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Wi-Fi: The National Security Threat Some in the Department of Defense say Wi-Fi can interfere with military radar.
UPS Going Wireless In $1B Worldport Facility United Parcel Service is spending $20 million to replace old scanners with Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Another Year And The Internet Can Legally Drink In 1983, ARPANET officially switched from the Network Control Program protocol to TCP/IP, setting the stage for a revolution.
IBM Completes Disk Drive Sale The sale to Hitachi, valued at $2.05 billion, is a done deal.
Threat Of Yaha Virus Upgraded The Yaha.k virus spreads primarily through E-mail, using its own E-mail engine, and the virus also tries to shut down antivirus and security-related software as it infects.
Secret CIO: That's Tradition, Not A Business Process Sometimes, the tried-and-true slows down the here-and-now.
Another Wan Year For IT Spending In U.S. Tech buyers here are scaling back spending expectations, while Europeans are more optimistic.
J.P. Morgan Chase Signs $5B Services Deal IBM wins the seven-year outsourcing contract.
DRAM Chip Glut Could Lower Prices In 2003 Production of DRAM chips, according to a survey, will increase up to 66% as new production lines pump out more chips per silicon wafer.
Justice Department Won't File Charges In Global Crossing Probe Source says no criminal charges will be filed in probe of bankrupt networking company.
Microsoft Sued After Phone Deal Goes Bad Former Web phone partner sues software vendor, claiming it conspired to steal trade secrets.
Oracle May Need More Than Cost Savings To Unseat Exchange Business users want to do more than save money, analyst says.
Beware Of Flashy Holiday Greetings Macromedia warns of flaws in its Flash player that could let attackers take over users' PCs.
EDS Lands $1.3 Billion Services Deal From Dutch Bank ABN Amro to use services firm to manage large section of its tech infrastructure.
Pioneer Creates Optical Storage For The Little Guy Devices are designed for small- and midsize-business market.
Java Injunction Granted In Sun-Microsoft Case A federal district judge granted Sun a preliminary injunction that forces Microsoft to carry Java.
Bridging Unix And Windows At NASA A clash among engineers who want to use Unix apps and bureaucratic dictates that they use Windows is resolved.
Thrift Shop IT budgets took a hit this year, but there's an upside to the downturn
Taking Stock: Oracle Earnings Ring Holiday Bells, Faintly Managing expectations is critical, And Oracle was conservative.
Guarding Against Threats From Within Solid technology and tough policies can protect companies from malicious employees
Bank On Outsourcing For Big Savings Deutsche Bank and Washington Mutual want to cut costs but stay cutting edge
New For The New Year Microsoft has a full slate of products on the way
IT Spending Projected To Rise In Next Few Years Aberdeen Group expects worldwide IT spending to rise 4% next year, but the heady days of the late 1990s aren't coming back any time soon.
Former UBS PaineWebber Systems Administrator Charged With Planting Logic Bomb Attack highlights difficulties businesses face in securing systems from insiders who turn bad.
Vulnerability Found In MP3 And Windows Media Files Flaw can let an attacker take over a user's PC if the user lets mouse hover over an infected file.
Study Says IT Job Market Is Stabilizing ITAA report says both hirings and dismissals slowed in the third quarter.
Sybase To Buy AvantGo $38 million deal is designed to expand Sybase's presence in the wireless market.
Row Forms Over Federal E-Government Projects Congressional investigators say the Bush administration is light on project details. A White House official says best practices are being followed.
Cognos Snaps Up Adaytum, Reports 3Q Revenue And Profit Gains Business-intelligence vendor strengthens its hand in enterprise and business-performance management.
Veritas Goes On Holiday Buying Spree Storage software vendor spends nearly $600 million to augment its offerings.
Intel Increases Wireless Investments Chipmaker hopes technology from STSN and TeleSym will complement its next-generation mobile processor.
ATG Upgrades Its CRM App Revision includes new publishing and search modules, improved personalization, and integration with Siebel's CRM app.


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The Miss Albany Diner owners ready to retire, but hope their classic fare remains eternal
ALBANY — The Miss Albany Diner — the tiny restaurant with a big following — is up for sale.
Owners Cliff and Jane Brown are ready to retire, and they're looking for someone to take over the landmark business. They're asking $350,000 for the pint-sized structure.
The Miss Albany, featured in films and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been on the market in a word-of-mouth sort of way for months. Now the Browns are going public.
"It's official," Jane Brown said Wednesday, sitting in one of the diner's six booths. "Very official."
The Miss Albany, at 893 Broadway, is in an industrial section of North Albany, about a frisbee toss from Nipper's tilted head and a half-mile north of downtown Albany.
It's one of those city neighborhood's primed for a tantalizing development boom that always seems just around the corner.
The diner, like the neighborhood, draws all types: Yuppies and factory workers, rich and poor, old-timers and hipsters — all in search of a cup of coffee, a warm meal and...
"A friend," Jane says. "They just need somebody to listen to them."
The Browns this year are celebrating their 20th year as owners of the Miss Albany. But Cliff is 82 and Jane is 75 — and they're eager to move on. Their son Bill, the restaurant's cook, isn't interested in taking over.
The Browns are looking for the right person to take the diner into its next phase. Jane Brown says the business is profitable, though it has hardly made the couple rich.
"I will miss the people," she says. "I will not miss the work."
The Miss Albany is adjacent to Wolff's Biergarten, the popular nightspot. And its owner, Matt Baumgartner, is one of the diner's big fans.
"Anytime I have friends visit that's one of my go-to places," he said. "And everybody leaves loving it."
The Miss Albany was built in 1941 and remains authentic to its time — so authentic that it received a preservation award from the Historic Albany Foundation, which noted that diner has never undergone a character-robbing remodeling.
It has kept its charm.
"It just feels like a good, old-fashioned diner," Baumgartner said. "They don't make diner cars like that anymore."
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Hashing is a method for reducing large inputs to a smaller fixed size output. When doing forensics, typically cryptographic hashing algorithms like MD5 and SHA-1 are used. These functions have a few properties useful to forensics. Other types of hashing, such as Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing can also be used.
There are literally hundreds of hashing programs out there, but a few related to forensics are:
- md5sum - Part of the GNU coreutils suite, this program is standard on many computers.
- md5deep - Computes hashes, recursively if desired, and can compare the results to known values.
- ssdeep - Computes and matches Context Triggered Piecewise Hashes.
Hash Databases
- National Software Reference Library
- The largest hash database
Hash Lookup Services
There are several online services that allow you to enter a hash code and find out what the preimage might have been. One way to find these services is to google for 'd41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' (the MD5 of the null string).
Here are some services that we have been able to find:
- http://nz.md5.crysm.net/
- MD5 reverse lookup, operated by Stephen D Cope. As of December 2007 this database had 28 million MD5 hashes. The author states that the database is divided into 256 MySQL tables to make the problem more tractable. The database claims to include every two, three, and four digit combination, all dictionary words, and a pile of user-submitted data." But the author also states that they are attempting to calculate and index all possible MD5 indexes. Of course, this is an impossibility.
- http://us.md5.crysm.net/
- Similar to the NZ server, but with only 16 million MD5 hashes.
- http://md5.benramsey.com
- A nice forward and reverse demonstration system, with an XML and AJAX interface.
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- reverse hash lookup of MD5, SHA1, MySQL, NTLM, and Lanman hashes. Claims 75million hashes of 13.2 million unique words.
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Honour AIDS workers on MH17: UN AIDS chief
The tragic loss of delegates killed on the way to an AIDS conference in Melbourne should be used to push the life-saving agenda of the meeting, the UN AIDS chief says.
The 20th International AIDS Conference was nearly cancelled after it emerged many of the 298 who died when Flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine were delegates and their family members.
The former president of the International AIDS Society (IAS) and "giant" of HIV research, Joep Lange, was on board.
Organisers still don't know how many of the 12,000 researchers coming to Melbourne for the five-day conference were aboard MH17.
Media reports put the number at 108, but a spokesman for the International Aids Society said there had been no confirmation of that figure.
UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibe said the tragedy should be used to bring the dreams of the delegates into reality.
"We should use this day, which is a very difficult day for us, to transform it," Mr Sidibe said in Melbourne on Friday.
"We should use this moment of sadness as a moment for us to push our agenda; our agenda for saving lives of millions of people."
His sentiments were echoed by International AIDS Society president Francoise Barre-Sinoussi.
"The decision to go on, we were thinking about them because we know it's really what they would have liked us to do," Prof Barre-Sinoussi said.
She said the number of delegates on the flight remains unknown.
"We don't have the confirmation (of numbers)," she said.
"We don't know how many were on that flight."
US-based IAS president-elect Chris Beyrer told reporters in Melbourne it was not yet known how many "friends and colleagues" had been lost, but the death of Prof Lange meant "the HIV/AIDS movement has truly lost a giant".
Delegates held a candle-lit vigil on Melbourne's Yarra Bridge on Friday evening.
HIV worker Andrew Lesa, a delegate from New Zealand, said many of those who died were "giants in the industry".
"Their loss will be a big loss to the movement," Mr Lesa told AAP.
He said continuing with the conference was the best way to honour those who died.
"I don't think they would want it to be cancelled."
The conference is the major scientific event for HIV, and speakers include former US president Bill Clinton and Sir Bob Geldof via video link, and UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibe.
The City of Melbourne cancelled a fireworks display that was to mark the opening of the conference.
A spokesman for the World Health Organisation (WHO) was also among those killed.
Glenn Thomas was headed to Melbourne for the AIDS conference on Flight MH17, WHO communications official Gregory Hartl has told reporters in Geneva.
"It is with deep sadness that WHO lost one of our colleagues in the Malaysia crash," Mr Hartl said.
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Taking the imposition of ashes out of a liturgical context that includes scripture readings, the invitation to a holy Lent, and the litany of penitence, there is no insistence on the reality of sin or any call to repentance. ... To be sure, this confronts people with their mortality. But it leaves out Ash Wednesday's pointed emphasis on sin and repentance, as well as the liturgy's emphasis on God's desire that sinners "may turn from their wickedness and live" (The Book of Common Prayer, p. 269). ... Ironically, without the Ash Wednesday liturgy, the imposition of ashes becomes a kind of implicit affirmation of persons as they are.
Since that time, the idea of "Ashes to Go" seems to have become more popular. I've recently seen a lot of talk about it on Facebook, and I'm aware of several churches around the country that did it this past Ash Wednesday (including an Episcopal Church here in Jackson, MS). But I still have reservations about it.
In a blog posting entitled "Ashes-to-Go: A Salvation that Remains," Fr. Robert Hendrickson shares his own reservations about this practice in ways that resonate for me. He writes:
My concern about Ashes-to-Go is that it sits apart from the fullness of the Christian message of new life and reconciliation with God and one another. Those receiving ashes hear and receive only one part of the message – they are marked with the sign of sin and death without its being situated within the context of the pledge of our redemption. The sign seems ill administered without the Sacrament.
It becomes a reminder of only one part of the Christian story. Moreover, it is a quick reminder of a much deeper process and imparts upon the reception a singular and momentary quality that invites one to a speedy Lent rather than a fuller examination of conscience and amendment of life.
The Prayer Book continues, "And, to make a right beginning of repentance, and as a mark of our mortal nature, let us now kneel before the Lord, our maker and redeemer." Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the work of Lent and is meant to initiate a deep engagement with the self, the other, and God. We hear in the liturgy that, "it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life." Ashes-to-Go does not offer the chance to situate our repentance within the grace of Christ's great gift.
It is as if we were to only say "For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me" from Psalm 51 without hearing "Give me the joy of your saving help again and sustain me with your bountiful Spirit." Within the fullness of the liturgy we are able to say, with confidence, "Deliver me from death, O God, and my tongue shall sing of your righteousness, O God of my salvation." For we hear of the rest of the story – that God's saving action will never let dust, ashes, sin, or death be our end. Ashes-to-Go ends the story entirely too quickly for we do not hear and know the assurance that "He pardons and absolves all those who truly repent, and with sincere hearts believe his holy Gospel."
I worry that we are sharing only the mark of our separation from God rather than our conviction that God dwells ever with us and that this very dust that we are may be hallowed, sanctified, blessed, and even assumed. This reconciliation of ourselves to God brings with it the welcome to live in the fullness of the Christian life. We are given the hope that "being reconciled with one another," we may "come to the banquet of that most heavenly Food" and receive all of the benefits of Christ's Passion and Resurrection. Ash Wednesday is not about our sins alone but about our life in and with the Triune God who calls us into true life – a life free of the mark of death.
This simply cannot be communicated in a drive-by encounter. The sign of death is decisively stripped away in the Sacrament – it is that encounter with the Christ made known in the Body at the Altar and in the Church that is the point of Lent as we are brought into Communion and community.
My worry about Ashes-to-Go is that it reinforces the privatized spirituality that plagues much of the Church. "I" do not get ashes. "We" get ashes so that we may know ourselves, as a Body, to be marked for a moment but saved, together, forever. ...
On the plus side, I think it is absolutely vital for the Church to find ways to engage the changing world. This may be one such way – yet I cannot quite get comfortable with it. I am increasingly leery of the Church's desire to find ways to make the work of the Christian life easier or faster – especially as it pertains to this most sombre and needful of seasons.
Read it all.
When we impose ashes with the words prescribed by the Prayer Book ("Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return"), the message we give each person who receives them is: "Remember that you are going to die." Isolated from the context of the Ash Wednesday liturgy - which includes the call to repentance, a stress on God's desire that sinners "may turn from their wickedness and live," the reminder that "it is only by [God's] gracious gift that we are given everlasting life," and the Holy Eucharist's affirmation that "Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again" - the message "Remember that you are going to die" is very bad news!
Perhaps there are ways to take the imposition of ashes to the streets that include the fullness of the Gospel message. If so, it may be worth exploring. That's another point on which I agree with Fr. Robert: we need to find creative, faithful ways to do church in an increasingly post-Christian context.
But if we're talking about isolating the imposition of ashes from the liturgy and from communal support and accountability ("drive-by ashing"), then we may fail to communicate the Gospel in its fullness. Indeed, we may fail to communicate the Gospel at all. However, when it comes to faithfully living our Baptismal Covenant promise to proclaim by word and example the Good News of God in Christ, we cannot afford to "half ash" it!
Be sure to not miss the reflections on all of this at Catholicity and Covenant's posting entitled "Left as consumers?"


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Turner Classic Movies will run We Learn About the Telephone (1965) early Saturday morning at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time. This film contains animation designed and directed by John Hubley and features voice work by Mel Blanc.
Michael Sporn has written about this film and if you don't want to get up early Saturday, you can see it at the Prelinger Archives.
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I didn't get to see it on TMC. Were he colors better than the copy at the Prelinger Archives?
- January 15, 2012 5:10 AM
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California Department of Transportation
Date: May 24, 2012
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Phone: 559-488-4067
FRESNO - The California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $1.7 billion in funding for transportation projects that will strengthen the state's economy by sustaining and creating jobs and provide congestion relief for motorists statewide.
"The benefits these projects bring to California are a huge boon to the economy, and the investment in our transportation system will continue to serve motorists for generations to come," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
Approximately $872 million of the funding was provided by Proposition 1B, a transportation bond approved by voters in 2006. In total, more than $13 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been distributed statewide.
Some of the notable projects that received funding include:
- An allocation of $7,156,000 to the City of Tulare for the Bardsley Avenue Grade Separation project to construct a grade-separated underpass at Bardsley Avenue and I Street. This project will increase safety for pedestrians and vehicles, improve emergency response time, air quality, regional circulation and public convenience.
- An allocation of $800,000 to the city of Arvin for the Bear Mountain Boulevard Streetscape Project from Comanche Road to Derby Street to install new landscaped medians and ADA compliant sidewalk and ramps resulting in 1/4 mile of increased aesthetics and ADA pedestrian access.
- An allocation of $775,000 to Kern County for the Kernville Walkable Communities Pedestrian Improvements project in Kernville, which completes Kernville Road and provides necessary multi-modal transportation opportunities for the residents and visitors of Kernville.
Yesterday's allocations include $766 million in federal funds that will be applied to various local transportation programs statewide. The remaining allocations came from assorted state and federal transportation accounts.
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MONDAY, May 11, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Clipboards, notepads and other small promotional items from drug makers can influence U.S. medical students' views about medications, a new study finds.
It included 352 third- and fourth-year students at two medical schools, one that prohibited most gifts, meals and samples from drug companies and another that permitted such marketing practices.
Of those students, 181 were randomly selected to be unknowingly exposed to small branded promotional items for the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, including a clipboard and notepad used when they signed in for study-related appointments. The other 171 students had no such exposure.
A test measured the students' attitudes toward Lipitor and Zocor (a cholesterol-lowering drug that's available generically and is considered as effective as Lipitor). Among fourth-year students, Lipitor was favored by those who were from the medical school that permitted drug company marketing and were exposed to Lipitor promotional items.
But that wasn't the case among fourth-year students who were from the medical school that prohibited drug company marketing.
"Our results provide evidence that subtle branding exposures are important and influential, as the psychology and marketing literature would suggest," concluded Dr. David Grande, of the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues.
"Our findings are particularly notable, because they are attributable to simple exposure to promotional items independent of other effects attributable to the social relationships associated with gifts. Our study also suggests that institutional policies, by way of their influence on student attitudes toward marketing, could lead to different responses to branded promotional items."
The study is published in the May 11 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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In recent seasons, the Falcons' pass rush has largely been lacking save for the pressure generated by John Abraham.
The Falcons have moved on from Abraham, with ex-Giant defensive end Osi Umenyiora replacing him as the club's top edge rusher. The 31-year-old Umenyiora, who's notched at least nine sacks in four NFL seasons, was a reasonable replacement for Abraham, and he could very well replace Abraham's pass-rush production (10 sacks) from a season.
However, even if Umenyiora produces, will any other Falcons emerge as consistent rush threats? Veteran Kroy Biermann is the most experienced option opposite of Umenyiora, but he notched just three sacks in the lone season in which he started a majority of games (2010, 14 starts).
Overall, Abraham had more than twice as many sacks as any other Falcons defender in each of the last three seasons. In fact, Abraham was the only player to exceed four sacks in each of those seasons.
Given the Falcons' recent issues generating enough of a pass rush, rookies Malliciah Goodman (Round Four) and Stansly Maponga (Round Five) would seem to stand a chance to get some snaps early if they can show they can pressure the quarterback.
Goodman's size (6-4, 276) and long arms (more than 36 inches long) give him an NFL-type skill set, but he told the Associated Press that hand use against offensive linemen is key for him to succeed.
"It's a lot easier for me to get extension on offensive linemen," Goodman told the AP at the Falcons' rookie minicamp, which runs Friday through Sunday. "If I'm late shooting my hands, then it's hard. I just have to be on point, shoot my hands up right and then it's hard for them to get under me and stop me."
Goodman had seven sacks as a senior at Clemson. Maponga, who's currently dealing with a foot injury, per the AP, had four as a junior at TCU before declaring for the draft, but he had nine as a sophomore.
Whether either can contribute in Year One for the Falcons remains to be seen, but this is a defense that could use multiple rush threats.


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text: The University of Notre Dame officially adopted the nickname Fighting Irish in 1927, though the origin of the term is a topic of some debate. The Roman Catholic university near South Bend, Ind., is best known for its storied football program, which gained national prominence under coach Knute Rockne. Notre Dame claims 13 national championships -- though some of those are disputed -- and a record seven Notre Dame players have won the Heisman trophy. The school has its own national television contract with NBC.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Free-throws down the stretch for the women's hoops team at Georgia College & State University (21-7) gave them a 60-59 win Tuesday against Georgia Southwestern (12-16) in overtime in Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament quarterfinal action.
Georgia College was down 23-20 at the half after only shooting .280 (7-25) from the floor. The Hurricanes led by as many as 10 points in the second half when Jessica Bivins hit a three-pointer. After the three, the Bobcats went on a 14-0 scoring run to take the lead 34-32 when Antoinette Reames (Orlando, Fla.) hit two free-throws with 10:33 left in the second frame.
Things went back and forth between the teams in the second half and Whitley Wiltz put the 'Canes up 52-50 after sinking a free-throw.
Chimere Jordan (Gray, Ga.) took the ball to the line after she was fouled with 2.5 seconds to go regulation. Jordan hit the first and Southwestern immediately called a timeout to try and freeze the junior guard. After the timeout, Jordan walked calmly to the line and sank the shot to tie the game at 52-52 sending it to overtime.
In overtime, Tammeshia Law (Athens, Ga.) and Reames hit layups while Candice Clark (Warner Robins, Ga.) and Shandrea Moore (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) each sank two free-throws to push the Bobcats past Georgia Southwestern. With GCSU up four Bivins hit a meaningless three-pointer at the buzzer, but the Bobcats still won 60-59.
Three Bobcats had double-digits in the game as Jordan paced the team with 22 points, eight boards, five steals and four blocks, a career-high. Law set a career-high with 16 points. The junior forward also had eight rebounds, two steals and a block. Moore had 15 points, two steals and four assists.
Clark cleaned up on the glass grabbing six rebounds, all off the defensive glass. Clark's only two points came off the two free-throws in overtime that gave her team a 58-55 advantage.
Georgia College's defense forced 22 turnovers but only managed to score 13 points off Southwestern's mistakes. The 'Cats were able to capitalize off points in the paint as they outscored the Hurricanes 30-14.
Georgia Southwestern had five players score in double-digits. Brittany Reynolds had the team-high with 16, while Bivins finished with 11 and Kanita Holloway, Nadirah Gardner and Wiltz each had 10 points. Wiltz finished the game with a double-double adding 12 rebounds.
John Carrick's Bobcats advance to the PBC Tournament Semifinals against No. 17 Francis Marion University Saturday, March 6 at 3 p.m. at the USCA Convocation Center in Aiken, S.C.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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That's the name that my friends have given this vehicle I'm driving on the road from poser to pro. So far, you've heard from some pretty solid dudes. Guys who've built reputations and businesses, and given their knowledge back to the community. You've also heard from a couple of guys will lead the charge for the next generation. They say all good things come to an end, and that's where I come in.
Building stuff runs in my family, and I was swinging a hammer in my grandfather's wood shop from an early age. Working on the car with my dad, taking things apart just because and building things I probably could have bought cheaper have been positive experiences for me. I started riding when I was a kid, like everyone else, but when I turned 16 I didn't stop riding like most of my friends. I rode even more, and I never stopped.
Fast forward many years, and now I'm a professional metal fabricator (wow, that sounds kinda fancy). I happened into the career by chance, lured to Tulsa by a TV ad for the welding school here. As a cyclist and a welder, I eventually had to field the inevitable question. So when are you gonna start building frames? I didn't know, but it was a damn good idea:) I heard that question so often it started to bother me. I wasn't, but there was no reason why I wasn't.
There's a local builder that I am friends with and we'd talked about his frames, and I'd picked his brain a lot and volunteered to help quite a few times. My 'apprenticeship' with him never took off, but I came to a point where I needed a frame repaired so I called him. I'd been racing a Waterford mtb, and I broke the driveside dropout. We talked about it, and since I had set it up as a single speed, he offered to help me put track style dropouts on it. When he saw the frame, he pointed out a crack in the chainstay as well, right behind the bb lug. I called Waterford to try to get a set of chainstays, and even though the stays weren't available anymore Richard Schwinn talked to me about all kinds of ideas to fix it. He ended up giving me the number for Henry James, and Hank just happened to have one last set of stays that he stopped selling long before. It was soon discovered that the Waterford had many more problems, and was a lost cause. So I had no race bike, and no project for these stupid chainstays. What I did have, was a mission. Rich had loaned me his old Paterek manual when I brought that frame over, and I decided I was gonna build a frame. A trip to the Great Oracle at Google introduced me to resources I never knew existed. A whole world of guys sharing their work and their secrets with yahoos like me. I felt like MacGuyver was letting me read his diary.
I had a garage, and some tools but no welder. I'm a good tig welder, but I didn't have one at home nor the cash to buy one. My boss would have been less that thrilled to see me welding a frame at work. Fortunately, someone at work had a torch set that they gave me for free. Torch, tips, regulators, hoses, and free. I hadn't brazed anything for a while, but I got some straight gauge and brushed up. Now what? Where'd I put that number for Henry James? Hank was super cool, and took all the time I needed helping me pick out a tubeset for my first frame. I scored some 80/20 from work and started building a fixture. I built the frame and fixture together, and sometimes work on the frame would stall while I changed the fixture. I made some dumb mistakes, too. Nothing catastrophically unsafe, just dumb. Really dumb.
When I got it done Rich told me to bring it over and use his alignment table. It was closer to straight than I ever would have imagined, all it needed was for the dropouts to move a little. I built it up and it rode good. I ordered another tubeset immediately. That was about 13 frames ago.
Since then I've built a few for me, and I've built a few for a small circle of test riders. I'm settling on how I like to do things and what I want stuff to look like. I hope to hang out a shingle, maybe next year. Until then I just have to trust that it'll happen when it's right, and if it doesn't happen then it just wasn't meant to be. I'm having lots of fun, though:)


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I agree that I don't like how quick LFL is to piss on the EU. I mean how much does it suck to be the writer who went to all that trouble to have GL essentially contradict his book for really no good reason. It made for a moving episode but it really wasn't necessary. But despite all of that, the show is damned entertaining.
That's pretty much been par for the course for the past couple of seasons of Clone Wars. There has been a good deal of EU backstory that was established in novels. Karen Traviss wrote a great deal about the Mandalorians only to have it contradicted in large part by the Mandalorian story arcs of season 2 with Obi-Wan's trip to Mandalore and the Death Watch.
It'll be interesting to see what Filoni does after the series is over to address all the conflicting canon that's been going on. A book, an internet article, anything, so long as they make the effort to clear everything up.
Personally I just go with what I like... If I like established EU better I'll just ignore the toon's variation of the ideas.
I guess what's needed in the Star Wars community is some sort of equivalent to the "Council of Nicea" (to draw a simple historical comparison to the church council called by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 CE to determine an official religious cannon for Christianity) where Lucas and leading representatives of the EU community can hold a council and sit down and hammer out the "official" story line for Star Wars... Just a thought
Unfortunately the church council was doing what it felt was canon to God and the faith, whereas Lucas just thinks he is God.
When it comes to Star Wars, Lucas is GOD. EU be damed. The man can do anything he wants. Its his story. Just like Roddenberry could do anything he wanted with Star Trek.
Quote from: Jesse James on March 15, 2011, 04:44 PMUnfortunately the church council was doing what it felt was canon to God and the faith, whereas Lucas just thinks he is God. When it comes to Star Wars, Lucas is GOD. EU be damed. The man can do anything he wants. Its his story. Just like Roddenberry could do anything he wanted with Star Trek.
When it came time to produce the obligatory theatrical sequel, Roddenberry's story submission of a time-traveling Enterprise crew involved in the John F. Kennedy assassination was rejected. He was removed from direct involvement and replaced by Harve Bennett. He continued, however, as executive consultant for the next four films: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.Roddenberry was deeply involved with creating and producing Star Trek: The Next Generation, although he only had full control over the show's first season. The WGA strike of 1988 prevented him from taking an active role in production of the second season and forced him to hand control of the series to producer Maurice Hurley.
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July 24 (Reuters) - The Department of Justice is examining potential antitrust issues in the U.S. market for pressure pumping services, which are used in hydraulic fracturing, according to Baker Hughes Inc, owner of the third-largest pressure pumping fleet.
The market for pressure pumping equipment has been oversupplied for more than a year because a prolonged slump in natural gas prices led to a slowdown in gas-directed drilling. But in 2011, there was an industry-wide push to add capacity in response to a ramp-up in fracking around the country.
Baker Hughes said in a quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that on May 30, it had received a Civil Investigative Demand from the DOJ pursuant to the Antitrust Civil Process Act.
DOJ is seeking documents and information for the period from May 29, 2011 through May 30, 2013 in connection with an investigation related to U.S. pressure pumping services, the company added.
"We are working with the DOJ to provide the requested documents and information," Baker Hughes said in its filing. "We are not able to predict what action, if any, might be taken in the future by the DOJ or other governmental authorities as a result of the investigation."
The company gave no further details.
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Fracking has left behind a radioactive legacy, endangering public health. Researchers identified 3,900 radioactive spill sites in the Bakken Shale region, one of the most fracked areas in the country. Radioactive spills put surrounding communities at elevated risk of cancer. The only way to stop this health disaster is to ban fracking. Add your name in support of a ban.
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For the documentary The Exodus Decoded, set within an entirely virtual environment, artists crafted a wide range of CG imagery, used to illustrate various points made by the filmmaker. Using nearly every tool within Maya, the artists re-created artifacts, animations, maps, and more. For instance, Maya's ocean shader and fluid were used to create the oceanscape in the image above as well as for other simulated water effects in the program.
That was the approach taken by filmmaker/investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici in a 90-minute documentary titled The Exodus Decoded, which aired recently on the History Channel. In the special, Jacobovici and director James Cameron presented what they believe is archaeological evidence that one particular biblical account—the exodus of the Jews out of Egypt—actually occurred, albeit two centuries earlier, based on archaeological evidence. Ironically, Jacobovici's "real" scientific evidence is presented in a "nonreal" computer-generated museum setting. At first, examining the ancient past within a futuristic virtual environment seems a bit odd, particularly for an investigator who is determined to prove his theories based on factual evidence. However, the use of CGI enabled Jacobovici to tie together vast amounts of material in a logical fashion and provide a three-dimensional look at numerous historical artifacts, particularly through animations. The Exodus Decoded is one of the first documentaries to use an all-virtual environment. Tasked with creating this unique digital space for presenting information and making artifacts come alive was Gravity Visual Effects, a VFX boutique with offices in Canada and Israel. "Many documentaries use CG for re-enactments, but Effi Wizen, our company's CEO/creative director, wanted us to use a different approach," explains senior art director Hili Tsarfati. "He is an architect, and he provided a blueprint that eventually became the virtual museum, inside of which the material was presented."According to Tsarfati, the documentary contained a great deal of diverse information from many sources throughout the world, including numerous video clips of experts in the form of talking heads, or head-and-shoulders shots of the interviewees speaking. Wizen's idea was to bring the material into a unique, consistent location that added some flavor while the story unfolded. At times, the digital artists augmented the interviews with 3D replicas of actual artifacts and various animations. "All of this added visual strength to the story Jacobovici wanted to tell," she says. "Jacobovici was missing a lot of visual reference that would help tell his story."
Digital WorkflowAccording to Zviah Eldar, the company's other CEO/creative director, the group began working on the CG portion of the film before the off-line work was done. "We started before we had the backbone and skeleton of the film; the director was still on location gathering information," she says. "But the environment we chose gave us the flexibility to constantly bring in new material. Because the script was not locked, that gave us a lot of artistic freedom." The film was planned inside the virtual environment—specifically, the camera moves and the shots to be edited—using the voice-overs from the interviews (the group imported the wave files into Autodesk's Maya, the tool used to model the environment). "The workflow is similar to that of a feature film, but here it was a film that lives inside the VFX, not vice versa," says Yuval Levy, head of 3D. Initially, the project called for the artists to create four minutes of high-def special effects. But after the first off-line, Eldar says, it became apparent that more CG had to be embedded into the film to achieve the original goal of creating a stimulating backdrop. In the end, the group, which was led by four senior artists, crafted 43 minutes of high-def imagery.
Narrator/filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and director James Cameron (above) were filmedagainst bluescreen and composited into the virtual set
"You can see how addicted the director was to the special effects," Eldar says. "They solved many of his problems—the diversity of the material, the large amounts of narration, and the talking-head interviews—which could have made the film boring. Because he was talking about the ancient past, there weren't many actual visuals he could use." Even after the artists received all the material, there was still a great deal of collaboration among postproduction, the off-line editors, and the 3D artists as work went in and out of Discreet Flame, an Avid system, and Maya. "We worked within that circle nearly every day," says Tsarfati. After the group received the last of the material from the filmmaker, it still had to integrate footage of Cameron and narrator Jacobovici, who were filmed at the end of the off-line work. The two were shot against a greenscreen; since Gravity had used previz extensively for the project, the team knew exactly where to place them and which angles to use in the final cut. "We did the whole process differently than most," Levy says. "We built the virtual environment, placed the artifacts, integrated the sound for the timing, and gave all that to the off-line. Once the off-line was locked, then we did the greenscreen portion."
Virtual MuseumThe space inside the virtual museum was vast; the design enabled the artists to continually add to it as new material was acquired and submitted. The basic design uses a high-tech grid of connecting cubicles that seems to extend endlessly inside the space. "That allowed us to easily change and modify the design to coincide with the camera moves," says Levy. "The museum is huge; we only showed it in snippets in the program." On the sides of the CG cubicles, the group displayed virtual video monitors, on which film clips of experts—scientists, theologians, archaeologists, and others, all shot head-and-shoulders—played on cue within the steel- and glass-like environment aglow in rich gold hues. Perhaps most impressive, though, were the 3D artifacts created by the artists that were randomly, albeit strategically, placed inside the virtual museum. One such item was an ancient stele whose hieroglyphics recount a story involving a severe storm, which rarely occurs in Southeast Africa, along with details of catastrophic events (like the plagues) that "mirror those of the biblical tale," Jacobovici states in the documentary. Today, the real stone tablet remains abandoned in delicate pieces in the basement of the Cairo Museum. Because no known photos of the find exist, the artists used copies of sketches made by the person who found the object to re-create the stele inside Maya. The team also reassembled the stele so it could be viewed dimensionally and as a whole. The artists spent a great deal of time carefully re-creating objects like the stele from whatever sources were available, oftentimes photographs or film footage shot by the crew at various museums. "Sometimes we had good-quality images to work from, and other times we didn't," says Tsarfati. When possible, the group used textures from the reference material. Or, it used verbal descriptions from experts, the Bible, and similar period objects to craft items that today do not exist. "We had to create visualizations that explained a lot of the archaeological work," says Levy. "I felt as if we were visual archaeologists; we were extracting images from real artifacts and bringing them to life. Often this required us to connect the dots and do in-betweens—just as we do in animation—when certain archaeological information was missing."
Using Maya, artists built a time machine that contained various imagery to give viewers avisual reference for events that occurred thousands of years ago, as well as the stone stelein the following image, rendered with caustics and global illumination within Mental Ray.
In all, the artists crafted approximately 20 CG artifacts, including hieroglyphics, tombstones, a fire pit, a granite monument, and more, as well as water elements, geographical maps, geological data, a re-creation of a volcanic eruption, and frogs, locust, and other objects from the plagues. For one scene, the group crafted a mummy of an Egyptian pharaoh. The scene begins with film footage of Ahmose, as the narrator explains why he believes this was the pharaoh responsible for banishing Moses and his people from Egypt. The camera then suspends upward from the actual mummy and seamlessly transitions to a CG replica of the mummy inside the museum. The artists similarly moved through dimensions in a number of other scenes, such as when the narrator explains the importance of a Greek wall painting depicting what he believes is the Exodus. Using a high-res photo of the actual wall painting as a reference, the artists rebuilt the structure in Maya, using photographic textures to surface the model. As the camera pans across the scene, the ancient Greeks' perception of depth is realized, explains Jacobovici, by translating objects situated farther away in the Z axis to higher up along the Y axis. Using a high focal length and perfectly aligned camera, the CG artists seamlessly blended the 3D into the original painting. In addition, the artists animated the people, dolphins, and other objects in the painting, bringing the entire scene to life. "We had to recheck with Jacobovici and specialists on everything we did to make sure our models and animations were accurate," says Levy. In one instance, using 3D imagery actually enabled the filmmaker to, for the first time, place side-by-side a series of objects (tombstones), some now housed in different locations, to extract a cohesive picture. The stones were found in 3500-year-old tombs in Mycenae (Greece) along with numerous Egyptian gold items. As Jacobovici states in the documentary, the images on the stones have never been deciphered until now, and each contains a sliver of a story, which he contends is that chronicling the parting of the sea. To better illustrate the visual story on the stones that Jacobovici saw that no one else did, the digital artists made an accurate version of each stone, and then, with the stones lying flat, "lifted" the carved images upright, similar to a paper image in a pop-up book.
In a scene, the camera cutsfrom filmed footage of the Pharaoh Ahmose mummy at an actual museum to a digital version placed inside the virtual museum.
"We extracted carved images from each of the three stones and put them next to each other to combine them into a story, creating in-between animations so we had a full animated story from those tombstones," Levy explains. In instances such as this, the group extracted displacement and bump maps from images of the actual stones, then converted those into a polygonal model in Maya using the displacement information, and rendered the imagery using the Mental Images' Mental Ray tool within Maya. Later, the group used Autodesk's Discreet Flame to composite the imagery into the live action. In addition to the museum and models, there were numerous effects—water, fire, and more—that collectively taxed the rendering. Throughout the project, Gravity had a renderfarm of 40 Dell CPUs running around the clock, yet the group still had to render a good portion of the museum in layers. The water, which was used inside a clear "cubicle" of the museum as well as in a number of animations, was created using Maya's Ocean Shader. In addition, the group also used Maya Particles and Maya Fluid Effects for the fire and smoke elements. The team also used the particle instancer for a number of objects, such as to create the locust in the depiction of the 10 plagues. "We used everything Maya had to offer," Levy says. For the locusts, the group created a Maya script that would dynamically render closer locusts with a high-detail mesh and the more distant models with a low-poly stand-in.When possible, real artifacts were used to craft the 3D models. The CG Ark ofthe Covenant was based on biblical references and a piece of ancient jewelry.
Visual StorytellingThe artists also built a unique time machine. Many of the events have a disputed time frame, most occurring between 1200 and 1500 BC; so, when an expert began talking about a certain event, the massive time machine beside the video monitors provided a visual date reference for the audience. For this documentary specifically, "CG became an excellent storytelling tool; it helped the director visually explain a very complicated story," says Levy. So much of the story depends on the filmmaker's ability to connect many disparate events, and without the use of CG, many of those connections would have been confusing or not easily understood. Adds Tsarfati: "We discovered while making this film that if you provide information or details differently than the eye and mind is used to, a person will be more accepting of the information. It makes the information easier to understand and more appealing." Undoubtedly, that's because today's society is a visual one. "People are used to going to the movies and seeing special effects and visual aids," says Tsarfati. "Today's audience is ready for documentaries to be served a different way."
Karen Moltenbrey is the chief editor for Computer Graphics World.


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Super Cool Optical Illusion Caught On Camera [VIDEO]
At first, I was like, 'Look at all that chocolate!' When they say wait for it, wait for it. It's trippy! It reminds me of the drawings you used to do on the pages of your notebook and then flipped them fast to make an automated cartoon. Can we eat it now?


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Cartoonist Profile: Eldon Pletcher
In 1922, Eldon Pletcher was born in Goshen, Indiana, and later attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After serving in World War II, he attended the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and John Herron Art School in Indianapolis. He was an editorial cartoonist for the Sioux City Journal (1949-1966) and retired in 1984 after nearly twenty years at the New Orleans Times Picayune. He won the Christopher Award in 1955 and garnered Freedoms Foundation Awards for more than a dozen years. Many of his cartoons deal with Louisiana state affairs and the local New Orleans area.


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LeBron James was the youngest player in NBA history to win rookie of the year, to record a triple-double, to score 1,000 points, to score 10,000 points, to win MVP honors at an All-Star Game …
You get the idea.
His latest youngest-to-do-it milestone could come as early as Wednesday. He needs 18 points to become the 38th NBA player to score 20,000 in his career. If it happens on Wednesday when the Miami Heat visit the Golden State Warriors, James will be more than a year younger than anyone else to reach the mark.
"You look at how many players have come through this league, the history of the game," James said. "That 20K mark is very limited. How many guys have done that? It's very, very limited.
"It'll be big time. I'm not going to shy away from that. I'm not a big stats guy as far as individual, but that'll be pretty cool."
James' teammates say he could have reached 20,000 even faster.
"If LeBron was a different kind of player, he'd have a lot more points by now," Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. "He's so unselfish. We give him the ball enough to score more. He just won't do it. We've had the discussion. We've sat down at dinner and we both said, 'Sometimes, I wish I had it in me.' We talk about it, we joke about it, but when the game comes he's unselfish."
Considering James has scored at least 18 points in 74 of his last 75 games, including playoffs, the milestone would seem likely to be met against the Warriors. It's the next-to-last game of a struggle-filled road swing for the Heat. Miami is 1-3 so far on the trip, yet still remain a half-game ahead of the New York Knicks for first place in the Eastern Conference standings.
Maybe a little celebrating is exactly what the Heat need right now.
If James scores the historic 20,000th point on Wednesday, he will have done so at the age of 28 years, 17 days. According to STATS LLC, the youngest to date to score 20,000 points was Kobe Bryant, who got there when he was 29 years, 122 days old.
And only Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain (29 years, 134 days) and Michael Jordan (29 years, 326 days) reached the milestone before turning 30.
"LeBron can think about shooting, then he'll see one of his teammates are open, and then he makes the right play and gets the ball to them," Wade said.
From the time he started playing basketball, it's been driven into James' head that there's far more to the game than scoring.
Imagine if that wasn't the case.
It's a topic that some of his Heat teammates have debated more than once in recent weeks. The hypothetical scenario: What would happen if a plan was concocted to get James 35 shots in a game, or even more? How many points could he score? James has taken more than 25 shots in a game only once this season. Entering Tuesday's play, there's been 61 other instances of an NBA player shooting that many.
"LeBron taking 40 shots? Forget it," Heat guard James Jones said. "It's never happening."
He's probably right.
Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Durant and James Harden are the top four scorers in the league this season, shooting a combined 48 percent. James is fifth entering Tuesday's play, shooting a career-best of nearly 55 percent.
"If you talk to all the basketball 'people,' I'm not much of a scorer," James said. "When the conversation comes up with the best scorers in the game today, I'm never mentioned. Ever. It's Kobe, it's KD, it's Melo, it was D-Wade, but they don't talk about us anymore."
In terms of games played, James could be the seventh-fastest in NBA history to join the 20,000 club.
Wednesday will be his 726th regular-season game. Chamberlain needed only 499 games to score 20,000, followed by Jordan (620), Oscar Robertson (671), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (684), Elgin Baylor (711) and Allen Iverson (713). If James gets it done on Wednesday, he'll reach the 20,000 mark one game faster than Shaquille O'Neal did.
"It shows, first of all, that I've been healthy," James said. "It shows that I've been fortunate enough to be on the floor. I've been able to work on my game and everything that I've worked on, I've been able to transfer that to a game situation. And I've had some teammates as well that have taken a little pressure off me, or I've been able to take pressure off them, by using my talents to the best of my ability."
Abdul-Jabbar owns the NBA record with 38,387 points. It's not a completely farfetched notion that James could leave the game as its all-time points leader, especially since he has said in recent years that his goal is to be considered the game's greatest player when he retires.
"That many points is not what it's about for me," James said. "If I happen to get there, it'll be cool. I don't think I will. I don't know, 38,000 is crazy. If I concentrated on just scoring, then I could make a push at it."
Wade is certain that if James wanted that record, he could make a run at it.
"If he stays healthy," Wade said, "he's the one who could challenge it."
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Hi all, I have major concerns regarding the change of the response on a PROPFIND 'allprop' request in the way you described it. Such a change would be *v e r y harmful* for the GoLive 5 WebDAV client. When we send a PROPFIND 'allprop' request we expect all properties which are defined on the resource, especially the Lockproperties and all custom properties defined by GoLive 5 (which we have PROPPATCHED before). We are probably able to replace PROPFIND 'allprop' requests by PROPFIND 'prop' requests in future GoLive releases (which would be indeed much more efficient) but the suggested change in the protocol would be a *disaster* for GoLive 5 which is already in the box. Best, Hartmut Lisa Dusseault wrote: > Past discussions have shown that servers frequently have trouble > implementing PROPFIND 'allprop'. Jim asked me to summarize the past > discussion & list the open issues so that we can get this fixed, if it can > be fixed, in revisions to 2518. > > There are already cases where not all properties will be returned: > RFC2518: "In the case of allprop and propname, if a principal does not have > the > right to know whether a particular property exists then the property > should be silently excluded from the response." > > John Stracke's proposal for reducing/specifying the scope of 'allprop', and > discussion of the motivation: > - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999JulSep/0092.html > - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999JulSep/0310.html > > It has been a point of discussion for Advanced Collections: > - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999JanMar/0008.html > "Clients need to know whether the property is computed on the fly before > requesting it. There is no way to find out. The impact of computing on the > fly is especially significant when a client requests allprop. There may be > other properties that are computed on the fly as well. DAV:getetag is > computed, and some versioning history properties may also be computed." > > Also in Versioning: > - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999JanMar/0075.html > "There has also been a massive growth in the number of available DAV > properties. PROPFIND allprop operations may lead to very large > responses even with Depth: 1, which would slow down performance > for users due to network speeds. It might be worthwhile to add this > facet to the open issue ALLPROP_AND_COMPUTED." > > Also in ACLs, Babich argues that clients who request 'allprop' don't really > want to see the ACL property, thus they ought to specifically ask for it. > - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1998JulSep/0101.html > > Several server implementors have voiced the opinion that 'allprop' should be > "put out of its misery" (GMC) or at least weakened. Often this is because > of standard or custom properties that must be calculated by the server (e.g. > 'lockdiscovery'), and the calculation can become extraordinarily expensive > with an 'allprop' of depth: infinity. > > The only server-side argument for keeping 'allprop' is that server-to-server > COPY requires it; but if anybody has implemented this yet and can't use > 'propname' instead, please speak up. > > Summary: > There thus seems to be a consensus among server implementors and those > designing new features for DAV. What's missing in order to resolve this > issue for fixing RFC2518 is input from clients. > > 1. Is anybody aware of clients that rely on particular properties being > returned in 'allprop'? If the properties relied upon include any more than > the set DAV:{creationdate, displayname, getcontentlanguage, > getcontentlength, getcontenttype, getetag, getlastmodified} (the properties > required for DAV level 1 support) I would be very surprised. Thus, servers > may be able to restrict the required property set to this set. > > 2. Is anybody aware of clients that rely on 'allprop', rather than > 'propname', for property discovery? This would be a more serious issue if > major client implementations actually rely on doing property discovery using > 'allprop', and attempt this against various implementations of WebDAV > servers. > > These seem to be our options for modifying RFC2518 (remember, it has to be a > simple mod): > - deprecate 'allprop' and tell clients not to use it, but to use 'propname' > instead > - define 'allprop' to be the set of properties required for DAV level 1 > support (although servers could freely return more properties if desired) > - explicitly allow servers to return an error code (507?) for properties > that were too expensive to calculate for a 'allprop' request, but still > allowing the client to do property discovery through 'allprop' > > Please voice your preferences among these options, objections, or other > ideas. > > thanks, > Lisa > XythosReceived on Monday, 13 November 2000 07:08:20 UTC
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I recently joined My Best Birth, a network on NING. Today I noticed that a woman posted a link to her VBAC story, so of course I had to go read.
My goodness what she encountered:
- Urge to push at 2cm dilation
- Pressure to have a cesarean
- Early epidural
- More pressure to have a cesarean
- Stalled labor
- More pressure…
- Slow dilation
- More pressure…
- Scare tactics
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- Presented with "limit of liability" and cesarean consent forms
- DH had to go fight off the OB
- A lovely doula
- Wonderful calm-inducing friends
- Finally ready to push
- Pushed in stirrups
- Doc pulling on the placenta
- Contraction finally finished birth
My goodness me!!
I was intrigued by a back and forth in the comments between the Feminist Breeder and At Your Cervix. At Your Cervix was saying that pitocin augmentation might have helped speed things along for this woman. Feminist Breeder stated that pitocin augmentation was contraindicated for VBAC… which is certainly what I thought as well. So, I had to look. I googled VBAC "pitocin augmentation" and one of the first things that came up was a page from Dr. Wagner's Born In the USA (table 6) with a chart which estimated uterine rupture rates:
1 in 33,000 – woman with unscarred uterus
1 in 200 – VBAC without augmentation or induction
1 in 100 – VBAC with oxytocin augmentation
1 in 43 – oxytocin induction
1 in 20 – Cytotec induction [ref]
Have a look also at Homebirth.org's information on "Induction or Acceleration of Labour in VBAC Candidates." All of this makes me understand the wide variety of rates that I've heard doctors cite. Of course they never admit a .5% rupture rate probably because a large number of them induce and augment labor. (Maybe that's an unfair assumption, I don't know; the fact remains that I've never heard a doctor actually use that rate.) A CNM I talked to this past year used the 2% rate. I've heard 1%. I've even heard 5%.
I read an interesting discussion – "How high is too high for pitocin" at All Nurses Dot Com. Definitely something to keep in mind. I should write down some of this . . . and ask our hospital staff about their policies.
Another related resource that I highly recommend can be found at VBAC Facts, one of my favorite sites – "Two doctors respond to the Hastings Indian Medical CenterVBAC Ban . . ." Specifically, pay attention to the charts and suggested protocols in the Leeman/Espey response.


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The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, like arts groups everywhere, wants to draw in a younger crowd. This season, the BSO is making it even easier for college students to get in on the action -- a new product called "BSO Student Select."
For a one-time payment of $25, students can attend as many concerts as they like during the whole 2013-14 season. (The Detroit Symphony had success with this kind of product a few seasons ago.)
A few "premium events" are excluded, but orchestra officials say that still leaves about 90 percent of the scheduled concerts. BSO Student Select card-holders will be seated in the best sections available the day of the performance.
The pass can be used at both BSO homes, Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore and Strathmore in North Bethesda.
But wait -- there's more. Admission to post-performance parties on BSO College Nights, offered four times during the season, is also included in the deal.
For those of college age used to buying $10 rush tickets just before a concert, they will still be offered during the season as well, but the $25 pass sure looks like the best bargain.
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In parents and siblings, nursing home residents, and barroom acquaintances, Hannon sketches the many moments in which God's mercy becomes flesh. Each of his 20 stories offers a glimpse of God's unfailing love, described beautifully by Hannon in his own mother's unfailing daily mantra: "I guess I'll keep you for another day."—Bryan Cones, Managing Editor
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Advances in Muslim chemistry led to the development of Muslim pharmacology. Al-Zahrawi made pioneering developments in the preparation of medicines by using sublimation and distillation. Others excelled in chemical technology.
Advances in Muslim chemistry led to the development of Muslim pharmacology, Al-Razi, for instance, acting to promote the medical uses of chemical compounds. Sabur Ibn Sahl (d 869), it was, however, who was the first physician to initiate pharmacopoeia, describing a large variety of drugs and remedies for ailments.
Al-Biruni (d 1051) wrote one of the most valuable Islamic works on pharmacology entitled Kitab al-Saydalah (The Book of Drugs), where he gave detailed knowledge of the properties of drugs and outlined the role of pharmacy and the functions and duties of the pharmacist.
Ibn Sina, too, described no less than 700 preparations, their properties, mode of action and their indications. He devoted in fact a whole volume to simple drugs in his Canon.
Of great impact were also the works by Massawayh al-Maridini of Baghdad and Cairo, and Ibn al-Wafid of Spain, both of which were printed in Latin more than fifty times, appearing as De Medicinis universalibus et particularibus by `Mesue' the younger, and the Medicamentis simplicibus by `Abenguefit'. Peter of Abano (1250-1316) translated and added a supplement to the work of al-Maridini under the title De Veneris.
Fig 2.Series of woodcuts of chemical and distilling apparatus from The works of Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber in Latin), the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher, faithfully Englished by Richard Russel (London, 1678). (e) Calcination, (f) Water bath, (g) Vessels, (h) Fixation and Sublimation
In this area, however, it was Al-Zahrawi (of Spain) who played a determining role, pioneering in the preparation of medicines by sublimation and distillation. His Liber servitoris is of particular interest, Sherwood Taylor explains, because its purpose is to tell the reader how to prepare the `simples' from which were compounded the complex drugs then generally used. Al-Zahrawi also gives methods of preparing litharge, white lead, lead sulphide (burnt lead), burnt copper, cadmia, marcaside, yellow arsenic and lime, the various vitriols, salts, natron etc. He also gives a considerable number of recipes for distilled products, though not alcoholic ones, the beginning of distillation as a means of preparing drugs, perhaps the most significant feature of all according to Sherwood Taylor.
Abu al-Mansur al-Muwaffaq's contributions in the field are also pioneering. Living in the tenth century, he wrote The foundations of the true properties of Remedies, amongst others describing arsenious oxide, and being acquainted with silicic acid. He made clear distinction between sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate, and drew attention to the poisonous nature of copper compounds, especially copper vitriol, and also lead compounds. For the story, he also mentions the distillation of sea-water for drinking.
It is to Levey that credit goes for reviving this (medical) aspect of Islamic chemistry in his comprehensive Early Arabic Pharmacology.According to Levey, the Muslims were expert organisers of knowledge; their pharmacological texts directed carefully along lines that were useful to the apothecary and medical practicioner. These treatises as a result generally are more or less within well delineated groups. Some of the major types of Muslim pharmacological he list go as follows:
- Medical formularies which include many kinds of compound drugs, pills, pastilles, powders, syrups, oils, lotions, toothpastes...
- Books on poisons.
- Synonymatic: treatises, in which are found lists of simples usually in alphabetical order to help the reader to identify the drug in other languages.
- Tabular, synoptic texts, whereby long texts are turned into tabular work for quick usage, and abstracts made of some treatises for the same purpose.
- Lists of materia medica which include therapeutic considerations and opinions of various writers on the subject, preparations of the drugs and descriptions..
- Substitute drugs in case one drug for whatever reason was not available, a substitute was provided.
- Works on medical specialities available either as separate treatises or as sections of large encyclopaedias of medicine.
Fig 3. Arabic manuscript held in the British Library showing the distillation process in a treatise of chemistry. © The British Library, London.
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Levey's contribution was also instructive in other branches of Muslim chemistry. A good series of articles of his, unfortunately not gathered in a sort of varorium, can be found scattered in various medical journals. But the best revue to acquaint us with Levey's work is Chymia, edited by H.M. Leicester. In Volume 7 (1961) of this review, Levey deals with inks, glues, and erasure fluids, making a preliminary survey of Islamic chemical technology (pp 57-72). Levey brings to knowledge the pioneering works of the Tunisian scientist Ibn Badis (1007-1061), who in his Umdat al-Kuttab (Staff of the Scribes) in twelve chapters, writes amongst others on: the excellence of the pen, the preparation of types of inks, the preparation of colored inks, the coloring of dyes and mixtures, secret writing, the making of paper, and so on...a remarkable list indeed.
In the same issue Levey also looks at the development of the Islamic atomic theory (pp.40-56). In volume eight, he considers Al-Kindi's views of Aqrabadhins (pharmacists) (pp 11-20), whilst in volume nine, he considers the crucial matters of chemical technology and commercial law in Early Islam (pp 19-25). In the latter, Levey looks at the office of the Muhtassib (censor of customs), where the practice of the law comes into contact with the commercial chemical applications; the muhtassib enforcing what was legally right, and preventing what was illegal; and checking weights and measures, inspecting apothecaries, demanding the purity in the manufacture of goods, preventing the use of inferior dyes, and so on. Finally, in volume 11 of the same revue (pp 37-44), Levey looks at the chemical formulary of a scientist not considered in this paper, but so deserving it: al-Samarquandi.
Fig 4. Pharmacist preparing drugs. From a MS of the Arabic translation of Dioscorides' Materia Medica. (Source).


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"Building a Local Food System for York County" is the topic when Rob Wood of Spoutwood Farms in Glen Rock, Pa., speaks at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 14, at Penn State York. The free program, sponsored by the Penn State York Agricultural Science Club, is in the Community Room of the Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center and is open to the public. The Agricultural Science Club invites speakers to the campus to talk about topics related to animals and farming.
Wood will discuss the differences between locally grown organic crops and those that are imported to the supermarket. Most of our food usually comes from California or Florida, but increasingly it is imported from China, Mexico and even South America, South Africa, or New Zealand. The average fruit or vegetable travels about 1,500 miles to reach your plate with less than 1 percent of food coming from York Country Resources.
What would it be like if we grew food locally and grocery stores, schools, hospitals, restaurants and food pantries got most of their food meats, grains, vegetables, dairy products and fruits from local farms or local value-added food producers? Wood will share his thoughts and ideas on how this could happen.
Wood has been the co-owner and co-founder of Spoutwood Farm Center since 1988 when it was created. Under his direction, Spoutwood Farm Center has become a regional leader in the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement since 1996. Spoutwood grows everything using organic methods as prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for compliance with the National Organic Program and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Guide 65.
He served as the founding president of the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education in Hellam Township, York County, Pa., and is a lifetime member of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) and a longtime participant in the Millersville Native Plants and Landscape Conference. Locally, he is on the steering committee of York County Buy Fresh Buy Local, actively involved with the formation of the Healthy World Café, and is a member of The Food Availability Task Force of the Office for Community Improvement at WellSpan Health.
In addition, Spoutwood Farm has developed a reputation for innovation and community education through its festivals (May Day Fairie Festival, Mother Earth Harvest Fair and Tastes of York) and its ongoing education programs, most recently including Teen Battle Chef, a garden to table culinary education project.