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INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE
ARTICLE I. Purpose and Objectives.
Section 1. The Advisory Council in consultation with faculty, staff, students, and others may consider, advise, and recommend policies and procedures which concern the missions and programs of the Institute of Agriculture and the general welfare of its faculty, staff, students, and others that it serves. The objectives of the Advisory Council shall include, but are not limited to:
Recommending improvements in policies, programs, and facilities
Responding to matters referred to the Advisory Council by the Administrative Council, the Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture, the faculty, the staff, and other individuals
Appointing members to and directing the activities of the Advisory Council committees
Promoting communication among all units of the Institute of Agriculture
Encouraging excellence in scholarship, teaching, research, and public service
Recognizing distinguished service
Promoting development of Council constituents
Promoting communication between the UTIA Advisory Council and other organizations involved in faculty governance, such as Faculty Senate, on issues of mutual interest, such as the UT Faculty Handbook.
Section 2. The Council has no management or administrative functions either in itself or through its committees, administrative matters being expressly reserved to the President of The University, as delegated by the Board of Trustees through the President to the Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture.
ARTICLE II. Advisory Council Organization.
Section 1. The Council membership shall consist of the following:
Three faculty members from the Herbert College of Agriculture (elected to a three‐year term)
Three faculty members from the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) (elected to a three‐year term)
Three faculty members from AgResearch (elected to a three‐yearterm)
One Research and Education Center Director (elected to a three‐yearterm)
One representative from County/Area Extension Agents or Specialists, Associate or Assistant (elected to a three‐year term)
One Extension State Specialist (elected to a three‐year term)
One Extension Regional Director or Regional Program Leader (elected to a three‐yearterm)
Executive Board Representative, Tennessee Association of Extension 4‐H Workers (elected to a three‐year term)
Executive Board Representative, Tennessee Association of Extension Family and Consumer Science (elected to a three‐year term)
Executive Board Representative, Tennessee Association of Agricultural Agents and Specialists (elected to a three‐year term)
Immediate past Chair of Council (if not included in above position)
Chair of Council (if not included in above position)
Chair of the Teaching/Extension/Research Caucus of Faculty Senate (ex‐officio member)
Chair of the CVM Caucus of Faculty Senate (ex‐officio member)
Section 2. The deans of each unit shall conduct the election of Council members by June 1 of each year. To the greatest extent possible, all academic departments within the Institute of Agriculture should be represented on the Advisory Council. The new representative for a unit must not be chosen from the same academic department as the retiring representative for that unit. A member may serve only one full three‐year term after which a member shall be ineligible for re‐election for one year. In the event that a member of the Advisory Council is unable to complete their term, then the Institute of Agriculture unit which the Council member represented shall elect another person to complete the remaining period of the 3‐year term.
Section 3. The terms of office of Council members shall begin immediately at the conclusion of the regular summer Council meeting. The past Chair‐Elect will assume the duties of the new Council Chair. The new Council shall hold an organizational meeting for the election of officers and members of the Executive Committee and establish the next Council meeting date(s). The Secretary prior to the organizational meeting shall send all new and continuing Council Members a notice of the organizational meeting and a list of Council members. The Chair shall conduct office elections to fill the positions of Chair‐Elect, Secretary, and Member‐at‐Large for the new Council. Nominations for the Chair‐Elect position shall be selected from members serving their first or second year of the three‐year term. All members of the new Council shall be eligible for other offices. Nominations will be accepted from the floor and balloted by a method designated by the Chair. In the event that no member receives a majority vote, of persons voting, on the first ballot the two persons (more if the second highest number of votes was a tie) with the highest number of votes shall be the nominees for a second ballot. Balloting will continue until a person receives a majority vote. Following the above procedures, the Chair‐Elect, Secretary and Member‐at‐Large shall be elected in this order. In the event that the Council Chair shall not be able to complete a term, then the Chair‐Elect shall become the Chair and the Council shall by election fill any other office vacancy.
Section 4. The Executive Committee of the Advisory Council shall consist of the Chair, the Chair‐Elect, the Secretary, the immediate past Chair and other Member(s)‐at‐large designated by the Council so that each of the four units of the Institute of Agriculture (the Herbert College of Agriculture, AgResearch, the College of Veterinary Medicine, and The University of Tennessee Extension) are represented. Council members in each unit not represented by an officer or immediate past Chair shall designate member(s) to the Executive Committee.
Section 5. The Advisory Council shall usually meet three times annually on a date specified by the Advisory Council and may have additional meetings as deemed necessary by the Executive Committee.
Section 6. A quorum shall consist of a simple majority of the members of the Council.
Section 7. Proposed agenda items shall be received by the Chair of the Executive Committee at least 20 calendar days prior to the Advisory Council meetings. The agenda items shall be distributed to the Advisory Council membership at least 10 days prior to their meeting. No item shall be further added to the agenda of an Advisory Council meeting except by consent of two‐thirds of the membership present at the meeting.
Section 8. In order to promote communication between the Institute of Agriculture Advisory Council and The University of Tennessee Faculty Senate, the Chair of the Extension/Teaching/Research Caucus and the Chair of the College of Veterinary Medicine Caucus, or their designees, shall serve as ex officio members and attend Advisory Council meetings. The Caucus Chairs shall have full voting privileges at
meetings of the Advisory Council, but shall not be eligible for election to the Executive Committee of the Advisory Council.
Section 9. Members of the Advisory Council are strongly encouraged to attend all meetings, but in the event that a member is unable to attend, the member shall contact the Chair prior to the meeting and indicate which Council member shall serve as a proxy for them, or they may designate a non‐member to represent them at the meeting.
Section 10. The Council member(s) in the third year of their 3‐year term representing each of the four units of the Institute of Agriculture (the Herbert College of Agriculture, AgResearch, the College of Veterinary Medicine, and The University of Tennessee Extension) will have the opportunity to provide a written report on unit activities for each Council meeting. The Secretary shall remind the members responsible for reports at least 20 days prior to a Council meeting.
ARTICLE III. Committees.
Section 1. Committees may be appointed each year as deemed necessary by the Advisory Council, either within or from outside the Council membership, and will report to the Advisory Council unless otherwise directed. The size of each committee will be determined by the Council. Each committee may have an ex officio member (resource person) from the Administration. Where appropriate, other faculty, staff and student representation may be included. The committee chair will usually be a present or past member of the Advisory Council.
ARTICLE IV. Governing Rules.
Section 1. Rules contained in Robert's Rules of Order shall govern this organization in all cases where they are applicable and are not inconsistent with the By‐Laws of this Advisory Council.
ARTICLE V. Amendments to the By‐Laws.
Section 1. Any proposed amendment to the By‐Laws must be submitted in writing, or via email, to the Advisory Council members at least 15 days prior to the meeting at which the amendment will be considered.
Section 2. These By‐Laws may be amended by the approval of three‐fourths of the Advisory Council membership.
By‐Laws Revised February 17, 1995 By‐Laws Revised July 7, 2000 By‐Laws Revised April 21, 2004
By‐Laws Revised June 10, 2011.
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A: Your problem is here:
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There is no "viewpager" in this layout. You used the id "pager".
Correct this line to the following:
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Research psychologists believe they have identified the areas of the brain that are active when an idea is deemed interesting.
Psychologists at the University of California-Los Angeles say the discovery may help scientists predict the successful spread of ideas including the identification of which messages will go viral on social media.
Authors say the knowledge could lead to more effective public health campaigns, more persuasive advertisements and better ways for teachers to communicate with students.
"Our study suggests that people are regularly attuned to how the things they're seeing will be useful and interesting, not just to themselves but to other people," said the study's senior author, Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D.
"We always seem to be on the lookout for who else will find this helpful, amusing or interesting, and our brain data are showing evidence of that. At the first encounter with information, people are already using the brain network involved in thinking about how this can be interesting to other people.
The study findings are published in the online edition of the journal Psychological Science.
"Before this study, we didn't know what brain regions were associated with ideas that become contagious, and we didn't know what regions were associated with being an effective communicator of ideas," said lead author Emily Falk.
In the first part of the study, 19 UCLA students (average age 21), underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans as they saw and heard information about 24 potential television pilot ideas.
Among the fictitious pilots — which were presented by a separate group of students — were a show about former beauty-queen mothers who want their daughters to follow in their footsteps; a Spanish soap opera about a young woman and her relationships; a reality show in which contestants travel to countries with harsh environments; a program about teenage vampires and werewolves; and a show about best friends and rivals in a crime family.
The students exposed to these TV pilot ideas were asked to envision themselves as television studio interns who would decide whether or not they would recommend each idea to their "producers." These students made videotaped assessments of each pilot.
Another group of 79 UCLA undergraduates (average age 21) was asked to act as the "producers." These students watched the interns' videos assessments of the pilots and then made their own ratings about the pilot ideas based on those assessments.
Lieberman and Falk wanted to learn which brain regions were activated when the interns were first exposed to information they would later pass on to others.
"We're constantly being exposed to information on Facebook, Twitter and so on," said Lieberman. "Some of it we pass on, and a lot of it we don't.
It turns out, there is. The psychologists found that the interns who were especially good at persuading the producers showed significantly more activation in a brain region known as the temporoparietal junction, or TPJ, at the time they were first exposed to the pilot ideas they would later recommend.
"It was the only region in the brain that showed this effect," Lieberman said. One might have thought brain regions associated with memory would show more activation, but that was not the case, he said.
"We wanted to explore what differentiates ideas that bomb from ideas that go viral," Falk said. "We found that increased activity in the TPJ was associated with an increased ability to convince others to get on board with their favorite ideas.
The TPJ, located on the outer surface of the brain, is part of what is known as the brain's "mentalizing network," which is involved in thinking about what other people think and feel. The network also includes the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, located in the middle of the brain.
"When we read fiction or watch a movie, we're entering the minds of the characters — that's mentalizing," Lieberman said. "As soon as you hear a good joke, you think, 'Who can I tell this to and who can't I tell?' Making this judgment will activate these two brain regions. If we're playing poker and I'm trying to figure out if you're bluffing, that's going to invoke this network. And when I see someone on Capitol Hill testifying and I'm thinking whether they are lying or telling the truth, that's going to invoke these two brain regions.
The interns who showed more activity in their mentalizing system when they saw the pilots they intended to recommend were then more successful in convincing the producers to also recommend those pilots, the psychologists found.
"As I'm looking at an idea, I might be thinking about what other people are likely to value, and that might make me a better idea salesperson later," Falk said.
By further studying the neural activity in these brain regions to see what information and ideas activate these regions more, psychologists potentially could predict which advertisements are most likely to spread and go viral and which will be most effective, Lieberman and Falk said.
Such knowledge could also benefit public health campaigns aimed at everything from reducing risky behaviors among teenagers to combating cancer, smoking and obesity.


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Q: IronPython launching very slowly I am launching IronPython 2.7.3 on Windows 7 and it is taking more than 15 seconds. Why is it so slow? And how to fix it? The computer is a Samsung NP300E5A(Celeron B800,2gb) notebook.

A: There are a few reason why IronPython is slow to startup.
First, if you didn't use the installer (which will ngen the assemblies), the JIT compiler has to convert the IronPython assemblies from MSIL bytecode to native code, and that takes time, as it's a lot of code. So use the installer on manually ngen the assemblies.
Second, the actual Python code is also JIT compiled, although not right away to reduce the penalty; startup time used to be much worse when all Python code was JITted. The .NET JIT isn't fast enough for my liking.
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Legends articles, Wookieepedia Featured articles, Bounty hunter houses
Mantis Syndicate
Lady Marina Mantis[1]
Kael[2]
Fenn Rizaar[2]
Santarine[3]
Sarin sector[1]
Date founded
Before 10 BBY[2]
Bounty Hunters' Guild[4]
"Not particularly subtle, Mantis Syndicate operatives were frequently employed to capture or otherwise eliminate criminal organizations, pirate gangs, and Alliance units operating in Sarin sector, especially those groups whose operations ran counter to Lord Affric's interests."
―Captain Zgorth'sth, Department of Threat Assessment, New Republic[src]
The Mantis Syndicate, or Mantis Bounty Hunter Syndicate, was a corporation of bounty hunters and one of the houses belonging to the Bounty Hunters' Guild. Officially specializing in hunting big groups of criminals such as swoop gangs or pirate organizations, the Mantis Syndicate gathered great numbers of hunters in battalions of military units to carry out assignments. Detractors considered the Mantis Syndicate to be a company of mercenaries.
The Mantis Syndicate was active from at least 10 BBY. During the Galactic Civil War, the Mantis Syndicate was owned and managed by Lady Marina Mantis. By then, the Mantis Syndicate worked mostly as a private army for Imperial Governor High Lord Jaris Affric of the Sarin sector, although the Syndicate also reached the Revkinn and Socorro systems. By the end of the war, Affric had suffered a loss of income, and the Mantis Syndicate terminated its working relationship with him. Lady Mantis then made deals with other customers, including the New Republic and Provisional Governor Valis Lorn of Andasala.
Organization Edit
The Mantis Bounty Hunter Syndicate, commonly known as the Mantis Syndicate, was a private company[1] working in the business of bounties legally issued by either corporate or government interests.[5] The Mantis Syndicate was one of the ten principal houses forming the Bounty Hunters' Guild.[6] The owner and chief executive officer of the Syndicate was Lady Marina Mantis from at least 0 ABY[1] to 11 ABY,[4] and the Syndicate's offices were established on the planet Santarine. The Syndicate's logo was a white stylized "M" within a black circle.[3]
Professionals were able to join the Mantis Syndicate either by passing a selection process, or by being personally chosen and recruited by Lady Mantis. The Syndicate, like the other houses, offered training and support to its members. In exchange, every bounty hunter paid the Syndicate a fee, including 3–5% of any collected bounty, depending on the value of the bounty and the seniority of the hunter, plus an annual fee of 150 credits. Hunters recruited by Lady Mantis were exempt from the annual fee.[1]
The Syndicate worked on general-purpose bounties,[1] but its members specialized in high-risk missions[1] and in paramilitary operations requiring literally a battalion of professionals[5] to track down and capture collective prey such as a gang or a military unit.[4] One of the main appeals of the Syndicate[1] was the fact that it gathered specialized soldiers, all of them experienced as bounty hunters, in large numbers and in little time for a given assignment.[1] Detractors believed that this feature blurred the difference between a bounty hunter syndicate and a mercenary company.[5]
Some members of the Mantis Syndicate operated solo,[2] but as a norm they made four- to eight-person units. Those groups offered a teamwork synergy that the Syndicate found valuable. The Mantis Syndicate succeeded in seventeen out of every twenty assignments.[4]
The Mantis Syndicate was active circa 10 BBY. At that point, Mantis sent a prominent bounty hunter, Fenn Rizaar, to track down Kaine Paulsen, a pirate and member of the criminal organization Black Bha'lir. During the chase, Rizaar accidentally shot an Imperial stormtrooper dead and, shortly afterward, was apprehended by his victim's platoon along with Paulsen. Paulsen and Rizaar escaped together and went to the Bha'lir headquarters on Socorro. The Mantis Syndicate then refused to acknowledge Rizaar as one of its members and offered a bounty of 70,000 credits for his head. Some members of the Black Bha'lir wanted to cash in Rizaar, but Paulsen convinced them not to. Rizaar believed he was indebted to the Bha'lir and eventually became a Bha'lir himself. He also swore revenge on the Mantis Syndicate.[2]
The Mantis Syndicate was still active and a member of the Bounty Hunters' Guild as of 3 BBY.[7] Soon after the Battle of Yavin, the Galactic Empire showed a sudden interest in criminal and fringe organizations, including bounty hunter houses. Scay Danson, a member of the Imperial Security Bureau, wrote a report on the possible threat posed by the Bounty Hunters' Guild, including the Mantis Syndicate. At that point, the Trandoshan sociopath Cradossk, not affiliated with Mantis, was identified as the maximum authority of the Guild.[6]
Circa 1 ABY, the Black Bha'lir had infiltrated one agent into the Mantis Syndicate. Thus, when Mantis decided to send a bounty hunter after Karl Mathieu Ancher, a smuggler and member of the Bha'lir, the informant reported to The Tribunal, the leaders of the Bha'lir. According to the tip, the hunter, known only as Kael, planned to approach Ancher during the funeral service of a notorious Corellian smuggler on Socorro. The Tribunal knew nothing about Kael save for the individual's name, and as such Kael could easily approach Ancher undetected as a part of the crowd that was expected to attend. Additionally, The Tribunal wanted to solve the situation without Ancher's knowledge, so it asked a small group to find and stop Kael.[2]
At approximately the same time, High Lord Jaris Affric,[1] Imperial Governor of the Sarin sector and owner of several inherited, corporate, and criminal assets in that area,[4] hired and kept on retainer most of the Syndicate.[1][5] Although the Syndicate still tracked criminals wanted by either the Empire or private corporations, most of its business came from bounties posted by Affric either directly or indirectly through any company under his control.[1] Affric used the Syndicate as his private army[5] of special operatives. He sent its members to track criminal organizations, units of the Alliance to Restore the Republic active in his area,[4] pirate groups, swoop gangs, outlaw mercenary units, and any other collective hampering Affric's activities.[5] As Affric controlled most of the sector, there were many such groups in his sights.[4]
Fenn Rizaar, former member of the Mantis Syndicate
This situation centered the range of the Syndicate in the Sarin sector, allowing it to offer only a company of troops,[5] similar to a special operations unit,[4] for operations outside the sector. The group was successful in serving Affric and, within two years, had defeated four mercenary units, three swoop gangs, and one group of unauthorized slavers operating in the Suhuurmin system.[5]
While under Affric's control, the Syndicate was contacted by Imperial prefect Dengless Rinn of the planet Kallistas. Rinn wanted to hire a company of mercenaries, including specialists in demolitions, to stage a coup against his boss, Governor Linrec, in a scheme also involving weaponry and fission bombs. Mantis arranged a meeting between Rinn and the Twi'lek smuggler Tarquin Zian, who was able to provide him with the weapons. Rinn and Mantis then started a three-week negotiation to make a deal. Once they had reached an agreement, Mantis sent its troops to Kallistas while Rinn prepared a secret camp for them in a Kallistas desert.[8] Rinn's revolution was botched, and the prefect became a fugitive of the Empire.[9]
Serving Affric, the Mantis Syndicate obtained wealth, power,[5] and political influence within the Empire, to the point of not having to worry about the legality of its own activities.[1] In addition, Affric did not care about the legality of the assignments he gave the organization.[4] The Syndicate's prestige did not impress non-member bounty hunters, who considered the group to only be Affric's thugs-for-hire.[1] Other bounty hunter guilds admitted that the Mantis Syndicate was specialized in "acquiring" big groups, but still considered the Syndicate to be more a mercenary unit than a bounty hunter syndicate.[4] This was a widespread opinion even outside the Guild.[7] Due to their closeness with Affric, the guild kept a close watch on the Mantis Syndicate.[10]
In the following years, Affric began to use the Mantis Syndicate in regular fights against troops of the Alliance, and also against the mercenary group Churhee's Riflemen in an attempt to capture Maydla Churhee, the wife of the organization's leader. Circa 4 ABY, Affric was short of money and got into debts with the Syndicate. When Lady Mantis noticed that Affric was unable pay her, she withdrew her men against his wishes. Lady Mantis managed the Syndicate as it continued to operate in Sarin, although its members were more prone to work for anyone paying her fees instead of working for Affric. She also reduced the fees to appeal to a wider range of potential clients.[4]
One of the new customers was Valis Lorn, a crime lord and the Provisional Governor of the planet Andasala. Lorn wanted to establish Andasala as a neutral ground welcoming both agents of the Empire and of its rival government, the New Republic, as long as they did not use Andasala to fight. Needing more strength than his usual minions, Lorn hired Mantis mercenaries as his own law enforcement corps. The Mantis Syndicate was not enough to cement Lorn's position, but the Governor had already planned several other measures that helped him reach that goal.[9]
During the following years, the New Republic took control of the Sarin sector and occasionally hired the Mantis Syndicate to track wanted Imperial agents. The New Republic was satisfied with the talent, professionalism, and political apathy of the Syndicate, although the government was still wary about the organization. In 11 ABY, Captain Zgorth'sth of the New Republic's Department of Threat Assessment filed a detailed report on the Mantis Syndicate. Zgorth'sth recommended high-ranking officers to keep contact with the Syndicate, because he felt the Syndicate was useful should the Republic need to obtain trained bounty hunters. He also believed that the Syndicate would observe the law if it was monitored.[4]
Notable members Edit
Mantis Syndicate members
"Mantis "hunters" are just mercenary gangsters. Beats me how they're Guild affiliates."
―Dengar[src]
The owner and manager of the Syndicate was the amoral Lady Marina Mantis, who offered the services of her troops to anyone paying.[1] Individual bounty hunters in the Syndicate included Fenn Rizaar and Kael.[2] During the height of the Galactic Civil War, however, the Syndicate employed no less than 985 professional hunters, 845 people as support personnel, and 220 administrative staff. Its assets were valued at fifty-four billion credits, including seven billion credits in cash.[1] The Syndicate was bigger than many of its peer houses, such as the Ragnar Syndicate, but it also focused on bigger-scale activities.[5]
The Mantis Syndicate was first mentioned in the roleplaying guide Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim (1993), written for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. Information on it was expanded in Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters (1994), another role-playing guide, which included a role-playing adventure, Two for the Price of One, in which the Mantis Syndicate played a part. The Mantis Syndicate was further explored in later roleplaying supplements.
Only one source, Galaxy Guide 10, uses the longer name "Mantis Bounty Hunter Syndicate," with all the others systematically calling the organization the "Mantis Syndicate" even in formal situations. None of the sources specify whether either of the names is more formal than the other, so this article therefore makes use of the more widely used "Mantis Syndicate" name.
"Two for the Price of One"—Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters (First appearance)
Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim (First mentioned)
Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters
Galaxy Guide 11: Criminal Organizations
The Black Sands of Socorro
"Special Military Unit Intelligence Update"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 15
Hero's Guide
"Underworld: A Galaxy of Scum and Villainy"—Star Wars Insider 89
The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide
"Special Military Unit Intelligence Update" on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable) (Republished)
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook
The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett
↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 The Black Sands of Socorro
↑ 3.0 3.1 The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett
↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11
"Special Military Unit Intelligence Update"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 15; republished as
"Special Military Unit Intelligence Update" on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim
↑ 6.0 6.1
↑ 7.0 7.1 The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide
"Two for the Price of One"—Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters
↑ 9.0 9.1 Galaxy Guide 11: Criminal Organizations
↑ Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook, p. 381
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Koenigsegg One:1 () — гиперкар производства компании Koenigsegg. Соотношение массы и мощности автомобиля были равны 1:1 (0,99974 лошадиных сил на 1 килограмм), этого раньше не удавалось добиться при производстве серийных автомобилей. Именно из-за такого соотношения автомобиль и был назван «один к одному». Кузов обладает таким весом благодаря тому, что он выполнен из углепластика.

Технические характеристики
Гиперкар оснащён алюминиевой пятилитровой V-образной восьмеркой с твин-турбонаддувом, который даёт 1,8 бара давлением наддува; четыре клапана на цилиндр (всего 32 клапана). Двигатель оснащён карбоновым впуском с оптимизированным впускным трактом. Специально для этой модели были разработаны шины Michelin Cup 2. Максимальные боковые перегрузки равны 2g.

Разгон
В скором времени планируется замерить автомобиль в упражнении 0—400—0 км/ч. На данный момент автомобиль потенциально способен развивать скорость в 440 км/ч, однако заявленной скорости он пока не достигал.

Разгоны, заявленные производителем:
 0—100 км/ч — 2,4 секунды;
 0—400 км/ч — ~ 20 секунд;
 400—0 км/ч — ~ 10 секунд;
 0—400—0 км/ч — ~ 30 секунд.

18 июля 2016 года на трассе Нюрбургринг Koenigsegg One:1 попал в аварию при тестировании гиперкара. Это самая дорогая авария на Нюрбургринге.

Трансмиссия
Специально разработанная роботизированная семиступенчатая коробка передач с двумя сцеплениями; один входной вал коробки передач с подрулевыми переключателями и электронным дифференциалом.

Примечания

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Liberal 9th Circuit judges hear Arizona's immigration SB1070 arguments
It's in the hands of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel.
Arizonians just saw the 9th Circuit Court strike down a law that state residents voted in favor of – making residents prove their citizenship in order to register to vote. Now the same three-judge panel will decide if controversial immigration law SB1070 stands up to the 9th Circuit legal muster.
The uber-liberal court heard arguments today about why it should or shouldn't overturn an Arizona federal judge's ruling that invalidated key portions of Arizona's immigration law that would force state agencies to enforce existing federal immigration law.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's attorney John Bouma, told the court Congress has tougher penalties for immigration than Arizona does and the state only wants the federal government to enforce the law.
"Arizona is trying to deal with the problems that arise from a federal immigration system that even President Obama acknowledges is broken," Bouma said.
The tough new immigration bill SB1070 was signed into law in April, and before the ink was dry, the state faced multiple federal lawsuits.
The bulk of the lawsuits from the federal government argue the immigration regulation is a jurisdiction of the government in Washington D.C. However, activists are worried about the possibility of racial profiling which could lead to the violation of an individual's constitutional rights inside the state of Arizona.
Department of Justice attorney Edwin Kneedler argued that the treatment of foreign nationals within U.S. borders is a big part of foreign relations and worried that a patchwork of state laws could hinder this aspect of the Obama Administration's role in foreign relations.
However, the judges questioned the governments' argument regarding law enforcement officer's inability to decipher a person's rights and how they would investigate legal status of persons inside the U.S.
"Indeed, one of the purposes for the adoption of the Constitution was a concern that individual states might embroil the entire nation in disputes with other countries," Kneedler said.
State Senator Russell Pearce, who authored SB1070, said he thought Arizona's argument "went fairly well."
"We know this will survive," Pearce said. "This is the most overturned court in the nation. We'll win it in the Supreme Court." Whoever looses this case has promised to take it to the Supreme Court for a final ruling.
Arizona's argument has consistently been that the federal government will not enforce immigration law therefore leaving the enforcement in the hands of the state. However the Justice Department believes SB1070 law is unconstitutional and it infringes on federal law.
A federal appeals court reviewing Arizona's immigration law appeared to lean or permit the state to require police to investigate the immigration status of people they have legally stopped. At the same time it appeared to reject more punitive provisions giving the state enforcement powers.
The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco appeared likely to rule that Arizona may require police in certain situations to investigate a person's immigration status as long as there is reasonable cause to suspect a crime has been committed.
The San Francisco legal panel also agreed with a lower court ruling that some provisions of Arizona's law were "preempted" by the federal government's sole authority to regulate immigration.
The court seemed likely to reject certain provisions like making it a crime for a people to not carry immigration papers on them at all times.
Governor Jan Brewer blasted the federal government for not enforcing the immigration law and securing the borders; "We are seeing people still afraid down along the southern border who do not feel safe in their homes. It's just something we cannot and will not tolerate," she said after the court hearing in San Francisco.
Brewer said she was confident the judges would look at the case fairly. "Although the judges asked challenging questions of both sides during this morning's hearing, we are hopeful that after carefully considering the arguments, the Ninth Circuit will lift the stay and allow SB 1070 to be enforced," Brewer said in a statement.
The Ninth Circuit put an injunction on SB1070, which holds the law temporarily, in place and will make their ruling in the next several weeks.
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Astro Turf provided by SEIU hijacks Arizona 1070 rally
Not so long ago the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) played schoolyard games and called the Tea Party movement Astro Turf. It's been more than a year and the grassroots Tea Party movement is still going strong. In fact many political candidates backed by the movement are poised to win Congressional seats and it appears the opposition SEIU unions are the ones providing the "fake crowds."
Case in point, last week Arizona's capital, Phoenix recorded triple-digit heat and heated protesters. "I was waiting around for something to happen all morning. There were 50-60 peaceful protestors and media folks. Then 11 buses drove up from Los Angeles and out came SEIU employees," said Rhonda Deniston of Stop Taxing Us, a Tea Party group.
Deniston explains that the rally goers were instructed to get rowdy and get arrested- hardly a grassroots movement by Arizonians against SB1070 illegal immigration law.
Despite the bussed-in, rent -a -crowd, Arizonans are committed to restoring law and order in their state and say they will not be deterred by Obama's lawsuit.
Many Arizona residents said the law isn't about Republican or Democrat- it's about right and wrong. This may explain the 70 percent approval rating of SB1070 by its citizens.
"I wish everyone would stop picking on Arizona, we have real problems and we have to fix them," says Ruth Burke a longtime Arizona resident who happens to be a Democrat.
Many of the folks bussed in from California were from the SEIU 660 in Los Angeles. The union's presence came as no surprise Tea Party members considering the hot-button immigration issue.
Plenty of video was taken in Arizona and one group provided interesting fodder for the camera. Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.) trotted out impressionable college age kids openly talking about how good Communism would be for America. These kids were sporting bright green stickers advertising the National Conference on Socialism in Los Angeles, CA. November 13 and 14, 2010, according to Deniston.
The A.N.S.W.E.R web site PSLWEB.org has a lot of information about socialism workshops and it is quite alarming. "The two kids in the video were freely talking to me until and older man in a red shirt (their handler) noticed they were talking to me and drew them away.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Who knows how much video clips are worth – perhaps immigration reform.
Video of Che supporters; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXW0Rrf_pYM&feature=player_embedded#
More video of SB1070 rally; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeVYaDuUGWs&feature=email
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Ka7y8XrPc
American flag being defaced at an anti-Arizona 1070 rally
Arizona SB1070 rally photos
Photos taken at rally in Arizona.
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Arizona's SB 1070 immigration ruling draws ire and applause
Arizona federal Judge Susan Bolton says there will be no sanctuary cities in the state, but sided with the Obama administration on key provisions that resulted in a bevy of lawsuits and boycotts.
Both sides do agree that the immigration lawsuit ruling leaves room for a robust interpretation of many issues. For example, buried in a footnote, police have the authority to inquire about immigration status, but the State can not require law enforcement to do so. This provision may have inadvertently created Arizona's very own 'don't ask and don't tell' policy.
Another significant portion of the 36-page ruling directly contradicts a federal law and gives illegal immigrants more leeway in Arizona.
Current federal law at Title 8 USC Sec. 1304(e) already requires legal resident aliens to carry their registration card at all times and are subject to conviction for a misdemeanor, imprisonment, and a $100 fine per offense.
(e) Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
While the initial verdict of SB 1070 brought cheers from the left and the right deflated, further reading found not all was lost.
A key provision that was stuck down dealt with possible misidentification of legal residents.
"There is a substantial likelihood that officers will wrongfully arrest legal resident aliens under the new [law]," Bolton, a Clinton appointee, wrote in her injunction. "By enforcing this statute, Arizona would impose a 'distinct, unusual and extraordinary' burden on legal resident aliens that only the federal government has the authority to impose."
The Department of Homeland Security Secretary and former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano's office was quick to issue a statement regarding the SB 1070 ruling.
"The court's decision to enjoin most of SB1070 correctly affirms the federal government's responsibilities in enforcing our nation's immigration laws," said Matt Chandler DHS deputy press secretary. "Over the past eighteen months, this Administration has dedicated unprecedented resources to secure the border, and we will continue to work to take decisive action to disrupt criminal organizations and the networks they exploit. DHS will enforce federal immigration laws in Arizona and around the country in smart, effective ways that focus our resources on criminal aliens who pose a public safety threat and employers who knowingly hire illegal labor, as well as continue to secure our border."
A quick response to the Arizona lawsuit ruling from Department of Justice spokeswoman Hannah August also lauded the judge's decision. "We believe the court ruled correctly when it prevented key provisions of SB 1070 from taking effect. While we understand the frustration of Arizonans with the broken immigration system, a patchwork of state and local policies would seriously disrupt federal immigration enforcement and would ultimately be counterproductive. States can and do play a role in cooperating with the federal government in its enforcement of the immigration laws, but they must do so within our constitutional framework."
It is worth pointing out that the Obama administration has continued to deport record numbers of illegal immigrants, but they have also failed to secure the country's borders. Advocates for serious immigration reform agree immigration reform starts with securing the borders first.
"This administration takes its responsibility to secure our borders seriously and has dedicated unprecedented resources to that effort. We will continue to work toward smarter and more effective enforcement of our laws while pressing for a comprehensive approach that provides true security and strengthens accountability and responsibility in our immigration system at the national level."
Overall SB 1070 takes effect Thursday at midnight, but without many provisions that gave the law real teeth.
Senator of Arizona and former Republican presidential candidate, John McCain said he was deeply disappointed by the decision and disagreed with the judge's view that additional enforcement of law would pose a burden on federal government therefore hindering the government's ability to carry out their responsibilities… "It's disappointing for the citizens of my state."
"The bottom line is that we need to secure the border," he told Fox News.
In a joint statement Arizona Sheriff's Paul Babeu of Pinal County and Larry Dever of Cochise County (Sheriff in the county where rancher Robert Krentz was murdered) said; "Incredibly, even though there is not one person who can legitimately claim to be harmed by a law that has not even taken effect, the result of an injunction is de facto amnesty through non-enforcement of laws against illegal immigration."
The Sheriffs added that "The federal government refuses to secure the border and leaves it to states like Arizona to bear the costs of its inaction. Yet, when we try to do the job they won't do, in a manner consistent with federal law, they stop us. You couldn't make up something this ridiculous."
America's toughest sheriff, Joe Arpaio said the decision in the courtroom would not impact his tolerance of lawbreakers. "Activists and their celebrity sympathizers who wish to target this community and this sheriff by attempting to disrupt our jail and patrol operations will be unsuccessful, as we will be fully prepared to meet those challenges head-on with appropriately staffed personnel and resources."
When the law took aim at the sanctuary city policy, Judge Bolton left nothing to chance – Arizona will not tolerate rogue cities trying to skirt federal immigration laws.
The judge used the Hines case for guidance. It defined that a state statute is preempted where it "stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress."
The Supreme Court determined in Hines that the purpose of the Federal Alien Registration Act was to "make a harmonious whole" and that the Alien Registration Act "provided a standard for alien registration in a single integrated and all-embracing system. As a result, the Hines case held that the state registration scheme at issue could not be enforced.
Legal gurus believe that if the open borders people are relying on federal preemption from state laws regarding immigration, why does the U.S. Attorney General not take action against sanctuary cities that clearly "… stand as an obstacle to the accomplishment of the full purposes and objectives of Congress."
Since DOJ's top lawyer Eric Holder relies on the immigration scheme of Congress in opposition to Arizona's actions and these actions of states and cities that proactively offer sanctuary (in violation of federal law – i.e., harboring, aiding, abetting …) even more egregious than anything the Grand Canyon State has proposed, it seems the judge wants it both ways.
Many say if you review all of the provisions of SB 1070 that the court left intact, there are many things for illegals to be concerned.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer will fight the ruling
As expected Arizona Governor Jan Brewer spoke out about the ruling. She said; "We knew regardless one side or the other would appeal … absolutely the federal government got relief from the courts," adding that the federal government needs to step up and do its job.
The governor office released an official statement after the ruling saying Brewer was disappointed, but "heartened by some findings – including the ban on sanctuary cities."
The spunky governor said the fight was not over and alluded to opponents that this was only the beginning of what will likely end up at the Supreme Court.
"I have consulted with my legal counsel about our next steps. We will take a close look at every single element Judge Bolton removed from the law, and we will soon file an expedited appeal at the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit."
Brewer further claimed "We have already made some progress in waking up Washington. But the question still remains: will Washington do its job, and put an end to the daily operations of smugglers in our nation, or will the delays and sidesteps."
California is another border state that sees the extremes of illegal immigration.
"The federal government has a right and a responsibility to enforce existing laws, but when they fail to meet that responsibility, we should not stand in the way of the states that take action to respond to the very real threat of border violence, drug cartels and human smuggling," said Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA.).
The majority of American citizens know something has to be done with illegal immigration, but they also declare the borders must be secure, something the Obama administration sidesteps everyday.
For more stories; http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner


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English Football Legend, John Terry Retires At The Age Of 37
John Terry, the English legend has announced his retiring from professional football at the age of 37 after being linked with a coaching role at Aston Villa.
The former Chelsea and England captain who won five Premier league titles and a Champions League at Stamford Bridge, shared the news on Instagram this evening.
Terry, who won 78 caps for England, wrote:
"after 23 incredible years as a footballer, I have decided now is the right time to retire from playing. As a 14-year-old, I made my best and biggest decision: to sign for Chelsea Football Club. Words will never be enough to show how much everyone at the club means to me, in particular the fans."


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K. L. Saigal
A short list of recordings
1] Saigal as a classical singer
1] Jhulana jhulao re – Dev Gandhar (Feb.1933) MP3 Excerpt
http://rajeev.commons.yale-nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/116/2019/12/saigal_jhulna-jhulao.mp3
2] Main kya janun – Zindagi (1940)- Yaman
3] Do naina matware (My Sister, 1944) –Yaman
4] ]Dukhke din aab bitat nahin – Devdas (1935) – Des
5] Balam aayo baso more manmen – Devdas (1935) – Sindhura
6] Diya jalao jagmag jagmag – Tansen (1943) – Deepak
7] Sapta sur teen gram gao sub gunijan – Tansen (1943) – Dhrupad [based on a bandish of Alladiya khan]
8] Rumjhum rumjhum chal tehari – Tansen (1943) – Shankara
2] Saigal as a geet/ghazal singer
lakh sahi hum peeki batiya / laga gai chot / nuktachi hai game dil / Ye tasarruf allah allah / phir mujhe didaye tar (Galib)
3] Saigal sings in other languages
akhoni uthibe chand (Bengali) / O sohane sakiya, mahi naal je aankh (Punjabi) / marhabba gam ja (Des), rangin tar aajhun hasta [kawali-Madhuvanti], (Persian, pushto), song from Devdas dubbed in (Tamil)
4] Saigal as a bhajan singer
main nahi makhan khayo (Bhakta Surdas,1942) / suno suno he krishna kala – (Chandidas)
5] Saigal film songs around 1940
duniya rang rangoli baba – chorus – Panjak Malick, Uma Shashi and Saigal (Dharatimata, 1938) / Shahajahan (1946) – ae dile bekarar kyun (Bihag?) / chaha barbaad karegi (Bageshree) / gam diye mushtakil (Pilu) / jab dil hi toot gaya (Bhairavi)
6] Popular Saigal songs –
so ja rajkumari so ja (Zindagi, 1940) – Jhinjhoti
babul mora – (Street singer, 1938) – [Bhairavi]
Comp. by Nabab of Avadh, Wajid Ali Shah
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Suresh Chandvankar (Mumbai) for some of the above information. Any additional information, or corrections to the above, will be most welcome.
Kundan Lal Saigal (1904-1947)
A brief biographical account by
Suresh Chandvankar
Mr. Kundan Lal Saigal, popularly known as K. L. Saigal was the most popular actor-singer of the Indian films during 1935-47. Born on April 11, 1904 at Jullunder in Punjab, he entered in the films in 1931-32 and acted in about 40 films. He died on January 18, 1947 at the age of just forty-two. As a boy his mother used to take him to a Sufi-Pir Salman Yousuf of the Yesvi sect. Singing was his hobby. Later on he learnt music and basic melodic structures which he mastered through a lot of practice. He also learnt from some of the great masters of the period: Faiyyaz Khan, Pankaj Mullick and Pahari Sanyal.
His father was violently against his singing and was disappointed with his poor results at school. He left home and came to Calcutta. Before choosing music and singing as his vocation, he worked as a time-keeper in the Punjab Railways. He was a salesman for short time, selling typewriters. In those days, his singing was largely confined to a friend-circle. One such private concert had among its audience a sales representative of the Hindustan Record Company. He immediately recognized Saigal's talent and the sales potential of his records if he were to be signed up for recordings. Saigal was persuaded to make a lifetime contract with this company, and one of his early records – 'Jhulana Jhulao' in Raga Dev Gandhar – became an instant hit.
At the age of 28, he entered films, and soon became a successful actor-singer. Films such as Devdas, Shah Jahan, President, My Sister, Zindagi, Chandidas, Bhakta Surdas, Tansen, and Dushman became hits, and the songs remain popular to this day, to the extent that young musicians are tempted to re-mix song versions derived from his singing. Around 1935, i.e. before his film career began, Saigal used to participate in classical music concerts, but unfortunately, those have never been either documented or recorded, and hence they are lost to history. What is available today is a three-minute song recorded originally on a 78-rpm shellac record. He sang over 150 solo songs, a couple of duets, and about 30 ghazals and bhajans. The first remark you hear if you talk about Saigal with someone will be 'He was a natural singer' or ' He was born with that unique voice' or 'He was golden voiced', and so on. He was the first non-Bengali to be honored to sing Rabindra Sangeet, and also the first superstar of Indian cinema. Besides Hindi/Urdu, he also sang songs written in Punjabi, Bengali, Pushto and Tamil.
Saigal managed to develop what the Italians call 'La Voce Bianca' or the 'White Voice' as of Italian vocalists: it follows you like a scent and reposes in your memory. For several years, at 7:57 am every day, Radio Ceylon used to play a 78 rpm record of Saigal's songs. Saigal's body has left this world, but not his voice. You can hear him in Kabul, in Nairobi and in Kuwait, in Tanzania and in Rabat. Teheran radio has played his Persian ghazals. His voice is well known in Jakarta and in Fiji. Every year, on his death anniversary, All India Radio plays his records. Who says Saigal is dead?
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Winning lottery ticket sold in York County
The ticket matched all five balls during Friday's drawing.
Winning lottery ticket sold in York County The ticket matched all five balls during Friday's drawing. Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2018/01/02/jackpot-winning-lottery-ticket-worth-120-000-sold-york-county/995813001/
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A jackpot-winning Treasure Hunt ticket worth $120,000 was sold at Red Land Beer & Soda Outlet on Old York Road, according to a news release from the Pennsylvania Lottery. The retailer will receive a $500 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
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By Sarah Wood | 15th December 2020
Sales at the world's second-biggest fashion retailer, H&M, fell 10 per cent in its fourth quarter, with a significant slowdown in the final month as the second wave of coronavirus restrictions curbed spending.
The Swedish retailer, which has stores in Gloucester and Cheltenham, said a recovery seen in the previous quarter had continued through much of the fourth quarter but that sales had been hit again from the end of October, as reported by Reuters.
In a statement, H&M said: "Between 22 October and 30 November, sales decreased by 22 percent compared with the corresponding period last year, as the recovery transitioned into a new slowdown as a result of the pandemic's second wave."
H&M said sales in the quarter fell to 52.5 billion Swedish crowns (£4.69 billion) from 61.7 billion a year earlier.
The company's sales were showing resilience before the latest wave of lockdowns around the world, including in Germany, its biggest market.
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ESRLoop
I always hear about the B&M Rattle, Intamin problems or what ever company has a coaster out their. Someone will always pick a ride apart! It's funny to hear people talk about X & X2 and how it's a Piece of SH...! That's fine in all and we are entitle to our opinions.
With X2 being close to 20 years old it was and still is a revolutionary ride! Having a family member help with the construction and to finally see the outcome of it has been awesome for him and me. Everytime i driver up and see it, i think back to when I first rode it. This ride was the first ride to give me that OH SH.... feeling! Being my home park, I'm a little bias! Like I said before, I take the good, the bad and ugly of this ride.
This could be an issue but who knows. When I am in line for X or any coaster I see a large person trying to squeeze in the seat and have the restraint barely come down. When that train comes back to the station I hear, that was horrible ride and it was uncomfortable. These rides were build when people weren't as large and I am sure that has portion to do with it.
I have no clue regarding X2 at all - for all I know it's an absolute saint of a ride. I haven't been to SFMM since X was converted to X2. And X was absolutely revolutionary.
That being said, X was a very scary coaster. There were a lot of things I saw from X, particularly when I transferred to the maintenance side, that to this day haunt me. Kind of the worst of two worlds - a desperate coaster manufacturer forcing something they weren't ready to with a shoe-string budgeted park that believed it needed to debut X ASAP... to not the best result.
Again - I fully concede X2 is a different coaster. But X is for very good reason gone.
Location: Woodland Hills, CA
What if they get new trains for Green Lantern could that save the ride?
coasterlvr
Location: Cerritos, California
i bet if the seat configuration was like the free fly coasters it would be decent.
JT325
That being said, X was a very scary coaster. There were a lot of things I saw from X, particularly when I transferred to the maintenance side, that to this day haunt me.
Please share some more
southpuddle
I'm sure ESRLoop can elaborate, but I remember some of the wings on the original X literally sagging.
VCXfreak
Yes please do?
The front end ride control software was a windows program. That's all you need to know.
Come on now, I though it was going to be something else. I know about software! I have 2 families still working there and on occasion one work's X2. She is a Engineer major and knows all the in's & out's of X2. She did a paper on it and mechanics of this beast and is very knowledgeable. I don't even bring it up because she will talk me down!
There's more, but that kind of summarizes the development and operation of X.
Anyone working in maintenance or operations when X opened (not X2) will have stories.
MagicMountainMan
Location: Burbank
^^Any reason it's down for so long? I care a little bit.
Literally to save money. It's a ride that requires more operators than most, it's already extremely unpopular, and the park is in budget cut mode right now. The perfect storm for shutting down the ride for the rest of the season. They're also doing some special maintenance on the ride as well, but nobody seems to know what that means.
SFMM added weight to theirs as well. They didn't want it flipping too much.
I've always heard this, but I've asked and everyone at the park has always told me that they didn't add weights, they just added the magnet to drastically slow down the spin rotation. Where are the weights supposedly installed?
The cutout for the computer's keyboard and trackball still exist on the ride's control panel. I've always found it quite interesting and that's hilarious to know that's how X used to operate... Now the ride has a nice Allen Bradley PLC with touchscreen panel that is very much in line with the times.
For me, I've always found it fascinating that X/X2 uses pressurized air to lock and unlock the harnesses. It's not your typical pneumatic system either, there is literally an arm that comes up and down to pressurize and depressurize the seats and restraints that connects to the back of the train every time it parks in the station. That arm doesn't exist at the old unload anymore which is why when the ride breaks down they can't get people out of the train at old unload unless they manually hook up an air hose to the train itself to get riders off. They will only ever unload from the old unload in rare circumstances (mostly if they can't advance the other train out of loading).
Also, X2's train has fiber optic cable ran through it for PLC comms for whatever reason which is also amazing and unusual.
It's a weird ride to say the least. Even now, it's just so unique and different then most any other ride that has ever been built I find it really fascinating.
here's some images i found. one from media day, and one recent. light composite panel next to the track compared to heavy steel large piece.
Rill'o'beily
^ I don't get why SFMM has to have those weird shoulder shields and a full filled in panel on their Zacspin when none of the others have either?
Location: Bergen, Norway
Woah I never seen that before! What is the point of those shoulder shields? They make zero sense to me...
thrillseeker4552
It has to do with clearance when entering the station after the brake run. Same reason Superman has them as well.
I don't know the operation/mechanical side of X2 at all. From all accounts it addressed the major issues with X and the trains are very well designed.
X's front end/HMI was Windows based. The back end was a dual Allen Bradley SLC PLC setup. I don't think a light weight messaging/logging system being run by a windows application is uncommon in industrial controls (Disney has been using a Windows-based messaging system for years successfully, Riddler used one in the electrical equip room when I worked there). What was unusual was the amount of control the operators and maintenance were expected to do through X's front end system. When it crashed (and that's when, not if) you were sort of flying blind and couldn't do much. When it finally came back up and sync'd it wouldn't always accurately reflect the true ride status, especially in terms of occupied blocks. We knew we were in trouble when we started having to manually force bits on/off in the PLC (mostly to reset blocks the ride control system refused to acknowledge were not occupied and would not reset through the HMI). Forcing bits in a PLC is something you expect to do early in testing on a coaster but is generally a major no-no for an operating coaster.
Even without the HMI issues the ride control system had just very obviously not been through enough test and adjust.
On the mechanical side, the trains were a whole other bag of problems... to give an idea of one of the challenges with the original trains, SFMM installed on their own a proximity sensor on each side of the train at the brake run at the end of the ride along the cat walks. The purpose of these sensors two-fold - verify each fork (support arm holding the seats) was present and that it was in the correct position (not bent). So why SFMM add them? Let's just say they weren't added as an abundance of caution or as a "what-if/just in case" sort of thing.
Arthur_Seaton
Location: ATX / SoCal
The purpose of these sensors two-fold - verify each fork (support arm holding the seats) was present and that it was in the correct position (not bent). So why SFMM add them? Let's just say they weren't added as an abundance of caution or as a "what-if/just in case" sort of thing.
The wings don't have a central axle running through them, do they? They're just sort of slapped onto the side of the train (well, bolted and whatnot). I wonder if a continual axle might have lessened the jerky rotations? Or if the jerkiness is the fault of a guide rail system in need of reprofiling?
For X they did not have a central axle running through them. I have no idea for X2.
I'd guess relying on a coaster rail to control the rotations causes a lot of the jerkiness since Arrow tends to build jerky coasters anyway, but that's more of an educated guess than actual knowledge. From what I can recall X was jerky from day one and just got worse as time went on but my memory is a little hazy.
^&^^The jerky rotation of X2 is mainly caused by the amount of "play" in the rack where it attaches to the outer rail. The rack rests on a rubber cushion to act as a damper so that the natural vibration of the wheel base on the track doesn't get transferred into the rack and pinion (which could definitely cause problems).
The side effect of this is that each car does have a lot of play and can easily rotate a bit just by pushing the car up and down by hand. So a lot of the bouncing you see and experience on X2 is actually the lack of stiffness on that rack's connection. It's a necessary evil.
Could it be redesigned to have tighter tolerances? Maybe, but I'm sure that this is as good as the tolerance gets without causing a safety or mechanical headache, otherwise S&S probably would have designed for less rotational play.
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So that modified fiberglass panel isn't actually steel. Those are indeed not the counterweights. I will do more investigating....
That's interesting, I don't remember a rubber cushion on X's trains (but could just be failed memory). Was that added to the X2 trains?
moviemansig
Will Lex Luthor not operate if it's at all windy - say 20 mph winds? Thanks.
Imagineer Josh
Apparently there's this massive clearing behind Apocalypse for a 2019 coaster. Possibly big enough for a Giga.
JGuy
Well, that must mean Magic Mountain is getting a 300ft tall Super Loop "Coaster" in the near future.
I highly doubt it would be a giga coaster, or anything that will exceed $10 million, if their recent purchasing history is anything to go off of. It might not even be for a ride, for all we know.
I believe that's for the Newhall Ranch housing development.
Location: Los Angeles Ca
You'd have to be insane to buy a nearly million dollar home next to a loud ass theme park, and top that off by having to worry about fires destroying your property every year. No thanks
On another note, when SFMM decides to add their next roller coaster, you're probably going to hear about something prominent being removed first. That's kinda the way Six Flags rolls now.
Superbatboy
Anyone who buys a house next to MM should be forced to sign a waiver promising not to b*tch about hearing Superman and Riddler all day.


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Q: Brother MFC-6490cw driver? I have a brother MFC-6490CW printer and I am unable to connect to it through my wireless network using ubuntu 14.04 due to not having a driver available... does the driver exist? if it does, how do I find/install it? thanks!

A: Yes they do exist, I have been using my MFC6490CW with Ubuntu since 2009, both for printing and scanning.
You can download the driver e.g. from the US support site. Select the deb versions. I have used the individual drivers, but you might want to try the
Driver Install Tool (listed at the top here) download it and follow its installation instructions:

Step1. Download the tool.(linux-brprinter-installer-..-.gz)
The tool will be downloaded into the default "Download" directory.
  (The directory location varies depending on your Linux distribution.)
  e.g. /home/(LoginName)/Download
Step2. Open a terminal window and go to the directory you downloaded the file to in the last step.
Step3. Enter this command to extract the downloaded file:
Command: gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-..-.gz
Step4. Get superuser authorization with the "su" command or "sudo su" command.
Step5. Run the tool:
Command: bash linux-brprinter-installer-..- Brother machine name
Step6. The driver installation will start. Follow the installation screen directions.
When you see the message "Will you specify the DeviceURI ?",
For USB Users: Choose N(No)
  For Network Users: Choose Y(Yes) and DeviceURI.
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How Is the Concept of 'Into the World' Conveyed in the Film Billy Elliot? Essay
How is the concept of 'into the world' conveyed in the film Billy Elliot?
People encounter different experiences and respond to the individually. These personal experiences may result in growth, change or other consequences. There are a variety of pathways and elements which enables for the transition of an individual into a new world. An individual's determination to pursue a dream can inspire them to challenge society's expectations as they transition into a new world. However, there are barriers which often disallow an individual to achieve this movement into their desired world. The concept of 'into the world is evident in the film Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry (2000).
Often difficulty is faced by an individual when there are …show more content…
This is highlighted in a pivotal scene in the film where Jackie is forced to see his Billy's talent and that he must give him a chance. The strong rhythm and dynamics of the music match Billy's emotions and the pride he has in his love for dance. Moreover, in the scene where Billy explains how he feels when he dances his response confirms his passion and love for dance "I forget everything…and…sort of disappear… like I feel a change in me whole body. Like there's a fire in me body. I'm just there…flying…like a bird. Like electricity. Yeah…like electricity."
An individual may encounter instances where they must be accepting of the world that others choose to move into. The song 'Get it On' is played non diagetically and visual metaphor is used to show that Michael and Billy away from the beliefs of society where they take a short cut when they are running. Michael tells Billy "I think you'd look wicked" (in a tutu). Billy merely dismisses this statement by saying "come on" and continuing their run. It is evident that Michael is experimenting with his sexual identity where he is trying on his sister's dresses. The theme of gender is presented as Billy confirms his heterosexuality "Just because I like ballet…doesn't mean I'm a poof, you know?" after Michael takes Billy's hands and puts them in his jacket to warm them up. His heterosexuality is also reinforced by the tender moment shared with the close up shot of Debby caressing his face
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So you just got an Xbox 360.now what?
The Holidays will no doubt bring many new Xbox 360 owners, so now is a good time for me to do a quick round up of some resources that can may help new those owners get the most of that new purchase.
Once you have your console connected it to your TV, be sure you are getting the best possible picture. This Xbox.com support article goes over the various types of connections that the Xbox 360 supports, and can help you get the best looking picture based on the cable you are using. The best tip I can offer you is if you are using a Component Cable (the one with red, green and blue video connecters) make sure the switch on the cable going into the Xbox 360 is set to HDTV. Again, read the support article and this can help you to make sure you're getting the best picture possible based on the connection type you are using.
Once you are all set up, be sure to connect your console to your home network. This support article walks you through the options.
Now that you have the console online, you can sign up up for a free Xbox LIVE Gamertag. This will allow you free access to all the latest system updates, game demos, game add-ons, Arcade games and much more.
With your new Gamertag, you can now sign into Xbox.com and browse the Xbox LIVE Marketplace directly in your web browser. From here you can easily add items (like free demos) to your download queue. If your Xbox 360 is turned on, and signed into Xbox LIVE, your downloads will begin immediately. If not, the next time you turn it on the downloads will automatically begin. You can get more information on background downloads here.
If you need immediate Xbox 360 help, hit up my friends on the official Xbox support Twitter account. They're just waiting for your @ replies!
For great family fun, gather everyone around the Xbox and play the special Holiday edition of 1 v 100 LIVE this Saturday, December 26th. It's a free and fun way to see if that family know-it-all really knows all.
The Official Xbox 360 support site. Start here before going anywhere else.
The Xbox LIVE Marketplace on the web. Use your computer to browse the marketplace.
The Xbox forums. From game help and discussion to console questions, this is a good place to interact with members of the Xbox community.
If you want to hear from top game developers, as well as learn a little about what happens behind the scenes at Xbox, you should subscribe to my weekly audio podcast. (via iTunes or Zune.) It's a fun way to learn about new games, things about the Xbox 360 you may not know and much more.
Finally, you may want to follow me on Twitter, where I often post about new demos and other items of interest for gamers.
Have fun with your Xbox 360 and I'll see you online!
Edit: Read the comments for some good reader tips!