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1969 Ford Torino Talladega - Aero WarriorWritten by Elana Scherr on October 9, 2013 A Legendary Ford Named for the Track It Was Built to Beat
Every project car has its mysteries. If you're lucky, you're only a few owners down the line; between VIN numbers, paperwork, and conversations, you can figure out where your car was built, who owned it before you, and sometimes even how that dried-up bag of weed got in the steering column. When your project car is a genuine '69 NASCAR racer, the challenge of pinpointing who, what, when, and where becomes more difficult. In the '60s, no one built a race car expecting it to still be on the track in 2013. Heck, half the time, they didn't expect the car to make it through one race.
For Ron Myska, tracking down the history of his 1969 Ford Torino Talladega has been almost as interesting as getting it back on the racetrack. In the process of discovering the car's true identity, Ron also learned about the technology of building a race car during the aero wars in the late '60s: That period of stock car racing when Ford and Chrysler really pushed the series from mildly souped-up factory cars to specialized racing machines with modified bodies and engine combinations not available in any dealers' showroom.
Though Chrysler's winged Daytonas and Superbirds are well known, Ford's and Mercury's respective Talladegas and Cyclone Spoiler IIs claimed their share of victories. In fact, the Blue Oval camp was the first to figure out aerodynamically effective designs for its NASCAR program by heavily reworking its intermediate cars into aero warriors.
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The full name for a NASCAR-spec 1969 Talladega might more accurately be a "Holman Moody Ford Fairlane Torino Cobra Talladega" as the cars were based on the fastback hardtop Fairlane Cobra but sold as Torino Talladegas, and the early street versions were partially designed and built bwy the famed Holman Moody race shop. The Talladega was longer and lower than the Fairlane, with a flush grille capping off extended and streamlined fenders. NASCAR crew chiefs took the cars even further by channeling the body, replacing the rear glass with acrylic, and running the car with the 600hp Boss 429—an engine option never available in the street versions.
Ron first met his Talladega while it was in disguise. The car belonged to his friend Doug Schultz and was painted in blue-and-gold David Pearson livery. Doug was driving the Ford in various historical events when rumors reached him that it might not be Pearson's No. 17 car. Thus began his search through old photos to find the truth.
Tracking down a stock car's history isn't as easy as it might seem. There were only a few builders for the factory-supported teams back in '60s, and they would re-body a chassis at the start of a season or any time the panels were damaged beyond repair. This means that photos from '68, '69, and '70 might show a car with the same chassis, just with updated bodywork.
Beginning as far back as 1965, the cars going to the builders from Detroit were no longer serial-numbered frames off the UAW assembly lines but rather "body-in-white" vehicles, with few identifying numbers. By the end of the '60s, there was almost no paper trail following these chassis as they went from racer to racer.
That's how it worked back then, and even today. The factories sent specialized components to a few select builders, who "rented" the finished race cars to sponsored teams where they were further tuned and tweaked to suit the drivers. At the end of the season, they went back to the builders and were re-bodied, or, if they were deemed unfit for top-shelf teams, sold on down through the ranks of privateers in smaller series.
"Stock cars got raced and raced and raced," says automotive historian Dr. John Craft. "First Grand National, then Modified Sportsman and before you know it, they'd be running the bullring at some dirt track in Peoria, Illinois."
Spared the Demolition Derby
Lucky for Ron, his car never ended up running figure-eight races at the fairgrounds. Doug was able to find photos of the Talladega pre-restoration, and from those he determined an independent driver named Rick Newsom last raced the car around 1973. Doug tracked down a former crewman of Newsom's who distinctly remembered his boss growing frustrated with the tight clearances between the right-side chassis-brace tube and the huge Boss 429. He said Newsom solved the problem with a sledgehammer, and when Doug checked the car, he found the tube smashed as described. With growing confidence, he worked backward in time.
"Our ultimate goal is to have the opportunity to take the car to the Goodwood Festival in England. Let's hope that we get an invitation!"—Ron Myska
Newsom had purchased the car from racer James Hylton, who'd bought it wrecked from Junior Johnson's team, where Lee Roy Yarbrough had driven it. Junior campaigned cars built by Holman Moody during those years, and as Doug went through his machine he found many distinctive features to support the validity of the car's pedigree.
"The [race] cars back then weren't identical the way they are now," Craft says. "Things like welds, or the way a particular bracket was constructed, those were unique to the builder and can be matched up against old photos to figure out if a car is real—or a reproduction. Welds are like fingerprints. They are very distinctive."
The Talladega featured many Holman Moody signatures, from the construction of the rear bracing to the interior details. Once Doug felt confident the car was definitely raced under Yarbrough's No. 98, he repainted it in Lee Roy's cream-and-red color scheme. The only remaining uncertainty was the bodywork. Dr. Craft believes the chassis was built in 1970, but that doesn't mean that the '69 body that's on it is wrong. "Grand National teams were allowed to use the same car for three consecutive years," he explains. "So the builders would re-body the previous year's chassis with the new model-year body. Ford was on a two-year body cycle. The body for '68 and '69 was the same car. In '70 and '71 there was a new body style, but the '70 Torino was a poor performer aerodynamically, so many teams went back to racing the '69."
Return to the Track
For Ron, who bought the Talladega from Doug after the repaint, all the mystery and madness surrounding its origins does nothing to detract from the thrill of driving the monster on the track. Ron has a history in winged sprint car racing and is still involved with sprint cars today, but he'd always wanted to race a stock car. "You had to be tough to drive these things," he says, and on the day we met him at the Coronado Speed Festival in San Diego, California, he looked every bit the tough NASCAR racer, sweaty and rumpled as he clambered over the windowsill to talk to us. Ron's car was the oldest in the Vintage Stock Car Class that weekend, and despite knowing it was one of less than 750 Talladegas built—even fewer of which ever made it to NASCAR specs—it sure looked like a street car escaped from the show 'n' shine when seen beside the stamped-out template cars of the '90s.
"It's important to preserve the car's history, but also to drive it and be safe."—Ron Myska
Parked in the pits, the Talladega's turned-down nose and flattened back window made it look like it was still going fast. "Climb in," Ron offered, and we didn't need to be asked twice. We landed in the driver seat with all the grace of a drunken monkey and immediately noticed something: There's a working cigarette lighter. Look past the taped-off steering wheel, allow your gaze to slide over the panel of toggle switches with its distinctive lower case "holman moody" font, and look past the original Sun gauges in their woodgrain-printed dash, and there between the temperature and the oil pressure gauges is a stock Ford cigarette lighter. Why? Because this is a race car from the days when men drove 500 miles in tennis shoes and smoked while they did it. Just sitting in the cockpit blisters your hands and burns your toes. It's the real deal, and thanks to Ron Myska, Doug Schultz, and the experts who helped them trace the car's history, we can imagine back to when seeing a field of these 3,800-pound heavyweights was just another day at the races.
The Sad Saga of Lee Roy Yarbrough
Today's NASCAR drivers are a well-behaved bunch, fined for swearing and off-color comments, carefully trained for media attention and mass consumption.
Lee Roy Yarbrough was a brawler, shy around journalists, but by all accounts fearless on the track. He had a "win it or wreck it" philosophy and was so intimidating that even Dan Gurney recalls him as a formidable opponent.
Yarbrough (no relation to Cale Yarborough) raced Trans-Am and Indy as well as NASCAR, but it was in a stock car that he had his best results. He had done well ever since he started racing in 1957 at the age of 19, but when he hooked up with Junior Johnson in 1967, he started getting really top-notch cars. By 1969, the team had jelled, and Lee Roy took seven wins that year, two in Mercurys and five in Holman Moody Talladegas. He also had 21 Top-10 finishes—not too shabby considering he entered less than 30 races.
In the '70s, things started going wrong for everyone. Ford cut its racing budget by 75 percent, and the new Ford bodies had aerodynamic problems. Lee Roy crashed hard during a tire test and began suffering memory lapses and behaving strangely. He would miss races or pull in early. By 1973, he was done as a driver, but the story doesn't end there.
In 1980, Lee Roy was arrested for trying to strangle his mother in their living room. Since he was obviously too mentally ill to be jailed, Lee Roy was committed to a mental hospital, where he died from a seizure four years later. It was a sad end for a man who once ruled the aero kingdom.
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Who Won the Aero Wars?
So in the flurry of streamlining and engine-banning and driver-swapping, which manufacturer won the aero battle? It's not quite as simple as just looking at the wins for 1969 and 1970. The four companies involved didn't all have what we'd consider to be "aero" cars on the track at the same time. Ford brought out the Mercury Spoiler II and the Torino Talladega at the beginning of 1969. Dodge had the Charger 500, which wasn't terribly competitive, and didn't introduce the winning Daytona until September of that year.
Plymouth wasn't even in the fight until 1970, when the Ford-sponsored teams were hit with budget cuts. The lack of overlap makes it easy to argue that any of the aero models could have been the winningest, if only they'd been allowed to race for longer. There's also the opinion that the aerodynamic changes only mattered on the superspeedways and road courses. To give you something to fight about, here's the breakdown of wins by "aero" models on "aero" tracks, straight from the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Aero War Wins 1969 and 1970 Ford: 16 Dodge: 7 Plymouth: 8 Mercury: 8
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Once the air cleaner is off, it's hard to look past that incredible engine, but if you manage, you'll notice many of the other components in the engine bay look pretty low-tech. That's an early '60s Ford master cylinder on the firewall, and there are dual shocks damping each front wheel.The race-spec 429 makes use of an early dry-sump system with two oil pumps. The distributor drives the primary lube pump, while a belt from the crankshaft snout spins the second pump (blue) to feed oil to and from an external tank located where the back seat would be. Ron's engine has 12.0:1 compression, 4.36-inch bores, and a 3.59-inch stroke for 429 ci. There are 2.4-inch intake valves and 1.9-inch exhaust valves that feed out to custom headers exiting behind the doors. The 429 has a Crane solid-roller cam with 0.620-inch lift and 260 degrees of duration at 0.050. It's topped with a Holley Dominator.These cars were built to last 500 miles, and weight was not always a major consideration. The 8.5-inch steel Firestone wheels have double centers to keep the lugs from pulling out. They're solid for aerodynamics, but this often resulted in brake overheating. Some of the hardest wear items for Ron to find are the 3.5-inch-wide brake drums. Since he races the car, he goes through them, and is currently having more custom-made at a foundry.One of the places Doug was told to examine during the process of verifying the car's authenticity was inside the trunk. The Torinos were unibody cars, and to stiffen them for racing, builders added structural bars to integrate body and subframe. Along with the distinctive Holman Moody wheeltubs are the jacking points that varied based on who built the car.Keeping cool wasn't just a concern for the engine; the Ford 9-inch third member has its own belt-driven pump and remote cooler.The cockpit seems spacious to anyone familiar with modern race machines. The seats are from a Dodge van, with an added bolster on the right side. Ron added a left-side bolster for his road racing adventures. The pedals are stock with the rubber removed. A new safety innovation for 1969 was to extend the rollcage out into the door; earlier cages went straight across.The Hurst shifter with its genuine wooden topper is another common Holman Moody feature. The transmission is a Holman Moody built Ford Top Loader four-speed leading back to a locked Ford 9-inch with 4.33 gearing.Can you imagine looking in a modern NASCAR and seeing woodgrain? The patterned dash was a Holman Moody trademark, and the panel and gauges are all original, except for the water temp, which Ron managed to track down. "The cigarette lighter works," Ron tells us. "I've seen old photos with cigarettes or gum taped to the dash for the driver."
Unlike the vintage Trans-Am races, there often aren't enough surviving stock cars to fill out a historic NASCAR race, so Ron often finds himself pitting the Talladega against much younger vehicles like this late-'90s Taurus.We met Ron at the Coronado Speed Festival in 2012. He finished 16th out of 20 cars, which may not sound impressive, until you realize that the Talladega was the only entrant built before 1990.The suspension looks primitive to us now that we regularly see Pro Touring muscle cars, but at the time, it was pretty trick. Note the dual shocks, which could be adjusted from inside the engine bay, as could the springs, which you can see are considerably shorter than stock, due to the Talladega's lowered stance.The rear suspension is adjusted using the leaf spring hangers and the alternate shock-mounting points, which allow the geometry to change based on racetrack and driver preference.


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I've read here that "in Iceland you are allowed to do this by law as long as you stay away from houses and use common sense like you say". Wild camping in Iceland is one of my ideas for the next summer. The question is what does it means "stay away from houses"? And what should be understand as "common sense"? For instance, if I rent a car to move along the island, may I stop at the side of the route with the car and camp? Of course, I'm not talking about the Ring Road. I'm thinking in secondary trails.
The "Visit Iceland" website has a page about your rights to camp in Iceland.
So, if there is no sign, and the land isn't being used to grow things, you have the right to camp there for one night. That is pretty much all the law says.
So, yes you can camp at the side of the road, IF there is a place to park your car. You should not park your car on the land.
Staying away from houses is just a basic courtesy. The best rule of thumb to follow in my experience is to never be close enough that you can see anything in the windows, and definitely stay away from gardens and obviously enclosed personal space. 300 meters at the minimum.

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Not since the days of my early years of ballet going as a standee at the old Met have I met a group of people who feel as I do about ballet. My family and friends listen to me politely but I suspect they think I am a bit daft on the subject of ballet.
I know what you mean atm- even if for me it was a much shorter period... I started being interested in ballet around 1991, when I was 16, my parents accepted to attend a performance occasionally but weren't especially motivated, and neither my friends. What a relief it was to discover alt.arts.ballet in 1995, just after I had got some access to the Net in my university in Lyon (and in that period there weren't many web pages about ballet, most companies didn't have a web site yet), and to see that there were some other people sharing my passion! And I find reading this site much more convenient than reading a.a.b., thanks to the moderation and the existence of various sub-forums- I just regret that some a.a.b. regulars seldom post...
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I'd wanted to have a site for my magazines -- though not a message board at first -- but I couldn't get on line as I had an old computer. I finally had enough money to buy a cheap PC in July of 1998, and within a month of getting on line I'd designed this site.
The message board came later -- and was inspired by Giannina. She was a DanceView subscriber, and we'd corresponded. She mentioned that there was a dance newsgroup that was so argumentative, and occasionally nasty, that she felt uncomfortable posting there. I posted to the same newsgroup and was bothered by the nastiness too -- not from everybody; there are some terrific people there (many of whom now also post here!). But because newsgroups aren't moderated, some loony can come on and attack people, and some loony generally does. I also grew tired of arguments along the lines of "Boy, are you stupid. Of course Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake" is a ballet." And the attempted explanations that yes, it's a ballet in the sense of the general use of the term to describe a theatrical piece using dancing, but not ballet in the way Petipa's "Swan Lake" or Balanchine's "Concerto Barocco" or "Agon" is. So I wanted to set up a site for people who wanted to discuss ballet and who knew what it was, or were curious about it.
I thought it would be a niche site, very small, a kind of side chamber to the newsgroup, where people could come and discuss ballet in some detail. I put up a little Frontpage message board -- there are only about 10 people still here from that one -- and some of the first posters -- God knows how they found us -- were kids. "Hi! I'm 15. I stopped dancing 3 years ago. Can I still become a ballerina?" I "knew" Victoria from the newsgroup and thought her answers sensible and asked her if she would be willing to answer their questions. She said yes, and I don't know what I'd have done without her! (Ban children, I think. )
I started looking for better message board software, found one in October 1998, and Ballet Talk as we know it dates from then. Slightly bigger than I'd intended, and still occasionally contentious, as people misunderstand the purpose of the site and sometimes thought it was anti-modern dance, or that we were making a silly, arcane artificial distinction by limiting discussions to ballet. But the vast majority of people have gotten it, and I'm very glad to have you all here.
Thanks for the kind comments!
Posted 25 October 2002 - 10:21 AM
I almost miss doing the quiz, but it took 2 hours every Sunday and I eventually ran out of questions!!!!
Posted 25 October 2002 - 10:31 AM
I also just checked our current members' totals and 4078 people have registered here since October 1998!
Posted 26 October 2002 - 09:44 AM
I don't want to mislead anyone -- these do not look like Pointe or DanceMag. They're black and white -- lots of photos, but black and white -- and no ads.
And, you can save a stamp Subscribe on line:
If you want to give this as a gift, drop me an email afterwards telling me who you are and who you'd like the gift to go to.
Back to discovery This is fun -- it's nice to know where everyone came from, and why.
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(Actually, there are still cool people on a.a.b; they're just not as loquacious as they used to be.)
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So much information at my finger tips.
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But I think I do remember telling you, BW, to check this forum out:D
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In Terraria, how long does money you drop from death stay on the ground? I'm wondering if it is worth the risk of another death to try and run for my money.
Items dropped in Terraria Single-Player Mode do not disappear until picked up, destroyed, or until the game has been saved and exited. Coins, despite their monetary significance, are treated just the same as any other item in-game.
Items can only be destroyed (currently) by full immersion in Lava or Magma. Thus, as long as you didn't burn up in a magma pool, chances are good that your coins are still waiting there for you, even if it takes a bit of work to find.
I'm unsure how items are handled on multi-player servers.
I don't fully agree. I've seen that untaken blocks of dirt, stone etc. disappeared after some time. I think this behaviour is related to count of objects of same type on screen. But I didn't notice that money disappear. It looks like that they stay until you pick up them :-)
PS: It looks like I found the maximal count of objects of one type (NPCs, chests, collectable items and so on) in game. It may be 0x3e8 magic number or 1000 in decimal representation. It's very easy to confirm it. Take more than 4 stacks of blocks and begin to throw them away one by one. After that try to collect them back. If number of blocks will be lesser then before it means that items disappear.


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Does not contain beer, it doesn't really specify that strongly enough in my mind. Perhaps their first line was meant to be "We forgot the beer".


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When I use Illustrator CS5 on another machine, all objects X and Y are relative to their artboard, not the overall pixel grid (by pixel grid I mean the entire screen). How can I change this so the X and Y values are not relative to the object's artboard?
You can reset your coordinate system to any point on the drawing surface. Just turn on your rulers and drag the vertex to the point where you want your new XY intersection to be.
Keep in mind that this will not move existing art, it will just change the point that the coordinates are relative to. For example, if you have a default letter-size artboard with an object at 0,0 - it will be located at 7795,7885 after moving your coordinates the bottom-left corner of the drawing surface.
In CS6 right click on the ruler and select Change to Global Rulers. Not sure if this applies to CS5.
If you require pixel-aligned placement, you will need to set the rulers and measurements to pixels and also use the pixel preview setting under View in the menu bar to ensure what you see on screen at 100% is what you are going to get when you export to a raster format.
The artboard is not necessarily a hard limit set by the application. You can set the artboard to whatever pixel dimensions you require and the work with Illustrator as you otherwise normally would using the artboard as a guide. You can even set the origin of the rulers to be anywhere in or out of the artboard or simply turn them off is you find them distracting.


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Due to not wanting to pay licenses my company is still using SQL Server 2000 for new projects.
This is very limiting for multiple reasons.
I'm wondering what are the limitations of using SQL Server Express 2008?
Is there any reason NOT to use it to power ASP.Net MVC3 websites?
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Due to not wanting to pay licenses my company is still using SQL Server 2000 for new projects.
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Sql Server 2008 R2 Express has the following limitation:
If you can run your app within these limits then you could upgrade from SQL Server 2000 to 2008 Express.
SQL Server 2012 Standard licensing runs around $1800 / core (not physical socket) (with a 4 core minimum requirement) or $900 server license + $200 per CAL (Client Access License)
The database is the heart of the company and stores all their information, it's a worth while investment to spend $7200 to upgrade to an updated and currently supported version of the database server software.
Let me explain the risks of developing in Express 2008 if you might ever run up on those limits. You will not be able to easily convert back to the SQL Server 2000 license if you use any newer features. If you don't use any newer features, they why not use SQL Server 2000? If you use the Express version and after a few months it runs into those limits, are you then going to have the money you don't have now to buy a new version? Are you then going to have the time to get it in place or the time to convert backwards?
If you use the Express version and it hits the limits quickly and you were told to use 2000, then you will probably get fired.
If you think you cannot solve the problems you have with the feratures of 2000 (you didn't say where you thought 2000 was inadequate), then make a business case to upgrade. But don't forget to factor in the cost of upgrading existing systems and the cost of getting dbas trained on the new software if the upgrade will need to replace some or all of the existing databases.
Database sepcialists understand the cost and risk of moving data to a new version which is one reason why they tend to be very conservative about doing so. While I agree that it is past time to leave SQL Server 2000, you will have to build a very strong business case to take the risk of breaking something working so that you can play with new features you may or may not actually need. Database upgrades are inherently risky, if you want to upgrade then the onus is on you to prove the need.


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In many levels there appears to be an Altar to Kali. What purpose does it serve and how can I use it?
Damaging an altar (either with bombs or by enemies/traps while you're in the level) will result in punishments:
Sacrifice items to an altar to get rewards:
Please Kali enough and you get the Kapala - a skull cup that gives you back health from bleeding enemies.
In the original Spelunky they were all the things were worth sacrifice points, I believe the Stunned Damsel/Idol were 8 (if dead the damsel is worth 1 or 2, the same goes for regular enemies, alive they are 2, dead they are 1) I have a feeling a stunned Shopkeeper is also worth 8, at 8 sacrifice points Kali gives you a random item, at 16 (2 damsels) you get the Kapala, I think at 32 (4 damsels) you get an extra 8 lives, I believe the Throne in the Black Knights castle acts as a regular altar.
In addition to the other answers - if you are playing split-screen, try putting your friend on the altar. Guaranteed item at the cost of a friend!


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I'm not sure what SSL uses to share the symmetric key to both end users, i.e. at the beginning of the communication. Is it RSA? Or El-Gamal? Or something else?
Well, what SSL uses to negotiate the symmetric keys depends on the ciphersuite that both sides agree upon. By far, the most common method is that the client picks a random value (the premaster secret), and encrypts it with the server's RSA public key. However, it is not that unusual for the ciphersuite to specify that the client and the server agree upon a premaster secret using the Diffie-Hellman algorithm (or the Elliptic Curve version), with the DH exchange generally (but not always) being protected via some sort of signature operation.
El-Gamal isn't generally used; in fact, I don't believe that there's a standard ciphersuite that specifies it.
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I want to make bacon powder, I assume the means cooking all of the fat out without burning the meat. Is this right? if so how should I do this? If not what should I do? How should I turn the bacon into powder? just in a blender?
My wife loves bacon that's cooked to the cusp of burning, so I've got a good knowledge of the properties of bacon on that fine line. It's so brittle, you can powder it very easily.
I myself would probably just stick it in a plastic bag, and whack it a few times with a pan, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't put it in the blender. I have a nice mortar and pestle I use for powdering things, but that's probably overkill in this case.
You can make bacon powder simply by frying some bacon until it becomes crispy (don't let it burn) when done place on paper towel for until cool then wizz it in a food processor with a little fine powdered sugar. Keep wizzing until it stops sticking and you have a fine powder.
I suggest cooking the bacon in a fry pan with some water. This allows the fat to render and produces crispy bacon.
Alternate Modernist Method
To make the bacon to make power out of I have a trick.
Place the bacon on a wire pan grate and let them cook in a oven on medium heat. The fat will then drip off leaving a bacon-chip.
(Wire pan grate: An non-English, I am not sure I use the right term. Normally in for the oven there is a wire-grid which you can place pot and pans on. Am I using the right term?
You could try to freeze the cooked bacon. Then quickly put it in a cold blender or coffee grinder. I don't like bacon that's well done I think it tastes burnt. Using this method will allow you to get it in a powder before the fat starts to melt. The ultimate would be to put the bacon in liquid nitrogen then blend it.
If you literally want a powder, you can use a standard blade coffee grinder. Not the ones where the coffee goes in one end and then comes out another, but the ones where you take off the lid, fill it up, put lid back on and grind, then dump it back out (just a blade at the bottom of a bowl). I have used this device to powder many different things. Just get some nice crispy bacon and use a paper towel to get the grease off, then crumble it up and stuff it in there. It will powder it very quickly, like 8 seconds. Again, this is if you really want a powder rather than just bacon bits that you would get from pounding it with a hammer.
Cook bacon in oven or frying pan to medium well, drain, pat dry and place in dehydrator afew hours, checking often till desired doneness is reached. Then either powder in grinder or pulverize for bits. Dehydrating will make for a long lasting product


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BYU football: An updated overview of the Cougars' 2013 signing class
PROVO — BYU head football coach Bronco Mendenhall often makes the point with his recruiting that he doesn't care a whit about star rankings, national and local evaluations from the media, or even the amount or quality of offers assigned to high school and junior college prospects. As if to drive that point home, he assembled the 2013 signing class.
BYU has 27 players committed to sign this February with two players (Trent Trammel and Billy Green) already signed and enrolled. The majority of prospects pledged were wrapped up over the summer and before they could capture notice from other programs.
The current recruiting class includes no four- or five-star recruits and just nine three-star recruits as evaluated by scout.com and eight as evaluated by rivals.com. It's a stat that Mendenhall couldn't care less about and will likely express as much when the class is announced Feb. 6.
So how should fans regard this year's class that includes so little hype and national attention?
It's always hard to know exactly how a recruiting class will shape up at any program, but that is especially true at BYU given its relatively small recruiting pool. Given the program's stringent academic and Honor Code standards, Mendenhall and his staff must be very selective in who they recruit and sign. For this reason the BYU coaching staff holds on to its own evaluations and consider little else when deciding whom to offer scholarships.
It's a process that has worked well for Mendenhall since arriving at BYU. His recruits have provided winning seasons, bowl wins and, most importantly, have largely avoided running afoul with the Honor Code while representing the program and its unique mission well.
When reviewing the class of 2013 there is little doubt that these players will work to continue BYU's tradition of winning seasons while also representing the program well off the field. The question is if these are the type of players who will help BYU reach the next level of BCS bowls and even a national championship, which are the stated goals of the program. That question is certainly tougher to answer and easier to cast doubt upon given its lack of highly-ranked prospects.
So who does BYU have committed and what's in store for recruiting from now until national letter of intent day on Feb. 6? We break it down position-by-position to give fans the best overview of the 2013 class.
Here's our position-by-position breakdown.
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preemptive - damage control! (P.S. - Good luck on keeping Ragin. I was impressed you got him as a late recruit.)
- 1:36 p.m. Jan. 10, 2013
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I am just curious but based on the recruits and stars where were our star players this year rated coming out of High school. Van Noy, Ogletree, Williams, Hoffman, Apo, etc. Certainly if these guys were not ranked or ranked low BYU has some ability to develop talent. I'd also be curious as to how or if they played before their missions vs after or if they even went on a mission. Everyone complains about playing their boys against BYU's men but I wonder if two additional years for their "bodies to develop" makes them (potentially) better players or if it hurts them? Any statistic guys out there?
- 3:15 p.m. Jan. 10, 2013
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Good list of recruits. I wonder how many will go on missions & how many will start this fall.
- 3:36 p.m. Jan. 10, 2013
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"I am just curious but based on the recruits and stars where were our star
players this year rated coming out of High school. Van Noy, Ogletree, Williams,
Hoffman, Apo, etc. Certainly if these guys were not ranked or ranked low BYU has
some ability to develop talent. I'd also be curious as to how or if they
played before their missions vs after or if they even went on a mission.
Everyone complains about playing their boys against BYU's men but I wonder
if two additional years for their "bodies to develop" makes them
(potentially) better players or if it hurts them? Any statistic guys out
Van Noy - 4 star
Ogletree - 2 star
Williams - 3 star
Hoffman - 2 star
Apo - 4 star
Probably the best story of developed talent is Jameson Frazier. If I recall correctly he was cut from the team twice but turned out to be a very strong LB as a Sr.
- 4:11 p.m. Jan. 10, 2013
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Clearly, star rankings are a leading indicator when guesstimating a player's ability to perform well at the collegiate level. Only a buffoon could believe otherwise.
- 4:44 p.m. Jan. 10, 2013
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hoffman **>>apo ***>>heaps *****
other than VN number of stars havent really been panned out at byu.
just keep the polynesian pipeline going.
throw in some beefy lineman from idaho.
recruit hard for speedy defensive backs.
find a QB that can throw/compete.
- 4:48 p.m. Jan. 10, 2013
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It's tough to rate recruits, whether or not they have stars by their names or not. BYU has a tough row to hoe in that their stated goal is to win another NC. They simply do not have have the talent pool to plumb that other major programs have. To put it into perspective for Cougar fans; Notre Dame has a much greater depth and breadth of talent to choose from from every corner of the country than BYU has and they got blown out by Alabama in this past National Championship game because Alabama had such better and deeper talent than Notre Dame. The reason this is significant to Cougar fans is because Notre Dame's entrance standards are every bit as high for their student athletes as it is for BYU and they have their pick of the litter and even with that advantage they couldn't compete with a University that takes the best talent available regardless of their personal standards and academic credentials. I think Cougar fans had better readjust their expectations with BYU's independence and their future accomplishments.
- 5:06 p.m. Jan. 10, 2013
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Barring injury, most men don't reach their athletic prime until after most collegiate athletes have exhausted their eligibility. They are typically stronger, and more emotionally and mentally mature than they were in their late teens and early twenties.
When have you ever heard an NCAA or NFL coach say about their upperclassman or professional athlete, "Yeah, he's really good, but he was so much better when he was a sophomore!"
A quick internet search of the ages of olympic medalists, pro bowl rosters, strongest man competitors (obviously for strength), and All-American lists, argues strongly that the advantage goes to athletes in their mid 20s or older.
How many of you who have remained physically active can honestly say you were at your best in your early twenties?
The evidence is there - it's pretty hard to make a credible argument that 22 year old male athletes are superior to 25 year olds.
That being said, I can't imagine how hard it is to juggle a roster with missionaries coming and going from the program. And some, of course, change their priorities or get way out of shape while on their missions.
Good luck, Cougars, except on 21 September!
- 5:07 p.m. Jan. 10, 2013
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If Talon Shumway can get a permission slip from Bronco, I'd also like to see him play basketball for Coach Rose. He'll make a great free safety, but has too much vertical leaping ability to play just football. He reminds me of a Jackson Emery playing football.
- 5:33 p.m. Jan. 10, 2013
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It truly doesn't matter how many stars a person has, it's all about coaching. Look at USC all their "stars" they have, but the coaches are awful and can't coach well. ND always gets a good class, but only had this year that was really special in recent memory. BYU has had winning seasons since Bronco came, and most of them 10+. Coaches are good at BYU, and that will only continue. Get a QB who can throw to incredibly tall and talented receivers, and add that to a good running game and this team is ready to be the old team we are used to.
- 5:26 a.m. Jan. 11, 2013
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IF the age difference made THAT much difference, why isn't it seen on the field? Is BYU dominating other teams because of older players? And if it really did make that much difference, then why don't other coaches simply tell recruits "We'll give you a scholarship as soon as you've completed two years in the Peace Corps (or military, or whatever)"?
- 10:10 a.m. Jan. 11, 2013
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... and how many of these kids will redshirt and/or serve a mission. We'll remember few if any of them because they'll have little if any impact on the team whatsoever for the next 2 years. Also, the picture of Kalolo Manumaleauga Utu is the best you have? Can't come up with a football picture of him or another of the D-Lineman mentioned. The Cougs recruiting classes do very little for me because so few of the kids have any immediate impact on the team.
- 10:58 a.m. Jan. 11, 2013
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Lets see, Bronco doesn't worry about rankings yet his defenses crush people. Yah, I'm good with that. Nice work Bronco.
- 3:49 p.m. Jan. 11, 2013
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I like stats, but I've never been big on the 'star' statistics.
Here, however, are two examples of why Bronco and LaVell got it and maybe the
'star' stat is overrated:
1985. First game of the season. James made a public spectacle of himself at the end of 1984 claiming to anyone who would listen that there was no way BYU deserved to win the NC....that surely UDub was better in every way.... BYU comes out and extends the Nations longest winning streak by crushing...not just beating, but crushing the life out of James and UDub.
Second. 1990. Miami had about 11-13 5 star recruits for two/three years in a row. They come to Provo as pre-season ranked #1 and are sent back to the hot humid weather as losers.
Yea, I'll take the few, the proud, the diligent, the faithful, the Cougar Recruits. Despite their two/three or four stars over the hype and trouble of a five star. I can live with 10 win seasons if I can also live without the negative press to the Church and School of trouble making 4/5 Star recruits.
- 2:08 p.m. Jan. 15, 2013
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I'm sure the coaching staff has seen good athletes and good players for a long time, so when they recruit they use there eye's and judgement than a guy who watches players but doesn't coach them. There's a lot of guys who look the part but never pan out because mentally they're weak. And those who rate these players don't see most of the players in high school. Why does the best recruits always come out of florida, texas, and california? Well they spend most of there time there, yes they have great players and athletes but there's so many kids playing in those states, how much time can they spend on the others? And I'm not saying it's just these 3 states there's I'm sure a lot back east that get that attention too. But to give Star Lotulelei a 2* rating out of high school obviously they didn't see much of him. So I trust that these guys can spot talent and see those who will improve and work as well. They've had good success as far as recruiting so far!
- 6:16 p.m. Jan. 22, 2013
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I am worried that they may be overlooking Baker and Pututu at South Sevier.
- 7:32 p.m. Jan. 22, 2013
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So Bronco was a buffoon to believe Cody Hoffman could play...and be a star? and
he was a fool to believe Dennis Pitta could actually play tight end. Pitta was
not even ranked, he was a walkon. Hoffman has easily out performed Apo who was a
4 star recruit.
And I think you fail to understand all that was said; 1) BYU recruits must accept the BYU honor code, many of the big name 5 star recruits would laugh in your face if told they had to comply with that, 2) also consider that we know that when a recruit commits early to BYU, they are dropped a star or two, or if they say they are going on a mission, they lose a star or two. What, did the BYU commitment or the mission declaration suddenly make them a lousy football player. We live in a weird world, and not everything is as it seems--and yes there is a lot of bias out there against BYU.
- 7:42 p.m. Jan. 22, 2013
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If we'd had John Beck, Max Hall, let alone Steve Young, Bosco, and
certainly Jim McMahon, we would've had a perfect season this year. That is
demonstrable! We just needed an accurate, strong-armed quarterback. It
wouldn't matter if he had one star!
Just look at our schedule and see what one or two touchdowns would've done to our won-loss record. Imagine if we scored 3 or 4 times with our losses.
Stars matter more with the speedy halfbacks than other positions. You can't coach speed that much. But excellence in the other positions can be coached.
- 6:44 a.m. Jan. 23, 2013
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I did not see any special teams players on this list. They can make a huge
impact and let's face it to win a NC you have to have all three phases
covered. We had the defense this year to win a NC, but not the offense or
special teams play. Special team play this year had a few great moments, but
they also contributed to some of the losses as well.
There are comments here about the '84 team as well as the team that beat Miami. If you go back and watch that Miami game, our punter was the unsung hero of that game. He had one punt there that completely changed the momentum of the game. Miami had pinned us deep in our end, and that punt went about 60 yards in the air and instead of 1st and ten at the 50 or worse, Miami ended up back at around their 20. He had a nice second punt as well, that wasn't quite a far and the Miami punt returner was more prepared for that booming punt, instead of catching the ball running the wrong way like he ended up doing on the first punt.
- 8:25 a.m. Jan. 23, 2013
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I concur with Idaho. Who will be kicking and punting in 2014-2016?
- 9:18 a.m. Jan. 23, 2013
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I too am very concerned that there's not a punter or kicker on the list.
Stephenson is off to the NFL, and I don't know about any back-up punter.
The last time I heard Bronco address the kicking game, it sounded like Taysom
Hill was the back-up behind Stephenson and Sorenson.
Sorenson is a big question mark for next year. He was the #1 kicker coming out out high school, and had a great Freshman campaign before his mission. But after injuring his leg and back, he really struggled last year.
Is there someone on the soccer team that can move over? Please find a punter and a kicker.
- 9:30 a.m. Jan. 23, 2013
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I am just as concerned about James Lark comments that Brandon Doman helped the QB understand the game, but did nothing to help the QB improve mechanics. Nelson sure needed help with mechanics. IF this true, then Doman needs to rethink being a coach and Anae needs to rethink about keeping Doman. I have been on Doman's side, but this Lark comment bothers me. I thought that was one of the primary jobs of a QB coach to help the QB become more effective. Yes, the QB needs to understand the game, but has to have effective mechanics to be effective.
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@CougFaninTX if the punter ends up being Taysom Hill, that might not be so bad - given history. Jim McMahon punted his freshman year and but for lack of a few kicks would have been one of the top 3 in the country. He was pretty effective. That punter this past year was amazing with 4 inside the 4 punts - true game changers...
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I love them. I have three of them, and enjoyed them all despite the fact they are from different authors.
The imposed structure is ideal for me as I tend to understand things better when I have drawings and exercises.
They also have the huge advantage to use humor a lot, which make learning fun!
Plain text doesn't work well with me. If you are in the same case, you'll love them.
There are two extreme opinions about Head First: The first is that they're awful, and the other is that they're excellent.
I personally think they're awful because their explanations are way too long and very off topic most of the time. They're big books with not so much content. They feel like books for kids (or childish adults).
Some people (most people I think) love those books because they're very easy to read and it's almost impossible not to understand their explanations.
Head First books are good only if you're a beginner. They cannot be used as reference books. They're written for people who know absolutely nothing about the topic.
Note that there are many Head First books and many Head First authors. The most famous ones are "Head First Design Patterns" and "Head First Java". And they also have books which aren't related to programming (about physics and statistics). So you cannot really say anything about the whole "Head First" series. The only "Head First" books I'v tried reading are "Head First Design Patterns", "Head First iPhone Development" and "Head First Servlets & JSPs". I didn't like them (found their explanations, metaphors and jokes annoying) but I know about people who did like them.
Here's a list of all their books: http://oreilly.com/store/series/headfirst.html
Here are some opinions about "Head First Design Patterns": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386087/head-first-design-patterns-opinions-wanted
In my opinion, they're good if you are a beginner in programming in general - not only in the topic in question.
That is, before learning the options for conditionals in a language, they will spend a lot of time - and a lot of simple and silly examples - to explain what conditionals are.
The solutions they propose are often very lean and lightweight, but they tend not to explain why they chose that solution and which the alternatives are.
Use cases:
They are great, you can definitely start a new topic with those books without any pre-knowledge on those topics, But, If you are already familier about those topics, then sometimes, you will feel a slow learning. Simple, for beginners, those are great!
I've read, Head First SQL, Head First Servlet and JSP, Head First EJB(3) without any prior knowledge on those topics, I've a nice explanation from there.
I'm not terribly fond of them personally: I prefer denser texts that allow me to absorb information very quickly. However, I've been coding since age 6 and am accustomed to picking up new skills/languages on the fly. The exercises are a waste on me (if I'm learning foo, it's because I need to use foo for something -- that is my exercise).
Many newbies I know swear by the Head First series, for exactly the reasons I dislike it: the language isn't very dense, so (to the newbie) it feels more approachable, and there are plenty of exercises to practice with.
So, it comes down to your learning style: do you like to wander around a subject to get your bearings, try some exercises, and take it slow, or do you want a dense manual from which to launch into some project-at-hand? Head First books are good for the former, not for the latter.
Yes -- buy one, they are excellent. I read the Head First Design Patterns book, and I found it to be helpful with examples I could understand. I also didn't get bored because of the fun style. I recommended Head First Javascript to a friend, and she has also found it to be a great book.
I don't know about the other Head First books so I'm going to state my opinion about the book that I'm reading right now, Head First Servlets and JSP.
The first half of the book is definitely great, hands down. They explained the concepts in a straight-forward fashion through pictures and stories. As a developer who built a J2EE web app in the wrong way as a way of diving in, I found the book really helpful in patching up some of the holes in my knowledge of J2EE. Most of the questions I find myself asking when I was still starting out was answered by the first half of the book.
However, I find the remaining half of the book to be written as if it was intended for advanced developers already. The book makes you dive into several advanced topics and concepts without really explaining how everything happened in words that beginners can understand. The book tosses you several topics at once, so it's giving me a hard time to understand everything. I even find the diagrams, and pictures to be confusing as well.
I'm still on the process of reading the book right now, but I'm now under the impression that the book was rushed, because the book failed to explain the topics clearly that I can't piece everything in my head together now. This dilemma led me to ask this question.
I don't know if other Head First books are the same way since I haven't read anything other than Servlets and JSP.
The Head-First series books are my favourite. They make learning both easy and interesting with humour and great conversation style. Every book begins with an illustration of how our brains work and how to get maximum out of our brain's capacity. I try to adopt them. They made learning design patterns very easy for me.
I have read both Head First Java and Head First Design Patterns. The style used is indeed unique, and is something of a love/hate for most people. What everyone should, in my opinion realize, is that these kind of books make things very clear and simple, but at a cost. The cost is the overhead that this way of explaining things imposes. Things are explained over and over again, with multiple examples and metaphores. It is a significant overhead, that does not let you dive immediately into the core of the problem.
I thought that this style suited the Head First Java book very well. I liked everything about that book, and it was extremely helpful for me, in grasping the concepts and developing an intuition about them. On the other hand, I did not like Head First Design Patterns at all. My impression was that it becomes way to verbose, and at times, totally misses the point. There was too much meta-information, but not a lot of real useful information.
I've never used them, but my brother swears by them. He thinks the balance of learning by explanation and learning by example is just right.
I really wanted to like Head First Design Patterns but I couldn't read it.
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RED202: Reading 8 B (2012-2013)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: English Language Arts
COURSE TITLE: Reading 8 B
COURSE LENGTH: 9 weeks
SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Reading 8 A
Major Concepts/Content: The reading 8 course is designed to focus on, but is not limited to, under-standing elements of a story, using study skills such as outlining and summarizing, recognizing and evaluating assumptions and various propaganda techniques, using skimming and scanning techniques, locating and interpreting graphic information, under-standing the organization of a library and its resources, identifying the topic of a selection, using punctuation as a key to comprehension, and applying higher-level comprehension skills. Major topics to be covered include structural analysis, vocabulary building, reading comprehension, study and reference skills, and reading in the content areas. Special emphasis is placed on developing an appreciation for literature and fostering self-initiated reading.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will be provided in a classroom setting, using basal reading materials, supplementary and audiovisual materials, magazines, trade books, reference materials, and content area texts. Students will demonstrate knowledge of reading skills by applying those skills after teaching and specific skill practice has occurred. Students will participate in group and individual learning activities such as lectures, discussions, research projects, classroom presentations by students, written assignments, and oral and silent reading. Additionally, students may be asked to keep a record of their leisure-time reading.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be evaluated on homework/assignments, written work, class participation, effort, test results, use of the library and book reports. Students will show evidence of reading printed and graphic materials with a high degree of comprehension, by reading with expression, by using appropriate study skills and reference materials, by increasing their vocabulary, and by applying reading/ study skills in content area courses.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the reading 8 course, students should be able to:
- Shift accent to change the meaning of a word.
- Identify words and phrases derived from foreign origin.
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I have an external USB sound card on a Fedora 17 system (64 bit). It stopped playing sound after I updated the kernel to 3.5.4-1 (the problem persists under 3.5.4-2).
As the sound card still plays sound when I boot 3.5.3-1, I assume that the problem is neither hardware-related nor a matter of badly configured settings. I still checked the usual suspects for bad settings (Phonon, alsamixer, pavucontrol), but everything looks OK there as far as I can tell.
I assumed that this is a kernel bug, and even submitted it. But now a friend sent me a link to a Google Plus post which seems to say that a similar (the same?) problem is not a kernel bug, but comes from a kernel module not being loaded.
it looks like the new alsa-utils or whatever now require SND_SEQUENCER
lsmod does not list SND_SEQUENCER on my system.
I don't know Linux well. In my understanding, if the problem is in alsa-utils, but only occurs with the new kernel, it means that either the new kernel is not loading a module the old one did load, or that booting with the new kernel also starts an old version of alsa-utils. Both explanation sound improbable to me, but I could be wrong.
My actual questions:
- Could this really be a matter of the module not loading, despite the fact that alsa still works with the old kernel?
- How do I get my system to load the module? (Do I have to install it first, and where does it come from?)
- If this doesn't work, do you have other suggestions for trying to resove the problem (or at least determining for sure that it is indeed a kernel bug and so not resolvable with my limited knowledge)? I don't know where to start.


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You know that game where you think-up which celebrities you'd love to have round your dinner table? Well, if you're having them over for dinner, why not use Skype too? Read on and find out more about stars we'd love to video call.
Just like millions of regular people, celebrities use Skype to stay in touch with their friends and families using video calls and cheap international calls.
And there are certainly a few famous faces we'd like to swap words with, including …
Kate Middleton
We know Prince Charles uses Skype – as he gave video calling his royal seal of approval not too long ago. But we'd really love to chat with the newest member of the royal family – Kate Middleton (sorry – Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge). Not to mention Pippa, Prince Wills and Harry too.
Lady Gaga
She's not scared of being different, so we're sure Lady Gaga would definitely have something interesting to say. And we'd love to video call her just to see what outfit she'd wear.
Beyoncé said she uses Skype to keep in touch with her husband Jay-Z and her family while she's away on tour. We'd love to video call her and hear her sing live, just for us.
Simon Cowell
He's the man with real star power. So we'd really love to know if Simon thinks Skype has the X-factor.
JK Rowling
She's a best-selling author, and her books are just magical. So it's no surprise that we'd like to chat with JK Rowling – even if it's just to find out more about 'Pottermore.' After all she might even be tempted to screen-share a copy of her latest manuscript.
Victoria Beckham
A successful songstress, mother and fashion designer – we think we'd have lots to learn from Victoria Beckham. And we'd love to have a peek at baby Harper Seven over a video call.
Mark Zuckerberg
The brains behind Facebook and the inspiration behind the film 'The Social Network,' we're sure lots of people would want to friend-request and video call Mark Zuckerberg
Barack Obama
Anyone would feel privileged to have a direct line to the Oval office, so we would definitely like to video call the president, and see him do more Skype calls with his constituents.
Which celebrity would you love to chat with on Skype?
13 thoughts on "Famous faces we'd love to see on Skype"
callma1234 said 5 years ago
Would have to be Lady Gaga
mathbro31 said 5 years ago
Danny Worsnop
sarah_haley9698 said 5 years ago
uhh…..justin beiber!!! lol jk…jk.
stefke_96 said 5 years ago
Definitely Lady Gaga!
andreirlopes said 5 years ago
I would love to chat with Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
nelshill2 said 5 years ago
geena.atwood said 5 years ago
JUSTIN BIEBER (: hehe
svnikethan said 5 years ago
I want to chat with obama & marc…
How it is possible?
poramin087 said 5 years ago
Ellen Degeneres!
telefenixia said 5 years ago
Roger Federer is my choice, on how to come back to his rightful No. 1 of the world
dianitapin said 5 years ago
Chris Martin Coldplay!!
kwamekwame5 said 5 years ago
I'd like to talk with Barack Obama and Carlos Slim Helu and Bill Gates.
dj.doctor.one said 5 years ago
I'd like to have a chat & talk with Gerard J. Butler.


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Eileen Vito's first knitting project went to the dogs. I mean that literally, of course. She knit sweaters for her two dogs. Unfortunately, both dogs gained weight and the sweaters got too tight. Eileen says she's pretty sure this is just a coincidence and not a reflection of their feelings about her knitting! Either way, she was hooked on her new hobby. As she puts it, "Once I started, there was no looking back." Read more


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With the latest Oneiric updates, I've been unable to use Second Life, a virtual reality simulator, in Ubuntu. I assume it has something to do with the NVidia driver, since the error in the console says:
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WARNING: LLViewerWindow: Failed to create window, to be shutting Down, be sure your graphics driver is updated
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In-game, black walls serve to keep puzzles from being too simple by restricting where the player can place portals. However, I'm curious to know if a more in-universe reason is ever given for why these black walls reject portals?
These white walls are actually painted with a substance called "Conversion Gel" which allows portals to be opened in them.
Conversion Gel is made from a particular type of rock mixed into paint and applied to surfaces. This explains why:
In Portal 2 we learn that certain surfaces are much better suitable to "host" portals, besides the limitation that it needs to be flat.
Therefore it seems logical to assume that there are materials which "repel" portals and can not hold them.


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My left leg is 3/4" shorter than my right leg. I have trained in Tae Kwon Do for 6 years and earned my first Dan. However barefoot training is becoming a real problem. Martial arts shoes all seem to have very narrow soles not suitable for buildup. Will a wide-soled shoe help or is there another solution that will help this problem?
FWIW, I've read Bruce Lee had a significant difference in leg length too:
You may want to experiment with which leg you put in front during sparring - longer leg forward. Experiment with your stance until you find a posture where everything's comfortable and level and able to rotate and twist in the directions you need for techniques including footwork.
Obviously, for patterns and a lot of set exercises you'll be expected to practice more or less evenly on each side, but you can get to know the implications - for example, you might find you are better at a more upright, quick kick with the shorter leg, and want to reach deeper with the longer leg - "listen" to your body to find what's natural.
There are a lot of flexibility issues with small stabilising muscles that could affect your overall comfort. I'm getting on - 42 now - and need to spend more time on stretches that I didn't even know about 5 years ago, like lying on my back with my legs bent and slightly apart, then dipping my knees inwards towards the ground one at a time. I went to see a physio who's also a top Kyokushin fighter. I'd recommend a professional assessment of where you're stiff or weak and what to do about it.
Well talking about shorter leg. i think wide soled shoes will work out but.. might be not. If you have acheived your dan.. then u mst be a good player. I think you have got to turn your basics and modify them. I mean to say go as per comfort. Dont you wory about shoes thats the least important thing in martial arts. The key is proper execution of your moves. You can get ordered shoes as per yor wants. And might you can asjust it with high and low healed shoes in alternate legs.. Hope this helps.. -adrocks09..


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In these pages, I've read some contributors indignantly declaring the Republicans "obstructionist" in dealing with Democrat entitlement mongering. Well, when it comes to increasingly centralized socialization and the growing, ever more costly, intrusive "nanny state" of our country and government, I personally think they haven't been obstructionist, enough. Indeed, they often seem all too happy to oblige.
Republicans continue to disappoint. They're like the Cleveland Browns of politics, except, of course, that the Browns actually do try to win. Every time I hear of another blatant falsehood being exposed, or yet another scandal or stupid, ham-handed blunder coming out of Obama's ludicrously inept or perhaps intentionally destructive, whichever administration, going virtually unanswered by my Republican representatives, I feel like a Browns fan on Monday.
Ben Gozzie? Who's that?
Libya, Egypt, even Syria - these, combined, have shown others, especially our enemies, that Obama has, for now, at least, rendered America a tiger of thinner, more brittle paper than even that produced by Jimmy Carter's milquetoast, Soviet-appeasing machinations.
Like Carter, Obama's perception of "our enemies" and those generally perceived by America, it often seems, are two very different things. We see enemies as people seeking America's destruction. Obama funds and arms them.
Congress-circumventing "czars" and endless executive orders; "Operation Fast and Furious", an ill-conceived policy, resulted not only in the arming of vicious criminals, but also in the murders of innocent American citizens; the NSA scandal, wherein a national intelligence agency gathered data on literally millions around the world, including American citizens; the IRS "mishap", where "overzealous" agents abused their authority, by refusing grass-roots conservative organizations tax-free status while, improperly, giving preference to more left-leaning groups. Obama's Justice Department spied on reporters who may have had anti-Obama leanings; there have been complaints by media personnel, that coverage negatively portraying Obama and his policies has been discouraged, by government pressure; the arming of the IRS, and military-grade equipment for the Department of Homeland Security. I could go on.
Also, whenever something happens, he's so surprised. Responsibility is deflected, others blamed for failures including, still, President Bush.
Where does "the buck stop" again?
I said in a previous letter, there are "gallons of blood in the water." There's so much to use against this administration; use it, already! The Republicans should be out there loudly, obnoxiously exploiting the Obamacare mess, like Democrats at a school shooting. Only, with this particular life-and-death tragedy, there are literally millions of victims to exploit, for political purposes.
Wake up, Republicans! Five to 6 million of your electorate stayed home, because Romney was yet another bland, colorless candidate. Many others supported Ron Paul.
The vast majority of Americans are on your side right now, as opinion polls reflect, or at least, what should be your side, we'll put it that way. Stop worrying about being called racist, if that's the problem. Liberals have been doing that for decades and will continue, regardless.
Do something.
Have a Merry Christmas, all while we're still allowed, at least.
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I checked Wikipedia, I know it is a powerful quantization in physics, but I am wondering what is its relation in mathematics (like mirror symmetry as in wikipedia). A related thing is quantum master equation, what's its use in mathematics? Any reference or background? Thanks!
The BV formalism provides a (co)homological reformulation of several important questions of quantum field theory. The kind of problems that are usually addressed by the BV formalism are:
The BV formalism is specially attractive because it does not require one to make a choice of a gauge fixing and it maintains a manifest spacetime covariance. It can also deals with situation that the traditional BRST formalism can not handle. This is for example the case of gauge theories admitting an open gauge algebra ( a gauge algebra that is closed only modulo the equations of motion). The typical example are supergravity theories. The BV formalism also allows an elegant and powerful mathematical reformulation of certain questions of quantum field theories in the language of homomological algebra.
Mathematically, the BV formalism is simply a clever application of homological perturbation theory. In order to understand the relation, I will first review the geometry of a physical model described by a Lagrangian $\mathcal{L}$ depending of fields $\phi^I$ and a finite number of their derivatives and admitting a gauge symmetry $G$. The starting point is the space $\mathcal{M}$ of all possible configurations of fields and their derivatives. This can be formalized using the language of jet-spaces. The Euler-Lagrange equations give the equations of motion of the theory and together with their derivatives, they define a sub-space $\Sigma$ of $\mathcal{M}$ called the stationary space. The on-shell functions are the functions relevant for the dynamic of the theory, they are defined on the stationary space $\Sigma$, they can be described alegebraically as $\mathbb{C}^\infty(\Sigma)=\mathbb{C}^\infty(\mathcal{M})/ \mathcal{N}$ where $\mathcal{N}$ is the ideal of functions that vanish on $\Sigma$. Because of the gauge invariance, the Euler-Lagrange equations are not independent but they satisfy some non-trivial relations called Noether identities. One has to identify different configurations related by a gauge transformation. Indeed, a gauge symmetry is not a real symmetry of the theory but a redundancy of the description.
The two steps that we have just described (restriction to the stationary surface and taking the quotient by the gauge transformations) are respectively realized in the BV formalism by the homology of the Koszul-Tate differential $\delta$ and the cohomology of the longitudinal operator $\gamma$. The Koszul-Tate operator defines a resolution of the equations of motion in homology. This is done by introducing one antifield $\phi^*_I$ for each field $\phi^I$ of the Lagrangian. The antifields are introduced to ensure that the equations of motion are trivial in the homology of the Koszul-Tate operator. The gauge invariance of the theory is taking care of by the cohomology of the longitudinal differential $\gamma$. In the case of Yang-Mills theories, the cohomology of $\gamma$ is equivalent to the Lie algebra cohomology.
The full BV operator is then given by
$$s=\delta + \gamma+\cdots,$$
where the dots are for possible additional terms required to ensure that the BV operator $s$ is nilpotent ( $s^2=0$). The construction of $s$ from $\delta$ and $\gamma$ follows a recursive pattern borrowed from homological perturbation theory. One can trace the need for the antifields and the Koszul-Tate differential to this recursive pattern.
For simple theories like Yang-Mills, we just have $s=\delta+\gamma$ because the gauge algebra closes as a group without using the equations of motion. In more complicate situation when the algebra is open there are additional terms in the definition of $s$.
One can generates $s$ using the BV bracket $(\cdot ,\cdot)$ (under which a field and its associated antifields are dual) and a source $S$ such that the BV operator can be expressed as
s F= (S,F).
The classifical master equation is
At the quantum level, the action $S$ is replaced by a quantum action $W=S+\sum_ i \hbar^i M_i$ where the terms $M_i$ are contribution due to the path integral measure. The gauge invariant of quantum expectation values of operators is equivalent to the quantum master equation : $$ \frac{1}{2}(W,W)=i\hbar \Delta W, $$ where $\Delta$ is an operator similar to the Laplacian but defined in the space of fields and their antifields. This operator naturally appears when one considers the invariance of the measure of the path integral under an infinitesimal BRST transformation. When $\Delta S=0$, we can take $W=S$.
We will now review the BV (co)homological interpretation of some important questions in quantum field theory:


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6 Movie Plots Made Possible by Bafflingly Bad Decisions
#3. RoboCop 2
The Plan:
"Well, we've got good news for our shareholders, and we've got bad news. The bad news is that the last two prototypes for the follow-up to our popular RoboCop project have, well, offed themselves. And some other people. Good news, though, is that our own Dr. Juliette Faxx has some very promising ideas about harvesting a brain for the next prototype, that will overcome all of those limitations!"
Why They Had It Coming:
"Whose brain? Well, it's from a power-hungry psychopath. Oh, and she also has a wonderful plan to control her new cyborg with massive amounts of recreational narcotics, since, as we all know, junkies are notoriously docile and cooperative. I certainly see no possible way that this could backfire. All in favor of extending the funding on Project RoboCop 2, raise your hands. Ah, good! Unanimous again!"
To be perfectly fair, we can't put much of the blame on the technicians who worked in the Suicide Machine Laboratory, or even the crazy chick who pushed them to make that ball-stompingly dangerous monster in the movie's title. Villains and mad scientists are going to do villainous and mad sciency shit. It's what they're good at.
But who's the goofball who decided to keep funding a project that dependably produces nothing but large quantities of failure? Failure is not a marketable product, no matter how much of a surplus you've built up.
"How about tragedy? Can we sell that?"
And this is not a small project, we're talking tens of millions in high-end robotic shit. Did the board of directors sign off on this? They have to answer to somebody, right? With progress reports and so on? And reports to shareholders? And how did they think they were going to make a profit off this technology again?
If this is the way Omni Consumer Products does business, it's hard to imagine that any of their divisions are turning much of a profit. Oh, and if you thought the insurance companies behind the King Kong Broadway show were asleep at the wheel, holy crap. The good RoboCop does something every five minutes that opens them up to liability for property damage and civil rights violations. Seriously, call your insurance company and ask them what the premiums would be for your half-human junkie killbot.
#2. 28 Weeks Later
The Plan:
"It's been about six months since the last of the diseased cannibals in Great Britain supposedly died out, but we've just found a survivor right outside our military-controlled safe zone, and she has an obvious bite mark on her arm. It seems likely that she may be a carrier for the disease. This is very serious business, so we've made sure to put her behind a locked door that can only be opened by those with a special key card, which is pretty much everybody in the building. We considered posting a guard, but that seemed a little excessive. I mean, let's not get carried away, here."
It's not like it's the end of the world.
Why They Had It Coming:
You may be wondering why we're not blaming the scientists in the original movie (28 Days Later) for creating a "turn anyone into a mindless murderer" virus in the first place. But again, you can't blame mad scientists for doing mad science. Also, we're pretty sure that right now some country's military is funding something even crazier.
But then you look at the behavior of the people who were in charge of containing the outbreak in the sequel, and there are no excuses. If there's one thing that your average military base does not have a shortage of, it's dudes with guns. So, why couldn't they spare even one of them to guard a goddamn door? You know, the door behind which is the carrier of a disease that just wiped out an entire country earlier that year?
Even a dude without a gun probably could have saved the day, here. "I'm sorry, sir, but you're not allowed in here," he could have said, politely but firmly, as the infected woman's husband tried to push past him to go and give her a kiss. Or they could have changed the code on the lock to keep out unauthorized personnel. Any sort of actual security procedure probably would have done the trick.
Perhaps they weren't worried about infection because they were confident that their contingency plan was foolproof. That would be the plan to take all the civilians in the building down to the parking garage, pack them closely together (you know how diseases can't spread if you're standing too close to the infected) and lock all the doors with the kind of chains that break when you push on them really hard.
#1. The Matrix
The Plan:
"We evil machines need a new energy source. All our mechanical lives, we've depended on solar power, but now the sun has been blocked out by our human enemies. Wait. Our human enemies... Enemies... Enemy... Enermy... Energy! That's it! We'll harvest the natural electrical energy of the only things in this world that pose any danger to us! We can just breed them by the billions and keep them docile by forcing them to play the most boring MMORPG in history! It can't possibly fail!"
Why They Had It Coming:
Look, we know others have criticized the grossly inefficient energy infrastructure the Matrix bad guys came up with. But here's what's so irksome about it:
Remember when they told us that the city of Zion, last remaining stronghold of humanity, was powered with geothermal energy, a fancy term for heat from the Earth's core? And remember how the evil robots had those giant drill machines that could tunnel through rock like it was paper mache? Well, then congratulations are in order because you've just proved that you're smarter than the most advanced AI program in the futuristic world of The Matrix.
There's really no excuse for the evil computers to keep trying to fuel their giant death machines with human farts when they have a whole planet full of warm, molten, earthy energy goodness just waiting to be tapped. It's the equivalent of powering New York City with millions of hamster wheels in hamster factories all over the planet, only these hamsters have a tendency to escape, organize and try to murder you in your sleep.
Surrender, renegade!
Oh, sure, the massive rodent hunts might be good for relieving stress every couple of decades, and there's nothing wrong with wanting a little challenge in life, unless you're, you know, some kind of heartless machine functioning on nothing but cold logic.
Even if they didn't have the equipment or the know-how to tap into the Earth's core for power back when the sun was first blocked out, what in the hell made them think they had to use humans? Why not cows? Or elephants? Or rabid grizzly bears? Hell, they would have been better off with pretty much any animal, just as long as they went with one of the thousands of mammal species that does not know how to use a fucking computer.
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