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My work in energy efficiency lead me to rubbing elbows with energy economists and that lead me to believe that
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way to reverse the destructive trend. But getting enough people to all think collectively requires central control of the breadth and depth that I want nothing to do with - to me the USA is already excessively controlling its citizens.
But I agree that working as individuals and small groups may be futile.
Once I was angry at some beavers who had felled several large aspen trees to get enough twigs to build a dam. The area looked like hell and the resulting pond inundated my favorite mountain bike trail through a wildflower meadow. Then I thought, why be angry, they are just beavers doing what beavers do. Well, I think homo sapiens are doing what homo sapiens do. And the world goes on. I'm glad I got to do so many things that future people won't be able to, but they will do things I can't even imagine.
I guess I'm not quite so pessimistic. It is possible to change behavior on a mass scale over time. Per capita energy use dropped in the late 70's. People do actually use seat belts today and a lot few people smoke than they used to. In some cases it can take decades.
European countries have made great strides in renewables and energy conservation. We should be embarrassed.
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Girl Stars in the CapitalBy Augustine VeliathNew Delhi May 09 : Stars are busy people. Girl stars are no different. During the two days that twelve of them spent in the capital city of New Delhi, they had places to go, people to meet, campaigns to launch and questions to answer.Selected for their grit, determination and achievements in the face of extreme hardships they were interviewed by the media , the child reporters of Delhi and extensively by the Parliament television channel known as Lok Sabha TV. They also visited the Lok Sabha speaker and other senior officialsThe Parliamentary Forum on Children held a special session in their honor. The Convener of the Forum Ms Prema Cariappa M.P hosted this session in the Parliament Annex.Among the parliamentarians present were two key ministers. "I am responsible for jobs and there are not enough jobs to go around", said the Minister for Labour Oscar Fernandez. "But you girls have shown that nobody needs to wait for jobs. With a little initiative and hard work, any one can stand on their feet and support one's families and even become role models. This is the lesson that needs to go all the young people of India.""You are the perfect ambassadors for doing so", he continued, "because you have done it all. I salute you as the ambassadors of future India."The Health Ministry will use your films to inspire our 600,000 Ashas (Accredited Social Health Activists), said the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Ambumani Ramdoss told the girl stars. Through the Ashas we will inspire many more thousands of girls to become like you—self sufficient, confident and inspring , he said.Besides the members of Parliament senior officials from Ministry of Health, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Ministry of Labour engaged the girl stars in dialogue on their achievement s and insights.
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Ed Driscoll has links to four Led Zeppelin-related interviews, at least two of which are genuine. Warning: the one featuring Robert Plant contains mature subject matter.
BTW, has anyone out there watched the new "Unledded" DVD yet?
That was some pretty interesting Zep stuff! I've rediscovered LZ this last year, esp. after finding I, II and III in a thrift store along with House of the Holy. Amazing stuff.
I really enjoyed the comments the tech made about Jimmy's playing being reckless and pushing limits, after hearing other guitarists (wannabees) crack on him for being "sloppy" in concert.
It was cool, wasn't it? And finding all those records in a thrift store? You luck dog! (or is it "you lucky cow!"?)
I confess that I agree that there is an element of sloppiness in Page's playing. When I compare his playing to that of David Gilmour (which I know only from the widely-played Pink Floyd songs) or Brian May. I think that in Page's willingness to go in all directions at once (and who else could pull that off the way he does?), he does sacrifice some of the clarity and bite that I find in some other guitarists. This is of course a very subjective judgement. I do recall back in the very early '80s, when I was hanging out with some real Zep fans, I was a bit of a snob: I listened to jazz (Charlie Christian, Django Rheinhardt, Joe Pass, John Abercrombie, Terje Rypdal, Wes Montgomery, etc.). Within our little our little knot of friends, the two ends of the continuum of great guitarists were occupied by Jimmy Page and John McGlaughlin. What a contrast in technique--McGlaughlin's was vastly better, but we didn't feel that took anything away from Page because of the style of music he played.
In my view, Page's greater contributions to LZ were in fashioning the sensibility of it, such that it could run the gamut from "The Battle Of Evermore" to "Whole Lotta Love" to "Kashmir". It was the way he contributed to the whole shape of the band and its output. Purely as an instrumentalist, I think John Bonham was every bit as important to Zep's sound as Page, as were Plant's vocals. But I don't think anyone else but Page could have merged the blues and the folk and the rock and the exotic musical elements in such a compelling way.
I'm familiar with Django, but not McGlaughlin; I'll check him out.
Did you happen to catch Dave Grohl's (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) tribute to Bonham in Rolling Stone earlier this year (spring?). It was amazing! Drummer to drummer kudos. Very insightful too.
I'd heard that John Paul Jones' influence has not been fully seen by most; apparently he did the arranging along with bass/keyboards.
My bad: I misspelled his name. Think of a cross between Tal Farlow and Carlos Santana. He gained a good deal of notoriety as Miles Davis's guitarist when Miles was starting to go electric (the days of Joe Zawinul, Billy Cobham, and Wayne Shorter). He is (or was, at least) a devotee of Guru Sri Chinmoy, and so much of his music has a strong Indian influence. He did an album ( Love, Devotion, and Surrender ) with Carlos Santana.
If you want to hear just how rippingly fast and clean his technique is, pull up his album Electric Dreams at Amazon.com and listen to the exceprt from "The Dark Prince". I doubt that he does a hammer-on in the whole piece: each note is picked.
I am not at all saying that Page is any kind of a slouch as a guitarist--not in the least. I love his solo in "Fool In the Rain" from In Through the Out Door, as well as much else. I would just say that his virtues as a guitarist are orthogonal to McLaughlin's, and that his contributions to Led Zeppelin were as much in the whole creative construction of the band as solely in his playing.
I seldom read Rolling Stone, and so I did not see that piece on Bonham. I recall hearing or reading someone either in or close to the band saying that part of his genius lay in knowing what not to play. You listen to "Moby Dick", and you realize that he was a drummer with plenty of chops. And yet, you listen to the levee song from the 4th album, and he's not filling every rhythmic nook and crannie with sound. His playing is loud, but there is a restraint about it that is itself very powerful. Emporer Joseph could never have said to him as he did to Mozart that he played too many notes. He's kind of the opposite of the crazed, hyperactive Keith Moon (who is great also, but in a totally different way). There is a kind of stalking, doom-like inevitability about Bonham's playing that I find very powerful, especially when you know that he very well could deliver more sound than you could take.
I suspect that you are right, that Jonesy's influence is greater than one thinks, though I thought that Page arranged as well.
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"They were never critically acclaimed in their day, because they were too experimental and they were too fringe. In 1968 and '69, there was some freaky shit going on, but Zeppelin were the freakiest. I consider Jimmy Page freakier than Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix was a genius on fire, whereas Page was a genius possessed" too true.
Thanks for the Rolling Stone link--it's an interesting read. I can't join Grohl in investing the band with religious significance, though.


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> Just got a Zoom R16 last night. So, still reading the shit-awful
I was experimenting around with this some more today and discovered some
interesting things! I just tested with a Zoom R8 but assume the same will be
true for the R16.
1. I can use the device as a USB audio interface and it works with jack
2. It shows up as an Alsa MIDI device in the MIDI connection list (like in
3. Connecting the MIDI ports to the mcu ports in Ardour works! I could start and
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He does still have some highspeed versions, though i am sure he will have more kits soon |
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Oct 30, 2012, 11:59 AM | |
It's nice to see more module-based transmitter choices. They've been getting tougher to find over the years. Not that long ago, Futaba. Hitec, and JR each had a line of module-based rigs. There were a few others around, as well. Nowadays, Futaba still has their 10C & Hitec has their Aurora 9, but JR recently discontinued their last module-based tx.
I've been flying module-based Futaba rigs since the late 80s. I currently fly with a 10CHP. I can't imagine being stuck with just one band & modulation scheme, and then having to either buy a separate transmitter just to fly BNF stuff, or having to convert my FASST-equipped kit-built & ARF aircraft to Spetkrum. I really like the future-proof nature of module-based rigs. Just for grins, I dusted off my vintage Futaba FP-7FG/E from the mid-80s, popped in the Spektrum DM8 module + antenna, and flew a 21st century 2.4 GHz BNF plane with a quarter-century-old rig! I set the servo directions via the DIP swtiches, adjusted the end-points, dialed-in some expo & was ready to go. (Yup - those features were available back then.) The looks on the other pilots' faces were priceless as I walked out the the flight-line with a new BNF plane......carrying an antique tx! Joel |
Oct 30, 2012, 01:25 PM | |
So, maybe I am expecting to much too soon? I have been trying to fly this thing in my garage for several days. I have gotten it to hover a few times, but every "flight" ends in loss of control and a crash. I do know that it takes alot of practise to do this, even a basic hover. But I am really having trouble even with getting it into a hover.
Whenever I spool up I have to give rudder input or it starts spinning on the ground. Then when I give it enough CP to lift off, it seems to always want to go skidding sideways or backwards or something, never just lift up. Do I need to just practise more? Is my heli all out of whack due to crashes? I have 0 pitch at midstick and have tried different pitch/throttle curves. I do have a MCX2 coming, maybe I just need to learn that one first. Getting frustrated |
Oct 30, 2012, 01:35 PM | |
If you are skidding around you are not getting it in the air fast enough. Get the rpms up then just pop it up into the air
If you currently have a lot of expo and low rates and you are having issues, try even lower rates so it wont zip off but less expo so stick input is more instant |
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Oct 30, 2012, 01:41 PM | |
In addition to what IH mentioned, make sure that the heli remains stationary until the initialization process is complete. Moving a flybarless bird before the gyros have finished initializing will make it behave erratically. After the initialization, do not move the rudder or cyclic stick until liftoff. Moving the cyclic & rudder controls while the heli is still sitting on the pad can make the flybarless unit try to tip the bird over as it spools up - even if you center the controls before liftoff. Joel |
Oct 30, 2012, 01:54 PM | ||
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Sounds like the tail motor might not be working. Is it spinning? I've got some hair in it before and had problems. The flybarless system will not like skidding around on the floor. You need to get it up in the air than try to hover. Do you have a simulator?
Oct 30, 2012, 02:02 PM | |
Thank you, very much. I do see a couple things I should be doing/not doing from the above informative posts. I think I am trying to get it up too slowly, I need to "pop it in the air" as mentioned. I will try all of the suggestions, one at a time and report back. Thanks again for the help.
What about using trim for the rudder? No good? Also, should I be adjusting my ball links so that all are exactly even? One seems to be "screwed" on further than the others. |
Oct 30, 2012, 02:32 PM | ||
Bob |
Oct 30, 2012, 02:39 PM | ||
Make sure your aileron/elevator stay at zero trim. Don't attempt to trim these. Ideally, your swash arms should be even all the way around, but the AS3X will compensate if they're not. Don't try to play it safe by inching it off the ground slowly, that's a recipe for disaster. It's extremely difficult to control when it's at ground level. There's barely enough power for either you or the stabilization system to control it in this zone, and the added ground turbulence will just throw it around. Unless you've programmed out the negative pitch, nano will 'plant' itself on the ground at low throttle. Spool up slowly to get some down force building, but not so much throttle that it's lite in the skids. Don't touch the aileron/elevator. Once the main blades get up some speed, the down force will glue it to the floor and you'll get the tail control back. Use the rudder at this point to straighten things up again. Don't touch the aileron/elevator. Then, only when things are looking good, bump up the throttle quickly to bring it to a hover at eye level. With some practice it will pop straight up and you won't have to touch the aileron/elevator until it's well off the ground. |
Oct 30, 2012, 05:02 PM | ||
I remember my msr, i could fly that thing backwards, forwards, funnels, fff, then i got an mcpx! WOW it's like a whole new set of rules! Like others have said pop it up into a hover but YOU will have to fly it,compensate for drifting in all directions. It won't stay in a hover on its own for long, you need to give constant small inputs with any cp heli to keep it in the hover. Good luck with your nano.It really is great fun once you get the hang of it and can relax somewhat when flying cheers |
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"For decades, she has personified the phrase 'above and beyond,'" Obama said at a White House ceremony, linking good deeds of the 13 Americans to the story of the Good Samaritan.
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Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's peso is posting its worst quarter in three years on concern Europe's financial crisis will exacerbate a slowdown in the U.S. economy, the destination for 80 percent of the Latin American country's exports.
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Speculation the global economic deceleration will curb exports from developing countries is helping fuel a sell-off in emerging-market currencies that's eroding dollar-based returns for bond investors. The losses in the peso may worsen after investors last week turned the most bearish against the currency since October 2009, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The peso "is at its core a U.S. and to a great extent a global growth play," Mike Moran, a currency strategist at Standard Chartered Bank in New York, said in a telephone interview. "Clearly in the past couple of weeks we've seen a major downgrade in the market's assumptions for the macro- outlook for the next 12 months compounded by the concerns of a euro-zone debt crisis spinning out of control."
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Yields on Mexican government peso bonds due in 2024 jumped 38 basis points this month, or 0.38 percentage point, to 6.74 percent, heading for the biggest monthly increase since November 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Yields on Brazil's real-denominated securities maturing in 2021 rose six basis points during the same period to 11.72 percent. Ten-year U.S. Treasury yields sank 24 basis points this month to 1.98 percent and touched a record low of 1.6714 percent on Sept. 23.
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Foreign investors are selling the peso and buying dollars to hedge against losses in local Mexican bonds, exacerbating the currency's decline, said Flavia Cattan-Naslausky, a currency strategist at RBS Securities Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut. International investors hold about 40 percent of local fixed- rate peso bonds, known as Mbonos, according to central bank data.
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Bets on Mexico's currency weakening against the dollar outnumbered those on its appreciating by 16,890 contracts last week, the most since October 2009, according to the Washington- based CFTC.
"It becomes the ultimate market hedge where you're exposed in fixed-income, whether it's Mexico or Brazil and you hedge that position," Cattan-Naslausky said.
Citigroup Inc.'s Mexico City-based Banamex unit cut its 2011 year-end forecast for the peso to 13.2 per dollar from 11.9 and its 2012 projection to 12.7 from 12.2.
Risk aversion "has risen significantly in recent weeks," Banamex analyst Joel Virgen wrote in a research note on Sept. 26.
Standard Chartered said it reduced its 2011 year-end forecast to 13.8 per dollar from 11.4 in a Sept. 26 report.
The peso may rebound to 12.5 per U.S. dollar if European policy makers can solve the region's debt crisis, said Omar Martin del Campo, the Mexico City-based head trader at Banco Ve Por Mas SA.
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The peso's recent decline "is being completely influenced by Europe and the lack of news that can give the market certainty," Martin del Campo said in a telephone interview. "However, Mexico has a solid base. It has a high level of international reserves. It has the capacity to take measures in case they're required."
Mexico's international reserves rose 20.1 percent this year to $136.5 billion in the week ended Sept. 23, the central bank said on Sept. 27.
The extra yield investors demand to own Mexican government dollar bonds instead of U.S. Treasuries rose two basis points to 261 at 8:15 a.m. New York time, according to JPMorgan's EMBI Global index.
The peso rose 0.5 percent to 13.4835 per U.S. dollar. The currency's 8.4 percent drop this year is the third biggest among major Latin American currencies tracked by Bloomberg after Brazil's real and Chile's peso.
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The cost to protect Mexican debt against non-payment for five years has risen 83 basis points this quarter through yesterday to 190, according to data provider CMA, which is owned by CME Group Inc. and compiles prices quoted by dealers in the privately negotiated market. Credit-default swaps pay the buyer face value in exchange for the underlying securities or the cash equivalent if a government or company fails to adhere to its debt agreements.
Yields on futures contracts for the 28-day TIIE interbank rate due in March 2013 rose five basis points yesterday to 4.99 percent.
The slump in manufacturing and consumer confidence in the U.S. is hurting the peso, said Alejandro Padilla, a Mexico City- based debt strategist at Grupo Financiero Banorte-Ixe.
New York-region manufacturing shrank for a fourth straight month and in the Philadelphia area it contracted for a third time in four months, figures from the Federal Reserve showed. Confidence among U.S. consumers stagnated in September to an almost two-year low, according to data from the New York-based private research group The Conference Board released this week.
"There are some fundamental issues that have pressured the currency, mainly the slowdown of manufacturing activity," Padilla said in a telephone interview. "Manufacturing is slowing down and there is also the problem of a confidence crisis in the U.S."
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The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance Presents "The Transition of Doodle Pequeño," Nov. 30
Event: The Department of Theatre and Dance presents a play for all ages. "The Transition of Doodle Pequeño" includes glowing oranges the size of pumpkins, vaudeville vampires, pirate princesses, a troll who might not be a troll and a sassy, fast-talking goat. Doodle and his mother have just moved into a quadruplex where nothing is… » Continue Reading


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Chris Cornell Plays Unreleased Song Snippet at Soundgarden Show Amid New Album Hints
There must be a "when it rains, it pours" Soundgarden pun in there somewhere
Soundgarden took more than 15 years between albums before releasing last year's well-received King Animal. Fans of heavy, post-grunge rock might not have to wait that long for a follow-up.
For one thing, Soundgarden have already performed at least a snippet of new material. As Consequence of Sound points out, frontman Chris Cornell took out to his acoustic guitar to play an unreleased song onstage in Pennsylvania over the weekend.
As you can see beginning around the 3:30 mark in the video above, Cornell mostly just strums a single root chord while the band appears to begin improvising around him. "And I'll hold you once again / So I can forget," Cornell broods. Then they start directly into King Animal's "Halfway There," so it's possible the "song" is just a one-off interlude.
Possible, but far from certain. Cornell just told Billboard that "every time we're in a room we're coming up with something new." He also said that while it's too soon to talk about a new album just two months after King Animal, "There's nothing stopping us from continuing to make records and continuing to play shows, that's for sure."
Another reason to suspect the unreleased song is new: Soundgarden didn't leave anything on the table when they released King Animal. In December, guitarist Kim Thayil told heavy-music magazine Hails and Horns the band put it all on the record. "Everything on King Animal is what we completed," he was quoted as saying.>
Soundgarden's return also concides with Nirvana's surviving members joining Paul McCartney for a song from the soundtrack to Dave Grohl's Sundance-premiered Sound City film. Soundgarden even has in the works a Grohl-directed video involving Deadmau5. When you've been away for too long, it's never too soon to come back again.
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Re:EFnet is already paralyzed (156 comments)
While you're at it, please redesign SMTP.
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While you're at it, please redesign SMTP.
It's not a complete loss (425 comments)
What happens in my house: my son gets a Lego set. He excitedly spends hours building them (or one hour, if it's a small one). then he plays with it a little. A few days later I find it in pieces and deconstructed all over the playroom. A few days later, something else comes out as he institutes his own creations and modifications.
It's not a matter of lacking the manual, as we have kept every manual for every set he ever received. He knows where those manuals are, too.
To me, it seems like Lego has stuck a good balance.
EULA? (635 comments)
I can hardly believe this article was posted without researching the EULA. I would imagine it addresses this new feature. If it does, that's not news (other than the usual EULA hilarity). If it does not, that's news.
Keep it sane (780 comments)
In general, I like this approach. However, my faith in Microsoft's ability to produce a sane design for CLI management is not high. They have been moving toward this for about 5-6 years now, so it shouldn't surprise anyone. However, working with Powershell is no walk in the park. Sometimes I think they assign commandlet design to different members of the team. Those team members (thousands of them!) work on the commandlets from their own point of view with little oversight into the syntax or object model.
For instance, the object types that you would expect out of one Powershell commandlet (after you figure out the syntax, that is) is not what the next command expects as input. This has been the most frustrating part of Powershell and I keep hoping that eventually they will attack this with a more holistic approach to produce something with a little more clarity and sanity.
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Nothing to do with parabolic instinct (234 comments)
For me, the enjoyment of Angry Birds has nothing to do with parabolic instinct. It has everything to do with causing destruction with different methods and giggling over the silly graphics and sounds. The game is entertaining. This feels like an attempt at a scientific explanation for popularity. Why can't a game just be fun?
Free market is speaking (381 comments)
The free market is talking to us right now about the death of newspapers and old media... much in the way it spoke about the lack of innovation in the U.S. auto industry. We love free markets and malign other countries that do not subscribe to it.
Yet here we are, looking to tax people to bail old media out. We can't have our cake and eat it too.
If the gummint wants to talk about new taxes, why not put it toward something like education or hunger?
Why can't the workers in the old media jobs learn new skills and bring their old skills to the new media jobs?
It costs money (180 comments)
I suspect this is another one of those cases where the customer (government) wanted all kinds of features and monitoring but started to cut corners when it came with a price tag. It's amazing how little gets accomplished when the customer wants the pie in the sky features and doesn't realize it costs money.
Yes, I realize this works both ways. It could be that the requested monitoring and features were priced outlandishly by the contractor. In the end, everybody loses. All in all, I'm not going to hold my breath that whatever "technological error" produced this situation will get corrected. I fully expect it to be swept under the rug.
Re:no job is worth jail time (537 comments)
Mod parent up. This is a gem.
Re:Not Cross Platform (196 comments)
Yep, you beat me to it. I was going to comment... how is this cross-platform? It's all Windows technologies and
Google should be pissed (303 comments)
...for Gates patenting their complete business model. Is it more evil that Google didn't patent it, or is it worse that they kept it on the down-low?
Cloud computing is cheaper? (211 comments)
Is this why cloud computing is supposedly cheaper (right now)? Someone should look at this as a data point and consider what the remedy might do to that cheap cloud computing. Here's a dot - it should be connected.
I remember having the same thought (709 comments)
I jumped from the broadcast industry to the software industry once and had the same thought... I was shocked at how much time was spent in hallway discussions and whatnot.
Then I realized most of the discussions from the developers were centered around the code itself and creative approaches to solving problems. The sales and management folks were the ones walking around and talking about football. I decided this was part of the job. But you're right, there is a lot of time wasted in hallway discussions.
Web apps again? (278 comments)
Whattaya know. Just thought I'd point out - this strategy didn't work out so well for Apple when the iPhone first came out. They were booed into submission.
Capitalize on it (888 comments)
Why couldn't you capitalize on the situation and when interviews ask about this situation, explain everything with honesty? Everyone's made mistakes. Prove to your prospective employer that you know how to recognize your mistakes and learn from them. Showing this type of integrity should be a plus. If it's not a plus, you may want to reconsider your desire to work for them.
Just another group of clueless execs (158 comments)
Sounds like just another group of clueless executives in the communications/IT industry. All they saw was dollar signs with this agreement with Apple. They had no idea of the impact on their network.
Just another day in the IT industry.
A warning (219 comments)
Didn't "Ground Control" warn us against this?
Priorities out of line (424 comments)
Dude, wtf? You aren't going to be married long with this line of thinking. Get off of it and buy your woman a fantastic gaming machine and forget this crap. It shows you care. Priorities, man. She IS paying attention to your choices.
Seriously. WTH.
Re:The real reason this is News for Nerds (571 comments)
Having said that, christians have been predicting the rapture for centuries. And jesus comes right out and says that it's going to seem like it's taking forever and should be any minute when it's really far in the future.
So, what you're saying is... the code is still in development and QA hasn't signed off on it yet? Seems like Jesus is harping on a schedule-driven project here.


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7 Lucky Ways to Celebrate the Chinese New Year in Kansas City
In Chinese zodiac lore, the dragon is stately, proud, fiery, and passionate. And if you're turning 12, 24, 36, 48 (or another multiple of 12) this year, congratulations, noble dragon, 2012 is all you! Here are some ideas for how you can celebrate the Chinese New Year on January 23 in Kansas City.
1. Join Winter Reading
Our annual Adult Winter Reading program began on January 9, and if you haven't signed up yet, this is the perfect way to get started on your New Year's resolution to read more great literature – and celebrate the Chinese New Year in one swoop. The theme this year is Destination: Anywhere!, and the reading list will take you to far-flung places, including, of course, China. Start off with Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of pre-revolutionary China, The Good Earth, or delve into Jung Chang's multigenerational family history, Wild Swans. Get more suggested readings and sign up for Winter Reading here.
2. Attend the Greater Kansas City Chinese New Year Celebration
A day of free family activities will be held on Sunday, January 22, at the Carlsen Center of Johnson County Community College (12345 College Boulevard). Beginning at 9 a.m. with a Chinese speech contest, the Greater Kansas City Chinese New Year Celebration also includes a dance competition, children's activities, and performances by students from Beijing China. Last year, 3,000 people attended this all-day event, which ends with a ticketed New Year Gala at 7 p.m. It's sponsored by our friends at the Kansas City Chinese American Association, the Edgar Snow Memorial Fund, and the Confucius Institute of KU.
3. Watch a Hong Kong Action Flick
With leading men such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun Fat, Hong Kong cinema has for years churned out a brilliant miasma of flying fists and ricocheting bullets. Head down to the Stanley H. Durwood Film Vault at Central – or the A/V collection at any branch – and load up on cheap (and in most cases, free) DVDs to ring in the New Year with cinematic film-fu.
4. Make a Paper Craft
If you're looking for the right way to make a paper lantern or firecracker for Chinese New Year, skip the Google how-to crapshoot and check out a book. Karen Bledsoe's Chinese New Year Crafts, for one, contains 32 pages of craft-project goodness. You'll find it right next to Making Chinese Papercuts, Traditional Crafts from China and more user-friendly guides to Chinese-themed crafting for kids.
5. Check out a Chinese Children's Book
Speaking of kids, don't be caught without a seasonally appropriate story to tell this Sunday to the little ones. Over on the Library's "Keyword: Kids" blog, Westport librarian Sukalaya Kenworthy has assembled a list of Chinese New Year-themed reads for kids, alongside some memories of celebrating the holiday in her native Thailand.
6. Find a Dragon at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Chinese art collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum is among the finest in the nation. Read up on the dragons in the gallery, and check out the museum's own Chinese New Year celebration. On Friday, January 27, from 5 to 9 p.m., the museum offers an evening of events, including a performance by the Shaolin Lohan Pai Lion Dance Troupe, traditional music, Chinese yo-yos, and more. It's free, but tickets are required.
7. Read Red Star Over China and Plan to Attend Meet the Past: Edgar Snow
On March 1, 2012, see local history come to life on the set of the the Lyric Opera's production of Nixon in China at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, where actor Robert Gibby Brand will portray famed journalist Edgar Snow for a new edition of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III. A native of Kansas City, Snow authored Red Star Over China, the 1937 book that introduced Mao Tse-Tung and his Red Army to westerners. (This performance will offer a new version of the Meet the Past: Edgar Snow production that took place last fall.)
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Jason Harper is the web content developer and social media manager at the Kansas City Public Library.
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I enjoyed the Chinese New Year here in Beijing by going to see some classic Opera. It's a beautiful time of the year!
This is an awesome list of what to do during this exciting holiday season! I really enjoyed reading your blog. Thanks so much for this fun list. I'm reading the Good Earth now, and it is good reading this book while I am enjoying a Chinese steamed bun :)
Steamed bun...
I could go for a steamed bun right about now.
Thanks for the nice comment, Sukalaya! Not to mention your own list of Chinese New Year books!
Handy cookbook
If you are hungry and feel a little bit adventurous in the area of cooking, try this cookbook from the library-- Dim Sum: The Art of Chinese Tea Lunch by Ellen Blonder.


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So far, there is no conclusive summing-up about the cold hardiness of Trachycarpus princeps as even the biggest cultivated one is no less than half meter trunk , too early to test its maximum hardiness and few available ones are planted out to present a solid demonstration.
Some say it got damage at 15F but small plants have been tested from -9.5C in UK to -15C(5F) in Alabama ,USA and Netherlands and Germany without any problem. See the links "Discussion on Cloudforest forum" "Discussion on Dutch forum"
A German guy grew the seedling directly in the ground and as I was told they survived the cold as -12C with only sawdust covered around it.
T.princeps grows on the cliffs of 1600-2100m above the sea level and the snow could be up to knees in winter as I was told when traveling there. My assumption is that they could be as hardy as T.fortunei if not more. It takes time to test this idea.
Anyhow some Americans have been growing T.princeps possibly for years
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- Posted by josephine_sc 7/8 Clemson, SC (My Page) on Sun, Jan 17, 10 at 11:48
I just posted (Good New, Bad News) my update on my Trachycarpus princeps which is about the size of the one in the bottom photograph. We recently had a week of of 10-15 F nights. Mine suffered no damage at all. |
- Posted by tropicalzone7 7 (My Page) on Sun, Jan 17, 10 at 12:17
I think Princeps is right up there with waggies and windmill palms. A really nice palm to try, but I dont have any experience with them yet, but maybe soon! |
- Posted by trachyhead z8b SE England (My Page) on Sun, Jan 17, 10 at 16:03
I plan to plant out a couple of my princeps this year, but to be honest i will not let them see -6 or -7c until they have established themselves (maybe 3 or 4 years) as i just can't see the point in risking them. I'll let others do the testing for now as they are rare as hens teeth to buy them at a reasonable size not to mention that you would need to re-mortgage the house to pay for it if you did get one. Garry, one of your wild princeps has just germinated 1 year after sowing, so i now have hope for the rest. Trachycarpus fortunei these are not!!! One of the reasons these are so sought after apart from being very hardy and extremily atractive is thet they are not easy to germinate and getting them much past seedling stage without a fungal infection and rotting off is prooving to be difficult for many growers both amateur and professional. |
I'm going to plant one of mine out too Vic! It will definitely raise the minimum temp I let my palms see wherever it is planted.I would probably try for a min of 15(F). BTW Garry If you have a bigger pic of that Princeps in the second picture you cold post that would be awesome! < |
- Posted by garryendson 6-9 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Jan 17, 10 at 23:53
Josephine, your experience makes T.princeps quite promising in its cold hardiness for even a seedling. Vic,it is normal that T.princeps germination takes 6 months up to 3 years. It happens mostly in Spring and sporadically anytime throughout the whole year. I got around 30% germination ,but a German guy named Peter wisbar obtained 80% from the same batch of seeds. Big difference in the germination. limited availability,the difficult germination and hard to please, good cold hardiness and uniquely elegance make it worth its name , princeps - the prince of palms. :) just kidding. Did you just sow the seeds in the ground or sprout them using the zipbag method? If in the ground, the temperature could be too low to sprout them.I also read they need somewhat higher temperature than regular trachycarpus. Jim, I saw your princeps which is awesome .How old is it now? |
- Posted by mcgyvr2009i Schenectady, NY 5b (My Page) on Wed, Jul 17, 13 at 18:55
So, am I safe in assuming that it is so far a zone 7b plant if it survived temps down to 5F? |
Definitely need to grow them up some and then protect until they have some size. I just planted my small one this year so I'll be testing its hardiness with no external heat. Although ever princep planted at plant delieghts nursery died. |
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Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), based in Northbrook, IL, U.S., promoted Robert A. Williams to Director of Standards effective Feb. 1, 2003. He is the first to serve in this new position. Mr. Williams joined UL, one of the world's foremost product safety testing organizations, in 1973. He is responsible for coordinating UL's Standards operations worldwide. He also has managerial responsibilities for UL's Standards Department, International Standards activities, and Domestic Standards Committee activity. Mr. Williams will report to Ted Hall, UL's senior vice president and chief technical officer. "UL's presence globally in standards development activities is key to UL," says Mr. Hall. "For 30 years, Bob has played an integral role in UL's public safety mission and will continue to do so in his new position as he works to identify trends and opportunities in standardization and establish strategic operating plans and objectives for expanding the global impact of UL's Standards operations." UL has developed more than 880 Standards for Safety for products ranging from armored cable to electrical household apparatus. "UL's Standards for Safety and UL's Standards development process must respond to the global market place. UL continues to focus on its public safety mission by participating in international standards activities and actively pursuing harmonization with international standards," says Mr. Williams. "These activities seek to provide safe products to the global marketplace and global market access for UL's customers."
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As always, I have not been compensated for this review in any way. I purchased the reviewed product with my own money. I am writing this review as an average joe who appreciates a good product for a good price.
Glow-On advertises regularly on the forum, so I thought I would give it a try and see what happened. For 10 bucks I'm not out much if it doesn't work. It arrived in the mail, so I laid a few things out to try it on BEFORE i put it on my gun sights. My items were two tactical lights, a tv remote, a car key, and my bathroom wall. I cleaned every object with rubbing alcohol at the application site, shook the bottle, stirred it thoroughly, and went to town. My initial impression of the "paint" was it had a texture similar to paint with sand in it. It did not brush on well and was very very gritty, but not a big deal. I found the included applicator the easiest method to apply, unless you need a very fine dot.
After shaking and stirring, I applied an initial coat to my objects and allowed it to dry for 1 hr. I applied a second coat, and again let it dry for one hour. I applied a third coat and again let it dry for 1 hr. After drying for an hour i placed the objects under different light sources.... sunlight, standard house lighting, a 500 wt halogen light, and even my spare tactical light. All were timed to 20 minutes of light charging to keep things consistent. I then placed said objects in the bathroom with the lights off. everything glowed very brightly, enough to make it own light. We were off to a good start !
After 10 min, the glow had dimmed slightly but was still very bright.
After 20 min, the glow again had dimmed but was still very usable.
This was repeated every ten minutes for one hour. After an hour, the glow levels seemed to stabilize, but there was a noticeable difference in the items charged with the intense light sources vs. others, with the intense sources slightly brighter at this point. I extended the wait time to one hour, and was very surprised. The glow brightness had dimmed by half. usable but with a soft glow, and not the intense light emission at the start. I checked again in 1/2 hr, and the glow had again decreased to a still usable but noticeably softer glow. A 1/2 hr later I checked again and the glow had continued to decrease.
Essentially this continued to a point the sights were not usable, requiring effort to see the glowing dots. The time elapsed was no more than a few hrs. I moved everything to the closet, checked them before I went to bed and there was no glow at all. It was roughly 4 hrs from the time of the last check to the final check.
Final Observations:Overall, I think Glow-on is a good product, just not for weapon sights that you may need to depend on. I was always taught to use the right tool for the job. It would be great on fishing rod tips for night fishing, bobbers, lures etc, or a myriad of other uses. Just not gun sights. Glow-on makes the comparison of actual night sights costing 100.00 dollars, where glow-on costs ten. That is correct, but Night sights have a 10 yr life span ( roughly) and never stop glowing in those 10 years, which brings the cost to..... drum roll please..... $10 a year for 10 yrs of unfailing service. No recharging, no touching up, and they don't look ugly. Which brings me to another point...... Glow-On is not esthetically pleasing. to achieve a thick coat as recommended, i had to essentially glob it super thick. It looked pretty bad. Glow on recommends covering the whole sight, and you end up with a front sight post covered in a thick layer of greenish yellow crusty looking paint. If you look at the advertising images, you will see what I mean.
In closing, after trying this product, it does have some very usable applications such as those mentioned and many others. However, as it is marketed as a replacement for night sights, I reviewed it as such, and I found it to be lacking as such. When compared directly to the performance of night sights, night sights out performed it in every aspect, and I cannot recommend this product for use as such. Other may have a differing opinion or needs, so YMMV.
* This review is not meant to be construed as mean or inflammatory to Glow-on in any way. It is an honest, unbiased review of a product. I am not a scientist but I do use real world aplication to test and evaluate products.


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My question here is not really to debate OC vs waiting till I can CCW. My main question is what happens if the boat tips? Will complete immersion be destructive to the gun? Or will a good complete cleaning as soon as I get home be ok? I don't know a whole lot about anything beyond basic cleaning and shooting so bear with me. I don't really like the idea of putting it in a plastic bag, then in the holster.
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