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spoiler:totally guessed the fake death, and I knew that it was one of the people under the sheets. My guess was either Justice Wargrave, or Mrs. Rogers. I went for Mrs. Rogers, even though some evidence pointed-to the contrary, and for a while I really thought I had him with Philip Lombard. But it was Justice Wargrave. I knew that the killer would fake his death a few pages in (thanks to the back of the book: "Only the dead are above suspicion") and I knew I was right by the time Blore died, but I wasn't expecting Justice Wargrave to be the killer.
spoiler:My book never said anything like that on the back! I checked out the movie versions and it looks like only the Russian one from the 1980s kept the original ending. Sucks...
spoiler:Wargrave revealing himself before Evra Claythorne commits suicide; at that point, Lombard, having survived Evra's shot ("Woman can't aim straight enough" apparently), kills Wargrave; I think they both then hang themselves, or get married. I can't remember. There's a lot more dialogue in the play
spoiler:In the 1945 movie, Wargrave does reveal himself and Eva only pretended to shoot Lombard. Wargrave commits suicide before finding out, expecting Eva to either hang herself or get hanged when they find her alone with 9 corpses. There's then a happy ending.


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During these times of a much hyped clash of civilizations, it is perhaps instructive to look back at another such encounter. For several centuries, medieval Spain was the fault line that bore the brunt of the colliding tectonic plates of the Muslim East and Western Christianity. Yet this border zone of competing empires, under largely Muslim rule for over seven centuries, managed to flourish and develop to unparalleled heights of culture and scientific advancement.
My interest in al-Andalus was ignited after reading Leon L'Africain (Leo Africanus in the English translation), a carefully researched epic historical novel by the inimitable Amin Maalouf. It is the story of Hassan al Wazzan , a Granadan by birth who flees Spain to Fes with his family in the waning years of Moorish presence. Later, as a diplomat and explorer, he is captured and brought to Rome, baptized and becomes an adviser to the Pope. Most helpful however, has been the very readable historical narrative by Maria Rosa Menocal: Ornament of the World (see previous post) which provides an excellent description of the inner workings of Moorish Spain. The book provides a clear-eyed and objective analysis of what made al-Andalus work, warts and all. A friend thought that the book gave too much credit to non-Muslims for the achievements of al-Andalus. But that is exactly the point, is it not? The genius of the Muslim rulers of al-Andalus is that, in their tolerance and their love of knowledge, they allowed the different religious communities to thrive and contribute to the Andalusian culture and civilization.
To many Arabs and Muslims, mired in political and cultural stagnation, al-Andalus evokes deep sentiments of nostalgia for a mythologized world. To some, it also represents hope for the future. If our culture and religion were capable of helping create al-Andalus, the thinking goes, then we should be able to pull ourselves out of our quagmire. What redeeming values represented by the history of al-Andalus are best suited for this rescue operation depends on where on the Arab political spectrum you fall.
When fanatical fundamentalists speak of al-Andalus, it is to boast of conquest and empire. The irony is that, had the early Andalusian rulers been of that same mindset, al-Andalus would never have become an "ornament of the world". In fact during the centuries of Muslim rule, fanatic hordes would occasionally invade from North Africa, undoing what the more enlightened rulers had achieved. The end of Moorish Spain also came at the hands of fanatical hordes, this time Christians from the North bringing with them the horrors of the Inquisition.
The lessons learned from al-Andalus are that civilizational clashes need not be destructive provided that some modicum of mutual respect exists and that each side is secure enough to learn from the other. It is perhaps not by accident that the first rulers of al-Andalus were Umayyads from Damascus, a cosmopolitan city with its multiplicity of ethnic and religious groups. Who better than a Damascene to communicate with and engage the Christian and Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula.
- Note: Another book of interest on the same topic: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree. Another carefully researched work of historical fiction by Tariq Ali, a British, secular, leftist writer of South Asian descent. It is the saga of an Andalusian family in the last years of Moorish Spain. Also of interest from the same author: A Sultan in Palermo, a novel about another civilizational fault line. It is the story of the cartographer al-Idrissi in 12th century in the waning years of Arab Sicily during the Norman conquest.


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Does cleaning
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Is it that the .deb packages there are needed for applications to run properly?
No, apt-get clean will not harm your system. The .deb packages in /var/cache/apt/archives are used by the system to install software. But once the software is installed, these .deb packages are no longer needed. You will need these .deb files only while re-installing the software. In case you do not need to re-install, remove these .deb files using apt-get clean.
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Note the emphasized line. You should run
The answer is no, it does no harm, not at all.
Not at all.
When you install an application, apt downloads needed .deb file, and then extracts its data into your file system. The .deb file is, however, kept - so that, for example, in case you want to reinstall that application, the .deb file will have been already downloaded. That means you can safely clean that cache with
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The Tzemach Tzedek (of Lubavitch)'s father's name was Shalom Shachna Altshuler. Is he related to the Metzodos Tziyon?
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Looks like a nice price given the specs and features. However I always shopped for Samsung LED TV and from my Costco tours, the Samsung always stood out in contrast and vivid brightness of the colors. Anyone know if this TV is reliable? I was going to get that 60" Sharp for $1,199 but so many people had the same problems that I skipped on it.
@woot tang clan: TVs displayed in stores are typically in "store mode." The screens are brighter, the colors are more saturated, and so on. I bought an HDTV this fall and there was an insert in the packaging along with the section in the manual explaining how to turn "store mode" off and turn "home mode" on. "Store mode" shouldn't be used to compare screens. (But it's hard to find a salesperson who'll let you fiddle with the TVs to see how they'll look in your living room, admittedly.)
The TV I bought was a Toshiba -- like I say, I've used it for a few months; the only problem I've had is that it turned off by itself a couple of times. A little odd, but there was a firmware upgrade available and it hasn't happened since I upgraded.
Mediocre review on CNET. But maybe they don't know anything.
I bought a Toshiba in January 2012. Worked for 9 months then fried the motherboard. Toshiba honoured the warranty, but didn't have any new boards in stock. After 30 days, 3 calls to the "support centre", and an e-mail to head office in Japan about the shameful wait, they sent me a new upgraded TV. If you buy it, GET THE WARRANTY. I did like the Picture quality.
For those that love Samsung products you are ripe for disappointment sometime.
Their customer service and product repair is horrible especially when it comes to DVD players of all types.
TVs are not bad but noting and I mean nothing including SONY does not beat Panasonic.
Toshiba is rot gut.
I was the first sucker, with slight buyers remorse (would have bought the Bowflex instead), but was hoping to get more comments to convince me this was a good deal. I'm getting the notion $100 cheaper would be, but this is more so the norm for refurbs anywhere. amiright?
the reviews I read overall were actually better than decent when the thing was $1600-$1200, so now that it's $600 shipped, I went for it. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387917,00.asp
The "negatives" are viewing angle, not-dark-enough-black, and slightly purple blue (which you can adjust in the color settings).
I got it for me and whomever fits on the couch directly in front of it, I don't really care about the darkness of black, and I'm not interested in 3D or more internet apps. This is the lowest price for a product in this range that I've seen, refurb or not (other than a couple of door-busters at Best Buy black friday and some terrible off-brand stuff like that Coby w00t yesterday), so I say rest easy.


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I see that I can add blank color labels to cards but does Trello support the ability to have Tags. I see on the Trello team's board there are cards that say "Bug" or "Feature" but I can't figure out if they are doing this through Tags and if so, how I can do this on my Trello Board.
You can give the coloured labels meaningful names, which I've found really helps.
It's not entirely obvious how to do this, at first:
Now, when you click on a card, and then "Labels...", the name you specified is displayed on top of the Colour swatch.
This at least saves people from having to remember the meaning you've ascribed to the different colours.
You still only get 6 colours to play with, though, and I don't believe that you can change the colours themselves.
Other nice tricks
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I've just noticed that there's now a shorter route to renaming labels: At the bottom of the list of labels, there is now a link to "Edit labels (sic) titles":
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#2. The Gnostic Gospels
The story of how the non-Biblical Christian text known as the Gnostic Gospels were found has such a DaVinci Code quality to it, you almost want to call bullshit.
If you're not familiar, the Gnostic Gospels are a series of early Christian writings--estimated to have been written 1600 years ago--that were about Jesus' teachings, but didn't make it into the Bible. Mainstream Christians reject them completely, others see them as the Bible's DVD deleted scenes.
In 1945, an Egyptian farmer, Mohammed Ali Samman, was looking for some sabakh, an organic fertilizer (we're pretty sure it's just shit). During his search for it in a cave, he found an old, red clay jar.
He really didn't want to open it for fear of ghosts or curses, but as The Legend of Zelda has taught us, clay jars are usually filled with rupees, so he took his chances and smashed it. Inside he didn't find rupees but instead found somewhere near a dozen old, leather bound books. Apparently pissed at the lack of rupees, he just went ahead and threw the books on his kindling pile.
The man's brother, who looked at the documents and realized there was something like a Bible Part 2 in his hands, convinced Mohammed to sell them instead. The documents were saved from destruction but the brothers had a falling out. So instead of selling them piece by piece as they planned, they took them to a nearby priest and said, "Here, you can have this. It's, like, extra Bible or something."
The priest, being a man of God and realizing the significance of the artifact and the almost miraculous nature of the discovery--they sat in that cave undisturbed for untold centuries--promptly went about pawning them off for cash to whatever antique dealers would take them.
A museum in Cairo got a hold of some of them and started desperately trying to gather the rest of the documents before they could get lost or some dumbass could use them to line his canary's cage. It would take 30 years for the museum to finally get them all back under the same roof.
#1. The 3,000-Year-Old Sacred Egyptian Liver Jar
So let's say it's 3,000 years ago, in Egypt. You're about to die, but that's OK because you know that, according to tradition, they're going to stick your organs into a series of pots where the goddess Isis will watch over them, until you need them again.
Three millennia later, your liver pot is being used as a lawn ornament.
How many of you have some old-timey piece of furniture you inherited from your family? Or maybe an old vase, or some ugly little statue thing?
Well a woman in the U.K. wound up with a chipped terracotta pot with this Egyptian head thing on the lid, after her uncle left it to her. It spent some time in her garage and then she decided to just stick it on her patio. It sat there, in the rain and with cats probably pissing on it, for 20 years.
Finally on a whim she thought, "well, the head part is kind of shaped like an Egyptian Pharaoh or something, I'll take it to some experts and see what they say."
What they said was that the goddamned thing was made a thousand years before the freaking birth of Christ.
Experts say the jar was specifically made to hold the liver of the deceased, though there was no liver inside. We're guessing some old man in Scotland is using it as a paperweight.
And check out what else our ancestors left us to treat like dog shit, in 11 Modern Technologies That Are Way Older Than You Think and 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain.
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I am trying to create an application, where in I want to zoom to selected features. Basically, I want to zoom to the extent of a selected point or polygon.
Try this will work for you
I suspect the java is not far from this (this is C#) but the principles are the same. Query the selection extents, union them, bump the result by a factor, and show it.
You should be able to do this by calling getSelectedFeatures() on your Feature Layer (big assumption that this is a graphics or feature layer, am i correct here?) and then iterating through the returned array of Graphic objects. If the features are polygons, then the geometry property will have a getExtent() method. Just keep track of the extreme lat/lng values and set the map extent to these once you've checked all of the selected features. I'm a little confused by your mention of 'point and polygon' because I thought feature classes had to be one type or the other. Are you trying to zoom in on a group of features selected from two different sets? This would be a little trickier but should still be achievable by a similar method.
Why not use graphicUtils.graphicsExtent
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Why don't they upload packages to the normal package repository? Is this a general convention (IE, do other distros separate the repositories also)?
Debian has a distribution channel that provides security updates only so that administrators can choose to run a stable system with only the absolute minimum of changes. Additionally, this distribution channel is kept somewhat separate from the normal channel: all security updates are fed directly from
I'm pretty sure Debian puts security updates in the regular repo as well.
The reason to have a separate repo that only contains security updates is so you can set up a server, only point it at the security repo, and automate updates. Now you've got a server that is guaranteed to have the latest security patches without accidentally introducing bugs caused by incompatible versions, etc.
I'm not sure if this exact mechanism is used by other distros. There's a
It helps with two things:
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - The Indian Creek Redskins made a conscious effort to defend better and own the boards in the second half of their game at St. Clairsville Thursday evening.
It paid dividends, too.
Using their significant size advantage on the interior, the Lady Redskins (1-1) were able to go on a 23-5 run in the second half to spoil the Lady Devils' 2012-13 debut on John Jenkins Court, 54-40.
"In the first half, I thought we were playing like in second gear or something," said Lady Redskins' head coach Erin DeSantis. "But, we were able to come out of it in the second half. We were getting out-scrapped, but I thought we hustled and made the little plays a lot better in the second half."
St. Clairsville, which struggled to score a season ago, was going bucket-for-bucket with the Lady Redskins, owning a 28-27 lead at the half and a 33-29 upperhand after Brigee Mick buried a triple in the middle of the third quarter.
However, the Lady Red Devils wore down despite Alicia Freeman utilizing a 10-girl rotation. On top of the fatigue, St. Clairsville simply had no answer for Creek sophomore Bre Berryman, who was a one-girl wrecking crew on the interior with her 6-foot-5 frame.
"The bottom line is we didn't do the things that make us a good ball team," Freeman said. "We didn't push their big girls and we didn't challenge them enough. We gave them too many easy buckets and allowed them to get comfortable, which really cost us the game. We ran out of gas in the second half and that won't happen again."
Berryman, who has added a soft baby hook shot to her impressive arsenal of moves on the block, scored 27 points, grabbed 22 rebounds and for good measure swatted five shots.
The other half the Lady Redskins' twin towers - Kiarra Kamarec - scored 10 points and grabbed seven rebounds.
But, it was Berryman who sparked the aforementioned second-half run. She scored nine points in the third quarter.
"It definitely helps to have Bre," DeSantis said. "We also mixed up our defense a couple of times, which I thought was a big key. We showed some different things and it kind of got them out of rhythm. But, St. Clairsville is scrappy, quick and they're going to win some games."
The Lady Devils scored only 12 points in the second half, including just four in the final chapter.
Brooke Mains - who transferred from Buckeye Local - handled the floor game well. She scored six points, but controlled the game, which allowed the Lady Redskins to avoid being significantly bitten by the turnover bug. Bethany Davis donated eight points in the game.
Both teams took relatively good care of the ball. Creek overcame 10 miscues, while St. C. was charted for just seven turnovers.
St. Clairsville (0-1) was led by Lauren Figura's 10 points. Alexis St. Clair added eight. Ashleigh Moulder was solid with eight points and a team-high 11 rebounds.
"There were a lot of positives we can take from this game," Freeman said. "We're still building. Our plan is to get better every game."
The Lady Devils return to action Monday at Union Local. The Lady Redskins host the Lady Jets in a varsity only contest Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
Indian Creek 54, St. Clairsville 40
Indian Creek 11 16 15 12 - 54
St. Clairsville 11 17 8 4 - 40
INDIAN CREEK (1-1): Berryman 12 3-3 27; Davis 4 0-0 8; Kamarec 5 0-2 10; Mains 1 3-4 6; Shimko 0 3-6 3; Durbin 0 0-0 0; Totals: 22, 9-18 54. 3-pointers: Mains.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE (0-1): Mick 2, 0-0 6; Gillespie 2, 1-2 6; DeFillipo 0, 0-0 0; St. Clair 4, 0-0 8; Delguzzo 1, 0-0 2; Cenkus 0, 0-2 0; Avila 0, 0-0 0; Moulder 4, 0-1 8; Figura 3, 2-2 10; Totals: 16, 3-7 40. 3-pointers: Mick 2, Figura 2, Gillespie.


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Parking facilities are available close to both terminals. The multi-storey car park at Pulkovo 2 is connected to the terminal via a heated walkway.
Car hire
There are numerous car hire desks represented at the airport. Travellers should be aware that driving in and around St Petersburg may not be a good idea due to the condition of the roads and the erratic nature of the signage.


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1950s ad from the Givaudan Flavorist. Image courtesy of the Society of Flavor Chemists Library at Monell Chemical Senses Center.
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Little known fact: we have taste buds all over our bodies, not just our tongues. Another surprise? Our taste buds might play a role in more than just our processing of taste. On today's show producer Mary Harris visits the Monell Chemical Senses Center and Beverly Tepper's sensory evaluation lab at Rutgers University to find out if she is one of the lucky few whose super-taster status affords them better health. Then we welcome Nadia Berenstein to the studio to discuss her research on the early days of synthetic flavor development. She reveals how a cadre of early flavorists changed our very perception of familiar flavors like pineapple.
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08:04 The Art of Imitation Flavors
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Special thanks to Mary Harris and Jennifer Dionisio for researching this show.
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The Southeastern Railway Museum has been in operation since 1970 and is "Georgia's Official Transportation History Museum". The museum has over 80 other pieces of retired railway rolling stock including vintage steam and diesel locomotives, passenger coaches, private business cars, a World War II army troop kitchen, wooden freight cars, railway post office car and maintenance of way equipment. Many other items from Georgia's transportation history are also presented on the museum's 30-acre site. Two vintage trains are displayed inside the museums main exhibit hall; The 1920s vintage steam train pulled by S&A 750 includes United States President Warren Harding's personal business car the Superb and a club car. The 1950s era diesel powered train features Southern Railway 6901, the last diesel locomotive to pull the famous Southern Crescent before Amtrak and several modern sleeper cars.
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Stranded on Clifton – A Cape Town Tourism photo essay
Leon Jamarie
With a passion for travel, tourism and social media, Cape Town is the quintessential backdrop for Media Developer Leon Jamarie and his cape adventures.
With the City as his canvass Leon paints the town red covering a range of events and activities in the peninsular while staying true to the traditional culture the mother city offers it's children,
Originally from Durban, Leon is still an accidental tourist in the city he now calls home and as such is on the line between resident and local tourist able to provide inside knowledge and flavour to the average mundane travel blog.
He is always on the look out for that hidden gem or typical CT party. If it's fun, relevant, he will cover it.
Capetonians have been tweeting non-stop over the stranded Japanese longliner, Eihatsu Maru, which ran aground on Clifton First Beach on Saturday, May 11, 2012. Naturally, our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group members captured it on camera. Despite the furore over the ship's beaching, the large vessel does nothing to hamper the breathtaking beauty of the atlantic seaboard coastline.
The City of Cape Town reports that efforts to salvage the Eihatsu Maru are ongoing.
Below are a few images of the Eihatsu Maru stranded on Clifton First Beach by our members:
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Do Chores
Having a system for household responsibilities spreads out the work instead of having it all fall on one person (you know who!). Assigning chores and reminding kids to do them can feel like a chore in itself. Try keeping a chore jar with slips of paper for kids to pick which chore they'll do that week, such as taking out the trash. Print out this chore chart to help your family stay on task.
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Might be kind of an odd question.
A guy writing a C++ compiler (or whatever non-VM language): Does he need to be able to read/write raw machine language? How does that work?
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Splenectomy - adult - discharge; Spleen removal - adult - discharge
Your spleen was removed after you were given general anesthesia (asleep and pain-free).
The surgeon made an incision (cut) in the middle of your belly. Or the incision was made on the left side of your belly just below the ribs. If you are being treated for cancer, the surgeon probably also removed the lymph nodes in your belly.
Recovering from open spleen removal surgery takes 4 to 8 weeks. You may have some of these symptoms as you recover:
If your spleen was removed for a blood disorder or lymphoma, you may need more treatments. This depends on your medical disorder.
Plan to have someone drive you home from the hospital. Do not drive yourself home.
Make sure your home is safe as you are recovering. For example, remove throw rugs to prevent tripping and falling. To stay safe in the bathroom, install grab bars to help you get in and out of the tub or shower.
You should be able to do most of your regular activities in 4 to 8 weeks. Before that:
Your doctor will prescribe pain medicines for you to use at home. If you are taking pain pills 3 or 4 times a day, try taking them at the same times each day for 3 to 4 days. They may be more effective this way.
Try getting up and moving around if you are having pain in your belly. This may ease your pain.
Press a pillow over your incision when you cough or sneeze to ease discomfort and protect your incision.
Care for your incision as instructed. Change the dressing over your surgical incision once a day, or sooner if it gets wet or dirty. Your doctor will tell you when you can stop keeping your incision covered. Keep the incision area clean by washing it with mild soap and water.
You may remove the dressings (bandages) and take showers if sutures (stitches), staples, or glue were used to close your skin.
If glue or strips of tape were used to close your incision:
Do not soak in a bathtub or hot tub or go swimming until your doctor tells you it is okay.
Most people live a normal active life without a spleen, but there is always a risk of getting an infection. This is because the spleen is part of the body's immune system, helping fight infections.
After your spleen is removed, you will be more likely to get infections:
Keeping up to date on your immunizations will be very important. Ask your doctor if you should have these vaccinations:
You may need to take antibiotics every day for some time. Do not stop taking antibiotics without checking with your doctor. Some people will need to take antibiotics every day for several years after surgery.
Things you can do to help prevent infections:
Call your doctor or nurse if:
Cadili A, de Gara C. Complications of splenectomy. Am J Med. 2008;121:371-375.
Shelton J, Holzman MD. The spleen. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 57.


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Number of software packages tagged with 1016a.
The IRIS DMC distributes the Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) software for scientists conducting research using IRIS data. You must register with an online form to receive the SAC software.
SAC Version 101.6 introduced several new features including a new command parser that simplifies coding, improved precision for blackboard variables, colored fill for positive and negative portions of seismograms, and corrections of many errors and warnings.
Version 101.6a fixes bugs in v101.6 and adds a single-file PDF version of the SAC manual. Details can be seen from the detailed HISTORY of modifications files and brief overview of major CHANGES posted in the SAC project pages on SeisCode.


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Change vs. Stability in Web Usability Guidelines
Summary: A remarkable 80% of findings from the Web usability studies in the 1990s continue to hold today.
As Web usability testing enters its 14th year, it's worth asking how early results have held up to recent user research.
10 years ago, I wrote an article on the changes in Web usability from 1994 to 1997. A few of my original findings were no longer valid a mere 3 years after they were issued. But most of the 1994 guidelines held true in 1997 — and they're still correct today.
Considering how primitive websites were in 1994, it's striking that most of these initial usability guidelines remain valid for today's sites. It's even more impressive when you consider that the Web currently has 120M sites, and my very first study tested only 5 sites with 3 users. This tiny, exploratory study's outstanding outcome and endurance is testament to the power of qualitative usability methodology.
In 1999 , I published my book Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. I based its guidelines on tests of about 100 websites with 200 users. Over the 5 years between my first test and publishing that first comprehensive book, we learned a lot about Web usability, making it possible to provide sound advice for successful Web design.
Reassessing Old Web Usability Guidelines
It's reasonable to ask whether the guidelines in Designing Web Usability continue to be valid. After all, our current Web usability guidelines are based on testing 831 websites with 2,744 users in 16 countries. The new research is vastly more thorough than the studies I did in the 1990s and has identified more than a thousand new guidelines.
My recent book, Prioritizing Web Usability contains a chapter assessing the guidelines from the 1990s in light of the new findings. (The rest of the book prioritizes the thousands of new usability guidelines according to their importance for business success.)
In the new book, I offer a section on each of the early Web usability guidelines and judge them in relation to current research findings. I award each guideline a number of skulls (dead-man's heads), depending on how important it is for today's users:
- No skulls means that the issue is no longer a problem.
- 1 skull indicates guidelines that are now minor issues.
- 2 skulls signify medium-impact usability problems.
- 3 skulls indicate issues that still cause major problems in current user testing.
Let's define our baseline as the total number of potential skulls if all the 1990s' guidelines had remained major problems and gotten 3 skulls. In fact, several guidelines got 0, 1, or 2 skulls, because various issues have become less problematic over time.
Why Guidelines Change
I remove skulls from a guideline for three reasons that align with the three ways in which a usability issue might be diminished in the modern world.
- Technology improvements: Better browsers, faster bandwidth, or other beefed-up technologies make a particular design idea easier to stomach.
- Behavioral adaptations: As people grow accustomed to certain interaction techniques, they adapt their behavior, making the techniques easier to use.
- Designers exhibit restraint: A design element might remain problematic in principle, but Web designers learn to avoid its most obnoxious forms. The element thus causes fewer problems, simply because it's being abused less often.
The following pie chart shows how the original "skulls" (i.e., usability problems) from the 1990s are distributed today:
Fate of Web usability guidelines from the 1990s.
Conclusions from the pie chart:
- More than half of the usability findings from the 1990s remain in force.
- Only 10% of the original usability issues have resolved because of improved technology. Yes, there have been many advances in Web technology, but they typically haven't addressed the real issues that cause users to get lost, misinterpret sites, or be annoyed.
- More skulls were taken away because of changing user behavior than because of technology improvements. In principle, I think it's unreasonable to expect humans to adapt to computers, but it does happen, and this is one way that awkward user interfaces eventually become easier to use. The Web is easier for people to use today than it was in 1994, simply because people have more experience with its conventions, even when they're bad.
Finally, let's consider the pie slice labeled "designers showing restraint." Of the guidelines from the 1990s, 22% are less of an issue today because designers have learned to be less abusive. But truly, that doesn't make the underlying guidelines invalid; it simply makes them less important.
Take, for example, the guideline to avoid splash screens. The best-selling Web design book in the 1990s strongly advocated splash screens, which is why I had to campaign so strongly against them in 1999. I don't bother mentioning splash screens in my current courses, however, because no decent designer would open a website with a splash screen. However, a few clients still request splash screens, so we keep the guideline on the books so that designers can point to documented usability research when warning clients against this annoying design element.
In other words, the 22% of the old usability problems that are avoided because of current designers' restraint are like unexploded bombs — they can go off at any minute if future designers forego restraint or clueless clients insist on bad design.
Stability of Usability Guidelines
When we add the points that remain in force to those that represent designer restraint, we find that 80% of Web usability insights from the 1990s are still current or potential problems today.
I think 80% is a fairly good performance, considering that my 1999 book was based on data from only 200 users.
On the other hand, we can compare the Web usability guidelines with the durability of application design guidelines from 1986. When I analyzed these guidelines, I found that 90% continue to be valid. This higher score is all the more impressive when you consider that the application guidelines are 13 years older than my Web guidelines. There are two reasons the application guidelines had higher durability than the Web guidelines:
- The 1986 guidelines were based on more than 25 years of research into application usability. Studies are cited from as far back as 1961. In contrast, my 1999 Web guidelines were based on only 5 years of research. Still, it was worth publishing the book in 1999 instead of waiting another 20 years, because it was unthinkable to let the horrible state of Web usability continue until 2019 without fighting back.
- The Internet has changed more rapidly than computers in general. Even if most of these changes don't impact usability guidelines, some of them do. As a result, we've had to modify the early Web guidelines to a greater extent than what's usually necessary for usability guidelines.
Overall, though, whether you look at application or website guidelines, usability guidelines remain remarkably stable across decades. That's because they depend on human characteristics, which don't change that much.
Newer Web usability guidelines are likely to prove even more stable than the findings from the 1990s. So far, we have not revised a single guideline that we've discovered in research since 2000. Each time we study something again, the guidelines are reconfirmed. We continue to discover new guidelines and to retract some of the 1990s' guidelines, but all the guidelines documented since 2000 remain in force. I'm sure we'll eventually get a test result that causes one to be retracted, but this hasn't happened yet.
Learning from History
History shows that the enemies of usability never give up, even as they fight an ever-retreating battle.
One of the enemies' most insidious arguments goes as follows: "Yes, usability advocates were right in the past, but they are wrong now." By thus granting the obvious validity of well-established principles, they gain some credibility in rejecting recent user research.
- In 1995, the enemies of usability said that user testing might be a good way to improve applications, but that it didn't work for websites. (Ironically, these same people say the opposite today: that usability methods might work for websites, but not for applications.)
- In 2000, the enemies of usability said that the usability guidelines might be fine for static websites, but that I was crazy in warning against excessive use of Flash, which "obviously" made for more exciting, dynamic sites.
- Now, the enemies of usability say that while I was perhaps right about the early Flash problems, it's not reasonable to apply traditional usability guidelines to "Web 2.0" which proponents claim will revolutionize everything and do away with all that we know. (No, it won't.)
The people who now say that the usability findings from 5 or 10 years ago are obvious are the exact same people who vehemently rejected them at the time.
I safely predict that in 2012, these same enemies of usability will write blog postings saying "sure, Jakob Nielsen might have been right in 2007, but he doesn't get the fancy new stuff we do here in 2012." Those of us who bother doing the user studies will be laughing in 2017, when everybody finally agrees that the research findings from 2012 were right on target. He who laughs last, laughs best.
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I have been successful in managing contact groups with OS X's Contacts.app and iCloud.com, but haven't found a way to do this as of iOS 9.
Is there a way to manage contact groups on iOS (iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch) ?
No, there is no way to create or edit contact groups on iOS. I share your frustration! The best workaround is to use iCloud.com (or your primary Mac, if you have it with you).
Also, there is a way to add contacts to a specific group on iOS, though it's not obvious:
Now when you create and save the contact, it'll save it in that specific group. You can then go back to the Groups list and reenable all your groups.
The answer is simple and yet dissatisfactioning: NO (with standard apps).
EDIT: There are some apps on the AppStore which enable this feature. One of them is "Groups Free". At least it adds groups to my iCloud account.


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targa240z.com is a performance enthusiast site dedicated to the Datsun Z car and Independent Motorsports (NL) entry in the 10th running of the Targa Newfoundland International Tarmac Rally.
Show Winners
Here are the winners of this years AZCC rally held at the 2010 Atlantic Nationals in Moncton.
240Z Rejean Desjardins
260Z Jeffrey Richard
280Z Dan Leblanc
280ZX Allan Leblanc
300ZX(Z31) Aron Tavender
300ZX(Z32) Shane Foote
350Z Danny Comeau
370Z Jane&Brian Burris
Best Overall Richard Desjardins 240Z
Long Haul Award James 'Scotty' Knox of Port Mouton, NS with his
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I was using ibus-avro with ibus input method to write Bengali in Ubuntu 12.04. Recently I have upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10, now ibus-avro was removed. I have tried to install it again but was getting error message as follows
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This is not my area of research, but I am curious. Let $G=\left< X|R \right>$ be a finitely presented group, where $X$ and $R$ are finite. There are many questions which are undecidable for all such $G$, for example whether $G$ is trivial or whether a particular word is trivial in $G$. Is there any non-trivial question (by trivial I mean that the answer is always yes or always no) which is decidable? For instance, is there a class $S$ (non-empty and not equal to all the finitely presented groups) such you can always decide whether $G$ is in this class?
The problem whether $G$ is perfect, that is $G=[G,G]$ is decidable because you need to abelianize all relations and solve a system of linear equations over $\mathbb Z$.
Many of the undecidable properties of finitely presented groups are verifiable i.e. if they are true, then they can be proved true. Such properities include trivial, finite, abelian, nilpotent, free, automatic, hyperbolic, isomorphic to some other specified finitely presented group.
As a follow-up question, are there any properties of finitely presented groups that are known to be neither verifiable nor for there negation to be verifiable? Might solvability be such a property?


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Phil Ratliff was named Offensive Line Coach and Recruiting Coordinator, Jan. 1, 2012. He was with the program for three seasons, including the red-shirt season of 2012, the inaugural season in 2013 and Season Two in 2014. He passed away Aug. 9, 2015.
In the 49ers first season, the offensive line was a source of pride as head coach Brad Lambert and his staff sought to build the program from the inside out. The solid corps helped the 49ers young team put up stout offensive numbers and ultimately rank 11th in the FCS in fewest sacks allowed (9; 0.8/gm).
2014 brought another set of impressive offensive numbers (487.4 yds/game; 222.4 rushing yds/gm; 12 sacks allowed) and included the 49ers first-ever 1,000-yard rusher (Kalif Phillips, 1441 yds.).
Spring of 2015 brought more highlights. One of Ratliff's proteges with the 49ers, offensive lineman Daniel Blitch, became the first 49er to be invited to an NFL preseason camp when the Carolina Panthers invited him to rookie minicamp, this spring. Blitch, who graduated in December, 2014, spent three years with the 49ers offensive line, including the red-shirt season of 2012, the 49ers inaugural season of 2013 and Season Two in 2014. In Ratliff's previous stop at Marshall, he also recruited and coached Eric Frohnapfel, who finished his career at Marshall last fall and signed with San Diego Chargers as a free agent, this spring. In addition, another of Ratliff's pupils at Marshall, Lee Smith, who played four years with the Buffalo Bills, recently signed a three-year, $9.1 million contract with the Oakland Raiders. Gator Hoskins, who also played for Ratliff at Marshall, played with the Miami Dolphins in 2014 before joining the Seattle Seahawks.
The 49ers have been able to secure two of the past three winners of the Hunt Award, which goes to the top lineman in West Virginia (Eugene German, 2012; Trevor Stacy, 2014).
A two-time all-America on the offensive line at Marshall who has been inducted into the school's athletic Hall of Fame, Ratliff was the Thundering Herd's Tight Ends coach for six years (2006-11).
He joined Marshall's coaching staff after spending two years at James Madison, helping the Dukes to the 2004 NCAA Div. I-AA National Championship. Ratliff played at Marshall from 1989-92 while Lambert was on the coaching staff and captained the Thundering Herd's 1992 NCAA Division I-AA National Championship team. As a coach, he helped the Herd to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in 2009 and Beef O'Brady's Bowl in 2011.
"He played for us at Marshall and he was a very intense player. He will bring that intensity to the offensive line," Lambert said. "He's coached at all levels: high school, FBS, FCS. He's recruited the Charlotte area in particular for a number of years and that's very important to us. He'll do a great job with the guys, handling the players and do a great job representing our university with his integrity and character."
Following his playing days, Ratliff was a student assistant at Marshall (1993), defensive coordinator at Lawrence County (Ky.) H.S. (1994-99) and coach at Spring Valley (W. Va.) H.S. (2000-03).
A native of Louisa, Ky., Ratliff received his bachelor's degree in elementary education with a specialization in special education from Marshall in 1994. He and his wife Jenni have two children: Haley and Dylan. They live in Harrisburg, N.C.
Phil Ratliff
Marshall, 1994
2-time all-America (offensive line)
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Charlotte, 2012-14
2012-14: Offensive Line; Recruiting Coord
2013: 5-6; Inaugural Season
2014: 5-6
Marshall, 2006-11: Tight Ends
James Madison, 2004-05:
Spring Valley H.S., 2000-03
Lawrence County (Ky.) H.S. 1994-99: Defensive Coordinator
Marshall, 1993: Student Assistant
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Salvo�s Pathology presents more than just a parade of diseases. It takes the reader through health assessment and client consultation, covers sanitation and hygiene, refreshes on physiology pertinent to the pathology and pathophysiology covered in the text, and talks about general contraindications and endangerment sites before moving into the pathologies themselves. More than 300 pathologic conditions are covered in chapters divided by system. An entire chapter on Cancer and another on Mental and Emotional Illness are new additions to this edition. Each pathology presents the following information: Description, Signs and Symptoms, Etiology, Treatment, and Precautions. Pathologies are also accompanied by full color illustrations and photos plus a traffic light icon indicating whether it is safe to proceed with massage (green), there are cautions (yellow), or the massage is contraindicated (red). Local contraindications are distinguished with an "L,� to indicate massage is unsafe only in certain areas and the therapist can proceed with the massage for the rest of the body. Helpful appendices and a glossary round out the book.
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I need to replace some guylines on one of my tents. I normally use some paracord lying around but they have been getting tripped over more and more. I found some glow in the dark paracord, but before I buy this stuff I wanted to know, has anyone used it? How well does it work? Is there something else I am better off using to prevent kids from tripping over it?
One of my tents has fluorescent paracord - it doesn't glow in the dark, but is incredibly bright and can easily be seen. We also attach some of it as guidelines when pitched in wilder areas to help the kids find their way to the tents in the dark. It works well - typically the only people who trip over them are adults...if they have had one two many glasses of wine...
Glow in the dark sounds like a good idea though - if it is at a reasonable price I would suggest getting it anyway and trying it.
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However, it seems here the question alludes to kids tripping over the lines, which isn't necessarily a problem that should just be solved by making the lines more visible (though of course it's a good step and certainly helps.) I'd also suggest the following two points:
I propose using whatever cord is strong enough, inexpensive, and compact, then marking it with fluorescent surveyor's tape.
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Colgan Crash Experience
February 13, 2009, 03:17:06 PM »
Here's what Fox news is saying: "Colgan Air First Officer Rebecca Shaw, who has been with the airline since January 16, 2008, and had flown 2,244 hours with Colgan."
For the sake of discussion, let's say 16-JAN-08 is 392 days ago (365 days in a year plus 27 more for the period 16-JAN-09 until today, 13-FEB-09).
When I divide 2244 hours by 392 days, I get 5.72 hours per day of flying. This seems an almost impossibly high number of hours.
Anyone know anything about duty assignments at Colgan?
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February 13, 2009, 04:05:23 PM »
They (CNN) are known to cross their numbers. It may be her total time, or her years are wrong. As for the accident I responded this to an earlier blog:
It looks like everything happened right as they were coming up on the LOM (marker). She was cleared, established, coming over the LOM and had just been passed off to the tower by approach.
It looks like it is all ice related. That is the exact point where everything would have been deploying out and the power is being slightly reduced. The crash site is not even a half mile from the NDB-LOM ( KLUMP). It may be the result of a partial or un-equal deployment of any one of the flaps, slats, or gear… or just a total ice function effecting lift. The -8s only have leading edge boots and don't have heated or bleeding wings. I know a little Cessna can gain several hundred pounds a minute in really bad freezing rain. As for the slight LOC (localizer) fluctuation that was reported, that is normal when another aircraft crosses the LOC runway and that is what had happened as the aircraft that made that particular report was inbound. No one was crossing the active when 3407 was on the approach.
I am trying to figure out which it is. Ice effecting mechanical systems or Ice effecting the wings and weight. There are supposed to be sensors that prevent differential deployment of flaps, slats, and speed brakes, but I don't know the exact details of the -8 400s
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February 14, 2009, 03:38:43 PM »
You are correct about the Dash 8 not using bleed air in the wing anti-ice system. The only part of the ant-ice system that uses bleed air is around the engine inlets. My speculation concurs with the ice therory. Its strange that it droped out of the sky that fast and there was no mayday from the crew. If you listen to the recording, the co-pilots voice sounds relaxed in the begining, then the last transmission when they are handed off to tower, her voice sounds "hurried", but not distressed. Very strange.
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February 14, 2009, 09:17:13 PM »
My instructor and I had a chat about this on an instrument lesson today. Basically, if you're icing up, don't touch the flaps! Ice can cause such a drastic change to the wing profile that even when the flaps come down equally, it can upset the aerodynamic forces enough to upset the airplane in a hurry. In that case it is just better to carry the extra speed and land long than not at all.
When an aircraft is at or near the OM, they're only about 1600-1700 AGL. I'm not sure what approach speed they use, but as sudden as this situation developed, I doubt there was much time for recovery.
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February 15, 2009, 07:05:33 AM »
There was a recent Norwegian report about an incident where an ATR 42 suddenly lost 1500 ft due to icing.
Differences with Buffalo: the Norwegian pilots had no reason to extend the flaps and they were at higher altitude.
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February 16, 2009, 12:03:33 AM »
Being concerned about my going through my first winter with my new instrument ticket, I have been seeking out a lot of information about icing, from all sorts of sources. I watched a great presentation on icing (I think it was by the ASF, which has lots of great material). Two of the standout points were:
1) don't use the autopilot when experiencing icing
2) minimize configuration changes (ie. deployment of flaps).
Based on news reports in the last couple of days, it looks like both of these concepts weren't followed during this encounter.
At the very least, this can get the attention of many relatively inexperienced instrument pilots (such as myself) to hammer home these concepts.
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February 16, 2009, 04:15:33 PM »
Someone had mentioned tailplane stall and posted this NASA video
which I added here.
I know speculation is dangerous but I think we all want to know what happened and can't help but go through possible scenarios. According to the video, almost every requirement for this dreadful event had been met including aircraft design specifics.
Only one thing was different that I could think of. The stick shaker.. They got a main wing stall. Could this have been secondary to a tail stall?
I am sorry to speculate. Also, if you were personally affected by this disaster, know that many prayers and thought are with you.
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February 17, 2009, 01:52:14 AM »
3407 tail stall. Posted link to NASA video focusing on tail stall and icing.
This video connects the dots.
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February 17, 2009, 10:30:19 AM »
IF CGC3407 had an ice enduced tail stall then why did the aircraft pitch UP before it pitched down? if the tail stalls and looses lift which way dose the nose go? UP? the first upset dosent sound like a tail stall according to NASA.
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February 17, 2009, 10:43:41 AM »
Quote from: ogogog on February 17, 2009, 10:30:19 AM
IF CGC3407 had an ice enduced tail stall then why did the aircraft pitch UP before it pitched down?
Normally the horizontal stabilizer is an airfoil that produces downward lift, meaning under typical airflow it pushes down the tail and lifts the nose. Thus, if the horizontal stabilizer stalls it will lose its downward lift and the nose will fall. This is why recovery for a tailplane stall is to pull UP (which reduces the angle of attack on the horizontal stab), which is opposite of the stall recovery technique for the case of the main wings stalling.
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February 17, 2009, 10:58:48 AM »
that was the whole point of my question,to get people to think about what they are speculating about. in a tail stall nose goes down not up.so the question is what caused the pitch UP first?
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February 17, 2009, 11:05:16 AM »
With that thought, ogogog, do you recall the Lear tail icing audio clip that originally occurred back in March 2006 and was reposted to the clips forum a few days ago?
In that incident, the aircraft received a heavy amount of ice on its horizontal stabs (apparently that Lear model does not have any type of deicing capabilities on the stabs) while returning to Buffalo from Toronto. That aircraft then went into an uncommanded climb for 6,000 feet before the pilots could regain control. Fortunately the main wings didn't stall while the aircraft was climbing, as almost happened, or it would have been a pitch up followed by a violent pitch down.
I don't completely understand the physics of that particular incident.
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February 17, 2009, 02:49:16 PM »
FYI guys & gals,
The goal of my question was not to contribute to the race of beating the NTSB to the answer. They have more facts then we are ever likely to get. And they have engineers that are smarter then (me anyway). However, the sad truth in this case is that we may never know for certain exactly what happened. The biggest problem is that we cannot catch the culprit (the ICE) red-handed. We know there was ice but how will we ever know how much and where?
But I think it is important for flight crews (and potential future ones) to go through scenarios and learn from this. Not necessarily draw conclusions but just think. Like some of you are doing here and one of the above posts suggested. I don't know why the nose went up.. I don't know if there was a tail stall at all.. I don't know to what extent an autopilot could hide it if there was one.. The only thing I feel a little confident about is the stick pusher along with low IAS and high VS of impact suggests the end result was an unrecoverable main wing stall and apparently triggered by flap deployment.
They are not pleasant thoughts and they are likely to cause some anxiety next time you see ice –anywhere- on your aircraft (pilot or passenger). I know I have relatively carelessly flown through lots of it. I don't recall any FO or CA I ever worked with explicitly turning the AP off in light or even moderate ice buildup. And what is severe? Does anyone really know? I have never reported more then light or moderate icing to ATC because to be honest I don't know what severe looks like.
I will personally think of these Colgan crewmembers as brave, highly qualified professionals who did what they could to save a doomed airplane. This accident will likely have impact on air carrier training at some point. During my training at a number of different these, we did little more then gloss over the AE ATR accident (very similar). It was treated as an isolated case due to the ATR's boot and flap design resulting in some AD's. Well as of last week, this is no longer the case..
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Quote from: carrrchanged on February 17, 2009, 02:49:16 PM
And what is severe? Does anyone really know? I have never reported more then light or moderate icing to ATC because to be honest I don't know what severe looks like.
As a GA pilot who is based and flies just downwind of the US Great Lakes, I use the concept of how fast the ice accretes to determine the severity of ice (using an observation of normally a few minutes at most), since all ice accretion above a trace left to continue building would eventually become extreme. Thus, it is how fast it builds in a few minutes, not how large the accretion eventually becomes, and believe me, I am not waiting around much past 30 seconds of observation before I am on the frequency asking for another altitude.
With that in mind, I have experienced what I consider unforecasted/unknown severe icing in both a C172 and a Bonanza V35. In both these cases the ice accumulated to about a 1/2" inside of a couple of minutes. My Bonanza is equipped with a TKS weeping wing (a glycol mixture leaks out of all leading edges) but ice build-up can still be seen on some unprotected parts of the aircraft.
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Quote from: n204wt on February 13, 2009, 03:17:06 PM
Here's what Fox news is saying: "Colgan Air First Officer Rebecca Shaw, who has been with the airline since January 16, 2008, and had flown 2,244 hours with Colgan."
For the sake of discussion, let's say 16-JAN-08 is 392 days ago (365 days in a year plus 27 more for the period 16-JAN-09 until today, 13-FEB-09).
When I divide 2244 hours by 392 days, I get 5.72 hours per day of flying. This seems an almost impossibly high number of hours.
Anyone know anything about duty assignments at Colgan?
I don't know about duty day assignments at Colgan, but I used to be in pilot crew scheduling for Southwest. There are 2 things that factor in: Maximum duty as specified in the union contract (I don't know if Colgan was unionized) and maximum block time as allowed by the FAA. Maximum duty day by the union is between 8 to 12 hours (there was an additional rule at some point that the pilot had to agree to go over a certain amount of duty. I forget what the limit was), depending on what time the pilot's show time was. But the maximum SCHEDULED block time allowed by the FAA is 8 hours. And the airline can get fined by the FAA if they don't catch these legalities in time to stop the pilot from going over, like by rerouting him/her or just have them deadhead or something. The 8 hours can only be exceeded if UNSCHEDULED, which is something that would result from holds or waiting in line for departure. For Southwest, app. 6 hours of block per day would not be uncommon. I don't know if it is for Colgan.
And, I would bet money they are talking about her total time. FAA regs restrict the amount of block time for 1 year to 1,000 hours and also 100 hours per month and 30 hours per week for commercial airline ops.
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February 17, 2009, 09:28:18 PM »
that`s right, the std aviation regulation of the world, icao, faa, jaa, caa. says that the top in one year, 365 days of hour of an airline pilot is 900 hrs, 270 in 3 months and 30 in a week.
in my job in Venezuela we make 800 hrs per year in dc 9`s and in a jet is too much, in a turboprop acft is a normal ride because is a slower type of plane. but 2244 in 13 months? no way
a pilot with 2244 hrs as f/o in a dash 8? i don't think so, dash 8 is not a difficult acft .with easier systems than the dash 7 and more efficients flight controls. the normal rating to upgrade a pilot of dash 8 to the left side is almost 1.800 hrs with recently experience in prop light acft
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February 18, 2009, 01:14:49 PM »
I use the concept of how fast the ice accretes to determine the severity of ice (using an observation of normally a few minutes at most), since all ice accretion above a trace left to continue building would eventually become extreme. Thus, it is how fast it builds in a few minutes, not how large the accretion eventually becomes
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