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Using your Xbox controller, navigate to the My Xbox menu and select Console Settings. Use your controller to navigate down the menu and select Network Settings.
On the left side of the controller, you'll see a four-way directional button (known as a D-pad) that lets you maneuver around the screen to select menu items. In the middle, you'll see a single, lit button with a stylized X on it: This is the Guide button, used to turn the console on and off and to open the Guide or system settings.
On the right side, you'll see four buttons (A, B, X, and Y) used to take actions on the screen. Typically there will be a guide onscreen for which button to use for a particular action (for example, A to save, B to go back). If you're in doubt, the A button is usually your first choice to select a menu item that you've highlighted on the screen with D-Pad.


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5 Animals That Look Like Cartoons (Until They Kill You)
We all worry about packs of wolves, errant bears, and rogue sharks, even though this is technically the Internet and we should all be safe in here, so long as we never leave. But you shouldn't ignore or underestimate Mother Nature, no matter how innocent and unassuming her avatar might be. If only because that's exactly what she wants you to do.
#5. A Toad With a Weaponized Mustache
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Toad encounters generally present little cause for panic. With no sharp claws or pointy teeth to speak of, these amphibians normally rank somewhere between "gross-looking mushroom" and "really judgmental squirrel" on the list of potential natural threats. So if we told you there's a type of toad capable of growing its own mustache, your most pressing questions would probably be "OMG where?!" and "How much does it cost to own?" and "Is his name already Mr. Toadbottom, or will I have to file some sort of paperwork?"
And then we mention that his magnificent lip-scarf is made out of face spikes, and a little bit of the joy drains out of the room. Just a little bit, though, because he's still pretty hilarious:
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"Can I interest you in Mr. Toad's Wild Mustache Ride?"
Yep, the Leptobrachium boringii toad from China sports honest-to-goodness gladiator spikes on its upper lip. It seems that, among toads as among gentlemen, fine mustaches and dueling are intrinsically linked. Every breeding season, the males grow 10 to 16 of those "nuptial spines" for mustache-on-mustache combat with one another for the right to do it froggy-style. Here's a video from New Scientist titled "Horny Frogs Fight With Their Mustaches," which sounds like a mistranslated email you'd find in your spam filter, but is in fact an entirely accurate description.
During this time of year, the toads' forearms also enlarge to Popeye-esque proportions to better prepare them for the hostilities to come. Or perhaps just because they're compensating for something ...
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Unlike humans, where strong forearms prepare you for the non-mating to come.
The toads are unusually violent toward one another, and their lip-spikes are "as sharp as pencil lead." So a whopping 90 percent of all combatants incur injuries during the course of the duels. But when mating season is over, the toads lose their 'Stache of Fury and stay behind to care for the unborn kids (possibly even if the eggs are not their own), while the females leave the breeding grounds. We take it all back: A mustache-fighting toad secure enough in its own manliness to be a stay-at-home dad is the kind of male role model we should all be lucky enough to find.
#4. A Cuddly Caterpillar With Hidden Venomous Spines
Caterpillars are among the friendliest insects in nature, if children's books and their own inherent fuzziness are to be believed. But they are not to be believed.
Case in point:
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"I'm not going back. You can't make me go back."
That is the larval form of the Megalopyge opercularis moth, best known as the puss caterpillar because it looks like a total pussy ... cat?
Come on -- if you found one of these in your garden, you'd at least be tempted to pet it gently. Fold a tiny hat for it out of part of a napkin. Maybe see if it'll eat a seed out of your hand. You know -- standard frolicking stuff.
But you must resist the urge to frolic with the puss caterpillar, because it is one of the most venomous caterpillars in the United States. What you can't see underneath that outstanding mane is an array of hollow, venom-filled spines:
This explains so much.
Those spines pack enough of a toxic punch to send anyone who so much as brushes against them screaming to an emergency room. Symptoms are intense burning pain, massive swelling, breathing difficulties, fever, vomiting, and even temporary paralysis. It's rarely fatal to handle a puss caterpillar, but after the third day of living with swollen limbs and a pain so intense that it can knock you unconscious, you'll never trust anything fuzzy again.
And is that a life really worth living?
#3. A Tiny Lizard That Turns into a Wheel of Spikes
Look at that magnificent son of a bitch! Give him wings and he's a dragon ...
... if he wasn't about 3 inches tall.
The Cordylus cataphractus is a small lizard native to South Africa, where just about every other living thing in its immediate vicinity could eat it as a snack so light that it wouldn't even spoil dinner. Or at least that would be the case if the armadillo girdled lizard didn't have a secret weapon: It's a friggin' transformer.
Here it is changing into its alternate mode, a heavily armored reptilian shuriken.
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Dibs on "Reptilian Shuriken" for the prog-electronica band we just decided to form.
Whenever cataphractus feel threatened, they clamp onto their own tails to create a "near-impregnable ball" that protects the underbelly, makes them harder to extricate from between rocks, and presents any attacker with nothing but a mouthful of sharp, scaly spikes. If things get really desperate, their tails are detachable. And if all else fails, they can allegedly deliver a bite strong enough to actually break their own jaws, which is the lizard equivalent of punching a guy so hard, your own arm explodes.
And yes, the armadillo girdled lizard is relatively common in the pet trade, just in case you're one of those people who prefer their pets to double as projectile weapons for home security reasons.
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Construction of the liquefied natural gas complex is expected to begin later this year. The local government of Fujairah, one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE, is also to reclaim land from the sea for the regasification facility, which will be capable of handling the largest LNG tankers.
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DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones) -- EmiratesLNG, a joint venture
building a natural gas import terminal in the United Arab
Emirates, has signed a lease for 260,000 square meters of land
in Fujairah where it plans to build the terminal and a
regasification facility, it said Sunday.
Construction of the liquefied
natural gas complex is expected to begin later this year. The
local government of Fujairah, one of the seven emirates that
make up the UAE, is also to reclaim land from the sea for the
regasification facility, which will be capable of handling the
largest LNG tankers, the company said in an emailed
When finished, the terminal will help the UAE fill rising
domestic energy needs, the company said. It is expected to have
the capacity to import 9 million tpy of LNG "to help fuel the
growing energy demands of the UAE economy," said Ahmed Al
Mazrouei, the CEO of EmiratesLNG.
EmiratesLNG was formed last year to carry out the project. It is a 50-50 venture
between Mubadala Petroleum and the International Petroleum
Investment Company, or IPIC. Mubadala Petroleum is part of
Mubadala Development Co., an Abu Dhabi government-owned
strategic investment vehicle. IPIC is also government-owned and
invests in energy firms around the world.
While the UAE is a major producer and exporter of oil and
gas, it already imports substantial gas supplies from Qatar to
feed growing industrial and consumer electricity demand.
The country is also mindful of energy security and
diversifying import channels given its geographical position in
the Arab Gulf. The Fujairah location fronts the Gulf of Oman,
outside the critical chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz.
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by Tiffany Rider, Staff Writer
An international warehouse management software development company, which works in 30 different industry sectors and helps mega-distributors organize shipments to retailers like Wal-Mart, calls Long Beach home.
Jess Noguera, founder and chief executive officer of Royal 4 Systems, founded the company in 1984. His business is software, consumer technical support, implementation, training and ongoing technical support for large wholesale distributors and manufacturing companies. "Most of our customers have large distribution centers, some up to one million square feet in size," Noguera says.
Royal 4's business is the development of enterprise supply chain software at its international headquarters in the Long Beach Airport Business Center at 5000 E. Spring St. The software is sold nationally in physical and electronic form through a direct sales force and uses sales agents, business partners and resellers globally. Noguera says a significant part of their service is consumer technical support, which is provided globally from its headquarters, other U.S. locations and offices in Mexico.


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A Book That Inspires
Every once in a while, a knitting book will pop into my life and really change things. A few years ago, my mom bought me The Art of Knitting by Françoise Tellier-Loumagne, and this book has become the single most helpful item on my shelf. Whenever I start to feel burned out or uninspired, I open it up and, without fail, I find something new to get excited about.
Rather than a stitch dictionary, this book catalogs knitted textures – it highlights the seemingly endless number of ways a knitter can combine a yarn with a stitch structure to create a new fabric. There are no patterns, and none of the photographs suggest what the final end use of a fabric might be – instead, this book treats knitted textures as achievements all their own.
Feeling inspired by The Art of Knitting once again, I started snapping photos of some of the textures I've recently encountered –
The riot of colors in pompons made from Boboli
Waves of slipped stitches make their way up a panel of stockinette in Vintage Chunky
The cables on Kaide create mountains and valleys in Peruvia Quick
With a such a wide range of fibers, yarns, colors, and stitch patterns at our fingertips, the texture possibilities are endless!
thanks so much for sharing a bit of inspiration!! I haven't seen that book before, I'll keep my eye out for it now, though!July 12, 2011
I haven't seen that book either, but will definitely check it out. Texture is sooooo important to me, and I really like that you've taken such inspiration and run with it. Your photos are great!July 13, 2011
Thanks for this post. I've been wondering about getting this book for ages, but have only seen it online (not in the shops) so haven't been able to flick through and see what it's really like…..think I'll probably add it to my wishlist now.July 14, 2011
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Françoise Tellier-Loumagne's other books on embroidery and felting are also fabulous. I often look at one before I fall asleep, and they have inspired some amazing dreams. All can be ordered through your friendly independent bookstore, and they are worth every penny!July 15, 2011
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Thanks for the tip! I just reserved this at the library and look forward to a treasure trove of texture!August 6, 2011
The Art of Manipulating Fabric is a fantastic resource. I love how simple many of the moves look at first glance and how so many can translate to knitting, but then it's fabric too.
Lately I've been looking at history of costume books, the kind with line drawings and descriptions of costumes through the ages. Drapery and knitting! Now there's a lovely thing.August 19, 2011


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I have a postgres database (version 8.4) with many tables. Some tables are huge in size, but the data is static (common for any instance). I have stored such tables in a separate tablespace. Is there a way to use this existing data. Or can I create another database instance (may be on a separate server) and create empty
bigTable and point to the existing tablespace to populate the data in the existing
Can I use the existing data in a tablespace to be populated in another postgres database instance without actually inserting the data, as reinserting the whole data takes so much time.
I tried updating the
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I have been looking at hyperelliptic curves over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic two, with a view towards finding the basis for the vector space of holomorphic differentials. To do this I have viewed the curves as the function field $k(x,y)$, originally restricting to those defined by $$ y^2 - y = f(x), \ f(x)\in k[x]. $$
After this, I thought that to generalise to all hyperelliptic curves I should allow $f(x)$ to be any rational function. However, looking at the literature it seems like the definition is instead:
A hyperelliptic curve of genus $g$ ($g\geq 1$) is an equation of the form $$ y^2 - h(x) y = f(x),\ f(x),h(x)\in k[x], $$ where the degree of $h(x)$ is at most $g$, and $f(u)$ is a monic polynomial of degree $2g +1$, with no elements of $k\times k$ satisfying the original equation and both of it's partial derivatives.
I don't see what was wrong with my initial intuition, so if anyone could tell me, or explain why the definition given is correct, I would be much obliged.
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Is there such a thing as a monthly fee/rent-based service that gives you a "virtual" address to which you can ship your packages, and pick them up at your convenience? Something that would eliminate the anxiety of receiving important mail and packages, for busy people.
I've searched combinations of keywords like concierge, reception, delivery, service, and packages, but can't seem to find any relevant results. Especially in a large urban area like New York City, you'd think there'd be such a service, maybe one that'd even let you call to schedule a delivery of your packages to your actual address.
Is there a name for such a service that I don't know about? Or, is there an alternative that would work as well? (As I understand, a PO box only accepts mail from a specific carrier, e.g. USPS, rejecting others, e.g. UPS, FedEx, so that wouldn't work.)
TMI, but might preemptively answer follow-up questions, e.g. why I'm asking this on P.SE:
To give more context, my significant other is making her start in a new city, no family or (close) friends, frequently switching apartments and jobs as she gains a footing. I think receiving mail (especially important mail, e.g. regarding job applications) may be a constant source of anxiety for her, adding to her day-to-day distractions and stress. I thought I'd purchase for her a one-year subscription to a service that would take care of all that, letting her focus on her actual goals. But, I can't find one! Meanwhile, I've come across services where people would even do your grocery shopping for you.


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We were playing the Days of Wonder game Pirate's Cove earlier this evening; it's a lot of fun but the rules aren't exactly watertight, and more than once I felt there was considerable ambiguity in how they should be interpreted. Here's one that I remember:
- You play the battle card that gives you a bonus of +6 to your Sails, when your Sails are the weakest aspect of your ship. Does this bonus only extend as far as letting you fire first in combat, i.e. if you get hit on your sails a couple of times are you still out for the count? Or do you have to be hit six extra times to be eliminated? I suspect the answer is the former, but as I've narrowly lost the game at least once because my Sails got speedily knocked down despite receiving the bonus from this card, I'd love to find out that the latter was true!


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I would like to know the best way of implementing automatic login to my web site. What I mean by automatic is this:
I've already signed into Google. I now go to my web site and its login page. Instead of clicking on the link to login with Google I would like the web app to detect that I'm already logged into Google and bypass the whole login page.
1) Would I use the DotNetOpenAuth.OpenId.RelyingParty.OpenIdAjaxRelyingParty.HttpApplicationStore to get associations?
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Krista Van Vleet is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in the study of gender and kinship; religion and transnationalism; narrative, performance, and identity in Latin America, particularly the Andes. She is interested in the intersections of power and inequality in everyday life, the local groundedness of transnational relationships, and the embodied and dialogical production of subjectivities. She has received a PhD (1999, Michigan) and MA (1994, Michigan) in Anthropology, a Graduate Certificate of Women's Studies (1998, Michigan), and a BS (1987, Beloit) in Biochemistry. She is currently Director of the Latin American Studies Program.
Since 1995 my ethnographic research has focused on the ways that native Andeans produce and negotiate "relatedness" in their interactions with each other. My first book Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in The Andes (2008, University of Texas Press) explores the talk and actions through which kinship and gender are produced and negotiated in the rural higlands of Bolivia. The book intertwines personal narratives, gossip, folk stories, and interviews with detailed observations and descriptions of people's actions and and interactions in Bolivia at the end of the 20th century. The book explores topics such as ideologies of family and practices of adoption and fostering, violence between women and their in-laws (both men and women), changing marriage practices, gender and ethnic identities among adolescents, and the impacts of migration to urban centers on rural communities. The book has been reviewed in several journals including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Current Anthropology, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, and Signs.
My more recent analyses of informal and clandestine adoption in Bolivian urban spaces and the production of masculinity and ethnicity in stories of fighting ritual battles have extended this research. Reflecting on the dissolution as well as the creation of social bonds has resulted in an analysis of the narratives told by Catholics about the devil possession of recent converts to evangelical Protestants.
My current research draws upon my long-standing interests in narrative, performativity, and power in new ways by tracing the articulations of gender and family in religious discourse in Cusco, Peru and Sucre, Bolivia. Drawing on photographic/visual methodologies and narrative analyses the project aims to complicate understandings of "Andean" religion by exploring the embodied performances of gender, race, and sexuality in a context of transnational movements of people, images, ideas, and commodities. My ethnographic research is situated in multiple arenas including a home for teenaged mothers and their children and a family-run evangelical Protestant church. Rural to urban migrants, long-time urban residents, foreign tourists and volunteers, local and foreign missionaries, state officials and policy makers circulate within (and sometimes between) these spaces, requiring a rethinking of family and gender in the Andes.
My teaching has covered a diverse range of topics and my courses have been cross-listed in Gender and Women's Studies, Latin American Studies, and Gay and Lesbian Studies.
Courses required for majors include:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Anthropological Research
Contemporary Issues in Anthropology (Senior Seminar)
Topical courses include:
Tasting Hierarchies: Food in Latin America (First Year seminar)
Global Sexualities/Local Desires
Transnational Cosmologies: Religion in the Andes
Gender and Family in Latin America
Culture and Power in the Andes
Language, Identity and Power
Discourses of Emotion
2011. Making Families through Adoption. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Co-author, Nancy E. Riley)
(2008) Performing Kinship Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes. Austin: University of Texas Press.
(Under review) "Catholic Ambivalence, Religious Conversion, and the Reconfiguration of Sociality in Andean Devil Stories." Anthropological Quarterly Special Issue on "The Ethics of Dissolution" (Ilana Gershon and Alice Alexy, eds.)
2010. "Narrating Violence and Negotiating Belonging: The Politics of (Self-) Representation in an Andean Tinkuy Story." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 15(1):195-221.
2010. "Afterword: Cross-Cultural Implications of Japanese Heritage Language Policies and Practices." Critical Asian Studies 42(2):246-255.
2009. "We had already come to love her": Raising Children at the Margins of the Bolivian State." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (Special Issue on Adoption in Latin America) 14(1):1-23.
2003 "Adolescent Ambiguities and the Negotiation of Belonging in the Andes" Ethnology 42(4):349-63.
2003 "Partial Theories: Gossip, Envy, and Ethnography in the Andes" Ethnography 4(4):1-29.
2002 "The Intimacies of Power: Rethinking Violence and Kinship in the Andes," American Ethnologist 29(3): 567-601.
2002 "Repensando la violencia y el parentesco en los Andes d Bolivia." T'inkazos 5(12):11-39. La Paz, Bolivia: PIEB.
1998 "The Dialogics of Southern Quechua Narrative" Co-authored with Bruce Mannheim. American Anthropologist 100(2): 326-346.
Fletcher Family Fellowship, Bowdoin College, 2009-2011"Religious Orphanages and Transnational Understandings of Family in Cusco, Peru."
Faculty Leave Supplement, Bowdoin College, 2009-2010. "Fostering Care and Conversion: Andean Conceptions of Family, Adoption, and Christianity in Bolivia and Peru."
"Systematic Techniques for Digital Video Data Collection and Analysis," Short Course on Research Methods in Anthropology, National Science Foundation, July 27-31, 2009. Duke University Marine Laboratory, North Carolina.
Course Development Award, Bowdoin College, 2006. "Religion in the Andes: From the PreColumbian Period until the Present."
Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2003. "Performing Kinship: Narratives of Intimacy, Embodiments of Power in the Bolivian Andes."
Thomas Criscenti Prize for Best Article, 2003, New England Council of Latin American Studies. Awarded for"The Intimacies of Power: Rethinking Violence and Kinship in the Andes" (American Ethnologist, 2002).
Kenan Fellowship, Bowdoin College, 2002-2005. "Transnational Cosmologies: Narrating Identity and Power among Migrants and Missionaries in the Bolivian Andes."


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9 Animals That Are Just Lazy Combinations of Other Animals
Remember the first time you saw a platypus as a kid and for a moment refused to believe that nature would really create an animal that looks like a duck had sex with a beaver? Well guess what, the world is actually full of bizarre mashup creatures like that, some of them hilarious and some of them terrifying, all of them looking like the result of a very drunken night of interspecies animal sex.
#9. Deer + Mouse = Chevrotain
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This picture is almost like some sort of visual illusion: Cover the lower half of the photo with your hand and it looks like a perfectly normal squirrel-size rodent, but focus on its hoofed legs instead and it's hard not to imagine it being the size of a deer.
The truth is somewhere in between: The chevrotain, or mouse deer, is the world's smallest hoofed mammal. If they wanted to recreate the plot of Bambi with these things, the hunter could save himself a few bullets by just stepping on Bambi's mom.
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Hunting season probably doesn't concern you too much when a stiff breeze can shatter your legs.
One might suspect that a creature that's the size of a rabbit and looks like a mashup of the two most timid animals on earth would be a pushover. Well, it just so happens that chevrotain males come equipped with, for no immediately apparent reason other than wild incongruity, a set of elongated, saber-like canine teeth. The males actually use these outsized fangs to fight with one another over territory and mouse deer ladies.
University of Aberdeen
"You know what this could use? More cobra." -Mother Nature, apparently.
#8. Prairie Dog + Armadillo = Pichiciego
Shit, we had no idea that animals did cosplay, too. Because this is clearly just a prairie dog that found the carcass of an armadillo and decided to try on the carapace and the claws, right?
Nope, but the real explanation is almost as silly: This is a pichiciego, or pink fairy armadillo, from Argentina. This nocturnal animal (would you come out during the day if your mother named you that?) is the smallest of all armadillos, and it's currently endangered due to human destruction of its habitat, domestic dogs and possibly homophobia. Pichiciegos tend to be pretty sluggish when they're wobbling around aboveground, but as you may have guessed from the size of those backhoes they call front feet, it's below ground where they really shine.
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Although those nails make us think that they'd fit in well at the DMV.
Those gigantic claws, combined with the peculiar formation of its carapace, allow it to completely bury itself in seconds when it feels threatened. Pichiciegos use this ability to maneuver themselves next to ant colonies, where they can attack the ants (their primary food source) from an unexpected direction. Wait, it has armor plating on its back and it hunts ants?
National Education Network
"Keep in mind, I'm extremely lazy."
#7. Pig + Squid = Piglet Squid
Jones, D.O.B., Gates, A.R., Curry, R.A., Thomson, M., Pile, A., Benfield, M. (Eds) (2009). SERPENT project.
Depending on the orientation of this picture when you look at it, this seems like either some cartoony pig without legs or a tiny squid with an inverted snout growing on its forehead. Either way, the creators of Pokemon have clearly run out of ideas by now.
The truth, of course, is that it's a type of squid, just a really freaking weird one. The piglet squid, as it's commonly known, is rarely photographed, since it prefers to lurk far below the surface, and as a result little is known of its behavior, other than its penchant for looking huggable. For reasons inexplicable to all but a sarcastic god, its tentacles approximate a child's curly head of hair, and its skin patterns resemble an innocent smiling face, best seen on its semi-transparent younger form:
Seathos Foundation
Like if Casper the Friendly Ghost had an awkward adolescence.
Also, those large anime-inspired eyes actually twinkle, since they possess light-emitting organs called photophores. Its cute appearance is nothing but an unfortunate cosmic coincidence, because these things actually swim upside down: That photo up there may look like a smiley face to you, but turn it around and suddenly it's Cthulhu as a baby.
Caters, The Telegraph
So this is what happened when you flushed away those Sea Monkeys.
#6. Monkey + Bat = Colugo
Holy shit, that Wizard of Oz reboot looks terrifying. This looks like a vampire monkey in mid-transformation, but it can't possibly be a real thing, can it? Maybe it's some sort of kite made out of monkey flesh, or an ape in a trench coat flashing us in free fall. Because otherwise, if this is a thing that exists and there's the remotest possibility of it ever swooping down on us, then we're never setting foot in a forest ever again.
Unfortunately for our peace of mind, it's real. It's called the colugo, also known as the flying lemur of Southeast Asia, which is an inaccurate name because its closest relative isn't the lemur, or even the bat -- it's YOU. That's right -- it has recently been established that flying lemurs are our closest non-primate relatives.
National University of Singapore, via MSNBC
"Let's hug, cousin."
While colugos are very agile gliders, they're really too heavy to fly efficiently. Flying can take up nearly twice as much energy as simply running and jumping from tree to tree, especially since they can glide 230 feet at a time anyway. Scientists suspect that they glide simply to save time, and to creep us out.
Norman Lin, National University of Singapore
Gotta admit, this would make a pretty badass bathroom rug.
#5. Goat + Elephant = Saiga
Navinder Singh, via Planet Green
Quick, somebody hustle this thing out of the cantina before Boba Fett shows up. Seriously, that's some sci-fi shit right there. Whichever concept artist came up with this elephant/goat fusion probably got paid in illegal mushrooms.
But no, this is a real animal known as a saiga that lives in the Mongolian and Russian steppes. Its pink-ribbed, waxy horns have been used in Chinese medicine for centuries, but not in the way the word "horn" suggests. A trunk similar to an elephant's takes in grass and leaves, and highlights another weird thing about it: The saiga can eat plants that are poisonous to other animals.
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But oddly enough, it's allergic to crucifixes.
Believe it or not, this thing used to be pretty common. Hundreds of years ago, saiga herds covered most of Europe and North America, but with a short lifespan of only six to 10 years, the herds thinned and were quickly headed the way of the buffalo/dodo hybrid, the buffalodo. For a while, the USSR made it illegal to hunt the saiga and their numbers surged ... but then the Soviet Union collapsed and they became endangered again. Perhaps its stalky bug eyes are due to their flabbergastedness at their hard-luck, see-sawing existence.
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Noether's theorem relates symmetries to conserved quantities. For a central potential $V \propto \frac{1}{r}$, the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector is conserved. What is the symmetry associated with the conservation of this vector?
1) Problem. The Kepler problem has Hamiltonian
$$ H~:=~ \frac{p^2}{2m}- \frac{k}{q}, $$
where $m$ is the 2-body reduced mass. The Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector is (up to an irrelevant normalization)
$$ A^j ~:=~a^j + km\frac{q^j}{q}, \qquad a^j~:=~({\bf L} \times {\bf p})^j~=~{\bf q}\cdot{\bf p}~p^j- p^2~q^j,\qquad {\bf L}~:=~ {\bf q} \times {\bf p}.$$
2) Action. The Hamiltonian Lagrangian is
$$ L_H~:=~ \dot{\bf q}\cdot{\bf p} - H, $$
and the action is
$$ S[{\bf q},{\bf p}]~=~ \int {\rm d}t~L_H .$$
The non-zero fundamental canonical Poisson brackets are
$$ \{ q^i , p^j\}~=~ \delta^{ij}. $$
3) Inverse Noether's Theorem. Quite generally in the Hamiltonian formulation, given a constant of motion $Q$, then the infinitesimal variation
$$\delta~=~ \varepsilon \{Q,\cdot\}$$
is a global off-shell symmetry of the action $S$ (modulo boundary terms). Here $\varepsilon$ is an infinitesimal global parameter, and $X_Q=\{Q,\cdot\}$ is a Hamiltonian vector field with Hamiltonian generator $Q$. The full Noether current is (minus) $Q$, see e.g. my answer to this question. (The words on-shell and off-shell refer to whether the equations of motion are satisfied or not.)
4) Variation. Let us check that the three Laplace–Runge–Lenz components $A^j$ are Hamiltonian generators of three continuous global off-shell symmetries of the action $S$. In detail, the infinitesimal variations $\delta= \varepsilon_j \{A^j,\cdot\}$ read
$$ \delta q^i ~=~ \varepsilon_j \{A^j,q^i\} , \qquad \{A^j,q^i\} ~ =~ 2 p^i q^j - q^i p^j - {\bf q}\cdot{\bf p}~\delta^{ij}, $$ $$ \delta p^i ~=~ \varepsilon_j \{A^j,p^i\} , \qquad \{A^j,p^i\}~ =~ p^i p^j - p^2~\delta^{ij} +km\left(\frac{\delta^{ij}}{q}- \frac{q^i q^j}{q^3}\right), $$ $$ \delta t ~=~0,$$
where $\varepsilon_j$ are three infinitesimal parameters.
5) Notice for later that
$$ {\bf q}\cdot\delta {\bf q}~=~\varepsilon_j({\bf q}\cdot{\bf p}~q^j - q^2~p^j), $$
$$ {\bf p}\cdot\delta {\bf p} ~=~\varepsilon_j km(\frac{p^j}{q}-\frac{{\bf q}\cdot{\bf p}~q^j}{q^3})~=~- \frac{km}{q^3}{\bf q}\cdot\delta {\bf q}, $$
$$ {\bf q}\cdot\delta {\bf p}~=~\varepsilon_j({\bf q}\cdot{\bf p}~p^j - p^2~q^j )~=~\varepsilon_j a^j, $$
$$ {\bf p}\cdot\delta {\bf q}~=~2\varepsilon_j( p^2~q^j - {\bf q}\cdot{\bf p}~p^j)~=~-2\varepsilon_j a^j~. $$
6) The Hamiltonian is invariant
$$ \delta H ~=~ \frac{1}{m}{\bf p}\cdot\delta {\bf p} + \frac{k}{q^3}{\bf q}\cdot\delta {\bf q}~=~0, $$
showing that the Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector $A^j$ is classically a constant of motion
$$\frac{dA^j}{dt} ~\approx~ \{ A^j, H\}+\frac{\partial A^j}{\partial t} ~=~ 0.$$
(We will use the $\approx$ sign to stress that an equation is an on-shell equation.)
7) The variation of the Hamiltonian Lagrangian $L_H$ is a total time derivative
$$ \delta L_H~=~ \delta (\dot{\bf q}\cdot{\bf p})~=~ \dot{\bf q}\cdot\delta {\bf p} - \dot{\bf p}\cdot\delta {\bf q} + \frac{d({\bf p}\cdot\delta {\bf q})}{dt} $$ $$ =~ \varepsilon_j\left( \dot{\bf q}\cdot{\bf p}~p^j - p^2~\dot{q}^j + km\left( \frac{\dot{q}^j}{q} - \frac{{\bf q} \cdot \dot{\bf q}~q^j}{q^3}\right)\right) $$ $$- \varepsilon_j\left(2 \dot{\bf p}\cdot{\bf p}~q^j - \dot{\bf p}\cdot{\bf q}~p^j- {\bf p}\cdot{\bf q}~\dot{p}^j \right) - 2\varepsilon_j\frac{da^j}{dt}$$ $$ =~\varepsilon_j\frac{df^j}{dt}, \qquad f^j ~:=~ A^j-2a^j, $$
and hence the action $S$ is invariant off-shell up to boundary terms.
8) Noether current. The bare Noether current $j^k$ is
$$j^k~:=~ \frac{\partial L_H}{\partial \dot{q}^i} \{A^k,q^i\}+\frac{\partial L_H}{\partial \dot{p}^i} \{A^k,p^i\} ~=~ p^i\{A^k,q^i\}~=~ -2a^k. $$
The full Noether current $J^k$ (which takes the total time-derivative into account) becomes (minus) the Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
$$ J^k~:=~j^k-f^k~=~ -2a^k-(A^k-2a^k)~=~ -A^k.$$
$J^k$ is conserved on-shell
$$\frac{dJ^k}{dt} ~\approx~ 0,$$
due to Noether's first Theorem. Here $k$ is an index that labels the three symmetries.
While Kepler second law is simply a statement of the conservation of angular momentum (and as such it holds for all systems described by central forces), the first and the third laws are special and are linked with the unique form of the newtonian potential $-k/r$. In particular, Bertrand theorem assures that only the newtonian potential and the harmonic potential $kr^2$ give rise to closed orbits (no precession). It is natural to think that this must be due to some kind of symmetry of the problem. In fact, the particular symmetry of the newtonian potential is described exactly by the conservation of the RL vector (it can be shown that the RL vector is conserved iff the potential is central and newtonian). This, in turn, is due to a more general symmetry: if conservation of angular momentum is linked to the group of special orthogonal transformations in 3-dimensional space $SO(3)$, conservation of the RL vector must be linked to a 6-dimensional group of symmetries, since in this case there are apparently six conserved quantities (3 components of $L$ and 3 components of $\mathcal A$). In the case of bound orbits, this group is $SO(4)$, the group of rotations in 4-dimensional space.
Just to fix the notation, the RL vector is:
\begin{equation} \mathcal{A}=\textbf{p}\times\textbf{L}-\frac{km}{r}\textbf{x} \end{equation}
Calculate its total derivative:
\begin{equation}\frac{d\mathcal{A}}{dt}=-\nabla U\times(\textbf{x}\times\textbf{p})+\textbf{p}\times\frac{d\textbf{L}}{dt}-\frac{k\textbf{p}}{r}+\frac{km(\textbf{p}\cdot \textbf{x})}{r^3}\textbf{x} \end{equation}
Make use of Levi-Civita symbol to develop the cross terms:
\begin{equation}\epsilon_{sjk}\epsilon_{sil}=\delta_{ji}\delta_{kl}-\delta_{jl}\delta_{ki} \end{equation}
\begin{equation} \frac{d\mathcal{A}}{dt}=\left(\textbf{x}\cdot\nabla U-\frac{k}{r}\right)\textbf{p}+\left[(\textbf{p}\cdot\textbf{x})\frac{k}{r^3}-2\textbf{p}\cdot\nabla U\right]\textbf{x}+(\textbf{p}\cdot\textbf{x})\nabla U \end{equation}
Now, if the potential $U=U(r)$ is central:
\begin{equation} (\nabla U)_j=\frac{\partial U}{\partial x_j}=\frac{dU}{dr}\frac{\partial r}{\partial x_j}=\frac{dU}{dr}\frac{x_j}{r} \end{equation}
\begin{equation} \nabla U=\frac{dU}{dr}\frac{\textbf{x}}{r}\end{equation}
Substituting back:
\begin{equation}\frac{d\mathcal A}{dt}=\frac{1}{r}\left(\frac{dU}{dr}-\frac{k}{r^2}\right)[r^2\textbf{p}-(\textbf{x}\cdot\textbf{p})\textbf{x}]\end{equation}
Now, you see that if $U$ has exactly the newtonian form then the first parenthesis is zero and so the RL vector is conserved.
Maybe there's some slicker way to see it (Poisson brackets?), but this works anyway.
The symmetry is an example of an open symmetry, i.e. a symmetry group which varies from group action orbit to orbit. For bound trajectories, it's SO(4). For parabolic ones, it's SE(3). For hyperbolic ones, it's SO(3,1). Such cases are better handled by groupoids.
Conservation of the Runge-Lenz vector does not correspond to a symmetry of the Lagrangian itself. It arises from an invariance of the integral of the Lagrangian with respect to time, the classical action integral. Some time ago I wrote up a derivation of the conserved vector for any spherically symmetric potential:
http://analyticphysics.com/Runge Vector/The Symmetry Corresponding to the Runge Vector.htm
The derivation is at the level of Goldstein and is meant to fill in the gap left by its omission from graduate-level classical mechanics texts.
(This post may be old, but we can add some precisions) The conservation of the RL vector is not trifling, it goes with the fact that you consider a central force, lead here by a Newtonian potential $\frac{1}{r}$ which has the property to be invariant under rotations (as $\frac{1}{r^n}$ but it works only for $n=1$ as shown by @quark1245).
Therefore, the S0(3) which has not 6 conserved quantities as said before but 3, the 3 generators of the symmetry $J_i$, i=1..3 such that the symmetry transformation under an infinitesimal change $x \rightarrow x + \epsilon$ is given in the canonical formalism by $$ \delta_i X = \{X, J_i(\epsilon) \} $$ and the algebra is $$ \{ J_i, J_j \} = \epsilon_{ij}^k J_k. $$ They are conserved because, at least for the Kepler problem, the system is invariant w.r.t a time translation, and the Hamiltonian is also conserved, and the calculations show that $$ \{H,J_i\}= 0. $$
Before their redefinition as shown on Wikipedia to see that the previous algebra is fulfilled, the generators of the rotations are : one is the angular momentum $L$ which shows that the movement is planar, therefore invariant under rotation around $L$, one is the RL vector which is in the plan, therefore perpendicular to $L$ and parallel to the major axis of the ellipse, and the third one has a name I don't remember, but is parallel to the minor axis.
We can see that their are only 3 degrees of freedom if we take place in the referential such that $\vec{J}_1 = \vec{L} = (0,0,L_z)$, then the planar generators are $A = (A_x,0,0)$ and $B = (0,B_y,0)$.
It has been shown that they can be constructed from the Killing-Yano tensors (which mean symmetry), and it works also at dimensions greater than 3. A nice review about the LRL vector derivation can be found in HeckmanVanHaalten


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Cast Iron Cylinder Head Repair - Cold Stitch Crack RepairWritten by on January 26, 2012 Save That Rare Iron
There are plenty of instances where perfectly good—and often rare—cast iron cylinder head and engine block castings are scrapped due to the presence of a hairline crack in an external surface. Often these fractures result after a freeze. Remember, water volume expands 10 percent when frozen—the jacking force can snap even a sturdy Hemi block in the blink of an eye.
In our case, we've got a healthy 440-based Max Wedge engine that runs just fine but has developed a nasty stain running down the driver side of the block. We located the leaking area—just below the exhaust port, and decided it could be fixed. To set it straight we took it to Donald Wood and the guys at RAD Auto Machine. Repairing a block using this technique takes a while, and depending on your shop, the cost might vary substantially.
Watch as we repair the crack without welding using a technique known as cold stitching. This technique is intended for low-stress surface cracks—not high load areas like main bearing webs or moving parts like connecting rods. The best use of this repair technique is to seal leaks in low pressure (100 psi or less) wet circuits—like an automotive cooling system. Let's get started.
It might be different for you, depending on the shop and the crack.
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1. Looks like a blown head gasket, right? But since the engine runs fine and the spark plugs are dry (no coolant) we pressurized the cooling system. Sure enough, water seeped from this two-inch crack. Since we've got time invested porting this head, scrappage isn't an option.2. Instead of scrapping the head, we'll repair it with a process called cold stitching, where tapered plugs fill in the crack. Unlike welding, no heat is used so the threats of warped metal and burned skin are avoided. Readily available in many sizes from Pioneer, we chose 3⁄16-root-diameter plugs (PN TP-235) and a matched threading bit (PN 530235).3. After Magnafluxing highlights the length of the crack, use a pointed punch to make marks along the crack. Then drill through the iron with a 3⁄16-inch bit. Make sure you've found the absolute end of the crack since the rounded terminus left by the drill bit stops further growth of the crack. The only cracks cold stitching cannot repair are those with limited access. That's why it is mostly used on surface cracks.4. Next, the threading bit cuts threads into the hole to match the threads of the tapered plug. The best technique is to turn the bit clockwise a half turn to cut the threads into the hole, then back off a quarter turn to eject trapped chips. Cutting oil helps prevent burrs and extends tap life.5. Before installation, each tapered plug must have its threads coated with sealant such as Teflon based Seal-All.6. Turn the tapered plug into the tapped hole until you encounter moderate resistance. This comparison of an installed plug and a raw plug shows that—in our case—about 1⁄3 of the total plug length is inside the head, the rest is remnant to be removed.7. A cut-off wheel is used to remove the remaining plug and allow access for installing the next plug. Don't listen to folks who say it's ok to whack the plug with a hammer to snap off the remnant. It might have been safe with the larger plugs used in old time steam locomotive repair shops, but for smaller plugs, lavish a few extra minutes and cut them off gently.8. The finger points to the desired clean cut. Note that the plug should stand slightly taller than the surface of the head. This makes the next step easier.
10. Again we use the 3⁄16-inch drill bit to penetrate the head. Make sure the drill passes directly through the centerline of the crack and drill straight to avoid unwanted angles of the plug material.11. Screw the threading bit into the drilled hole. Use the same half turn in/quarter turn out technique for every plug.12. Next, the tapered insert threads into the hole with Seal-All sealant applied. As you can see, the two plugs are pressing against each other (almost over-lapping), to insure the crack is sealed.13. As we previously mentioned, after trimming the remnant, note how the diameter of the second tapered plug overlaps into about 25 percent of the first one. This detail is critical for a successful outcome. If the plugs were set next to each other (with no overlap) remnants of the crack would still exist between each plug and allow continued coolant leaks.14. We repeated the plug installation process a total of twenty times to completely eradicate the crack. Again, note how each plug intersects its neighbor. We can't express enough that this detail is crucial to a successful job.15. The stubs left after trimming are removed by grinding. Use straight and tapered burrs to match the repair to the head's contours.16. Once the area is ground flush, the surface is compacted with a pneumatic peening gun. This compacts the metal, further sealing potential leak paths. At this point, it is smart to re-inspect the repair with Magnaflux.17. An abrasive disc restores the as-cast surface and refreshes the exhaust gasket mating face.18. Here's the finished job—prior to painting. Look closely and you'll see that our repair stands a bit taller than the adjacent metal. That's because the area is now thicker—and stronger. Some extra time spent grinding could deliver concours results, but we're in no rush to make this area of our 452 head casting any thinner than it already is.


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Woman rescued after bad weather on Appalachian Trail
Published: Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 8, 2013 at 2:44 p.m.
ERWIN, Tenn. (AP) — A woman hiking alone on the Appalachian Trail in Tennessee ran into trouble as rain fell and temperatures dropped.
The Johnson City Press (http://bit.ly/VL7tmA ) reported rescuers on all-terrain vehicles found 59-year-old Ardenia Gaines of Virginia Beach, Va., on Wednesday and brought her safely out of the Unaka (yew-NAY'-kah) Mountains.
Unicoi County Sheriff's Lt. Jimmy Erwin said Gaines was trying to reach the Cherry Gap shelter before dark on Tuesday, but was slowed by freezing weather.
"It just got dark on her and she couldn't make it," Erwin said.
She covered up with a sleeping bag but awakened Wednesday unable to walk because of numbness. Erwin said Gaines called her family, who called the sheriff's office.
"When she started to get her stuff, she was unable to move," Erwin said. "She was froze stiff, numb from the weather, the cold and the drop in the temperature, and where some of her clothing got wet yesterday."
It took more than three hours to reach Gaines and get her into dry clothing and then five hours more to get her off the mountain.
The sheriff's office put her up in a motel until her family could arrive to take her home.
Erwin said Gaines remained in good spirits and was not seriously harmed.
"She's full of energy, and she's stronger than half the guys I know," he said. "She's a very strong person."
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Ruger SR-556
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I just brought mine home today SJ. Its CA Compliant.
Probably not California compliant.http://www.ruger.com/SR556/
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Yep, throw a BB on it and your good to go
I just brought mine home today SJ. Its CA Compliant.
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It came with one. Purchased here in CA. Approved through DOJ as a long gun.
Yep, throw a BB on it and your good to go
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I meant if you didn't have a bullet button.
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Nice gun, glad to see they are coming into CA. I wouldn't mind a Ruger upper for one of my reg'd AW lowers.Do please tell me, does this have an M4 step barrel? More importantly, does the barrel get thinner under handguards a la USGI profile, or is it fairly straight taper a la the Colt 6921HB or the CMMG MedCon barrels?I wish it had a 1/7" twist bbl for the heavies (75gr TAP, 77gr SMK/OTM) however.I am not a huge fan of piston-driven ARs given overall general goodness of a quality AR platform, but it'd be fun to have one just the same.I've been leery of other brands because of either "garage R&D" (various conversions using screw down impactor replacing the gas key on bolt carrier) or because the companies are small, not necessarily likely to stay in biz over the long run, etc. - with unique parts that vary from implementation to implementation. At least we know Ruger (1) generally makes competent stuff [even thoguh I abhor the Mini14];' (2) replacement parts generally are around for a long time and are not that costly; (3) big enough company that there may even be Ruger-specific aftermarket parts - or other companies will build piston ARs compatible w/Ruger parts.Bill WieseSan Jose
Hey Dan one sweet looking rifle. Congrats and enjoy. Oh don't beat yourself about 10 round mags just clip two tens together, not illegal to do that.
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Thanks Dan, I may go try and find an SR556 upper for my reg'd AW - just to play with.Bill
I like the piston driven system for ease of clean up, I dont fire anywhwere near enough rounds to justify it any other way. I have never owned one of these before and I have found it to be a very user friendly weapon and fun to shoot. It is more accurate then I expected, probably because my only comparison is my Mini 14 and M1 Carbine. Those two guns are very inconsistant and I was ready for a similar experiance, quite the contrary.
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Hmmm...... Just this morning my wife and I had that "how many guns do you have now?" discussion, which naturally flows into the "why would you need anymore?" discussion. Oh well, If I start right after Christmas, I can start working on her for next year....This year she "let" me buy two air rifles (PCP and springer) and a 10-22 (that I subsequently pimped out to the max!)Maybe next year - that is a sweet looking rifle. Maybe I could tell her I'll sell my Keltec SU-16.Didn't mean to hi-jack the thread - Its not my fault - I'm just sitting hear drinking too much coffee!!
...I am slowly breaking my wife down in hopes that I get something like this one day
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Around my house I just lay down the law. I say (in a bold voice), "If I want to purchase another firearm, I will and i don't need no woman's approval!" Of course, when i say this my wife is usually at the grocery store. <g> You'd be surprised how many firearms you can win with a raffle ticket...my missus certainly is!
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Is there some kind of equivalency table or formula that expresses what kind of pixels you need in a digital camera to have roughly the same quality as a particular ISO graded film? What other variables would influence this (focal-length, exposure time, etc)?
I remember seeing a figure of 22MP was "as good" as 35mm resolution (of course, with film it isn't just the ISO, but the manufacturer and age of the film, skill of developer etc.)
Higher ISO film tended to have more grain; and higher ISO digital shots exhibit more noise - a similar cause, but the visual appearance is different.
Digital ISO noise is related to the size of each pixel, as the noise is per-pixel (so the more pixels you have, the less obvious noise is when viewed the same size). One analogy I've used in the past to demonstrate this is to ask several people to time with a stopwatch how long it takes a car to drive around a car park, and then to time how long a person takes to do the same journey - because the person is slower, the margin of error is a smaller in proportion to the overall figure, even though different people will give timings to within a few seconds of each other.
I think Film vs Digital article by Roger N. Clark answers exactly this question. Let me quote the chart from its summary:
The main point is that digital sensors have fixed resolutions and variable sensitivity, while films have fixed sensitivity and varied resolution. Overall, at high ISO (> 400) most of the modern sensors provide higher resolution, and to match Velvia 50 you need at least 16 Megapixel.
No. Because different films with the same ISO can have different quality aspects, and digital cameras with the same megapixel count can have different quality aspects. There are also many potential variables in processing/development and printing for both film and digital that will effect image quality.
You can discuss very specific examples. For instance how do these compare: a 12"x18" silver gelatin print from a Pentax Spotmatic w/ Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4 loaded with 35mm Kodak TX-400 rated at ISO 1250 and developed in Diafine, 2 bath, compensating developer and printed with a contrast filter grade of 3.5 using a condenser enlarger compare to a 12"x18" ink jet print from a file taken with a Canon 5D w/ EOS L 24-70 f/2.8 shooting raw at ISO 1600, and processed in Adobe Camera Raw with {specific processing settings} and printed using an Epson printer {specific model, specific inks, specific paper, printer software, etc...}.
In my opinion the finished image quality is going to have a lot more to do with the photographer's experience and skill with the tools, materials, and process they choose. When I got my first 8mp APS-C DSLR I couldn't match the image quality I was used to getting from the BW 35mm film I was developing in my darkroom. Several years of raw processing and digital printing practice later there was little doubt I was surpassing the quality level I was used to getting from 35mm film with the same 8mp camera. Now when looking at large prints from my Hasselblad 500c/m hanging next to large prints from my 5DII I think it's easily seen by most that I'm surpassing the technical quality I was getting from medium format film. Yet there are obviously folks who are not reaching this level of quality with the same DSLR and processing software.
Film when scanned and viewed through the 'filter' of digital media (meaning, film pixelized and viewed on a monitory) will always be at a disadvantage compared with a first generation digital file. A true comparison would be to a slide viewed in optimal conditions next to a suitably graphics-centric monitor (high end). For color work, you would see the additional gamut of film, the deeper colors, and the superior sharpness (all things being equal, camera, lens, technique). So, in speaking of equivalents, we have to come up with 'information' equivalences for film and digital, recognizing that with different films, scanning hardware, techniques, etc., the results can vary widely.
My experience? Working with films that scan well (Fuji NPH, Kodak Portra, chromogenic BW films) on a high end desktop scanner (Minolta Multi Pro - 4800 PPI), film can easily surpass digital in the following ways: smoothness of tonality, sharpness (NOT acutance, which is digital with unsharp masking applied, which simply increase contrast of adjacent pixel edges), and color fidelity with certain subjects such as skin and landscape subjects (not necessarily accuracy across all colors!).
It's not easy to compare ISO grade with sensor resolution because they're not related. What's more related is noise ratio versus film grain, but it's not that simple.
Film grain behaves differently that sensor noise. Where sensor noise makes you lose detail is where the noise limits the ability to perceive detail. Film has grains of different sizes and sometimes more detail can be found in the smaller grains of the lighter areas (in negative film, for instance) than in the larger grains of darker areas.
There are more problems with comparing the resolution of film to that of a digital sensor.
One problem is that the grain that you see is in fact not the image forming element but a form of noise. The actual elements are much smaller.
Also, it matters if you look at B/W film or color film; the image in B/W film is composed of silver particles, while most color processes use dyes coupled to the silver particles and then removing the actual particles; this result in "clouds"of color that are more or less centered on the position of the (now removed) particle, but are much bigger.
A good source on the nature of grain and film resolution is:
Pretty technical and I won't pretend I understand it all but if you want to know about he subject, it will certainly help you a lot.


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There is a potential difference, but ions can not go through wires, right? Though there is a electric field, but there is no electron source, I am thinking the answer is no, or will there be some chemical reaction?
Let's start with the basics. The inside of the cell contains predominantly positive potassium ions, and negative phosphate ions, and other negative ions (e.g. from amino acids). The outside of the cell contains predominantly positive sodium ions, and negative chloride ions.
The cell however sets up a resting membrane potential, due to the cell's semi-permeable membrane, allowing predominantly only potassium to pass through the membrane. This causes potassium to flow along its concentration gradient towards the outside of the cell, until it is balanced by the electric potential that is consequently set up.
So we now have POSITIVE potassium ions on the outside of the cell and NEGATIVE phosphate ions (or other negative ions) on the inside of the cell, which aren't balanced. Now as the wire is placed between the inside and the outside of the cell, electrons from the negative phosphate ions will travel through the wire, towards the positive potassium ions on the outside of the cell.
Once this occurs, the potassium from the cell's interior can now continue to flow against its concentration gradient, because the previous potassium ions in the exterior no longer contribute to an opposing electric potential.
Additional note: As the K+ ion in the extra-cellular fluid gains electrons from the wire to form K, it will react almost immediately with water to form KOH and H2 (hydrogen gas). The K and OH will be soluble in the extra-cellular fluid, forming K+ and OH- ions. Over time the K+ ions will be "pumped" back into the cell's cytoplasm. (The left over OH- ions will temporarily increase the flow of K+ down its concentration gradient, etc.)
Just to clarify your ion/electron question - a neutral atom or molecule becomes ionized when it either loses one or more electrons, becoming positively charged, or gains electron(s), becoming negatively charged. Since the negatively charged phosphate (PO42-) ions have a surplus of electrons, they (the electrons) are free to flow "up" the wire and to the outside of the cell.


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We know that monsters grow stronger when fellow heroes join the fight against the minions of Hell. I assume (but am not sure) because of the monster buffs it increases the number of unique/elite/champion monsters and with the added help I'm eager to seek them out for the better loot (and the Nephalem Valor bonus at end game). So, are unique/elite/champion monsters spawns deterministic? Are there places where I will always find one, or is it totally random?
Most enemy spawns are completely random.
The only types of special enemies that spawn deterministic are event bosses (events and sidequests with a "mini-boss" will always have one, although not necessarily always the same) and main-story quest-related monsters.
But since events themselves are randomized, in and of themselves they are not worth focusing on.
It is the case that some areas seem to have a higher density of elites and other high end mobs. Their spawns within an area are not deterministic per se, but if you clear the zone you will tend to find more in some areas than others. One particular area of note that fits this mold is the Vault of the Assassin in Act II.
Elite pack spawns are not exactly random.
The location of each elite pack is random, or at least is randomly selected from a fixed set of spawn points based upon the semi-randomized arrangement of geographic elements. However, the number of elite packs appears to be set based upon a range of values for the given region, with a minimum and maximum value to the range.
For example, The Keep Depths Level 3 in Act 3 will always have at least 1, and as many as 4 elite packs, no matter where they spawn. Similarly, Festering Woods in Act 1 will always have at least 3 elite packs, and as many as 4 (possibly 5, but I'm not certain if the 5 stacks of NV I occasionally get in that zone are sometimes exclusively from elite packs, or always include the single event that can spawn in the zone randomly).
This is similar to treasure goblins, and resplendant chests. Some zones have a chance to randomly spawn one or the other, or both (and a very few zones seem to have the chance to spawn 2 goblins or resplendant chests).
Some of these areas have very clear patterns, and there are a few places where you can always find an elite pack. However, the one dungeon in Act 1's Festering Woods that I mentioned is the only location I can think of where there is a guaranteed elite pack spawning in exactly the same location every single game, with the only random elements being where that dungeon entrance spawns, and what affixes that elite pack has.


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1/17/11 - $39.70 plus loose change - Nick
1/17/11 - $39.70 plus loose change - Nick
1/24/11 - -$3.00 bought and stocked Hansen's Mandarin Lime (8pk) - Jared
1/24/11 - -$3.00 bought and stocked Hansen's Mandarin Lime (8pk) - Jared
Revision as of 18:19, 27 January 2011This is the place to list any info about our vending machine.
Opening the machine
Key is on the top and the keyhole is right under the bill acceptor. This unlocks a handle which pops out. Unscrew that for a decent number of turns, then the front panel opens like a refrigerator door with the hinge on your left. You will need to lift the door to open it, and especially to close it.
Stocking the machine
If you open the machine door, there are 8 slots for stocking beverages. They are labelled 1 through 8 which correspond to the order of the 8 buttons on front used to select your beverage. Slots 1-4 are "wide" slots that hold 64 cans each, while slots 5-8 are narrow and only hold 34 cans each. It helps to load in two cans at a time (stacked top to bottom) into each slot in order to be able to fill each slot to max capacity. For the narrow slots, each layer of 2 cans will stack perfectly atop the previous 2. For the wide slots, each layer of two cans will stack atop but to the side of the previous layer, alternating to the left and right with each layer. If you are just adding more product to partially stocked slot, you should just need to correctly stack it atop the current stock. If you've stocked up a slot that was previously emptied/sold-out, you need to vend that slot until something comes out to "prime" the slot if you will. (In other words, if you loaded something in the previously empty slot #6, you should take some quarters or a dollar or two from the machine and keep buying one until a can comes out the door. Once it's dispensing each time you can load back in the "test" sodas as normal.) Close the door all the way, lock it and return the key.
Current Labels/Inventory of slots (as of 1/26/11):
- Slot 1: Coke (17: 12 stocked on 1/17/11, 20 stocked on ~1/12/11)
- Slot 2: Sprite (18: 24 stocked on 1/17/11)
- Slot 3: Diet Coke (1)
- Slot 4: Diet Dr. Pepper (18: 34 stocked on 1/17/11)
- Slot 5: Mountain Dew (5: 24 stocked on 1/17/11)
- Slot 6: Hansen's Mandarin Lime (7: 12 stocked on 1/24/11)
- Slot 7: ?????? (Empty)
- Slot 8: ?????? (Empty)
Purchase Support Info
We bought the Machine from Gary (not sure of his last name)
We have a 90 day warranty starting 1/4/2011
Gary's number:
cell: 510-300-4836 office: 510-710-9126
Service manual for our vending machine (Dixie-Narco model DNCB 368)
Lightbulbs are 5' fluorescent with a single prong on each side. Part # when ordering is F64T12/D. City Lights is the closest place to buy these. They are on Folsom between 11th St. and 12th St. Phone number is (415) 863-2020. Neither Lowes nor Discount Hardware carries this type of bulb.
On January 15, 2010, the ballast that came with the machine was tested and found to work. Ballast is located directly underneath the drink dispenser tray. Ballast mounting plate is held in by three phillips-head screws
Please hack this machine gently and with confidence. We'd like to keep it working and stocked so it can earn money for Noisebridge. Failed Hacks that result in us spending the vending profits to fix are not excellent.
The vending machine speaks DEX/UCS protocol to a "handheld terminal." A quick search reveals that's a serial protocol at 9600 baud, most likely at TTL levels (NOT RS-232) on a 1/4 inch stereo jack. Details of the protocol were not easily found, and likely involve checksums and/or audit information. Not clear this is worth hacking as there are some indications this communication only happens in "service mode" when the door is open and thus simultaneous vending is not possible.
A possibly simpler hacking solution is to instrument the various switches and motors to get data directly.
The coin mech and bill validator may use the MDB vending machine protocol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidrop_bus
Possible Issues and possible solutions
- Problem:The dollar acceptor has stopped taking bills during stocking tests today.
- Possible solution: Nick called Gary for help on this since we are still under a 90 day warranty. Gary is coming in on 1/25 to replace.
- Problem:It is feared that any vending machine put in noisebridge will immediately get hacked. Not sure how excellent this would be.
- Possible solution: possibly a non-issue, can we post a sign that says please hack me gently? lol
- Problem:How to deal with stock sodas not already inside the machine.
- Possible Solution: keep it shrink wrapped, don't think it's too big a deal, plus don't forget, at least ideally this is more for the casual "walk in" type people.
- Problem:Electrical usage
- Possible solution: a timer so we don't have to run the machine all the time:
- I have one of these and they work ok: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=sylvania+timer&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=17676369476629548940&ei=oi4STeCEEILGsAOH8rXdAg&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=image&resnum=7&ved=0CDYQ8gIwBg#
- This won't really help. Because of basic thermodynamics, the compressor needs to run a certain amount: if the duty cycle is low enough to save energy, the drinks will be warm. Trust the thermostat! However, a timer could possibly shift the time the compressor runs to put the noise in the wee hours of the morning.
- Also, make sure any timer switch you use is rated for at least 11 amps, and I would say 15 to be safe! Jtfoote 05:27, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
- Possible solution: The manual seems to describe timer features built in to the machine. More research needed.
- Possible solution: a timer so we don't have to run the machine all the time:
- Problem:Noise. And not the good kind. The "gets-really-annoying-really-fast" kind.
- Possible solution: A high tech noise dampening leopard print slipper was placed between the noisy vibrating bits. Is the noise still offensive?
How to contribute
Buy some drinks and either leave them on top and they'll be loaded in or if you're feeling ambitious load them in yourself.
Money log
This is where we'll keep a record of the money 'earned' by the vending machine, the money spent on product, and the money donated to noisebridge and any other costs that come up.
1/17/11 - $65.00 plus loose change - Nick
1/17/11 - -$29.30 bought and stocked mountain dew(24pk), diet dr.pepper(24pk), coke(12pk), and sprite(24pk). -Nick
1/17/11 - diet dr. pepper(12pk) donated and stocked -Jared
1/17/11 - $39.70 plus loose change - Nick
1/2?/11 - diet coke(unknown amount) was donated and stocked - Anonymous
1/24/11 - -$3.00 bought and stocked Hansen's Mandarin Lime (8pk) - Jared
1/24/11 - Hansen's Mandarin Lime(x4) donated and stocked -Jared
1/26/11 - $105.35 including money in changer -Jared
Initial Donations and funding
Commited donations
Nickthedude $100 --PAID
also commiting to dealing with logistics, but looking for a volunteer or two to help with the heavy lifting and such.
Andy Isaacson $60 --PAID
jof $100 -- PAID
Hephaestus $50 --PAID
Rachel McConnell $50 --PAID
Leif $50 --PAID
Shannon $50 --PAID
Rafi $40 --PAID
Patrick $35 - PAID (new lightbulbs)
Total = $520
Minimum Goal = $500
Difference = +$20
Money Spent
$400 the vending machine
$75 delivery
$8.74 20 pack of coke
$17.11 electrical timer to shut it off at night
total spent = $500.85
money left over = $19.15 Planning on buying more soda / drinks
Goals and Future
The goal of this project is to generate money to support noisebridge as well as give clarity and an obvious way to support to noisebridge to the "walk-in" crowd as well as the noisefolk.
Depending on the success of the soda machine it would be nice to have other premium vending machines that vend possibly healthy snacks, computer parts, arduinos etc.


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7 Feb 2013 8:43 AM #1
BUG FIX: src/tree/View.js (patch attached)
Ext version tested:
- Ext 4.1.3
- Chrome 24.0.1312.57 m
- FF 18.0.2 (firebug 1.12.0a.2 installed)
- Safari 5.1.7
- ExtJS 4.1.3 throws an exception you re-load() an Ext.tree.Panel a second time (without first refreshing the browser). You can read the full details of the report in the Q&A Forum
- http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...ot-an-object-(
- Create app with window that get's opened on button click
- In the window, display a tree panel that is read from an ajax source
- Run app, and open window, then close it.
- Re-open Window.
- Error from Chrome: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'indexOf' of null ext-all-dev.js:164027
1. Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'indexOf' of null ext-all-dev.js:164027
1. Ext.define.onBeforeFillext-all-dev.js:164027
2. Ext.define.fireext-all-dev.js:14999
3. continueFireEventext-all-dev.js:28029
4. fireEventext-all-dev.js:28000
5. Ext.define.fillNodeext-all-dev.js:96156
6. Ext.define.onProxyLoadext-all-dev.js:96205
7. Ext.define.processResponseext-all-dev.js:87982
8. (anonymous function)ext-all-dev.js:88471
9. Ext.apply.callbackext-all-dev.js:11434
10. Ext.define.onCompleteext-all-dev.js:37132
11. Ext.define.onStateChangeext-all-dev.js:37069
12. (anonymous function)ext-all-dev.js:3000
Possible fix:
The solution requires a fix to Ext.tree.View (we have attached a patch with this report). Bottom line, the initComponent method of Ext.tree.View registers listeners using the unmanaged on() call for both it's own store and the treepanel's store. It should instead using the addManagedListner version -- ie: mon().
What appears to be happening is that even AFTER the window containing the treepanel is closed, the 'beforefill' event handler is still registered. The second time the window is created, there are now two 'beforefill' event handlers, but the first registered handler refers to a view that is no longer valid. When the event fires, it try's to dereference a 'null' reference which causes the exception.
Operating System:
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7 Feb 2013 9:33 AM #3
First -- I appreciate your taking the time to point out the DUPE to us. Much appreciated.
But I must say, this is quite frustrating. We've spent three days tracking down a bug Sencha knew about in October? Can anyone at Sencha explain why this was not patched already ?! Or at least a strong warning in the docs on Tree panels to make sure developers knew the issue existed ?!
Not to mention -- we posted to the forums yesterday reporting our problem and got back silence. We had to invest another day to find the source and post a patch -- and only then is the issue linked to a dupe !!
4 Mar 2013 6:36 AM #4
@jim thanks for the patch, I have patched the ext-all-dev.js and the src/tree/view.js with success, just one question how do I patch the ext-all.js?
4 Mar 2013 6:57 AM #5
This issue is confirmed resolved in ExtJs 4.2 Sprint 2
I recommend you download the latest ExtJs.
4 Mar 2013 7:15 AM #6
4 Mar 2013 7:31 AM #7
I had zero problems!
Also the Sencha patch was superior to the approach I took with my patch (of course...that's why they get the big bucks).
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WHITE HOUSE (CNN) -- President Obama has bestowed our nation's highest civiliian honor, the Medal of Freedom to these 13 outstanding Americans. The medal is awarded to those who make extraordinary contributions to world peace, national interest and security or other cultural endeavors. It was established in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy.
Here is a list of this year's recipients and some of the information released by the White House on why they were selected:
Madeleine Albright:
From 1997 to 2001, under President Bill Clinton, Albright served as the 64th United States secretary of state, the first woman to hold that position. During her tenure, she worked to enlarge NATO and helped lead the alliance's campaign against terror and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, pursued peace in the Middle East and Africa, sought to reduce the dangerous spread of nuclear weapons and was a champion of democracy, human rights and good governance across the globe.
John Doar:
Doar was a legendary public servant and leader of federal efforts to protect and enforce civil rights during the 1960s. He served as assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. In that capacity, he was instrumental during many major civil rights crises, including singlehandedly preventing a riot in Jackson, Mississippi, after the funeral of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963.
Bob Dylan:
One of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century, Dylan released his first album in 1962. Known for his rich and poetic lyrics, his work had considerable influence on the civil rights movement of the 1960s and has had significant impact on American culture over the past five decades.
William Foege:
A physician and epidemiologist, Foege helped lead the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. He was appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1977 and, with colleagues, founded the Task Force for Child Survival in 1984. Foege became executive director of The Carter Center in 1986 and continues to serve the organization as a senior fellow.
John Glenn:
Glenn is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator. In 1962, he was the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth. After retiring from the Marine Corps, Glenn was elected to the U.S. Senate in Ohio in 1974. He was an architect and sponsor of the 1978 Nonproliferation Act and served as chairman of the Senate Government Affairs committee from 1978 until 1995.
Gordon Hirabayashi:
Hirabayashi openly defied the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. As an undergraduate at the University of Washington, he refused the order to report for evacuation to an internment camp, instead turning himself in to the FBI to assert his belief that these practices were racially discriminatory. Consequently, he was convicted by a U.S. Federal District Court in Seattle of defying the exclusion order and violating curfew. Hirabayashi appealed his conviction all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him in 1943. After World War II and his time in prison, Hirabayashi obtained his doctoral degree in sociology and became a professor. In 1987, his conviction was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Hirabayashi died on January 2, 2012.
Dolores Huerta:
Huerta is a civil rights, workers and women's advocate. With Cesar Chavez, she co-founded the National Farmworkers Association in 1962, which later became the United Farm Workers of America. Huerta has served as a community activist and a political organizer, and was influential in securing the passage of California's Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, and disability insurance for farm workers in California.
Jan Karski:
Karski served as an officer in the Polish Underground during World War II and carried among the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the world. He worked as a courier, entering the Warsaw ghetto and the Nazi Izbica transit camp, where he saw firsthand the atrocities occurring under Nazi occupation.
Juliette Gordon Low:
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Toni Morrison:
One of our nation's most celebrated novelists, Morrison is renowned for works such as "Song of Solomon," "Jazz" and "Beloved", for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988. When she became the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1993, Morrison's citation captured her as an author "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality."
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John Paul Stevens:
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Pat Summitt:
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Another heart-warming Christmas gift is a mug paired with a package of hot chocolate and marshmallows, gourmet coffee, or tea. Choose either a festive holiday mug that can be used during the holiday season, or a neutral one that might be more useful year-round.
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Usually, I delete my spam as quickly as it arrives in my email inbox. Things have been so crazy lately, however, that it started to pile up. I let it pile up for 3 days, and I had over 150 email in my spam folder. Of that, about 4 were actual emails, including an electronic Valentine's Day card that my daughter sent to me (she's beyond sweet). The remaining 150 emails were truly spam.
I tried to breakdown the different categories they fell into. I couldn't account for every single one because many were just beyond boring. Or stupid. Here's the breakdown:
Deals on new cars: 3 emails
Deals on overstocked items: 3 emails
Dating sites: 9 emails (these included Christian dating, over 40 dating, over 50 dating, and African-American dating).
Tax Services: 4 emails
Insurance of some kind: 5 emails
Online pharmacy: 4 emails
Satellite television: 4 emails
Credit scores/Background checks: 6 emails
Coupons: 4 emails
Giftcard offers: 8 emails
Penis enlargement: 7 emails
AARP membership: 1 email
Wow, that only accounted for about 50 emails. I still had another 100 spam emails that were just too insipid to try and categorize.
The biggest shock was that AARP only sent me one email. The other big shocker was all the dating sites. Hello, I am married. I once heard that something like 50 percent of dating site members are married. That's one scary statistic. Do they purposely market to married people?
That's a scary thought!
What's in your spam folder?


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NCOE Junior Golfer Blake Karnes shot a 32 at Carmi Country Club on Monday, Sept. 23, to set a new school record for Norris City-Omaha-Enfield. NCOE was competing against Carmi -White County and Eldorado. It was a record breaking day on the links as CWC Senior Neal Northcott recorded a 30 breaking CWC school record.
Karnes's score broke the NCOE record held by NCOE golf standout Jordan Johnson who had recorded a 33 during his high school career.
"It was great to see not only Blake but Neal break a school record that day," said NCOE golf coach Cliff Karnes. "It was definitely a fun round of golf to watch."
Other golfers recording scores for NCOE: Dylan Price 44, Dakotah Bond 44, Aaron Foley 48. Team results for the match: CWC 150, NCOE 168, Eldorado 205.
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For oral administration, Robaxisal (methocarbamol and aspirin) is available as a pink and white laminated tablet containing:
Methocarbamol, USP . 400 mg
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Inactive Ingredients: Corn Starch, FD&C Red 3, Magnesium Stearate, Povidone, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Starch Glycolate, Stearic Acid.
Methocarbamol has the following chemical name: 3-(2-Methoxyphenoxy)-1,2-propanediol 1-Carbamate
What are the precautions when taking methocarbamol and aspirin (Robaxisal)?
Before taking this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to methocarbamol or aspirin; or to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs-NSAIDs (such as ibuprofen); or to other salicylates (such as choline salicylate); or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: asthma (including a history of worsening breathing with runny/stuffy nose after taking aspirin or other NSAIDs), growths in the nose (nasal polyps), stomach/intestine/esophagus problems (such as ulcers, heartburn), kidney disease, liver disease, bleeding/blood clotting...
Last reviewed on RxList: 12/8/2004
This monograph has been modified to include the generic and brand name in many instances.
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