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This month, we look at the pre-amp; next month, the matching power amp. Trust me: your patience will be rewarded, for the two products - despite dealing with 21st Century concerns - were designed with both analogue and cost-effectiveness in mind. It's been nearly six years since the last affordable, phono-equipped ARC pre-amp was discontinued, the fondly-remembered SP9, and I've been reassured that there's been a clamour for an affordable, full-function Audio Research preamplifier with an integral phono stage to replace it. Enter the SP16, and a bit of 'Importer's Two-Step' to address the psychotic British fixation with price points.
As if to contradict the analogue goals which inspired it, while addressing at the same time an era in which CD and other digital sources dominate, the SP16 will also be available in line-stage-only form as the SP16L. Sensible, you might rightly think, given that plenty of people don't even know what an LP is, but that would be to ignore the stupidity which rules the British market. In order to keep the package price of an SP16 preamp and its partnering power amplifier £100 below a nice, round figure, the SP16 in line form saves a crucial £400 over its phono'd sister. Considering that the majority will fly out of the shops with the phono section - Audio Research customers tend to prefer music to digitalia - that round figure will be exceeded in most cases by £300 regardless. Aaah, the mysteries of pricing!
As this product and its sibling represent a form of 'comeback', the company was careful in its juggling of old and new, starting with the nomenclature. 'Our rationale for labelling this unit the SP16 is simple: it is the first new full-function preamplifier, with an integral phono stage, introduced since the SP14 and SP15.' The SP16 incorporates 'classic tube architectures for both line and phono sections', while at the same time offering enough flexibility, and enough in the way of modernity to fit into multi-role systems which also deal with, say, extra zones or home theatre. The SP16 is equipped with five sets of inputs marked Phono, CD, Tuner, Video and Aux, two sets of main outputs, tape out and a processor pass-through - something which seems mandatory these days for two-channel products. Additionally, there's a 12V trigger to turn on power amps or other equipment, and full remote control of power, input selection, stereo/mono, volume, and muting.
There are - I must admit - two things that I miss about earlier SP-series units: rotary controls and toggle switches. OK, OK, wanting to twist a control instead of tap-tapping to increase or decrease level is something to get used to, and having to scroll through inputs isn't as big a sin as, say, dual-mono volume controls a la Croft. But one thing I didn't know, something which is crucial to the understanding of the SP16 design goals, is that rotary controls (of ARC's standard that is) would add substantially to the price. And while everything has been pared down with cost-effectiveness in mind, the quality of the components and the performance have not been compromised. So, bye-bye costly rotaries, bye-bye handles, bye-bye toggle switches.
On the right side of the front panel are the six 'soft-touch' buttons for Power, Mute, Processor, Input and Volume Up/Down, matching the control buttons on the CD3 - a likely partner for the SP16. In an identical cut-out on the left, where the CD3's tray would be, is an LED display indicating which input was selected, and whether or not processor, mono and mute are in use. Below it is a visible-across-the-room row of LEDs numbered 1-20, illuminated one at a time, for volume indication. Despite the lack of handles, toggles and rotaries, it's still unmistakeably an ARC product. And at 17.75x5.2x10in (WHD), it's unusually compact for an ARC product.
Inside, you could be looking at a pint-sized version of one of the much dearer units. The outer trappings may have been minimised, but the innards include the same expensive PCBs with extra-thick copper circuit traces, point-to-point wiring and hand-soldering. The SP16 is a pure Class-A design with all-valve gain in
Low-impedance, cathode-follower main outputs allow the user to drive two power amplifiers simultaneously - great for bi-amping or running a second zone. The gain for the line inputs is 12db, while the total gain from the phono input to the main outputs is 54db. Although suitable for moving-magnet and high-output moving coil cartridges, it falls just short of providing the requisite oomph needed for low-output types. I used it with a high-output Grado, but added an Ortofon transformer to the mix when using the Linn LP12/Ekos/Arkiv combination.
While the SP16 was inserted into my regular system consisting of Wilson WATT Puppy System 6 and Marantz CD12/DA12 (in addition to the Linn front-end), with power amps including the Quad II-fortys, Radford STA-25 and Dynaco ST70, something wonderfully unexpected happened purely by coincidence. For whatever reason, a pile of review components arrived all at once, some four months' worth; clearly, the Editor wanted me to write reviews in advance of the summer holidays. And, sure, it was a no-brainer that I would hook up the SP16's matching amp - the VS55 - and it was all I had hoped it would be. The added shocker was Sonus Faber's Cremona, which isn't even scheduled for review until September. But it was An Audio Moment, one of those rare instances when a mating you couldn't foresee just, well, happens, like Krell/Apogee or Campari/soda or Laurel/Hardy.
Everything simply fell into place, utterly complementary in every respect. Tonally, spatially - even the VS55's wattage suited the Cremonas to perfection. Reeling from this discovery (just add a CD3 and you'll hear why ARC/Sonus Faber dealers are gonna have an easy time of it), I found it hard to return to the discipline of isolating the pre-amp's performance from the whole. But needs must, so I also tried the Quad QC-twenty-four, Radford SC22, Dyna PAS3 and Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista.
What I thought I knew about Audio Research pre-amps fell by the wayside. Even though I had recently been treated to sessions with the latest Reference 2 in the SME room, I wasn't quite ready for the sound of the SP16. Would it be lush and vintage? Achingly, nakedly modern? Somewhere inbetween?
Let's dispense with the operational elements: I quickly stopped missing the toggle switches and the rotaries, though they remain my preferred modes of access. I left the unit powered but in stand-by during the breaks between sessions, so warm-up took little more than the 30 seconds of the muting period prior to the unit going 'active'. But it does get better as it warms up even further; only you can decide whether or not, as the owner's manual instructs, to leave it on at all times and thus shorten tube life.
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SMOKEYS – BBQ and Grill ….. Khan Market
We experienced this in its best form at Smokeys, Khan Market, New Delhi. Shivkaran Singh , the mastermind behind this Mr.Shivkaran Singh has always worked wonders in his restaurants. The techniques and the expertise he has put in his offerings really shows.
This new outlet in the most bustling area of Khan Market has opened around 8-10 days back. Done beautifully in hues of orange and black with ample natural light and murals and quotes on the walls makes it really sophisticated. The bar on the 2nd floor is stocked up nicely with very talented bar men. It also boasts of a small balcony which will be more worthwhile in cooler months.
We started with their signature cocktails like Lock stock and smoking barrel and Mimosa mimic which were utterly different and very well made. But my favorite turned out to be the Melon sangria and the New old fashioned. I usually don't prefer whiskies in my Cocktails but I loved the new old fashioned here as it was just too good and I could not taste too much of whisky flavor in my mouth.
Accompanied with one of the best Tossed sausages dish and the Atomic ( a spicy version of the sauce) chicken wings. I ordered a Chicken caesar salad again as always which was good. One of us ordered the Lamb kibbeh a traditional mid eastern kebab which came out to be really awesome. Soft with good flavors of sumac and crunch of pine nuts.
I was totally boggled when I tried the Pork ribs….The best of the lot with house made condiments and marinade.Totally succulent and fall of the bone texture. The Burger is very popular on their menu. And yes I realized why it was so popular, when I dug into the lamb burger myself. Best burger I have had till date. The sweetness of the onion relish and juiciness of the meat with so many flavors and textures just bursting into my mouth. I could not have enough of it, so definitely going again soon to have it again. We also liked the Hotdogs sliders especially the Andhra style tenderloin and the bacon wrap sausage.
They have some interesting desserts too. Like the Banoffee pie and with nice crust at the bottom and the choco lava cake witrh ice cream which was also fine.
Overall a nice chic place for a quick bite or a relaxed evening with a special cocktail and a smoked meat creation.
Smokeys BBQ and Grill,
51, First Floor, Khan Market, New Delhi
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Boy the credits to the MSQ rolled real early this time, but the final shot makes me wonder Is he actually crazy, like multiple personality crazy?
Boy the credits to the MSQ rolled real early this time, but the final shot makes me wonder Is he actually crazy, like multiple personality crazy?
Has anyone else put themselves on the waiting list for the Shadowbringers Physical Collector's Edition for PC? Been on it a couple weeks and am just wondering if anyone did it earlier and been notified of additional stock. Getting a bit anxious at this point since I haven't seen anything online or on the store page regarding replenishment happening at a certain time. I know there's plenty of time...just getting excited and want to have it ordered ASAP.
I know they're working on it, or at least assuming they are because this happened last year. I just haven't heard anything.
The Garlean flag is one big joke, with two black things closing in around a white one its the third eye representing the puppet on the throne and the ascians around them, but in this case its more literal with the two bodyguards whispering in his ear like Xorne and Thorne in FFIX
Hildi : It was me, Greg!
MSQ : What is truly behind the mind of Creepy Daddy ? And ma boi Real!Zenos will stall Garlemald during our travel to the first shard, The Truest of Bro right here.
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Yeah after the credits i was like "oh, they DID remember him!"
MSQ The ending of SB was anticlimatic and disappointing to say the least and we got nothing for the how or the why we're going to the 1st.
Speaking personally - I don't really think anything that qualifies as a maintenance buff as good design. Even if there's a binary choice associated. I look at something like DRG and I see Heavy Thrust. This is a pointless button. We all agree there, but there's still so much room for improvement (if the goal is engagement/depth). Jumps shouldn't be just bland DPS buttons to press on CD. Not only that, they should be used much more frequently and there should be methods to accrue, save, or dump them as necessary. That should be the DRGs main focus. Look at BotD. It doesn't even need to be a button anymore. Just make it a passive in combat.
I could go on, but the issue IMO is that it all stems back to encounter design. You can design jobs with more decision points/trees, but if encounters never utilize them, they're irrelevant (see half of each jobs kit). I honestly think the game needs a shift in design where the mechanics are much more varied and frequent with lower stakes.
Pushing a button should always allow you to do something you couldn't otherwise. Unlocking skills/abilities, resource management, utility/mobility. If it's a pointless number change that you cannot feel, it's a pointless button IMO.
(Going to put the whole thing in spoilers since this main thread still has some players noting they're still experiencing all expansion stories)
Think back:
A Realm Reborn: Final MSQ we are just totally broken. We lose everything we've built up and we're branded as assassins. We flee to Ishgard alongside Tataru and Alphinaud.
Heavensward Trailer: Depicts that MSQ in snippets and starts with the long, sullen trudge through the snow into Ishgard. We see how crestfallen Alphinaud and Tataru look and the Warrior of Light is shown to be angry in Ul'dah and rather sullen going into Ishgard.
Heavensward: Final MSQ is disastrous with the Eorzean Alliance yanked into a war they weren't prepared to wage thanks to the Griffon, but ready and willing to commit to the liberation of Ala Mhigo. We were marching in from a position of strength after ARR ended at a place of weakness.
Stormblood Trailer: Warrior of Light and (we now know Lyse) train atop the giant statue as the rebellion prepares for war below. We're then shown the battle will extend across the world to the far east.
With the Shadowbringers trailer, we did see the Stormblood showdown of the Warrior of Light fighting Zenos, but with the Warrior of Light seeming so haggard and exhausted, the barren landscape, and the gremlin taunting him, I was expecting a little more of a "all seems lost" MSQ conclusion putting us more in that situation. Of course, if we're going to The First, that's hard to put in place pre-expansion. I guess I was expecting something more akin to A Realm Reborn's ending with a really weighted climax to take us so low in the trailer.
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That brings a thought.... I wonder if we'll be able to freely move from The First to The Source in Shadowbringers or if the story will be more akin to WoW's Warlords where, for a time, we're stuck on one side. If so, will we meet job users of The First and we'll learn new skills from them or will we be able to move freely between the two via the Crystal Tower and we'll continue training with job quests from Eorzea. Hmmm.
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Given the trailer i imagine storywise we are stuck on the First with the scions either in the bodies of their first world counterparts or actually interacting with those like a Gunbreaker Thancred and BLM 'Matoya' while characters like Cid and the Scions back home deal with the black rose situation and probably get some unwanted/expected help from Elezenos who sees killing a lot of empire soldiers as a way to home his skills in his new body while helping his 'friend' in a 'gotta catch up or they will leave me behind' vegeta kind of way. Or going wakes the main scions up and you fall into a coma and they are playable using the new system at intervals in the MSQ going 'meanwhile, back on the 14th'
As you said, I think the biggest issue is how the encounters are designed. If core job mechanics can't be effectively utilized, or (like in my case) people stop using their favorite class because of how that class mechanic just doesn't really mesh well with how encounters are designed, that's a bad thing.
I'm thinking more likely it'll be something like This Guy but with bunny ears.
There are times when you don't want to refresh it, and instead want to use your Combo Points on another finisher (Things are about to die soon). Times where you might want to skip using it all together (Bursting down adds or solo play). Times where you might want to let it drop, but have the Combo Points saved for later (phase changes and disconnects). Using it well is a mixture of experience and intuition, and can help separate the good Rogues from the bad ones.
The class would be much less interesting without it, the Combo Point and Energy mechanics alone don't make for a compelling experience.
FF14 gets this wrong on multiple levels. First of all their buffs aren't hugely impactful the way Slice and Dice is. Slice and Dice makes you go fast. Heavy Thrust just gives you a flat damage modifer that you won't notice unless you're looking out for it. Having them separate from the combo system means you simply press them after X number of combos have been completed. That makes it feel like maintainance rather than an informed player decision.
Not having any strong Job mechanics also presents a huge hurdle too. It means the choice to keep your buff up is purely decorative - There's almost never a situation where refreshing is the wrong call. The opportunity cost is just one GCD, so it's almost never a waste the way it would be if you burned 5 Combo Points on a Slice and Dice and the boss died 5 seconds later. Not having an actual resource cost or requiring job mechanics prevents it from ever being a meaningful choice.
At this point however the problems have been baked in as part of the jobs themselves. To fix it and allow self buffs/debuffs to be engaging would require a complete overhaul almost from the ground up for most Jobs. As much as I would like to see it happen, I can see Squenix brushing it under the rug as being too much hard work, and the longer they leave it the harder it will get.
Imagine if BotD was, effectively, a button that turned you Super Saiyan for 20 seconds. You can repeatedly jump, move at 4 times your normal run speed, your GCD is much faster and all your attacks are gaurenteed crits for the duration. Maybe put Wings and a Tail on the player too, make it feel awesome. It's the only cooldown you'd ever need on a single button. Then you could remove Life Surge, Blood for Blood and Battle Littany, you've essentialy combined them all into a super cooldown.
The same is true with Jump. I would much rather have the coolest, most awesome version of Jump than multiple weaker Jumps and Dives. Just because you're playing an MMO doesn't mean it should be okay to ask players to have 12 different hotbars plastered all over their UI just to hold everything. Sometimes less is more.


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Dallas — For anyone who has ever wished for a do-over in his or her dating destiny, Dallas Theater Center serves up an intimate flight of fantasy based on factual physics. Well, theoretical physics, really. In Constellations, playwright Nick Payne makes the well-trod boy-meets-girl territory fresh by tracing through it repeatedly, albeit with small changes. If, according to string theory, all outcomes of a moment exist in parallel universes, then there exists one where the guy gets the girl.
Of course, the opposite must also be true.
Allison Pistorius plays Marianne, the beautiful Cambridge University professor, and Alex Organ plays Roland, the charming beekeeper. From their first awkward meeting, this seems like a familiar British romantic comedy and these two actors know how to work it. Pistorius' Marianne is noble whichever avenue the plot goes down and Organ keeps pace with her in earnest affability. The audience so approved of the duo they would have resorted to cheering or booing to influence the outcome if given the slightest encouragement. It's a credit to the restraint of the actors and the precision of the direction that Payne's play survives the charisma of the cast.
Under Wendy Dann's careful direction, the tension between the possible outcomes keeps us alert. The audience watches the action and each other in the arena configuration of the studio space of the Wyly, part jury examining the snippets of scenes for any diversion from the previous iteration and part proud parents spying on the young couple on the front porch. As the circumstances take on greater stakes, we long for the best as much for ourselves as for the couple.
The play is graced with Ryan Rumery's incredible original music/sound design that sometimes floats in like ambient haze or hangs thick and heavy like a high-pressure heartbeat. This is the only sound design that can take credit for a section of silence. Equally as precise are Steve Teneyck's romantic lights and glossy dais set with opposing spiral ramps that reinforce the dialectic of the evening, the attraction drawing things into a spiral and the momentum pulling them apart. Meanwhile glowing colored globes hover above invoking the celestial context of the goings on. Even costume designer Melissa Panzarello weighs in on the astral with a beautiful scarf tie-dyed with a wink toward aurora.
It's all about scale.
A constellation, after all, refers to the name that we've given to stars in the sky. Points of light vast distances away from each other that we've presumptuously gathered into shapes referencing animals or heroes in our habitual attempt to ascribe meaning to the seeming randomness of the universe. These shapes would not look the same in any place else in space and considering that they're all moving, any time else, either.
In other words, we're tied to the here and now. As much as the cosmic scale can make us feel insignificant or the quantum scale can suggest that time doesn't matter, it's what unites us in our humanity. Payne reminds us of the delicate, precious nature of that gift.
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Money! Payment! Urgh!
You'd think by now I'd be better at this bit of Private Practice: I'm not.
Recently, I have had a number of unpleasant uncomfortable experiences around the payment side of working as a Counsellor. I am very clear on my website that sessions at the moment are £40, with a few sessions available at £30 if required. I have spent an awful lot of time developing my website in order to make it what it is and one of things I wanted was a simple, crystal clear payment amount and methods.
When clients enquire about sessions often location and cost are upmost in their minds: I have made a simple page to present these issues easily and clearly.
And yet, I have had a client attend a session, complete the session and then tell me that they do not have the funds to pay for the session. Awkward!
I appreciate that Private Counselling is expensive, I do get that: as I was training and now I am in practice I have to have my own personal therapy sessions which are obviously self-funded. My appreciation of cost is what keeps my prices as accessible as I can make them, its one of the reasons that I work from home in order to keep my overheads low and pass the savings on to clients.
I do feel that turning up for a session, completing the session all without admitting that you do not have the funds to pay for it is akin to filling up your car, and then driving off from a petrol station without paying. I would never, ever, ever even contemplate doing this so I was mortified that a client had done this to me. Why would the client consider that this was ok? We would never go to a restaurant enjoy a meal and then shrug and say "Oh I'm sorry I can't afford it today"… would we? So I do wonder why my client thought that this was ok?
On another occasion, when a client suggested that I might forego the sessions fee and contribute it to a charity they were supporting, I demurred and then at the end of the session the client then queried whether I wanted the full payment. Again, I was professional but I was mortified, embarrassed and offended. I would never turn up to a private dentist, solicitor, beauty therapist etc. and try to get out of paying. Its rude quite frankly!
On each of these occasions I might have come to an agreement or arrangement with the client involved if I had been given prior notice and we had discussed it in a professional manner. However Counselling is a relationship, and like all relationships it is massively important in order for that relationship to remain safe and professional that boundaries are set, met and maintained. I do have a Counselling Agreement that sets out those boundaries very very clearly.
Perhaps because Counselling or Therapy is such a caring and personal profession, maybe people forget that an awful lot of things goes into it. It is not as easy as sitting in a room, tilting your head and saying "Oh Dear", and making cups of tea.
I have blogged before about the route to becoming a counsellor and I have blogged about Charging for short notice cancellations, or DNA's (did not attend)
Before even being considered for a place on a counselling course you have to have done some work or voluntary work to prove your interest, experience and commitment. The courses themselves are very expensive: this year's Keele Fees are Year 1 £2,250, Year 2 and 3 £4,050 each. Ouch! Yup but it gets worse then whilst you are most likely not earning or only working part time there are many additional costs:
- Obligatory personal therapy sessions
- Obligatory Voluntary Hours on Placement (clothing, travel, parking etc )
- Obligatory Supervision Sessions
- Membership of a Professional Organisation
- Travel Costs, Parking Costs, Childcare whilst attending University
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I am sure others would add even more… Once you are trained and qualified the costs do not stop. Whilst you are in Private Practice there are lots of things to pay out for:
- Professional Indemnity Insurance
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- Obligatory personal therapy sessions
- Obligatory Supervision Sessions
- Obligatory Continuing Professional Development (Course Fees, Travel Costs, Accommodation, Child Care etc)
- Paying for Profiles on the BACP Find a Therapist site and Counselling Directory and others
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So when you come to see me I have already paid all of this out, and I continue to do so. I blogged about all the things you get in a therapy session, backed up by all of the things (and more) listed on here.
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Acclimatize, wanderlustabout, whiskify.
Another acclimatization day. We used the morning to wash clothes. It's above freezing but the flowing water is pretty close. Maggie washed, monkey rinsed. Cold, cold, icy ouch-rich numbing water. But clean clothes. That's somethin'.
We're stowed away at the Moonlight Lodge with paralleling New Zealanders Mike and Rachel, who are an adorable couple full of amusement and positive energy. They, we, and Cheryl of the Isle of Man and guides and porters meandered up the hillside for many photographs of the phenomenal open-plain vistas in every direction. Rachel and I in particular dashed about into different nooks to try to find the most interesting points of view.
It was nice to have nowhere to get to today, allowing me to spend my energy running around in circles chasing constantly shifting images, as the sun each second re-carved the shadows of massifs and patterned tones of the kaleidoscopic hillsides.
Every step and every second the enormous world around you here changes. Maggie and I felt that one of the big difference details between seeing photos of a place like this and being here is the constantly changing nature of the environment, like watching sped-up videos of the seasons. And so rather than looking at the Himalaya, it feels like being among them. And for whatever reason, that's beautifully overwhelming.
In the photo above, Rachel captures Mike ever so candidly on the mountainside. Soon after this photo I caught up with Maggie, Cheryl, and a raven who was reputedly requesting a hot dog. Birds are fickle eaters and poor communicators. My sympathy goes out to them.
So, a solid day of bonding in the sun with broad skies over a bowl surrounded by big-shouldered, white-capped peaks. I felt like one of a few stray Cheerios deposited at the bottom of the bowl, after only knowing the crowded dark confines of a cereal box. For all I know, we'll be eaten tomorrow en masse, so we might as well enjoy today.
We celebrated the day's significance with a shot of whisky, gathering friends, guides, porters in the sun at a plastic table. We did not share with the yaks. Nobody likes a drunk yak. Makes 'em frisky.
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The Pagani Zonda is a sports car built by the Italian manufacturer Pagani. It debuted in 1999, and production ended in 2011, with three special edition cars, the Zonda 760RS, Zonda 760LH and the Zonda 764 Passione, being produced in 2012. By June 2009, 135 Zondas had been built, including development mules. Both 2-door coupé and roadster versions have been produced. Construction is mainly of carbon fiber.
Some of the early Zonda engineering was done by Formula One champion Juan Manuel Fangio. The car was originally to be named the "Fangio F1" after him, but, following his death in 1995, it was renamed for the Zonda wind, a regional term for an air current above Argentina.[2]
- 1 Overview
- 2 Special editions
- 3 Zonda R
- 4 Zonda R Evolution
- 5 Zonda Revolución
- 6 Racing
- 7 Gallery
- 8 Notes
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Zonda C12
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Just five of the original 6.0 L Pagani's were built, though it was still available in 2002 when the C12 S debuted. One was used for crash testing, while another was a demonstrator and show car. The remainder were delivered to customers during the next three years. A woman from Switzerland is confirmed to own the last remaining Zonda C12, rejecting the offer from Pagani himself to redeem the car for historical reasons.
Zonda S
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The Zonda S features an elongated nose, flaps at the rear for improved aerodynamics, and new light clusters and exhausts. Only fifteen 7.0 L Zonda S cars were produced.
Zonda S 7.3
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Zonda Roadster
In 2003 Pagani presented the Zonda Roadster, a roadster version of the Zonda S 7.3. Carrying the same components as the coupé, Pagani promised no loss of performance, a claim supported by the minimal weight gain of Script error: No such module "convert".. A total of 40 roadsters were produced.[3]
Zonda F
The Zonda F (or Zonda Fangio) debuted at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. It is the most extensive re-engineering of the Zonda yet, though it shares much with its predecessors including the 7.3 L AMG V12 engine which through enhanced intake manifolds, exhaust and a revised ECU now produces Script error: No such module "convert". at 6150 rpm and Script error: No such module "convert". at 4000 rpm.
Production of the Zonda F was limited to 25 cars. Named after Formula One driver Juan Manuel Fangio, it came equipped with an extra headlight and different fog lights at the sides, new bodywork (revised front end, new rear spoiler, more aerodynamic vents all around) that improved the car's aerodynamics, and different side mirrors. Further enhancements over the "S" centered around optional carbon/ceramic brakes developed in conjunction with Brembo, alloy wheels, Inconel exhaust system, hydroformed aluminum intake plenum and a redesigned "Z preg" weave in the crash structure to improve rigidity and reduce weight.
Zonda Roadster F
The Zonda Roadster F debuted at the 2006 Geneva auto show. It was similar to the coupé, but with a removable carbon fibre roof and canvas side curtains, weighing just Script error: No such module "convert".. Production of the Roadster F was limited to 25 units.
The Roadster F is able to maintain chassis rigidity without any gain in curb weight, eschewing conventional thinking by not strengthening the sills, a process which would have needed more than Script error: No such module "convert". of reinforcement. Pagani instead uses racing car thinking, materials and construction techniques, strengthening the firewall structure of the chassis tub together with billet alloy braces that connect the points where the roof rails would have joined. The windscreen is also strengthened for safety reasons. These techniques enable the Roadster to have virtually the same weight as the coupé, Script error: No such module "convert"..[4]
The Zonda Roadster F Clubsport was tested by Top Gear's The Stig and James May and achieved a lap time around their test track of 1:17.8, beating the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 tested during the same episode, but lost in a quarter mile drag race against the Veyron by nearly 2.5 seconds.[5] According to James May, the Zonda F Roadster costs £825,000. German racing driver Marc Basseng managed to lap the Zonda F Clubsport around the Script error: No such module "convert". Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:24.7.[6]
Zonda Cinque
The Zonda Cinque (Italian for five) was meant to be the last iteration of the Zonda, being a road going version of the Zonda R. Only five were built — hence the name — at the cost of £1 million ($2,193,070), with deliveries set to June 2009 for all five cars.
The differences over other road-going Zondas are the new 6-speed sequential gearbox, resulting in shifts now taking less than 100 milliseconds, dropping 0–62 mph down to 3.4 seconds. The Cinque also has a revised form of carbon fibre called "carbo-titanium" which incorporates titanium to increase strength and rigidity. Suspension makes use of magnesium and titanium components, and the engine's power has been increased to Script error: No such module "convert".. Revised bodywork, which includes a longer front splitter, new sideskirts, rear diffuser, bumper canards and a flatter underside as well as a roof-mounted air intake scoop, enables the Cinque to create Script error: No such module "convert". of down-force at Script error: No such module "convert". and 1.45 G of cornering force.
The Zonda Cinque's prototype was designed specially for the purpose of filming a special live-action trailer for Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, developed by Criterion Games, and built for shooting, with Horacio Pagani himself monitoring the construction of the car.
Zonda Cinque Roadster
The Roadster has the same specs as the Coupé from which it is derived and only five units were built, with a price of £1.3-million/US$2 million, plus local taxes.[7]
Zonda Tricolore
The final mass-produced Zonda was originally conceived as a one-off; there were actually three Tricolores built. It was built as a tribute to the country's aerobatic team. It carries much of the body from the Zonda Cinque. The car is unpainted except for a clear blue lacquer and red, white and green stripes that run up from the nose along the top of the car's surface. Unique to this car is a small wing placed behind the cockpit which reflects Frecce Tricolori's Aermacchi MB-339 PAN stunt plane tail wing. The three Tricolore's will be priced at £1.2 Million. It is also Script error: No such module "convert". faster than a standard Zonda at Script error: No such module "convert"..
Special editions
The Zonda Monza shown at the 2004 Paris Motor Show is a track-day version of the Zonda built for Omar Ahmed. Borrowing its appearance cues from the Zonda GR, the Monza included a dry sump version of the Zonda S 7.3 engine tuned to Script error: No such module "convert". and had improved cooling. Modified aerodynamics, including a different wing and front diffuser, allowed greater speed, as did optimized gearing. The car was lighter, with polycarbonate side windows, and an unmuffled exhaust is fitted. The revised interior includes different pedals, steering wheel, and seats, as well as a reinforced roll cage. Larger brakes and a stiffer suspension also improve performance. Finally, an external fire extinguisher is included for safety.
After a crash in Scotland involving "an internationally famous racing champ", a Zonda S owned by Scottish gas industry tycoon Gareth Jones was sent to the Pagani factory and became the one-off custom built Zonda GJ. It was finished in matte carbon and received a front wing upgrade and intake scoops located on the rear wheel arches, as well as several other features taken from the Cinque and F models. The car is still owned by Jones after failing to sell at auction.
A special one-off built for Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al-Thani, a member of the royal family of Qatar, famous for his turquoise car collection. Originally, the car was a Zonda F Roadster that was crashed in Qatar and was sent back to the factory to be rebuilt.[8] The car specifications are similar to those of a Cinque with the new carbon-titanium chassis. It also has the LEDs on the front of the car like the Tricolore. Unique to this car are the darkened rear lights and the rear exhaust; the four pipes are shorter than standard. Also, the black wheels with turquoise wheel-striping, and the dual-tone diffuser are eye-catchers, together with numerous black accents, like the collector of the exhaust tail pipes.
The Zonda HH is a special one-off edition, in Monterey Blue, that features the engine from the Cinque and most of the bodywork from the Zonda F Roadster. The HH was commissioned by Danish programmer David Heinemeier Hansson.
The Zonda 750 was another special one-off edition Zonda for a member of the Al-Thani family. However the order for it was canceled due to a disagreement between the proposed owner and Pagani.[9] The 750 is mainly based on the Cinque, but also features several custom parts. It was expected that it would be finished in a purple colour, but the project was left incomplete in orange with the front end left unpainted. It was later revealed that it was a Zonda Cinque prototype that appeared in the short film of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit. It was upgraded to 750 bhp upon customer's request. It is now known as the Zonda 760 Nonno. "Nonno" is Italian for grandfather, because it was actually the first prototype for the Zonda F model.
The Pagani Zonda Absolute is a special one-off edition Zonda to be shipped to Hong Kong. It features a matte black carbon fiber body and the engine of the Pagani Zonda Cinque as well as a right hand drive.
A one-off special that was commissioned by Peter Saywell. It was finished in white with yellow striping on the side.[10] The car is the only one with all four exhaust pipes placed in a row instead of a square.[11] In January 2013 pictures surfaced of a redesigned Zonda PS. The PS has now been finished in bright blue and has the same rear-fin, air intakes, roof scoop and the spoiler as the 760RS & 760LH, but the exhaust pipes arranged in a row have now been replaced with the original layout. Also it features the same day-time LEDs as on the Tricolore, 760LH and the 760RS. What makes this Zonda unique is that its front arches are fitted with carbon-fibre fenders for improved down-force. The interior remained unchanged.[12]
Zonda F Roadster Final Edition
The last Zonda F Roadster was commissioned in 2010 and 2011 to commemorate the end of the Zonda F production. All of them were finished with a carbon-fibre body and the power was increased to 665 bhp.
The Zonda 760RS is another one-off version built for a businessman in Chile, who is said to be a very close friend of Horacio Pagani. It has a 760 hp engine attached to a sequential gearbox and finished with a carbon exterior and black interior. The 760RS also features a distinctive rear fin that runs down the centre of the car, while also feature the same air ducts and roof air intake as the Cinque.[13]
Same as the Zonda 760 RS, it features a different colour, purple, both for the exterior and the interior, and a manual gearbox instead of the sequential one.[14] It has been commissioned upon request of Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, hence the initials LH.
764 Passione
The Zonda 764 Passione features the same appearances as that of the 760RS and the 760LH, but features a bigger rear spoiler and bigger distinctive central rear fin. It is finished in grey carbon fibre with accents of natural carbon fibre with light grey striping on the sides and the Italian flag running alongside the nose just like on the Tricolore. The car has purple-pink interior with wooden steering wheel, all done upon customer's request. The 7.3L V12 AMG M120 engine is tuned to produce 760 hp and is mated to the same 6-speed manual gearbox Lewis Hamilton commissioned on his Zonda. The 764 Passione was delivered to its owner in Tokyo, Japan in December 2012.[15]
760 Fantasma
The 760 Fantasma is the fourth 760-series Zonda, after the 760RS, 760LH and 764 Passione, and is a rebuilt orange Zonda F which was badly damaged in an accident in Hong Kong during 2012.[16] The car was originally commissioned by Peter Saywell, chassis number 53, who later sold it to a Chinese businessman in Hong Kong. After the car's accident it was sent back to the Pagani factory where it was repaired and received all the 760-series upgrades. The central monocoque is now made of Carbotanium and finished in reddish maroon with the Italian flag running up from its nose like the Zonda Tricolore with the central section left unpainted. The only details remaining unchanged are wheels which are from the Zonda F and the interior.[17]
The 760-series Zondas are considered to be the most powerful road-legal Zondas ever produced.
Zonda R
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The Zonda R debuted at the Geneva Motor Show 2007, using the 6.0 litre V12 M120 engine sourced from the race version of the Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR.[18] The Zonda R's competition lies with track-based cars, such as the Ferrari FXX and Maserati MC12 Corsa rather than the original Zonda's road competitors as it is not road-homologated.
Despite sharing much of the Zonda's shape, the R is almost entirely new, sharing only 10% of the Zonda F's components. It has been obliquely suggested by Horacio Pagani that this car is a testbed chassis for certain components of the Zonda's replacement, the Pagani Huayra (in the same vein as the Ferrari 288 GTO Evoluzione and the successive F40) and that the Zonda R accurately reflects some of the Huayra's features. Only 15 Zonda R were produced.
The central carbon chassis incorporates a roll cage and a rubber racing fuel cell with 4 fuel pumps and quick refuel filler cap, similar to GT race cars. The wheelbase has been increased by Script error: No such module "convert". to increase stability. The front and rear subframes are brand-new, built to accommodate new suspension geometry, and produced in Avional. The slick-shod wheels are new forged-magnesium center-lock models, which in conjunction with on-board pneumatic airjacks (again, like the FXX) allow rapid change of the entire wheel assemblies.
The car senses, displays and logs information about the amount of down-force that is generated at each wheel at all times. It is thought that this system will enable owners to adjust set-up according to track conditions and to improve their cornering technique.
In addition to the wheelbase increase (47 mm), overall length has increased by Script error: No such module "convert". and track by Script error: No such module "convert".. The bodywork and aerodynamics have been altered to offer maximum down-force, featuring a longer front bonnet with flaps, a closed underbody and a new rear overhang with adjustable rear wing and race-derived diffuser. These are intended to translate into increased aerodynamic efficiency and down-force for maximum cornering speed. It is also noted that the car's new rear bodywork is minimal in the extreme, being composed mostly of vent. This is thought to be symptomatic of the need to keep the engine cool enough, even under hard track use. Again, this is similar to the gutted bodywork of the Ferrari FXX Evoluzione.
Output has increased to Script error: No such module "convert". at 8500 rpm and Script error: No such module "convert". of torque. A lightweight carbon fibre high performance intake system, racing multiple disc centered clutch and Formula One-style exhaust system, hydroformed in Inconel 625 and ceramic coated for optimal heat dissipation, have been added. The AMG-built engine is mated to a 6-speed longitudinally-mounted manual sequential synchronized gearbox.
The car's interior is spartan, reflecting the car's racetrack aspirations and intended home, and features seats customized to the driver to offer maximum support. As before, the Digitek instrumentation provides essential information and the sophisticated telemetry allows a variety of sensors to monitor numerous aspects of the car.
The Zonda R holds a record-breaking lap time at the Nürburgring of 6:47.48.
Zonda R Evolution
The Zonda R Evolution is an updated version of the Zonda R. It features many changes over the previous Zonda R. Also the car takes many pieces and inspirations from the Zonda 760RS. It is finished in pearl white with exposed carbon-fibre on the nose. The 6.0L V12 engine is uprated to 800 hp. The body work is still the same, but has improved aerodynamics. It features a bigger air spliter above the two standard air spliter on the front bumper and a pair of small splitter on the sides of rear bumper. A bigger rear central fin — even bigger than the 760 series Zondas — and a small spoiler added below the standard Zonda R spoiler improves aerodynamics and increases down-force.
Zonda Revolución
Pagani unveiled the final version of the Zonda, called Zonda Revolución to clients and family members during "Vanishing Point 2013", the International Pagani gathering.[19] The central monocoque is carbon-titanium, the needle on the scale stops at 1070 kg. The Mercedes-AMG engine is an evolution of the Zonda R powerplant. The 6.0-liter V12 now develops an output of Script error: No such module "convert". and Script error: No such module "convert". of torque,[20] resulting in a power to weight ratio of 748 hp per tonne. The 6-speed magnesium transversal and sequential gearbox changes gears in 20ms. The traction control developed by Bosch with 12 different settings and the renewed ABS system, allows the driver to adapt the behavior of the car to his driving style. The aerodynamics feature new deflectors on the front bonnet, as well as a vertical stabilizer mounted on the rear bonnet. The Zonda Revolución also features a DRS (Drag Reduction System) on the rear wing. The system has two different operating modes, both can be activated by the driver at any time. The manual system is controlled with the DRS button on the steering wheel. The rear wing changes between maximum and minimum down-force settings, at the occurrence of a lateral acceleration of 0.8 g and a minimum speed of Script error: No such module "convert".. Holding down the DRS for more than two seconds engages the DRS to work automatically according to the algorithms developed by the Pagani engineers during the development phase. The Brembo braking system adopts new CCMR discs derived from F1 technology. With a weight saving of 15% compared to the previous CCM discs, the CCMR offer higher stiffness and lower operating temperatures on extreme track use. This contributes to the life of the disc which is increased by four times, with no sign of fading and a significant overall increase in braking power. Each Revolución, of which only five were built, was priced at €2.2 million before taxes.
Zonda GR
Development of the Zonda GR started in December 2002. At this stage the Zonda was nearly four years old, but had yet to be entered in major motorsports. Tom Weickardt, owner of American Viperacing, Toine Hezemans, owner of Carsport Holland, and Paul Kumpen, owner of GLPK Racing, created a new company, Carsport Zonda, to build a racing version. They secured exclusive rights to develop, build and sell competition Zondas from Horacio Pagani, and the first GR was completed at Carsport's facility in Modena within months.
The Zonda GR is based on the Zonda S. It was built on the same carbon fiber chassis, with tube frames in front and back. The bodywork was modified to include front and rear diffusers and louvers for improved aerodynamics. The car was Script error: No such module "convert". wide, in accordance with the regulations of the FIA and ACO. The car's weight was reduced to Script error: No such module "convert"., and a new suspension was designed. New wheels and brakes were also specified. The engine was equipped with an enlarged radiator, and the engine and gearbox also had new oil coolers.
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The car was entered into the 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans, but retired after ten laps due to a gearbox failure.[21]
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Pagani Zonda F engine
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WASHINGTON — If the temporary cease-fire in Syria begins to take hold on Saturday, despite the low expectations of the American and Russian officials who negotiated the agreement, it will be a landmark event. For the first time, diplomacy will have succeeded in abating the killing and misery that have already led to more than 250,000 deaths and millions of refugees pouring out of the shattered country.
But like everything else in the bloody five-year civil war, even the accord to limit the shooting has come at a high price, not least for President Obama.
In the estimate of European and Israeli intelligence officials, but not the White House, the pause in fighting may have the unintended consequence of consolidating President Bashar al-Assad's hold on power over Syria for at least the next few years. Perhaps more important, if it proves successful, it may also begin to freeze in place what already amounts to an informal partition of the country, even though the stated objective of the West is to keep the country whole.
The "cessation of hostilities," as it is officially known, that began midnight Friday is the first real product of a diplomatic push that Secretary of State John Kerry has made his all-consuming mission since last summer, when he struck the nuclear accord with Iran. Testifying in Congress this week, Mr. Kerry acknowledged that with so many players involved — Russian forces in the air, Iranian ground troops, dispirited and fractious opposition groups that say they have received too little aid from the West, and Mr. Assad's own forces — this resembles a Hail Mary pass.
"I know this: If it doesn't work, the potential is there that Syria will be utterly destroyed," Mr. Kerry said. "The fact is that we need to make certain that we are exploring and exhausting every option of diplomatic resolution."
At the same time he conceded in his Senate testimony that the White House was already preparing a "Plan B in the event that we don't succeed at the table" — a mix of military options that, so far, administration officials say Mr. Obama has rejected. On Friday, fighting raged on several fronts in Syria as combatants sought to gain last-minute advantages before the cease-fire.
Dozens of barrel bombs and other munitions fell on the suburbs of Damascus, Syria's capital. Rebels there said the suburb of Daraya was a bastion of insurgents who were not affiliated with either the Nusra Front or the Islamic State, the only two groups not exempted from attack because they are designated by the United Nations as terrorist organizations. But the Syrian government said Daraya was not covered under any truce, suggesting those attacks might continue.
Syria and Rebels Battle for Aleppo as Cease-Fire Collapses
A drastic escalation of fighting in Aleppo has shattered a partial truce.
While most of the major rebel groups that oppose the Assad government have signed on to the cease-fire, many said that if their forces are hit by the Russians and the Syrians — even by an attack meant to target the Islamic State or the Nusra Front — they would retaliate.
But the issue has become even more complicated by what the deal may or may not portend for Mr. Assad's future, and how the cease-fire affects his ability to hold onto the presidency.
Last summer, with Mr. Assad's forces reeling, many intelligence agencies were speculating that he could be forced from office by the end of 2015. Then came the Russian and Iranian interventions. His fortunes have changed dramatically.
Now European and Israeli officials contend that this preliminary agreement essentially abandons what was once a precondition of the Obama administration and the opposition groups: that Mr. Assad must go as part of any political deal.
"There is a low prospect that this will work, because there are spoilers on both sides, there are opposition groups that won't respect the cease-fire, and we can't trust the Russians will limit their military action to specific terrorist groups," said Philip H. Gordon, who was one of Mr. Obama's top Middle East advisers on the National Security Council until last year.
But Mr. Gordon sees a subtle shift in the administration's position. "For almost five years the opposition groups and their representatives have said they cannot agree to a cease-fire without agreement on a political process for Assad's eventual removal," he noted. Now that has changed.
Mr. Obama still talks about the need for Mr. Assad to go. After holding a National Security Council meeting at the State Department on Thursday, he said Syria's future "cannot include Bashar al-Assad."
"It's clear that after years of his barbaric war against his own people, including torture and barrel bombs and sieges and starvation, many Syrians will never stop fighting until Assad is out of power," Mr. Obama said. "There's no alternative to a managed transition away from Assad."
But at the United Nations on Friday, the resolutions embracing the cease-fire also seemed to give some political cover to the military gains the Russians — along with Iranian forces and Mr. Assad's Alawite-dominated army — have made, including the encirclement of Aleppo.
Mr. Gordon noted that the cessation of hostilities agreement may "effectively start to develop into a de facto partition of the country, whereby different ethnic groups control the regions they are currently holding." That is what worries the Israelis, who see a Syrian-Russian-Iranian axis developing on their border, a group that already has the support of the terrorist group Hezbollah.
Over time, European and Israeli officials say, the cease-fire may give Mr. Assad lasting control of the string of major cities — Damascus to Homs to Aleppo — that are now increasingly in his control, thanks to Russian and Iranian support. And it begins to etch out other territory for the Sunni opposition groups backed by Washington and the Arab states, while giving a sliver in the north to the Kurds.
John Kirby, Mr. Kerry's spokesman, disputes the idea that the agreement would carve Syria along the existing battle lines. "You need to look at the text," he said. "Every document includes explicit commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria, and you could argue that we've actually made a stronger commitment against partition than ever before, because all of the parties have signed on to that notion."
A senior administration official, who would not speak on the record about the internal White House deliberations, argued that the separate enclaves were temporary and would make it possible for negotiations on a political settlement to get started.
"What is the alternative?" he asked.
The question is whether the cease-fire becomes an end unto itself, or whether it leads to the talks that Mr. Kerry has envisioned as the centerpiece of the "Vienna process," a negotiating path laid out by all of Syria's neighbors in an agreement announced in the Austrian capital late last year.
On Friday the United Nations mediator, Staffan de Mistura, said he hoped the pause could allow desperately needed food and medicine to get into towns under siege for months and, if the truce holds, pave the way for political negotiations to resume on March 7.
"It is, potentially, a historic junction — to bring an end to the killing and destruction and to start a new life and new hope for the Syrians," Mr. de Mistura said.
That is the optimistic view. The more pessimistic one is that the cessation becomes what the French ambassador to the United Nations, François Delattre, called "a smoke screen allowing someone to crush the Syrian civilians and the opposition."


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Generally, a program does not block signals indefinitely - it might as well ignore them by setting their actions to SIG_IGN. But it is useful to block signals briefly, to prevent them from interrupting sensitive operations.
Is Blocking a signal similar to Ignoring a signal ?
No, blocking a signal is different from ignoring a signal. When a process blocks a signal, the operating system does not deliver the signal until the process unblocks the signal. A process blocks a signal by modifying its signal mask with sigprocmask. But when a process ignores a signal, the signal is delivered and the process handles it by throwing it away.
How Blocking Signals is Useful ?
Temporary blocking of signals with sigprocmask gives you a way to prevent interrupts during critical parts of your code. If signals arrive in that part of the program, they are delivered later, after you unblock them.
One example where this is useful is for sharing data between a signal handler and the rest of the program. If the type of the data is not sig_atomic_t, then the signal handler could run when the rest of the program has only half finished reading or writing the data. This would lead to confusing consequences.
To make the program reliable, you can prevent the signal handler from running while the rest of the program is examining or modifying that data - by blocking the appropriate signal around the parts of the program that touch the data. Blocking signals is also necessary when you want to perform a certain action only if a signal has not arrived.
All signal blocking functions use a data structure called a signal set to specify what signals are affected. Thus, every activity involves two stages: creating the signal set, and then passing it as an argument to a library function. These facilities are declared in the header file signal.h.
The sigset_t data type is used to represent a signal set. Internally, it may be implemented as either an integer or structure type. For portability, use only the functions described below to initialize, change, and retrieve information from sigset_t objects - don't try to manipulate them directly.
#include <signal.h>
int sigemptyset(sigset_t *set);
int sigfillset(sigset_t *set);
int sigaddset(sigset_t *set, int signum);
int sigdelset(sigset_t *set, int signum);
int sigismember(const sigset_t *set, int signum);
sigemptyset function initializes the signal set given by set to empty, with all signals excluded from the set.
sigfillset function initializes set to full, including all signals.
sigaddset and sigdelset functions add and delete respectively signal signum from set.
sigismember function tests whether signum is a member of set.
Objects of type sigset_t must be initialized by a call to either sigemptyset or sigfillset before being passed to the functions sigaddset, sigdelset and sigismember.
For more information checkout: man 3 sigsetops
The collection of signals that are currently blocked is called the signal mask. Each process has its own signal mask. When you create a new process, it inherits its parent's mask. You can block or unblock signals with total flexibility by modifying the signal mask.
#include <signal.h>
int sigprocmask(int how, const sigset_t *set, sigset_t *oldset);
In a traditional single-threaded application, sigprocmask system call can be used to fetch and/or manipulate the signal mask of the calling thread.
how determines what operation to be performed on the signal mask.
If oldset is non-null, the previous value of the signal mask is stored in oldset.
set determines list of signals to be set in blocking state.
Signals, such as SIGSTOP and SIGKILL, cannot be blocked. If an attempt is made to block these signals, the system ignores the request without reporting an error.
NOTE: Do not use sigprocmask in multi-threaded processes, because each thread has its own signal mask and there is no single process signal mask. According to POSIX, the behavior of sigprocmask in a multi-threaded process is "unspecified". Instead, use pthread_sigmask.
For more information checkout: man 2 sigprocmask
In the below example we try to block and unblock the SIGINT signal continually in a loop. If a user enters Ctrl-C while SIGINT is blocked, then the program terminates only after it is unblocked. If a user types Ctrl-C while SIGINT is unblocked, the program terminates immediately.
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int i;
sigset_t intmask;
int repeatfactor;
double y = 0.0;
if ((sigemptyset(&intmask) == -1) || (sigaddset(&intmask, SIGINT) == -1)){
perror("Failed to initialize the signal mask");
return 1;
for ( ; ; ) {
printf("Entering BLOCK state\n");
if (sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &intmask, NULL) == -1)
fprintf(stderr, "SIGINT signal blocked\n");
printf("Leaving Blocking State & Entering UNBLOCK state\n");
if (sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &intmask, NULL) == -1)
fprintf(stderr, "SIGINT signal unblocked\n");
perror("Failed to change signal mask");
return 1;
$ ./a.out
Entering BLOCK state
SIGINT signal blocked
Leaving Blocking State & Entering UNBLOCK state
SIGINT signal unblocked
$ ./a.out
Entering BLOCK state
SIGINT signal blocked
^CLeaving Blocking State & Entering UNBLOCK state


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|In its short, single-season run,
only thirteen Orbots episodes were aired. The show first aired on ABC on
September 8, 1984, and last aired on August 31, 1985. Here is a list of setup synopses:
1. The Magnetic Menace (Story by
Michael Reaves & Kimme Ringwald)
This episode introduces the Orbots. Bo and Boo are delighted to discover that the ship they have just rescued from a meteor shower belongs to Dragos and Drax, a pair of popular robot rock musicians en route to a concert on the Moon. Bo convinces Boo to use her invisibility power to allow the two of them to sneak backstage before the concert to get "acquainted" with Dragos and Drax. Unfortunately, the musicians are really Shadow agents in disguise, and they lull Bo and Boo into a trance with their hypnotic music. During the concert, Dragos and Drax perform the function for which Umbra sent them; their music creates a magnetic monster, which begins a rampage. Dia, who was also at the concert, captures the Shadow agents and frees Bo and Boo, but the monster is already attacking Earth, where it attracts metal and steadily grows stronger. The Orbots attempt to intercede, but the creature is made of magnetic fields and the Orbots are made of metal; this is, as Tor puts it, "a bad combination." They are themselves absorbed into the growing monster. As the monster continues to attract metal, Earth will soon be defenseless, and open to Shadow invasion!
2. The Wish World (Story
by Michael Reaves)
Umbra, after suffering yet another defeat at the hands of the Orbots against Kattron in the Emerald nebula, devises a plan to use Ohno's insecurity about being "only a robot" against them. His shape-shifting agent Plasmus lures Ohno to the Wish World, where (at her request) she is transformed into a human. Meanwhile, Umbra has opened a hyper-warp in the orbital path of the moon Doranis, a key United Planets defense location. Dia is sent to investigate, but the storms caused by the hyper-warp force her to crash-land her cruiser on Doranis. Mighty Orbots is called in to help; unfortunately, Ohno in her human form cant provide the ignition key the Orbots need to successfully unite. They head back to the Emerald nebula in the hopes of using the nebulas energies (channeled through Bo and Bort) to return Ohno to her robot form; but they are waylaid by Plasmus, who has also absorbed the nebula's energy, and grown to a gigantic size. All the while, Doranis orbit carries it (and Dia) ever deeper into the hyper-warp and oblivion
3. Trapped on the Prehistoric Planet (Story by Marc Scott Zicree)
After enduring a television broadcast of Mighty Orbots latest victory over Shadow (this time against Nordak), Umbra hatches an elaborate scheme to destroy both Mighty Orbots and Galactic Patrol Headquarters. Umbras agent Mentalis launches a massive asteroid toward Earth, then steals the Deflectron (Earth's defense satellite) and uses it to lure Mighty Orbots to Evilon (the "vilest and most dangerous planet in the galaxy") and trap them there. Mighty Orbots attempts to escape but is drained of power by the force field. Ohno's toolkit is lost in the crash, and Crunch cant recharge them by eating because Bos latest practical joke has robbed Crunch of his appetite chip. Mentalis uses his mind control powers to send Evilons gigantic hostile life forms after the Orbots, while the asteroid hurtles ever closer to Earth
4. The Dremloks (Story
by Michael Reaves)
The peaceful planet of Idylla comes under unexpected attack by Shadow forces, and the primitive native Dremloks are enslaved and sent to work mining Energite ore, the most powerful energy source in the galaxy. Mighty Orbots, passing through the area to deliver a new energy scanner invention of Robs, is sent to investigate the unusual power emanations from Idylla. The Dremloks, now under Shadow mind-control, lead the Orbots into ambush where Tor, Bort, Crunch, Bo and Boo also fall under Shadow control. Rob and Ono escape alone to try to figure out a way to liberate the other Orbots and the Dremloks themselves.
5. Devil's Asteroid (Story
by Buzz Dixon)
Umbra has created a duplicate of Mighty Orbots (called "Tobor"), and sends it on a destructive rampage, causing warrants to be issued for the real Orbots' arrest. In order to uncover the Shadow conspiracy, Rob and Rondu allow the Orbots to be convicted and sentenced to Devil's Asteroid for 999 years at hard labor. Dia, unaware of the plan, sets out to clear the Orbots' names. Meanwhile, the Orbots must endure terrible hardships on Devil's Asteroid, which has been infiltrated by Shadow agents and is under Umbra's control. Tor must carry tons of huge blocks from one place to another; Bo must wash mountains of dishes with her elemental powers; Crunch is force-fed and hooked up to the main generator; Bort becomes a replacement for a piston, and Boo is put in charge of a garden of predatory plants. With the Orbots out of the way, Tobor's disguise is dropped, and stands ready to strike directly at Galactic Patrol headquarters.
6. Raid on the Stellar Queen (Story by Marc Scott Zicree)
Rondu boards the new luxury spaceliner Stellar Queen with Dia, bound for a crucial summit on Altair 6. While passing the Sargasso Cluster (a cluster of planetary bodies so dense that few ships can escape its gravitational field), the Stellar Queen is attacked by star pirates and dragged into the cluster where there is a pirate base among the derelict wreckage. Dia manages to get a warning message to Patrol HQ before she and Rondu are captured, and the Orbots hurry to the rescue. The pirate leader, Captain Shrike, captured the Queen only to get her experimental antimatter engine, which he connects through his master computer to Rondu's life-force to create a Thetan, a creature of awesome power. Dia escapes to warn Mighty Orbots of the situation, but how can the Orbots defeat the Thetan without harming Rondu's life-force? To complicate matters, since Shrike has removed the anti-matter engine from its dampers, a chain reaction and explosion is now inevitable. Even if they can deal with these problems, how can the Orbots escape from the Sargasso Cluster?
7. The Jewel of Targon (Story by David Wise)
Passing the ancient world of Targon while returning from a mission, the Orbots detect a life form on the the supposedly dead planet. Bort, Crunch and Bo descend to investigate, but can't find any trace of a life for. Instead, Bo finds an enormous jewel which she decides to take home with her. Sensing something odd about the jewel, Rondu and Rob have it placed in a museum for study. That evening, a reptilian creature hatches out of the crystal "egg", and begins to devour other crystals in the lab, growing all the while. After growing into a huge, winged dragon, the creature breaks out of the museum and heads for Mars in search of more crystals. Can the Orbots discover the creature's secret and prevent catastrophe?
8. The Phoenix Factor (Story by Donald F. Glut & Douglas Booth)
Umbra awakens the cyborg scientist Doctor Phoenix, exiled from Earth 200 years ago. Wary of Umbra but hungry for revenge, Dr. Phoenix agrees to use his outlawed Mechanogen energy virus to help Shadow. Phoenix is surprised by Mighty Orbots in the Danger Zone (where outlawed devices are dumped) while trying to retrieve his Mechanogen; in the encounter, Ohno is infected with the virus. While Rob struggles to cure Ohno, Dr. Phoenix releases a mutated version of the virus on Earth, where it begins to take control of everything mechanical. Rondu orders the evacuation of the city, and it is quaratined by erecting a force field dome... but this is only a temporary measure; the dome can't hold for long. Galactic Patrol sensors detect Phoenix's cloaked vessel in orbit, and Mighty Orbots (including ailing Ohno) head out in pursuit. By using Boo to match wavelengths with the cloaking field, they neutralize it and soon work their way inside the massive ship. They confront Dr. Phoenix and are on the verge of convicing him to switch sides (he has been chafing against Umbra's control, and Ohno assures him that the anti-cyborg fears of 200 years ago are gone, and now "humans and robots work together") when an eavesdropping Umbra releases the last of the Mechanogen inside Phoenix's ship... and all over Phoenix and the Orbots!
9. Leviathan (Story
by David Wise)
On the watery planet of Reilos, the mining operations of valuable Aquarius ore are being disrupted by the attacks of Leviathan, a monstrous whale-creature over a kilometer in length. Mighty Orbots is dispatched to investigate. They discover that Leviathan is under the control of a local oceanographer named Aymon, but he is only trying to protect the ecosystem from administrator Torkus mining operations. In truth, Torkus is a Shadow agent, and the mining operations are just a cover to search for the Solar Sphere, an artifact with the power-generating capability of a star. Leviathan has swallowed the Sphere, and when Torkus steals Aymons psi helmet used to control Leviathan, it seems that Shadow holds all the cards
10. The Cosmic Circus (Story by Douglas Booth and Donald F. Glut)
The Orbots get their chance for fame when the Cosmic Circus arrives on Earth and the Orbots are sent undercover to sniff out suspected Shadow activity. Under the guise of an acrobatic team ("The Flying Robotties"), the Orbots discover that the circus Ringmaster is indeed working for Shadow; he is using his Hall of Mirrors to trap and duplicate the five Galactic Patrol officers (including Dia) responsible for the planetary defense system. But the Orbots cover is blown; they must withstand the onslaught of the circus performers and their alien zoo while the duplicate officers deactivate Earths defenses, and Umbra begins to assimilate the Galactic Patrol defense computer
11. A Tale of Two Thieves (Story by Buzz Dixon)
Transporting a dangerous Protean pod to Urbanos (the most densely populated planet in the galaxy), Crunchs brainless actions allow the pod to be stolen by two local thieves (Kleptos and The Kid). Umbra also wants the Protean; Shadow agent Belladonna and her fearsome robot Mutron join the chase. In the tussle for the pod, it is opened; the amoeba-like Protean, once exposed to oxygen, grows at a frightening pace, consuming everything in its path. Can Mighty Orbots stop it before it covers the entire planet?
12. Operation Eclipse (Story by Marc Scott Zicree)
Rondu's old friend Drennan unexpectedly shows up while the Orbots are escorting a convoy to Centris, where the Galactic Council of the United Planets government meets. Rondu welcomes Drennan and permits him to speak before the Council regarding his new invention, the Drennan Device (very similar in function to the Deflectron). Rob is uncomfortable with the free access Rondu is allowing Drennan, but Drennan is well-liked, even by Dia and the Orbots (Bort quips, "Lighten up, Rob. Not everyone's a space villain in disguise.") Unfortunately, Rob's fears are justified; Drennan has become a Shadow agent, and his treachery allows the Shadow fleet to destroy the UP convoy on the ground and surround Centris. Drennan uses his mental powers to put a "mental lock" on the Orbots which prevents them from joining together, and they are captured and imprisoned. However, Dia steals Drennan's fighter and her spectacular piloting skills allow her run the Shadow blockade and bring Rondu to safety. The Orbots subsequently also escape, but until Drennans mental lock can be broken, Mighty Orbots is powerless to prevent Umbra from moving the Shadow Star to Centris and taking control of the entire galaxy. To break the lock, Rondu himself must confront Drennan in a psionic battle which will determine the fate of the galaxy
13. The Invasion of the Shadow Star (Story by Michael Reaves)
Umbra's minion Werag develops the ultimate weapon, the Sun Smasher. It is a mighty cannon that can fire a projectile into a star from apparently any range, causing it to go supernova, destroying the entire system. After testing it on a remote system, Umbra issues an ultimatum to the Galactic Patrol; they must surrender within six hours, or Earth's sun will be the next target! Rondu briefs Rob on the situation, but does not yet send the Orbots into action; the Shadow Star is the most heavily defended location in the galaxy, a target not to be engaged without a specific plan of action.
The Orbots, meanwhile are worried about another issue. On the eve of the Orbots' first birthday, Rob has secluded himself to work on a secret project. Expecting a birthday present, Bo convinces Ohno to hack into the computer to find out what it might be. What they find is a set of blueprints for what appears to be a new line of Orbots. Convinced that they are about to be replaced, the Orbots attempt to prove their worth (or die trying) by assaulting the Shadow Star themselves -- alone. They use the lab's Transmat to transport themselves directly to the Shadow Star, where they fight their way through Umbra's robotic minions to reach the Shadow Fortress, Umbra's continent-sized base of operations. Rob, discovering what the Orbots have done, rashly follows them through the Transmat; Umbra intercepts the beam and transports Rob directly into his own inner sanctum, where Rob is imprisoned in a force field. Umbra informs Rondu that he now holds all the cards and again demands surrender, but Rondu refuses. Can the Orbots overcome impossible odds and defeat Umbra on his own home turf, without Rob's aid?


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