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When creativity, ecology and innovation collide, packaging becomes the product. This sleek wine box by Ciclus converts into a table lamp with no extra parts required. The packaging is made with wood from local, managed forests and recycled cardboard. Inside is a locally and ecologically produced bottle of Cava, Spanish sparkling wine.
Designed as a corporate gift for Hera Holdings, an ecological waste and resource management group in Spain, this wine box lamp is an elegant exercise in sustainable packaging. The bottom of the box holds a hardware package for converting the wine box to a lamp, including a CFL light bulb, and the instructions come printed on the back of the cardboard box. Over 70% of the Cava package is converted into the lamp, leaving little to be discarded. The lamp also packs up flat for easy storage and moving. We suggest assembling the lamp before drinking the wine.
Ciclus is the design studio of Brazilian-born Tati Guimarães. Now based in Barcelona, Spain, Ciclus focuses on expressing emotion through design. Tati uses found objects and sustainable materials to create fashion and home accessories as well as custom projects for company gifts and promotions.
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Availability: In Stock and Ready To Ship Jan Michaels' extensive journeys inspire the eclectic designs that she and her team handcraft in her San Francisco workshop. Exotic hand-carved yellow and turquoise cinnabar resin form a brilliant contemporary color pairing in these bold works of wearable art. With synthetic turquoise, 9.5 in. long. Limited edition of 75. Certificate of Authenticity Included

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Single ticket wanted for Atlanta
I'm just looking for one single ticket to Atlanta as I will be in town for that game and originally thought I'd need two, but found out the other person can't go. So, if anyone has just a single ticket they can afford to sell I'd be most grateful! Thanks!


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This afternoon I've been driving a new facelift A3 2.0TDI-140 Sportback for a couple of hours. This is the new common-rail version of the 2.0TDI engine and I have to say I was impressed. It's so much quieter than my current 170 version. Even standing outside the car with the engine running it's much quieter. Also there seems to be more torque available at low speeds than my 170 and I did find that I did not need to change down for some corners where I would normally. It did have an old fashioned manual gearbox but once I got used to that again it was OK. It had the new type DIS display which also showed the selected gear - not sure if the current manual does that. The rest of the car, apart from the additional shiny bits inside was much the same. The actual model was a Sport version, black with black interior and black leather seats. Certainly would not be my choice but it was made a little better by the Open Sky Sunroofs. The door mirrors seemed huge but again once I got used to them they were quite nice with even a little repeater lens to show the indicators were flashing. But the main thing was the new common-rail engine. A great improvement over the existing.
When you say "certainly would not be my choice", were you referring to the interior colour, the model or the A3 in general? And why?
I was referring to the exterior colour, the interior colour and the seats. Basically I do not like black cars or black interiors. I've had both in the past and neither would be my choice again and I do not personally like leather seats. I also prefer the SE to the Sport model of the A3. The main reason for driving the car was to try the new common-rail engine and I would certainly buy another A3 Sportback with the new 2.0TDI common-rail engine. But it would not be black, would not have a black interior or leather seats but would have a DSG gearbox.
My Dad picks his up 1st September... he is going from the old 140 engine in a MK5 Golf to the new CR 143 in an A3 Sportback. He was originally wanting a Sport till I had one as courtesy car and told him about the ride, he tried one out himself and came to the same conclusion.
I think he will love it. I had an 'old' 140 before I current 170. The 170 is quieter than the 140 and the 'new' CR 140 is quieter still and more responsive to drive.
Got the new CR 140 in my A4, I thought the most noticeabel difference going from the A3 to A4 was the size of the vehcile, wrong then engine is the biggest difference. Much quieter as Dave said, more responsive and so far gives me great MPG. Very impressed very happy with it.
Dave the beauty of the 170 is the midrange pickup at say 50 -70 - how does the new 140 compare at the higher speeds ?
Yes I agree, although I have to say I didn't really only noticed slightly less performance in the mid-range with the 140. The dealer has told me that as soon as they get a new CR-170 I can have a drive in that as well, so it will interesting to compare both with the 140 which they will still have as it's part of their company car demo fleet and the new 170 against my existing 170. Certainly up to around 90mph on a motorway it felt fine and it had plenty of go in the 50-70 range. The new CR engines are supposed to give better fuel consumption than the existing engines as well as lower co2 figures.
cheers Dave, the new A4 estate has the 143 engine in it and is part of my shortlist of replacements for the bagga Will be very interested to see how the 170 "new" one drives, please let us know
I assume the 204bhp your quoting is the Alpina D3 which Bowfer will calim is not a BMW! Taking the 'normal' manufacturers versions and I have chosen the Auto versions as personally, having had two S-tronic's, I would never buy another manual. BMW 320d M Sport Auto / A3 Sportback 2.0TDI-140 S-tronic / TT-TDI Max bhp = 130 / 140 / 170 Max torque = 350 at 1750 / 350 at 1250-2500 / 350 at 2500-500 co2 = 144 / 143 / 139 combined mpg = 52.3 / 52.3 / 53.3 So from these figure the performance of the 140 is almost identical to the 2.0TDI BMW. It will be interesting to compare the figures for the A3 2.0TDI-170 when the are released. The 170 in the TT is interesting in that it gives the max torque figure of 350Nm but at higher rev of 2500-5000, which personally I find with the current 170 although the brochure says it's 1250-2500!
You should be able to get a pretty good idea from the figures for the TT TDI, as that uses the new 170 engine. What was the Sport suspension like in the latest A3 compared to the old one ? According to the reviews, the Sport suspension in the new Cabrio is supposed to be very good.
I'm going to have a go in a new A3 when they start getting the CR 170 engine in them. Be interested to see the difference between it and my 170 engine. Not really looking to change. They'll probably want a ridiculous amount of money plus my car anyway
Personally I'm not keen on the Sports Suspension hence I have an SE, but the new one did seem a little less harsh the I remember from driving other Sport models. With regard to the 170 in the TT-TDI it could well be a good comparison. The only real difference being the weight. I have a look on Audi UK because there is no data for the 170 in the current A3 brochure.
Having commented in my earlier post about the new TDI-170 in the TT-TDI having the same 350Nm of max torque but produced at higher revs of 2500-5000, I had a look on the Audi Germany website and it gives different figures. On that site it gives the figures for both the A3-170 and the TT-170 as 350Nm at 1750-2500. A little higher revs that the A3-140 which is 1250-2500 but not as high as 2500-5000. Looking again at the Audi UK site the 2500-5000 figures are the same as for the 2.0TFSI so I think someone has copied the wrong figures, again!! Certainly in my current 170 I do have to change down lower than I used to on my 140 for some corners and the difference between max torque starting at 1750 for the 170 rather than 1250 for the 140 could well explain this.
It's interesting that both the 140 and 170 have the same maximum torque, but at different revs. This may mean that the 140 is the best engine to have for normal day to day driving.
They are taken from Audi websites. The figures for the 170 are for the TT-TDI and not the A3 so the difference in weight may make some difference. Audi have not yet published on figures for the 170 engine in the A3.
Do you think you should not be comparing the 1 series with the above cars (audis) it's usually 1 v A3 or 3 v A4... The BMW 320d has 177bhp not 130 the 118d (140bhp) would be a closer comparison and the 120d (177bhp). And the 204bhp version is in all the 1 series shapes, think it's pushing out 214bhp in the Alpina.
The BMW figures came off their website so perhaps there are as bad as Audi and getting the figures right. And yes the 140s max torque should read 320 and not 350. It's my 170 that has 350. But there again numbers do not tell the whole story anyway. It's what it's like to drive that counts and the 2.0TDI-140 was very pleasant. It would have been even better if it had been an S-tronic!!
After further attemps to get at the correct information on both the BMW and Audi sites here are a revised set of figures for anyone who is interested: BMW 120d auto / Audi A3 2.0TDI Sportback S-Tronic / Audi TT-2.0TDI-170 manual max power 177bhp / 140bhp / 170bhp max torque 350Nm@1750 / 320Nm@1750-2500 / 350Nm@1750-2500 co2 145 / 143 / 139 combined mpg 57.4 / 52.3 / 53.3 It will still be interesting to see what the new 170 in an A3 is like to drive. The choice for me will be between the A3 Sportback 140 or 170 as I personally don't like the BMW 1 series. I have not tried the auto box in the 120d but if it's anything like the 3 series auto I drove before I purchased my current A3 18 months ago, it was horrible when compared with the S-tronic.
Interesting comments.... We currently have a A3 2.0TDi S-line (2008) 140 BHP (well it was!!!) and I find it quite noisy. I don't know if its because its my first diesel so I have nothing else to compare it too. Not so much the engine noise but road noise. I agree with regards to colour, mines Black outisde and black inside. In hindsight, I should have got a white one. Overall however, I have to say I'm very impressed with the car and can see us getting a newer model in the future.
I find that if you take out the actual engine noise, the actual noise my car makes is very dependant on the road surface. Near where I live they have recently finished a new bypass to a village and this new road joins straight on to the end of another bypass. The new one has a totally different road surface to the old one and when I drive from the old to the new it's as though someone turns off a switch. It was mainly the actual engine noise that was so much quieter on the new CR diesel when compared to the older diesel.
The 120d figures are wrong again co2 144 combined mpg 51.4 http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/pricesandspecifications/0,,1156___bs-MQ==@bb-S08=@sit-bmwuk,00.html Why dont you compare the 170 stronic sportback co2 149 combined mpg 49.6 The manual figures make the gap even wider, think the stronic is more economical than the manual in the audis. Think bmw will release the new dct box down the range soon enough to go head to head with the dsg/stronic.


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Creating 2D Nanocatalytic Combustion Pattern using Micro/Nano-fabrication Technology and Its Infrared Thermography AnalysisProf. Dr. Zhiyu "Jerry" HuDirector Institute of NanoMicroEnergy - Shanghai University |
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:30pm - 3:30pm 1005 EECS Add to Google Calendar |
Director, Institute of NanoMicroEnergy, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China Director, National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Micro/Nano Fabrication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, Chi |
About the EventIn recent years, micro-/nano-fabrication technology has expended its applications from manufacturing miniaturized mechanical/electrical systems to serving more complex biological/chemical/medical purposes. There are also increasing efforts of employing micro-/nano-technology to create electrical or mechanical power systems that promoted growing research in power-MEMS/NEMS area. In this paper, we will report our work in design and fabricate chemical energy powered high output MEMS system. Two-dimensional room temperature nanocatalytic combustion has been successfully achieved on a patterned surface forming a "2D-fire" with a thickness in nanometers. Further discussion will be introduced to understand its scientific significances, and more importantly its potential applications of establishing new class energy system. Additionally, a homemade infrared microscope provides high quality thermal image analysis of "2D-fire" in micrometer scale. After revealing its hardware and software capabilities, we will show more actual measurements from IC chips, MEMS hot plate to cancer optothermal treatment, etc. In order to calibrate the temperature measurement accuracy, we have developed a novel active calibration system basing on a micro-fabricated hot plate. |
BiographyDr. Zhiyu (Jerry) Hu (Ph.D. MBA), National Chair Professor of China, is holding a Zi Yuan Chair professorship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and serving as the director of National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Micro-/Nano-Fabrication. He is also the founder and director of the Institute of NanoMicroEnergy of Shanghai University at where he is holding professorships in 12 majors. Dr. Hu is an adjunct professor appointment at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA plus other honorary positions in several universities and institutes. He was a research staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the U.S. Department of Energy. His research interests are in NEMS- and MEMS-based sensors, nanoscale energy conversion, implantable BioMEMS devices and nanocatalytic materials. Dr. Hu is the author of more than eighty publications in peer reviewed journals; several dozens invited talks; eighty plus conference presentations and ten published and pending patents. He is the recipient of many awards that includes Discover Magazine Award, National and Regional Federal Laboratory Consortium awards and several awards from ORNL including The Inventor of the Year Award (2000). Dr. Hu's work generated many press accolades and mentions around the world. He is an active member of MNSC, APS, ASME, ACS, ECS, MRS, IECS and the National Physics Honor Society Sigma Pi Sigma. He is an executive member of Nano Engineering Council of ASME and a committee member of the Sensor Division of ECS. |
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We hope everyone had a fantastic Closing Day weekend. Many of the Championship games were quite close, with some going into overtime and two games going into Penalty Kicks! It's great to see such competitive matches. Read all about the drama in the December 17th issue of Santa Monica Mirror and see the photos of the League Champions in a separate announcement in this section. Read more »
We are excited to announce our 3rd Annual SM AYSO Spring Scrimmage Program.
The program is designed to give interested kids a chance to play more soccer in the Spring and to grow their skills in preparation for the 2011 Fall Season. The program will take place in a fun and pressure-free environment. The focus will be on playing soccer scrimmage games, though the kids will also do a little skills work with coaches. Read more »
Through the CREST Program, the City also offers a youth Spring program with two practices per week and a weekly 7v7 game on Saturdays. Teams are built around local SMMUSD Elementary & Middle Schools. Be true to your school! More Info. Read more »
While you have your new 2011 calendar out, circle some of these key dates. By overwhelming demand, we are bringing back our UK International Summer Camp and expanding it to 2 weeks; August 15-19 and August 22-26. In addition, we offer a coaches clinic and a striker clinic on the Saturday of that week. Last year's camp sold out, so save the date now and look for a sign-up announcement this Spring. The Summer Camp is open to the entire community, ages 4-16. Read more »
Congratulations to all who have been selected! Spring Select & All Star Selections are posted under the Spring 2011 tab.
We've had an incredible number of players interested in playing on Spring teams this year. It's unfortunate that we cannot accommodate everyone who has expressed an interest in post season play, but we are limited by the number of volunteer coaches & referees that are willing to make this added commitment. We hope that anyone who was not selected for a team this time around will keep trying and keep playing. Read more »
Please take 60 seconds to complete our brief survey about the Fall Season so we can get an idea of how you feel about your child's experience.
Your responses are completely anonymous and will be shared only with Executive Board & Division Commissioners to identify where we need to improve as an organization and how we can make the experience even more enjoyable for your child.
The 60 second Fall Season Survey is under the Fall 2010 tab. Read more »
Take advantage of our Early Bird discount rate, $110 per player, now through January 5.
On January 6, the player registration pre-season discount fee will increase to $150. Read more »
All Star coaches have made their selections and the rosters are now posted under the Spring 2011 tab. Congratulations to those players who will represent our Region in the Area 1P All Star Tournament on January 22 & 23 and 29 & 30 where they will face the All Star teams from our surrounding regions. If they are successful there, they advance to Sectionals to face All Star teams from all of Section 1, which includes Southern California & parts of Nevada & Arizona. Read more »
These six teams will be proudly representing our Region at the Area 1P Tournament on January 15 & 16. Congratulations! Read all about them in the December 17th issue of the Santa Monica Mirror.
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Kealakekua Bay reopens to tourists, but not locals
UPDATED 6:41 PM HST Apr 02, 2013Kealakekua Bay is one of the most historic and pristine locations in the entire state. But for local residents, placing their kayak in the ocean is not allowed.
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How to create a one to one relationship using the Entity Framework and the Code First Method.
In this example, were creating a 1 to 1 relationship with the Bakery class and the BakeryRecipe class.
Make sure each class has a link to the other class through the virtual instance. Add the context code to the Context file (BakeryContext.cs in this case).
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Definition of Cutleries
1. cutlery [n] - See also: cutlery
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1. Report of a Mission to Sikkim and the Tibetan Frontier: With a Memorandum on by Colman Macaulay (1885)
"At present much profit is derived from the sale of European cutleries, as they
are very portable. Mirrors, tin plates, and chinaware from Canton, ..."
2. Europe, Past and Present: A Comprehensive Manual of European Geography and by Franz Heinrich Ungewitter (1850)
"... is renowned for its cutleries, and lias 2800 inhabitants. ... renowned manufactures
of cutleries, considerable trade in millstones, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1863)
"We send our cottons and our cutleries with no less and no greater advantages to
foreign and alien lands than to our own colonial dependencies. ..."
4. History of Manufactures in the United States by Victor Selden Clark (1916)
"From those factories came cast iron cutleries, and flimsy but superficially
attractive fabrics, designed expressly for foreign markets. ..."
5. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"Glassworks, nut and bolt works, tin can factories, furniture factories, cutleries,
and scores of miscellaneous industries employ boys regularly at night. ..."
6. Russia by Alfred Rambaud, Edgar Saltus (1902)
"He visited cutleries, rope- walks, and other manufactories, and everywhere tried
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Christie's star-studded "Bid to Save the Earth" Green Auction raised millions in 2010 for various environmental charities. Today, the art powerhouse pulled back the curtain on round two; announcing a 2011 Green Auction with even more celebrity punch and "one-in-a-lifetime" opportunities.
Like last year, Christie's is leaning on charitybuzz for the online portion of the auction – which launches today and lasts through April 7th. On March 29th, an exclusive and luxurious live benefit will take place in New York City hosted by comedian Seth Meyers. According to the release, the carbon-neutral event will bring together "top art collectors, philanthropists, financiers and environmentalists with the fashion community." The evening will also feature a sustainable fashion show produced by Runway to Green; which brings together top designers to help raise awareness about the environment. Participating firms include Gucci, Balenciaga, Prada, Burberry, Yves Saint Laurent, and many more.
This one night event brought in almost $2.5M last year.
But back to the online auction. Starting right now, you can bid on "meet and greets" with celebs Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber (if his hair went for $40K, how much can we expect the whole package to go for?) — as well as day-long excursions with notables like President Bill Clinton, Harrison Ford, Robert F. Kennedy, and many more. Personally, I would love to throw my entire line of credit at the 10 Day trip to Tanzania and the stunning beaches of Mozambique. But alas, I need to eat.
To see the full auction details, head on over to the official Bid to Save the Earth Green Auction site here.
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I need some help. My boss is turning 50 next week and I wanted to put put together a survival kit for him. Funny stuff.... any ideas from all you smart and crafty sisters??? I want to get the items then put a little tag on it telling what it is... like...
Safety Pin to hold it all together when things feel like they're falling apart.Lollipop for days you feel life sucks.Pennies for your thoughts.
can anyone help me please....
Here is one I did for a friend's 40th birthday. I put them all in a big basket, wrapped it in cellophane and put a big bow on it. You could just change the number to 50. Also, you wouldn't have to use all of these - just pick and choose. Hope this helps.
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Here's an idea - a 40th survival kit. 40 lollipops - for when life sucks. 40 paperclips - to hold things together. 40 gladiola bulbs - because we're "glad" you finally joined the 40 club. Or some of us are "glad" it's you and not us. 40 rubber bands - to remind you to give tight hugs. 40 Hershey kisses - to use at your discretion. 40 tooth picks - to remind you to pick out the good qualities of everyone including yourself. 40 carrots - to keep your eyesight now that you're old. 40 screws - no explanation needed! 40 pennies - for 40 good wishes 40 garbage bags - to get rid of your old garbage/baggage 40 mls of oil - to keep your joints lubricated. 40 chili peppers - to spice up your life 40 marbles - spares for when you lose your own 40 erasers - to wipe out the mistakes you've made in the past 40 matches - to light your fire in any way shape or form that may need to be assisted at your advance years 40 sheets of paper - to write the next chapter in your life 40 nuts - because sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't 40 beans - because you have BEEN such a good friend to us all. And finally, some Thyme - because everyone can use a little more time.
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Among the public interest groups that have historically steered clear of the fight against usage caps and usage based billing is Public Knowledge.
Stop the Cap! took them to task more than a year ago for defending the implementation of these unjustified hidden rate hikes and usage limits. Since then, we welcome the fact the group has increasingly been trending towards the pro-consumer, anti-cap position, but they still have some road to travel.
Public Knowledge, joined by New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, has sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission expressing concern over AT&T's implementation of usage caps and asking for an investigation:
[…] Public Knowledge and New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative urge the Bureau to exercise its statutory authority to fully investigate the nature, purpose, impact of those caps upon consumers. The need to fully understand the nature of broadband caps is made all the more urgent by the recent decision by AT&T to break with past industry practice and convert its data cap into a revenue source.
[…] Caps on broadband usage imposed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can undermine the very goals that the Commission has committed itself to championing. While broadband caps are not inherently problematic, they carry the omnipresent temptation to act in anticompetitive and monopolistic ways. Unless they are clearly and transparently justified to address legitimate network capacity concerns, caps can work directly against the promise of broadband access.
The groups call out AT&T for its usage cap and overlimit fee model, and ponder whether these are more about revenue enhancement than network management. The answer to that question has been clear for more than two years now: it's all about the money.
The two groups are to be commended for raising the issue with the FCC, but they are dead wrong about caps not being inherently problematic. Usage caps have no place in the North American wired broadband market. Even in Canada, providers like Bell have failed to make a case justifying their implementation. What began as an argument about congestion has evolved into one about charging heavy users more to invest in upgrades that are simply not happening on a widespread basis. The specific argument used is tailored to the audience: complaints about congestion to government officials, denials of congestion issues to shareholders coupled with promotion of usage pricing as a revenue enhancer.
If Bell can't sell the Canadian government on its arguments for usage caps in a country that has a far lower population density and a much larger rural expanse to wire, AT&T certainly isn't going to have a case in the United States, and they don't.
The history of these schemes is clear:
- Providers historically conflate their wireless broadband platforms with wired broadband when arguing for Internet Overcharging schemes. When regulators agree to arguments that wireless capacity problems justify usage limits, extending those limits to wired broadband gets carried along for the ride. Dollar-a-holler groups supporting the industry love to use charts showing wireless data growth, and claim a similar problem afflicts wired broadband, even though the costs to cope with congestion are very different on the two platforms.
- Providers argue one thing while implementing another. Most make the claim pricing changes allow them to introduce discounted "light user" plans. But few save because true "pay only for what you use" usage-based billing is not on offer. Instead, worry-free flat use plans are taken off the menu, replaced with tiered plans that force subscribers to guess their usage. If they guess too little, a stiff overlimit fee applies. If they guess too much, they overpay. Heads AT&T wins, tails you lose. That's a clear warning providers are addressing revenue enhancement, not network enhancement.
- Claims of network congestion backed up with raw data, average usage per user, and the costs to address it are all labeled proprietary business information and are not available for independent inspection.
There are a few other issues:
In the world of broadband data caps, the caps recently implemented by AT&T are particularly aggressive. Unlike competitors whose caps appear to be at least nominally linked to congestions during peak-use periods, AT&T seeks to convert caps into a profit center by charging additional fees to customers who exceed the cap. In addition to concerns raised by broadband caps generally, such a practice produces a perverse incentive for AT&T to avoid raising its cap even as its own capacity expands.
In North America, only a handful of providers use peak-usage pricing for wired broadband. Cable One, America's 10th largest cable operator is among the largest, and they serve fewer than one million customers. Virtually all providers with usage caps count both upstream and downstream data traffic 24 hours a day against a fixed usage allowance. The largest — Comcast — does not charge an excessive usage fee. AT&T does.
Furthermore, it remains unclear why AT&T's recently announced caps are, at best, equal to those imposed by Comcast over two years ago. The caps for residential DSL customers are a full 100GB lower than those Comcast saw fit to offer in mid-2008. The lower caps for DSL customers is especially worrying because one of the traditional selling points of DSL networks is that their dedicated circuit design helps to mitigate the impacts of heavy users on the rest of the network. Together, these caps suggest either that AT&T's current network compares poorly to that of a major competitor circa 2008 or that there are non-network management motivations behind their creation.
As Stop the Cap! has always argued, usage caps are highly arbitrary. Providers always believe their usage caps are the best and most fair around, whether it was Frontier's 5GB usage limit or Comcast's 250GB limit.
AT&T experimented with usage limits in Reno, Nevada and Beaumont, Texas and found customers loathed them. Comcast's customers tolerate the cable company's 250GB usage cap because it is not strictly enforced — only the top few violators are issued warning letters. AT&T has established America's first Internet pricing version of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup: getting Comcast's tolerated usage cap into AT&T's wireless-side overlimit fee. The bitter aftertaste arrives in the mail at the end of the month.
Why establish different usage caps for DSL and U-verse? Marketing, of course. This is about money, remember?
AT&T DSL delivers far less average revenue per customer than its triple-play U-verse service. To give U-verse a higher value proposition, AT&T supplies a more generous usage allowance. Message: upgrade from DSL for a better broadband experience.
Technically, there is no reason to enforce either usage allowance, as AT&T DSL offers a dedicated connection to the central office or D-SLAM, from where fiber traditionally carries the signal to AT&T's enormous backbone connection. U-verse delivers fiber to the neighborhood and a much fatter dedicated pipeline into individual subscriber homes to deliver its phone, Internet, and video services.
A usage cap on U-verse makes as much sense as putting a coin meter on the television or charging for every phone call, something AT&T abandoned with their flat rate local and long distance plans.
Before partly granting AT&T's premise that usage limits are a prophylactic for congestion and then advocate they be administered with oversight, why not demand proof that such pricing and usage schemes are necessary in the first place. With independent verification of the raw data, providers like AT&T will find that an insurmountable challenge, especially if they have to open their books.
http://www.phillipdampier.com/video/Bell's Arguments for UBB 2-2011.flvCanada's experience with Usage-Based Billing has all of the hallmarks of the kind of consumer ripoff AT&T wants Americans to endure:
- A provider (Bell), whose spokesman argues for these pricing schemes to address congestion and "fairness," even as that same spokesman admits there is no congestion problem;
- Would-be competitors being priced out of the marketplace because they lack the infrastructure, access, or fair pricing to compete;
- Big bankers and investors who applaud price gouging and are appalled at government checks and balances.
Watch Mirko Bibic try to rationalize why Bell's Fibe TV (equivalent to AT&T U-verse) needs Internet Overcharging schemes for broadband, but suffers no capacity issues delivering video and phone calls over the exact same line. Then watch the company try and spin this pricing as an issue of fairness, even as an investor applauds the company: "I love this policy because I am a shareholder. That's all I care about. If you can suck every last cent out of users, I'm happy for you." Finally, watch a company buying wholesale access from Bell let the cat out of the bag — broadband usage costs pennies per gigabyte, not the several dollars many providers want to charge. (11 minutes)


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Brandon, S.D., February 9, 2009 - New Jersey-based W. Campbell Supply Co., LLC has joined Crimson Fire, Inc. as a new dealer.
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Nicolet centerfielder Brian Huntsinger said the best way to hit home runs, is to try not thinking about hitting home runs.
With that kind of logic in tow, roundtrippers must have been the furthest think from Huntsinger's mind Wednesday night in Germantown, as his majestic seventh-inning grand slam home run capped a two-dinger, eight-RBI night for him, and more importantly, capped a rally from a seven-run deficit for the Knights, as they beat the host Warhawks for the second time in as many nights, 16-11.
"I really don't know how this happened," said the returning All-Suburban outfielder, "but things are looking good. I just keep the same approach every time. Look for something good to hit. I try not to go up there thinking about home runs. I just try to work the field, go gap-to-gap and wait for a good pitch."
Huntsinger, whose three-run homer in the first gave the Knights an early lead, also had an RBI single in the fifth, as Nicolet maintained its hold on second place in the North Shore at 10-4 in league play and 20-8 overall. Germantown is now 10-11 overall.
The effort from Huntsinger reminded Nicolet mentor Dick Sykes of the first superstar he ever coached, former CNI Player of the Year Danny Winn. Winn was also an outfielder.
"The same kind of player, they were both just money," said Sykes, "but this was a huge win for us. We didn't lose our composure after we fell behind, but we're just so powerful one to seven in our order. When we hit the ball, we can be hard to stop."
And the Knights had to hit the ball. After Huntsinger's first blast helped Nicolet to a 4-0 first inning lead, its pitching staff had a hard time finding the plate and hanging onto the advantage.
Germantown hit Knight hurlers Joel Sharon and Bobby Herrick for eight runs in the third, but most of the damage was self-inflicted. The two pitchers combined for six walks and a key wild pitch in the frame, but the key play was a harrowing and scary one, as Nicolet second baseman Aaron Westling drifted out to field Mike Fischer's sky-high pop fly in short right.
The bases were loaded at the time, and with two out, the runners were moving at the crack of the bat. Westling seemed to have a bead on the ball, but lost it at the last second. The spinning ball caromed off the heel of his glove and popped him hard in both his nose and his eye as it skidded towards the rightfield foul line.
All three runs scored for the Warhawks and the game was delayed for several minutes while the training staff helped Westling. He eventually got up under his own power, holding a large ice pack to his face.
"We don't know how bad it is yet," said Sykes afterward. Warhawk infielder Jordan Infield finished off the inning with an RBI single to make it 8-4 Germantown. It was only the second hit of the frame for the Warhawks.
Things looked even better for Germantown in the fourth, as Eric Jordan hammered a mammoth three-run home run off Herrick over the 371-foot sign in dead centerfield to give the Warhawks an 11-4 advantage.
But the Knights did not fold their tents just yet.
"I just told the guys that we had to stay together and battle as as team," said Huntsinger. "We can't look at ourselves as individuals in a situation like that. All 14 of us have to stay together."
And that they did. The rally began in the fifth as the top of the order came through for the Knights. Huntsinger had an RBI single to get things started and Ben Rinehart a run-scoring groundout to close the frame, but in between D. J. Peltz really got Nicolet back into the game with a ringing bases-loaded, bases-clearing double to right-centerfield.
It was 11-9 at that point. In the meantime, Herrick started settling down for the Knights, putting down nine of the last 10 batters he faced, including six strikeouts.
Nicolet tied the score in the top of the sixth, and this time it was the Warhawks turn to lend a hand, as a critical two-out error off a ball hit by Peltz allowed two runs to score, tieing things up at 11-all.
"We didn't finish the inning or the game," Germantown coach Parrish Wagner said. "We make that play, we still go into the seventh with the lead."
But the Warhawks could not hold back the flood that was Huntsinger and the Knights in the seventh. Two singles and two walks gave Nicolet a 12-11 lead when Huntsinger stepped up to the plate with the bases juiced.
He hit a towering drive down the leftfield line that had home run length but was ruled foul. No matter, just a couple of pitches later he cracked his deciding blast to leftcenter that cleared the wall by a good 10-to-15 feet.
Herrick then put down the side in order in the seventh to finish things off.
"I think a win like this shows how strong we can be when we stay together," Huntsinger said. "If we stay together we can come back from anything. Battle and stay together as one."
Meanwhile, Wagner, who pulled his troops into centerfield for a quick huddle before the usual post-game exchange of handshakes, is getting tired of what is becoming a recurring theme.
"We can't finish games, or we don't know how to finish games," he said. "We make a critical error at a bad time and the momentum shifts. We need to play the seventh inning the same way as any other inning. Somebody needs to step up and make a play." He estimates that Germantown has lost seven or eight games where it has had at least a two-run lead.
Meanwhile, Sykes breathed a sigh of relief.
"It was good to see us not lose heart," he said.
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Manchester United legend Eric Cantona has claimed that his infamous kung fu-style kick on a Crystal Palace fan was the highlight of his career.The Frenchman was banned in 1995 after launching himself into the crowd with a kick at Palace fan Matthew Simmons after being sent off.
"When I did the kung fu kick on the hooligan, because these kind of people don't have to be at the game.
"I think maybe it's like a dream for some, you know sometimes to kick these kind of people.
"So I did it for them. So they are happy. It's a kind of freedom for them."
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sb92075 May 19, 2010 10:44 AM (in response to santi)Please help me to understand the importance of column_position in a table for Cost Based Optimizer.
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PrafullaNath May 19, 2010 10:47 AM (in response to santi)No importance you can have any order -
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or (3) order in the table definition.
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ajallen May 19, 2010 12:06 PM (in response to orawiss)Does not matter here, either. Used to with RBO, but not w/CBO. -
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Charles Hooper May 19, 2010 12:39 PM (in response to santi)santi wrote:
If you are asking about the order of the columns in a table, the order could make a difference. Page 527 of the book "Troubleshooting Oracle Performance" includes a brief description why the position of a column may make a difference, as well as a chart showing the performance impact.
Please help me to understand the importance of column_position in a table for Cost Based Optimizer.
I thought I remembered seeing a longer description in that book also (mentioned again on page 537 when discussing tables containing more than 255 columns).
The second half - the column position affects the optimizer's cost calculation for retrieving the data from the table.
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Added the second half of the column position information. -
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548860 May 19, 2010 1:48 PM (in response to santi)The decisions made by the optimizer are not influenced by the column positions in the table definition per se.
However, the ordering of columns have an impact on the physical storage, since for example, null markers are not stored for trailing null columns in a row. That could mean a smaller or bigger table (blocks/bytes) which I guess could influence the optimizer.
/ Ronnie -
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orawiss May 19, 2010 2:04 PM (in response to Charles Hooper)I agree with Charles. Makes sens! -
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santi May 19, 2010 8:58 PM (in response to Charles Hooper)Thanks Charles. The explanation cleared a lot. Now I wanted to understand what is it's impact when selecting an index:
Regards,Query No.1 (BLINE PROCESS) -------------------------- SELECT X,Y,Z FROM f.N_T_ADVICE_DTL WHERE A BETWEEN :1 AND :2 AND B BETWEEN :3 AND :4 AND C='A' ORDER BY A, B, D; Query No.2 ---------- SELECT SUM(T) FROM f.n_t_advice_dtl WHERE A = :b1 AND E =93 AND C ='A'; Index Details ------------- INDEX_NAME COLUMN_NAME COLUMN_POSITION ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------- BLINE_INDX A 1 <== Local B 2 C 3 N_T_ADVICE_DTL_IDX3 A 1 <== Local E 2
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sb92075 May 19, 2010 9:08 PM (in response to santi)please DDL for all tables & indexes being discussed. -
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Santosh Kumar May 21, 2010 9:43 AM (in response to santi)Column positions influence optimizer when it has to pick indexes. Richard Foote has described it:
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Charles Hooper May 22, 2010 11:12 AM (in response to santi)santi wrote:
I think that I misunderstood your question, and I could not quite understand why Santosh Kumar provided a link to one of Richard Foote's articles about index skip scans. I guess that if I read your post completely, including the code section, I would have understood that you were asking about whether or not the order of columns in an index definition mattered, and not about whether using either an index range scan or full table scan resulted in different performance results. Definitely, read Richard Foote's articles about performance characteristics of indexes.
Thanks Charles. The explanation cleared a lot. Now I wanted to understand what is it's impact when selecting an index:
I put together a little test case, which probably required about 8 to 12 hours to assemble and execute, to see if the column order in a table really matters. The test was performed under both 64 bit Linux and 64 bit Windows, and used index range scans as well as full table scans in Oracle Database 184.108.40.206:
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santi May 24, 2010 1:22 AM (in response to Charles Hooper)Thanks Charles,
I may be unclear in my question, but the explanation which I got from you was really wonderful and clear. Again the thread of 'Richard Foote' was also helpful.
Actually I have seen SQL tuners always check the column_position during their all diagnostic processes (especially when they check why a particular composite index is not picked). I could not understand why do they always check for column_position. That is why I asked the question in the forum.
Thanks to all.


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Not sure if it is necessary but feeling that I had to remove and clean my carbs I purchased a Morgan Carb Tune as was recommended by someone here.
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Hey txridr, where ya located?? I have a homemade one, made from instructions I got from HS, and I also have the tubes that screw in the ports, (tubes are for a 1100 gotten from markc).
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Good investment? Depends on whether or not you're going to use it. Generally, I only check carb sync once a year (about 7k miles) and don't need to adjust it every time.
With a V-twin, making your own is probably better. If that's too much to take on then you probably wouldn't use it. I've been using a 4-cylinder one that I bought years ago for the 4-cylinder bike I was rebuilding at the time. I really don't like the way it works on my V-twin so I've bought the tubing I need to build my own 2-cylinder version (as per the instructions linked above).
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You can buy this one on ebay for $90 after shipping... I've been meaning to get one for a long while. I rebuilt my carbs a few months ago and have just been too broke to buy the manometer. I think I'm going to try to build my own. I just hate going the cheap route only to have to go the expensive route later, but it sounds like some people even prefer this method over a true manometer.
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Some syncro's I see are 2 or 4 gauges (vacuum) on plate, with hoses. Why couldn't a guy go to say AutoZone, and "rent" (free when returned) 2 big 3" diameter gauges, use his own fittings, and have NOTHING setting around the garage being used 1 day out of a year, or so? Maybe even switch the gauges on each cylinder to be sure they are "calibrated"....ie "read the same" before "trusting" them for the syncro job. Input appreciated, I personally have not done this.
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