unlocked if you took either to Apple for an exchange service if it needed a repair.
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