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A NEW YOU: God's Gracious Hand is on you
"Then I told them about how the gracious hand of God had been on me, and about my conversation with the king. They replied at once, "Yes, let's rebuild the wall!" So they began the good work." Nehemiah 2:18
Have you ever turned to God in prayer, asking, "What is your will for me?" Or perhaps you may ask, "Can you help me to fulfill the best plan for my future?"
God has called each of us to important tasks. You are destined to succeed in life. And you're capable of more than you even think that "you can be" or "can accomplish." Regardless of challenges, believe in your extraordinary gifts, your dreams and your amazing future, and step onward with positive action toward what God has placed in your heart. Pray and begin. Stay focused on the vision. And let God's will unfold.
One of my favorite Bible accounts is the story of Nehemiah. It is a narrative of perseverance, diligence and reliance on God. Although Nehemiah was under constant opposition, he had a God-inspired vision to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah could have ignored his heart's dream and thought, "This can never happen." He might have been distracted by the steady ridicule and said, "I'm not strong enough to accomplish this," "I don't have the means to succeed" or "It is too daunting of a task."
Have you ever talked yourself out of pursuing your dreams? Is there something holding you back from living the abundant life that God wants for you?
It would have been easy for Nehemiah to disregard God's calling. Then, he could have thought about all of the reasons why it wouldn't work out, until he convinced himself to just give up in despair.
But Nehemiah believed he could rebuild the walls because "the gracious Hand of God" was on him. (Nehemiah 2:18) Despite obstacles, Nehemiah's trust, focus and confidence were in God.
So, Nehemiah prayed and forged ahead, putting together a group of people who could rebuild the wall along with him. He was bold, and miraculously, even the king granted Nehemiah's requests, reversed past policies, and gave Nehemiah what was needed to complete the monumental task.
As they rebuilt the wall, Nehemiah and the group were mocked. Yet, Nehemiah persevered. Even when the odds seemed to be impossible, Nehemiah didn't quit. Likewise, when we experience challenges, we should continue persisting forward. For when we're doing God's work, often we face opposition. The key? Don't give up. Thereafter, in a record time of 52 days, Nehemiah and the people rebuilt the wall.
God's gracious hand was firmly upon Nehemiah. And His Hand is on you, today. So push past the point of 'I can't do this' to 'I can do all things,' as the words you speak, like a boomerang, can come back to you.
• Past situations might have been unfair. However, today is a new day. So let it all go and declare, "Circumstances can turn around for my good, since the gracious Hand of God is on me."
• People may have spoken negative words over you. Let those phrases go in one ear and out the other and speak with confidence, "I'm valuable and I will be successful, for the gracious Hand of God is on me."
• The future could be concerning. Stay calm and trust God to work everything out His way and utter, "I am not going to worry; the gracious Hand of God is on me."
• Perhaps you need a healing miracle. Use the resources God makes available, while saying, "I will get well, as the gracious Hand of God is on me."
• A door may have closed in your life. But when a door closes, a window opens. Thus, keep on trying and state, "It is just a matter of time before opportunity comes, as the gracious Hand of God is on me."
Use your words to say what you desire, being confident in God's power rather than just your own. And in His perfect time, God's hand will be shown to be upon you.
Years ago, I recall reading an article somewhere that was purported to be true. It was about a construction company that was contracted to build a new road through the countryside. As the construction progressed through the heavily rural area, the crew began taking down large trees.
As they were working, the foreman noticed a bird's nest. It was nestled in a cluster of branches in one of the trees. The foreman peered closer, and he saw there were baby birds within the nest. "Those birds are probably newborn and can't fly," he said to himself. With that, he told his crew not to cut the tree. Then, to be sure his orders were followed, the foreman marked it, so that particular tree wouldn't be cut down until sometime later.
Weeks passed, and the foreman came back to the area with the marked tree. Before cutting it down to finish the road, he got into a bucket truck and a member of his crew lifted him up so he could look into the nest. The baby birds were gone. Clearly, they had learned to fly. The foreman then told his crew, "It's now safe to cut down the tree and finish the road construction."
The crew followed his instructions. They took down the tree, and it fell to the ground. As the workers were clearing the branches, they noticed some of the bark, twigs and small objects that the birds had gathered to make their nest. One of the items discovered from the nest was a scrap of paper that was torn from a Sunday school pamphlet. On the piece of paper were the words, "He careth for you."
You are one of God's chosen ones. He loves you, and His gracious Hand is guiding every area of your life. Miracles are in store for your future.
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"Tonight we want to add our voices to the thousands of Americans who are protesting at airports around the country the Muslim Ban and the detention of foreign nationals and refugees. America is a nation of immigrants and we find this anti-democratic and fundamentally un-American."
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At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Samsung described an unusual eight-brained processor as a major step above competing chips. Now that U.S. buyers will be late to get it, the company is playing down the differences.
So-called "teardown" analyses of the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone by TechInsights and Chipworks this week confirmed that the chip known as "Octa" has arrived in handsets aimed at Europe and Latin America. But in a model for the high-profile U.S. market, iFixit found a popular chip from Qualcomm in the new flagship phone.


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October 23 in history:
Brutus is infamous for his role in assassinating Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate, in 44 B.C. Two years later, on October 23rd, 42 B.C., Brutus met his own fate, killing himself after losing the second battle of Philippi to Marc Antony.
A fateful meeting of two old friends, two pilots, led to deadly consequences in 1942. One man was flying a B-34 bomber for the Army, while the other was a pilot for American Airlines. They discovered that both would be flying near Palm Springs, California the next day, October 23rd. On that day, the bomber pilot, Lt. William Wilson, tried flying close to American Flight 28 to signal to his friend, First Officer Louis Reppert. Wilson got too close, and the planes collided. The airliner crashed in the desert, killing all 12 people aboard. Wilson went through a court-martial, but was acquitted.
One passenger on the American flight was an Oscar-winning songwriter, Ralph Rainger. He's best known for writing the theme songs used by two popular comedians…"Love in Bloom," associated with Jack Benny, and "Thanks for the Memory," Bob Hope's theme. Late in their careers, Hope and Benny appeared frequently with Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show." Carson became a comedy legend in his own right, by hosting "Tonight" for 30 years. He was born October 23rd, 1925.
NBC airs "Saturday Night Live" in the "Tonight Show" time slot on weekends. On October 23rd, 1976, Steve Martin hosted "SNL" for the first time, and played the host of "Jeopardy! 1999," a futuristic parody of the popular game show. "I Lost on Jeopardy," a take-off of the Greg Kihn song "Jeopardy," was an early hit for song parodist and musician "Weird Al" Yankovic, born this day in 1959.


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I've watched The Biggest Loser enough times to understand the value of steaming. Yes, it's good for you, and it preserves the flavor and nutritional value of your vegetables. I know.
But for far too long I've resisted steaming my veggies because there's simply no space in my kitchen for those clunky dual-level steaming contraptions (which I'd never be able to fill up when cooking for one, anyway). All that changed when I found this cute-looking silicone steamer by Trudeau, which does away with pretty much all my steaming woes.
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The Batch Layer
The raw data is first pre-processed and loaded into Hive. In Hive (remember, this constitutes the master dataset in the batch layer of our USN app) the following schema is used:
CREATE TABLE usn_base ( actiontime STRING, originator STRING, action STRING, network STRING, target STRING, context STRING ) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|';
To import the CSV data, to build the master dataset, the shell script batch-layer.sh executes the following HiveQL commands:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '../data/usn-base-data.csv' INTO TABLE usn_base; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS usn_friends; CREATE TABLE usn_friends AS SELECT actiontime, originator AS username, network, target AS friend, context AS note FROM usn_base WHERE action = 'ADD' ORDER BY username, network, username;
With this, the USN app master dataset is ready and available in HDFS and I can move on to the next layer, the serving layer.
The Serving Layer of the USN App
The batch view used in the USN app is realized via an HBase table called
usn_friends. This table is then used to drive the USN app front-end; it has the schema shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: HBase schema used in the serving layer of the USN app.
After building the serving layer, I can use the HBase shell to verify if the batch view has been properly populated in the respective table
$ ./bin/hbase shell hbase(main):001:0> describe 'usn_friends' ... {NAME => 'usn_friends', FAMILIES => [{NAME => 'a', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'N true ONE', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0', VERSIONS => '3', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', TTL => '-1', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'false', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', IN_MEMORY => 'false', ENCODE_ON_DISK => 'true', BLOCKCACHE => 'false'}]} 1 row(s) in 0.2450 seconds
You can have a look at some more queries used in the demo user interface on the Wiki page of the GitHub repository.
Putting It All Together
After the batch and serving layers have been initialized and launched, as described, you can launch the user interface. To use the CLI, make sure that HBase and the HBase Thrift service are running and then, in the main USN app directory run:
$ ./usn-ui.sh This is USN v0.0 u ... user listings, n ... network listings, l ... lookup, s ... search, h ... help, q ... quit
Figure 5 shows a screen shot of the USN app front-end in action:
Figure 5: Screen-shot of the USN app command line user interface.
The three main operations the USN front-end provides are as follows:
u ... user listinglists all acquaintances of a user
n ... network listinglists acquaintances of a user in a network
l ... lookup listinglists acquaintances of a user in a network and allows restrictions on the time range (from/to) of the acquaintanceship
s ... searchprovides search for an acquaintance over all users, allowing for partial match
An example USN app front-end session is available at the GitHub repo for you to study.
What's Next?
I have intentionally kept USN simple. Although fully functional, it has several intentional limitations (due to space restrictions here). I can suggest several improvements you could have a go at, using the available code base as a starting point.
- Bigger data: The most obvious point is not the app itself but the data size. Only laughable 500 rows? This isn't Big Data I hear you say. Rightly so. Now, no one stops you generating 500 million rows or more and try it out. Certain processes such as pre-processing and the generating the layers will take longer but there are no architectural changes necessary, and this is the whole point of this USN app.
- Creating a full-blown batch layer: Currently, the batch layer is a sort of one-shot, while it should really run in a loop and append new data. This requires partitioning of the ingested data and some checks. Pail, for example, allows you to do the ingestion and partitioning in a very elegant way.
- Adding speed layer and automated import: It would be interesting to automate the import of data from the various social networks. For example, Google Takeout allows exporting all data in bulk mode, including G+ Circles. For a stab at the speed layer, one could try and utilize the Twitter fire-hose along with Storm.
- More batch views: There is currently only one view (friend list per network, per user) in the serving layer. The USN app might benefit from different views to enable different queries most efficiently, such as time-series views of network growth or overlaps of acquaintanceships across networks.
I hope you have as much fun playing around with the USN app and extending it as I had writing it in the first place. I'd love to hear back from you on ideas or further improvements either directly here as a comment or via the GitHub issue tracker of the USN app repository.
Further Resources
- A must-read for the Lambda Architecture is the Big Data book by Nathan Marz and James Warren from Manning. The USN app idea actually stems from one of the examples used in this book.
- Slide deck on A real time architecture using Hadoop and Storm from FOSDEM 2013
- A blog post about an example "lambda architecture" for real-time analysis of hashtags using Trident, Hadoop, and Splout SQL
- Additional batch layer technologies such as Pail for managing the master dataset and JCascalog for creating the batch views
- Apache Drill for providing interactive, ad-hoc queries against HDFS, HBase, or other NoSQL back-ends.
- Additional speed layer technologies, such as Trident, a high-level abstraction for doing real-time computing on top of Storm and MapR's Direct Access NFS to land data directly from streaming sources such as social media streams or sensor devices.
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Humans take their hands for granted. We're just as quick to make an obscene gesture with them as we are to paint the next Mona Lisa. For those building robots, however, dexterous hands are a never—ending conundrum. Building them is tough and expensive. Roomba manufacturer iRobot is working on innovating its way around at least a few of these major obstacles to build effective, affordable, and maybe even intuitive digits.
Take the hand in the video above. Actually, it looks nothing like a traditional appendage, but according to iRobot scientists, this "Jamming Gripper" (part of iRobot's HANDLE— Hardened, Adaptive, Novel, Low-Cost, End Effector strategy) can pick up virtually anything, but in a novel and truly effective way.
No, it's not some sort of esoteric, hard-to-replicate technology, instead, the Jamming Gripper uses a confining membrane (some sort of strong rubber) filled with sand or, perhaps, coffee grounds. That pouch is attached to a vacuum. When the robot finds its target object, it lays the gripper gently on top of it, the vacuum turns on and tightens the pouch until it's molded firmly around the object.
In the demonstration above, iRobot researchers play the role of the intelligent robot behind the "hand" and had the jamming gripper pick up whatever I told them to. I lined up a 3D-printed meme (Nyan Cat), a Doctor Who Dalek robot toy (meta, right?), a pen and a bottle. The technology, though, is quite extensible. Vacuums can be used temporarily harden universal joints. iRobot, for example, combine the jamming gripper "hand" with a flexible ball joint arm that's vacuumed and stiff when the robot wants to turn a doorknob, but loose and free moving when the robot needs to swing the door open.
This solution could be far less expensive and just as effective as a much more complicated system of gears and sensors.
iRobot is not against anthropomorphism. Dr. Chris Jones, iRobot's Director for Research Advancement, also showed me a three-fingered robot prototype "hand" that's notable for its rubberized and highly compliant construction. The fingers and joined are mostly rubber, which allows the robot fingers to move until they hit stuff, but without damaging anything or hurting anyone.
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The hand can pick up everything from a basketball to a credit card. (see the video below for evidence).
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Ethel Mine is located near Mutoroshanga, about 120km by road from Harare. It is a flooded Asbestos quarry. With good visibility and beautiful surroundings, this is a great dive site, and probably the only dive site in Zimbabwe accessible to recreational divers.
While use of Asbestos is internationally condemned due to health risks, these risks only apply when Asbestos fibres become airborne and are inhaled. In this specific circumstance, there is no airborne Asbestos, therefore the site is likely to be completely safe -- but naturally, attending the site is at your own risk.
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Since Zimbabwe has been undergoing political and economic turmoil since 1990, it's not currently recommended as a tourist destination.
This is a very undeveloped site. At most times, the quarry is completely deserted. There is a set of concrete steps leading down to a large ledge near the water line. There is a concrete table and benches. Apart from that, there is no other infrastructure. You will need to bring all of your own equipment and full air cylinders. Equipment hire, and air and nitrox fills are available in Harare.
There are no ablution facilities, restaurant, dive shop, or any other kind of facilities here. Bring everything you need. It's unlikely that there is even a cellphone signal.
There is one training grid at 6 metres. Visibility is generally excellent, but can become poor after heavy rains. Maximum depth is 40 metres. Water is moderately warm, but with several thermoclines.
There are many 'wrecks' on the bottom, which include:
Ethel mine is located at 17° 3'55.27"S, 30°42'25.04"E


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What resembles the head and torso of a human and will be attached outside the International Space Station? The answer is the European Matroshka experiment facility. During the night of 26/ February the ISS Expedition 8 crew of Alexander Kaleri and Michael Foale will carry out a 5-hour 45-minute spacewalk and, amongst other tasks, attach Matroshka to the Russian Zvezda module.
Even though Matroshka can be seen as a figurehead for the ISS there is a serious purpose behind its existence. For the year that it will be located outside of the ISS this experiment facility will be measuring the radiation doses that would be experienced by astronauts during spacewalks.
The levels of radiation inside the Station are well documented though the levels experienced by astronauts outside of the ISS are still unclear. In order to determine precise measurements, Matroshka simulates the human body within a spacesuit as closely as possible.
The Matroshka experiment facility consists of several different layers, hence the reason for naming it after the famous Russian matrioshka dolls. The simulated human element of the experiment is called the Phantom. It is composed of natural bone and a material, which closely resembles natural tissue. A lower-density material is used to simulate the lungs. These 'tissue' layers are covered with a simulated skin layer. The Phantom is itself housed in an external container, which represents a spacesuit.
Radiation sensors are placed in and around the Phantom at different key organ locations such as the stomach, lungs, colon, eyes and skin and also within the spacesuit element. Knowing the radiation doses suffered by sensitive body organs is crucial for assessing the hazards from cosmic radiation.
The Expedition 8 crew will attach the Matroshka experiment to the outside of the ISS during a spacewalk. This will be the first time that a spacewalk has been carried out on the ISS involving the entire crew. Since the grounding of the Shuttle after the Columbia accident, the ISS Expedition crews consist of two members instead of three. Normally at least one crewmember would remain in the Station during a spacewalk.
This means that it will be the first time since November 2000 that there will be no crew inside the International Space Station. It is however not the first time in history that a space station has been left unmanned during a spacewalk. This also occurred on the Russian Mir and Salyut space stations.
Matroshka is an ESA facility, which is under the project leadership of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
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Few airplanes in the history of aviation have a design feature as distinctive as the legendary F4U Corsair's inverted gull wing. It has intrigued World War II aircraft buffs for more than half acentury. Form follows function, and the unusual design resulted from a skillful blending of mission requirements with engineering-design expertise by the original de signers at Chance Vought Aircraft in East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1938.
The name came from the Vought O2U- and O3U-series observation airplanes that first bore the name Corsair Navy and Marine Corps pilots logged many hours in these sturdy aircraft, mainstays of the airborne Navy in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Later, the name Corsair lived on in the Vought A-7 Corsair II, which performed so admirably in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm. Chance Milton Vought's O2U first flew in 1926; the Navy's last Corsair II squadron was decommissioned in 1991, but Greek and Portuguese pilots are still flying the aircraft. Back in 1938, however, the men who designed the F4U never dreamed that they were creating a legend.
In the late 1930s, as Europe headed for war, Chance Vought Aircraft, a division of United Aircraft Corporation, was working with the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics on the preliminary design for a high-performance, carrier-based fighter to be built around the new Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine. The Double Wasp developed 1,850 horsepower for takeoff and had the potential for reaching 2,000 horsepower—quite an increase from Pratt & Whitney's 1,000-horsepowet Twin Wasp. The Navy asked for proposals early in 1938, and that spring Vought submitted its proposalcompany designation V-166.
The design team had to resolve many conflicting requirements before arriving at the final configuration for an aircraft that promised speeds of 400 miles per hour, and one of the key constraints was the large-diameter propeller required to convert the high engine power to the thrust necessary to achieve maximum performance. The aerodynamicists calculated the static thrust necessary to accelerate the aircraft to takeoff speed and tried to minimize propeller tip-speed compressibility losses in order to achieve maximum performance; selection was based on efficiency throughout all flight regimes-takeoff, climb, cruise, and top speed. Using a new Hamilton Standard propeller design handbook, they determined that the aircraft required a 13-foot, 3-inch three-bladed propeller. By 1938 standards, it was a very big prop.
Excellent slow-speed characteristics in the landing configuration and good stall indications were required for carrier compatibility, but Chief Engineer Rex B. Beisel made it clear to his 90- man engineering staff on many occasions that "speed is king" and there would be no compromises on that point. We already had the biggest engine available, so it was obvious that the only way to increase performance was to decrease drag. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA-later NASA) had sent us a number of technical reports relating to the optimum position of the wing relative to the fuselage, i.e., mid-wing versus low wing.
The reports showed that the mid-wing configuration, with the wing meeting the fuselage at an angle of 90°, was superior in achieving low drag. The low-wing position resulted in flow separation at the fuselage junction, especially at the wing's trailing edge where a cusp formed with the convex underside of the fuselage. While this could be ameliorated somewhat by using a fillet or fairing along the trailing edge of the wing-fuselage intersection, it was evident that the wing must join the fuselage at right angles similar to a mid-wing configuration if the fighter were to have any chance of achieving the desired speeds.
Still another important design constraint was the length of the landing gear that would retract into the wing. The structures and weights people pointed out that the large-diameter propeller and the mid-wing configuration would dictate a long and heavy landing gear and a complex and costly folding mechanism.
The Corsair's distinctive gull-wing design actually emerged from a small engineering meeting in Rex's office, which had assembled to resolve the conflicting design requirements. The writer recalls that among those present were: Beisel; James M. Shoemaker, Assistant Chief Engineer; Paul S. Baker, Chief of Aerodynamics and Flight Test; William C. Schoolfield, Head of Aerodynamics; Earnest Mailloux, Chief of Structures; George F. Darracott, Head of Weights; Fred N. Dickerman, Design; and yours truly, Aerodynamics. The group reviewed a number of aircraft configurations that had been generated in preliminary design studies.
Assessing the options while sketching on a desk pad, Rex conjectured that if the wing in front view had to be normal to the fuselage at its intersection for low drag, and the landing gear had to be short, why not just leave the wing low, put a little bend in it at the landing gear station, and let it rise to meet the fuselage at right angles?
Then, going outboard, the curved section could rise, meeting the outer panel at the wing-fold station. He also pointed out that such an arrangement would permit an even shorter landing gear than a low-wing. The aerodynamicists confirmed that this configuration would provide essentially the same low drag as a mid-wing. It became clear that the inverted gull wing was the best approach, and Beisel directed that it be incorporated as the basic element of the XF4U-1. The bent-wing bird had been born—and the rest is history.
The detail design work began with a contract go-ahead for the prototype XF4U-1 in June 1938. The Chance Vought Air-U.S. Navycraft plant was moved from East Hartford to Stratford, Connecticut, in 1939 where the design continued as engineers and manufacturing experts worked out the details. They solved the problem of incorporating slotted flaps in the curved gull-wing section and, taking a tip from the SB2U-1 Vindicator, developed a landing-gear retraction mechanism that folded back and rotated 90°, permitting the wheel to be housed flat within the thickness of the wing. To reduce drag, the cockpit and canopy were streamlined into the fuselage; in later models, however, the cockpit was raised and the canopy redesigned to improve visibility.
The Corsair's horizontal and vertical tail configuration was similar to that of the Vindicator and the OS2U-1 Kingfisher. In an effort to get the last knot of speed, the engine exhaust stacks were designed to provide some jet thrust. Speed was indeed king.
Fabricating the curved wing center section was not as difficult as first thought-but only because Rex Beisel recognized the complexity of the task and assigned the best designers to tackle the problem. The centerpiece of the effort was a massive jig fixture assembly built by the artisans in the tool shop. The key to assembling the wing main spar, firewall bulkhead, and other structural components, it was more comprehensive and intricate than any fixture previously used in aircraft manufacturing, and it stood tall in the shop as a tribute to Vought's manufacturing ingenuity.
The designers knew that fighters needed a high roll rate with light aileron forces and the Corsair design emphasized maneuverability. To achieve it, they incorporated a variable lateral control linkage in the experimental XF4U-1 and used wooden ailerons to facilitate modifications to the aerodynamic nose balance. As the flight tests proceeded, the aerodynamicists and engineers varied the control linkage and whittled the aileron nose shape until they had what they wanted: a highly maneuverable production F4U-1 fighter that proved vastly superior to the Japanese Zero. Early production Corsairs also had wooden ailerons; one of the main concerns for production versions was whether manufacturing could fabricate metal ailerons as accurately as the wooden ones that performed so well. They did—and Vought took its final step in the conversion from wooden to metal aircraft construction.
Other wing features included a leading-edge air intake at the fuselage intersection that provided cooling air for the oil system and the engine supercharger inter-stage. Under certain flight conditions, particularly high-speed dives, the intakes created a distinct screaming or high-pitched whistling sound. Japanese ground troops under attack by Corsairs soon linked the sound with the fearsome ordnance capabilities of the bent-wing bird. Because of this, and the Corsair's superior air combat capabilities, the Japanese referred to the F4U as "Whistling Death."
The distinctive aircraft acquired many nicknames. Navy and Marine Corps pilots called it "Hose Nose" and "Hog" because of the long fuselage and large engine cowling, especially as viewed from the cockpit; "U-Bird" and "Bent-Wing" followed. New Zealanders dubbed their F4Us the "Kiwi Corsair" and U.S. Marine Corps infantrymen called it "The Sweetheart of Okinawa" for its air-support role in the hard-fought campaign to capture the island.
Design of the production F4U-1 began in December 1940 and Navy officials signed an initial production contract for 584 aircraft in June 1941. The first production Corsair flew in June 1942. There were many models of the Corsair, from the XF4U-1 through the F4U-7, spanning the years from 1940 through 1953, and including the AU-1 (F4U-6), built specifically for ground-attack. Each version was either an improvement or a modification, such as the F4U-5N night fighter that carried a radar mounted in a fairing on the right wing. The F4U-5NL was a winterized version of the -5N that had been modified for operations in the Korean War. The F4U-5P was a photographic reconnaissance version.
More than 11,000 Corsairs were built during the war approximately 6,600 at the Vought plant in Stratford; 4,000 at the Goodyear plant in Akron, Ohio; and 735 by Brewster on Long Island. During 1944, when the plants worked around the clock, the production rate exceeded 550 aircraft per month-18 aircraft per day-several times. This was a remarkable achievement in those days but not without its problems. A few days of bad weather or a lack of ferry pilots resulted in Corsairs lining both sides of all available runways.
Early in the flight test program, the XF4U-1 became the first single-engine fighter to break the 400 mile-per-hour barrier in level flight. The Corsair's speed, maneuverability, and climb rate enabled it to achieve an outstanding combat record in the Pacific: 2,140 enemy planes destroyed against 189 losses—better than an 11:1 ratio.
The Corsair's up-rated power plants gave it improved performance throughout the war . The XF4U-1 was built around the P& W R-2800-4 engine rated at 1,850 horse power. The F4U-5 used an R-2800-32W that produced 2,200 horsepower and enabled the aircraft to reach 465 miles-per-hour in level flight.
Armament also increased:
- The XF4U-1 had two .30-caliber machine guns synchronized to fire through the propeller and two wing-mounted .50-caliber machine.
- The F4U-1 A carried six.50-caliber guns—three per wing.
- The F4U-1C carried four 20-mm cannon—two per wing.
- The F4U-1 D fighter-bomber (the production version of the fighters that Pacific Marines and Chance Vought field representatives had jury-rigged with bomb rack s) eventually carried a 2,000-pound bomb load. In 1944, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, then serving as a consultant to United Aircraft Corporation, flew a Corsair in the Pacific with a 4,000-pound bomb load—about what the B-25 twin enginebomber carried.
Corsair production continued at Vought after the war, and the company delivered 467 planes prior to moving the plant from Connecticut to Dallas, Texas, in 1948. Vought produced 306 Corsairs in Texas; the last 94 F4U-7s went to the French Navy in 1953. Overall production totaled more than 12,000 aircraft, as Corsairs enjoyed a longer production run than any other U.S. propeller-driven fighter.
Corsairs served in many foreign countries after World War II. U.S. Marines flew Corsairs in peace-keeping efforts in China at the close of the war and the French and British continued to fly their Corsairs, using them in Indochina, Algeria, and during the Suez Crisis. Navy and Marine Corps Corsairs flew throughout the Korean War in the early 1950s, and a Corsair pilot shot down a MiG-15. Many South and Central American countries bought Corsairs, including Argentina, Honduras, and El Salvador.
In December 1955, the U.S. Navy decommissioned its last active-duty Corsair squadron, VC-4, at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, but Navy and Marine Corps reserves flew the aircraft until the Marines retired the last of their AU-1s at Quantico, Virginia, in August 1957. French Corsairs flew last in 1964, but the bent-wing aircraft flew until 1978 in Central America—38 years after the prototype's first flight.
Of the more than 60 F4Us that remain, most are in museums. Surprisingly, about 20 are still flying. What an aircraft.
Mr. Sibila was Vought's Chief of Aerodynamics and Manager of Space Sciences when he retired in 1979 after more than 42 years with the company. He joined Chance Vought Aircraft in 1937 as an Aerodynamics and Flight Test Engineer and worked on aircraft, missiles, and space programs throughout a distinguished career. We regret to report, he died in May 1994.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Some are questioning the appropriateness of slavery-era action figures tied to Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained."
A line of figures of the movie's main characters are currently on sale online, made by toy-maker NECA in partnership with the Weinstein Co. On Tuesday, Najee Ali, director of the advocacy group Project Islamic Hope, will hold a press conference with other Los Angeles black community leaders calling for the removal of the toys from the market.
Ali calls the action figures "a slap in the face of our ancestors" that "trivializes the horrors of slavery."
Action figures were made by manufacturer Hot Toys for Tarantino's last film, "Inglourious Basterds."
The Weinstein Co. and NECA didn't immediately comment Tuesday.


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Real Salt Lake 0, FC Dallas 0 | MLS Match Recap
SANDY, Utah — Real Salt Lake and FC Dallas both extended streaks on Saturday night, following a mutually unsatisfying 0-0 tie at Rio Tinto Stadium.
Although the draw allowed RSL to tie the MLS record for the longest unbeaten streak to open a season, the Claret-and-Cobalt (6-0-6) dropped two points at home against a Dallas team that played a midweek game and has been headed in the opposite direction.
Meanwhile, the scoreless tie extended Dallas' winless streak to seven games — though it represented an improved result from the midweek loss to LA.
After a relatively quiet first half when neither team could put many chances together, the game opened up after halftime. And both teams left the field looking back on a number of "what if?" moments that could have turned the tie into a win.
In the 55th minute, RSL defender Nat Borchers nearly put in a header in, only to see it cleared off the line. In the 66th minute, Dallas midfielder crossed the ball almost perfectly in to forward Tesho Akindele, who put it wide right.
It was that kind of night for Dallas and RSL.
Real Salt Lake not only didn't win, they suffered a potentially serious loss to their squad. Forward Joao Plata had to come off the field after re-aggravating his left hamstring — the same injury that took him out of a March 22 game against the LA Galaxy and kept him out of the lineup for the next three-plus games.
The injury also leaves RSL perilously short of forwards, with Alvaro Saborio off training with the Costa Rican national team ahead of the World Cup.
For the first time this season, Salt Lake forward Robbie Findley saw action. He underwent knee surgery in December and was in the 18 for the first time on Saturday, getting subbed in in the 66th minute. But he and forward Olmes Garcia — who came in for Plata in the first half — could not produce a goal.
Real Salt Lake and its coach matched Major League Soccer history on Saturday, as the tie kept RSL unbeaten and equaled the record for the longest season-opening unbeaten streak. The LA Galaxy opened the inaugural MLS season 12-0 (two wins by shootout, by rule in 1996); the Galaxy were also 10-0-2 to start the 2010 season.
Real Salt Lake (6-0-6) go on the road next Saturday to Seattle — a matchup of the top two teams in the Western Conference. FC Dallas (5-6-3, 18 points) — which started the season 4-0-1 before a dreadful 1-6-2 stretch — head home to take on the San Jose Earthquakes, a team they lost to two weeks ago on the road.
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|What We Saw
|Tony Beltran
|Helped shut down Dallas' flanks and came up with several key stops to preserve the clean sheet for the hosts
|Matt Hedges
|Kept RSL at bay by preventing fluid movement in the box, helping Dallas notch their first clean sheet of the season
|Jeff Attinella
|Both goalkeepers played well, but Attinella dealt with some tricky shots to preserve RSL's spotless start


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Jay Oakerson currently has a new full length, digital-only album, An American Storyteller on COMEDY CENTRAL Records. Jay's story-based style of stand-up comedy got its start after a series of dead-end jobs, including driving strippers and escorts around his hometown of Philly. Now the New York City resident has made comedy his full-time job, flooring audiences with true tales of odd threesomes and bizarre sexual encounters. An American Storyteller, recorded at Standup New York, is a one-hour onslaught of unbridled awesomeness and raunchy rock 'n' roll hilarity.
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Jay is recognized from many of his television appearances, most recently on the hit IFC show "Z-Rock," where he received critical acclaim for his performance as "Neil", the sexually ambiguous owner of a NYC rock club. His television credits include Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," 'Comedy Central Presents, half-hour special" and "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn," multiple appearances on BET's "Comic View" and HBO's "P. Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy."
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Orthodox Eastern Church
Orthodox Eastern Church, community of Christian churches whose chief strength is in the Middle East and E Europe. Their members number some 300 million worldwide. The Orthodox agree doctrinally in accepting as ecumenical the first seven councils (see council, ecumenical) and in rejecting the jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome (the pope). This repudiation of the papal claims is the principal point dividing the Orthodox from Roman Catholics. Eastern Christians who have returned to communion with the pope are called Eastern Catholics, or Uniates; in every respect apart from this obedience to Rome, they resemble their Orthodox counterparts. This use of the terms Catholic (obeying the pope) and Orthodox (belonging to one of the Orthodox churches) is not technical, for both groups call themselves both Catholic and Orthodox (see catholic church). The word Orthodox became current at the time of the defeat (753) of iconoclasm in Constantinople. Orthodox acceptance of the seven councils resulted in the exclusion from their communion, on grounds of heresy, of the Nestorian, Jacobite, Coptic, and Armenian churches; it also involves holding a sacramental doctrine of grace ex opere operato (see grace) and of veneration of the Virgin Mary, two points differentiating the Orthodox from Protestants.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
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- Ritual and Liturgy
- Church Government
- The Patriarchs and Churches
- Bibliography
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Asking for a favor isn't always easy, but it is rewarding. Not only do you get the assurance that someone will pick up your mail or check in on your cat, but you also get the great feeling that you're part of a larger community of people who are looking out for each other and pitching in to make each others' lives easier.
So how do you get started?
"The best way to get what you want is to help other people get what they want," says Mary Mitchell, author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Etiquette" (Alpha).
"Role-model being willing to help," she adds. "Then you have the right to ask other people to help you."
You might, for instance, pick up on your neighbor's concern about last-minute trip preparations and offer to put his garbage cans out on the street. If your friend mentions a scheduling conflict, you can offer to pick up her kids from school along with your own.
"This is all about nurturing relationships, and if your antennae are up about the other guy, what might really help that person, it's nice to offer (a favor)," says Mitchell, who offers these tips.
Determine if your request is reasonable. The question to ask yourself: "If the shoes were on the other feet, would I want to do this?" If you would happily watch your friend's kids for an hour, you're on firm ground. If her kids hate your kids and you would rather clip a newborn's toenails than deal with the angst that's likely to result from a group get-together, you should probably refrain from asking your friend to host one.
Ask in a timely manner. Have you seen those office posters that say "Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part?" That slogan is worth keeping in mind. "Don't put the other person in such a time crunch that it becomes a huge imposition," Mitchell says.
Ask by phone or face-to-face. This is one of those times when it's important to make a personal connection; texting generally isn't appropriate.
Give the other person a way out. Mitchell might say, "I'd be so grateful if you could (do this favor for me). Is that something that might work on your end?" Note how she phrases that last sentence. It's hard for someone to say they can't do something for you. It's easier for them to say something "wouldn't work" for them at a particular time.
Don't go negative. Avoid wording such as, "I totally understand if you can't do this," which anticipates rejection and downplays the other person's willingness to help. Mitchell sees a parallel with the person who argues with a compliment ("Oh, this old thing? I hate the way I look in it.") The compliment-denier is effectively belittling the judgment of the poor person who stuck their neck out and said, "That shirt looks great on you." It's much better to smile, say "Thank you," and move on when you get a compliment — and much better to stress how grateful you'd be when you ask for a favor.
Respond graciously. If the other person says no, you can say, "I understand. Thanks for considering." If the other person says yes, "Oh! You're wonderful!" works well.


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With evolving technology, the student ID card is becoming more versatile. For example, colleges have partnered with financial institutions, enabling students to make financial transactions using their IDs, both on- and off-campus. While this all sounds convenient, could this be unfair to students? Find out why from our infographic exploring the campus debit card trap.
Before President Barack Obama signed the Credit CARD Act into law in 2009, banks and credit card companies were often spotted on campuses promoting and marketing their products to young students – students who typically did not have a regular source of income and were more often than not on some form of study loan plan.
Despite the tighter regulations, financial institutions have been advancing their collaboration with US colleges, integrating financial functions into the basic student ID card. For schools, especially public schools supported by state revenues, such tie-ups with credit-card companies can provide a steady stream of income.
But are students marginalised by such deals? Find out more from the following infographic.
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While middleweight contender Robbie Lawler (19-5-1 MMA, 1-1 SF) and former light heavyweight champion Renato "Babalu" Sobral (35-8 MMA, 1-1 SF) meet in a 195-pound catchweight affair at next week's Showtime-broadcast "Strikeforce: Los Angeles" event, the fight will have an immediate impact on both the 185- and 205-pound divisions.
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker today said on a media call promoting the event that both Lawler and Sobral would put themselves in line for a title shot in their respective divisions with a win.
Of course with Strikeforce's middleweight champion Jake Shields currently negotiating his future and light heavyweight champion Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal a frequent training partner of Sobral, both potential fights come with a handful of caveats.
"If 'Babalu' looks good and wins the fight, I think that he will be first in line for a matchup [with] 'King Mo,'" Coker said. "Robbie, if he wins the fight, he'll be first in line to have a title shot at 185 pounds against 'Jacare' (Souza)."
"Normally we don't put those fights out there, but I wanted to let everybody know that this fight will have consequences. It'll be an interesting show, and we're looking forward to putting it on."
Coker's mention of a potential matchup between Lawler and Souza would seem to indicate that discussions with Shields haven't necessarily proved fruitful so far. But when pressed on the issue, Coker refused to rule out any possibilities.
"That's still to be determined," Coker said. "That hasn't been mapped out 100 percent, but we'll probably have an announcement in the next 10 days or so.
"This depends on how things shake out with Jake. If things continue the way they're going, and we end up in the situation where we're looking for a 185-pound champion, I think 'Jacare' and Robbie, based in this performance, would be the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in that slot."
As for the light heavyweight division, Sobral and Lawal have trained together frequently, and in previous discussions, neither has sounded overly enthusiastic about a potential meeting.
Sobral's attorney and manager, Richard Wilner, didn't exactly refuse the matchup, but he did mention a few opponents that might be more appealing for his client.
"For what it's worth, if the question is, 'Are we looking for a fight with Mo?' with all due respect, the answer is, 'No,' because of our relationship with Mo," Wilner said. "If that's the fight on the table that the fans are clamoring for, then we'll do what we have to do.
"If the question is, 'Who do we want to fight?' I can easily answer that question. The answer to that question is Dan Henderson and Gegard Mousasi."
For more on "Strikeforce: Los Angeles," check out the MMA Rumors section of the site of MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
(Pictured: Scott Coker and Renato "Babalu" Sobral)