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News stories are often more about the shock factor than the actual relaying of information. The news media is in and out quicker than a high school kid on prom night, hyping up the most outlandish elements of a story and then dropping it like it's an infant (for the sake of this simile, the news media is the parent of a future TLC reality show star). And apparently, that's just the way we like it.
That's too bad, because these stories look very different when you hear how they ended ...
#5. Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Disproves the Theory of Relativity! (Or Not)
Scientists seem to take a perverse sort of pleasure in trying to prove Albert Einstein wrong, we guess because calling the smartest man in history out on a mistake means that everyone else moves up one notch. So it created a huge buzz in the fall of 2011 when a group of scientists at CERN and OPERA revealed that, when they science-blasted neutrinos from Switzerland to Italy, the tiny particles had broken the universal speed limit predicted by Einstein, traveling almost 4 miles per second faster than the speed of light.
Good call, dumbass.
Yeah, eat that, Einstein! FTL drives and awkward extraterrestrial interbreeding, here we come!
But They Forgot to Mention ...
Do you have a GPS unit in your car, or perhaps your phone? And when you turn it on, does it find your location? Well, congratulations, because you just proved that the theory of relativity is correct. Of course it's correct, just like it has been for the 93 years scientists have been trying to poke holes in it. If it were wrong, your GPS' margin of error would be so bad that every single family vacation would end with banjo music and rusty shotguns.
What many of the news outlets neglected to emphasize when blasting this story from the headlines was that the researchers were themselves extremely skeptical of the results -- not to mention the rest of the scientific community, whom the OPERA team practically begged to look over their data and find the mistake. That didn't stop every news source and website on the planet (including, ahem, us) from declaring it to be the harbinger of sci-fi technologies that we've been dreaming about (read: masturbating to) for years.
"Awww yeah, dial that tachyonic antitelephone, you dirty bitch."
This made it all very anti-climactic when the OPERA team revealed that their Earth-shattering discovery was actually the result of a loose fiber-optic cable. And just to put a nail in the hyperspace coffin, another team replicated the experiment and confirmed that the neutrinos did in fact obey Einstein's speed limit like the good little conformists they are. The OPERA team was so embarrassed about the news of this fuck-up becoming such a big story that the two team leaders ended up resigning over it. But it's also possible that they were just upset because their dreams of traveling back in time to thumb their noses at Einstein had been shattered.
#4. The Painkiller Vioxx Kills People! (As Many as Aspirin!)
In September of 2004, pharmaceutical giant Merck's pain pill Vioxx was taken off the market after it was discovered to have caused serious heart-related side effects in up to 140,000 people. Since then, Merck has paid out approximately all the money in settlements to affected patients and their families. What a surprise, right? Another Big Pharma company that couldn't care less about the people they're supposedly serving, so long as they buy some expensive pills before they die.
"This one's still alive! Quick, jam a few more pills into her!"
But They Forgot to Mention ...
Vioxx was a freaking amazing drug, and no more dangerous than what you can buy at the grocery store.
In fact, it was so effective at relieving arthritis and back pain that when patients found out it was being taken off the market, they began squirreling their pills away and rationing their stashes to last as long as possible. And after Merck took their ball and went home, review panels by both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada encouraged Merck to bring Vioxx back, stating that the benefits outweighed the risks for many patients.
"What's more important to you? Pain relief or a slim chance of stigmata?"
But what about the 140,000 people with heart problems, you ask? Well, considering that Vioxx was prescribed to over 84 million people during its tenure, your odds of dying from the side effects are only slightly higher than your odds of choking to death on the pill. Indeed, it was found that Vioxx is only marginally more dangerous than aspirin and that all non-steroid pain pills carry nasty possible side effects like gastrointestinal hemorrhaging, heart disease and, if we remember House correctly, making you act like a dick. But patients are willing to accept these slight risks because the drugs allow them to function like normal human beings.
So to recap: Merck made a drug that's so effective that patients are literally hoarding pills, drug safety panels are asking them to bring it back and it's no more dangerous than over-the-counter ibuprofen. Yeah, fuck you, Big Pharma!
#3. Hooker Chemical Poisons Schoolchildren (After Doing Everything They Could to Stop It)
In 1978, the hilariously named Love Canal, New York, had a somewhat less hilarious problem: Much like the house in Poltergeist, their elementary school had been built on top of something unholy that was going to come back to haunt them. Only instead of an Indian burial ground, it was a toxic waste dump. And instead of children getting sucked into TVs, they were getting birth defects and cancer.
The culprit was Hooker Chemical, the previous owner of the school property, who had sold it to the school board in 1953 fully knowing that toxic waste was stored there. It remains one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, and it prompted the creation of the Superfund Act, which would hold companies accountable for their blatant disregard of public health.
"Seriously, your breath is just awful."
But They Forgot to Mention ...
In the furious rush to blame the evil corporation for putting children at risk, a couple of facts conveniently got overlooked. First, the chemicals were all properly stored in accordance with regulations. In fact, the EPA said in 1980 that Hooker had even managed to comply with the current, much stricter regulations decades ahead of time. Still, that's like a burglar relocking the door as he leaves -- it's a nice thought, but it doesn't change the fact that you got screwed.
The second (and far more important) fact is that the school board totally knew the chemicals were there when they bought the land. You see, when the school board came calling, Hooker laughed them off and said it was an incredibly toxic site fit only for the creation of Batman villains, or maybe some of those three-eyed Simpsons fish. The school board persisted, so Hooker actually took them to the site and showed them some of the 21,000 tons of chemicals stored there, presumably in neon barrels with skulls and crossbones painted on them.
But that just seemed to make them want it even more, and the school board decided to play hardball: They threatened to seize the land by eminent domain. So Hooker finally relented and sold it to them for the princely sum of one dollar, with a 17-line cover-our-ass caveat mentioning all the horribleness entombed there and further repeating that the land should most definitely never ever be used for a school (ever).
Naturally, the school board immediately proceeded with the construction of Thalidomide High. When construction workers found the chemicals and again told them not to build there, the school board assuaged concerns by moving the school's location a whopping 85 feet north. Then, just to wag their genitals right in fate's face, they took some of the clay from the waste dump to use in the construction -- that is, the clay that was meant to prevent the chemicals from seeping into the soil.
"There's a draft coming through the window? Here, I'll just use the condom to plug it."
In 1962, fate had finally had enough: A ridiculously rainy year, coupled with additional holes punched through the clay liner for sewer pipes, allowed rainwater to drain away with oodles of nastiness in tow, which wound up in residents' backyards.
It wouldn't be until 1976 that two reporters discovered that something was wrong, which ultimately led to the EPA investigation and the subsequent relocation of residents. Hooker was forced to pay for the cleanup, relocation costs and a hefty fine, totaling $129 million, serving as the EPA's bloody head on a pike to any other would-be polluters. The school board, being obvious supervillains, presumably escaped to appear in the sequel.


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One of the classic medical textbooks on obstetrics, an imposing volume titled Williams Obstetrics (McGraw-Hill, 2001), devotes only three of more than sixteen hundred pages to the postpartum period. This makes sense in light of the fact that the average obstetrician (OB) does not participate much in postpartum care. For an uncomplicated birth, the OB shows up as the baby is emerging and zooms off as soon as he or she knows all is well.
Even if the OB were available to answer questions about how to eat during the postpartum months, he or she might not have much information to offer you. In those three pages on postpartum care in Williams Obstetrics, the only dietary advice the authors give is that women who have just given birth need not observe any dietary restrictions, and that they should eat an "appetizing general diet." Some women might find fried chicken, soda pop, and doughnuts to be the most appetizing foods around, but we know that these foods do not give a new mother's body the nutritional support it needs and that nutrients drawn from her already depleted stores will be needed to process those foods, leaving her with an even greater deficit. Women need more specific information about how to nourish their bodies during postpartum recovery and breastfeeding. Advice on the ideal diet during pregnancy is easy to find in the average bookstore. It is much harder to find the facts on what to eat postpartum.
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Whuber provided an answer at Producing building shadows? which required using Avenue code.
Any idea how to make it work in ArcGIS Desktop 10?
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I've set this up as a ArcToolbox type of script, rather than field calculator as whuber did.
This is pretty much a straight port of whubers Avenue code.
EDIT: the script assumes the height is stored in a field in the featureclass attribute table, not a featureclass with 3D geometries (PolygonZ)
I made a few improvements to @Luke's version of the script, mainly for better performance. The GP methods really don't like being called in a tight loop; by removing an unnecessary GP call and moving the necessary one outside of the innermost loop I sped up performance by 10x at least.
This also fixes shadows not being created for inner rings, degrees are converted to radians, the original FID is stored as an attribute of the output feature for joining purposes, and progress is reported at 10% increments.
NOTE: Performance is still pretty bad: Roughly 1.25 hours for ~34k buildings on a fast machine, and something is leaking memory at an alarming rate -- roughly 1MB/sec -- it will max out the process's 2GB RAM limit fairly quickly at which point performance will grind to a near standstill. Using
I think that this algorithm could also benefit greatly from multiprocessing. Since the algorithm does not require features to be grouped, one could partition by rows instead of by geographic areas.
As alluded to in the comments of my previous answer (kept intact instead of edited, for comparison purposes), performance could be a lot better with additional optimizations (using the
Here is another version of the script that runs much faster, especially if you use all of your machine's processors. It uses the standard
Basically if you tell it to use multiprocessing, it will partition the input feature class into ranges of OIDs, create multiple intermediate shapefiles, one per range, and finally merge them at the end. It also cleans up after itself by removing the intermediate shapefiles. There is some overhead to this, but the benefit of using all of your CPU power far outweighs the overhead in my testing (getting approximately 80% scaling efficiency with a dataset of 32k features).
As for performance, using the same dataset as my previous answer that originally took 1.25 hours, this version completes in 8 minutes, 30 seconds using a single process and no partitioning, and 2 minutes 40 seconds using 4 processes and 4 partitions (jobs) of ~8k features each. RAM usage is also much more reasonable, using around 250MB for a single process, and around 150MB per process for multiprocessing.
For comparison purposes, here is a test dataset we can benchmark against. It's ~22k records from the City of San Francisco's building footprints dataset (~40k polygon parts totaling 1,076,060 vertices, including one duplicate closing vertex for each ring), and I kept only one field with the height in feet of the building (


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This seems like a simple question, but I cannot find a clear answer. The book of Genesis (1:29,30), implies that Adam just ate "plants and herbs". So I think it is safe to assume animals were not eaten? Now if animals did die, my question would be "why"?
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The views of Christians on this matter can basically be divided into two.
A key passage here is Romans 5:12-21, which says:
Young Earth Creationists - before Adam sinned, nothing died
In the literalist view, the interpretation of the passage above is that Death is punishment for sin, and nature as subservient to mankind shares in Adam's fall. Therefore all death, even of animals, is a result of sin, and did not occur until Adam sinned.
This passage is used as one of the chief Biblical arguments that Genesis 1 should be taken literally and not metaphorically. If there were indeed millions of years of evolution before Adam, then these could not have happened without death and this passage would be contradicted.
As you already stated, Adam and Eve were vegetarians, so there was no need for there to be animal death in order for them to eat. (In fact it is not until Noah that humans are allowed to eat animals).
Other Christians - Physical death of animals did in fact happen before the fall
If you do not hold to the Young Earth beliefs then it is clear that death of animals must have occurred before the fall. The interpretation of the Romans 5 passage is that it is about only the death of humans - death for animals is entirely natural and not the result of sin. (The NIV quoted above takes this line in its translation, but not all translations do). Some also take it to mean 'spiritual death' - i.e. that humans were always destined for a physical death, but that people would know that they were destined to pass on after death to be with God, and it would be entirely natural and nothing to be afraid of. After the fall humans would also suffer spiritual death, i.e. eternal separation from God. The Bible does elsewhere use the word 'death' to refer to spiritual death and not physical death.
If you hold that the Fall is metaphorical rather than literal then it isn't an issue.
I think it is important to understand that death was created by God himself. However, death was powerless to do any harm. Death was in the garden of Eden but needed 'disobedience' to activate it. Man (Adam & Eve) was placed in a garden where death was.
Gen. 2:15 "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
Death entered the world with Adam's sin, so therefore death wasn't present before the fall.
People and animals ate seeds and fruit.
Dying plants don't count because things without blood are not considered alive.
Leviticus 17:11
Isaiah 11:6 talks about a future paradise where animals don't eat each other


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I pray for the survivors of the victims of the horrendous killings in Connecticut. No words, regardless of how eloquent or good intentioned can bring back their loved ones that died because an obviously deranged perpetrator of these senseless murders.
Many voices will rise once again claiming and demanding for a strict control of firearms. As far as I remember, I owned at one time or another rifles, shotguns, and handguns, but it never crossed my mind to aim one at any of my fellow human beings. You may want to know my reason for having a gun that could cause harm or even death. I can enumerate some of them here: I like target shooting, and even knowing that some of my friends don't like it, hunting. One very personal reason is that I like to have weapons for self-defense. Yes, self-defense ... ! I stated before and I say it again, I am lucky so far that I have never needed to point my gun in harms way!
We must analyze and find the reason people use weapons to hurt, maim, or kill another person before going deep into the subject of the rights to own and bear firearms.
I want to make it very clear I understand firearms are by far the deadliest of all but it is a fact that any other artifact ever used, invented or created by humans can cause pain or death; a machete, a knife, an ax, a hammer, a crowbar...and even regular stones ... Yes, you name it ... Any solid thing on the face of this earth could be used to kill, but that object didn't do the deed all by itself. It was a human who used the 'weapon.'
Many people get killed by motorized vehicles and let's don't forget that all those vehicles are highly regulated and licensed. Are those vehicles indicted, found guilty and condemned of murder or manslaughter? Definitely not! The human drivers are. Anything can and could be a deadly weapon!
Finally about weaponry ... Very early in my life I learned about the first killing ... I remember reading in the Bible that Cain killed his brother Abel with no reasonable justification. Why did he do that? I don't know. I learned Cain did not use a firearm. Is it possible that from the very beginning of time violence was in human minds? I do not have any answer ... I don't know.
I believe it is time to pinpoint the reasons for these current common tragedies.
On a daily basis, the printed or televised media makes a point to inform all of us in a detailed form of any incidence involved in firearm killings. It permeates our minds to the point that even though we condemn these actions we accept them as a common occurrence in their lives.
Why is that? I don't know and I leave it for the psychologists to answer that question. One thing games to mind. The cinematographic industry is 'regulated' and their movies are categorized for the audience that could watch the product. Some are for 'general' audience and some are 'restricted' by ages because of the super violent and/or almost pornographic scenes or contents within that production. (With parent approval some children can watch scenes showing some violence up to a certain degree).
What about the television programs and episodes aired every day and night? I accept that some are not as graphic as the restricted movies but the meaning is the same: violence and killings are normal as breathing and we must 'accept' that as a fact of life.
Can we believe that it could and/or would feed the sick mind of a deranged person? I am not a 'shrink' and I can't offer a professional answer to that but I believe it could. A mentally sick person watching those violent movies/programs might tell him/her self: oh my, that's nothing ... I could do better than that. Could that be true? Maybe that is very possible.
And, how about our young children? From a very tender age they are unfortunately subject to the indoctrination that violence is part of our 'normal' life and daily routine. Did you ever watch some of the 'games' our 'kids' play on their television sets? Even though there are regulations and approved age for those 'games' I personally believe parents should and must read their contents and approve them before their young ones can play them. Some are violent, gory, and very graphic.
These are a lot of things that can, should and must be done to control the present violence. I do not believe that 'weaponry' control is the absolute answer to the problem. For starters we can stop publishing, describing and glorifying violence in any form by our general media.
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My goal was to learn about l-adic representations on some example — I'm a newbie in these topics.
Thus take
pt = Spec F_q,
G=\pi_1(pt) and consider lisse schemes over
pt. My understanding is that such a scheme always comes from Galois extension with some group, e.g. H, a subgroup of G and that the fibers are, by Galois theory, parametrized by classes
So in this case, as with any Galois covering, I get the action of Galois group on the cohomology of the fiber, that is G acts on
H^*(f_*QQ_l). Now this representation may be not irreducible.
(1) Is is true that irreducible l-adic rep is called geometric iff it's part of
H^*(f_*QQ_l)for some
(my understanding is that the above construction gives the representations with kernel H)
(2) Is it true that I get all representations with open kernel that way?
I think (2) is very similar to a classical theorem of algebraic number theory.
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And, finally, I hope that this example is related to more complicated Galois representations.
(4) What does the above teach us about more complicated Galois representations?


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1969 Plymouth Barracuda BlowfishWritten by on January 22, 2007 Contributors: Randy Lorentzen, Scott Killeen, Planet R The Team At Rad Rides By Troy Is Famous For Building Top-Notch Street Machines And Rods, But George Poteet Pushed Them To Build An All-Out Race Car. Boy, Did They Deliver.
Our Ol' Dad, the late Gray Baskerville, lived for Bonneville Speed Week. With salt between his toes, standing somewhere near the three-mile mark, maniacally rubbing his hands together as a streamliner thundered by at 350-plus, Gray was in heaven. He's probably standing there right now in an endless running of Speed Week somewhere in the afterlife. "It's soooooo bitchin'!"
For years, Gray tried to persuade his pal and fellow hot rodder George Poteet to experience life on the salt. Eventually, George relented, and his life was never the same.
"Twelve years ago, I went to Bonneville as a spectator. After a while, I built a Modified Roadster with a flathead just so I could see the other end of the course as a participant," George said.
That roadster only ran 129 mph, but it more firmly squirted Bonneville blood through George's veins. A couple of roadsters later, George was running 210 mph, but it wasn't enough for a record and therefore not enough to get into the prestigious Bonneville 200 MPH Club. So that was his next goal. He experienced the speed, for sure, and had been 280 mph behind the wheel of Ron Main's EcoFire streamliner (he later ran 340-plus in it), but the red hat was an elusive thing, and George wanted it. "We all want to be remembered for something in history, whether it's building cars or whatever," George said.
At the '05 Detroit Autorama, George was hanging out with Troy Trepanier (Rad Rides by Troy, builder of several of George's hot rods) and fuel-injection guru John Meaney (BigStuff3). The bench racing turned to George's desire to enter the Two Club and eventually have the fastest door-slammer in the world. Meaney brought up the new Mopar Performance four-cylinder midget race block, which he considers a sleeping monster; it accepts a P5 Hemi cylinder head. They started talking about what kind of car it would be cool to put the motor in, and Troy and George agreed on a '69 Barracuda, just because it's different. You can see where this if going, right? By the time they were finished talking, the plan was hatched to build a full-on Bonneville car, and George had his historical ride under way. On Sunday afternoon of the show, on his way home, George called Troy and said he found a car, and it would be at Rad Rides' shop in a week.
The car George had found was pretty rough, so the Rad Rides crew gutted it and then Imperial Blasting used its mineral process to strip away 37 years of grunge. Once back at Rad Rides, the top was chopped and raked. Then the car was cut apart to a bare body shell, sans floors and framerails, and set on a jig to determine ride height. With the body sitting where it needed to be, the engine, trans, Gear Vendors unit, and rearend were put into place on the jig, and everything else was built around them.
Rad Rides built the tube chassis using Jerry Bickel chassis parts, including custom struts in front and a Pro Stock-style four-link in back. Air Ride Technologies air springs support it and allow quick, incremental changes in ride height. Chassis stops were fabricated so that once the minimum ride height is set, the car can't go lower when 300-mph worth of downforce tries to bury it in the salt.
"Bob the Builder" Sweeney of FX Engines got the job of building the 1,000-horse engine-no easy task when you're only talking four cylinders and 175 ci of displacement. With a big turbo and Meaney's BigStuff3 EFI tuning, that power level was accomplished on "only" 20 psi boost. The combination can handle 35-plus psi, so there's a lot of growing room left here. The engine was connected to a Jerico four-speed stick with a Tilton four-disc, 5.5-inch clutch. There's also a Gear Vendors unit bolted to the Jerico that gives a 0.78:1 percent overdrive. The rear is a Strange 9-inch with an open Eaton diff, 31-spline Strange axles, and a 2.91:1 ring-and-pinion. With the Gear Vendors engaged, final drive ratio is a cellar-dwelling 2.27:1.
The substantial bodywork was all done in the name of speed. The most obvious modification was the nosepiece, reminiscent of the '70 Plymouth Superbird/Charger Daytona but completely designed by Troy and fabricated in-house at Rad Rides. In fact, nearly everything on this car was created at the Rad Rides shop out of sheet steel, billet aluminum, and tubing. There are just way too many other details to tell in words, so we've shown as much of the buildup as possible in photos, but even then, we don't have nearly enough room to show everything the Rad Rides guys did to this car. Scott Killeen is creating one of his Build Books on the car, and even that will probably leave some stuff out. This thing is killer.
Once the car was put together but before it was finished or painted, Troy met with Terry DeKoninck, DaimlerChrysler's head aerodynamicist, to ask advice on the nosepiece and rear wing. Terry extended the envious invitation to bring Blowfish, as it was now being called, to the DCX wind tunnel. Working all night in the tunnel led to the final wing and nose shapes (among other things) and brought the aero down to a staggering 0.20 Cd with a frontal area smaller than both the Ford GT and the Corvette Z06. Oh yeah, it was going to go fast.
With the body configured, Bob Thrash conceptualized the two-tone paint scheme, which was sprayed by Warren Lewis, Ryan Kircher, and Rich Milton of Rad Rides in Glasurit Golden Rod. Thrash painted the graphics and gold-leaf lettering on the car. Before it made the trip to Utah, the car went back into the DCX wind tunnel for the final configuration. With suggestions from DeKoninck and other land-speed racers, the car was set up to provide just enough downforce to run over 200 mph, and the final aero number was 0.21 Cd. Blowfish was one slippery sucker and was finally ready to propel George into history.
When the team first got to Bonneville, most people pegged Blowfish as just another Troy Trepanier show car. But in his qualifying pass on the short course (also the car's very first run ever), George and Blowfish pounded the salt at 233 mph. That qualified him to make a backup run to set a record, since the old class record was 230.853 mph, but instead of taking the car to the mandatory impound, George brought it back to the pits to check everything over-remember, that was the first time the car had ever been run. They found a few small issues, one of which was that the center-exit exhaust scorched the parachute bags. Rad Rides' Dan Holohan extended the exhaust outlet a few inches to prevent that from happening again, and they got ready for the long course.
On the car's maiden voyage down the five-mile course, George looked at the tach as it went through the three-mile and realized he had hit the 255-mph target speed, so he ended the run and headed for impound with a 255.659-mph timeslip. The next morning, the result was the same: a 255.166-mph time at the three-mile and a new 255.412 record for F/Blown Fuel Competition Coupe (F/BFCC). The car could have gone much faster (George didn't even shift into Overdrive), but all they wanted was the record and a red hat for George, and they got it. On top of that, George also got into the 300 MPH Club at the same event, setting a 325.934-mph record behind the wheel of Ron Main's EcoFire streamliner.
The ultimate goal is for Blowfish to run well over 300 mph and become the fastest door-slammer in the world, and with Meaney tuning the engine to full song and George riding it out in high gear, the car should be able to do it. For now though, the goal is not three bills but rather to put Troy and as many of George's buddies as possible into the Two Club. All they have to do is bump the record in 10-mph increments and they can put four more people in the club. But George said, "I'm gonna be driving it when it hits that three." He also alluded to different engine combinations ("There's room for a big Hemi, a turbocharged big Hemi, whatever."), so this is a car that will probably see several different combos and plenty more entries in the record book.
George said, "Troy and them did a fantastic job, and they made it too easy. Troy, Meaney, and Bob the Builder gave me a bullet to drive, and I'm still on a high from it."
His only regret? "I just wish Gray could have been there with us."
The Rad Rides team: Troy Trepanier, Jack Trepanier, Dan Holohan, Adam Banks, Levi Green, Brian Ferguson, Andy Leach, Alex Marion, Al Taylor, Ryan Kirsher, Warren Lewis, and Rich Milton.
Special Credit to: Bob Thrash (graphic art designer), John Meaney (engine control and design), Bob Sweeney (engine design and builder), Terry DeKoninck (DaimlerChrysler head aerodynamics engineer), and Jon Clark (Mopar Performance). HRM
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How It Came Together<br>This is Blowfish's humble beginning. George's buddy had this '69 Barracuda sitting for 15 years and gave it to him for the project.The windshield posts were chopped 2 inches, and the rear sail panels were cut loose at the fender line and allowed to lie forward then were welded back in place for a bitchin' (and aerodynamic) rake.After Imperial Blasting stripped the body, it was set on the jig, and the ride height was determined thusly.The front and rear bumpers are narrowed Camaro parts tucked in tight to the body for minimum aero drag; this stuff is hidden under the nose cone.Before the chassis was even begun, supports were built into the body to add strength that would be necessary at 300 mph. Notice the rear wheeltubs and incredible sheetmetal work.
Adam Banks sketched out the aero nose, then the Rad Rides crew fabricated it out of hand-beaten sheetmetal.Adam Banks sketched out the aero nose, then the Rad Rides crew fabricated it out of hand-beaten sheetmetal.Rad Rides fabricator Dan Holohan created the intake manifold from sheet aluminum starting with these formed sections that turned intointake runners mounting the injectors. This photo shows a single injector per runner, but the final configuration has two Bosch 130-pounders per cylinder.The highlight of the car is the 175ci Chrysler four-cylinder with a Mopar Performance P5 Hemi head. Built by Bob Sweeney at FX Engines, it's essentially a USAC midget long-block (though MP offers this version with a bellhousing flange) with a big turbo and BigStuff3 sequential engine management.
The turbo is an oversized Precision Turbo T45, chosen based on performance calculations to make 35-plus pounds of boost at 9,500 rpm. Here you can see just part of the fabricated plumbingDan Holohan also fabricated the exhaust in 5-inch 321 stainless. The headers were HPC-coated, and out of the turbo, the exhaust comes through the firewall and routes next to the trans and driveshaft with a 5-inch Flowmaster Outlaw Series muffler. The entire exhaust system was covered with header wrap to keep heat under control. Notice the Jerico four-speed transmission with a Gear Vendors overdrive.The packaging on this car would make an IndyCar builder jealous. Notice the trick 2x10 oval tailpipe that exits in the middle of the rear valence.Due to the complexity of the chassis and rollcage tubing, rather than paint it, Rad Rides had Bob Buckley at Coating Specialties powdercoat it all with a high-metallic powder and clearcoat.Warren Lewis, Ryan Kircher, and Rich Milton of Rad Rides sprayed the car with Glasurit Golden Rod (how appropriate) paint.Bob Thrash created the custom two-tone and gold-leaf lettering on the car. He did the cartoon Blowfish, too.
The chassis was modeled after a modern Jerry Bickel Pro Stock car but uses Air Ride Technologies air springs for minute adjustability on the salt. Adam Banks at Rad Rides built the control arms around the Air Ride bags and Bickel-sourced struts. Steering is from a Bickel slow-ratio rack-and-pinion, and there's a ton of caster in it to keep the car straight at speed.Terry DeKoninck, DaimlerChrysler's aerodynamicist, uses a smoke wand to evaluate airflow on Blowfish during aerodynamic tuning at the DCX wind tunnel in Detroit. The car did 22 "blows" in the tunnel over two sessions and was as slippery as 0.20 Cd. With the downforce needed at Bonneville, the car still slips through the air at a sleek 0.21.Back- to-back 255-mph passes on the long course got George Poteet the record for F/Blown Fuel Competition Coupe (the designation on the car should actually be F/BFCC). The next goal is to put Troy behind the wheel so he can get a red hat.The HKS wastegate is adjustable via a button on the steering wheel. The car leaves the line at low boost, and when George wants to go for three bills, the button gives the engine 35-plus pounds of pressure.The RacePak V300 dash display provides the team with 43 channels of data. Fire buttons and battery cutoff switch are within easy reach.George's office is all about safety. Sitting in a Rad Rides-fabricated 0.090-inch-thick aluminum seat (with custom-designed head protector), George holds a Bickel wheel with buttons for boost and overdrive activation, and his right hand grabs the cool billet shift knob from CV Products controlling the Hurst Nextel Cup shifter. There's also a 20-pound Halon fire system with six nozzles
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Pioneered the physics of ancient archeological materials
Franklin acquired her PhD in experimental physics from Technical University in Berlin, then joined the Ontario Research Foundation as senior scientist. She has taught and researched extensively in the field of materials science and in the area of the social impact of technology. Much of her work has been done in conjunction with archaeologists on ancient materials; she pioneered the development of archaeometry, which applies the modern technique of materials analysis to archaeology. To determine the effect of fallout from testing nuclear weapons, she worked on gathering and analysing data on the strontium-90 accumulation in the teeth of children in Canada.
In 1967, Franklin became the first woman Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the University of Toronto, and in 1984 she was the first woman appointed University Professor, U. of T.'s highest rank. Retired from U. of T. in 1989, she continues to work as senior resident and fellow of Massey College and is an active public speaker on the effects of technology on society, a topic addressed in her book The Real World Technology (1999).
Sources: Canadian Forum, excerpted from The Real World of Technology by CBC Enterprises, 1990; Canadian Who's Who 1994; The Canadian Encyclopedia 1988; Our Great Minds; Image Source: University of Toronto's "Our Great Minds" website.


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I can't enable the sound os HDMI in Maverick with a ECS GT240. Why this not work "out of the box"?
Open the Sound dropdown (from the panel), select Sound Preferences..., click the Output tab, and select the radio button next to the HDMI Audio out device you require audio out on.
However if your HDMI device is not listed then the device is not properly installed or acknowledged by the sound server.
first check if there is any HDMI device listed after using:
if there is anything with "HDMI" select Sound Preferences -> the Hardware and from the list below you must select something like "Digital Stereo HDMI output" and it should work.
If that didn't help and you have nvidia GPU then this should help you : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=69479


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In the movie Friday the 13th:A New Beginning, Roy is the one who is pretending to be Jason Vorhees and is the killer of the movie. But in the last scene of movie why is Tommy seen with a knife and wearing a hockey mask? What is the significance of this scene? Is it connected to its sequel or is there any other explanation?
I also read the whole story of sequel Friday the 13th Part VI:Jason Lives on Wikipedia but nothing strikes my mind.


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5 Famous Space Missions That Almost Ended In Disaster
We recently told the story of how the Apollo moon landing was saved with a felt-tip pen. That kind of "We have to improvise something before the ship explodes!" story is one thing that real space travel has in common with Star Trek. Only in real life, you can't just make up some tech jargon and reconfigure the deflector shields. It involves a lot more effort to think through panic, fire and toxic fumes.
For instance ...
#5. Neil Armstrong Was Almost Killed Years Before He Went to the Moon
The early '60s were a bad time to be an American rocket scientist. The Soviets were boasting a track record that kicked U.S. ass on all fronts, from Laika the Space Dog to Yuri Gagarin. Now both space powers had set their sights on the ultimate goal -- the moon. And the message from upstairs was clear: NASA damn well better not screw up this one.
"OK, so what if we launched a giant cube into space?"
The biggest problem with the moon leg of the Space Race wasn't getting there -- that was, more or less, just a matter of thrust. The problem lay in how to get there and back again in one piece. NASA had managed to figure out the best way to accomplish this: the lander system, which involves a light, spiderlike mini ship that leaves the spacecraft to handle the delicate landing business while the craft itself hangs around in orbit. Then the lander docks back in, and voila! Everything is parades, promotions and propaganda victory.
That was the theory, anyway. It turned out that managing to connect two vessels traveling at thousands of miles an hour, in outer space, is far from easy. But the clock was ticking, so they got practicing.
In 1966, NASA sent astronauts David Scott and Neil Armstrong (yes, that Neil Armstrong) on a mission called Gemini 8. Their objective: complete the first ever space docking by joining with a previously launched unmanned craft called the Agena.
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This is either a rendering of the docking sequence or space pornography.
The mission went swimmingly. Six hours after launch, Scott and Armstrong had successfully docked with Agena, and everything was going good.
That is, until the death roll started.
The Near Disaster:
After 27 minutes of post-docking relaxation, Scott happened to glance out of the window and noticed that everything was spinning. A software glitch had caused Agena's thruster rockets to malfunction, and they were firing away like a drunk cowboy. Unimpressed by this potentially life-threatening problem, Armstrong calmly balanced Gemini's own thrusters to stop the roll until he could turn off Agena's.
Armstrong, seen here smiling at his old friend Certain Fiery Death.
This fixed the problem ... for a few seconds. The roll quickly started again, more furiously than ever. Realizing that their spacecraft was in danger of breaking apart, Armstrong quickly undocked and moved away from the troublemaking Agena. Yet somehow, the spinning only increased.
Shit like this happens in space travel every once in a while, and it's usually fixed with a quick "Houston, we have a problem." However, Gemini 8 was temporarily out of radio contact at the time, which prevented the control center from telling them the plot twist: It was the Gemini's thruster that was malfunctioning all along.
"Our best estimate is that you are between 95 percent and completely fucked."
The barrel roll got faster and faster, to the point where they were going at one revolution per second. It was more than fast enough to cause Scott and Armstrong to get dizzy and lose track of the location of Earth. This is widely thought to be the worst thing you can lose track of as an astronaut.
At that point, Neil Armstrong decided he'd had enough of space's shit. His vision blurred and, at the brink of going unconscious, Armstrong somehow managed to shrug off the effects of the insanity carousel enough to figure out the real problem and fix it like a boss. He turned off the malfunctioning thrusters and initiated early reentry, which brought the aircraft back under control and allowed the astronauts to regain their bearings. One relatively uneventful emergency landing later, the battered and bruised spacemen were safe and sound -- and Command Pilot Neil A. Armstrong had added a good 10 inches to his Space Dong.
This didn't hurt him later in life.
#4. Gordon Cooper and the MacGyver Landing
The Mercury Program was the first manned U.S. space program. And when we say "manned," we of course mean "There was a guy sitting in there while the fully automated spacecraft took care of everything." As NASA was still finding their groove with manned spaceflights, they wanted to make sure that as little as possible could go wrong by human error. So they made everything so automated that the astronauts had little to do with anything other than, well, staying put and shutting up. Hence the less-than-flattering nickname of the astronauts involved: "Spam in a can."
Of course, that shit was over the second Gordon Cooper came along.
"If that rocket weren't here, this picture would be NSFW."
Astronaut Cooper was the Spam du jour on Mercury-Atlas 9. It was the program's final mission, and everyone was feeling pretty relaxed, seeing as all the other ones had gone off without a hitch.
NASA launched Cooper into orbit on May 15, 1963, and everything was indeed going nicely ... for the first 19 orbits, anyway. When the 20th came along, Cooper suddenly lost all altitude, orientation and attitude readings. This was bad, but still somewhat manageable. An automated vessel can still operate even if its pilot doesn't quite know what's going on, right?
These guys were all picked because they looked great in aluminum.
Too bad that was only the first part of the problem. During the very next orbit, Cooper lost his entire automatic stabilization and control systems, without which a safe, non-flambeed return to Earth's atmosphere would be, in scientific terms, balls-out impossible.
So Cooper, whose mission briefing had presumably been a mom-at-the-mall-style "Just sit there and don't touch anything," realized he was going to have to calculate the reentry and land the craft without any help from NASA's sophisticated tech. To further make the situation seem like some warped game show, he also noticed that the air inside his capsule was getting full of carbon dioxide.
"Hmm. TIE fighters on my tail, too. What a bore."
Instead of throwing his hands up and demanding to see where the candid camera is because no way can the cards be this stacked, Cooper put on his MacGyverin' hat. Improvising, he made like a 17th century sailor and approximated his position from the star formations. Then, using nothing but his wristwatch, he calculated the time he needed to fire the retro-rockets for reentry. Yes, the fate of an entire spacecraft relied on a wristwatch. And he had to hope that his watch was one of those types that still keeps perfect time in space.
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The actual watch.
Upon entering Earth's atmosphere, Cooper found out that his desperation move was just as impossible as it seemed, and promptly burned to a crisp.
Ha, no! He wound up making the most accurate splashdown in the history of the program. He landed only 4.4 miles away from the ship that was picking him up -- microsurgical precision in the "landing screaming from outer space" business.
"We assumed he was dead, like, four seconds after launch."
His accomplishment single-handedly revolutionized the way astronauts were viewed in spacecraft design. And no one ever dared call an astronaut "Spam in a can" again in fear that Cooper would steer a meteorite at them using nothing but a paper clip and a broken yo-yo.
#3. USA and Soviet Union Celebrate with Joint Mission, Horrible Poisonings Ensue
By 1975, the Space Race was over -- all it needed was a bit of ceremony to close things down. To that end, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed to a joint mission: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Of all NASA's mission patches, this one makes the best tramp stamp.
It was as cheesy an affair as such public displays of non-hostility can get: An American crew took their unnumbered Apollo shuttle up to meet two cosmonauts in their Soyuz 19. Once their spacecrafts were connected, crew captains Thomas Stafford and Alexey Leonov had a handshake and a news conference was held, while the crews performed no doubt vital and totally non-propagandy scientific experiments on the side.
The slap-fights didn't start until the cameras turned off.
Then the crews undocked their ships and went about their merry ways. Soyuz landed safely less than a day later, while the Apollo stayed up a little longer, presumably to do some actual scientific experiments before returning to Earth.
Or that was the plan, anyway. Their reentry saw the crew doing the descent procedures in a slightly wrong order, which caused the spacecraft to start swaying. In an attempt to stop this, the computers on board automatically adjusted with thrusters. However, there happened to be an open valve to the cabin port roughly 2 feet from one of the thrusters. This caused some thruster fuel to start leaking in. You don't need to know anything about space flight to deduce that having freaking rocket fuel spraying into your lap is a bad thing.
On the plus side, the handshake went down with only a few sprained fingers.
And while having a fuel leak in the cabin is a bitch at the best of times, it's that much worse during a fiery reentry. When said fuel happens to be nitrogen tetroxide, a horrible poison that is considered deadly above 50 parts per million, it doesn't exactly diminish the problem. Especially since at times the astronauts were exposed to 15 times that amount.
Resulting in a severe case of giant head disorder for the entire crew.
Unsurprisingly, the many-times-over deadly dose the astronauts received while plummeting toward the planet in flames made the reentry process less than comfortable. Aside from the usual suspects, such as G-force and the "OhshitohshitohshitI'mgoingtodie" reflex, the poison gave them slight problems such as irritated eyeballs, nausea, burning lungs and a freaking cardiac arrest.
It tells a lot about the conditioning of an astronaut that all three guys made it. The guy whose heart was going? No problem, the other two resuscitated him with some oxygen masks. Burning lungs and chemically charred eyeballs? Enough poison to kill a regiment? No biggie! We'll deal with that after we take care of this spacecraft landing thing.
"We'd actually like to stay up here a little longer, NASA, see what this murder-gas can really do."
After splashdown, the three men spent a couple of weeks lounging around in a Honolulu hospital, and all three made a full recovery. Contemplate on that the next time you wail about that toe you stubbed on your way to the fridge.


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Given a finite field $|K|=q$ and an irreducible $f \in K[x]$ with $\deg(f)=n$ with $\alpha$ as a root. My candidates for the roots are $\alpha, \dots , \alpha^{q^{n-1}}$.
Assuming $\alpha^{q^i} = \alpha^{q^j}$ I want to conclude that $\alpha = \alpha^{q^{j-i}}$ or more precisly I want to conclude that $f \mid x^{q^{j-i}}-x$.
Its a basic algebra course and we had not had Galois theory yet. So assume we have to lead $\alpha^{q^i} = \alpha^{q^j}$ to a contradiction by hand.


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The rebate is a lie! read the reviews at Newegg to confirm
I bought one of these a year or so ago with one of these rebate deals. I forgot to send in the rebate, but it was also only a $15 rebate. I can at least confirm that it works fine. I wish it had a more standard charger, but other than that, it is fine.


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Think Geek Hoodie Sale
I promise you, people already know you're a huge geek. But if you want to make sure there's absolutely no doubt, wear a hoodie with a tail.
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Captain America, and Venom are pretty cool!
Prices range from $23.79 to $81.99(not counting the coats on the same page). Shipping seems to start at $6.74, at least for me.
Every time I order something from Think Geek, there's always some type of issue with my order, be it a broken electronic, wrong item shipped to me, etc. I don't think I'll ever order from them again.
@mattlaird111: Huh, I ordered multiple items from them during the holiday season and had no problems whatsoever.
@kattotang: +1. I've been shopping with them for maybe five years - dozens of orders. They sent me the wrong item once. They fixed it immediately when I notified them. I've never received a faulty item.
I have ordered from Think Geek and never had any issues. However they are not always the cheapest. I picked up one of those Captain American hoodies as a gift at Hot Topic the week before Christmas for $25 and they had a full line of Marvel hoodies and a few others on this list. Granted I probably won't see that price again.
Just to be clear, the Star Wars hoodies are not much the better quality Mark Ecko designs available at shopecko
@mattlaird111: I've never had in a problem form them in 7 years or so.
@mattlaird111: Only once did I get an incorrect item, and it wasn't their fault. The supplier had changed the design. They took it back without a problem.
Never received a broken anything from them.
I'm confused. Where's the woot-worthy deal in this? I want to see a product and a price. "We're having a sale!" is just an advertisement. X% off isn't much better.
@mattlaird111: I had an issue with a Christmas order (arrived late, and didn't think at the time it was coming at all), but it was more UPS' fault than ThinkGeek's. To their credit, they dispatched a replacement order via 2nd Day Air, free of charge, and told me to keep both orders if the first one ever showed (which it did).
ThinkGeek is great but these prices don't look much better than the prices they usually offer on these things. The suggested retail prices are a bit bloated. I bought the captain America hoodie for 49.99 before with no sale.
It is true that the Mark Ecko hoodie are of a better quality for right around the same price. I own some of each and the ecko is much thicker!
just take my money already... ugh there just had to be an awesome Minecraft hoodie.. (way overpriced even on sale), but I couldn't help it...
For any ladies interested in buying any of the guy's hoodies - they are HUMUNGOUS. A size small is probably a 2-3X in women's sizes.
I bought the soft kitty hoodie from them. :3
It's /incredibly/ soft, and made from rather high-quality fabrics. Definitely recommended.
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Think Twice Before Deleting Stuff (Or Better Not at All!)
By user13366078 on Mar 25, 2009
No, this is not going to be another "Remember to do snapshots" post. I'm also not going to talk about backups. Instead, let's look at some very practical aspects of deleting files.
So, why delete a file? "Trivial", you think, "so I can save space!". Sure, dear reader, but at the expense of what?
Let's stop and think for a minute. Our lives try to center around doing cool, worthwhile, meaningful, useful stuff. Deleting files isn't really cool, nor fun, it is a necessity we're forced to do. Don't you hate it when that dreaded "Your startup disk is almost full" message appears while you're in the middle of downloading new photos from your latest exciting vacation trip?
Actually, the seemingly simple act of deleting is really a challenge: "Will I need this again?", "Wouldn't it be better to archive this instead?", "Last time I was really glad I kept that email from 2 years ago, so why delete this one?". Sometimes I surprise myself thinking a long time before I really press that "ok" button or hit "Enter" after the "rm".
The reality is: Storage is cheap, so why delete stuff in the first place?
To put things in perspective, let's try an ROI analysis of deleting files. Let's say we need about 6 seconds of thinking time before we can decide whether a particular file can really be deleted without regret. Let's also assign some value to our time, say $12 per hour (I hope you're getting paid much more than that, but this is just to keep the numbers simple).
Storage is cheap, and last time I checked, a 1 TB USB hard drive cost about $100 at a major electronics retailer, with prices falling by the hour.
Now, how much space does the act of deleting a file need to free up so it justifies the effort of deciding whether to delete or keep it?
Well, our $12 per hour conveniently breaks down to $0.20 per minute, which allows us to perform 10 delete-it-or-not decisions per minute at $0.02 each. Fine. Deleting seems to be cheap, doesn't it?
Now, for that $0.02 you can buy a 1/5000th of a 1 TB hard drive. Wait a minute, 1TB/5000 still amounts to 200 MB of data per $0.02! That's more than you need to store a 10 minute video, or a full CD of music, compressed at high quality! Or 20 presentations at 10MB each! Not to mention countless emails, source code and other files!
So, unless the file you're pondering is bigger than 200MB, it's not really worth even considering to delete it. I'll call this 200MB boundary the "Destructive Utility Heuristic (DUH)".
The result is therefore: Save your time, buy more harddisk space (or upgrade your old hard drive to a bigger one before it dies) and move on. Life's too precious to waste it on deleting stuff. Create good stuff instead! Only think about deleting stuff if the file in question is bigger than 200MB.
I can hear some "Wait, but!"'s in the audience, ok, one at a time:
"But I can delete much faster than 6 seconds!"
No big deal. So you can delete 1 file per second, that's still a threshold of 33MB, more than 5 songs worth or even the biggest practical business presentation or the source code to a major open source project. And harddisks are getting cheaper every day, while your time will become more and more precious as you age. Yes, if you're dead sure that file is useless junk and don't need to think about it, go ahead and delete it, but why did you save it in the first place?
"But I like my directories to be clean and tidy!"
Congratulations, that's a good habit! Keeping files organized doesn't mean you need to delete stuff, though. Set up an "Archive" folder somewhere and dump everything you think you may or may not use again there. Use one archive folder for each year if you want. File search technology is pretty advanced these days so you should be able to find your archived files quicker than the time you'd take to decide which ones you'll never want to find again. Then, you can still decide to delete your whole archive from 3 years ago because you never used it, and it will likely make some sense, because its size may be above the destructive utility heuristic, but chances are you won't really care because storage will have become even cheaper after those 3 years so you won't save a big deal, relatively speaking.
"That still doesn't help me when that damn 'Your startup disk is almost full' message comes!"
You're right. The point is: It's often hard to sift through data and decide what to keep and what not. That's why we dread deleting stuff and instead wait until that message comes. I'm only offering relief to those that felt that the act of having to delete stuff isn't really rewarding, and it isn't (at least while you're below the DUH). Go buy a bigger harddrive for your laptop, it's really the cost effective option. Use the numbers above to help you justify that towards your finance department.
"I'm still not convinced. I actually kinda like going through my files and delete them once in a while..."
Sure, go ahead. Just know that you could use that time to do more productive stuff, such as checking out the Sun cloud, installing OpenSolaris or testing our new Sun OpenStorage products.
"Wait, aren't you supposed to write about OpenSolaris, ZFS and this stuff anyway?"
I'm glad you mentioned that :). Actually, OpenSolaris and ZFS make it even easier for you to both not care about deleting stuff while keeping your files organized at the same time. The amazing ZFS auto snapshot SMF service will create snapshots of your data automagically every 15 minutes, so it won't matter whether you delete files or not. You can then choose to either not delete them at all and just move them to some archive, or you can delete whatever you want, without the 6 seconds of thinking (just to keep stuff tidy), knowing that you'll always be able to recover those files with Time Slider later. You could then use zfs send/receive to dump your data incrementally to a file server as a backup mechanism and the hooks are already there to automate this.
See, once you think of it, there's not really a need to delete files at all any more. At least not for mere mortals like us with file sizes that are typically below the destructive utility heuristic of currently 200MB (and rising...) most of the time. Music has already reached the point where a song can be stored at studio quality with lossless compression at manageable file sizes so that kind of data won't see significant growth any more. And photos and videos will soon follow. This means we'll need to care less and less about restricting personal data storage. Instead, we now need to focus more on managing personal storage.
Now there's a completely different problem that'll keep us entertained for some time...


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Ivie Earns Third Northwest Extreme Sprint Victory
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Madman Photography)
At Cottage Grove Speedway fans were delighted on Saturday July 6th by the Northwest Extreme Sprints. The division was on hand as a support class to the American Sprint Car Series-Northwest Region as they closed out their Speedweek. Eugene's Raquel Ivie would earn her third win of the 2013 season when everything was said and done.
Dan Philpott from Glide was the early race leader in his Eveland Sandblasting/Double R Powdercoating #29 Rocket. Philpott was in search of his first win of the season but would lose the lead right around the halfway mark. The driver he would lose the lead to was none other than the Three Rivers Casino/Bi-Mart/Brook's Cut Rate Auto Parts #70 Maxim of Raquel Ivie.
Ivie would make a move on the inside of Philpott to obtain the lead. She would go unchallenged the rest of the way to earn her most recent victory. The class has been dominated by female drivers so far this year with Ivie and Kady Adelman the only two drivers that have won this year.
Mike Griffth of Fall Creek in the 1st Choice Construction/RV Outlet/Crossfire Ministries #21 Gambler was second followed by the K&S Motorsports/BC Motorsports #6A Maxim of Kady Adelman from Salem. Completing the finishing order was Dan Phipott in fourth.
Earlier in the evening Raquel Ivie would set fast time of the night at 11.878 seconds. Kady Adelman was the trophy dash winner and earning the triumph in the heat race would be Dan Philpott.
The Cottage Grove Speedway will host the Monster-X Tour next Friday and Saturday night ticket information for this event can be found at www.monsterxtour.com . The next races taking place at CGS will be when the ASCS-National Tour roll into town on Friday July 19th and Saturday the 20th. For more information log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
Race Summary:
Saturday July 6th, 2013
Cottage Grove Speedway
Cottage Grove, Oregon
5 Entries
Fast Time: Raquel Ivie, 11.878
Trophy Dash Winner: Kady Adelman
Heat Race Winner: Dan Philpott (1)
A-Feature: 1. Raquel Ivie, 2. Mike Griffith, 3. Kady Adelman, 4. Dan Philpott, DNS Nathan Ellertson
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Bernadette Mineo, Ph.D., OTR/L, Professor and Online Program Director
Dr. Mineo has been an ATSU faculty member since 2005. She has extensive clinical experience in the area of pediatrics and developmental disabilities. She teaches in the area of professional development and the Capstone Project for the AMOT Program. Dr. Mineo received her PhD in Media Ecology from the Department of Culture and Communications from New York University School of Education. She received her Masters in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research, and a Bachelors of Science in Occupational Therapy from New York University. She is currently a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association Professional Program Directors Educational Council. Her research interests are in the area of teaching, on-line education, and positive psychology.
Rachel Diamant, PhD, OTR/L, B.C.P., Professor and Acting Chair
Dr. Diamant has been part of the occupational therapy program faculty at ATSU since 1998. She teaches courses related to pediatric practice for the residential OT program and for the online advanced masters in occupational therapy program. Prior to teaching, Dr. Diamant has been an occupational therapy practitioner for over 25 years with a work focus on children with disabilities and their families. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics as recognized by the American Occupational Therapy Association. Dr. Diamant is pediatric NDT certified and has done research projects in the areas of sensory processing, autism, and movement disorders. She is the co-author of Positioning for Play: Interactive Activities to Enhance Movement and Sensory Exploration, an activity text for therapists working with young children and their families. Ms Diamant received her masters of science degree in occupational therapy from Boston University and her doctorate degree in health psychology/behavioral medicine through Northcentral University.
Emily Schulz, Ph.D., OTR/L, CFLE, Associate Professor
Dr. Schulz has been a full time ATSU faculty member since 2010. She has clinical experience in the areas of adult rehabilitation and geriatrics. She teaches primarily in the online AMOT Program. Dr. Schulz received her PhD in occupational therapy from Texas Woman's University; and an additional PhD in family studies, also from Texas Woman's University. She received her Masters in Occupational Therapy from Tufts University-Boston School of Occupational Therapy, and a dual Bachelors of Arts degree in Music and Psychology from Wellesley College. Her research interests are in the areas of spirituality, religion, and health disparities.
Brandi L. Buchanan, OTD, OTR/L, Assistant Professor
Dr. Brandi Buchanan joined the faculty in 2010. She practiced clinically for several years in the areas of physical disabilities, pediatrics and the NICU. She was instrumental in developing and/or expanding NICU therapy programs in hospitals in California and New York. She received her Bachelor's degree in Spanish from Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR, and her Master's and Clinical Doctorate degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. She is currently involved in courses related to professional development and ethics as well as human development and the basic sciences. Her clinical and research interests include policy/advocacy efforts, cultural competence, and serving minoritypopulations. Dr. Buchanan is the faculty liaison to the Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA).
Mary Zewicki Greer, Ph.D., OTR/L, Assistant Professor, Clinical Education Coordinator
Dr. Greer has practiced as an occupational therapist and manager in mental health and pediatric settings. She received a degree in occupational therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master's degree in public administration from DePaul University and a doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction from Arizona State University. Dr. Greer had taught in an OTA program prior to joining ATSU where she teaches in both the residential andonline programs. She has served in various roles on the executive board for the Arizona Occupational Therapy Association and currently serves as the Alternate Representative to AOTA. Her research interests are in EBP and the use of technology in therapy.
Mary Voytek, OTD, MC, OTR/L, Assistant Professor
Mary Voytek joined the ATSU faculty in 2009. She has over 30 years of clinical experience in mental health, geriatrics, private practice, home health, and new program design and implementation. She received a Bachelors in Science from the University of Kansas, a Masters in Counseling from Arizona State University, and a Clinical Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Chatham University. She is especially interested in cultural issues that impact the provision of services, interprofessional education, and helping older therapists sustain contemporary practice.
Melissa Clark MS, OTR/L, CES, CHT, Assistant Professor
Melissa has been an occupational therapist and a certified hand therapist for over 20 years. Ms. Clark received a degree in occupational therapy from Indiana University and a Master's degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion from California University in Pennsylvania. Her clinical experiences cover a broad spectrum including outpatient hand therapy, acute and outpatient burns, acute trauma, neuro rehab and work hardening. Ms. Clark owns a continuing education business and lectures nationally on splinting and other hand related topics. She has served several positions on the executive board for the Arizona State Occupational Therapy Association and currently serves as Treasurer. Her teaching and research interests include physical disabilities, kinesiology and wellness promotion.
Amy Lyons-Kennedy, MS, OTR/L, Assistant Professor
Amy Lyons-Kennedy joined the ATSU faculty in 2011. She has 12 years of clinical experience working with adults and geriatrics in a variety of physical disabilities settings, specializing in the area of neurological rehabilitation. She teaches in the area of adult physical disabilities with an emphasis on the neurological population. She received her Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology with studies in the Pre-Occupational Therapy Program from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. Her research and clinical interests include current advances in assessment, intervention, and technology for adults with physical disabilities, and vision and vestibular rehabilitation for the neurological population.
Michelle A. Zacofsky, B.A., Administrative Coordinator, Occupational Therapy
Michelle joined the Occupational Therapy Department in 2013. Michelle brings over 30 years of professional project coordination and management experience as well as executive-level administrative support expertise to the Department. She is responsible for the administrative functions related to the Advanced Masters of Occupational Therapy program (on-line), Departmental processes and projects, and support of the Department Chair.
Erlinda Cisneros-Johnson Administrative Assistant, Occupational Therapy
Erlinda joined to the Occupational Therapy Department in 2011. Erlinda brings over 20 years of service skills to the Occupational Therapy Department. Erlinda assists the program manager to ensure that all administrative responsibilities are completed for the entry level Masters of Occupational Therapy Program.


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Projects Projects EVERYWHERE. (They Can Shove It Today.)
You know that old saying, The Grass Is Always Greener? Well sometimes that saying is real.
Right before I went to AZ to do Kelsey's Epic Room Makeover I was in a majorly motivated spot. I was getting projects done left and right, I was SO excited. I was all, "Mandilicious. These suckers are going to last you through the end of the year!! WAHOOO!" but then guess what? Its not all its cracked up to be. Its like all I have been doing are project posts. And while I know some of you love that, I MISS YOU GUYS! I have been feeling super disconnected the last little bit and I am OVER it!!
So how are you?! Is your holiday going wonderfully? Are you getting projects done and feeling like fantastic mothers? Do you know just how much I adore you and am so grateful that you spend a few minutes of your day over here!?! Cause its true. You are my favorite.
So fill me in, what is going on in your world?
Love Your Guts, Mandi


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I ride a mountain bike with front suspension. I've recently seen fork lube for sale on an online retailer. This got me thinking. Do I need to be using fork lube? How does it help? If I bought some how often do I need to use it and how do I apply it?
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Consult the repair manual for your fork. It will tell you where to lubricate and how much to apply. Without knowing what fork you have, we can others only speculate. Check the manual or post the model and we can look at it.
I have not looked into this but my first inclination is to avoid it. Your fork already has oil on the inside and seals that are supposed to keep elements on the outside. So, for this lube to make much of a difference it would have to soak into the seals, which means the seals aren't that sealed!
I would also think that putting lube on the stanchions would attact grit and grime, something I work hard at keeping away from them.
If your fork is sticking or otherwise not moving smoothly through it's travel, you may want to look into getting it rebuilt.
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I'm tired of hearing about the violence in the West End of Louisville.
But I'm not sick of hearing the awful news because I think it casts our city in a negative light, paints a skewed portrait of one region of our community, creates racial tension, is a hopeless situation or because I'd rather focus solely on the positive. All of those reasons, which I've heard expressed over the past few weeks, have merit and at least some validity, but they're not why I'm weary of hearing about the violence.
I'm tired because I don't have a clue how I can help, despite an innate, immediate desire to do so. You would too if your teenage godsons resided in Beecher Terrace, a neighborhood that has garnered much attention because of the violence and despair happening there.
Two weeks ago, after several murders in the West End became the top news stories locally and beyond, I called my godsons, Terry, 17, and Tyrone, 19, whom I've known and loved for seven years. After their initial, usual silliness – "Hi, Godmommy, how are you?" "You best be ready for another round of air hockey, Miss Angie. Gonna whip you this time." – I asked their thoughts about the shootings that have stunned so many. The normally talkative teens were subdued, even apathetic. I was alarmed.
"Do you know what an incredible world is out there waiting for you to join it?" I demanded.
"Yes, ma'am," they both sighed.
"Terry, are you studying hard to pass your classes?" I pressed, both of us knowing how important this is, since he'd recently returned home from what we call "jail-ordered boot camp" after getting into trouble with the law.
"Yes, ma'am," he mumbled.
"Tyrone, have you filed the paperwork to go back to college?" I asked.
"No, ma'am. But I'm going to," he answered, quietly.
"When?" I responded sharply.
"Soon," said Tyrone, his one-word answer belying a masterful, mature grasp of the English language that he expresses in raps that, without beats, read like the most beautiful poetry.
Exasperated, my voice increased in volume and intensity: "Do you guys care? Do you? Your mother and I can't make you, and we can't do this for you. We can't make you care or see beyond today to tomorrow. Do you understand you can have more than you have now – careers and happiness and the gift of waking up in the morning excited for the day? Do you get it? Do you get it at all?"
"Yes ma'am," they answered as if their mouths were filled with marbles.
I was incensed. And terrified. "Dang it, Terry and Tyrone!" I cried, desperate for even a small hint that they felt even one tenth of the sense of urgency that I do. "I need to know: What can I do to help you see?"
The seconds of silence felt like forever.
"I don't know," Terry finally said, and I could almost see him shrug his shoulders through the phone.
"Nothing, ma'am," Tyrone added, and I imagined him rolling his eyes.
"Nothing? You don't know?" I asked, my voice loud and growing louder. Listen to them, I reminded myself. LISTEN. "Do you remember when you moved from the shelter to Beecher Terrace and we were all so happy you finally had a home?"
"Yes ma'am," Tyrone said, his brother echoing the same unimpassioned response.
"It's home and it's been a good home, but do you want to live there forever?" I pressed, taking a deep breath. "Don't you ever want more? Don't you ever want out?"
"Do you want out?" I almost whispered.
"No ma'am," they responded, their quiet, collective answer feeling like a sucker punch to the gut.
That night, a young man was gunned down in Beecher Terrace in the small yard of one of the housing units directly behind where my godsons reside. When I woke up and learned the news about the killing, I stopped what I was doing and held my breath. Again. When I heard the name of the man who was murdered, I sank into a chair and cried, relieved my godsons were safe – this time – and horrified for the people who had lost a 22-year-old son, a brother, a friend.
But I was also tired. Tired of holding my breath, tired of feeling helpless to do something about a seemingly hopeless situation in my community, tired of waiting for someone to tell me what to do.
That afternoon, Terry called to say hello, an unusual gesture since I usually have to initiate contact with him. Tyrone sent a text. "I wrote a new rap. You should hear it," he wrote. "And I'm going to get back in school. Oh, and I wanted to tell you: Yes, I want out."
After responding to them, I called community activist Christopher 2X and asked for a favor: Would he please take the time to come with me to meet my godsons and their mother? What transpired was a candid discussion. So did much, much more.
The boys talked honestly with me, Christopher 2X and The Voice-Tribune's Chief Photographer-Designer Chris Humphreys about their everyday lives and fears. They also shared how important it is to them to know that people who don't live in their neighborhood genuinely care about them. That struck me, though I'd already known this. In previous conversations, both boys had essentially said, "We believe that people care, but how come no one comes here to show it?" They were right. We hold festivals and 5Ks and events all over town. Rarely do we hold them in the areas deemed most dangerous, for obvious reasons, but what if we considered for a moment that our lack of including certain areas of our community in events that celebrate our community might be exacerbating the situations occurring there? How would it feel to you and to me if people were afraid of our neighborhoods so much so that they completely avoided them? I'm guilty of this avoidance. Unless there's an emergency, I won't go to the boys' home after dark alone. But yet, that's where my godsons live.
The afternoon of my visit with Christopher 2X, I showed Terry and Tyrone a Facebook status update I'd posted asking my friends on the social networking site to click "LIKE" in affirmation of their support and desire to see the violence cease. The boys were astonished at the nearly 400 people who had taken the time to do so. "Do you see that?" I asked them as I watched their excitement build. "All of those people care. And so do many more. They think you matter, and you do. You just have to believe them – and then prove it to yourselves."
"True dat," Tyrone cracked, correcting himself when I feigned disapproval. "I mean, true that, Godmommy," he smiled. I smiled too.
After exchanging fierce hugs, Chris Humphreys, Christopher 2X and I left Tyrone and Terry. As we walked to where we'd parked our vehicles near Eleventh and Muhammad Ali, a car stopped in the middle of the street and a young man rolled down the window. "You should have been here before the killings!" he shouted angrily. "You should have been here!"
Christopher 2X swiftly walked over to the man and handed him a card with his contact information. "We're here now, brother, and you can be a part of the solution," he said. "We're here now and we love you, I love you," he added, gripping the man's hand before he drove off.
For a moment, none of us spoke. Then I did, addressing the community activist. "What are we supposed to do, Chris? Seriously, what is the average person living in Louisville supposed to do?"
Christopher 2X smiled. "The mayor has put together a task force to address this–"
I interrupted. "–I know and I think that's fantastic and going to be beneficial, but what about people like those of us who work at or read The Voice-Tribune? Most of us don't live here, and I'm not alone in saying we are so tired of the violence, tired of feeling like all we can do is watch the awfulness unfold. What are WE supposed to do?"
Christopher 2X smiled again. "Love them. Like you all did the people of Henryville. There's a tornado going on here everyday. Love them and listen to them, and don't let the violence of a few affect how you can impact many."
I stopped walking and turned to look him in the eyes. "It's that simple, Chris? It really is, isn't it? We have to just come here and love."
Plenty of others feel the same – including Sanctuary Church – and so we will come and show love on Saturday, June 16 from noon until 3 p.m. You're invited. The rain date is June 30, but we're hoping that doesn't happen to a grassroots, unsponsored event now called Love Louisville: Beecher Terrace that will occur noon to 3 p.m. and includes free food, music by DJ Z-Nyce, Sonny Fenwick's Bubble Truck, a cotton candy machine, Santa Claus (aka Walt Queen), Dare to Care, Brightside, Baxter Station, The Brewery, Wick's Pizza, a crew from Henryville Community Church that wants to give back the love they received when in need and so many others. All we need – all we want – are people to show up and care.
Will we affect change because of what is essentially a block party being held Saturday afternoon in one of the toughest areas of our city? Of course not. But can it matter? My 19-year-old godson says so.
"I care about stuff, but I think it'll prove to Beecher Terrace that people care," Tyrone text me last night.
"But will it prove anything to you?" I typed back.
"Yes ma'am. It proves that you care, I care and it shows (others) do care, too," he text.
We do. I do. Care with us. June 16 noon to 3 p.m. at Baxter Park. Please, just show up if you can.
Love Louisville: Beecher Terrace
- Noon to 3 p.m.
- Baxter Park on Jefferson between 10th & 11th
- Free; All are invited
- Rain date: June 30
Angie Fenton is the managing editor of The Voice-Tribune. She's also the daily entertainment correspondent for WHAS11's "Great Day Live!" and dishes with Ron & Mel on 84WHAS — 840 AM — every Saturday morning just after 8 a.m., in addition to being the on-camera entertainment talent for Churchill Downs, which debuts their second night racing event on June 16. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 502.551.2698.


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Omar Shehabi, Founder of Palestine Works, will talk about human rights issues in Palestine and Israel, and creating a new human rights initiative. Palestine Works has partnered with more than 15 human rights organizations and law schools in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel offering legal internships this summer. Palestine Works enhances these internships with an international law orientation, weekend programs throughout Palestine and Israel, and legacy projects that include scholarship, conferences and creative endeavors. Students can apply for these internships through Symplicity.
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GREENVILLE – The Aspen String Trio will perform at 8 p.m. Monday in Daniel Recital Hall at Furman University. The trio also will present a free master class at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Daniel Recital Hall.
After 20 years of friendship and music-making, Aspen String Trio members David Perry (violin), Victoria Chiang (viola) and Michael Mermagen (cello) have joined as an ensemble. These world-class instrumentalists each have a long-time association as artist-faculty with the Aspen Music Festival; combined, they have performed in the world's most prestigious venues.
Known for offering virtuoso performances with humor and insight, the ensemble performs works by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert, as well as lesser-known works by Dohnany, Hindemith, Rozsa, Gideon Klein, Veress, Villa-Lobos and Ysaye, among others.
Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students. Call 864-294-2086 for more information.
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