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6 Insane Roads You Won't Believe People Actually Drive On
#3. Hanshin Expressway Goes Through a Building
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It's not easy building a new highway in Japan, since it's one of the most crowded places in the world. For instance, often you'll find that the place where you want to build your roadway happens to be obstructed by a skyscraper. There's no place else to put it, and the owners of the building certainly don't feel like tearing it down. What do you do?
You just cut right through the middle. Behold, the Hanshin Expressway:
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Because the Japanese don't let minor things like reason stop their growth.
In the mid-1980s, the city of Osaka wanted to add some ramps to the already existing Hanshin Expressway. However, as is the case with many Japanese cities, space was a bit of a luxury -- and Osaka was already crammed to the point where they had to build their airport in the bay. So when the Hanshin Expressway builders came across land that already happened to contain the Gate Tower Building, it was no small matter -- especially as the owners of the building refused to yield one inch.
Five years of negotiations ensued, until everyone was frustrated enough to work out the kind of solution that was probably initially only offered sarcastically: Just build through the damn building.
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Other ideas included having the building transform into a robot and carefully step out of the way of oncoming traffic.
The two structures never actually touch, because the highway is suspended like a bridge through the building. It still didn't stop the building's owners from literally listing the tenant of floors 5 through 7 as "The Hanshin Expressway," to the point where the expressway actually pays rent. Sadly, the elevators of the building refuse to stop on the expressway floors, opting instead to skip directly from 4 to 8.
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What if it skips on payments? We'd pay anything to witness that eviction.
Although you'd think the people on the fourth floor would complain, what with being stuck with the noisiest upstairs neighbor in history, they're apparently pretty cool with the situation. The expressway has been soundproofed and vibration-insulated so well that the companies occupying the building don't really notice it. This is perhaps best shown by the nickname they've chosen to call the building: The Beehive. Because, you know, it's a very busy office building and that's the one and only noteworthy thing about it.
#2. Chesapeake Bay Bridge Runs Underwater
So let's say you're driving on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge when you notice that, in the distance, it inclines down, down, down toward the water ... to the point that it appears the end of the bridge is submerged.
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"Wait, this is the opposite of what a bridge is supposed to do!"
And, sure enough, out in the distance the bridge just ends -- there's a clear expanse of water where your road should be.
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"The one day I drive my Mazda instead of the boat-car."
You're not going to drown -- that gap is where the bridge turns into a tunnel. This Frankensteinian creation was drawn up in 1956, when designers stared across the 23-mile expanse of the Chesapeake Bay and realized that none of the normal engineering solutions really worked. Building a bridge that long was risky. Proposals for connecting the shores with a tunnel or a series of artificial islands were laughed out of the room as soon as the decision makers saw the price tag. To make matters even worse, the U.S. Navy politely pointed out that the bulk of their Atlantic fleet happened to be located deeper in the bay, and they would really like to take them out on the ocean every once in a while, thank you very much.
That's when they got creative. The result is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
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Seen here from goddamn space.
The structure opened in 1964 and was instantly placed among the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World.
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The only other option was "Just ramp it."
The project, built during hurricanes and an assortment of other terrible Atlantic weather phenomena, features four 1,500-foot artificial islands, two high-level steel bridges, a mile and a half of earth-filled causeway, over 12 miles of straight-up "normal" bridge ... and finally, to mitigate the Navy's concerns, two mile-long tunnels to enable untroubled passage for their ships above. It's so massive that it has its very own special political subdivision and police force, and is reportedly a very pleasant and smooth ride despite the $12 toll.
That is, unless you need to turn back for whatever reason and miss the precious few turnaround spots. Or end up stuck in the tunnel for hours due to an accident ahead. Or happen to get caught on the larger gusts of wind that can and totally do throw cars overboard.
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#1. Karakoram Highway Seeks to Kill You in Every Way Possible
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Karakoram Highway connects Pakistan and China through a perilous mountain range of the same name. It's the world's highest paved international road, topping at about 15,400 feet. The construction process was just as hard as the altitude figures: More than one worker died for every mile along the 800-mile-long highway.
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Witness the wonders mankind can accomplish without the tyranny of OSHA!
Yet somehow they managed to build the thing over the kind of terrain that had clearly meant to remain untraveled. They didn't give a good goddamn whether nature threw uncrossable canyons in their way or not:
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"No problem, just get us some Legos and rope."
Karakoram Highway is called "Friendship Highway" due to the link it provides between the two nations. Assuming that "friendship" is slang for "actively tries to kill everyone driving on it," the nickname is very, very accurate. After 20 years of perilous construction, the road was opened to public in 1986. It immediately proved to be just as dangerous to travel as it had been to build, partially because of things like this:
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"Don't be a wuss, man, walk it off."
The highway came down on travelers like a demon's wrath, dropping huge boulders, sending vehicles flying off perilous turns or just flat out flooding 7-mile stretches of the road, drowning nearby villages under hundreds of feet of water.
Along with the road actively trying to kill them, the passengers also have to keep alert for terrorists, as they are known to attack travelers. Also, snow leopards prowl the area and are prone to lunging at cars. We so wish we were kidding.
And just to be able to get to the "world trying to kill you" part, you'd better be a dab hand at withstanding altitude sickness, a condition caused by messed-up oxygen levels that can very well be fatal. It most commonly occurs at over 8,000 feet ... which is par for the course for Karakoram Highway, as it rarely dips below that altitude.
Via Jalopnik.com
Real men don't need air -- they breathe solid rock.
Yeah, did we not mention that? The workers basically built the whole damn thing with reduced oxygen levels. So, yeah, drivers should be thankful they have any road at all. If they survive.
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[OT] Meetup pictures from Ext JS meetup in San Francisco
Just got back from a great Ext JS meetup where around 8 Ext developers showed up unannounced. It was really nice to get to talk to Aaron/Abe/Tommy and all the guys at once! Next SF Ext JS meetup will be hosted by Ext at their offices in Palo Alto.
Here's a short blog post about the meetup and some pictures.
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When are Getters and Setters Justified
Is it a good programming practice to not use getters and setters in trivial parts of code?
Is it a good programming practice to not use getters and setters in trivial parts of code?
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Not in my opinion. (Why would you think otherwise?)
At the very least, consistency should be an important factor across a code base, so I'd have thought that if getter/setters are used they should be used globally.
Also, what's trivial now might end up being a great distance from trivial in six months time, so it would be naive to assume otherwise and treat such code segments differently.
It is good programming practice not to use getters and setters in classes that are intended to be more than bundles of data (like a C
For classes that are fundamentally bundles of data, they're more complicated than simply making the class data public, but offer slightly more control. Sometimes I prefer public variables because they're cleaner, but setters allow inserting hooks into the modifications, which saved me a lot of work once.
A class with extensive getter/setter pairs may be poorly designed (in that it may be poorly encapsulating it's implementation detail). But the getters/setters themselves are not usually the problem in such a scenario, the simple fact that the data is public often is, so in such a scenario a big list of public variables might be just as bad.
It's really hard to say without seeing concrete examples; I would personally shy away from making such generalizations as the one in your question (instead favoring weaker assertions involving "might," "could be", "possibly," et cetera). If a class is intended to be a very high level abstraction, it should probably have fewer trivial get/set pairs versus something modelling a lower level concept.
If, in particular, you mean "trivial" code to be specific one-off code for testing an idea or very small programs, there's probably no need to overabstract or overengineer the solution.
I'd argue that you want to TDD (And by that I mean Test Driven Design) your objects. You'l quickly realise whether you really need those setters and getters. I personally only write the code that I have to.
Oh, and if your design later on says I need all of those getters and setters, then that's what modern IDEs are for :)
No code is trivial
If, at runtime, the CPU executes it, then it is non-trivial because it is having an effect.
It's all about encapsulation
If you want to violate pretty much every piece of advice about data encapsulation in the OOP book then just expose the internal state of your object to all and sundry. Simply make the field public and off you go. Before long all those references you're handing out will get modified by some distant call of a call of a call and your object is none the wiser - until it comes to perform some operation that results in epic failure.
Epic fail? I don't want that...
If you want to make sure that only your object is changing it's own internal state then getters/setters are the way to go. The getter/setter guards the internal state making sure that external classes have no other way to get at it. (OK, I hear your subclassing, reflection yada yada ...)
Got an example to clinch it?
Consider exposing arrays. If you do it directly through a getter, such as this (in Java)
you get an epic fail because the
To overcome this, you need to clone so that the external classes effectively get a read-only version of the
External code may change this to be blue, but every time anyone else visits the
It seems unnecessary and ugly, but it protects your internal state.
According to Jon Skeet (of StackOverflow fame) -
EDIT - I would recommend using to use Automatic properties wherever possible. To me it lets me know at a single glance that this property is not doing anything fancy. Also it makes the code more readable.
The notion of getters and setters is utterly stupid extremism, so you shouldn't use them. Here's why:
If you have a product type such as a struct in C, then you are provided the categorical projections (getters) as part of the language and you should use them. In C they're also useful for setting a value and also read/modify/write operations. Products are concrete data types, there's nothing abstract about them, and their data should be public. Some idiot languages hide data by default, or allow reading but not writing.
Abstractions should be avoided at all costs. Abstraction is expensive computationally, and I don't mean for the computer (although this is usually the case): I mean for the human brain. Just look at all the ridiculous garbage in OO languages compared to the simple coding in a functional language: even poor languages like C can be very expressive.
Abstraction is useful when you have invariants and are sure of them and would like to enforce them. In this case typically constructors establish the invariant, the data is hidden to prevent use of the projections to break the invariant, and then you need accessors to get information about the object value.
If the object is mutable, clearly you need some way to modify it.
However these are not "getters and setters" in the sense of setting components of a product type, because that's what you're trying to prevent, since some values of the private data structure do not represent values of the abstract type.
Yes. I don't use get/set for private attributes if they are not used outside the class and the class can't be inherited.
If you need to access the attribute outside the class, a get/set is in order. A get without set for an immutable class, a get/set for mutable.
When I need to have a bunch of these I grab my IDE and let it generate them for me.


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Too much treatment drives up health costs
That's because mammograms can miss cancers, particularly in women with dense breasts. So for the past few years, I have undergone that additional screening — in the form of an ultrasound — with equanimity and appreciation. We all know that early detection is the key to a cure, right?
But, recently, as I, like many Americans, have had to bear the brunt of my health-care costs, I've begun to wonder whether what seems like prudence isn't, in fact, paranoia.
Increasingly, those who study health-care spending are raising the alarm — not about getting too little medical care — but getting too much. Overtreatment costs the nation's health care system at least $210 billion a year, according to the Institute of Medicine, and much of that money is spent on identifying diseases that we may never get or from which we will not die.
As Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, told the news agency, "It's medical gluttony."
By some estimates, up to a third of the $2 trillion of annual health care costs in the United States may be unnecessary. In 2010, Consumer Reports published a survey of 1,200 healthy adults that revealed that almost 50 percent of them had received screening tests for heart disease that were considered "very unlikely or unlikely to have benefits that outweigh the risks."
A University of Pittsburgh professor estimated that unnecessary blood tests during physical exams costs $325 million annually, The New York Times reports. And a study in a September 2011 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine found 80 percent of surveyed doctors said they order some tests that may not be necessary out of fear they might be sued for malpractice.
"Overuse has become rampant in the past decade," Rosemary Gibson, co-author of "The Treatment Trap," told the Austin-American Statesman. Gibson, former section editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine, asserts that one-third of heart bypass surgery patients don't need the procedure. Each year, tens of thousands of people with chronic back pain have surgery, despite almost no evidence it helps and 300,000 women a year have their ovaries removed unnecessarily.
Why? Two reasons: money and fear of malpractice lawsuits.
Where does that leave patients such as I? It leaves us staring at a bill we can scarcely afford, utterly lacking in the medical expertise that could steer us toward the right decision.
Take the case of a friend of mine, whose pregnancy ultrasound revealed lesions on her liver. Her primary care physician told her the lesions were probably not worrisome, but that to be on the safe side, my friend should have an MRI.
My friend, always attentive when it comes to her health, was all for the screen, but for one niggling detail: With a $5,000 health insurance deductible, that MRI would set her back an estimated $1,400.
That's a lot of dough to rest easy at night.
My ultrasound won't be that dear. But at $250, it gives me pause. For the past four years, Woodbury's Nancy Cappello has been trying to force insurers to cover ultrasound for women like me, but to no avail.
Cappello points to a recent Yale study that found that some 4.8 out of 1,000 cancers were found via ultrasound in women with dense breasts whose cancers were missed through mammography.
That doesn't sound like very many — unless one of them is you.
When it comes to health care coverage, said Karen Pollitz, of the Kaiser Family Foundation, "We want consumers to have some skin in the game, but it's important to recognize the difference between being a consumer of health care and a consumer of shoes."
Shannon Brownlee, author of "Overtreated," agrees. "What's happening with these high-deductible plans is that they are pushing the cost on to the employee and pushing an undue amount of responsibility onto the employee," she says. "(Patients) are not equipped to know what's worth buying and what isn't. It's a really untenable situation."
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Let $V=L$ denote the axiom of constructibility. Are there any interesting examples of set theoretic statements which are independent of $ZFC + V=L$? And how do we construct such independence proofs? The (apparent) difficulty is as follows: Let $\phi$ be independent of $ZFC + V=L$. We want models of $ZFC + V=L + \phi$ and $ZFC + V=L + \neg\phi$. An inner model doesn't work for either one of these since the only inner model of $ZFC + V = L$ is $L$ and whatever $ZFC$ can prove to hold in $L$ is a consequence of $ZFC + V=L$. Forcing models are of no use either, since all of them satisfy $V \neq L$.
There are numerous examples of such statements. Let me organize some of them into several categories.
First, there is the hierarchy of large cardinal axioms that are relatively consistent with V=L. See the list of large cardinals. All of the following statements are provably indpendent of ZFC+V=L, assuming the consistency of the relevent large cardinal axiom.
These are all independent of ZFC+V=L, assuming the large cardinal is consistent with ZFC, because if we have such a large cardinal in V, then in each of these cases (and many more), the large cardinal retains its large cardinal property in L, so we get consistency with V=L. Conversely, it is consistent with V=L that there are no large cardinals, since we might chop the universe off at the least inaccessible cardinal.
Second, even for those large cardinal properties that are not consistent with V=L, we can still make the consistency statement, which is an arithmetic statement having the same truth value in V as in L.
These are all independent of ZFC+V=L, assuming the large cardinal is consistent with ZFC, since on the one hand, if W is a model of ZFC+Con(ZFC+phi), then LW is a model of ZFC+V=L+Con(ZFC+phi), as Con(ZFC+phi) is an arithmetic statement. And on the other hand, by the Incompleteness theorem, there must be models of ZFC+¬Con(ZFC+phi), and the L of such a model will have ZFC+V=L+¬Con(ZFC+phi).
Third, there is an interesting trick related to the theorem of Mathias that Dorais mentioned in his answer. For any statement phi, the assertion that there is a countable well-founded model of ZFC+phi is a Sigma12 statement, and hence absolute between V and L. And the existence of a countable well-founded model of a theory is equivalent by the Lowenheim-Skolem theorem to the existence of a well-founded model of the theory. Thus, the truth of each of the following statements is the same in V as in L.
These are all independent of ZFC=V=L, since they are independent of ZFC, and their truth is the same in V as in L. I find it quite remarkable that there can be a model of V=L that has a transitive model of ZFC+'there is a supercompact cardinal'. The basic lesson is that the L of a model with enormous large cardinals has very different properties and kinds of objects in it than a model of V=L arising elsewhere. And I believe that this gets to the heart of your question.
Since all these statements are studied very much in set theory, and are very interesting, and are independent of ZFC+V=L, I find them to be positive instances of what was requested.
However, how does this relate to Shelah's view in Dorais's excellent answer? He seems there to dismiss the entire class of consistency strength statements as combinatorics in disguise. What does he mean exactly? Since we set theorists are very interested in these statements, I don't think that he means to dismiss them as silly tricks with the Incompleteness theorem. Perhaps he means something like: to the extent that we believe that a large cardinal property LC is consistent, then we don't really want to consider the theory ZFC+V=L, but rather, the theory ZFC+V=L+Con(LC). That is, we aren't so interested in models having the wrong arithmetic theory, so we insist that Con(LC) if we are comitted to that. And none of the examples I have given exhibit independence from that corresponding theory.
This is a very interesting question. Here is what Shelah says about this in The Future of Set Theory:
As far as I know no significant progress has been made. There are however little gems like this neat trick of Adrian Mathias to show that every real can be constructible which was posted here by Joel Hamkins not long ago.
What I would call the standard source of examples is the series of very nice "finitary" combinatorial statements that Harvey Friedman has been working on. You can see plenty of such statements in his numbered series of FOM posts, and for details of some of the arguments, see for example his nice paper "Finite Functions and the Necessary Use of Large Cardinals", Annals of Math., Vol. 148, No. 3, 1998, pp. 803-893.
The examples Harvey examines are arithmetic. In the "true" model (which is well-founded) they are decided one way, and there are ill-founded (in fact, not $\omega$-) models where they are decided the other way.
It would be highly desirable to have examples of nice arithmetic statements that are not just independent but for which we can produce differing answers in different well-founded models. I don't think anybody has any clue at the moment on how to do such thing. To achieve this would be akin to the invention of forcing.


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Following last week's teaserly announcement, Epic Games has revealed a new Unreal Tournament that the team says will be completely free, to be developed by Epic Games in collaboration with Unreal Engine 4 developers and the community.
According to Epic Games, development on the new Unreal Tournament – simply called Unreal Tournament – will kick off today, May 8th, and the team is inviting developers familiar with Unreal Engine 4 as well as the passionate fanbase to contribute to the creation of the game, all starting from scratch today.
In an official announcement post, senior programmer and Unreal Tournament project lead Steve Polge wrote:
"Work on the future of Unreal Tournament begins today, and we're happy to announce that we're going to do this together, with you. We know that fans of the game are as passionate about Unreal Tournament as we are.
"We know that you have great ideas and strong opinions about where the game should go and what it should be. So let's do something radical and make this game together, in the open, and for all of us."
Epic was keen to point out that the new Unreal Tournament won't just be free-to-play, it will be completely free, despite the fact that the studio has put together a small team of Unreal Tournament veterans who will be building the foundations for the game from today.
Epic is also keen to keep development of Unreal Tournament open and free to contributors:
"From the very first line of code," writes Polge, "the very first art created and design decision made, development will happen in the open, as a collaboration between Epic, UT fans and UE4 developers. We'll be using forums for discussion, and Twitch streams for regular updates."
The team will be sticking closely to the roots of Unreal Tournament as a competitive first-person shooter, and while it will take "many months until the game is playable by gamers," we can expect it to arrive on Windows, Mac and Linux. No console version of the game is planned at the moment.
The plan on Epic's side is to create an online marketplace where "developers, modders, artists and gamers can give away, buy and sell mods and content," with earnings from this marketplace to be split between the creator of that content and Epic. "That's how we plan to pay for the game," says Polge.
Polge signed off by saying:
"A lot of this is brand new for Epic, and we don't yet have everything figured out. Things will probably definitely go wrong from time to time, and when they do, we'll have to work through them together. There will be a lot of tough decisions to make, and not every feature will make it into the game.
"But if you're a fan of Unreal Tournament, a UE4 developer, or a future modder – or if you just want to learn how we make games – we hope you'll join us. It's going to be fun."
What do you think of the announcement? It's certainly a new way to approach the development of a professionally produced game.
You can make your way to Polge's announcement post to find out how to contribute to the game if you're excited and passionate enough (and are able to create levels, models, textures and more) to make the cut and help development.
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this is a sort of emergency call for all dutch colleagues. I did not participate in the festival since it moved to Rotterdam. But this year I decided to do it.
My question: anybody interested to meet to take panos at the festival? Plus Photos as well of course. Equipment might be avalible. I can not do everything on my own with different cameras etc. Plus I am afraid that someone pics the rest of my equipment while taking panos.... :-\
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1969 Holley Road Runner, Part XWritten by on February 1, 2001 Packaging modern suspension, brakes, wheels and tires with the heritage of the Holley Project Road Runner.
Were getting close. Very close. The pent-up enthusiasm about the Holley Road Runner has apparently created quite a stir. In fact, folks approach the Holley roadshow trailer at NHRA and Hot Rod Power Tour events asking where the car is.
Well, as we prepare to write this article, we are mere days away from delivering the Hemi Orange B-Body to Bowling Green, Kentucky, the home of Holley Performance Products. In fact, well soon be traveling there ourselves to gather the final images that will grace an upcoming issue.
For us, however, seeing the suspension, brakes, wheels, and tires on the car proved we were finally getting close.
In this segment of our coverage on the Holley Project Road Runner, well document how John Balow and his crew at Muscle Car Restorations have been true to the concept of musclecarfat rubber, big power, and wild hues. At the same time, John has used the best the aftermarket has to offer by upgrading the brake and suspension systems to modern-day performance.
Baer Serious Street 12-inch Front Rotor Conversion
Up front, the system Baer provided is a derivative of their Serious Street 12-inch diameter rotor conversion. This version is Baers smallest and the only system compatible with our wheel choice. The system includes a direct-replacement master cylinder with the proper volume for the systems requirements (it can be used manually or as Baer prefers, with booster); a pair of PBR aluminum D.O.T.-legal calipers (NOTE: The larger Sport or Track systems employ a PBR caliper with the Baer logo); a set of billet-aluminum hubs which arrive preassembled with U.S.-made races, bearings, and seals and are even prepacked in Red Line synthetic grease and then capped for shipment; a pair of billet-aluminum intermediate mounting brackets (attach to stock locations on factory disc spindles); a set of Teflon -lined, braided stainless steel hoses and appropriate fittings; a full complement of required hardware, instructions, and even a clear plastic bleeder hose to make that process easier.
First, remove the OE brake hardware from the spindle, wipe it clean, then bolt the side-specific intermediate mounting brackets with the hardware provided (NOTE: All critical fasteners are treated with VibraTite coating at Baer prior to shipment) and torque to 100 lb/ft. Next, uncap the billet hub assembly (ours came with optional ARP NHRA legal studs because of our need to use a spacer), slide it onto the spindle and with the new spindle nut and related hardware provided, tension as detailed in the instructions. The rotor fits to the hub, and the caliper slides onto the rotor and is torqued to the intermediate bracket to 85 lb/ft. Under the car, the last operation is to install the braided-steel brake hoses that are complete with adapter fitting that connect them to the stock OE steel hard lines. Back on the topside, we bolt the new master cylinder in place and then complete the install by bleeding the brakes.
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As the Holley Project Road Runner nears completion, the installation of the suspension and finally getting the Road Runner down on all fours made a big impact on us. Most of the credit must go to Muscle Car Restorations and the long list of vendors who have helped make this project a success!Performance Suspension Technology provided us with replacement suspension components for the Road Runner, which were installed at Muscle Car Restorations. PST's Super Kit includes four ball joints, two outer tie-rod ends, rubber bushings, control-arm bumpers, two inner tie-rod ends, two tie-rod adjusting sleeves, the idler arm, and four upper cam and bolt kits. For more on PST's line of Mopar suspension equipment, see the PST Corner Carving Guide, which appeared in the May 2000 issue of Mopar Muscle magazine.Drive Train Specialists supplied us with an ARB Air Locker-equipped Dana 60, which we chronicled in the September 2000 issue of Mopar Muscle. If the Dana 60 was good enough for a Hemi, it surely was right on the mark for the 700 lb/ft 542ci Indy Cylinder Head-built wedge engine.With Muscle Car Restorations handling the assembly of the Road Runner, the DTS rear end was shipped to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. It easily slid in place suspended by Eaton Detroit Spring-supplied leaf springs.With that in mind, Jay Prosch-Jensen recommended the use of an ARB air-operated locking differential. The Australian-built Air Locker allows conversion, with a flip of the dash-mounted switch, from an open rear end to a spool. With the accompanying air compressor, you simply air up when you are finished at the strip and return the rear end to open operation.With the rear end installed, it was time to install the Baer Racing four-wheel disc brakes. For the rear, Baer supplied their "Rod and Drag" package. This system incorporates a 11.350-inch diameter x .810-inch thick rotors. A caliper mounting bracket is attached to the axle flange in the rear. Note the bracket appearing from behind the axle flange. This system will accommodate some 15-inch diameter wheels and most 16-inch wheels.
Baer Racing is the exclusive U.S. performance aftermarket distributor of the PBR single-piston caliper. Designed for rear-wheel use, the caliper incorporates an integral park-brake mechanism and is perfect for the ultimate street performance vehicle.It's almost embarrassing how easy this installation is. Make sure you use the correct caliper for each side; the feed line runs to the forward side of the axle and the brake bleeder must always face up.With Stockton Wheel's SWS TQ wheel, there is ample space to clear most large rotors and the compact brake system makes it even easier. If you are converting from drum brakes to discs, you will need the disc-brake spindle. Many sources for salvage yard spindles can be found in Mopar Muscle including Desert Valley Auto Parts, Stephens Performance, and Texas Acres.The system looks great and offers tremendous weight savings. Baer indicates a 28-pound weight savings when the SS system is used in place of the OE disc it replaces. That equates to about a 10-12-pound reduction if the car is converted from the lighter factory drum brakes. At this time the Baer system is only available to fit a factory disc spindle. With a set of modern wheels like the SWS TQs, this is the ultimate in brake and wheel styling.Magnum Force's tubular upper control arms use original-style ball joints and urethane bushings for ease of replacement.While Holley wanted to maintain a musclecar look, everyone recognized we also wanted a modern down-in-the-weeds stance. While we could turn the torsion bars all the way down, we would lose suspension adjustability. By comparing Magnum Force's tubular upper control arm to the stock replacement, we see that the ball joint is relocated further outboard, which gains an adjustability range of 3-5 degrees positive caster with maximum camber adjustment.Magnum Force supplied the necessary billet hardware and grade 8 fasteners to make the system bulletproof.
This system is a direct replacement for B-, E- and late-model A-Body Mopars. For early A-Body owners, fit the late model A-Body spindle and you're in business.Aside from the upper coilover mount, all stock pickup points are employed for a direct bolt-on installation.The ultimate Mopar requires the ultimate wheel. Stockton Wheel's one-piece aluminum SWS-TQ is available in 15x5.5, 15x7, and 15x10. The TQ was manufactured for vintage car owners who want clearance for larger brake systems. The wheels are only available from Stockton Wheel in either full polish or chrome. We matched their 15x7 wheels at all four corners with BFGoodrich Radial T/A tires. Up front, we're running a 225/70R15, while, in the back, a generous size is found with 275/60R15 For good appearance when you combine different size tires, the tread and sidewall must match. Balow found that the BFGoodrich's were the best for that purpose.


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I'm looking for data - maybe CHP^2 data that shows chromatin binding to a prokaryotic genome under some specific conditions. Can anyone point me to a source?
A large number of prokaryotes do indeed have nucleosome-like structures. The most well studied is H-NS in E. coli, Salmonella and some other deltaproteobacteria. H-NS like molecules have also been found in mycoplasma (Lsr2). One of its roles is to bind AT-rich DNA and silence transcription. The binding is usually to suppress the expression of foreign DNA which tends to have a lower GC content than the host organism. There is a great paper that did ChIP on ChIP with H-NS in Salmonella by Navarre et al in Science (Pubmed ID: 1676311).
As a side note H-NS does compact DNA and there is a paper by Dame et al. that demonstrates it with atomic force microscopy.


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Bowling Green, KY -- It took 12 long years from conception to completion, with detractors saying it would never succeed and would cost taxpayers money. It's the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center, known as SKyPAC.
During that 12-year process even some of the creators of SKyPAC sometimes doubted it would ever happen. But now, even SKyPAC officials can't believe how successful its first year was.
"From March to June, how can things get any better? And they just did!"
Former SKyPAC Program and Marketing Director Jann Zarr was here from the beginning. He knows the obstacles SKyPAC overcame to get to this point.
"We had 90% return on season subscriptions," said Zarr. "That's unheard of! So the community has really welcomed us, amazingly welcomed us."
But why did the community turn out? Cathy Rigby who starred in Peter Pan here, says because the residents of south central Kentucky truly appreciate the quality of artists appearing at SKyPAC.
"Everybody just seems to really get in the shows and participate as an audience," said Rigby, "and the energy that comes back is wonderful."
Rigby, a former U.S. Olympic gymnastic star, saw first-hand the excitement in the eyes of the children who attended the show.
"And then you have their parents who are watching their children watch," she said. "It's a memory-making experience."
But how does SKyPAC attract performers like Cathy Rigby, Willie Nelson, Jack Hanna, and Jerry Seinfeld? They say it's because of the theater and the staff.
"I do about 80 to 100 theaters a year,' said Jack Hanna, "and they said this was a brand new theater, so when I pulled up I said, 'Boy!' I couldn't picture how big the theater was. When you walk in here it's a magnificent theater. I go to towns where there are a million people that don't have anything like this. This is a beautiful theater."
"And you have people who are really passionate, enthusiastic, and artistic and know what's out there," added Rigby, "and if everybody works together, you're gonna have the patrons come in."
And they are coming in, even the ones who were skeptical about SKyPAC.
"I gave them a tour of the building," said SKyPAC Executive Director Tom Tomlinson, "and half-way through the tour this woman walked up and handed me a check for $2,500, and said, 'There's more where that came from' so."
And Zarr agreed, "Every time somebody new comes in who may have been a naysayer, they are totally blown away, totally blown away."
So SKyPAC's first year was a resounding success. But can they keep it going? They say they can. In fact, they told me they're adding an extra performance to all five Broadway shows coming this second season, so twice as many people can see them as before. Three of those shows are brand new: "Memphis," "Rock of Ages," and "Bring It On."
And with word spreading throughout the entertainment world about how much artists like to perform here, the sky just may be the limit for SKyPAC.
For more information on SKyPAC and the shows that are coming, click on the link below.


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Bowling Green's city commission has given a cautious greenlight to the idea of bringing minor league baseball to town.
Commissioners voted three to two Tuesday night to approve a resolution giving their support to the "Play Ball" concept presented last week.
That plan calls for the city to loan developers $12 million to buy land in a six block area downtown.
Those developers would then build a $15 million stadium and potentially pump in up to $80 million in private investments like condos and office space.
Commissioner Brian Strow voted against supporting that plan Tuesday, saying the taxpayer's money could be used better in other places.
"I kinda worry that such a large project, a $12 million project would take away money from other projects such as paving streets, working on sidewalks, or hiking and biking trails. So I do worry what we'd have to give up to finance a ballpark," Strow said.
Mayor Elaine Walker voted to support the plan and says it will address multiple downtown needs.
"The financing structure is unique because it's actually spreading out the liability not just on the ballpark, but on downtown redevelopment. So it's actually accomplishing two goals with one financing structure," Walker said.
This development plan now faces a hurdle in the General Assembly where lawmakers must approve a special taxing district for the proposed site before the plan can move ahead.


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When playing AA to maximize the potential return, I tend to bet a lot pre flop but that often leads to just stealing the blinds. Given this fact, should I limp and reraise if I can, given that I've been confronted with a "tight" field?
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There are so many things to consider when coming to a conclusion about how to play not just AA, but any hand. Not the least of which is:
The list goes on and on.
However, as a general rule of thumb (to which there are many exceptions), in a No-Limit Holdem Cash Game against amatuer opponents with whom you have no significant history, I posit that:
The best way to make money with a good hand is to bet, bet, bet.
From my experience, playing
One general tips is to never limp! you want to raise the same amount with your whole range of hands to be as unpredictable as possible. If you limp your AA, you will just end up in weird spots all the time where you have no idea what to do and what hands your opponents have (the BB or SB getting a cheap or free flop). This will result in closing your eyes and calling it down drawing thin or dead.
Aggression is the way to go! Even if it only results in stealing the blinds! taking the blinds are better than losing your stack! ;)


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Publications: Banazis, Michael
Bennett, M.D., Woolford, L., Banazis, M.J., O'Hara, A.J., Warren, K.S., Nicholls, P.K., Sims, C. and Fenwick, S.G. (2011) Coxiella burnetii in western barred bandicoots (Perameles bougainville) from Bernier and Dorre Islands in Western Australia. EcoHealth, 8 (4). pp. 519-524.
Potter, A., Banazis, M.J., Yang, R.C., Reid, S.A. and Fenwick, S.G. (2011) Prevalence of Coxiella burnatii in western grey kangaroos (Macropus fuliginosus) in Western Australia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 47 (41). pp. 821-828.
Lockhart, M.G., Graves, S.R., Banazis, M.J., Fenwick, S.G. and Stenos, J. (2011) A comparison of methods for extracting DNA from Coxiella burnetii as measured by a duplex qPCR assay. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 52 (5). pp. 514-520.
Banazis, M.J., Bestall, A.S., Reid, S.A. and Fenwick, S.G. (2010) A survey of Western Australian sheep, cattle and kangaroos to determine the prevalence of Coxiella burnetii. Veterinary Microbiology, 143 (2-4). pp. 337-345.
Banazis, Michael (2009) Development of tools for surveillance of Coxiella burnetii in domestic ruminants and Australian marsupials and their waste. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.
Gummer, J., Banazis, M., Maker, G., Solomon, P., Oliver, R. and Trengove, R. (2009) Use of mass spectrometry for metabolite profiling and metabolomics. Australian Biochemist, 40 (3). pp. 5-8.


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Nature Needs You – Join our Volunteers!
If you enjoy being outdoors or sharing your love of nature with others, consider joining the volunteers at the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center. Our volunteers benefit from the training that's provided – whether it's learning new skills for your volunteer job or expanding your knowledge of the natural history of our area.
Training can be done "on-the-job" for some volunteer positions, while others require attending a training session and possibly "shadowing" staff or an experienced volunteer. Opportunities are available both weekends and weekdays.
There are five categories of volunteer opportunities. To see the different volunteer jobs available please click the categories below:
- Volunteer administrative
Do you enjoy working "behind the scenes"? Do you enjoy maintaining and researching contact lists and computer data entry? This is an important on-going and on-site opportunity. Basic computer skills & Excel are required.Flexible schedule.
- Front Desk/Nature Shop
Meet and greet people from all over the world! Our Volunteers help introduce visitors to the Arboretum's services, programs and policies, answer the phone and refer calls as needed, as well as assist customers in the Nature Shop and assisting the Nature Shop Manager with merchandise, as needed. Training required in Quick Book Point-of-Sales. Year-round; Weekdays, 9—1 pm or 1—5 pm.
- Additional Opportunities
Volunteer services are periodically scheduled to use specific skills and talents as the need arises. For example, volunteers have assisted with the following tasks:
- Special Event preparation
- Staff booth at events/festivals
- Distributing flyers or posters to local businesses, libraries, etc.
Schedules dependent on specific opportunity & will be posted as needed.
Conservation Projects
- Gardening
Do you enjoy learning about native plants and their important role in our habitat? Come help in our gardens! You will work with our Facilities Manager, Jim Crabb, to help maintain the 2.5 acres of native landscaping including the Carol Tatkon Sensory Garden and our various wildlife garden areas. Tasks include weeding, pruning, transplanting, and collecting seed. Learn the secrets of attracting hummingbirds and butterflies with native plants! All personal safety equipment [gloves, etc.] and tools are provided.
Physically Demanding. Year-Round; Wednesdays & Fridays, 9am-12pm.
- Invaders of Texas Plant Survey
HANC wants your help in tracking our efforts to eradicate invasive species from our 155 acre nature sanctuary. On the third Saturday of every month, a group of volunteers will assist us in recording the species, location, and density of invasive plants using a GPS, record sheets, and a camera. Our HANC survey will track the success rate of our removal efforts while adding to a publicly available state wide database. Come and join Trevor and your fellow volunteer adventurers — no previous knowledge of GPS or invasive species is necessary! GPS instrument use and all information will be given prior to the start of each survey!
Physically Demanding. Year-round. 3rd Saturday of the month 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- Conservation Volunteer
Get instant satisfaction and a good workout! Volunteers work with our Facilities Manager and Conservationists in maintaining our 5+ mile trail system and 155 acres of sanctuary grounds. Mulching, weeding, pruning, planting and repairing or replacing boardwalks are ongoing tasks. Focus is on improving the ecological health of our urban sanctuary. All personal safety equipment [gloves, etc.] and tools are provided. Learn names of plants, proper gardening techniques, and enjoy a good day's work!
Physically Demanding. Year-Round; Thursdays, & the 1st and 2nd Saturdays, 9am-12pm.
- Bird Count
Are you a birding enthusiast? HANC has historically gathered documentation of the observed bird species here. Come join our Conservationist, Theo Ostler, for a monthly bird count. You do not need to be an expert in bird identification, just bring our interest and enthusiasm & a pair of binoculars [we will provide if you don't have your own]! All forms, etc. will be provided.
Physically demanding. Year-round; 3rd Saturday of the month 8 am – 10 am
Education Programs
- Discovery Room
Do you enjoy sharing the many wonders of the Arboretum? When not in use for school/scout groups, the Discovery Room is open to the general public. Interactive exhibits provide realistic information about our forest, pond, wetland, and grassland habitats. Microscopes, field books, changing exhibits, and other resources help visitors learn more about the plant and wildlife communities of our nature sanctuary. Volunteers assist the public by facilitating exploration of the Discovery Room to teach families about the natural history of our area and answering their questions.
Training required. Year-Round; weekdays (excluding Mondays) 9:30am-1pm & 1pm-4pm; weekends 10am-12pm, 12pm-2pm, & 2pm-4pm.
- Home School
This program gives Home School kids, ages 5 through 12 years, the opportunity to learn about the world of science at our nature sanctuary. Two classes are organized by ages 5-8 years old and 9-12 years old. A different 3-week science unit is taught each month. Each class consists of instructional time, hands-on activities and guided nature walks. Volunteers work with staff naturalist as teaching assistants in the classroom and as a chaperone on the nature walk.
September- May; three Mondays per month 1pm-3pm.
- Naturalist Explorers
HANC offers a 2-hour class one Saturday a month on a variety of nature topics for children ages 5 to 8. You will assist our staff naturalists in using hands-on outdoor activities and crafts to enhance learning and demonstrate natural science concepts to these students. Each class covers an aspect of the overall theme.
September- May; one Saturday per month, 9am-11am & 1pm-3pm.
- Naturally Wild Families
This family focused program explores HANC though field experiences, outdoor activities, and nature, art, and a little craftiness for all ages 6 and up with a parent or other adult partner. Volunteers will assist our staff naturalists with helping families learn new skills, and ways to get outside, be healthier, happier, and smarter. Each class will cover a different nature topic.
Various Saturdays; 1pm-3pm.
- School Tour Guides
"Guided field experiences" are offered for grades K-12 and are tailored to address the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for science mandated by the Texas Education Agency. Many thousands of students experience nature first hand through these 90 minute ecosystem class and tours through our Nature Center. Many of these students will also explore the Discovery Room with staff and volunteer guidance on their visit. The student groups are kept to a maximum of 10 children, with at least 1 chaperone per group. Volunteers are trained on particular topics for each grade level.
Training required. September- May; Tuesday- Friday, 9:30am-11am & 11:30am-1pm shifts.
- Scouting
Help our naturalists lead Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in earning some or all of their requirements for a badge or achievement. In our Mini-Badge workshops, the scouts investigate the nature sanctuary with a naturalist and learn about our fascinating ecology. All of our scout programs use our grounds as a field laboratory for hands-on exploration! Volunteers may assist with one hour Forest Treks available daily [scheduled], or our 2-3 hour Mini-Badge workshops available on weekends.
Year-Round; Daily [1 hour TBA]/ Saturday & Sunday 2-3 hours [as scheduled].
- Tadpole Troopers
This program is a nature class for parents and children to share together. Classes are targeted for children ages 3 to 5 and are offered at 3 times on the first Saturday of every month. Volunteers will assist our naturalist in various activities and help with a guided walk. Each class is centered on a specific topic.
Sept. – May; 1st Saturday of every month, 9-10:15am, 11-12:15pm, or 1-2:15pm
- Tyke Hikes
This program engages our youngest learners! Toddlers, aged 18 months to 3 years, with an adult, enjoy story time and a stroller-friendly hike offered at 2 times on Monday mornings. Our volunteers help guide parents and tykes along the trails, answer questions and engage the participants about a different nature topic each week.
September- May; Monday, 9am and 10am.
Groups (Corporate, Religious, School, Service)
Consider the Arboretum for your next team-building exercise or group service project! Volunteers from corporations, universities, high schools, congregations, and many other community/professional organizations contribute thousands of hours of service each year to enhance our nature sanctuary trails and grounds. These conservation projects are physically demanding but highly popular and rewarding. Volunteer groups must schedule in advance. Your project can be scheduled for half-day or full day projects. We can accommodate groups on weekdays or Saturday mornings. All equipment and tools are provided and each project is staff supervised with on-the-job training.
For more information, contact the Volunteer Programs Manager, Lynne Hester, at 713-366-0375.
Special Programs
- Seasonal
- Discovery Camp Assistants
Volunteers help naturalists with nature camp classes for children ages 5 to 12 years, which are scheduled during school breaks: Summer and Spring Break. Volunteers assist in the classroom with crafts and activities as well as guiding outdoor walks and activities.
March & June-August; weekdays, 8:30am-3:30pm
- Native Plant Sale
Our Native Plant Sales are held seasonally to showcase native species that offer lower maintenance and benefit our wildlife. You do not need to be a Master Gardner to assist us; come learn and share your love of native plants with visitors! We need volunteers to meet & greet, mingle with visitors to answer questions about the plants using the Plant Profile Booklets, assist with the check-out process and load purchased plants and mulch into their vehicles. Your help is also needed in Pre-Sale set up.
October, December, March; Morning [8:30am-12:30pm] & Afternoon [12pm-4pm] shifts.
- Discovery Camp Assistants
- Special Events
- HANC celebrates:
- Arbor Day: Our focus is to educate visitors about the benefits trees provide to both man and wildlife. Tree planting is encouraged as tree seedlings are given away to visitors.
- Earth Day: This event offers activities and information on recycling using earth-friendly products and providing habitat for wildlife in urban landscapes. [Saturday prior to Earth Day] 10am-2pm.
- ArBOOretum: This is our biggest family fall event! It is a fun day for families to enjoy trick-or-treating in the forest to learn about nocturnal wildlife and enjoy many activities in our sanctuary. Volunteers are needed for the many activities; assist staff and booths, refreshments, face-painting, and much more. [Saturday prior to Halloween] 10-5pm.
- HANC celebrates:
- Night Adventures & Hikes
The Arboretum at Night offers special opportunities to explore our trails and see our wildlife! Naturalists and volunteers help guide participants through the sanctuary grounds in the evening. Wildlife professionals, rehabilitators or naturalists will usually conduct a presentation prior to or at some point in the hike.
Year-Round. Usually Saturdays, times dependent on program TBA.
- Open House
Serve as our ambassadors in a variety of activities, festivals and crafts to celebrate a particular nature/environment topic throughout the year. These are one-day, open house events that require many volunteers to assist staff in activities, booths and support.


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Power and Sample size based on two one-sided t-tests (TOST) for (bio)equivalence studies
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I find it very difficult to concentrate on a task, if people are talking in the "neighborhood", e.g.
- reading a book in the tram or train or in a doctor's waiting room where other people are talking.
In such situations I'm finding myself constantly listening to the conversation (although it is nothing to me and I even do not want to listen!).
How can I learn to "shut those noises off" and concentrate on my task?


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Can someone please explain the meaning of:
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Can someone please explain the meaning of:
This article explains it rather well:
I could not find any explanation, just attributions to Louis XVIII, but my educated guess is this: Kings are not beholden to do much in the way of politeness (open doors, wait for others to be seated, etc.). However, to be punctual, treating other people's time as valuable as his own, is one way that a king can show politeness.
Being punctual is one of the most important qualities for a king as he has no other way to show politeness as in standing up to greet his subjects. Kings should be punctual to show that they want to be polite to everyone present at the court, be it the poorest of the poor man. If a great king can be punctual, so can you and me. After all a stitch in time saves nine.
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There are experts out there who claim that they managed to get their keyword rank in first page without doing social bookmarking. I learned that social bookmarking is the most important and must do technique in off page optimization. So is it possible that your keyword can get ranked in first page of Google without doing social bookmarking at all ? Have you ever tried it ?
What if I do not do social bookmarking ?
Social Bookmarking is used by millions of people around the world. By bookmarking you automatically get access to the large volume of traffic coming to these sites. So I think it is must.
Hi ,in search engine optimization without doing social bookmarking ,its very difficlt or may be you cant reached on your goal,so its very important.
Without Social Bookmarking it is very difficult to get ranking of your keyword,you have to do Social Bookmarking and when you do social bookmarking please take care of theme that when you submit a link.
You should do bookmarking if you changes in content that you want submit in every 3rd social bookmaking site. Other wise you will be penalized by Google.
Other thing with article posting you get permanent ranking. I am not agree all of those who say without social bookmarking not achieve first position.
Other thing with article posting you get permanent ranking. I am not agree all of those who say without social bookmarking not achieve first position.
Yes...SBM is necessary ...but over submission may causes your keyword .
The thought of social bookmarking had never even crossed my mind. Guess I'll have to include it in my internet marketing arsenal from here on out.
Social bookmarking is the easiest way to get indexed in search engines and to get huge traffic. It helps in improving ranking of a web site in search engines.
By doing social bookmarking you will get quick keyword ranking so more important to do it.


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6 Real World Jedi Mind Tricks Salesmen Are Using On You
We've all been there: You go in for a new cell phone battery, then one of the salesmen walks up, and next thing you know you're walking out of there with every iWhatever they had in stock. Once the new gadget smell and irresponsibility high wear off, you're left wondering: How the hell did they do that?
#6. They Give You Free Coffee
Every single car dealership on Earth has the same setup: Shitty, week-old coffee served out of thimble-size Styrofoam cups. You take it, because it's free coffee and you're going to pre-emptively bleed these sons of bitches for every free thing you can get before they go to town on your wallet -- as you know they invariably will.
But why?
It's actually the coffee's fault. Well, some of it at least: Consumption of caffeine makes people much easier to persuade in general. In a double-blind study, participants who took caffeine pills were far more easily convinced about the benefits of euthanasia than those who had taken placebos. Apparently, this is possible because most people don't actually listen to everything anybody else is saying. The addition of caffeine gives them that little mental boost to be more attentive and therefore more persuadable. So in a way, all those counterculture hippies were right: Starbucks is turning us all into "easily pliable sheep, man."
#5. Cursing
Whether it's George Costanza impressing some Texas businessmen or just an American used-car salesman telling you, "This is a damn fine car! Hey, I wouldn't bullshit a bullshitter! Am I right?" cursing has its place in the business world. You're damn' right it does.
"Balls. Shit-cock. Fuck-spindle. Sign these goddamn papers. Any questions?"
But why?
You'd think that most people, if polled, would probably say that salespeople should avoid using any sort of profanity around customers. A lot of people are uncomfortable with swear words, and even those who aren't could easily find it unprofessional. It turns out, though, that's totally fucking inaccurate. By adding the phrase "dammit" to the beginning or end of a statement, researchers found that people are more inclined to agree with the speaker's opinion when the curse is used. This may be because cursing implies more passion about the subject at hand.
You really know he doesn't care where Scarlett is going to go, or what she is going to do.
But it may be precisely because you don't expect the salesperson to curse in front of you that it's so effective. So when they use profanity in a positive manner (i.e., they aren't telling you to "fuck off into a dickbasket" but are just using it to emphasize how great something is), you pay more attention to the whole argument and are more likely to think the opinion expressed was genuine. While it might seem unprofessional, a salesman using a small curse ("This is a damn good car/television/casket") is more likely to make a sale, since you probably think he's being honest about his feelings instead of just trying to trick you into the more expensive brand.
#4. Talking Fast
While those Vince Offer and Billy Mays-esque infomercials may seem ridiculous with their fast-talking hosts, they really do convince people to shell out their hard-earned money for a $99 pot-that-is-also-a-strainer. We've got the eight Salad Guns, four Juice Apes and industrial-sized crate of ShamWows to prove it.
"It has the word 'sham' right in its name! How can I go wrong?"
But why?
Even though the slimy fast-talking salesperson a pop culture stereotype, salespeople who speak faster are still perceived to be more intelligent and certain of what they are saying, and therefore have more trusted opinions than salespeople who speak at a "normal" conversational speed.
There is an upper limit, though; the fastest "normal" rate of speech is about 194 words a minute. If you get much higher than that you start sounding like a speed freak instead of just someone who really knows what he's talking about. So be wary if a salesperson starts upping the tempo a bit right as you try to walk away -- it doesn't mean he suddenly stopped being a douche who's trying to force something you don't need on you; it just means he may have also read this article.
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Snowy owls, which normally dwell in the Arctic, periodically migrate south. They were spotted in Western Washington last winter, and they're back this year. Mike Benbow, who took the photo above, reports that the owls have been seen in the Stillaguamish River estuary since November, and they'll likely hang around until February or March. Check out Benbow's photos here and learn more about the owls in his story on Sunday.
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If the extended family members haven't arrived yet, I suspect they will within a few days! So, what ARE you going to feed them? This dish, easily made ahead, with a couple of side dishes, will feed them richly, without draining your pocketbook.
Short Ribs Delish
Serving Size : 6
3 pounds short ribs -- beef
salt and pepper
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 cup onion -- chopped
1/2 cup carrot -- chopped
1/2 cup celery -- chopped
4 cloves garlic -- chopped
1 cup diced tomatoes -- little juice
2 Tablespoons tomato paste
1 Tablespoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon paprika -- smoked
1 1/2 cups red wine
2 cups chicken broth
1. Rinse and pat dry the ribs. Season with salt and pepper. Place on a broiling pan and
place under a broiler just long enough to turn a little brown. Remove from oven and turn
over. Return the ribs to the broiler until the second side browns. This should take less than ten
minutes, total. Remove ribs to a plate and remove rendered fat from the pan. Preheat oven to 300F.
2. In a large skillet, heat the oil. Sauté the onions, carrots, and celery. After a minute, add
the garlic. When the vegetables are translucent, add the tomatoes, paste, thyme and
paprika. Mix well. Slowly pour in the red wine to the mixture and stir.
3. Place ribs in a deep dish and cover with the vegetable and wine mixture. Add enough chicken broth to submerge the ribs more than halfway into the liquid.
4. Return ribs to the oven, and cook low and slow for 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
5. When ribs are fork tender, remove them to a plate. Drain vegetables and discard.
Remove as much fat from the broth as possible, then season to taste.
OPTION 1: Prepare one day ahead and refrigerate to solidify fat.
Easily remove and prepare sauce.
OPTION 2: Allow liquid to settle for 20 minutes, and skim fat from the surface with a spoon.
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Investigations of the Richmond accident have so far focused on corroded pipes found in the crude-distillation unit, where the fire started, that hadn't been flagged as dangerous in an earlier unit inspection. "We changed out pipe in some other locations," Mr. Watson told reporters on Thursday.
By JOHN BIERS and BEN LEFEBVRE
Chevron CEO John Watson said Thursday the US oil
company replaced pipes in at least one other US refinery based
on a check of facilities following the August fire
at its refinery in Richmond, Calif.
The fire at the 245,000-bpd refinery sent thousands of local
residents to area hospitals with minor injuries and has
resulted in threats of class action lawsuits against the San
Ramon, Calif., company.
Investigations of the accident have so far focused on corroded
pipes found in the crude-distillation unit, where the fire
started, that hadn't been flagged as dangerous in an earlier
unit inspection.
"We changed out pipe in some other locations," Mr. Watson
told reporters following a speech at the Council on Foreign
Relations. Mr. Watson said the 260,000-bpd El Segundo refinery, also in California, was
one site where the company changed pipes.
Chevron spokesman Russ Yarrow said the company replaced
steel in the Richmond refinery in the part of the crude
unit that was damaged in the fire. One of the problems with the
steel in the unit was that its silicon content was too low and
the company hadn't done adequate maintenance on the pipes, which were
made of carbon steel.
Chevron's decision to replace the Richmond piping with nine
chrome, another type of metal, has also caused controversy. The
US Chemical Safety Board, an independent federal agency charged
with investigating industrial accidents, asked Chevron to use
another material because the agency deems other metals more
suitable for the refining environment.
The Richmond City Council passed a resolution on Nov. 20
asking Chevron to delay repairs to the Richmond refinery until
the investigation into its cause is complete. The council cited
misgivings about the technology used in making the
Mr. Yarrow said the 230,000-bpd Richmond refinery is currently running at
reduced capacity, but he declined to say by how much. The plant
is on track to resume normal operations in the first quarter of
next year, he said.
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If you bookmark your site on say, delicious, does it help to then ping the url on delicious that contains the bookmark to your site?
No. Not only do the search engines not have this data to work with but it is so easy to manipulate that if they did have it they couldn't trust it.
If I understand correctly, you want to know whether links to your content from a blog syndication site, (i.e. blogcatalog.com) created when you use a service like pingler will increase the likelihood that your new content will be spidered by search engines - to that, I would say that links from reputable websites won't hurt.
The way your question is worded, however, suggests that you are asking whether registering a pingback to a bookmark-tracking site when the bookmarking site links to your content is a good idea and I think this is where John Conde is suggesting that the suggested activity is not productive - issuing a pingback to a bookmarking site would essentially create spurious metadata.
Indirectly yes. Pinging the site might help it being featured more openly (recent updates, news, newest sites...) which in turn means that when a search engine indexes the bookmarking site there's higher probability it will encounter a link to your site.
well on my experience, then yes! it helps seo as you'll get backlinks from it
every link i did on my page to get a higher rank i usually do it with
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3) Try to put a limit on how many pictures you post on here within a set time period, to avoid it being considered spam.


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text: Hey guys, I'm back with another 'easy' lesson, and this is going to be on one of the famous comic book heroines ever. If you're not aware of the new Wonder Woman movie featuring Megan Fox, you must have seen the cartoon instead. In this simple tutorial, I will show you 'how to draw Wonder Woman easy', step by step. I had fun working on this one, only because the coloring style reminds me of those popular pin up comic book styled art. To replicate a specific style, I would recommend observing as much shading and coloring techniques from other artists. You should also be familiar with knowing how to use a digital program. Anyways, I hope y'all will enjoy this tutorial. Let me know what other comic book characters you'd like to see next!


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As I write this blog I am on my way back home after a day in Paris where we participated in our first industry event in France last week.
Much of the past week has been French flavoured with the announcement of Pentaho in France, including several interviews with journalists, publications writing about and picking up on our announcement and last but certainly not least, the launch of our brand-new website in French. It was about time that we truly had a local presence in France!
To emphasise our intentions, we participated in the Forum Decideo 2010, an annual event held in Paris which brings together BI experts, users, vendors for a series of case study presentations and expert sessions. We attended the event with our new French partner Valuetis, who also sponsored the event. It was a great experience to meet and speak with so many of our French friends.
Speaking of partners, we also held a webinar, Delivering low risk, low cost business intelligence solutions, last week with a new UK partner called Voodoo, who bring years of BI experience to bear and are fully focused on Pentaho. If you missed today's webinar, feel free to view the replay here.
It's really 'La vie en Pentaho' these days and a great way to move through the last month of 2010.
Many of you are probably busy finishing up some activities before the holiday seasons, so I wish you all 'bon courage'.
Vinay Joosery
Pentaho Corporation


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[Some (useless) context: the following problem comes from a problem in Algebraic Geometry, where I have to show that a certain morphism $\textbf P^2\to \textbf A^2$ is inseparable of degree $2$.]
Let $s,t,x,y$ be indeterminates and let $k$ be a field (algebraically closed if it helps) of char $2$. I define a monomorphism of fields $j:k(s,t)\to k(x,y)=:L$ by sending
\begin{equation} s\mapsto j(s)=\frac{x^2+xy}{y+1} \\ t\mapsto j(t)=\frac{x^2+x}{y(y+1)}. \end{equation}
Let us call $K$ the image of $j$, i.e. $K:=k(j(s),j(t))\subset L$. I would like to show that $L/K$ is inseparable of degree $2$.
To do so I just observed that $x\in K(y)$, so it remains to find the minimal polynomial of $y$ and check it is inseparable of degree $2$. Does anyone have a hint? I tried to write $y^2=\alpha y+\beta$ for some $\alpha,\beta\in K$ but I did not succeed (and of course this would not be enough).
Thanks in advance.


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