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5 Famous Video Game Villains (Who Are Actually the Victim)
Even in the nonsense world of video games, the existence of "boss" enemies is pretty weird. It's usually some giant monster wandering aimlessly around a lair, protecting some artifact the hero needs. Bosses seem to serve no other purpose in life, and it's never clear how they got there. We just kind of go with it and find the shiny spot we're supposed to shoot.
But you can't help but feel sorry for some of these guys. In fact, we're not even sure that we're not the villain here ...
#5. Zelda's Bosses Are Just Huge Trapped Animals
Let's take a boss from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: King Dodongo. He's a giant lizard that lives in a cave in the ground, bothering no one.
Via Zeldalegends.net
Hehehe ... "Dong."
First, keep in mind that this isn't a sprawling underground city -- it's a single goddamned room, and most of the room is lava. And Dodongo is not a lava monster -- you kill him by throwing him into it. So this beast exists entirely on a small stone ring barely wide enough for his own body, encircling a remorseless pool of magma.
"You know, man ... you can just have the artifact. In fact, here, take some of mine."
He can't even turn around without risking tumbling into the pit of eternal hellfire. And most importantly, there is no possible way for King Dodongo to ever get out of this cave. Link falls in through a tiny hatch in the ceiling, and escapes through a magic portal -- there are no exits. So Dodongo wasn't terrorizing the countryside or building a moon laser. As another character tells you, he's only there to eat whatever the cave has to offer. Meaning rocks.
That's right -- rocks. Not virgins or children, but rocks. Motherless deposits of sediment whose disappearance from the earth results in the shedding of precisely zero tears. King Dodongo lives in a hole in the ground, eating rocks and minding his own business. And Link breaks into his house and throws him into the lava, for the express purpose of proving to the townspeople outside that he is a real man.
If there's more to manhood than destroying things, we don't want to hear about it.
Granted, Dodongo isn't defenseless -- he breathes fire and has giant teeth -- but he isn't hurting anyone. He isn't even bothering anyone. He's just sitting in his circle pit, eating rocks. And it isn't like Link stumbled into Dodongo's cave and now has to fight his way back out to stay alive -- he went out of his way to go in there. Killing Dodongo was an errand in his planner.
But Dodongo is just one example of the bosses in the Legend of Zelda series whose only crime appears to be being trapped in a room with no exit. Take a look at A Link to the Past's Helmasaur King:
Because neither he nor Link can be bothered to look at each other.
Helmasaur's left foot can barely fit through the only way out of that entire chamber. Either the keepers of that particular dungeon built the entire thing around him, or they brought him in when he was a baby and just left him there for a decade. The same goes for his successor, The Wind Waker's Helmaroc King, who is really just a great big bird somebody trapped in a battle mask.
"Somebody take this goddamn thing off me!"
Twilight Princess makes the situation even worse. Nearly every boss in the game is just an enemy that's been poisoned and transformed against its will by a piece of the Fused Shadow. So now Link is basically fighting captive animals soaked in oil and rabies that arguably have no idea what is going on.
Via Zeldauniverse.net
You can tell by its blind, maddening shrieks that it has been given careful instructions.
#4. In Super Smash Bros., You Kill the God That Gave You Life
Super Smash Bros. is the game that taught us important lessons about destroying friendships in a single sleepover, such as "Whoever's house it is will demand to be Star Fox" and "The asshole who got invited by mistake will always pick Donkey Kong and just grab people and walk off the edge."
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And "If you are losing, unplug everyone else's controller and/or turn off the system."
In the single-player game (which no one should ever play for any reason, even if you don't have any friends), the characters start out as Nintendo-themed toys lying about in a child's bedroom. Then Master Hand, a sentient flying glove that absolutely does not belong in a child's bedroom, arrives to magically bring them all to life.
Boy do those tissues seem inappropriate after that last sentence.
You then select a character and fight your way through the others, leaving only dust and ruin in your wake, until you finally come face-to-fingers with the final boss: Master Hand itself.
Do not pull its finger. Bad things happen to good people.
You then punch Master Hand until it explodes in a burst of Technicolor insanity, and your character turns back into a doll. Roll credits.
... congratulations?
Our question is, why? Before Master Hand came along, you were just a soulless piece of clutter collecting dust on a child's desk. It swooped in from some parallel dimension of flight and fancy and sprinkled the magic dust of life on your hollow shell, bestowing upon you the priceless gift of sentient existence. So your response is to destroy your enchanted brothers and beat Master Hand to death in an explosion-filled windmill of ignorant fury? That's like receiving a last-minute heart transplant and then tearing the still-beating lump out of your chest on the way home from the hospital.
Only Jigglypuff has an excuse to spurn the gift of life in this way.
As far as is ever made apparent to us, Master Hand has no real agenda. It didn't bring you to life to be its slave or work the rubber glove mines or anything. It just did it, and asked nothing of you in return. Your immediate response is to kill the power that created you and unmake your own existence -- really, you are the bad guy in this game.
"I must undo the murderous monster that I have created."
Speaking of which ...
#3. The Sub-Bosses in Kirby's Adventure Appear to Be Heroes
The main bad guy in Kirby's Adventure is King Dedede, the lord of penguins.
Via Smashbros.com
The souls he's collected with that hammer could feed hell for a month.
So in typical video game fashion, you have to fight your way through his six underlings as mini-bosses before taking on the king himself. But right away, you notice that these guys don't seem all that dangerous. Whispy Woods is a depressed apple tree ...
Paint Roller is some kind of liberal arts student ...
Heavy Mole spends the entire battle desperately tunneling away from Kirby ...
And Meta Knight is such a gentleman, he actually gives Kirby a sword to duel him with.
"My sincerest apologies in advance in case I get blood on you."
Hmmm ... perhaps this situation requires more scrutiny.
The point of the game is that you're trying to win back the Star Rod, which the evil king steals at the beginning of the game and breaks apart and that Kirby must reassemble (obviously each mini-boss has a piece of it). So, Kirby of course hunts down the thieves and eats them all to death, recovering the Star Rod ... just in time to have the Nightmare, an entity of pure evil, arrive to steal it.
As it turns out, the "evil" King Dedede knew the Nightmare was coming. He broke up the Star Rod to keep it safe from corruption, and gave the pieces to the six most trustworthy champions he could find.
And Kirby killed almost all of them.
"... wow, I feel like such a tit right now."
Kirby stone-cold murders five of the bravest souls in the world and shits all over everything they died for by almost handing the Star Rod over to the Nightmare. Kirby tries to redeem himself by defeating the Nightmare and sending him back to the damnable reaches of hell. He patches things up with King Dedede, but those heroic bosses stay dead. The end credits include a montage of all of them, sort of like the "in memoriam" segment of the Oscars, only if somehow even fewer people gave a shit.


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I'm trying to explain to someone learning elementary physics (16 year old) that linear momentum and energy are conserved independently. I'm not a professional physicist and haven't tried to explain this stuff for years, and I can't think of any convincing elementary argument to show that this is the case. Does anyone know of an elementary approach to this? (i.e. one that does not contain the expressions "Lagrangian" and "Noether's Theorem".)
Give him an example of inelastic collisions and explain why momentum is conserved but kinetic energy is not. If you explain the reasoning, (all forces are internal hence momentum is conserved) and that there are losses so KE of the system is lost in heat/sound/other forms of energy.. he should get the idea that the two are different beasts. At such a level it is best to illustrate with counterexamples.
For a particle in a 1D external time-dependent field there are no energy and momentum conservation laws, yet there are two independent conserved quantities. It is because the differential equation is of the second order and it is accompanied with two independent initial data - the initial position and initial velocity. See an example here.
Suppose someone suggests that following a perfectly elastic collision, two billiard balls are each traveling twice as fast as they were before (and opposite to their original directions). You can't prove him wrong using conservation of momentum, but you can prove him wrong using conservation of energy. Therefore conservation of energy has implications that conservation of momentum does not.
Suppose we have two identical billiard balls, one traveling east and one traveling west, with the same velocities and they collide. Suppose someone claims that both balls will now travel west, at the same velocity. You can't prove him wrong using conservation of energy, but you can prove him wrong using conservation of momentum. Therefore conservation of momentum has implications that conservation of energy does not.
All the following explanation is for elementary students. First ensure that he/she understands that momentum is a vector quantity and energy is scalar. Also s/he might be knowing Newton's 2nd law of motion. Momentum of a system is unique in given direction. For a given system if net external force (on the system) is zero then net momentum of the system does not change. He can argue that so what energy will also not change. Yes, but we can have situation where we apply force on a body and its momentum is changed but energy is not. (A force applied perpendicular to the direction of motion all times). I hope this sets the sail for discussion.
Consider for simplicity a non-relativistic collision between two point particles of same masses in their center-of-mass frame. From total momentum conservation, we know that the center-of-mass (COM) frame is an inertial frame. Moreover, if particle $1$ at some instance $t$ has position ${\bf r}_1$ and velocity ${\bf v}_1$ (relative to the COM frame), then particle $2$ is completely dictated to have opposite position ${\bf r}_2=-{\bf r}_1$ and opposite velocity ${\bf v}_2=-{\bf v}_1$. So from the COM perspective, the two-particle system is completely determined by knowing the state of particle $1$ alone.
Up until now, we have only used momentum conservation, and it doesn't matter whether the collision is elastic, partially elastic, or inelastic. The above is true regardless.
Now let us investigate a collision at initial and final instances $t_i$ and $t_f$ well before and well after the collision takes place. Note that we have already completely extracted all the information in the momentum conservation law to conclude that whatever the particle $1$ does, the particle $2$ would do the opposite. There are no more information available. In particular, momentum conservation gives us no clue about how initial and final velocity of particle $1$ are related.
Finally, let us restrict to an elastic collision. The kinetic energy conservation is in this context the independent statement that the initial and final speed $v_{1i}=v_{1f}$ of particle $1$ are equal (still measured relative to the COM frame).
Momentum and energy are both different depending on what I compare the motion of an object with. If I'm in a train, I have no momentum or kinetic energy relative to the train. Relative to the fields outside the train, however, I have lots of momentum and energy. If I jump off the train, I will come to a stop relative to the fields, so the momentum and energy relative to the fields have to go somewhere. On the other hand, I will then be moving relative to the train, so the momentum and energy to make that happen also have to come from somewhere.
The difference between the momentum and the energy comes from the fact that the forces that change my speed have to act both for a certain amount of time and over a certain distance.
Suppose the force that slows me down is constant, and that the force doesn't make me spin or break me up into pieces. This is the sort of wild idealization that gets Physics a bad name with 16 year olds, but it's a first approximation from which we can go on to a second approximation that's better, and no-one has yet thought up a better first approximation. If the train travels twice as fast, the force has to act for twice as much time to bring me to stop, that's the change of momentum, but the force has to act for four times the distance to bring me to a stop, that's the change of energy.
This gets very tricky, because someone in an airplane that's moving really fast sees the force acting for the same amount of time as someone standing in the field sees the force acting for, but the person in the airplane sees the force acting for much more distance, because when the force started I was right next to the airplane, say, but when the force ended I was a long way behind. So, the change of energy from the point of view of the person in the airplane was much bigger than someone in the fields thinks it was, even though everyone agrees that the change of momentum was the same.
To switch to a different analogy, the energy is important because it determines how far it takes me to stop a car using the brakes, so it determines whether I hit the brick wall that I suddenly see in front of me. The momentum determines how much time it takes to come to a stop, but I can't immediately think of a really graphic situation when that's important.
One can construct different situations endlessly. It can be done in equations, of course, but you'll have to decide whether that's appropriate. I'll be interested if there's anything about this Answer that you think could be made clearer. It certainly isn't complete. Welcome from an Englishman in the USA.
EDIT: Of course overnight I realize that I mention conservation not once. From the point of view of the above it's enough to note that both can be understood to be because of Newton's third law, which is, from Wikipedia, "The mutual forces of action and reaction between two bodies are equal, opposite and collinear". As a result, we can say that the energy added to an object is taken away from the other object, and the same for momentum. The independence of the two conservation laws is essentially just because the two quantities are independent.
I've decided to add a few simplified equations, $$Force = Mass \times Acceleration,$$ $$Kinetic\ Energy = \mathsf{The\ Sum\ Of}\ The\ Forces\ Applied \times The\ Distance\ each\ Force\ is\ Applied\ For,$$ $$Momentum = \mathsf{The\ Sum\ Of}\ The\ Forces\ Applied \times The\ Length\ of\ Time\ each\ Force\ is\ Applied\ For,$$ or, as vector equations, almost certainly beyond what you need, $$\underline{F}=m\underline{a}, \qquad E=\int \underline{F}(t,\underline{s}(t))\cdot\frac{d\underline{s}(t)}{dt}dt, \qquad \underline{P}=\underline{F}(t,\underline{s}(t))dt.$$
Really, this stuff should be left to specialist educators, the best of whom will take time not only to create new ways to explain ideas, but also to study how well different strategies of explanation work for different kinds of student, but I've always been interested occasionally to put myself in this mindset. It's always humbling to discover how much creativity is needed to do it well.
As often, trawling around in Wikipedia, starting from the page on Newton's laws that I mention above, will render up some gems amongst the too-much-information for the purposes of your Question. I particularly like the tail-end comment that "Conservation of energy was discovered nearly two centuries after Newton's lifetime, the long delay occurring because of the difficulty in understanding the role of microscopic and invisible forms of energy such as heat and infra-red light."
Consider elastic collision of a small mass with a large mass (say, fast bullet with (initially) non-moving heavy metall ball). I guess you are considering Newtonian mechanics, so there are following options here:
a) bullet stops after collision, and heavy ball starts moving. If you will require that energy is conserved than you will see that momentum is not conserved, and vise versa. That means that in elastic collision the bullet cannot stop and transfer all its energy (or all its momentum) to the heavy ball because in this case both energy and momentum cannot be conserved.
b) Heavy ball remains not moving after collision, while the bullet is moving with the same velocity in arbitrary direction. Obviously, the energy is conserved, but momentum is not.
Hence, we can imagine the number of outcomes where only one quantity is conserved. But nature leaves us only one choice out of many because both energy and momentum need to be conserved. There are many scenarios where only momentum (or only energy) is conserved, but if we require that both are conserved, only one scenario remains possible.
It is also interesting to consider the situation where the momentum is seemingly not conserved. The simplest case is when a man (or woman) stays on the floor and at some moment of time start moving (walking). The initial momentum of a man (women) is zero, and the final momentum is not. What happens to conservation of momentum? Here it is important to consider a concept of closed system, because only in closed system the momentum is conserved. In this case the closed system includes the Earth. So when we start walking we move the Earth! :-)
Conservation of energy is almost self-evident. Conservation of linear momentum comes from the fact the in an isolated system of particles there is no preferred location. To try to make a point that the two are related seems that would invoke some really convoluted arguments. One deals with invariance of energy and the other with invariance of location.
Check out Noether's Theorem.
Conservation laws are best explained as consequences of space and time symmetries: Because space is the same in every direction we see momentum as beng conserved, because time is uniform we see energy as being conserved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether's_theorem
Note that energy is not conserved in relativistic situations but momentum is - this is related to the nature of relativity.
The 16 year old is on to something but no one realizes it because physicists and those who teach physics assume that kinetic energy is a valid scientific principle. This opening sentence will naturally solicite laughter and other reactions but take a moment anyway to consider the following analogy. It looks at what happens when you define energy or force with respect to distance. Energy (kinetic energy) is related to force acting through a distance. Imagine a passenger sitting in the rear seat of a car and he hands his cell phone to the driver. If the car is stationary, that phone travels about 3 feet with respect to the road. If the car is moving, the phone might travel 10, 20, 30 or more feet. The time it takes to hand the phone does not change; it is a constant. Now think about force, it causes things to accelerate. When a body accelerates, it changes its velocity/speed. As this occurs, that body will travel a certain distance and take TIME to do so. First, take wind resistance and other unrelated things out of the mix. Accelerate a body from 0 mph to 10 mph; this takes time and the force will act through a distance. Accelerate the same body from 10 mph to 20 mph using the same amount of force. The time to change that body's speed by 10 mph does not change; the distance it travels during that act will. In short, there is something wrong with the kinetic energy formula. Do not do what everyone does and assume that because something has been around for a long time that it is correct.

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I've seen photographs of cars with strange inclined tires like the one in the picture I pasted here. They seems to be Japanese cars. Is it for drifting? Maybe for appearance? Do the tires get injuries?
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In this specific example the car is more than likely using airbags. When you decrease or increase the height of a car it affects the tire alignment by usually causing positive camber, pushing the top of the tires outward, this is a highly modified suspension system.
This particular person has modified their suspension so the top of the tires tuck in when the airbags deflate so they don't hit the fender well. Which not possible with a dual wishbone configuration, so more than likely its a basic strut assembly.
Most people will adjust their cars for negative camber, this way during hard cornering when the tire deforms on the vertical axis you get the largest amount of rubber on the road. Most ricers overdo this past performance and into the realm of looking good.
The tilt of the wheel is known as the camber angle. Tilting the wheel in that manner is called negative camber. Doing it the other way around (top outwards) is positive camber.
Mounting the wheel with a negative camber improves grip under hard cornering as it counteracts rolling. On a completely level tire (0 camber), when a horizontal force is applied to the rubber, it rolls, causing the inner edge of the contact patch on the outer wheel (and the outer edge on the inner wheel) to lift, reducing the size of the contact patch, and subsequently grip. By tilting the tire inwards, this is counteracted, but at the cost of a reduced contact patch when driving in a straight line. It's a tradeoff and requires careful modelling and testing to determine the optimal camber angle for a given vehicle.
Some F1 cars utilize variable camber systems, allowing the camber angle to be adjusted on the fly, giving ~0 camber on the straights and proper amounts (again, determined by careful modelling and testing) of positive/negative camber when turning.
That extreme amount of camber on the car you showed is purely stylistic and would be horrible for both tire wear and handling, but lesser amounts of camber are common. For example, the negative camber angle is plainly visible on the wheels of this Ferrari F1 car.
If you're only turning in one direction (i.e. oval racing), you can further optimize by applying both positive and negative camber to the inner and outer wheels respectively, countering the rolling on both wheels, giving you maximum grip when cornering. This is pretty much ubiquitous in NASCAR.
It is entirely for style.
This is called "camber".
The tires will wear in an odd manner. The tire contact with the road is usually a rectangle on the bottom of the tire. This extreme camber makes the contact patch very small and near the inside edge of the tire. This does significantly reduce grip.
The question assumes that the car is a drivable configuration, which may not be true. This car and similar photos you have seen probably have Height adjustable suspension this allows the ride height of the car to be changed on demand.
In all likelihood the frame of the car pictured is sitting on the ground. The suspension has been lowered (or tires raised) through a powered operator controlled method, until the tires are no longer supporting the car. There are several variables, but as you can see in the question image, the tires on the vehicle will not clear the body panels without being tipped in for the current ride height.
Alternatively @Freiheit has a good explanation also. A search for images on Google finds some images of vehicles that appear to be moving with similar extreme camber.
Because people are stupid. It's simply for the look or maybe to get the car even closer to the ground when the wheels are too tall. There is no practical reason to do so and if you tried to drive such a car, you will probably die in a horrible accident because you won't get any grip.
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I've been thinking today about NodeJS and it attitude towards blocking, it got me thinking, if a block of code is purely non-blocking, say calculating some real long alogirthm and variables are all present in the stack etc.. should this push a single core non hyperthreaded to CPU as Windows Task Manager defines it to 100% as it aims to complete this task as quickly as possible? Say that this is generally calculation that can take minutes.
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Yes, it should. The algorithm should run as fast as it can. It's the operating system's job to schedule time to other processes if necessary.
If your non-blocking computation intensive code doesn't use 100% of the CPU then you are wasting cycles in the idle task. It always irritates me to see the idle task using 99% of the CPU.
As long as the CPU is "given" to other processes when there are some that need it to do their calculations, I suppose it's OK : why not use the CPU if it's available and there is some work to do ?
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January 27, 2013
To the editor: As a native of Steubenville who moved away to go to college, but has remained close to my beloved Steubenville High School and city for 42 years, I feel compelled to share my feelings......
Coach Reno crossed the line.Plain and simple.He is a football coach not their parent! He should have stayed out of this situation. He tells his players "you get in trouble I'm your first phone call.Not your parent.Not your lawyer.You call ME!". There have been many boys after his "guidance" that have gone on to commit some very disturbing crimes. One I might add was on the Dr Phil show. Wasn't that the young man who shot out more than a dozen windows in Steubenville and has yet to serve any juvenile time or pay any restitution? He was one of the first people to have his face on the news claiming he was there to "back his boys". Well where is he now?.Got a lil too hot in the kitchen I guess.This story caught media attention not because of the crime. This happens in every corner of the country. One thing you don't see is assistant coaches, and head coaches getting involved.
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I only called him out specifically because a number of people hail him as someone who has made such a difference and who seeks to instill values in his players. This would be a good way for him to earn such adulation.
My greater point is that a lot of people are complaining about all of Steubenville getting a bad rap. Yet, I have heard nothing about any of those people stepping forward to help this victim specifically or victims in general. Actions speak louder than words. Show the world that's watching how good people respond to such tragedy and want to help.
Yes, that needs to start with the perpetrators and others who bragged and laughed about what happened. But others should also show the world. Stand up, show compassion, and make a difference.
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RobbieM, why should Reno lead an effort, how about the parents of theses children, people need to quit brining Reno into this, he's their coach not their parents, the problem today is we want teachers and coaches to raise our children, it all starts at HOME. This isn't about the whole football team,it's about a couple of individuals who happen to play football.
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Of course people are painting with a very broad brush, and that is unfair to the good people in your community. I have asked elsewhere, though, what anyone in the community has done to help the victim of this case. No one has offer any evidence of such help.
I'm sure there a a lot of good people in and around Steubenville. Why aren't at least some of those people started a drive to collect funds to assist with her counseling, etc.? Why isn't coach Reno leading that effort?
And, remember, it takes 100 "attaboys" to overcome one "aw s&^*."
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Mike831, thank you for the intellectual counterpoint.
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Joe Paterno, was a beloved man who helped many young men, yet he was still fired from Penn State for protecting a rapist and putting football ahead of interests of the victims.
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Oh my gosh, these tree-hugging hippies. Did you not read the letter? The author of this letter was in no way downgrading Caucasian athletes he was merely pointing out the Steubenville City Schools integrated for the right reasons and not solely in an attempt to garner better athletes like some schools around did. Let's for the sake of argument agree that Reno did make a poor decision with this issue, does that then mean we disregard the service he has done the community over the many years? Are we to forget about all the boys he helped steer away from a life of criminal activity? No, I don't think so. This letter is right no one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes.
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Arnold , you're an idiot, it's people like you that are never positive and always want to turn something positive to a negative. Hey Arnie , why don't you actually think before you write something, than you won't sound so stupid.
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i think he meant that SPS integrated for the right reasons, as a matter of fact I am sure that is what he meant.
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@Steve...Thank you for that letter. It is truly the best that I have read concerning this situation because is has a balance that has been conspicuously missing in the situation from the very beginning. Generally speaking, the local community has either chosen to blindly back all the adults/community leaders or they have resported to bashing everyone involved. This is a very interesting dynamic. I'm glad that you acknowledged that mistakes were probably made. That goes a long way with me. To Arnold's point: I agree that your statement concerning African Americans and private school came across insulting.
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Steve: Thank you for sharing your opinion that African-American athletes are faster than other American athletes and that is the only reason they were allowed to enter private school. Also Thank you for moving to Cleveland. Please stay there.
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Mobile technology gains in supply chain and logistics sectors
August 01, 2011 - LM Editorial
With tablet computers and handheld devices maintaining their tight grip on the business world, it just makes sense that the logistics sector would continue its forward momentum toward a time when wires are a thing of the past.
Long talked about in supply chain circles, goals like "real time" and "visibility" are already coming to fruition for tech-savvy shippers that integrate wireless, RFID, and other mobile technologies into their operations.
Over the next few pages we'll take a look at just how much traction mobile technologies have gained in today's supply chain, discuss the benefits of RFID and wireless integrations, and highlight what barriers to adoption still remain. We'll also illustrate just how close we are to real-time supply chain management and logistics visibility—and how far we have to go before we get there.
Harnessing the speed of light
When Simon Ellis, practice director for analyst firm IDC Manufacturing Insights, talks to logistics professionals about real-time visibility made possible by wireless technology these days, he hears a lot of grumbling about how the rapid advancements make it difficult to make good purchase decisions.
Credit "speed-of-light" technology advancements with creating those and other frustrations as shippers strive to implement the latest wireless and RFID technologies without breaking the bank, or falling behind. "The clock speed of innovation for mobility tools," says Ellis, "tends to be much more rapid than that of the supply chain itself."
Coming up with a business case for those speed-of-light technology options isn't always clear cut either, says Ellis. After all, it's hard to put a price tag on advantages like "better access to information" and "reductions in shipper errors." Translating those benefits into tangible business results "can be extremely tricky," says Ellis.
Despite the roadblocks, logistics professionals are pushing into the wireless world on a steady basis. In its June 2011 report entitled Incorporating Mobility into Sales and Marketing in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry, for example, IDC analyzed the potential opportunities for mobility once integrated into the sales and marketing function of the CPG industry.
IDC reports that mobile applications and devices are penetrating the sales and marketing organization at a "staggering pace," and expects total worldwide smartphone shipments to reach 925.7 million units by 2015 (compared to 450 million in 2011). Computer tablets like the iPad, Motorola XOOM, and Samsung Galaxy Tab are also growing in popularity, and are on pace to reach shipments of roughly 50 million units in 2011 (up 18 million units in 2010).
Expect to see at least a portion of those mobile devices in the warehouse, where more shippers are gravitating toward wireless environments. In those logistics environments, Zimmerman says requirements for specific key sizes—and the ability to withstand multiple, 6-foot drops to a concrete floor—have given way to durable devices that share the operating systems, processors, communications, batteries, and even peripheralization with their more ruggedized brethren.
"While there will continue to be a market for ruggedized applications," says Zimmerman, "many day-to-day logistics tasks will be able to utilize durable solutions for their data collection requirements."
Credit advancements in wireless communication infrastructures with helping to boost those numbers. According to Tim Zimmerman, research director of network infrastructure, mobility, and RFID at Gartner, the ratification of 802.11n combined with advancements in RFID capabilities, have made the wireless world more inviting for shippers. On the wireless local access network (LAN) side, for example, Zimmerman says the technology itself has stabilized over the last couple of years, thus opening the door for more data collection opportunities.
Not all shippers are reaping the rewards of these wireless advancements, although many are looking to upgrade and begin seeing those benefits. "A lot of [shippers] in the warehouse and distribution sector still have a lot of the old technology installed," Zimmerman says, "and are looking to integrate the value and cost advantages of an 802.11n solution."
That movement is also being driven by the fact that wireless handset providers like Motorola are rolling out 802.11n-capable devices. "That's sending a signal to the industry that now is the time to upgrade wireless infrastructures to support those handhelds," says Zimmerman, "and tap into the value that they provide."
Part of the growth in wireless will come from the handheld market, where durable devices are gaining popularity among shippers that increasingly want to handle their warehouse and transportation operations without the hassle of wires. "The cost profiles and functionality of handheld devices is making their adoption more advantageous for companies," says Zimmerman, who points out that improved Wi-Fi networks, Wi-Fi hot spots, and better cellular capabilities are all playing a role in the evolution.
Looking ahead, Zimmerman sees wireless adoption growing by about 30 percent annually among businesses, and says that number will continue to be driven by the new spectrum of network services being put in front of shippers. "Eight out of the nine firms we track in the enterprise LAN space are buying wireless companies, and the rest have strategic alliances with leading manufacturers," Zimmerman says. "Everyone is getting their foot in the door."
Finally, Zimmerman expects an uptick for wireless in the next 24 months to 36 months as enterprises convert their 802.11g wireless supply chain infrastructure to 802.11n. "This move will not be driven by the need for additional capacity," says Zimmerman, "but by other factors that include the end of life of the older, 802.11g equipment, which may have been in service for up to eight years; announcements from data collection mobile client suppliers regarding the launch of new, 802.11n devices; and the introduction of new durable devices and applications being added the networks."
RFID comes of age
When Drew Nathanson, director of research operations for VDC Research, tracks the use of RFID in the supply chain, he sees explosive growth within the retail sector, and respectable adoption rates among other users. The transportation sector as a whole, for example, comprised 28 percent of the total RFID market in 2010. "We expect that number to increase slightly in 2011," says Nathanson, who credits the retail sector with driving much of that growth.
"It's going really strong, with Wal-Mart as one of the biggest consumers." The large retailer is right now equipping its stores with RFID technology that tracks men's apparel and jeans, for example, and will soon expand that coverage into its women's apparel and other products. "Each time Wal-Mart adds a new SKU to its RFID program," says Nathanson, "you wind up with millions more tags being used annually."
One of RFID's biggest barriers to adoption—high tag costs—continues to hold shippers back from investing in the technology, although Nathanson says prices for active tags are trending downward. "Depending on the functionality, active tags run $10 to $50 each," he says. "Passive solutions—such as those used in retail—are running 10 cents to 12 cents a tag." Even with the high costs of the tags themselves, Nathanson says that the value of the RFID solution now more than compensates for the cost. "It's not really the price of the tag, but the price to tag and the value that the shipper gets out of it," he adds.
Ellis concurs, and says that the benefits that shippers glean from their RFID implementations have been largely publicized, and typically revolve around inventory visibility. "It's about knowing where things are at all points in time," says Ellis, "and the ability to communicate more clearly to customers about where items are and when they're going to be delivered."
Expect more logistics organizations to explore their RFID and wireless options in the future, and more vendors to come up with innovative ways for those managers to make visibility gains and other efficiencies, especially inside the four walls. "Right now we're seeing a lot of convergence with other solutions—from bar coding to voice recognition," says Nathanson, who sees a time when hands-free, eyes-free technology is integrated into warehouse RFID systems. "That will be a perfect fit because it won't require scanning technology, wires, or hands."
Other up-and-coming wireless apps for the warehouse, DC, and moving freight include those that can sense and monitor product, particularly food, produce and high-value items. "Most recently," says Nathanson, "we've seen the introduction of passive sensors that use film to detect the build-up of gases produced by rotting fruit. That's a useful wireless application for any company shipping perishable items."
Expect to see RFID and wireless playing a significant role in the supply chain as the technology behind those solutions improve—and as more companies seek out IT-based solutions to help them work more efficiently. With technology evolving at the speed of light, it will ultimately be up to logistics managers to figure out which applications will provide the most value—and which can be overlooked in favor of future options.
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Will RFID move into the cloud?
In a recent report titled Managed Services: RFID's Newest Deployment Method and Business Model, VDC Research painted a picture of an RFID market that is ripe for change. With CIOs and IT executives looking to migrate from traditional purchase-and-install software, VDC says cloud solutions and managed services deployment methods are gaining in popularity across a wide range of companies, applications, and solutions.
And believe it or not, RFID is on that list, according to VDC's Drew Nathanson. "We're starting to see traction here, namely because using RFID in the cloud mitigates risk for shippers, and it can also serve as a source of revenue," he says. "No enterprise wants to invest in RFID infrastructure, but they do want to get the benefits out of it. A cloud-based offering makes that feasible."
In the basics of a managed services model, customers are offered a number of material benefits, including reduced capital and management overhead risk and persistently up?to?date and higher performing solutions. According to VDC, the most powerful value proposition in managed services RFID may be the shift in deployment risk from customers to managed services providers (MSPs) and their technology partners.
Nathanson says the choice to move to a managed RFID application comes down to investment dollars, and whether the firm wants to buy, integrate, and maintain the system, or outsource those functions to a third party in exchange for a monthly or annual fee. "There are many different managed services models in use, each with its own plusses and minuses," says Nathanson. "In the end, the ability to obtain RFID value without having to invest significantly in infrastructure is a major benefit, and in many cases makes the RFID investment easier to justify."
RFID managed services is a "great idea," says VDC, and it should be a growth business for a number of companies during the next three years. However, a number of barriers to adoption were cited that are clearly limiting the potential now? and near?term penetration of hosted deployment models. The top three barriers are: security, loss of control, and vendor lock?in. Limited customization options could also thwart the movement of RFID into the cloud.
Challenges aside, VDC says that the timing is right for managed services RFID solutions to become a viable option for shippers, who will gain access to "recent and refreshed technology solutions," according to Nathanson, and someone who is looking out for your best interests, and handling the time-consuming maintenance issues associated with RFID infrastructures. "That should be a big relief for shippers."
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So we have a new custom designed desktop which we will be mostly a dedicated machine for scientific computations in FORTRAN and MATLAB. The IT initially installed Windows 7 on it and gave it to us. Our preferred OS is Ubuntu. The second choice is Fedora but we won't go there unless we absolutely have to and if someone here can give us good arguments that Fedora makes things mentioned below easier than Ubuntu.
If we were to just reformat the entire drive and install Ubuntu, things are easy but my adviser makes a good case that we should keep Windows too in addition to ubuntu.
First question, are there any good replacements for microsoft office in a linux environment? I know about open office of course and have even used it but if I receive a complicated .doc form or something and open it in open office, boxes/tables/text/spaces/margins are messed up and misaligned. Same happens in power point. In addition, if I prepare documents in open office (document or a presentation) it is messed up when opened in microsoft office. So what is the "best" replacement for office for linux? If this question has no good answer, then we have to keep windows.
Keeping windows, I was just going to repartition the hard drive, give windows a tiny bit of space and have ubuntu on the rest. But then there is the problem of sharing files between the two. So then I thought about having a tiny partition for windows, a decent chunk for ubuntu, and the largest one for documents.
What is a good file system for my documents partition which will be stable in the long run and both windows and ubuntu can read and write to easily? Note some files will be quite large like giant text files containing the output from a long simulation. Should I use NTFS or ext3 or what? Windows can't use ext3, right? But how good is ubuntu with NTFS? There won't be any read/write/checksum errors/issues? And what about FAT32? Any better alternatives I don't know about?
Any recommendations for a good free partitioning/formatting utility? I won't be able to format the entire drive. Windows is already on it and we want to keep it without removing it and reinstalling it. So I'll just shrink windows partition, repartition the rest into two more, then format the other two appropriately. There is only one physical drive involved in all this.
Now is the complicated part, given two partitions on the same physical hard drive, one with windows and one with ubuntu, is there any way for me to have some sort of a virtual machine which can mount another physical partition on the same physical HD? For example, if I am logged onto ubuntu and I have some figures I need to add into and modify a powerpoint, I want to be able to start a VM in ubuntu, mount my (physical) windows partition and use powerpoint. Is there anything for ubuntu that can do this like VMWare or something? Preferably free? What about the other way if I want to use ubuntu quickly while logged into windows?
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I know too many questions but they are all related. Just trying to plan carefully to build this machine in the least complicated way that can do everything we need and make sure it lasts a long time. I put this all here together so that the bigger picture can be seen by all and perhaps a better suggestion/strategy will be offered.
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was Uruguay in mine ?????
was Uruguay in mine ?????
England won it. played Russia in final
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Brazil 2010 and 2014 in mine
russia beat argentina in the final
england beat france 2-1 in mine.
Mexico beat Spain here in 2010
Italy and France flopped in the group stage and didn't even advance lol. Italy lost all its games.
England beat Spain 3-2
hahaha three people got England. Talking about a realistic game...
England stuffed Italy 3-0
England beat Denmark in my game.
England in mine Beat Argentina 2-0 Switzerland 3rd
Brazil for me
Brazil 2-1 over Italy for me.
Spain won it 2-0 against Mali
lol... Mali.
i know weird team in the final. almost as weird as all the england wins above. i'm going to win world cup with scotland when i get the job in it whatever year it takes lol
Italy beat Spain in the final. Australia finished third
Germany beat Italy in the final, England did not get out of the group stages
england beat slovakia i think
England beat France 3 -1
Argentina beat England. France and Holland went out in the group stage.
Italy beat Brazil on pens after finishing 2-2, england were knocked out 2 1 after extra time against greece in the second round.
Italy bt. Brazil
Portugal bt. England
Italy bt. Portugal
Spain won it in mine, but then Ukraine won the Euros in 2012!
spain beat italy 2-1 in the final. grecce beat ecuador 2-0 in the 3rd play playoff!!!!!
Germany beat England on penalties in the final
holland over germany
Brazil beat England 2-0 in the final on my game
Italy 5-0 Slovakia
Slovakia :/
Spain beat Holland 3-0 in 2010.
England beat Spain 2-1 with Rooney scoring twice in the first half and Torres pulling back one in the 76th minute
paragauy beat france 2 - 0
france beat chile 4-1 x
France beat England 3-1. Germany and Portugal failed to qualify with Germany finishing third in their qualifying group and Portugal fourth.
England overrated in FM2010?
Only time will tell maybe
Brazil on penalties against England. When will we beat someone on penalties
England Win at my Game 2010
France beat England 1-0
Spain beat Holland 4-1
*cough* ENGLAND *cough*
Must go and wash my mouth out now
Cameroon beat Germany 2-1 in mine. England yet again got knocked out by Portugal
Serbia beat Lithuania in the final :S both must have qualified above France in the qualification group!!
Denmark beat Argentina 5-0 in the Semi-final
and then beat brazil in the final 7-0
argentina beat france 4-3 after extra time
england got beat by argentina in the quarter final 3-0
USA beat England on penalties after the match finished 3-3 Glenn Johnson was the VERY naughty boy who missed the penalty in the shoot-out.
Spain beat England 2-0
Italy in mine....
Scotland Beat Brazil 1-0 in final of mine.
ouch - on home turf too!!!
Spain 7-0 South Africa
argentina win brazil on penalty after 0-0
then england beat australia for 3rd place :S
Is it really that difficult to put a 'Yo' in front of 'ur' in your post title.
The English language is going down the drain...
USA beat Germany 2-1
Mexico beat USA 2-0
Of all the England wins, how many were actually managed by yourselfs?
Germany won in mine!
scotland 4-3 republic of ireland in the final on mine
ivory coast on penalties over brazil
In FM 2009, it was won by Russia beating Holland on penalties. England lost out in the quarters against you know who, PORTUGAL ! Brazil were dismal, went out in the group stages & Dunga was immediately sacked.
Ukraine beat Colombia on penalties in mine. That was a bit of an odd one.
England made the Quarter Finals. Can't remember who they lost to without checking.
Brazil won mine.
Italy beat Uruguay 1-0 in mine
Brazil and Holland made the semis
Brazil beat England 3-1 in final in 2010
Argentina 0 - 0 Italy
Argentina win 4-3 on Penalties
Group A (of Death)
Argentina and Ghana qualified!!!
What's the weakest group anyone's had?
Group F (Never gonna win)
Brazil beat Sweden 4-0 in mine. England out in group stages
Mali-Slovakia 7-6 (without penalties or extra time!)
Italy won in mine (po popopopopo po)
England in mine.
Beat GERMANY 3-1.
Rooney (2), Lampard.
Cameroon came third which I think is good, especially since it was in Africa.
Hopefully we'll end up with somethign similiar when I'm there next year.
Argentina beat Sweden on penaties in mine.
I've just managed Ivory Coast to the final...about to play Brazil and have probably never been so excited for a match on FM. Never dreamed of getting them to the final, so win or lose im proud of this.
The final tense as you like. Kone put's me 1-0 up in the 70th minute, but 12 minute later Kaka pops up with the equaliser. In extra time I dominate, and even more pressure is on Brazil when Melo is sent off. But I can't make it pay so it's penalties. All square up until Marcelo misses...Drogba scores and it's 4-3. Yapi Yapo just has to score...straight at the keeper. Into sudden death it goes. My CB steps up, post and in. Phew. Then Lucas has too score and it's straight into the keepers arms. Africa has world champions
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Brazil beat Cameroon 1-0
Russia 2-1 Spain
Spain beat England
Germany beat Ivory Coast (me!!)
3rd place Ivory coast beat england
final germany beat spain
in mine Ivory Coast beat spain 2:0
Brazil spanked Russia 3-1
Spain 3-0 France in 2010
England didn't qualify for 2014
France over Spain
1st - Brazil
2nd - England
3rd - Ivory Coast
Russia beat Ecuador 2-1 on mine.
1st - Italy
2nd - Germany (insanely good grey players)
3rd - Portugal
Brazil came 3rd in their group behind Nigeria and Denmark whereas England lost to France in the first knockout round.
brazil 3 italy 2 in 2010
brazil 2 england 1 in 2014
scotland won euro 2012 lol
After 90mins Spain 0 England 0. Spain won 5-4 on pens. They are my tips to win it IRL aswell.
Brazil beat Germany 2-0
England 3rd
In FM09 Honduras got to the final before losing to Italy
Algeria beat France in my World Cup!
England beat Argentina 1-0 in the final
I'm very curious as to what leagues people are running in games where seriously unfancied teams have won, or done well in, the world cup. My bet would be that those people are using custom databases or running very few leagues.
I'd also bet money on a lot of games where England have won being games with just England running.
In games with a large database and many leagues running, then I'd bet would be seen the more realistic results.
I haven't got to the 2010 World Cup yet or I'd post my winners.
Italy spanked Brazil 3-0 England 3rd
Leagues I'm running (a lot): http://i36.tinypic.com/2d0lyj9.png
Do you have all players loaded from anywhere?
I just looked up the Algerian national squad in my game and it seems there's quite a number of top division players in there that would be at playable clubs in your game. The players of the teams they beat would be well modeled in the game too, so I don't know what to think.
It just interests me as to why the game throws up these anomalies. I mean Algeria winning a world cup? They say an African side is destined to win it one day but I wouldn't have said Algeria would be the ones, and African football hasn't risen as sharply as they predicted it would in the 90s.
England beat Spain in the final in my network game.
Cameroon beat Brazil on penalties in one game I've played.


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1949 Chevrolet Truck - Family JewelWritten by on October 18, 2011 Contributors: Isaac Mion Rick and Audrey Melone's '49
Like most custom classic trucks the '49 Chevy seen here spent a good deal of its life working, in fact this particular example was in the employ of Scobey, Montana, when new. Alvah Shaw, who was a volunteer for the city, regularly drove the truck and eventually bought it for use on his ranch.
After years of rough use and Montana winters, the well-worn truck was passed on to Alvah's son, Art. The plan was to restore the truck, but as it often happens, the rebuild was started but never completed. Art passed the truck on to his daughter, Audrey and son-in-law, Rick Melone. After a couple of starts and stops and some progress, the Chevy was handed over to Laddie Lentz of Smiley's Performance Engineering in West Laramie, Wyoming, for completion.
The foundation for the hauler is a 2x6-inch rectangular tube frame built by Dana Smith. Power is supplied by a small-block Chevy nestled between a custom fan shroud and a firewall recess that was made from a wheelbarrow. A stock Turbo 400 is hooked to a 10-bolt Chevy rearend. Gone are the 16-inch stockers, the pickup now rolls on American Torq Thrust wheels inside Z-speed rated Falken tires, 235/45-17 front and 275/40-17 rear.
Straightening the truck's sheetmetal after years of use and abuse was what could be described as a challenge. The cab corners, floor, bottoms of the doors, and firewall were all replaced. The bed was scrapped in favor of an LMC replacement and the thrashed rear fenders were replaced fiberglass replicas.
Some of the unique features of the truck are all the areas where the clearances have been "tightened" as Laddie describes them. The front fenders have been moved back to reduce the gaps between the body and running boards and the bed has been moved forward to fit tighter against the back of the cab. Laddie tells us the end result is the truck has been "shortened" in excess of four inches due to the nip and tuck.
When asked what color was used on the truck Laddie explained that the Chevy was a special fleet order and was painted orange when new and the Melone's wanted to duplicate it. The only decent remains of the original finish was found on the cowl vent, so a custom blend of triple stage urethane was mixed up and applied.
Inside the cab, Laddie formed sheetmetal panels for the cowl, doors, headliner and behind the seat. They were then covered by Gary McKimm of McKimm's Upholstery. The stock dash was fitted with instruments from Classic Industries and air conditioning and heat from Vintage Air was installed. But while the cab has the usual updates, a couple common additions weren't made. The Melone's retained the stock window regulators so their grandkids would know what it was like to crank windows up and down, and there's no sound system as they prefer to talk to one another on the road.
This truck has been lots of things to the family that's owned it. Starting out as a work truck, it was later on its way to becoming a restored stocker and finally ended up being built as a modified driver. In this latest form, the Chevy has proven itself to be an award winner even though it's only been on the road for a short period of time. That's a real family jewel. CCT
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Under the hood is a 355-inch small-block Chevy equipped with Vortec heads, Quadrajet carburetor on an Edelbrock manifold, and a Vintage Air FrontRunner drive system. The transmission is a Turbo 400 Exhaust headers are cast Sanderson's that lead to stainless pipes and Magnaflow mufflers.Replacing the stock seat is a bench from a Ford Ranger. To keep passengers safe, aftermarket shoulder belts have been installed. Armrests were fabricated from sheetmetal then upholstered. Topping the ididit tilt steering column is a restored stock steering wheel that has been modified to fit. Pedals are from Lokar and electric wipers from Classic Industries replace the original vacuum driven assembly.To supplement the aftermarket rear lights, a third brake light from a Honda Prelude has been integrated into the top. The rear bumper is from a '54, a custom gravel pan was shaped to fit. LMC supplied the reproduction bed. Audrey Melone took part in the build by staining the Oak bed floor before the stainless rub strips were installed. Hidden under a lift-up plank is the filler for the hidden aluminum gas tank.Up front, a Fatman IFS with power rack-and-pinion steering and coilovers replaced the original suspension. Brakes are a combination of Granada rotors and GM metric calipers up front with Speedway discs in the rear; Lokar cables activate mechanical parking brake calipers.


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I cannot figure out what is causing the editor's height to be set at 89953px. I have tried disabling all plugins and reverting to the default theme, using the 'Use Google Libraries' plugin and clearing all caches, to no avail.


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I own some Steam games I'd like to give away to friends as I no longer play them. Have I any options?
Pay attention that selling the account is not allowed by Steam Subscriber Agreement.
The only way to send games to friends is in the checkout option, selecting Purchase as a Gift
Relevant section from the link above:
Once you purchased it for your account, they are not transferable.
A lot of people are speaking to the legality of the issue, which is important. However, as far as practicality goes, yes, you can sell/give your account information to a friend.
This is against their terms of service, and I'm not advising it, but technically you can't sell your WOW account either, and that's common practice. As Drake pointed out though, you do have billing account info associated with that account, and if you don't change it or deactivate it, your 'friend' might start buying games and you'll have to pay for them.
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If two torsion theories on a ring localize the ring to the same extension ring, I can find no reason that their "meet" in the lattice of torsion theories must also localize to the same ring. I cannot find anything in Golan's encyclopedia that addresses questions like this.
Does anyone have a counter-example?
Here is a weaker question, not directly related to torsion theories.
Is there an example of the following:
A ring homomorphism R $\to$ S , S-modules P and Q , R-monomorphisms M $\to$ P and M $\to$ Q such that the image of each is an essential R-submodule, but such that the image of M in P $\times$ Q has no essential extension within the product that is an S-submodule


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According to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, which collects death certificate information, has approximately 3,000 deaths listed in 2002 from cardiovascular disease among people age 24 and younger. Sometimes athletes take fitness to the extreme with dangerous results or even death.
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Go Red campaign gets to heart of women's health
|Kathy Coletti, shown at her Atlanta home, January 28, 2013, suffered two heart attacks just days after giving birth to quadruplets in 1995. Because of her experience, both she and her husband have been very active helping raise awareness about heart disease among women, including helping with the Go Red campaign in Atlanta. (Bita Honarvar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/MCT)
But unrecognized cardiovascular problems nearly took her from them and her husband, Phil, before the little ones left the hospital.
After years of trying to conceive, of moving between hope and despair, she and Phil had finally welcomed quadruplets into their family: two boys, two girls. All healthy.
But within days of their arrival on April 24, 1995, Kathy Coletti started to get progressively weaker until she suffered a major heart attack.
A week later, she and the quadruplets were still at Northside Hospital in Atlanta when she had a second heart attack.
"I had what is known as SCAD, or spontaneous coronary artery dissection. It is the No. 1 cause of heart attack in pregnant and postpartum women, but most labor and delivery nurses still aren't aware of it," she said.
She was 36, and nearly a decade would pass before the American Heart Association would launch its Go Red movement, combining consumerism and altruism in its fight against heart disease.
Go Red for Women is credited with funding millions of dollars of research specific to cardiovascular disease in women, raising awareness and thus decreasing the number of women who die from it.
"When we started this campaign 10 years ago, about 500,000 women were dying each year," said Erica Ross, director of metro Atlanta's Go Red for Women. "Today that number is down to about 450,000 each year, so we still have quite a bit of work to do." Heart disease is still the No. 1 killer of women, Ross said. It kills one woman in every three. Since 1984, more women than men have died each year from heart disease, and the gap between men's and women's survival continues to widen. Ninety percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing the disease.
"The Go Red for Women movement was designed to close that gap by spreading awareness, encouraging women to focus on their heart health, and advocating for policies that support research and science related to improving these statistics," she said.
Coletti became interested in the campaign the moment she heard about it 10 years ago.
"I started to buy promotional items and collecting and passing out pins and information brochures about warning signs, what you needed to know about heart disease," she said. "I'd leave them in doctors' waiting rooms and give them to everyone I knew."
She does not want others to go through what she endured.
After her second heart attack, one of Coletti's nurses knew something wasn't right.
The nurse pulled Phil Coletti aside with a warning.
"You've got to find someone to help with this or she is not going to survive," the nurse told him.
Phil Coletti immediately found a cardiologist who told him his wife had a dissection or split between the layers of the wall of a blood vessel (artery) that provides blood flow to the heart. After consulting with his colleagues, the doctor transferred Kathy to nearby Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta.
Kathy's heart was in bad shape. Doctors performed a quadruple bypass surgery.
"It worked out well in the end, but unfortunately I have a lot of scar tissue and my heart is not as strong as I'd like it to be," Kathy Coletti said. "The only way to improve is to have a stem cell transfer down the road. At least I have hope that in 10 years, I will be able to have my heart back." And for that, she said, her family is eternally grateful not only to the doctors at Northside and Saint Joseph's but for the work the American Heart Association does on behalf of women.
Gratitude yields action When Coletti was invited last year to tell her story at the annual Go Red for Women luncheon, she said, one of her children quickly reminded her "it's only because you're still alive." They laughed, of course, but that's the whole point.
Coletti and her husband have dedicated their lives to raising awareness about heart disease.
Phil Coletti was so grateful for the doctors at Saint Joseph's, Kathy said, he began immediately volunteering at the hospital and has since become chairman of the board of directors, the same one he had persuaded years earlier to fund a cardiac center dedicated to women.
"What happened to me is rare, but when it happens, it is very life-threatening," Coletti said. "It was more than horrific, but fortunately, the doctors at Saint Joseph recognized it and knew what to do."
Heart symptoms common to women:
-Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of the chest. It lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back.
-Pressure, pain or discomfort in the lower chest, upper back or upper abdomen, neck or in one or both arms
-Being dizzy, lightheaded, faint, or breaking into a cold sweat
-Feeling like you have the flu
-Chest pain
Source: Katherine Gallagher, associate professor of surgery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery
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