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SAN ANTONIO (December 7, 2012) – San Antonio Rampage General Manager Mike Santos announced today that the American Hockey League (AHL) club has signed defenseman Mike Mottau and forward Jonathan Sim to professional try-outs (PTO).
Mottau, 34, played the last five seasons in the National Hockey League, splitting time between the New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders and Boston Bruins. The Quincy, Mass., native has totaled 313 NHL games throughout his career, recording seven goals and 51 assists from the blueline. Last year, Mottau tallied two assists in 29 games with the Islanders and also played six games with the Bruins. The 6-foot, 193-pound defenseman has eight years of experience (2000-07) in the American Hockey League. In his time in the AHL, he recorded 279 points (47 goals, 232 assists) in 463 games.
Sim, 35, brings nearly 500 games of NHL experience to the Rampage roster. The New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, native has played in 469 NHL games, recording 75 goals and 64 assists. Sim has played for eight different NHL teams, including the Florida Panthers in 2005-06, with his most productive campaign coming in the 2006-07 season with the Atlanta Thrashers where he tallied 17 goals and 12 assists in 77 games. Sim has also totaled 172 games in the AHL, averaging just shy of a point per game (94 goals, 77 assists, 171 points). The 5-foot-10, 190-pound winger spent the last two years playing overseas in Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Germany.
The Rampage wrapped up their longest road trip to date on Wednesday, posting a 4-1-0-0 record. The team returns home tomorrow (Saturday) for the first of a two-game set against the Oklahoma City Barons. The game will also mark the 9th annual Salute to the Badges Night, with local firefighters and law enforcement officers being honored throughout the game. Individual, and season, tickets start at $10 and can be purchased by calling a Rampage representative at 210.444.5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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'Tis a sad day. My candy corn wreath - my crème de la crème - had to be destroyed. There was a certain amount of attention paid to it by the honey bees in the area, which wasn't a problem. (Let's do our part to save the honey bees!) However, in recent days, a new admirer has come to visit: Polistes dominula - the European Paper Wasp. These little buggers decided to burrow and nest in the back of the wreath... and I'm allergic, so the wreath had to go. It was getting dangerous to enter and exit through the front door! C'est la vie.
Yesterday, however, was an awesome day... until I was finished and could hardly move. It was worth it, though. Whoever says that cooking isn't a sport obviously hasn't spent 4 hours on their feet in the kitchen! My arms hurt from stirring and the rest of me hurt from standing. Four dozen later, I was able to sit and relax... even took a long, hot bath.
We were not only Booed back, but also Ghosted on the same day! That put the pressure on - even though we started the tradition in the neighborhood, we were obligated (and pleased) to continue the tradition when it came back to us. That meant 4 treats and 4 neighbors to bless. I had one pumpkin recipe left...
So, here's the recipe for the dough(nuts), straight from PJ Hamel, a test baker at King Arthur Flour (here).
Pumpkin Doughnuts with Cinnamon Glaze
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups pumpkin purée
- 1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 3/4 cups + 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
For the cinnamon glaze:
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp whole milk (or whatever milk you have on hand)
- 2 tbsp ground cinnamon (or more, to taste)
Now, I didn't get a chance to taste the two together, because they were destined for others... and I had just enough pumpkin to make the 4 dozen I needed... but I did taste the dough and glaze separately. I can only imagine the heaven those 2 were together. Hopefully the kids of the families we gave them to will brag to our kids about how good they were, so we know!
Or... you could make them, then come back and tell me how good they are! I have another can of pumpkin, but I'm not sure I want to get back in the kitchen so soon after yesterday.
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The Peano Axioms (partially) formalize our intuitive notion of arithmetic. Partially because they also describe the behaviour of nonstandard models and there are some theorems that they can not prove that might seem, at first sight, to be within their domain e.g. Goodstein's Theorem and some of Harvey Friedman's combinatorial theorems http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9811187. So there is room for some clever soul to find additional axioms which would be independent of PA and also convey a natural intuitive property of the integers. These additional axioms would prove new theorems and also restrict the class of nonstandard models.
Could such a process ever be complete in the sense that all nonstandard models would be excluded?
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Does anyone know how to export a shape file out of ArcGIS into an Access 2007 database?
This should give you the understanding on how you should go about.
I know the text is not helpful but the images should help you through.
Basically, what the pdf is explaining, is that you can export the shapefile to a PersonalGeodatabase (which you will have to create before hand) and save it in a .mdb format. .mdb is a MSAccess recognizable format which is something that you can see when you open the particular file in MsAccess (As shown in the pdf in the link).
Personally, I would not recommend exporting the file to MSAccess or Personal Geodatabase. There are lot of flaws related to it. I would recommend that you export the data to FileGeodatabase.
The official way that ESRI suggest you create a link to an Access 2007 (accdb) database is discussed here.
You can use the "Table to Table" tool to convert a Shapefile .dbf into an MDB table.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- "Whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability"- that was the message Manhattan High School students heard Sunday during their graduation held at Kansas State University's Bramlage Coliseum.
Senior Class Speaker Christopher Davis was inspired to live by the motto thanks to a former chemistry teacher at Manhattan High.
"I think that's one thing we can all definitely gain from by doing and what an amazing difference it would make if everyone did," Davis told 13 News.
Several graduates are part of military families and before the ceremony, they had the chance to speak with loved ones who are currently deployed overseas via a video conference set up by Fort Riley. Among them was James Risberg whose father is currently deployed to Afghanistan.
"He told me congratulations. He said that he wished he could be here for me. It was nice to see him. He said he was really proud that I made it through all of this. It was a good talk," Risberg revealed about his conversation with his dad.
The ceremony was also broadcast live for deployed parents and guardians.
Risberg will study biomedical engineering and computer science at the University of Florida to develop robotic limbs in the future, particularly for soldiers wounded in combat.
"I want to build robotic arms. I'm interested in making robotics prostheses where the brain can talk to it- that kind of interface. I think it's just fascinating stuff. I think my background has had a big impact on my choice of major because I've had some of my friends' fathers get injured. They suffer and sacrifice so much for us. The least we can do is work to give them a semblance back of their normal life," he added.
His enthusiasm for the future was shared by all in the class of 2012.
"Bittersweet is a good word to describe the feeling today. We're all really excited for each other," said graduate Caroline Fry.
"It's just been an amazing time- a lot of great experiences and we all have a lot to be thankful for and a lot to look forward to. I think there's a lot of opportunities out there and I'm just looking forward to the next part of this journey," Christopher Davis added.
The graduates received more than $1 million in scholarships to colleges and universities across the country.


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5 Terrible Secrets Big Drug Companies Don't Want You to Know
If you go by their portrayal in movies and TV shows, you'd think that huge pharmaceutical corporations make all their money by turning children into zombies and having them steal grandma's heart medication, or whatever the plot of Resident Evil was. But the truth is that Big Pharma (as hippies and crackpots call it) isn't a modern-day Legion of Doom. They're businesses focused on making money, just like every other company out there ... which isn't to say they aren't capable of evil. They totally are. It's just that their evil usually involves less illegal genetic experiments and more down-to-earth dick moves like ...
#5. Repackaging Medication to Trick You into Taking It
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The name of a drug is a crucial part of its marketing. The antidepressant Prozac, for example, is meant to sound sciency, while the drug Sarafem, which is targeted at women, sounds distinctly feminine. (It's also pink, because ... vaginas, we suppose?) However, the only differences between these supposedly very different drugs are their names and colors: Sarafem is actually just Prozac, because Eli Lilly, the drug company behind both medications, wanted women to take the drug without telling them what it was.
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"But it says 'fluoxetine' right on the label. How can you not immediately know what that is?!"
Sarafem was marketed as the cure for an ailment called premenstrual dysphoric disorder -- essentially, all the unpleasantness that goes along with menstruation, plus horrible panic attacks, anxiety, and souped-up mood swings. And we're not saying that Prozac doesn't treat those symptoms; it might (we're not doctors). We just think that tricking people into taking drugs they wouldn't otherwise take is a moral gray area, although it could be forgiven if it was done for noble intentions. Like, say, if women suffering from PMDD really needed to take Prozac but were avoiding it due to its negative association with depression. That, however, is not what happened here.
Prozac was a huge money maker for Eli Lilly, and Sarafem was released only a few months before their patent on Prozac was set to expire. When a drug patent expires, its price drops sharply, as competitors start releasing their own generic versions. But by releasing a new drug identical to Prozac, Eli Lilly managed to extend their patent by a few years, allowing the price of Prozac to remain nice and high.
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Depressing, huh? Don't worry -- Eli Lilly has the cure!
In 1997, GlaxoSmithKline did something similar when they released the well-known antidepressant Wellbutrin as a pill that helps you quit smoking, but only after rebranding it as Zyban. Again, the science behind the drug might have actually been sound, but it doesn't change the fact that deceiving people into taking mind-altering drugs is something you usually expect to end with James Bond blowing up a skull-shaped island fortress in the middle of the Pacific.
#4. Flooding the World With Bad Research
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All right, so how exactly do doctors know what medication to give you, when new stuff is coming out all the time?
Well, they read medical journals, which are full of studies telling them what's working these days. Unfortunately, pharmaceutical companies know that, so when they roll out a new product that they know occasionally gives patients uncontrollable diarrhea, they first release an overwhelming number of falsified studies that replace the word "diarrhea" with "kittens."
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The kittens have diarrhea, but it's adorable.
OK, the actual practice is a little more subtle than the kitten thing. In one real case, drug company Medtronic paid $210 million to dozens of surgeons to sign their names to medical articles that were drafted and edited with the help of Medtronic marketers to advertise the company's bone-growth product Infuse ... the same Infuse that was later linked to cancer and infertility in men, which might have affected any of the million people who were prescribed it. The warnings were always there in the fine print, but the marketers were able to tweak the wording to play up the benefits and brush off the horrifying risks and side effects. The authors who went along with it could later be seen wearing lab coats made of solid gold.
But even when drug companies go to the effort of conducting genuine scientific studies, oftentimes they simply don't publish the unfavorable results. In one experiment, a number of studies of an antidepressant medication were submitted to a drug regulatory authority, and in the end, only the studies that yielded favorable results were released to the public. Oh, did we forget to mention that the studies were funded by huge pharmaceutical conglomerates? This is why some researchers believe that the vast majority of studies on antidepressants are unreliable at best and complete horseshit at worst.
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Personally, we prefer the trial-and-error method.
But what about independent studies that aren't paid for by big businesses? Sure, they exist, but many of the researchers end up getting sued, and the studies are kept from publication by the drug company lawyers. Remember, the companies don't even need to win their suits -- all they need to do is keep bringing the scientists back to court until they run out of money and resort to burning their research notes for warmth.
#3. Deploying an Army of Lying Sales Representatives
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Other than medical journals, the other way for doctors to stay informed about drugs is through sales reps, who visit medical professionals and tell them about the newest pill-magic their company has come up with. Sales representative visits are basically the medical education equivalent of a pizza delivery in a porno, by which we mean that they are quick and convenient and usually end with someone getting fucked. The bad news? That someone is usually us.
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"On the plus side, we've got plenty of birth control options for you to use while we do it."
In most countries, drug sales reps are legally required to disclose all relevant information about a drug they are promoting to the doctor, not just the fun stuff. But in the U.S., Canada, and France, it's been found that they only mention serious drug risks 6 percent of the time. Because, you know, they're in sales. Their goal isn't to inform; their goal is to get the doctors to sign on the dotted line -- and your doctor is just as susceptible to slick sales techniques as anybody else.
So what's the risk here? Well, more than half of the drugs whose downsides aren't mentioned carry the most severe warning that can be issued -- we're talking "may cause death" territory here. And that's just for the risks -- things that might go horribly wrong when someone takes the drug. This is not to be confused with side effects, which are things that will almost definitely go horribly right if you take the drug. But again, sales reps won't even mention side effects in 59 percent of the cases.
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"When you think about it, what is 'anal bleeding' really?"
Part of the problem is that some hospitals might be greeting over a dozen sales reps a day. The doctors want to listen just long enough to get the merchandise and free samples, but not a moment longer than they have to. This leads to super condensed sales pitches, and if something's going to get cut, it'll be the downsides. A far larger part of the problem, however, is that despite the law being pretty clear on these points, there's practically no oversight or enforcement of it whatsoever.
Meanwhile, the drug companies are spending billions on TV ads telling patients to demand these drugs from their physician. So, the doctors are getting pressured from all sides. But really, why should they worry about it when they just read that informative journal article talking about how safe the drug is?
And if we're making it sound like there are paid shills everywhere, well, that's because drug companies are ...


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Honey-Glazed Ham
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Boiling the ham first makes it nice and moist
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 2H
Serves: makes 10-12 servings
- 7lb ( 1.35kg) boneless ham butt
- 1 large onion, quartered
- 3 bay leaves
- 12 peppercorns
- 1/2 cup honey
- grated zest and juice of 1 orange
- about 20 whole cloves
- orange slices, to garnish
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- Place the ham in a pot and add cold water to cover. Add the onion, bay leaves, and peppercorns and bring a boil over medium heat. Lower the heat to medium-low and simmer for 11/2 hours. Drain the ham and cool slightly.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Combine the honey, orange zest, and juice.
- Trim off the ham skin, leaving a layer of fat. Cut crisscrosses in the fat and push in the cloves. Line a roasting pan with foil. Place the ham on a rack in the pan and pour in 1 cup water. Brush the ham with half of the honey mixture.
- Bake the ham for 10 minutes. Baste with the remaining honey mixture. Bake another 10 minutes or until glazed. Let stand for 20 minutes. Garnish with orange slices.
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Getting your "free" time under control now will help prepare you for managing that extra 20 hours a week come freshman year of college — when you'll need to study and want to socialize more than ever.
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Just a pure curiosity: Does there exist a creature with an orthogonal view to the world instead of perspective? What would be an optical explanation for possibility/impossibility?
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Many creatures have eyes on the sides of their head where they cannot have both eyes simultaneously look at the same target. For example whales. Chameleons are well known for having independently moving eyes (though they can align them for binocular vision)
Since all the significant processing of vision occurs in the brain's occipital lobes there is no problem with optics.
The answer depends on the distance between eyes, and width of the objects you are viewing.
The view of a separate object is close to the orthogonal view when the width of the object is equal to the distance between your eyes.
Hence the creature that has variable distance between eyes, and has large maximum distance between eyes, has most possibilities to view objects in orthogonal view. Snail comes to mind when I try to think about animal with variable distance between eyes, but its maximum distance between eyes is not that large.
When object is narrower than distance between eyes, you see it in "anti-panoramic view". You will see both left and right side of the object, which is impossible both in orthogonal view and in panoramic view.
Speaking about whole 180 degrees wide visble scene (wider for some animals), the answer is No. You cannot view the whole scene without perspective view, unless you have large number of "eyes" (sensors) that are spread over a large plane. There is no such animal, but you can artificially construct such "perceptor plane" using large number of photocameras.
When looking at the objects of width equal to distance between eyes, if your brain can direct eyes such that their viewing axes are parallel, and could integrated two pictures, then it would view perfectly orthogonal view. This is not what our brain normally does, though. But even with non-parallel view axes of eyes, what we eventually see when brain integrates different pictures the result is not par from orthogonal projection.


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The new WalMart is supposed to open in October, but WBKO has learned there's animosity between two of the work crews. Alvarez painting out of Lexington was contracted to do the painting. T.D. Farrell construction company was also hired. Stacy Alvarez says the construction crew leader wanted another company to do the painting and he's made it difficult for the painters to complete their jobs.
Stacy Alvarez says, "He started harassing our employees. One day it got so bad that he asked our employees for their documentation, which is illegal."
Alvarez called the Bowling Green Police Department because there was so much friction. The police ruled it a civil matter and not a police issue.
T.D. Farrell construction company declined to comment when WBKO asked them their side of the story.
There's no word yet on how much of a delay, if any, this will cause for the opening of WalMart. However, Alvarez says the vice president of the contracting company is reviewing the situation.


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Polk's boast: predators not welcome here
Last week's Polk County Tiger Bay Club meeting, at which State Attorney Jerry Hill was the featured guest, was one of the organization's most interesting yet.
Hill, carefully staying within the bounds of not trying to tell Polk's cities how to do their jobs, made it clear that in his opinion, it is past time for a change in leadership in the Lakeland Police Department. He is correct.
The LPD scandal has few precedents in Polk County's political history.
Lakeland's government has dug in its heels in defense of the status quo in the police department. It is still waiting to figure out what happened.
Reading newspaper accounts or watching TV reports would solve the mystery, but only the other 599,990 or so of Polk County's approximately 600,000 citizens have chosen that option. Lakeland's political leadership has insulated itself from these revelations.
Nothing we can say will open their eyes.
Another question fielded by Hill is of perhaps greater importance to the rest of Polk County.
An inquiry submitted from the audience questioned the effectiveness or propriety of Sheriff Grady Judd's propensity for highly publicized online stings to attract and arrest sexual predators who take the bait from sheriff's deputies who represent themselves as pre-adolescents ripe for sexual encounters.
Hill's response was that the sexual predator stings are drawing proportionately more out-of-state perps and fewer Polk, Hillsborough and Orange county predators. Our neighbors are getting the word: keep out.
And that, to Hill, is good news.
Indeed, Polk County has staked out its claim as an island of sorts in a sea of sexual misconduct.
Major highways passing though Polk are dotted with establishments catering to the "adult business" trade just beyond the county line, Hill said.
But Polk is establishing itself as an oasis which rejects online moral turpitude.
Is Imperial Polk swimming upstream against the flow of conduct that your parents taught you was wrong? Perhaps.
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The Last Nickey CamaroWritten by on February 21, 2014 This 74' Camaro LT Is A Rolling Landmark
Few cars possess the significance of this '74 Camaro LT, which underwent what is most likely the last 427 L88 Stage III Super Car Conversion at Nickey Chevrolet before the famous dealership closed its doors in December 1973. With that kind of provenance, this Camaro is truly a rolling landmark in time.
Nickey was the first high-performance dealership to install a 427 engine in the newly introduced Camaro
The Nickey name -- and the famous backwards K logo -- is familiar to most muscle car enthusiasts, but the dealership's story goes beyond its Super Car Conversions. Originally founded by a man named Nickey in the '20s, the Chevy dealership was sold to the Stephani family in the '30s. Two Stephani brothers, Ed and Jack, took over the running of the dealership after they came home from military service in World War II. Ed became president, Jack took over sales and marketing, and the brothers poured their lives into building Nickey Chevrolet into the largest Chevrolet dealership in the U.S.
It was Jack who came up with the dealership's unusual logo. According to an article in Vintage Motorsport magazine written by Jack's son Tom, Jack spotted an advertisement while on vacation in Florida that had a backward letter in the name of a business. Since that caught his eye, Jack reasoned, the same could work for Nickey. So in the fall of 1957, he commissioned White Way Sign Company to make a Nickey sign with the backwards K. The sign worked, drawing in a number of customers who wanted to report the "mistake" on the sign. To reward those people, Nickey gave them a gift certificate for an upside-down cake at a local bakery (and, in all likelihood, a quick look around the showroom floor).
The logo was effective, but it was Nickey's involvement in road racing, drag racing, and land speed record cars that elevated the company's performance status. In 1958, Ed and Jack gave Lindy Lindheimer the responsibility of building a competitive road racing team. Under Lindy's direction, Nickey sponsored driver Jim Jeffords and crew chief Ronnie Kaplan to race what would be called the "Purple People Eater" Corvettes. One of those Purple People Eaters was the radical Zora Arkus-Duntov–created Corvette SR-2 designed by Harley Earl.
The car then sat for 28 years
Nickey continued to sponsor road racing through the '60s but also became heavily involved in drag racing. Even when Chevrolet officially pulled out of racing in 1963, Chevrolet stealthily continued to supply high-performance parts under the supervision of race car builder Bill Thomas. In a savvy move, Nickey Chevrolet formed a partnership with Thomas and began offering Super Car Conversions in 1966.
The partnership with Thomas provided the Stephani brothers with the necessary technical expertise to offer dealer-built cars that the public recognized as superior to normal factory offerings. Nickey Chevrolet was the first high performance dealership to install a 427 engine in the newly introduced '67 Camaro. Nickey Vice President Al Seelig and parts manager Don Swiatek were instrumental in the development of Stage I, Stage II, and Stage III Super Car Conversions throughout the rest of the '60s and into the '70s. Nickey Chevrolet also offered seminars to other Chevrolet dealerships to train them to create similar high-performance packages.
A number of factors led to the dealership's closing in 1973, but the key players in the performance program, including Seelig and Swiatek, formed a new business under the name Nickey Chicago. Nickey Chicago continued to build and modify cars through 1977, then closed, but has since been given a fresh start under the leadership of Stefano Bimbi. Today, Nickey Chicago offers late-model Nickey Camaros in Stage I, Stage II, and Stage III performance levels, and also offers vintage continuation cars. Suffice it to say, the Nickey legend lives on.
Helping to maintain the legend is this '74 Stage III Camaro, which was discovered by Bimbi and later sold to current owner Mike Guarise. Bimbi explains, "Don Swiatek remembers that a man from Northbrook, Illinois, had read the May 1973 Hot Rod magazine article about the '73 Nickey L88 Nova and decided he wanted one for himself. However, he wanted the Stage III Super Car Conversion performed on a Camaro. We believe this Camaro is the very last Super Car ever converted at the Nickey Chevrolet dealership. The car, an early '74 model, was delivered very late in November 1973 and promptly converted to Nickey status. By the end of December 1973, the dealership had closed."
By late 1973, Chevrolet was no longer offering a complete L88 engine, says Bimbi, who has the documents from Chevrolet to prove it. Since no complete engine or long-block L88 was available, Nickey ordered an L88 427 short-block and the related engine components from the GM parts book, then assembled the L88 in the shop. Subframe connectors were installed, and the rearend was upgraded with a Posi unit and 3.23 gears. After a test drive and tune, the conversion was complete. From what can be gathered, the first owner enjoyed the car for about 16 years.
Skip forward to 1980. The original owner of the '74 Nickey Camaro parked it in front of a furniture store in Highland Park, Illinois, with a "For Sale" sign on it. While cruising in his red '74 Z28, a resident of Highwood named Rocco Lucente spotted the car. Lucente called the number listed, and learned that it was a Nickey car. He remembers the original owner telling him how good the Camaro was for high-speed cruising on the highways of Ohio.
Lucente purchased the Camaro but only drove it a few months. With intentions of making the engine more drivable on the street, he pulled the L88 motor and disassembled it. The car then sat for 28 years, and was discovered through a Craigslist ad by Bimbi in 2010. He made a deal with the family, and then the car was purchased by Mike Guarise and sent to Muscle Car Designs for a complete restoration. (We documented the find in "Swan Song," June '11.)
By the end of December 1973, the dealership had closed
The car marks the sad end of the legendary Nickey Chevrolet dealership. At the same time, it celebrates the enormous contribution of the Nickey Chevrolet heritage created by Ed and Jack Stephani. That Bright Yellow '74 Nickey Camaro stands as a trophy of automotive accomplishment won by two brothers from Chicago who took risks, worked hard, and inspired a generation.
At a Glance
1974 Nickey L88 Camaro LT
Owned by: Mike Guarise, Chicago, IL
Restored by: Muscle Car Designs, Joliet, IL
Engine: 427ci/430 (rated) hp L88 V-8
Transmission: TH400 3-speed automatic
Rearend: GM 10-bolt with 3.23 gears and Positraction
Interior: LT Package with vinyl bucket seats
Wheels: 14x7 front, 15x8 rear Cragar SS with Nickey Centers
Tires: P215/70R14 Pro Trac 70 front, L60-15 Pos-A-Traction rear
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Forged 12.5:1 pistons (PN 3947886) were used in the 427 L88 and 427 ZL1 engines. During the rebuild of the L88 engine in Guarise's '74 Nickey Camaro, this correct 3947886 piston and seven others were replaced with new 0.030-over forged pistons.That Nickey decal is not a reproduction, and features a bird with slicks doing a burnout. The decal reads, "Nickey Chicago Performance Parts & Speed Equipment."Bimbi sold the Camaro to Mike Guarise, who then shipped it to Bob Adams of Muscle Car Designs in Joliet, Illinois, for a superb restoration.Adams was especially careful to use vintage parts for the restoration of this historic vehicle. The Gabriel Hi Jacker air shocks were commonly used in the '70s for big tire clearance. The Lakewood slapper bars were seen frequently on leaf-spring cars to minimize wheelhop.The 15x8 Cragar SS wheels with Nickey center caps are shod with vintage L60-15 Pos-A-Traction Torque Twister tires.When second owner Rocco Lucente took the motor out of the Camaro in 1982, the car sat in this Illinois garage for 28 years until being sold to Stefano Bimbi in 2010.Federal regulations for 1974 required newly designed front and rear battering rams. The front grille and taillights were revised for 1974, while this would mark the final model year for the flat back window. That combination gives the '74 Camaro a one-year-only look.


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I am ok with using yum and apt-get. But for graphical package kit I am not that impressed with what Fedora/Opensuse have in PackageKit. Half of the time it updates and when you search for anything you hardly find them. Finally have to resort to yum.
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I went to a lecture on category theory, and I am trying to understand something: I want to know what it means for a category to be distributive. We were given a homework problem, but I don't even understand what it means: Let $C$ be a category such that for all $X,Y \in C$ there exists a product $X \times Y$ and a coproduct $X \oplus Y$ in $C$. Show that there is a canonical morphism
$\psi : (X \times Y) \oplus (X \times Z) \to X \times (Y \oplus Z)$. When $\psi$ is an isomorphism, $C$ is called a {distributive category}.
What does "Show there is a canonical morphism $\psi : (X \times Y) \oplus (X \times Z) \to X \times (Y \oplus Z)$ mean? What does "canonical morphism" mean? By the way, functors have not yet been introduced in the course. So far we have only learned the definition of category, product, and coproduct.
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Announced last month as a real game that you can actually buy on PC after the concept was brought to life during a game development experiment, the release of Goat Simulator from Coffee Stain Studios is almost upon us.
Goat Simulator is out on April 1st (fitting) and will launch at a pre-order price of $9.99 both through Coffee Stain and Steam – you can get the game three days early if you pre-order. But what is Goat Simulator?
To put it simply, Goat Simulator is… a game… where you interact with other objects… in an open-world… where stuff happens… it's all powered by physics… there's a goat…
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i'm searching for a lens to make fast panorama & QTVR, thus needed a wider lens with wider FOV, and of course with a good image quality...
my current system is Canon 400D (Rebel XTi) + EF 17-40mm f/4 L
my options of are:
Canon EF-S 10-22mm - rectilinier lens
Tokina 10-17mm - fisheye lens
Sunex 5,6mm - circular lens
I can only obtain 1 amongst those 3 lenses.
Can anyone share some hands on experience on any of those lenses mentioned above? really appreciate it....
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The 6 Worst Ideas Nearly Included in Great Video Games
#3. Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter Had a Pervert Character
Today's fighting games are mostly about throwing together characters from different fictional universes, settling once and for all those childhood debates we had about whether or not Wolverine could beat up Guile from Street Fighter. So, for instance, we have Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, which had a pool of 17 characters to choose from. Unless you played the Japanese version, that is, which had 18.
Why the disparity? The Japanese versions of the game included an exclusive character called Norimaro, a skeevy older man dressed like a schoolboy, created and played by Japanese comedian Noritake Kinashi.
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We're still trying to unlock Borat in Mortal Kombat.
His entire backstory is that he accidentally ended up at the tournament and now he's there to take Chun-Li's picture. That's seriously it. If you beat the game with him, he steals her panties. No, really.
His moves include grabbing random junk out of his bag and throwing it (rulers, pencils, books, etc.), desperately spinning his arms around like a windmill, Bart Simpson style, slipping on banana peels (which then fly toward the opponent) and begging for autographs.
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An advanced technique taught only by TMZ masters.
Apparently, Capcom actually considered including him in the American release, because his files are still in the game and some of his lines have been translated into English. He's just not available to be selected (without hacking).
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And in a bit of cut-material Inception, the insane deleted character has an insane deleted super move. Hackers have discovered animations for a move where Norimaro dreams of a random female character in a seductive pose and then spurts blood from his nose. Opponents hit by the blood are damaged.
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Norimaro's "finishing" move.
Every female character in the game could have shown up in Norimaro's dream bubbles, including one named Anita, who's only 10 years old ...
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... and, um, Zangief.
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Maybe he got the wrong idea when he heard that Zangief was a bear wrestler.
#2. Mega Man Legends Included Animal Abuse
The original Mega Man was kind of a cyborg boy scout. The robot next door. Apparently, no one passed that message on to the Japanese team behind Mega Man Legends, an open-world RPG for the Sony PlayStation.
The game runs like a standard RPG. You do typical good-guy stuff, like helping people and running errands. In one mission, you assist a girl who has been chased up a pole by a dog. In the American version, you can talk the dog out of mauling this little girl.
"Hey, that's a great point. Too bad I'm a fucking dog and can't understand you."
In the Japanese version, however, you have the alternate choice of kicking the ever-loving shit out of it. Damn, Mega Man. When did you absorb Michael Vick's powers?
But hey, man, that dog was nuts. Did you see that? Even a robot has gotta make split decisions. Except in later parts of the game, you encounter other dogs and can punt them like footballs, too. This was even present in the American version, but you can only kick them once. In the Japanese version, you can actually kick them to death, if you're OK with Mega Man being a sociopath.
"Fuck you, Sarah McLachlan!"
To be fair, those dogs are also trying to kill you ... but that still doesn't explain why the Japanese version allows you to kick harmless cats. Oh, and wantonly shoot down birds. You don't get anything from them. It doesn't help you. You just can. Because you have an arm cannon, and what good is it if not for senseless animal cruelty?
"Somebody point me toward the zoo. I gots to make a zebra pay."
#1. Atomic Bomberman Dropped Literal F-Bombs
Atomic Bomberman is a 1997 edition of the classic Bomberman series: You know, those puzzle games where you go around planting bombs and pissing off your friends.
Terrorism has rarely been this fun.
As a PC game, Atomic Bomberman's main innovation over the Bomberman games for Nintendo consoles was the addition of voice acting. As you knocked out or blew up the other players, your character would say things like "gotcha," "toasted" ... or (originally) "Time for a fuckin' dirtnap, you shitfuck."
That's right; the disc contains an audio file with a hilarious, profane audio track, and it's not just the programmers screwing around -- they had the actual voice talent record profane lines for every in-game situation. You can hear it for yourself, though you might want to keep the volume down if you're at work:
If the voices sound familiar, that's because the voice actors are none other than Billy West (Fry from Futurama) and Charles Adler (Buster Bunny in Tiny Toon Adventures). Some highlights:
"Aw, shit."
"Come on, biatch."
"I'll break your fuckin' head with a ratchet."
"Right there, sweet tits." (This one's for the bonus Strip Joint level.)
"Fuck me, I'm so fucking proud of you I could just shit." (Actually, we don't wanna know what this one is from.)
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Probably from the fact that he hasn't committed suicide even though he looks like that.
The actors repeat the lines in the voice of each character, so it's not like they were just shooting the shit and someone recorded it. That means they were planning to include those lines in the game at some point, back when video game profanity was still a big deal. Think about it: Mario 64 had only come out the year before, and Atomic Bomberman almost sounded like a bunch of teens fighting on Xbox Live.
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Has anyone out there tried the new Nadir Adapter for NN3 and NN5 series Nodal Ninja panorama heads. Would be interested to see some results with this kit.
Has anyone out there tried the new Nadir Adapter for NN3 and NN5 series Nodal Ninja panorama heads. Would be interested to see some results with this kit.
Yes me to
I am currently considering purchasing one, am using D200, NN3, EZ-leveller & Nikon 10.5mm.
Does anyone have any sample images they could show taken with the Nadir adaptor? I am currently using a tripod cap logo at present but would love to be able to get this nadir thing sorted
Hi Guys,
what tripods are you using? I am testing both NN3 and NN5. The adaptor sets a lot of torque to the equipment and the camera will move down. To re-level, I would recommend to use an EZ-Leveller II and a 2/3 way bubble leveler in the cameras flash shoe. Then it is easy to re-level.
The NN has to be set in 90° to two legs of the tripod. As DennisS advised, you have to be aware that a long center column may interfere even alpha masked. Use a short center column and a tripod with stiff center column attachment.
I used a Manfrotto 055ProB for my panos a long time, but with the swivel the center column moves. The problem of a little bit unstable center column was reported before with the manfrotto by Pros.
Actually, I now use Gitzo GT1541 for NN3/R1 for light weight and travel and Feisol CT3372LV for NN5 D3 Nikkor 14-24/f2.8 without center column ( interchangeable plate ) or with center column and monopod for pole pano. Rock solid.
Use the legs spread out and do some test shots, use for the best wireless control to get your body out of the pics. Turning out the swivel, turn the equipment holding it on the hight of the rotator knob. Before turning, fix the rotator with both, fixing knob and detend plunger. Turn around, fix the swivel screw, take shot, IMMEDIATELY turn the nadir adaptor back and fix the screw before you do anything else.
I leave my legs, the two in front, spread out and do not set them to 90° in vertical. BOTH, NN5 AND NN3 WITH NADIR ADAPTOR TURNED OUT MIGHT BEND OVER >85° EVEN WITH SPREAD OUT LEGS. That's Physics, isn't it? Take care of your equipment.
Conclusion: Great addition to the NN products. Easier to use than old way 2 nadir visa versa + handheld shot. Freedom to get nadir in long exposure situations. Saves one shot visa versa, think of bracketing.
Accessories required: for my personal opinion Ez-Leveller II, 2/3way bubble leveller, wireless remote control
I will send pics later.
BTW Brian, what camera lens combi do u use?
Important addition:
only re-level the bubble leveller on the camera in both bubbles of the 2-way leveller. Do not think of the one on the rotator. This will stay off center. But this doesn't matter because we only have to re-level the camera.
I use a cord to control the repositioning of the tripod to NPP and a coin below the tripod before moving.
For Users of NN3 with nadir adaptor:
You have to reduce the LRS by 6 mm, because there is an offset of 6 mm of the vertical rail to the important corner of the nadir adaptor to lower rail. You will see once you have mounted the vertical rail of the NN3 to the adaptor. This is the measurement for my equipment NN3 MKII. Test your own equipment to be sure about this.
The Nadir shot is in the center, the patch shot has the tripod off to the left. Note the orientation of the pano head to the tripod. That is critical to using the swivel correctly.
Here is a quick tutorial on processing the images with PTGui. http://www.dlsphoto.net/Tutorials/NadirPatch2/index.htm
There is a lot of side load with the camera swiveled out. I use a D300 + 10.5mm lens and found that the NN3 lower rail is not really up to the task with the D300. The NN3 is not designed for larger DSL cameras in the first place. I use Manfrotto 055x series of tripods. Neither the standard or pivoting center column models flex when the camera is swung out. Most vertical movement comes from flex in the lower arm of the pano head or a leveler. Whatever tripod you get, order a short center column.
A lot of people do not use any leveling device. It is easy to adjust the tripod legs in order to level your rig. You do not need to be perfectly level anyway. With the camera swung out, any vertical movement should be compensated for in your stitching software. The point of the swivel is to make capturing the Nadir patch shot as easy and quick as possible. When you start adjusting your rig between the patch shot and the rest of your panorama, you are adding more steps to the capture process. The ideal steps are to take the Nadir, swing the camera out, slide your rig over, take the patch shot, swivel your camera back and off you go to the next panorama.
Look at the swivel as another step in your process. Try it without the leveler to see if that works for you. If you find that vertical movement of the camera is causing you more time in stitching, then relevel the rig between shots. You should not have to mess with the tripod legs. If you are, then you are not correctly set up in the first place.
My rig consists of NikonD90 & D2, 10.5 fisheye, NN3, Ez leveler & Velbron DV-7000. Pretty standard set up really. The Velbron is a video tripod and as such is quite heavy, but very, very stable., however a real pain to carry any distance. Look forward to your pics.
I have set up a panorama with D200, Nikkor 10.5, NN3 and Nadir Adaptor. The set includes 2 videos, one about preparing, alpha mask nadir and stitching the panorama with PTGuiPro and PS CS4. The second one explains the set up of the rig and shows the effect of the nadir adaptor.
Two maps include the pics of the pano - for those who want to play around on their own - and the pics of the D200, 10.5, NN3, Ez-LevellerII Gitzo GT 1541T
The workflow in the video shows my own decision to create a panorama, there are many ways to Rome and might be that others do it in another way. Same with using the EZ-LevellerII, I can do it as well without it and use the tripod legs to adjust, I simply prefer to use the leveller instead of adjusting tripods legs.
I have set this up cause there have been questions around the nadir adaptor, stitching, and alpha masks. Just to try to give "newbies" a help to start up. Not to start a lot of threads with those who know how to do it. Camera orientation "on'' "off" etc.
http://web.me.com/hindenhaag/filechu...aptorVideo.zip Video
http://web.me.com/hindenhaag/filechute/D200_10.zip Pics of pano
http://web.me.com/hindenhaag/filechu...dirAdaptor.zip Video
http://web.me.com/hindenhaag/filechu...dirAdaptor.zip Pics of Set Up
Think it helps a little bit,
Heinz, You did well in describing the general process of using the nadir adapter in the videos. Newbies should find them very useful. However, I do have reservations about your stitching workflow, and I cannot agree that your final result is a "very fine stitch" - there being several stitching errors at the nadir. It's quite easy to get a flawless stitch with your images, but I will observe your request not to get involved with side issues and leave it at that.
Thx John,
I will make a review. I was glad to get it on the road. Send me an IM if you like.
Thank you so much for that tutorial at least I know that the product is worth the investment. I normally do a hand held nadir shot and providing I get my body as far away as possible then PTGUI can cope with the stitching. However I am now trying HDR and for this a hand held is not appropriate.
Also as an experiment I loaded all your images into PTGUI and stitched them all at the same time. The result was quite surprising. All I had to do was a little bit of leveling and out popped a very reasonable panorama with few errors. If this works every time then it will be a great time saver.
BTW are you using PTGUI or PTGUI Pro ?
Many thanks
It is a pleasure to do this. By placing the pics I like to give people a chance to test around with them in Ptgui Pro, Autopano Giga , etc.
Normally I use a quicker workflow as well, just found it useful in the beginning to do it that way. I will revise to optimize the video, take out some ghosts and stitching errors. In first case I wanted to set up a workflow for newbies to help them around some tricky corners.
I use PTGui Pro.
Well, after having a look at DennisS' and Heinz' quick-tuts, I'm just thinking about ...
Why not use PTGUIs "viewpoint correction" to optimize the extra "Ninja Patch Shot"?
Using a marker at the ground (a coin, e.g.), the tripod could be moved sideways so that the "Ninja Patch Shot" covers almost exactly the first nadir shot,
but only almost; they always will differ a bit.
This should easlily be corrected with the viewpoint correction (just for the Ninja patch shot). No?
I made a quick test with the pictures provided by Heinz. Easily done (no need for CPs by hand). Looks quite good.
Salu2, Klaus
Go ahead. I now always check the "viewpoint correction" after aligning the patch to the Nadir shot. Sometimes it makes no difference. Other times it fixes stitching errors.Why not use PTGUIs "viewpoint correction" to optimize the extra "Ninja Patch Shot"?
Viewpoint correction will be an addition of course.
I will do a test wether re-levelling is a must or if it might work without.


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The flapper valve in the toilet in my apartment was recently replaced, since it had a small leak. The new one has a perfectly good seal, but sometimes just gets stuck open. It looks like it's just gripping a bit too tightly on the hinge - when it tries to close, it moves partway down and just hangs there, and a little jiggle of the lever is enough to make it drop. What should I do about it?
If you purchased one of the generic replacements, they usually come with both the slide on and hinge mounting rubber parts attached. If your mounting is the two side pin type, then you must cut the connecting tabs of rubber that hold the slide on rubber ring, and discard it. If you slide the flapper on with the ring and also use the side hinges, it will not work properly. You can only use one mount type.. slide on or side hinge. Hope this is your situation, easy fix.
I ended up just pulling the valve off and sanding inside the snap-on hinge bits. It didn't take much to get it moving smoothly - they didn't seem very rough before I sanded, and I didn't widen them very much.
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Sweeney, Roman and Lee all served in the United States Armed Forces and recovered from injuries at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. They became involved in sled hockey through Operation Comfort, a nonprofit organization that works with wounded service members coming from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The trio of players will be competing in their first Paralympic Winter Games after being members of the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team for the last two seasons. Team USA skated to a perfect 5-0-0 record at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C., en route to a gold medal.
In two years donning the Red, White and Blue, Sweeney, Roman and Lee have won several medals and tournament trophies, including a gold medal at the 2012 International Paralympic Committee Sledge Hockey World Championship in Hamar, Norway and a silver medal at the 2013 International Paralympic Committee Sledge Hockey World Championship in Seoul, South Korea.
The 2014 U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team was selected following tryouts held in Williamsville, N.Y. earlier this month. The team returns 16 players from last year's silver-medal winning squad.
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I've been playing on hell for a while now and people tell me you get the unique torches from uber Tristram. How does one get there? Are there certain monsters i have to kill? Do I have to be a certain class or is there a preferred class that does it better than others?
You need to get 9 keys, 3 each of Terror, Hate, and Destruction from The Countess, The Summoner, and Nihlathak in Hell. These will allow you to open 3 red portals, where you will fight Uber bosses to get three more special items. Putting these 3 special items in the Cube will open the portal to Uber Tristram.
Here are the details from the wiki
As per the Diablo 2 Wiki:
Uber Tristram
Obtaining items for Uber Tristram
Step 1:
Step 2:
Once you have all three, put them in the Cube, and transmute them. If you are in Harrogoth, on Hell difficulty, a red portal will open to one of three random areas:
Each one has a boss at the end that will drop one of the three items you need. Be warned, these are much harder than Hell Baal. The bosses are, respectively:
The portal that opens is random, but combining more than one set of keys in one game will not open a portal to an area you already have open. As such, getting three of each key is recommended.
Step 3:
Once you have killed all three bosses, you have the items needed to go to Uber Tristam! Put them in the cube and transmute. The new red portal will go to Uber Tristram.
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Suppose i have Two Text Articles (article 'a' => x words, article 'b' => y words)
i find the total number of words in 'a' = x the total number of occurances of the word "the" in the article = x1
probability of the word 'the' in article 'a' => x1/x (i have stored this as decimal, so i dont have exact x1 and x at a later stage)
now i want to merge(Add ?) the probability of the same word 'the' in article 'b', which is y1/y
how should i do that, i suppose simply adding will be wrong.
as a later stage i will get more articles 'c', 'd'... and i want to keep the probability updates, how should i do this ?
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In People v Mathis, Unpub Per Curiam (#305687, 3/14/2013) the Court of Appeals held that the trial court abused its discretion by denying the defendant�s request to read the missing witness jury instruction, CJI2d 5.12, and that the prosecutor did not exercise due diligence in its attempts to locate an endorsed res gestae witness. Defendant's conviction was reversed and a new trial ordered.<>>To establish that it exercised �due diligence,� the prosecution is required to prove that it attempted to do everything reasonable in order to obtain an endorsed witness�s presence at trial. People v Eccles, 260
MichApp 379, 389 (2004); see also People v Bean, 457 677, 684 (1998).<>> MichA res gestae witness is someone who has �witness[ ed] some event in the continuum of the criminal transaction and [whose] testimony would . . . have aided in developing a full disclosure of the facts at trial.� People v Long, 246 App 582, 585 (2001). A prosecutor who endorses a witness under MCL 767.40a(3) is obliged to exercise due diligence to produce that witness at trial. Mich Eccles, 260 App at 388. In fact, the prosecution is required to produce a listed witness at trial even if the prosecution was not actually required to endorse the witness in the first instance. See People v Wolford, 189 Mich App 478, 483-484 (1991). A prosecutor who fails to produce an endorsed witness may show that the witness could not be produced despite the exercise of due diligence.� Mich Eccles, 260 App at 388. �Due diligence� is the attempt to do everything reasonable to obtain the presence of a witness, not everything possible. Mich Id.at 391; see also People v Cummings, 171 App 577, 585 (1988). If the trial court finds a lack of due diligence, the jury should be instructed that it may infer that the missing witness�s testimony would have been unfavorable to the prosecution�s case. Mich Eccles, 260 App at 388; see also CJI2d 5.12. A prosecutor�s efforts to secure a witness must be reasonable based on �the facts and circumstances of each case, i.e., whether diligent good-faith efforts were made to procure the testimony, not whether more stringent efforts would have produced it.� Bean, 457 Mich at 684.<>> Mich


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by Melissa Brunner
By now, you've probably heard about New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to ban the sale of large-sized sugary drinks, like soda pop, sports drinks and pre-sweetened iced tea. His goal is to take a step in the fight against obesity.
The question is whether it goes too far or whether it really does anything at all.
Bloomberg's proposal calls for cups and bottles of sweetened drinks to be limited to 16 ounces or less. It would not apply to diet soda, fruit juices, dairy-based drinks or alocholic beverages. There also are expceptions for grocery stores and convenience stores. As for fast-food restaurants where drinks are self-serve, they'd have to hand out cups that are 16 ounces. However, people could still refill that cup as often as they wish. At other locations, you could buy several of the smaller-sized drinks if you wished.
Which is why I ask - does the proposal go too far or does it really do anything at all? What do you think?


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Source: Reuters
quote: Critics might view the plan as setting up barriers to free trade and offering favoritism to U.S. corporations over small overseas patent holders.
quote: Rather, it should impact smaller firms from overseas who hold U.S. patents, but do not sell products or market in the U.S.
quote: The first is because they are successful American companies could easily want to copy their IP, get it manufactured outside of America, and then ship it into America and then to the rest of the world and sell it as their own, and the original company, even though they did all the right things to try and protect their work, has almost no right to stop this blatant theft.
quote: The second problem the original successful company has is when they decide to enter the American market, this fact means they didn't have a presence in the American market. This company will be known to those with a presence in the American market, and those in the American market, especially those that copied their technology, will fear the arrival of that successful company and use the excuse "they hold American patents but don't have a presence here" to keep them out.
quote: Another interesting point about this is what happens if the product isn't shipped in by ship or plane, but sent over the internet?
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One possibility is the integration by substitution formula. But this doesn't explain why $\int_1^{\infty}x^{-3}dx$ is easy to evaluate (and rational) whilst $\sum_1^{\infty}n^{-3}$ is unknown (and seemingly not a simple combination of well known numbers). It is true that $x^{-3}$ has a simple inverse derivative whilst $n^{-3}$ does not have a known simple inverse difference, but is there more to it than that?
Well, some things are easier in one place, and other things are easier in the other. The many assertions in answers that integrals of $x^n$ are easier than the corresponding sums is misleading. In the continuous world, $x^n$ is a very natural object. In the discrete world, however, the natural object is the falling factorial: $x^{\underline{n}}$ is defined as $x(x-1)\dots(x-n+1)$. Compute the derivative of $x^{\underline{n}}$ and you get a mess. Compute the forward difference and you get the beautifully simple $f(x+1)-f(x) = (x+1)^{\underline{n}} - x^{\underline{n}} = n x^{\underline{n-1}}$.
That is,
$$\sum_{i=1}^n i^9= \frac{1}{20} n^2 (n+1)^2 \left(n^2+n-1\right) \left(2 n^4+4 n^3-n^2-3 n+3\right)$$
is a little messy. Certainly messier than $\int x^9 dx$. On the other hand,
The truth here is that the discrete world is often easier (and more fundamental, too), but history has prejudiced us to be more familiar with the continuous world. Zeilberger (who else?) has written passionately about this, and if you know of other sources for discrete calculus (online or off) please add them as comments to this answer!
I'm not sure this question is appropriate for MO, but I'll play along. One of the main reasons integrals of elementary functions are easier to algebraically evaluate than sums of elementary functions is that derivatives are much better behaved than differences. For a fairly mellow example, consider the product rule: $$ \partial(f\cdot g) = (\partial f)\cdot g + f\cdot (\partial g) \quad\quad \Delta(f\cdot g) = (\Delta f)\cdot g + f\cdot (\Delta g) + (\Delta f) \cdot (\Delta g)$$ (Here $\Delta f(n) = f(n+1) - f(n)$, and $\partial$ is the usual smooth derivative; $\cdot$ denotes multiplication.) So "integration by parts" is slightly simpler than "summation by parts". But since there exists a product rule for differences, there also exists a "summation by parts" formula.
On the other hand, there is no chain rule for differences: $$ \partial(f\circ g) = ((\partial f) \circ g) \cdot \partial g \quad\quad \Delta(f\circ g) = ?????$$ If you try to write down chain rules, you'll find they're very complicated, and require weird appearances of integrals/sums.
The chain rule for derivatives is precisely the u-substitution formula for integrals, and as you say in your question, there is no similar formula for sums.
Related to both of these is that power functions $n\mapsto n^\alpha$ have very nice derivatives and not-nice differences. At least the difference of a polynomial is a polynomial, but in general in a function with non-smooth parts / poles (like $n\mapsto n^\alpha$ for $\alpha \not\in \mathbb N$), taking differences generally create more poles. So it's extremely hard to imagine anti-differencing a function with only one pole — the antidifference would have to have many poles, that magically almost cancel upon differencing.
However, I'd like to emphasize that all of this answer has to do with algebraic methods (finding "closed form expressions"). $\sum_{n=1}^\infty n^{-3}$ is a perfectly good number, and $m \mapsto \sum_{n=1}^m n^{-3}$ is a perfectly good sequence; it's just that we don't know the answer to certain questions about them, and we can't write them as compositions of a certain very restricted set of symbols. One can compute these things very accurately. For any given $m$, I can, with a little time, give you the value of $\sum_{n=1}^m n^{-3}$ as a rational number. I can also compute, again given enough time, $\sum_{n=1}^\infty n^{-3}$ to as good accuracy as you want. Indeed, I can compute it more accurately (i.e. faster for a given accuracy) than I can for some other functions that you do have in your limited vocabulary of "basic" functions (assuming your vocabulary is what I expect it is).
While I don't really think that this is an answer to your question in the generality that you ask it (indeed, it says nothing of the one example you cite), here is something that comes to mind.
Integrals of $x^n$ for positive $n$ are much simpler than sums of $x^n$. The reason is that in evaluating the former, one first evaluates the latter and then passes to a limit. It is in this limiting process that all the "hard stuff" vanishes, and one is basically left with leading terms. In other words, in this case, the limiting processes of calculus eliminate all but what is, on some level, dominant behavior.
The same (vague) argument can be made of derivatives versus differences (as in Theo's answer). Finite differences may as well be hugely large scale differences - there's no objective scale. Derivatives, on the other hand, capture something that is in retrospect much simpler - truly local behavior.
It depends on the object being summed/integrated. There are examples of sums that are handled by the theory of hypergeometric functions whose integrals would probably defeat most CAS systems out there.
They are different because the methods to simplify both processes are different. The focus (in American education) on the integral is because there were more examples of application in the mid 20th century. With the advent of algorithm design and applied combinatorics, more weight is being placed on evaluation of sums; even so, I think it is safe to say that integration will continue to be emphasized over summation for the near future.
Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2011.02.17
This is a layman's answer. I'm by no means near an expert on integrals.
My first reaction to this question was that I am not sure that I agree and that since sums are integrals, this does not even make sense. Then I realized that the statement can be rephrased as
Continuous functions are easier to integrate than discontinuous ones
If we put it that way then perhaps the answer is
a) a lot of things are easier to do with a continuous function, or
b) in particular it is easier to find the indefinite integral of a continuous function than of a discontinuous one. Especially since the second one cannot have a nice anti-derivative (For instance it cannot be continuously differentiable for one).
Disclaimer This is a soft-answer and is not intended to contain mathematically rigorous statements or self-evident truths.
Riemann integrals are defined to be limits of sums. In this context, integrals are easier since if we can evaluate the sums explicitly then the limit is generally straightforward to compute. For instance, let $\mathcal{P}$ be a convex polytope with integer vertices. Let $i(\mathcal{P},n)$ be the number of integer points in the dilation $n\mathcal{P}$, $n\geq 1$ (the Ehrhart polynomial of $\mathcal{P}$). Often one can express $i(\mathcal{P},n)$ as an iterated sum, and one can express the volume of $\mathcal{P}$ as a completely analogous iterated integral. By the definition of Riemann integral, the leading coefficient of $i(\mathcal{P},n)$ is the volume of $\mathcal{P}$, so the integral is easier to compute. As a specific example, let $\mathcal{P}$ be the triangle with vertices $(0,0), (1,0), (0,1)$. The iterated sum is $\sum_{j=0}^n\sum_{k=0}^j 1 = {n+2\choose 2}$, while the iterated integral is $\int_{x=0}^1\int_{y=0}^x 1\hspace{.1em}dy\hspace{.1em}dx = 1/2$.
It might be more accurate to suggest that we are more familiar with easy integrals than easy sums.
That is, there has been much more work done (and certainly much more practical experience, especially among engineers and scientists) with integrals than sums. The world is (seems) mostly continuous, so we focus primarily on integration.
That might seem like a non-answer but it's the one that comes to mind.


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This might be a simple question, but are there "more" points on a line in (3D) space than on a plane? Or in more mathematical terms: Do $\mathbb {R}$ and $\mathbb {R}^2$ have equal cardinalities (which $\mathbb {N}$ and $\mathbb {N}^2$ have).
If this is true, what could a bijection/pairing function ($\pi \colon\ \, \mathbb {R}^2 \to \mathbb {R}$) for reals look like?


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With March 1-7 marking National Cheerleading Week, take a look at some well-known public figures who were cheerleaders.
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Here are the new features coming soon with the Xbox One July updateWritten by: / / 2 Comments
The hard-working hardware and software teams at Microsoft are continuing to set a blazing pace for the roll-out of new Xbox One updates, releasing one new firmware update a month since February this year in order to add features and improvements that the global gaming community has been shouting for.
Speaking of which, Xbox recently set up a page dedicated to receiving your feedback on all things Xbox, so if there's something that you've been craving in terms of additions to the consoles and services, head on over here to provide your suggestions.
According to Xbox frontman Major Nelson, over 65 000 people have suggested more than 4 300 ideas, while contributing over 180 000 votes to date!
So what does the Xbox team have planned for July in terms of Xbox One improvements and features? Quite a list has already been formed – take a look at what Xbox One owners can expect to see with the Xbox One July Update:
– Snap Mode for Achievements.
"As we showed at our E3 Green Carpet event before the show, we're offering an easier way to track and view your achievements in the moment. With Achievement Snap, you can track your achievement progress in real time without ever leaving the game. You can also 'Get Help' on any Achievements you're struggling with. Xbox will scan the web for you and deliver relevant tips and strategy content right to your TV."
Xbox One July Update – Achievement Snap Preview
– Double-tap to Snap.
"Double-tap the Xbox button on your controller to bring up Snap Center, where you can launch Achievements or any other snap-able app, without leaving your game. Already have an app snapped? Double-tap quickly switches between your game and the snapped app."
– Choice of Spoken Language.
"Folks in New Zealand, Ireland and Austria, with this update in July, will be able to select voice control using the English or German voice models from other countries. And if you're an expat in an English-speaking country, you, too, can choose any of the other English language models that fit you."
– Future Digital Bundles and Compilation Discs.
"We're doing some work now so that publishers will have options for great digital bundle and disc compilation offerings in the future. As we test this feature, we'll be seeing more flexible combinations of game titles and game content."
– 'Like' Game DVR clips.
"We're adding the ability to 'Like' all your favorite Game DVR clips as well as activity feed items in SmartGlass."
What else would you like to see on Xbox One in the coming months?
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19 Nov 2011 12:57 AM #1
Is GXT an other name for ExtGwt or an other product from Sencha ?
We think about adopting GWT. So, we have to make some architectural choices and we look at available candidate solutions.
First we understand :
- Ext-Gwt is a wrapper for javascript library ExtJs
- SmartGwt is a wrapper for javascript library SmartClient
- Gwt-Ext is a wrapper for old version of javascript library ExtJs (not an option for us)
But secondly, we read that Sencha also produce GXT which is not a GWT wrapper for javascript library but a GWT extension from Sencha company. Ok, nice, but unfortunately GXT doesn't appear in Sencha product list.
So we are in doubt. GXT is an other name for Ext-Gwt, an other product, or nothing at all ?
19 Nov 2011 2:38 AM #2
Some answers from http://code.google.com/intl/fr-FR/we...s/gwt/gxt.html :
- Ext GWT (GXT) is a Java library for building rich internet applications with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
- Native GWT solution with no external JavaScript or 3rd party libraries
So :
- it seems that GXT is just an other name for ExtGwt. Also i have found references to GXT in ExtGwt reference documentation. again some marketing confusing terms ...
- but finaly this is not a wrapper for extjs library but a full java solution (GWT extension) like i first thought before to be confused (perhaps it was a wrapper in the past and become a full java solution more recently, that could also explain confusion between GXT and ExtGwt product names)
19 Nov 2011 3:03 AM #3- it seems that GXT is just an other name for ExtGwt. Also i have found references to GXT in ExtGwt reference documentation.
Ext GWT, or also named GXT, is not a wrapper around Ext JS but fully written in Java.
GWT Ext was a wrapper around Ext JS but is no longer under active development and was also not maintained by Sencha
SmartGWT is a wrapper around SmartClient.
19 Nov 2011 6:21 AM #4
thanks 4 help.
ExtGwt's roadmap and the next 3.0 version seems very interesting.
I'll deep further into developers pre-release


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U.S. Is Hexed in Cup Qualifier
How the World's Lone Super Power Loses to a Nation of Just 8 Million
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
On paper, the U.S. men's national soccer team should have no trouble qualifying for next year's World Cup in Brazil.
To do so, the world's lone super power need only finish in the top half of a six-country confederation tournament that includes four impoverished Caribbean and Central American countries, not one of which is ranked higher in the world than 46th.
But the challenges facing the U.S. were glaringly apparent Wednesday in the U.S. team's 2-1 loss to Honduras, a nation of only 8 million people. In the first match of a nine-month home-and-home World Cup qualifying tournament known as "the Hex," the U.S. fell to a team ranked 59th in the world.
"Too many mistakes in too many areas," U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann said.
Honduran Jerry Bengston pushed the winning goal into an open net in the 79th minute to put the finishing touch on a frustrating afternoon for the Americans. The goal exploded Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano, for the second time. Forty minutes into the game Juan Garcia had the strike of his life, sending a bicycle kick into the upper-right corner of the net. The goal stunned the U.S., which had just taken the lead on a volley from Clint Dempsey.
This was far from the quick, confidence-building start Klinsmann was looking for. The U.S. appeared disorganized and out of sorts for most of the game, struggling for long stretches to control the ball and mount anything like a steady attack.
Even goalkeeper Tim Howard hesitated on his line for just long enough on the deciding goal to allow Oscar Boniek Garcia to slip the ball under him onto Bengtson's sprinting feet.
The Hondurans are hardly Lilliputians. The team qualified for the last World Cup and their lineup features several players who play in Europe.
Yet what transpired on the field doesn't entirely explain the outcome. No less important is that many U.S. sports fans didn't even know about the game, which was broadcast on beIN Sport, a network many American homes don't receive.
In Honduras, meanwhile, the president declared a national holiday so the entire country could be in front of the television for kickoff.
In nations where merely qualifying for the World Cup is tantamount to winning the Super Bowl, the game is often played on cruddy fields under tropical heat in front of crowds nasty enough to get inside the U.S. team's collective head.
"Between getting batteries and bags of urine thrown at me, I think I've probably seen it all," striker Jozy Altidore said before the game.
World Cup qualification is never easy, and it won't be this year. In the months ahead, no one expects the U.S., ranked 28th in the world, to do more than draw or eke out the occasional close victory against Mexico.
Yet the world's richest country, with more than 300 million inhabitants, millions of whom play soccer as children, will also struggle against the likes of Panama, Jamaica and Costa Rica. The top three finishers advance to the World Cup in Brazil next June, while the fourth-place team faces the top finisher in Oceania's confederation, likely to be New Zealand.
It isn't just that soccer is the main sport in those countries, attracting all the best athletes, with the possible exception of baseball crazed Panama. It's that soccer in the U.S.—among men, anyway—draws only from the pool that remains after football, baseball and basketball skim off the cream.
"The U.S fans should expect their team to qualify," said the former U.S. international Alexi Lalas. "If we can't do that, then there is something dramatically wrong."
Klinsmann is trying to get the U.S. to play a more pro-active attacking style, which might not work, given the talent level of the players. The team is also dealing with injuries. Defensive stalwart Steve Cherundolo is out with a bad shoulder. Midfielder Landon Donovan is out with damaged mojo.
Meanwhile, Mexico features Manchester United's Javier Hernadez, one of the world's better players, and a team that is probably better than its ranking of 15th in the world.
Beyond the opponents, surprises always come up south of the border for the U.S. This day it was a field with grass as long as the first cut on a golf course, which made hitting crisp passes across the ground difficult.
Klinsmann chose to start the largely untested Omar Gonzalez in the central defense over longtime captain Carlos Bocanegra, and the U.S. defenders kept letting the Hondurans deep into the field.
"The field was really tough," Gonzalez said. "I didn't have my best game."
No one on the U.S. team did.
"We got outplayed in many facets of the game," said Howard. "We need to be bold, we need to take the ball and try to create a rhythm."
It won't get much easier, the U.S. plays two of its next three qualifying matches on the road, where points are hard to come by.Even after qualifying for six consecutive World Cups, U.S. players talk with trepidation about playing south of the border, and a sense of survival pervaded all but a few minutes of Wednesday's match.
The Hondurans came hard and fast and with style, playing the sort of pro-active game Klinsmann, a former German superstar, has been trying to get the U.S. to play. The Americans hunkered down and tried to escape with a draw. That may be what this untested version of the U.S. team will be forced to resort to often during qualifying—whether Klinsmann likes it or not.
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Top 10 Sleepover Party Themesby Lindsay Hutton
Slumber parties can be a blast for children of all ages. The next time your child is begging to have a sleepover, make it extra special with one of these fun sleepover themes.
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Although sleeping under the stars is a great idea, camping on the living room floor can be just as fun! This is the perfect party idea for your nature-loving child. Hamburgers, hot dogs, and s'mores are all perfect camping foods, and you can send each child home with trail mix and a mini flashlight as party favors.
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Let $A=[a_{ij}]$ be a matrix of type $n\times n$ with coefficients with the field $K$, where $K=\mathbb{R}$ or $K=\mathbb{C}$.
In the case $K=\mathbb{C}$, for example by Jordan decomposition theorem, there exist an invertible matrice $B$ with coefficients from $K=\mathbb{C}$ such that $C:=B^{-1}AB$ is a upper triangular matrix, i.e $C=[c_{ij}]$ with $c_{ij}=0$ for $i>j$.
Is it true that for every matrice $A$ of type $n\times n$ with real coefficients, which characteristic polynomial has $n$ real roots not necessarily different, there exists an invertible matrix $B$ of the same type with real coefficients such that $B^{-1}AB$ is upper triangular?


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Show $$\lim_{n \to \infty} \int_0^1 \frac{n+n^k x^k}{(1+\sqrt{x})^n}dx=0$$ for $k=1,2,3,...$ It's clear that the functions converge pointwise to $0$ on $(0,1]$ but I can't seem to find an integrable dominating function. Any hints would be much appreciated.
We want to apply the dominated convergence theorem, but as you noticed, we have to check that the function we have to integrate can be bounded by a function which doesn't depend on $n$. $k$ is fixed, so put $f_n(x)=\frac n{(1+\sqrt x)^n}+\frac{n^kx^k}{(1+\sqrt x)^n}$. Since $(1+\sqrt x)^n\geq 1+n\sqrt x$, we have for $x\neq 0$ $$\frac n{(1+\sqrt x)^n}\leq \frac n{1+n\sqrt x}\leq \frac 1{\sqrt x},$$ which is integrable. Since for $k\leq n$ we have $(1+\sqrt x)^n\geq \sum_{l=0}^k\binom nl\sqrt x^l$, and so \begin{align*} \frac{n^kx^k}{(1+\sqrt x)^n}&\leq \frac{n^kx^k}{\sum_{l=0}^k\binom nl\sqrt x^l}\\ &\leq \frac{n^kx^k}{\binom nk\sqrt x^k}\\ &=k!\frac{n^k}{n(n-1)\cdots (n-k+1)}x^{\frac k2}, \end{align*} and we have for $n$ large enough, say $\geq n_0$ we get $\frac{n^k}{n(n-1)\cdots (n-k+1)}\leq 2$, so for $n\geq n_0$ $$|f_n(x)| \le\frac 1{\sqrt x}+2k!\cdot x^{\frac k2},$$ which is integrable.
Here's a more detailed analysis of your integral. By change of variables, write $$ \int_0^1 \frac{n+n^k x^k}{(1+\sqrt{x})^n}dx = {1\over n}\int_0^n \frac{2s(1+s^{2k}/n^{k+1})}{(1+s/n)^n}ds$$
Note that for fixed $s$, we have $\displaystyle\frac{2s(1+s^{2k}/n^{k+1})}{(1+s/n)^n}\downarrow 2s\exp(-s)$, and that if $n\geq 2k+3$ then $$\int_0^\infty \frac{2s(1+s^{2k}/n^{k+1})}{(1+s/n)^n}ds<\infty.$$ So by dominated convergence, $$n \int_0^1 \frac{n+n^k x^k}{(1+\sqrt{x})^n}dx\to \int_0^\infty 2s\exp(-s)\,ds=2.$$ In particular, the original integral is $O(1/n)$.