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3 An utter disappointmentWaysideMaze | 15/01/2009 | See all WaysideMaze's reviews (1)Having been a fan of this series since Soul Blade, this game nearly left me in tears.The story mode, one of the series finest points has been reduced to almost nothing. The background of the characters, the war between the 2 swords, the tales of vengeance, of good and evil, are all but gone. One of the series major pulls was the detailed story behind each and every character, yet in this we get almost nothing.It seems the developers were so hyped up about the fact that it's now online, they forgot to put any work into the single player.So after this critism, why not just one star then? Because the graphics are absolutely sublime, character movement is smooth and the combat is as delicious as ever, and no matter how empty the story mode (that I so love) and the overall single player is, the multiplayer and graphics cannot be faulted."An utter disappointment" may be a little harsh, but I really did feel so disappointed playing this game, that I couldn't keep it, and returned it within the week. I couldn't handle paying for something that left me feeling so empty.I tried to like this game, I really wanted it to be something monumental like it's predecessors, sadly, this was not the case.
4 Lacks a Soul...Imperator | 31/01/2009 | See all Imperator's reviews (8)Once upon a time, I stumbled upon SCIII, and was immediately enthralled, so much in fact, that I sold my old Tekken 5, recognicing it as vastly inferior to SCIII. Now SC4 has emerged, and on paper, It is an improvement of one of the best fightling games. The graphics and animations are superior, the rooster is more varied and full of the best the SC-series has to offer, the star wars characters are a nifty bonus (if nothing more), the tower of souls offer challenging singleplayer... and yet, I cannot find the spark that made me stay up in the wee hours with SCIII. It seems that the singleplayer has somehow been downgraded, the title made less appealing to alle but hardcore gamers who want nothing more than the hard relentless work of mastery of each charecter. The story mode for each charecter offers a mere 5 battles, and though the TOLS offers challenge, it´s really a one ride only. While certainly the best on offer right now in terms of fighting games, it just seem to have left it´s soul behind, replaced by slick multiplayer features and catering to the devoted, but small hardcore crowd. It´s a great shame, but this great game has shifted from enthralling immersion to technologial wizardry, and in my oppinion, is worse off for it. It´s still great, but in a competent way, not a facinating one.
4 Brilliant...Until you go online.Curtis1 | 23/08/2008 | See all Curtis1's reviews (4)First of all, I have to say this game is definately one of my favorites, and people complaining that it wears you out playing are obviously playing it wrong.Before you even start, go to practice mode and have a play around with the characters, learn some moves and get to learn some combos, otherwise you will have no chance against some of the harder levels of the game.If you want a good fighting game to play with your mates on the weekend, buy tekken, its easily playable by anyone and if you want you can button bash and usually string together a lot of good moves.Also, i definately wouldn't spend £40 on a game just to play as darth vader, go and buy battlefront 2 to get a lot more for your money star wars wise.The character creator (or create-a-soul) is a very welcome addition, with thousands of combinations to make an existing fighter or a totally new one exactly how you want them, as all the different items of clothing/ armour have different qualities, and encourages you to experiment with either a high attack or defence, or just outlast the opposition with superior hp. Its also rather fun to make characters from other games or programmes, they usually come out quite good (The Hulk is a good one to start with)As mentioned in the title, the online in Soul Calibur really is poor, i have not yet gone into a game where theres been less than half a second of lag, which doesn't sound very much, but makes a significant difference when fighting the host who will be lag free which is why i have given only 4 stars.Overall definately a game i would recommend, but if you are wanting something to just pick up and play with no learning curve, buy pretty much any of the tekken series which are also great games, but spend a little time and effort on this and you will definately be rewarded.
2 Wish I had listened to others!alphapaul | 19/08/2008 | See all alphapaul's reviews (5)After reading quite a few disappointing reviews about the game I still went out and made a purchase. I had never played a soul calibur game prior to this and so went in as a neutral party. I must say I really am not impressed. The game is split to arcade mode and story mode which actually serves no purpose or reason! Paying online is tedious and unenjoyable (mind you I think that may be because I suck!) The unique selling point of this game is the star wars incoportation, if that is a big reason for your purchase (as it was for me) you will be sorely disappointed. Please take my advice and don't make the mistake I did, have a top notch Friday night instead and even treat yourself to a kebab even though you will regret it the next morning you won't regret it as much as making this purchase!
5 back to being brilliantelkypelky | 03/10/2008 | See all elkypelky's reviews (6)Am i glad i talked myself into buying this game.have been a fan of this genre and title for many years but felt that the ps2 version was lacking somewhat and maybe it had reached its peak on the dreamcast and could never be bettered but this version is an absolute belter!!! Superb graphics married with super smooth and slick gameplay...games don't come any better than this.don't think..just go and buy!!!!!


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For the large-scale redevelopment of Longgang Centre and Longcheng Square in Shenzhen, the United-Kingdom-based design collective Groundlab is turning the typical planning process upside-down.
Rather than adhere to the top-down approach taken by "big bureaucrats sitting at tables with big markers," Groundlab is working from the bottom up, explains Eva Castro, a Groundlab partner and director of the Architectural Association's Landscape Urbanism (AALU) masters program. "Instead of mapping [sites], which is a known hierarchical way of lifting up all the information contained within a territory," says Castro, Groundlab chooses to "lift up systems" of particular interest. In their plan for Longgang, which they call "Deep Ground," the designers identified the key system a network of "urban villages."
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What attracted Groundlab to the urban villages of Longgang was the unusually intimate scale at which they operate. Castro likens them to favelas, "but without the social and economic implications of poverty." Maintaining such places is particularly important in Chinese cities, since so much of "a human scale" has been lost there in recent years.
While the retention of urban villages is a key component of Groundlab's design, its most innovative proposal is for a landscape intervention the designers call "thickened ground." "We wanted to multiply a public level that would be accessible by everyone," explains Castro. So using the methodology of cutting and folding, Groundlab created more streetscape while "avoiding sprawl," and avoiding hierarchy. The multiple layers of a thickened ground increase the availability of commercial space, while providing for necessities like street-level parking.
Potential investors as well as local and regional municipalities have responded strongly to Deep Ground, allowing it to move ahead, Top priorities for the strategic design phase, says Castro, are to develop regions of thickened ground near elevated rail stations, and to create a main plaza that will "not only [be] the heart of the business district but also the core of the identity or the image" for a new Longgang.
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walk me through the answers of these questions plz:
1-how did the first male and female human beings appeared?
2-is there moses, jesus, mohammed _peace be upon him_??
3-why are we on earth ? what is the purpose of living??
you are dealing with qura'n as if it's a newspaper it's abook that must be read from cover to cover then you can judge it and say: yes i believe in this or no i can't belive in this
Sorry. You don't get to decide the rules I follow for deciding when something is nonsense. I just need to find one moral absurdity... a single scientific falsehood... or anything along these lines to know a book that claims to come from a god/prophet(s) is false.
and by the way god is not any thing that you just said if you read the qur'an you 'll understand who is god and why were we created and if you didn't then only then you can call yorself an atheist
Sorry, but you don't get to define atheism. In addition, when I read very plain passages from an English quran, or hear/read some Saudi Arabian priest or believer discussing their own religion, what the quran says, etc., I'm going to believe that is what the quran teaches rather than believe some guy on an internet forum telling me that I just don't understand.
It appears we are speaking a different language, hence I'm done following this topic.
A "purpose" implies a consciousness that has some goal.
A "hidden purpose" necessarily implies a hidden consciousness, not our own.
Purpose of life, that's easy, work, play, love, why does it need to be so complicated?
Why would I be concerned with a "hidden" purpose. If it's hidden, how would I even know it exists or that it could ever be found, and if I did think I found it how could I be sure I found all that was hidden? I'll concern myself with the realities of life.
Do you ever ponder why so many people have the NEED to feel so damn special about themselves, especially those will a religious mindset. We are simply evolved biological animals, like everything else on the planet, we just happen to smarter than the others, or at least some are anyway.
by hidden i meant from an atheist point of view not a religous man's point of view
alright let's say that the purpose of life is work and play and love why work then let's just play and love and another question what does happen after we die ,, is that it yu 're sayin ?? so i can kill whoever i want whenever i want and if i get away with it in life then i'm just as the other guy who prayed and helped others and spent his money on the poor??
I never understand this line of logic. You speak as though there are no consequences for our actions here, now, in this moment. I would not get to play and love in the way that I do, if I did not also work and make money. That aside, I get a sense of pride from my work because those around me value what I do. There is life after death, but not my own. There's the life of those who will outlive me. In my society, I trust that most people who kill whoever, whenever are found and locked away. Wishing that there's some sort of justice in death for those who get away with crimes might feel good, but life is not a storybook.
so i can kill whoever i want whenever i want and if i get away with it in life then i'm just as the other guy who prayed and helped others and spent his money on the poor??
Yes. Some people get away with doing bad things. There is no almighty grownup supervisor daddy figure that will put the bad kids into the metaphorical corner of the universe for a time out, OR pat you on your head for a job well done. Grow up.
That's really one of the major reasons you people believe in all that nonsense. You want to be assured that your praying and spending money on the poor was not done in vain. You want there to be a "heaven" so you can get your reward like a dog who jumped through hoops, waiting for his treat and a pat. You don't give a shit about helping poor people. You just want to be seen doing it, seen by "god," so you can be rewarded. This shows your self-serving egoistic side.
And about the punishment.. you can't fathom the fact that others would get away with doing things you don't like. So you want to tell yourself that the bad bully guys who didn't enslave themselves to your god WILL get their punishment, no matter what. They cannot live free! They cannot have fun while you're praying and inconveniencing yourself! They will surely suffer. Either they will suffer, or they will submit to your religion and be held to the same standards as you are. So it's either endless pain or slavery to your god. This shows your petty sadistic side.
"why work then let's just play and love"
Well I don't know about you but I HAVE TO work to support myself and my family, I find it somewhat strange that you couldn't answer that for yourself.
"another question what does happen after we die"
After we die our consciousness is snuffed out and our bodies decompose and you end up where you were before you were born, nonexistent. It happens to every other living thing on the planet, why would you think it wouldn't happen to you, because a book tells you differently? Because you have an emotional need to believe otherwise? Must you escape reality to live your life happily, productively?
"so i can kill whoever i want whenever i want and if i get away with it in life then I'm just as the other guy who prayed and helped others and spent his money on the poor??"
Yes, now you are catching on, there are no afterlife punishments for murderers or any other crime (unfortunately) and that is a reality of which so many have a hard time coming to grips with, for life nor death are anything but fair, sad but true.
I often see that kind of question coming from a person with a religious mindset, and I actually find it kind of frightening. It's as if though their thinking has become so deluded that they can no longer rationalize some of the most basic principles, and I have to wonder, what kind of person would you be if you didn't believe in an invisible magic man in the sky? A killer, a rapist, just because you can without going to hell, how F@#%ed up it that? Do you really think the human race would have survived as long as it has if everyone had that outlook on life? I would lay odds that if you gave up your god today you would most likely still strive to be a good, caring person assuming you are that now.
I believe in no gods, but I also have no desire to kill anyone, on the contrary, I would prefer to help people rather than destroy them. I do good not for a reward after death but because that is the most peaceful way to coexist with others, and yes, I feel good when I help someone that is on hard times or is suffering, but I expect no reward nor would I except any if it were offered.
I'm not so naive however to think that everyone else feels the same why I do. I'm very aware that there are those that would take my life without thinking twice whether they believed in a god or not.
Good luck on you journey brother.
Actually doubtful, there are those who don't accept that as truth - there is in fact a book out, questioning the existence of Muhammad, here's the link:
I have not read the Quran, but I have read the Bible, both old and New Testaments, and find them to be 15% history and 85% bullshit. Since the Quran is based on the Abramic Old Testament, I would have to assume that those same percentages hold true. How can a book, based on lies, be true?
The first male and female human beings didn't just 'appear', they were born. We didn't become human beings in one generation though, it took literally thousands of generations to differentiate between other primates and the creatures that we could readily identify as humans.
I doubt Moses ever existed, and we certainly see no evidence for the great 'Exodus' from Egypt. Jesus was most likely a real person in history, and I believe we can be certain that Mohammed existed.
There is no particular reason that we are on earth. There is no particular purpose for living - it is up to each of us to find meaning in our own lives.
I hope that straightens everything out for you.
so these primates where did they come from??
moses didn't exist then jews around the world are just living a lie and the whole talk about moses in the bible and qura'n is alsso a lie??
you just said two opposites the is no purpose but yet we have to find ameaning !!
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Yesterday I could not get my Banjo Burner to properly heat. The gas output was really low and inefficient for brewing thus I brewed indoors. Anyhow, my propane tank was full and I even tried another one to eliminate that possibility. What should I clean/take apart first? And how?
What was the temperature where you were brewing? In very cold weather the propane doesn't evaporate in the tank as well, so there is reduced gas available. Putting the tank in a tub of warm water might help.
It had been upper 20's overnight and mid 30-low40's around brew time. I brought tank and burner inside, used a heating pad to try and warm the regulator on the burner and ambient warmth to warm the tank and nothing helped. Any ideas or you think it was cold enough to restrict flow? I always imagined temp would have to be in teens to cause flow issues. Just my assumption as I live in MS and low temps are rare
I don't know, but here in WV I can get frost to form on a propane tank when it's in the 30's. The vapor pressure is reduced sufficiently that I get reduced flow through a 30 psi regulator, but not through the 20 psi regulator on my gas grill. Some research on propane vapor pressure might help, it looks as if the pressure goes below 30 psig when the propane's temperature drops to slightly less than 10 deg. F.
Your regulator could be stuck. I've had this happen to me once. I fixed if by turning off the gas on my propane tank and then disconnecting the regulator. It usually happens to me in the winter time when I turn on my propane tank too fast.
I disconnected and reconnected the tank and regulator/burner probably 10+ times.
Messed around with it this morning, disconnected the hose/regulator from the burner, sprayed compressed air, reconnected. Same problem! So I then turned the regulator's built in "gas control valve" all the way off while the burner was lit. I slowly opened that valve and re-lit the burner. As I opened the valve more, the gas flow seemed normal and now all is back to normal! Strange?


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ROCHESTER — Tim Cronin isn't looking for sympathy. He's just looking to get back on his feet.The veteran Spaulding High School boys basketball coach tore his quad tendon in his right knee last August. The injury occurred when he fell down some steps outside a building in Lee. He's had four surgeries since that fall, the last one on Dec. 4."I thought there was another step and there wasn't," Cronin said. "I stepped down and I fell."The first surgery repaired the tendon, but in each case since there's been infection and doctors have had to go back in three times to clean out the knee. After the third surgery, Cronin thought it was over."Last Friday (Nov. 30) I woke up and I didn't feel good," he said. "I didn't think much about it. On Saturday I felt a little worse. I was talking to myself that this can't be happening again. I've been active and feeling good. It can't be happening."
Veteran Spaulding boys basketball coach Tim Cronin, pictured here during the D-I semifinals in Durham last winter, is coming off four surgeries to his right knee since August. He hopes to be back coaching before the New Year. Democrat file photo
The Red Raiders have three games before Christmas break and Cronin is hoping to be out there by at least No. 3. Cronin got a wheelchair Thursday and the hope is to attend practices in the near future."I'd like to sit on the side and offer instruction," he said. "Everyone has advice. I'm not sure if it's right or not. It all depends on how I feel. We'll see what happens."This would be Cronin's 12th year as head coach. He has coached basketball in Rochester at many different levels since the late 1970s, taking over the varsity job in 2001.Spaulding has enjoyed some very good success in the last six years, including trips to the Division I semifinals in 2008 and last winter.Although it has been a big inconvenience in his life, Cronin does not feel bad for himself.
"I can't, not with real problems in the world," he said. "It's an inconvenience, but I can put things into perspective."Cronin mentioned Cody Cleveland, a former Spaulding High School basketball player who died in 2009 from cystic fibrosis at the age of 16. Cleveland has had a profound effect on Cronin."I saw him the last couple days before he passed away," Cronin said. "He was just trying to get a decent breath of air in to his body. That was a life-changing moment for me. I still get choked up over that."Which is why Cronin refuses to wallow in any form of self pity."After Cody, I said I would never do that," he said.The Spaulding basketball team practices are currently being run by assistant coaches DB Betz and Steve Foster, and Cronin's youngest son, Brian, a former player, is also helping out.
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With the announcement of the line-up for this year's Bumbershoot festival in Seattle comes the news that Death Cab for Cutie will be performing their 2003 full-length, Transatlanticsim, in its entirety.
Ben Gibbard Talks Nostalgia As Postal Service Reunite At Coachella
What's wrong with a little nostalgia if it makes you feel good? Over the weekend at Coachella we saw a few nostalgia fueled reunions — the return of the Wu Tang Clan on Sunday night, which has been widely hailed as a victory march for the giant hip hop collective. A new generation of fans were introduced to '90s Brit pop band Blur. And, among the most anticipated, a reunion of the Postal Service.
The Postal Service Announce Summer Tour Schedule
After being hounded for nearly a decade about a Postal Service reunion, Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello will finally satisfying fans with a full blown U.S. tour.
The Postal Service Release New Song, "A Tattered Line Of String"
In advance of the 10th anniversary reissue of the album Give Up, the Postal Service has released a new song, "A Tattered Line of String."
Postal Service Reunites As Coachella Rumors Abound
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Published: Monday, 3 Dec 2012 | 5:29 PM ET
By: Associated Press and CNBC.com
Seeking to jump-start stalled talks on avoiding the "fiscal cliff," House Republicans on Monday proposed a new 10-year, $2.2 trillion blueprint to President Barack Obama that calls for increasing the eligibility age for Medicare and lowering cost-of-living hikes for Social Security benefits.
The GOP plan proposes to raise $800 billion in higher tax revenue over the decade but it would keep the Bush-era tax cuts -- including those for wealthier earners targeted by Obama -- in place for now.
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Hi, I am new to this forum so hello to everybody. I have this problem to solve: 1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data Q is moving away from P at speed 4/5 c. After 3 years (in Q's frame of reference) he turns around (assuming that turning takes no time) and is moving back to P at speed 4/5 c. What are spacetime intervals between: (A) Start and turn (B) Turn and arriving back (C) Start and arriving back c = speed of light 2. Relevant equations 3. The attempt at a solution I suppose that problem isn't very difficult, but I'm not sure about my solution. First of all, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to calculate s or s2. The second problem is, that I'm not sure if I should use t = 3 years (time in Q's frame of reference) or t = 5 years (time in P's frame of reference calculated from time dilatation formula). For (A), I think that r = 4 ly (distance travelled at 4/5c for 5 years in P's frame of reference) and t is either 5 or 3 years. Then result should be easily obtained from the equation. Am I right? For (B), I think it's the same as (A), because speed is the same as well as time. Or should I change the speed sign to minus because of different direction? For (C) should the distance be zero because of event's occuring at the same place? And what about time? Should it be 6 years or 10 years? Thanks in advance for your responses.
Hello maker2807, Welcome to Physics Forums! I'm guessing you are asked to give Δs. Because all events in this problem (the start, the turn and the end) are time-like separated, you can expect that (Δs)2 is negative, thus Δs is an imaginary number. Or it may be possible that you are supposed to give Δτ (the Greek letter tau, not to be confused with regular time Δt) as your answer, where (Δs)2 = -c2(Δτ)2. So you can expect Δτ to be real and positive for time-like separated events. τ is called "proper-time" and is the time elapsed in the moving frame (or whatever particular frame of reference is for the world-line under consideration). But to know for sure, you should check you coursework or ask your instructor. Just pick one frame of reference and stick with it. Or better yet, solve for the space-time interval in both frames of reference individually. Space-time intervals are independent of the frames of reference, so if you worked the problem right, you'll get the same answer either way. You can use it to double check your work. Okay, let's start by keeping things in terms of the "stationary" frame P. You've already calculated that Δr = 4 ly (this is spacial distance that Q moved, relative to frame P). So how much time elapsed in frame P? That's the time that you want to use. Now double check you work, by solving the problem in terms of the "moving" frame Q. From the problem statement, you know that the time elapsed (Δt') in the Q frame is 3 y. So what is Δr', the spacial distance that Q traveled relative to the Q frame of reference? A word of advice: Don't just start plugging numbers into formulae all willy-nilly, when solving for Δr'. You're looking for the spacial distance that Q traveled relative the moving frame of reference Q. Think about it for a moment if you have to. Sounds reasonable to me. You can do that too if you want! The answer comes out the same. [If b = a2, what is (-a)2? ] The space-time difference is not zero, because even though the spacial location is the same, each object moved through time (and Q moved through both space and time). And keep in mind that P and Q traveled through different world-lines, so the total space time intervals from start to arriving back will be different for Q than it is for P. But the problem is asking for the space time interval directly between two events. One event is the start, and the other event is arriving back. So imagine a straight space-time line drawn between the two events. Does that follow Q's or P's world-line? By the way, this entire problem might be a perfect problem to solve by using a space-time diagram. If you are not familiar with space-time diagrams, I would suggest looking in to them and how to use them.
Thank you very much for your explanation, I think I am getting into it. I found out answers to the problems A and B and I hope they are correct. Would you mind checking them? However, I'm still quite stuck with part C. For part (A), let's start with P's frame of reference. I'll be using ly units for simplification (I hope it's not incorrect). Time elapsed between start and turn for P is 5 years. Spatial distance between these two events is 5yrs*(4/5)c = 4 ly. So s^2 = (4 ly)^2 - (5yrs*c)^2 = -9 ly^2 and s = i*3ly. Checking it in Q's frame of reference brought me to following idea - Q in his frame of reference didn't move at all. For Q it seems, that everything around moved. So spatial distance for Q is 0 and time distance is 3 years. Then s^2 = 0 - (3yrs*c)^2 = -9 ly^2 which is the same as for P's frame of reference. For part (B),(in P's frame) spatial distance is 4ly and time difference is 5 years we get the same s^2 = -9 ly^2 and in Q's frame, spatial distance is 0 and time difference is 3 years and again we get s^2 = - 9ly^2 For part (C), on the beginning of your post, you wrote that space-time intervals are independent of the frames, but later you wrote that total space time intervals will be different for Q than it is for P. Why? One idea came to my mind - to take absolute spatial distance into account rather than relative - this way, the results stay same in both frames - For P's frame, spatial distance is 10yrs*(4/5)c = 8ly and time difference is 10 years, so we get s^2 = 64 ly^2 - 100 ly^2 = -36 ly^2 and for Q's frame, spatial distace is still 0 and time difference is 6 years, so s^2 = -36 ly^2 and s = i*6ly. This even makes sense to me in a way that spacetime interval between start and return should be (logically) the sum of spacetime interval between start and turn and interval between turn and coming back. But if we stay with relative spatial distance, then we get different spacetime intervals - for both P and Q relative distance between start and coming back is 0. However time elapsed is 10 years for P and 6 years for Q so we get s^2 = - 100ly^2 (for P) or s^2= -36 ly^2 for Q. Is either of this proceedings correct? Thank you again.
Very nice* *see below regarding s vs. τ. Also very nice. So now you you'll need to figure out if you are supposed to give your answers in terms of s or τ. (Once again, τ here is the Greek letter tau, not to be confused with t.) Both s and τ are measures of spacetime intervals. And both are just different ways of expressing the same thing. They only really differ by the fact that s has space-like units and τ has time-like units; and s is real when dealing with space-like separated events and τ is real when dealing with time-like separated events. Since all the events in this problem are time-like separated, it sort of makes more sense to express the space-time intervals in terms of τ. But I'm not sure if that's what you're supposed to do, so you'll have to check your notes, textbook, or ask your instructor to know for sure. P's path through spacetime is different than Q's path through spacetime. They travel along different world-lines. Let's step away from special relativity just for the moment, and consider a triangle. Suppose the triangle has three vertices (corners), labeled A, B, and C. Is the distance AB + BC equal to distance AC? No, of course not. The distances are different because the path taken is different. Okay, now let's bring special relativity into the mix. A, B, and C are spacetime events. A is the point in spacetime that Q began its journey. B is the point in spacetime that Q turned around. C is the point in spacetime that Q returned. In this example, A and C are not separated in spacial dimensions but they are separated in the time dimension. Event B is separated from A and C in both space and time. And the interesting thing about special relativity, which you should probably get used to, is that the interval AB + BC is actually shorter than the direct path AC. Interval AC is actually a longer total path than the combination of AB and BC. That fact doesn't doesn't really matter that much for this problem, but it is something to keep in mind. The correct answer is in there somewhere. But it's up to you to determine which of your possible answers is the correct one. Is part (C) of the original problem asking for the spacetime interval AB+BC or is it asking for AC? Once again, I think the correct answer might be much more obvious to you if you drew out the events and intervals on a spacetime diagram. Spacetime diagrams were invented for problems like this.
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Comics A.M. | One party dropped from 'comic con' lawsuit [Updated]
Legal | There's one fewer party in the lawsuit over the use of the term "comic con": Newspaper Agency Corp., which produces materials for Salt Lake Comic Con, has settled with the organizers of Comic-Con International in San Diego. Comic-Con sued both in August, claiming trademark infringement. Update: A Comic-Con International spokesman clarified that the settlement with the Newspaper Agency Corp. — a printing, advertising and delivery company owned by The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News under a joint operating agreement — is already in effect, with the company agreeing to a court order that prevents it from using the mark "Comic-Con," "Comic Con" or its variants in the materials it produces. The lawsuit against Salt Lake Comic Con organizers continues. [The Salt Lake Tribune]
Crime | Someone tossed a homemade fire bomb into the offices of the German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost at about 2 a.m. on Sunday. Firefighters put out the fire quickly, and no one was in the offices at the time. The paper published three of the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons from Charlie Hebdo on Thursday with the headline "This much freedom must be possible!" [The Telegraph]
Editorial cartoons | Michael Kupperman relates his frustrating, and short-lived, experience as a cartoonist for The New York Times. [The Hooded Utilitarian]
Comics A.M. | San Diego & Salt Lake cons to meet about lawsuit
Legal | A conference has been scheduled for Oct. 27 in San Diego to discuss a possible settlement in the trademark dispute between Comic-Con International and Salt Lake Comic Con regarding the latter's use of "Comic Con." Comic-Con International filed lawsuit last month, claiming Salt Lake organizers are attempting to "confuse and deceive" fans and exhibitors with their use of the term. Salt Lake Comic Con formally responded on Monday, denying those accusations and asking a federal court to find Comic-Con International's trademarks invalid. [The Salt Lake Tribune]
Banned Books Week | Reporter Sydney Gillette gets the local angle on Banned Books Week, talking with a local comics retailer and a librarian. While Missoula, Montana, has very few book challenges, the most recent one at the public library involved a graphic novel, The Furry Trap, by Josh Simmons. Neither the public libraries nor the schools in the area have ever removed a book in response to a challenge. [Montana Kaimin]
Comics A.M. | Square Enix halts 'Hi Score Girl' amid copyright claims
Legal | The Japanese magazine Monthly Big Gangan has put the series Hi Score Girl on hold following allegations by the game company SNK Playmore that the manga is using its characters without authorization. The publisher, Square Enix, already recalled the five volumes of the series published so far and stopped releasing the manga digitally. [Anime News Network]
Creators | Gail Simone and Ethan Van Sciver talk about bringing Wonder Woman to Gotham City in their two-part story for DC Comics' new digital first anthology Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman. [Hero Complex]
Creators | Sonny Liew, creator of Malinky Robot and the artist of The Shadow Hero (written by Gene Luen Yang) was born in Malaysia, went to school in Singapore, then went to college in the United Kingdom and art school in the United States on his way to becoming a comics creator. There wasn't much of a homegrown comics scene when Liew was growing up, so he read mostly imports, but that's changing, and his newest project is an anthology featuring creators from the region. [The Malay Mail]
Comics A.M. | South Korea court rules 'One Piece' show can go on
Legal | A South Korea court has ruled an exhibition devoted to One Piece can be held as planned after it was abruptly canceled earlier this month following allegations that Eiichiro Oda's popular pirate manga contains images that resemble the Rising Sun flag, considered a symbol of Japanese imperialism in South Korea. The company staging the One Piece show, which includes life-sized statues, rare figures and Oda's sketches, asked the court to step in after the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul pulled the plug on the event just days before its scheduled July 12 opening. The court found that One Piece can't be considered to "[hail] Japanese imperialism" simply because it depicts a flag reminiscent of the Rising Sun; and even if those images are of the Rising Sun flag, it's mainly shown in a negative light. [The Asahi Shimbun]
Comics A.M. | Restricted erotic manga removed from Kindle store
Digital comics | Amazon has removed the manga Younger Sister Paradise 2 (Imōto Paradise! 2) from the Japanese Kindle store, two days after the Tokyo Metropolitan Government declared the manga a "harmful publication to minors" because of its "glorification of incestuous acts" and restricted its sale to customers over 18. As a result, beginning Friday, brick-and-mortar bookstores in Tokyo must keep the manga in a separate area for adults only. Whether because of all the attention or because it was unavailable elsewhere, the manga was the top-selling comic in the Japanese Kindle store before Amazon removed it. [Anime News Network]
Comics A.M. | A demand for rollback on same-day digital release?
Retailing | Dennis Barger, co-owner of Wonderworld Comics in Taylor, Michigan, and the driving force behind the new retailer association CBRA (Comic Book Retailers Alliance), says direct-market stores want publishers to pull back on same-day digital release, and debut the print comics first. He says ComicsPRO, the established, much larger, trade organization, is taking the wrong approach in trying to adapt to digital. Barger also feels that hand-selling by employees, not social media, is what propels sales of comics, especially non-Big Two titles: "The employees at local comic shops pushing these books is the difference in being in the top 200 and the bottom 300 in sales for those books." A shift to digital, which removes the local comics shop from the equation, would thus harm second-tier publishers such as Dark Horse, BOOM! Studios and IDW. The association was able to purchase an exclusive variant cover for The Amazing Spider-Man #1, drawn by John Romita Sr., for its members. [The News-Herald]
Comics A.M. | ComiXology updates app with Wish List, more
Digital comics | ComiXology has released an update for its Comics iOS app with a few fixes and a new feature: a Wish List. The app also now supports Manga Fixed Format. [App Advice]
Digital comics | Rob Salkowitz takes a look at the issues surrounding digital comics platforms for libraries and discusses one possible solution, iVerse's Comics Plus Library Edition. [ICv2]
Digital comics | Tyler James offers some solid advice for creators planning to use comiXology Submit. [Comix Tribe]
Conventions | Steve Duin has a largely tepid assessment of last weekend's Wizard World Comic Con, declaring, "Thank God for Emerald City." [The Oregonian]
Comics A.M. | 'Jihad Jane' faces lengthy sentence for cartoonist murder plot
Crime | Federal prosecutors are seeking a lengthy prison term for Colleen LaRose, who was convicted, along with two other people, in a foiled 2009 plot to kill Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist who drew a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed. LaRose, who goes by the online name "Jihad Jane," could face a life sentence, but as she assisted U.S. authorities with several terrorism investigations, they are merely asking that she spend "decades" behind bars. LaRose's sentencing hearing is scheduled for Monday; her co-conspirator, Mohammad Hasan Khalid, will be sentenced on Tuesday. [The Guardian]
Creators | Neil Gaiman, who maintains a highly visible presence on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr — he has 1.8 million followers on Twitter alone — is taking a six-month "sabbatical" from social media to focus on his writing. "I feel that I'm getting too dependent on phones, on Twitter," said Gaiman, who began blogging in 2001. "It's a symbiotic relationship. That instant ability to find things out, to share. I want to see what happens when I take some time off." [The Guardian]
Comics A.M. | Direct market sales grew 9.33% in November
Publishing | Retail news and analysis website ICv2 breaks down November's comics sales to the direct market and finds year-to-date sales up 9.33 percent over last year, with an 11.09 percent increase in comics and 5.55 percent in graphic novels. Batman #25 topped the comics chart with more than 125,000 copies, followed at No. 2 by Harley Quinn #0 with about 114,000. In the graphic novel category, the latest volume of The Walking Dead led with about 25,000 copies sold in November. ICv2 also lists the top 300 comics and graphic novels for November. [ICv2]
Creators | Molly Crabapple talks to Art Spiegelman, and draws his portrait as well. [Vice]
Comics A.M. | WonderCon wants 'to get back to the Bay Area'
Conventions | Although convention organizers rolled out an altered name — WonderCon Anaheim — and logo when they confirmed two weeks ago that the event will return to Anaheim, California, again next year, they insist they haven't close the door on San Francisco. "We still want to get back to the Bay Area. […] We are in touch with [the Moscone Center organizers] fairly regularly and we have an open dialogue," says David Glanzer, director of marketing and public relations. "They haven't given up on us, either." The convention was uprooted from the Moscone Center in 2012 first because of remodeling and now because of scheduling conflicts. WonderCon Anaheim will be held April 18-20. [Publishers Weekly]
Digital comics | I spoke with Archie Comics Co-CEO Jon Goldwater and iVerse Media CEO Michael Murphey about the new "all-you-can-eat" digital service, Archie Unlimited. [Good E-Reader]
Comics A.M. | 'Kuroko's Basketball' returns to shelves
Retailing | The rental chain Tsutaya and the bookstore chain Yurindo have returned Kuroko's Basketball books and DVDs to their shelves after "X-Day," Nov. 4, passed without incident. Someone has sent hundreds of threatening letters to convention sites, bookstores, the media and Sophia University (the alma mater of Kuroko's Basketball creator Tadatoshi Fujimaki), over the past year, and the most recent batch of letters said that "X-Day will be on the final day of the [Sophia University] school festival." Meanwhile, police are checking security cameras near all the mailboxes in the districts from which the letters were mailed, looking for suspicious people. [Anime News Network]
Comics | Brian Steinberg looks at Archie Comics' most radical move yet: the relatively adult Afterlife with Archie, which literally turned America's most iconic teenagers into zombies. Steinberg talks to Archie CEO Jon Goldwater, writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, artist Francesco Francavilla and others about the significance of this comic, which sold almost 65,000 copies to the direct market. [Variety]
Comics A.M. | Graphic novel sales rise again in book market
Graphic novels | Graphic novel sales are up 6.59 percent in comics shops, and they are also up in bookstores, according to the latest issue of ICv2's Internal Correspondence. Sales have been increasing in the direct market for a while, but this is the first uptick in bookstore sales since the economy crashed in 2008. There seem to be several factors, including the popularity of television and movie tie-ins — the success of DC's graphic novel program linked to Man of Steel is singled out — and a turnaround in manga sales. The article winds up with lists of the top properties in a number of different categories. [ICv2]
Digital comics | Here's today's news article on Crunchyroll's new digital manga service, which offers same-day releases of 12 Kodansha manga titles for free and an all-you-can-eat service for $4.99 a month. Tomohiro Osaki interviews Japanese publishing insiders, who are upfront about the fact that this is an attempt to compete with pirate sites, and translator Matt Thorn, who says that better translations on the official site may lure readers away from scanlations. [The Japan Times]
1975 called, and it wants its sexist author profile back
Perhaps you've heard of Isabel Greenberg: She's a young (age 25) creator whose first full-length graphic novel, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, is out this week. Her fellow creators have lots of good things to say about her and her work. She's off to a good start, and frankly, she deserves better than this condescending profile in the U.K. newspaper Metro:
Isabel Greenberg is the new face of comics. Not just because one look at this petite, pretty blonde confounds the lingering cliché that comics are created by spotty adult males in unwashed Spider-Man T-shirts.
Right there, in the very first paragraph, the writer manages to belittle her subject, insult male creators by calling them pimply and dirty, and insult female creators by acting like they don't exist. That's quite a hat trick!
I blame the editor for this, first for assigning the story to someone who obviously knows nothing about comics and then for letting her get away with that introduction and the purple prose that follows. Calling Greenberg a "petite, pretty blonde" is not only sexist, it's also lazy writing. That sort of thing was common in the 1970s, when every article about a woman had to include a description of her looks and what she was wearing. I thought we had moved on by now, but apparently Metro hasn't received the memo; I doubt they'd let a writer get away with describing Craig Thompson as "tall, dark and handsome."
Comics A.M. | IDW's 'My Little Pony' comics hit 1 million in sales
Publishing | Sales of IDW Publishing's My Little Pony comics, in single-issue and graphic novel format but not counting digital, have topped 1 million copies. (It does really well in the iBookstore — there are multiple issues in the Top 10 every week — although it seldom registers on the other digital comics platforms.) IDW's Ted Adams says this is because it's such a great comic, but shrewd marketing such as offering a special Scholastic Book Fair edition with a bonus pony figure probably helped a lot. [ICv2]
Digital comics | The motion-comics platform Madefire has secured $5.2 million in funding. In July it announced agreements with four comics publishers — IDW, BOOM! Studios, Top Cow and iTV — and the first IDW comics came out in August. Madefire also has a partnership with DeviantArt. [Publishers Weekly]
Comics A.M. | August sales dip attributed to four-week month
Publishing | Sales of comic books and graphic novels to the direct market dropped sharply in August, compared to the same month in 2012 (10.39 percent and 24.55 percent, respectively), but ICv2 attributes the decline — at least as far as periodicals is concerned — to August 2012 having five Wednesdays while last month had just four. Year-to-date sales are still up over 2012, although things seem to be slowing down a bit. DC Comics shipped more comic books, but Marvel won in market share, and the top-selling graphic novel was the first volume of The Walking Dead, which points to a dearth of new graphic novel releases. [ICv2]
Conventions | Attendance exceeded 50,000 at the first Salt Lake Comic Con, held over the weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah. This article focuses on families with children who attended, and includes some interesting conversations with parents who are obviously fans themselves and take an active interest in their children's comics reading. [Deseret News]


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-Automotive style expansion block plugs in the same diameters as your exhaust pipe, on both ends. It is better to buy a big plug as they are easy to downsize, small plugs will not work at all. To downsize, take a plug and burn the entire outer edge, then take a towel and wipe off a few layers, whatever is required to make the plug fit. I found this to be the easiest way to down size the plugs.
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We can supply you with all sealing tools (minus vise grips) for a price of $45.00. This will consist of two sealing plugs, a Schrader attachment for one plug and a 3' section of hose. Overall, we make less than $10.00 on one of these kits. The time it takes to find these items and assemble them is well worth the extra $10.00.
-Oxygen and Acetylene or Map Gas and Oxygen hand held cylinders that are connected as a dual system.
-Arc welders can be used on pipe seams…ONLY! Only experienced welders should attempt to use an arc welder on non-seamed areas. If you are not experienced at arc welding do not attempt using this method. You can quickly melt holes in your exhaust if you are not familiar with arc welding thin metals. If you must use an arc welder, remember this; weld a ¼" of an inch at a time or less to prevent burn through.
-The best welder to have is a heli-arc welder but wire-feeds also work. Operator experience is very important here. Small quick beads are the best way to prevent burn through.
-If you don't know how to weld then take your pipe to a muffler shop for any minor welding that may be needed.
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Prior to sealing an exhaust it is a good idea to make sure the inside of your exhaust is free of fresh gas deposits. To do this, simply run water through the entire exhaust. Do this 2-3 times to make sure all fresh gas deposits have been removed. If the exhaust has excessive carbon deposits, remove all accessible deposits prior to pressurization.
Seal both ends of your exhaust and tighten the automotive style block plugs. You want the plugs far enough in the ends of the exhaust to be able to attach vise grips to the end of the pipe. The vise grips act as stoppers and will prevent your plugs from blowing out under pressure. Make sure your vise grips are tight and attached at 180 degrees to each other. The silencer end,
only requires one small vise grip and can be attached at any angle.
Now it's time to pressurize your exhaust. It is best to have your pipe hooked up to an air compressor at all times, as leaks are inevitable. Pressurization can range from 80 to 120psi depending on the damaged area. If a dent is in a seamed area stick with the lowest possible PSI that will get the dent out (this will help eliminate the need to weld a split seam).
Once pressurized, it's time to heat the dented areas. Heat all dents to a red glow and BE Careful not to melt the metal. If you're using hand held MAP gas containers (not the dual system) be aware that it takes a little while to get the metal hot enough for repair. Most dents will start to come out at this point, so heat the metal SLOWLY and always keep the heated area's pointing AWAY FROM YOU. Once the area is red and glowing take a finishing hammer (or any hammer with a flat non blemishing head) and tap out the dent, going in circles around the entire area. Your hammer is your shaping tool. Using a hammer will get out 95% of all dents under pressure, so if it's not coming out you're missing something. When heating seams be exceptionally careful as they can split causing air to leak excessively. Heating seams SLOWLY is the best way to possibly prevent this. When this happens the seam needs to be welded before you can continue in this area. If you are taking your exhaust to someone for welding I suggest attacking all dents first to cut down on the amount of trips to your welder.
For pipes older than 1990 you may have an additional step. Some older exhaust pipes have seams that are "stamp welded" which means they were stamped under heat and pressure at the seams. These seams will come apart exceptionally easily and can be quite dangerous. Before attempting any repair on these types of seams you will need to weld them together first. If you're not sure what kind of seams you have simply send us an email (firstname.lastname@example.com) with photos if possible or send the year and model of the bike the pipe is for.
How to remove discoloration
Once you have removed your dents you may need to remove discoloration (nickel/chrome pipe) this is actually an easy process. Simply take a drill and attach a wire wheel to it. Wire wheel the discolored areas and use a generous amount of pressure. After you have removed the discoloration you can then polish the exhaust.
To make your exhaust look as good as possible take a quality chrome polish and wire wheel it onto the areas you just removed discoloration from. Then take a towel and polish your exhaust using a generous amount of elbow grease (effort).
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There are some problems with our table definition. Although we have effectively stopped people from storing NULL values in our TEXT columns, we haven't done anything to stop them from entering empty strings. In addition, we might want to ensure that the email_address column looks at least something like an e-mail address.
We can do this by adding constraints to our columns—tiny functions that check the value being inserted or updated. If the new value doesn't fit the definition, PostgreSQL refuses to allow its insertion. Here's a new definition of our table, with some constraints defined:
CREATE TABLE People ( id SERIAL NOT NULL, first_name TEXT NOT NULL CHECK (first_name <> ''), last_name TEXT NOT NULL CHECK (last_name <> ''), email_address TEXT NOT NULL CHECK (email_address ~* '.@.+\\\.'), added_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW(), PRIMARY KEY(id), UNIQUE(email_address) );
If we inspect our table definition, it has changed somewhat, to include the constraints:
linux=# \d people Table "public.people" Column | Type | Modifiers --------------+-----------------------------+---------------------- id | integer | not null default nextval('people_id_seq'::regclass) first_name | text | not null last_name | text | not null email_address | text | not null added_at | timestamp without time zone | not null default now() Indexes: "people_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) "people_email_address_key" UNIQUE, btree (email_address) Check constraints: "people_email_address_check" CHECK (email_address ~* '.@.+\\.'::text) "people_first_name_check" CHECK (first_name <> ''::text) "people_last_name_check" CHECK (last_name <> ''::text)
Let's see what happens if we violate these constraints:
linux=# insert into people (first_name , last_name, email_address) values ('', 'Lerner', 'email@example.com'); ERROR: new row for relation "people" violates check constraint "people_first_name_check" linux=# insert into people (first_name , last_name, email_address) values ('Reuven2', 'Lerner2', 'reuven'); ERROR: new row for relation "people" violates check constraint "people_email_address_check"
Sure enough, our constraints help to ensure that our database is in order.
The most common type of constraint is a foreign key, in which one table points to another. For example:
CREATE TABLE Appointments ( person_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES People, starting_time TIMESTAMP NOT NULL, duration INTERVAL NOT NULL, notes TEXT NULL );
If we try to create an appointment that refers to a non-existent person, we will be rejected:
INSERT INTO Appointments (person_id, starting_time, duration, notes) VALUES (5000, '2007-Feb-12 13:00', interval '1 hour', 'Lunch'); ERROR: insert or update on table "appointments" violates foreign key constraint "appointments_person_id_fkey" DETAIL: Key (person_id)=(5000) is not present in table "people".
Foreign-key constraints help in the other direction as well. If you try to drop a row to which a foreign key points, PostgreSQL will refuse the request, indicating that you must first delete the foreign key. You can adjust the rules for these constraints by setting the ON UPDATE or ON DELETE modifiers to the foreign key definition.
This list of features is just the tip of the iceberg. And that's part of the magic of PostgreSQL—out of the box, it's straightforward and easy to use, but you almost always can redefine and extend existing functionality with your own code and data. The built-in operators, along with the flexible ways in which they can be combined and further enhanced with your own functions and definitions, make for a powerful combination. I don't often use unions or intersections, but I do often use views.
For example, one of my favorite features is the ability to use subselects just about anywhere you would have a value. If you have someone's e-mail address, you can use that to INSERT a row into Appointments in a single command:
INSERT INTO Appointments (person_id, starting_time, duration, notes) VALUES ((SELECT id FROM People WHERE email_address = 'firstname.lastname@example.com'), '2007-Feb-12 13:00', interval '1 hour', 'Lunch');
If the existing data types aren't enough, we can construct our own. PostgreSQL already comes with a number of existing data types, including geometric shapes, IP addresses and even ISBNs.
If we want to create more than one table with similar characteristics, we can take advantage of PostgreSQL's object-oriented features. Thus, we could have a People table and a Managers table, in which the definition of Manager inherits the characteristics of People and adds its own extensions.
You also can create your own server-side functions, in a variety of different languages—from PostgreSQL's own Pl/pgsql to specialized versions of Perl, Python, Tcl, Java, Ruby and the R statistical language. These functions can return individual values or entire tables, and can be used in triggers. You also can use these functions to rewrite the rules for inserting, updating and deleting data from a table or even a view.
But, perhaps the most important feature of all is the built-in support for transactions. Transactions are an essential part of database programming, in that they allow us to combine multiple queries into one all-or-nothing action. The classic example of a transaction is the movement of money from one bank account to another; if the power goes out, you want to be sure that the money was moved, or that it wasn't. It would be unacceptable for the money to disappear altogether or for it to appear in both accounts when the lights come back on.
Recent versions of PostgreSQL have enhanced its transactional capabilities. Not only can you commit or roll back a transaction, but you also can define savepoints inside a transaction. If something goes wrong, you can either roll back the entire transaction or merely go to the previous savepoint. Moreover, PostgreSQL now supports two-phase commits, making it possible to synchronize distributed processes that require communication and coordination.
If anything goes wrong, PostgreSQL also provides a PITR (point-in-time recovery) through a write-ahead log (WAL), ensuring that even if the power is cut off at the most critical moment, transactions will be committed or rolled back, and that as many transactions as possible will be committed.
You might have noticed that I haven't mentioned locking at all. That's because, for the most part, PostgreSQL users don't have to worry about locking. The lack of locking is handled using a system known as MVCC (multiversion concurrency control), which has only one drawback, namely the creation of many unused and cast-off database rows. The traditional way to handle this in PostgreSQL is to VACUUM the database regularly, removing old rows and clearing up space. Recent versions now include an auto-vacuum agent, reducing or even eliminating the need to VACUUM on a regular basis.
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