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hi kronuz i'm running the lastest x64 dev build on win 7 x64....but since the last 2 dev build or so i can't manage to make it working, any updates, fix or else?
I get this in my console:
Exception in thread scanning thread:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 532, in __bootstrap_inner
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 484, in run
self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
File "./SublimeCodeIntel.py", line 604, in _codeintel_scan
File "/Users/rob/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/SublimeCodeIntel/libs/codeintel2/manager.py", line 351, in buf_from_content
buf = buf_class(self, accessor, env, path, encoding)
File "/Users/rob/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/SublimeCodeIntel/libs/codeintel2/lang_php.py", line 1168, in __init__
super(PHPBuffer, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
TypeError: super(type, obj): obj must be an instance or subtype of type
ty, but....what??? XDcan u explain me in simple words?
any news about an update to fix the current broken plugin?
That's pitty that it doesn't work on Ubuntu finally. It was the most important plugin for me to rapid coding with SublimeText
Is any work being done on fixing this on Ubuntu ?
soooo. anyone willing to take up the reigns on this project and getting it up to date for all os' and latest dev releases of st2? do we need a bounty?
php 5.3 namespace autocomplete would also be pretty sweet....
Still doesn't work at all on Windows. Sure wish someone would take over this plugin or it would become core. I could really use some Django autocompletion. Would pay for this plugin...
This plugin does, in fact work on Windows, I can confirm that.
Can you explain if you've done anything to make it work? I had previously tried it without success as well.
In summary, it's not perfect, but it's better than not having it.
For instance, it chokes pretty hard on SQL Alchemy scoped_sessiosn and declarative_base(), and doesn't seem to resepect the sqlalchemy package.
That said, it works pretty well for just about everything else.
As background, I'm running 32 python 2.7 (64 bit wasn't playing nice with pyodbc)
Because of the inherent 'gotchas' with the plugin, it can seem as if it's not functioning.
A quick way to check and see if it's working is to create a new file with 'python' selected as the syntax.Then, in the file, type "from" and hit space.In the bottom gutter, if working, you should see modules being scanned.After the modules finish scanning you should see a list of modules in a popup, you can import from.
As python's a dynamic language, there will exists cases where the parser won't be able to determine what type the object you're working with is -- in these cases you will not get autocomplete suggestions.
Finally, one additional sanity check I can recommend that gave me peace of mind was to cross-validate the auto-suggest in KomodoEdit. If the snippet you're working with also fails in Komodo, there's not much to be done from the plugin-side, as it references the Komodo library.
Not working on Ubuntu with kernel 3.0.0-16 x64. Updating indexes process never ends =(
Same here - the Ubuntu plus updating indexes thing, I mean. Sadcakes.
FWIW, I was actually able to get it working using Ubuntu 11.10. A co-worker and I decided to beat our heads against it.
The issue, it seems, in my case, is that I had nothing in the config file. Dunno why it was blank, but there you go.
First of all: great plugin! I'm looking for a replacement for Eclipse(which is way too bulky and buggy) and this plugin made Sublime a great candidate.
There is however one thing I'm missing: support for phpdoc tags. For example:
class Foo {
* @return Bar a bar class
public function getBar() {
$bar = new Bar();
return $bar;
class Bar {
public function getHello() {
return 'hello';
$foo = new Foo();
echo $foo->getBar()->getHello(); // getHello doesn't easily autocomplete or jump to definition here, it does show eventually, but first all default PHP functions show
Is there some way to fix this?
I use the DocBlokr plugin for that, works great!
Thanks for the tip, seems to do the trick at first sight. Will do a test soon with a bigger project to see if it works there


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When Tracy Chevalier looks at paintings, she imagines the stories behind them: How did the painter meet his model? What would explain that look in her eye? Why is that man ... blushing? She shares three stories inspired by portraits, including the one that led to her best-selling novel "Girl With a Pearl Earring."
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Most of the scabs in donor site are gone following 8th day of my fue hair transplant operation. Right now there is that disturbing itchy feeling. When I apply moisturizer, it feels relived and it has a comforting affect. Does this have a negative effect on my healing process?
It is normal to have a feeling of itching on donor site during healing period following fue hair transplant. You may use a suitable moisturizer. If the itching continues, please discuss it with your doctor.
I live in Antalya, and during summer time, more preferably in July after judiciary recess, I am thinking of having hair transplantation. I read a few articles about avoid sunlight after hair transplant. Is it really necessary? What should be careful about being under the sunlight?
Recipient area should be avoided from direct sunlight for 3 months following hair transplantation. You may use broad spectrum sunscreen in necessity.
Four months passed upon my hair transplant operation. If I dye my hair, would this have any negative affect on results?
You should discuss it with your doctor in hair transplant center. On the other hand, we suggest our patients not to dye their hair for six months following hair transplantation operation.


text: Kunar - Taliban militants captured the administrative headquarters of a remote Afghan district on Saturday, officials said, while a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Nato base in Kabul.Insurgents had surrounded Bargi Matal district in Nuristan province, which borders Pakistan, on Friday and engaged police in a fierce gun battle, said Nuristan governor Jamaludin Badr.The fate of police officers guarding the administrative compound - which houses government, police and judicial offices - was unclear."Since the district headquarters is inside the village in a crowded location we had to make a tactical retreat to avoid casualties to civilians" living in nearby houses, he said.Afghan authorities often use the term "tactical retreat" when Taliban have overrun police forces and captured districts.Difficult terrainAn army border police commander in the area, Mohammad Gul Himat, said police responsible for protecting the district had been missing since Friday and it was not clear if they had deserted or been killed or captured.Only border police had remained to carry on the fight, which lasted all Friday night and Saturday morning, he said."Taliban have control over their radio facility which means Taliban have captured the district," he said.Nuristan is a mountainous and rural province with difficult terrain.Bargi Matal is the second district in the province to be captured by the Taliban after Kamdesh - which also shares a border with Pakistan - fell several months ago following the withdrawal of international forces.Nato and the US have 130 000 troops fighting the insurgency, with another 20 000 due to be deployed by August, most of them to the volatile south, where the Taliban are concentrating their war.Under a new US-led counter-insurgency strategy, the foreign forces are pulling back from rural regions to concentrate on populated areas.Peaceful stretchTaliban insurgents are waging a campaign against the presence of foreign troops and have promised to target personnel, both foreign and Afghan, and facilities associated with them or the Kabul government.After a lull of almost three months in Kabul, attacks have escalated, with another on Saturday near a military caterer, when a suicide attacker with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up, causing no casualties.The explosion took place east of the capital, close to a warehouse and supermarket run by Supreme Food Services, supplier of food to the foreign military, said interior ministry spokesperson Zemarai Bashary."It was suicide attack and the suicide attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body," he said.Two suicide bomb attacks in Kabul earlier this month ended a peaceful stretch in the capital of almost three months.On May 18, at least 18 people, including women, children and six international troops, were killed in an attack on a Nato convoy in a busy city centre street.The following day, seven Taliban militants were killed and at least five Nato personnel wounded in clashes at the Bagram base.Mistaken bombingNato addressed an incendiary issue on Saturday when it released the summary of a report into a missile and rocket attack by US forces on a convoy of vehicles that resulted in the death of 23 civilians.The incident on February 21 sparked widespread anger at the presence of international troops in Afghanistan, and an apology from the commander of Nato forces in the country, US General Stanley McChrystal.The report found that the vehicles "were mistaken for an insurgent convoy and engaged by coalition aircraft". The mistake was made in analysing images taken by unmanned drones, it said.Information that the vehicles were carrying anything other than civilians - rather than militants racing to reinforce Taliban engaged in battle nearby - was "ignored or downplayed", it said, according to a statement by Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).The incident, in an area of central Daykundi province that was carved out of Uruzgan province, killed four women and a child, and was the third such mistaken bombing raid in Afghanistan in a week.It led to a swift apology to President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan people by the commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, McChrystal, and a reprimand for four senior and two junior officers, the ISAF statement said.


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How do they go about enforcing such a silly law? And would they consider components to be assembled ammo?
Well the law is what it is.
I am sure some flaunt it, but then if you only have a gun for SD, you don't need hundreds in stock and if you go to the range you can buy some especially. That is their logic.
The only components restricted in a similar fashion are primers and the powder. 1000 of the former and 4 kg of the latter. So even if you had all of that and hundreds of bullets and cases, you couldn't, in theory, make up and store more than 100!!
I'm sure some flaunt the law and I've never heard of the police doing home stock checks, but if it is the law, I'll stick to it. With a 1000 round sports licence limit, I don't feel it restricts my shooting at all.
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Photographer's Note
This man is living at Barcaciu cottage (Fagaras mountains) for more than 20 years. He came there in a spring trip through the Romanian Carpathians and he decided to stay and live there.
I think he was looking for a friend of mine that started to climb a bit higher.
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Sa nu-i cada burta aia pe toporashi ca e pacat de primavara asta frumoasa:P Interesant unghiul, pitoresc personajul...de peisaj nu mai zic.
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text: Be careful, try the different options in the steps, virgin 4.2u, ios 250, workes great, usb loader and all. I got the blank screen when loading usb loader GX using "do not reload ios" in section C6. second try, used ios250, and now I am right as rain. I also used the first pack in step B. Thank you everyone who contributed, especially messie for the great updates. This is amazing.


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Early Punk band members were predominantly male. The garage bands of the 1960's led to the emergence of early punk bands such as MC5 and The Velvet Underground in the United States, and Malcolm McClaren's Sex Pistols in the UK. Glam Rock bands Queen, the New York Dolls, and Van Halen, with their outrageous dress, influenced the movement, as well. It wasn't long before women joined in.
Patti Smith, whose free-form-poetry lyrics were foundational in the underground music movement of the 1970's, is known as the god-mother of punk. She performed at New York City's famous alternative music club CBGB in the early 1970's and influenced the trend of blunt lyrics depicting real-life topics.
One of the most well-known women in punk emerged in 1974. Deborah Harry, with guitarist Chris Stein, formed Blondie and toured the New York clubs CBGB, Max's Kansas City and Mother's, gathering a large following before recording their first album in 1976.
On June 8, 1975, the Talking Heads opened for the famous punk band the Ramones at CBGB. Tina Weymouth, girlfriend of founder Chris Frantz, became the bass guitarist shortly after the bands formation. She is quoted as saying, "I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech," referring to the fact that, in punk music, the lyrics are more often screamed than sung.
British-born Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Janet Ballion) formed Siouxsie and the Banshees with bass guitarist Steven Severin in 1976. Their first single, Hong Kong Garden, hit the UK top-10 almost instantly. Speaking about her music, Siouxsie stated "It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still."
Legend has it that, in 1976, a young man named Erick Purkhiser picked up a hitchhiker named Kristy Wallace somewhere in Ohio. They discovered their mutual love of rock music and sci-fi movies and created the band The Cramps, taking the names Lux Interior and Poison Ivy. They are widely known as the innovators of psychobilly, the blending of punk rock and rockabilly.
Rod Swenson, a Yale graduate, believed the true measure of art lay in how confrontational it was. As he experimented with counter-culture art projects, he met Wendy O. Williams, who became known as the Queen of Punk. They formed the Plasmatics in 1977 and quickly began performing at sold-out shows in New York several nights a week. Williams near-nudity and controversial behavior was legendary.
The music:
Blondie: Listen to songs free, including the well-known Heart of Glass and One Way or Another.
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Hear songs free, including their first single Hong Kong Garden.
Talking Heads: Listen to top tracks, including Psycho Killer and Burning Down the House.
The Cramps: Hear the psychobilly sounds, including I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Sunglasses After Dark.
Besides the controversial lyrics that reflected disillusionment, anti-government sentiments, and rebellion, one of the things that set punk music apart was its fashion.
Ripped clothing, safety-pins, studs and chains, bondage-style dress, body piercing, tattoos, and brightly-dyed hair became the uniform of punk. Partially shaved heads and Mohawks were worn by men and women alike. Dark eyeliner and other dramatic makeup were favored.
Complete Discographies:
Blondie: Rolling Stones' complete list of Blondie albums, reviews, and biography.
Siouxsie Sioux: Comprehensive track listings, descriptions, biographical information and links.
Talking Heads: Dated track release data with additional recording information.
The Cramps: Chronological album release information with extensive background on each album.
Plasmatics: Listings with photos of all known North American and European releases.
From the heyday of punk music in the 1970's and '80's, pop-punk bands emerged that continue to have a large following today. Green Day founders Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dint were ten-year-olds in 1982 and released their debut album in 1990. Blink-182 formed in 1992, and their first album, Buddha, was released in 1993.


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Oahe Downstream Lodge
The Oahe Downstream group lodge was constructed within the recreation area in 2006. With shoreline access, guests are now treated to a beautiful view and private shoreline for swimming, canoeing, or other types of water recreation.
The lodge is equipped with a full kitchen with cookware, serving utensils, and appliances and is separated from the "great" room" by a 16 foot serving bar. The 25 x 30 foot "Great" room provides comfortable seating for up to 65 guests. Tables and folding chairs are available on-site
Large grassy areas are also maintained around the lodge and provide ample room for those wishing to tent. A large campfire ring is situated near the river for evening cooking or socializing.
Oahe Downstream REcreation Area
20439 Marina Loop Road
Ft. Pierre, SD 57532
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About the Lodge
- No sleeping quarters
- Accommodates 65 people
- Wheelchair accessible
- Two full bathrooms with showers
- Air conditioned and heated
- Furnished kitchen with cookware, utensils, appliances and large serving bar. No outside grill provided
- Shoreline access with beach
- 2 RV electrical pedestals with 50, 30, and 20 amp electrical service available for additional charge.
- Tenting permitted in adjacent grass areas
- Check-in: 4 p.m.
- Check-out: 11 a.m.
- No pets allowed inside
- No smoking
- Park curfew/quiet hours are 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
- $125 per night
- Reserve at www.campsd.com or 1.800.710.2267.
- $40 per night
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- Reservations must be made by calling 605.223.7722
- $19 per night per RV unit associated with lodge rental and utilizing facility.
Lodge is reservable one year in advance.
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Okay, so in a dumbass move. I tweeted the wrong guy a few days back. I hate twitter.
Fixed today, thanks rope.
At least I know why I didn't get a response... smh
I know, I know... :screwy:
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Can't wait to see how all of this turns out!
It will turn out very well. I have no doubt. Jamie has the right players in place. He's the man.
"Told you I'd be back. Say you miss me. Say it like you mean it!' - David Lee Roth
Haha, no you the man.
And yes with the consortium of people involved this rom will be epic! Decks 1.3d tweaked and optimized to perfection, by the grandmaster deckheads themselves? I say HELL YEAH! Lets make this happen!
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Finds stored in boxes
Lynda Manning
In November 2011, a group from the AGES Archaeological and Historical Association were invited by Southend Museum to visit "behind the scenes". Initially the visit was to see the collection of Roman pottery found at Canvey Point, but one of our eagle eyed members spotted some storage boxes labelled "Hadleigh High Street". The curator kindly allowed us to see the collection of artifacts and provided the report, a transcription of which is shown below.
"The excavations on the site of the recently demolished cottages, immediately south east of Hadleigh Church were far more successful than we had ever anticipated in terms of knowledge gained and material found, and provided not only evidence of human ocupation from the early medieval period to the present day, but also, and more unexpectedly, of a ditch and rampart defence of the tiny village area.
When work began it was known that cottages had occupied the site in 1799 and that close by was the turnpike road leading to Prittlewell, believed to have been wider than the present High Street. Remains of these buildings, along with later additions and alterations were found, some lying over the line of a well-laid cambered surface, almost certainly the turnpike road. This lay to the south of the site, i.e. to the north of the line of the present High Street.
Hidden treasure?
Traces of earlier buildings had been partly destroyed by the sterile layer of the road, but there remained part of a building, with stone and brick foundations sufficiently intact to suggest a large west room of 16' x 14' with a further bay of 8' to the east. Although these measurments suggest the basic medieval plan no date of construction can be suggested at this stage, though the building was of, or earlier than, the 16th century. The house was probably timber framed with a tiled roof and contained a hearth of vertically placed tiles.
On the west there was evidence of at least five earlier buildings, one of these forming some kind of industrial workshop. This was shown by an interesting, half-egg shaped oven, providing a heated surface. Further research and an analysis of the samples of embers taken will be required before the form of industry carried on can be suggested.
The continuous use of the site is shown by the fact of 16 layers of human occupation or activity, but whilst the traces of buildings were interesting in themselves they contained little to indicate their precise use of the area.
M Brown
The layers beneath the buildings were far more informative, revealing the existence of a ditch and bank. The ditch, which was some three feet deep, three feet wide at the base and with steeply sloping sides, had provided ballast to form a bank on the north (or inner side, towards the church) which could be traced for thirteen feet to a height (in its present eroded state) of more than one foot.
It was the silting and gradual filling of this ditch which provided a valuable series of pottery sherds, provisionally dated to the 12th-14th centuries. A surprisingly large proportion of these were glazed sherds from jugs (suggesting a substantial household on, or adjacent to, the site) but some of the coarser cooking pots were also found. From the ditch came other interesting objects, including the shed antler of a red deer.
Even earlier occupation of the site is suggested by the fact that the rampart, at its northern end, covered and embraced an earlier mound of gravel in which was a human burial, which is provisionally dated, by the evidence of a fragment of iron pin, to the Early Iron Age; further human bones were found in the ballast used to make the rampart.
The site has therefore provided abundant material evidence for the earlier history of Hadleigh, previously only traceable through documents. It has however,done far more; it has indicated that other villages of Saxon or Early Medieval origin may have, for investigation, similar small but effective lines of defence against animals and attackers.
The co-operation of some 30 volunteer diggers; of the Benfleet and Southend-on-Sea Councils; and others concerned, is acknowledged and will be dealt with in greater detail in the full report to be prepared.
Whilst we are confident of the broad datings given above, some amendment may be forthcoming when the pottery finds, etc. have been washed and examined in detail."
L. Helliwell : D. G.Macleod
Prittlewell Priory Museum
Sadly the final report appears to have been lost or never completed. If any of our readers know otherwise, the Archive would be grateful for any information.
To see pictures of the "dig" in progress click here
I was one of the volunteers on this dig which turned out to be the first of several seasons in the trenches for me. I have two abiding memories. There was "Mac" Macleod gradually disappearing from sight in a very deep trench where the possible Iron Age burial was discovered. If memory serves he did this with no helmet and no shoring of the trench. "Health and Safety" did someone say ? The other memory concerns the disastrous final day when it began raining heavily and a very wet and mucky Mac had to evacuate his trench. By the time we recovered all the finds trays and our equipment it was bucketing down and the site was resembling the Somme. The saddest thing about the dig was that the late Messrs. Helliwell and Macleod did not find the time to write a full report which may well have provided us with some more ideas about the heart of this ancient village.
Hadleigh History > http://www.hadleighhistory.org.uk/


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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese companies are flocking to the U.S. IPO market in their biggest numbers since 2010, drawn by soaring valuations for tech start-ups and undeterred by a flare-up in an accounting row between Washington and Beijing.
Some 30 Chinese companies could list in the United States this year, according to investment bankers interviewed by Reuters. That includes JD.com Inc, China's second-biggest e-commerce firm after Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. It said last month it is seeking to raise $1.5 billion, in what may be the second-biggest U.S. IPO by a Chinese company.
The return to U.S. shores comes on the back of renewed investor enthusiasm for China plays, particularly for Internet stocks. The country's online retail market by transaction volume jumped 42 percent last year to 1.85 trillion yuan ($305 billion) and is expected to almost double in size by 2016, according to figures from iResearch.
That has trumped lingering concerns about accounting irregularities and corporate governance issues that have forced many U.S.-listed Chinese firms to be delisted since 2011.
The delistings have prompted investors to be more discerning about China IPO candidates this time around. The bar for Chinese companies seeking U.S. deals is higher, improving the quality of recent offerings, bankers say.
But not everyone is so certain about that.
John Hempton, chief investment officer of Sydney-based Bronte Capital, said a lack of penalties for Chinese firms' past misdeeds in the 2011 scandals meant the potential to find accounting fraud was always there.
"We welcome the new bull market," said Hempton, best known for having taken short positions on several U.S.-listed Chinese companies in the past. "We hope that they issue hundreds of new shares because they will provide our future happy hunting ground."
And bull market it is. While only eight Chinese companies listed in the United States last year, raising a combined $1.1 billion, the returns have been spectacular.
Semiconductor solution provider Montage Technology Group Ltd MONT.O and 58.com Ltd (WUBA.N), billed as China's Craigslist, have jumped at least 70 percent since their debuts. Online sports-lottery operator 500.com (WBAI.N) has nearly tripled in value since listing in late November.
Newly U.S.-listed Chinese firms rocketed an average 53 percent on their debuts last year, according to consulting firm EY. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rallied 28 percent over the past year.
"The last companies that went public, proved to the street that there's a lot of growth still here," said David Chao, co-founder at venture capital firm DCM, which is based in Silicon Valley and has invested in several U.S.-listed Chinese companies.
The 2011 scandals sparked much tension between regulators of both countries regarding the oversight of auditors and access to company information that has continued ever since.
Indeed, JD.com's announcement came less than two weeks after a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) judge recommended banning Chinese units of the Big Four accounting firms from auditing U.S.-listed companies.
But the two sides could be close to a deal that would allow Washington to inspect the audit work of accounting firms in China, a U.S. audit watchdog said last week, which could go a long away to alleviating strains.
Paul Botlz, partner at law firm Ropes & Gray said Chinese companies should not be put off by the apparent escalation of the standoff due to the SEC move.
"I think this is a bit of a blip. I would advise companies: don't be too spooked, if you want to go to U.S. markets don't let this stop you, just check with the auditors on what's their back-up plan," he said.
For Chinese companies, the U.S. market affords them options not available in Hong Kong, such as dual-class structures and the ability to list without having turned a profit. It also offers far more liquidity than the newly reopened mainland China IPO market.
This year, in addition to JD.com and a $300 million offering from a security software unit of Kingsoft Corp Ltd (3888.HK), IPO candidates include real estate website Anjuke.com, gaming company Chukong Technologies and online cosmetics company Jumei.com, bankers said.
Anjuke did not reply to an e-mail seeking comment. Representatives for Chukong were not available for comment and Jumei.com could not be reached for a comment.
Companies that are likely to benefit from the boom in China consumer spending will be in greater demand than software makers facing potential piracy or companies in the heavily-regulated financial services sector, Chao at DCM said.
Most of the China firms that list in the United States use a structure known as variable interest entities (VIEs). This vehicle gets around Chinese rules against foreign ownership in sectors such as online retail and e-commerce. A VIE will give investors access to a company's profits but not give them any ownership of the company.
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More than 140 Chinese companies have raised $36.6 billion through U.S. IPOs since 2000, Thomson Reuters data shows, with the peak in 2007 when they raised a record $6.9 billion. ($1 = 6.0634 Chinese yuan)
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All In My Opinion let that be clear!!
I indeed read a study about using airspeed measurement to set speed records, but what is needed for that?
First a pitot and static tube of which accuracy is known in detail. When someone is copiing some kind of model a detailed construction check and calibrating is needed. Keep in mind it isn't dificult to generate a pressure difference, but before values are presented, calibrating and certification is needed otherwise it's all nonsense. The tubes I show are all for personal use and so don't have to be certified.
Second ,the transducer, same story,
Only a calibrated transducer will do. If not calibrated the values that are presented are useless. What about a transducer with a span fault?
Also the transducer has to be qualified for circumstances that are actual during the whole flight.
Third, how to check the combination in the plane? Who does guarantee the total airspeed measurement system is within needed specifications? Was the engineer qualified to mount the system? Does he knows all installation requirements?
When it's all true what I write you will understand that an airspeed measurement with not any kind of qualification (calibration, certification) is a "boy toy" and only interesting for observing, maybe to use for some research but useless for setting any record.
About your pitot (and static?) tube decription.
And in any case, the pitot-static tube is a small tube, say 1/8" diameter, with a rounded nose pointed straight into the flow. Nothing else sticks out. It will have a drag area of about 0.01 in^2. By comparison the whole glider's drag area is 5 in^2 to 10 in^2 (depending on the CL), or 500-1000 times bigger. So the drag of the pitot will cost you maybe 1-2 mph at most.
It looks like we are one step away of the moment anybody is plumbing a tube on his plane and starts airspeed measurement record attemps, the action is accelerated by the axample shown in the post 38 of Jason Liily,
Why I write this?
I am an industrial engineer for instrumentation, and better write my comments before than after measured values are presented, for that read the topic of the thread!!
My advice,
Speed records normally are set in two directions to eliminate windspeed because ground (water) speed is interesting. Also for DS ground speed is accepted and measurable with high accuracy, so don't use airspeed to set records!
If you still do?
What will happen when someone sets an airspeed record on a extreme high value? What is it worth? On that moment, read this post again.
Mark, last note:
"Site", of Site Acceptance Test, Google for that, because it is worldwide known!!
Let the FAT be interesting in our workshop, the SAT we can use on "site" so mountain or hill.
Your "dive" can be part of a SAT just as some other highly recommended actions.
So, black and white story, but very important for you to know how public/readers are looking at your activities.
Let me know what you are thinking about this post, maybe we can do business and write about technical requirements of your measurements, calibrating, FAT or SAT, or even a calibrated vario!
Last edited by Taurus Flyer; Feb 12, 2012 at 04:55 PM. Reason: Picture of staic tube added
Too many variables...
Because of RCSpeeds I have an interest in this thread and have been reading it.
Most DS'rs I've spoken too believe as we do. I'm not saying its up to me or I can't or won't make a section to record estimated airspeeds but I believe for records there are too many variables, a lot of room for error and other issues. Temperature, ridge gusts, pressure differences, changes in cloud cover and other factors could fluctuate during a flight and add variance. Many of our records are within one or two mph, ie the sixty inch record is currently tied at 360mph...
On the other hand I'm interested in airspeed after all that's what the airframe is exposed to. I've flown a D60 with the airspeed indicator and complete enjoyed it!! It so enlightening and it added another completely new way to enjoy flying. I wish I had the the right TX/RX and all the other gear to put one on an F3F model for slower smooth conditions. I would learn so much but I don't think windspeed is consistent enough to use for records.
The Guinness Book of World Records requires a pilot to fly a model between two fixed points, in both directions to eliminate windspeed for their records. I think its great how radar eliminates windspeed and forces us to use a witness. I'm surprised nobody's wound up a DS plane to 400 mph or so and flown between two fixed points. Maybe worth a try?? Their top record is only 337mph. From their link ,There downwind and upwind speeds were taken to eliminate the influence of the wind amongst other factors.
I've spoken to Jason of the link you posted to see if had a problem with me not posting his fast wind speed measurement to RCSpeeds. He agreed with me and I didn't post the wind speed measurement.
For now, I hope everybody's okay with this...
Thanks for response. Indeed, all clear.
Rest my offer.
I do fly my planes with airspeed measurement and control (cruise control) and do design all my equipment for that.
If I can help in any direction, design of tubes, advice about calibration or back up of controle for calibration data for any environmental circumstances please let me know.
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Now that we have had pitot tubes for a few years and countless laps comparing radar to pitot tubes, the discussion can be more meaningful.
I really like the pitot tube system. You can fly alone with instant feedback on your speed, which allows you to refine your flying skill in a way that is otherwise impossible. I still think we should compare handheld radar speeds for records, but like gyro speeds we should consider pitot only speeds for informational reasons.
The current crop of high-end radar guns all measure within 1mph of each other. This validates their accuracy. Pitot tubes rely on the user properly setting the air temperature and if improperly calibrated can give errors in the tens of mph. This is the reason why I think handheld radar is still the gold-standard for record keeping. But we should not ignore pitot speeds, since Alan has done the complete engineering of the hardware and software and thus it is of the highest precision.
Can you mount a temperature sensor on or in the TX, and use telemetry to update the pitot calculations?
How close are pitot and radar readings (coming up the back side) when the pitot is calibrated correctly?
Cooll thread guys..
Has anyone considered the use of on board accelerometers ?
They would have to be calibrated at 0 and would be subject to some degree of drift, but it could be pretty small and have telemetry capability.
EDIT : Did some reading and apparently this type of method isn't feasible with low cost sensors. Too bad!
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I would guess that his max, even in 400mph+ wind, was rarely higher that 15mph.
But I could be remembering incorrectly.
Was at Torrey pines today and even the jellies were grounded. Good thing it was 83 degrees and the surf was up. Hoping for wind!
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