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I remember seeing a lot of cool Counter Strike videos back in the day. How do you go about recording your gameplay (any game) into an easy to edit format? Do you need special software? How much does it cost?
Fraps is the most popular tool for recording in game videos.
Update: dxTory seems to be stealing a lot of Frap's userbase now, and according to Totalbiscuit suffers less frame drops.
TAKSI (open source; Windows only)
Despite the webpage claims the latest stable release has been done in 2006, the project does not seem completely abandoned. Development version 0.7.7.9 has been released in July 2010.
VLC Media Player (open source, windows, linux & os x)
Launch the game of your choosing in windowed fullscreen mode.
Start up VLC.
On the "Media" menu select "Convert / Save..." (CTRL-R)
The "Open Media" dialog will appear, select the "Capture Device" tab
Change the capture mode to "Desktop".
Adjust the desired frame rate for capture, I set it to 30.00 f/s.
Click on the "Convert /Save" button.
The "Convert" dialog will appear.
Click the "Browse" button to find place to save the video and give it a name.
I use "capture.asf" as a filename
Select the profile you want to use. I have found that "Video WMV + WMA (ASF)" give the best results for me.
Press the "Start" button.
Activate the game and play for a bit, VLC will make a recording, when you want to stop recording activate VLC and press the stop button, then close it down.
The ASF format I use produces very large files, for a 2560 x 1600 display it takes about 1GB for 3 minutes of video. You can experiement with different encodings if you like but I had problems with the others so decided to use ASF, I imagine I can convert it to something smaller later.
OBS Studio (Free, open source, Windows / Mac / Linux)
It allows you to capture the screen, specific windows, games (using hooks) and even external sources (e.g. video capture card capturing consoles). You can output the captured video to a local file.
(Older version) Open Broadcaster Software (Free, open source, Windows x86 and x64 / Mac)
It allows you to capture the screen, specific windows, games (using hooks) and even external sources (e.g. video capture card capturing consoles). You can output the captured video to a local file.
Though it has another more important use: it can stream the captured video on the Internet. That's why the program can actually mix multiple input video source into one output.
One thing to note that it does not show an fps counter like Fraps.
Chris S probably gave what will become the most popular and accepted answer. Still, I think wegame.com (Windows only) should get a mention. It allows you to record nearly any game with their client and upload it to their site. It's also free. Unfotunately, I don't think you can do much in terms of editing the video.
Xfire - Gaming Simplified
Xfire is free, and in some ways it is better for recording games than other tools.
You can set a hotkey to quickly start recording the game that is currently active window. You are shown a small status bar inside the game with current length of the video and disk space it takes (the bar isn't shown in the video.)
Xfire can't do general screen recording, it is only for games. It records games in both fullscreen and windowed modes.
Result video is a high quality .avi file with resolution the same as the game window's client size, or half-size (depends on what you choose).
The bad thing about Xfire is that it not only does video records... Well, see for yourself at their website
For Windows only.
Dxtory (Windows only) is worth a mention as well.
It's 3,600 JPY (~US$40), but there is a free demo.
Its main selling point is that it uses multiple hard drives for its operation, therefore avoiding the main bottleneck of video capture, which is recording speed*.
(*) I've tested this using 4 HDDs (all different), and the performance hit is noticeably lower than other similar software.
I made some tutorial back then when I was beginning recording my gameplay for my YouTube channel
While Fraps is the best solution for recording 3D-accelerated games and applications (and that includes 2D games that use your 3D videocard), it can't record your desktop or your browser.
For general-purpose desktop recording, I recommend CamStudio, which is free and open source. It can be used to record things that Fraps usually can't (for instance, in-browser games and some simple 2D games that don't use DirectX), as well as general game-related videos (e.g. tutorials, or a game launcher screen).
For simple video editing and conversion (for instance, before uploading to YouTube), I recommend VirtualDub, which is also free and open source.
I'm using hypercam 2 in combination with virtualdub to produce very high quality gameplay footage you can see here:
Hypercam 2 is much more versatile then FRAPS which only allows you to record DirectX games on full screen. It also allows you to compress your recordings on the fly so you do not end up with those huge files. Sometimes i even manage to compress my video's on the fly good enough to upload them at once. I have a Phenom II X4 with a GeForce 460 GTX which is pretty dated nowadays.
Things you need, all free:
Hypercam 2 - for recording. http://download.cnet.com/HyperCam/3000-13633_4-10004511.html
X264 VFW codec - for video compressing. http://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/
Lame mp3 - for audio compressing. (i got mine in a pack) http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm
virtualdub - for editing. http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/
Hypercam: On the screen area tab you can specify the area you want to record. For full screen you just put the resolution the game is running and the start x,y will be just 0. If you want to record a single window you have the option to select that window directly using the hypercam ui.
The next tab is just for setting up your hotkeys, i use CTRL-INSERT to start and stop recording.
On the AVI file tab you specify the output file on the top. You have the option to add a sequential number to the files so you do not overwrite your previous recording and they get a logic number behind the name you give (unlike fraps). You can also specifie the framerate and playback speed, doubling the playback speed will speed up the video 2 times.
For compressing on the fly i use 15 frames per second which is really hard to notice if you are watching. I always leave the cursor capturing on 1 and keyframes on every 100 frames. Then you choose the video compressor, picking no compression will create huge files so i always advice to pick X264 and just choose a inexpensive compression method. When compressing on the fly always choose the ultrafast compressing method in the X264 UI.
The rest speaks for itself, at options you can choose to record the cursor or not.
Virtualdub: Here you edit your video and compress it further if you need too. You can just drag in or open a avi you created. If you picked subsequential numbering and have multiple video's you can choose append avi segment, just pick the first video in line and it will recognize the numbering.
Under video you find filters where you can crop your video or add black TV bars to it. There are also some special effects to choose from. Re sizing your video is also possible but the quality deteriorates fast.
At video->compression you can select a compression. Now you can opt for a slower compression method and play with the bit rate to see what works for you. If you have slow gameplay and dull colors you can get away with a lot more then fast gameplay with vibrant colors.
In the audio->compression section you can pick the lame mp3 codec to compress the audio, you don't need much audio quality most of the time i just pick a 96kb rate.
Now you can save the new avi under files and it will compress it for you. You can see the predicted file size, which is pretty accurate after running for a minute. My advice is to play around with the option a lot.
Here is a video guide of me:
Simple Screen Recorder is a free and open source screencasting program for linux.
It supports recording OpenGL windows directly (as well as recording the screen normally), which is good for games where performance is critical.
It has many other features and is simple to use.
From their website:
All other anwsers are about screen-recording software. It's important to notice, though, that the first step of creating your demo should be using the game built-in demo recording mechanism, whenether available. The second step is to record the playback of that demo using Fraps-like program. Why is that?
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Shadowplay is free software which only requires you to have a supported nVidia graphics card.
It records video playback directly from the GPU and saves it to mp4 files on a specified location. It does not capture your screen, and you should not see a performance hit whilst using it.
Smartpixel is the best game screen recorder available for all different platform like Windows,Android and IOS.
Step 1. Adjust game recording settings. Take WOW for example. When I loading in the game and click Smartpixel Screen/Game button, it will be like this.
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Definition is a word used to indicate sets of conditions related to identities and their peculiar similarities or differences with other ranges of entities. The term is most commonly used in relation to the definitions of words and notions in terms of other words and notions, which usually can bring about adequately harmonious or congruent assessments of agreement or disagreement as to various usages, within various contexts. Definitions play a major role in many conscious and unconscious relations of living beings with Reality and many appearances within it, including those within themselves.
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- The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
- No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
- That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
- Annie Besant, in The immediate future, p. 32.
- My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
- I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
- Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
- Ani DiFranco, in The Words of Extraordinary Women, p. 6.
- People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
- Let's give this entity which you call soul another name. Soul has too many incorrect meanings for humans, too many verbal reverberations, too many contrary definitions.
Speak the word soul, and unbelievers will automatically become deaf to what follows. Those who believe in souls will always hear you through the mental constructs that they formed on Earth. Let us call this nonmatter twin the... ah... ka. That is the old Egyptian word for one of the several souls in their religion. Except for the Egyptians this will have no special connotation. And they can adapt to it.
- Philip José Farmer, in The Magic Labyrinth (1980), Ch. 20.
- Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
- Harvey Fierstein, in Zoggle: Your Mind, p. 323.
- Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
- Harvey Fierstein, in Motiv8n' U, p. 42.
- Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
- I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
- Audrey Hepburn, in A Year in High Heels, p. 145.
- I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
- The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
- Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship.
- James Joyce, in Ulysses (1922), Ch. 9: Scylla and Charybdis.
- I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom—one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
- John Keats, in The Complete Works of John Keats, p. 85.
- The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
- If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
- Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
- The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. Marriage is clearly defined in the Bible as union of one man and one woman with God's blessings on that union.
- Thomas D. Midgette, in National Morality: Volume 1: Thinking Outside the Box: A Call to Action, p. 119.
- Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.
- Under Governor Mitt Romney's definition, there are a whole bunch of millionaires and billionaires who are small businesses. Donald Trump is a small business. Now, I know Donald Trump doesn't like to think of himself as small anything, but, but that's how you define small businesses if you're getting business income.
- Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us — by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. … It is annoying to see the degeneration suffered in ordinary speech by a word so inspiring as "nobility." For, by coming to mean for many people hereditary "noble blood," it is changed into something similar to common rights, into a static, passive quality which is received and transmitted like something inert. But the strict sense, the etymon of the word nobility is essentially dynamic. Noble means the "well known," that is, known by everyone, famous, he who has made himself known by excelling the anonymous mass.… "Nobility" does not appear as a formal expression until the Roman Empire, and then precisely in opposition to the hereditary nobles, then in decadence.
- José Ortega y Gasset, in The Revolt of the Masses (1929), Ch. VII: Noble Life And Common Life, Or Effort And Inertia
- If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
- Now, what is it that students do in the classroom? Well, mostly they sit and listen to the teacher. Mostly, they are required to believe in authorities, or at least pretend to such belief when they take tests. Mostly they are required to remember. They are almost never required to make observations, formulate definitions, or perform any intellectual operations that go beyond repeating what someone else says is true. They are rarely encouraged to ask substantive questions, although they are permitted to ask about administrative and technical details. (How long should the paper be? Does spelling count? When is the assignment due?) It is practically unheard of for students to play any role in determining what problems are worth studying or what procedures of inquiry ought to be used. Examine the types of questions teachers ask in classrooms, and you will find that most of them are what might technically be called "convergent questions," but what might more simply be called "Guess what I am thinking " questions.
- Neil Postman, Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969).
- A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.
- Neil Postman, Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk : How We Defeat Ourselves by the Way We Talk and What to do About It (1976).
- Definitions, like questions and metaphors, are instruments for thinking. Their authority rests entirely on their usefulness, not their correctness. We use definitions in order to delineate problems we wish to investigate, or to further interests we wish to promote. In other words, we invent definitions and discard them as suits our purposes. And yet, one gets the impression that... God has provided us with definitions from which we depart at the risk of losing our immortal souls. This is the belief that I have elsewhere called "definition tyranny," which may be defined... as the process of accepting without criticism someone else's definition of a word or a problem or a situation. I can think of no better method of freeing students from this obstruction of the mind than to provide them with alternative definitions of every concept and term with which they must deal in a subject. Whether it be "molecule," "fact," "law," "art," "wealth," "gene," or whatever, it is essential that students understand that definitions are hypotheses, and that embedded in them is a particular philosophical, sociological, or epistemological point of view.
- Neil Postman, Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980).
- In the field of education. I refer to the meaning of the word "basic," …the meaning given to this word by some educators is not its "real" meaning. The word "basic,"… has been assigned certain meanings in order to further an education philosophy which is thought to be both sensible and effective. ...neither you nor I are under any obligation to accept their definition of what is "basic." …In short, the definition of something is usually the starting point of a dispute, not the settlement.
- Neil Postman, Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980).
- Language education must include not only the serious study of what truth and falsehood mean in the context of a subject, but also what is meant by a fact, an inference, an assumption, a judgment, a generalization... In this way students will be learning both the language of a subject and the methods of inquiry in that subject, since inquiry consists of nothing else but the generation of questions, the invention of definitions and metaphors, the separation of facts from inferences, the forming of generalizations...
- Neil Postman, Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980).
- There are two levels of knowing a subject. There is the student who knows what the definition of a noun or a gene or a molecule is; then there is the student... who also knows how the definition was arrived at. There is the student who can answer a question; then there is the student who also knows what are the biases of the question. There is the student who can give you the facts; then there is the student who also knows what is meant by a fact. I am maintaining that, in all cases, it is the latter who has a "basic" education ; the former, a frivolous one.
- Neil Postman, Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980).
- It is precisely through one's learning about the total context in which the language of a subject is expressed that personality may be altered. If one learns how to speak history or mathematics or literary criticism, one becomes, by definition, a different person. The point to be stressed is that a subject is a situation in which and through which people conduct themselves, largely in language. You cannot learn a new form of conduct without changing yourself.
- Neil Postman, Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980).
- Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant. And it does so by redefining what we mean by religion, by art, by family, by politics, by history, by truth, by privacy, by intelligence, so that our definitions fit its new requirements. Technopoly, in other words, is totalitarian technocracy.
- I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
- I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.
- God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
- Ayn Rand, in Ayn Rand Novel Collection], p. 2216.
- If we wish to express our ideas in terms of the concepts synthetic and analytic, we would have to point out that these concepts are applicable only to sentences that can be either true of false, and not to definitions. The mathematical axioms are therefore neither synthetic nor analytic, but definitions. ...Hence the question of whether axioms are a priori becomes pointless since they are arbitrary.
- Hans Reichenbach, in 'The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928), as translated by Maria Reichenbach (1957), § 14.
- One definition of simultaneity differs from another because events that are simultaneous for one definition occur successively for another. What may be a simultaneity projection of a moving segment for one definition is a "focal-plane shutter photograph" for another.
- Hans Reichenbach, in 'The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928), as translated by Maria Reichenbach (1957), § 25.
- Once a definition of congruence is given, the choice of geometry is no longer in our hands; rather, the geometry is now an empirical fact.
- Hans Reichenbach, in 'The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928), as translated by Maria Reichenbach (1957), § 27.
- Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
- Mitt Romney, in Preserving traditional marriage, p. 7.
- For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
- Jonathan Swift, in Jonathan Swift: a Critical Introduction, p. 137.
- One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.]]
- In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence.
- I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
- Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Gore Vidal, in Presidential Trivia, p. 132.
- A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.
- The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
- Sloan Wilson, in Dictionary of Quotations, p. 22.
- When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
- Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
- Define yourself and don't fall victim to the whims and wishes of what others want you to be. Being who you truly are is where the world finds out the talent and genius you bring to it. Don't disappoint the world by allowing others to control the gifts you have that to help make it better.
- Quoted in "Zoggle: Your Mind", p. 323.


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CHESTER — Despite its pristine reputation, the city of Chester is home to some properties that Chester City Council members would be embarrassed to call home....
As alicia1991 says, this is a complete waste of community resources.
What is the crime rate these days? DUI? the nasty pills and ****** etc that is on the streets.
Anyome in Chester with a warrant that you just can't seem to find?
How a bout asking Cheneys why their diesel prices are the highest in the area.
This could be time used more constructively then telling someone to clean-up their yard in Chester WV of all places, WHAT do you think we live in the prestigeous south hills UPPER St. Clair part of Pittsburgh. Next you people will introduce a homeowners association with more rules and a fee attached! get lost, we need real citizens in public offices
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That has to be the most ridicolous thing ive ever herd toys n the yard n to many cars I mean come on Chester really go get the ****** addacts and robbers instead of hassaling Ppl over their yards
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Maybe government should clean their house before telling people to clean up kids toys in the yard. Government gone wild. Start watching how government acts when this case goes to court.
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Really? Kids toys in the yard. Go get'em Chester Gestapo!
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I don't understand why in some texts they put that infinitesimal volume $dV = dx dy dz$. If $ V = V(x,y, z)$ infinitesimal volume should be $$dV = \frac{\partial V}{\partial x} dx +\frac{\partial V}{\partial y} dy + \frac{\partial V}{\partial z} dz$$
The volume of a finite box is $\Delta x \Delta y \Delta z$. The infinitesimals are simply thought of as very small deltas -- so small that they're smaller than any real number. (This can be formalized in terms of non-standard analysis.)
What may have misled you was the notation $dV$. This simply means an infinitesimally small volume. It doesn't mean that $V$ is a function being differentiated.
There are two independent concepts here.
2 .The second is a concept of a differential, $$dV = \frac{\partial V }{\partial x } dx+ \frac{\partial V }{\partial y }dy+ \frac{\partial V }{\partial z }dz$$
This differential represents a change in the linearization of a function.


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A Turducken is a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which then is stuffed into a de-boned turkey. I would like to try this but would first like to hear from anyone else that has made this Thanksgiving bird(s).
Where do I start? Are they cooked separately? How do you stuff them in physically - is there a technique involved? Should I cook covered or uncovered?


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Why did God order the Israelites to kill all the males in a land after capturing it but spare the females?
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Why did God order the Israelites to kill all males in battle but spare females in Deuteronomy 20:13-14?
In fact it was an (ancient?) common war usage because males are usually consider more dangerous. Jugurtha, king of Numidia, in 112 BC killed all the adult males of Cirta. Thucydides reports an interesting debate about the fate of the Mytileneans during the Peloponnesian War there were two different position: Kleon wanted to kill all the Mythilenens adult males while Diodotos only those most responsable of the revolt in question. Killing the males means avoid possible rebellions, men are stronger and in all the patriarchal societies are the base of the political and militar affairs. So kill all the males of a comunity means for the most cases destroy the identity of the comunity. While women can be kept as slaves (maybe concubines, but YHWH forbid to have sons from non-ebraic women Deut 7:3) depending on the needs. In fact there are more drastic solutions of killing the male children too, you can find it in Numbers 31:15-18 in these verses is written to kill even non-virgin women this can be hardly explained rationally maybe was supposed married women were less incline to be subdued. The most drastic solution is of course to kill everyone (Deuteronomy 20:16).
You might be helped with my answer to the following question: Why Moses ordered to keep virgins alive but kill all non-virgins and males in Numbers 31:17-18?
In some ways your question is similar to the one I just cited.
First, God commanded Israel to annihilate completely the inhabitants of Palestine/Canaan (specifically the "tribes" and "nations" therein) because of their abominations and defilements. In Genesis 15 we read the following:
The word Amorite, as it is used here is a synecdoche in which the Amorite nation (or peoples) stands for all the nations Israel was to dispossess in their conquest of Canaan. Depending on which Old Testament book you consult, the number of nations Israel was ordered to dispossess ranges from four to ten (see, for example, Genesis 15:19-21; Exodus 3:10; 13:5; 23:23; 33:2; Deuteronomy 20:17,18; Joshua 3:10). What they all had in common besides their rampant immorality was their occupation of the land God promised to Abraham hundreds of years before Joshua came on the scene.
In the interim between Abraham and Joshua, the sins of the "Amorite" became worse and worse, to the point where God's patience with them came to an end because of their wickedness. In other words, when nations reach a certain level of wickedness, God is forced to intervene with severe punishment. As the New Testament tells us, God is not willing--nor does in take delight in--the death of anyone, but He desires that all people everywhere repent (see 2 Peter 3:9). When a people is beyond redemption, God's mercy gives way to His justice.
In the chapter from which you quote verses 13 and 14, we also read the following commandments from Jehovah:
Moreover, further down in the chapter we read this:
Clearly, only the nations that were "close by" were marked by God for annihilation; as for the "cities that are very far from" Israel which were "not of the cities of . . . [the] nations nearby," Israel was given permission either to make peace with them and then make them slaves, or if they refused to make peace with Israel, to kill only the men and spare the women and children (see vs.18).
The clear inference, then, is that the nations far away were not as wicked as the nations that were close by. Seeing this, God spared the women and children.
In conclusion, we needn't dwell on the baseness of the sins of the "Amorite." Frankly, the sins are almost too revolting even to enumerate. When any people group becomes so reprobate in their behavior, God resorts to drastic measures to prevent the cancer of their sin from spreading to neighboring nations. A biblical expression for a nation's extreme wickedness is found in Leviticus 18:25 (NIV):
What a graphic expression in describing the utter depravity of a nation: its people become so wicked that they sicken the land they inhabit.
Israel, on the other hand, was first to purge the land of this wickedness, and second, to set an example of godliness, righteousness, and justice to the nations surrounding them, so that these nations who would not only fear the "one true God" of Israel, but would be attracted to Israel's God and seek Him out. God was not just Israel's God, but God over all the earth. As 2 Chronicles tells us,


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Enabling Speech input output in sencha?
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i want to use text to speech and speech to text ability in my sencha app.
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I've got down a pretty good honey/whiskey glazed gammon but previously I've always used it cold in sandwhiches or on meat platters.
This evening, however, I am planning on serving the joint hot as part of a main meal.
I'm out of inspiration regarding what sides to serve with it. I was going to go with a selection of steamed vegetables but would these also need a sauce/gravy?
So, in short, what would work well with hot gammon with a sweet glaze?
I know we don't like questions that solicit opinion so I'll add that I need some proven pairings with reasons why the different flavours, sweetness, acidity etc of the ingredients work.


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I have installed Ubuntu to my hard drive using Wubi. The installation seemed to be successful; however, after rebooting my PC I am not brought to a boot menu, and Windows just starts normally. When I manually force my computer to a boot menu, Ubuntu is not listed.
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If the timeout is not zero, then in rare cases there is a line missing from the end of the C:\boot.ini required to boot Ubuntu:
If you decide to edit the boot.ini, make sure you back it up, and edit it from the same place.
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It's winter!
The trees are bare, the days are short, and the first sparkling snowflakes are falling from the sky.
Master of rhyme Jack Prelutsky creates a flurry of winter verse, just right for ushering in the season of ice and snow. Lively, warmth-filled illustrations by Yossi Abolafia enhance these sixteen delightful poems.
About the Author
Jack Prelutsky was the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate. He has filled more than fifty books of verse with his inventive wordplay, including the national bestsellers Scranimals and The New Kid on the Block. He lives in Washington State.


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Sorry Eric,
Sort of misunderstanding. Normally you do the Smooth test once till you found your LRS setting. But in the beginning when you do not know LRS and URS, you might get misalignments because both settings might be a little bit out of NPP. When I found my LRS for my camera and change the lens I try to find my URS and of course do not touch my LRS. Plus you do not have to check LRS with different pitches because you have to shoot 2 rows for example. Pitching up and down with the horizontal arm will keep the NPP because you move in NPP.
Could you please send the solo pics of your URS with http://ge.tt/ so I can check them in PS? I feel the reference is still moving a tiny little bit. You see a sort Knob in the top of the white line on the left side, which you can not see in the centered shot.


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How to find concave polygon for separated small clusters.
The procedure I suggested for your other "concave hull" question seems to work reasonably well here, simultaneously isolating the clusters and creating the surfaces.
Cluster colouring
The clusters using this method are just sets of connected polygons. We can build a graph of these connections and use
As I said before, there really isn't such a thing as a concave hull. What you want to do is plot your clusters here.
The first problem involves a machine vision problem known as 3D segmentation. Mathematica doesn't have any tools out of the box to do this, as far as I know.
One way is to guess how many "clusters" are in your data, although that's hard to say because it appear to be sort of fractal. You should experiment with heuristics for doing this.
I guessed about 40 for your data:
You might also try a different metric, although it makes clustering slower:
If you want something besides the convex hull for each cluster, you might try adapting an answer to Finding a Concave Hull.


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WACO (January 20, 2012)-Talks of allowing handguns on campus in Texas has left many rattled. Yet, one local CHL instructor says he's helped over 500 local teachers get a concealed handgun license in the past month.
The State of Texas has a ban on guns in schools, unless a school district gives written authorization.
According to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, 78 Texas school districts don't meet state safety standards to protect students.
Since the shootings in Newtown, Conn., Texas lawmakers have contemplated filing legislation that would allow teachers in Texas the right to conceal and carry while on campus.
It's an idea that doesn't sit well with veteran school teacher Mary Duty.
"It's sickening that the classroom has become a place of fear," Duty said
"It's a place where we always have to watch the door now."
Duty has spent 14 years molding minds inside the classroom. She backs the second amendment, but when the thought of arming teachers to protect students enters her mind, she cringes.
"A teacher has a lot to do. We've got teaching to do, we've got bookkeeping to do, and we have relationship building to do," Duty said.
"We can't build relationships with a .45."
The list of responsibilities that teachers in Texas face is constantly getting larger. "Protecting students" may soon be higher on that list.
But Duty firmly believes being "locked and loaded" as a teacher will never help her students.
"To take that one place in the day where they can go and feel safe, and violate it with a firearm? I think it's a little too much," Duty said.


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JKYSC registration under way
WINTERSVILLE - Jefferson Kiwanis Youth Soccer Club's spring registration is under way and ends Jan. 31.
The season begins in March.
Go to www.jkysc.com to register before the deadline. The league is open to all boys and girls from ages 4 to 14.
OHSAA umpire class offered
STEUBENVILLE - Classes for beginning baseball and softball umpires are being offered and the deadline for registration in Tuesday.
Registration must be done online at officials.myohsaa.org. Class names are Columbiana County BB Asn (NE) for baseball and Columbiana County SBf (NE) for softball.
Those who pass the course will be able to umpire middle school and junior varsity games and eventually varsity games as well.
For information, call (740) 632-2871.
WVSSAC umpire class upcoming
WEIRTON - Baseball and softball umpire classes for the WVSSAC are upcoming.
Application forms can be obtained by calling the Weirton umpire secretary at (740) 632-2871. A physical is required along with the application forms and attendance for all classroom time is required.
The location will be determined after registration is complete in order to select a centrally located classroom.
Those who pass the course will be able to umpire middle school and junior varsity games and eventually varsity games as well.
Bowl sheet winner named
BELLAIRE - J.B. Hizer of Sistersville won the St. John Central Boosters Club bowl sheet football drawing.
St. Joseph wins two
WHEELING - The St. Joseph J.V. boys basketball team defeated Our Lady of Peace Blue, 36-18, in Wheeling Parochial League action. The Spartans were led by Evan Boniti with 15 points, while Dom Mazur added 11, including a half-court buzzer beater just before halftime. Vinnie Conforti, Nick Paul, Nico Fuscardo and Nathan Zanieski also scored for the Spartans.
The Spartans also beat Bishop John King Mussio White, 35-33. The Spartans were paced by Mazur's 11 points with Boniti adding 10, including eight in the fourth quarter. Paul chipped in with five points and Jon Luke Horne scored four points for the Spartans.


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Legacy code can mean a number of related things, the most common of which are code inherited from someone else; code from a previous version of the application; code that is deprecated or outdated; or code that is untested. Many legacy systems meet all these criteria, and legacy code typically ...
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1.5 Million lines of code. 0 tests. Where should we start?
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In TDD, do tests need to be automated?
My manager's manager (... and his manager, and everyone else who wears a suit) at my firm is talking about how we really need to transition to TDD because it's better than what we're doing now. ...
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Are there some well known nasty pitfalls to try to avoid at all costs when starting with unit testing on a partly legacy (web) application?
I am participating on the development of the web application which has several years of history behind it and there never was enough value and effort put on refactoring, so considerable part of the ...
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Challenges of begining test driven development with legacy codebase [duplicate]
I am beginning development on a legacy codebase and adding new functionality. The legacy codebase has no tests defined at all, and I dont have full control over it. I want to use TDD to help ensure ...
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Can anyone recommend a tool for integration tests for multi-machine system?
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BELTON (December 7, 2012)—Longtime Belton City Councilman Clifton Peters, 59, will announce Tuesday that he's resigning from the council in order to spend more time with family after he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Peters has served on the council since February 2000 and was mayor pro tem from 2003 to 2005.
During his nearly 12 years on the council Belton's population has grown 28 percent and the city has invested in commercial development, parks and municipal projects.
"In a time of rapid growth, with constant pressures on our infrastructure systems, Mr. Peters has remained steadfast in preparing Belton for the future," Belton City Manager Sam Listi said in a press release Friday.
"Our prayers are with Clifton and his family as he deals with these health challenges. Belton is truly a better place for his service," he said.
He has also resigned from the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Board, on which he had served since March 2006.
Peters' term expires in May 2013 and the council is expected to name a replacement.
He has accepted an invitation to chair the city's Capital Improvement Planning Committee in order to continue to serve the community.


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Is there an HDMI switcher that will auto switch with two or more "always ON" devices? My 360 and PS/3 have some kind of output that make the device appear to always be on. So I have to manually switch between them.
Does anyone have or heard of a switch smart enough to work with these "always on" devices?


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This JDI webinar will introduce advocates to exciting new opportunities to help incarcerated youth who have been sexually abused. Children and adolescents in detention suffer sexual abuse and harassment at alarming rates, and the effects of this abuse can last a lifetime. That's the bad news. The good news is that the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards offer guidance for corrections facilities and pave the way for rape crisis counselors and other advocates who care about children to provide life-saving help to this underserved population During the webinar, experts in the fields of sexual abuse and youth detention will discuss the range of services addressed in the PREA standards. Presenters will review some of the challenges of providing care to this population, and to working in detention settings more broadly. Attendees will learn ways to adapt crisis interventions to these settings, as well as other strategies to offer the community standard of care to youth detainees. This webinar will feature advocates who have worked in youth facilities and survivors who have experienced this abuse.
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I am reasonably mathematically competent and use algorithms regularly in computing, however I have started reading through 'introduction to algorithms' but find I need to understand a few more basics of algorithms (mathematical symbols, summations etc.) in equations to get maximum out of it.
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How to Replace a Fiberglass Screen on a Screen Door
Pry the spline out of the groove on the back of the frame.
Use small pliers or a carpenter's awl to pry the spline out of the groove. If the corners are tight, use a screwdriver to remove the spline. If the spline appears to be in good shape, set it aside for use with the new screen.
If the spline is brittle or cracked, you must replace it with a new spline (available at hardware stores).


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Children are fun to be around. Babies
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Hurricane Sandy
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Volunteers in Mission
The Big Move At Quinipet
The Seymour House was towed onto the Quinipet property at approximately 10:00 the morning of September 23, 2009. The photo of the new siding on the dining hall is a taste of what the whole project is going to look like in the end - all with matching famous Eastern Long Island Red Cedar Siding!
Poughkeepsie District Historic Sites
A 1949 slide presentation describing the history of local churches found within the former Poughkeepsie District.
Laity in Action
Please enjoy these photos from churches around the Conference showing Laity in Action. Scroll down to view the photo captions.
Hurricane Irene Relief Efforts in Prattsville NY Area
Prattsville, NY, sits along the Schoharie Creek and its Main Street was particularly devastated after 12 inches of rain from Hurricane Irene created raging floodwaters. Cleanup was underway on Labor Day, Sept. 5; the UM church and parsonage had been mostly gutted by the end of the day.


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Marvel Assembles an Official Title for Third "Avengers" Movie
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Auctions | A page of original artwork from 1971's Asterix and the Laurel Wreath sold at auction Sunday for more than $158,000, with proceeds going to benefit the families of those killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo's offices. The art included a special dedication by Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo, who came out of retirement in the days after the attack to draw tributes to the victims. The auction house Christie's waived its commission for Sunday's sale. [BBC News]
Political cartoons | Ecuadorean cartoonist Xavier Bonilla, who has been sued, threatened and reprimanded by his own government because of his political cartoons, revealed last week that he has also received threats from an Ecuadorean member of ISIS over a cartoon making fun of the extremist group. While he ultimately decided the threat wasn't credible, Bonilla said, "It has to be understood within this climate of hostility and harassment that's been created within the country. It's gotten to the point where even humor is being persecuted and oppressed by the president." Reporter Jim Wyss also looks at some other cases of government suppression of political cartoons in Latin America [Miami Herald]
When you're somebody as well known as James Kochalka, both in terms of music and comics, do you really need an introduction? Probably not, but just in case, Kochalka and I recently got a chance to discuss his latest release, the collected SuperF*ckers (Top Shelf [due out in March])–as well as his upcoming graphic novel/video game project, Glorkian Warrior. As described at the Top Shelf site: "SuperF*ckers collects all four fan-favorite issues of James Kochalka's beloved series, plus the all-new Jack Krak one-shot! Foul-mouthed, filthy-minded, and completely oblivious, these young 'heroes' do everything BUT fight crime – they're too busy getting high, hazing the new kids, playing video games, scheming to be team leader, and designing new costumes." I agree with the first line of Top Shelf's Kochalka bio which states he "is, without question, one of the most unique and prolific alternative cartoonists working in America today".
After the interview, be sure to check out Top Shelf's preview of the book here. My thanks to Kochalka for the interview and Top Shelf's Leigh Walton for his assistance. One final piece of advice, as great as this interview is (thanks to Kochalka's answers), it only touches upon one of Kochalka's projects. I reference two of Tom Spurgeon's interviews in my questions to Kochalka and I strongly recommend that you read both of them.
Tim O'Shea: Looking back at a 2005 Tom Spurgeon interview with you, I was surprised to see you say of SuperF*ckers: "Once it turned into a superhero book, I thought I could force it into some kind of all-ages type book, but the characters just would not stop swearing." Even the interior page marketing of the first issue has cussing: "Hey kids, take your dicks out of the Playstation Three for one god damn minute and read some fucking comics." Why do you think the cussing bolsters the comedy (and I ask this thinking it would not be as funny without the cussing).
James Kochalka: Not every character swears. The ones that should swear, do. It fits their personality, a kind of "I can do whatever I want because I'm awesome", and that includes insane wanton swearing. The swearing is also pretty creative at times, it's often not just straight up swearing. And it makes the action more dramatic. For instance, instead of yelling "I'm going to punch you" or even "I'm going to fuckin' punch you", at one point Jack Krak yells something like "I'm going to fuck your face with my fist". That's just way snappier sounding, isn't it?
To me it isn't even really an issue of funnier or not. It's just an issue of the characters being as awesome and overblown as they can be.


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Stroked Ford 418ci V8 - We've Got To Have Morrre Power, Captain!Written by on September 1, 2005 Speed O' Motive Assembles A Stroked Ford 418ci V-8
In the February '05 issue of CCT we published the first segment of a tech story where speed shop, Speed O' Motive, began the process of building a stroked Ford 351 Windsor engine. This issue we continue with the assembly of the stroked 418ci Ford and offer a few professional build tips from one of Speed O' Motive's engine builders, Bill Bassett.
The primary reason we've pursued this engine buildup is to demonstrate the significantly more powerful alternative to a typical crate engine. We believe that by carefully selecting an affordable list of aftermarket parts, you can build and install an engine that will deliver an exceptional amount of power and reliability for a rather reasonable price. Another more personal reason is that we've never owned a stroked Ford engine and wanted to experience what is typically the domain of the higher- performance street machine or race car.
It was a pleasant learning experience watching a professional engine builder assemble our machined rotating assembly, oiling system, aluminum Holley heads and carburetor, and Weiand intake manifold. We photographed each step and listened attentively as Bill explained the details that will result in the greatest amount of performance and reliability this stroked engine is capable of producing. One piston-assembly tip was rotating the piston rings away from the thrust-side of the pistons to prevent a loss of compression. Another little tip was using a single-edge razor blade to cut the bottom ends from the front cover gasket: to help prevent even a small oil leak from around the oil pan gasket.
Among the aftermarket parts used in this segment is an extremely competent oiling system of Melling oil pump, oil pump shaft, plus an anodized Milodon oil pan and windage tray-as well as all the bottom-end gaskets. Of course all the proper assembly lubes and gasket sealer were applied to each part as it was assembled. The last thing any engine builder wants to hear is the tick-tick-tick of a cylinder head leak or witness a drop of oil escaping from the oil pan gasket.
Follow along as we watch a professional assemble our potent little powerplant. And look for the next segment when we will focus on a series of dynamometer tests to see precisely how many horses and how much torque this small-block Ford engine will produce.
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We were pleased to find a wind-age tray and set of windage-tray studs in the rear sump Milodon oil-pan set (PN: 31126) that will allow a small-block Ford to be mounted in a street rod or street Mustang application. These pans feature a late-model Ford leak-proof dipstick fitting that screws into the pan.The high-performance, forged J&E pistons, combined with the I-beam connecting rods (6.200-inch length) will be the foundation of our stroked 351W to 418 ci. The connecting rod is 1/4-inch longer than the stock connecting rod.Bill added a pre-lube to each cylinder before the piston was installed-we don't want any dry cylinders the first time we start the engine.Bill slid the ring compressor onto the piston. Notice the blue rubber covering the threads of the connecting rod. They will help prevent even the slightest damage to the crankshaft.The piston, connecting rod, and piston ring compressor were placed gently into the cylinder. Notice the rubber-covered brass mallet in Bill's hand to coax the piston down in the cylinder.Just a few taps of the handle-end of the mallet pushed the piston past the ring compressor and down into the cylinder.Bill turned the engine block upside down and directed the connecting rod into place to add the connecting-rod cap.Bill added plenty of pre-lube to the bearing-side of the connecting rod. Again, you can't use too much pre-lube on bearing surfaces during assembly.
While the engine was crankshaft-side up, Bill applied the torque wrench to the extended main bolts that will provide a place to attach the Milodon windage tray.The next step of the assembly was the preparation of the front/timing-chain cover. The alumi-num front cover was equipped with a hole for a front-mounted dipstick. Bill prefers to tap and thread this hole for a plug and use an oil pan dipstick instead.The first attempt to install the O-ring was not going well. In order to avoid damage to the O-ring, Bill showed us a small but valuable builder's tip.Bill used a small file to de-burr the front cover O-ring seat, and to provide just enough of a radius to ease the installation of the O-ring.A bit of lube was spread around the inside of the O-ring seal to allow a socket to turn the crankshaft.
Bill was able to use a large socket (slipped inside the O-ring) to locate and mount the aluminum front cover.The synthetic fabric front cover gasket was carefully put in place-two front-cover bolts were slipped through mounting holes.Alignment of the timing-chain cover was accomplished by using a socket that closely matched the diameter of the front cover O-ring.Bill tightened the front-cover bolts. Notice that the socket wrench is attached to the socket still in place on the crankshaft.Another small but import-ant engine builder's tip: Bill uses a single-edge razor blade to trim the bottoms of the front-cover gasket. This will help prevent even a small oil leak around the oil pan gasket.
We were also fortunate to obtain an anodized split-front/rear Milodon oil pan, windage tray and rear sump oil pickup. Milodon reports that windage trays help create power. On a 400hp street engine, a louvered windage tray can add about 12 to 15 hp; a more sophisticated screen tray can add up to 25 hp.Bill checked out the oil pump on the bench. Four mounting bolts and an oil-pump shaft were ready to install. But a test fit was the first step.With the front-mount oil pump bolted in place, Bill began to check clearances of the inter-nal oiling system.The oil pump comes very close to the crankshaft counterweight. Bill recommends a minimum of .050-inchclearance between the oil pump and crankshaft.Bill sights along the crankshaft, under the tray. Again the distance from the tray to the crankshaft was very tight. A minor adjustment to the shape would be made to clear the rod-cap bolts.An oil-pump drive fitting for the Melling oil-pump shaft was installed in the oil pump before mounting it to the engine block. It's an important part of the oiling system. And the last problem you want with a new engine is oil starvation.
With the Milodon oil pickup and windage tray in place, Bill rotated the crankshaft to check for clearance.One little click was heard when a rod cap came in contact with the tray. A minor shave of the rod cap provided the clearance needed for a silent rotation of the balanced rotating assembly.Finally Bill was satisfied with the minor adjustments to the windage tray and rod cap. A bit of thread lock on the studs and the bottom-end was nearly complete.We learned an important part of engine assembly is pre-fitting (or test fitting) each part before final assembly. He checked the Milodon oil pan for clearance of the oil pickup and windage tray.When Bill was satisfied that every part of the oiling system was correct, gasket sealer was applied to the engine-block side of the oil pan gasket.
About an hour after the assembly began, the anodized oil pan was put in place and secured with the oil-pan bolts.Systemax aluminum cylinder heads (356-T6), by a division of Holley, are a significant weight saving over cast iron heads. The intake and exhaust runners, designed to flow a maximum amount of air, produce optimum power for 351W Ford engines. Computer-designed combustion chambers are engineered for the best combination of torque and horsepower. These heads were checked for proper valvespring pressure before we arrived.COMP Cams lifters are stronger with a chrome-moly pushrod cup and C-type retainer clips. A stock lifter typically has a sintered-iron pushrod cup and a U-shaped horseshoe clip that can be prone to malfunction at higher rpm. The COMP Cams lifter will also improve oil supply to the cam lobe.Bill does a preliminary check for burrs or foreign material in the block before oiling and installing the hydraulic lifters. This will assist greatly to prevent problems later.With all the lifters in place, the head gaskets are checked prior to applying gasket sealer. A good-quality fiber/metal core gasket is not only important for a good seal; it's also impervious to gasoline, oil, coolant, and alcohol.The synthetic fiber gaskets are clearly marked "front." Doesn't hurt to visually check to see that the water passages match. The larger water passages are in the rear of the head and block to help flow cooler water to the rear of the engine.The water passages in the gasket are smaller to the front and the gasket is stamped with the word "front."
A torque wrench is set for 80 ft-lb of torque. Bill works in a continuous rhythm on each bolt in order to apply an equal amount of torque to each head bolt. This will help prevent head gasket leaks.These stamped COMP Cams roller-tip rockers will provide an appropriate level of performance to our healthy stroked street engine. They're not the most exotic (nor are they the most expensive), but much better than stock.The stock-length pushrod is 8.144 inches. The new pushrod is 8.500 inches. The end of the valve stem reveals that the roller tip is nearly centered. The best position is slightly toward the center of the valve stem.The pivot ball and adjuster nuts are a small but important part of the valve train. They will need to be tightened to either hot or cold specifications.Adjusting the valve lash is an important operation that can prevent bending a valve stem at higher rpm. The cold setting is .008 inch; the hot setting on this valve train is .014 inch.The .008-inch feeler gauge needs a little bit of effort to slide between the roller tip and the valve stem. For consistency, it's a good idea to create the habit of setting the valve lash cold. Otherwise you're guessing if the valve train is still at operating temperature as the head cools. It's recommended to insert the feeler gauge in the same direction the roller turns. Then tighten down the lash until just before the motion of the feeler gauge makes the valve stem move. Remember, you're supposed to torque the adjuster nut after the jamb nuts are set. And the valve lash will loosen up after the first time the engine is fired. The valve seats can take a good deal of abuse if the engine detonates.
After the valve lash was adjusted, Bill installed the intake manifold. First he checked the synthetic gaskets for proper fit.This engine will be installed in a smog-exempt pickup. Therefore, these EGR passages will be blocked with gasket material.Once Bill was satisfied the Weiand intake manifold would mount properly, he applied gasket sealer to the bare-metal surface of the heads.With the knowledge of how wide the gap between the engine block and manifold was, Bill created a bead of gasket compound to fill the gap.The intake manifold bolts were tightened to snug around the perimeter of the intake manifold. After they were snug, Bill then tightened them to the appropriate setting.
The aluminum spacer will allow the crankshaft pulley to be mounted properly-not to interfere with the oper-ation of the harmonic balancer.


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I just got Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and I'm trying to get a sense for how much flexibility I have in spending Praxis points. How many of these can I expect to accumulate in a playthrough of the game? Does this change for different difficulties or for different playstyles? For example, if I invest heavily in hacking, will I get enough of a return to make up some of the points spent?
I think I'm around half way through and I've found around 20.
A good rule of thumb is to always have a couple spare, so if you come across a five story drop that you have to survive or a level 5 security device or a wall you want to punch through, you can without having to look for another way or more praxis kits.
Edit: Because of the age of the game we can only estimate, but the general consensus is there are 22 to be found in the world and on a near perfect playthrough of the game 40 can be unlocked through experience. So 62. Just shy of the 68 needed to fill all slots.
My experience is also that you can fill everything short of 6 upgrades when the game ends.
Hacking generates a huge amount of exp as you play if you are willing to spend time hacking everything in sight. I ended the game with about 90 each of stop and nuke viruses, due to my hacking everything and not being willing to use them, in hindsight using nukes on any node with a level 4 or above rating should be fine. It also allows you to explore everything in the game more easily.
To help with the exp, also try to stick to pure nonlethal moves, use takedowns whenever possible and headshots with stunguns and tranqs when it is really neccesary. (Of course i did clear that huge crowd of guards coming in after me at of TY Medical with two gas grenades, but that was mostly disinterest in sneak-hunting the whole bunch.)
Augs you can safely skip are the two aim stabilizer augs, the cooldown timer aug, the land-quietly aug, the social enhancer aug, the enhanced radar aug, and finally all the hack analyze and hack fortify augs. That's a total of 12 non-useful praxis points you can save on, so on the bright side you can be assured of upgrading everything you want at a pretty early point in the game.


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7 Random Things You Won't Believe Are Shortening Your Life
#3. Being Higher Means Living Longer
One of the disadvantages of living at higher altitudes is that there's less oxygen in the air, which can suck for those with respiratory problems. One of the advantages of those places, however, is that ... there's less oxygen in the air. A lack of oxygen makes people's bodies more efficient, which makes them live longer.
Try it at home!
In a four-year study, researchers from several institutions analyzed death certificates from every county in the U.S. and realized that most of the top 20 counties with the highest life expectancy happened to be in Utah and Colorado, two of the three highest states in the nation. Compared to those living near sea level, the people in those counties live up to 3.6 years longer for men and up to 2.5 years longer for women.
Which means more time to enjoy all of Utah's wonders. Like truck stops without coffee and super-light beer.
Apparently, it's all about not being gluttons when it comes to using oxygen. Dr. Benjamin Honigman at the University of Colorado School of Medicine theorized that the lower levels of oxygen force the body to become more efficient at distributing that oxygen, activating certain genes that enhance heart function and create new blood vessels for bringing blood to and from the heart, greatly lowering the chances of heart disease. The alternate theory that these people evolved stronger hearts to withstand yeti encounters in the mountains remains unproven.
Honigman also believes that living at a higher altitude might help prevent some types of cancer -- in fact, Colorado has a lower rate of colon and lung cancer than most other states. The only downside, of course, is that you still live in Colorado.
We'll take our chances.
#2. Churches Are Full of Old People Because Those People Are Highlanders
Believe it or not, there's a town in California called Loma Linda where a significant chunk of the population lives five to 10 years longer than everyone else. The catch: They are all Seventh-Day Adventists. So it's probably like Woody Allen said: "You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."
"More specifically, hard drugs and bear wrestling."
After all, Adventists tend to not drink or smoke and generally live healthier lifestyles, so that probably explains it, right? Nope: Even Loma Linda Adventists who half-ass it and partake in all the things that should kill them still get extra longevity, and science isn't sure why.
It happens with people of other religions, too: A study in Colorado found that people who go to church regularly live around seven years longer than those who don't. Considering what we just told you about living in Colorado, if the people in that study also have giant butts, they're practically immortal.
The only reason they all aren't sword fighting for each other's Quickening is that the church is on hallowed ground.
Apparently, the increase in life expectancy for older people who go to church is "comparable to that of people who don't smoke over those who do." That's right -- skipping church is as bad for your health as smoking.
This difference may be explained by the fact that people who are spiritual tend to have lower levels of anxiety and therefore suffer from fewer problems like high blood pressure and strokes. Or maybe it all comes down to what we told you before about kids: It's important for people to remain socially active within their age group in order to be healthy, and going to church gives them the perfect excuse to do that. All of your friends will also be more likely to tell you to get checked out when they notice that huge tumor growing on the side of your head.
"Jim looks bad, you guys. We should probably either call 911 or draw dicks on his face."
#1. Retiring to a Life of Carefree Luxury Is a Death Sentence
For a lot of people reading this right now, the only point of having a job is saving up enough money so that eventually you'll be able to afford not having a job. Maybe you picture yourself retiring in your 50s or earlier and spending the rest of your days chilling on your couch, not worrying about a thing. Unfortunately, doing that can kill you. Apparently, as soon as people decide to stop being useful, so do their bodies.
This means all the cops who got shot a day before retirement didn't miss much.
Studies show that people who retire later in life have better life expectancies than those who retire early. Even discounting the people who retired because of health problems and died soon after, the results still held up. While lounging around and doing nothing probably ensures you won't die from stress-related health problems, there is such a thing as too much rest and relaxation -- without goals or bosses to torment you, your body and mind lull into a stupor and slowly shut themselves down.
"Liver ... off. Ability to give a fuck ... off."
On the other hand, people who stay active and involved in their jobs remain healthier and live longer. In fact, going back to the 90-year-long study we mentioned before, hard workers, even those who worry too much and are prone to stress, usually have longer lifespans than happy-go-lucky types. Even if they didn't end up at their dream job or only kept working later in life out of necessity, they still did better than laid-back people who never took their jobs seriously.
Of course, researchers point out that you don't have to keep going to an office every day to remain active. Other things can keep you focused and working, but given human laziness, very few people will put any real effort into it without a paycheck and a supervisor hovering over their heads.
She'll be riding those stress headaches into the 22nd century.
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The first three Casiotone for the Painfully Alone albums were made using only battery operated keyboards and electronics recorded to 4-track cassette. With 1999's Answering Machine Music, 2001's Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars (now collected onto one CD), and 2003's Twinkle Echo, Ashworth defined a hybrid strain of raw, emotional, and very homemade synth pop that was instantly recognizable as his own. Claustrophobic two-minute character studies shuddered with reverbed beats, blown-out chords, and simple but infectous melodies, all layered beneath Ashworth's sometimes funny but always heartbreaking lyrics.


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I had the same problem as you guys did first time seeing the movie about who was creating the dream worlds.
Ellen Page's character was hired to design all three levels and teach them to individual dreamers.
First Level: Rainy World
The dreamer was the chemist, which is why he stayed behind with the bodies when they went one step deeper.
Second Level: Hotel World
The dreamer was Arthur, again he stays behind to defend the bodies.
Third Level: Snow Level
The dreamer was Eames.
Fourth Level: Limbo
The dreamer was Cobb, which is why he knew how to get out and quickly get to Saito.
Ellen Page was present in each to act as a guide if they got stuck. Only she and the dreamer were to know the individual level layouts, which is why when she mentions the shortcut in the Snow Level, Mal is able to get to the target so quickly. Cobb knows the shortcut and thusly, Mal does as well.


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Pomperaug, Cross fall in nonleague action
Jaquen Collins scored a team-high 18 points and Antonio White added 17 to lead Middletown over Pomperaug, 71-56, Saturday in a nonleague game in Southbury.
Lucien Fortier scored a game-high 26 points and added 10 rebounds for Pomperaug (4-9) and Nathan Rubinstein added 12 points.
New Britain 83, Holy Cross 58: Daequone Clark scored a game-high 19 points for the Hurricanes in a nonleague game in Waterbury.
Michael Robinson and Annuel Saint Juste each scored 16 for the Hurricanes (11-2).
Kristian Harmeling had 13 points for the Crusaders (4-11) and Nick Warren added 11.
Trinity-Pawling 64, Taft 63: Braden Bayer hit two free throws with three seconds left to lift Trinity-Pawling to a 64-63 victory over the visiting Rhinos.
Joey Flannery led Taft (10-4) with 24 points while Quinton Dale had 19. Tyrone Smith scored 17 and Ryan Yearwood 14 for Trinity-Pawling (11-4).
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Taft 50, Sacred Heart-Greewnich 44: Morgan Manz had 17 points with nine rebounds for Taft's third win in four days.
Chelsea Robinson added 13 points for Taft (5-7) and Rylie Mainvill had nine.
Canterbury 47, Chase 36: Abby Woodworth scored 15 points for the visiting Saints.
Idalis Miranda had a game-high 23 points for Chase (8-4).
Watkinson 53, Westover 21: Amber Shelton and Sophia Bourgeois each had seven points and Riley Boeth recorded 10 rebounds for Westover on Friday.
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Those 13 years of police experience/firearms training paid off. All because of a break-up too. There are no participation ribbons in getting dumped. I guess the kid didn't get the memo.
That's what you get for trying it during a Hobbit screening. That shit most certainly shall not pass.
I was more surprised that it was only one guy and he happens to be a off-duty cop. This is Texas and concealed carry is encouraged and widely participated in. Of course others there that might have been armed probably just assumed first responder had it under control and rightfully so.
She happened to be an off-duty cop.*
It was a wimman.
Nice. I skim-read then checked the source but didn't notice the gender. That makes it comical IMO. Shooting up a place because of a girl and a woman puts you down.
Cosmic irony. It will get you every time.
'V For Vendetta' Airs In China, Stunning TV Viewers
That's a shame. Nobody should be subjected to that bastardization of a movie. They were probably stunned when they saw that it had no relation to Alan Moore's work. We should air-drop copies of the comic book to them.
Thing about Moore is, people love the movies as long as they don't read the original comics first. There are exceptions but that seems to be the general trend. Having not read the comic, I thought the V movie was awesome. You know what's even more awesome? It being shown in China. Didn't see that one coming.
What the fuck did Snyder do to Ozymandias? Fuck you, Snyder.
Wait, V for Vendetta was terrible in relation to the comic is was apparently based upon?
That's... disconcerting, to say the least... I really enjoyed that movie and thought it was done superbly : <
But that'd require the Wachowski brothers to develop an original thought.Originally Posted by Alan Moore
To me that's nothing compared to what they did to From Hell.
Fucking NRA.
Chuck Hagel Apologizes For 1998 Comment On Gay Ambassadorial Nominee James Hormel
Apologizing for 14-year-old comments? This dude's about to be nominated.
Dems Grow More Unified While Cracks Form in the GOP
That movie jumped the shark early and often but it really fell off the rails during the imprisonment sequence. What a waste of time.
Iowa court: Bosses can fire 'irresistible' workers
"A dentist acted legally when he fired an assistant that he found attractive simply because he and his wife viewed the woman as a threat to their marriage, the all-male Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday."
Having read the story I'm totally convinced he would have said exactly the same thing to a dude, and his wife would have been just as jealous.


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Avraham Avinu was told to have a Bris at 99 years of age. Why didn't Hashem have him do a Bris earlier?
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1)He was not an Arul until Hashem commanded so there was no Mitzvah to do it.
2) With no Command it is against Halacha to wound yourself
3) Since it is a Bris means convent it requires two Parties so until Hashem commanded him there was no second Party to make a Bris with
4)Rav Nissan Alpert suggests Avram did Kiruv he had to relate to others if they knew he was DIFFERENT then he would lose his ability to relate to all men so he waited once he had to have a son Hashem commanded him him since now his position as father took precedence.
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Jesus' wife theory skates on mighty thin papyrus
|This Sept. 5, 2012 photo released by Harvard University shows a fourth century fragment of papyrus that divinity professor Karen L. King says is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife. King, an expert in the history of Christianity, says the text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identified as Mary. King says the fragment of Coptic script is a copy of a gospel, probably written in Greek in the second century. (AP Photo/Harvard University, Karen L. King)
The Catholic Church will never be accused of impetuosity. Beyond that, this intriguing piece of papyrus, presented by Harvard's Karen King to a group of Coptic experts in Rome, is very likely bogus, created by a cunning forger to advance the married priesthood agenda. Within days of King's announcement, academics, including Francis Watson, a Durham University professor, asserted it was a fake, citing its unorthodox grammar.
Particularly questionable is the provenance of the papyrus. News reports indicate King became aware of the fragment two years ago when she received an email from a collector who needed help translating the piece. King acknowledged the owner did not know where the fragment came from and has asked to remain anonymous.
Would a Picasso pass that test?
To her credit, King has insisted that nothing about the fragment proves Jesus was married. What it demonstrates, she insists, is the diversity of beliefs in the early Christian period over sexuality and marriage.
"What you have in this text is one tiny little fragment from the 4th century that implies something different from something about which we have thousands and thousands of pieces of evidence to the contrary," Fordham University professor George Demacopoulos told me. "It shouldn't change anything."
But it has and will continue to spark a vociferous debate about married clergy, an issue that grows more dire as the number of Catholics increases and the number of priests declines. Between 1975 and 2008, the world's Catholics increased by 64 percent, but the number of priests increased by only 1 percent, reports the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. Although the Vatican's insistence on priestly celibacy rests on its conviction that Jesus never married, that position has evolved over the centuries.
Until the 5th century, priests can and did marry. But as the church became legitimized, corruption, particularly among the episcopate, began to seep in. Buying one's way to a bishop's chair became scandalously common. So, in 451, the Council of Chalcedon insisted on the celibacy of bishops, although priests could continue to marry — as long as they did so before ordination.
Beginning in the 12th century, two parallel forces began to chip away at that. The first was an emerging spiritual consciousness, which had begun with St. Paul and was refined by St. Augustine, that celibacy was a purer form of ministry. Marriage, as Paul writes in Corinthians, may be entered into as a way to avoid "sexual immorality." But chastity — for men and women — is the purer, more spiritually disciplined option. "I wish that all were as I myself am," writes the unmarried Paul. "But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion."
The trouble with marriage, as the church began to discover, was that it produced children — and those children expected an inheritance. "Priests were leaving the property attached to their church to their own sons," Demacopoulos said.
"It was an enormous problem," said professor Janet Ruffing, of Yale Divinity School. "It wasn't just property and land, it was also church office. So if you were a priest's son, you became a priest. You had family dynasties of priests."
What the contemporary Church won't say today is that those same fiduciary issues remain a part of its obduracy with regard to the celibate priesthood. Nobody wants to pay health benefits for a priest with a family of seven.
In the 12th century, this economic reality, combined with an emerging ascetic belief in spiritually, resulted in the insistence on priestly celibacy.
So, says Ruffing, "This imposition of celibacy, which is taught as a gift given by the Holy Spirit, becomes a required practice with the assumption that if a candidate prays for the gift, it will be given. Well, there is way too much evidence that this is not the case."
Nevertheless, it is worth noting, however inconceivable it might seem in this sexually saturated world, that there remain religious men and women who don't see chastity as renunciation but, as it was intended, a charism.
"Charism is a gift, offered and received of the Holy Spirit," says Ruffing. "And the problem with the imposition of clerical celibacy is this non-respect for the gift of celibacy."
Given the need of Catholics for the Eucharist, and given the plummeting number of priests, can we rely on a robust supply of such spiritually evolved souls, graciously endowed with the gift of celibacy?
We do not need a married Jesus to institute a married priesthood. We didn't need it for 12 centuries and we don't need it now. We do not need a scrap of papyrus or a Coptic marriage license. What we need is a church that reliably feeds the spiritual needs of its people. As the Rev. Thomas Reese, of Georgetown University says, "Providing the Eucharist and other sacraments has to take precedence over whether we have a celibate priesthood or not."
"The Gospel of Jesus' Wife" may be a fake. But the need for more priests is achingly genuine. We need to recognize the celibate lifestyle for what it is — a gift — and not continue to force it down the throats of those to whom it hasn't been given.
Tracey O'Shaughnessy is a three-time winner of the Religion Communicators Council's Wilbur Award for religious writing in the secular press and two-time winner in the American Academy of Religion's annual journalism contest. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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