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I am not sure NN can handle this fish eye lens
I am not sure NN can handle this fish eye lens
I don't see why not. It comes with a lens ring mount that looks to be 3/8". So using QRS it should mount fine on "lower" rail of NN5
Do you know the NPP?
Measurements are 236 diameter x171mm, 160mm from lens flange.
I believe it would be at the widest point of the largest lens element similar to that of the FC-E9.
This is the largest fish eye lens that I have ever seen. I came across ebay listing and post it here.
and the most expensive - I believe Jook Leung uses this lens from time to time (http://360vr.com)


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Portsmouth Herald: Feds have 'mistreated and betrayed' city
The arrogance and bad faith of the federal General Services Administration in its dealings with city officials regarding the transfer of the T.J. McIntyre Building in the heart of downtown Portsmouth simply boggles the mind.
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The 6 Most Reckless Uses of Radioactive Material
#3. The U.S. Government Shot at Toxic Waste Barrels to Make Them Go Away
As discussed above, sometimes we simply can't figure out what to do with nuclear waste, at least not anything that could be in any way considered "wise" or "safe." In the 1950s, the U.S. Navy decided to quit pussyfooting around with all of that nonsense and dumped barrels of waste off the coast of San Francisco. The problem is that sometimes the barrels tend to want to float, which is bad news, so they shot cannons at them until they sank.
"They've got a big target symbol on them, right?"
The waste included scores of dead animals experimented on by nuclear research facilities and 55-gallon drums of radioactive mystery. Representatives from the Atomic Energy Commission would occasionally drop by to review the amount of radioactivity on the ships to determine whether or not they should be cleaned before taking on another toxic load, because apparently that makes a fucking difference. Today the government estimates about 48,000 barrels of waste were dumped in the bay, but gallantly refuses to provide any kind of documentation as to what, specifically, that waste might be.
"We shot up all the paperwork, too. Our pens were out of ink."
Similarly, at a disposal site in Idaho, buried nuclear waste containers would sometimes be exhumed by flooding, bobbing to the surface and challenging the long-held national belief that when you bury things or toss them into the sea, they cease to exist. Naturally, the government's response to the newly unearthed sludge was to break out the firearms and shoot at it until it sank again.
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"Just take out everything above sea level."
Then they realized the water in the area was now contaminated ("But how, damn it?"), so the topic of removing the waste altogether is currently being fiercely debated to the tune of millions of dollars in litigation.
#2. A Guy Tried to Build a Nuclear Reactor in His Kitchen
Richard Handl is a Swedish man who wanted to see if he could build a nuclear reactor in his own home, perhaps because he thought he'd never have to pay an electricity bill again. It's called being proactive, people!
In 2011, Handl began his strictly amateur plans to split the atom in the precise manner that a person with no business splitting the atom would -- he went online and ordered radioactive material on eBay. He bid on a strange combination of items, including smoke detectors, glowing watch hands and some straight-up uranium (the seller of which couldn't recall where it had come from). In one of his experiments, he started cooking americium, beryllium and radium in sulfuric acid on the stove to see if he could cause a nuclear reaction. Stunningly, the concoction exploded in his face.
We are at a loss as to how this could have possibly failed.
Eventually, Handl began to worry that experiments intended to split the atom to pass the time might not be legal, which is typically a concern you address before anything explodes. So he did what anyone would do and called the police to check. Not wanting to trivialize his scientific pursuits, the police told him what he was doing was "pretty stupid" and immediately detained him to inspect his apartment for radioactivity.
Which took a while because uranium marbles goddamn.
When directly questioned about the safety of unleashing radiation in his home, Handl dismissively pointed out that he had a Geiger counter, which suggests that he doesn't fully understand exactly what a Geiger counter does. Regardless, the police determined that his house was clean and he was quickly released from custody. Handl shut down the blog that he had been keeping on his experiments and claimed he would be moving on to purely theoretical nuclear physics.
And radioactive-based lock-picking services.
#1. The U.S. Government Unleashed Radioactive Clouds in Populated Areas. For Science.
During World War II, the U.S. was scrambling to become the first and only member of the nuclear arms club. But as the years wore on, the Americans began to fear that other countries, in particular the Soviet Union, might have used their communism powers to scrape together their own nuclear program.
The only question was figuring out a way to confirm it. The U.S. reasoned that if the Soviets had reactors, they would emit enough radiation to create a radioactive cloud. Therefore, all they had to do was look for these clouds to find any secret reactors the USSR was hiding.
No reactors here. Just the Earth burning down two blunts.
To test their measuring instruments, government scientists naturally decided to create their own radioactive clouds, which they did in the Pacific Northwest, in a place called Hanford, Washington, in 1944. Without telling anyone.
It didn't stop there. Later on in the war, the government seized the whole town and gave its residents 30 days to pack up and leave. The town's population was replaced with engineers and scientists, forming an arm of the Manhattan Project. Starting in 1944, over the next three years the Hanford nuclear plant released huge amounts of radioactive particles into the air, something in the neighborhood of hundreds of thousands of curies of iodine-131 (to compare, about 15 curies of iodine-131 were released during the Three Mile Island core meltdown).
Where the Old West greets the new facial tumors.
Then came Operation Green Run. In December of 1949, the government took the filters in the stacks at the weapons plant in Hanford and just shut them the fuck off, releasing thousands more curies of radioactive material directly into the atmosphere and daring future Americans to even try to guess what the hell they thought this would accomplish.
But at least they tried to get rid of some of the waste material by feeding it to the sheep, for fuck's sake.
When all this was declassified decades later, the people potentially affected by this radiation festival included not only the residents around Hanford in Washington but also folks in Idaho and Oregon, because clouds tend to move when anything resembling wind touches them. To top it all off, neither the exact number of test clouds released nor the identity of the person or people who authorized them are known for certain, which we feel just adds to the charm of being secretly irradiated.
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I am saving 3 different file sizes of PNG's (1" x 2", 2" x 3", 3" x 4"). When I place them all in Indesign or MS Word they are all the same size. All of them show up in their folder as different sizes. Why is this?
There's a few important factors here:
In Photoshop, the zoom level is linked to the pixel dimensions of the file. If Photoshop says it's zoomed to 100%, that means one pixel in the file is being displayed as one pixel on your display.
In InDesign, because it's predominately a print design app, images are placed so that the PPI is respected. InDesign assumes the display you're using is 72PPI (which almost certainly won't be correct, but ignore that for now), so an image that's 72PPI will appear the same size in Photoshop at 100% zoom as InDesign at 100% zoom.
I have no idea what Word does. It's probably like InDesign, because that's how most print-centric apps work.
It depends what your final goal is, but getting the images to appear at the correct size in InDesign and Word should be fairly easy. If you're printing, you probably want the images to show as the correct physical size in Image Size under the Image menu in Photoshop, with Pixels/Inch set to 300PPI. If you're sending the Word doc to people for on screen use only, you may want it to be far lower.
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I've seen some tags that are referencing specific functions within a programming language. However, these functions are only defined in the one programming language (AFAIK), and I'm wondering if these sorts of tags are appropriate for SO.
Most of these tags don't have a wiki and have few questions attached to them. Almost all of them are appropriately tagged with the language that defines the function.
Examples include (I hang around in php):
- include-once
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- stripos
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- simplexmlelement
- simplexml-load-file
- preg-match-all
- preg-match
- preg-replace
- implode
- explode
- fgetcsv
There are more, in fact there are at least 205 tags whose name matches a PHP function name on posts that are also tagged PHP. I'm sure such tags exist for other programming languages as well.
So, are these tags relevant and appropriate for SO, or are they just adding clutter?
Edit: There is also a lot of ambiguity here, for example:
- simplexml-load-file is a tag, simplexmlloadfile is not, yet simplexmlelement is.
- inarray and in-array both exist.
- numberformat and number-format both exist.
- dateformat and date-format both exist (very ambiguous, has implications in Java while still being the name of a PHP function)
Maybe these tags are best suited as synonyms. However, I think more needs to be done than just "allowing all tags whose names match functions", even if it's just establishing a best practice.
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Setting out to prove the catchphrase "fake it till you make it" correct, some nobody named Brett Cohen made himself look like a somebody by hiring photographers, bodyguards, and other hangers-on to follow him around Times Square and make him look famous.
It worked like a charm:
While the assistants and photographers waited for Brett to exit the 49th street marquee at NBC Studios, they started a buzz that a "big star" was about to walk out, thus making it worth their while to wait and get a picture. Many asked the crew who Brett was, and no answer was given. They were forced to either make something up, or just take a picture with him in hopes that their Facebook friends or Twitter followers might have a better idea.
As the crew walked over to Times Square, the crowds around Brett grew on each consecutive block. Very few people even questioned who he was, where he was from, or what he does. Brett took pictures with nearly 300 people before the stunt ended.
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I'm currently developing a website where users will be able to upload content. I would like to be able to show a full-page ad whenever someone tries to view the content. The ad should take up most of the screen, and I should be able to have a "continue to the content -->" link at the top. Preferably, I want something like what is currently on Forbes (if you haven't seen it, here: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome.shtml but with an ad in the black area). Of course, the most revenue is the best.
What you are looking for is an "Interstitial Ad". I didn't look into it too much, but found these two providers:
On the off chance you have custom advertising, or that your current provider has larger sizes available and just not specifically this interstitial functionality, it's actually pretty simple to build yourself.
This is much less complicated than it looks with the list nesting; there's relatively little actual code involved. I'm just trying to keep the logic fairly clear:
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When you refer to the deceased, you say "the late so and so." How long can you say that? Is JFK referred to as the late John F. Kennedy? How about Abraham Lincoln?
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There is no set limit to how long one can refer to a deceased person as late.
The consensus of opinion seems to hover around 15–30 years. However, if the person is unknown to the audience, one can use it for much longer (my late husband can refer to someone who died 50 years ago).
The late William Safire (December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009), American author, columnist, journalist, presidential speechwriter, and all-around expert on speech, suggested 15 years.
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From: Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage, Second Edition (1985) William and Mary Morris: There is no precise time element involved in determining how long a person must be dead before he is no longer considered late. As a general rule, late is used in reference to persons whose death has occurred within the twenty or thirty years just past. On the other hand, it is proper for an elderly person to refer to a contemporary who has preceded him in death as "the late."
Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (1989): ...Here are a few opinions: ...the statute of limitations might run for half a century" --Bernstein 1971 "As a general rule, late is used in reference to persons whose death has occurred within the twenty or thirty years just past" --Harper 1975 "... 'the late' is used for about ten to fifteen years after death" --Safire 1984
You can say it for as long as you like, they're dead forever. The late X is a euphemism for the dead X.
People stop when the fact that someone is dead is general knowledge, but they don't have to stop.
It's useful if there is a living famous person with the same name as a dead famous person.
There is no limit, it's just a matter of style. It kind of seems superfluous at some point, especially if you're speaking of somebody everybody you're speaking to knows is dead and has long stopped grieving.
EDIT: This is a point of style, not correctness. The one time I might use "the late" when referring to a long dead person is when I'm specifically trying to emphasize the tragedy of the death. For instance, if I were speaking to The United States Secret Service about the folly of convertible tops in cars used for Presidential motorcades, I might refer to JFK as "the late".
It depends on whether you want the highlight the fact that they are dead. You wouldn't say "the late JFK", because everybody knows he's dead. If you are, say, talking about a present her late husband gave her, that's another story. So, short answer: it depends.
The Oxford English Dictionary's definition 5a of late 'Of a person: That was alive not long ago, but is not now; recently deceased.' Just what period of time 'long ago' and 'recently' refer to is a matter of judgement.
In the cases of Lincoln and Kennedy, it's not necessary to use it, because everyone knows they're dead.
The following entry by Garner in Modern American Usage (p499) addresses several of the points made by previous answerers and commenters on this question:
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STEUBENVILLE - Jim Marquis and Jason Hanlin carefully pushed their shopping carts through the toy aisles at Wal-Mart Monday looking for certain gifts for patients who will spend Christmas at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
"Every year we try to do something for kids. I saw the article about Trooper Ed Weigand and Dispatcher Diane Holubeck of the Ohio State Highway Patrol collecting toys for the kids in Children's Hospital and immediately called Jason who said he was thinking the same thing. We agreed this year we would buy new toys and donate them to the toy drive," explained Marquis, president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 1.
So Marquis and Hanlon, vice president of FOP Lodge No. 1, spent nearly an hour Monday shopping for special gifts for special children.
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SHOPPING FOR THE CHILDREN — Wal-Mart cashier Mamie Hershey prepares to check out the toys purchased Monday by the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 1 for children at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Setting the toys on the register conveyor belt were, from left, Jim Marquis, president of the FOP Lodge No. 1, Justin Nicholson, Wal-Mart store manager and Jason Hanlin, vice president of the FOP Lodge No. 1. - Dave Gossett
"I know I wouldn't want my daughter in the hospital on Christmas and Jason wouldn't want his son spending Christmas in the hospital. So we are doing our part to help bring Christmas to the kids in Children's Hospital," said Marquis.
Holubeck and Weigand have been collecting the toys at the patrol's Steubenville and St. Clairsville posts for the past 10 years.
They normally use a small truck to deliver the toys because of the response from the public.
"Wal-Mart has been very cooperative with us this year. They have been absolutely great," noted Marquis.
"We will spend several hundred dollars today for these gifts. It is money we raise every year through our drawings and our oldies show. We bring the money in and then turn around and spend it for special causes like this," explained Hanlin.
Two men walking through the store stopped to thank the Steubenville police officers, "For everything you do all year and especially at Christmas."
"Hey, these walkie-talkies look pretty neat. Someone can talk to his buddy in the next room," commented Hanlin.
Marquis spent several minutes looking for puzzles and stuffed animals for small children who will wake up Christmas morning confined to a hospital bed.
"The stuffed animals have to have embroidered, no button eyes," advised Marquis.
"Excuse me. Can you tell me where the Play-Doh is?" Hanlin asked a passing store clerk.
"Every kid likes Play-Doh," he added.
And, of course they collected card games as well as Apples to Apples, Monopoly along with puzzles, toy cars, toys for toddlers and videos.
And the two police officers made a final stop to choose slippers for the female patients.
Anyone wishing to donate new toys can contact the St. Clairsville or Steubenville posts at 740-264-1641.
The St. Clairsville post also can be contracted at (740) 695-0915 or the Steubenville post at (740) 264-9432 during daily business hours for information about arranging to make a donation of toys and gifts.
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How do I determine if a number is prime? I'm writing a program where a user inputs any integer and from that the program determines whether the number is prime, but how do I go about that?
For very small numbers (less than a million), trial division is the best way: divide by 2, 3, 5, and so on until the square root of the number. If you find a factor, the number is composite; otherwise, the number is prime.
For larger numbers there are better methods, but choosing which one depends on how much work you're willing to put into the program. It is now known that there are no BPSW-pseudoprimes below $2^{64}$, so if you can write that test (see here for details) then you have a very quick test for primality.
If you only need to test up to $2^{32}$, you can simply check if the number is a 2-strong pseudoprime. If so, test if it's one of 2314 exceptions (this can be done in 12 or 13 steps with a binary search); if the test fails or it's an exception, the number is composite, otherwise prime. (You can go higher than $2^{32}$ if you're willing to build an appropriate table of exceptions.)
For larger numbers, the work is usually split into two parts: determining with high probability (say, 99.99999999%) that the number is prime, then actually proving that it is. What type of proof depends on the form and size of the number.
Have the program find the remainder when dividing the input (say n) by 2, 3, 4, ..., $\sqrt n$ (or the following integer if $\sqrt n$ is not an integer.) If this value ever leaves a remainder of zero then your number is composite and you can stop checking divisors. If the remainder is non-zero for all of these values then your number is prime.
There are more efficient ways to check primeness but this is probably the easiest way to program it and I imagine will suffice for your purposes. Unless you are checking very very large numbers?
There are many different algorithms for primality testing. See the Wikipedia page for an introduction and see Henri Cohen's book "A course in computational algebraic number theory" for further details. See also Caldwell's Prime Pages.
Algorithm posted by jericson is the best for basic purposes.
IMHO, for programming competitions and for practical purposes randomized algorithms are best. Rabin-Miller is my favorite.
Take a look at Rabin-Miller primality testing algorithm code @ TopCoder.
As primes are in P, there is deterministic, polynomial time algorithm called AKS primality test.
How do I mathematically determine if a number is prime?
If the number is n, then dividing it by every prime number less than or equal to sqrt(n) and showing that there is a remainder.
There are a number of different sieve solutions for finding prime numbers, the oldest and most famous of which is the Sieve of Eratosthenes. These are generally easy to programme and can, for example, find all of the primes below 100,000 in a few milliseconds on a modern processor.
Construct a list of primes up to the maximum input $n$. (Construct using prime sieves.) Then, trial division for every such prime $\le \sqrt{n}$. This should work.
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I have two Gmail accounts.
I'd like to log in to both of them at the same time in a single Firefox window.
How would I go about it?
I know one suggestion is IETab, but that fix has too much of a duct tape feel to it.
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Hurricane Sandy lost a little strength early Thursday evening but still remains a Category 2 storm, the National Hurricane Center reported in its 7:00pm advisory.
The hurricane has sustained winds of 100 mph - slightly weaker than the 105 mph reported just three hours earlier. Its eye is 105 miles east of the island nation's capital.
Hurricane Sandy remains a Category 2 storm, according to the late afternoon update from the National Hurricane Center.
Its strongest sustained winds are still 105 mph. But a larger area is experiencing hurricane-force winds, which now extends 35 miles out from the hurricane's eye, than was the case earlier Thursday afternoon.
As of 4:00 Central time Thursday, the storm was centered about 125 miles east-southeast of Nassau and chugging north at 20 mph.
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CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers warns that the storm will impact parts of the Northeast early next week, although the exact path remains unclear.


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Willie Dixon to Rosell Dixon Jr. and Catherine Coleman, lots 1-2, Dundale; and lots 242-243, Silver Stream Knolls No. 2 (survivorship).
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Levesque, 56, who is charged with murder and assault and battery, was ordered held without bail after being arraigned this morning in Fall River District Court.
Prosecutors said the shooting occurred after White and two men had gone to Levesque's Swansea home to confront one of his sons. Prosecutors said Levesque grabbed his legally registered .380-caliber handgun and drove after the three individuals after they left his property. The shooting occurred after Levesque cut off the individuals' vehicle and confronted them. White's companions told police that she was not armed with a crowbar.
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6 Oct 2011 2:37 AM #1
Ext Js 4 Line Chart issue - hovering area of the points is too large
hey everyone, I just started to learn about Sencha Ext JS 4 especially the Charting classes and recently I've come to a big issue:
I've generated a line chart and tried to apply tool tips on every point of the chart. The problem is that the hovering area of each point is way too large and when I try to hover a point which is very close to another point, the chart selects both of them. I'd like to somehow reduce this hovering area if possible, and I tried to look for a property in the Sencha Ext JS 4 documentation but I didn't find anything useful.
var seriesArray = new Array(); for (i = 0; i < dataArray.length; i++) { seriesArray.push({ type: 'line', highlight: { size: 7, radius: 7 }, axis: 'left', xField: 'name', yField: dataArray[i], markerConfig: { type: 'circle', size: 4, radius: 3, 'stroke-width': 0 }, tips: { trackMouse: true, width: 140, height: 28, renderer: function (storeItem, item) { this.setTitle(storeItem.get('name') + ': ' + storeItem.get(item.series.yField) + ' views'); } } }); } Ext.create('Ext.chart.Chart', { renderTo: document.getElementById("div0"), width: 500, height: 300, animate: true, store: store3, axes: [ { type: 'Numeric', position: 'left', //maximum: 50, fields: dataArray, label: { renderer: Ext.util.Format.numberRenderer('0,0') }, title: 'Sample Values', grid: true, minimum: 0 }, { type: 'Category', position: 'bottom', fields: ['name'], title: 'Sample Metrics' } ], series: seriesArray }); } });
Please help me someone,, Thank you very much !!!!
16 Jan 2012 2:16 PM #2
I have a very similar problem.
I figure its a config setting but have not found an answer yet.
Did you find anything?
27 Apr 2012 12:19 PM #3
Add the line:
Within the 'series' section.
series: [{
type: 'line',
axis: 'left',
xField: 'period',
yField: 'CPI',
smooth: true,
The larger the number, the greater the area when you hover your mouse over it, the smaller the number, the smaller the tolerance.


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15 Jun 2012 11:29 AM #1
[Answered] ExtJS 4.1 layout problem
All I've done here is take the example from the docs for a column layout panel with two child panels, and stick that in a window component, and the result is the window not centering itself on the page anymore and what looks to be broken title bars for the panels.
I am having a bear of a time trying to get this modal thing I'm working on to render right. I've tried using straight-up html content in the window, but the window does not respect the dimensions of the child container div. So now I'm trying to go the route of all ExtJS content in the modal, and as soon as I start adding panels like below, I get strange results.
var newModal = Ext.create('Ext.Window',{ renderTo: Ext.getBody(), id: 'hello', title: 'Modal Window Title', modal: true, border: 0, items: [{ xtype: 'panel', title: 'Nested Panel', layout: 'column', items: [{ xtype: 'panel', title: 'Child Panel 1', height: 100, columnWidth: 0.5, html: 'child panel 1' },{ xtype: 'panel', title: 'Child Panel 2', height: 100, columnWidth: 0.5, html: 'child panel 2' }] }] }); newModal.show();
Last edited by ogradyjd; 16 Jun 2012 at 10:12 AM. Reason: Question was answered
15 Jun 2012 2:43 PM #2
I would suggestion something like:
Ext.create('Ext.window.Window', { height: 200, width: 300, layout: { align: 'stretch', type: 'hbox' }, title: 'My Window', items: [ { xtype: 'panel', title: 'My Panel', flex: 1 }, { xtype: 'panel', title: 'My Panel', flex: 1 } ] }).show();
16 Jun 2012 2:33 AM #3
To elaborate a little...
The width and height of each component has got to come from somewhere. Sometimes components have a natural size, for example a button should wrap around its text, but in most cases there isn't any such size. In your example you haven't given your window a size so it will attempt to wrap around its children. However, you haven't given the child panel a size either, so it will also try to wrap around its children. Those two children have a fixed height but their widths are relative to their parent (0.5 each). Now we have a circularity and there's no way for the layout system to determine the widths of all the components.
16 Jun 2012 10:09 AM #4
That was one of the most lucid and complete answers I've seen on these boards. It always annoys me when I get an answer which lacks any kind of explanation, since that doesn't help me learn how not to make the same mistakes again. Now that I understand about the containers needing dimensions, it makes perfect sense. Please keep up the good work.
I guess I have one more question then:
In the example I gave, I set the html property to some text. I would have thought that the content of those child panels would result in widths, and the window would then shrink-wrap around them. Based on what you said, though, I'm thinking now that the column layout bases itself on the parent width and ignores the fact that the children actually have width from their own content. Am I right? - and if so, what's the best layout for shrink wrapping around the ultimate children's content, which will be panels with html divs?
16 Jun 2012 10:38 AM #5
Skirtle is always very helpful in the explanations.
It always annoys me when I get an answer which lacks any kind of explanation, since that doesn't help me learn how not to make the same mistakes again.
16 Jun 2012 12:26 PM #6
It took me a little while to figure out what was going wrong here.
If you take a look at the source to column layout:
you'll see this:
getItemSizePolicy: function (item) { if (item.columnWidth) { return this.columnWidthSizePolicy; } return this.autoSizePolicy; },
columnWidthSizePolicy: { setsWidth: 1, setsHeight: 0 },
When you think about it this makes sense. How can a column shrink-wrap the width of its content and also have a columnWidth of 0.5? That doesn't make sense.
On the face of it you should be able to fix this problem just be removing the columnWidth setting. I tried this but it didn't actually work. The columns rendered correctly but the surrounding panels didn't. My first thought was that you're missing a layout on your window (should probably be set to 'fit') but that didn't help either. It might be a bug in column layout though this type of usage might just not be supported, I'm not sure.
Column layout largely exists for historical reasons and it isn't used much in practice. I'd generally use hbox for something like this. With an hbox the same reasoning covered above applies: you can't specify both a flex and expect it to wrap the contents. So it might look something like this:
var newModal = Ext.create('Ext.window.Window', { //renderTo: Ext.getBody(), <- not needed, get rid of this //id: 'hello', <- fixed ids are evil, highly recommended not to use them title: 'Modal Window Title', modal: true, border: 0, resizable: false, // <- for shrink-wrapping like this you'll probably want to disable resize layout: 'fit', // <- the default layout is pretty useless, looks like you want fit items: [{ xtype: 'panel', title: 'Nested Panel', layout: 'hbox', // <- changed to hbox items: [{ xtype: 'panel', title: 'Child Panel 1', height: 100, html: 'child panel 1' }, { xtype: 'panel', title: 'Child Panel 2', height: 100, html: 'child panel 2' }] }] }); newModal.show();
18 Jun 2012 6:41 AM #7
Thanks again.
Still annoying... but perfectly understandable considering what you said. Sorry about the quip. Maybe a hard example of shrink wrapping in the Panel docs would be in order - considering that shrink wrapping is one of those holy grails of web layout?
Thanks again for the long explanation. Once I'm more well versed in ExtJS dev, I'll be sure to do the same for someone else. Your note about evil IDs is good, but I've found that I have to use a hard ID for the modal Window so that I can change the styling of the child Slider components without affecting any other sliders my site might use. For all else I am now switching to itemID.
18 Jun 2012 6:54 AM #8
I raised the column layout shrink-wrapping problem with someone on the ExtJS dev team and his initial view was that it's probably a bug. I'll be filing a bug report shortly but in the meantime you're probably better off using hbox anyway.
Regarding static ids, you shouldn't need them for styling either. Have you tried using the cls config (or maybe bodyCls) to add a CSS class to your window instead? If I've understood your requirement correctly then that should allow you to achieve the same effect.
18 Jun 2012 10:18 AM #9
Fully agreed. Just adding some html to a component xtype and trying to let the layout shrink around it seems like hit or miss. And then you get things like this from my not-that-complex layout:

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And yes, I just found all the different cls config entries and I'm playing around with them now while styling. That should negate any use of id for now.
Anyway, got to start custom styling my sliders now. Thanks again!
18 Jun 2012 3:14 PM #10
The 20000px thing is to be expected using an hbox layout. It solves a specific problem that occurs in some edge cases. Say, for example, you have a button in a container where all the widths are determined by the text on the button. If the container starts off too narrow then the text will line wrap and measuring the text's width will give the wrong answer. Slipping a very wide element in between isn't the most elegant solution but it does prevent this crushing effect. Unfortunately there isn't a fast way to add and remove this wide element on demand so it ends up being there all the time.


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12 Nov 2012 8:33 AM #1
Focus frame does not change size relatively focused component
Ext version tested:
- Ext 4.1.0
Browser versions tested against:
- FF 9 (Ubuntu 12.04) firebug 1.9.2 installed
- Chromium 20.0.1132.47 (Ubuntu 12.04)
- IE8 (Windows 7)
DOCTYPE tested against:
- html
- If focused component had changed width or height or both of them, focus frame of FocusManger does not change own sizes accordingly new component sizes.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- Run the sample in browser
- Click on textarea(focus it)
- Resize browser window
Steps to reproduce the problem (2):
- Run the sample in browser
- Click on textarea(focus it)
- Use mouse to resize panels by moving split line between panels
The result that was expected:
- Focused component should change width/height
- Focus frame should change width/height accordingly focused component
The result that occurs instead:
- Focused component changed width/height
- Focus frame does not change width/height and have old sizes
Test Case:
Screenshot or Video:
- See attached
See this URL for live test case: http://
Debugging already done:
- none
Possible fix:
MyApp.refreshFocusFrame = function () { if (Ext.FocusManager.focusedCmp) { var cmp = Ext.FocusManager.focusedCmp; //to see FocusManager source! Ext.FocusManager.focusTask.delay(10, null, null, [cmp, cmp.getFocusEl()]); } }; // Refresh focus frame after component resize Ext.override(Ext.AbstractComponent, { listeners: { resize: function () { MyApp.refreshFocusFrame(); } } });
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Operating System:
- Ubuntu 12.04
- Windows 7
Related bug behavior:
Same focus frame bug you can see with modal windows. Just open one. Set focus on it. And then resize it(or move to another location by window header). Window sizes will be changed(window will be moved) . But focus frame will stay on the same position with old size values.
Last edited by Qarea; 12 Nov 2012 at 9:44 AM. Reason: Possible solution and additional bug behavior.
13 Nov 2012 2:31 AM #2PHP Code:
According to our records the fix was applied for EXTJSIV-7741 in 4.2.0.
I need to fix this bug now, can I safely use my fix for production build?
5 Feb 2013 7:28 AM #3
Bug reproduced
I don't know what extjs version is this "EXTJSIV-7741 in 4.2.0 Sprint 3"
But in ExtJS 220.127.116.119 bug Reproduced
9 Apr 2013 12:45 PM #4
Not fixed in ExtJS 4.2.0 GA
Possible fix described in startpost now produces error:
TypeError: el is null ext-all-dev.js Line 26783


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2013 Geneseo Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees (clockwise from top-left): Amanda McKenzie Bagley '03, Lisa McKenzie Jackson '97, Jennifer Rettke Sprague '03 and P.J. McTigue Murdie '99
GENESEO, N.Y. - The SUNY Geneseo Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation is pleased to announce the 2013 SUNY Geneseo Sports Hall of Fame class. The group will be honored at the annual Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony slated for Saturday, September 28, 2013.
The 2013 class includes women's basketball and soccer dual sport star P.J. McTigue Murdie '99, cross country and track and field All-American Jennifer Rettke Sprague '03 and volleyball standouts Lisa McKenzie Jackson '97 and Amanda McKenzie Bagley '03.
Murdie played four seasons of basketball and three years of soccer for the Blue Knights and will be the fifth women's dual sport inductee and 15th overall. From her point guard position in basketball, the Tonawanda, N.Y. native scored 877 points, eighth on the Geneseo career chart at the time of her graduation. The two-time All-SUNYAC performer is third on the career lists for assists (482) and steals (227) and holds the school mark for assists in a season (186 in 1998-99) and game (16 vs. Potsdam). On the soccer pitch, the two-time All-SUNYAC player was the team MIP in 1996, claimed All-New York State recognition in 1997 and captained the Blue Knights to the NYSWCAA tournament championship in 1998.
A graduate of Oakfield-Alabama High School, Sprague was a four-year performer on the women's cross country and track and field teams, earning All-America honors in cross country in 2000 and in the outdoor 1,500 meters in both 2001 and 2003. She led Geneseo to four straight NCAA Division III Cross Country championships, won the SUNYAC individual cross country title in 2000 and is a member of the SUNYAC Cross Country Hall of Fame. On the track, Sprague is a five-time SUNYAC champion in the 1,500 meters (2 indoor, 3 outdoor) and a two-time SUNYAC titlist in the 800 meters. Her 2003 school record time of 4:29.52 in the outdoor 1,500 meters still stands today and her outdoor 800 mark of 2:13.74 stood for eight years before being broken in 2011.
Hailing from Pavilion, N.Y., Lisa McKenzie Jackson and younger sister Amanda McKenzie Bagley litter the SUNY Geneseo volleyball record book.
An outside hitter, Jackson led the Blue Knights to a record of 91-70 in her four seasons, including a stellar 73-25 mark over her final two seasons. The senior captain led Geneseo to a program-best 35-12 record in 1996, when the Blue Knights won the NYSWCAA tournament and participated in the NCAA Division III championships for the only time in program history. A first team All-SUNYAC pick in 1995, Jackson graduated first in career kills with 660 and first in career digs with 1,239, a number that still stands third all-time. She holds school records for digs in a season with 669 and service aces in a three-set match (11).
A four-time All-SUNYAC setter, Bagley paced Geneseo to a record of 82-68, including an ECAC tournament berth and a third place finish in the NYSWCAA tournament in 2002, when the Blue Knights went 25-13 and Bagley earned honorable mention AVCA All-East Region. More than 900 helpers higher than number two on the chart, 3,453 is Bagley's career assist record and she holds the top spot (1,338) and third place (1,300) on the single season assist list. In addition to her school records for career assists and assists in a season, Bagley claims the mark for assists in a three-set match (48), assists in a four-set match (61) and stands fifth in career digs with 1,143.
In addition to the four former student-athletes, the department will recognize super fan Allen Galbraith in the "Legends of the Blue Knights" category, as well as paying tribute to the 1996 and 2002 women's volleyball teams.


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I'm using the Geo Mashup plugin to display maps on my site. I've changed a pages template, so it now only lists pages from certain categories instead of listing them all, which has now effected my global map to only show maps from the first categories I specify should be listed.
I'm using:
<?php echo GeoMashup::map(); ?> to show the map. Is there a way to give the map a list of categories it should be displaying? I can't find anything to suggest how you would do this.


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Hemi 5.7L Junkyard TurboWritten by on March 1, 2013 1,000HP From a Lowly 5.7
For this junkyard turbo article, we decided to serve up a little bit of everything, starting with bolt-on boost to an otherwise stock Hemi motor. In our case, that stock motor was a '06 Hemi 5.7 from Dodge. Sporting the most recognizable performance name in the industry, the modern Hemi 5.7 had some big shoes to fill!
Perhaps overshadowed by the bowtie boys, the modern Hemi suffers only from a PR problem, as they offer every bit as much performance as their GM counterparts. Like the LS, both the 5.7L and 6.1L were blessed with impressive heads. The head flow allows the Hemi 5.7 to respond very well to even mild cam upgrades. Think of the modern Hemi as a motor equipped with race heads and a stock camshaft. Owners of small block (and some big block) Dodge motors would love the flow numbers offered by even stock Hemi heads, let alone ported versions (see the flow numbers in "Inside the G3 Cylinder Head," Oct. '12).
The boost came from HP Performance in Roswell, New Mexico, in the form of a single turbo kit. The kit was designed to bolt directly to the factory SRT8 exhaust manifolds and provide 7 psi of boost to the stock motor. The boost on this application was limited by the stock internal components of the motor and not the potential of the kit itself. As we will see in the second test, the kit offered exceptional performance on a dedicated application.
Junkyard Turbo
Impressed as we were with the result of adding boost to the stock motor, we decided to take things to the next level and really push the parts. To do this, we first needed a dedicated test motor, something that would withstand the rigors of elevated boost and power levels. Knowing that Hemi 5.7 truck motors are now becoming more common in wrecking yards, and that they make for impressive swap candidates in early Mopars, we decided to head off in that direction with our boost builder. After securing a Hemi 5.7 core motor, we tore it down and shipped it off to L&R Automotive for machining and prep for the Scat stroker kit. Though available and less expensive than the more desirable 6.1L, the displacement of the 5.7L was limited by the smaller bore size (3.917 versus 4.055). To increase the displacement, we increased the bore slightly (from 3.917 to 3.937) and installed a 3.795-inch Scat stroker crank (up from 3.58). The combination netted us a 6.1L-matching 370 cubic inches from our 5.7L junkyard turbo.
The forged steel Scat crank and 6.125-inch, 4340 rods were combined with a set of 0.020-over Probe Pistons. The pistons featured a 10cc dome to put the static compression ratio just under 10.0:1-a good compromise that would allow plenty of power in both normally aspirated and turbocharged trim. The assembled short-block was topped off with a set of ported 5.7L heads from Total Engine Airflow (TEA). Shipping our heads to TEA resulted in an increase in airflow from near 260 cfm to 315 cfm-more than sufficient to support our intended power levels. The stock valves were retained, but the heads were further upgraded with a set of 26918 valve springs and matching retainers from Comp Cams. The heads were secured using ARP head studs and Fel Pro MLS head gaskets. We selected a cam that promised to work well both in normally aspirated and turbocharged trim. The custom Comp hydraulic roller offered 0.589 lift (both intake and exhaust), a 239/247-degree duration split and a 114-degree LSA. The cam on our junkyard turbo was installed with the factory MDS lifters (though non-MDS lifters would be a better choice due to reduced weight).
Finishing off the stroker Hemi was a Milodon oil pan, pick up and windage tray combined with a new (factory) oil pump. Prior to the installation of the pump, we installed a double roller timing chain from Comp Cams that included the necessary spacers for oil pump clearance. On the induction side, we installed an aluminum SRT8 intake manifold and stock throttle body. The drive-by-wire throttle body was converted to manual (dyno) use by welding a shaft and rotator in place. It was also necessary to mill the front cover (it was from a truck application) to provide adequate clearance for the front-mounted throttle body (better to get a core or front cover from a car application). In anticipation of the expected power levels, we replaced the factory injectors with a set of 75-pounders. Tuning was provided by the Fast XFI/XIM management system and factory coil packs. Unfortunately we had no Hemi headers available for testing, so we were forced to run our normally aspirated test with a set of factory SRT8 exhaust manifolds feeding 2.5-inch collector extensions. Dedicated long-tube headers would likely increase the power output by 15-17 hp over the stock manifolds. The final step was to fill the crankcase with break-in oil from Lucas, and we were ready to roll.
After a computer-controlled break-in procedure, the normally aspirated Hemi was run in anger. Tuned by Westech's Ernie Mena, the stroker Hemi responded with peak numbers of 523 hp at 6,700 rpm and 456 lb-ft at 5,500 rpm. Torque production from the 370-inch Hemi exceeded 425 lb-ft from 4,300 rpm to 6,300 rpm. Now we were ready for some boost. On went the turbo kit from HP Performance, bolting directly to the factory SRT8 exhaust. The kit included an air-to-water intercooler, a turbo capable of supporting over 700 hp and the necessary plumbing to direct all that wonderful boost into our awaiting Hemi. After hooking up the plumbing, we were rewarded with 765 hp and 764 lb-ft at 8.8 psi of boost. Torque production exceeded 700 lb-ft even down at 3,500 rpm (the starting rpm for our dyno pulls) and carried this value all the way out to 5,600 rpm. Those were some impressive numbers considering the modest boost level and the fact that the small turbo from CX Racing was nearly out of steam.
Since the idea was to put the turbo kit from HP Performance to the ultimate test, we decided to step up in turbo size. The 76mm unit from Precision Turbo represented a huge jump in both power and price compared to the smaller unit from CX Racing. Sized to feed four-digit power levels, the Precision turbo would surely demonstrate whether the rest of the kit from HP Performance was up to snuff. Running dyno water through the massive air-to-air intercooler core (ice water would add even more power), the Precision turbo cranked out a peak boost pressure of 16.5 psi and easily topped the 1,000hp mark. The best numbers of the day were 1,051 hp and 915 lb-ft of torque. The stroker not only survived the abuse, but thrived and was ready for even more. Having successfully reached our goal of 1,000 hp and demonstrated the merits of the Hemi Helper turbo kit from HP Performance (to say nothing of the power potential of a turbo Hemi), we packed it in and called it a day.
Parts List
|76mm turbo
|CX Turbo*
|76mm turbo
|Custom camshaft
|Comp Cams
|Head bolts
|MLS gaskets
|Fel Pro
|Timing chain
|Comp Cams
|Turbo kit
|Hp Performance
|Oil pan
|Comp Cams
* Provided with kit
** Base kits
+ Price from www.summitracing.com
Scat 5.7L Hemi Stroker-NA vs. CX Racing Turbo-8.8 PSI The power curves illustrate two very important points, the first of which is the fact that our 5.7L Hemi stroker was no slouch in normally aspirated trim. Offering 523 hp and 456 lb-ft of torque, the 370-inch (6.1L) Hemi was plenty potent. Adding 8.8 psi of boost from the CX Racing turbo and HP Performance turbo kit improved things substantially. The Hemi Helper pushed the power numbers to 765 hp and 764 lb-ft of torque.
SCAT 5.7L Hemi Stroker-NA vs. Precision Turbo-16.3 PSI Sized for street boost levels on a stock motor, we knew we had to step up from the turbo from CX Racing to an even larger unit. Precision Turbo came through with our four-digit turbo by providing a 76mm unit of their own with a larger turbine and AR ratio. Running 16.4 psi, the turbo Hemi pumped out 1051 hp and 915 lb-ft of torque. If there is one thing better than a Hemi-it's a turbo Hemi!
At just over 16 psi, the Precision Turbo produced 1,051 hp, with at a little more power left in reserve. Since we officially exceeded our goal of 1,000 hp with two of the turbos, we saw no reason to get greedy and crank up the boost beyond that point.
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In addition to the custom cam, Comp Cams also supplied a double roller timing chain assembly. The timing chain included the cam retaining plate/chain tensioner and oil pump spacers for proper chain clearance (the double roller chain is wider than stock).Working with the new oil pump was a Milodon pan, pick up and windage tray designed specifically for the Hemi. With elevated engine speeds in store for our stroker, we wanted to ensure adequate oiling.The additional cubes and cam required additional airflow. The stock 5.7L Hemi heads were shipped off the Total Engine Airflow for some porting. In truth, the stock heads flowing near 260 cfm will support impressive power levels, but ported heads exceeding 315 cfm will always add power.Once back from Total Engine Airflow, the heads were installed onto the awaiting Scat short block. Don't forget, the lifters must be installed prior to head installation.The stock 5.7L injectors were not going to get the job done on our turbo Hemi, so we stepped up to a set of 75-pounders on loan from the guys at Kenne Bell. The taller (than stock) injectors required small spacers under the mounting pads.The 5.7L Hemi was originally equipped with an electronic drive-by-wire throttle body. For dyno use, this was converted to a manual version by welding a short shaft extension and rotary wheel to position the throttle ball. Note the milling of the front cover just below the throttle body. This was required to allow installation of the aluminum SRT8 intake manifold (6.1L SRT8 and 5.7L truck front covers & intakes are different).The kit from HP Performance was supplied with a single 38mm waste gate. The loads imposed on the engine dyno combined with our elevated power levels required an upgrade. Luckily Turbosmart supplied one of their trick, new Hyper-Gate38s. The lightweight waste gate featured a revolutionary new collar locking design that both helped reduce size, ease fitment, and speed up spring changes.The turbo kit from HP Performance featured a dedicated air-to-water core but we stepped up to this massive air-to-water intercooler from CX Racing. The sizable intercooler featured a 12x10x4.75-inch core, 3.5-inch inlet and outlets and even a pair of welded mounting brackets. Reducers were necessary to adapt the 3.5-inch inlet and outlet on the intercooler core to the 3.0-inch discharge tubing.
The smallest and most affordable turbo in the test was this 76mm from CX Racing. It has a 4-inch compressor inlet, with a 2.5-inch discharge, and 3-inch exhaust outlet. At 8.8 pounds, the Hemi made 765 hp and 764 lb-ft of torque.Turbine sizing is evident in this comparison between the .96 A/R CX Racing (far right), and 1.18 A/R Precision Turbo (far left). Sizing the turbo for the application is critical for the proper combination of boost response and ultimate power.


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By EARL COX
Sports Columnist
The Voice-Tribune
Newcomers to Louisville and Kentucky might think we spend our time being concerned about some strange things – to them.
For instance: The media have kept us up to date on "The Bridge" and how many pooches have been pooping on it without telling us how the Big Four Bridge came to be owned by the Henson family, whose members have been involved in radio for about half a century.
Until now.
Ed Henson, who now owns radio stations in Western Kentucky, said that after the family bought the bridge at auction for very little, his sister, Louisa, became "the mother of the bridge."
The Hensons used the bridge to promote their radio station WLRS by putting lights on the bridge at Christmas time, lighting the middle of the bridge with "LRS 102."
"She tried to give the bridge to the city one time, but was turned down!"
Added Ed: "We used it to raise money for Bridge The Gap for Kids, a non-profit organization."
Ed Henson remembered a time when the bridge could have been lost. "It caught on fire."
Rachel Report
Where else but Kentucky would the news media issue almost daily reports on the health of one of the greatest female horses in the history of racing? That would be Rachel Alexandra, who has been known to share what's on her mind from time to time with this writer.
For instance, I checked on Rachel and asked her, "How are things going?"
She was a bit testy. "How do you think I am? I just had a 150-pound colt. That was my second.
"If men had to have the babies, there would be just one per family."
Not in My Maker's
And then there's the bourbon scare.
Maker's Mark made worldwide news when it announced that it, in effect, was watering down its bourbon to increase the amount of whiskey because of a world-wide shortage caused by the popularity of Maker's Mark. "Not in my Maker's" was the loud and clear response.
Maker's Mark has since reversed that decision, announcing that they will keep the alcohol content at the original 45 percent.
I have known Bill Samuels Jr. and been a fan of his for a long time when he was head of Beam's Kentucky operation, the producer of Maker's. His son, Rob, succeeded his dad.
Bill Jr. was a talented writer and he used to produce catchy, humorous copy for his company's advertising.
Beam produces several other brands of spirits, including Basil Hayden bourbon. UK fans may be surprised that Hayden was an early basketball star and head coach of the Wildcats.
Full disclosure: I have been known to partake of Maker's.


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Mini Stock Seat Install - The Best Seat in the HouseWritten by on August 1, 2011 Contributors: Pete Epple City Boy gets a new Kirkey seat and several more safety upgrades as we prepare to finish the rollcage install
The white flag was out. I looked right, my eye line just cresting the head support of my Kirkey seat and all I could see was the blur of lights and the nose of another racer.
Brakes. Downshift. Turn. We're coming out of Turn 4 and I'm planted into the aluminum seat, neck and neck with the other driver and I reach for the shifter one last time. I pull back and hammer down even harder than before and start to pull ahead.
Five hundred feet and closing to the finish, inches separating my competitor and me. Three hundred feet. We're getting closer and City Boy is starting to inch away, just five more seconds to the finish.
The crowd is going wild and I make one last attempt to put my foot all the way through the..."Seriously dude. Get out of the car, I have to finish welding this seat bracket."
Damn it Pete Epple! But, he was right. This seat certainly wasn't about to install itself and before I can spend any more time daydreaming about racing, we have a long way to go.
In fact, since you last saw the City Boy get the initial rollcage work done, Pete and I (mainly Pete) have spent countless hours and many late nights working on the car after work, without seeing much visible progress. But honestly, that's OK, since much of the effort here is really spent thinking things out, measuring, checking and measuring some more before making any cuts.
In this edition of the City Boy chronicles, we're going to spend some time talking about properly installing a seat in our Mini Stock as well as going over our complete plan for fortifying the rollcage and adding some much needed safety to the driver's compartment.
If you recall, when we left you last, we were waiting on a new full-containment seat to arrive, so that we could build a solid seat structure, install it into the Mustang, and finish the rest of the horizontal door bars.
Not a couple of days after calling up Summit Racing and placing our order, complete with measurements, we had a Kirkey 18 Degree Layback Full Containment seat hanging out in our mailroom and enough DOM tubing to almost finish our project.
Now, we know what you're thinking and yes, an 18-degree layback full-containment seat may sound like overkill in a Mini Stock, but you just can't put a price on safety. Actually, to that end, you can put a price on safety and the Kirkey only cost us 565 bucks, which is far cheaper than a trip to the hospital, or even one visit to a chiropractor.
The Kirkey is also extremely comfortable and thanks to the TIG-welded, 0.100-inch thick 5052-grade aluminum construction; it's light enough to use in our project without any concern.
As we said, ordering the seat from Summit Racing was easy, but mounting it in the Mustang was an entirely different story. To keep it in place and safe, the fabricators at Kirkey Racing recommend attaching it to the chassis in six places—four under the seat bottom and two just below the shoulder belt area.
Being that our Mini Stock Mustang still has the stock floor intact, we could have used it as a base for our seat, but the position was all wrong (too low) and the stock sheetmetal in these cars is flimsy and thin from day one, let alone several generations later.
With the floor ruled unsafe by our lead fabricator, Pete Epple, we got to work installing a hoop that attached to our lowest horizontal door bar, the stock rear interior bulkhead of the Mustang and the main hoop's horizontal bar, a design that basically created a floating tube frame to which we could secure our seat. To get the layback correct (18 degrees), Pete simply fabricated a square lower bar, which welded to the floor hoop and bolted the seat in place.
Wondering how we went from installing a really nice and pre-bent Competition Engineering 'cage kit to bending our own hoops? Enter Lowbuck Tools and the company's awesome Lowbuck Hydraulic Tubing Bender.
Built for anyone looking to bend tubing without the hassle and expense of a gigantic setup (that would be us!), the Lowbuck bender comes pre-assembled and ready to work right out of the box.
To use it, Pete literally pulled it out of the box, placed in on the floor of our makeshift chassis shop, and started bending. At $510, it certainly lived up to its name and, along with the Lowbuck notcher that we showed you last time and a band saw that we borrowed from a friend (thanks Marc), we were able to bend, notch, cut, and weld almost anything we can think of, without having to shell out our hard-earned, and much needed, cash to a real chassis shop. Anyway, enough about the cool stuff, let's get to work!
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With the bar cut, Pete and Editor Fisher positioned the end of the tube into our Lowbuck Tools' tubing notcher and put the squeeze on the mild steel. It may look too good to be true, but the Lowbuck notcher works great with just a tiny bit of elbow grease.After tacking the driver-side lower bar in place, Pete cut two additional bars for the passenger side and tacked them in as well. Notice how Pete uses a ratchet strap to hold the tubes tight before tacking them for a quality fit and finish.Time to break out the Lowbuck Tools' tubing bender, which is a self-contained, super-simple tubing bender that can handle 90-degree bends with ease. Like the Lowbuck tubing notcher, the simple looks can be deceiving……but the Lowbuck Tools' bender works like a charm. We didn't even have to bolt it down to anything to make it work, which makes this the perfect tool for anyone working in small spaces or on borrowed time at someone else's shop.All that bending, which was, as we said, super simple, resulted in this 90-degree bar, which we are going to use as the base of our seat mount. The side closest to you will weld to our lower horizontal door bar, while the opposite end attaches to the factory rear seat bulkhead.Using a piece of cardboard, Pete built a template for the reinforcement plate, which will weld to the bulkhead and give the lower seat mount a solid and safe foundation.Here is the plate in metal. Luckily, we had a couple of extra 6x6-inch plates left over from the Competition Engineering 'cage kit, so it was as easy as cutting the plate, forming it to fit over the existing metal, and tack welding everything in place.Next, Pete hung the seat over the new framework and measured to find the correct height and distance from the main hoop and the steering wheel. Remember, you want to be comfortable in the seat but also far enough away from the 'cage to keep you safe in the event of an accident.
Kirkey Racing recommends four bolts in the lower seat area (two on the flat layback section and two on the under-thigh area) and two just below the shoulder belt area. Here, you can see Pete measuring for two of the four lower mounting holes.Quick work with the drill and some time with a cut-off wheel and we had a lower seat mount. After drilling the 1x1-inch square bar and test fitting it, Pete welded nuts to the lower portion of the piece, which will allow us to simply set the seat in place and drop in two bolts to install it, without fiddling under the seat for the loose nuts.Pete set the height of the rear lower bar, made sure it was square against the lower horizontal door bar......and positioned it into the correct place for the bottom of our seat. Take your time here and make sure this is in the correct spot or you'll never be comfortable in your car!With the flat portion of the Kirkey layback seat bolted in place, you can see that the lower-thigh portion sits up approximately 3.5 inches from the lower seat hoop. This design gives the seat the proper 18-degree layback (when level) and positions your legs into a comfortable spot.Unfortunately, due to the angle of the leg support, using a flat bar similar to the rear-mount wasn't possible with our Mustang. However, using a piece of round tubing, a nut, bolt, and a washer, we were able to fabricate two stanchions to secure the seat.Simply position the nut halfway into the tube and lightly tighten the bolt and washer in place. Then, with everything square and level, weld the nut and washer to the tube. It may not look high-tech, but it creates the prefect stanchion for mounting the seat.Cut to approximately 3.5 inches in total length, Pete tacked the homemade stanchion in place and threaded a bolt in through the existing seat holes. One additional stanchion for the right side of the seat and our four-bolt base was complete.
Just like the rearmost lower seat mount, we measured the seat and cut a 1x1-inch tube to fit within the seat back. Then, Pete measured the distance between the boltholes, marked them, and drilled the square tubing.Again, just like the lower mount, we welded nuts to the back of the square tube and tightened the mount to the seat using a pair of bolts. This design will allow for easy removal and a clean install. Here, Pete measured the distance to our main hoop horizontal bar……and fabricated a rear support out of another piece of 1x1 square tubing. You could use one here if you felt like it, but Pete and Editor Fisher wanted to build two— one for each bolt hole—which reduces the risk of failure and the likelihood of an injury.The 18-degree Kirkey layback seat ships with a well thought out and nicely engineered head restraint, which is adjustable based on driver height and visual preference. According to the instructions, you want to install the restraint even with your cheekbone and low enough to see over. It looks a bit low here, so we may move it up once we install the harness and get in our final driving position.With the seat firmly installed and in its final position, we got to work on the four driver-side horizontal door bars. As you can see, these mimic the bars found in all NASCAR race cars and trucks (hence the name, NASCAR bars) and intrude into the stock door cavity to help protect the driver during a side impact or rollover.Looking into the car from the driver-side fender, you can see the topmost NASCAR-style door bar tacked in place and the 18-degree containment seat in place. We still have two additional NASCAR-style bars to install (evenly spaced between the lower and upper bar), along with a couple other structural bars and a whole bucketful of gussets to weld, but by the next time you see the City Boy, the 'cage will be complete and ready for action!


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I have a lot of Photos with lat, long, and altitude information. When I start the import, I get an error message.
Do I need to prepare a blank point layer before importing? Is there another python plugin that is required?
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