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The following properties, in addition to those listed in Cluster Connection Service Properties, are used to configure conventional clusters:
imq.cluster.brokerlist specifies a list of broker addresses defining the membership of the cluster; all brokers in the cluster must have the same value for this property.
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imq.cluster.masterbroker specifies which broker in a conventional cluster is the master broker that maintains the configuration change record that tracks the addition and deletion of destinations and durable subscribers. For example:
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Terrorists changing tactics in wake of surveillance program leaks, officials say
Published June 25, 2013
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Known terrorist groups already have begun to change the way they communicate in the wake of classified leaks detailing U.S. surveillance tactics, U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials tell Fox News.
"We are already seeing indications that they are attempting to change their communications behaviors," said one senior U.S. official, speaking to Fox News on the condition of anonymity. "That is a direct result of what we are seeing in the media. That is a fact."
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has acknowledged providing sensitive information to the media on U.S. surveillance programs. Facing federal charges in the U.S., Snowden continues to evade capture and is said to be in a Moscow airport.
Counterterrorism officials say that although some of the basic principles of U.S. surveillance were known before the leaks, terrorist groups are now armed with new details that can help them keep their communications private.
"They now know the scope and breadth of our abilities and our collection," one official said.
Terror and extremist groups are likely to become must more cautious with Internet and telephone communications, considering revelations on just how much so-called "meta-data" the NSA has legal justification to collect. Officials told Fox News that terrorists, while routinely careful of their communications, would have been unaware about the sheer scope of the NSA's blanket warrants with Internet giants like Google and Facebook, or phone companies like AT&T and Verizon.
"The real-world implication is these people will stop talking and change how they communicate," said a senior U.S. official. "We are going to have less abilities if they change electronically and until we are able to regain communications we will miss what they are saying. We will miss those dots."
One fear is that terror networks could turn to couriers, similar to the system used by the former Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden. Although it was the courier that eventually led U.S. Special Forces to his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, it took over 10 years to find him.
At a Pentagon press conference Tuesday, Gen. Ray Odierno, chief of staff of the Army, said he is concerned about the safety of U.S. troops because of this leak.
"It's not just about leaking information," Odierno said. "It's much bigger than that. … It puts American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines at risk who are overseas conducting operations."
In an interview on CNN Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry went so far as to say, "people may die as a consequence of what this man did."


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In a case that highlights the hypocrisy of get-tough-on-crime policies supposedly driven by sympathy for victims, the juvenile court system continued to send boys to a prominent psychiatrist for at least 16 years after he was first accused of child molestation.
Juvenile court judges continued to send new victims to Dr. William Ayres until 2003, long after the first of multiple complaints against him by boys and their parents. As of the most recent tally, at least 37 men have accused Ayres of molesting them as boys dating back almost four decades.
Economic class disparities between the accusers and the accused likely influenced the failure to prosecute. After all, whom should one believe? A prominent child psychiatrist and former president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry? Or a disempowered youth who seems destined for state prison?
"You have a prominent psychiatrist saying, 'I didn't do it,' and a troubled youth who's seeing a psychiatrist," Deputy District Attorney Melissa McKowan told the San Francisco Chronicle.
According to the Chronicle article, Ayres might never have been prosecuted without the chance intervention of a freelance writer from New York.
For more media coverage of the Ayres case, go to the blog: http://psychwatch.blogspot.com/.


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Roads are not sexy. You don't see glossy ads pleading for people to sponsor a road. You don't see the construction of a road moving global audiences to tears. There are no celebrities, concerts, wrist-bands for the road. I guess that is because for most people in the developed world, we take roads for granted.
Recently I spent some time around Kerema, which although only 350 km from the country's capital, feels as one of the most remote and cut-off places in Papua New Guinea. Kerema is the Gulf's provincial capital and, with its surrounding villages, it has been cut-off from the rest of the country due to a mere 67 km of mostly un-passable road. Under the Roads Maintenance and Rehabilitation Project, the World Bank has been supporting the Government of Papua New Guinea to restore the road. Today, the Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved the second phase of this project, which will see the rest of the road restored and paved to a proper national standard.
Speaking to villagers, doctors, and teachers, they painted a portrait of what life is like without a road. For them a road represents the gateway to schools, hospitals, trade and family. The lack of a road impacts everyone.
The Mothers
|To get to the hospital, Eme has to walk hours while carrying her gravely ill daughter.
The Kerema hospital itself is a somber scene. The building is dilapidated and falling apart—they can't get building supplies transported to fix it. Often they can't get basic medicines or equipment. I met up with the good Doctor John Kiap, the CEO of the hospital, and he told me he started crying when he heard we planned to reconnect the road to the country's capital Port Moresby.
Women, children and babies flood into hospital in the morning—mostly from outlying villages—having walked hours clutching sick children. It is truly shocking seeing thirty or forty mothers waiting, looking so stressed, so exhausted, so hopeless. Some of the children looked so very sick. I met a woman, Eme, who had brought in her gravely ill daughter to hospital and was washing her daughter down outside to cool her fever. She was in tears when she was telling me her difficulties trying to come back and forth to get to the hospital. Her daughter's little heart was beating out of her chest, her arms and legs were wrapped around her father with all the energy she could muster. Her long eyelashes were dewy but she didn't have the energy to cry. It is without doubt one of the most distressing things I have ever seen. It should never have to be like this.
I spoke to Opao and some other women from outlying villages. They told me that when women give birth they have to walk 10-15 kilometres to the hospital as no ambulance can travel to get them. If they are lucky, some people from the village may carry them on a stretcher. Babies often die on the way.
The Entrepreneur
|Treacherous waters make it difficult and dangerous for Ken's employees to haul in the drums of diesel fuel needed to power up the town's electricity.
Boat access is one of the main avenues into Kerema. Over the years, many dinghies have capsized, killing hundreds of people. Boats are also the primary way goods make it to town.
I met with Ken, the largest entrepreneur in Kerema. Amongst other things, he provides diesel to power the town's electricity. Because there is no road, it is brought in on dinghies laden with up to a ton of fuel. Many have sunk on the journey through the treacherous waters. Once the boats get near the shore the diesel barrels are thrown overboard and Ken's employees have to swim out and bring the drums to shore.
The Schoolgirl
|The lack of good roads make schoolgirls particularly vulnerable. Some girls have been raped walking home from school.
The teachers and schoolgirls at Kerema school said the lack of a road has made life very difficult: school supplies are impossible to get in and students are often late to school. Most students have to board at the school, and it is difficult to get supplies in to feed everyone. At the end of term girls will often walk the long journey back to their villages. Many girls have been raped along the way. The girls are scared making the walk back home and the teachers—though stretched—will often try to escort them safely to their families. They said with a functional road they will be able to catch public transport, which will be much safer for them. This is simply unfathomable.
The Raincallers
|Village chief Knamo is paying raincallers to not call the rain so road work can advance quickly
I visited another village where road work has commenced but has been delayed due to heavy rains. Here I met the charismatic village chief Knamo. He is the big man of the village and has four wives. He is a big supporter of the road being developed as his village sits on the edge of the road and they aim to sell the sago and betel nut they produce in Port Moresby.
He is desperate for the road works to resume, so has engaged the local raincallers. The raincallers, a custom tradition in PNG, as the name suggests—call rain. He told me that there is something like "raincalling school" to train the raincallers.
He has been paying the local raincallers 100 Kina each to stop calling the rain so that roadworks can resume. However, it continued to rain. He believes that someone with a vested interest had been paying the raincallers a higher price to call rain. He asked the raincallers about this raincalling scandal but got nowhere. He said if it continues to rain, it will delay the road, and he will instigate an investigation into the raincalling scandal.
For all these people, the road is their lifeline. I have captured their stories and more on this video.
A progress in peoples lives
PNG - the harsh reality
Speaking as a Papua New
marginalised populace
Thanks Aleta for posting this..It is very true that this has being the case for decades and very sad. It stimulates ones mind in the direction of the high profile, very intellegent, big man that come from this part of town with the likes of [names deleted by blog admin, see our Comments Policy] and the list goes on...how is it that this has somewhat become an oversight???It is one of the two main highways that link those remote areas to Port Moresby??? [edited out by blog admin, see policy] With regard to the District funds that are used at the discretion of MPs, one would ponder what they were used up for???Certainly not the clinic nor the school?? tsk tsk tsk tsk
Removal of names
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roads and corruption in PNG
A Sad Case for My People
road works
Kerema Yu Yet Kam Na....?
How often shall we cry for
How often shall we cry for PNG? A touching article indeed but how does it explain the failure of the World Bank and its donor partners (Australia, Japan, Asian Development Bank and more recently China) to put in place a maintainable basic road network managed by a half-decent road organization. This despite decades of providing massive amounts of financial aid for road building and technical assistance and advisers for institution building. What has emerged in PNG is an aid industry that perpetuates itself through armies of expatriate consultants, who bemoan and groan about the corrupt and inept national administration, but participate in and benefit from the corruption that surrounds them. PNG is moreover an experimental laboratory for aid agencies to try out every possible fad in the road sector ranging from road funds, road boards, road authorities whose mandate and purpose is only known and clear to the supporting aid donor, performance based contracting when no one is sure what performance means in the context of PNG, and an elaborate sector planning process run by expatriates that produces massive volumes of planning data and reports; that only looks into the future and never assesses what was accomplished in the past - the plan just completed. And despite all the planning, no one knows how many vehicles ply PNG's roads and despite the availability of beautifully rendered road maps, no one for sure knows how many passable kilometers of road there really are in PNG. Could there be a greater planning travesty than this? And the business of development goes forward shamelessly in the name of the people of PNG.


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A winner was selected from 81 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Richmond Park Rowboats
This new business is looking to provide a unique tourism opportunity in one of Australia's oldest towns. The business will offer rowboat hire on a small and tranquil river that passes small grassy banks, Australia's oldest sandstone bridge and lots of ducks!
The opportunity to to enjoy some romantic time in a boat on the river in a very popular tourism town is something we are keen to promote. The aim is create a slight feel of the old promenade's where people met and went out on romantic river trips.
We are looking for a simple romantic feel (without being to ornate) in the logo design, the use and inclusion of silver as a colour would be preferred but not compulsory.
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The overall look is a more contemporary logo that harks back to the romantic days of river rowing.
The business will also offer high tea in a series of arbors as well as deliver gourmet picnics full of local produce.
Tourists looking for a unique and romantic experience. Due to the nature of the river, any adult can participate in the activity.
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The steps:
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Fish DNA Barcoding
The Fish Barcode of Life Initiative (FISH-BOL), is a global effort to coordinate an assembly of a standardised reference sequence library for all fish species, one that is derived from voucher specimens with authoritative taxonomic identifications. The benefits of barcoding fishes include facilitating species identification for all potential users, including taxonomists; highlighting specimens that represent a range expansion of known species; flagging previously unrecognized species; and perhaps most importantly, enabling identifications where traditional methods are not applicable.
Over the last 7 years the Fish Barcode of Life effort has been creating a valuable public resource in the form of an electronic database containing DNA barcodes, images, and geospatial coordinates of examined specimens. The database contains linkages to voucher specimens, information on species distributions, nomenclature, authoritative taxonomic information, collateral natural history information and literature citations. FISH-BOL thus complements and enhances existing information resources, including the Catalog of Fishes, FishBase and various genomics databases .
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FISH-BOL.org is the initial site of an ongoing effort to bring the information gathered through this initiative to the both its participants and the broader community. It functions as a portal to BOLD (Barcode of Life Data Systems), and as an information resource for the community at large. If you have any questions or suggestions for the site please contact Bob Hanner.


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Remote Controlled Car Fun With Cows – The Great Round Up [Video]
Cows, you see them all the time in the pastures off the Pennyrile Parkway and as you can clearly see, cows do not have a very exciting life. The eat grass, sleep, eat more grass and wander around. Now, add a remote controlled car in the pasture and you have cow excitement like you have never seen before, it's a cow's greatest day ever. see for yourself, very funny.


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[Illinois] ECE 416 Acoustic Wave Sensors
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In this lecture, we look at the concepts and theories behind the acoustic wave sensor. This sensor communicates through the vibrational waves in matter. The atoms in the system are displaced, causing an Internal Elastic Restoring Force. This is the vibration that transmits the acoustic waves. The waves transmission are able to detect the biomolecules through the change in the frequencies. A piezoelectric mass, materials that produce oscillation and generate output, has antibodies placed on it and as the target molecules attach themselves to these molecules, the mass of the piezoelectric material changes. An electric field is being placed through the material and the voltage potential can be measured and tell the changing of the frequency of the system. The piezoelectric material is a transducer that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy. To determine the resonant frequency for oscillation, a voltage is needed to be applied and adjusted until the maximum voltage output is found. The best way for the electric field to go through the piezoelectric material is through shear stress. This brought about the Thickness Shear Mode Biosensor, in which there antibodies on a quartz(as piezoelectric material) and there is oscillator circuit in which the more mass there is, the lower the vibrations.
My research group is focused on the application of sub-wavelength optical phenomena and fabrication methods to the development of novel devices and instrumentation for the life sciences. The group is highly interdisciplinary, with expertise in the areas of microfabrication, nanotechnology, computer simulation, instrumentation, molecular biology, and cell biology. In particular, we are working on biosensors based upon photonic crystal concepts that can either be built from low-cost flexible plastic materials, or integrated with semiconductor-based active devices, such as light sources and photodetectors, for high performance integrated detection systems.
Using a combination of micrometer-scale and nanometer-scale fabrication tools, we are devising novel methods and materials for producing electro-optic devices with nanometer-scale features that can be scaled for low-cost manufacturing. Many of our techniques are geared for compatibility with flexible plastic materials, leading to applications such as low cost disposable sensors, wearable sensors, flexible electronics, and flexible displays. Because our structures manipulate light at a scale that is smaller than an optical wavelength, we rely on computer simulation tools such as Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (RCWA) and Finite Difference Time Doman (FDTD) to model, design, and understand optical phenomena within photonic crystals and related devices.
In addition to fabricating devices, our group is also focused on the design, prototyping, and testing of biosensor instrumentation for high sensitivity, portability, and resolution. Advanced instruments enable high resolution imaging of biochemical and cellular interactions with the ability to monitor images of biochemical interactions as a function of time. Using the sensors and instrumentation, we are exploring new applications for optical biosensor technology including protein microarrays, biosensor/mass spectrometry systems, and microfluidics-based assays using nanoliter quantities of reagents. The methods and systems developed in the laboratory are applied in the fields of life science research, drug discovery, diagnostic testing, and environmental monitoring. -From Professor Cunningham's Faculty Profile
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
NanoBio Node, Obaid Sarvana, George Daley
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Propagationdynamicsof epilepticseizures
Scale from oriented quasi-stationary images
Predictionof powertransformerfailures
Stereoscopicvision formobilerobotics
Portfoliooptimizationin theenergysector
Presentations at the CBLL weekly meetings:
# November 3, 2009: "Learning Realistic Human Actions", Ivan Laptev, Marcin Marszalek, Cordelia Schmid, Benjamin Rozenfeld
# May 6, 2009: "Gaussian Process Dynamical Models", Jack Wang, David Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann
# September 24, 2008: "Epileptic Seizure Prediction from EEG": review and our new successful technique
# February 6, 2008: "Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Model", based on research by Fabrice Wendling
# November 22, 2006: "Pyramidal Methods in Image Processing and Recognition and Pyramid Matching Kernels"
# October 5, 2005: "MEG Source Localization Using an MLP with Distributed Output Representation", Sung Chan Jun, Barak Pearlmutter, Guido Nolte
Dynamic Factor Graphs for time series modeling
This is my thesis research project under
Prof. Yann LeCun's supervision, published in
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and presented at
A DFG includes factors modeling joint probabilities between hidden and observed variables, and factors modeling dynamical constraints on hidden variables. The DFG assigns a scalar energy to each configuration of hidden and observed variables. A gradient-based inference procedure finds the minimum-energy state sequence for a given observation sequence. Because the factors are designed to ensure a constant partition function, they can be trained by minimizing the expected energy over training sequences with respect to the factors' parameters. These alternated inference and parameter updates can be seen as a deterministic gradient-based EM-like procedure.Using smoothing regularizers, DFGs have been shown to reconstruct chaotic attractors and to separate a mixture of independent oscillatory sources perfectly. DFGs outperformed the best known algorithm on the CATS competition benchmark for time series prediction. DFGs also successfully reconstruct missing motion capture data. For more details, download the article, or follow the video lecture at ECML-PKDD 2009, with corresponding slides.
Epileptic seizure prediction using convolutional networks on patterns of EEG synchronization
This is my core applied research project, for which I have received a Google Student Award at the 2008 Machine Learning Symposium of the New York Academy of Sciences and a Young Investigator Award at the 2009 International Workshop on Seizure Prediction IWSP4. It is a collaboration between NYU's Computational and Biological Learning Lab, led by Prof. Yann LeCun,
and Drs. Deepak Madhavan and Ruben Kuzniecky from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.Our patent-pending methodology achieved the best results so far on the 21-patient EEG public dataset from the University of Freiburg. Our best algorithm, consisting in convolutional networks applied to patterns of wavelet-based phase-locking synchrony succeeded in predicting all test seizures with no false positives on 15 patients out of 21. See the article published and presented at IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing 2008 (which you can download here) and our recent article in Clinical Neurophysiology (which you can download here), as well as the
talk at IWSP 4.
Discovery of genetic regulatory networks
I contribute to a large project in collaboration with
Prof. Dennis Shasha and the
NYU Plant Biology lab, aimed at discovering gene regulation networks from gene/protein expression micro-array data. We employ machine learning algorithms based on dynamic factor graphs, and have so far applied these techniques to the Arabidopsis response to nitrogen (forthcoming paper).
Convolutional Networks for the prediction of the propagation of epileptic seizures
This is one of my epilepsy research projects at NYU's Computational and Biological Learning Lab, in collaboration with Dr. Deepak Madhavan from NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center,
and Prof. Yann LeCun. We have investigated learning the dynamics and interdependence of EEG channels at the onset of epileptic seizures, in order to help localize the epileptogenic focus. See the abstract as well as the poster (left, right,
add-on) from the December 2006 American Epilepsy Society meeting, the abstract from the July 2007 AAAI conference, and the abstract from the December 2007 American Epilepsy Society meeting.
Retrieving scale from oriented quasi-stationary images
This image processing research project was done at Schlumberger-Doll Research, and has since been published in
Pattern Recognition Letters (download the article). Our algorithm manages to quantify scale changes in large-scale "quasi-stationary" patterns. Instead of coming up with an orientation-independent measure, we use the local orientation field to guide the scale measure. This algorithm has been applied to
Multiple-Point Geostatistics.
Robotic stereo vision: camera calibration, stereo rectification, depth matching and 3D reconstruction
(Mobile Robotics class,
Fall 2006 with
Prof. Yann LeCun,
implemented using Lush and
OpenCV library.
We hacked a
Roomba (iRobot) vacuum cleaner by plugging it to a
Minimac computer and
2 FireWire libdc1394 cameras).I implemented the stereo rectification from scratches using either rotation from extrinsic camera properties or by matching SIFT features,
and wrote a real-time SAD depth matching algorithm
(see references and wiki pages).
Belief propagation stereo vision
(Computer Vision class, Spring 2006 with
Prof. Davi Geiger).
The cost function was based on image measurements: intensity accumulation and derivatives
(homework 1).
That intensity derivative attribute yielded good results with edgels-based and dynamic programming-based contour detection
(homework 2).
Using belief propagation, disparity maps were constructed from cost functions based on intensity derivatives, then the depth maps of the stereo images were used for 3D reconstruction
(homework 3).
Biological neural network simulator based on the Hodgkin-Huxley model
(Mathematical Aspects of Neurophysiology class, Fall 2006 with
Prof. Charles Peskin).
It is a computer simulation of a network of conductance-based single-compartment neurophysiological model neurons,
stimulated either with deterministic or stochastic external current, or by EPSP and IPSP resulting from deterministic synaptic transmission
(see the project report and simulation results).
Retrospective evaluation of portfolio allocation in the energy sector
(Quantitative Risk and Portfolio Management class, Fall 2007, taught by Prof. Attilio Meucci). Starting from NYSE daily stock prices and Brent/Oklahoma oil spot prices, I conducted a retrospective portfolio allocation study on a 4-week prediction horizon, estimating missing prices (Expectation-Maximization), detecting outliers (Minimum Volume Ellipsoid), computing the Normal or Student-t distributions of invariants (weekly compounded returns), and performed a mean-variance optimal portfolio allocation. Matlab code and project report and results are available here.


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Is science faith-based?
Oh, you want details? OK then.
If you read any antiscience screeds, at some point or...
By TubbaBlubba on 24th January 2011, 07:28 PM
[/quote]The printing press had its first use printing Bibles and I'm certain that was the idea that caused its creation. All science begins with a what if proposition and a certain amount of faith that something good will come of this idea.[/quote]
I have no idea what you're saying with this.
By eerok on 25th January 2011, 10:48 AM
By Zeuzzz on 8th February 2011, 11:55 PM
To elaborate more on that, what i mean is that if someone reads a study that having faith in a religion increases your happiness, life expectancy or general well being, and thus takes up a faith based religion to increase these aspects of their life based on the science, is this a science based faith?
By eerok on 11th February 2011, 08:34 AM
By Northern_warrior on 19th February 2011, 01:20 PM
Science is fact based,and things like "the big bang" are hypotheses and theories..but still more logical reasoning is behind them then say "it all happened cause a magical creature got bored one day".
But many scientists are religious as well,you just have to keep them as companion pieces of sorts I think..there is no reason why the two cant coincide,unless you take the bible litteraly,in wich case ,you should reexamine your reasoning and/or mental health.
By immaterial on 25th February 2011, 03:50 PM
Well at least we have to have faith in our own ability to reason. For without that ability, there would be no science. And we can't really test our ability to reason, can we, for the only tool we have to create such a test with would be the very same reason we're trying to test. That would be circular reasoning, literally.
By eerok on 26th February 2011, 08:49 AM
One only needs to provisionally accept a few basic things about reality in order to practice science, and none of these requires faith.
By kenkoskinen on 5th March 2011, 11:29 AM
Science is based on the idea that things in the end will fall to reason. This amazed and inspired early figures such as Galileo, Kepler and Newton. Events fell to the predictions of their formulae. However as time proceeded the rules broadened and changed. Events in quantum mechanics were not predictable according to the older causality but to the broader principles of probability. However the computer I write on is based on quantum mechanics and it works.
All of the evidence or data is rarely available. We have also ceded to the new standards of "due to the preponderance of the evidence" & "beyond a reasonable doubt." One can say this must be based on a faith of sorts but it is not without any evidence such as is common in religious phenomena; such as: Moses talked to god and received the law on Mount Sinai, Mary was a virgin, Jesus was god incarnate, Mohammed ascended into heaven etc etc. We should be grateful that we have modern science even if it contains a weak form of faith.
By eerok on 5th March 2011, 03:40 PM
Science uses all available means to establish objective knowledge about the observable world. It's basically a methodology that tests the objectivity of observations. That's it. And science works just fine as shown by the many technologies that have flowed from it. None of this has anything at all to do with faith.
By kenkoskinen on 7th March 2011, 06:33 AM
The future is always an idea. The past has come and gone but we can look at historical data and compare it to those in the present. In these situations assumptions need not be required.
However there is a science-based faith and that is when we must rely on the preponderance of the evidence &/or beyond a reasonable doubt. Yes ... these standards are applied in court but even in science we rarely have all the evidence. We must extrapolate from the data to the more general case using one of the two principles. Statistics also play a role in the process of science such as in quantum mechanics were classical causality has been superseded by probability. The computer I write on is based on quantum mechanics but it works.
Any belief consists of our minds filling in the blanks between things known and unknown.
However faith in science isn't to be confused with religious faith where often there isn't any evidence to speak of and sometimes the laws of everyday physics were seemingly suspended, e.g. Jesus walked on water. In religious faith emotionalism trumps skepticism.
By stevea on 7th March 2011, 12:09 PM
The relative success (with notable failures and setbacks) of the scientific model is no proof that it is the only, or best means to create models from observations. There is no evidence that future observation will be predicable in any way. That's where faith in the model building scheme and the consistency of observation comes in. The scientific method has little foundation aside from the "mostly works" characteristic. So this is a reasonably successful scheme for building models that can currently predict future subjective observation, from past subjective observation. It's an error to confuse the models predictive methods with the actual mechanisms underlying the observations, or the observations with "reality".
By kenkoskinen on 7th March 2011, 05:51 PM
Nope. Consistency is important but the idea that things in the end will fall to reason subsumes it. In order to work, science needs a world that can be understood via reason. It is the greater of the two ideas. If the world were consistently haphazard, for example, science could not be done. A science-based faith is required when we, for example, accept statistical evidence and analysis. We also rarely have all the evidence and must rely on the two standards I cited.
By Halfcentaur on 7th March 2011, 07:12 PM
If science was faith based, then there is no such thing as anything that is not faith based.
Deep thoughts!
By kenkoskinen on 7th March 2011, 07:35 PM
Yes it is, at least until something better comes along. Whatever it might be, its superiority would have to be proven (did I use that word?).
"Science merely produces a model of what we subjectively observe, and "the scientific method" is nothing more than a statement of principals for model-building."
We don't subjectively observe models. Models or theories are concepts we develop via reason i.e. including mathematics and observation/detection. We then use the models to continue comparing them to observations/detections and experimental data. If it continues to be accurate, then okay. If anomalies appear ... it's time to do some checking. It might lead to amendments to the model, scrapping it and/or creating a new model.
""the scientific method" is nothing more than a statement of principals for model-building."
No so, model building in only the conceptual part of the process.
"It's an error to confuse the models predictive methods with the actual mechanisms underlying the observations, or the observations with "reality"."
True ... the detection/observation methodologies/equipment etc. are not the same as the theory. However if the theory accurately and consistently predicts/describes/explains the data it's hitting something. We call it things in the real world.
If I follow you ... you would like to delete the terms "objective" & "reality." I fail to see how the world or science would benefit from doing that. Admittedly science isn't the pursuit of perfect truth but rather is very much a process of refinement of models and observations. The goal is to make corrections along the trail to find better models/theories and observations of objective reality! Yes ... the term "objective reality" is a fine concept and the term "subjective" is not superior.
By kenkoskinen on 8th March 2011, 06:51 AM
By tyciol on 19th March 2011, 09:15 PM
I think we utilize some level of faith in our fellow man, but that's more of an option than a necessity. Ultimately, when we lack faith in the science produced before us, we are encouraged to test it, to research how these beliefs were formed and re-perform the tests these beliefs are based upon.
This is how I believe it differs from the type of "blind" faith required by many religions, because ultimately the proof of the faith working apparently requires faith beforehand as an ingredient to work, therefore it's the perfect escape clause when proof is not acquired: the person lacked faith therefore they were not supplied with proof to reinforce their faith!
Science doesn't work this way. You don't need faith in an outcome to test it, you merely must perform a test. This is why it is neutral and reliable.
By eerok on 20th May 2011, 10:35 PM
Simply put, science invites a change of opinion based on prevailing evidence. Yes, evidence in practice amounts to shifting sands, but the rejection of dogma and the emphasis on the provisional nature of what we know distinguishes the scientific approach from anything faith-based.
That's why I keep insisting here that science is antithetical to faith.
By SpiritMuse on 7th June 2011, 11:22 AM
This whole discussion reminds me of the immortal words of Tim Minchin:
"Science adjusts it's beliefs based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
From his beat poem "Storm".
By stevea on 13th June 2011, 03:14 PM
Clearly "the scientific method" is not the only possible model building scheme. At least in some cases it is not the optimal model building scheme. It's almost unimaginable that it's the "best" in any meaningful sense.
We have one (rather fuzzy) model of physical reality that we call "science" that incorporates all tested-and-so-far-valid hypotheses.
By Dave Rogers on 15th June 2011, 05:01 AM
So what, precisely, are the properties required of your "correct" hypothesis other than correctly matching all the data?
By eerok on 15th June 2011, 06:59 AM
By BazBear on 29th June 2011, 11:32 PM
Faith is what it is. A belief in something not provable. It is okay to have such beliefs, but if they disagree with the provable or most probable, as they fit with the science that works, you must ask why? If you think the world is roughly 6000 years old, then your faith is in the way of reason, however if you accept your deity may have created our precious sphere of rocks and water a handful of billions of years ago, I think you are on the right track. For the record I am an atheist, or at least my "God" is the universe.
By stevea on 15th August 2011, 11:04 PM
Yes - obviously some hypotheses that match the current observations contradict each other in other domains and ranges of conditions. So selecting any one hypothesis without additional work will be certain to lead to errors. Therefore Occam's Razor often sleects a hypothesis that is later falsified. Occam's razor is intended to be a 'neutral' selection rule, however the definition of "fewer presuppositions' or "simpler" doesn't bear close scrutiny. We should at least have a schema that doesn't reject potentially accurate hypotheses, as Occam's Razor clearly does.
[QUOTE}So what, precisely, are the properties required of your "correct" hypothesis other than correctly matching all the data?
You miss the point. I am NOT creating any new requirement, and I am not suggesting that I can predict the single "correct" hypothesis. Never did, so don't strawman. I am pointing out that Occam's razor selects a single hypothesis as a tentative basis and in many cases the hypothesis is later falsified. It's entirely possible that there is a better basis for scientific development than this.
For example In Newtownian mechanics kinetic energy KE = (1/2)*m*v^2
In relativistic mechanics KE = (1/2)*m*v^2 * [ 1 + [(3/4)(v/c)^2 + (5/8)*(v/c)^4) + ....]]
which are terms in the maclaurin expansion of the Lorentz factor.
Obviously work in the early 20th century falsified Newton's eqn and supported Lorentz.
So all data available to Newton would have equally supported both Newtown hypothesis and the Lorentz form and a million others. The only distinguishing feature is that Newton had no argument in favor of the "extra terms". Or obversely - Newton had no basis for rejecting the extra Lorentz terms. Why one is considered a greater presupposition than the other isn't well founded. What is clear is the Occam'sR rejected the (later) supported hypothesis in favor of the (later) falsified hypothesis. That's not a good feature.
Perhaps we should consider a new scientific method that accepts (tentatively) ALL supported hypotheses, and only eliminates the falsified ones. This would leave the open questions open, rather than fill the gaps with simplistic presuppositions.
By Dave Rogers on 16th August 2011, 06:30 AM
By stevea on 22nd August 2011, 12:24 AM
Occam's Razor does select a single simple hypothesis among the set, and therefore it typically selects a falsifiable (wrong) hypothesis. Any explanation based on this may be wrong as a result. You are assuming that an arbitrary simple guess at a hypothesis has more explanatory power then considering the full set of possibilities and the factual limitations of the observations..
What I am suggesting is that in addition to accumulating the simplest OR hypothesis that we also incorporate the limitations of the observations and conclusions directly in the model. We want the error bounds and we want the limited experimental conditions reflected in the model.
Perhaps you didn't recognize the language, but OR, and the parsimony principle is said to select the hypothesis with the least number of presuppositions. So yes it matters greatly wrt to the the 'scientific method' which hypothesis has the least presuppositions, since that determines which hypothesis is selected for inclusion.
You are making another strawman argument against my suggestions. I never said that we should carry out calculations on the entire infinite class of hypotheses. Further the series expansion in this case has a closed form and is not hard to calculate.
You seem obsessed with the amount of computation involved, or with the theoretical complexity involved in considering a class of hypotheses but that is not really a great issue in practice. What I am suggesting is that there is no reason to promote one OR compliant hypothesis and exclude others in the model. There is no reason to allow extrapolation without a clear disclaimer. We can instead tentatively accept all compliant hypotheses.
Newton might study kinetic energy vs velocity & mass under a restricted range of velocities and mass and with some limited accuracy, and after some polynomial fitting might still conclude that KE = (1/2)*m*v^2 ,but ... A: under the range of the experiment, B: within some calculated error bounds, and C: other higher velocity terms are zero to within the accuracy of the experimental method. This form of hypothesis would incorporate the limitations of the hypothesis within the model. This form of conclusion does not contradict the relativistic calculation of KE. All this does is explicitly include the limitations in the model.
Instead of tentatively accepted a single simple and likely wrong OR hypothesis we can incorporate the limitations of that conclusion directly into a model system. This prevents exclusion of other compatible hypotheses. It does not prevent any theorist from creating unjustifiable assumptions and extrapolations. The calculations are still the same except you must acknowledge the error bounds, the extrapolations and non-compliant conditions.
It's a little surprising that we haven't already created a formal model system for the scientific method. Modern computation is up to the task. I recall reading papers related to this as early as the late 1970s.
By Dave Rogers on 22nd August 2011, 04:18 AM
It's easy enough to make handwaving complaints that science doesn't live up to your own personal standards, but extremely difficult to make practical suggestions as to how it should. You're not offering any other than vague suggestions that we should somehow consider multiple hypotheses without actually having to do the extra work required to consider multiple hypotheses. Until you have something more concrete and less self-contradictory, I think we'll stick with a method that works well enough.
By Frank Merton on 8th September 2011, 12:49 AM
In fact, I don't see how any kind of credible truth claim of any sort can be otherwise--we are all subject to error, so our understanding of anything, even God's revelations, are subject to our human understanding, our prejudices, our cultural and even biological limitations. I suppose it's conceivable that God protects His revelations and somehow protects us from misunderstanding Him. No. I can think of all sorts of worse problems that notion creates.
By Frank Merton on 8th September 2011, 01:08 AM
I can be said to have "faith" that Pluto is a planet, but then again maybe it isn't. That being understood, is Jupiter a "planet?" Isn't the assertion that it is at least in part an assertion of faith? How else can I know except by trusting what others tell me, and if not others, except by trusting my senses?
If the bush burns but is not consumed, I have reasonable "proof" that something interesting is happening. My interpretation of it as a miracle is my theory, perhaps supported by a voice I hear coming from the bush, but this only in the context of a world-view that says that fires consume and that miracles happen and there aren't any charlatans around who know how to make a bush appear to burn.
By MinnesotaBrant on 9th September 2011, 06:56 AM
Yes, Science depends on machines to give them the answers. It also depends on the brain to interpret the answers and develop the questions. So you really got to be sure that your brain and the machine you are depending on are giving you the right answers to your questions.
By SKEPTICALSHAM on 17th September 2011, 05:15 PM
Science is the most reliable faith. Any other endangers society and yourself.
By kowalskil on 26th September 2011, 07:23 AM
2) Yes, mathematics is "assumption based," but not science. In science claims are based on verifiable experimental data.
By LSSBB on 10th October 2011, 12:06 PM
Starting from Websters, there are different meanings of Faith, so I believe the answer to the OP is Yes and No:
1a : allegiance to duty or a person : loyalty b (1) : fidelity to one's promises (2) : sincerity of intentions
2a (1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) : belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2) : complete trust
3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially : a system of religious beliefs e.g. "the Protestant faith"
Per definition 1b (2) there could be an argument that the ethical underpinnings of scientific organizations depend on a certain sincerity of intentions.
Definition 3 is where I believe many Creationists tend to accuse "Science" of being based in faith, in that there is frequently belief based on strong conviction among scientists, however they often blur that definition with the other two in making the accusation.
By kowalskil on 17th October 2011, 05:04 AM
By eerok on 18th December 2011, 03:14 AM
By Big Al on 26th March 2012, 03:31 PM
Science is not a doctrine, but a means of obtaining confirmatory or falsifying evidence to confirm or contra-indicate a hypothesis. The body of scientific knowledge morphs and alters over time as this evidence is amassed and analysed.
Religion is a one-size-fits-all ready-made set of beliefs that remains unaltered over centuries in the face of growing contra-evidence and must be accepted by its adherents wholesale. It cannot ever be confirmed or falsified because of this total disregard for evidence.
No, I don't read every scientific paper that comes out, and I wouldn't understand a lot of them if I did. Nonetheless, I am satisfied that the peer-review process means that somebody with a suitable educational background has read and understood how the evidence presented bears upon the hypothesis under consideration. I am therefore happy that a scientific theory (a hypothesis that has had confirmatory evidence accepted by peer-review) has been vetted and reviewed by a sensible process that I do understand.
This can in no wise be considered faith. If it is, it is the faith you have that the pilot of the aircraft in which you are flying has been through some kind of approved training. (I wouldn't board any plane if I thought that wasn't the case). But the pilot training programme is not pilotage.
Flying is to a pilot training programme what the body of scientifically-derived knowledge is to the scientific method. Science is not a set of beliefs at all, but a method for gathering knowledge. I am confident that that knowledge will change as new evidence is gathered, and the desire for discovering something new and previously unimagined is what gets many scientists up in the morning.
Religion says all the knowledge you need is already right here and no proof is necessary or indeed desirable. That's faith, and it's definitely not for me.
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The Detroit Lions aren't finished taking a peek at street free agents.
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The Order on the Real Numbers
We've defined the real numbers as a topological field by completing the rational numbers as a uniform space, and then extending the field operations to the new points by continuity. Now we extend the order on the rational numbers to make into an ordered field.
First off, we can simplify our work greatly by recognizing that we just need to determine the subset of positive real numbers — those with . Then we can say if . Now, each real number is represented by a Cauchy sequence of rational numbers, and so we say if has a representative sequence with each point .
What we need to check is that the positive numbers are closed under both addition and multiplication. But clearly if we pick and to be nonnegative Cauchy sequences representing and , respectively, then is represented by and is represented by , and these will be nonnegative since is an ordered field.
Now for each , , so . Also, if and , then and , so , and so . These show that defines a preorder on , since it is reflexive and transitive. Further, if and then and , so and thus . This shows that is a partial order. Clearly this order is total because any real number either has a nonnegative representative or it doesn't.
One thing is a little hazy here. We asserted that if a number and its negative are both greater than or equal to zero, then it must be zero itself. Why is this? Well if is a nonnegative Cauchy sequence representing then represents . Now can we find a nonnegative Cauchy sequence equivalent to ? The lowest rational number that can be is, of course, zero, and so . But for and to be equivalent we must have for each positive rational an so that for . But this just says that converges to !
So is an ordered field, so what does this tell us? First off, we get an absolute value just like we did for the rationals. Secondly, we'll get a uniform structure as we do for any ordered group. This uniform topology has a subbase consisting of all the half-infinite intervals and for all real . But this is also a subbase for the metric we got from completing the rationals, and so the two topologies coincide!
One more very important thing holds for all ordered fields. As a field is a kind of a ring with unit, and like any ring with unit there is a unique ring homomorphism . Now since in any ordered field, we have , and , and so on, to show that no nonzero integer can become zero under this map. Since we have an injective homomorphism of rings, the universal property of the field of fractions gives us a unique field homomorphism extending the ring homomorphism from the integers.
Now if is complete in the uniform structure defined by its order, this homomorphism will be uniformly complete. Therefore by the universal property of uniform completions, we will find a unique extension . That is, given any (uniformly) complete ordered field there is a unique uniformly continuous homomorphism of fields from the real numbers to the field in question. Thus is the universal such field, which characterizes it uniquely up to isomorphism!
So we can unambiguously speak of "the" real numbers, even if we use a different method of constructing them, or even no method at all. We can work out the rest of the theory of real numbers from these properties (though for the first few we might fall back on our construction) just as we could work out the theory of natural numbers from the Peano axioms.
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British Vegan Chef Touts the Power of Social Media
Top vegan chef Gaz Oakley yesterday declared "social media has made Britain healthier."
The Cardiff-born Instagram star boasts more than 164,000 followers on his social network's AvantGardeVegan feed, as well as over 250,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel.
And the 26-year-old, who is known for creating uncanny vegan versions of well-known meat dishes, thinks sites such as Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest are leading a boom in healthy eating. He also dismissed suggestions that vegan food is 'boring'.
Talking as he launched his latest collection of plant-based recipes inspired by new smoothie brand AdeZ, he said: "I think there's a lot of knowledge and information out there these days about healthy eating, and social media's really helped that.
"Social media is such a great platform to use just to get inspiration. Things like YouTube are amazing. I can film a recipe and post it out to people from all around the world. Instagram particularly has helped turn everyone into a foodie. All you have to do is go to a restaurant and see people snapping pictures of their food," said Oakley. And I just think that platform is great to show off food. People get really creative.' Social media has also made the world smaller which is great particularly for the vegan community because I'm able to reach people in all parts of the world and show them how simple and how great vegan food can be."
'So even if you're not a foodie, you can go on Instagram, Pinterest or YouTube, find people like myself and other amazing vegan influencers out there, or just general foodies who are putting up exciting food," he continued. "You can get inspiration from there whether it's for your evening meal or a weekend meal - there's so much inspiration out there these days."
When he was asked if vegan food was boring, he replied, 'Vegan food is so flavorsome. We've got such an array of beautiful fruits and veg and other ingredients there's no reason for it to be boring.''
The handsome culinary genius first fell in love with life in the kitchen at the age of 15 when he did work experience at a hotel in Cardiff. He quickly impressed colleagues who gave him the nickname 'Gordon' after his hero Gordon Ramsay. And the foul-mouthed foodie came top of the list when Gaz was asked who he would most like to cook for.
"It would have to be Gordon Ramsay because he was a childhood inspiration, particularly when I was a chef," he said. "I did see on his Twitter recently he said he was going to give vegan a go. I don't know how long he lasted but I'd love to show him how good it can be."


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Barring a full-on financial meltdown (an outcome that seems far from implausible at press time), GM will build between 1,500 and 2,000 ZR1 Corvettes for the '09 model year. While those numbers aren't sufficiently scanty to qualify the car as a genuine exotic in the vein of an Enzo or a Veyron, they nevertheless represent but a tiny fraction of the Vette's typical yearly production total. Factor in the Z's stupefying performance and six-figure price tag, and it's easy to see why access to examples for use in instrumented testing is severely limited.
Fortunately for us, we know Kevin Helmintoller. Longtime readers may remember Helmintoller as the unrepentant Corvette kook whose exploits behind the wheel of various high-performance Vettes have been documented here in the past. In September, the Tampa-area native lit out for the Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to take delivery of his own ZR1, a very-early-production example done up in cop-bait Victory Red. Shortly after arriving back in Florida, he contacted us to ask if we were interested in setting up a battery of performance tests on the new car. We were.
The plan was simple in theory, if not in execution. Helmintoller would wring out the Z in three separate test environments--dyno, dragstrip, and road course--and we would document the results. Orchestrating the project required no small amount of creative scheduling, but when the tire smoke had dissipated, it was clear that Chevy's new King of the Hill was worthy of its regal appellation.
Road Course
Straight-line acceleration testing is instructive, to be sure, but the ZR1's real metier is road-course dicing, and any proper evaluation of the car would be incomplete without the inclusion of a proper open-track session. To that end, Helmintoller enrolled himself and two of his Corvettes--the ZR1 and a mostly stock '06 Z06--in a high-performance driving event hosted by Chin Motorsports and held at Sebring International Raceway. The event promised the opportunity to unleash both cars on one of North America's oldest and best-known motorsports venues, and to draw some informed comparisons between the two.
We'll Helmintoller take it from here.
"Racing in any of the club events at Sebring involves multiple cars on the track at the same time, so any lap times have to be considered with that in mind. Passing occurs only when the driver being overtaken has approved the pass. All of the participants were quite courteous save for one Porsche Carrera driver, who forced me to paint his rear bumper for two laps before finally allowing me by. We also had a rain shower at lunchtimethat wet the track pretty well, and then intermittent showers though the afternoon. That also had an effect on lap times.
"After first being approved for my solo qualification in the ZR1, I switched to the Z06. Perhaps because of my two prior sessions at Sebring in that car, I felt quite comfortable in it. I ran at 10/10ths and was able to turn consistent 2:34 lap timesin traffic. The Z06 is quite tossable, and when it breaks away, it is quite easy to recover. Keep in mind this car has minor mods and makes 490 rwhp and 450 rwtq. It's also equipped with Nitto 285s in the front and 345s in the rear, along with Hawk ceramic brake pads. I felt comfortable pushing that car for all it was worth (and in fact pushed it past that point at least twice).
"With the ZR1, I was definitely more conservative--and, frankly, nervous--when unleashing the power in traffic. The car's output is phenomenal, and I learned that downshifting was really not necessary. Keeping it in Third gear--even in low-speed turns--saved time, thanks to the available torque. As for my `official' times, I was consistently 10 to 15 seconds slower with the ZR1 vs. the Z06. On the other hand, when exiting Turn 16 down the long straight, I was pushing 155 mph with the ZR1 but only 140 mph with the Z06. Down the main straight, the ZR1 hitnearly 140 mph before Turn 1,while the Z06 wascloser to 125 mph.
"I'm certain that with more track time, braking much later into the turns, I could shavesubstantial time off my laps. The ZR1 definitely moves around more as it works the track. There's more side-to-side and front-to-rear motion. The Z06 tracks much more flatly. Both cars were run in the Competitive Driving setting, with the ZR1's magnetic suspension set to Sport.
"In normal driving, the ZR1 can demonstrate truly bipolar behavior. Driving her home from Bowling Green, she was quite docile: quiet, comfortable, and easy to drive, with a feather-light clutch and low-effort shifter. But when you want to switch to Mr. Hyde, the flaps open on the pipes, the supercharger winds up, and the suspension anticipates your needs.
"The Z06 is one car--a track car--and it's quite good in that role. But the ZR1 is truly more car. Honestly, I feel I could part with both my '06 Z06 and my 700hp '01 Mallett Z and have all my motoring needs fulfilled with the ZR1. But variety is the spice of life, right?"
Chassis Dyno
Not long after our Sebring visit,Helmintoller'sZ laid down 558.22 hp and 524.86 lb-ft of torque on the chassis dyno at Seffner, Florida-based Corvette tuner AntiVenom. A pair of back-up runs delivered power readings within 7 horses; torque, meanwhile, climbed to a high reading of 541.19 on the third pull. Using a 15 percent correction factor yielded best-of-day flywheel readings of 656.73 and 636.69, respectively--easily eclipsing the factory numbers of 638/604.
Could our results have been anomalous? Not according to one GM source, who stated that the LS9's official horsepower rating is based not on an average of all engines tested for certification, but rather on the lowest-performing engine in the test sample. In an age when overpromising and under-delivering has become the corporate norm, it's refreshing to see that Chevy has taken the opposite tack.
Assuming 638 (or more) horses aren't enough to set your blood aboil, you'll be pleased to learn that the ZR1 appears to respond well to traditional power-enhancing tricks. One week after our initial dyno session, Helmintoller returned the car to AntiVenom to have its ECM programming optimized. By slightly leaning out the LS9's air/fuel mixture, AV's Greg Lovell managed to bump the output totals to 570 hp and 553 lb-ft. Throw in a set of headers and a smaller blower pulley, and 650 rwhp seems like a real possibility.
Our original intention was to perform our acceleration testing during a closed session at nearby Bradenton Motorsports Park. This would allow Helmintoller to cool the engine with ice prior to each run and drive straight to the starting line without waiting around in the staging lanes. But when no such sessions materialized during our limited time frame, we were forced to enter the car in one of BMP's regular weeknight test-and-tune sessions. It wasn't an ideal arrangement, but it would have to do.
After making a series of passes to acclimate himself to the ZR1's beastly torque output, Helmintoller managed to record a best e.t. of 11.44 seconds. That falls a bit short of GM's claimed time of 11.3 seconds, but it's hardly disappointing for a first effort. It bears mention that even on the glutinous stock Michelin Pilots, careful throttle application was required to keep the Z from furiously spinning its wheels clear through the top of Second gear.
An accompanying trap speed of only 123.03 mph initially had us scratching our heads (GM says the ZR1 is good for 131), but upon closer examination, it appears that a number of factors may be to blame. First, the weather was typical early-fall Florida, with temps hovering in the high-80s and humidity climbing a few digits higher. Perhaps more important, the constant clutch slipping (required to achieve something approximating launch traction) and repeated hot-lapping employed throughout the afternoon likely conspired to keep the blown LS9 from revealing its true potential. With a few more break-in miles, some cooler air, and a pair of drag radials, the new Corvette flagship is almost certain to crack the 10s at 130-plus. Stay tuned.


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Red Hat Advances Enterprise Linux and Storage
Red Hat is a dominating presence on the Linux Planet, with more than $1 billion in revenue and an army of upstream kernel developers. This past week, Red Hat updated its flagship enterprise Linux and put out the debut release of a new storage platform. One area Red Hat doesn't dominate, however, is the mobile space, and that will soon have a new open source entrant with HP's webOS.
1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
Red Hat first released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6(RHEL) a year ago in November 2011. One of the big new items in that release was the introduction of Linux control groups (cgroups), which provide a new paradigm for resource management.
In the RHEL 6.2 release, Red Hat has taken cgroups a step further, providing support for fixed limits on system resource assignments. The RHEL 6.2 release also advances RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) for iSCSI, which will help improve storage performance and lower latency.
2. Red Hat Storage Software Appliance
In addition to an updated operating system release, Red Hat was also busy last week on the storage front. The new Red Hat Storage Software Appliance (SSA) is the first piece of technology to benefit from Red Hat's acquisition of storage vendor Gluster.
Red Hat paid $136 million for Gluster earlier this month. The SSA uses the GlusterFS 3.2 release running on top of RHEL, providing a solution for unstructured data use-cases.
3. HP Open Source webOS
Back in August, HP decided to kill its mobile webOS operating system. HP's webOS has lots of Linux ties, and HP had spent more than its fair share of time promoting the OS to the Linux community.
HP has now decided to open source webOS, creating a new open source competitor for Android.
There are more questions than answers at this point about the future of webOS and how it will be developed. That said, if HP doesn't cripple the code and provides it all as open source in a way that enables innovation, webOS could return to be a contender.
4. KDE 4.7.4 and 4.8
On the Linux desktop, KDE developers continue its two-pronged approach to staying stable and pushing forward.
On the stable side, KDE 4.7.4 was released, providing incremental bug fixes and performance improvements to the 4.7.x branch of KDE. On the pushing-forward side, KDE 4.8 beta 2 was released, previewing the next generation of the KDE desktop.
"Among the highlights which will be in 4.8 are a new and fancy view engine for Dolphin, Qt Quick Components for Plasma, and of course all the fixes that went into 4.7.4," KDE developer Sebastian Kugler wrote in a blog posting.
5. Linux 3.2 RC 5
Linux founder Linus Torvalds continues to push forward ahead of the holiday to try and get the Linux 3.2 kernel out the door.
This past week, Torvalds released the fifth release candidate for the 3.2 kernel. It had more developer commits than previous 3.2 release candidates. Torvalds warned developers not to send him too much stuff as he locks down for a final release.
"So I'm going to continue to push back a bit on people sending me stuff, but I'm also just going to hope that this was some one-time thing and we really will be calming down now," Torvalds wrote. "Ok? Because we all want a quiet holiday season, don't we? And Santa doesn't like it when I curse a lot in email."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals.


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What is the world coming to?
Ok ok, so let's start from the beginning, shall we?
Here I am, happily hacking away at some packages, can't remember which and it doesn't matter.
As usual I had my earphones on to block the eternal chatter in the office and had my Last.FM client tuned to "My Neighbors" station.
And then it happened, Fergie came on, obscenely chanting about her "humps", which led to several things happening at once.
1. I snorted coffee all over my keyboard.
2. I had to yank the earphones off before the brain damage becomes permanent, and in the process the wire got pulled and now my earphones make scratchy noises if you move them.
3. Several light bulbs went off in my head, and last
4. Several kittens were found dead somewhere. (j/k)
So whoever of you 'neighbors' who put this POS up, this is for you: YOU OWE ME NEW HEADPHONES.
Seriously though, it got me thinking, when was it the last time I actually spent money on music that was NOT a streaming service? I actually had to think hard, and it was like 2 or 3 years ago. Last.fm actually serves my musical needs quite handsomely, they have about 80% of my musical preferences, AND the selection is getting bigger and bigger. How much does it cost? About CAD$42/year. Not bad considering that for the same money you can get at most 2 or 3 newly released CDs. And before any of you fine people tell me that my Last.fm account is not a paid one, I will tell you that I have two accounts for several reasons :)
So how many of you are actually still going out to buy records? Actually how many people did not stumble on the idea that buying music in physical form or by the unit off the internet is dumb?
Let me explain. I think buying CDs is way behind the times, why buy a whole CD for 20 or 30 bucks when you can get it off iTunes or similar for 99 cents a song? And WHY even do that when you are forced to use DRM and are restricted when you can simply subscribe to one of the many streaming services out there for a very low price?
If your argument uses any variation of "Internet is not available everywhere", you can stop right now. Satellite radio solves that quite nicely, and even if it is a bit expensive right now, I am sure the price will go down in the near future.
So why buy one song or a bunch of them or a whole CD and then have to manage your own storage? Why bother, when you can just have a service provider do all that for you?
As an example that is limited to internet access, Last.fm is amazing, you get access to whatever songs/albums/artists/genre they have from any computer. Move to another computer in a different country and your selection is still there. Are you on the road? Satellite radio is a beautiful thing, and you can even take it on the bus or to your desk. And best of all? It's all legal. No one can ever accuse you of 'piracy'. Arrrr.
This is probably scary for the record industry. I am sure they figured out that they will soon be out of the retail business, i.e., selling music by the unit, and they will have to go into the whole sale business. They will have to sell contracts to their whole collection to a provider, they cannot set their own prices anymore since providers can negotiate. Better still, a union or a consortium of "free agent" artists that sell content to providers, big label is not needed anymore. Scary huh? I hope so.
Maybe I am dreaming, but I really think that music storage will be a thing of the past. Ditto to record labels of the RIAA variety. And who knows, maybe it will be followed by the movie industry. Wouldn't that be nice?
And now back to more pressing matter:
1. Whoever of you 'neighbors' is listening to BEP, cut it out.
2. Whoever of you of put "My Humps" up there, send me new headphones, pronto.
3. If you don't, I'm filling the 'neighbors' list with Cannibal Corpse and Sodom.
That is all, back to Last.fm.
After writing this article, as if to annoy me further, the pussycat dolls came on.
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how do you like the classics ;)
hope you like weezer, iron maiden, kiss and my chemical romance ;) they been on my speed dial as of late hehe.. But no i dont promote My Humps ;)
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Evadale loses heartbreaker on last second shot
AUSTIN — The Evadale Rebels were stunned when Eula's Jacob Archa drained an off-balance 3-pointer as time expired giving the Pirates a 54-51 come-from-behind win in the Class A-Division I state semifinals at the Frank Erwin Center on Thursday morning.
With the game tied at 51, Eula possessed the ball with 2.7 seconds at the baseline opposite of their own basket. Guard George Reyes received the throw-in near half-court and passed to Archa who not only stunned the Rebels and their fans, but the 4,631 in attendance.
Evadale finishes the season 21-16 while Eula (36-2) advances to the state championship game against Tenaha, who defeated Clarendon 72-59 earlier that morning, on Saturday at 8:30 a.m.
Eula led 17-11 after one quarter, but Evadale outscored the Pirates 28-18 in the middle two frames and took a 39-35 third quarter lead.
Foul trouble plagued the Rebels with senior Blane Duningan fouling out in the middle of the quarter, but Evadale had a commanding 48-40 lead with 4:20 remaining.
That's when the state's No. 3 team went on a 9-0 run, which gave them their first lead since late in the second quarter. Part of the Eula run was due to the fact the Rebels took several bad shots in three consecutive possessions.
Senior guard Deven Murphy, who led the Rebels in scoring with 15 points, made a spectacular shot of his own as he drained a fade-away 3-pointer in the corner with two defenders in his face to give Evadale a brief 51-49 lead with 39 ticks on the clock.
On the ensuing trip down the court, Kainon Irons tied the game with a jumper in the paint.
Other leading scorers for Evadale were seniors Tyler Tucker with 14 points and Adam Stark with 10. The Rebels shot 19-50 (.380) from the floor, which included 4-12 (.333) from 3-point range. They went 9-14 (.643) from the charity stripe and committed 15 turnovers.
Irons, a senior, was the only player for Eula to score in double figures as he scored a game-high 32 points.


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Lil' Kim is in hot water for stealing artwork and using it in promotional material for her song 'Dead Gal Walking'.
Makeup artist Samantha Ravndahl is suing the rapper for allegedly swiping her personal photo and using it as artwork to promote the track. TMZ shares that Ravndahl is bringing Kim and photo hub WhoSay to court for at least $150,000 for the image, which she initially posted on social media site Reddit.
She has since taken the image down, but you can see the original and Kim's version side-by-side on Consumerist. Fans angrily demanded that the Brooklyn, N.Y.-bred MC compensate the artist for using the image.
"Pay up the artist or take it down! How low or desperate do you have to be Kim?" asked one fan in her comments section. "Stealing someone else's hardwork is exactly what the music industry has been trying to stop for years. And then you go ahead and do the same to a makeup artist by stealing her image for your own benefit," said another.
In November, Ravndahl asked the Queen Bee to take the image down, but her team did not respond.
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In 1982 Neil went to work for Windward Realty in East Hampton. Windward specialized in land development and investment properties, and Neil developed a level of expertise in both. During the next three decades he participated in the sale and development of more than 35 subdivisions. His experience with builders, developers and investors has given him an added edge in understanding and evaluating the market. For investments and high end sales, Neil finds this perspective invaluable. Neil's experience ranges from $200,000,000 hotels to $500,000 houses.
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