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Gwyneth, Venice, Beysus, no Madge
Gwyneth Paltrow and her good friend Matt Damon, with his wife Luciana, were in Venice this weekend promoting Contagion. G was slouchy and tired looking in orange Prada at the photo call, though I love the shoes that were paired with the outfit, and she chose Prada again for the gala, a blush bow gown that's almost like the 15 years later sequel to her infamous Oscar pink Ralph Lauren, remember?
Love her (me) or hate her (you), here's what you can't argue about Gwyneth Paltrow: she makes expensive things look expensive. It's the air of elite and the smell of betterthanyou that she's carried around since birth and that bites your ass, I know, but at the same time, my G never shows up on a carpet like she doesn't belong and desperately hopes no one will find out. Compare and contrast this, say, with someone like Victoria Beckham. See the difference?
Anyway, you know what bothers me about this dress and others like it and it's probably just me? The darts on the chest. They never work for me. In some of these shots they don't seem to be working for her.
Am also including several close-ups of G's face because no one seems to believe her when she says she's not had any freezing procedures but lately I really, really do. Look. It moves. Maybe even more than Madonna's.
Speaking of...
You could say that they missed each other by a day, or you could say that Gwyneth was in Venice a night before her official Contagion duties began, and could very well have had the opportunity to hook up with Madonna who was there too but that never happened...
Instead, as you know, G has replaced M with Beyonce. And Beyonce and Jay-Z were in Venice too to celebrate B's 30th birthday. And G hit them up on the yacht with some kind of jewel gift. Click here to see the photos. That's a little blue box with a card.
And you know it wasn't cheap. In fact, it probably set G back a LOT. Because it was for Beysus. Please. Can you imagine??? And because it came from GOOP, it was probably ultra exclusive too. We'll find out soon enough though. Since these two love talking about each other, we'll find out in the next interview.
As for Contagion, it's receiving solid reviews, much more respectable than W.E. which was savagely attacked by many critics in Venice even though the fawning fans gave it a standing ovation. The TIFF audience is much more discerning. I can't wait to see how it'll play there.
Photos from Wenn.com and ALBERTO PIZZOLI/ Ian Gavan/Pascal Le Segretain/Gettyimages.com


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"Green" Car Care Products
Eagle One
We grew up using Eagle One products to clean our rides—they were part of our hot rodding soundtrack over the years, and they've always provided the results we could be proud of on the boulevard and at the car show. As we grow older, our attention turns increasingly to the environment and sustainability; when one of our favorite car care manufacturers comes out with an environmentally friendly product line, like Eagle One has with their EnviroShine line, we take notice. Eagle One's "green" line includes All Wheel & Tire Cleaner, Tire Shine, Car Wash, and Glass Cleaner made with environmentally safe ingredients that are nontoxic, biodegradable, and free of harsh solvents. The products were developed with the latest technology to provide unbeatable performance and results, in eco-friendly formulas.
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'62 Impala Hood Hinges
Eddie Motorsports
Eddie Motorsports has recently added to their line of billet aluminum hood hinges for Chevy Impalas, which also includes hinges for '61-68 and '70 Impalas. These are CNC machined from billet 6061-T6 aluminum and use stainless steel nitrogen-filled gas struts in place of the stock coil springs. They also use high-quality needle bearings for a smooth operation. EMS hinges are direct-fit "bolt-on" units that use the stock elongated mounting holes for ease of gap adjustment. Eddie's billet hinges are offered for steel, fiberglass, or carbon-fiber hoods with a machined or brightly polished finish, or in a wide variety of fusion-coated colors.
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OE Blueprint Cams
Crane Cams
As auctions continue to drive the price of restorations higher, it's becoming critical to restore an original muscle car engine with the proper camshaft. Whether you're concerned about maintaining the original factory idle, tune-up calibrations, lift numbers, dynamic compression ratio, or having the correct factory part number, you will want to check out Crane's Blueprint series of camshafts. We recently had the chance to talk with the Crane folks while we were at the Performance Racing Industry trade show in Orlando, Florida, and discovered that they are offering virtually every stock camshaft profile for every muscle car engine (Chevrolet, Ford, Buick, Pontiac, Olds, and Chrysler) made between 1955 and 1981. Some of them are as plain Jane as the Chevy 350 LT-1, while others are more esoteric, like the Pontiac "McKellar #10" stick. All carry a factory part number (for instance, the Shelby 505hp 427 is C3AZ-6250-AA) as well as a Crane part number. Naturally, Crane can also help you with your other restoration valvetrain needs, so give them a call and tell them PHR sent you!
Crane Cams
Telescoping Tilt Column
Flaming River
Flaming River's new Telescoping Tilt Column enables 1 inch of column adjustability by simply moving the steering wheel toward or away from the driver. A spring-loaded design uses a billet lever for smooth and easy adjustment for driver comfort and clearance. The styling is based on the early Corvette steering column, a sleek and streamlined unit with 2-inch diameter stainless tubing. The Top-Hat Tele column comes in standard 30- or 32-inch lengths—other lengths are available through Flaming River's custom manufacturing program. All Flaming River steering columns have a three-year/36,000-mile warranty, and are made in the United States.
Flaming River
Engine Revitalizer
XADO Maximum is a new metal conditioner for gasoline, LPG, and diesel engines, which is designed to restore, repair, and protect car engines during operation. Just add one 225ml bottle of XADO Maximum to the engine oil. According to the manufacturer, revitalization begins immediately and will be complete after 750 miles. A patented nanotechnology is said to form a self-regulating metal-ceramic coating on the surface of parts, which repairs wear and extends their life span. Molecules of a two-phase complex metal conditioner interact with the parts, forming smooth and extremely durable surfaces with low friction. XADO claims that one application of Maximum will give your car up to 100,000 miles of improved performance, including better gas mileage (on average a 5.6 percent increase in mpg), increased power, and decreased noise and vibration.
Other claimed advantages include strengthening engine parts, restoring lost compression and oil pressure, protection against damage from cold starts, and double the engine life. The fuel additive is compatible with all types of motor oil and additives. For maximum engine protection, XADO recommends XADO Atomic Oil or XADO HighWay metal conditioner with your next oil change. To order XADO Maximum atomic metal conditioner with Revitalizant, or any other XADO products, go to www.XADO.us. MSRP is $54.95.
Hi-Flow Blow-Off Valve
The allure of easy power through turbos and superchargers is often a hard siren song to ignore, and with that big payoff comes big technical challenges. When you're into the throttle and the boost gauge is soaring, all that pressure has to go somewhere when the throttle closes. If your blow-off valve isn't up to the job, you're going to shell your turbo, blow a hose off, bend a throttle plate, or all three. The difficulty of a turbo installation is also compounded frequently by the lack of space, or the wrong shape of available space underhood. That's where a company like Turbosmart comes in handy with their Vee Port Pro blow-off valve. Turbosmart's Vee Port valve is said to be 20 percent smaller and 33 percent lighter than its predecessor, while offering the same high-flow volume. A high-flow port and new piston design provides quicker response and better sealing while a V-band clamp optimizes mechanical fastening to a welded flange. The Vee Port blow-off valve also has a 360-degree swivel vacuum fitting for tight spaces.

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The situation is dire. Little or no action is taken on climate change. Earth is facing a potential temperature rise of more than 10°C or 18°F by 2026. What is happening in the Arctic is critical. While Earth as a whole is experiencing rapid warming, warming in the Arctic is escalating even faster and accelerating, due to feedbacks such as snow and ice demise and destabilizing sediments at seafloor of the Arctic Ocean. These sediments contain huge amounts of methane in the form of hydrates and free gas.
|Potential temperature rise of more than 10°C or 18°F by 2026 (see extinction page)
The comprehensive and effective action depicted in above image is described in more detail below.
The Climate Action Plan contains three parts that are executed in parallel:
- Sustainable Economy, i.e. moving toward a more sustainable economy, with dramatic reductions of pollutants on land, in oceans and in the atmosphere
- Heat management
- Methane management and further action
Use of feebates is highly recommended by the Climate Plan. Feebates can be implemented in budget-neutral ways, so their implementation doesn't need to be disruptive in regard to other policies. Furthermore, the administrative framework is typically already in place, i.e. implementation of feebates can take place on the back of sales taxes, vouchers, tax returns and other policy instruments that are already commonly used all over the world. Feebates combine disincentives for polluting products with incentives for the cleaner alternatives. This is part of why feebates are so effective in achieving a rapid shift to clean products.
As an example, differential rates applied by local councils to land ownership can facilitate growth of soil carbon content. Similarly, differential vehicle registration fees can facilitate emission cuts. Such measures can typically be implemented now, i.e. without requiring prior international agreement. In other words, local communities can start implementing (parts of) the Climate Plan immediately.
While feebates are recommended as the most effective policy instruments, the decision how to implement the necessary action (e.g. efforts to reduce pollution levels) is largely delegated to state or provincial level, while states or provinces can similarly delegate decisions to local communities. Examples of feebate policies are depicted in the image below.
States or provinces can thus implement the policies that they feel will fit their circumstances best, provided they do each achieve their targets. Such targets are set by national government in line with international agreements, and assisted by ongoing monitoring and research as to which ways can best make safe progress and achieve targets most effectively.
Local implementation encourages that revenues from fees on polluting products are used to fund the necessary shift to clean products locally. This will help achieve the shift where it's needed most.
The two above images above depict energy feebates and other feebates. Energy feebates can best clean up energy, while other feebates can best raise revenue for carbon dioxide removal and further action. Energy feebates can phase themselves out, completing the necessary shift to clean energy within years, rather than decades. Since carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will need to continue for longer, it makes sense to raise funding for CDR from other sources, such as sales of livestock products, nitrogen fertilizers and Portland cement.
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I just returned from the Unbound conference in New York. Google flew me in first class, set me up at a nice hotel, and plied me with liquor, all so I could deliver eight minutes of my thoughts on the internet and the future of publishing to more than five hundred publishers.
I didn't pull punches.
Other speakers included Tim O'Reilly, who was smart, Cory Doctorow, who was great, and Seth Godin, who was both smart and great. Another big name was also there, but I missed his speech. It may have had to do with a chat we had backstage, where I revealed that I visited 612 bookstores last summer and he replied, "Apparently you place a zero value on your time." I smiled and explained that my time spent touring was an investment in my future career, and that I was a recruiting a nation wide sales force.
"Talk to booksellers?" he replied. "I never considered that."
Some people don't get it. Or they don't want to get it, because it implies they might be doing less. No biggie. I wish him much success.
The speakers on my panel were the delightful Josh Kilmer-Purcell, and the surprisingly down-to-earth Stephen J. Dubner, who--even though he's got to be a gazillionaire from Freakonomics--still signs 5000 bookplates for fans every month. He is now my new hero.
Here's what I said to the publishing world, fleshed out a little bit (I had to make some cuts for time) and minus the jokes (which involved the NY subway, Powerpoint pie graphs, and Hollywood---trust me, you aren't missing anything.)
--JA's Speech to the Publishing World--
I write about a police officer named Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels. The books are a cross between the scares of Patterson and the laughs of Evanovich. But most of my professional time isn't spend writing, it's spent trying to spread the word about what I write to potential readers.
Publishers try to do this by advertising. Two generally accepted ways to approach advertising are top down and bottom up.
Top down advertising includes billboards, print ads, TV commercials, and internet banner ads. It's casting a wide net, hoping that a potential customer will see the ad and seek out the product. It works, but isn't cost-effective;the amount of time and money spent doesn't justify the few sales the ads generate.
Plus, no one enjoys being sold. And people natural distrust ads. Readers already have a pretty good idea of what they like and don't like. And they seek out what they like, and are constantly looking for information about things that might fit their tastes.
Bottom up advertising uses a different approach. Instead of treating customers like a huge group and hoping the ad reaches some specific people, it targets specific people.
Advertisers crow about the importance of name recognition, but how many authors do you know by name? Does that mean you buy their books? I can name a few hundred, but only buy a few dozen of them.
That's because name recognition doesn't mean anything, unless it has a positive experience attached to it.
Last summer, for my book Rusty Nail, I visited 612 bookstores. I met over 1400 booksellers, gave them free books, and signed coasters, and told them about my series. I also thanked them--every one of them--in the acknowledgments of my fourth book, Dirty Martini, coming out this summer.
Basically, I recruited a sales force by trying to turn the people selling my books into fans, or at least make them knowledgeable about my brand, which is significant considering there are 150k titles in an average bookstore.
That's bottom up; targeting individuals, providing them with entertainment and information so they can decide if my books are right for them, or in this case, their customers. So when someone comes into a bookstore looking for a specific type of book, these booksellers can pass along the information and make recommendations. I gave them more than a free signed book. I gave them a positive experience. And that, plus name recognition, equals branding.
How can this be applied to the world wide web?
The Internet, like those booksellers, can make recommendations. It can inform, and entertain, and be a positive experience that reinforces a brand. .
I've used the net to target my audience. When you're targeting potential customers, it isn't about what you have to sell. It's about what you have to offer. And if you have a smart web presence, you don't even have to target individuals---they'll find you.
I recently got on MySpace, and realized it is a publisher's wet dream. People with MySpace pages list the things that they like, to tell others about themselves. Many people list books. Think about this--books are so important to these people that they use author names and titles to define who they are. It's very easy to find fans of Evanovich, Patterson, and Coben. And it's very easy to invite fans of those authors to be MySpace friends, if you write similar books.
I have a blog called A Newbie's Guide to Publishing. It's based on the principal that it isn't what you have to sell, it's what you have to offer. I offer content, in the form of information and opinion about the publishing industry. I've had over two hundred blog posts, and each one of them becomes a permanent road on the net that leads to me. I get Google hits on posts I made 2 years ago, and the threads don't die--people keep adding comments.
My website isn't set up to be an ad for my books. It's set up to be entertaining, and informative. You can download free novels, short stories, and book and audio excerpts, along with an ebook about how to find an agent. I have over a hundred pages of content for fans and newbie authors looking for advice, and even though I don't update as often as I should, I still get close to 1000 unique visitors a day.
On my website, I make it easy for people to stay in touch. I have a newsletter that more than 10,000 people have signed up for, and one click Paypal buying so people who can't find autographed copies of my books can get them from me directly, inscribed and with free shipping.
While publishers worry about finding readers, and go about it as effectively as using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat, readers are actively looking for books to read. But they need more than slick ads to persuade them. They need a positive experience to link with a name. That's 99% of what I'm trying to do--provide a positive experience, for the people looking for me, and the people discovering me by surfing.
The bigger web presence you have, the more people will discover you.
How does this apply to the future of publishing?
An entire generation is learning how to read by using computers. More and more people are getting their information and entertainment on the web. And they aren't being passive about it--they're seeking it out.
On the subway today, I counted 7 people with PDAs, Blackberrys, and Palms, and two more with mp3 players. People need their media so much they're taking it with them when they leave their desks. Only three people on that train were reading newspapers. What does that say about the future of print media?
People read online all the time. It's up to the publishers to teach them how to read books online.
There's no reason why books can't be packaged with a CD. It could contain various downloadable text AND audio formats, so people can read it on their PDA or listen to it on their mp3 player. It can include pictures, video interviews, deleted chapters and extra short stories. It could be popped into a computer and take the reader to a webpage where they can chat with other fans, and the author, and leave messages and comments and questions.
And publishers should also approach it from the other end. Each book could have a dedicated website, just like movies. And it could offer the same things; downloads, previews, screen savers, and forums for fans to meet. It should also provide links to buying the book, both as a download, and as a print copy.
Why stop there? Take a cue from the DVD and music industries, that package whole season sets of shows and full discographies of bands. Do you want people to embrace ebooks? (You should--no shipping, no returns, no printing, no distributor, no waste, higher profit margin.) Then package 20 Stephen King books on a Sandisk card for $40. Steve gets the 60 cent per book royalty he would have gotten from a paperback sale, and the buyer changes his reading habits.
We switched from LPs to CDs, and VHS to DVD. We can convert some people from print to online leisure reading---especially since everyone reads online anyway.
You can spend a fortune hunting mice. You can mount expeditions, buy expensive mouse hunting equipment, tour the world, and devote all of your time to tracking those little suckers down.
Or you can toss some cheese in the corner and wait.
The choice yours.
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This has not been edited or proof read
I will do that in the morning
For now I hope this helps fill in some blanks
I do realize it is hard to understand new things
hell you should try explaining it with out giving away the farm.
The Blog Co-Op at the Guild is the result of a years worth of development and testing to create a system that creates the greatest positive impact to your blog using RSS, back links and book marking, using as little of your time as possible.
If anyone knows the value of their time, just the blog co-op itself as a place to post your information away from spam and access quality blogs to comment on and back link to is well worth $9.95 a month with out the extras or even better Free with your purchase of Traffic Android for you serious people, time seems to be the one of the most valuable assets right now. Also don't forget to submit your banner to include it in the rotator on the site.
The topic specific posting of snippets or mini posts and perma links in a central area allows you to search and find related topics or topics of interest when looking for quality blog posts to comment to, a huge time saver. Indexing bots love all this quality in one place also.
Another issue that we have solved or at least addressed with the blog co-op is the issue of interior page rank. I have been to allot of blogs with great page rank on the front page but no rank on all the interior pages. There could be a couple reasons for this but the one we are addressing is by posting a perma link or direct link to your post there is a permanent link directly to your post, and if not right then your post will eventually end up on an inner page. Most people when leaving a link to their site use the direst link to the front page. You took the time to write your post why overlook actually hooking up and back linking your post so it can still be found and indexed after it rolls off your front page.
RSS feeds are wonderful if there are readers on the other end. We have developed a pretty extensive network to accomplish getting in front of people.
Book marking we do randomly to about 20+ sites right now.
The forum board itself leaves your profile and contact information next to every post you make so if you are available on skype you can be contacted immediately right then and there. A forum board is also one of the best means of finding information your post is a permanent record for others to find even if you need to do a little search. The use of every media available the best way to promote your site
By talking to people I get the general senses that allot people get a little bit about search engine promotion and RSS feeds. I have met so called SEO experts that have no clue how to drill down a keyword and why you would do it, It just amazes me, never mind talking RSS feeds.
When talking to a few people that want to know what we do online I get the deer in the headlights look that scares me a little. We never had a product to promote when we entered the realm of site promotion. So we took the individual entities we studied and tested and combined them. This was the development of the blog co-op. everything we are doing is totally white hat, this has its own challenges but is not the double edge sward black hat is. Make yourself at home here and enjoy the exposure.
Brad West ~ onomoney
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From MythTV Official Wiki
The OSD, or On-Screen Display, is the term used for any text or other graphics overlaid on a live or recorded program. The term isn't really used to apply to other graphic displays Myth produces, like menus or the program guide.
In MythTV, the attributes (layout, colors, etc.) of the OSD is configurable and is part of the Theme.


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Z-Finder Mounting Frame for Tall DSLR Bodies
Product Description
The Z-Finder Mounting Frame for Tall DSLR Bodies must be used in conjunction with the Gorilla plate. The Z-Finder frame attaches to the Gorilla plate with two thumb screws; the Gorilla plate is attached to the bottom of your camera. The frame has a rubber coating on the end which stays against the LCD screen with pressure (on larger, pro-bodied cameras only. Smaller cameras may have a slight gap between the frame and LCD screen). The connection between the Z-Finder and frame is a snap fit. The Z-Finder snaps into the frame and can quickly snap off for going between video and photos. To release the frame from your camera, you must un-do the thumb screws and slide the frame off. This frame is used on the taller body cameras such as the Canon 1D Mark IV.


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MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Constitutional Revision Commission has three meetings remaining before it has to report to the Legislature and the next meeting will revive the issue of legislative term limits.
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Constitutional Revision Commission has three meetings remaining before it has to report to the Legislature and the next meeting will revive the issue of legislative term limits.
The commission will meet at 10 a.m. Dec. 3 in the State House to consider recommended changes to several articles of the Constitution. The Dec. 3 agenda includes the legislative article and articles on ethics, separation of powers, and representation.
A public comment period is scheduled on local government issues including home rule. "This time we hear from the public what they want to talk about," Matt Lembke, commission subcommittee chairman, said Tuesday.
The Senate in 2011 created the joint committee to consider article-by-article rewrites of the constitution. Several articles already have been changed by voters.
The commission's final two meetings will be Dec. 14 and Jan. 11, when a final report to the Legislature should be approved. The 2013 legislative session begins Feb. 5.
"It's my understanding that we're going to present three articles we've worked on this year prior to the beginning of the regular session," Lembke said.
Lembke is chairman of the subcommittee on the legislative article. He said the subcommittee originally recommended not reviving a discussion of term limits, but commission members Becky Gerritson and Rep. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, are supportive of term limits.
"Sen. (Bryan) Taylor expressed his view that term limits should be included," Lembke said of the Prattville Republican. "The subcommittee did not come to a final decision because we wanted to hear from legislators who are ex-officio members."
Lembke said he believes voters should decide when to end a legislator's term.
Todd said voters should be allowed to vote on term limits. "It should not be up to us," she said.
"I believe you can stay too long, because it is easy after awhile," she said. "You need new blood."
Todd said several proposals have been made, such as limiting terms to three or four, or total legislative service to 20 years.
Todd is in her second term and said she plans to run for a third in 2014. She said she has not made a decision whether to term limit herself if she's re-elected in 2014.
The 12-member committee also will consider minimum ages for legislators, the length of a legislative session and when legislators take office.
The current age minimums are 21 for a House member and 25 for a state senator. There have been discussion about lowering the minimum age to 18, which also is the minimum voting age, but Lembke said the subcommittee recommends keeping the current requirements.
Legislative sessions can last no longer than 30 working days within 105 calendar days, but the commission has been looking at alternative timetables.
The subcommittee also is studying whether legislative terms should continue to begin the day after the general election as they do now. Lembke said one of the arguments was that the official vote isn't even known then.
Suggested alternatives include waiting a month after the election or having legislators take office in early January.
"That will be changed," Lembke said. "It doesn't make sense having people take office after the election when the results have not been certified."
The commission's agenda in 2013 includes reviewing the declaration of rights, the executive department and the education articles. In 2014, its charge is to review articles on impeachments, exemptions, and miscellaneous issues.
Taxation specifically was excluded as a topic for review in the resolution.


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Dec. 31, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - James DeAngelis '35, the last of the Yale football team's famed "Ironmen" who upset Princeton in 1934, passed away of natural causes on December 26, 2007 in Wallingford, Conn. at the age 97.
Born in Hamden, Conn., on October 20, 1910 as Mariano Vincenzo DeAngelis, he was the son of Mariano and Philomena (Mongillo) DeAngelis, of Caserta and Faicchio, Italy respectively. DeAngelis was educated in the New Haven public schools, graduating from Hillhouse High School and then Milford Prep before earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Yale in 1935.
DeAngelis distinguished himself in athletics throughout high school and college. He was the center of the Yale Ironmen football team whose eleven players, including future Heisman Trophy winner Larry Kelley '37, beat an undefeated Princeton squad in 1934 without substitution. That was the last time in major college football that a team played a game without any subs.
DeAngelis served during World War II in the U.S. Navy (1942-45) in various capacities as a trainer at Annapolis, North Carolina, and Wesleyan and in the Pacific as a Flight Deck Officer aboard the U.S. Lunga Point [CVE-94].
He coached football at Yale (1935-41, 45-47), Bates (1941-42), Toledo (1948), Nebraska (1949) and Washington (1950-52) before returning to New Haven where he managed sales at several Buick dealerships and Leonard Concrete Pipe, from which he retired in 1991. From 1970-77 he served as a New Haven Fire Commissioner.
Throughout his life DeAngelis was honored by local and national organizations associated with his work and his athletic accomplishments. He sustained friendships with people from all walks of life, including President Gerald Ford '41, with whom he coached at Yale, men whom he coached like Levi Jackson '50, and -- perhaps most of all, the guys from Oak Street with whom he grew up.
He maintained strong ties with his alma mater and was acknowledged for that, as the Last of the Ironmen, at the re-dedication of Yale Bowl before The Game on November 17, 2007.


text: All, The nice-ities of commodity, ILP and clock-driven performance improvements have given way to the complexity of multi-core (with two flavors, hetero and homo) and connected accelerators/processors (GPUs, FPGAs, HPC Specific Accelerators). And while the hardware mentioned is various, a large plurality of HPC applications are still data intensive (not all as the Berkeley "Dwarfs" remind us) and often suited to DLP and data flow techniques. A fundamental HPC programming problem is programming to this common algorithmic theme while the underlying processor environment shifts more rapidly that ever. This is a productivity, performance, and portability issue. When things get too complicated on one side of an interface, computing types have a habit of creating a virtual layer that appeals to the side that remains consistent and hides the complexities of the other. A virtual machine and an interface to it is a theme that is creeping into the HPC environment. There is PeakStream model in which HPC (data parallel pre-dominant code) is compiled to a virtual machine that is a proxy for any resource that can process the data parallel kernel its API can represent (multi-many-core, accelerator, etc.). It has the added "marketed" bonus of dynamically creating the "right-sized", partially blocked chunks of said kernel (just in time) to meet the fixed computational intensity features of the particular destination hardware (flop/mop ratio) to manage its particular bandwidth insufficiencies. Then there is the virtual machine of Mitrion-C which serves as a proxy for whatever FPGA (mostly Xilinx at the moment) they support and you have attached to your processor. And there is Cray stated intent to provide an adadable computing environment and the huge problem of actually doing ... which suggests virtual machines again (at least to me). I am interested in discussing the benefits (and drawbacks) of this virtual machine concept as it relates to HPC and cluster computing in our increasingly complex processing environment. Does it makes sense at all? Is a DLP, data-flow oriented VM the right first choice for such a machine? What does the collective wisdom of Beowulf oracle have to say on the matter? Looking forward to your always interesting thoughts ... rbw -- Richard B. Walsh Project Manager Network Computing Services, Inc. Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) rbw at ahpcrc.org | 612.337.3467 > > "The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one > perceived. The subject and object are but one." > > Erwin Schroedinger ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message (including any attachments) may contain proprietary or privileged information, the use and disclosure of which is legally restricted. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender by reply message, do not otherwise distribute it, and delete this message, with all of its contents, from your files. -----------------------------------------------------------------------


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Corona Aims at Racing on Last Day, June 28, 1999
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 28, 1999 -- New Mexico Tech's Corona will be transported on the back of a trailer into Ocala, Fla. today in hopes that foregoing the next-to-last day of racing in Sunrayce 99 will allow the solar-powered vehicle's batteries to charge up enough to be able to finish the final leg into Epcot on its own sunshine-provided power.
During this past weekend's stages of the solar-powered road rally, Corona moved up a notch in the overall standings to 27th in the 29-car racing field.
Teams from colleges and universities throughout North America, including New Mexico Tech, have been racing through five states the past nine days, from Washington, D. C., toward tomorrow's finish at Epcot at Walt Disney World Resort, just south of Orlando, Fla. The team with the lowest cumulative time over the 10-day road rally wins Sunrayce 99.
The top three finishing teams will receive trophies and cash awards. Scholastic achievement awards will also be granted for technical innovation, engineering excellence, artistic talents, teamwork, and good sportsmanship.
The biennial solar-car race was created by General Motors and the U. S. Department of Energy in 1990 to promote educational excellence in mathematics, science, and engineering by offering students a unique and highly valuable "hands-on" educational opportunity. Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) joined GM and the DOE as a co-sponsor of the event in 1993.


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Alleged Accomplice In Police Dragging Incident Appears in Court [DOCUMENT]
34 year-old Kimberly Inman appeared in justice court Thursday afternoon charged with being an accomplice to Dawnette Eaton, after Monday night's incident that seriously injured a Missoula police officer.
Inman was charged with two felonies, obstruction of justice and tampering with or fabricating evidence. She allegedly drove to pick up Eaton after the incident in which Eaton backed over and dragged officer Deni Poling and was shot in the arm by Lt. Richard Stepper.
Bail was set at $75,000, and she was returned to the Missoula County Jail.
Sheriff's spokesman Jason Johnson says the investigation continues into the aftermath of Monday night's incident, and other individuals may be charged, including Eaton's own son, Stephen Goodman.


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Opening Sequence
Ex-White House counsel skips House hearing
Trump officials brief lawmakers on Iran
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Aaron Bray was the 27th round draft pick for the Astros in last June's amateur draft. He was also the winner of the Astros County Adopt-a-Player contest. Each week, Aaron will write a column for Astros County detailing his off-season. Check the sidebar for archives.
Astros fans,
It's that time of year. I am sure most of you are really excited about the upcoming season. I know I am, and I cannot wait to arrive in Florida. I am finishing up my workouts here in Charlotte and will be heading out the 27th of Feb. to get down to Kissimmee. I will be making a stop in Jacksonville to stay the night with family, and Sunday I will get up and get to Kissimmee. Monday, I will start working out for a few days before my official report date, which is the 9th of March.
I actually plan on starting to pack this week so I know what I need to go get before I leave. I will of course be packing clothes and toiletries, but as for the good stuff...I will have my laptop. I use that to be able to talk to my girlfriend and I will be able to see how big my pup grows while I am gone. My laptop will be used the most, it gets a little boring sitting in the hotel. Then my iPod. I love listening to music especially when I am driving down, laying in bed or on the bus. My PlayStation 3 will be packed and Call of Duty will be ready to be played when I arrive at my hotel. Then all of my baseball equipment, which most of it will probably be waiting on me when I get down there, thanks to my agent. I'll have my gloves, Old Hickory Bats, batting gloves, 3n2 cleats and dri-fits.
I am eager to get down there and get to work. But I am very nervous, because I have heard what to expect from former minor league players, but I have to see for myself what it is exactly like. Wondering what Spring Training is like has been running through my head the past month. What to expect, what will I do, how does it work....Those questions run through my head as I prepare for my upcoming trip.
I hope all of you have a great week and I look forward to giving you updates throughout my time in Florida.
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Finding a red heifer is like finding a needle in a hay stack. But early this week some overly industrious Jew managed to do just that in the United States of America.
This finding is all the more intriguing considering that on the coming Sabbath (Shabbat) Jews will read in the synagogues the Torah portion that begins with one of the mysterious commandment of the Red Heifer: "Tell the Israelites to procure for you a red heifer that is free from every blemish and defect and on which no yoke has ever been laid…" (Num. 19:2ff).
The Red Heifer is an extremely rare creature. According to Jewish tradition, during the two thousand years from the time this commandment was given until the destruction of the Second Temple in the first century AD, only nine red cows that met the biblical criteria were ever found.
For a cow to be a Red Heifer it has to be without blemish, one that was never put to work and completely reddish. Jewish law requires keeping the young cow under strict care until it reaches three years old. During this time, leaning on the cow, riding it even once or even putting a piece of cloth on its back disqualifies it from becoming a Red Heifer.
Strict rules also apply to its color. Two single hairs of a color other than red automatically disqualify it from becoming a Red Heifer. A Red Heifer candidate that that was discovered in 2000 was disqualified after two black hairs were found on it.
Likewise, a cow that meets all other criteria, but is older than four is disqualified. The present calf has a long way until, if at all, it will become a real Red Heifer.
In biblical times, the Red Heifer was to be completely burnt by a priest outside the Temple. Interestingly enough, the Red Heifer was burnt on the Mount of Olives, where the Dominus Flevit [The Lord Cried] Church is located today.
After being burnt, the Red Heifer's ashes were mixed with water called the "water of remission," which was used to purify people, especially those defiled by touching dead animals. This most serious form of defilement required Jews to undergo a ceremonial cleansing with the ash of a Red Heifer before they could again enter the Temple courtyards. In other words, without the Red Heifer, Jewish worship on the Temple Mount is not possible.
The discovery of a red calf that could potentially become a Red Heifer excites many Jews who believe that Moses prepared the first Red Heifer and Messiah will prepare the last one.
The possibility of finding a real Red Heifer prompted the Temple Institute to make the logistic preparations needed for bringing the American calf to Israel and to train priests that will perform this sacred and rare sacrificial ceremony.
At least in theory, this calf could help Jews sufficiently purify themselves to engage in real Temple activities. For now, however, believers will have to chew their nails for at least two and a half years before it will be known whether or not this import is the Red Heifer.
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Since the start of the manga back in 1990, there have only been two video games made in the Berserk franchise. The first was the Dreamcast game released in the West as Sword of the Berserk: Gut's Rage. There was, however, a second Berserk game which never left Asian shores: Berserk: Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Holy Demon War for the PlayStation 2.
The game's plot covers the story of volumes 22 to 27 in the manga, with an original side story or two added in for good measure.
The game itself plays a lot like God of War (though it was released nearly half a year before that game) and features hundreds upon hundreds of demons and trolls being cleaved in half by a giant sword. It also comes complete with quick time finishers, berserk mode, and a myriad of sub-weapons—including the ever-popular arm canon.
To see how the game looks in action, check out the video above.
Berserk: Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Holy Demon War was released on October 7, 2004, in Japan and Korea for the PlayStation 2. There has never been a Western release. Stay tuned to Kotaku East for our import preview later this week.


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IntelliCell BioSciences Announces Myron Z. Holubiak Joins the IntelliCell BioSciences Board of Directors
Oct 29, 2012, 09:00 ET
NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IntelliCell BioSciences, Inc. ("Company") (SVFC) announced today that Myron Z. Holubiak has joined the IntelliCell Board of Directors. Mr. Holubiak is an accomplished biotech and pharmaceutical senior executive with over 30 years of industry experience including directing Roche Laboratories, a $2.8 billion dollar company with over 3,500 employees, as its President. Mr. Holubiak also serves as Director for Ventrus BioSciences, Inc. and Chairman of the Board for BioScrip, Inc.
IntelliCell's Chairman and CEO, Dr. Steven Victor, stated, "Our Company is very pleased to announce today that Myron Holubiak is joining our Board of Directors. He is bringing a wealth of industry experience and accomplishments to our executive team. I look forward to working with him to assist IntelliCell in its growth strategies as the Company continues its thought leadership role as a preeminent Regenerative Medicine organization."
Said Mr. Holubiak, "The decades of scientific research into regenerative medicine is now showing dramatic results and fulfilling the promise we all had hoped for.
"Dr. Victor's pioneering efforts in the advancement of the science and his innovations in the use of ultrasonic cavitation is now setting the standard for the harvest of autologous stromal vascular fractions that are demonstrating promise in clinical efficacy.
"I am pleased to join the board of IntelliCell. The company is committed to far reaching clinical research in the treatment of osteoarthritis, diabetic ulcers, bone and dermal conditions where regenerative processes are desperately needed.
"I look forward to participating in the growth of IntelliCell at such an exciting time."
About IntelliCell BioSciences
IntelliCell is a pioneering regenerative medicine company focused on the expanding regenerative medical markets using adult autologous vascular cells (SVC's) derived from the blood vessels in the adult adipose tissue. IntelliCell BioSciences has developed its own patent pending protocol to separate adult autologous vascular cells from adipose tissue without the use of enzymes. IntelliCell will also be seeking to develop technology-licensing agreements with technology developers, universities, and international business entities.
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Enviros Urged to Reckon with California Voter Demographics
By Rene Ciria-Cruz, New America Media
SACRAMENTO—Latino leaders are urging environmental activists to embrace the diversity of the state if the environmental movement is to succeed.
"No new legislation on environmental protection will be passed without the backing of Latino, Asian and black lawmakers," says Irma R. Muñoz of Mujeres de la Tierra, a community organization that works with families to improve environmental conditions in the Los Angeles area.
Latino members of the state legislature and community activists said this week at the annual Green California Summit that if the environmental movement is to succeed, it must recognize the new electoral power of Latinos and other minorities.
"There are 18.5 million voters of color" in California, reports keynote speaker Assemblymember Anthony Rendon (D-Lynnwood). One-third of the members in the state legislature "representatives are of color," he says, and the capitol's Latino caucus is continuing to grow.
Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-33rd Dist.) reports that Latinos in the state legislature are now asserting themselves in discussions on environmental issues.
But Lara also warned environmental lobbyists not to go by generalizations that Latino legislators are "moderates, liberals or progressives."
"Tackle an environmental issue on its own merit," Lara explains, "because Latino advocates from small rural communities or their representatives may not necessarily have predictable positions on it."
Legislators like himself, Lara says, often have to weigh issues with ground-level practicalities: "Will our constituents lose several jobs if we close an offending plant—what balance must we strike?"
The focus on the impact of the state's changing demographics on environmental causes was largely triggered by the startling findings of a survey commissioned by the California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund.
Conducted by Tulchin Research, the first-ever survey on Latino attitudes toward environmental issues in California found that Latino voters had "higher levels of concern" about the state's land, air and water quality than other voter groups. This makes Latinos "a core conservation constituency in California," according to the researchers.
Up to 90 percent of Latino voters believe that the environment can be protected and jobs can be created at the same time. Some 83 percent also support a state law requiring one-third of the state's electricity to come from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power by 2020. And a majority opposes offshore oil drilling.
Ben Tulchin of Tulchin Research, however, warns that there is a "rhetorical divide" between Latinos' views of "conservation" and "environmentalism." Latinos see themselves as conservationists, while many perceive environmentalists as "tree huggers," often more concerned with wildlife than humans.
Rey Leon of the San Joaquin Valley Latino Environmental Advancement and Policy Project explains, "To us, environment is family, neighbors and neighborhoods."
Muñoz agrees, advising the environmental movement to connect to "the people's own issues." For most Latinos, she says, the environment is a "health issue" of water quality, polluted soils and dirty air.
Toxic pollution runs high as a serious problem for 85 percent of Latinos, according to the survey findings. Moreover, 25 percent have at least one household member suffering from asthma.
But Lara warns environmentalists that simply "hiring a Latino activist" won't make up for the movement's lack of diversity. He says it must take up community-based fights for healthier surroundings. "The movement won't survive if it doesn't diversify."
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Meanwhile on the World Wide Web...
A site was hosting a discussion concerning my blog entry from a few days ago, about the writing contest I'm judging. The comments basically said I was being too harsh, dismissing stories for typos or incorrect formatting or too many exclamation points, because if I looked past those, the story might have actually been good.
I agree. It might have been good. Even very good.
But "very good" doesn't win contests, and doesn't get published.
"Great" gets published. "Wonderful" gets published. "Mind Blowing" gets published.
I wasn't being paid to judge each story on its own merits, or to offer detailed critiques on how to make it better.
I was being paid to find winners.
It comes down to the writing. All of the points I'd mentioned were indicators that warned me the writing wouldn't be wonderful. And the indicators were always right.
Consider the agent, going through 300 manuscripts in the slush pile that have accumulated over the last month.
She's not looking to help writers. She's panning for gold. And to do that, you have to sift through dirt.
It might be some very good dirt she's dismissing. But it is still dirt.
Be the gold.
The best way to get published, or to win a contest, is to shine. Don't be mistaken for dirt. Don't do anything that lets them reject you---because they're looking to reject you unless you can show them you're brilliant.
Here's an interesting fact. After slogging through the first thousand stories, I got irritated at several writers. Not at the inept ones--as I said, I could quickly decide if something was no longer worth reading. But I became angry at the ones that held my interest and made me finish them, even though they weren't winners.
Sometimes I knew the story wasn't good enough, but something about the piece made me read it to the end anyway.
Consider that for a moment. I know I need to pick a handful of winners out of a few thousand. I get paid the same amount, no matter how long it takes me. Logic says as soon as I can safely say, "This won't win," I should put the story aside.
But in a few dozen cases, I had to keep reading, just to see where the writer went with it. Even though I knew it wasn't going to win.
I'm sure it is the same with agents and editors. I'm sure they get sumbissions all the time that they know aren't right for them, but they finish reading them anyway.
That's tragedy. That's shooting the game-winning point at the buzzer and missing.
You need to be better than that.
I preach all the time about determination, and hard work, and luck.
And I'm right about all of that. But you still have to write a kick-ass story.
"Very good" stories are read by a few people. "Excellent" stories are published, and read by thousands.
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Thank you Lydia for hosting me on my fifth stop of my Grand OPENING Tour. I've been looking forward to this post as we this topic has never been so relevant.
As writers or students of any craft, it's important we perform our due diligence in research. Or we look to people and organizations that are known for their expertise for advice and guidance. Example: I asked Lydia Kang for help regarding viruses, how they mutate, and how they differ from bacteria and toxins. I needed an accelerant to keep my books moving forward and introduce additional conflict, danger, and challenges. Thanks Lydia!
Research and Development are in the private sector, governments, militaries, and academic centers such as colleges. Physics, medicine, energy, food, pharmaceuticals, and technology are just some of the areas scientists and engineers are on the cusp of making awesome breakthroughs that can and will change our lives and the way we perceive reality and our place in the universe.
When cutting-edge research is regulated and performed in controlled environments, we can expect progress in physics, biochemistry, and nanotechnology to benefit mankind and move us forward. We should feel safe nuclear material is used everyday in the private and corporate sectors. Hospitals use it for medical and therapeutic use. It's used in medical and industrial research. Corporations and universities such as M.I.T. use the material everyday—safely, of course. M.I.T. has the second-largest university-based nuclear research reactor in the country.
Problem: There are people who use research, development, and the final product for purposes other than what they were designed for. Or they steal it and use it for their own greedy gain (a concept I use in my books). In real life, this can pose serious danger for countless people. And it can provide the premise and inspiration for writers of just about any genre.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, there was nuclear material unaccounted. Nuclear suitcases, of which I patterned the suitcases to open wormholes in BREAKTHROUGH and OPENING (check out the cover art for OPENING) look like ordinary cases people carry around with them and can be left just about anywhere in a major city, set to go off at a prearranged time.
Then there's Richard Handl from Sweden who was arrested for having nuclear material and trying TO split atoms in his kitchen. Handl possessed the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment. He stated he wanted to try nuclear fission as a hobby. Handl had tried for months to set up a nuclear reactor at home and kept a blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small meltdown on his stove.
Richard Preston's The Cobra Event is a great example of good research gone bad. It's about a fired and disgruntled scientist who develops a biological weapon in his kitchen that will thin out the human population. Orson Welles' 1984 is a story using technology, usually perceived as working toward moving society forward, facilitating the most diabolical evil to control and enslave people. The Sum of all Fears (Tom Clancy) is based on fear most governments have: Nuclear bombs going off in their cities.
Question: We live in exciting and perilous times. Do you feel safe with the incredible advances we are witnessing? Or do they make you uneasy, wondering if they will indeed be used for good and not evil?


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Pulitzer-Nominated Author's New Book Autobiographicalby Howard W. Hewitt • October 18, 2007 Share:
Tom Spanbauer calls the dramatic conflict in his novels violence. It's a description that takes some explanation after hearing the careful intonation of the soft-spoken Spanbauer's reading from his latest novel.
The Pulitzer-prize nominated author read Thursday night from Now is the Hour. He is perhaps best known for his book, Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon. He visited one class during his stay and opened his lecture with comments about the beauty of Wabash's campus. Spanbauer's visit was sponsored by 'shOUT, Wabash's student organization for gay, bi-sexual, questioning, and supportive students.
He read from his newest book for about 35 minutes for the small group in Baxter Hall. He selected a passage about his central character, "Rigsby John," working his summer with two Mexican youths putting up hay. His narrative and deeply descriptive style captivated the audience in each of the twists and turns of the summer and of the main character's coming of age emotions.
"I can take this event of being in a hayfield and it has no reality, no arc, tension or conflict," he said afterwards, talking about the violence he sees in his writing. "Or I can take all that stuff that happened over days or weeks and put it together in a more dramatic – or violent – fashion."
He said his latest work is closer to his own life. He grew up in Idaho and was that boy putting up hay for a distant father and working with the cheap labor of the Mexican boys.
"It's fictionalized me," he said. "This book is probably the most autobiographical. I went back in this book to investigate my relationship with my mother and father and the Catholic Church – not as a son but as a writer.
"It's not Mom who did 'that thing' to me, now she's a very complex character. The writer taught the son a lot."
Much of his writing is rooted in personal experience. In the City of Shy Hunters reflects his own life during the 80s in New York City. He was a janitor cleaning streets. People were dying of AIDS and he was HIV positive.
His best-known work is the fictionalized story of a friend who lives in something of a ghost town in Idaho. Spanbauer still visits that friend who spawned Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon regularly.
"Fiction is the invention," he said. "You can go there and investigate. You can get to the truer nature of things because you get to its violence. It's the narrator telling you this is how my heart was broken. In that telling, I can comment on issues of race, gender, or political issues."


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Upgrade your car's console to house the iPod and integrate the iPod with your car's audio and electrical systems.
Sure, you can easily listen to your iPod in your car [Hack #5] . However, if you want to take your hacking skills to the next level, this hack gives you the knowledge you need to give your iPod the props it deserves by integrating it into your car's interior. Once you've completed this hack, your iPod will have a permanent place in your car, integrated with the car's electrical systems. Take a look at Figure 1-23 and get pumped up!
This hack involves some dangerous chemicals and materials. Make sure you observe extreme caution and care when handling them.
Here's a list of the materials you will need and where you can purchase them. Materials should cost you $400–$500:
Monster iCable for iPod (with stereo mini-jack to RCA jacks)
Belkin car charger
Alcone Theatrical Supply(http://www.alconeco.com/frame_popular.html)
Klean Klay (at least 10–12 1-lb bars)
Ultracal 30 plaster (25 pounds)
Loose-weave burlap (2–3 yards)
Burman Industries(http://www.burmanfoam.com)
Sculpting tools
One-gallon mixing tub or one-gallon bucket
X-acto knife
Dental acrylic (polymer and monomer)
Large bristle brushes
Plastic eyedroppers
Rubber mold bands
Smooth-On ( http://www.smooth-on.com/default.htm)
Universal mold release spray
Smoothcast 305 two-part plastic (one-gallon kit)
Oomoo 25 two-part silicone (one-gallon kit)
URE-FIL plastic filler (one pound)
Fiber Optic Products(http://www.fiberopticproducts.com)
Bright white 3-mm LED
4 feet of 1-mm unjacketed fiber-optic cable
Local hardware store
Large piece of particle board (slightly larger than your console)
Masking tape
Blue painters tape
Black weather-stripping (if your car uses it on your existing console)
Flat black spray paint
Soldering gun
Roll of solder
Black electrical tape
Dremel tool with various sanding and cutting bits
Sandpaper (various grits)
Electric drill
Silicone caulk and caulk gun
Four 1" x 12" boards, about 3 feet long each (will be cut later)
2" screws
Rubber gloves
Dust masks
1-mm drill bit
Grocery store
Rolling pin
Plastic mixing spoons
Popsicle sticks
Wax paper cups
Rubber spatula
plastic wrap
Pep Boys Automotive (or a similar auto supply store)
Automotive plasticoat spray paint to match your interior
Dual-outlet cigarette-lighter adapter
Dual LEDs with cigarette-lighter plug
Fabric store
1/8" foam rubber pad (gray)
Apple sticker (if you plan to add a backlit logo). Apple gives you a couple free stickers when you buy a computer; if you threw them out or already used them else where, check out eBay (http://www.ebay.com) or Redlightrunner (http://www.redlightrunner.com).
The first step in this process is a simple one. Look for the spot in your car that will best house your iPod, and then come up with a design.
Take into consideration that you will have a few wires to run, so make sure there will be room somewhere underneath.
I chose my center console, shown in Figure 1-24, simply because it was a large area with unused space and could be removed rather easily.
You can sketch out your concept, or simply dive right in with clay and start sculpting until you have the shape you want. I prefer to sketch first, but that's not necessary. Begin roughing out your design in clay. Concentrate on the position of the iPod, and what will be most comfortable for you when operating it.
Once you have your basic shape in clay, you need to create a place for the iPod to sit (or lie), where it will connect to the charger. For this, you will need your actual iPod or iPod mini. Wrap your iPod with plastic wrap, completely covering it, and then tape it shut. Wrap tape around it a few more times, until you have about a 1/16" thickness. You need to do this to ensure that your iPod can slide freely in and out of whatever space you create for it in your final piece. Once you have cut out an area for the iPod to fit into, slide the iPod into the space, pushing gently to make an indentation in the clay.
Make sure the walls around your iPod are fairly snug, but not so tight that it can't be pulled out, as shown in Figure 1-25. Once you are satisfied, you can pull the iPod out of the clay, taking care not to destroy the enclosure you created.
The iPod is encased in plastic wrap and masking tape to ensure its protection, while at the same time creating a slightly larger space for easier insertion and removal of the iPod in the final casting.
Continue to fine-tune your sculpture, smoothing out and shaping the clay to fit your design. To ensure that your iPod fits in your final piece, slide the iPod into your enclosure every so often while you continue to sculpt. When you are satisfied with your creation, place your console on a large, flat board, making sure there is at least 5" from the edge of the console to the edge of the board on all sides. Rest the console on something flat to raise it up about half an inch from the board. You will need to build a wall completely surrounding it, and block off any sections that allow access underneath your sculpture to hold the silicone needed to take the mold of your sculpture.
Next, take a lump of clay and, using a rolling pin, roll out a large piece, keeping it about 1/4" thick. Cut this into strips, trimming off the ends. Repeat this until you have about 12 strips. Place the strips around the bottom of your console, pressing them firmly to lock the clay in place. The weight of the silicone will press against the clay, and any silicone that is able to leak around the clay and under your console will make it very hard to de-mold. Once all the sections on your console are blocked off with clay, cut your boards and place them around your console, leaving at least 1" around the perimeter of your console. The height of the boards must be at least 1" above the highest point of your sculpture or console. Lock the boards in place using the 2" screws, then take your silicone caulk and seal all the gaps and edges along the outside of your wall. Allow it to dry for 30 minutes.
You are now ready to take a mold of your creation. Using the mold release, spray your console and sculpture, making sure to cover every square inch. Now spray the insides of your walls and the board on which your console is sitting. Mix up the silicone using a one part A–to–one part B ratio. Don't worry if you don't make enough the first time; silicone will stick to itself, and you can always add another layer to fill up the mold if you need to. Pour in the silicone at the lowest point of your sculpture and let it rise on its own. This will help to fill in the small crevices and push out any trapped air. When the silicone is covering your sculpture by at least 1", you can stop and let it cure. The cure time for the Oomoo 25 silicone is 75 minutes, but cure times vary, so check the directions that came with yours if you did not purchase this type.
Now, you must build a two-part plaster support shell to hold the shape of your silicone mold. Begin by removing the screws holding the boards together. Pull gently but firmly to release the boards from the silicone. Coat the silicone with a thin layer of Vaseline, continuing down to the board on which your sculpture is lying. Now, take your burlap and cut it into strips. Make about 25 12" x 5" strips, 12 8" x 5" strips, and 6 6" x 3" strips. Fill your bucket with approximately four cups of lukewarm water, and begin adding your plaster. Add a little at a time, sifting it with your hands.
When you begin getting small white areas, or islands, you have added just about enough plaster. Add a little more, and then mix it up. You should have a pancake batter-like consistency. To make the first half of your shell, take one of the larger burlap strips and dip it into the plaster, fully submerging it. Pull it out and wring off some of the excess plaster. Now, fold it in half lengthwise and lay it on top of your silicone mold directly in the center, dividing the mold in half lengthwise, as shown in Figure 1-26.
Continue laying the strips down, going from one side of the mold to the other, until you have built a wall about 1" high. Then, begin laying more strips without folding them, until the left side of your mold is completely covered in about 2" of burlap strips. Let the plaster set up and dry. It will become very warm when it sets, so be careful not to touch it.
Once the plaster cools, begin brushing a thick coat of Vaseline all over the inside edge of your plaster shell, as shown in Figure 1-27. This prevents the next coat of plaster from sticking to the first, making the two halves easier to separate.
Now, repeat the burlap layering process, this time covering the right side to make the second half. Let the plaster set up and dry.
When the second half is cool to the touch, you can separate the two halves. Use a screwdriver to pry apart the plaster until it becomes loose enough to remove by hand. Be careful not to pull too hard and crack the shell. Set the two halves aside for now, as shown in Figure 1-28.
It is time to de-mold your sculpture. With the plaster shell removed, work your fingers carefully under the edges of the silicone until it comes loose from the bottom board. If necessary, use an X-acto knife to cut the silicone free from the board. Pick up the entire silicone mold and flip it upside down. Now you must peel the strips of clay from the silicone until you have access to your original console. Again, work your fingers around the edges of the silicone, prying it gently from your console. It should release very easily. Carefully pull the console from the silicone. You now have a perfect negative of your piece!
Cleaning out the mold is almost always necessary. You can simply take the mold outside and spray it down with a garden hose, but use a gentle setting, because a hard stream could damage the silicone. When the mold is completely dry, you need to place it back into its plaster shell. Place the silicone mold into one half of the plaster shell, making sure it is the correct half. Bring the other plaster half together with the first, closing it around the silicone. Strap the halves together with two large rubber mold bands. Your mold should look like Figure 1-29.
Figure 1-29. The silicone mold after it has been encased in its plaster support shell and bound with rubber mold bands
Spray the inside of the mold thoroughly with the universal mold release. Repeat to ensure proper coverage.
Now, it's time to pour in your first coat of plastic. The amount of plastic to mix depends on the size of your mold. The console I made took approximately 1 1/2 cups of plastic to cover the entire surface area with a thin layer.
Mix the plastic according to the directions, using equal parts of the A and B chemicals. Mix thoroughly and pour it in the mold. Pick up your mold and tilt it slowly from side to side, turning it around as you do to cover the entire surface area of the mold. Dump the excess into your mixing container, wait about 30 seconds, then pour it back in, repeating the process until the plastic begins to set up.
Wait about 30 minutes for the plastic to cure. Mix up about two more batches of plastic, repeating the last process and waiting 30 minutes between each coat. When the third coat is cured, mix up another batch of plastic, this time adding a filler to thicken it up, as shown in Figure 1-30. The filler helps to lighten the weight while adding density to the final casting.
Pour a cup of part A into your mixing container. Add a few spoonfuls of the URE-FIL filler, until the mixture becomes pasty. Add a cup of part B, and mix thoroughly. Pour it into your mold, turning and tilting it to fill in all the gaps and crevices until the mixture begins to harden. Wait 30 minutes.
Repeat this process two more times, waiting 30 minutes between each layer. You can add as many layers as you want, depending on the thickness you desire. After the last coat is cured, you can remove the piece from the silicone mold. Remove it gently, because silicone can tear if stretched too far. Your console should resemble Figure 1-31.
You must now trim and clean the edges of your piece, using a Dremel tool and sandpaper, as shown in Figure 1-32. A clean edge is important for a matching fit back into your car.
After the edges are clean, sand the piece until you achieve a smooth surface. Start with a coarse sandpaper, 80–100 grit, and work your way up to 300–400 grit. If you are planning to backlight a logo in your piece, you will need to sand down the area on the inside of your piece where your logo will be placed. This will allow the light to shine through. Be careful not to sand down too far! Use the Dremel tool to cut out a space for the dock connector to fit into where it will connect with your iPod, as shown in Figure 1-33.
Place the iPod where it will sit or lie, push the dock connector through the hole you made, and connect it to your iPod. Mix some dental acrylic and cover the back side of the connector to hold it in place. When it is hard, remove the iPod and mix up another small amount of the dental acrylic, using slightly more of the monomer for a thinned-down mix. Use an eye-dropper to fill in the gap around the connector, as shown in Figure 1-34.
Let it harden, and then sand as needed. On either side of the connector, drill two small holes the size of the fiber-optic cable you will insert for lighting up that space, as shown in Figure 1-35.
Wipe down the piece with a damp cloth to remove excess dust. Before you start painting, you need to tape off the areas you don't want to be painted. I chose to paint the enclosure where the iPod lies a glossy off-white. Tape up the connector if you choose to paint this area. After putting a few coats on that section and letting them dry completely, I taped off that whole section and applied the Apple logo sticker (to be removed later) so I could begin painting the rest of the console a light silver-gray to match my interior. Light-colored metallic car paint is slightly translucent, unless applied in numerous, heavy coats. I chose to use a darker metallic charcoal gray as a base color, and then paint over that with the lighter color. This also helped to block any light from coming through the area around the outside of the backlit Apple logo that I added.
After you've applied a few coats of paint, let it dry for about two hours, and then remove the tape and the Apple sticker. Cut a section of the foam rubber padding to fit the surface of the enclosure, so the iPod has a soft base to slide in and out on. Use spray adhesive to attach it. You can now add the lighting.
Cut off one of the cigarette-lighter adapter's blue LEDs, and solder on a bright white LED in its place. The white LED is for the Apple logo, while the remaining blue one will be used to light the interior of the iPod's enclosure. Make a separate enclosure for the white LED out of a spray paint can lid, to block any light from escaping through the sides of the console and at the same time direct it toward the Apple logo. Drill a hole in the center of the lid, and then use dental acrylic to hold it in place behind the logo. Insert the light into the hole in the center and tape it up. Then, take the fiber-optic cable and cut two pieces about two feet long. Push the minto the small holes drilled next to the dock connector, and glue them in place. Turn them into the blue LED and tape them to it.
The final step in this process is to hook up all your electronics and install the console. Take all of your materials, the console, and any tools you will need into the car with you. First, you need to connect your dual-outlet cigarette-lighter adapter, which can be purchased from your local auto supply store. This can be done a few different ways, but the easiest way for me was to just disconnect the wires from the existing dashboard lighter outlet and reconnect them to the outlet I'd purchased. Since I don't smoke and I don't use a cell phone, I really didn't have any use for that outlet. Besides, many cars have an extra one on the passenger-side panel, down by the floor. If you find that you do need your outlet, you can purchase a separate lighter with a wiring kit to run off of the existing outlet. Connect the dual lighter adapter to the new outlet. You can now connect the car charger to one of them and your LED lighting to the other.
Connecting the iPod to your car stereo might pose a problem for some. Not all car stereos accept auxiliary input from an external source. Unfortunately, there is no way around this. You simply must have the correct type of stereo. Quite a few stereos now feature front-mounted RCA inputs, but you may have to purchase a separate adapter, as I did. If so, you'll need an IP-Bus interconnector with left and right RCA inputs. The IP-Bus connects to the rear of the stereo and features two RCA jacks that protrude from the unit, allowing an external audio source (such as a CD changer or an iPod) to be connected. I chose to use the iCable, which is basically a stereo mini-jack that converts to dual RCA jacks. I plugged the stereo mini-jack into the Belkin car charger and ran the two RCAs to the adapter on the car stereo. The iPod is now connected directly to your car stereo (some car stereos require manually changing the menu to accept an auxiliary input). After double-checking that everything is connected and functioning properly, attach the console and put the interior back together.
Now that your new console is connected and functioning, enjoy it, but be very careful when driving! As beautiful as this installation might look (see Figures 1-36 and 1-37, don't give your iPod more attention than the road
—Jesse Melchior
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As I perused the conference session schedule in preparation for attending the INTEROP New York Conference, I noticed a session called SOA: Hype or Happening?. Although conference organizers tend to favor controversial topics to draw audiences, I think a better concept would be "A Checkpoint on the Progress of the SOA Platform." Nevertheless, I will try to attend that session.
In my minds eye, SOA in the real world has more to do with issues such as:
- Should our business process designs rely on process choreography or orchestration?
- Should our service registry, and therefore, our software development organization support both SOAP and REST (Representational State Transfer) Web service models?
- How should our service bus pipeline structures be modeled to support message flows in a service bus?
- How do I guarantee message delivery (that is, provide transactional management) within my SOA?
- What is the best communication action for asynchronous behavior in a service bus -- route versus publish/subscribe versus service callout?
- How do we develop advanced reporting schemes (log, alert, and so on) in our service bus in support of non-classic use cases?
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The description of the INTEROP session mentioned above states "For many, SOA sounds suspiciously familiar, evoking the same over promised vendor hype of previous failed integration attempts such as CORBA." Albeit, a better distributed computing analogy would be to compare and contrast SOA with the DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) of the early '90s rather than CORBA.
While the DCE was a software system developed by a consortium (similar to CORBA), it represented, for the most part, best of breed exiting technologies such as the RPC mechanism, naming directory service, authentication service, and distributed file system. In a similar way, SOA and the SOAP RPC mechanism represent the technological advance of HTTP a mature and ubiquitous protocol. More specifically, SOA security tokens take advantage of existing technologies, such as, SAML, X509 digital certificates and Kerberos, and the like.
The open question remains as to whether SOA will possibly be deprecated by a new model the way CORBA replaced DCE as a more modern, objected-oriented, distributed framework. Or, truth be told, suffer the same fate as the DCE, which was robust, but was notoriously hard to administer and had a reputation for delivering systems with long development lead times.
To ponder these types of questions are interesting, but better off left to historians and strategist. In my opinion, tactically speaking, SOA is just starting to hit its stride.


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Brussels, 20 January 2010
EU launches 2010 European Year: Stop poverty now!
The European Commission and the Spanish Presidency of the EU will tomorrow launch the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Under the slogan "Stop Poverty Now!", the campaign aims to put the fight against poverty – which directly affects one in six Europeans – centre stage across the EU during 2010. European Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso and Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero will inaugurate the Year at a launch event to be held tomorrow in Madrid.
"Combating poverty and social exclusion is an integral part of getting out of the crisis. It is too often the vulnerable in society who end up being hardest hit by the impacts of a recession. That is why the European Year 2010 should act as a catalyst to raise awareness and build momentum for a more inclusive society which is part and parcel of the EU's future 2020 strategy that I have proposed" said Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso.
Vladimír Špidla, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities added: "One in six people in Europe face a daily struggle to make ends meet, but poverty can also affect the rest of us – and our societies as a whole. While most of the tools for tackling poverty are at national level, three-quarters of Europeans also expect the EU to help. The European Year puts this issue at the top of the agenda so that Europe as a whole can join forces to fight poverty and social exclusion."
Almost 80 million Europeans – or 17% of people across the EU – currently live below the poverty threshold. This alarming fact has found a strong echo in public opinion, according to a recent Eurobarometer survey on attitudes to poverty (see also IP/09/1585 ). The vast majority of Europeans (73%) consider poverty to be a widespread problem in their country, with 89% calling for urgent action by their government to tackle the problem. While most people consider their national government as primarily responsible, 74% also expect the EU to play an important role.
The 2010 European Year aims to raise greater awareness of the causes and consequences of poverty in Europe, both among key players such as governments and social partners and among the public at large. It also aims to mobilise these different partners in the fight against poverty; promote social integration and inclusion; and encourage clear commitments on drawing up EU and national policies to tackle poverty and social exclusion.
The Year's activities will be largely decentralised, with national programmes drawn up by each of the 29 countries taking part (the 27 EU countries plus Norway and Iceland). A €17 million budget will support awareness-raising campaigns at European and national levels and hundreds of national projects linked to the different national priorities.
The European Year communication campaign will include a journalists' competition, an art initiative and two 'focus weeks', when various national events around the EU will be concentrated over two weeks in May and in October. The Year will end with a closing conference on 17 December in Brussels, under the Belgian Presidency of the EU.
The campaign website ( http://www.2010againstpoverty.eu ) includes a partners' platform to stimulate networking and joint initiatives among key actors, such as civil society organisations, local and regional authorities. The website will also showcase events held in each of the participating countries.
See also Memo 10/08
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Video News Release : Poverty is still a reality in Europe
Eurobarometer survey on attitudes to poverty and social exclusion (full report, summary report and country factsheets)
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The House of Representatives passed health care reform late Sunday night on a 219-to-212 vote, which results in President Obama getting to sign into law this week his top domestic priority.
The vote is being touted as the single most significant piece of domestic legislation to be passed by Congress since Medicare in 1965. Though Democrats and Republicans disagreed on whether it was for good or ill, most acknowledged that it was a historic day in American politics.
The $940 billion bill will cover 32 million uninsured Americans and ban the denial of coverage for preexisting conditions, phasing in taxes on the rich to pay for this expansion of coverage.
The Monitor's comprehensive Health Care 101 series on what is in the bill – from who is eligible for subsidized insurance to what it means for businesses – can be read here.
Day of wrangling
Sunday's vote ended a day of intense negotiations among Democrats and repeated procedural attempts to kill the bill by Republicans.
In the end, not a single Republican voted for the bill. But Democrats were able to cobble together enough votes to win by striking deals with two groups of Democrats who were on the fence: anti-abortion Democrats and Democrats concerned that the funding mechanisms for the bill were unfair to certain states.
Mr. Obama will now sign a bill that many of the people who voted for it say is flawed. Regardless of what happens next, that bill will become law when Obama signs it, perhaps on Tuesday.
How to fix the bill
But Democrats want to fix it – removing some unpopular deals struck to win the votes of Senators when it passed the Senate on Christmas Eve. The House passed its package of fixes Sunday night. In order for Obama to sign those fixes into law, though, they must also be passed by the Senate – a strategy that involves a great deal of trust between House and Senate Democrats
This is because Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate with the election of Sen. Scott Brown (R) of Massachusetts in January. That means they can only pass the fixes by a simple majority, and that will likely only be possible through the controversial process of reconciliation.
That process is expected to begin as early as Wednesday, and it involves taking the entire package of fixes apart – provision by provision – and determining whether each serves the purpose of reducing the deficit, which is a prerequisite of any reconciliation measure.
If any provision is thrown out on this basis, the entire package of fixed could be jeopardized. With Republicans likely to provide strong resistance, the process could take weeks.
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Sunday night, however, was a political victory for Obama and particularly House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who persisted even after the election of Senator Brown.
With opinion polls showing that a majority of Americans oppose the bill – and with many members of the House putting their careers on the line for the reform – Obama now faces the task of selling reform to a skeptical nation.
He is expected to begin a traveling tour to persuade Americans of the benefits of health care reform as early as this week.