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Installing Scribus 1.3.4.x or lower from CVS sources on Mac OS X/Aqua
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Thanks to Andreas Vox and Craig Ringer, recent Scribus compiles straight from CVS on Mac/Aqua. Andreas Vox periodically delivers updated preview binary bundles which can be simply dropped into the system — please download it from aqua.scribus.net. If some daring alpha testers use it and report all errors to the Scribus bug submission website, we might have a fully functional Aqua version when 1.3.0 final comes out. :-)
Scribus 1.3.0cvs is not for production use. The current build on Mac/Aqua has some problems of its own:
- It's slow (Part of this may be to do with menus, part is the sub-optimal canvas code)
- Dialogs behave strangely (no close button, menu disappears, ...)
- Focus problems with Edit mode (use toolbar button instead of double-click)
- Aqua buttons need more space than X11 ones, that causes layout problems, notably with the page selector.
- Needs a special freetype build to access native Mac fonts.
- It's not really tested, so there may be much more.
What to do
1. Install Qt/Mac (not the X version!)
2. Install Freetype 2. We recommend to build it yourself with "./configure --enable-old-mac-fonts"
3. Install Fontconfig 2
4. Check that "freetype-config" and "pkgconfig fontconfig" report those libraries.
5. Install libart, lcms, libtiff, libjpeg, and libpng via fink.
6. Checkout Scribus 1.3 from cvs or use a snapshot
7. Set some environment variables: QTDIR=/absolut/path/to/qt/dir CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/lib LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS QTDIR
8. run "make -f Makefile.cvs"
9. unpack the Scribus.app skeleton
10. make sure you have gcc/g++ 3.3 and not gcc/g++ 4.0 which comes with Tiger by default.
11. run "./configure --enable-mac --enable-bundle --enable-debug \ --prefix=/absoute/path/to/Scripus.app/Contents/ \ --with-extra-libs=/sw/lib --with-extra-includes=/sw/include" ** --enable-debug is mandatory since ld chokes on '-s' when linking modules ** either CPP/LDFLAGS or --extra-include/libs might be superflous but I didn't try that 12. make 13. make install 14. open Scribus.app :-)
You can also do it the old way: - leave out "--enable-bundle" in step 10 and choose another prefix - copy scribus/scribus to /absoute/path/to/Scripus.app/Contents/MacOS/scribus
other problems that might occur
- First of all the compiler, for me g++-4.0 didn't work so I had to symlink /usr/bin/g++ to /usr/bin/g++3
- Qt 3.3.4 can be found as binary package at http://naranja.umh.es/~atg/software.html
- Python might miss the /usr/lib/libpython2.3.a the solution is a symlink to /usr/lib/libpython2.3.dylib
Some caveats
- Some dialogs don't have a close button, ESC usually works though.
- Preferences and About dialogs are now in menu "scribus"!
- This is by design. It's done automatically by Qt to fit MacOS/X interface standards. "NOTABUG".
- <fill in yourself>
See also:
- Summary bug report for Scribus/Aqua
- Installing Scribus on Mac OS_X - Howto on installing Scribus (Fink/X11)
- MacOSX version of Scribus - Ongoing discussion on bringing a native version of Scribus to Mac

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Nasdaq's Facebook IPO blunder. BATS Global Market's IPO failure...on its own exchange. Nasdaq's three-hour trading halt.
These are just three examples of what Standard and Poor's says are two dozen technical glitches at trading exchanges around the world in the past 18 months. And the ratings agency is fed up.
In a report outlining the growing operational risks at trading exchanges, S&P said the noticeable increase in technical snafus could trigger ratings downgrades for major operators like NYSE Euronext (NYX), Nasdaq OMX (NDAQ) and BATS Global Markets over the next few years.
"As technical problems occur more frequently, operational risk is becoming a more important component in our analysis and could result in downward pressure on ratings over the next few years," S&P said in a report released Thursday.
Related: Trading glitches a sad new market reality
The ratings agency pointed to three reasons stock exchanges have been more prone to technical glitches during the past several years.
For starters, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq dominated stock trading until 2005 but have been losing market share amid increased competition from newer exchanges like BATS and Direct Edge, which recently announced a merger agreement. Alternative platforms like dark pools have also surfaced. In fact, there are now 16 stock exchanges and 50 alternative trading systems around the world.
Dark pools, which accounted for almost 40% of U.S. trading volume in 2012 compared to just 9% in 2008, are trading platforms that allow traders who are buying and selling to remain anonymous until their orders are processed. The growing use of dark pools means that a significant number of traders bypass registered exchanges, and allow brokers to match buy and sell orders within their own firm.
Related: High speed traders reacted instantly to Fed
The rise in the number of trading platforms has led to a more fragmented market, but all the various trading platforms still have to remain connected and work together. But that means that problems at one exchange can spillover and affect other exchanges. When the Nasdaq halted trading for three hours last month, the NYSE, BATS and Direct Edge also had to freeze trading in all Nasdaq-listed stocks and options on their exchanges.
While the monetary impact from failures at the exchanges has been limited so far, S&P said it is most worried about the risk to the exchanges' reputations, which could hurt their bottom lines. And that may be especially true for Nasdaq.
S&P notes that the spate of problems at the Nasdaq has stolen the exchange's position as the "undisputed leader in tech IPOs and listings." In the past 15 months, the NYSE has completed 21 tech IPOs, compared to the Nasdaq's 15.
Twitter, the next hot tech IPO, has not announced a decision yet on where its stock will trade. But many expect Twitter to choose NYSE over Nasdaq because of the problems associated with Facebook's (FB) offering..


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To become an IRS agent, all you need is 30 hours of accounting. You will be speaking to someone who is instructed through a script on what to say. They are not attorneys, and they do not have your best interests in mind. Avoid thinking IRS agents will be there to help you and get yourself a valid person for real tax advice.
Tax Relief Advocates specialize in resolving tax issues with the IRS – call 888.829.1007 today if you need tax relief in Scottsdale AZ.
Tax Problem Resolution Tips Scottsdale AZ
It is safe to say that you are pained by expense issues? Is the IRS causing worry for you? Are back assessments due? It is safe to say that you are confronting huge punishments and intrigue? We're here to help!
The IRS is a persistent organization that will stop at nothing to make sure that they collect every dime they're owed. If you don't apply for any deductibles, your taxes could be sky high. You don't want to end up putting your financial situation at risk every time you have to file for taxes. You have to have a clear idea of what to do when managing your tax situation to make sure you settle it as cost-effectively as possible. In this article, you'll learn eight ways to resolve your Scottsdale AZ tax debt in a manageable way. Let's get into it:
1. Installment Agreement
If an annual payment plan is too burdensome for your financial situation, you can negotiate to pay off your taxes in installments. Paying in smaller sums throughout the year makes it easier to manage your financial plan, and if you invest in and file for all the possible deductibles, you can save up to 40% of the total amount of the taxes in refunds.
2. Partial Payment Installment Agreement
This will break your installment down even further, as you can pay off your taxes like how you would pay your credit card debts. The problem with this is that it may be hard to negotiate for this type of payment. To make sure that your partial payment installment agreement is approved, you may want to hire a tax resolution specialist to do the talking for you.
3. Offer in Compromise Scottsdale AZ
An Offer in Compromise (OIC) is an agreement between a taxpayer and the IRS that confirms that the bureau allows the taxpayer to resolve the tax situation for less than they owe. There are four main factors that determine whether or not you are eligible to file for an OIC: Ability to pay; income, expenses, and asset equity. If you're in the process of filing for bankruptcy or if your business revenue is taking a major blunder, your OIC is likely to be approved, which can save you a ton of money.
4. File for Not Currently Collectible
Another program you can apply for if you're suffering from a financial crisis is to file for a "currently non-collectible." This status is basically telling the IRS that you're not able to pay the taxes owe for about a year or so. If you can't pay your taxes and you don't file for this, you could be under a levy, lien, or seizure of property. If your bank account is under levy, you have 21 days to file in for a levy release; otherwise, your money will be taken directly from your account.
5. Credit Card Debt Settlement Scottsdale AZ
You can set up your credit card debt consolidation by either working with a credit card debt settlement company or opting to do it by yourself. Although it may seem more complicated, we recommend that you do it yourself rather than have a company do it for you. These companies will request for a payment months ahead of time before they make a settlement offer. The promise that the refund will be transferred into your account will often never be fulfilled as they will come up with excuses to say that you're not eligible for a refund. If you really need help filing for a debt settlement via credit card, it's better to have a dedicated tax expert do it.
6. Release Wage Garnishments Scottsdale AZ
Sometimes, a levy is unavoidable, but you can file for a release or modification of the garnishment terms so that you have enough money to live during and after the levy.
7. Innocent Spouse Relief
If your spouse has recently passed away, you will often be liable for the owed taxes. If you can build a case for it, you can file for an innocent spouse relief. This way, you won't be liable for a tax debt that you not be involved with.
8. Collection Statute Expiration Date
Once a tax debt has been concluded and issued, the IRS has ten years to collect all the money owed. After that, the debt will expire according to the Collection Statute Expiration Date regulation. Any amount that's left unpaid after the ten-year period will be forgiven. If you're coming close to that deadline, your tax expert may be able to help you file for one last appeal to get you over the threshold and save you a large sum of money.
Tax Relief Advocates specializes in resolving tax issues with the IRS – call 888.TAX.1007 today if you need tax debt relief in Scottsdale AZ.
Stressful Income Tax Situations that a Tax Relief Advocate in Scottsdale AZ Can Resolve for You
If you're having a problem with your Scottsdale AZ tax situation, it's best to have a professional tax advocate deal with it for you. Here are some of the most common situations where a Scottsdale AZ tax relief advocate will be of the most useful for you:
Scottsdale AZ Tax Court:
If you've been summoned to appear in a tax court, you will need to find a tax advocate as soon as possible. They will be able to build a case that will get you out of the toughest situations, or at the very least, face the most lenient sentence.
Tax Evasion Problem Scottsdale AZ:
Tax evasion is a serious tax offense, and they can lead to large sums of fine, or even jail time if you don't represent your case correctly. You might also be found liable for tax penalties as well, and this can limit your tax return potential in the future. To avoid receiving these harsh punishments, you will need to work with a tax relief advocate. They can help gather evidence that will paint you in a different light. You might receive reduced jail time or none at all. It's fair to say that the consequence that you receive with the help of a tax advocate is the most desirable outcome out of all the possibilities.
Under criminal investigation by the IRS:
The IRS is a persistent organization. They will track your tax movements to find out whether you have been omitting any tax payments from them. A criminal investigation by the IRS is not something to be taken lightly. They will do everything they can in their power to get every single dime that you supposedly owe. If you don't have the right help, you'll be at risk of massive fines, jail time, and a criminal record. A tax advocate can come in and negotiate and represent your case before matters get out of hand. This way, you can minimize the damage from your tax charges. The best course of action to take to prevent this from happening in the first place is by discussing any tax situations that you're unsure about with your tax advocate. They can give you pointers on how to resolve the issue before it manifests into something more serious.
Committed Tax Fraud:
Scottsdale AZ Tax fraud is another potentially dangerous tax situation and it's something that you could unknowingly commit. Charges such as claimed faulty deduction filings, false tax credit reports, and understating income are all issues that can happen accidentally. You will need the help of a professional tax relief advocate to get out of this situation.
Unfiled Scottsdale AZ Tax Returns:
If you haven't paid for the taxes that you're claiming a return for, it can be taken as intentional tax fraud. To prevent this issue, you might want to have a tax advocate go over your documents for you. Not only that you're guaranteed to get all of your deserved tax return, but you'll spare yourself a ton of money and headaches from the legal battles as well.
Tax Liens Scottsdale AZ:
If you don't pay your property taxes, the government might come in and claim your property for it. Once a tax lien is in effect, the IRS will be given the green light to take your properties hostage until you resolve your tax issues. It will massively harm your financial credits and that might limit your financial growth in the future. A tax relief advocate can negotiate with the IRS for you and deal with this situation so that you're not liable for substantial tax penalties.
Scottsdale AZ Tax Levy:
With a tax lien, the government doesn't have the right to take your property away. A tax levy, on the other hand, gives the IRS the right to withhold the property to pay back for the amount of tax debt that you owe. A tax debt advocate can come in and put a stop to the levy, minimize financial damage and build a case that will at least extend the amount of time before your property is placed back on levy again. This can buy you some more time to either find the money or gather evidence to take to court.
Tax Filing Scottsdale AZ:
There are many types of taxes that you have to be aware of: property, state, federal, and income taxes. It's not uncommon to see people lose track of the number of taxes that they have to pay and overlook some of them. By having a tax advocate assess your tax situations before submitting your tax return application, you will significantly reduce the likelihood of a mistake. You can rest assured that your tax situation is taken care of by a professional.
How To Avoid Tax Relief Scams
Tax Relief Scam #1
- Non-Refundable Upfront Payments Without Any Guarantees
The most common scam performed by these companies is to charge money upfront while promising to get results that they know are unpredictable, if not impossible, to achieve.
The company may ask you to commit a very large sum of money upfront before an investigation is conducted or before the IRS side of the story is pulled (through the Master Transcript).
These are the companies that are the sour apples in the industry because they are focused more on driving upfront revenue than actually helping their clients.
Tax Relief Scam #2
- Marketing Companies Posing as Service Providers
There are a lot of Companies that advertise tax relief services, but do nothing more than sell the customer's information to other service providers.
A consumer will be led to believe they are working directly with the company that is doing the marketing, but in actuality their information will be sold to other service providers or outsourced independent contractors. The companies doing the marketing have no control over the quality of the product or the service levels given. In the worst cases, they sign up a consumer, with no intention of servicing the client whatsoever.
Tax Relief Scam #3
- The Outright Fraudsters
Unfortunately, there are some firms who have outright cheated and stole from their clients. These are the firms that are being targeted and shut down by the Attorney Generals and who have tarnished the industry. In these cases, the unscrupulous companies will enroll many clients into a program and collect their money without providing adequate services. Some don't even send the necessary paperwork to the IRS.
As soon as there are too many complaints or upset consumers, the Company will simply change their name and start preying on consumers all over again. Adding insult to injury, many of these companies don't provide refunds and leave people even further in debt.
Scottsdale AZ Tax Relief Advocates
We are experienced tax relief advocates proud to have been serving the Scottsdale area for many years. We have helped thousands of individuals, families, and businesses resolve issues with the IRS without losing sleep over the details.
We are here to protect your interests whether you owe money to the IRS, have unfiled returns, are being audited or have other tax issues.
Rest assured, if you feel things are already complicated with the IRS or State, we are here to protect you.
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Each individual case is unique and we may not be able to save you anything at all. We can evaluate your case, determine if you will qualify as a client and help determine if we can save you money. For those that qualify, we have typically been successful in saving our clients money on their tax debt as well as settling cases for a fraction of the amount owed.
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Did Jose Canseco Admit to Not Writing His Brilliant Tweets?
Jose Canseco is the T.S. Eliot of Twitter. But how does this washed-up baseball star and confessed steroid user manage to churn out an endless stream of brilliantly twisted tweets? Maybe he has help.
Jose Canseco's Twitter feed really is a precious diamond bobbing in Twitter's whirlpool of bullshit. His latest masterpiece:
I am pretty dumb for a genius
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) April 18, 2012
Every day is an adventure for Canseco; following Canseco is the closest we'll come to following Odysseus on his journey home. He will inexplicably kill Al Gore, offer to hang out with a follower for $1,000 or announce that "the fbi will be at my house in 20 minutes kind of scared…" Right now he's having a meltdown after he was caught twitter-flirting with a fan. These antics have earned him more than 446,000 followers whose frenzy is matched only by fans of the equally strange @Horse_ebooks.
But is it really all Canseco? Some of Canseco's tweets come so close to perfect jokes that I've often wondered if a team of comedy writers isn't painstakingly crafting the Twitter character of "Jose Canseco," like Eastbound and Down's writers do his onscreen equivalent, Kenny Powers. If you've ever seen a boring Canseco interview, it's hard to believe that cubical brain is solely responsible for this incredible Twitter presence. And in fact Canseco had a ghost writer until January 16, 2010, when he announced that "I finally took over my twitter account, and you will get direct info from me here on out daily."
A recent interview with Canseco on the fairly obscure comedy podcast "The Champs"offers tantalizing clues to a Jose Canseco ghostwriting conspiracy. (It's the first where he talks about his Twitter fame, as far as I can tell.) In the interview, Canseco talks to the comedian Moshe Kasher about a tweet he'd made the previous day announcing, for some reason, that Al Gore was dead. (He wasn't dead.)
Which sparked this exchange about another (misspelled) tweet:
Kasher: Then you said today, 'What did you clowns learn yesterday except that Gore is not deed.'
Canseco: I can't claim that one.
What did Canseco mean by "I can't claim that one?" Who wrote the tweet, Canseco?
Even if Canseco isn't employing ghostwriters, he's clearly self-aware about the unhinged character he presents on Twitter. Throughout the interview he laughs loudest at his own tweets as they're read by his interviewers, and he apologizes for his many typos.
"Look I got big fingers. Sometimes things are really small so it fucks it up," he said.
At the end of the podcast, when asked if he had a message for listeners, Canseco said: "Slap a liar. Know a liar? Slap him across the face." So, he must write some of those tweets.
In any case, you should listen to the entire, very entertaining podcast here.
Update: Here is a completely baseless Twitter rumor from a copywriter in Vancouver. Just something to think about:
@AdrianChen I just spoke to a friend last night who's claiming Canseco has signed on to be in a comedy web series. So there's that too.
— Babe Rainbow (@cameronreed) April 20, 2012


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2003 Infiniti G35 - New Jersey Rock Star
Classifying This G35 As "Well Rounded" Is The Understatement Of The Century
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Perhaps it's the resulting speed and power or perhaps it's just the satisfaction gained when building something right and getting things done. Either way, Philip Petracca's '03 Infiniti G35 coupe is the manifestation of everything good about a well-built and fine-tuned twin-turbocharged import car that's sure to be a threat to rivals on and off the track.
The two most appealing facets about this project are its emphasis on building a scalable bottom-end and its meticulous top-end configuration. Everything else was done with the utmost regard to performance and perfection without an apparent cost consideration. Making the tale even more interesting is the long and difficult road traveled by Petracca due to the lack of early aftermarket support for the G35. As he put it, "This is no one else's molested project car." No stranger to motorsports, Petracca, who is also a world champion car audio competitor, secured the very first G35 coupe that landed at the local dealership in his central New Jersey hometown. Without regard to the warning signs, this project was off to a start. The obstacles that had to be overcome for making big power with the VQ platform were numerous, but for the most part on par with many mid-market production cars today.
As an example, the OEM fuel system on the G35 is returnless, an increasingly common solution by manufacturers to keep gasoline from having to make several trips to the engine compartment before passing through the fuel injectors. The returnless system reduces fuel temperatures in the tank, causing a reduction in fuel vapors to make it more environmentally friendly. However, it relies heavily on the ECU to manage fuel pump output. Cooler fuel has its performance benefit, in that it cools the incoming air/fuel mixture and combustion chambers. These systems aren't compatible with aftermarket engine management units since they would add another layer of complexity in high-performance applications with relatively little benefit.
Money was better spent elsewhere, like on the Weston Machine installed Darton steel liners, Wiseco forged pistons and the Power Enterprise twin-turbo kit with Full-Race upgraded Garrett GT2871R medium-frame ball bearing turbochargers. The steel liners generally found in top fuel dragsters, Darton's largest market, serve as the foundation for safely making big power. Among the key benefits are less cylinder wall wear and better ring seal surface that eliminate leak down and reduce friction between the sleeve and the Wiseco 8.8:1 oversized forged pistons. Full-Race replaced the PE1420 IHI turbos supplied in the Power Enterprise kit with the Garrett turbochargers because the IHI turbos aren't capable of breaking the 550hp mark. The GT28 turbos feature larger turbine and compressor wheels contributing to the 726 hp and 645 lb-ft of torque at 19.5 psi on C16 fuel. When bolted to a 1.8L engine - and each bank of the VQ35DE is close to that - one GT2871R is capable of at least 280 hp at the flywheel, therefore in pairs the turbos should yield 560 hp. Based on dyno figures, this configuration is far more potent since it increases displacement-to-output efficiencies beyond what is probable, much closer to the 900+hp hypothetical maximum flywheel output capability of, say, a twin-turbocharged 6.0L engine.
With dual turbochargers forcing air through the engine, significant modifications were necessary for the stock intake tract and cylinder head to handle the increased flow. The intake system, designed to provide air the path of least resistance, begins at the Power Enterprise Air Impulse II filter, where air enters the intake through the large front-mount intercooler, and moves to the Crawford raised plenum and the HeadGames Motorworks ported and polished heads. The Crawford plenum fixes many of the design tradeoffs inherent with the OEM part by increasing the plenum height around the number one and number four cylinders while still clearing the hood. By raising the plenum height, balanced airflow is achieved at each cylinder. Dave Localio at HeadGames outfitted the G35 cylinder heads with a number of goodies typically found in high-performance applications, like Ferrea valves, Jim Wolf Technology cams and Cometic headgaskets. ARP 0.5-inch head studs resolve the lifting issues in the cylinder that occurred past the 500hp mark - a congenital limitation of the stock VQ platform. The stock connecting rods and main studs were replaced with Pauter forged rods and ARP studs respectively.
The VQ35DE is also sensitive to backpressure, especially following such induction system modifications. Available aftermarket exhaust system options presented limitations around the 550hp mark, therefore something custom needed to be built. Don Zubritsky of Straightlinetuning.com rose to the challenge and pieced together a dual exhaust system that featured 3-inch stainless steel piping and Magnaflow race mufflers.
The stand-alone HKS F-CON V Pro ECU presents the optimal solution for fuel and timing control. This almighty brain behind complex operations is capable of adjusting fuel delivery parameters based on intake air conditions to match a target air/fuel mixture value. Subsequently, various HKS sensors and harnesses to support engine management functions were added. The F-CON's full data logging capabilities include information on vehicle and engine speed, water and intake air temperature, timing, boost and injector duty cycles, which can all be downloaded. The Twin Power DLI II ignition amplifier unit from HKS controls spark duration, intensity and accuracy. Much was required when it came time for the fuel system makeover, though. Inside the tank, a 255lph Walbro pump provides the necessary volume for the high-pressure Bosch race pump that's externally mounted to an Altered Atmosphere Motorsports (AAM) fuel surge tank. The surge tank reduces fuel feed problems typical during extreme acceleration and cornering. Further downstream, AAM CNC-machined billet aluminum fuel rails deliver fuel to the RC Engineering 1,000cc injectors before passing through the pressure regulator and terminating back into the tank. Fuel plumbing consists of braided stainless steel hoses and anodized aluminum fittings.
Engine lubrication and cooling also needed to be improved to handle the additional demands placed on the modified VQ. The large Power Enterprise oil pan increases oil holding capacities and reduces oil temperatures by allowing each Motul 300V synthetic oil particle to sit in the pan for a longer period of time and lose more heat before being pumped by a Rev-up oil pump to a Setrab 6 series 19-row oil cooler and back into service. Because elevated coolant temperatures became an issue with the high-output configuration, a Koyo race radiator along with a Nismo thermostat and Samco hoses add to the ever-expanding parts list.
Drivetrain and suspension modifications followed the engine buildup in order to transfer the enormous power output. A Carbonetics triple disc carbon clutch with a 1,350kg pressure plate connects the engine to the transmission and an ACPT carbon driveshaft links it to the Carbonetics limited-slip differential matched to a stock casing and Nismo differential cover, which introduces carbon discs instead of metal. The carbon discs have the same locking performance but milder transitional characteristics, which improves apex-point acceleration in road racing applications. From the differential, 900hp-rated Level 5 rear axles acquired through the Driveshaft Shop deliver power to the 18x11 CCW SP16A Nitto NT-01 315/30/18 wrapped rear wheels. The front 18x9.5 wheels are fitted with 275/35/18 tires of the same kind. Grip is aided by a cornucopia of parts, including the KW Competition three-way adjustable racing coilover suspension built to Robispec specification, 350EVO.com camber adjustable front control arms, Hotchkis anti-sway bars and SPC Performance rear suspension components.
Petracca's G35 modification list is extensive. Fortunately, the pictures speak for themselves. Given Petracca's successes in audio competition, this coupe is sure to keep that Jersey shore rockin'.
2003 Infiniti G35
726 hp and 645 lb-ft of torque at 19.5 psi on C16 fuel
Weston Machine Spec'd Darton Steel Liners
Weston Machine Spec'd ARP 0.5-inch Head Studs
Extreme Duty Wiseco Forged Pistons
Pauter Forged Rods
Cometic Headgaskets
Power Enterprise Twin Turbo Kit with Cast Manifolds
Full-Race Upgraded Garrett GT2871R Turbos
HeadGames Motorworks Race Prep Ported/Polished Heads
Ferrea Valvetrain
ARP Main Studs
Jim Wolf Technology Cams
Rev-Up Oil Pump
HKS Twin Power DLI II
HKS Super Sequential Blow-Off Valve
HKS F-CON V Pro ECU
HKS V Pro Harness
HKS Pressure Sensor
HKS Air Intake Sensor
HKS Pressure/Air Intake Sensor Harnesses & Mount
HKS A/F Knock Amp with O2 Sensor
Technosquare Reflash
Straightlinetuning.com Dual 3-inch Stainless Exhaust with Magnaflow Race Mufflers
Straightlinetuning.com Oil Cooler with Setrab Core
Power Enterprise Oil Pan
Nismo Trans Cooler
Crawford Intake Plenum
RC Engineering 1,000cc Injectors
AAM Fuel Rails
AAM Fuel Return System
Upgraded Stock In-tank Walbro 255lph Pump
Bosch External Race Fuel Pump
Aluminum Surge Tank with Billet Aluminum Chassis Brackets
Braided Stainless Steel Fuel Lines with Anodized Fittings
CJ-motorsports.com Crank Angle Sensor Wire
Nissan VQ35 Rear Coolant Bypass System
Koyo Race Radiator
Nismo Thermostat
Samco Hoses
NGK Iridium Spark plug set (One step colder than stock)
Motul 300V Competition 15w50 synthetic oil
Soundgate ICB-500 Intelligent Circuit Breaker
Optima Yellow Top Battery
Evans-tuning.com V Pro Calibration
ForgedPerfromance.com V Pro Calibration
Carbonetics Triple Disc Carbon Clutch with 1,350kg Pressure Plate
Carbonetics Carbon LSD (Limited-Slip Differential)
Straightlinetuning.com Steel-Braided Clutch Line
Motul Gear 300V 75W-90 synthetic fluid
ACPT Carbon Driveshaft
The Driveshaft Shop Level 5 Axles
Nismo Differential Cover
Nismo Short Shifter
RobiSpec.com Full Race Preparation
KW Competition 3-way Adjustable Race Coilovers
350EVO.com Camber Adjustable Front Control Arms
Hotchkis Front and Rear Anti-Sway Bars
SPC Rear Camber/Toe kit
SPC Rear Camber Arm Kit
Brembo Gran Turismo Brake Kit
Straightlinetuning.com Brake Lines
Motul RB600 Brake Fluid
GReddy GRacer Front Bumper
GReddy GRacer Side Skirt
Seibon TS-Style Carbon-Fiber Hood
Carbon-Fiber Rear Spoiler
Aerocatch Locking Hood Pins
JDM Clear Front Side Markers
Exoticcustomsnj.com Custom Paint & Body Mods
ForgedPerformance.com Stainless Steel CNC Shift Knob
Sparco DTM Leather & Suede Carbon Fiber Racing Seats
Blitz SBC-iD iColor Dual Solenoid Boost Controller
Defi Gauges (Boost/EGT/Oil Pressure)
Defi-Link Control Unit II
AEM UEGO Wideband Gauge
Sparco Six-Point 3-inch Lap Harnesses
Alpine F#1 Status Headunit & Processor
Alpine F#1 Status 2-Way Component Speakers
Zapco Reference 650 Amplifier
Zapco 12-inch Subwoofer
CCW Wheel SP16A (18x9.5 front; 18x11 rear)
Nitto NT-01 Tires (275/35/18 front; 315/30/18 rear
5Zigen Pro Racer Lightweight Aluminum Lug Nuts
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by Steven Doyle
Our time at the Texas State Fair has been filled with laughter, music, beer and food. Plenty of food as a matter of fact. How the State Fair became synonymous with all things on a stick and fried is stuff of legend, but the holy grail of all things fried is undoubtedly the corn dog. Continue reading


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The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.4 x86_64 (Apache2, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3) - Page 3
4 Adjust /etc/hosts
Next we edit /etc/hosts. Make it look like this:
vi /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 192.168.0.100 server1.example.com server1 ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
5 Configure The Firewall
(You can skip this chapter if you have already disabled the firewall at the end of the basic system installation.)
I want to install ISPConfig at the end of this tutorial which comes with its own firewall. That's why I disable the default CentOS firewall now. Of course, you are free to leave it on and configure it to your needs (but then you shouldn't use any other firewall later on as it will most probably interfere with the CentOS firewall).
and disable the firewall.
To check that the firewall has really been disabled, you can run
iptables -L
afterwards. The output should look like this:
[root@server1 ~]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
[root@server1 ~]#
6 Disable SELinux
SELinux is a security extension of CentOS that should provide extended security. In my opinion you don't need it to configure a secure system, and it usually causes more problems than advantages (think of it after you have done a week of trouble-shooting because some service wasn't working as expected, and then you find out that everything was ok, only SELinux was causing the problem). Therefore I disable it (this is a must if you want to install ISPConfig later on).
Edit /etc/selinux/config and set SELINUX=disabled:
vi /etc/selinux/config
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded. SELINUX=disabled # SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values: # targeted - Targeted processes are protected, # mls - Multi Level Security protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted
Afterwards we must reboot the system:
7 Enable Additional Repositories And Install Some Software
First we import the GPG keys for software packages:
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*
Then we enable the RPMforge and EPEL repositories on our CentOS system as lots of the packages that we are going to install in the course of this tutorial are not available in the official CentOS 6.4 repositories:
rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
cd /tmp
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
(If the above link doesn't work anymore, you can find the current version of rpmforge-release here: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/)
rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
yum install yum-priorities
Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo...
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
... and add the line priority=10 to the [epel] section:
[epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch failovermethod=priority enabled=1 priority=10 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 [...]
Then we update our existing packages on the system:
yum update
Now we install some software packages that are needed later on:
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
8 Quota
(If you have chosen a different partitioning scheme than I did, you must adjust this chapter so that quota applies to the partitions where you need it.)
To install quota, we run this command:
yum install quota
Edit /etc/fstab and add ,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0 to the / partition (/dev/mapper/vg_server1-lv_root):
vi /etc/fstab
# # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Wed Jul 11 17:52:57 2012 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info # /dev/mapper/vg_server1-lv_root / ext4 defaults,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0 1 1 UUID=806910a1-dbdf-4746-bd94-cbe73ce81493 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_server1-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
Then run
mount -o remount /
quotacheck -avugm
quotaon -avug
to enable quota.
9 Install Apache, MySQL, phpMyAdmin
We can install the needed packages with one single command:
yum install ntp httpd mod_ssl mysql-server php php-mysql php-mbstring phpmyadmin
10 Install Dovecot
Dovecot can be installed as follows:
yum install dovecot dovecot-mysql
Now create the system startup links and start Dovecot:
chkconfig --levels 235 dovecot on
/etc/init.d/dovecot start
11 Install Postfix
Postfix can be installed as follows:
yum install postfix
Then turn off Sendmail and start Postfix and MySQL:
chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
chkconfig --levels 235 sendmail off
chkconfig --levels 235 postfix on
/etc/init.d/sendmail stop
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
12 Install Getmail
Getmail can be installed as follows:
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Psionic Focus
Gain Psionic Focus
Merely holding a reservoir of psionic power points in mind gives psionic characters a special energy. Psionic characters can put that energy to work without actually paying a power point cost—they can become psionically focused as a special use of the Concentration skill.
If you have 1 or more power points available, you can meditate to attempt to become psionically focused. The DC to become psionically focused is 20. Meditating is a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. When you are psionically focused, you can expend your focus on any single Concentration check you make thereafter. When you expend your focus in this manner, your Concentration check is treated as if you rolled a 15. It's like taking 10, except that the number you add to your Concentration modifier is 15. You can also expend your focus to gain the benefit of a psionic feat—many psionic feats are activated in this way.
Once you are psionically focused, you remain focused until you expend your focus, become unconscious, or go to sleep (or enter a meditative trance, in the case of elans), or until your power point reserve drops to 0.
The feat Psionic Meditation allows you to gain your psionic focus as a move-equivalent action.
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Tennis Channel will provide exclusive, live "bounce style" coverage from both Davis Cup semifinals in Belgrade, Serbia, and Prague, Czech Republic, this weekend, with live and same-day, "Instant Encore" replays Friday through Sunday, as telecast windows overlap. Serbia will host Canada while the Czech Republic will welcome Argentina. Top-ranked Canadian Milos Raonic and 2013 US Open finalist and World No. 1 Novak Djokovic have never faced each other in competitive play, nor have the two nations met in Davis Cup competition. Tennis Channel's coverage gets underway at 9 a.m. ET, Friday, Sept. 13; 8:30 a.m. ET, Saturday, Sept. 14; and 8 a.m. ET, Sunday, Sept. 15.
Live, "bounce style" coverage from Belgrade Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, and O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic (all times ET):
Friday, Sept. 13:
9 a.m. – Live Singles #1 Czech Republic vs. Argentina (Serbia vs. Canada underway at 10 a.m.)
1 p.m. – Live Singles #2 Czech Republic vs. Argentina and Canada vs. Serbia
{8 p.m. – Instant Encore Singles #1 Czech Republic vs. Argentina and Canada vs. Serbia}
{12 a.m. – Instant Encore Singles #2 Czech Republic vs. Argentina and Canada vs. Serbia}
Saturday, Sept. 14:
8:30 a.m. – Live Doubles Czech Republic vs. Argentina (Serbia vs. Canada underway at 10 a.m.)
Sunday, Sept. 15:
8 a.m. – Live Singles #1 Czech Republic vs. Argentina and Canada vs. Serbia
11 a.m. – Live Singles #2 Czech Republic vs. Argentina and Canada vs. Serbia
Canada and Serbia have never faced each other in Davis Cup play. Serbia defeated France 3-2 in the 2010 Davis Cup finals at Belgrade Arena to win its sole title. The Serbian team enters this weekend's matchup after a 3-1 victory over the United States in Boise, Idaho. Serbia is captained by Bogdan Obradovic and features Djokovic, Janko Tipsarevic, Dusan Lajovic, and Nenad Zimonjic.
Canada enters this weekend after defeating Italy 3-1 to reach the semifinals for the first time since 1913 and only the second time in the nation's history. The Canadian team achieved its best Davis Cup results to date by defeating both Spain and Italy and is bidding to win its first Davis Cup title. The squad is captained by Martin Laurendeau and features the same players who beat Italy in the quarterfinal: Raonic, Vasek Pospisil, Frank Dancevic, and Daniel Nestor.
The Czech Republic holds a 4-1 advantage over Argentina in Davis Cup competition, most recently winning last year's semifinal 3-2 in Argentina. Argentina's sole victory over the Czech Republic came in 2005 in Buenos Aires. The team enters this weekend's match after defeating Kazakhstan 3-1 in the quarterfinals. The Czech Republic clinched its first Davis Cup trophy as an independent nation last year, when it defeated Spain 3-2 in Prague. In 1980,it captured its first Davis Cup title while competing under the flag of Czechoslovakia. Coached by Jaroslav Navratil, the team consists of Tomas Berdych, Radek Stepanek, Lukas Rosol, and Jiri Vesely.
Argentina has finished runner-up on four occasions: in 1981, 2006, 2008 and 2011. The Argentine team is captained by Martin Jaite and features Juan Monaco, Carlos Berlocq, Horacio Zeballos, and Leonardo Mayer.


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The Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), issued this statement following the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decisions on marriage equality:
"Today, the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest court of our country, stood on the side of love with its decision in United States v. Windsor declaring that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment.
This is a proud and momentous day for all who have suffered under this law and felt discrimination based on their sexual orientation. It is a victory for the principle that civil rights belong to all.
In the Proposition 8 case of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal over same-sex marriage on jurisdictional grounds, essentially paving the way for marriage equality in California.
While I am disappointed that the Supreme Court did not declare the freedom to marry as a constitutionally-protected "equal protection" right that would apply to all states, I applaud this historic step towards equality.
The Unitarian Universalist Association joined two amicus curiae briefs in these cases with other religious organizations in support of marriage equality. In both cases, the UUA argued that a broad cross-section of religious denominations recognize the dignity of lesbian and gay people and their relationships, recognize the necessary distinction between civil and religious marriage, and recognize that civil marriages of same-sex couples will not impinge upon religious beliefs or practices, but rather will prevent one set of religious beliefs from being imposed on others through civil law.
Unitarian Universalists have been vocal supporters of marriage equality for decades. I thank them for their dedicated commitment to our Unitarian Universalist principle of affirming the worth and dignity of every person.
There is still so much work to be done to ensure equal protection for all who live and love in our country. As we know, marriage equality strengthens families, protects children, and ensures the basic rights of citizenship for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender couples.
It remains my fervent hope that soon marriage equality is afforded to all in this country. Unitarian Universalists will continue to stand on the side of love with all families."


text: CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd full-day Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip (HPPC) August 25, 2009, Delft, The Netherlands http://www.hppc-workshop.org/ to be held in conjunction with the 15th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), August 25-28, 2009, Delft, The Netherlands http://europar2009.ewi.tudelft.nl/ AIMS AND SCOPE The decline in the growth of single-processor performance, the growing concerns with energy consumption, and the still exponential increase in transistors per chip as per Moore's law, will open the scene for single-chip processors with a substantial amount of parallelism to meet the demands for extremely high performance, reliability, and controlable power consumption in all areas of computing. The major challenge for the coming years will be the design of architectures supporting manageable programming abstractions to allow the mainstream programmer to take advantage of the processing power promised by the technological developments. HPPC, the third workshop in the series, co-located with the EuroPar conference, is *the* workshop dedicated to addressing all aspects of highly parallel processing on a chip, be it in existing or emerging multi-core designs, or in bold, new proposals for architectures, programming models, languages and libraries for managing and exploiting massive levels of parallelism on a chip. Particular emphasis is on the interaction between hardware, architecture (processors, on-chip networks, cache and memory system), programming models and languages, and algorithms as well as applications in need of significant amounts of single-chip parallelism. The workshop will be conducted in an informal atmosphere, stressing interaction and discussion between presenters and audience. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - hardware techniques (e.g. power saving, clocking, fault-tolerance) - processor core architectures (homogeneous and heterogeneous) - special purpose processors (accelerators, GPUs) - on-chip memory and cache (or cache-less) organization, and interconnects - off-chip memory, I/O, and multi-core interconnects - overall system design (resource allocation and balancing) - programming models (e.g. PRAM, BSP, data parallel, vector, transactional) - languages and software libraries - implementation techniques (e.g. multi-threading, work-stealing) - support and performance tools, performance evaluation - parallel algorithms and applications - migration of existing codebase - teaching of parallel computing for/on highly parallel multi-core systems. SUBMISSION Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished research or overviews addressing issues in the design and application of highly parallel multi-core processors as outlined above. Papers should be limited to 10 pages, and typeset in the Springer LNCS style (for details, see www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop, will be published in revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series AFTER the Euro-Par conference. The proceedings of the first HPPC workshop appeared in Springer LNCS Volume 4854. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please see the workshop www-page: http://www.hppc-workshop.org IMPORTANT DATES Submission of manuscripts: Friday, 5th June, 2009 Notification of acceptance: Monday, 20th July 2009 Date of workshop: Tuesday 25th August, 2009 Deadline for final version (post-proceedings): September, 2009 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Martti Forsell, VTT, Finland Jesper Larsson Traff, NEC Laboratories Europe, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE David Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Marc Daumas, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France Martti Forsell, VTT, Finland Peter Hofstee, IBM, USA Chris Jesshope, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ben Juurlink, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Jorg Keller, University of Hagen, Germany Christoph Kessler, University of Linkoping, Sweden Dominique Lavenier, IRISA - CNRS, France Ville Leppanen, University of Turku, Finland Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Lasse Natvig, NTNU, Norway Geppino Pucci, University of Padova, Italy Jesper Larsson Traff, NEC Laboratories Europe, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany Uzi Vishkin, University of Maryland, USA CONTACT INFO Email: chair at hppc-workshop.org SPONSORS VTT NEC Euro-Par


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NJ Printing Company on the 'Ideal' Presidential Candidate
Ideal Jacobs Corporation is a printing company based in Maplewood, New Jersey. Andrew Jacobs is the third generation owner of the family business that was established in 1921.
Ideal Jacobs Corporation specializes in graphic overlays and custom labels, and has become a leader in providing customized solutions to companies ranging from telecommunications to automotive. In addition to the NJ headquarters, they now have operations in Massachusetts and California, Canada, Mexico, The Netherlands, Romania, Malaysia, China and Thailand.
According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate of New Jersey is currently at 9.8%, which is higher than the September national rate of 7.8%. New Jersey's population estimate is 8,821,155, according to the United States Census Bureau's estimate from July 2011.
The industries holding the most jobs in the state are trade, transportation, and utilities. The highest gross domestic product for NJ is due to real estate, rental and leasing.
New Jersey's small business owners make up 98.4% of all employers in the state, as reported by the Small Business Administration's profile completed in 2009.
Interview with Andrew Jacobs
FOXBUSINESS: What are some immediate goals that you hope to see satisfied by the president in the next term?
JACOBS: I would like to be left alone. I want to be left alone to be able to do my job, which is to create good-paying jobs for more people. And if I'm not left alone to do that here, I will do it offshore. So, basically, that's what I want to do. I want the healthcare bill gutted, I want taxes lowered if possible, I want to be able to put my own money back in and grow, I don't want to be told I can't do things, I don't want the government to interfere with anything I'm doing. Obviously if it's safe and healthy and environmental stuff – that's totally different because we're set up for that. But basically, I want to be left alone, and I don't want the government giving all their money to people who don't work and then getting us involved outside the United States in places where we shouldn't be involved.
FOXBUSINESS: On an individual employee level -- do you encourage your employees to vote in the election?
JACOBS: Positively. I make it easy for them.
FOXBUSINESS: What are the top three issues for you when it comes to who you'll vote for for president? JACOBS: Less taxes, gut the medical plan, and less restrictions. FOXBUSINESS: How many years have you been operating? How many employees did you start out with, and today?
JACOBS: In 1921, my grandfather started off by himself. We have gone up and down, and up and down. We have about 22 employees in the U.S. and about 200 worldwide.
FOXBUSINESS: What kind of health benefits plan do you provide? Has this changed in recent years?
JACOBS: It's pretty much been the same – full health benefits depending on the level you are in the company. Sometimes it depends on how much you donate into it. FOXBUSINESS: Do you expect the healthcare plan to negatively/positively/neutrally affect your business?
JACOBS: Negatively, definitely. There's no question. Because all the people who can't afford healthcare now that are now going to get it for free, they're only going to go to the people who can pay for it, which is me. Which is the same reason why I'll never probably ever get Social Security, and every other benefit that's out here, because anybody who makes any money is never going to get anything.
FOXBUSINESS: What has your hiring trend been over the years? Have you hired employees, laid off employees, or remained the same?
JACOBS: Yes. Here, we were roughly at 30 and we're now at 22. Worldwide we're up to 200, though, total. So we've had a lot of expansion outside the U.S.
FOXBUSINESS: Throughout the years that you have been in business, do you remember a particularly high point or low point in your business profitability, and what the cause of that was?
JACOBS: We follow our customers around the world to wherever they are, and the profitability goes mostly with new niche markets. Niche markets and new product lines used to last a lot longer than they do now, so when you're trying to push something new, you can often ride off it for a few years and gain a lot of momentum from that. These days, things change so quickly that it's a lot harder to do that. The change is so fast that you can't really make the kind of money you were making before unless you're constantly in the front, which costs a lot of money to stay there. So it's harder to make more money now than it was before.
In this series, we are interviewing small business owners across the nation about the political policies that affect their businesses in anticipation of the 2012 presidential election. Each profile subject has been selected randomly and does not represent the views of their respective state.


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To dissolve compound in 1 equivalent of NaOH(aq.), the following formula can be used to calculate the volume of NaOH (aq) (VolNaOH) of concentration (ConcNaOH ) needed:
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We carry out regular stability tests of our products. However, due to the novel nature of many of our biochemicals, there is little published information on long-term product stability.
You should always follow the recommendations stated on the Product Datasheet. However, we offer the following as a general guide:
Solid: Provided storage is as stated on the product vial and the vial is kept tightly sealed, the product can be stored for up to 6 months.
Solution: Wherever possible, you should prepare and use solutions on the same day. However, if you need to make up stock solutions in advance, we recommend that you store the solution as aliquots in tightly sealed vials at -20°C. Generally, these will be useable for up to one month. Before use, and prior to opening the vial we recommend that you allow your product to equilibrate to room temperature for at least 1 hour.
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Solubility is temperature dependent. As such, cooling or freezing solutions may lead to precipitation of the product from solution. It is therefore important to ensure that your product is completely re-dissolved before use.
Why does Abcam Biochemicals sometimes ship chemicals at room temperature when the vial is labelled 'store at +4°C or -20°C'?
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While peptides for research use are typically > 95% pure by HPLC, the peptide content of the solid may typically range from 70 to 90% as peptides contain counter ions (e.g. acetate, trifluoroacetate) and residual moisture. The peptide content of each batch is shown on the Certificate of Analysis that accompanies each product.
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