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From disgruntled, former LDS persons with prominent mention, to selection of quotes from Bishop McMullin to Sherri Dew made to put them and their beliefs and attitudes in the worst possible light, to the mention of the ruby ring, to the quote that was made to make President Monson sound as materialistic as possible, to the complete lack of balance in the church's use of its resources, this article was a political assassination of the church. It was unbalanced, unfair, and driven by a one-sided agenda. Shame on business week for publishing this trash and pretending it is news.
- 7:11 p.m. July 12, 2012
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RIP journalistic integrity...
- 7:21 p.m. July 12, 2012
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I have heard it said that sunlight is a great disinfectant. Why not be more transparent with the financials? Put the naysayers in their place right?
- 7:42 p.m. July 12, 2012
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Utah...Please quit pretending that the LDS Church and it's members did not
know this sort of thing would be happening. With Mitt Romney running for
President of the United States, each and every day is full of new information.
Some of it may not be of your liking.
As numerous posters have advised Mormons this past year, "Buckle up, it's going to be a rough ride".
- 7:58 p.m. July 12, 2012
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Keep ripping, cause my faith grows just stronger and stronger.
The devils workshop.
- 8:06 p.m. July 12, 2012
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You can buy anything in this world for money.
- 8:13 p.m. July 12, 2012
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"You can buy anything in this world for money."
Silly devil, you can't buy love. Even the beatles knew that.
- 8:45 p.m. July 12, 2012
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This article makes "fair and balanced" actually seem fair AND balanced. They should rename their magazine "Business Weak". The tone of this article and the quote selection where obviously supportive of the political agenda of the writer and perhaps the editor, or some other influential person on staff. It is sad that journalism has taken such an ugly turn toward the unprofessional.
- 9:00 p.m. July 12, 2012
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What an interesting time for such a hitpiece to show up, 4 months before the
election. It wasn't hard to figure it would be a hitpiece, when I saw who
was quoted early on.
The statement from Mr. Eccles of the Governor's Office was elucidating, regardless of how one feels about this "vast financial empire." He said, "They run their businesses like businesses, no bones about it."
Clearly, the author used that quote to make the Church seem overly obsessed with the temporal and materialistic.
But what is so bad about running businesses like businesses? Imagine a society where everyone ran their personal finances, households, schools, companies, nonprofits, and other stewardships the way a well-run business should be run. What if everyone made the best use of time, money, and materials, cared for their human resources, created the best possible product in the most efficient way, with the smallest possible impact on the environment? What if everyone stayed within their means and out of debt. What if GOVERNMENT did all that! (We may never know, because government never does).
I will eagerly wait to see if Businessweek endorses a presidential candidate.
- 9:19 p.m. July 12, 2012
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Check out the info graphic on the article page-- Crosses? Once again ignorance rears it's unprepared head
- 9:37 p.m. July 12, 2012
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I don't like the idea of my religion's images portrayed in such a way but BusinessWeek has a history of bad covers (look up the one for the United/Continental merger). Interesting to note that the Church did not respond to that but to the content of the story. The cover is merely there to sell issues and won't mean anything to anyone typical, most will not know what the image is.
- 9:43 p.m. July 12, 2012
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"Honi soit qui mali ponce." A phrase the haters of anything, especially
toward what others consider sacred.
I don't care if the LDS Church is loaded -- they have a long history of generously helping others and a hugely positively (correctly) history of providing the welfare to members. Think how much in taxes they save us.
Again, shame to those who think evil.
- 10:16 p.m. July 12, 2012
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It was interesting to me how the article demonized the church for being smart
and industrious with its resources. I'm not sure why that would be
The dishonesty shown by the author's glaring omission of all the charity distributed at the level of individual congregations reveals an agenda other than simply providing information about the financial status and dealings of the church.
Someone reading the article who knows nothing about the church might be led to think that there was some greedy group of billionaires in the church hierarchy who were exploiting tithing dollars to line their pockets. No individual, in or out of the church, is getting rich from church tithes.
- 10:45 p.m. July 12, 2012
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It is an amazing coincidence that with the LDS Church having a history
stretching back more than a hundred years, that this week, of all possible
times, a mainstream media publication feels it necessary to probe into LDS
Church matters.
I am certain that they will deny that it has anything at all to do with trying to tarnish the image of a certain prominent member of the LDS church, who just happens to have a business background.
But, they will have successfully planted the seed, or nurtured one planted by other scurrilous parties to leave the impression that LDS individuals, as well as their church are not to be trusted.
I wonder if the fish wrap that published this bothered to check into the business practices, or any other activities of Trinity United Church of Christ, attended for more than 20 years by the other party's candidate. No, they did not.
As Paul Harvey used to say, "How do you unring a bell?" The media has been pushing lie after lie after lie (to use an old Ted Kennedy phrase) about Romney, and I am disgusted by their actions.
LDS church business operations are their business.
- 10:50 p.m. July 12, 2012
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Apparently it was decided long ago that religion is fair game, let us not forget
the scrutiny, criticism of Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of
Christ. Black Liberation Theology? Anybody remember? The controversy sparked
continuous media coverage, on both national media outlets and local sources.
More than 3,000 news stories had been written on the issue by early April.
Obama also was questioned about Wright in a debate.
Ho hum.
- 11:29 p.m. July 12, 2012
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I think the transparency thing is funny. The church releases all the financial information required of it by law. Why does the article then make it sound like the church is hiding something? Nothing is hidden. If they don't like the information required by law then they should take that problem up with the financial regulatory bodies that make the laws not the church because the church just supplies the information required of it by law. This is one of many logical fallacies committed by this article, let alone one of the many violations of the principles of good media.
- 11:44 p.m. July 12, 2012
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I think the cover is hilarious. Come on Utah have a sense of humor. You still get to go to bed at night knowing you belong to the one true church.
- 11:47 p.m. July 12, 2012
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It is always interesting to see the hired, daily anti-Mormons dishonestly
maligning, but it is sad when a mainstream media source has to stoop to such
things to get their man re-elected. I'm an undecided voter, but, when I
see daily, that they have have nothing to offer this sort of thing, it only
turns me away from the dishonest haters, and to the light.. : )
According to many, LDS are among the most charitable of people, giving billions of hours, dollars, and so on to all God's children in need. Sometimes Mormons have been the single largest donors (more than aid concerts, liberals, conservatives, etc.)
More Americans are on government welfare than ever before, but, not Mormons. Even Maher says there are no poor Mormons. If he's right it is astounding, and not just because he's never been right about Mormons before. Most Mormons live outside of the U.S. but LDS are focus on education, job skills, and so on. Mormons have many wonderful programs for those in need, they donate billions in time and money to making and distributing food, but, more importantly, on keeping people from needing handouts.
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Romney and the LDS church simply need to stop apologizing for being wealthy.
The church does much good with its money and so does Romney. They need to come
out and say "we are an example of what happens when you are obedient to the
Lord and use his money for doing good" or something to that effect.
The Dems want someone to apologize because they became wealthy?
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And print publications wonder why their subscriptions and readership are in free-fall.This is a travesty that the Church should protest in the strongest of terms. Can you imagine what would happen if this same rag charactured Islam or the Jewish faith with the same irreverence and disregard for decency?
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Naming What We're Doing: A Case Study
There is a fascinating story in today's Washington Post about an FDA panel debating the question of whether to allow genetic modification of human embryos to "insert" genes of a third person, when there are genetic defects in the original DNA. Quite apart from how this displays our ongoing hostility toward disability, it has produced the most fascinating set of headline developments I have ever seen. On the paper copy of the Post in my library, the headline reads: "FDA debates idea of three-parent babies." On the Web, the headline is "FDA panel debates technique that that would create embryos with three genetic parents." Gone are the three-parent babies. Instead, bring in the "techniques" and the "embryos"! But the headline on the Web front page is even further from the print: "FDA debates procedure that mixes DNA from three people to form embryo." Hmmm. Is "procedure" a bit more medical and less manufacturing in its resonance than is "technique"? Does "mixing DNA to form embryo" work better than "parenting"?
Herbert McCabe wrote in his magnificent Law, Love, and Language that what ethics is really all about is not simply law or love; rather, it is about developing a language whereby we could see more and more deeply and richly into the genuine significance of human living. The headline variance here provides quite a test case!
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The linked WaPo article contains quotes by Marcy Darnovsky of the Center for Genetics and Socirty about the dangers of the mitochondrial manipulation technology being considered by the FDA. Ms. Darnovsky had her own oped in the NYT a couple of days ago ("Genetically Modified Babies") in which she counseled against an "eggs-as-Lego-pieces approach" to building human beings.
David, I'm not sure I see the hostility to people with disabilities--just to the disabilities. I also see the story as sensationalized. IMitochondrial DNA furnishes a tiny percentage of the DNA. Mitochondrial DNA codes for approximately 37 out of at least 20,000 genes, and approximately 16,000 base pairs out of 3 billion base pairs.
I think the underlying ethical story actually points to a troubling type of genetic essentialism. Why is a "mother" someone who contributes any type of genetic material--most of our genetic material, after all is common. Why is it wrong to fix a mitochondrial problem, but not to transplant a kidney?
I have a genetic disability - Stargardt's disease - and I don't see how trying to eliminate such things is hostile to the disabled. Interesting, btw, that the Vatican *is* for the genetic modification of some organisms ... http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n1/full/nbt0111-11.html
It seems to me that replacing someone's liver with another (dead) person's liver is one thing. There are only two people involved, but replacing genes is another. .The ethical problem, I think, is that we don't know enough at this time about possible unintended consequences of those changed genes. Yes, there are relativley few genes involved, but we do know with great certainty now that even just one changed gene -- as in random mutations -- can have terrible consequences.
Mitochondria are the descendents of bacteria that achieved symbiosis with larger more complex cells over a billion years ago. These cells eventually evolved into multicellular life. They have their own DNA. We received it along with our mothers' eggs. These mitochondria affect energy processing and therefore the health of the whole organism but not, as far as I know, any specific characteristics of the developed organism. I don't think of this as anything like designer babies. The question is, why not just not have kids and adopt? Is this technology really necessary? What does it do for the common good? Aren't there other avenues of research that are more important, say, new antibiotics?
Yes, the need for new antibiotics seems urgent. (I wonder if the general populacre knows how bad the situation is.) But isn't that a relatively old field of research, and aren't they stumped about where to turn next? The field of genetic medicine, on the other hand, is wide open -- and that's the opposite problem.
Who makes the decisions about priorities in basic research? NIH? AMA? Nobody?
Stanley Kopacz said, "...why not just not have kids and adopt? Is this technology really necessary? What does it do for the common good?" All of these are good questions which need to be discussed before we plunge headlong into genetic changes which may affect future generations in ways that were not anticipated.
Re: Ann Olivier's comment on antibiotic research, phage therapy may be a possible source of new treatments:
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Although the government does subsidized the making of new antibiotics (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/health/policy/06germ.html?_r=0), the money is in genetic engineering, not in making pharmeceticals. Michael Crichton wrote about this years ago in his book, Jurassic Park ...
"[T]he original genetic engineering companies, like Genentech and Cetus, were all started to make pharmaceuticals. New drugs for mankind. Noble, noble purpose. Unfortunately, drugs face all kinds of barriers. FDA testing alone takes five to eight years - if you're lucky. Even worse, there are forces at work in the marketplace. Suppose you make a miracle drug for cancer or heart disease - as Genentech did. Suppose you now want to charge a thousand dollars or two thousand dollars a dose. You might imagine that is your privilege. After all, you invented the drug, you paid to develop and test it; you should be able to charge whatever you wish. But do you really think that the government will let you do that? No, Henry, they will not. Sick people aren't going to pay a thousand dollars a dose for needed medication - they won't be grateful, they'll be outraged. Blue Cross isn't going to pay it. They'll scream highway robbery. So something will happen. Your patent application will be denied. Your permits will be delayed. Something will force you to see reason - and to sell your drug at a lower cost. From a business standpoint, that makes helping mankind a very risky business."
There may be serious questions in this mattar - unintended consequences included. But the "third parent" notion is simply silly. My genetic signature, and also that of all of you reading this (provided only that you are of Eurasian descent, at leat in part), contains a few percent of Neandertal genetic information. A small contribution from yet another source in a genome that hs evolved over some millions of years? Please.
Mark L.
Consider the extreme case, one that might seem science fiction but, to me, doesn't sound like an impossibility. What if nanomanipulation allowed the stringing together of base pairs from scratch, the total manufacture of chromosomes which could then be inserted into an egg evacuated of original genetic material? This would produce a human being with no biological history. For this reason, I think the debate of even relatively ethically mild cases such as mitochondrial transplant is good as preparation. Of course, sometimes ethical debate in a market-driven civilization seems futile. Only the Amish seem to make communal decisions about introducing technology and adhere to them.
Almost on a daily basis my nieces and nephews play computer games in which they "create" new "persons". It's the computer equivalent of playing with dolls, where with a few clicks they can pick from a large assortment of clothes, hairstyles, skin colors, eye shapes, lips, ears, etc. They call it "creating" a "person". They say proudly: "Look, I created this person!", or "Today I created 5 persons, 2 girls and 3 boys"
When they're adult, maybe the kind of extreme scenario suggested by Stanley won't seem so extreme, thanks to the language they got used to while playing computer games.
Long before we humans had the technology to modify an organism directly at the level of genes, we were changing plants and other animals by selective breeding to enhance attributes we liked: faster horses, more colorful and aromatic flowers, tastier vegetables, greater milk or meat production from cattle, etc. Not many people were troubled by moral considerations, because the objects of experimentation were not human. But often the changed creatures were less hardy than the wild types. Thoroughbred horses may run faster than mustangs but, left to themselves, they will struggle to compete and survive. Like hothouse plants, they now require our care in order to thrive.
Very often a single gene will not have a one-to-one effect on the phenotype. Genes work together to produce many results, and it's unlikely that we have a complete catalog yet of the possibilities. So there is plenty of room for caution and doubt to go along with elation at the possibility of making something better. And that is before we even get to the eugenicky part.
However, the point of the post was not the morality of gene manipulation, but the significance of word choice in headlines. Frankly, I don't see much that is new here. Editors, constrained by space limitations, give a brief summary of the story, hoping to emphasize what is new and entice readers to read on. These three headlines all agree that there is a debate, even if they describe it in somewhat different terms.
Katherine --
Thanks so very much for the highly informative article about phage therapy. It does give some hope. But why doesn't the American Congress support more research? Public ignorance? Do people not know that diseases evolve too? I guess most Americans are too young to remember life before penicillin (which *often* doesn't work these days).
What I understand least is why the press hasn't sensationalized what should, for once, be sensationalized. You'e think the National Enquirer would love headlines like "Staph skin infection scars Kim Kardashian's face" or "World-wide plague possible by end of year".
No doubt the reason I find this so scary is that New Orleans history has taught us well that diseases can decimate our own population. And the plot of the movie "Panic in the Streets" reminded us of real possibilities -- in it a Public Health Officer has one day to get to the source of a case of pneumonic plague. Today, a mutated Black Death is not unthinkable.


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I've tried brining a chicken (brine = 1 cup salt to 16 cups water, over 10 hours) and couldn't taste a difference.
Assuming you don't normally buy pre-brined / injected birds, you should notice a difference... As roux notes, it should be noticeably moist and tender, especially the white meat.
A couple of things to try:
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The difference should be in texture--the bird should be moister.
I find that using buttermilk as a brining liquid, no salt, and whatever herbs you like produces an incredibly flavourful and moist bird.
We almost always brine our chicken breasts. 1/4 cup Salt and 1/4 cup sugar to about a quart of water. Keeps the meat moist and makes it difficult to over cook.
I've tried brining turkey, and wasn't satisfied with the results. The main problem is that the skin comes out too salty, no matter how well I rinse the bird. Another major issue is that the gravy comes out pretty close to inedible. Thirdly, you can't stuff a brined turkey.
So I've developed the following technique which gives me a moist breast, almost as good as a brined breast, but also allows for the traditional brown skin and succulent gravy.
The secret ingredient is ONIONS.
Slice several onions and line the bottom of the pan with them. The idea is that the onions don't allow any of the skin to touch the metal of the pan, so that skin won't stick.
Also add about two or three tablespoons of water/wine/stock/ just to cover the bottom of the pan to prevent sticking until the juices start flowing.
Stuff the bird if you are going to (Use a hot stuffing, it will help the bird cook faster, and you have less worries about undercooked stuffing). Otherwise, just stuff a couple of onions and celery stalks in. (Or stuff with mirepoix)
Assume a 3 hour cooking time, roast BREAST DOWN for 2 - 2 1/2 hours. Basting as needed.
When the bird is about 120 degrees (Still needs about 40-45 degrees more). Flip it over carefully, clean off any onions stuck to the skin, and bring the oven temperature up to 450. Leave it about 20 minutes, until skin is brown and crispy, and take it out at about 140 degrees. (if it's getting too warm, turn on the broiler to speed up crisping.)
Let stand out of any draughts for at least 20 minutes until the carry over takes it to 165 degrees.
Turkey has a huge thermal mass, and will continue cooking for at least 20 minutes.
This is also probably just the right amount of time to do the rest of the meal.
Cooking the bird upside down will result in a moist, succulent breast, without the oversalted skin and gravy that brining produces.
If you want to get the flavor of brining without all the work of trying it, you can buy kosher turkey. Part of the preparation for kosher meat is to pack it in kashering salt (where the term "kosher salt" comes from) to draw out all the blood. This means that the meat is essentially already brined. The most common brand in the U.S. is Empire, and they have both fresh and frozen meat.


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A Trio of Veterans from the '60s Gasser Wars Era - Gassers Wild!Written by on November 1, 2012
Strip Tripper
Paul Soliz's '41 Willys pickup
In addition to reflecting the technical elements of the Gassers of its day, Paul Soliz's' '41 Willys is a rolling gallery of the elaborate paint styles that spread from the custom car hobby to drag cars.
"Strip Tripper" was first built as a C/Gas racer in the early '60s in Washington by Tom Bigford, a successful local racer. Within a few years, the neglected Willys was purchased by Jerry Daman at Exhibition Automotive in Kent, Washington. Daman brought it back to life, raced it with various partners, and sprayed what is probably the wildest paintjob we've seen on a hot rod. Soon after, it was traded again, and disappeared until about 11 years ago when Paul bought it, took it to Los Angeles, and restored it with help from Jack Goodrich and Tom Ferra. The paint was like new.
The pickup body is steel except for the fiberglass hood. The top is chopped 4 inches and the body is sectioned the same amount. Paul added the custom tube rear bumper, and replaced the original firewall and floor. He says it took a lot of careful cutting to repair the tired sheetmetal without touching the historic paint.
The wheels are 15x8 and 15x4.5 Cragar SS five-spokes with 10.00-15 Mickey Thompson pie-crust slicks and 5.50-15 Moroso Drag Specials on the front straight axle from Speedway. The suspension includes Delco shocks, chromed in front. Chrome continues on the '57 Pontiac 4.88:1 rearend and the 60-inch lift bars.
The engine is a Chevy 283, bored to 301 ci and equipped with a Hilborn mechanical injection setup, and a Joe Hunt Magneto ignition. The TH350 transmission is shifted with a B&M box shifter.
Cut down motorhome seats were upholstered in black tuck 'n' roll. The dash features Stewart-Warner gauges. A vintage metalflake wheel and Speedway column are tied to the Corvair steering box. Safety equipment includes the rollbar and Deist belts.
The painting process (done almost half a century ago) would fill a book. The intricate overlapping panels were finished with virtually every known technique and design known including lace painting in various styles and colors, a similar look done with a fishing net, cobwebbing, and air brushing—with candies, 'flakes, numerous toners, and many coats of clear. Painter Jerry Daman describes each step on the HAMB message board (search for "Strip Tripper").
Today, Strip Tripper is shown all over Southern California (we saw it at the Grand National Roadster Show) and raced at events such as the California Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield and the Mooneyes Christmas Party at Irwindale Speedway.
Bad News II
Vic & Debra Young's '52 Henry J
This Henry J is one of the latest additions to Vic and Debra Young's ongoing and ever-evolving collection of Gassers. In addition to buying them and building them, Vic (who raced in the '60s) writes about Gassers for Gasser magazine. But the thing he enjoys most is driving them, whether it's down the quarter-mile or the highway.
Vic says the '52 Henry J Corsair originally ran at dragstrips in the Midwest before heading west. His friend, Jim Stoltman in Ventura, California, owned the car, named "Pure Attitude", and built it to its current level of quality. "When I heard he was selling it, I couldn't resist," Vic told us. Although he usually doesn't buy finished cars, the car's condition was excellent and he was happy to make an exception. Even so, there were personal touches he wanted to put on the car, including a new name. "Bad News" was already taken by his '40 Willys, so Vic named this one "Bad News II".
Bad News II rides on the stock framerails, with rectangular tubing added to support the straight-axle frontend and an X-member at the transmission. Speedway provided the front axle, spindles, and shocks. The rearend is a 4.11:1 Ford 9-inch with Moser 31-spline axles, suspended by 48-inch ladder bars.
A pair of 10.00x15 Hurst slicks are mounted on magnesium Americans, extending out of the radiused wheelwells—with bias-ply skinnies on 3.5x15 Americans in front. Brakes are Wilwood front discs and Ford rear drums.
An Edelbrock X-C8 cross ram intake and 600-cfm carbs feed a 434ci Dart Little-M small-block Chevy race engine. Vintage M/T aluminum valve covers were added to the Air Flow Research heads, and Headers by Little People Customs built those impressive headers, with Dynamax glasspacks for the street. The transmission is an old-school manually shifted B&M Clutch Turbo with a McLeod Racing clutch.
The stock grille and hood were kept, with the hood modified to flip forward and a scoop added. Scott Nething at T's Body Shop in Ventura sprayed the Mercedes Firemist Red paint. Waldo in Ventura added the graphics. Red-tinted plexiglass replaces the glass.
The seats were upgraded with Naugahyde-covered Hunsaker highback racing buckets with Simpson seatbelts. A set of Stewart-Warner gauges were mounted in the dash, and a red metalflake Mooneyes steering wheel on a homemade column. Doors feature aluminum panels and the swing out–style rollbars make it easier to get in and out.
After a history of pursuing win lights, both Vic and his Henry J are now enjoying the more relaxed driving experience of cruising up and down the California coast.
Flying Purple Pavement Eater
Rick Shephard's '48 Anglia
While showing his '48 Anglia in the 2012 Grand National Roadster Show's vintage race car display, Rick Shephard got a surprise.
"There I met Frank Brown who, after looking at the Anglia, felt that it may be the car he owned in the early '60s. He pulled out a worn-out photo of an orange Anglia that he's carried with him for 44 years. This car was painted multiple colors of purple by Carl Smith in the late '60s, but Frank spotted his orange paint in an area where the paint had chipped. He said that when he saw the car he just had a feeling that it was the one.
"In 1964, Frank installed a Hilborn FI small-block Chevy, four-speed, and '57 Chevy rearend to build a drag racer. He and his wife raced it at several Southern California dragstrips until 1968 when he sold it. I remember seeing it race at Irwindale with the name 'Lil' Pooper' and an outhouse painted on it. It passed through a few more owners until the early '70s when my friend Jim 'Smitty' Smith acquired the rolling body shell with purple paint. Several of us helped rebuild the car, which raced off and on for many years."
When Rick eventually bought the car from Smith, he added mufflers, a radiator, a water pump, and some M/T Sportsman tires and drove it on the street—with a race engine and 4.88 gears—for 10 years. He later built the current engine, a Chevy 427 loaded with go-fast internals. A Mooneyham 6-71 blower, two Edelbrock carbs, and a BDS manifold supply gas and air; a Don Zig Vertex magneto provides ignition. Hooker headers and glasspack mufflers handle what's left. The TH400 was modified with a manual shift body.
The 4.56:1 gears get the 15x15 Cragar Super Trick wheels and Mickey Thompson meats moving; Moroso front runners roll on Cragar SS wheels. The 2x3-inch tubing "back-half" features a '57 Pontiac rearend equipped with coilovers, 30-inch ladder bars, and a custom Panhard bar. The front suspension includes buggy springs, tube shocks, and split wishbones.
Rick drives the car from a fiberglass race bucket seat, which has been upholstered in vinyl, watching Stewart-Warner gauges and a column-mounted Auto Meter tach, steering the Moon purple 'flake wheel and shifting a '66 Mustang shifter, with a Simpson belt and chromoly rollcage keeping him safe. He drives it as much as he can, but not as much as he wants. "The older you get the harder it is to get into an Anglia!" As for Brown, "It was great to see the look in his eyes as he sat behind the steering wheel again after 44 years."


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CTemplate - Components in Templates
I've written an extension to Ext.XTemplate that allows full-blown ExtJS 4 components to be injected as template values. It was originally just part of my Component Column class but it seemed worth the effort to promote it to a UX in its own right.
When the template is run it injects placeholder HTML rather than the component. Once that placeholder HTML makes it to the DOM the component is switched back in. Sometimes this technique causes sizing or scrollbar issues. It should be used only where it is suitable, it isn't a panacea.
Most use cases for a CTemplate involve wanting to inject a component where the only means provided for simple customization is a template or possibly even raw HTML. As such they are a way of subverting the design decisions taken by other developers and should be used with appropriate caution.
An example:
var template = Ext.create('Skirtle.CTemplate', '<div>', '{label} {button}', '</div>' ); template.overwrite(Ext.fly(...), { label: 'Thomas', button: Ext.create('Ext.button.Button', { text: 'Edit' }) });
There are several similar UXs already in circulation. To list a few:
- ExtJS 3 HtmlLayout: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?79191
- ExtJS 3 ComponentDataView: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?79210
- An XTemplate override in Touch: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?114317
22 Sep 2011 2:01 AM #2
Nice! Good to know that now there is an Ext4-ready solution for this kind of technique!
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17 Nov 2011 12:46 PM #4
This extension is just what I need. This will surely save me lots of time on my current project that I have in development. I have been looking for a template extension like this one to help make my work process more efficient. It seems like I waste a great deal of my time with tedious tasks such as setting up new pages and tables and such. I really love the idea of only having to set everything up once. Thanks a lot.
10 Jan 2012 3:12 PM #5
Hi Skirtle,
I was wondering if you'd had a chance to try out your CTemplate with the new 4.1 Beta release? I had been using your CTemplate in version 4.0.7 and it was all working very nicely. I've just upgraded to 4.1 and now everything has stopped working at the point where I try to append the template.
I know that XTemplates and overrides were 2 of the areas changed in version 4.1.
Thanks for any feedback.
10 Jan 2012 4:03 PM #6
I think I have it working with 4.1.0-beta-1 but I'm not going to release it until 4.1.0 is released. I'll send you a preview by PM.
11 Jun 2012 1:36 AM #7
how to use it
Can I have o complete example to use this plugin
Thanks a lot
11 Jun 2012 1:39 AM #8
There are two complete examples if you just follow the link to the download page.
11 Jun 2012 1:42 AM #9
Apologies for not yet releasing a version that's compatible with 4.1, I'll do it as soon as I find time.
If anyone needs a quick patch for the stack overflow then you just need to swap around the dependency between apply and applyTemplate. Should be a 2-line change, renaming the method on line 26 and switching round the alias at the end.
11 Jun 2012 5:45 AM #10
Very great plugin ;-)


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After I do Zumba, I wait 'til I quit sweating (I sweat more than anyone in class, always have sweated profusely when exercising or in the summer heat), theni I shower and dress. Later, anywhere from a half hour to two hours, I get chilled. My hands and feet get numb. What can I do to prevent this?
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As far as I know, this should should never be happening under normal circumstances. Therefore I suggest you go, see a doctor about this.
In my 18 years of hard-as-hell dancing I have never experienced something like this.
I agree with @Janis about consulting your doctor. Numbness and tingling after exercise is something your doctor should diagnose.
Livestrong.com has a couple of articles summarizing possible causes of numbness and/or tingling after exercise. In this article about hand and foot numbness:
Given that you sweat profusely, that is a likely cause of your numbness. Good sources of potassium are bananas and vegetables. The World's Healthiest Foods has a complete list. Sodium is salt. So your answer may be as simple as replenishing your electrolytes with food or drink.
As to why you sweat excessively, there are lots of causes of profuse sweating. Some causes are perfectly normal and may be genetic. Here is a long list of some possible causes that are associated with medical conditions.
As others have suggested this may be linked to potassium levels and you would do well to discuss this with a doctor.
The symptoms you described immediately reminded me of hypokalemia, or low potassium levels:
1) "Tingling sensations in the hands and feet may also be a sign of hypokalemia and signify a weakening of the nervous system."
2) "...excessive sweating from playing sports or exercise can lead to a drop in potassium levels and feelings of fatigue."


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First made in Dresden, Germany around the 1400s, Stollen was made and shaped to represent the baby Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes. The bread was made without butter or milk and was a rather tasteless pastry. Still, it was a popular Christmas pastry for its religious significance, and from 1560 onwards, bakers would deliver one or two 36 pound Stollen to the Saxon king yearly.
Now, only 150 bakers are allowed to make the official Dresden Stollen, complete with the seal of the citys famous king August the Strong. However, bakers all over the world have their own spin on both the original and the more modern recipes for the bread, and bake the dessert not only at Christmas, but also year round.


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run C code.
But now I would love to know all the things about the unix. Starting off with the commands, from the most basic of all to the decent level. Also, moving forward, how the different folders/files are arranged in a unix (ubuntu is installed on my system) system.
I have picked up a couple of books, but they dont seem to help. Can someone suggest a comprehensive book that'll fulfill my needs. Because, working with a GUI on ubuntu does not really give me the real feel of things. Hence I'd want to move on to the terminal instead.


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Farm Bill: Tending To Needy Is Key
Published: Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 2:05 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 2:05 a.m.
An editorial by the Kansas City Star
Congressional negotiators were back at work last week, trying to find common ground on a farm bill. It's a huge and complicated bundle of legislation that has — no surprise — hit a wall over clashing political and policy visions.
While reports indicate conferees appear close to agreement on many parts of the legislation, the largest gap — and the biggest battle — remains over feeding the poor.
Forty-seven million of the neediest Americans qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The economic malaise has made matters worse, and just a month ago SNAP payments took a hit when an emergency provision, passed in 2009, expired. That means a family of four is getting $36 less each month to bring milk, bread, eggs and other staples into their kitchens.
Raw-meat extremists in the House would squeeze the needy — or many of them — even more. The Senate bill would trim $3.9 billion from nutrition programs over the next 10 years. The House bill would jettison 10 times that, or $39 billion, about 5 percent of projected spending over 10 years, with a major emphasis on tightening eligibility requirements.
GOP forces want to ensure that able-bodied but unemployed Americans who get food stamps get kicked off the rolls. The Democrats tend to believe, correctly, that aid to the poor has been cut enough already; the Senate proposal finds savings in administrative efficiencies and other areas that have less of an effect on daily lives. Both sides want to remove abusers.
Among other hurdles, the Senate bill would reauthorize nutrition programs for five years; the House plan expires in three, in a likely new attempt to separate nutrition from other farm programs, as legislators tried and fortunately failed to do earlier this year.
Smaller differences abound. The House version would enhance flood protection for agricultural interests in the Missouri River basin; the Senate's does not. The Senate proposes an intriguing pilot project to distribute protein-rich legumes to schools. The House so far is silent on the matter.
The good news: Bipartisan sentiment, in a time of relative agricultural prosperity, will end certain direct crop payments to farmers. And both bills expand sometimes questionable crop-insurance policies, though significant differences in that area and among various commodity programs have yet to be hashed out.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that all farm-bill programs will amount to more than $900 billion over 10 years. The nutrition programs account for nearly 80 percent of the total. Yes, that's real money. But it also addresses real need for the nation's poor.
Lead negotiators have expressed optimism that a bill can be completed on deadline. Let's hope they are right.
If compromise proves elusive, Congress has a fallback position: another short-term extension. In that case, SNAP funding would remain at current levels, and a new bill could get put off until after the next elections.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has warned that absent a new farm bill, he would be forced to revert to a 1949 law that would cause prices for milk and other prices to skyrocket in January.
"Milk. Butter. Cheese. Eventually, rice. Corn. Wheat products," Vilsack said recently in Kansas City. "There's no question that's going to happen. The law requires me to do that."
At some point, congressional obstructionists need to recognize the consequences of their actions. The farm and nutrition bill, which affects every American, would be a good place to start.
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5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won't)
#2. Genius
We're using the broader definition of the word "genius" here, meaning anyone with an extraordinary talent or skill. So for instance Dennis Rodman was a genius when it came to rebounding basketballs, but was probably not a genius in the way that Einstein was.
Or was he?
But as Dennis demonstrates, genius--whether it involves writing ground-breaking computer code, picking stocks or writing the dopest rhymes--means one thing above all else: You are forever granted an exception to society's rules.
The fictional archetype for this these days is TV's Dr. House, whose being a genius means he gets a free pass to do drugs on the job, break hospital policy, insult his superiors and treat patients like shit. But don't blame the writers, the real world examples are just as extreme, from Hemingway to Kanye West. Being a genius means you get to do great things, sure, but it's also a blank check for douchebaggery.
Who could turn that down?
So What's the Problem?
Want to know what it's like to live life as a genius? All you have to do is go hang around with the stupidest, most incompetent people you know. Cringe at their stupid jokes, feel the frustration as they fumble even the easiest tasks and fail to grasp the simplest concepts. Being a genius must be like that, only everyday. Everyone is an idiot compared to them. They're living Idiocracy.
We can't imagine what it's like to make friends in that world. Genuine connections will be rare indeed when every honest expressions of thought or feelings on your end is met with a look of dull Keanu Reeves-esque befuddlement.
If you're not the Einstein kind of genius, it doesn't matter, any situation where you're 10 levels above your coworkers is going to be daily frustration. If you're a genius at spreading concrete, that feeling only occurs to you in the form of everyone else being sloppy and helpless. No wonder they wind up treating people like dirt.
Not that you'd have time for friends anyway. Genius takes practice. Lots of it. Shows like House don't tell you that to become as good at your job as Dr. House, you've got to devote an enormous amount of time to working, studying and practicing your craft (at least 10 thousand hours, according to that Malcolm Gladwell book everyone is quoting these days). Behind the genius is hundreds of weekends spent pouring over texts while everyone else was at the party, playing bikini Twister.
This is what they do at parties, right?
All of this is a great recipe for the stereotypical depressed, moody genius who dies alone and bitter.
Wait, it Gets Worse...
If your genius lies in some kind of creative field, then there's a good chance you have actual mental illness to deal with. While only one percent of the population suffers from bipolar disorder, it is claimed that 50 percent of poets, 38 percent of musicians and 20 percent of painters have it. It's just part of the package.
Eminem, prior to launching music career.
Compare the number of great musical innovators who have died of suicide or drug overdose versus, say, the number of plumbers who have died the same way. It might be better to just stand in the poop all day.
#1. Power
You never hear little kids say they want to be "powerful" when they grow up. Parents don't encourage that sort of thing, since it's kind of terrifying coming from a toddler.
Yet, power is what everything else on this list is about. Fame is about having power in the relationship with the fans. Beauty is about gaining power through others' sexual desire and jealousy. Genius means society needs your skills more than you need its approval. Money . . . well, money and power are conjoined twins.
So it's pretty safe to say that while not many of you reading this specifically aspire to go into any kind of political office, a great many of you do aspire to some kind of power. Maybe you're eying the kind of job where you'll be the boss, or maybe you want to go into law enforcement. Or maybe you're just driven by that bitter, unspoken urge almost all of us feel at least once in our youth: "I'll show them! I'll show them all."
So What's the Problem?
Saying "power corrupts" is stating something so obvious we feel stupid even typing it. It's like saying elevators elevate. If you found out tomorrow your congressman was caught firing orphans out of a cannon, you'd barely raise an eyebrow.
It has nothing to do with the "culture of corruption in Washington DC" the Libertarians are always talking about. You find it everywhere, from the asshole supervisor to the bitter gym coach. Small people driven to mindless, unethical behavior, drunk on just a few drops of bullshit power. They often can't make friends, their marriages end badly, they self destruct. The world is full of these miniature, sad Tony Montanas, destined for a proverbial bloody downfall.
Usually instead of a mansion it's a cubicle, and instead of bullets it's a series of pissy emails
Wait, it gets worse...
The thing is, it's the desire itself that's poisonous. You find that need for power most in the type of person who hates having to obey all of society's social contracts, particularly the ones that require them to not act like cocks all day. These are the people who are only nice guys because of fear of retribution if they do otherwise, so their main goal is to become strong enough that no retribution is possible (this is why sociopaths tend to seek positions of power, by the way).
So it's not just that power will destroy you. It's that the urge itself is bad news. That desire for power is a vicious, ravenous animal and feeding it only makes it strong enough to tear its way out of your belly and go on a bloody rampage.
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"So what will make me happy, Cracked.com writers? What's left?"
For the next 10 seconds, stare at this picture of a guy hugging a tiger.
Notice how you weren't worrying about your job during those 10 seconds?
Experts have figured out that the brain has no ability to actually predict your emotional reaction to life changes that haven't happened yet. In other words, you physically do not know what you want. The act of sitting around pondering it is apparently what fucks you up.
This might be because for most of human history, we didn't have time to do that. We were too busy gathering berries and running from wild animals. Now that we've got things so under control that the animals hug us. . . well, we're like the guy up there who didn't know what to do with his lotto winnings.
This may be why studies show friendships, altruism and religious practices bring happiness. It may be that taking the focus off your own happiness is what makes happiness possible.
If that sounds like a mind-boggling, ridiculous paradox, clearly arranged by the gods to torment us. . . well, we agree. Here's a video of a baby porcupine eating a banana.
In addition to helping write this article, David Wong is the author of the critically acclaimed horror novel John Dies at the End, which is now like ten bucks on Amazon. In case you thought we were finished shedding the light on what won't make you happy, then check out 5 Reasons Being Single Sucks Even More Than You Thought and 9 Awesome Places to Have Sex (And the Horrific Consequences).
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When you are talking with Zoltun Kulle before reviving him, he says something like : "Your birth right could make you a god." Saying that makes me think at that point in the story, he already knows that you are the Nephalem, when everybody you hang around with for considerably more time just sees you as different... not a legendary hero.
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South Africa Can Have a Long Stay at the But it Still Needs a Silver Lining
So now we have the final confirmation: South Africa is the best Test cricket team in the world, and is likely to stay that way for quite a while.
The team recently completed a 3-0 home whitewash of a promising Pakistan side, giving it a 100% home record this South African summer; it also means that over the past year South Africa has beaten the world's number-two ranked team, England, on the road; its number-three ranked team, Australia, also away; and its number-four ranked team, Pakistan, at home.
Its next two Test engagements are away to Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Win those, and pretty much all the contenders, with the exception of a declining India side, will have been vanquished in all conditions.
Between December 1995 and August 2009, Australia was only off the number-one spot in the world rankings for a total of about six months, and was the undisputed top dog for the last six of those years. When a raft of the greatest players in the history of the game retired in quick succession, the Aussies dropped to fourth—they have now stabilized at third, with designs on second—and the battle to replace them at the top was on.
South Africa deposed Australia initially, but only for a few months, before India, then England, had a year or so at the top. South Africa only took over when it beat England in August 2012, but unlike the other recent incumbents, this team looks capable of dominating for years.
Before the recent series, Pakistan, even playing in South Africa, looked like one of South Africa's tougher tests. With a steady, settled batting lineup, depth in the seam-bowling department and the world's best spinner, Saeed Ajmal, the visitors had everything needed to mount a serious challenge. That they failed to do so is an indication of just how good this South Africa team has become.
With wins in the first Test by 10 wickets and the third by an innings and 18 runs, South Africa was only seriously pushed in the second Test at Cape Town. There, Pakistan reduced the hosts to 109-5 after scoring 338 first up; South Africa's comeback to within 12 of the visitors' total showed much the same battling qualities as its recent series victory over Australia. South Africa was frequently behind in that series, pulling off an unlikely draw in the second Test at Adelaide after being four down and 353 behind going into the final day, then roaring back with a 309-run victory in the final Test at Perth.
As with Australia at its best, there is a slightly dismayed air about many of South Africa's opponents now—fine sides scratching their heads as they encounter an apparently immovable object.
The magic ingredient that's catalyzed its transformation from a good team into a great one has been the metronomic, intensely skillful bowling of Vernon Philander.
No one could have imagined the player Philander would become when he was initially brought into the side in 2007 as an unproven one-day all-rounder. Since joining the Test side just 15 months ago, he has taken 89 wickets at 17.13 from his first 16 games through the simple tactic of landing the ball on a perfect line and length and consistently moving it half the width of the bat in either direction. At a modest 80 miles per hour or so, he is a distinctly unflashy contrast to the fire and fizz of the great Dale Steyn at the other end. But his emergence means that South Africa is in the rarest of positions: it has the top two ranked bowlers in the world as its openers.
The support bowling is also starting to look ominously potent. Morne Morkel can drift in and out of games but can extract spiteful bounce at his best, and Rory Kleinvelt has looked steady in his appearances so far. The huge Marchant de Lange, who took 7-81 on debut in December 2011, against Sri Lanka, is back from long-term injury and playing domestic cricket. And, as of this week, the crew is joined by Kyle Abbott, the bustling, bulky sixth-choice seamer who bested even de Lange with 7-29 in the first innings of the third Test against Pakistan.
With the batting lineup looking increasingly settled, thanks to the emergence of Faf du Plessis and the fine form of Alviro Petersen, the only thing missing now is a top-quality spinner. Despite Paul Adams's moments over a decade ago, South Africa has lacked someone in that role since Hugh Tayfield in the 1950s. And the place where the absence of an elite spinner is likely to be felt is Asia, where South Africa has its next two Test engagements.
The first of those, in July and August, however, is in Sri Lanka, against a team on the wane on pitches that aren't quite the slow deserts they once were. A tougher assignment follows in October and November when South Africa is hosted by Pakistan, presumably in its temporary home of the United Arab Emirates. Pakistan will pose a threat in those spinning conditions, but the overwhelming result of the recent series is bound to leave some scars.
Before those two series comes international cricket's great white elephant, the Champions Trophy, which is due to be phased out after 2013. Still, despite the event's status as an afterthought, South Africa will be particularlykeen to win its sunset edition. For all its dominance in every format, a major international tournament remains the one glaring absence on South Africa's résumé. Since England's 2010 World Twenty20 victory, it has been the only major team in that position—even New Zealand has won a Champions Trophy.
With results over three years used to calculate the Test rankings—results over the past year are given twice the weight—South Africa hasn't played every opponent home and away in order to be declared number one. But with recent victories over all of the other top teams, there's still enough data to go on, and, as usual, the rankings feel pretty much right.
Plus, with a side that ticks every box except one, there is no reason why South Africa shouldn't continue to dominate. And there is little prospect of the team losing a Test series these days, so a victory in a major tournament remains the only peak left for South Africa to scale.


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WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Commission will accept comment on a proposed annexation by Windsor Heights at a May 28 public hearing.
The commissioners have scheduled the hearing for 10 a.m., before their regular meeting that week, at the county courthouse. The date has been chosen to allow the commission to advertise the proposed annexation at least 15 days in advance, as required by state code.
Windsor Heights officials have asked the commission to approve the village's annexation of Airport Road east to Girtys Point Road and west to state Route 2 and Route 2 south to Brooke County's southern border.
Village Solicitor Quan Lee said the annexation also would include the bottom of Windy Hill Road, which leads to the hilltop where the small community is located.
Lee has said the annexation won't include any property along the roads.
But the statement hasn't reassured about 30 citizens, most of them residents of the Short Creek area, who have filed a petition against the annexation and are concerned it's the village's first move to ultimately annex their property to gain additional revenue.
Though the proposed annexation doesn't include residences or businesses, state code calls for the commission to consider any objections from qualified voters whose property abuts the roads.
After Village Police Chief Ulrich Utt confirmed village police would patrol the area, village officials were criticized by some for attempting to establish a speed trap to generate additional revenue through fines.
Utt, who was approached for comment, said misinformation has been circulated about the annexation and the village's intention is to extend emergency services to the additional roadways.
He said there have been many complaints from Windsor Heights residents about vehicles speeding on Airport Road, garbage trucks spilling trash in that area and suspicious activity at night near the post office at the foot of the hill.
Utt said extending the police department's service area would make it more eligible for state grants aimed at targeting drunk drivers and other violations.
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Can gravity be absent? Not weightlessness as an astronaut experiences it because the astronaut's body still has gravity which will probably manifest in the presence of another smaller/larger body. For instance, given the mass of the moon it is subject to Earth's gravity holding it in orbit. I mean, total absence of gravity; can it happen?
I think this question will need to be edited; reading it seems even more muddled than the thought ... I can't express it. Feel free to vote to close/delete


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I would like to know if it is possible to set the public exponent we want with "OpenSSL RSA" or if it is really limited to 2 possible exponents:
- 3
- 65537
If yes, why ?
The public exponent of a RSA key is, nominally, an odd integer $e \geq 3$. Any such integer can be used with RSA, although not necessarily with any modulus $n$: $n$ and $e$ must be such that $e$ and $\phi(n)$ are relatively prime to each other. This is why $e$ cannot be even: $\phi(n)$ is even, so it can never be prime to another even number. Apart from that, any odd integer can be theoretically encountered as a public exponent (not $1$, but some implementations will accept it nonetheless, although it is very weak).
A specific implementation of RSA may be more restrictive. OpenSSL appears to have, by default, the following limitations:
These conditions (especially the third) are fairly arbitrary, but so it is. In fact, you want to be even more restrictive, because of interoperability. For instance, the default RSA implementation in Windows (CryptoAPI) cannot process RSA public keys where the public exponent does not fit on 32 bits.
There is no known security advantage to large public exponents over small public exponents. However, there is a quite plain performance advantage to using small exponents, and the smaller the better. Which us why $e = 3$ should be preferred. Using $e = 65537$ is a well-entrenched tradition, for no real good reason (even with $e = 65537$, RSA public-key operations are still quite fast, so it does not matter much in practice).
"65537" was selected for several reasons:
None of these reasons is really strong. Public-key operations in RSA are fast anyway; and $e = 3$ is the fastest you can get. If you really need ultimate performance for public-key operations, then $e = 65537$, while being about the best 17-bit exponent you can find, is still substantially slower than RSA with $e=3$. Not that it really matters most of the time (private-key operations are where performance issues usually are; and if you really need the extra cycles for public-key operations then you should use Rabin signatures, not RSA).
Prime generation can take into account the public exponent, e.g. you can generate candidate $p$ values as $p = 3r+2$ where $r$ is an odd random integer; this ensures that $p$ will not be a multiple of $3$ and that $p-1$ will be relatively prime to $3$ too. This process can be extended to ensure that not only $p-1$ will be relatively prime to your pubic exponent of choice, but also that the candidate $p$ will not be a multiple of 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13... which will make bad candidate pruning faster.
The qualms some people have about $e = 3$ are the consequences of an old piece information that got corrupted along the way and turned into a myth. See this answer for details.
No; you can theoretically use (almost) any $e$ such that $1 < e < \varphi(n)$. There are some potential attacks on RSA with low exponents — see this question by fgrieu — so we tend to prefer larger exponents.
As for why 65537 is an extremely common exponent: it has a lot of benefits while still being large. See this answer by fgrieu for more information. To summarize, 65537 is essentially a compromise between large exponents and efficiency.
To be more precise about which $e$ you can use, the only condition on $e$ is that you must be able to find a $d$ such that $ed \equiv 1 \pmod{\lambda(n)}$, i.e. that a multiplicative modular inverse must exist. This is only the case if $\operatorname{gcd}(e, \lambda(n))=1$. Now, it's well-known in number theory that $\lambda(x) \mid \varphi(x)$ for all $x$, so if we choose an $e$ such that $\operatorname{gcd}(e, \lambda(n)) \ne 1$, then we will have $\operatorname{gcd}(e, \varphi(n)) \ne 1$ as well. But
$$\varphi(n) = \varphi(pq) = \varphi(p)\varphi(q) = (p-1)(q-1),$$
so we would have that $\operatorname{gcd}(e, p-1) \ne 1$ or $\operatorname{gcd}(e, q-1) \ne 1$. So, you cannot use an $e$ that shares a factor with $p-1$ or $q-1$, but other than that, all of them are fair game.


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German authorities suspect Islamist extremists were responsible for planting an explosive device Monday beside a track at the main railway station in Bonn, a German intelligence official tells CNN.
The explosives were found after a 14-year-old reported the bag to police, according to the official, who said the device was "not sophisticated" in design.
The official said whoever left the bag remains at large. Initially, German police arrested two Bonn residents soon after recovering the explosive components, the official said. The official identified them as Omar D., who's long been on German security services' radar because of his alleged links to Islamist extremists, and Abdifatah W.
Both, however, were released without charge after just a few hours in custody. The official said authorities have not ruled out Omar D. as a suspect but do not have enough evidence to hold him.
On Wednesday German police released a composite sketch of the suspected perpetrator based on a description from the 14-year-old. A German official told CNN the sketch describes a tall, thin, dark-skinned man in his early 30s.
Several German newspapers Tuesday reported that German police had arrested a German citizen of Somali origin, identified as Omar D.
Yassin Musharbash, an investigative reporter at Die Zeit, told CNN that security services had been aware of Omar D. for several years because he is believed to have links to Islamist extremists in the Bonn area.
Omar D. and a Somali associate from Bonn were arrested by German police in 2008 at the Cologne Bonn Airport as they prepared to travel to Uganda, according to a briefing prepared by the London based-International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation. It stated that German authorities suspected the duo planned on waging jihad in Somalia or Pakistan, but they were soon released.
Der Spiegel said the bag left at the Bonn station contained butane gas, ammonium nitrate, a metal pipe, an alarm clock and batteries. Die Zeit's Musharbash told CNN that according to investigators, an initial assessment indicated that the device was rudimentary in design. He said it will probably take several days to judge how dangerous the device was.
He said investigators had yet to find a detonator among the recovered components, calling into question whether the device would ever have worked.
Based on a preliminary investigation, Musharbash said it should not be ruled out that a bomb disposal team that responded Monday unwittingly destroyed the detonator. Investigators are said to be looking into this possibility, but this seemed like only one possible scenario, he said. A German intelligence official told CNN on Wednesday that no detonator had yet been found but that a water cannon used to make the device safe may have destroyed the detonator.
Musharbash told CNN it was not yet clear if the bombing attempt was merely the work of homegrown "amateurs" or had connections to overseas terrorist groups.
In October 2011, a militant left-wing group claimed responsibility for placing several incendiary devices on railway lines in Berlin. The German intelligence official said that while it could not be completely ruled out that a similar group left the explosives at the Bonn railway station, the nature of the device found in Bonn was significantly different from the devices planted by the left-wing group in Berlin. Whereas the Berlin devices had been built to disrupt train services, the Bonn device, though it may never have been viable, appeared to have been built to "blow people up" as they boarded or exited trains, the official told CNN.
Terrorists inspired by or affiliated with al Qaeda have a track record of targeting rail lines in Europe.
Several weeks after the Madrid bombings in 2004, the cell that carried out the attack attempted to blow up a bridge on the Madrid-Seville high-speed train line. The plot was abandoned after the terrorists realized they had been spotted by nearby workers, who alerted police, a Spanish official told CNN. The official added that hundreds could have been killed given the quantity of explosives left at the scene.
In 2006, two pro-al Qaeda Islamists placed bombs on two commuter trains leaving the Cologne area, but the attack failed when the devices didn't detonate. Authorities later said the devices could have killed up to 70 people if they had been properly constructed.
Intelligence materials recovered from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, revealed that in 2010, al Qaeda discussed an idea to derail a train in the United States by obstructing tracks, several U.S. officials told CNN.


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Exhaust System Upgrade - Camp WheezyWritten by on June 7, 2011 Giving Grunt to a Wimpy Exhaust System
The exhaust system is often one of the most overlooked aspects of a classic truck but let's face it, when the key turns and the engine is fired, it's time to separate the men from the boys. You could have the hottest looking shortbed Fleety on the block, but if it's wheezing through a sad, single muffler, you might be laughed right out of the local drive-in. It's as if you worked out on your upper body only, leaving two little, skinny bean pole legs to poke out from your awesome Muscle Beach stretchy tank top. It's not cool, it's not right, and it's just plain sad.
So what do you do when you just bought a classic pickup with the aforementioned bean pole exhaust? You do what our buddy Danny Valenzuela did; you call up your buddy who works for a magazine and ask him to hook you up for free! Well, that's not exactly what you'd do or what he did. What you'd do is bust out the latest issue of everybody's favorite hot rod truck magazine, Custom Classic Trucks, and flip through and find an advertiser who sells exhaust products. Then you call them up and tell them what you need! Well, in a perfect world anyways!
But that's what we did in a nutshell. I had a pair of Hushpower mufflers for a future project that wouldn't need them anytime soon, so I donated it to the project as well as a U-Fit kit from Flowmaster, which I had borrowed a few pieces from over the years that also needed a good home. We called up Doug's Headers for a set of bolt-in pipes to fit the 360ci Ford engine and they asked if we wanted to include their stainless steel electric cutout kit. Scare unwitting women and children? Uh, yeah!
We tore into the build on a Tuesday morning and save for a few unrelated snags along the way, were huffing and puffing out on the road by Wednesday evening. So to say that you could do the exhaust job in a weekend is to say the least. Next time you pick up a project that suffers from the wheezes, give the job a shot yourself; you'll probably find it easier than you thought and you might even save some dough! Who wouldn't appreciate that? CCT
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The original exhaust in the Ford was pretty sad to say the least. The notoriously restrictive stock exhaust manifolds coupled with the single exhaust just didn't let the 360 breathe properly.To cure this asthmatic problem, we turned to Doug's Headers for a pair of their full-length, tuned, Metallic Ceramic Thermal Barrier coated headers. Doug's ships their header complete with gaskets, hardware, and collectors.But what's a new exhaust system without a nice, throaty tone? Enter Hushpower HP-2 Series mufflers. Built of stainless steel for a lasting finish, the HP-2s feature an innovative "Cool Shell" casing, a key feature in contributing to the muffler's sound and heat control design.And if it's that wide open sound we're looking for, a quick flick of the switch and our exhaust will be truly free-flowing thanks to a Doug's cutout kit.And if it's that wide open sound we're looking for, a quick flick of the switch and our exhaust will be truly free-flowing thanks to a Doug's cutout kit.You need tubing to mate all these components together and Flowmaster's U-Fit kits are perfect for the do-it-yourselfer. All that's required is a welder, something to cut the tubing, and a free weekend.
I gave Danny the fun jobs (it's your truck, you're getting dirty!) like snaking the headers up between the framerail and the engine.It was tricky business and required the passenger-side collector be modified to clear the trans pan. But once the headers were in place, it was time to start attaching the rest of the exhaust components.We lucked out and the S-bend in the U-Fit kit gave us the perfect routing to clear the transmission crossmember on the driver side.Luckier still was the fact that the oversized end happened to be on the collector's side, so all we had to do was clamp it into place before it was welded up.The passenger side once again was a bit more work as the S-bend needed to be sliced right in the middle of the jog portion to clear the tranny crossmember and not interfere with the floor.With both sides tacked to this point, it was then time to install the cutouts and hookup kit. These were also clamped into place while we played with their positioning.Pleased with the placement of everything, the collectors were unbolted from the headers and each side was welded up.
Notice how high and tight the Hushpower mufflers tuck into the Ford's framerail. You won't be draggin' these mufflers no matter how low you go!The next step is to install the muffler. I fabbed a pair of turndowns using one of the bends from the U-Fit kit and welded them to each Hushpower muffler. With the turndowns as close to the rearend as possible to cut down on the cab noise as well as the smell created from the exhaust, I measured the distance from the cutout hookup kit to the muffler.One little trick worth mentioning is how I marked the pipes to ensure that they got welded up properly. This was extremely important when it came to the union at the collector and the S-bend as well as where the turnouts met the mufflers. Three or four simple lines ensures that everything lines up just how I wanted…A pair of exhaust hangers was picked up from the local auto parts store for each side, one at the hookup kit and one at the turnout.The cutouts operate via a switch mounted under the dash and connect using the provided wiring harness. Note the band clamp mating the hookup kit and the rear portion of the exhaust. I opted to do it this way in case Danny decided to modify the exhaust, he could simply disassemble it in portions.
And there you have it! A couple days worth of work and you've got yourself a great sounding, simple exhaust and probably saved yourself a few hundred clams. Not bad for a weekend's time, eh?


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I know how to saturate in post-processing. But there are times of the day and the year when natural outdoor light is extremely saturated. Towards sunset in spring in southern England, for example. What is the physical quality that makes this light "saturated"? Is it a change in colour temperature? Or is there something else which affects perceived saturation?
I think chills42 is correct, a few factors compound to create vivid colors when the sun is low on the horizon. This affects the actual scene, i.e. the actual colors we see.
But there is another dimension to the situation: what the photos we take look like. The dynamic range of the scene during the golden hours is usually lower, allowing the camera to capture colors more easily. This happens to me all the time; a scene in bright noon sunlight looks completely vivid and saturated (imagine a field of flowers on a sunny day with a blue sky), but there is no way to capture it on a camera with a single exposure. I can underexpose the sky to capture the vivid blues, but then the foreground will be underexposed. Or I can expose the foreground correctly and the sky will overexpose and look white. I think this tricks some people (when they are viewing their photos) into thinking the scene had less color than it did.
This is usually due to a color temperature shift that occurs at certain points in the day, as the angle at which the light from the sun changes with the rising and setting sun.
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These times are often referred to as the "golden hours", and there is an online calculator that can tell you the times that the light will be best in your area.


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I plug in my Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive and then plug the USB into my Ubuntu 10.04 machine and, as expected, it mounts in
/media. OK, this is great. I can access the files, etc. Then, I edit my
smb.conf file for this drive, so that I can share it and I add a line for sharing drives I don't own.
I share the drive and unmount it and then remount with
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/FreeAgent
and it mounts fine. I can access the drive from a Windows XP machine on my network. Then, a short while later, it auto-mounts again, as
/media/Main-BackUp and then the mount point
/media/FreeAgent no longer has the drive mounted and the files are not present. The files are in the newly mounted directory. I should note that the name of the drive is Main-BackUp. I have edited my
smb.conf file several ways to get this to work, including changing the name so it matches and the mount point directory where it should live. It is currently like so:
comment = Backup drive
path = /media/Main-BackUp
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
But I have changed the line
path = /media/Main-BackUp to
path = /media/FreeAgent with no success.
Then, some time later, it does this again, and another mount point is created
/media/Main-BackUp_ and then the previous mount doesn't have any files but this new one does. Each time, a window pops up with the new mount and the files on my external drive. If I leave this machine alone for an hour or so, it will repeat this process 5 or 6 times.
I successfully mounted a Drobo on my work network using a similar technique and it works great. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated.
NOTE - So I commented out the lines in the
smb.conf and experimented with the drive auto-mounting on it's own. Still happens. I searched for a way to run off auto-mounting, but in 10.04 I can't find it. I tried Preferences > File Management > Media and unchecked anything that seemed likely to cause this to no avail. Towards the end of the auto-mounting experiment after commenting out the lines in
smb.conf this error was generated:
NOTE 2 - The drive mounts OK, but then several minutes later, the network share becomes blank and the files aren't there. I go to the server computer and look at the drive, and this most recent time, the drive shifted from sdb1 to sdc1. I remounted and it seemed to work again but then after a few minutes, the same behavior comes back... Empty share. This is odd behavior and I'm not sure I'm getting the root cause.


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Last week I had a discussion with one of my colleagues about "Where the SharePoint external List data is stored?", Is it stored in a SharePoint list and the SharePoint is synchronizing the changes between it and the original source, or SharePoint is saving only the connection information to the source and works as a representation interface for the external data only?
If you look at the following architecture you can say that it is stored in the SharePoint
But, if you look to the following architecture for the client app integration you can say that it's not stored in the SharePoint, since the client app is synchronizing with the data source directly
Any comments will be appreciated.
Kind Regards,


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Top 5 advances in ETL and BI in the past 15 years:
- Near Real-time Data Warehouses
- Dashboards
- Drag and Drop ETL
- Ad hoc Analytics
- Metadata Driven ETL
What is missing from the list above? That would be the fact that BI use has not penetrated into everyday business life like we would have expected. But wasn't that the point that we were all heading towards, that of BI for the masses? That goal of information transparency that everyone was looking for seems to have gotten lost by most vendors in the race to have the biggest and baddest feature list. Very powerful BI technology exists today to get at pretty much any data and slice and dice it in ways that we could have only imagined years ago. Yet, the complexity and disparity of that technology continues to be a major roadblock to getting everyday business managers the information they need to best run their businesses. Now, add in the ever changing, dynamic nature of business today, we find the chasm between the IT department and business users largely intact with business users seeking more and more self service BI on their own.
That is why we set out on our Agile BI initiative, to solve these obvious problems that other vendors ignore. The market and competitive response to our Agile BI initiative has been fun to watch. Suddenly, lots of competitors are talking about how to make their technology more agile and industry analysts are again writing about agile as well.
Unfortunately, competitors miss the point. Pentaho's Agile BI initiative looks to make things simpler, not more complex. This isn't about adding more technology to the mix, this is about using the technology that we already have in more agile and elegant ways so that we can bridge the chasm between IT and business users. It's not about long winded explanations of technology infrastructure that only technology geniuses can understand, it's about opening up the BI process so that IT and business users can collaborate and deploy business relevant BI application quicker.
Isn't that the real point of BI, getting at more information quicker?
Joe Nicholson
VP, Product Marketing
Pentaho Corporation


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A bit of Background on Hamilton's exploding brake rotor
Pictured above is the moment Lewis Hamilton lost the German GP to Nico Rosberg. During Q1, Hamilton's W05 suddenly spun when braking into the banked Sachs corner, and he ended up hitting the tire wall rear first with a force of 21g. Not pretty, but how come?