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Installing Vintage Air A/C In A '57 Ranchero - Wind In Your AirWritten by on July 1, 2012
Last month we followed along as Chopit Kustom installed a March Performance serpentine belt kit on the 460 Ford in Robbie Freeman's '57 Ranchero in preparation for fitting a Vintage Air A/C system—which means this month we'll show you just that! While Vintage Air offers many kits that are vehicle-specific, with hoses already crimped or hard lines ready to install, the major components can be made to fit any vehicle; it just takes a little more work and planning.
One of the toughest parts of installing A/C in any car is physically fitting the evaporator under the dash (if that's where you choose to fit it!). In this case Vintage Air's Magnum Gen IV unit was chosen as it offers heat, defrost, and cool options, but it's also the largest evaporator they sell. It does, however, fit neatly against firewalls that have a recess in the center, and in this instance, also happened to perfectly clear the stock glovebox. So with that major component installed, as well as the compressor, condenser, and dryer mounted, the guys moved on to routing and crimping hoses.
Just as with wiring, there's a "circuit" that the hoses follow. Starting at the compressor, they go to the condenser, the dryer, then through a safety switch to the evaporator, and then return to the compressor. Each component obviously has two ports, but often they'll be different sizes, with No. 6, 8, and 10 used at various ports. Even so, the circuit was checked to ensure the hoses were running in the correct direction. Installation was actually easier than it sounds, especially given that the instructions are very comprehensive.
With the dry build complete—the hoses were simply pushed into the fittings at this stage—the crimping could begin. Chopit Kustom uses a neat Mastercool hose crimp tool for this, whereby the fittings could be crimped while still in place, though they could be marked for alignment, then removed and crimped in a vise-held tool or taken to an A/C supply house. With a rubber O-ring in each fitting, and a drop or two of refrigerant oil to prevent them from snagging or tearing, the fittings were tightened and the system ready to be evacuated and charged by a professional. As supplied, the compressor, evaporator, dryer, and condenser are filled with dry nitrogen under pressure and then sealed. Once these seals are broken, the system should be evacuated and charged as soon as possible to prevent the components from collecting moisture.
Installing A/C is not a mystery, and is within the capability of any hands-on hot rodder, and though you may not want to fork out for a fancy crimp tool like the one shown here, vise-held examples can be had for less than $200.
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2 This is the original heater, located on the passenger side of the firewall. No need for this any longer!4 Moving inside, a cursory glance under the dash revealed plenty of untidy and unsafe wiring. Taped-together connections, household twist-type connectors, and missing insulation meant this was all ripped out and replaced before we went any further.5 Vintage Air ships everything needed for the A/C installation. All the components were laid out on a bench and checked prior to starting the install.6 The Magnum Gen IV evaporator is large, but it does handle heat, A/C, and defrost, and thanks to the shape of the body, fits neatly against firewalls that have a recess in the middle (on the engine side).8 This is the evaporator viewed from the side that fits against the inside of the firewall. Trial fitting it revealed that it would be easier to fabricate new mounts than modify the non-vehicle-specific mounting bracket it's supplied with.9 Looking through the glovebox door, the mounts shown in the previous picture are bolted through the top of the firewall. A second pair mount the front of the unit to the lower dash rail.10 Vintage Air supplied a pair of these defrost vents, which were screwed in place of the originals, using the stock holes.
12 Again, looking through the glovebox door, a pair of relays for the heater control valve and A/C compressor were mounted on the upper kick panel, along with a circuit breaker (left). These are supplied pre-wired with a short harness, and the instruction manual contains all relevant wiring diagrams.14 With the evaporator finish-mounted (note one of two mounts attaching it to the lower dash), the A/C and heater hoses were run to check for length and positioning of the hose ends, then removed for crimping. They were then fitted for the final time, not forgetting to use the rubber O-rings supplied in each fitting. These were lubed with refrigerant oil, as were the threads, prior to installation to seal the joints. Note too, the drain tube exiting the bottom of the unit, passing through the cab floor behind the carpet.13 While Vintage Air offers numerous styles and shapes of A/C vents, and in various materials, the owner of this truck didn't want them mounted in the dash, so these basic vents were mounted on the existing kick panels, relatively unobtrusive unless you're laying on the floor with a camera!15 This dual vent is designed to mount under the lower dash lip, but the truck had a set of gauges already mounted there. A bandsaw was used to cut the housing in half …17 The reproduction glovebox (stockers too) already had this cutout, which perfectly cleared the fan housing on the evaporator. Oftentimes all or part of a glovebox has to be sacrificed to fit an A/C unit.19 Just before the heater hose from the intake manifold to the evaporator passes through the firewall, the heater control valve was mounted inline. This valve is directional, as indicated by the arrow on the decal. The valve has to be mounted in the high-pressure hose, not the other low-pressure hose from the evaporator to the water pump.
21 The dryer has to be located between the condenser and the evaporator. It was mounted on the inner fender and the hoses installed prior to crimping to check for location, angle of fittings, and length. Note the O-rings taped to the dryer as a reminder to install them in the fittings on final assembly.22 A binary or trinary switch will cut off the compressor clutch at 30 or 406 psi. A binary switch is used if a mechanical fan is used. This is a trinary switch, which also sends a signal to engage an electric fan at 254 psi. It is wired into the same relay as the engine temperature switch, so the fan will engage with either engine temperature or A/C pressure. It can be mounted anywhere between the condenser and evaporator, in this instance just behind the radiator support panel between the dryer and condenser.23 Here Chopit is trial fitting the hoses to the condenser. Ensure the condenser is mounted with the larger No. 8 fitting at the top.24 With all the refrigerant lines routed and the Chopit crew happy with the fitting positions, the ends of the hoses could be crimped. Chopit Kustom uses this Mastercool hydraulic hose crimp tool. If you're doing a similar project, your local A/C parts supply house will likely be able to undertake the crimping for you, as these tools are expensive.25 The beauty of this crimp tool over other designs is that it's handheld and as such is able to crimp the hoses in place rather than take them off the car and crimp them in a tool held in a vise.26 The small hole (arrow) in the Vintage Air fittings enables the installer to ensure the hoses are pushed all the way into the fitting before crimping. A little refrigerant oil helps with this. With all the fittings crimped and O-rings installed, all the connections were tightened for a final time.27 These hard lines were supplied with the March Performance kit to make routing the refrigerant lines from the compressor somewhat neater than having rubber hoses looped over the top.28 With the aluminum condenser and radiator both painted semigloss black, as well as the hose fittings, it'll all blend in behind the grille. Note the hoses are routed through grommets in the radiator support, the lower one secured with a clamp to keep it away from the hood hinge when the hood is closed.
30 This neat control panel from Vintage Air was installed in the dash, easily hooked up to the evaporator unit following the instructions. It doesn't look out of place in the interior of the '57.


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23 Aug 2008 6:08 AM #1
[2.2] Example "Desktop" - Taskbar not showing in Firefox 3.0.1
As title,
It's all fine in IE7,Opera 9.51 and Safari
but the taskbar disappeared in Firefox 3.0.1
The downloaded example and the online example share the same issue...
When I add some alert('...') to Line 12 in Desktop.js to delay the js loading...
It acts as normal! What's a wired bug?
25 Aug 2008 8:06 AM #2
Hi @all,
I've noticed the same problem but with different behaviour.
Within IE and FF the taskbar mostly appears, but not always.
F5 (taskbar shown)->F5 (taskbar shown)->F5 (taskbar not shown)
Firebug shows no errors.
25 Aug 2008 8:58 AM #3
Sometimes it's okay, when I clicked the link directly or paste the uri into address bar.
But after Reload, the bar won't show again...
25 Aug 2008 9:23 AM #4But after Reload, the bar won't show again...
It doesn't matter if i clean up the cache with Crtl+F5 or just reload with F5.
As written both in IE and FF.
Although the behaviour isn't the same i would suggest that the problem will be found at the same place, what will be strange cause of same browsers and ext version. I think the difference rub's on variating browser and system settings.
25 Aug 2008 9:58 AM #5
Additionally the problem occurs also with the standard example I've tried out few minutes ago, so it's not a problem of bad user code.
I found out some interesting things...
In case the taskbar not appears, the view changes to that if I click on a desktop link:
As you see only the start button and the menu is rendered.
Now when i close the window the hole taskbar is rendered, but the shortcut-slider cuts the menu in a half.
edit: sry, i meant if i resize browser window.
25 Aug 2008 11:27 AM #6
The Problem is the following: ExtJS seems to set some cookies which cause those Problems.
I solved the Problem by making a Synchronous Request onUnload destroying the session data, and then everything is fine.
Not the best solution maybe, but it is one.
25 Aug 2008 1:22 PM #7
Nonsense, I've checked this out first, cause MochaUI doe this for saving workspace.
ExtJS doesn't store any cookie.
[...] destroying the session data, [...]
26 Aug 2008 4:05 AM #8
I've checked before, no cookies used by extjs
I found another example of ExtJS Desktop called "qWikiDesktop"
It's all fine...but too complex for me...just want to find out how they fixed the bug...
26 Aug 2008 4:19 AM #9
What i wrote is NOT nonsense because it WORKS.
Try it out.
And it stores some cookies, atleast at mine.
27 Aug 2008 2:52 AM #10
not working for me
I checked with "Web Developer"...really no cookies set...

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Volunteers are critical partners in our community who dedicate valuable time making a difference in someone's day-to-day life. Lending a hand to those less fortunate and striving to help improve the betterment of society is the foundation in which Junior League of Louisville (JLL) was built on 92 years ago.
On the heels of the release of their fourth cookbook this spring, "Bluegrass Gatherings," I took a moment to sit down with JLL president Alice Baron to discuss what it takes to become a member, the importance of volunteerism and how you can secure a copy of "Bluegrass Gatherings." You won't want to miss the opportunity to purchase this Kentucky-inspired cookbook with easy-to-follow recipes.
LORI KOMMOR: Junior League of Louisville has been an integral part of our community for 92 years; the core foundation was built on teaching others the importance of volunteer service. Share with us some of the organizations that have benefited from JLL.
ALICE BARON: What started with 10 women in 1921 has grown to more than 500 women today as the League celebrates its 92nd year! Our time, talent and treasure have been given to many organizations in the community over the years, including:
Playscape – the first play area on the waterfront;
Open Doors with the Louisville Visual Arts Association – an umbrella program of classes and art enrichment experiences designed to give a voice to under-served populations including the at-risk youth, refugees and immigrants, senior citizens, victims of domestic abuse and more;
Gilda's Club – NoogieLand play area and annual Noogiefest Halloween party;
Safe Place – created to meet the immediate needs of teens who were living on the street;
CASA – The Junior League helped bring CASA to the River Region;
Stage One – In 1946, two JL members formed the Louisville Children's Theatre (later named Stage One);
Ronald McDonald House;
Metro United Way (Volunteers Bureau) – The purpose of the Bureau was to "recruit, train and refer volunteers to community service" as well as (educating) the community on social service programs. After three years the JL turned this project over to the Council of Social Agencies, now known as Metro United Way; and
KIDSPACE – The JL renewed the commitment to this project in 1993 and funded as well as staffed volunteers to help with this renovation. This space re-opened as KIDZONE in 1998.
It is important to note that one of our biggest contributions to the community is that our members will go on to join other boards, start additional non-profits and promote voluntarism.
KOMMOR: I was fortunate to catch a glimpse of "Bluegrass Gatherings" and know there must have been a tremendous amount of work that went into such an endeavor. What was the process in making the cookbook and how were the recipes selected?
BARON: "Bluegrass Gatherings" was a project that spanned the better part of three years. It's a seasonal, menu-based cookbook featuring fresh, local ingredients from the region. We couldn't make a cookbook without featuring Oaks and Derby menus, but also look for a menu to plan your March Madness party and the Bastille Day menu that highlights the city's French influence.
We appealed to our members for most of the recipes, so there are a lot of great family recipes in the book. We also tried to do various spins on traditional Kentucky favorites – we feature outstanding recipes for a Mint Julep cake, Benedictine salad dressing and Hot Brown Tart. We were also fortunate to get the cooperation of some of Louisville's best chefs to give us a few of the city's most coveted recipes.
Both Louisville First Lady Dr. Alexandra Gerassimides and Kentucky First Lady Jane Beshear contributed recipes as well. You'll also find lots of recipes utilizing country ham and pecans, because it just wouldn't be a Kentucky cookbook without those!
When we were designing the book, we wanted to create something that would be perfect to take from coffee table to kitchen table – while it's a cookbook at heart, it's also a beautiful reflection of Louisville's landmarks and history.
KOMMOR: What do you do with the cookbook's proceeds, and where can someone purchase a copy?
BARON: The Junior League of Louisville is a non-profit women's organization with a mission to promote voluntarism, develop the potential of women and improve the community through trained and effective volunteers. One hundred percent of the proceeds from "Bluegrass Gatherings" will go to support the Junior League's mission through a hands-on and formal training program, community projects such as Gilda's Club, Family Scholar House, Urban Gardens, Keep In Touch, Bloom Boutique and Done-In-A-Days.
Starting in March, the book will be available at many stores throughout the city, including Bittner's, Taste of Kentucky, Carmichael's Bookstore, Regalo at the Galt House and Cooking at the Cottage. In addition, anyone interested in buying a copy can do so by visiting our website.
KOMMOR: If someone is interested in becoming a member of JLL, where can they find more information?
BARON: The JLL is open to any woman age 22 and older in the community with a desire to fulfill our mission. We hold new member programs in the fall and spring. Applications will be taken for the Fall 2013 program starting in June, with the class starting in August. More information can be found on our website www.juniorleaguelouisville.org under the "Join Now" button.


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23 Dec 2010 12:43 PM #1
Anyone creating WAI-ARIA / 508 compliant components in EXT JS 3.3?
I know 4.0 is supposed to address these issues, so this probably isn't high on anyone's list of new development to do, but I wonder how much 3.3 code is out there that people have enhanced to include ARIA roles, and perhaps in cases like tab panels, track state?
If anyone has such code, I'd be interested in seeing examples of what you consider best practice to do this. We might, due to time deadlines, end up having to extend multiple 3.3 components to support WAI-ARIA instead of waiting for 4.0. Would be happy to share what we do with anyone that can assist.
5 Jan 2011 11:21 PM #2
21 Jun 2012 8:25 PM #3
How to configure "ariaRole" in EXTJS 4.x for tree, menu grid etc...for complete accessibility through JAWS Reader
3 Jul 2012 11:12 PM #4
4 Jul 2012 12:00 AM #5
Thanks for Reply.
Some of the blog says that "ARIA implemented 100% in ExtJS 4.x " Is that Right?
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Marvel Comics vs. Science: 5 of the Most Absurd Superhero Origins
If there's one thing Stan Lee knew, it was how to create cool, interesting characters that would last for decades and become classic superheroes. And that's a relief, since it's arguable this is in fact the only thing Stan Lee knew, judging by the nonsensical origin stories of some of Marvel Comics' most beloved characters. Whether blasting off to Mars, getting bombarded with radiation or simply watching their families die and vowing to fight crime in a leotard afterwards, Marvel superheroes' career-starting legends all share a unifying trait: they don't actually make an ounce of fucking sense.
The Fantastic Four
Origin Story: Hoping to beat the Commies to Mars, '60s super-scientist Reed Richards builds a fab rocket ship and announces his plans to blast off into space. The United States government cautions Reed about getting exposed to potentially lethal cosmic rays, though astoundingly has no objections to a US citizen shooting off homemade rockets into the atmosphere, nor Reed bringing his actress girlfriend Susan Storm, her teenage brother Johnny and a jet pilot named Ben Grimm along with him. (The government's funding for hijinx-related projects, it should be noted, was more robust back then.)
Thanks to Scott Tipton and Comics101.com for the scans!
Comic Book Consequences: Naturally, Reed and his friends are exposed to cosmic rays almost instantly:
The quartet gain fantastic superpowers as a result: Reed can now stretch his body, Susan can turn invisible, Johnny can turn into a human fireball and Ben Grimm is given the unstoppable power of being shit-hideous.
What Would Have Happened in Real Life: After building an unlicensed aircraft in his yard and boasting about shooting his girlfriend and her 17-year-old brother into outer space, Reed Richards is promptly brought up on charges of criminal negligence and child endangerment, his name tarnished in the scientific community. Richards flees the US to avoid prosecution, taking a teaching position at the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala. Since Guatemala has the lowest literacy rate in Central America, he spends most of his class time playing cards with his students and cursing his "total bitch" ex-girlfriend, who took advantage of Reed not bombarding her with space radiation by launching a successful acting career.
A Second Possibility: Reed Richards wisely decides to keep quiet about his goal to beat the Communists to Mars after noticing the horrified looks on his colleagues' faces, and so manages to get into outer space without tipping off the authorities. Once there, the four are bombarded with cosmic rays and, as advances in radiation can attest, nothing much happens initially. Since it takes the better part of a year to reach far-off Mars, Reed and co. settle in for the voyage, playing charades and watching Ben Grimm's astonishingly comprehensive collection of amateur pornography.
After a month of lethal radiation, Johnny develops a cataract in his left eye and Ben Grimm becomes sterile. After two months, Susan's hair begins to fall out in clumps and Richards starts pooping blood. By the time they reach Mars, every one of them has cancer. Luckily, due to the heavy nuclei in cosmic radiation all are profoundly brain damaged at this point, and nobody even notices. Now piloting a spacecraft while legally retarded, Reed suggests they abandon their Mars mission and fly off in the direction of a distant galaxy instead, on the grounds that it looks like ice cream. They are never heard from again.


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The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Military Operations Ever Kept Secret
#2. France's Private War Against ... Hippies?
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In 1985, the French government had a problem: They wanted to irradiate the fuck out of some delicate ecosystems, but stupid "Greenpeace" was using stupid "boats" to stupid "protest" for the stupid "sanctity of life and the environment." Psh ... hippies, right? What's worse, the site was a French colony that was already thinking of rebelling, and the French didn't want to show any signs of weakness, lest they incur the dreaded wrath of ... the French. So they did what any reasonable country would do: They decided to blow up the Rainbow Warrior, which, from the name, you've already gone ahead and assumed was a love boat full of hippies, to scare/distract Greenpeace long enough for them to conduct the nuclear tests.
Patrick Riviere / Getty
"We tried infecting their sheets with pubic lice, but no one seemed to notice."
The mission was called Operation Satanique -- a name that should probably tip you off to the fact that you might be the crazy bad guys in this situation. When the Rainbow Warrior docked in New Zealand to do some tactical chillaxing, Operation Satanique was a go. The plan was to scare all of the crew off the boat with a small bomb, then, when they had evacuated, a second, larger bomb would actually sink the boat. It all went perfectly!
Except for everything.
AFP / Getty
"I love it when a plan fails in every conceivable fashion."
The crew of the Rainbow Warrior returned after the first bomb went off to check out the damage, not assuming that lightning could strike twice. And you know what they say about "assuming" things ... it blows up boats in New Zealand. So when the second bomb went off, it actually hurt some folks, and killed Fernando Pereira, a photographer.
The French started frantically pulling agents from New Zealand, seeing as how their whole "ruin a hippie's boat party" plan had suddenly turned into "multinational murder and terrorism." But two French spies involved in the operation were detained and interrogated. The truth came out soon after, because, shockingly, you just can't seem to trust the fortitude of a French spy. The aftermath was about what you'd expect: France's president publicly apologized, the defense minister resigned in disgrace, they paid a shit-ton of cash to Greenpeace and France halted their horrific testing ...
For like 10 years. Then they went back and blew the holy shit out of the place anyway. Hey, what did you expect from the guys who brainstormed "Operation Satanic"?
Getty Images / Stringer
"We wanted to call it Operation Boatfuck, but that just sounded crude."
#1. The Secret, Private Armies That Ran Europe
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After World War II, the U.S. had some problems: lots of dead folks, countries and borders torn apart, most of Europe ground into a very civilized kind of pudding and the USSR knocking on the door to come raid the fridge. So the U.S. came up with a plan they called Operation Gladio: It basically installed a secret military that would unofficially operate all across Europe, with the singular goal of combating communism. Because it wouldn't be a very good secret army if we knew all about them, facts are pretty limited, but it's not a whackjob theory: Their existence has been confirmed, and the network has been associated with such high-stakes super-evil as attempted pope assassination, large scale bombings and kidnappings of several high-level government officials. They were willing to do anything to fight communism -- murder, extortion, even becoming communists, if that's what it took.
"I'll shoot myself in the head, then in the dick. I don't even goddamn care."
Again, it turns out that the Italian branch was a particularly active group (the folks did produce Machiavelli and Assassin's Creed; we all shouldn't act so surprised). An entirely different president of Italy, Francesco Cossiga, was involved in this ominous anti-communism secret society -- hey, all the cool presidents were doing it, what was he supposed to say? "No, but thanks so much for asking, nutbar shadow military group?"
It probably wouldn't have been a smart move. See, the reason we don't know more about them, even years after the end of the Cold War, is simple: crazy, crazy murders.
When another Italian president, Aldo Moro, wanted to allow communists to run for office, he was suddenly kidnapped and eventually executed. His body was found in the trunk of a car parked next to an ancient gladiatorial site. A "gladio" is a type of ancient Roman short sword, often used by participants in arena combat. When a former colonel of Gladio operations in Switzerland wrote a letter to the government stating that he was ready to "reveal the whole truth," he was found dead in his home a month later. He was stabbed to death with his own bayonet, a series of mysterious characters written on his chest that couldn't be deciphered.
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Dead president in the back of a van? Bond villains are more subtle.
Now, admittedly, that's not concrete evidence of Gladio's direct involvement or anything. It's just a few brutal, worrying events that spin a web of mystery and fear that keeps further investigations at bay.
Who on Earth could benefit from something like that?
For more reasons we're fortunate we survived the Cold War, check out Nuke the Moon: 5 Certifiably Insane Cold War Projects. Or learn about 6 Real World Spy Gadgets Straight Out of the Movies.
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Visit the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus when it makes a two-day stop on campus. The Lennon Bus travels the country staffed with recording and multimedia engineers who demonstrate cutting-edge technologies and techniques for music and multimedia production.
On Wednesday, April 22, Lennon staff and Ohio State volunteers coach students from the university-area Gidget program, an initiative to engage girls and young women in science and technology. In a single day, the students write music and lyrics for an original song, record and mix it, and produce a music video.
On Thursday, April 23, the Bus opens for walk-through tours from 1 to 3 PM in the Wexner Center's outdoor plaza. At 4:30 PM the Gidget student video will premiere in the Wexner Center's Performance Space as part of a program about engaging students with technology. (That's also a fine time to visit our exhibitions, which are free every on Thursdays from 4 to 8 PM.)
"I had a chance to tour the Lennon Bus a year ago and saw this as an exciting opportunity to bring new media to the Ohio State community," said Victoria Getis, director of the Digital Union, a campus-based multimedia center dedicated to exploring new and emerging technologies. "I think the students, faculty, and staff who visit will be amazed by the range of technology aboard the Bus."
"With the Lennon Bus, the Gidget program has again found a way for young women in the Weinland Park neighborhood to engage with technology and view themselves as leaders and creators," said University Area Enrichment Association's Catherine Girves. "We are delighted to sponsor this event for the university and the community."
Since 1998, the Lennon Bus has been coordinating with local partners to provide free programs about songwriting and multimedia production to students from middle school to college. Ohio State's Women in Technology group, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Digital Union partnered with the University Area Enrichment Association (UAEA) to bring the Bus to the campus area and make its visit a community event.
For additional information about this event, visit the event page on the Digital Union web site.
About the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus
The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is a nonprofit state-of-the-art mobile Pro Audio and HD video recording facility that provides hands-on experiences for students of all ages. In its 12th year of touring, the venture is proud of its brand new bus and its studios, which boast the latest audio and video technology, gear, and products. The Bus travels across the U.S. and Canada year-round, providing free tours and workshops at schools, retailers, festivals, on tours with headlining artists, and at major industry conferences. The Bus, a 501(c)(3) venture, is made possible through the generosity of sponsors including Maxell Corporation, Apple, NAMM, Roland, Sony, Godin Guitars, Edirol by Roland, Ableton, Sibelius, Mackie, Crate, Ampeg, Audio-Technica, Apogee, Sonicbids, Digidesign, Aphex Systems, Musician's Friend, Neutrik, Glyph Technologies, Noise Industries, Disc Makers, Smart Technologies, Bogen Imaging, IK Multimedia, McDSP, Music Player Network, Propellerhead, Boss, Abaltat, OurStage, Gretsch Drums and Boss. The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is made possible by an agreement with Yoko Ono Lennon.
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WHEELING - A Republican political staffer following state Attorney General Darrell McGraw with a video camera alleges McGraw "lunged" at him and ripped his camera away during the Pumpkin Festival Parade in Milton on Saturday.
Justin Lafferty, 24, a staffer for McGraw's Republican challenger, Patrick Morrisey, sent the Democrat McGraw, 73, a letter Monday asking for an apology. Lafferty had filed no report with police as of late Monday afternoon. Denise Tucker, a spokesman for McGraw's campaign, said the campaign had no comment regarding the incident.
"What happened this weekend really upset me," Lafferty said in a statement released by Morrisey. "No one should have to worry about being attacked by another person, and particularly by a man who has been in public office since the mid-1970s.
"On Saturday, at the Pumpkin Festival, Attorney General Darrell McGraw lunged at me, ripped the camera away and tore the strap that was attached to my hand. In so doing, he turned the power off on the camera. An adult in his position should be able to admit that what he did was wrong. That is why I am asking Darrell McGraw for an apology. That is my only request right now. I will await his response before saying or doing anything further."
In the video, labeled "AG McGraw Attacks Morrisey Staffer," McGraw is seen meeting with voters, one of which asks that she be able to ask him a question "away from camera." He next confronts Lafferty, and asks him where he is from. Lafferty responds, "Logan County," and McGraw asks him if they are related.
"The Laffertys in Logan and Wyoming (counties) are my kin," McGraw says.
He then asks Lafferty, "What got you into the filming business? I have a lot of children in the filming business."
Lafferty responds , "It's my job."
"Are you a stalker?" McGraw next asks.
A woman standing with McGraw begins to protest the camera's presence, adding, "We don't do that here. No matter what the candidate or the party, we don't do that here."
McGraw's arm appears to come up to the camera, and the video stops.
During a 2004 United Mine Workers of America's Labor Day rally in Racine, W.Va., McGraw's brother, Warren McGraw - then a state Supreme Court justice - gave the speech that came to be known as the "Racine Rant." During the speech, Warren McGraw also called out "a stalker" from the Republicans, whom he said was "trying to make me look ugly."
In his letter to McGraw Monday, Lafferty said he was "definitely unnerved and rattled by this incident" that occurred in Milton.
"I would like to put this matter behind us, but I do feel strongly that you should apologize for your behavior in Milton," Lafferty writes. "That is all I am asking for. I will make a final decision about how to proceed after I hear back from you."
In the letter, he provides McGraw with a phone number where he can be reached, and notes he would be happy to set up a convenient time to speak "if you are interested."
"It's been an interesting weekend," said Scott Will, spokesman for the McGraw campaign.


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5 Shocking Ways Social Media Trends Can Predict Catastrophes
If you do pretty much anything online these days, you'll be prompted to share it with your social network of friends, family, creepy eStalkers, and the NSA. It's no surprise then that somebody is taking this treasure trove of free information we're spewing all over the Internet and using it to discern some interesting, surprising, but mostly terrifying things. Stuff like ...
#5. When Nations Will Collapse
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By cross-referencing the deluge of posts on various social media outlets against local news stories, surreptitiously intercepted telephone calls, and whatever swear words you use in front of your Kinect, workers at the CIA's Open Source Center in Virginia are able to assess the mood and relevance of virtually any place on Earth.
In other words, using social media, the CIA can identify whether social unrest is apparent in the whole of the community, or just the result of vocalization from a fringe minority with little genuine support for their cause.
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Like moderators on the world's crappy message board.
In other other words, by reading our stupid Facebook updates, the feds are able to tell if the whole population is about to revolt, or if somebody just had a really shitty Hot Pocket and thought the Internet should know about it.
Spoiler: They're all shitty.
For example: While the OSC couldn't identify exactly when an uprising would occur in Egypt, Doug Naquin, the center's director, did successfully use the system to predict that "social media in places like Egypt could be a game-changer and a threat to the regime." Sound familiar? That was back in 2011. Surely you remember how that turned out: Something big happened and you turned your avatar green for two days, before replacing it with, like, a really cute selfie.
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"Sorry, 'Arab Spring,' but I've got 'Kony 2012' to slacktivise."
#4. How Many Psychopaths Are Among Us
A recent paper from Cornell University found that psychopaths have a unique, discernible writing and speaking pattern:
"I found the journal; you need help."
"Sure, take the blender's side."
No, but seriously, after analyzing the speech and texts of 14 psychopathic and 38 non-psychopathic murderers, it was found that psychopaths are more likely to use filler words like "um," are more likely to use cause-and-effect words like "because," and are less likely to make mention of religion or family. Because uh ... um ... oh, right: It signifies their emotional detachment from society or whatever.
"Of course I avoid bringing up God. No one likes it when someone talks about themselves."
The study was then applied to Twitter: a bottomless online pit of rage, narcissism, and delusion. Surprise! They found psychopaths.
Over 3,000 Twitter users allowed their tweets to be examined via a personality test that classified their tweets with three traits: psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism. As an added incentive (like anybody needs more reward than "find out if you're a Twitter psycho!"), one lucky participant would be given an iPad, because sane or not, everyone needs their Candy Crush fix.
Based purely on their tweets, 41 users were classified as legitimate psychopaths. The real shocker here isn't that, according to reason and logic, some people on Twitter be crazy -- we could have clicked on pretty much any Trending Topic and told you that. The shocker was that most of those 41 results were later confirmed as possible psychopaths by more rigorous and reputable follow-up testing. You know what that means? Just glancing at somebody's Twitter feed and saying "sounds like a psycho" seems to be an actual viable method of diagnosis.
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"It's almost as good of a filter as 'nice guy.'"
We can shorten that process even further, to one simple step: Do they follow Kanye West? Yes? Boom. Psychopath.
#3. When the Job Market Will Collapse
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In a study of a half-million social media users over two years of data, researchers were able to predict how the unemployment trend in the U.S. and Ireland would rise or fall -- just by analyzing how much people complained on their respective social media channels.
It was a lot of data.
Researchers analyzed tweets and status updates where people discussed income or career, and assigned each tweet a "mood score." So, for example, if scientists see a tweet like this ...
... they would assign that tweet a label like "anxious" or "lucky it was only one." (Not all science is hard, folks.) But by using this simple method, researchers found that they could predict something as dramatic as an increase in the unemployment rate. Sounds a little abstract, doesn't it? You could look out your window right now and predict an unemployment rate hike based on the number of hobos fighting over your recycling. Eventually, you would be proven right. But here's the crazy part: The system predicted that a rate hike would come to pass in four months. Pretty narrow window, right?
It happened in three.
And it wasn't a fluke: The findings held true in both the U.S. and Ireland.
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"Great job proving the Twitter theory. Unfortunately, due to budget cuts ..."
Now, to be clear, these weren't just people specifically talking about their work or bank accounts. Anything income, budget, or job related in the slightest was counted and quantified, and using nothing more than the information we accidentally spill out for fun on the Internet, scientists were able to calculate when we would lose our jobs to within a financial quarter.
Luckily, the same theory holds true in reverse: Supposedly when positive social media posts pop up, they could theoretically predict drops in the unemployment rate.
It's inversely related to the number of ironic scarves and horn-rimmed glasses.
So basically, get used to being homeless. #plasticbagsocks #beansarealwaysagoodchoice


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Information about close calls on other rigs wasn't passed along, a lawyer said, adding that just a month before the April 2010 accident, the Transocean crew on the Deepwater Horizon failed to catch a sudden surge of natural gas from the well they were drilling, indicating the company had "a chronic problem."
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NEW ORLEANS -- Transocean failed to train its drilling rig
crews properly and didn't maintain key safety equipment on the
doomed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, leading to the deadly
2010 explosion and oil spill, a lawyer representing Gulf Coast
businesses said.
During opening statements of a trial over liability, Jim
Roy, a lawyer for companies suing BP, Transocean, Halliburton
and others, cited a string of prior incidents in Federal
District Court that he said showed the rig owner was grossly
negligent leading up to the accident.
Information about close calls on other rigs wasn't passed
along, Mr. Roy said, adding that just a month before the April
2010 accident, the Transocean crew on the Deepwater Horizon
failed to catch a sudden surge of natural gas from the well
they were drilling, indicating the company had "a chronic
Mr. Roy was the first lawyer to make an opening statement on
the first day of the civil trial aimed at determining the
degree of culpability BP and the other companies have for the
disaster, which killed 11 workers and unleashed the worst
offshore oil spill in US history.
A second trial, scheduled for the fall, will determine how much
oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. Together, these cases will
determine the size of fines companies face under the Clean
Water Act, which could range as high as $17.6 billion.
BP, which hired Transocean and Halliburton to work on
drilling its deep-water oil well, has argued the fines would
likely be less than $5 billion. The company will get 90 minutes
to put on its opening statement Monday afternoon.
Transocean, which presented its opening statement Monday
morning, rebutted the claims against the company's rigs and its
crews. The Coast Guard, federal safety regulators and BP's own
management considered the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig "what
'good' looked like," said Brad Brian, a lawyer for Transocean.
He outlined details of Transocean's safety systems, and
emphasized that BP had primary responsibility for the design of
the well and for final safety decisions.
"BP took a series of unconscionable risks with what it knew
was an exceptionally dangerous well," Mr. Brian said.
Mr. Brian focused on a 10 minute ship-to-shore phone call
between two BP engineers, Mark Hafle and Donald Vidrine, less
than an hour before the explosion. Mr. Vidrine allegedly talked
about odd results from a key safety test, results that Mr.
Hafle noted didn't seem to be appropriate.
"In many ways, it's a microcosm of what BP did wrong on this
well and why Transocean and its crew truly are victims of BP's
misconduct," Mr. Brian said. Instructing the crew to go ahead
with its work in the wake of these test results "was reckless,
in utter and wholesale disregard of the facts."
Michael Underhill, the Justice Department's lead civil
attorney in the case, also focused on that conversation as one
of several places where the accident could have been
"That conversation we will show should have prevented the
tragedy, the need for any of us to be in this courtroom today
and for the next 3 months," Mr. Underhill said. "They had a
conversation that could have saved eleven lives, saved the
Gulf, saved the people of the Gulf from a catastrophe."
The government plans to "show that a long series of missteps
and reckless decisions by BP taken together demonstrate willful
misconduct," he said. "We will show that individual decisions
made by BP standing alone constitute gross negligence."
BP has already agreed to pay more than $30 billion in fines,
settlements and cleanup costs for the well blowout and the
resulting Gulf of Mexico oil spill, including $4 billion to
settle criminal charges related to the accident. Transocean has
agreed to $1 billion in civil fines and $400 million in
criminal penalties.
Witness testimony is expected to begin on the Tuesday,
starting with Robert Bea, a professor of civil and environmental engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley. He will likely be followed
by Lamar McKay, chairman and president of BP Americas. A
previously taped questioning of former BP chairman, Tony
Hayward, will be played Tuesday.
Despite the start of the trial, settlement discussions are continuing,
according to people familiar with the matter. The Justice
Department and Gulf Coast states have considered offering BP a
deal under which the company would pay $16 billion to settle
civil claims.
The settlement offer would cover potential fines owed by BP
under the Clean Water Act, and payments under an environmental evaluation known as
the Natural Resources Damage Assessment, these people
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knowing you have taken a gas kick that you cannot handle spells blowout. evacuate immediately.
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What about the safety audits being carried out at regular intervals?If carried out what was the report and in case of any odd reporting what actions were taken?Regards,J B Sonar
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We are reducing (eliminating?) or work load on BP projects. With the sale of the Texas City refinery/petrochem (formerly AMOCO), and California holdings, BP is reduced to the Nothern part of the US including Alaska. For how long? When will BP be out of North America? Bills have to be paid!
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I've grown to really appreciate the ability to press space twice on my iOS devices and have a period manually inserted without having to switch keyboards.
Though I realize the need isn't quite there on actual keyboards since the key is accessible at all times, I'm curious: Is there any way to get the same behavior using baked-in functionality on Mac OS X?
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Theft: House in the 1400 block of Maryland Avenue entered in the past week and food and cleaning items taken and bathroom sink broken.
Cited: Reginald Boffman, 54, 258 N. 10th St., no dog registration; and Joyce M. Stewart, 22, Apartment 203, 180 N. Fourth St., stop sign.
Charged: Dorian Patton, 24, 803 Rosswell Ave., disorderly conduct, Wednesday.
Arrested: Alissa Milano, 23, 610 Pine St., obstructing official business, Wednesday.
Arrested: Mark DiLullo, 38, 1428 Pennsylvania Ave., Weirton, possession of drug abuse instrument and permitting drug abuse, Wednesday.
Arrested: James A. Sellitti, 29, 136 Lynwood Manor, Weirton, tampering with evidence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of drugs, Wednesday.
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Suppose that we are given an integral $k$-algebra $A$ of finite type explicitly, by which I mean that we are given the generators of the defining ideal $J$ where $A = k[x_1,...,x_n]/J$. What kinds of tools are out there to compute the integral closure of $A$? I would like the answer as explicitly as possible i.e. generators of the defining ideal.
While suggestions of computer programs are welcome, I want to be able to do these on my own, so I am looking for results which let me prove the answer. I'm asking from the perspective of someone who knows very little computational commutative algebra.
As a related question, if I have two such rings $A$, $B$ given explicitly as above, together with an explicit homomorphism between them, how can I go about determining the kernel and cokernel explicitly? Also, how about if we localize everything at a maximal ideal?
Broadly speaking, I would like to know about what kinds of computational methods are available for rings which arise from studying complex algebraic varieties. Have people out there settled these kinds of computations completely, or is this a hard question in general?


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Somewhere in the late 70s to early 80s. I remember a movie that I enjoyed (though apparently not enough to remember) that featured a girl somewhere in the age range of 10-14. She is very bright and raised in a good home, but has a penchant for kleptomania. The girl is also terrified of fire.
She is helped by a piano teacher who is initially abusive. The strongest memory is placing a pencil under the girl's wrists while she practiced.
The only other thing I remember is that the 'bad guy' was about as imposing and scary as a teddy bear.


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Last night, DirecTV subscribers were denied access to Viacom Inc. channels, including BET, Centric, Nickelodeon, MTV, and VH1, after the two sides failed to come to an agreement over a fee dispute.
According to reports, Viacom is asking for a $1 billion pay increase to have it's channels aired on DirecTV, an amount that the company is not willing to pay.
The satellite company released in a statement that it had reached out to Viacom with a new offer "but never heard back, so DirecTV had to comply with their demand to take the channels down."
A statement from BET says DIRECTV refuses to pay fair value to carry their channel, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and all Viacom channels. Viacom is the most watched cable programmer on DIRECTV – and across every distributor, accounting for 20% of all viewing on DIRECTV. At any given time, one out of every five DIRECTV subscribers watching TV is watching a Viacom channel.
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After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics.
Record warmth is forcing the organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia to helicopter in snow to cover mountains. The planet's changing climate is threatening the start of the Olympics, as "sloppy, foggy weather" has canceled training runs on both Whistler and Cypress Mountains. In Vancouver, the "average temperature in January was 44.9 degrees, besting the previous warm record of 43.3 in 2006 and well above the historic average of 37.9 degrees":
After the warmest January in Vancouver history, organizers moved more than 5,000 cubic meters of snow onto Cypress by helicopter and truck from nearby mountains. Some 750 workers are bringing in snow and building courses before competition starts on Saturday.
Vancouver's troubles are part of a broader trend of warmer winters across the Northern Hemisphere. Increased warmth and changing weather patterns have led to glacial retreat and unreliable snowfall across the globe, putting the future of alpine sports in jeopardy. Globally, we are in the warmest winter on record. Locally, the weather forecast for the Olympics "calls for more rain and warm temperatures for the next five days."
At ClimateProgress, Joe Romm boggles at the inability of people to see the relationship between Vancouver's record warmth and global warming.


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I have been trying out various ways of self-motivating systems, strategies and methods to motivate myself to complete my private projects in time. I often end in a swamp two-thirds in, having trouble to motivate myself to to the final part and finish the task.
One I came across might seem a bit aggressive, but for me, it works.
It's quite simply putting myself in a potential harms way, unless a specific task is being done.
In example: Promising others that certain projects (in my case software development) will be ready at a specific point in time.
Knowing that people will be hugely disappointed at the ETA gets me up and working.
The question : It might not be an elegant system, but does anyone know if there is a more refine, perhaps tested or documented version of this ?
Also, when I try explaining it to some, it sound quite horrible, fear-based or self-stressing. To me, it isn't, but at first glance I can see why people would think this.


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During my recent visit to to the 37th Telluride Film Festival, three films in particular captured my attention with their exploration of the the subject of community, family and religion in the context of war and survival. Each narrates a compelling story told from a different perspective and set in different historical moments, yet the theme of individual conflicts within the social support structure is clear.
The most compelling of these is Denis Villeneuve's Incendies (adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's award-winning play), which tells the story of Nawal Marwan, a woman with a heroic and traumatic past, one so horrible she was tormented by it even unto death, insisting that she be buried face down, naked, in an unmarked grave until her children had fulfilled the promises she made in an earlier life on her behalf.
And thus began her unsuspecting children's journey into their mother's painful history that takes them into war torn Lebanon during the Civil war of 1975-1991 nominally between Christian and Muslim forces in the country. The movie places Nawal on a bus attacked by the Phalangists, alluding to an event on 13 April 1975 that killed about 26 PFLP members, and sparked a war that lasted 16 years and is estimated to have killed 7% of the country's population. Nawal narrowly escapes death by virtue of her Christian background.
Narwal's life is recounted in fragments and flashbacks, as her history is unraveled and the details of a Greek Tragedy emerge bit by bit. In parallel, Nawal's Canadian-raised daughter, Jeanne, explores her mother's background, discovering that the cultural stigma of her mother's accidental pregnancy persists a lifetime later. She learns piece by piece and ever deeper the horror and trauma of her mother's early adulthood, first forced into exile in the city, then being swept up in the war, hardened into partisan action on behalf of the Lebanese National Movement after pursuing her missing son to Damour, and ultimately paying a horrible price.
Jeanne's twin brother, first dismissive of his mother's past and uninterested in discovering anything more, finally makes the journey to Lebanon himself and continues the investigation into their mother's past as it leads to the still-living and still powerful leaders of the Lebanese National Movement.
The audience is dragged step by step through the hell of sectarian civil war. Nawal's tragic life is a metaphor for the tragedy of a war that pits neighbor against neighbor in brutal reprisals, creating wounds that fester to this day, even 20 years after the end of open hostilities.
The cast is very strong, the acting superb. The footage of Lebanon is beautiful and stark. Lubna Azabal as Nawal and Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin as Jeanne are particularly excellent, though so close in appearance that it is sometimes difficult to keep straight the jumps from wartime Lebanon of the 70s and 80s to the present, especially in the areas outside of Beirut where it seems little, if anything has changed.
A close second in the narrative category is Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois, recounting the story of a Cistercian monastery in Algeria. It was an unexpected pleasure from a slow, deliberately paced film that built tension scene by scene, word by word, look by look to the point where one expected and would have entirely forgiven the characters for simply dying in peace from old age before meeting their historical ends.
The movie is a dramatization of the 1996 kidnapping and assassination of the monks of Tibhirine, a French Trappist monastery in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria during the Algerian civil war. The conflict between Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria and more moderate Muslims started to boil over, and foreign corporate entities and remnants of French colonial rule became targets.
News of atrocities committed against foreigners reached the monks and forced them to decide between staying true to their mission and facing likely death or fleeing the country. The government of Algeria, the Algerian military, and people aware of their plight urged them to leave, but the local population they had served for decades urged the to stay. The monks ran a small infirmary, the only medical care in the region, which made them essential to the locals and soon nonjudgmental if not apparently willing allies of the local insurgents — an uneasy alliance that turned the military against them as well.
Historically, we know 6 of 8 monks in the monastery and a visitor from the Trappist order were kidnapped, held for two months, and then beheaded. The movie takes us through the almost unbearable tension that built between 14 December 1993, when 12 Christian Croatian construction workers were murdered near the Monastery and the abduction of the monks on the night of 26 March 1996.
The movie leaves ambiguous the final fate of the monks in deference to the controversy surrounding their actual fates. While it is clear that they were abducted by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), and they were beheaded, there is some controversy as to whether the Algerian army may have killed them by mistake in a rescue attempt, and then covered the story up with the beheading.
Each of the actors put in a powerful and compelling performance, but Michael Lonsdale stood out as Luc Dochier, the doctor who had, in real life, lived in the monastery for 50 years, and was 82 at the time of the abduction. Lonsdale and some of the other actors went on retreats to prepare for their roles, learning the routines and liturgies of the order first hand.
Among the documentaries, Shlomi Eldar, a prominent Israeli journalist, follows the story of a Palestinian baby's treatment for a rare genetic disease in Precious Life (Chaim Yakarim). Since there is no hospital in Gaza that could help, the family brought their baby to the nearest hospital in Israel.
At first the reporter is queasy about the assignment, making it clear that he does not like hospitals. Once engaged, the objective reporter provides thorough coverage of the search for a patron to pay for the surgery, the search for donors for a bone-marrow transplant, and the follow up care. Each phase has its struggles, as one would expect in such volatile territory. As various details emerge, the perspective changes, ranging from sympathy to anger. Questions arise as to the necessity and implications of this surgery, funded by an Anonymous Jewish man, and how this ostracizes the Gaza family from their friends, as well as the ethics of deed when the mother lets slip that she would be proud if her son became a suicide bomber.
These powerful films demonstrate the gamut of human existence, playing on emotion, history, culture and ethics in situations that broaden our understanding of current events and struggles. I would recommend all of them for anyone who wants to gain more perspectives on the conflicts engulfing our world today.


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Sorry if the title of the question is a little unclear, but I have found that in general I am motivated to make changes (minor or major) in my life (or just in general "get things done"), but that the motivation to actually make the change is only strong when I'm not able to make the change.
Examples should make this more clear:
I'm at work now, procrastinating by writing this. I'm thinking about how my closet is a mess and how I have to hang a new shelf in the kitchen. Right now I really want to do these things, and I find it difficult to focus on my work.
In a few hours I'll be heading home, thinking about the closet and shelf, but once I get there, doing those activities will no longer seem "fun" (yes, while I'm thinking about them at work they actually do feel like they'd be fun). I will then procrastinate at home, check my email, etc. - and maybe spent a total of 20 minutes on the closet and not touch the shelf - i.e. a tiny fraction of what I could have accomplished. However, I may be thinking about work, and all of a sudden, the work that seemed awful at 3pm is now more appealing. Sometimes I'll actually log on and do a little, but once I get started, I get bored with that.
So basically when I'm at work, I'm making lists of things to do around the house - and when I'm at home, I'm thinking about things that I can do at work. And I feel like it's this never-ending spiral where very little actually gets done.
I don't know if this is just a standard case of the grass being greener on the other side, or if there's something more specific at work with respect to motivation, concentration, etc. Is this common, and/or is there anything I can do about it? If I was just able to do my work at work, and the home stuff at home, I'd be many, many more times productive!


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Korn is my favorite band, but trying to replicate their effects drives me up the wall... Does anyone know what effects could be used to produce the kind of distortion heard in the song "Pretty" around 2:48 and 2:54? To me it sounds like someone is ripping paper into a microphone and heavily distorting it, but I know that Korn generally uses their instruments or voices to make their creepy effects, so I'm trying to figure out how they make this one. Is this just crazy distortion with some wacky reverb? Is this just a ton bass overdrive underneath some other heavy distortion? I guess the effect could be from the bass, but then I'd like to know what that effect is too :) Any thoughts, anyone?
I hate to disappoint you, but the entire song doesn't have anything special going on as far as the effects they are using. The entire song is played with a wah, a very, very detuned guitar, and probably a dimed out or nearly dimed out Mesa Triple Rectifier. The hollow effect that you hear is either from an envelope filter or the combination of the wah riff along with a phase effect, and likely a small stone chorus as well. Munki was known to use lots of choruses (chori?) so my bet's on that. The modulating effect could be a univibe as well; Korn is really into modulation :D.
I was able to get a similar sound using my Analogman Bi-Chorus, Vox Wah, a deeply detuned Les Paul, and my amplifier dimed as far as it can go. I could also add the subtle warble you hear during the times you mentioned with my Jetter-vibe, but I liked the chorus sound better. My amplifiers stock distortion wasn't really enough to saturate the tone, so I had to boost it with my RockBox Boiling Point, which was really the only overdrive I own capable of heavy overdrive settings. I imagine if I had something more than a medium gain Orange I likely wouldn't need the overdrive in the chain at all. Note that in some cases with really low tunings, it's necessary to dial back very high gain amplifiers else the whole mix sounds like a bloody mess.
And there you have it.
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The large mound of bulging fat just above the clit directly below the navel on a woman. Looks just like another fold of fat located near the vagina.
Some notables with a large "piss bag" would be Rosane Bar and Star Jones
Some notables with a large "piss bag" would be Rosane Bar and Star Jones
"Dude did you see the nasty piss bag on that chick." "Yes Kip I did and it is nasty."
by Sparky June 01, 2003
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A recepticle for urine attached via a catheter, as worn by old people and Craig David
" I'm getting pig sick of pissing t'bed .... been to see the doctor - he's fitted me with a piss bag - bo selecta!"
by Peregrine Falcon February 01, 2004
Urinary bladder. In anatomy, the piss bag is a hollow, muscular, and distensible organ that sits on the pelvic floor in mammals.
"I'm just going to empty my piss bag."
by Criminal Activist October 26, 2007
Someone who amounts to nothing more than an object that could be used for urination. Usually someone that has no real friends but still seems to follow a group of people around, even though they are unwanted there.
That new kid is such a pissbag
by fishinapie June 27, 2008
Another term for an asshole
Or a woman who is interested in meaningless sex
Hey no ones looking in this alley! "Wanna swing, Pissbag?"
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I have real trouble trying to use the melee weapons in Team Fortress 2. I always seem to miss. Are there any tips for making good use of the melee weapons, or what can I do to train this skill?
You can always play in offline mode and hone your melee skills vs. the computer players there. While they wont mimic the true skills of people you meet online, it's better than nothing at all.
Additionally, learn the different speeds, ranges and hit timing of each weapon. You can swing the scout bat much faster than the heavy can punch, for example. The demoman's "Eyelander" sword has a much larger range than most weapons and can hit from what feels like a non-melee distance, compared to most other classes melee that requires you to be much closer. Also, each weapon has a slightly different "delay" between when you click and when the swing actually has the window to connect. It's minor, but worth getting a feel for.
Lastly, learn your limits. It's not wise to melee certain classes if avoidable. Pyros and heavies are dangerous targets to melee, and scouts tend to be too fast to hit reliably in melee range.
One useful tactic I've found is to keep your distance. You don't have to be "hugging" your enemy to hit them, and if you do it will make it harder for you to turn and smack them when they move around. Melee range might be short but it's not zero, and it's much easier to hit them when you have a bit of distance.
I have to confess I have trouble keeping the distance myself. I'd recommend practicing a bit offline - even by doing something as silly as hitting the wall - just to see how far you can be from the contact point.
Also, whenever I melee someone I tend to move backward a bit and then forward again in-between weapon swings, for the same reason - to be able to track them easier.
I agree with the other answers here: That practice is the best way to improve your melee skills.
As part of the 2010 Christmas update, a new game mode was released: Medieval Mode. This is a melee only mode, with the exception that the Sniper can use the Huntman and the Medic can use the Crusader's Crossbow because these are considered to be Medieval weapons. I have found this a great way to practice my (admittedly poor) melee skills.
Currently this game mode is only available on the DeGroot Keep map, which makes it really easy to find a medieval game to practice on:
This will filter the server list to only show active games that are currently playing Medieval Mode.
Note: For the full range of allowable weapons in Medieval Mode, I recommend checking the Team Fortress wiki.
I'd find a friend and an empty server and practice melee fighting with each other. One of my old clans used to have boxing matches once the heavy got the KGB every once in a while. Things like that help out a lot.
It's all about choosing the best time to break out the Melee weapon. There are times you want to use it, and times it would be wise to avoid it.
Good Times To Use Melee Weapons
Bad Times To Use Melee Weapons
You can find melee only maps. And/or use a bigger weapon like the eyelander to get some fun practice.
It's just a practice thing, challenge yourself.
Currently i am one pf the best asian melee user compared to the Bx,and i really love to use persian persuader,the trick on using it is : it dont swing from top to bottom,it swing from right to left,making u can have some "tricks" to hit the opponent,such as hitting them after you dodge their hits,might be quite tricky but u can easily do it if u concentrate and train harder,also if u are 1 on 1 or chased by multiple enemies,wait until they uses all their charge,then charge-hit them back (WARNING :u must know how far will they charge,then counter AFTER they've charged) well that is from me (the account i use to reply this comment is my friend's)


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In the sentence
Our profits are down for Fourth Quarter 2011.
is Fourth Quarter capitalized?
In the sentence
is Fourth Quarter capitalized?
Ideally you'd see if the Chicago Manual of Style has anything to say on the subject of time periods and such. But the US GPO (Government Publishing Office) is the best free online resource for capitalization rules that I know of, and the closest thing I can find that it says is in Chapter 3, section 3.9:
It gives examples like "first district (not congressional)" and "spring 1926". So going by their book I would say, going by the book, no capitalization.


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Suppose $f:X \to Y$ is a map of sets and $F$ a filter on $X$ such that its image filter is contained in an ultrafilter $G$ on $Y$. Can I find an ultrafilter $H$ on $X$ whose image is $G$? If this question is too elementary, I apologize. I have not worked much with ultrafilters, so sometimes basic properties escape me.
EDIT: I messed up the formulation of the question earlier, sorry!
(The previous formulation said that $F$ was on $Y$ etc., to make sense of the responses already posted).