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NEW YORK — An environmental group says the caramel coloring used in Pepsi still contains a worrisome level of a carcinogen, even after the drink maker said it would change its formula.
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FORT HOOD (September 30, 2012)--One of the biggest bicycle races in the state wrapped up this weekend in Central Texas. This year's Texas State Championship Road Race had a 15% increase in participants. Despite some heavy rain this weekend, the state race on Fort Hood had more than 800 participants, which is the most in the past four years.
Race organizers say the race brings in more than just participants around the state. With the increase of participants, comes increased revenues for local businesses.
"If we could do bike week every week, I'd do it," said Applebee's manager Kevin Jones. "This weekend has been busy, busy, busy. We probably made about three to four thousand dollars the past couple of days."
The only way to the race is through Copperas Cove. Organizers say business revenues for Copperas Cove and the surrounding areas have increased dramatically every year around the time of the state race.
"They stay in our hotels, they eat in our restaurants, they shop in our stores, buy gas in our gas stations," said Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce President Betty Price. "That brings a lot of money into our community when we host an event of this scale."
Organizers estimate this year's state race brought in at least $180,000, not including revenues made from those who come to Copperas Cove each week to train for the race.
Another benefit is the boost it brings to soldiers and the Central Texas community.
"The morale is great, and we always talk about morale with soldiers, but in this case, morale with the civilian population as well," said Capt. Lloyd Loop of Fort Hood Police Dept. "The community that supports and works with us here, this is something that we look forward to."
Racers say the venue is what makes it so special: a paved 33-mile loop with no cars in sight. Plus, just being on Fort Hood and around the soldiers brings the community together.
"This is a great benefit to the soldiers because Copperas Cove, Harker Heights, Killeen, all the local areas fully support us," said Sgt. Lori Singer Henderson of Fort Hood DES Law Enforcement Division. "It's great for us that we can give back to those communities for as much as they give to us soldiers."
The Texas State Championship Road Race is a collaborative effort between the Texas Bicycle Racing Association, Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce and Fort Hood.


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Columbia College-Marysville/Everett adds two new degree programs
Columbia College-Marysville/Everett recently added two new programs to its degree offerings: an associate and a bachelor's degree in human services.
"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, human services is one of the fastest growing fields out there today," said Tom Larsen, director of Columbia College-Marysville/Everett. "Our students asked for this degree offering, and we pride ourselves on responding to the needs of our students, offering both an associate and a bachelor's degree option."
The Marysville/Everett campus already offers associate degrees in general studies, business administration and criminal justice administration and bachelor's degrees in American studies, business administration, criminal justice administration, general studies and management information systems. The campus also offers a master's degree in business administration and supports the college's Online Campus which offers 19 degrees and more than 600 classes.
The Marysville/Everett campus served the greater Puget Sound region at the Naval Station Seattle at Sand Point from 1975-1994 and has served active-duty military, their dependents and the public with courses taught at Naval Station Everett and the Navy Support Complex at Smokey Point, Marysville since 1995.
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There are long-term garage and open-air car parks by the old terminal. In addition there are two other large open-air long-term car parks at the airport. The short-term car park is located directly opposite the airport terminal. Parking can be booked via the airport website.
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Auto Europa, Avis, Budget, Easy Car, Europcar, Hertz, Maggiore, Sixt and Thrifty are all represented in the Arrivals area.


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In Port Royale 3, how can I earn much money by setting up an effective trade route?
Is there a certain combination of cities that is especially profitable?
Should you rather create smaller roundtrips between a few cities or long routes?
What other tips are there for trade routes that can help beginners?


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The Department of Career Development is hosting the 2013 Graduate School Fair on Tuesday, October 22 in the College Union Ballroom from 5-7pm. Currently, seventy-five graduate schools will be represented, with admission representatives available to answer students' questions about the admission requirements and process for graduate school.
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David Alan Kinkaid of Fort Collins passed away on Dec. 19, 2012, at the age of 63.He was born in Wichita on July 2, 1949, to Ina Mae and Jack Kinkaid. He had one brother, Phil, who pre-deceased him in 1972. He graduated from Newton High School in Newton. He then attended and graduated from Southwestern College in Winfield and worked as a public health director in Harvey County.Shortly thereafter, he moved to Fort Collins, Colo., and worked for the Larimer County Health Department. He then worked for Colorado State University as an environmental health officer for more than 30 years, eventually heading the Environmental Health Program.After moving to Fort Collins, Colo., he married and had a son, Bryan Kinkaid. He later remarried to Cathy Busch in 1989.He is survived by his mother, Ina Mae Kinkaid of Newton; his wife, Cathy Busch-Kinkaid of Fort Collins, Colo.; his sons, Nathan Busch of Denver, Michael Busch of Denver and Bryan Kinkaid of Denver; his daughters-in-law, Marzycielsi Gibriella of Denver, Mindy Busch of Denver and Meredith Chace of Denver; and his granddaughter, Micayla Busch.In lieu of flowers, make donations to Trout Unlimited, the food bank of Larimer County or McKee Hospice in Loveland, Colo.A celebration of life service will be conducted at a later date.
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Say you have two inputs:
<input id="input1" type="text"/> and
<input id="input2" type="text"/>
such that through some JavaScript magic, anything you type in input1 will also be put in input2. In this sense input2 "mirrors" input1.
Is there a way that I can also "mirror" text selection. So if I select some text in input1, how can I have the exact same text in input2 also be selected?
I've been looking at Microsoft's TextRange object and the Selection object used by Mozilla et al, but the whole mess seems pretty cumbersome. Has anyone had any success doing something like this before?
CLARIFICATION: Thanks for the responses so far. To be clear: I'm not asking how to mirror the text. I've already solved that one. The question is only about selecting the text in input1 and having the corresponding text in input2 also be selected.


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I recently added Javascript and CSS files into the wordpress. All the files are being registered through
functions.php. One of the files is
my_worldmap.js as shown below
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The issue here, the above function is called as soon as I visit the homepage. My expectation that the code is only called when I visit
www.mydomain.com/global-network. How can I do this in WordPress ?


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I thought of writing this question Minimum for this function in a different way, if it helps.
I want to minimize
$$\sum_{i=1}^n a_ix_i + \nu \sum_{i=1}^n b_i 2^{x_i} ,$$
where $a_i \in [0,1]$, $b_i \in (0,\infty)$, and $x_i \in [x_{\min},0)$, and
$$ \sum_{i=1}^n 2^{x_i} = 1 .$$
$x_{\min}$, $\nu$, $a_i$ and $b_i$ are constants.
I guess the tricky part is to minimize the function while ensuring all $2^{x_i}$ sum up to $1$ for these $n$ variables.
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KILLEEN (February 2, 2013)--"Free Cakes for Kids Killeen," is a group of over 60 volunteers who bake birthday cakes for kids whose parents are in a bind, and they do it all on their own time and money.
Brandi Frazier is one of Free Cakes for Kids Killeen's newest volunteers.
"I love kids and think every child should have a birthday cake, so this is a way for me to make sure it happens," Frazier said.
Frazier has baked three cakes so far; that's three kids' birthdays made special.
The Colon family of Nolanville has been one of the organization's recipients.
It's been tough lately for Orangel and Joanne Colon and their kids Natalia, Mckaylah, Jeremy and Sophie mainly because of health issues.
Joanne, Natalia and Jeremy have epilepsy, a medical condition that produces seizures, and treatment can be expensive.
"We tried to keep everything normal, but we couldn't, and it was hard," Joanne said.
Orangel and Joanne knew that celebrating their eight and nine year olds Mckaylah and Natalia's birthday last December would be hard.
"You try to get your kids things to make them happy so they can enjoy their birthday," said Orangel.
The parents thought they'd have to tell their girls no celebration, but Free Cakes for Kids Killeen stepped in to make sure their day was just as special.
"They take weight off people's shoulders," Orangel said.
Mckaylah and Natalia said their special day wouldn't have been as special without volunteers like Brandi.
"We wouldn't be having a good time and celebrating our birthday," Mckaylah said.
Those who get these cakes say it's what's inside the cake that makes it a cut above any bakery's.
"You're looking at time and effort, and not only that, the cakes were delicious, too," said Orangel.
In the two years that Free Cakes for Kids Killeen has been around, volunteers have made over 400 cakes, and they hope to continue baking more surprises.


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If I don't have space concerns at the moment, should I size my TempDB as a large space initially and not let it's space be reclaimed?
What's the best way determine what the optimal initial size for my TempDB should be?
My TempDB is currently 12gb and it's set to 10% autogrowth


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Fort Lewis College volleyball didn�t have to look far to get its early signing period started.
Durango High School libero Kennedy Clark will join the Skyhawks next year after helping the Demons to two consecutive Class 4A state showings.
Clark, daughter of Letty and Randy Clark, led the 18-9 Demons with 336 digs in 2012, an average of nearly five digs per game.
In the process, she earned All-Southwestern League first-team honors after making the second team as a junior in her first year after transferring from Bayfield High School to DHS.
�Kennedy has an amazing natural ability to read the court. To have a mentor like libero Jenna Kinzer next season will improve her play immensely,� FLC head coach Shelly Aaland said in a news release. �Her instincts and determination will allow her to come in and compete right away.�
Clark played for the Four Corners Volleyball Club the last six seasons, earning multiple all-tournament team accolades in the process. She also served as a DHS team captain in 2012.
Clark becomes the latest in a line that includes Jessica Wilson, Chelsea Flaming and Cora Vorwald to make the leap from DHS to playing under Aaland at FLC � �another Durango High School standout for the upcoming season,� Aaland said. �I can see her developing into a high-level defensive player in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in the coming years.�
FLC finished the 2012 season 11-16 overall and 7-12 in the RMAC.
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By Michael Ferrante
It's safe to say that just about every local health club or
cross-fit gym is touting the benefits of Tabata training these days, and because of this trend, Tabata is making its way into indoor cycling studios as well. If you're eager to introduce Tabata-type training to your Spinning class participants, I offer the following for your consideration.
The goal of Tabata training is to improve VO2max capacity by exercising at a very high anaerobic level. Dr. Izumi Tabata is the founder of the protocol that is essentially a 5 minute warm-up followed by 8 high
intensity/all-out efforts lasting just 20 seconds. The rest or recovery periods in between the 20 second intervals are just 10 seconds. The session ends with a 2-5 minute cool down.
This style of training is certainly not new to cycling or
the Spinning program for that matter. Competitive cyclists who are serious about their training and are constantly seeking to improve their skills and racing results will certainly incorporate high-end, anaerobic capacity interval work in their training regimes. If a cyclist, for example, wants to be a contender to win the sprint finish of a race then he or she must add intense
anaerobic work to their base-building aerobic training volume.
And the Spinning program has long recognized the need for Tabata-style training. Back in 2005, Mad Dogg Athletics and Spinning introduced the High Intensity Training (HIT) workshop as a continuing education module for instructors. As a Spinning instructor, if you're interested in embracing the Tabata trend, then I strongly advise that you attend a HIT workshop to help build your knowledge base.
Remember, if you're asking your Spinning students to execute a series of high intensity intervals, then you should expand your ability to be able to explain why these intervals are important. To do so, you'll need to
fully understand heart rate training, rating of perceived exertion, lactate threshold, anaerobic threshold, periodization, ATP and CP and a number of other
important exercise definitions and methodologies. Fortunately, the Spinning program offers this expanded instructor training. This affords all of us the
opportunity to become the best group fitness professionals on the planet, and to be able to seamlessly incorporate the latest trends in fitness.


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Im glad they have decided to do studies on the usability of WWF communications. Of all things WWF, I am, by far, finding this to be the most difficult concept to grok..
Very interesting to watch. I recently watched another video about using Predictive Fetch with Ajax in web forms and watching this video brought it to mind.
I think Microsoft could go a long way into enhancing the intellisense with predictive fetch and it sure would have helped in this case.
Another observation I made was when the poor guy had to search through the documentation as we all have done, and there is just this overwhelming amount of data to parse. Maybe MS can use the predictive fetch to draw an order of probability for what the user is looking for based upon the subjects he has highlighted in the search results pane! Now that would be the next level of intelligent programming!
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We need to label our shopping basket/cart on our Hotel & Tour Booking website. People can add products (rooms or tours) to their basket, and reserve after reviewing. What should this be called: a Shopping Basket or a Shopping Cart?
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As to whether it should be "Basket" or "Cart", I would have said this was a localisation issue. The US seems to favour "Cart", but here in the UK "Basket" is more correct. eg. amazon.co.uk uses "Basket", amazon.com uses "Cart". In fact, I'd go so far as to say "Cart" is incorrect for a UK based website.
I think "Cart" or "Basket" is simply the shortened form of "Shopping Cart" and "Shopping Basket". You don't want to over use the word "Shopping" if its context is obvious IMO. "Shopping Basket" would be the title and/or perhaps used the first time it is mentioned in copy and "Basket" thereafter. eg. "Your Basket is empty", "You have 2 items in your Basket".
Shopping baskets and carts are physically very different.
Graph created in Google Ngram Viewer.
It's interesting to note that Shopping Cart is more popularly used both in American and British English. Shopping cart is today's most popular choice. Probably due to the fact a cart can hold more items then a basket and most people show at supermarkets with trolley's. Baskets are for smaller purchases.
Usually, it's just "Cart", as in "You have 2 items in your cart"
This can be seen here, at the top right hand corner.


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Two Speed Transmission - Rebuild Your Own BertWritten by on December 1, 2009 Race A Car With A Bert/Brinn-Style Transmission? Then You Can Save A Buck By Rebuilding It Yourself
A Bert/Brinn-style transmission is an excellent example that not everything in racing has to be more complicated than the U.S. tax code. A Bert transmission is a favorite in many dirt racing classes because it's small, lightweight, has a low rotating mass, is dependable, and easy to repair.
The two-speed transmission cuts down on the number of parts, including the standard clutch. Instead, the transmission is included inside the housing. Still, even though it is quite different that what you might consider a "standard" transmission like you would find in a street car, a Bert transmission is easy to maintain and rebuild.
To get a better idea of what exactly is involved, we travelled to Jim Cook Racing Transmissions and brought him our well-worn Bert from Circle Track's own Dirt Late Model project car. Cook says if you take care of your equipment and don't have any damage from wrecks, a Bert (and the similar Brinn brand) transmission should last a full season-or even two-between rebuilds. It all depends on your power levels, the condition of the track and your driving style.
So if you've got a worn-out Bert underneath your car but can't afford to send it off for a refresh, you may want to try a rebuild yourself. All we needed for ours was a rebuild kit and a new reverse idler kit from Bert Transmission. After that, it just takes plenty of rags, a tube of silicone, a parts washer or brake cleaner, and a little time. Let's get to it!
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1. A good check before beginning is to insert a yoke into the tailhousing and check for play. If you get more than 1/16 inch of back-and-fourth movement with the yoke 3 or 4 inches out of the end of the tailhousing, you'll need to install a new bushing to keep play to a minimum and eliminate oil leaks.2. Here are the components of our Bert rebuild kit. It includes new friction plates, seals, and everything that will wear from normal use. This particular transmission isn't equipped with a ball-spline shaft, so we won't be using the three pieces on the top row.4. Check the output shaft to make sure the splines aren't twisted. There are several bearings of all different sizes to be found throughout the transmission, Cook says that if they aren't damaged they only rarely show any signs of wear. If they still roll smoothly, he gives them a light coat of assembly lube and reinstalls them.5. The output shaft bearing is held in place with C-clips. After they're installed you can use a hammer and a soft-metal punch to gently tap the bearing into the housing. It's only a slight press fit, so only minor force should be required.6. The internal clutch is actuated by this piston assembly inside the tailhousing. When rebuilding your Bert transmission, remove and inspect all the pieces for damage and if everything looks OK, reinstall with a new seal to prevent leaks.7. This is the clutch drum assembly. Notice the Torrington bearings and spacers in the background. They're used to properly locate the drum inside the housing, so make sure to keep notes of how many spacers and their thicknesses are used on each end of the shaft holding the drum in place during disassembly.8. In addition to the Torrington bearings and spacers, the shaft inside the clutch drum also has a large spring and two bearing cages. They all should just slide right into place.
10. Soak the clutch plates in ATF fluid for 30 minutes before stacking them. Begin by sliding a clutch plate on the cluster gear and then alternate steel and clutch until they are all in place. If you're reusing clutch plates, check to see how much clearance you have at the top. If there is 3/16 inch or more from the top of the last clutch plate to the end of the cluster gear, the plates are too worn and should be replaced.11. Next, slide the assembly over the bearings and into the clutch drum. The spring will try to push everything apart, so Cook uses a piece of bent steel like you see here to hold everything together.13. Also, make sure you check that the clutch piston moves freely in its bore in the case, or else it will wear your newly assembled clutch pack prematurely.14. Now, slide the cluster gear into the case. This can be tricky because it probably won't fit through the opening in the side of the case with the piece of steel holding it together. Cook uses a large pair of Vise-Grips like you see here to help get it into position without allowing the spring to blow it to pieces as soon as you loosen your grip.15. Once the clutch is in position, a C-clamp will help hold it closed until you get it locked in.16. Check the movement of the clutch drum inside the case. If you can get more than 3/16 inch of movement with a screwdriver, something inside the drum isn't correct.17. The reverse idler gear goes in next. It spins on a caged bearing held in place with C-clips.
19. Slide the input shaft into the case, then position the tailhousing so that the input and output shafts connect. Now you're ready to bolt the tailhousing to the case.20. The two shifter forks drop into their slots and cut into the gears, then you can install the slider shafts into the case and through the ends of the shifter forks. The forks connect to the slider shafts with the roll pins included in the rebuild kit. It's easy to get the two shafts confused, just remember that the reverse shaft (the lower one) has two notches while the primary shaft only one. Also, use plenty of high-pressure lube to protect the shafts until the ATF has a chance to work its way in there.22. It's tricky to get the ball detents and the slider shafts into position while the springs are trying to shoot the steel balls out of the case and across your work area. Cook uses a small magnetic pin to keep them under control while he drops them into place.21. The ball detents slide into the case in this order and keep the slider shafts from moving and popping the transmission out of gear. These small springs provide the tension.23. Cook uses an air chisel to drive the input shaft bearing in place in the front of the case. He says it's actually much gentler on the bearing than beating on it with a hammer. Lock it into place with a C-clip.


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Global Warming? Now That Really Is Fiction
"After three years of painstaking research," writes Jasper Gerard for The Sunday Times (London), "the father of the techno-thriller believes he has reached a shocking conclusion: global warming is hot air."
"Two developments persuaded Crichton to abandon his Californian liberal world view," Gerard later notes. "One was in 2002 having a gun held to his head by burglars, who tied up Taylor, his daughter, then aged 13. 'They told me not to move and I figured it was best not to argue,' he says. It convinced him we must be tougher on bad guys, be they cat burglars or Saddam Hussein.
"His second awakening was seeing that scientists had become so cowed by environmental activists and the media that they dared not proclaim what their research showed: that, so far, it appears global warming is hardly happening."


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Obama has asked DOJ to investigate Michael Brown's death, but federal charges aren't a sure thing
Witness statements are a key to the outcome
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following days of sustained violence between Missouri police and protestors, President Barack Obama announced Thursday he has asked the Justice Department and FBI to investigate the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
Civil rights advocates might welcome this as good news but the president's announcement doesn't mean federal charges will necessarily be brought in the case.
There's a long history of the federal government claiming power to protect our civil rights from being violated, one that stretches as far as the Reconstruction era. But it wasn't until the 1960s civil rights movement that new laws began strengthening the federal government's role.
Federal prosecutors will often bring civil rights charges in cases of hate crimes where local prosecutors lack the political will to do so. But there have also been a number of instances where federal charges are considered but not brought.
Samuel Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan, says it's understandable why people look to the federal government to protect fundamental constitutional rights. "Federal prosecutions have a better track record of success than state prosecutions in challenging unconstitutional and excessive uses of force by law enforcement," says Bagenstos, a former number two official in the Justice Department's civil rights division in the Obama administration.
The first question in deciding whether to file federal charges is whether the Justice Department thinks it can prove a federal crime beyond a reasonable doubt, Bagenstos says. There are conflicting reports of what exactly happened that led to a police officer shooting Michael Brown.
"In the Michael Brown case, the Department would have to show willful violation of Brown's constitutional rights. That will really depend on the various witnesses' statements regarding the incident and whether a reasonable officer could have found the use of deadly force justified," Bagenstos says.
The next question, Bagenstos says, is whether any state-court prosecution will sufficiently vindicate federal interests. "That will depend on whether the state and local authorities decide to proceed with their own prosecution and how they go about it. Obviously, it's very early to tell what will happen."
Whether the feds file charges in the Missouri case, Bagenstos says, also will depend on the witness statements and other forensic evidence.
"If it's just a matter of conflicting testimony about what happened, this might be a hard case to prove beyond a reasonable doubt," he says. "But the witness statements may make it clear that at least some of the shots were obviously excessive, and there may be physical evidence that tips the scales as well. Also, the Department of Justice will be attentive to whether witnesses, including police officers, lie, hide evidence, or obstruct the investigation."
Beyond the circumstances of a particular case, the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department sometimes begins its own investigation into police departments that show a pattern of using excessive force. That may have become a stronger possibility in Ferguson after reporters for The Washington Post and The Huffington Post were detained by police Wednesday night after they were alleged to have not dispersed from the area quickly enough. The reporters were trying to record the scene through photography and video.
Bagenstos says federal officials "can look to a violation of any constitutional rights -- including not just the Fourth Amendment right against excessive force, but also the First Amendment right to record the police. The Department of Justice, in this administration, has affirmed that members of the public have a constitutional right to record the police."
What happened in Ferguson was a tragedy. But proving that it was a crime in federal court isn't necessarily a sure thing.
Jeffrey L. Katz is a 36-year veteran of print, broadcast and digital news, most recently with NPR in Washington. He's covered politics, public policy and social policy. You can follow him on Twitter @JeffreyLKatz.


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Right now I'm preparing my CV. I think it's relevant to mention that I'm not native English speaker and my question is half-linguistic, half-programming related.
I've been professionally hired as software developer for nearly 5 years, some of the projects required designing small-scale applications architecture, I'm a MS in computer science.
I have trouble figuring out how to call myself in professional light:
- a programmer
- a software developer
- a software engineer?
Being translated all those notions have the same meaning in my mother's tongue, but I doubt, if they have a more specific usage.
Can you help me figure out what's the difference between all three? Which one would you prefer the put in CV and why?


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Making a Case
125 judges, 46 competitors, 23 teams, 12 months of planning, 3 rounds of argument, and 1 big realization: The Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court competition is serious business.
One afternoon this past September, dozens of second- and third-year students gathered in a large lecture hall on the first floor of Jerome Greene Hall to learn about one of Columbia Law School's most hallowed traditions: the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court competition. Since 1925, the annual event has provided Law School students the opportunity to develop and present legal arguments, facing off against their peers in a simulated appellate court.
At the front of the room that afternoon were the director and coordinator for the 2011–2012 competition, Michael M. Rosenberg '12 and Emily M. Lieberman '12, respectively. Although these two students are thoroughly dedicated advocates for the competition and all that it offers participants in the way of experience, Rosenberg made sure to include a note of warning during the introductory remarks to prospective competitors. "This is not just a résumé builder," he told the audience. "This won't lead to celebrity. There's no credit involved—potentially, it's an all-year commitment, and a lot of work."
A few people may have been scared away by Rosenberg's words, but most left the meeting with their interest in the competition intact, if not strengthened. And during the days that followed, several dozen students signed up to participate in the competition, which is overseen each year by the Law School's Moot Court Program director, Professor Philip M. Genty. When the metaphorical starting gun sounded on October 3, with the release of the record for this year's hypothetical problem, 23 teams of two got their first look at what they would be up against in the qualifying round—a layered, complicated fact pattern for a faux obstruction of justice and fraud case titled United States v. McClain. Each team was given six weeks to write a 20-page brief and prepare a 20-minute oral argument. The 16 students judged to have produced the best briefs and arguments would continue to the semifinal round. From there, a quartet would appear in Columbia Law School's version of the Final Four: the Stone Moot Court finals, where arguments would be made before a panel of three sitting circuit court judges.
The hypotheticals around which the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court competition has turned over the years often reflect the burning legal issues of those time periods. The 1970 competition, for example, involved a defendant charged with "the crime of Abortion in the Second Degree." Three years after Columbia Law School students argued before guest judges over the constitutionality of abortion laws, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, held such laws to be unconstitutional in one of the most famous decisions of the century. Other Stone problems have proven more timeless in nature. In 1986, students crafted legal arguments regarding whether the search of a public school student's locker by a school official violated the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. The case involved issues that would be just as familiar to Stone Moot Court competitors in 1986 as in 2006.
This year's hypothetical was especially contemporary. Indeed, it is tempting to imagine what participants in the inaugural competition of 1925 would have made of United States v. McClain. The key questions of the case concern phenomena that would have been beyond the wildest imaginings of even the most farsighted Coolidge-era legal futurist: cell phones, computer fraud, hacking, and public relations campaigns.
The task of conceiving and writing this year's Stone Moot Court hypothetical fell, as it does every year, to the program's director, for whom the upcoming competition starts shortly after the current year's winners are announced. Stone directors are, by tradition, chosen from among the previous competition's second-year semifinalists. For Michael Rosenberg, the choice to participate in the moot court process without taking his spot behind the podium was initially not an easy one to make. "Part of me really wanted to compete again, but I decided to take on a new challenge by running the competition and watching competitors work with my own problem," he says. "It has been very gratifying to watch United States v. McClain take on a life of its own, and to see competitors make so many great arguments I wasn't expecting."
Rosenberg struck upon the idea for the hypothetical last summer while working on obstruction of justice issues as a summer associate at a large law firm. He became fascinated by a legal question that he eventually placed at the heart of United States v. McClain: When you modify a document or mislead an investigator, at what point does it become federal obstruction, resulting in criminal liablity?
In the hypothetical case that Rosenberg conceived, Peter McClain, an IT professional at a cellular phone company and a part-time computer hacker, got into trouble on multiple levels. First, he stood accused of modifying a press release to state that the cell phones produced by his company carried "absolutely zero risk of causing cancer," despite knowing otherwise. He also allegedly misled a local investigator with respect to his involvement with the global hacking collective known as Anonymous and engaged in hacking to facilitate free coffee perks from Starbucks. "Obstruction of justice is a broad statutory scheme, as is the computer fraud statute," explains Rosenberg. "The charges included computer fraud, in the form of access in violation of employment contracts or terms of service."
In an instance of reality mirroring fiction, the problem case involves issues remarkably similar to the real-life case of United States v. Nosal, which Rosenberg did not know would come up for review by the 9th Circuit during the course of the competition. "And in an amazing coincidence, one of the 9th Circuit judges reconsidering Nosal is Alex Kozinski," says Rosenberg. "He's also one of our judges in the finals. The Nosal case deals with many of the same open questions of law that the Stone competitors are working with."
Rosenberg spent the summer crafting United States v. McClain, building a record, and writing the bench memorandum. Along with Moot Court Coordinator Emily Lieberman, it was his responsibility to locate and sign up 122 distinguished judges to score the initial rounds of competition and narrow the participants from nearly 50 to four. He chose the judges from a pool of respected local lawyers, including many Columbia Law School (and Stone Moot Court) alumni.
All the preliminary planning was in place by the time students returned to campus in the fall. It was time to watch United States v. McClain take on a life of its own.
Over the course of two evenings in mid-November, the 23 teams of two participated in the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court qualifying round. The teams gathered in ground-floor classrooms in Jerome Greene Hall and delivered their arguments before appellate panels consisting of three judges. Competitors were dressed in their best courtroom attire. Their briefs and oral arguments were scored according to a complex and comprehensive metric that spanned 20 criteria grouped into five categories: Analysis, Persuasiveness, Organization, Style, and Mechanics. The revamped scoring rubric was one of several changes instituted by Michael Rosenberg. "We also decided the judges' scoring should be done in silence, with no judge collaboration or discussion about the individual scoring," says Rosenberg. "This can be a very close competition."
In every room, the exchanges between the judges and competitors were fast, if not ferocious. The questioning covered all manner of issues related to the facts of the case and the workings of appellate courts. Judges routinely put competitors on the spot: Why is the burden on the government here? What does the record say about FCC jurisdiction? How did this or that action equal obstruction of Congress? Why should federal investigators get involved?
Only after the round of arguments ended did the mood turn from competitive to cordial. The judges put away their adversarial masks and offered competitors helpful tips on their performance.
At the end of November, a Law School–wide email listed the names of 16 semifinalists. For those advancing to the next round, much work still lay ahead. They were tasked with writing a new brief (sometimes changing positions on the case) and preparing two additional oral arguments. Together with a new partner, each semifinalist had until late February to master yet more angles of United States v. McClain.
The 2011–2012 Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court semifinals took place on two cold nights in late February. The judges on those evenings, knowing they would be forced to choose between 16 very talented competitors, were relentless in pressing the students to define, explain, connect, and justify. To the uninitiated, there was a refined brutality to the proceedings, just as one might encounter in a real appellate court, where the stakes are high.
Among the numerous top-caliber exchanges during the semifinals was that between Kareem Shibib '12, representing the United States, and competition judge Alexandra Shapiro '91. Shibib argued that violations of a company computer policy could potentially form the basis for federal fraud liability. He immediately found himself on the receiving end of some tough questions.
"Suppose a law firm has a policy barring associates from emailing work product to themselves for use at home," she said. "Under your theory, isn't it always a crime? After all, this would be a black-letter violation of a company policy."
Shibib responded confidently that criminal liability can extend to those who knowingly violate a corporate policy with fraudulent intent, so long as that policy is consistent with modern-day business norms. Though it was not the easiest argument to make, Shibib, like his fellow competitors, did the best he could with the case he had. (His performance made Stone Moot Court history: He was named the "First Alternate Finalist," an honor never before bestowed on a competitor.)
According to some veteran moot court judges, the competition has been getting stronger in recent years. "I've noticed that students are more confident and better writers than they were 10 years ago," says Jane E. Booth '76, a former appellate attorney who now serves as general counsel to Columbia University. Booth has judged these competitions on and off for 25 years. "You used to want to edit the briefs with a red pen, and now you just read them for content because they're that good. All four briefs I read this year were clearer than I've ever remembered."
When the dust settled following semifinal arguments, Robert M. Bernstein '13, William M. Rollins '12, Kelly N. Sampson '12, and J. Matthew Schmitten '13 received word, via another email, that they would advance to the finals. They would compete for the honor of best brief, highest overall score, and best oral argument, recognition of which takes the form of the Lawrence S. Greenbaum Prize, established in 1951 in memory of Lawrence S. Greenbaum, Class of 1912.
For their part, the finalists agreed that the competition is well worth the time—even if Michael Rosenberg's early warning was justified.
Rollins was a semifinalist last year but failed to advance to the finals. This year, he made amends, breaking through to the last round. He says the competition was not a strain on his other work, but rather an aid to it. "When you verbalize something in an argument, the issues become clearer," says Rollins. "It helps you understand the legal issues in cases in a more concrete way than if you just read about them in textbooks."
Schmitten, a second-year student who plans to pursue antitrust law, adds that moot court competitions present an opportunity to hone a valuable combination of advocacy skills in a real-world setting. "Externships give you clinical experience," he says, "but not experience with appellate briefs or oral advocacy."
Bernstein, meanwhile, says he was taken aback when he found out he had advanced. "I didn't expect to make it to the finals," he says. "It's been a thrilling surprise."
And, of course, the best was yet to come. With notice of their status as finalists, Bernstein and his fellow competitors also received confirmation that they would argue United States v. McClain once more, on a bigger stage. Final arguments, the congratulatory email reiterated, would be heard by Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit, Judge Reena Raggi of the 2nd Circuit, and Judge Joseph A. Greenaway of the 3rd Circuit. And this time, the entire Law School community would be watching to see what happens next.
Read about how the final chapter of the competition unfolded by visiting law.columbia.edu/mag/stonefinals.


text: OK, here's a question -- I've got to run this huge index twice: once for the regular index, and another time for the Fuzzy index. Is there any way to only run the spider.pl part of it once, and then somehow get the results to both the non-fuzzy and the fuzzy SWISH indexing? Since the work is really in the grabbing of all the HTML files, not in the indexing part. Any suggestions? Thanks -- Dave V. -----Original Message----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]On Behalf Of Bill Moseley Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 10:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [SWISH-E] Re: Spider taking too long to index? On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, David VanHook wrote: > Last night, during a time when the site was not very busy at all, it took > spider.pl 3 hours and 16 minutes to index 19,277 files (a rate of 1.6 per > second, according to the SWISH report). The total amount of CPU utilization > time was 22 minutes, 20 seconds. > > The way I'm doing it is, I feed Spider.pl a single page which contains a > list of links to all the pages I want it to index. That page is huge, of > course. Then I tell spider.pl to only go one level deep. So it grabs the > first item on the page, indexes it, returns to the list, grabs the next > item, indexes it, returns to the list, etc. Is that not the way this > should work? Should I modify some setting on SwishSpiderConfig.pl to > account for this system? Yes, but it's only fetching one doc at a time, which might be slow. It took you 11,760 seconds to fetch 19,277 files. That can be faster if keep_alives are working. It requires both that you have a server set to do keep alives, of course, and also that the spidering machine has a current version of LWP installed. I think it will complain if you set keep_alive and do not have the supporting LWP code, though. You should be able to check if keep alive is working on the server: > cat t.pl @servers = ( { base_url => 'http://apache.org', email => 'firstname.lastname@example.com', max_files => 1, keep_alive => 1, # enable keep alives requests }, ); > SPIDER_DEBUG=headers ./spider.pl t.pl >/dev/null ----HEADERS for http://apache.org --- Cache-Control: max-age=86400 Connection: Keep-Alive <<<<< Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 14:11:58 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Server: Apache/2.0.43 (Unix) Content-Length: 7751 Content-Type: text/html Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Expires: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:11:58 GMT Client-Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 14:12:01 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 <<<< Title: Welcome! - The Apache Software Foundation X-Meta-Author: ASF X-Meta-Email: email@example.com If it says: Connection: close then keep alives are not working. If you are spidering more than one site the set the keep_alive value to a larger number -- that setting is the number of connection cache entries LWP maintains. If your web server has any monitoring features maybe that will show if keep alive requests are working. In Apache you can use mod_status to monitor the server. If keep alives are not working fast enough and you don't mind hitting the web server harder, then there's ways to do parallel fetching, but that would require a rewrite of the spider.pl program. > Because I'm generating this list of items to index myself, I turned off the > test_url function. But that didn't seem to help performance all that much. No, it wouldn't -- all the time is probably in the either the connection process, or in the transfer of data. You can see from the huge difference CPU time vs running time that the program is mostly waiting for I/O. -- Bill Moseley email@example.com on Tue Oct 8 21:50:58 2002


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This is happening in every team.
For some reasons, conflicts arise in the team and they affect the overall motivation and productivity.
What is your recommended approach to solve that common problem?
- one part of the team wants to implement dependency injection, the other part think it's a waste of time.
- some developers think the rest of the team is slowing down development (which explains why they are late on the schedule)
- personal incompatibilities between one or more developers
- one developer refuse to talk to another one (without apparent reason)


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Proceeds from our annual luncheon presentation of this award are used to continue the Museum's worldwide educational programming and its policy of free admission to the general public seven days a week so that there is never a financial barrier to anyone interested in learning the lessons of the Holocaust. Last year's event drew almost 700 attendees.
The 2014 recipients were Holocaust survivor Edith Mincberg and her late husband Josef. Civil rights attorney Alan Dershowitz gave the keynote address.
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Benjamin Walker always feels a little simpatico with Abraham Lincoln, even while swinging a rubber ax and breaking hotel-room lamps or sitting in a makeup chair just before doing the Gettysburg Address.
The actor plays the 16th president from age 19 until his 50s, when he led the country -- with a lot of monster-chopping in between -- in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," in theaters Friday and based on author Seth Grahame-Smith's literary mashup.
The Lincoln who Walker favored was not the one battling an undead vampire army. It was instead the man who had just realized his power as an orator, politician and lawyer.
"He's really coming into his own and realizing that he can make a difference and that somebody needs to very quickly because the country is in turmoil," says Walker, 29.
The 6-foot-3, Georgia-bred stage actor is coming into his own himself as a film star -- he already had "stand-up comedian" and "Meryl Streep's son-in-law" under his belt.
Starring in "Vampire Hunter" looks to be his breakthrough, after roles in other historical fare such as "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Kinsey." And Lincoln isn't even his first president: Walker starred as "Old Hickory" in the title role of the Broadway musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," which is where "Vampire Hunter" director Timur Bekmambetov first saw him.
"He's very energetic and ironic and smart and physical," Bekmambetov says. "It's hard to be organic and to be believable in this role."
Playing Jackson helped Walker develop his research chops, he says, which helped in determining which Lincoln books were best suited to the movie. "Lincoln's Melancholy," about how he dealt with death and depression, informed Walker far more than Doris Kearns Goodwin's politics-heavy "Team of Rivals."
"He educated himself, he was born in a log cabin and really lived the American dream," Walker says.
He also found a kinship with Lincoln in hearing the accounts of him staying out late and cracking up tavern folk.
"That's the kind of Lincoln we don't know much about," Walker says. "We need to think of him as a human being -- somebody with a sense of humor and someone who was willing to be ridiculous and funny."
Benjamin Walker stars in 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.'
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Child and Czentnar Lead Trojans to Conference Sweep Past NewberryMarch 23, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Senior Abby Child and freshman Courtney Czentnar combined for five home runs and nine RBI to help lead Anderson to an 11-2 and 5-3 sweep of Newberry in South Atlantic Conference softball action, Saturday afternoon at Smethers Field.
Anderson (23-7, 3-3 SAC) opened a four-game homestand with the pair of victories and earned its first sweep since taking two from Clark Atlanta 11 days ago. Newberry (15-13, 2-4 SAC) has dropped four straight and seven of its last nine decisions.
"It is nice to get two wins," said Anderson head coach Tommy Hewitt. "We split the doubleheader on Wednesday, got punched in the mouth and we bounced back today. Our bats are awake right now and we got really good pitching from Lauren [Rudesheim] and Augie [Pena]."
The Trojans out-hit Newberry 17-8 on the afternoon and have now belted 11 home runs in the last four games. Czentnar slammed three round-trippers on the afternoon, marking the first time an Anderson batter has recorded three home runs in a doubleheader since former standout Emily Monteith ripped three in a sweep past St. Augustine on March 2, 2011. Child blasted two homers in the nightcap, equaling the two she recorded in the road wins past Lander in mid-February.
Game #1
Anderson 11, Newberry 2 (5 innings)
Czentnar was 2-for-3 in the opener, with two home runs, four RBI and two runs scored. Senior catcher Laura Jansky was 1-for-2, with a two-run homer and also added a walk, while driving in two runs and scoring twice. Junior Rebecca Martin added a single, scored twice and recorded two RBI. Child was 1-for-2 in the opener and scored twice. Junior Jessica Neidigh also crossed the plate twice.
Freshman hurler Lauren Rudesheim (10-4) earned the victory, her sixth complete game of the year, while allowing two unearned runs on three hits in five innings. She walked one and struck out one.
Czentnar gave Anderson a lead it would not relinquish with a lead-off home run in the bottom of the second inning and the Trojans added four unearned runs with two outs in the third inning to claim a 5-0 advantage. Jansky's fourth home run of the season over the fence in center field highlighted the frame.
The Trojans broke the game open with six unearned runs in the fourth inning, again striking with two outs.
Newberry countered with a pair of unearned runs of their own in the top of the fifth inning, but would get no closer.
Game #2
Anderson 5, Newberry 3
Child was 3-for-4 in the nightcap, with two home runs and a single, while tallying four RBI and scoring twice. The senior shortstop has now hit safely in four straight contests. Czentnar capped off the day by going 1-for-2 at the plate, with her sixth home run of the season. She enters Wednesday's twin bill riding an eight-game hitting streak. Sophomore Molly Child posted a sixth-inning single to extend her team-high hitting streak to 16 games. Martin was 1-for-4, with her hitting streak reaching nine consecutive contests.
Freshman pitcher Augie Pena (5-1) won her second consecutive outing after surrendering three unearned runs on five hits in six innings of work. The right-hander struck out six and did not walk a batter. Junior Katelynn Howser earned her first career save for the Black and Gold by tossing a perfect seventh inning in relief. She struck out two of the three Wolves she faced.
Abby Child snapped a scoreless tie with the first of her two home runs with two outs in the bottom of the third inning. After a scoreless fourth frame, AU increased the lead to 4-0, as Child and Czentnar ripped back-to-back home runs to lead off the bottom of the fifth inning.
Newberry's Darrian Jamison pulled the Wolves within one on a two-out three-run shot over the fence in left and the visitors threatened to even the score after senior Leah Hosking followed with a double to the fence in center field. But third baseman Bri Cason snared Hailey Drawe's line drive to end the inning.
The Trojans capitalized on three consecutive singles to add an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth and Howser came on in the bottom of the frame to shut down the Wolves.
Anderson gets back on the diamond on Wednesday, as the Trojans welcome Lincoln Memorial to Smethers Field for a 2 p.m. conference doubleheader.


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Ultimate NA Rat Motor - Giant!Written by Marlan Davis on August 29, 2011 1,005 CI, 2,150 HP, 1,500 Lb-ft, No Power-Adders: Sonny's Racing Builds the Ultimate NA Rat Motor
For guys competing in unlimited-displacement race classes like IHRA Pro Stock or NHRA Top Sportsman, there really is no replacement for displacement. In these niche worlds with no limits, Sonny's Racing has long been the mountain motor leader. Founder Sonny Leonard has specialized in big, big-block Chevy-based motors for more than 41 years, building ever larger and more radical combos that in their most advanced incarnations bare only a superficial resemblance to Chevy's original Rat.
And by "big" we don't just mean a wussy 496, a puny 540, or even a wimpy 572. No, we're talking giant, megafauna, Pleistocene-epoch massiveness here-you know, 1,000,000 years BC big, 1,000-pound saber-toothed tiger big, 10-foot-tall beaver big. Sonny's motors start out around 611 ci and have grown ever larger, with standard production mills now offered as large as 940 ci. Getting there has meant increasingly taller, wider, and longer blocks. In turn, the heads have evolved to keep up with the larger displacements and ever-increasing bore spacing, with Sonny's top-line offerings sporting straight-shot hemispherical chambers with nearly 3-inch intake valves.
Now Sonny has upped the ante once again. By the time you read this, CEO Racing's Craig Olson (Camaro Island, Washington) should have taken delivery of Sonny's latest effort, a 1,005.8ci (5.220-inch bore x 5.875-inch stroke) engine that normally aspirated on 112-octane race gas running electronic fuel injection (EFI) pounds out more than 2,150 hp at 8,000 rpm, with a tire-melting 1,500-plus lb-ft of torque at 6,200 rpm.
Everything from the overgrown billet aluminum block to Sonny's trick hemispherical heads is a clean-sheet-of-paper design. Only the main and rod journal sizes and Chevy bellhousing bolt pattern remain from the original GM configuration. All internals-including the foot-long, 5/8-inch pushrods, the 8-inch rods, and the 1.3-inch-lift cam-are made to order. The first prototype built for Olson cost $125,000, but expect future full-race versions to be a more reasonable $110,000.
A milder $95,000 street version is also in the works. It will have a street roller cam, 8 instead of 16 injectors, smaller throttle-bodies, and a full water jacket. Designed to run on 92-octane, Sonny figures it oughta make a "measly" 1,650 hp at 7,000 rpm, with "only" 1,400 lb-ft at 5,700 normally aspirated.
But get out your shoehorn: The 1,005 is 34 inches at its widest point (the valve covers' outer edges). From crank centerline to the top of the valve covers and EFI throttle-body it measures, respectively, 20 and 26.5 inches. It extends 32 inches from the flywheel flange to the crank bolt (1.400 inches more than a stock big-block Chevy). Old Impala, anyone?
Is 1,005 the final evolution or will even more massive motors follow? Only Sonny knows, and he's playing his cards close to the 1,005's 12 -inch-tall block deck. Meanwhile, let's see what makes Sonny's beast tick.
"On gas, a hemi head is worth 2 to 3 percent power over a wedge; maybe 10 percent more in Top Fuel." -Sonny Leonard
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All grown up: At 12.225 inches from the crank centerline, the deck is 2.425 inches taller than a stock Chevy big-block's 9.800-inch height and is about 8 inches wider at the top of the valve covers. To clear big-arm cranks, the cam bore is raised nearly 2 inches. Options include water jackets, stock water pump mounts, and side engine-mount lugs. This is the full-race block with no water jacket.Mammoth: Sonny's hemispherical heads (top) are about twice as large dimensionally as traditional big-block Chevy heads like this Brodix casting (bottom). Fully CNC-ported in-house for maximum power, giant, free-flowing hemi-type heads like this are what it takes to compete in unlimited-cubic-inch racing. Sonny's 240cc exhaust ports flow 475 cfm at 1.3-inch lift. Recommended header dimensions: 25⁄8-inch to 23⁄4-inch stepped primaries dumping into 5-inch-od x 12-inch-long collectors.Chug-a-lug: Many once thought 320-cfm big-block rectangular intake ports (bottom) were "too big" for many apps. But 900-plus cubes need beer-can–sized ports (top). These 680cc intake runner volume ports flow 740 cfm at 1.300-inch lift. The longer heads' spread port centerlines allow a wider, rounder shape that's more efficient than old-school, narrow, tall ports.Open wide: Sonny's huge 120cc, hemi-style chamber (rear) is nearly as wide as a beer can is tall. The huge cylinder bores allow spreading the valve centers to fit giant valves. In comparison with a traditional Rat motor chamber (front), a hemi's layout offers a straight inlet/exhaust flow path.Size matters: A 2.250-inch intake valve is as big as it gets on most big-blocks. Sonny's titanium hollow-stem 2.900-incher is nearly 30 percent larger. Increasing the size of the intakes provides more gains than increasing the exhaust; still, Sonny's 2.100 exhaust is about 12 percent larger than a normal 1.88 valve. The silver dollar is about the size of a 1.6-inch small-block exhaust valve.Spring ahead: Upstairs, PSI triple 1.680-inch-od springs are installed with 350 pounds of seat pressure. As for Sonny's Goliath, over-the-nose pressures, would you believe 1,400 psi? Hard-rockin' Jesels dance to a 1.75:1 intake/1.80:1 exhaust ratio.Uplifting: Forget puny 0.700-inch-lift cams. The intake/exhaust lobes on Sonny's cam (right) have 1.300/1.315-inch valve lift and 290/319-degree duration at 0.050. The cam is so large and the heads so efficient that overlap needs to be minimized with a 121-degree lobe-separation angle. With a 118-degree centerline, the intake is advanced 3 degrees.Bearing up: To run huge lift and duration numbers, stronger and wider cam cores are needed to maintain rigidity—reduced base circles don't cut it at this level. Original big-block Chevys had 2.14-inch, babbit-style cam bearings. Sonny's giant cams ride in 75mm (2.95-inch) roller bearings.Bodies in motion: Standard GM paired-guidebar roller lifters have a 0.842-inch body lifting 3⁄8-inch pushrods. Controlling the radical motion of a 1-inch-plus-lift cam mandates keyed Cam Effects or Jesel lifters with 0.950-inch wheels in a 1.095-inch body plus 5⁄8-inch (!) pushrods—11.300-inch-long intakes and 12.735 exhausts.
Heavy metal: The throws on Sonny's 5.800-inch-stroke, 940ci engine crank (right) dwarf a common 4.25-inch-stroke 454 unit (left). The fully counterweighted, billet steel, 1,005ci crank will add another 0.075 inch to get a 5.875 stroke. It takes twelve 1-inch-od x 1.25-inch-long Mallory slugs to balance it. The crank still uses big-block Chevy main and rod bearings but requires ½-inch flywheel bolts.Longer is better: Stock big-block Chevy rods are 6.135 inches long center to center. Most 540ci strokers use a 6.385-inch rod (bottom). Sonny's mammoth motors use rods in the 8-inch range. Full-race mills run a GRP aluminum rod (top); street versions get billet steel rods. Either way, the small end swings the pistons via 1.033-inch-od pins (stock Chevy big-block outside diameter is 0.990).Big gulp: Sonny's fabricated intake mounts four two-barrel Accufab throttle-bodies. Each 2.750-inch-id barrel flows 924 cfm—that's 7,392 total from all eight. For improved idle quality that still meets the engine's top-end fuel needs, Sonny uses two injectors per cylinder (16 total)—eight 65-lb/hr main injectors and eight 35-lb/hr top-end supplementals. HRM


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May 15, 2009
Beautiful Blouberg – A Cape Town Tourism Flickr photo essay
These images were all taken in and around the Blouberg area. I always marvel at how what we see changes. Seasons, time of day, the weather, your angle, and even your mood – all of those contribute towards how something is viewed.
And yet the basics stay the same – Table Mountain, the beach, the ocean.
When I go on walks along the Blouberg Beach area, I always try to get shots that are not typical. Nature provides us with the most beautiful gifts, and it changes all the time, if you choose to look properly.
This photograph was taken on a particularly cloudy morning. It's amazing how the colours change, depending on the time of day and the weather.
Alternative ways of getting to the beach! There are so many little paths and walkways.
The ocean holds such tranquillity and peace, yet it can sometimes be viciously stormy and dangerous.
Another path to the sea. I like how you can see the prints in the sand where everyone has walked before.
Memories are made each time the kids play on the beach. Here they can be real children – free to run wild to their hearts' content, in the beautiful glow of the sunset.
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!
Images © Sharon Kaplan aka Chaotic.Beauty 2009


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Kickstarter Projects
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joshuasbones said
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Pretty cool! I like the idea of an easily-replaceable lid.
A little late to the game, but has anyone tried anything from Frui-Tea? (http://frui-tea.com/index.html). I'm intrigued, but hesitant.
MelissaTea said
Looks good, but I haven't heard of them before. The shipping cost seemed modest, so they may be worth a try.
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Somewhat tea related kickstarter: Skull shaped tea spoon
I kinda want it, but uggg at the price since it be international shipping for me.


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6 Heroic Movie Deaths That Could Have Been Easily Avoided
From the Bible to Braveheart, the really great stories in our culture feature heroes who sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Writers work so hard to shoehorn that element into our stories, in fact, that they don't always stop and ask whether it was actually necessary.
Maybe if they had, a few of the heroes mentioned below would not be suffering from a condition we like to call death.
Warning: Below be spoilers.
#6. I Am Legend -- Robert Neville
In I Am Legend, 99 percent of the human population has been turned into zombies because an airborne disease that, ironically enough, was caused by curing cancer. That's how you know this movie is deep: It's got cancer and zombies.
And a tragic dog.
Luckily for mankind, Will Smith is Robert Neville -- a scientist who is part of the one percent who are naturally immune to zombification -- and he's looking to cure the zombie population. He does this by kidnapping and experimenting on said zombies in his basement. But the zombies aren't cool with being experimented on, and they track him down looking for sweet zombie revenge.
Sweet zombie revenge laughs at your puny glass wall.
Neville's got two useless sidekicks with him, and as they all run into his lab to hide, they discover that he's finally found a cure and can now save the whole world. Awesome. Well, it would be if there weren't a few dozen zombies chasing them looking for the previously mentioned sweet zombie revenge. Fortunately, Neville has a fortified coal chute and some grenades in his lab. So he takes a sample of the cured zombie's blood, gives it to the lead useless female and tells her "the cure's in your blood," then locks the two sidekicks in the coal chute that we're explicitly told can easily fit all three of them. Finally, he blows himself and the zombies up with the grenade.
Because hey, if you're going to react, why not overreact?
Wait a second ...
This is ridiculous for two reasons, the main one being that he easily could have pulled the pin, thrown the grenade and also fit into the coal chute and, you know, survived. He says he's staying behind because the zombies "won't stop," but judging from the explosion caused by that one grenade, there's no one left to keep going after them.
We're no experts, but they seem to be stopping. And burning.
Apparently, in 2012 grenade explosions are going to be huge, as the explosion seems to kill everyone in the room who's not in a coal chute. So setting off the grenade and then running would have been the same as setting off the grenade and just standing there.
Some will argue that Neville was sacrificing himself so the zombies would be appeased and the sidekicks could get away with the cure. This leads to problem No. 2, which is that Neville is a supergenius who took months to find a cure. So what are the chances that anyone else among the one percent of survivors will understand anything of what he did to create the cure (and with only one vial of cured blood to work from)?
There's a giant science facility behind the quaint little church.
When the sidekicks arrive at the last human colony on Earth, we see the lead female handing the blood to the first person she meets, but for all we know, that guy's the local plumber and nobody's going to know jack shit about curing the rest of the world without Will Smith, who just killed himself for absolutely no reason. So he basically gave the world a chance at returning to normal and then screwed everyone over immediately afterward. Thanks.
What the hell are we supposed to do with this?
#5. X2 -- Jean Grey
X2 is the shining star among the X-Men movies, full of actual plot and character development and everything. But it unfortunately ends on a low note when Jean Grey sacrifices herself for, really, no reason at all.
The strain of having an aggressively wussy boyfriend was too much to bear.
At the climax of the movie, we find our heroes stuck in a valley with a dam that's about to break, a ship that won't fly and about a dozen uber-powerful mutants, of which Jean is apparently the only one strong enough to save everyone. So in order to do this, she leaves the ship, fixes it with her mind, lifts it into the air while blocking the water from the breaking dam and then heroically gets swept away when she releases the water after the plane is clear.
But the only reason Jean is able to save them at all is because she senses the water from the burst dam coming a full two minutes before it arrives. She looks back at everyone, teary-eyed, and takes the time to slowly limp off the plane, lock everyone else inside and send some creepy good-bye messages through Professor X then fixes the plane from the outside while she simultaneously blocks the water.
Officially the worst way for your hot girlfriend to say good-bye to you.
Wait a second ...
Why did she need to leave the plane at all?
Jean's powers are telekinetic -- she thinks about something and it happens. Nothing we know about her powers says the walls of the plane would block them, and even if they did, she could have just stood in the cockpit and knocked out the windows. If she had immediately started fixing the plane and told everyone to shut up while she concentrated, they probably could have been half way to Acapulco before the water even got to them.
"Jean! Why are you outside?"
We didn't just make up this solution, by the way -- it's the one she actually uses in the Marvel novelization of the movie. The book had a different ending where, lo and behold, Jean fixes the ship from inside and doesn't die needlessly, and they all live happily ever after. But if that had happened, we wouldn't have been able to see Wolverine and Cyclops hug out their differences, and we definitely wouldn't have wanted to miss that.
Because every fanboy alive was dying to see his badass childhood heroes cry on each other's shoulders.
#4. Star Trek: Nemesis -- Data
Star Trek: Nemesis is a film that gets picked on a lot, mostly due to the plot holes, cheesy lines, horrible pacing, total lack of entertainment value and rainbow pleather-wearing Picard clone played by Tom Hardy.
We'll save you the trip to IMDB; he's in Inception.
Perhaps the most perplexing part of Nemesis, though, is Data's obvious determination to kill himself. Near the end of the movie, we find Picard stranded on the enemy ship because, after Picard beamed over to try to destroy the villain's doomsday weapon, the transporters conveniently broke. Data does an admittedly awesome jump across space to the other ship and takes a one-man transporter with him. He arrives just in time to save Picard, who for the record has not won a hand-to-hand fight at any point in the Star Trek series, which makes us wonder why he keeps getting sent into these high-stakes situations alone.
Has that guy already been impaled by a pole? And you're still losing?
Anyway, with the captain successfully rescued from the guy who was already dying, Data sends Picard back to the Enterprise with his portable transporter and then fires a phaser into the enemy ship's huge weapon, blowing it up, killing himself and saving them all.
Wait a second ...
The thing is, the fact that he's an android actually makes this decision more puzzling. He should be able to process every possible avenue of escape in a microsecond, and he has no "go out in a blaze of glory" impulse programmed into his software. Among the things that should have occurred to him:
Maybe the sheer awesome of that Bitchin' Space Jump overrode his logic circuits?
Why did it come down to this one personal transporter (and frankly we're a little skeptical that there was only one of those things available on an entire ship equipped with matter replicators that can create anything, instantly)? Sure, the regular transporters on the Enterprise were broken, but the Enterprise is full of shuttles that, among their many features, have their own transporters on board. We see them get used all the time in the show. So there's one alternative.
But hell, he's an android -- he could have jumped through a window into space itself and still lived. He totally doesn't need to breathe.
Some would say that Data had to stay behind to fire his phaser into the weapon, but those phasers have a feature that lets you basically use them like time bombs -- many a Star Trek plot point has been resolved by a phaser left behind on "manual overload."
Tachyons still have a substantial lead, though.
By the way, this ridiculous death was said to be because Brent Spiner didn't feel he could play an ageless character anymore as he got older. Well, that would be fine if not for the fact that everyone knew this was the last TNG movie, so there wouldn't have been much difference between killing Data and giving him the ability to think, Hey, we have more than one transporter, don't we? and letting him live.
This becomes even more stupid when you consider that in this movie, they introduced another android, named B4, that looks just like Data and survives, which means that killing Data off served exactly no purpose other than making him look fatally absentminded.
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Kitchen Cabinets - To paint or not?
I have a kitchen full of Oak cabinets with a slightly yellow stain on them.
Layout and cabinet color very similar to this, except with molding at the top:
I'm planning on some new counter-tops, and tile, but what I'm waivering on is the cabinets. They look... okay, no stains, maybe a scratch or two. I'm hesitant to paint them, as they are oak hardwood, but I think they may look better painted. Any advice?
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Don't do it! IMO natural wood looks much better. We had to paint ours because the previous home-owners had already painted our wood cabinets a poopy brown color. It took us two weeks to sand, primer and paint the cabinets. It was a major pain in the butt. We used good paint but already have some chips.
Ideally I wanted to sand it down completely and refinish the wood but I just couldn't get all of that old nasty brown paint off.
We stripped the old varnish off our cabinets, sanded, stained and re-varnished. It was a lot of work but it turned out great. As mentioned above, once you paint you're pretty much stuck with paint.
It also depends on the look you're going for...country, casual, modern, etc. Maybe you can take a photo of your kitchen and put it in Photoshop (or something similar) and try different colors?
I agree with @tippypaws. Don't paint them. Natural wood is so much nicer looking than any paint color you can come up with. Refinish if you need to but don't paint!
Absolutely don't do it. The previous owner of our house did it right before prepping to sell, to "freshen up the kitchen". It was abysmal - the cabinet doors stick somewhat, they always look dirty (since the white paint shows EVERYTHING, and just generally looks cheap.
I'm also a fan of natural wood, not paint, but even if I wasn't, painting the cabinets yourself is not the answer.
Please, please, please do not paint those cabinets. You will regret it pretty quickly. As others have said, once you paint it's almost impossible to return to the natural finish, paint on an often used surface gets beat up pretty quickly, the maintenance is a PITA, it could decrease the value of the cabinets; and you will lose a great. subtle texture in your kitchen.
Take a sample of your new counter tops/any other changes - and find a stain color/tone/depth that will suit. It will be more labor intensive, but it will last longer, look better, and hold the value of the woodwork.
Thanks all, that was basically my thoughts on the matter too.
I think I may strip them, and make them a bit more natural looking. I think that the real problem is that the previous owner put up a pine board with a darker stain above the cabinets. It was very poorly done, and looks cheap. I think if I move the cabinets back up to their normal position (they were lowered for the previous owner who was in a wheelchair), and put up a nice oak board with a nice routed edge and some crown molding it will look a lot nicer.
those cabinets are georgous!!!! i would love to have them. i have some nasty looking painted ones.
if you just want a fresh look try changing out the handles/drawer pulls when you do the new countertop. or try changing the colors of the walls behind one section to make it into an accent wall.
As a professional painter for 10 years, I can say with confidence DO NOT PAINT THEM! It'll be nothing but headaches unless you have all the hardware removed, and then the doors removed, and then all are professionally stripped and lacquered. ANY do-it-yourself painting of the cabinets will come out horribly 99% of the time.
I say, do not paint them. It looks like a lovely color. Although I am happy with the paint job I did on my cabinets. My kitchen is tiny, 6'x6', and the cabinets were a very dark wood. It added to the claustrophobia of the place. So I painted them a sunny yellow with murals on the center panels and filled the kitchen with sunflowers and butterflies.
I'll just leave this here
http://nooooooooooooooo.com/ do not do it!!!
I almost said 'yes' as a joke, but this is too serious to joke about.
@j5: NOT FAIR they changed the counter tops too, a slightly darker wood color with black counter tops would look better then the white and black.
@caffeine_dude: I disagree. The glazed white sets a nice contrast against the dark counter top.
For a light colored countertop, I'd go with a much darker coating.
The problem with oak cabinets is that they've been used so extensively as "builder basic" that they are universally derided by most people.
here're more pics:
(Can you tell I like Gardenweb?)
Personally, I'm not a fan of "golden/ honey/ pink/ bleh oak". I dislike it. I just bought a house full of it and I'm going to paint the living bejeebus out of it.
I completely disagree with the "it's wood, don't paint it" view, but as @kamikazeken mentioned above, you have to do it right or it will look and perform like poo.
See here for other options: http://cabinets.rustoleumtransformations.com/
Refinish if you like, but I wouldn't paint unless it was an older home with very dark cabinets.
Thanks all! I'm certain we'll try to do nothing to the cabinets themselves. Change the Floor tile, counter-top, and back-splash.
@j5: I personally don't like the look of that kitchen. I was thinking something more like this:
Obviously a significantly different layout, but similar colors.
@mrmucox: Everyone has different tastes, I guess. I like the look in your original picture magnitudes better than the look in this one.
@mrmucox: yeah, ok. That look requires a "filler" coat to hide the oak grain. That's what the lady in my first link did, but then she added glazing to "punch up" the trim. Had she not done that, it would have looked like yours.
Again, the problem with the majority of Oak cabinets out there is that they are "builder basic" bottom of the line models that builders pumped into houses at an alarming rate. Now, you can get some top of the line Kraftmaid cabinets in Oak, but they will look a lot like the builder basics, so it's money wasted.
Blame the housing boom for the disfavor of oak.
@j5: Yes, I did read that, and that is great advice on the filler if we do eventually go that route. I actually do like the look of oak, and have used it in other places in my house. It's just the color of mine are... off. Too yellow. I'm going to try a heavy cleaning on one of them to see if they'll clean up. Maybe even a small sanding and poly.
I just did the cabinets in my bathroom, they were getting so faded and the varnish was peeling that I thought painting was the only option until I was ready to replace them, but I sanded them down and picked a MInwax Polyshades colored polyurethane, and after a couple of coats they look great. I did take the doors off their hinges and laid them flat to avoid the possibility of runs and sagging on the large areas.


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I noticed that you can only edit your on comments within 5 minutes after posting them. By accident I left an half-baked comment but when editing it, it exceeded the 5 minute limit. Instead I deleted my comment and added the corrected version instead.
I guess proofreading the comment before posting it, is a good idea to avoid the situation. But when it happens, is it acceptable to delete it and repost it when there was no activity yet? Or is it recommended to leave old comment and post the new one as "Upps, what I really meant was..."?


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I recently installed an 11.04 alpha on my laptop. In the Additional Drivers program, it offers me "Experimental 3D support for NVIDIA cards". I went ahead and installed this to see how it works. Seems at the very least good enough. It runs Unity just fine.
What exactly is being installed with the experimental driver? How is it different from the default driver that Ubuntu uses when it detects an Nvidia card?