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The December 2014 issue of CQ-Plus Magazine has been distributed to digital subscribers. In it, my Homing In column tells all about the 2014 USA and World ARDF championships.
Digital subscribers to CQ-Plus can also read my column in the July 2014 issue, which reviews three new apps for phones and tablets that greatly assist in bearing-taking and triangulation. CQ Publications has combined the content of CQ-VHF Magazine, Popular Communications and Worldradio into the new CQ-Plus, a supplement to the digital edition of CQ Magazine. It can be viewed on PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone and Android. My Homing In column is scheduled to appear four times a year in CQ-Plus. I welcome your input for future articles, so please continue to send me your news of mobile and on-foot transmitter hunt activities.
The next southern California on-foot transmitter hunting opportunity will be at Schabarum Regional Park near Rowland Heights on Sunday, January 11, 2015. (Click for directions and times). There will be transmitters to find for both beginners and advanced radio-orienteers, so everyone is welcome. Experts will be on hand to get you started with your own equipment or with loaner gear. For earliest notification of these events, you can join the southern California ARDF mailing list. If you live elsewhere, click to get contacts for other North America ARDF sessions This Homing In site also has results and photos of previous southern California radio-orienteering events, including Topanga State Park on November 22, 2014.
Scouting's annual Jamboree-On-The-Air (JOTA) was October 17-19, 2014. JOTA is an ideal time to introduce young people to all aspects of ham radio, especially hidden transmitter hunting. Only the transmitter hider has to have a ham license! If your club included transmitter hunting in this year's JOTA, please e-mail me for possible use in an upcoming article. For more information, see the Foxhunting for Scouts page at this site.
USA has medalled in the Seventeenth ARDF World Championships, which took place near Burabay, Kazakhstan from September 6 through 13, 2014. Vadim Afonkin KB1RLI took silver in M40 category in the two-meter competition on September 8. Kazakhstan Federation of Radiosport and Radioamateur (KFRR) hosted the championships, which included formal competitions on two meters and 80 meters, plus sprints and foxoring. Each country may have up to three persons per age/gender category on its team. Team USA positions were filled based on performance in the 2013 and 2014 USA ARDF Championships. More information and links to results are in this Homing In site.
Plans are coming together for the next USA and IARU Region 2 ARDF Championships. The tentative dates are August 27-30, 2015 and the location is a beautiful 3300-acre site at elevation of 7000 feet in eastern Colorado. We expect to have final approval to use the site on these dates very soon. Mark the dates and watch for more details in this Homing In site. You can also subscribe to a mailing list for announcements as they become available. More information is here.
USA's fourteenth annual championships of on-foot direction-finding took place near Boston, Massachusetts on the first weekend of June, 2014. There were formal competitions on two meters and 80 meters on Saturday and Sunday, June 7-8, plus optional sprint and foxoring events on the two prior days. USA's ARDF Championships are open to all. Visiting competitors from outside USA are welcome. Some of USA's medal winners have been invited to compete on Team USA at the ARDF World Championships in Kazakhstan this September. Complete results and photos are in this Homing In site. If your club is interested in having a future USA Championships in your own area, here is information about hosting.
The seventeenth annual CQ Worldwide Foxhunting Weekend (CQ WW FW) was May 10-11, 2014 but if your club didn't hold a hunt then, it's not too late! Start the fun now by reading the announcement at this site and my article in the March-April 2014 issue of CQ Magazine. After that, plan a mobile or on-foot hunt for a weekend in the near future. This annual event is an ideal time for ham clubs and non-club groups around the country to enjoy this fast-growing sport. For clubs that participated in this year's CQ WW FW, the next thing to do (besides planning another hunt, of course) is send the results and photos to me for the follow-up article. Get the report form here.
For three decades, international-rules radio-orienteering competitions have had two major competition days. Each participant must compete on the two-meter band and the 80-meter band. The 2012 USA and World ARDF Championships included competitions in two new events: sprints and foxoring. The sprint is a shortened form of the five-fox 80-meter ARDF run that's intended to be a demonstration for the public. Foxoring is a combination of classic orienteering and direction-finding on 80 meters. More information about these new events can be found here.
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The Southern California T-Hunts for Beginners page has has information about three monthly mobile hidden transmitter hunts in the Orange County area where first-timers are especially welcomed and encouraged. On two of them, there are usually some clues to help everyone eventually find the transmitter and on one, you can compare bearings with other hunters on a separate frequency. Mount some RDF gear on your vehicle and come on out!
Mobile hidden transmitter hunters have regularly prowled the streets in search of the elusive sources of unusual signals for more than four decades. Equipment has evolved, but the adventure and intrigue remain the same. Read "T-Hunting Then and Now -- From Gooney Birds to GPS" in this site for stories of classic mobile T-hunts in the Los Angeles area. Some of them, but not all, could be done again today. Then to find out what it's like nowadays, and to help get your club started in this activity, read "Transmitter Hunting, Southern California Style."
When it's your turn to hide the transmitter, what will you use? It depends on the range and duration of the hunt, as well as whether or not the transmitter must be unattended and automatic. It's important to match your foxbox and its location to the level of proficiency of the hunters. There are many options, and you can read about them in the Foxboxes for Mobile and On-foot Transmitter Hunts page in this site.
USA first attended the ARDF World Championships in 1998. The people we met and the lessons we learned helped set the foundation for our current success. Here is my classic article from CQ-VHF magazine about the first Team USA trip to Hungary. Learn how a Hungarian ham was instrumental in getting ARDF started in the Western Hemisphere. This ham became a world medal winner again in 2008.
For over ten years, I have used a special cubical quad for mobile transmitter hunting on two meters. From inside the vehicle, I can select the signal polarization. Find out why this is important, why I like this antenna and how to make one for yourself in a classic Homing In column titled "Build a Multiple-Polarization Quad."
The Agrelo DFjr Doppler RDF set has been out of production for over ten years, but there is still a great deal of interest in it. DFjr was the first inexpensive plug-and-play Doppler set designed for interface to computer mapping systems and APRS. For those who own one or are considering buying a used one, the DFjr page on this site has a downloadable manual, my 73 Magazine review, antenna system improvements, and frequently asked questions about this product.
What's "Homing In?"
Homing In refers to the process of tracking down the source of a radio or other electromagnetic signal using radio direction finding (RDF) equipment.
Homing In is also the title of my regular column on RDF that ran for 15 years in 73 Amateur Radio Today magazine, then for ten years in CQ-VHF magazine and now appears quarterly in CQ-Plus digital magazine. At this Homing In site, you will find more about these columns, plus RDF articles that I have written for other publications, including Monitoring Times, CQ VHF and QST magazines. There is also information about my comprehensive book on the subject.
Radio direction finding is used to find sources of interference to any form of wireless electronic communications, including broadcast and two-way radio, television, and telephones. It is also used to track missing or stolen cars and other property. Search and rescue workers use it to find persons in distress. Emergency Locator Transmitters in downed aircraft are tracked with RDF techniques.
Most of the information at this site pertains to RDF equipment and techniques for Amateur Radio (ham) operators. Hams use RDF to track jamming stations and stolen equipment, but more often, they use it just for fun. Hidden transmitter hunting has been done by hams for about fifty years and it is a growing activity. T-hunting refers specifically to hunts involving hams driving in RDF-equipped vehicles. A mobile T-hunt is best described as hide-and-seek for all ages with radio gear. When you set out on a T-hunt, you never know where you'll end up, and you have no idea what you're going to find. No form of ham radio contesting is more fun! Mobile T-hunting is done in cities and towns all over the USA, and elsewhere in the world. Depending on the frequency band and the nature of the hunt, the hunters use loop, yagi, quad, doppler and time-difference-of-arrival RDF antenna systems mounted on their vehicles. Click here for for general information about mobile T-hunting or click here for beginner-level T-hunts in southern California.
Mobile T-hunting is called foxhunting in some parts of the USA, but everywhere else in the world, the terms "foxhunting" and ARDF refer to another kind of RDF contest, done completely on foot in large woods and parks. It's a map-and-compass sport similar to orienteering, with about a half-dozen "fox" transmitters to find in a period of two hours or so. Someday this sport, which is also called foxtailing, fox-teering and radio-orienteering, may become an Olympic event. Meanwhile, it's a fun-filled activity for your hamfests and Scout Jamborees. Try it, and you may find yourself at the next annual national USA ARDF Championships. You might even become a member of ARDF Team USA, which has competed in five foxhunting World Championships. Click here for for general information about radio-orienteering or click here for beginner-level ARDF events in southern California.
Keep reading---you will find lots more about foxhunting, T-hunting, and other uses of RDF at this site.
What's at the Homing In Site?
Find your topic of interest below in the complete Table of Contents (or as some call it, the Site Map). Or you can Click here for the Site Search page.
Getting Started -- The basics
RDF Topics in Print -- Read all about it
Home-built RDF Projects -- Inexpensive and educational
Commercial RDF Equipment -- Getting the most from it
Follow-up and Support -- for readers of THRDFS and Homing In
Championship Radiosports -- Taking on the world
Results, stories and photos of ARDF sessions, large and small
Volunteer Opportunities -- Use your RDF skills to help researchers and protect wildlife
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Spending a few minutes at this Homing In site will give you a jump-start into the world of transmitter hunting. After that, you can find out how to get involved in mobile T-hunts in your area by visiting local T-hunt/foxhunt web sites and contacting nearby Homing In Correspondents listed on the links page. You'll find manufacturers and suppliers of RDF gear there, too.
Who is KØOV?A registered professional electronic engineer and an active Amateur Radio enthusiast since age 11, Joe Moell KØOV has over 40 years of experience designing radio-frequency circuits and systems for broadcast, communications, and radar, ranging from near-DC through microwave frequencies. He has designed new devices for radio direction finding and has written about RDF and other topics for almost every ham radio publication in the USA. In February 1998, he was appointed by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) as the USA's first ARDF Coordinator, to promote international-style foxhunting and to organize Team USA for international ARDF competitions. He also conducts the annual CQ Worldwide Foxhunting Weekend.
Joe collaborated with Tom Curlee WB6UZZ to write TRANSMITTER HUNTING---Radio Direction Finding Simplified, a comprehensive text on RDF, and has written over 230 published articles on the subject, including his monthly Homing In columns that ran for 15 years in 73 Amateur Radio Today magazine, then for ten years in CQ-VHF magazine and now appears quarterly in CQ-Plus digital magazine. As a Technical Advisor to ARRL Headquarters, he authored a new chapter on RDF for The ARRL Handbook and has made more than 100 presentations on transmitter hunting to clubs, conventions, classes and seminars. As time permits, he is available for private engineering consulting.
Joe and April (WA6OPS) Moell are graduates of the University of Nebraska. They have served as Course Marshals and Jurors at international foxhunting championships. When not participating in transmitter hunts or writing about it, they teach ham radio licensing courses and help support the emergency communications needs of the hospitals in their county.
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Although not about RDF, another great ham place to browse is the Hospital Disaster Support Communications System (HDSCS) site. There you will learn how volunteer Amateur Radio operators can be an important backup communications resource for hospitals, if the hams are well organized and trained. The eighty members of the HDSCS in Orange County, California have served over 35 hospitals in over 115 communications emergencies during the past 30 years. We have rapidly responded following earthquakes, wildfires, floods, power outages and internal switchboard failures. If you think that your local ARES® or RACES group is presently serving all of the disaster communications needs of your community, you may consider taking on a new mission after seeing this site.
Surfing suggestion: For a quick start into the world of RDF and mobile hidden transmitter hunting, jump to Let's Go T-Hunting.
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It may seems that we are relatively quiet at the moment and yes we are, in fact we are like little bees, working hard without making noise.
Maybe you are not aware, but the hosted Indefero offer is running a single Indefero installation for the 3000 forges we are hosting. What is happening is that when you request a page of a forge, the domain is matched against a list and automatically the configuration is set to use the right repositories, the right database, etc.
When the system was setup, it was following the: "Do the simplest thing which can possibly work." Nice, but now we are suffering the pain of growth as the simplest way to go was te build everything in a pretty monolithic system. Ouch.
So, we are hard at work on getting a new system setup to break everything in more manageable components. This is a long haul project, but this is needed to recover our agility in getting new versions online several times a day.
The idea is to do all the changes without changing anything, that is, everything will be done without changing the system for you, then once the migration to components will be completed, new features will be rolled in. Small incremental changes are better on the long run.
This year Fall and Winter are going to be very busy seasons.
With his thinking about Redis Kenne Jima explores the fact that the next holy grail for the NoSQL trend will be to evaluate how the system behaves when the amount of data to manage is 10 times bigger than the available RAM of the system.
This big picture view is really interesting, but there is from my limited experience of "web scale" one big issue. This approach considers that all the web scale problems are similar in nature. Let me explain this a bit more with some examples of web scale:
These 4 examples operates easily at web scale but with very different usage patterns which makes the development of a generic answer to the problem very difficult. Do not forget that in the follow string of thoughts, the scale is the web, that is, at least 100's of GB of data.
The meta web scale, as its goal is to make sense of the complete web, can be composed of two parts:
When you think about it, the storage of the index in RAM is totally different than the storage of raw data and support data on disk. This means that one system to cover both needs is nearly unfeasible. Also, you need to have the index fully in RAM if you want millisecond response time. It was said that one search request could hit up to 1000 servers in the Google farm, if you hit them in a tree fashion, depending of your buckets, you may have let say a 5 to 10 server depth. If each depth requires 3 seeks (10 ms each), you add the read of data, the maybe 2ms latency of the communication, then the need to aggregate the data, you would reach very often something like 3 to 5 seconds waiting time to get an answer.
So, the index is in RAM, fully customized to do one thing and do it well.
In the post about the Twitter streaming API, we get that Twitter produces about 35KB of data per second (including the packaging of the network data in JSON format). But when you really think about the Twitter usage, it is:
So, they only need to be very efficient with 48x3600x35KB=6GB. Yes, only about 6GB of data. You can increase that to 600GB if you want, as you can get a system with 12GB of RAM for 100€ per month, you can store these in RAM for 5000€/m. Of course at such scale you have staff and go collocation and it is even cheaper.
So, twitter can keep hot only a fraction of its data in RAM with nearly no needs to access the old data. This makes the performance access of the old data a non problem, just one or two seeks will be fine.
The blog hosting platform is basically disk bound. The general usage pattern outside of the editors is: "search something on Google, click, see the page, go somewhere else". You may have a search engine (mostly used by editors) and a time line (for the feeds) but these fails into the Twitter/search engine problem.
In this case, only a RDBMS (or a simple file system based storage) with asynchronous update of the indexes/feeds is needed. Simple and any kind of well designed "bulk storage" will work. You will be able to go a long way with Lucene for search, so, you do not really need more.
Here it is interesting, you have a lot of data and when you process them you really need to process them fast. Here, the column oriented design, with the capacity to compress data is really needed to minimize seek time. We are really in the case to have extremely efficient 1:10 ratio. But, you cannot use a NoSQL system because they are not column oriented and do not offer the per column compression needed to really achieve high performance. You end up using a system designed for column based access.
So, different data access patterns from different business needs and different constraints are the reasons why we have so many alternatives. These alternatives were mostly developed by a company to solve a specific problem when they were already at web scale (or on the trajectory to reach it), they are answering the sweet spot requirements of a company to match their business goals.
But which one does not matter, the real point is that you need to use a system reasonably well designed, with good base performances (nearly all are providing them now) which can allow you to develop fast and answer your business goals, because the the day you will approach the web scale you will need to go custom. So, your building blocks need to play well and integrated themselves with others for the transition to web scale.
Thrift, protocol buffer, why are the big players developing such systems? Because the real key to achieve web scale is the integration of many components efficiently. The same way, you, as a person, work better when you integrated all the data coming from your 5 senses to get one picture of your world, to get one answer to your visitors, you will need to tap into many different sources with different constraints.
The future is integrated and the systems built from the ground to be integrated and communicate well with others will win the race. Today I see three very promising components:
I do not think silver bullet, and when you give a challenge like the 1:10 ratio, you tend to ask for a silver bullet answer, I think well integrated diversity. It is a bit harder to manage, but it adds flexibility and freedom. The challenges are here, not really in finding another perfect hammer.
If I tell you that on my website I have a download link which can be either:
The link is like on the screen shot below:
What is your answer? I must say, I would have put:
So, just for the fun, I ran the test on the download page of Indefero. After a week, the results were not really like expected. So I let the test run until my confidence percentage was stable. Here are the results:
Yes, bold and italic is the converter, and this by a large margin with 9% better, but what surprised me is that the the bold link is not statistically significantly better than the normal link!
So, my best judgment was basically wrong. What a blow, especially for something as simple as the font style off a link. This small experiment as changed a lot my way to think about improving my software. For my scientific work, I always use data, for the design I often trust my feelings. I was wrong, terribly wrong.
Now, the problem is that I cannot test everything because I am not google and I do not have thousands of visitors a day. But at least, I can test the key points in my application, that is, where actions and conversions are performed.

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- If interested, your child can use felt tip pens to illustrate her written work.
- Can she think of riddles for other family members, such as siblings, cousins, or grandparents? Encourage her to gather the riddles into a family anthology and to challenge relatives to solve them.
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- promotes creativity
- develops writing skills
- encourages attention to detail
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Katrina school aid: Will it provide needed help or promote an agenda?
By Carol Zimmermann
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Government and educational leaders agree on one thing: The 372,000 students from the Gulf Coast who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina need help. But just how this help is divvied up remains in question.
When the U.S. Department of Education announced plans Sept. 16 to pay 90 percent of the educational costs of students and schools affected by Hurricane Katrina for one year, some Democrats and officials from teachers' unions immediately saw red flags. They said the plan for spending $7,500 per displaced student in public or private schools amounted to nothing short of a way to sneak in a national voucher program.
A Sept. 22 hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Education and Child Development took up the issue of how to legislate aid for Katrina's displaced school children. "This committee has moved from being the most contentious to being the most productive," said Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which oversees the subcommittee.
Enzi and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., introduced legislation Sept. 15 to provide aid to schools. The measure is part of a broad legislative package to help with recovery on the Gulf Coast, but it has not reached the full Senate for a vote. As written, the measure did not include giving aid to Catholic and other religious schools, but it may be amended to include such language.
The department's plan seeks $2.6 billion in new hurricane relief spending. It would distribute public-school funds through school districts and private-school funds directly to parents -- in line with the 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing vouchers only if parents, not schools, receive the funds.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said his support for the Katrina aid relief proposal to benefit public and private school students was "a deviation from the voucher position" he has taken in the past.
"This is not the time to rewrite laws; this is a tragedy," he said, noting that the response to the crisis "needs to be balanced and thoughtful to get these kids back on their feet as soon as possible."
Dominican Sister Michaeline Green, superintendent of schools in the Diocese of Baton Rouge, La., couldn't agree more. Sister Green, one of the panelists who testified before the Senate subcommittee, urged Congress to provide financial assistance "to all students no matter where they are enrolled" and noted that schools in her diocese alone had taken in 4,000 displaced students from Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
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Sister Green noted that Louisiana is in a unique situation because one-third of its students attend nonpublic schools compared to the national average of 11 percent. Also, in the devastated areas around New Orleans alone, 50,000 of the displaced students are from Catholic schools.
Displaced students taken in by Baton Rouge Catholic schools are primarily from low- and middle-income families, the nun said, adding that the schools that welcomed them have either waived or deferred tuition payments. The school communities also have often provided school supplies, uniforms, food and housing for the evacuated families.
Joe Wray, principal of St. Michael the Archangel Diocesan Regional High School in Baton Rouge, knows firsthand about taking in displaced students. The school's initial enrollment of 772 students nearly doubled after Hurricane Katrina. Three days after the hurricane, the school had 1,200 new applicants. It now has 185 displaced students in what they call the "day school" and another 400 in the newly established "night school," which started Sept. 23 and runs from 4-10 p.m.
Wray, who attended the subcommittee hearing with Sister Green, said the school did not ask for tuition, telling families they could pay only if they had the ability to do so. They also took in the new students "all on faith" because the students came without any of the usual paperwork such as grades and student records.
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U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings praised the schools across the country that took in displaced students and said the responsibility of caring for these students was a teaching moment for the country.
"This was a hurricane that affected every family, including those in private schools, and the president believes, as do I, that we should not penalize those families because they chose to select private schools," she added during a Sept. 21 luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington.
Karen Ristau, president of the National Catholic Educational Association, likewise praised the proposed school aid and said it would provide a "short-term but highly effective tool" to help students and their families to recover.
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Pearson was the keynote speaker at the annual Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Montage Laguna. She spoke on the overall state of the city, but honed in on economic issues that impact the city's business community, much of it echoed by representatives of elected officials at the state and county levels.
"I'm here to tell you today that there's a frame of mind at City Hall when it comes to helping our businesses — and potential businesses coming in — and it's this: We want you here; we want you to thrive; we will do our part to be more friendly and approachable to help you be successful; our minds and doors are open to you.
"And I know all of you here today are with me on this."
Keeping established businesses in town, filling empty storefronts and expanding the product and service mix so that more locals shop locally has been a priority for the past two years.
The Long Term Business Task Force co-chaired by Pearson and Mayor Pro Tem Toni Iseman recently completed its mission and will present a report to the full council and the public at the June 1 council meeting. The task force piggy-backed on the findings of the Business Assistance Committee organized almost two years ago by Pearson and Councilwoman Verna Rollinger, which made recommendations for immediate action.
Among the committee recommendations implemented:
Increased sidewalk cleaning;
Installation of credit card parking meters;
Free Village Entrance parking year-round for business employees except during Festival Season; and
A letter from the mayor asking retail property owners to consider reducing or not raising rents to help struggling businesses during the economic downturn — a notion promoted by Councilman Kelly Boyd.
However, the business community is not the only victim of the economy.
Property, sales taxes diveCity revenue derived from property tax receipts, which supplies about 56% of the city's general fund, is down 18% from two years ago and hotel "bed tax" revenue, the next highest generator of city revenue, is 18% lower. Sales tax revenue is down 24% — led by a 37% drop in construction-related sales. General sales plummeted 32% and food sales, primarily grocery stores, dropped more than 16%.
A $2-million shortfall for fiscal year 2010-11 will be covered by dipping into the Recession Smoothing Fund, established for this purpose. Three jobs vacated by retirement will go unfilled and one job was reduced to part-time with the employees' concurrence.
Expenses will be further reduced by funding the Public Employees Retirement System retroactive payments from loans of unused city funds and the Municipal Employees Assn. relinquishment of a raise for the second year.
Pearson had a bit of good economic news to impart.
The city's bond rating recently was upped by Standard and Poor's to AAA.
"And we 'sunsetted' the one-half cent sales tax to complete the Bluebird landslide restoration, as we promised to do," Pearson said.


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Install Hotchkis Sport Suspension's Tubular Lower A-Arms on your 1958-1964 Chevrolet Impala for vastly improved handling and control thanks to revised suspension geometry. These TIG welded bolt-on arms have repositioned ball joints that increase caster up to +7 degrees when combined with the 1113U upper a-arms, resulting in enhanced stability and traction. Adjustable spring pockets offer minor ride height adjustment when using standard coil springs. For cars running air suspension, the a-arms are easily converted to bags using the optional 1113L-AB mounting kit. Finished in gloss black powder coat, the arms are ready to install and are complete with ball joints, bump stops, ride height shims, polyurethane coil spring locators and greasable, Delrin bushings. These a-arms are a must have for any tricked out Impala, or Biscayne.
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Improve launches, and weight capacity by inserting these air bags inside your rear springs. Air bags work much better than air shocks offering a better ride and by still allowing a performance shock to be used. A must for wagons or El Caminos. Sold as a pair with air lines.
Please Note: These bags are now only produced in RED
The Hotchkis 1113L-AB system is specifically designed to adapt the 1113L tubular lower arms for use with air bag suspensions. The kit comes with laser cut mounting plates specifically designed to bolt onto the Hotchkis 1113L lower a-arms. The kit comes complete with weld on shock mounts and weld in bungs to relocate the shocks. This kit is compatible with most of the major air bag kits on the market. Note: Air bags and shocks are not included in this kit.


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As the Fifth Circuit recently explained on December 27, 2011 in Hines v. Thaler,
Under [28 U.S.C.]§ 2254(d)(2), a federal district court may grant habeas relief "only if the state court's adjudication of his claim on the merits . . . 'resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.'" Rabe, 649 F.3d at 308 (quoting 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)).
No. 11-70010 (5th Cir. Dec. 27, 2011) (unpublished) (ellipsis in original; emphasis added). So, if a prisoner files a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2) challenging the correctness of a state court's factual determination, should federal courts apply the more rigorous "clear and convincing" standard of review found in § 2254(e)(1), or the more lenient "unreasonable determination" standard provided by § 2254(d)(2)? In a footnote to the block-quoted text above, the Fifth Circuit identified the following circuit conflict over this question:
We also note that under AEDPA "a determination of a factual issue made by a State court shall be presumed to be correct," such that "[t]he applicant shall have the burden of rebutting the presumption of correctness by clear and convincing evidence." 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(1). The relationship between this provision and § 2254(d)(2) is ambiguous. As this court has previously explained, "[w]e do not make any pronouncements as to whether the more deferential standard prescribed in § 2254(e)(1) applies in every case presenting a challenge under § 2254(d)(2)," a question that the Supreme Court has left open. See Turner v. Epps, 412 F. App'x 696, 700 n.2 (5th Cir. 2011) (citing Wood v. Allen, 130 S. Ct. 841, 848–49, 175 L. Ed. 2d 738 (2010) (observing, but not resolving, the circuit split among courts regarding the relationship between § 2254(d)(2) and § 2254(e)(1))). Below, we hold that reasonable jurists could not debate the correctness of the district court's determination that the state court's adjudication was not based on an unreasonable determination of the facts. Therefore, we see no need to resolve which standard—the more rigorous "clear and convincing" or the more lenient "unreasonable determination"—should govern this case and do not consider this issue further.
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Five days away from opening day, the staff of the Magnolia Bluffs Casino is putting the finishing touches on the casino.
Casino President Kevin Preston told The Natchez Democrat that the casino's staff is cleaning, installing seating in the casino's restaurant and making final additions to the gaming floor this week.
Preston said the Mississippi Gaming Commission will be at the casino Thursday and Sunday inspecting the games and ensuring everything is working properly.
The casino received its temporary certificate of occupancy from the city, and Preston said he anticipates receiving the permanent certificate Thursday after a final inspection.
Preston said the staff will continue to work until the casino's opening Tuesday.
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With Lesley Cairney, Craig Austin and Senior Announcer Pat Doody, along with the clock used during this period.
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A mobile billboard is probably the safest place for the wild claim that the state budget actually added teachers. Before someone can corner the gypsy accountant with the real numbers -- like the fact that there are 915 fewer teachers and 2,045 fewer teaching assistants in North Carolina's classrooms this year -- the wheels are rolling, the bullet points are blurry and back on the road, and people are left to scratch their heads. Soccer moms have to switch lanes. They don't have time to look closer. Art Pope probably likes it that way.
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Flags were used by influential men in history for identification; they were used by people as a symbol of their country, their common beliefs and often represent what they deem as the sole reason for their existence. A great number of flag makers can be found online with informative websites and easily understandable fill-up forms; one simply needs to supply their name, contact number, and list down the specifications such as size, color, design and message. These flag makers also provide their clients with a variety of options for payment processors so that one can choose a method which is most convenient for them; these companies then send the finished product through good selection of reliable couriers. When choosing a custom flag manufacturer, one must opt for one which is backed with a good reputation and one that provides their clients with assistance in selecting the most appropriate flag design for one's company or event. For years, custom flags have been a huge part of people's lives, and despite the ever-changing trends, customized flags are here to stay.
There are different inflatable products in the market. Such as the retractable banner stands, giant inflatable, pop up tents etc. But among of them, flying banners and inflatable advertising balloons are the new invention of advertiser. And really these are exceptional creation to promote a product. The advertiser always chooses flying banners to display the product or services in front of people. These kinds of advertisement strategies are always used in various shopping malls, and occasions and events. Throughout the world, today, flying banner is used to attract the customer. Truly speaking this is the best way of showing a product and its different qualities. One can use the product in indoor or outdoor. Really this is stylish and customer can watch from a long distance. Flying banner is a unique inflatable product, which is target oriented. This is also is very cheap. The flying banner is made with high quality polyester and UV resistant ink. Not only that, it is easy to carry every where, strong and light weighted. Recently this is an excellent medium of advertising.
With the increase in scatter radiation safety protocols and tightening of government regulations, certain medical staff members and managers are responsible for finding ways to maintain compliance. For medical centers, urgent care facilities and hospitals, each radiology protection garment must be tested at least once per year to ensure health and safety regulation compliance. For healthcare companies and organizations that provide leaded apron, thyroid shields and other protective garments to their employees, the task of managing each garment and its compliance information inspections can be daunting. New technology has made it easier. They will check the hospital or urgent care's ability to identify each garment, as well as the accuracy and ability to show when each one was tested and what the results were. They check to make sure that, among other things, x-ray aprons and thyroid shields are providing the proper protection.


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Shaun Marsh justified his shock selection with an unbeaten ton as Australia recovered to post 297 for four in the first Test in South Africa.
Graeme Smith won the toss and put Australia in and his bowlers reduced the tourists to 98 for four.
Dale Steyn took two of those wickets but, along with his colleagues, began to bowl loosely as Australia recovered with an unbroken stand of 199 between Marsh and Steve Smith.
David Warner (12) inside-edged a cut at Dale Steyn to demolish his own leg stump, bringing Alex Doolan to the middle for his Test debut.
And Morne Morkel wasted no time in bouncing out Chris Rogers (four), brilliantly caught by JP Duminy.
Marsh was dropped on 12, though in truth Hashim Amla did well even to get a hand on the ball, but Doolan, having looked good for his 27, pulled Ryan McLaren straight to mid-wicket where Robin Peterson took a good diving catch.
It was 83 for three at lunch and captain Michael Clarke fell for 23 in the seventh over of the afternoon session, lured into an injudicious hook against Steyn and caught by Vernon Philander in the deep.
Marsh reached his half-century when he gloved a pull at McLaren to the fine-leg boundary, his seventh four from the 101st ball he faced.
Tea was taken after the 54th over with Australia on 176 for four, Marsh (67 not out) and Smith (29no) having taken their partnership to 78.
That became three figures when Marsh hooked McLaren just out of Morkel's reach for four, and two individual landmarks followed.
Smith drilled McLaren through extra cover for his seventh four to reach a 118-ball fifty - and two balls later, Marsh clipped Duminy off his legs to reach 100.
It was only his ninth in a first-class career stretching back to 2001, and contained 11 fours in 174 balls.
Smith accelerated against the new ball and gave himself a chance of reaching three figures before the close of play.
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Intel Core i7-2600K and i5-2500K Processors Debut
Today's pre-launch of Intel's Sandy Bridge-based processors should come as no surprise to anyone who even remotely follows the PC tech scene. We, along with Intel and numerous other companies and media outlets, have been slowly leaking Sandy Bridge and Sandy Bridge-related details for many months now. Heck, we've even showed off a number of Sandy Bridge compatible motherboards in the past, posted pics of actual processors, and discussed many of the microarchitecture's features already. We obviously weren't able to disclose all of the platform's specifics, however, and boy is there a lot still to cover.
We've had a few Core i5 and Core i7 Sandy Bridge based processors kicking around the HotHardware labs for a while now, along with a sampling of 6-series chipset based motherboards to go along with them. We've been poking, prodding, and testing them to get a good feel for what Sandy Bridge and 6-Series chipset is all about and we've amassed a boatload of data to share with you all here. In addition to putting a couple of Core i5 and Core i7 Sandy Bridge based processors to the test in our usual suite of benchmarks, we've also tested their new integrated graphics core and media encoding engine, tested various multi-GPU setups, overclocked Sandy Bridge, and even evaluated a few mainstream and enthusiast-class motherboards.
Intel Core i7-2600K and i5-2500K Processors Debut
Amazing !! Truly amazing , the performance of the 2600k is quite Spectacular. Intel Rocks.
Awesome review, easy to understand, and well laid out...2 Thumbs up. (brb later with some questions)
Edit: Props for the EFI Bios video demonstration on the ASUS board, that's gonna be a hot seller!!
damn these CPUs look sexy
I blindly expect it from Marco now. Not to say that is good, or that his efforts are unappreciated, as that is not at all the case. Marco is just one of the kings of bench marking and product reviews :) Anyway; much like what I said on the mobile side of things, while very impressive I will still be looking at the next Tock before anything would be bought for me personally. I know Intel as always will amaze us on the next one to begin with, there are also things not included on this Tock that I would want. Things such as SATA and USB3 to begin with as well as there new BIOS product and there new COM specification which should be out on the next Tick I thin, and therefore optimized on the Tock as well. Technology is just moving both blindingly fast in at's capabilities today as well as in it's implementation/capabilities as well.
|Nice read! I'm sure I will have to go back, there was a lot of info there. Msi890fxa-gd75? 990fx? I hope there's a review in order...;-)
thars alot of info you must have had these for months ill have to read this agin the price is not as bad as i thought it would be but im with rapid1 ill have to wait. has evga made a mobo yet? good artical marco hope you and the family had a great holliday
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has evga made a mobo yet?
Yea, the EVGA P67 Classified, but it's strange that they haven't been marketing their P67 line-up. Asus, Gigabyte, Asrock and Intel have been working hard on promoting their Sandy Bridge motherboards, but EVGA has stayed mostly quiet . One thing I do know and see, is that EVGA's cards are everywhere, so maybe they are cooking up some hot sauce ingredients for 1155 to dazzle @ C.E.S ....
Sandy Bridge has it's own socket motherboards instead of 1366 or 1156 sockets, they use the new 1155 socket to connect. You have a choice between P67 and H67 chipsets. There are CPU's with normally locked multipliers and others that are "K" series CPU's with unlocked multipliers. The unlocked are able to OC much better, but cost a little more too.
The P67 chipset is the one designated for enthusiasts. I hear that they're getting some of these CPU's up to, and beyond 5.0GHz. on air! So it seems that the market is going through another upheaval.
Ya know Neil I have been thinking about this especially while watching or reading CES coverage. It seems odd to me fore one reason especially related to a graphics capability. Intel has nowhere near the graphics capabilities of AMD/ATI. From what I have seen benchmark wise the AMD/ATI APU beats Intel as well as many of there own benchmarks for previous processors for the APU. However; you see almost no coverage of this fact, which seems at least odd to me.
Also this is a new production unit of an Intel device. I personally would want to wait for the tock (IE: updated version), if it were my money. I also as I am sure you have heard that AMD's CEO is gone or will be shortly. So someone new will be coming in, whom I hope will be someone who is more aggressive in development. Especially on Bulldozer, which I look forward to seeing, but it has been out there (in development) for quite some time.
One thing that has really frustrated me watching that development is that it has already fallen behind Intel's development cycle 3 or 4 times now since it started being worked on. So I would hope an aggressive would not only step it up, but insist on it being updated and or adapted even further. While this may not really seem to apply in some ways, I think it would, and would wait a minute. The technology clock now moves very fast, and within 6 months we should be where both sides of this go retrospectively.
Another thing to compare this to something like the iPhone 4 announcement today. This event will lead to changes market wide in many things. Not only will At&t probably have to consider speeding up the LTE adaptation, but they also have direct competition now. The smaller players also have to come up with or add something as well, which will lead to better more competitive pricing as well as hopefully larger device availability market wide.
The main thing here is I know Intel GPU development is far behind both AMD and Nvidia so I personally would not really be excited about getting something of the same caliber from them as any solution to any thing. I am excited about the Tegra chips as well as the APU chips, but not really about SandyBridge for these reasons. I also personally do not like the Chipset choices Intel made for SandyBridge because I think that in today's media driven world a 1366 chipset with advanced, and enhanced graphic and PCI-X bandwidth as well as memory capabilities makes considerably more sense. On top of that many serious users will have a separate and singular or multiple GPU's as is so there is no point for them (which I assume many forum members here would be a member of this picture).
Intel has never really tried to enter the high-end graphics market. Sure, there was some rumblings about a year ago that they were gonna do it, but then they put the skids to the work, and haven't started again. NVIDIA and AMD/ATI have a niche market providing vastly superior graphics to enthusiasts at differing levels for varying prices. Although these cards sell for every conceivable price, the total market share for graphics in the PC market is firmly dominated by Intel and their on-board graphics chip-sets.
So yes, Intel isn't as fast in an enthusiasts way of looking at the situation. But they aren't trying to be either.
One aspect of Sandy Bridge reviews that I've seen over and over is that the on-board video on Sandy Bridge H67mainboards encode video much faster than almost any other high end cards you can buy. Also, if you add an aftermarket PCI-E graphics card to the system, the on-board solution shuts down and you lose all of that bitchin' encoding power.
How did Intel figure out video encoding to such an advanced degree?
As for waiting, I like the idea of a CPU and Mainboard that can overclock to over 5.0GHz. on air. I like it enough to buy it now.
I'm a slave to technology I guess,.......
Yeah a few vendors are selling liquid cooled units clocked at 5.2Ghz from what I saw after writing what I did. Of course these are top dollar units, but wow 5.2 Ghz warranted. I was really talking bout the quality of the internal GPU, whereas I see the AMD APU doing a better job as from what I understand it is a 6000 radeon internal GPU. The one thing that gets me on either is a GPU generates heat, so does a CPU so these integrated units from anyone must make some serious heat. If they can clock them stable at 5.2 Ghz there must be some serious work in the body of a SandyBridge!
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Sandy Bridge has it's own socket motherboards instead of 1366 or 1156 sockets, they use the new 1155 socket to connect. You have a choice between P67 and H67 chipsets. There are CPU's with normally locked multipliers and others that are "K" series CPU's with unlocked multipliers. The unlocked are able to OC much better, but cost a little more too.
The P67 chipset is the one designated for enthusiasts. I hear that they're getting some of these CPU's up to, and beyond 5.0GHz. on air! So it seems that the market is going through another upheaval.
I think I head on the Maximum PC podcast last week [#164 I think] that the Sandy Bridge CPUs easily overclock to around 5ghz but seems to be locked from getting much higher than that. They mentioned someone having done testing with no voltage restrictions and liquid nitrogen.
From what I have seen (custom built PC's on a few custom manufacturers site, with 3 year warranty), clocked at 5.2 Ghz I would say that 5.0Ghz limit is false, plus the fact that liquid cooling is rather cheap now. From what I remember though these were clocked at 5.2Ghz cooled with air, but only in certain cases/setups. While I may be incorrect on the amount of these to see them anywhere at all clocked that high and warranted would mean to me that at the least the unlocked K processors are both some hardy cpu's, and that internally they cool really well. I know I was saying at first that I would wait till the tock before I would consider one of these, but from what I have seen that interpretation has changed. While of course buying one of these would not be uber cheap drop in upgrading, as you would need the MB, and most likely Memory as well if you wanted to grab one, they seem to be pretty darn good investments if your running an old PC, your PC blows up, or you just had the money to spare for it.
I've read of a few running at 5.2GHz. too. But not much higher than that,.................................so far.
Regardless, anywhere in the 5GHz. range is a damn site better than the almost 4.0GHz. I'm getting with my two (2.93GHz at stock) i7-870's right now. I like the fact that they're getting those 5.0GHz. speeds using less power and producing significantly less heat while doing it too.
I'll continue to use my two all-in-one water coolers (Asetek & Corsair) once I upgrade to Sandy Bridge because I think that they are a good idea that works well with what I have now.
I hope to see AMD come out with some good new technology that gives Sandy Bridge a run for it's money, and if they do, I'll get at least one of those and one less Sandy Bridge solution.
As to the memory, SB seems to run fine on the DDR3-1600 RipJaws sticks that I have already.
EDIT: Please understand that I'm not complaining about getting the speeds that I'm getting with my present systems. The overclock I get now is significant and completely stable too. These things are fast and a lot of fun just the way they are. I re-read my post and thought it looked a little weird.
|Woah, my future upgrade was going to be an AMD rig. I'm no gamer, no video editor. Dont use anyhting thats CPU intensive. But i dont want to shell 400$ for a computer that'll not be capable 2 years down the line. I dont mind shelling out a few bucks to go for the i5 series. Also, great article. I loved the conclusion, I always read the conclusion first and if i like the sound of that, i read the rest of the article. It was Great, just enough detail. better than some of the other websites out there.
Great article although I am curious as to why there wasn't a difference between the timing of the discrete GPU encoding with the NVIDIA card and the "No hardware acceleration"? Was CUDA encoding turned off? Also, are there any comparisons of the quality of the videos that were encoded?
What is up with the HD 3000 built into the chip? I would assume motherboards would need to have a video out port in order to support this built in cipt.
Yes I believe that is true the motherboards have output and the system also has dual graphics cards. From what I understand a chip or one of these chips do awesome video rendering all on there own, but active graphics need a GPU for best performance, well then you would have 3 GPU's on board.
Hi fellow poster's , I dont think I really introduced myself But my names Grady :) I am 15 And I LOVE TO BUILD AND MESS AROUND WITH PC's!
Anyways, When I heard about the Sandy bridge chip's having a problem I kinda figured that Intel had a pretty big problem on their hands. I was going to buy a Sandy Bridge CPU but there a little too expensive right now( I don't want to clean out my parents wallet :P )...so I guess i'll have to wait...AGAIN.
Hey Grady56 there is an easy solution for you, go get a job I had one when I was 15. Then in a month or two you can get whatever chip you want. As for the Sandy Bridge issue just make sure you get one of the updated motherboards. Intel and the motherboard makers have made new motherboards on a repaired chip set already.
We are glad to have you as a new member. As you will see or at least generally when we have contests here at HH we get a lot of new members. Some last some leave, but it is a great community if your into hardware, and or technology in general. We have a very knowledgeable and widely diversified crew here I have been a member for quite a while (approximately 4 years now) now, not as long as some of course. We are always glad to have new members!
Speaking of which I have no direct experience with any Sandy Bridge yet. Of course I have read a good bit on them, and am impressed with what I see so far. Of course technology always marches on to. So we will see more as well as newer things shortly I am sure. Of course mobile technology seems to change weekly (Chips, memory, GPU's, payment methods, display, the whole shebang), and we are expecting some new AMD cpu's very shortly (Bulldozer family), and will also probably hear something about the next level in GPU's as well. Memory also never seems to stops, and the SSD parade keeps on frequently prices go down a lil bit, speed goes up a good bit, and size goes down.
As far as it goes I really love Gigabyte motherboards all the way around and for many reasons. I think the first has to be the extra copper PCB's there built on. But there are many considerations from tweak ability to the way they treat employees compared to many other OEM's. Gigabyte is a very solid manufacturer to deal with all around, not to mention there a direct Intel partner.