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=== Backend Server ===
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Revision as of 13:41, 23 December 2006
This is meant to be a simplified overview of the various pieces that together compose MythTV. It is hoped that after studying this, users new to MythTV will better understand how it works and be able to make more intelligent planning decisions about their own installations. It would actually be a good idea to read this document carefully, and then read the installation documentation in it's entirety before you actually begin any work at all.
MythTV is basically a big multimedia jukebox primarily meant to record television programming to be watched later ("time-shifted") when it's more convenient to the viewer. There are plugins to handle video files that have been manually added to the system (MythVideo) and plugins to play music that has been manually added to the system (MythMusic).
- 1 Operational Breakdown
- 2 Various Technical Explanations
Operational Breakdown
...or "My God, it's full of pieces!"
Software pieces
...also known as "the free parts".
There are three main pieces to the software end of MythTV, but only two of them are actually the MythTV distribution. These can all run on a single machine (provided you have the 1.2Ghz or so of CPU power) or on separate machines, depending on what you'd like to do. It's important to understand what role each of these pieces plays in order to be able to make correct decisions about what parts to run on which pieces of your equipment.
Database Server
MythTV keeps track of programming schedules, configuration information, upcoming recording events (i.e., what you wanted it to record) and the inventory of (both recorded and imported) media MythTV has in a relational database. The database is probably the most important component of MythTV because without it, absolutely none of MythTV can function.
Work is progressing on porting things to work with Postgres, but at the moment MySQL is the only supported (and reasonably safe) relational database that works. MySQL 4.1.x is probably "best", but with MythTV 0.20 it became reasonably safe to use MySQL 5.0.x. Don't get crazy and try using beta or development versions of MySQL (like 5.1.x) or Postgres unless you're a very experienced programmer and fully intend to take on debugging and patching things to work without any outside help. (This is directed at you, Gentoo users.)
The database server is going to need some disk space to store the actual database information. The amount of disk space it needs varies depending on a number of factors (whether or not you have a massive music collection, or whether you only have four or five broadcast channels to worry about) but ranges between 256Mb of disk space (comfortable minimum) and 1Gb of disk space (not many people will ever get beyond this). Also, if there's any part of your setup that you'll want to arrange regular backups for, it's the database files. Without them, MythTV will no longer have any idea of what things it has recorded, and there's no easy way to put things back into the database once those records have been lost. (Good thing it will usually all fit on a single rewriteable CD!)
Unlike the other components of MythTV, there may be only one database server involved. If you want to (for whatever reason, probably masochism) spread the database out to multiple machines using some kind of clustering or replication scheme, go right ahead, it's your equipment--just understand that MythTV only needs one database server and doesn't really have a use for any others.
Backend Server
The backend server is the drab little workhorse part of MythTV that takes care of managing tuner cards, recording actual programs, and starting up jobs like transcoding, commercial flagging, deleting expired programs, and downloading updated TV schedules. The backend is where the bulk of your CPU power will be going. Since it can run multiple jobs simultaneously, it's helpful for the backend to be a dual-core or multiprocessor machine.
The backend needs to be able to communicate with the database to find out when it's supposed to record programming, as well as keeping track of what's already been recorded so that it won't record the same thing twice (unless you wanted it to do that).
The backend is typically where you're going to want to have the bulk of your drive space allocated for storage. The average compressed video that MythTV initially records is going to take up about 1.1Gb per hour, so it's not considered excessive to go out and buy a nice 250Gb drive for this purpose. On the other hand, even the first TiVos only had about 40 hours of storage capacity on them, so you might be quite comfortable with as little as 40Gb of space.
You may set up multiple backend machines, and MythTV will handle distributing recording, transcoding and commercial flagging jobs among them just fine. You may however only have one [b]master[/b] backend that tells the others what to do.
Frontend Server
The frontend is basically the graphical interface that shows you the menus and displays the videos on your screen, so obviously it needs X to be on the same machine. Since it is the interface, this is also likely the best place to install any IR recievers or transcievers you have so that you can use a remote control with MythTV. Because of the way the plugins work, it's also probably the logical place to install an optical drive if you intend to watch DVDs or VCDs with MythTV. What it doesn't need is any particularly large amount of storage space since it doesn't really write much except the cached theme files.
Mythfrontend gets it's configuration information (including where the backends are) from the database so it must be able to talk to the database. It gets information about which tuners are available, as well as any video data it's going to show you, from the backend server so it needs to be able to talk to that as well.
You may have as many frontends as you wish, but understand that the number of them that you can watch live television with will be limited to the number of active tuners you have. If you want to have a frontend in your study, and another frontend in your living room, if you intend to be able to watch a different live program on each, your backend(s) will need at least two tuners installed.
Hardware pieces
...also known as "where has all my money gone?"
CPUs and RAM
Disk storage
Networking considerations
Various Technical Explanations
...so you don't let the nice salesmen talk you into buying something gold-plated and obsolete.
Issues for recording
Framebuffers and firewire and hardware compression, oh my!
There are three basic ways for MythTV to record broadcasted content, and which ones are usable is tied to how the user gets their TV signal in the first place. The first (and probably least desireable) is a technique called "framegrabbing", the second is over a firewire connection (ideal but not widely applicable), and the third (and least troublesome) is from a tuner card that uses hardware-accellerated video compression.
Framegrabbing is what you're stuck with if your tuner card is one of the older (and/or simpler) tuner cards made that uses a Brooktree chip called the Bt848, Bt878, or Bt878a (although there are a few other variants). These cards are the cheapest type of tuner cards one can get, but this inexpensiveness has it's own hidden price. Framegrabbing (in almost layman's terms) is when the tuner card is given a (nearly literal) window of memory used by your video card to paint the recieved video image into in realtime. The CPU has to "grab" each frame as it appears and then copy it to the software compression codec in order to compress the data so that it doesn't take up absolutely ludicrous amounts of disk space. The audio usually has to be fed through the line-level input on the sound card to be recorded, although there are some cards that support sending audio directly to the CPU through DMA transfers. These cards are excellent for just watching live television broadcasts, but the task of grabbing the images and audio and compressing it in realtime makes framegrabbing a very CPU-intensive task. Generally an SD broadcast requires at least 1Ghz of processing power and about 256Mb of RAM in the machine to record just one stream.
Firewire is one of the primary transport mediums used for digital cameras and other forms of digital video transfer. If you are a subscriber of HD digital cable in the US, there's a good chance the receiver you got from the cable company has a firewire port on it. If it doesn't ask them for one and you'll likely get it (FCC mandate). Depending on who your cable provider is, you may be able to get the video you're watching on the receiver to stream from your cable box to your MythTV box over the firewire cable in it's raw, compressed form (which would be great). At the very least, you should be able to use the firewire connection to make the receiver box change channels (which is less problematic than using an IR blaster and LIRC). Recording video over firewire doesn't require much CPU at all, but with some channels it may be a bit like "drinking from the fire hose" if your machine is underpowered.
Video tuner cards with hardware-accellerated compression that are affordable are somewhat new to the personal computer market, but they're absolutely wonderful now that they're here. What this means is that the tuner card itself handles the "heavy lifting" of compressing the video signal down to an MPEG or XviD stream so your computer doesn't have to. Recording video with these isn't really much more CPU-intensive than just copying a file. If your computer is capable of playing back an SD video in fullscreen without skipping or dropping frames, then it's probably got enough power to handle one of these cards. The most common are the Hauppauge PVR-xxx series cards, which are detailed elsewhere on this site.
Issues for playback
Widescreen or SD (standard definition)
Thankfully, dealing with whether or not you have a widescreen (16:9 aspect) display or a normal (4:3 aspect) display is something that only X (Xorg or XFree86, either will do) only has to deal with. For the most part it's a simple matter of configuring X to use the display at it's native resolution as if it were a normal monitor. If you have a highly expensive display which does 1920x1080 resolution (1080i/p with no downsampling) then that's the resolution you tell X you want to use. If you're using a widescreen LCD monitor that does 720i/p (without downsampling) and has a native resolution of 1280x768, then you configure X to use the display at that resolution. With some widescreens (and some video cards) that X can't quite figure out on it's own, the user may have to manually generate a modeline (or search the wiki for one) that tells X how to use the display, but this is usually not necessary. In almost every case, the video card (possibly with the help of accellerated drivers) and MythTV will be capable of upsampling (expanding) or downsampling (shrinking) the images to fit the display exactly. You'll still get "letterboxing" if you watch a widescreen video on a standard (4:3) display, of course but the fewer resolution changes your video has to be put through before appearing on your screen, the better.
HDMI, DVI, VGA, S-Video, Component, and Composite Output
The type of output your video card can do, and the type of inputs your display device can handle are primarily what dictates what you should use to connect them. From highest- to lowest-quality, the order of consideration is: HDMI, DVI, VGA, S-Video, Composite.
HDMI is a digital connection primarily seen on high-end home theater displays. It also incorporates some technology to thwart naughty video-pirates, but this mostly stays out of our way (for now). If your television and your video card both support this, then it's probably what you'll want to use. It's likely that any display which has an HDMI input also supports DVI input, so you don't need to rush out in a mad buying frenzy to get a new video card if your video card already supports DVI output--the quality difference between them isn't likely to bother you.
DVI is another type of digital connection which is somewhat more common than HDMI. HDMI and DVI connectors look rather similar (in that they're obviously not the 15-pin DIN connector of VGA) but don't get them confused. Most LCD/TFT panel displays support DVI input, and most newer video cards will have a DVI output (some will have two).
VGA is the "normal" monitor cable everyone's used to seeing on computers and monitors. A great many of the LCD TVs currently being manufactured in the US are intended to be dual-purposed as computer monitors and will have a VGA input (and possibly DVI as well), and nearly all (some are coming DVI-only now) computer monitors being sold as computer monitors will accept VGA input. Your video card will almost certainly support VGA output, and even if it only has one (or two) DVI output on it, it should have come with a little adapter that will allow you to use it with the more common VGA display.
S-Video is a multiple pin, round connector type that carries the chroma and luma (color and brightness) parts of the video signal over separate wires, which usually means a very good signal. It looks a little bit like a PS/2 mouse connector, but with more pins. Many, many televisions support S-video input. The cables are reasonably inexpensive, and can be up to fifteen feet long without experiencing notable signal loss. Word of warning: Some video cards have what looks very much like an S-Video output, but has a few more pins involved and is not an S-Video output. These cards will have come with a "breakout box" which will have a number of other connectors on it which often include an actual S-video output, as well as component outputs, and sometimes a composite output as well. Don't get confused and try to force an S-Video cable directly into these, because bent pins really suck.
Component video splits the video signal up into it's three "component" parts, the red signal, the green signal, and the blue signal and sends them over the familiar RCA connections. You can spot these pretty easily because they'll usually be three RCA connectors colored respectively red, green, and blue. This is used by some "studio" monitors, some very expensive theater displays (quite often projection screens), as well as some SUN-type displays and so forth. It's only listed after S-Video because it's not that often you'll come across displays that use this.
Composite video is probably the least desirable connector type of the lot. It's the type of output most video games use, and practically every display supports at least this if you aren't going to have to use an RF modulator with it. It will be a single RCA connector which should be yellow. The other two RCA connections commonly found with it will be white and red, which are the left and right audio channels respectively. (Remember, right and red start with the same letter.) Some of the older nVidia cards have only a composite video connector for TV output. To use the TV output on these cards you will need the nvtv driver as well as nVidia's binary driver. For no other nVidia cards do you need nvtv so don't put yourself through that hassle by mistaking it for something you need if your nVidia card has an S-video output.
Audio Output
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W. Freedman (Carnegie Observatories), the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project team and NASA

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Lock down all the things #1
I know this is a complicated topic, but I would like to start a constructive discussion on how to handle misuse of equipment.
Context: Recently, after wrong use of the cuttr, somebody suggested to implement an iButton authentication, similar to Lazzzorauth. Uniq is also pondering on what to do, since his Ultimaker is left broken most of the time. Also there are two new machines becoming available soon: The CNC-Machine and the 3D Scanner.
Is there a technical solution to this? Will we end up with LDAP and iButton for every PC and device? Will more signage help? Will a change of policy help? Will educating people help? How do other Hackingspaces deal with this? What should we do?
There will be a task force meeting on Thursday, 28.03.2013, 20:00 at Metalab, WhatEverLab to explore possible solutions.
Proposed solutions for some problems
- Talk to people, sell chores in a positive way.
- Organize more tool related workshops for education.
- Document those workshops
- Create stencils for all the tools. Number tools and their places.
- Install cameras, because Metalab is a stage.
- Found a Ministry of Truth,because "A clean Metalab is a happy Metalab"
- Create a "Free for visitors" token box
- Store tools in a central place
- Label tools and their places
- Write tourguidelines
- Create Visitor token box (TedX)
- Create Propaganda Posters
Lock down all the things #2
Wiki spam bots are giving us a hard time. Let's find out a way to battle them.
There will be a task force meeting on Thursday, 11.04.2013, 20:30 at Metalab to explore possible solutions.


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*Waves at anyone who's come over from Knitty* For those who haven't, the pattern's here.
Normal blogging will resume at the weekend. I've been ill, and busy at work. But I have a WIP (a summer cotton cardi) and a lovely bit of stash enhancement to show off, all of which I'll post about soon.


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Being Kanye West is hard. Just ask him.
Performing at the Big Chill music festival in England Saturday night, West railed against those who judge him. "I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm f****** insane, like I'm Hitler," he said, eliciting a light chorus of boos from the crowd.
West has a track record of actions that have gone, as he puts it, "misunderstood," like the sexually-charged imagery in his 'Monster' video that women's groups called misogynistic and his infamous upstaging of Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs that fans saw as bullying (both of which he defended during his eight-minute rant).
Check out fan footage of the moment below:
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Commerce City, Colo. – No matter the jersey, the city, or the coach, Brian Mullan has consistently won throughout his 11-year Major League Soccer career. And his drive to succeed remains strong, which is why the 34-year-old agreed to a new multi-year deal to play with the Colorado Rapids.
When asked by ColoradoRapids.com why he wants to keep playing, Mullan's answer was simple.
"To compete," he said.
"Even when I try not to get competitive, I get competitive. So, to win another [MLS Cup], that's the only reason."
Mullan and former San Jose Earthquakes teammate Jeff Agoos are the only two players in league history to win five MLS Cup championships. He won his first title in 2002 with the Los Angeles Galaxy under head coach Sigi Schmid, his second with the Earthquakes in 2003 under Frank Yallop, his third and fourth in Houston with Dominic Kinnear as his coach (2006 and 2007), and his most recent in 2010 in Colorado under Gary Smith.
The Aurora, Colo. native has actually made it to the postseason in each of his 11 years in MLS, and advanced to the title game in six seasons.
"It's instilled winning in me," he says, of being on successful teams. "It gives you that taste and you never want to taste anything else. The drive is still there and I guess I owe that to all the players and coaches I've played with."
Now a veteran, he remembers the impact that former national team players had on him as he was beginning his career. It's something he tries to pass on to his younger teammates in this phase of his career.
"I was lucky to play with some great players - players I grew up watching, like Alexi Lalas, Cobi Jones, and Jeff Agoos," Mullan said. "To see their work ethic, how they not only worked hard but worked smart – it's definitely something that every player needs to see. They were the ones that when you messed up, they let you know it, and if you did something right, they let you know. I've been fortunate to play with those kinds of players."
Mullan is one of the many experienced players that return to form the core of the 2012 Rapids team.
"This team has a lot of desire," he said. "It reminds me a lot of the Houston Dynamo in their heyday – the willingness to work hard and to win games. We came up a little short offensively this year with all the injuries, but that will hopefully resolve itself next year."
And once again, Mullan will be adjusting to a new coach after the Rapids parted ways with Smith after the season. The team has yet to announce who the new coach will be.
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4.7 out of 5Submitted by Greg in Ohio on 12/20/2016(2013 GMC Sierra 2500 HD SLE (20 Inch Option))
I love these tires! I currently have 52k on the original set that came on my '13 GMC 2500, and I'm sure I will reach 65-75k in them before I have to replace them. That's even with pulling a 10k lb. 5th wheel around in the summers. I do keep them rotated, but other than that, I've done nothing to them but drive. I will definitely be buying another set when the time comes.
3.3 out of 5Submitted by Dee in Minnesota on 9/18/2016(1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4x4)
No tread confidence at 30k. Wimped out! 60k mi. treadlife warranty? NO WAY!
2.45 out of 5Submitted by C.M. in Colorado on 9/11/2016(2012 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD LT (20 Inch Option))
These tires came stock on my '12 Silverado. Before 40k miles, I had replaced 3 tires, 1 twice! Grip dry pavement fine, but mud or snow, forget it. OK on gravel as long as it's dry but still not great. Sidewalls are crap. First one just blew out the sidewall at 36k going down dry highway. If you rub a curb (mine is crew long so it happens) it WILL cause damage.
I was sinking about 1.5-2 inches in mud and could barely get out in 4x4. Any more than about an inch of snow, and I have to use 4x4, ridiculous.
I now have 50,200 miles on the pickup and one of the two remaining original tires is separating and I had to take it off. It still has pretty decent tread but is unsafe. At least with these tires, my spare gets some use! I've used it more than the one for my last pickup, a '98 that I had for 13 years and had 165k miles!
Bottom line, I will never purchase another one of these tires.
4.7 out of 5Submitted by VK in Virginia on 4/4/2016(2013 Ford F-150 FX4 Base)
I put a lot of miles on my truck and have driven on several long road trips. I've been off road on the farm and I've driven 90+mph on highways. I've never lost traction, and in snow I've gone where other 4x4s have not (it helps that I know how to drive in the snow). This tire is a good mix of ability to go off road and yet have a very smooth drive on highways, which is important, since 97% of the miles on it have been highway driving. If I lived in snow country instead of just visiting, I would get better mud and snow tires, but yet I have driven through feet of snow with no problems whatsoever. The tire wear has been pretty even, but of course I get the wheels aligned often. I've got over 42k miles on them and I'm thinking about replacing two of the tires in a couple of months, since I don't want to buy four at once. I'll have well over 50k on them by winter, and will need four new tires by then, but I don't think 50+ miles on one set of tires is a bad deal.
4.15 out of 5Submitted by Chris in Ontario on 3/21/2016(2013 Ford F-150 XLT 4x4 Reg./Super Cab)
Came stock on my F150. I have 100,000 km or 62,000 miles on them and could probably get another 10-20,000 out of them they are down too 5/32. I haul a 22ft travel trailer with 16ft boat moter and trailer in tandem and have had no issues with them. The first year I had the truck they were great in the snow however the second year after the first snowstorm I went out and bought snows. They have done me alright off road too. I have driven a lot of off road and hydro trails in northern Ontario up gravel and sand hills on those trails. The steepest I climbed was 71 degree hill. Not sure why others have had issues and I haven't.
1.7 out of 5Submitted by SCOTT in Pennsylvania on 3/10/2016(2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD High Country Base)
These tires came stock on my new 2015 Chevy 2500HD High Country 4X4 diesel. I travel the country and did research because the tread design was a concern. Low and behold the ratings were marginal at best. I replaced them with 2000 miles with Goodyear Adventure which are night and day from the SR-A. They were't cheap but you can't put a price on safety and confidence. I've driven in every on road condition with absolutely no concerns. Unless you live in a sunny warm area stay clear of these tires.
3.35 out of 5Submitted by Speedog in Texas on 2/21/2016(2011 Ford F-150 XLT 4x4 (18 Inch Option))
Do not buy this tire! Good for 20,000 miles max.
4.85 out of 5Submitted by Ken in Washington on 9/21/2015(2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT (18 Inch Option))
I've read some of the reviews, and I don't understand it..I'm not having any issues with my SR-A tires that were factory mounted on my 2014 Chevy..I've gone offroad in the steep mountainous areas of my state, without any issues..
2 out of 5Submitted by Bryce in Wisconsin on 7/9/2015(2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT (18 Inch Option))
Tires came stock on truck. Decent when tread is new but wear poorly after about 10,000 miles. Absolutely horrible if there is any water or snow on the roads. Goodyear claims it is an all terrain tire but that is a joke. Taking them off pretty soon with just under 12,000 miles and switching to Cooper Discoverer AT3's which I hear are an awesome all around all terrain tire.
3.45 out of 5Submitted by rob in Ontario on 3/24/2015(2011 Nissan Titan SV)
These tires are cheap with weak sidewalls that pick up nails. They are too soft and have worn out in 50,000 KM - pretty atrocious (many dealers install these garbage tires on a lot of 1/2 tons standard). Buying BF TA KO2 next 'cause I need a heavier, tougher tire.
3.15 out of 5Submitted by Michael in Florida on 12/31/2014(2000 Chevrolet Astro LT)
Decently priced. Tread seems to be wearing evenly, but don't drive high miles.
4 out of 5Submitted by Zachary in Kansas on 12/30/2014(2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT (18 Inch Option))
Great tire.
2.15 out of 5Submitted by Mike in Maine on 12/9/2014(2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo)
I bought a used Jeep and the dealership I went to made installing these brand new tires a major selling point. I thought to myself that I won't have to buy new tires for a while. Boy was I wrong! In Maine, we have plenty of snow and I plow driveways on the side and haul a trailer. With these tires, I was all over the road. I turned a corner at 15mph and my 4x4 went sideways. My Jeep has 4 wheel drive full-time, unlike the Jeep I had previously had 4 wheel drive part-time. Even with 4x4, it doesn't help me if the tires can't move the snow out of the way to gain traction. For the first time ever, I jackknifed the trailer. These tires should be rated for dry and wet conditions only - definitely NOT snow. I've never felt so unsafe in my life! Now I have to look to purchase new winter tires before the next nor'easter. I'm very disappointed....
1.85 out of 5Submitted by Jon in Illinois on 10/15/2014(2013 Ford F-150 STX 4x4)
These tires came on the truck from factory. Had continual flats and they all were separating and needed to be replaced by 20,000 miles. Horrible tires that I will never buy.
1.45 out of 5Submitted by Liam in Ontario on 8/30/2014(2013 RAM 1500 SLT (20 Inch Option))
Tread life is terrible. Wet and winter traction are terrible. Would NOT buy another set.
4.55 out of 5Submitted by Don in Virginia on 8/20/2014(1998 Jeep Wrangler Sport)
Awesome tires.
2.85 out of 5Submitted by ricky in Tennessee on 8/12/2014(2013 RAM Trucks 1500 Express)
Tires came on truck from factory. Not a good tire for a 4x4. Alright for a 2wd. Have to use 4x4 in wet grass going up a hill. Truck has 20 inch wheels. Have 12,000 miles on them and already showing a lot of wear. The goodyear all terrain adventure would be a better tire for this truck.
1 out of 5Submitted by Trevor in Nebraska on 4/18/2014(2004 Dodge Trucks Ram 1500 ST 4x4 Quad Cab)
Buyers beware! Purchased new a set of four Goodyear Wrangler SRA tires. Recently discovered serious side wall cracking on these tires which has less than 30,000km. I do not believe this cracking is normal and I think it will lead to tire failure. This is my first and last Goodyear tire purchase.
5 out of 5Submitted by Jo in Delaware on 4/3/2014(2008 Jeep Trucks Wrangler Unlimited X 4x4 (S Pkg.))
Great tire.
3.85 out of 5Submitted by Andrea in Nebraska on 2/17/2014(2005 Jeep Trucks Liberty Renegade)
Pretty good tire all the way around.
4 out of 5Submitted by mike in Oklahoma on 12/28/2013(2013 Jeep Trucks Wrangler Freedom Edition)
Nice for factory tires. Start to get loud when worn.
5 out of 5Submitted by rob in Ontario on 12/12/2013(2009 Dodge Trucks Dakota ST 4x4)
Amazing tire
4 out of 5Submitted by Andrew in Maryland on 12/7/2013(2000 Jeep Trucks Cherokee Classic 4x4 4 Dr.)
I haven't had a chance to drive in snow with these tires, but they've done very well for me in all other regards.
2.85 out of 5Submitted by DeAnn in Texas on 10/30/2013(2012 Ford Trucks Expedition XLT)
I have these tires on my Expedition and had a flat where the tire literally separated. Went flat instantly. Luckily it was on the back and I was not traveling over 30 mph.
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This data collection supplies standard monthly labor force data as well as supplemental data on work experience, income, noncash benefits, and migration. Comprehensive information is given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons 15 years old and older. Additional data are available concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full-time, total income and income components, and residence on March 1, 1999. This file also contains data covering noncash income sources such as food stamps, school lunch programs, employer-provided group health insurance plans, employer-provided pension plans, personal health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, CHAMPUS or military health care, and energy assistance. Information on demographic characteristics, such as age, sex, race, household relationships, and Hispanic origin, is available for each person in the household enumerated.
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There are cash-strapped governments and there are broke governments. And then there's Zimbabwe, which, after paying last week's government salaries, has just $217 left in the bank. No, we didn't forget any zeroes to the end of that figure. Zimbabwe, the country that's home to some of the world's largest platinum and diamond reserves, literally has the same financial standing as a 14-year-old girl after a really good birthday party. The country's finance minister admitted as much in a press conference on Tuesday. "Last week when we paid civil servants there was $217 [left] in government coffers," Tendai Biti told reporters. "The government finances are in paralysis state at the present moment. We are failing to meet our targets."
So it seems. However, Zimbabwe is hardly a stranger to financial hyperbole. The economy started to come apart at the seams in 2000, when President Robert Mugabe seized the land of over 4,000 white-owned farmers, effectively dismantling the country's agriculture industry. Over the course of the next decade, the country spiraled into an extended period of hyperinflation, the likes of which the world almost never sees. It peaked in August 2008, when inflation reached 11,200,000 percent and economists around the world started to say that the country's situation was hopeless. Prices were doubling by the day, and the government had to print Z$100 billion notes. The following year, they went ahead and printed Z$100 trillion notes, just before deciding to chop 12 zeroes off of the currency. A new coalition government formed that year and started on the long process of financial recovery, a process that is clearly going to take a little longer.
It's unclear how the Zimbabwean government is going to get itself out this fiscal mess, but whatever it does, it needs to do it quickly. As Quartz's Tim Fernholz points out, Zimbabwe is looking at a $104 million bill for its upcoming election. Its government is also dealing with brand new allegations that government officials have been running a corruption ring around the country's diamond mines. The country obviously desperately needs a major change. "But action against corruption probably won't come until the end of Mugabe's reign, and a new constitution coming up for a referendum this spring -- presuming the funds can be found -- might set up the aging autocrat for another term in power," writes Fernholz.
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Chapin Retires as Bureau Director, June 11, 1999
SOCORRO, N.M., June 11, 1999 -- Dr. Charles Chapin, Director of the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (NMBMMR) and New Mexico's State Geologist is retiring, although it's hard to tell that by looking at his office.
"I told Tech President López I would stay on until a replacement is hired," says Chapin. The NMBMMR is part of New Mexico Tech, a state university specializing in science and engineering.
"As an emeritus researcher, I plan to be in Socorro several days a week, continuing to work with the Bureau staff," he says. "I've got a number of research projects I've never had a chance to finish. I've been working on the geologic history of the southern Rocky Mountains and the Rio Grande rift. I already have obligations: for instance, I will be a keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver in October. That's right after an October 1st deadline for a paper I'm writing. I have just given a lecture at Denver Museum of Natural History, and I conducted some research in the area while I was there.
"I enjoy geological field research, because I've always been interested in the outdoors," says Chapin. "Of course, you still have to spend time in the office compiling data and writing up the results of your research. I got interested in geology because, as a boy in western Washington, I was an avid mountain climber and backpacker. On one hiking trip, I met a man coming out of the wilderness. I still remember talking to him about what he had been doing. He was a geologist who had been examining old mines, and I recall thinking, 'This guy's getting paid to do this.' It seemed like a great job to me."
Chapin adds wryly, "I was outdoors a lot until the last eight years."
After his boyhood discovery of the joys of geology, Chapin proceeded to attend the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), where he got his bachelor's degree in mining geology in 1954 and his D.Sc. in 1965 in geology and chemistry. Chapin came to New Mexico Tech in 1965 as an assistant professor of geology. He went on to serve as the first chair of the newly formed Department of Geoscience (1968-1970), geologist and senior geologist with the Bureau (1970-1991), and finally, as director of the Bureau (1991 until the present).
[The New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources serves as the state's geological survey. The Bureau's 30-plus professional scientists and engineers study the state's geology; publish maps, papers, books, and newsletters; maintain collections of data on the state's geology and mineral resources; perform testing on geologic samples; answer questions from private industries and the public (such as, "What is this rock I found?"); and maintain a mineral museum which ranks among the best in the country. In recent years, they have done substantial work on water resources and geologic hazards (such as earthquakes, landslides, and land subsidence).
"The biggest challenge facing the Bureau is keeping up with technological advances," says Chapin. "In general, the Bureau is in very good shape. We have an excellent staff and our equipment is very modern. But technology moves so rapidly that keeping up with it is difficult. We process data and generate maps in ways we could only dream of a few years ago."
As an example, Chapin pointed to a new state-of-the-art map system called the Geographic Information System (or GIS) which the Bureau has developed in recent years. "GIS allows the user to create a map with multiple layers, showing geologic formations, oil wells, roads, water sources, and more, all of which can be manipulated in various ways to suit the project." he explains. The Bureau's digitized maps of oil and gas pools are now available on the Internet, off their homepage, http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/ . A user can click on a parcel of land and pull up data on oil production, wells, and much more. Bureau personnel, particularly Bureau assistant director and senior petroleum geologist Ron Broadhead and geological laboratory associate Adam Read, have worked with the Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC), another division of New Mexico Tech, to make oil and gas data more accessible to independent producers.
"One of our goals is to get information out to users," continues Chapin, "and it became obvious in recent years that utilizing the Internet is essential. We've also taken advantage of student computer skills. One of the neat things about being at New Mexico Tech is that students acquire great computer skills."
Another modern lab the Bureau developed during Chapin's directorship was the Geochronology Research Lab, which uses isotopes of argon to measure ages of rocks and minerals. "This is a world-class geochronology lab that has been used to study ages of rock formations from all over the world," says Chapin. "Los Alamos National Laboratory provided seed money to construct the lab, former Tech president Laurence Lattman provided university funds and the National Science Foundation provided the rest.
"This lab is important because, not only can we date rocks that are only a few thousand years old -- it used to be you couldn't do that -- but we can also tell how good the number is." The lab is run by the two full-time geochronologists on the Bureau staff -- Dr. William McIntosh and Dr. Matt Heizler. In addition, laboratory fees support two full-time lab technicians. Space is provided by the Earth and Environmental Science Department, and the lab has been an important factor in attracting some good graduate students to Tech.
"The Geochronology Research Lab has been used to solve problems like measuring the age of volcanic centers near Yucca Mountain in Nevada," Chapin adds. "This is a site that the government has proposed to use as a nuclear repository, so determining its geologic stability is very important. The lab was also used to determine the age of Carlsbad Caverns. The Caverns turn out to be only about four million years old, which is very young in geologic terms. This resulted in a paper by Bill McIntosh and others that appeared in Science last fall."
Chapin continues, "One of the newer labs we've developed is an electron microprobe lab. An electron probe allows you to analyze small spots on a sample and determine their chemical composition. Dr. Nelia Dunbar of the Bureau is the principal investigator who runs the lab. She also teaches a course on electron microprobe analysis to both Tech students and faculty. This is a great example of collaboration among departments: the electron probe is used a lot by the Materials Engineering Department and the Earth and Environmental Science Department."
Chapin doesn't plan to spend his retirement resting on his laurels, although he has accumulated a number of them: New Mexico Tech's Distinguished Research Award (1988), Colorado School of Mines' Distinguished Achievement Award (1999), and CSM's Van Diest Gold Medal for research (1980). He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 1985-86.
He keeps an active schedule, commuting weekly between Socorro and Albuquerque and keeping in touch with a busy family.
"My wife Carol works in Albuquerque as a grief counselor at the Office of the Medical Investigator. My oldest son, Giles, is Senior Chief Petty Officer on a nuclear submarine, running the communication system. My other son John is a medical doctor, a neurologist, in Wichita Falls, Texas. My daughter Laura works for Allstate Insurance in Fort Worth."
Reflecting on his 34 years at New Mexico Tech, Dr. Chapin said with obvious satisfaction, "It's been good! I have seen Tech grow from a very small school with limited facilities to a strong and diverse Institute with high-tech equipment and an outstanding faculty and staff. One constant through the years has been the high quality of Tech's student body. I directed nearly 40 theses and dissertations, sat on innumerable graduate research committees, and taught courses for 26 years. Among my fondest memories are the students and the many fine researchers it has been my privilege to work with. The students have gone on to successful careers in industry or academia; some are now vice presidents of corporations, and others are well-known researchers and professors. Nothing satisfies a professor more than the success of his students."


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Approximation of continuous real functions
defined on the unit rectangle domain of a certain dimension.
To be imported qualified, usually with the synonym UFA.
This class extends ERFnApprox by:
Find close upper and lower bounds of the volume of the entire enclosure.
A negative volume means that the enclosure is certainly inconsistent.
Explicitly specify the variables to identify the dimension of the domain.
Intersect two enclosures and measure the global improvement as one number.
(Use RA.intersectMeasureImprovement defined in module Data.Number.ER.Real.Approx
to measure the improvement using a function enclosure.)


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It's the 20th anniversary of the Vans Warped Tour and the event is celebrating with 43 tour stops, including a new one in Anchorage, Alaska, event founder Kevin Lyman said during the pre-party event in Los Angeles in April. There are more than 100 performers on the bill and almost all of them are coming to the traveling festival's date at the Fairplex in Pomona June 20.
Music fans can get an earful of diversity with punk, pop, rock, acoustic, electronica and even rap with acts, such as Anberlin, Bayside, Brian Marquis, Chelsea Grin, Echosmith, Emilie Autumn, Mayday Parade, The Devil Wears Prada, The Maine, This Wild Life and Yellowcard. Pomona attendees can also catch the homegrown gritty rock grooves of Plague Vendor from Whittier.
Plague Vendor, vocalist Brandon Blaine, guitarist Jay Rodgers, bassist Michael Perez and drummer Luke Perine, was founded in 2008. The four members were friends in high school, who went on to play in different bands for a few years before realizing they had good chemistry together. It's taken some time to get things going, but Plague Vendor signed to Epitaph Records in March 2014 and released its debut effort, "Free To Eat," in April 2014.
"It's not polished. It's raw compared to a lot of stuff being recorded today in the studio and it's 17 minutes long," Rodgers said.
"It's an album where there's a lot of emphasis on the lyrical content. There's a lot of bands that have a lot of reverb on the vocals and you can't really hear their lyrics, so there's no story," Perine added.
Rodgers brings in many of the riffs that spark the band's songs, which are then written corroboratively with Blaine providing the lyrics and each track on "Free to Eat" tells a different dark tale.
Performing is easy for Blaine, who has sung and danced since he was a child. Rodgers is perhaps the most musical of the group, playing not only guitar, but bass, piano and drums.
Perine began playing percussion in sixth grade band at East Whittier Middle School and, by high school, he was hitting the rock scene. Perez, the late bloomer of the group, was grounded during his early high school years and passed the time learning how to play his sister's guitar. Perez then moved on to bass and never looked back.
Plague Vendor has been successful at getting on the music industry's radar. In addition to being embraced by Epitaph, they were named one of the "100 Bands You Need to Know" by Alternative Press in 2014. Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman, noted for his ability to spot talent, caught them in action at the Epicenter Festival in Irvine in 2013 and was quick to sign the quartet on for the 2014 outing.
Plague Vendor is busy promoting "Free to Eat," but is already working on new material and it's not uncommon for them to create a song on stage, especially if the band is out of tunes and fans are yelling for more.
"We've written songs at the end of our set to keep playing when we have no more songs," Rodgers said.
"I usually don't finish my lyrics until the very last minute, but I'll have a vocal melody and story in mind, so when we play live — we play live more than we rehearse — we write and it's better when stuff comes in the heat of playing," Blaine said.


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Spink County Man Accused of Pulling Gun on Trooper
ATHOL, S.D. (AP) - Authorities are searching for a Spink County man they say pulled a shotgun on a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper.
State's Attorney Vic Fischbach tells the American News that 46-year-old Randall Jungwirth is wanted on a charge of aggravated assault. The prosecutor says additional charges are being considered.
Fischbach says the trooper stopped on check on Jungwirth shortly before midnight Monday because Jungwirth's pickup truck was stuck in a ditch near Athol. He says Jungwirth allegedly grabbed a shotgun from the pickup during a field sobriety test and pulled the trigger of the unloaded weapon twice when he and the trooper struggled over the gun. Jungwirth then fled on foot.
Fischbach says area residents are being urged to lock homes and vehicles while Jungwirth is still at large.
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To the Leader:
We continue to see a high volume of families at the (Tomahawk Food) pantry. We are up about 25 percent over last year. Many large families are coming in, who, of course, get more items.
The fall drives are starting now at Curves and the Tomahawk Elementary School. Right now, we need almost any item we give out. The pantry is low on food. Staple items are requested. You can bring them to the pantry during open hours, Wednesday 1 to 3 p.m. and Friday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For special pickups, call Glenn or Sharon at 453-5954.
A special thanks to all the folks who brought in garden produce. We were able to give out squash, potatoes, sweet corn, green beans, cucumbers and tomatoes. We also received the extra buns and brats, catsup and mustardleft from the Fall Ride weekend from Harley-Davidson and buns from Lincoln County Cycles.
We thank the community for the cash donations needed to buy food today that we are out of.
We thank the 60-some folks who work the pantry and are doing things to improve our service to the community, probably now needed more than ever to meet the demand.
God Bless
Glenn and Sharon Christianson
Tomahawk Food Pantry Coordinator
Food Pantry needs
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Many of us have all heard the claim that God/Jesus, as the source of all goodness is the only teacher we have about how to be good, and humanity on its
own is a despicable race of
creatures. So, here's what I don't really understand.
What motivation do you have to be good all the time if you believe to your heart of hearts that God will always forgive you? Murder? Rape? No problem,
just confess, say your magic chant, maybe shed some tears
and pledge to service as a faulty human being, and volia, you're good to
Think of it as a little kid, they know stealing from a cookie jar is wrong, but they also know if they sob and cry enough to mom afterward, they won't get
punished. What is there to stop them from
sealing more cookies, claiming a flawed nature, and getting away again?
Nothing. Only when the parent holds the child responsible for their
actions and punishes them accordingly, and only rewards the continued
behavior of not stealing, may they learn to not steal in the first
The assumption of inherently flawed nature removes all real personal responsibility and accountability unless that person is caught by the law, and
even then they can wiggle out of it. Just look at the
preacher who allegedly raped 200 deaf children! He cried enough to big
daddy, and that made it all ok, right?
The idea of goodness, of morality, has been around long before the Judeo-Christian god, exists in many realms that do not include it, and will exist long after.
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