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It's simple, really. A whisper of vermouth, some gin, and an olive. But there are many subtle variations on this theme. How much vermouth is appropriate? There is much debate. Some recipes are playfully averse to it, recommending, say, pouring a generous portion of gin into a shaker while a friend stands in the next room waving a vermouth bottle at you. Here are just a few of the more traditional takes on the king of cocktails.
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Tatooine's twin suns - coming to a planet near you just as soon as Betelgeuse explodes
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- January 19, 2011
- Betelgeuse losing mass
- Explosion will create "new sun"
- May be set for 2012 appearance
IT'S the ultimate experience for Star Wars fans - staring forlornly off into the distance as twin suns sink into the horizon.
Yet it's not just a figment of George Lucas's imagination - twin suns are real. And here's the big news - they could be coming to Earth.
Yes, any day now we see a second sun light up the sky, if only for a matter of weeks.
The infamous red super-giant star in Orion's nebula - Betelgeuse - is predicted to go gangbusters and the impending super-nova may reach Earth before 2012, and when it does, all of our wildest Star Wars dreams will come true.
The second biggest star in the universe is losing mass, a typical indication that a gravitation collapse is occurring.
When that happens, we'll get our second sun, according to Dr Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland.
"This old star is running out of fuel in its centre", Dr Carter said.
"This fuel keeps Betelgeuse shining and supported. When this fuel runs out the star will literally collapse in upon itself and it will do so very quickly."
When this happens a giant explosion will occur, tens of millions of times brighter than the sun.
The bad news is, it could also happen in a million years. But who's counting?
The important thing is, one day, night will become day for several weeks on Earth.
"This is the final hurrah for the star," says Dr Carter.
"It goes bang, it explodes, it lights up - we'll have incredible brightness for a brief period of time for a couple of weeks and then over the coming months it begins to fade and then eventually it will be very hard to see at all."
The interwebs is being flooded with doomsday theories saying the impending supernova confirms the Mayan calendar's prediction of the Armageddon in 2012.
These conspiracies aren't helped by the word "Betelgeuse" being associated with the devil.
Though it is a derivation of the Arabic phrase "yad Al Jauza" meaning the "hand of Al-Jauza" referring to a mysterious woman that controls the order of the universe, it hasn't stopped some people from clearing out their bunkers and stocking up on tinned food.
Far from being a sign of the apocalypse, according to Dr Carter the supernova will provide Earth with elements necessary for survival and continuity.
"When a star goes bang, the first we will observe of it is a rain of tiny particles called nuetrinos," says Dr Carter.
"They will flood through the Earth and bizarrely enough, even though the supernova we see visually will light up the night sky, 99 per cent of the energy in the supernova is released in these particles that will come through our bodies and through the Earth with absolutely no harm whatsoever."
Stars such as the supernova produce elements that are critical to life on Earth.
Quite literally, the whole of Earth and our solar system is made of star stuff, including most of the heavy elements of the Periodic Table.
"It literally makes things like gold, silver - all the heavy elements - even things like uranium….a star like Betelgeuse is instantly forming for us all sorts of heavy elements and atoms that our own Earth and our own bodies have from long past supernovi," Dr carter said.
Some experts have speculated Betelgeuse's explosion may cause a neutron star or result in the formation of a black hole approximately 1300 light years from Earth, but Dr Carter says it could go either way.
"There's a reasonably even chance of a neutron star or a black hole", he says.
"If it were me, I'd suspect it would more likely become a black hole at 20 solar masses."
Addendum: NEWS.com.au would like to apologise for their error - as we all know, Betelgeuse is the second biggest star in the Orion constellation, not the universe.
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Alex Lee Posted at 4:52 AM September 07, 2011
We hear so many things about space and the most interesting are unfortunately not from any verifiable sources. If such an event occurs, why don't we learn about it from the NASA?
Bryan Posted at 12:25 PM February 21, 2011
for the people saying it will take 1200 light years to reach us - you are wrong, what we see now is lagged 1200 years, so the sun could have already supernovaed and we wouldnt know about it until the actual light emitted reaches us. It is just like if our sun was to explode it wouldnt reach us for 8 minutes. Anyway you guys should watch the space documentary series, its awesome stuff. Highly recommended and some scary shiz! If a gamma ray hits us, its gg earth! but then again we have been living for this long, another year won't hurt!
Michael of Bathurst Posted at 4:08 PM January 20, 2011
To chris of Tennant Creek. Pardon the pun but you need to lighten up mate. You missed it all together. This article was obviously intended to be witty humour rather than an entry into a scientific journal.


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Two to three years ago, it seemed inevitable: Single issue comic books, derisively called "floppies," were on the way out. Graphic novels were the future for most publishers, and floppies weren't even working as loss-leaders. But over the past year, the single issue is on the rebound and flourishing.
While I love graphic novels, the episodic consumption of comics is one of its unique strengths. Comics can excel in either form, but they aren't interchangeable. Just as TV shows and movies present stories differently, so too do comic book series and original graphic novels. For a time, it seemed like The Walking Dead was the last great monthly comic book because it knew how to grab with the first issue, it knew how to use the monthly cliffhanger, it knew how to utilize those 30-some odd pages, it knew how to keep the status quo shifting. It still does, and now it's being joined by more and more comics that are embracing the episodic nature of the format. It wasn't always that way, though, in part due to creative patterns and economic changes in the industry.
In 2010, only an estimated 69 million comic books were ordered by North American specialty stores, the lowest quantity in nearly a decade. For publishers not backed by large entertainment corporations (i.e., not Marvel and DC), single issues were starting to look like the next horse and buggy, something from a soon-to-be bygone era.
To some extent, this was foreshadowed in the aughts when the "writing for the trade" criticism was first coined. As outlined at Publishers Weekly, the success of manga in the book market resulted in unprecedented graphic novel sections in bookstores. Suddenly publishers like DC, Dark Horse and Marvel had a new revenue stream and saw big growth potential. Creators wisely took advantage of this new audience, but sometimes to the detriment of the perceived entertainment value of individual issues that formed the collected editions sold in Barnes & Noble and Borders.
The shift away from single issues occurred in other areas, too. Revered series like Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library, Seth's Palookaville and Los Bros Hernandez's Love and Rockets all transitioned into forms more friendly to the book market, which was embracing graphic novels. Fondly remembered series like David Lapham's Stray Bullets vanished years ago. Others, like Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve, are in some kind of limbo, with an issue suddenly appearing out of nowhere and then nothing again. A number of respected and acclaimed publishers like Fantagraphics, Drawn and Quarterly, Archaia, and Top Shelf mostly abandoned publishing individual issues. Some newer publishers, like First Second Books, have released graphic novels exclusively from the outset.
Among this transition away from floppies, several "micro-publishers" started popping up to help revitalize them in the alt/indie scene. In 2011, Box Brown successfully raised more than $9,000 to launch Retrofit Comics, a publisher dedicated to releasing floppy alt-comics, and they still seem to be going strong. The all-ages comic Operation Pizza by Brown and Grand Gestures by Simon Moreton are about to be released, and a number of their previous releases have sold out. Hic & Hoc Publications, run by Mathew Moses, followed last year and will soon release the anthology, Hic & Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humor, which follows the more creepy Unknown Origins and Untimely Ends: A Collection of Unsolved Mysteries.
Meanwhile, two significant developments probably helped save the floppy: the demise of Borders and the rise of digital comics. In 2011, the struggling Borders finally filed for bankruptcy. By most accounts, manga publishers like Tokyopop were hit harder than most graphic novel publishers, but the loss of more than 1,000 retail locations amid an economic recession is bound to have an effect on the industry. Graphic novel and trade paperback sales in the direct market were down by an estimated $6 million that same year.
Around the same time, digital comics were coming into their own, and primarily focusing on the single issue. ComiXology's summer 2010 launch of its web reader kicked off the momentum to significantly increase availability beyond access through mobile devices; the company surpassed 100 million downloads last October. Only a few months earlier, DC made the bold move of relaunching its entire line as the New 52 and syncing digital releases with print releases, accompanied by a massive marketing blitz focused squarely on floppies. Subsequent theme months, such as Zero Month and April's gatefold covers continue to put the spotlight on the single issues. Marvel, which has never had as good of a book market presence as it should, echoed that strategy in print and digital with Marvel NOW. Releasing same-day digital, a controversial move a year ago, is now an industry standard across most publishers. There's also the Free Comic Book Day factor, which gets bigger and bigger every year, and is almost entirely focused on floppies.
This renewed attention to the single issue in digital is helping shift back to the approach of making each floppy as satisfying as possible. This in turn results in sales going up on individual issues, which is exactly what they've done both in print and digital, even as graphic novels have recovered.
In 2012, more than 80 million comic books were ordered by North American specialty stores, compared to 2010's 69 million. This year is on track to exceed that amount. The fact that publishers other than Marvel and DC are having comics crack Diamond's Top 100 speaks volumes to me. For most of this year, there have been 10 or 11 comics from other comics in the Top 100. That means individual issues are getting people excited enough to compete with the established superhero icons. That's a big deal, especially when you consider about half of them are original properties like Jupiter's Legacy and East of West, not licensed comics. Other channels are starting to pick up on single issues as well. The Kindle has helped floppies start to compete with graphic novels at Amazon, if David Carter's weekly Top 50 snapshot is any indication. OK, granted it's almost entirely Injustice: Gods Among Us, but individual comic issues on Kindle and Nook are still very new, and that could help open up awareness. Plus there's been a Batman and an Amazing Spider-Man here and there, so there is likely more not being captured below the Top 50.
The truth is that comics seem to be gradually and even steadily rising in all sectors, and comics have more ways to bring in money than ever before, from comic book stores to book stores to digital platforms to schools to libraries to conventions. The fear has always been that one will cannibalize one or more of the others. So far reality has debunked that theory, and it has shown that a format completely unique to comics considered endangered only two years ago can make a comeback.
Considering that MARVEL is pushing it too far with how their new Hardcovers (and TPBs for that matter) are priced (Spider-Man: Zeb Wells & Joe Madueira HC has six issues in it yet it costs $30), it's now cheaper to buy the individual issues.
I theorize, that this "strategy" is two-fold, first they want to know how dumb their reading base is, second, they want to see if they can push people to buy DIGITAL ISSUES|Books only at relatively the same prices as the physical books and issues.
They've been talking about the death of the floppy (how I hate that term) for decades and it's never happened. However I'm of the opinion that everything written will eventually be digital-based and floppies will still be available, but only for a small fan base. Trades will dominate bookshops andLCS will die out unless they alter the way they operate (highlighting other collectibles like cards, toys, fashion etc)
I've been buying floppies for 38 years and have steadily been dropping titles this year, and instead buying them in tradepaperback form as they're cheaper and easier to store (don't need to bag them etc) if you're paying more for a trade than the accumulated cost of six floppies then you need to find a better LCS or bookstore. I save at least $10 by purchasing a trade. Especially regarding Dynamite trades that group floppies that are selling at $3.99 for a comic (outrageous!!)
As for Walking Dead – I find that this title is better read as a trade (although I am buying floppies myself) as the book is so SLOW!! It's a great comic, but frustrating to read on an individual basis.
I don't see floppies ever going away. I'm not likely to spend $35+ on a hardcover/TPB/graphic novel when there's a chance I might not like it. But I don't mind spending $3-4 on a floppy while determining if I like a series and will continue or don't like it and will drop it.
I used to spend a minimum of $50 a week on comics 4 years ago, now I barely spend $20 a month. With Marvel's never ending run of events, to DC's reboot that had some good books that have grown stagnant to me, I pretty much gave up. Checking back in to see if anything was worth trying. Not seeming to find anything that clicks. I'll go to Comixology and pick up a comic every now and then. Since my three LCS options are either A) 60 miles away; B) A place that has been shot up, robbed, and is admittedly in the Ghetto; and lastly C) A store run by a hipster douche who allows the comics to get warped by the AC/Heat system, fire ant mounds to form inside the store, and a cat that tends to scratch people run wild in said store.
Serialize stories. Call them individual issues, floppies, doesn't matter. Tell a good story. That ends. Don't always dovetail it into yet another story. After another. After another. "THE END" exists, don't be afraid to use it.
Big moves from the big two with the New 52 and Marvel NOW don't hurt.
And Marvel's movies, of course. Not that I think that moviegoers are all turning into monthly readers, but movies do generate enthusiasm, and hence probably greater purchasing, from existing hardcore or casual readers/fans.
joe35 wrote, "But I don't mind spending $3-4 on a floppy while determining if I like a series and will continue or don't like it and will drop it."
Smart move.
I have been doing that for years.
I currently favor format over price, for the most part. I buy hardcover trades and single issues via Comixology because those are the two formats I prefer, even if it would be cheaper to buy comics another way. I no longer want single issue "floppies".
For the longest time I was trade only. I'd be months behind in my comic stories and often had big twists spoiled for me. But that's the life of a trade waiter. Then I started reading digitally via a tablet with a hi-res screen and it brought me back into spending money on a weekly basis, which i'm sure publishers love from a cash-flow point of view.
I do pay more attention now to the value of a single month's issue. Before, a decompressed issue was no big deal tucked into a 6 part arc. But being back in the world of monthlies – I expect a little more for my money.
So for me the floppy is dead, but that doesn't mean the experience of a monthly serial is dead too.
I use the term "floppies," but not derisively. It's more efficient than the six syllable "Single issue comic.". When a more efficient means of description (car instead of automobile, tv instead of refrigerator) becomes available and widely used, its universal adoption is inevitable, and a lack of easy terminology infers an exclusitivity to the subject matter. Having an easy term means, from a language standpoint, that comics are no longer exclusive to comics readers, or at least that they won't be for long. And that bodes well for the long-term growth of the medium and its public reception.
Floppies???? Seriously, people are "commonly" calling them floppies???? I must be out of touch.
I buy DC & Marvel as singles (hate the term floppies). For me I can purchase them cheaper this way. I also but Valiant as singles even though trades would be cheaper but only because I really enjoy their books. Image varies for me. Some I buy as singles, some as trades. Dynamite I usually buy in trade format except for a few like Waid's Green Hornet.
I've been reading monthly since mid 70's..I have stopped several times and pretty much always start again. When the norm became 5 or 6 part stories that was a turnoff. Yes tpb writing I know. I no longer read physical monthlies. .I purchase through comixology for convenience. .I'm not lugging around excess on flights or trains. Monthlies I purchase are all CGC now. In my opinion the reason why walking dead tpb are such great sellers is the readership ate all mostly late comers and its less expensive than tracking down monthlies. The monthly like the physical newspaper won't die at least not for the foreseeable future. …last thing. .its a crime that new digital releases cost as much as the print. .but they will continue taking advantage of readers like me who'll pay for convenience. .if I got off track here a bit..apologies!
I get my superhero comics as singles. I get my alternative stuff (mostly Image and Vertigo) as trades.
About a year ago I was getting roughly 30 titles per month in singles. With creative talents moving around and leaving stories I like, I'm now down to 8.
@Chris, if efficiency is your argument, then why not singles instead of floppies? Also, I'd never consider calling my refrigerator a TV, no matter how many syllables that saves me.
I rarely use "singles" because it already has a standard meaning in the music industry. I prefer using a term specific to comics, especially since music is my other hobby.
I have a very modular approach to buying comics. In the old days I used to stick with certain titles no matter what. I buy single issues of a title when I like a particular story. If I like the looks of the next story, I'll continue to pick up that title. If not, I'm on to something else. By doing that I maintain a relatively stable budget and get to sample a variety of titles. Waiting for trades wouldn't allow me the flexibility that buying single issues does for that strategy. With John's Justice League run, for example, I forwent the David Graves story in favor of a story in another book. Does it mean I have a disjointed collection? Yes. But with the constant renumbering and restarts these days it would be anyways.
@Rich. Ah, but what if my other hobby is PC gaming on a windows 95 machine and several of my favourites, like Sim Tower, are on 'floppies'? Perhaps I'm also a baseball aficionado and 'singles' also means something completely different to me. I think maybe, to help music, baseball, retro PC gaming, comic book fans we should just call them monthlies? Although, this might confuse women that refer to their periods as such, so maybe we should create a brand new nickname for monthly single issue comics like 'cromics' or 'the pull'
This is the first time I have heard of the term floppies. I think it is an idiotic term and the use of it by the comic book media is disgusting.
Curious if anyone fully embraced digital format then grew tired of the virtual collection as I did?
floppies, never knew that term until now.
Same as Mel,
never heard of a floppie…..only been collecting since 74……1974. don't own an ipad..and no intentions of getting one…I do own a kindle and so does the wife….that's what we read our BOOKS on, I certainly wouldn't read my comics on a computer screen…..Paper….its the way forward you know……….
The single issue, episodic format is aimed at a very specific customer and demographic – people who religiously show up in the comic shop every week looking for new material. Producing something in this format also implies infrastructure – the ability to produce one comic a month and get it printed and distributed.
It is important to remember that there are other audiences out there. Some people don't know or care about when free comic book day is. Some people are not keen on picking up issue one of a series that they may never see again. And not every creator is happy to kill themselves on a monthly basis to produce something that may or may not get picked up by that very specific demographic base that shows up on new comics day.
Different formats. Different audiences. Different release schedules. Different creative styles. It's probably about time we stopped pretending that comics is somehow a big homogenous culture and not a bunch of overlapping sub-cultures.
But how many of that l1.1 million more issues from 2010 -> 2012 came from double-shipped titles and cover gimmicks? The industry is growing, slightly, but not in a healthy way, just by selling more copies to the same readers, and giving rare covers to retailers who order issues that don't sell (but cost less than the rare cover can be sold for on eBay)? Double-shipping came into its own during 2012. I want to see signs of healthy growth, not juiced sales.
For example, a title that sold 50k issues in Diamond's numbers each month would sell 600k/year. If you double ship that, you get 1.2 million copies. So if you had two titles selling about 50k each month and double-shipped both, that's around a million more comics out of thin air. Do that with your whole line, and you get your 11 million. Reboot your universe and you get Hawk and Dove #1 selling like Uncanny X-Men for one month.
I'm more interested in the velocity of sales. Most titles peak at #1 and sales trail off.
@Some Guy: That was my thought as well, with the double shipping stuff, and of course, constant events and tie-ins pumping up some titles for months at a time. There are also the super variants (like 50+ for JLA) and the media blitz for more issues these days. Made Alan Scott homosexual this time around? Media release. Killing Damian? Media release. Johnny Storm is biting it? Media release. Spider-Man is dying AND being replaced by a black/Hispanic kid? Media release. Gay marriage? Media release. Obama's on a cover? Media release.
That's not to slam any or all of those issues, mind you, just that there's a direct and unmistakable correlation between comics that get media attention and sales. Look at the sales of the current volume of Batman, Inc., or the last several years of Astonishing X-Men. Guess which ones sold most? Pretty much every one of those issues mentioned, where they were preceded with extra attention and publicity, did out of the ordinary in terms of sales for that respective title.
Even with events and tie-ins, a book like Secret Six was critically acclaimed but not a sales juggernaut; guess which issues of the series were the highest–the first one, and the tie-ins to Battle For the Cowl, Blackest Night, and Action Comics. Heck, Ms. Marvel only lasted as long as it did because of the heavy tie-ins to Secret Invasion, Civil War, etc. if you look at the sales trends for the title as it got bumped up each time only to fall back down (sadly. I loved that damn book!).
DC's flash in the pan New 52 brought insane numbers with the hype and the brand new #1s, but things are slowly returning back to more sustainable levels, as will happen with Marvel NOW! until the next big things from each.


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How much do Springer-Verlag authors make per book sold?
This varies substantially, depending on the sort of book, how well the author negotiated (each book involves an individually negotiated contract), the price of the book, etc. Based on one Springer contract I'm familiar with, here's a first approximation. I can't say for sure how representative it is, but it's at least one data point, and I'd guess it's typical for Springer and competing publishers.
For regular sales, the author may get 9-12% of "net cash receipts", defined as what the publisher made on the sale (excluding taxes), with the percentage depending on things like how well the book has sold. Note that "regular sales" excludes some special cases, for which there may be lower royalty rates.
Then the question is how much Springer charged the bookseller for the book. You can download a 6 megabyte zip file of Springer wholesale prices. I glanced at a few math books, and the prices look like they are about 60% of what bookstores are charging. That's certainly the right ballpark, but I haven't computed any real statistics.
So a first approximation is that the author's royalty is probably 5-7% of the price you pay in a bookstore. Considering that academic books are expensive, that's not bad, but nobody's going to grow rich off it. For advanced books, selling 1000 copies in total is very good and selling 10,000 is amazing.
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If you live in Germany, don't forget to register with VG Wort when your book is published. They only pay out once a year, as does Springer. But I got more money from VG Wort than I did from Springer for my book published in 2014. As an answer above noted: you aren't going to get rich.
Also, do read the proofs very carefully. They seem to employ people who don't understand the manuscripts to do what little editing they do.
I am a Springer author of a book in the Boston Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science series, and I made 6% off the gross sales.


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The hottest Honda for many shoppers this year is not the sporty S2000 roadster. It's not Honda's trendy sport utility, the CR-V.
It's the Odyssey, Honda's minivan.
The minivan has been posting record monthly sales in the United States. Through the first half of this calendar year, the Odyssey set a torrid rate for sales growth - more than 148 percent - with 66,717 sold versus 26,708 in the same period in 1999.
Executives at American Honda Motor Co. Inc. were clearly on to something two years ago when they talked about pent-up demand for a Honda minivan as they introduced the redesigned Odyssey.
The Odyssey is the biggest Honda vehicle ever built, designed to compete with DaimlerChrysler's long-wheelbase minivans and General Motors Corp.'s minivans. And despite stiff competition, the Odyssey keeps winning praise.
Consumer Reports and automotive researcher J.D. Power and Associates both rank the Odyssey better than average in the number of defects reported by buyers. And the federal government awarded Honda's minivan five of five stars for performance in both front and side crashes. The only other minivan to receive five stars in the New Car Assessment Program tests is the Ford Windstar.
Perhaps most surprising as I tested the Odyssey is how Honda - known for its nimble, fuel-efficient small cars - managed to build a big, solid-feeling minivan that seems more than ready to take on rough-and-tumble duty as a family hauler.
The seven-passenger, 2000 Odyssey EX-Navi test van gobbled up all the stuff I packed into it, including two big closet doors, their hardware and assorted other home project supplies.
I easily folded away Honda's third-row, trademarked Magic Seat into a floor well and then folded down the seatbacks of the middle row to make room for the closet doors. All items, big and small, fit inside the Odyssey so neatly and quickly that I was driving away in minutes.
The Magic Seat's advantage is letting a driver take the third-row seat along for use later, rather than having to remove it and leave it behind.
Honda also was the first to use a novel slide-apart/slide-together second-row seat. It's basically two flat seats that move along tracks on the floor. That allows parents to separate fighting kids or provided captain's chair-style seating for adults. The seats can also be pushed together to make a more conventional bench seat.
The Odyssey's maximum cargo space, 146.1 cubic feet, is less than the 155.9 cubic feet of GM's Oldsmobile Silhouette or the 168.5 cubic feet of the Chrysler Grand Voyager, but it's close enough to satisfy most buyers.
Besides, the Odyssey's 41.2-inch front headroom, 41-inch front legroom and 62.6-inch front shoulder room are more than what you find in the GM and DaimlerChrysler minivans.
In the second row, the Odyssey's 40-inch headroom matches that of the Grand Voyager and edges above the 39.3 inches in the Silhouette. That row's 40 inches of legroom and 64.5 inches of shoulder room surpass the competition's.
In third row space, the Odyssey again bests its competitors except in legroom, where its 38.1 inches compares with 39 inches in the Grand Voyager.
The Odyssey, moreover, is the only one to include head restraints and shoulder belts for all seven seat positions.
The Odyssey's 3.5-liter, single overhead cam V6 with Honda's Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control is extremely capable, giving this van an unexpected responsiveness.
I was impressed with how well the engine powered the almost 4,300-pound Odyssey. On highway ramps, for example, the Odyssey stayed in the lower gears to give me the acceleration I demanded. It was all done smoothly by a four-speed automatic transmission with gear shift on the steering column.
With 205 horses at 5,200 rpm and torque of 217 foot-pounds at 4,300 rpm, the Odyssey has ranked among the top minivans in performance.
The front-wheel drive Odyssey provides a comfortable ride, cushioning riders over bumps but handling with decent agility.
The two power sliding doors on the test van, however, proved frustrating. Their slowness would prove annoying if you're standing outside in the rain. Tugging on a door manually to hurry things along had no effect on the plodding power system.
DaimlerChrysler's 2001 minivans will include a new kind of power door that lets the doors be operated easily in either manual or power mode.
For the 2000 model year, the Odyssey becomes the first minivan to offer a factory-installed, satellite-linked navigation system.
It works through global positioning satellites, a gyroscope, vehicle speed sensors and a DVD-based database to pinpoint the van's location and give a driver directions on how to get to the destination.
Honda leaves out, however, other features that could boost the Odyssey's appeal. It's one of the few makers of minivans, for example, that doesn't offer a backseat entertainment system with video and second-choice audio capability.
Ford added the option of adjustable pedals for better driver comfort last year, and DaimlerChrysler plans to offer them in its 2001 minivans. Nothing to compete from Honda.
Neither does Honda offer a reverse sensor that helps a driver know if the minivan is about to hit an object as it backs up. Ford offers this system on its 2000 Windstar, and GM's minivans will offer it on the 2001 model.
The 2000 Odyssey has a starting manufacturer's suggested retail price including destination charge of $23,840. This compares with $22,845 for a Chrysler Grand Voyager and $25,975 for a Oldsmobile Silhouette GL.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ben Cramer died Monday at the age of 62. His book What it Takes became a classic tome about presidential campaigns.
Let's take a moment to remember the writer Richard Ben Cramer. He died Monday in Baltimore of complications from lung cancer at the age of 62.
Cramer's books include a 1,000-page work on the 1988 presidential campaign, called "What It Takes."
MONTAGNE: Though it was panned at first, it became essential reading for anyone learning about politics. He profiled candidates like Bob Dole, Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush.
INSKEEP: With rare depth and energy, Cramer tracked the lifelong struggles that drove one man to the White House and drove other candidates excruciatingly close before they came away with nothing. He wrote of the way a losing candidate is thrown back on himself and forced to find a way to go on.
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One might think that three wars -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya -- would be enough. Apparently, for the United States military apparatus, it's not.
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Consumers shopping around for high-speed Internet service have two questions: How much, and how fast?
The first part is easily answered, and there's a reminder with every monthly bill. To answer the second, service providers loudly promote their download speeds. But it's tough for consumers to know just how high-speed that Internet access really is.
Government regulators in several countries are on speed patrol, though, and they have discovered that providers' performance often fails to match their ads. For consumers, that could mean more time spent waiting for video to buffer, for photos to load, and for online games to continue.
"We found that people were making decisions based on advertised speeds, which bore little resemblance to actual speeds," says Ian Macrae, director of the broadband-testing project for the U.K. Office of Communications.
In the past three years, U.S. and U.K. regulators have started testing broadband lines and publishing their findings, running actual and advertised speeds side by side. In September, the European Commission signed on with the firm that is testing in the U.S. and U.K.
The tests have increased information available about broadband speeds—and highlighted the difficulty of coming up with a single number to describe the flow of information from the Internet into homes. The U.S. government effort is painstaking and expensive, and could be vulnerable to manipulation by carriers. And this week, an advertising campaign based on the government's figures sparked a lawsuit.
It is unclear whether consumers even know how fast their connection is supposed to be, and providers are often careful to note that promoted speeds aren't always attainable. "Consumers consider the advertised broadband speed only once—when they choose a particular operator and tier of service," says Brett L. Sappington, director of research for Parks Associates, a Dallas market-research firm.
Nonetheless, he and other analysts say consumers notice when download speed—the most commonly cited measure—isn't what they expect, and users are pushing the limits of their service as bandwidth-hogging online video becomes more popular.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission took its first crack at measuring download speeds in 2009, but it now acknowledges the methodology had key drawbacks.
In August, the FCC tried again with a new data-collection provider, SamKnows, a U.K. company that also provides the U.K. data. The report revealed that most carriers fell short of advertised download speeds, particularly in peak periods. Most notably, Cablevision System Corp.'s delivered speed during peak hours was 54% of promised speed.
Verizon Communications Inc., VZ -1.55 % which came closer to delivering advertised speeds and exceeded them with its fiber-optics service, started running ads tweaking its rival. One spot shows users suffering from "cable vision," as their eyes rotate in tune with a circle on their computer screens indicating a video is loading slowly.
This week, the FCC announced that Cablevision had since boosted its performance, delivering over 90% of pledged speed in peak hours in October to subscribers of its 15 megabits-per-second service. Cablevision asked Verizon to pull the ads, then sued Verizon in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y.
"The FCC has recognized the fast broadband speeds we deliver to our customers," a Cablevision spokesman said in a statement. He declined to comment on the earlier findings.
Verizon spokesman Bill Kula says its ads clearly cite the date of FCC data they are referencing, and adds that the latest data still show Cablevision delivering less than it promises. "We are evaluating ways we may adjust the advertisements in light of the lawsuit," Mr. Kula says. A hearing on the lawsuit is set for Dec. 19.
Overall, the FCC's August figures showed companies—excluding Cablevision—delivering 89% of advertised speed. A National Cable and Telecommunications Association executive wrote in a blog post that the report "confirms that cable operators are delivering world-class services."
Many factors complicate speed measurement. Steven Bauer, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has documented some of them: Stray too far from your wireless router, or too close to a microwave, and the signal could degrade. "All of those issues were affecting early versions of speed tests," he says. "The FCC is really careful to control for all of those effects."
To do so, the FCC and SamKnows met with Internet providers and academics to design a methodology that would hold up to scrutiny. Two key steps were the decision to place hardware in volunteers' homes to directly measure the Internet bandwidth at the home's connection point; and enlisting the providers to verify the volunteers' subscribed speeds.
This created the risk that providers could selectively boost speeds to participating subscribers to improve their numbers and their standings in the FCC report. An FCC official said the agency employed checks to ensure the numbers were credible.
Other speed tests rely on users to run tests from their home computers. Speedtest.net has 25 million people run tests world-wide each month, allowing it to produce data comparing nations' performance. Doug Suttles, co-founder of Ookla, which runs the site, notes his site has produced data similar to the FCC's findings of the gap between advertised and delivered speeds. "The government could have saved quite a bit of time and money," he says.
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|Regular nonagon (enneagon)
A regular nonagon (enneagon)
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In geometry, a nonagon /ˈnɒnəɡɒn/ (or enneagon /ˈɛniːəɡɒn/) is a nine-sided polygon or 9-gon.
The name "nonagon" is a prefix hybrid formation, from Latin (nonus, "ninth" + gonon), used equivalently, attested already in the 16th century in French nonogone and in English from the 17th century. The name "enneagon" comes from Greek enneagonon (εννεα, "nine" + γωνον (from γωνία = "corner")), and is arguably more correct, though somewhat less common than "nonagon".
Regular nonagon[edit]
A regular nonagon is represented by Schläfli symbol {9} and has internal angles of 140°. The area of a regular nonagon of side length a is given by
where the radius r of the inscribed circle of the regular nonagon is
and where R is the radius of its circumscribed circle:
Although a regular nonagon is not constructible with compass and straightedge (as 9 = 32, which is not a product of distinct Fermat primes), there are very old methods of construction that produce very close approximations.[1]
It can be also constructed using neusis, or by allowing the use of an angle trisector.
The following is an approximate construction of a nonagon using a straightedge and compass.
Another animation of an approximate construction
The regular enneagon has Dih9 symmetry, order 18. There are 2 subgroup dihedral symmetries: Dih3 and Dih1, and 3 cyclic group symmetries: Z9, Z3, and Z1.
These 6 symmetries can be seen in 6 distinct symmetries on the enneagon. John Conway labels these by a letter and group order.[2] Full symmetry of the regular form is r18 and no symmetry is labeled a1. The dihedral symmetries are divided depending on whether they pass through vertices (d for diagonal) or edges (p for perpendiculars), and i when reflection lines path through both edges and vertices. Cyclic symmetries in the middle column are labeled as g for their central gyration orders.
Each subgroup symmetry allows one or more degrees of freedom for irregular forms. Only the g9 subgroup has no degrees of freedom but can seen as directed edges.
The K9 complete graph is often drawn as a regular enneagon with all 36 edges connected. This graph also represents an orthographic projection of the 9 vertices and 36 edges of the 8-simplex.
8-simplex (8D)
Pop culture references[edit]
They Might Be Giants have a song entitled "Nonagon" on their children's album Here Come the 123s. It refers to both an attendee at a party at which "everybody in the party is a many-sided polygon" and a dance they perform at this party.[3] Slipknot's logo is also a version of a nonagon, being a nine-pointed star made of three triangles. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have an album titled 'Nonagon Infinity', the album art featuring a nonagonal complete graph.
Temples of the Baha'i Faith are required to be nonagonal.
The U.S. Steel Tower is an irregular nonagon.
See also[edit]
- ^ J. L. Berggren, "Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam", p. 82 - 85 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1st edition 1986, retrieved on 11 December 2015.
- ^ John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, (2008) The Symmetries of Things, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 20, Generalized Schaefli symbols, Types of symmetry of a polygon pp. 275-278)
- ^ TMBW.net
External links[edit]
- Properties of a Nonagon (with interactive animation)


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Skip to comments.Archaeologists Unearth 1,700 Year-Old Canal System Near Lake Okeechobee (Florida)
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ORTONA Archaeologists on Thursday said they have uncovered a sophisticated 1,700 year-old canal system and a huge pond dug by ancient Indians near this tiny town, located west of Lake Okeechobee.
The canal site is so important that it could rival the discovery four years ago of the mysterious Miami Circle ruins near downtown Miami, one expert said.
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An archaeological find near Lake Okeechobee that will be announced Thursday will reveal more about the lives of ancient Florida Indians, says archaeologist Robert Carr.
The discovery in the Glades County community of Ortona, a former village of the extinct Caloosahatchee Indian tribes, comes after six years of investigations in the area.
Carr, the executive director of the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, says the find will rival the discovery of the Miami Circle, the mysterious stone Indian ruins in downtown Miami that were found in 1998 when an apartment complex was torn down.
He will announce the discovery at Ortona Indian Mound Park, about 95 miles west of West Palm Beach.
Indians were digging canals hundreds and perhaps thousands of years ago in Ortona, said Jerald T. Milanich, a curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Some canals likely were used for canoe travel between villages and rivers, he said.
In other sites near Lake Okeechobee, archeologists have found canals with complicated lock systems to maneuver canoes up hills, earthen mounds in geometrical shapes and intricate wooden sculptures and masks.
"South Florida Indians were very well adjusted to their environment and lived quite well," said Milanich, who has excavated some of the sites.
In Miami, archaeologists say Tequesta Indians carved a 38-foot circle, known as the Miami Circle, into limestone 2,000 years ago. Scientists believe the site was the base of a large building.
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If you imagine a compass (with N at true north not magnetic), the pond axis would be on a 340 degree axis.
Don't know. FReeper RightWhale will be along shortly, he can tell you.
The pond is in the shape of the sacred baton, which is to say, a stick. Thus it is longer lengthwise and a narrow in width and points in a direction. Why not true north or why not magnetic north as it is today, who knows. Of course, looking the opposite direction it would point toward the south, and a little to the east [20 degrees] of that. We could guess a lot of possible reasons for the angle, some of them obvious like astronomical signs, and some of them outrageously esoteric. Probably someone used to know even in 1492, but after the American civilization was sacked, there wasn't much left by way of clues.
According to the DNC, this district (Canal System precinct) is heavily democrat, and would have voted for Gore, had they not been prevented from voting by discriminatory requirements, implemented by rich Republicans.
In yet another such move, the rich Republicans have established rules, that voters must still be living. "This is unfair," claims the DNC. "In most other states, democrat votes still count, long after the voter is dead."
Sorry, I don't have a ping list. (BTW, I was just 'fussed at' by JudyB1938 yesterday for the same reason)
Maybe the Caloosahatchee Department of Natural Resourses found sucker fish in their pond...
I wondered the same thing until I reread and realized that they say the canal is 1700 years old and that the pond was built around 700AD which by my math would make the canals about 400 years older than the pond.
|The map at left shows why compasses don't point exactly north. The north magnetic pole is not at the geographic pole, but hundreds of kilometers away in northern Canada. Wisconsin is presently in a region where compass variation is almost negligible, but in Maine, compass needles point 20 degrees west of north and in Seattle, 20 degrees east.
[My comment: Coming from a similar longitude, that would be true of Florida. Plus compare the angle of the red line on the right with the angle of Florida. Florida itself is "20 degrees west of north". So it's probably a toss of the coin as to whether the pond is aligned with the magnetic compass or with the angle at which Florida lies. Either way, that's quite an achivement for a society that had little technological improvements.]
I am of the same exact opinion. I have been unable to explain (with all the contact) why these diseases (seem to) suddenly became so lethal to the ancient Americans
No, a sudden pandemic just doesn't make sense to me, but disease may have been a factor in the final stages. My intuition (and I will admit that it is all I have here) tells me that the decline of Amerindian civilization had probably started long before Columbus with war and religion being the primary cause. Remember too that the cultures we are talking about were "death oriented" (cannibalism, child sacrifice, etc.) in their latter stages, much the same as many cultures incapable of maintaining populations (Minoans). What would really be amusing would be to find out that the interjection of Indo/European/Babylonian paganism (note the similarities in glyphs, architecture, and rites) led to gradual population decline, much as we see in the counter-JudeoChristian amoral eco-culture today.
Just musing.
1. Why do we only know about plagues in Europe. Were there no plagues in the Americas?
2. We always assume that the diseases travelled in only one direction. Why?
3. The tree ring data recorded a worldwide event in 540AD that is thought to have begun the Dark Ages in Europe. Why not a Dark Ages in other places. Was the Dark Ages called such because it was in fact darker worldwide? (atomspheric veil?)
It's cold at the North Pole.
Ta Dum.
Good one. A spacial dust cloud nucleating stratospheric aerosols? Sounds like it might be fun to brainstorm some time. I was thinking of the Phonicians.
What about the Phoenicians? (BTW, Phoenician means 'red hair' in ancient Greek)
The Phoenicians were the principal navigators of the ancient world (because of Lebanese cedar trees). They were very secretive about their routes and sources and their records were destroyed by Roman conquest. They might well have accomplished what I am speculating above.
They must have been feeling a little sheepish about getting rambonkshus, don't ewe know.
Yes it was dark, and colder, crops failed, and it was worldwide. Check out the following for the most likely culprit. Were the Dark Ages Triggered by Volcano-Related Climate Changes in the 6th Century?
The line of zero declination runs from magnetic north through Lake Michigan and across the western panhandle of Florida.
Friday, 8 September, 2000, 14:55 GMT 15:55 UK
Tree rings challenge history
By BBC News Online's Jonathan Amos
Could a comet hitting the Earth 1,500 years ago have triggered a global disaster in which millions of people lost their lives?
It is an old claim that historians say has little evidence in written records to support it, but now a tree ring expert has said the idea must be re-examined.
Mike Baillie, professor of palaeoecology at Queen's University in Belfast, UK, said it was very clear from the narrowness of growth rings in bog oaks and archaeological timbers that a great catastrophe struck the Earth in AD 540.
"The trees are unequivocal that something quite terrible happened," he told the British Association's Festival of Science. "Not only in Northern Ireland and Britain, but right across northern Siberia, North and South America - it is a global event of some kind."
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Professor Baillie favours the idea that cometary fragments smashed into the atmosphere throwing up dust and gas that blocked out the Sun. This, in turn, led to crop failures, famine and even plague among the weakened peoples of the world.
Professor Baillie said astronomers from Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland had published research 10 years ago in which they said the Earth would have been at risk from cometary bombardment between the years AD 400 and AD 600.
"This event is in AD 540, so it fits very nicely into the window," he said.
"We know from the tree rings to the year exactly when this event happened. And some archaeologists and historians are beginning to come round to the opinion that this was the date when the Dark Ages began in Northern Europe. It wasn't just when the Romans left."
Oral tradition
However, there are many more historians who believe that if such a major event had occurred there would be much clearer references to the disaster in written texts. But Professor Baillie urged them to go back and look again - "to read between the lines".
He said mythical stories certainly seemed to point to a comet striking the Earth at about the right time. He said King Arthur died in this period and some stories talk about long arms in the sky delivering mighty blows.
"Mythology tells you and history doesn't and that raises some very interesting questions because the implication is that you could suppress the written word but you couldn't suppress the oral tradition."
Professor Baillie said chemical analysis would be carried out on the tree rings to investigate the comet idea further. He hopes also to get access to ice cores to see if they record any interesting data that might support the comet theory.
(For more, read Mike Baillie's book, Exodus To Arthur)
That saves the archeologists from answering any questions
What a shock! To have arbitrarily divided up the Earth into 360o and then discover that the iron ore was not cooperating!
When the super-volcano Toba blew 70-75,000 years ago, some say as few as 5,000 humans worldwide survived. (It also created a DNA 'bottleneck.') We have a very catastrophic history.
By Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent
(Filed: 04/11/2001)
SCIENTISTS have found the first evidence that a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the mysterious collapse of civilisations more than 4,000 years ago.
satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide impact crater caused by a meteor
Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs.
Today's crater lies on what would have been shallow sea 4,000 years ago, and any impact would have caused devastating fires and flooding.
The catastrophic effect of these could explain the mystery of why so many early cultures went into sudden decline around 2300 BC.(This is probably the event that is recorded in the tree ring data in 2354BC. This may have been a 'swarm' and other impact sites are yet undiscovered.(?))
They include the demise of the Akkad culture of central Iraq, with its mysterious semi-mythological emperor Sargon; the end of the fifth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom, following the building of the Great Pyramids and the sudden disappearance of hundreds of early settlements in the Holy Land.
Until now, archaeologists have put forward a host of separate explanations for these events, from local wars to environmental changes. Recently, some astronomers have suggested that meteor impacts could explain such historical mysteries.
The crater's faint outline was found by Dr Sharad Master, a geologist at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, on satellite images of the Al 'Amarah region, about 10 miles north-west of the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates and home of the Marsh Arabs.
"It was a purely accidental discovery," Dr Master told The Telegraph last week. "I was reading a magazine article about the canal-building projects of Saddam Hussein, and there was a photograph showing lots of formations - one of which was very, very circular."
Detailed analysis of other satellite images taken since the mid-1980s showed that for many years the crater contained a small lake.
The draining of the region, as part of Saddam's campaign against the Marsh Arabs, has since caused the lake to recede, revealing a ring-like ridge inside the larger bowl-like depression - a classic feature of meteor impact craters.
The crater also appears to be, in geological terms, very recent. Dr Master said: "The sediments in this region are very young, so whatever caused the crater-like structure, it must have happened within the past 6,000 years."
Reporting his finding in the latest issue of the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Dr Master suggests that a recent meteor impact is the most plausible explanation for the structure.
A survey of the crater itself could reveal tell-tale melted rock. "If we could find fragments of impact glass, we could date them using radioactive dating techniques," he said.
A date of around 2300 BC for the impact may also cast new light on the legend of Gilgamesh, dating from the same period. The legend talks of "the Seven Judges of Hell", who raised their torches, lighting the land with flame, and a storm that turned day into night, "smashed the land like a cup", and flooded the area.
The discovery of the crater has sparked great interest among scientists.
Dr Benny Peiser, who lectures on the effects of meteor impacts at John Moores University, Liverpool, said it was one of the most significant discoveries in recent years and would corroborate research he and others have done.
He said that craters recently found in Argentina date from around the same period - suggesting that the Earth may have been hit by a shower of large meteors at about the same time.
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Bought a second car and left my original Tom Tom GPS mount secured in my other vehicle. This product is actually better than Tom Tom's own mount. Easy to install and comes with the goofy Tom Tom ring adapter in the box. As good as this mount is I think it's a bit overpriced, but it's well-made and works great. My only negative comment is who designs the packaging for these things? It's excessive. It will take you longer to get it out of the box than it will to install it.
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