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People sometimes mention during discussions, the fact that Carl Jung had issues with Sigmund Freud's sexual theories, implying that Freud's theories are somehow not valid, or at the very least, that we should not put too much weight on them. So in this post I want to briefly take a look at this.
With the exception of a few societies in European countries such as Iceland, there's this notion in societies around the world that people have to go through an elaborate game of courtship before they can be together more intimately. As I have previously discussed in my article series on Understanding Women, this isn't something that's natural; it was enforced on humankind thousands of years ago as part of a set of measures that would promote sexual suppression and repression in society. [1]
When it comes to courtship — and for the purposes of this post I'll treat dating as a form of courtship — people generally expect men to pursue women. There are elaborate procedures established in society that men need to follow in order to impress and convince women to allow men to get closer and intimate with them. And women are being brainwashed from early childhood that they must make it especially difficult for a man to win them over; the more difficult they make it for men, the less "easy" or "slutty" they are perceived by society; the harder a man tries, the more "romantic" it is. But research has shown that this is all part of "traditional gender-stereotyped, and culturally bound, social scripts." In other words, it's based on stupid and made-up rules that exist in society and has absolutely nothing to do with the natural behavior of men and women. And as I mentioned previously, Iceland is a good example of a society where these stupid dating rules don't exist and where it's completely normal for women to pursue men, and for men and women to get intimate with each other on the first meeting. [2]
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Very often there are certain developments in the world that just make me blankly stare in front of me and go "Wow…" while my mind desperately tries to cope with the astronomical amounts of stupidity it's suddenly being confronted with.
Such was the experience I had when I first read about "the right to be forgotten" — a concept that's based on the European Data Protection Directive meant to regulate the processing of personal data. Judges in the European Court of Justice used that directive to justify an individual's request to remove publicly available — and lawfully obtained and published — personal information. Without a doubt those judges have got to be some of the most stupid people on this planet.
I seriously wonder if they asked themselves how such a ruling could realistically be implemented and what kind of dangerous and far reaching consequences this would have for civilization in the future. This ruling actually gives people the ability to start censoring history. How could anyone in their right mind think that this is a good idea? Obviously the only people who would want such a thing are those who want negative facts about themselves, or the crimes they've committed in the past, erased from history. And ironically those cases have only received even more exposure online precisely because of the request that they be forgotten. In the case of Mario Costeja González, I'm sure that everyone now knows that his house had been auctioned in 1998 to recover his social security debts, because of all the publicity it's now getting:
The test case privacy ruling by the European Union's court of justice against Google Spain was brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in Catalonia.
Costeja González argued that the matter, in which his house had been auctioned to recover his social security debts, had been resolved and should no longer be linked to him whenever his name was searched on Google.
Way to go, you fucking moron. Now the whole world knows about what you tried to hide, plus you've created a precedent for allowing the censorship of history. Thanks a lot.
Here are some more examples of how this stupid "right to be forgotten" concept is being abused:
When you Google someone from within the EU, you no longer see what the search giant thinks is the most important and relevant information about an individual. You see the most important information the target of your search is not trying to hide.
Stark evidence of this fact, the result of a European court ruling that individuals had the right to remove material about themselves from search engine results, arrived in the Guardian's inbox this morning, in the form of an automated notification that six Guardian articles have been scrubbed from search results.
The first six articles down the memory hole – there will likely be many more as the rich and powerful look to scrub up their online images, doubtless with the help of a new wave of "reputation management" firms – are a strange bunch.
Three of the articles, dating from 2010, relate to a now-retired Scottish Premier League referee, Dougie McDonald, who was found to have lied about his reasons for granting a penalty in a Celtic v Dundee United match, the backlash to which prompted his resignation.
Anyone entering the fairly obvious search term "Dougie McDonald Guardian" into google.com – the US version of Google – will see three Guardian articles about the incident as their first results.
Type the exact same phrase into Google.co.uk, however, and the articles have vanished entirely. McDonald's record is swept clean.
It's like Index on Censorship mentioned:
The court's ruling means that, under certain circumstances, information can be removed from search engine results even if it is true and factual and without the original source material being altered. It allows individuals to complain to search engines about information they do not like with no legal oversight. This is akin to marching into a library and forcing it to pulp books. Although the ruling is intended for private individuals it opens the door to anyone who wants to whitewash their personal history.
By placing the onus on search engines to prevent dissemination of information, the Court has said that an individual's desires outweigh society's interest in the complete facts around incidents.
The ruling goes against the finding last year of the EU advocate general who said there was no "right to be forgotten".
The Court's decision is a retrograde move that misunderstands the role and responsibility of search engines and the wider internet. It should send chills down the spine of everyone in the European Union who believes in the crucial importance of free expression and freedom of information.
Today it's search engines and websites that are impacted by this stupid "right to be forgotten" ruling, but what will happen in the future when technology becomes so advanced that it becomes possible to erase certain information directly from people's own memories? Would such a law still be enforced? What if the future that Dr. Ray Kurzweil envisions, where an individual can choose to store some of his memory in the cloud, becomes reality? Would the company behind the cloud storage service be marked as a "data controller" under the European Data Protection Directive, and be forced to delete people's memories?
Before approving such a boneheaded "right to be forgotten" concept, did the people responsible think about everyone's right to remember? I think everyone's personal and collective right to remember information that became publicly available, certainly stands above any individual's right to be forgotten. A single individual's personal right to be forgotten can never outweigh our collective personal rights to remember!! And our right to remember doesn't only involve the biological capabilities of our bodies, but also any technology that can be used to assist and augment our capabilities to remember, including any external databases and other files that help us to remember things. These can be personally maintained by an individual or by a third party for groups of individuals. And remembering isn't just limited to the information an individual previously had in his own consciousness, but also includes information in our collective human consciousness that's just now starting to come online — the Global Brain.
Without this right to remember humankind would never have gotten where it is today, and indeed, it's precisely because of this right and capability to remember, and especially the fact that we can now enhance our capabilities to quickly and efficiently remember using technology (such as Google's search engine, Wikipedia etc. — the Global Brain in short), that we've gotten into a position now where we can start to solve many of the problems we've been struggling with for thousands of years. The "right to be forgotten" concept not only has the potential to stiffen the progress we've been making, but also to do serious damage to the progress we've already made.
Fortunately it does seem like there are enough intelligent people still around who see the absurdity of the "right to be forgotten". The House of Lords EU Home Affairs, Health and Education Sub-Committee of the UK parliament recently had the following to say about this:
"The expression, 'right to be forgotten' is misleading. Information can be made more difficult to access, but it does not just disappear. Anyone anywhere in the world now has information at the touch of a button, and that includes detailed personal information about people in all countries of the globe. Neither the 1995 Directive, nor the CJEU's interpretation of it, reflects the incredible advance in technology that we see today.
We believe that the judgment of the Court is unworkable. It does not take into account the effect the ruling will have on smaller search engines which, unlike Google, are unlikely to have the resources to process the thousands of removal requests they are likely to receive.
It is also wrong in principle to leave search engines themselves the task of deciding whether to delete information or not, based on vague, ambiguous and unhelpful criteria. We heard from witnesses how uncomfortable they are with the idea of a commercial company sitting in judgment on issues like that.
There are compelling arguments that, in the new Regulation, search engines should not be classed as data controllers. We do not believe that individuals should be able to have links to accurate and lawfully available information about them removed, simply because they do not like what is said.
It is incredibility difficult for legislation to keep up or 'future proof' the unforeseen leaps that technology is bound to make. We do, however, need to ensure that the next Regulation does not attempt to give individuals rights which are unenforceable."
Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, has also spoken out against this absurd ruling by the European Court of Justice:
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales today warned the ruling was tantamount to "censoring history" and "the start of a "very dangerous path to go down".
"I would say the biggest problem we have is that the law seems to indicate Google needs to censor links to information that is clearly public – links to articles in legally published, truthful news stories.
"That is a very dangerous path to go down, and if we want to go down a path where we are going to be censoring history, there is no way we should leave a private company like Google in charge of making those decisions."
It's also important to note that Google themselves aren't happy with the ruling:
Google said: "This is a disappointing ruling for search engines and online publishers in general. We are very surprised that it differs so dramatically from the advocate general's opinion and the warnings and consequences that he spelled out. We now need to take time to analyse the implications."
It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. Like Wales said, this is a very dangerous path to go down, and I think that the ruling by the European Court of Justice must be reversed as soon as possible.
I never want to get rich. In fact, I think that if you're rich you should be ashamed of yourself. And not only should you be ashamed of yourself, but you should also be very worried about the kind of person you've likely become.
When I mention to people that I never want to get rich, I always get a reaction of surprise from them, followed by the question of why not. It seems that in the world we live in today, most people are constantly looking for ways to earn more money and get richer, even if they already have enough to cover their basic needs and live a decent life. And this is one of the consequences of the societies we have around the world right now, where people are constantly encouraged to compete with one another. In these societies a person's success in life is measured by how wealthy he is, instead of how valuable he is to the people around him and to society in general.
For example, an aunt of mine mentioned to an acquaintance a few years ago that I'm a very good software engineer. And her acquaintance responded by saying that in that case I should have already been owning a car. I didn't own a car back then, and I still don't. However, I was making enough money to buy myself a car if I wanted to, but it just wasn't something that I felt I really needed to own. I like to live as minimally and simple as possible, and so far it's always been more convenient and cost efficient for me to take a taxi, or in very rare instances to rent a car. But this example just goes to show you how people measure success these days. If you don't show your wealth by spending lots of money, or by showing on social media channels how extraordinary your life is and where you're traveling to all the time, or by wearing a lot of expensive clothes (preferably only once in public), or by owning a very big and expensive house that could be home to 2-4 families, or by owning a lot of expensive items that you rarely need, then you're probably not successful.
Billionaire Nick Hanauer published an article recently on Politico warning his fellow "filthy rich Americans" that "the pitchforks are coming." In his article, Hanauer discussed the inequality in America that's getting worse every day:
At the same time that people like you and me are thriving beyond the dreams of any plutocrats in history, the rest of the country—the 99.99 percent—is lagging far behind. The divide between the haves and have-nots is getting worse really, really fast. In 1980, the top 1 percent controlled about 8 percent of U.S. national income. The bottom 50 percent shared about 18 percent. Today the top 1 percent share about 20 percent; the bottom 50 percent, just 12 percent.
But the problem isn't that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.
And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won't last.
While I am certainly pleasantly surprised by Hanauer's apparent courage to openly disagree with his fellow billionaires — who "think he's bonkers" — on the problem of inequality, his motivations for wanting to change the way things are going right now could have been much better. As Hanauer himself states, "the problem isn't inequality" but it's that "it is at historically high levels." So Hanauer doesn't have a problem with inequality per se; it's just that it's getting a little too extreme now. And these high levels of inequality threaten his empire and his (way of) life. So Hanauer's motivation is fear. He fears the pitchforks that are coming, and rightfully so.
Continue reading "Nick Hanauer: You're missing the point on inequality"
It looks like we're finally getting a feature in Adobe Photoshop we've long been waiting for: Focus Selection. A while back I had written a tutorial on focus peaking in Adobe Photoshop including some actions that are available for download (for free) that automate the process. They were far from perfect, but did a good job on most images. And I wondered:
Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a selection feature in Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom where we could easily select only the areas of an image that are in focus? The way this would work is exactly like the "Color Range" selection process in Photoshop, but only instead of a range of colors, it would select a range of focus. It would start by selecting the areas that are sharply in focus, and you could then increase the range/radius to include more of the picture in your selection extending more to the out of focus areas.
I had sent an email to Adobe about this in 2012, and it looks like we're finally going to have it in the next version of Photoshop. Check out the preview video below.
It won't surprise me if we also get this in a future version of Lightroom in the form of a focus masking option for the adjustment brushes. That will be awesome.
When I decided to start a satirical blog featuring a fake version of Canon USA's Chuck Westfall back in September 2008, I never expected that it would have gotten the exposure it eventually did. But a few months later, Canon Inc.'s lawyers tried to shut down the blog and get behind the identity of the author. Then all of a sudden a small blog that hardly anyone knew existed at that time became something much bigger.
It's almost 6 years ago now since I started the blog on September 13th, 2008 and it's time for me to move on to other things that I want to concentrate on. I think that it's best to officially close the blog and move on instead of just letting it sit there without updates. I decided to also come out and reveal who Fake Chuck really is and answer some questions that I know many people will have about the blog so that there can be no confusion or misunderstandings in the future. In case you have additional questions that haven't been answered here, feel free to post them in the comments below and I'll answer them for you.
Something that comes up often in discussions is the question of whether human beings are naturally evil creatures that need to be held in check with laws, either from the state and/or from a god, or whether they are intrinsically good. Those who believe that humans are intrinsically bad, claim that without any laws that tell people how to live and behave, and that threaten them with punishment if they don't follow those laws, humans would be out of control and we'd be living in chaos. They point at their own negative experiences with people, and at examples of people in societies around the world who are jealous, deceptive, manipulative, violent and corrupt. And it's true that when we look at the majority of people in societies around the world today, it really seems like humans have a lot of bad qualities and can't be trusted. But is this naturally the case? And do we really need the state or a god to tell us how to behave correctly and to tell us how to live our lives?
Continue reading "On Human Nature and Morality: Humans are Intrinsically Good"
Richard Knight, who is the Managing Director at UK based river transport company JP Knight, just sent in his client testimonial for the work I recently did for his company. It's one of the longest testimonials I ever received from a client, and you can read it below.
You would imagine that interpreting a client's brief must be one of the toughest challenges that a professional photographer can face: and this brief was indeed tough. I wanted to show what an extraordinary environment we work in yet also the demands placed on our officers and crews. Having commissioned shoots this specific before, and having not got the results, I knew that being precise as to what was expected would be critical, but would ultimately still be an act of faith!
Well, Karel handsomely repaid that faith and more…
In his blog, Karel describes how he went about the two shoots in disarming and electric detail so I won't go into that in this post because what really must be said and noted is the literally jaw-dropping images Karel captured.
Some history first though; JP Knight is after all 122 years old!
From the 1930s to the 1950s, JP Knight commissioned the celebrated photographer Beken of Cowes. His monochrome images have become some of the most iconic maritime images ever captured and the studies he made of our tugs from that era to this day defy description. They capture much more than the subject, more than just the light, they convey an emotion and a serious understanding of the subject's environment. In my view such maritime sensitivity is only now matched in each and every one of those respects by Karel's unbelievable skill.
But what is so remarkable in Karel's work?
First, the lengths he goes to get 'the shot'. We discussed plane v 'copter, but Karel was insistent that paying that (little!) extra for the helicopter was the only way to capture with total clarity the images I sought. Act of faith number one. In fact the act of faith was his, as his vivid description of the waterline shot proves.
Second, Karel's determination regardless of circumstance. The 'industrial shoot' really provided challenges. Torrential rain, awkward timings, working amongst a risk-strewn situation, coping with equipment failure: quite a list! Another act of faith – should we cancel? But no, Karel said he could do it despite the worst conditions. He was right.
Third, he captured the heroic nature of our crews, the focus and the will to deliver. Karel showed empathy with the men and like a great painter melded the circumstances to his advantage to create mood and atmosphere.
Karel is also a consummate professional in his business-like attitude. No grey areas, all costs are very clearly set out and agreed beforehand: no surprises, no extras.
Ultimately, Karel is that most elemental of photographers, a story-teller. He is a communicator – and isn't that what a picture ultimately is? A story.
Richard Knight, Managing Director, JP Knight
Like I mention elsewhere on my website, more important to me than the financial compensation for the work I do for my clients, is the fact that I want my work to be of value and to benefit my clients and contribute to their success. And it makes me feel really good to know that JP Knight is satisfied and values my work so much.
If you'd like to read more about the work I did for JP Knight, check out my posts Aerial Photography for JP Knight and Industrial Photography for JP Knight. You can also read previous client testimonials by visiting my Testimonials page.
A month after doing the aerial photography assignment for JP Knight, it was time to do the second part of the project which involved industrial photography. The plan was to follow the crew under normal working conditions and document their activities in a photojournalistic style. So there would be no planned shots, no posing or directing and no extra lighting and other fancy equipment. We just wanted to show the crew doing their job as realistic as possible.
While planning I already knew that the most challenging aspect of this assignment would be to stay out of the crew's way while doing my work and not distract them. And this proved to be true on the day of the assignment. In certain locations it wasn't always easy not to stand in the way of the crew and get good shots. But as it turned out, this would be the least of my concerns. A bigger issue on that day was the bad weather.


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One hundred percent of California is now in a severe drought, and Los Angeles County is even worse off, classified by the United States Drought Monitor as in "extreme drought" conditions. Now, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is calling on Angelenos to do their part to conserve water—and as an incentive, they've upped their turf replacement rebate from $2 per square foot to $3.… Read more >>
The drought is here and with a heat wave to boot, Angelenos are starting to feel the effects of climate change. To help community members learn what they can do to create a more sustainable LA and help slow climate change, TreePeople held a Community Sustainability Workshop at our headquarters on May 3rd. Roughly 100 people attended, ready to learn how to harvest rain, rip up their lawns, create native plant landscapes, and plant trees in their communities.
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If you live in Southern California, you may have noticed that we are red hot…and not in a good way. We are one of the red-colored zones experiencing the most severe impacts of climate change on the map (above) of the lower 48 released as part of the recent National Climate Assessment.
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In Your Opinion: What Constitutes a Dinner Party?
I have to admit, I'm a bit baffled by the term dinner party, and how it's different from just having friends over to dinner. If you asked me if my parents entertained while I was growing up, I would likely say no, but the truth is, we did have people over to the house for dinner on a fairly regular basis. Entertaining was reserved for Oktoberfest in our house, that's when the fancy dishes came out, and that's what I would consider a dinner party.
Now that I'm an adult and can entertain on my own, I'm a little bit murky on what constitutes a dinner party, and what is just a dinner with friends.
Here's how I separate the two in my mind:
Dinner with Friends:
- planned somewhat spontaneously (no farther than a week in advance)
- planning is in person, over the phone, or via e-mail
- food is simple and doesn't take a lot of advanced preparation
- no themes, special decorations, or place settings
- no activities, unless the Scrabble board spontaneously materializes
- small group of guests whom you see on a regular basis
Dinner Party:
- planned further in advance
- email or phone invite is more formal (it's the primary reason for the email or phone call, not just a piece of it)
- food is something that you would not normally cook; it might take ingredients you don't normally have on hand
- there is something special that sets it apart, and extra effort is put into setting the table
- there might be some kind of event or activity before the meal
- likely includes close friends and people whom you are just getting to know or don't see often
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Backstage and Behind the Scenes With Victoria's Secret Angel Chanel Iman
Don't kid yourselves—we know you've already got your DVRs set for tonight's CBS telecast of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The annual celebration of bejeweled underthings and bronzed beauties, the show's an over-the-top must-see...especially if you are (or share living space with) a guy.
To kick off the evening's VS festivities, we're sharing a collection of candids snapped backstage when the runway show was filmed several weeks ago. On the day of the taping, we were invited to shadow 21-year-old Angel Chanel Iman as she got prepped and primped for the catwalk.
"I'm wearing a ballet-inspired outfit first, and then this really cute, flirty, fun PINK look," Chanel told me of her two ensembles for the show. "I'm most looking forward to the performers, though. We've got Kanye, Nicki Minaj, Maroon 5...it's gonna be really fantastic." Bad news, by the way, for all those imagining the grueling workouts models must endure in the weeks leading up to the VS show: "Squats and a little weightlifting, that's really all I do to prepare," Chanel said with a shrug. Oh, to be a genetically-blessed Angel.
Be sure to tune in to CBS at 10 pm sharp tonight to catch the VS ladies in action. The stunning Alessandra Ambrosio will be taking over our Twitter for the evening to share even more behind-the-scenes scoop, so follow @LuckyMagazine to get an Angel's first-hand take on the extravagant event!
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No, JB Weld will not suffice (grin). It looks like a high rev failure to me. What's your guess? |
That it was more excitement than Pontiac ever built! VBG Really don't know. I don't do much big stuff at all, in fact I do everything I can to avoid it completely. High rev on an engine like that is probably 2400-2600, (guessing) at least that's what I would expect. But that's a considerable amount of torque being created, so I am not suprised that any failure results in massive destruction. |
RPMs: That was an in-line engine (usually) governed at 2100. They don't run much over about 1800 max rpm anymore MT or loaded. Usually 1200 to 1600. Suck em down to 1100 even under load long as they don't start to heat. Anyway years ago a friend lost a 335 Cummins - tops of all the pistons came off! After several months of extreme effort Cummins VERY reluctantly admitted to having made a batch of bad pistons. Many years (10 ?) later an outfit I drove for installed an old used (same era) 335 engine out of a wrecking yard and I had the pleasure of driving it when it lost all its piston tops 1/2 way up a 2-lane mountain road at night. The first sign of trouble was just a sudden terrible grinding/thumping noise/feeling. I shut down immediately, of course. My first thot at the time was the main bearing in the transmission. Then I got scared of a collision sitting there dead in the road; in a cabover you are the first one there. Then I fired up again to get to a wide spot, hell with the engine. Man did it run rough. |
A number of years ago in my town, late at night, a trucker was preparing to accelerate up a ramp on to the expressway. It was an uphil pull, so you can imagine the driver was pulling all he could get out of the enigne. As he did a 90 deg turn off the surface street and right after, he executed a gear change on his 18 wheel rig, but apparently, he caught a lower gear instead of the next higher one. He let out the clutch and pressed the accelerator. The engine let out a mighty whine and the clutch came apart. Parts of it penetrated the floor and broke the poor fellow's ankle. It was late at night. The rig with its moaning driver sat in the center of the ramp until a policeman came by and set a resecue in motion. On a personl note, I had a brake shop blow up one of my engines. My car, a 92 Dodge Dynasty with the 3.3 V6 Chrysler engine, was running fine when I took it in for a brake job. It was running fine with no untoward engine noises when an employee took it out for about a mile to check their work. After 15 minutes passed and we all began to wonder what happened, the young driver came walking back and reported an engine failure. When I went to the car, 1/2 block behind the car was the beginning of the oil and coolant spill. A rod was laying in the street; a piece of another rod was under the car. One rod had holed out the oil pan and another rod had poked a hole in the engine block internally. The driver insisted that he did not do anything to cause such a thing. I did not believe him. It had all the earmarks of an overspeed engine. It had an automatic transmission. What I think may have happened was that he had the shift lever in position "3" and while under throttle, and then tried to move the lever to "D" or drive. This car has no stop gate when going from 3 to D, thus it is easy to move right through "drive" to "neutral". (On this car, second gear is held up to 40 mph with the selector lever in position "3".) |
Needs more than jb weld...needs a new pan too at least : ) Doesn't need to be over reved for that kind of thing to happen with a diesel. A flaw in about anything, block, crank, rod, piston, or valve can cause one to self destruct, though that ones the worst I've seen by far. |
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Japanese Pavilion and Koi Pond Garden
The Japanese Pavilion at Lendonwood Gardens is a popular stop on any tour of the Gardens. With a design based on the Hosokawa Pavilion in Japan, the Pavilion provides a scenic overlook of the Koi Pond and surrounding garden.
The Pavilion's floors are made of cypress wood, which are resistant to rain damage. The 3x6-foot sections form a herringbone pattern called "tatami," another word for a straw mat on which to sit or sleep. In Japanese homes, two of these spaces would designate a futon-sized sleeping area for two people, or in the daytime, a space used for two people to sit and talk.
The building features post-and-beam construction with red cedar posts set in concrete and fitted into grooves cut into the beams. The structure is strengthened by decorative, yet functional, mortise-and-tenon redwood panels. The furniture was hand-made from rough-hewn western red cedar that was planed and sanded.
The Japanese Pavilion is a popular venue for receptions, tea parties, or simply a serene break during a tour of the Gardens. Children especially enjoy feeding the koi fish populating the pond near the Pavilion. A botanical highlight of the area is the large Himalayan Cedar near the Pavilion.


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Hi everyone, i need help as i feel ive run out of ideas. I have a two zone 5 ton carrier ac in my new 2800 sq ft home. It is two stories. I have had two separate companies out at least seven times each trying to fix problems with condensation on the outisde of the air handler in the attic and the system tripping the DATS sensor for too cold.
Tonight i measured the air temp with a probe just after the evap coil and it read 53 degrees. The air before the coil read 77 degrees. I also measured some places on the exterior of the air handler with a infrared sureface gauge and got readings in some places at 55 degrees and at others 45 degrees! What is wrong with this cursed system causing it to sweat so badly and get surfaces so cold??? Thanks |
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5-tons in a 2800sq ft home with zoning! Where do you live, on Mercury? Seriously, was a Manual J load calculation done? Post the model numbers for all the equipment installed. SR |
As a follow-up, can your zoned duct work handle 5-tons? SR |
Hey just saw your followup. I almost live on mercury (Houston, TX). Models are as follows: We've been through numerous iterations trying to get enough ducting to properly flow 5 tons worth of air. Right now we have a supply plenum that feeds two rectangular dampers (1 for each zone) which are apparently rated at 1100 CFM each. There is also a bypass damper with the weighted arm for adjusting the extra air, its run with 12" flex. It loops way back around into a mixing box on the return side. Current problems are its sweating on the outside of the supply plenum. The furnace blower is set to high speed. AC company measured static pressure (took a reading at the return side and supply sides) and said it was .4. Specifically, he measured at the return before the air hits the filter and on the supply side after the coil. I can get you any other info ya need such as air temp etc. |
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The Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum is celebrating International Museum Day on Saturday, May 18, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The theme for this year's celebration, which is celebrated in over 30,000 museums in 120 countries, is Museums (memory + creativity) = Social Change.
Choo Choo Blue, the B&O Railroad Museum's children's mascot, will be joining the festivity, by making a special appearance at the Boardwalk tram station, just north of the museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum, which is located on the south end of the Boardwalk at 813 S. Atlantic Avenue, will be offering free admission on May 18, in honor of International Museum Day. In addition, a 10% discount will be offered on all gift shop merchandise.
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Veteran Chris Nudds braves the elements as he competes in the Ely & District Hardriders event.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Norwich rider Chris Nudds was best veteran on age standard in the Ely & District Hardriders – by a large margin.
His time of 1:05:16 for the 25.2 miles of hell beat the standard for his 64 years by +5.40. It was more than a minute better than next best veteran, 49-year-old Keith Moseley from the West Midlands, who was one of a number of stars who had travelled a long way to sample this semi-classic event based at Little Downham and using roads across the black fens and the Isle of Ely.
"It was the usual muddy back roads, subsidence, broken, rutted and potholed surfaces, huge patches of diesel, and a flood to contend with and on this occasion add rain, sleet and blustery winds which not only made handling difficult but also reduced the temperature of plus-two to minus-one with the chill factor," said Nudds.
Another outstanding ride came from Hingham man Danny Watkins (Anglia Velo) who took 12th overall with 1:06:25 and told the Time Trial Forum: "It's amazing how much fighting against strong side winds and the cracks in the road can sap your power."
The event drew together a great cross-section of the cycling world.
Club riders like King's Lynn CC's Gavin Costick (1:28:10) rubbed shoulders with the likes of Chris Hopkinson (Army CU, 1:05:04) riding one of his last time trials before tackling, solo, the Race Across America, winner Joel Lewis (Abbis Colbert) an ambitious Kettering junior who recorded 59:01, Charles Pitt-Ford, who took third place in 1:00:30 as a novice time-trialist but a serious Cambridge University oarsman, and Elanor Cadzow, top lady in 1:16:11 and a Welwyn clubmate of Olympic gold medallist Laura Trott.
• The course for the final round of the Five-by-Three mountain bike series at Fritton Lake featured a new root-strewn section to test riders' skill,s plus an excursion along the side of the lake itself. Chris Hunter won the Senior event from Seb Herrod and David Frisby, Henry Periam took the Under-16s from Rob Lines and Sophie Wright and the top three in the Under-12s were Josun Cole, Fynn Hunter and Seth Houlgate.
• The annual meeting of the Veteran Time Trials Association has voted to adjust the newly-introduced (2012) age-standard tables slightly in favour of older riders and to award Standard Medals, now to be called Individual Performance Awards, on an entirely new and separate set of tables
• Richard Dunnett is giving a slide show of his round-the-world race experience tonight. It is at the CTC Norfolk Clubroom at the rear of Mile Cross Methodist Church, Aylsham Road, Norwich, starting at 8pm.
• On Sunday the Velo Club Norwich has 100km and 50km Reliability Trials based at Horsford Church Rooms. For the longer ride to Mundesley and Sheringham, groups will leave at 8.30am, 9am and 9.30am while those following the shorter route leave at 10am or 10.30am.
Ely & District Hardriders: 1 Joel Lewis (Abbis-Colbert Cycles RT) 59:01, 2 I Turner (St Neots CC) 59:48, 3 C Pitt-Ford (Cambridge University CC) 1-00:30, 4 K Woolf (Prestige Velo) 1-00:56, 5 P Tedbury (CUCC) 1-01:23, 6 S Cousins (St Ives CC) 1-01:55, 7 K Moseley Stourbridge Velo) 1-03:17, 2nd Vet on Std, +4:28) 7 C Hopkinson (Army CU) 1-05:04, 8 L Hattersley (St Ives CC) 1-05:15, 9 C Nudds (CC Breckland) 1-05:16 (1st Vet on Std +5:40), 10 N Jackson (Cambridge CC) 1-05:26, 11 T Rae (Kingston Whs) 1-05:36, 12 D Watkins (Anglia Velo) 1-06:25, 20 Elanor Cadzow (Welwyn Whs) 1-16:11 (1st Lady).
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Engineering firm Arup pays people to see and shape the future. In a global workforce of 10,000 how does it make sure their voices are heard?
Chris Luebkeman's job is to sketch the future. As Arup's director for global foresight and innovation, Luebkeman concerns himself with some of society's biggest questions. How should our cities deal with the onslaught of mass migration? How do we wean ourselves off fossil fuels but also cope with a doubling or even tripling of demand for energy? The more manageable problems often lead straight to client work. Could offshore wind turbines be designed to produce more power without increasing in size? Out at sea, size or, more importantly, weight, is crucial. Bigger turbines produce more energy, but their bulk makes them more costly both to install and maintain.
Arup's solution, developed with Wind Power and architects Grimshaw, is the Aerogenerator X, which has the potential to produce twice the power at only half the weight of a conventional turbine. How? Looking more like a sycamore seed than a windmill, the Aerogenerator's frame is shorter but much wider, while the turbine sits much lower down. The combined effect is a lighter, sturdier, more efficient machine.
For clean-energy advocates, keen to prove that the cost per kilowatt of wind power doesn't outweigh its benefits, the Aerogenerator X could prove a useful innovation. It's also a handy illustration of the type of problem solving that appears to come naturally to an engineering firm as comfortable asking questions as it is answering them.
With his sharp jacket and perennial bow tie, Luebkeman has the air of a man continually on his way to an awards event, which, given Arup's stack of industry accolades, is probably no surprise. From Sydney's Opera House to Beijing's Olympic "Bird's Nest" stadium and Aquatics Centre, Arup's headline projects demonstrate a company-wide desire to innovate on a grand scale. Sydney Opera House pioneered the use of computers to calculate the stresses and loads on its complex, curved roof. The Aquatics Centre, completed for the 2008 Beijing Games, won the MacRobert Award for engineering innovation, with judges praising its "breathtaking" fusion of molecular science and architecture.
Closer to home, buildings such as the Swiss Re "Gherkin" (30 St Mary Axe) and the Pompidou Centre in Paris (there's another in Metz, France) reflect not only the firm's innate creativity, but also one of founder Sir Ove Arup's key design legacies—unity between architecture and structure.
Ove Arup's firm of engineers, architects, planners and designers has come a long way since its post-war inception. The company is now global, with 10,000 employees working in 35 different countries. Hanging on to a founding philosophy is one thing, but how does such a large, globally distributed practice manage to maintain both the drive and the agility to innovate? Image helps. Framing challenging questions and devoting a small department to answering the unanswerable, offers a neat reputation wrapper. It signals to the client that Arup is unafraid of uncertainty. And it signals to current and future employees that this is a firm at which personal ambitions can be met. In this context, it matters little that many of the foresight team's ideas never leave the drawing broad.
The Arup strategy works, says David Gann, head of innovation and entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. Arup is seen as an organisation that prides itself "in taking on challenges that a lot of other people wouldn't want to take on".
Arup's hierarchical structure is designed to support the theory that innovation is nothing without execution. Although Arup's size can work against it, management is decentralised to encourage creativity and to stimulate a greater appetite for risk. And the fact that the firm is owned by its employees puts less pressure on the need to return investment immediately. "Our investment view is longer term. We're a trust and not a public company. We take a seven to 10-year view on payback," says Jeremy Watson, Arup's global research director.
These structural tenets are reinforced through education. Arup runs an innovation "school" for managers to make sure they don't inhibit potentially innovative subordinates. The course allows leaders to see that they are "enablers" of innovation, says Luebkeman, and also offers guidance for offices in which command-and-control management is still dominant. "Some of our offices are more vertical than others. It's important that our staff feel [that anyone can have] the capability to do something slightly out of whack, something that upsets the status quo." Gann says that although innovation on "every job" is seen neither as necessary nor desirable, innovation itself
is still part of the company's fabric. It's a view backed by
Peter Young, Arup's UK head of advanced technology and research. "The kind of people we employ are the kind who
always want to do it better next time. In that sense, I guess
innovation is continuous and ongoing," he says.
But there are more forceful influences on innovation than attitude and structure. Like most consultancies, Arup is project-led, and projects tend to throw up unexpected problems. The value to the client is contained in the quality of the reaction and in the way processes can be improved upon, explains Young. "Day-to-day problem solving—that's what I would call innovation on the fly."
In 2000, London's Millennium Bridge emerged as a pivotal test for Arup's ability to innovate reactively. Two days after opening to the public, the footbridge had to be closed after users reported instability when crossing. All bridges move slightly under the pressure of footfall, but these movements were greater than engineers had predicted. The wobbly bridge, as it was immediately dubbed, threatened to embarrass its project design team, which included Sir Norman Foster and sculptor Sir Anthony Caro. But while, as Gann notes, many companies would have tried to "hush it up", Arup opened up the problem to a team of researchers, which investigated and modelled the combined effects of varying numbers of pedestrians.
A simple but expensive solution would have been to strengthen the bridge. Instead, the team designed and "retrofitted passive damping" to limit the bridge's lateral movement and correct the wobble. Arup published its research and solution, effectively donating the new technique to the industry: an open, transparent response to a public-relations disaster. "Some companies wouldn't have approached it like that. It was a pretty smart way of handling it," says Gann.
Such an innovative solution wouldn't have been possible without a structure and culture almost entirely devoted to the capture and exploitation of knowledge. The company's internal network system, created with software supplied by Autonomy and Straker, aggregates the wisdom of the entire workforce, allowing its people to search and access the skills of any Arup employee anywhere in the world. "We are nothing but our people," says Luebkeman. "It's therefore crucial that our people are as knowledgeable, up to date, as clever and as connected as possible."
It's a common Arup boast that each client has a team of 10,000 people managing its account. Autonomy's knowledge network makes that boast at least credible. It was Apple's Steve Jobs who said that "creativity is just connecting things". But as Young points out: "You can't join the dots if you don't know the dots are there. That's what the knowledge infrastructure is for."
The knowledge network supports Arup projects around the world, but also acts as a "repository for online learning", allowing Arup employees to teach each other new techniques in a host of disciplines, from structural vibration control to plumbing. There is a forum for asking technical questions of experts, which Arup moderates only to ensure false information is not published.
Arup's knowledge networks also help spread innovation to different fields. Fixing the wobbly bridge, for example, handed Arup a new technique, which it was able to transfer to high-rise buildings. Skyscrapers lean in high winds, says Young. Adding extra structural support can reduce the problem, but it is expensive for high-rise buildings. Install damping in the building and you not only limit unwanted movement but also save on resources. "What you see on the underside of the Millennium Bridge are chevrons with viscous dampers between them. Applying similar support to a high-rise building allows you to reduce the cost of the structure and the size of the foundations," he explains.
Young says Arup is quick to back new ideas with finance. If an engineer conceives an approach to a structural or design problem, perhaps a clever way of analysing wind flow around a turbine, the company's investment funds assess the idea's viability either for patenting or for use on future projects. Even if an idea isn't implemented, says Luebkeman, the firm is happy to pick up the tab, "as long as the process of investigation has moved their own knowledge ahead". A new wind-flow analysis method would give the team a head start the next time it designs a turbine, he explains.
Quite often, problem-solving innovation is created by "happy" clashes between different disciplines. Arup is a firm of engineers, designers, accountants, architects, marketing professionals and graphic designers. Engineers tackle architectural problems, designers try to answer engineering questions and technologists join forces with mathematicians to enable new angles to be explored. It's what's known as hybrid thinking.
The Spire of Dublin's "fatigue life" is a case in point. The fatigue life of a structure relates to the amount of pressure that can be exerted before it buckles. "If you bend a paper clip many times it will eventually break," says Young. The tall, narrow Spire is susceptible to vibration in high winds.
Assessing and limiting potentially damaging vibrations could be achieved only by joining a wind expert, a fatigue expert, a structural engineer and a material expert.
Hybrid thinking, says Young, is particularly handy in researching nascent industries. One of Arup's current projects, investigating the impact of electric vehicles on urban infrastructure, illustrates the point. "Even if I wanted to," says Young, "it would be very difficult to go to the marketplace and recruit 10 electric vehicles experts because there aren't really any electric vehicle experts. It's rather new. We take people who have a broad problem-solving approach, an open mind, and say, 'here's the problem'."
Arup's analysis of the potential impact of electric vehicles for both public and private sector clients has allowed it to make an intriguing bet. Induction power transfer, the same type of technology that enables shavers and electric toothbrushes to recharge, could be placed underneath the road surface, allowing dormant cars to recharge electromagnetically. Arup is in partnership with a spin-out firm from Auckland University to bring this innovative technology to market. Young doesn't like to call it design thinking, a label that, he says, is simply "a discussion of semantics, a bit of a distraction", but it's clear Arup is infected with a childlike questioning of the status quo. It's what drives creativity right to the edges of the company.
Luebkeman calls it a willingness to "explore and to consider things from first principles". Arup's culture is about stepping back, he says, and asking, "Is that the right question?" It's not a case of "What are we building?", but "What are we building it for?" He adds: "Out of that tension something else often pops out that wasn't considered."
Innovation starts with a question.
Making a mark
• Sydney Opera House Sydney, 1973• Angel of the North Gateshead, 1998 (advised sculptor Antony Gormley)
• Millennium Bridge London, 2000
• Øresund Bridge Denmark/ Sweden, 2000
• City of Manchester Stadium Manchester, 2002
• 30 St Mary Axe London, 2003
• Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, 2004
• National Assembly for Wales Cardiff, 2005
• Casa da Música Porto, 2005
• High Speed 1 London and Kent, 2007
• National Aquatics Centre, Beijing, 2007
• National Stadium (Bird's Nest) Beijing, 2008
• Heathrow Terminal 5, London, 2008
• Pompidou Centre Metz, 2010


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Hello. My husband and I just landscaped in Northern NJ and we had fallen in love with a Lord Robert Rhod. but when we went to puchase, it was gone and we cant find one anywhere. Can anyone suggest nurseries or even internet delivery where we could get one.
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Hello, robynh217. A Sandy Rhododendron in Oregon normally sells them but they are closed until the Fall. You could try calling them to see if, at the least, they still have it in stock for sale by then. Luis |
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Lord Roberts is an older variety that has dropped out of favor since other reds such a Nova Zembla are much more popular in the garden centers in this area. Fall is the best time to plant them if you mulch them enough to prevent frost heaving. Monrovia grows Lord Roberts. They may be able to tell you of one of their customers that stocks it. Another plant you might consider is Francesca. It has very large, very dark red flowers. It is very showy. It is available from Rarefind Nursery |
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Sonnax's mission is to be the leading supplier of innovative drivetrain components to the automotive aftermarket by developing quality solutions that serve customer needs. To achieve our mission we are focused on three broad strategies:
Founded in 1978, Sonnax is an award-winning industry leader in the cutting edge design, manufacture and distribution of the highest quality products to the automotive aftermarket, commercial vehicle industries, and industrial sectors utilizing drivetrain technology. We offer a wide variety of innovative components used to remanufacture torque converters, rebuild automatic transmissions, upgrade driveshafts and protect the driveline from over-torque damage.
As a leading supplier to the automotive aftermarket, Sonnax exports to more than 70 countries and supports emerging markets worldwide. An international network of distributors, remanufacturers and technical resources is one result of our commitment to successful partnerships with our customers. The Sonnax TASC Force® is vital to this effort, bringing the Sonnax team together with transmission specialists, remanufacturers and rebuilders to share knowledge benefitting the entire transmission industry.
Recognized in 2012 and 2014 as one of the Best Places to Work in Vermont, Sonnax is one of the fastest growing companies in the state and we are proud to be a 100% employee-owned company. Sonnax corporate headquarters located in southern Vermont includes state-of-the-art design, inspection, technical development and distribution facilities, with additional Technical Development Centers located in California, Georgia, Missouri, Montana and Wisconsin. Our 150 plus employees take great pride in the Sonnax name, and strive to further the company's reputation for excellent service, technical knowledge and customer dedication.
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In 2010, Sonnax announced the formation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The ESOP is the ultimate way to reward our employees for their hard work and contributions to the company.
An ESOP is an employee benefit plan that invests primarily in stock of the sponsoring company. The company sets up a trust fund which owns shares of the company stock. At Sonnax, the trust owns 100% of the company stock. Shares in the trust are allocated to individual employee accounts. As employees accumulate seniority within the company, they acquire increased vesting in those shares.
The ESOP helps to provide stable careers and local ownership. It enables a motivating atmosphere where employees can feel good about coming to work every day. And the greatest benefit of the ESOP is that it allows employees to participate in the growth and success of the business.
Of course, being 100% employee-owned is just one of the many wonderful reasons that Sonnax was named one of the best places to work in Vermont. Check out our Career Opportunities page for current openings.
True collaboration toward a common goal is not something you see everyday, but that is what the Sonnax TASC Force is all about.
The Sonnax Technical Automotive Specialties Committee (TASC) Force is composed of experienced transmission rebuilders and technicians who value technical innovations and have hands-on understanding of the latest units and industry developments. From around the globe, the best minds in the transmission industry willingly share their know-how, with the understanding that everyone benefits when good ideas and products emerge from centuries of combined transmission wisdom.
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TASC Force members contribute product ideas, test new products, troubleshoot results, and get together on a regular basis to listen, discuss and compare findings. Their efforts help provide answers and repairs for the entire industry. Everybody wins.
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We have always looked at what causes failures, as well as what actually failed. This is the only true way of doing a great job for our customers. By becoming involved with the TASC Force, and using Sonnax products religiously, we are better able to do just that.Scott Medori, Parkland Transmission, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
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PCMark Vantage 64-bit
Version and / or Patch Used: Nov 2007 Hotfix
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Product Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/pcmark-vantage/
PCMark Vantage is the first objective hardware performance benchmark for PCs running 32 and 64 bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista. PCMark Vantage is perfectly suited for benchmarking any type of Microsoft Windows Vista PC from multimedia home entertainment systems and laptops to dedicated workstations and high-end gaming rigs. Regardless of whether the benchmarker is an artist or an IT Professional, PCMark Vantage shows the user where their system soars or falls flat, and how to get the most performance possible out of their hardware. PCMark Vantage is easy enough for even the most casual enthusiast to use yet supports in-depth, professional industry grade testing.
The 1215N is the first machine that I have run through my new extended benchmark regime and with that in mind there are no scores to compare to right now.
CINEBENCH R11.5 64-bit
Version and / or Patch Used: Release 11.5
Developer Homepage: http://www.maxon.net/
CINEBENCH is a real-world test suite that assesses your computer's performance capabilities. MAXON CINEBENCH is based on MAXON's award-winning animation software, CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more.
MAXON CINEBENCH runs several tests on your computer to measure the performance of the main processor and the graphics card under real world circumstances. The benchmark application makes use of up to 16 CPUs or CPU cores and is available for Windows (32-bit and 64-Bit) and Macintosh (PPC and Intel-based).
This is another of my new benchmarks, so there are no scores for comparison at this time.
Super Pi
Version and / or Patch Used: 1.5 Mod XS
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Product Homepage: http://pw1.netcom.com/~hjsmith/Pi/Super_Pi.html
Developed by some folks from the University of Tokyo (yes, Japan), Super PI is a small utility that does just as the name implies. It figures PI to a set number of decimal places. Since PI is an infinite number to the right of the decimal point, the utility measures the time it takes to figure a set number of places. It runs the calculations a set number of times and gives a time for the completion of the task. This is a simple and effective way to measure the raw number crunching power of the processor being used to compile the results.
Another new benchmark for my netbook regime, as you can see from the single score.