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Code: Blue were the S.W.A.T who took on costumed villains. Years ago they'd taken on the Wrecking Crew and won which gave them credibility. They even took on Ulik the troll, Cardiac and Juggernaut which gave them funding
But then they had a malfunctioning robot which got them taken to task by Internal Affairs who nearly scrutinized them back to normal duties. Then a member died in the line of duty. Their coffin was being nailed shut when the Rand Corporation donated four million dollars to the unit. Not to be outdone Stark Industries matched it as did Fantastic Four Incorporated and also Worthington Industries, which prompted Roxxon to match all the donations and Code: Blue were up and running again.
Dallas hated them! Hate was too harsh but she really disliked them due to the fact that they got handed money because they were pals with Thor and the rest of the force had to scrimp, save and run carwashes. And now they had been brought in by Captain Burdick on orders of the mayor.
"So…" Dallas looked at their commanding officer, Lieutenant Marcus Stone, as they stood in the Captain's office.
"You don't like me, do you?" said Stone as he eyed the detective up and down.
"Would you like polite or honest?" asked Dallas as she sipped her coffee.
"You're about as useful as the Power Pack!" remarked Dallas.
Lieutenant Stone glared at the detective "Really?"
Dallas nodded as she finished her coffee "My boss's boss wants you to help with my case. Honestly, I want you to go play in the park and wait until the Rhino knocks over an armoured car or something. You're a S.W.A.T team, I need detectives! Besides, you look like an action figure"
Captain Burdick entered the room "Has Detective Riordan brought you up to speed Stone?"
"Your detective has been…most informative" said Stone.
"That doesn't sound like Dallas at all," commented the Captain as he poured himself a cup of coffee and took a seat at his desk "I thought she'd tell you how much the rest of the department thinks you're glory hounds and headline chasers!"
Dallas stifled a chuckle as she sat down; Lieutenant Stone tensed and exhaled to keep his anger in check.
"Have you finished?" asked Stone.
"Settle down Marcus" eased Captain Burdick "The mayor wants you onboard, so you're onboard. You and your team are easy targets"
"My team is exceptional!" stated Stone.
"Best money can buy" quipped Dallas.
"Okay enough!" said Burdick "Stone, you and your team will continue to do what you normally do. When the time comes and we're raiding this guy's house, you're first through the door."
"So you're mothballing me?"
"Essentially yes. Unless you want to do some general duties or know where Surge is…"
"Scourge" corrected Dallas
"…you're here only to keep the mayor happy" Captain Burdick stood up "It's not personal Marcus; it's just the way it is"
Lieutenant Stone stood up "I get it Blake, don't like it but I get it" He grunted a goodbye at Dallas and left, the door shutting with force, not slammed, but enough to know he was angry.
"When the mayor finds out about this," Captain Burdick pointed at Dallas "It'll be your badge and your pension"
"If!" said Dallas "IF they find out! Stone's a show pony but a cop show pony. He won't go blabbing."
Captain Burdick motioned for Dallas to leave as he got stuck into his paperwork.
I watch the news. "Masters of Evil hold fans and players hostage".
I MUST visit the sunshine state and rid them of their criminal problems…not now. But soon...
Detective Riordan stood in the morgue; beside her was Medical Examiner Georgia Jenkins, Crime Scene Technician Ryan Tucker and Dr Mark Byrne. Spread out were the victims of Scourge on several gurneys.
"You three know as much about this case as I do" said Dallas as she bolted the door "So I need your help cracking it. And please if you are the killer, just save me many sleepless nights and step forward now"
"You still think it's me don't you?" asked Ryan
"Did you do it?" snapped Dallas as her hand rested on her gun.
"Well okay then!" remarked Dallas "The reason I called you here is because I need your expert help and advice on how to catch this guy! I need options or conclusive evidence or a smoking gun or something! Please"
"You got me out of a S.H.I.E.L.D seminar for this?" asked Dr Byrne.
"Uh-huh" Dallas' shoulders dropped, her hand coming off the gun and slid into her pocket.
"Thank you" smiled Dr Byrne "I hate seminars!"
I should feel bad for planning to kill a woman, shouldn't I?
They wish equal rights, to be treated the same; then they get the same punishments! Hellen Feliciano is no woman, she's an animal!
"Oh come on!" yelled Dallas as she entered the apartment of one Hellen Feliciano "This is out of control!"
"It's a New York style pig rodeo!" came a familiar voice from the kitchen.
"What are you doing here Molly?" asked Dallas as she approached the other detective "Or do you prefer Lieutenant Von Richtofen? It's been too long?"
"It has!" replied Molly as she air kissed her cheek "Busy honestly"
"Oh yeah! So what are you doing in my crime scene?" asked Dallas as she pulled on a set of blue gloves.
"I think you mean my crime scene Dallas" said Molly as she followed suit "Besides, I may have a present for you?"
"Do tell?"
"You're after your cape killer right?"
"Yessss" Dallas watched her carefully
"Well Hellen Feliciano is dating Giacomo Fortunato, of the Fortunato Crime family"
Dallas gasped as she grabbed Molly by the shoulders "Tell me you caught him?"
"Only on film" Molly held up a CD "Want to see what your boy looks like?"
Male or female, human or mutant, they will all die!
They broke the law and justice will be served!
Scourge of The Underworld
Detective Riordan and Lieutenant Von Richtofen sat in Captain Burdick's office, eyes glued to the screen. The slightly fuzzy image showed the front door of Hellen Feliciano's apartment, shot from across the hall through the peephole of apartment seventeen. Nothing happens for several minutes when suddenly a man in a white trench coat enters the frame on the far left.
"Can we get that any clearer?" asked Dallas as she squinted trying to discern the face.
"This is the NYPD, not magical TV-land where everything gets done in a heartbeat" joked Molly "Enhancing an image only works if was clear to start off with"
The figure pulled on a grey, skull-like mask and donned a white wide brimmed hat, crouched and knocked on the door.
"What's he doing?" asked Molly
"How should I know?" snapped Dallas "This isn't like Secret Hospital"
"See the last episode?"
"I stopped watching after that Watson girl left to do movies"
"Ladies!" snapped Captain Burdick from the dark corner.
"Sorry Captain" they mumbled in unison and returned to the screen. The door opened a touch and the man in white sprang into action kicking the door fully open taking the woman who answered the door completely by surprise.
"What was that?" asked Dallas pointing to the screen.
"What was what?" said Molly
"Rewind and look at his hands. He doesn't have a weapon and then…look he's got one! It appears from nowhere, he's got a rifle!"
"Mutant?" asked Captain Burdick.
"May have to travel up to the special school in Westchester and have an ask around" said Dallas
"So he kicks open the door with no weapon and then pop! He's got one, pumps nine shots into her. Ex-lover?"
"Possible," said Dallas "To quote the good Dr Byrne; Acts of extreme violence indicate the killer knows the victims."
"So the other guys killed were what, a lead up to killing her? Taking out her ex-lovers before whacking her and her new beau?" said Molly as she stood and stretched "It's a theory"
"The victim was Hellen Feliciano, aka Letha, former employee of Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation, which is as shady as those Wakanda Prince emails" said Blake as he turned on the lights and headed to his desk. "Shot at close range with a seemingly magical, fifty calibre rifle nine times. Bullets recovered were made from…"
"What is it?" asked Molly.
"Irradiated carbonadium" stated Captain Burdick as he reached across the desk and picked up the phone "We have to call S.H.I.E.L.D!"
"Oh there goes my effing case!" cried Dallas.
"What's going on?" asked Molly as she took the file from Captain Burdick.
"Maybe you didn't get the memo over in the Organized Crime Unit, but whenever carbonadium or adamantium or vibranium or pain-in-my-ass-ium is found on a crime scene, thanks to the Patriot Act and in part to the defeated Superhuman Registration bill," said Captain Burdick as he waited on hold "It falls under S.H.I.E.L.D jurisdic…Captain Blake Burdick for Timothy Dugan…yes I'll hold"
"Meaning some idiot in a jumpsuit is going to take my case off me!" moaned Dallas.
"Well, you weren't doing that great with it" joked Molly giving her a slight, playful elbowing.
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The 1942 arch-roof barn on Pioneer Trail in Eden Prairie has new paint, a new roof and new lawn ornaments.
Life-sized plastic cows keep watch over the old farm on Pioneer Trail.
The cows have come home to the historic arch-roof dairy barn on Pioneer Trail in Eden Prairie.
Steve Schussler, the flamboyant entrepreneur who rescued the barn from obliteration during road construction a year ago, has placed six colorful -- and comical -- life-sized plastic cows in the yard outside the 1940s era barn.
One is a New York cow -- emblazoned with a picture of the Statue of Liberty. Another wears a Yankees baseball uniform. A third sports sneakers and a basketball. Two others are a black-and-white mother with calf.
The fanciful creatures make an unusual accent for a stolid, staid historic property. But Schussler considers the barn an art object and wants to showcase it for attention. As people drive by and see the lawn art, "maybe I can put a smile" on their faces, he said. "The cows make people smile."
The barn, at 14150 Pioneer Trail, is all that is left of an old farmstead that was in the path of Hennepin County's widening of Pioneer Trail. It's considered a picture-perfect example of a "Wisconsin-type" barn, standing now on its own small island of land as an icon of a bygone era when a farmer could make a living with 25 to 30 milk cows.
Schussler has had the barn painstakingly repainted and reroofed and outlined with agricultural-style white fencing since buying it from the county for $82,000 in 2010.
Asked how much he has sunk into the barn, he said he spent more than he paid for it on the roof alone.
Still to come is exterior lighting and new grass, which Schussler plans to maintain to golf-course perfection.
Inside the barn, in the second floor's arched, cathedral-like hay mow, he is hanging 40 crystal chandeliers. And down from the 60-foot high ceiling he has mounted two massive fans that keep the building cool.
On the ground floor, where dairy cows once were stabled and milked, Schussler stores vintage cars and jukeboxes. Art and collectible toys are displayed on the walls. And at every entrance to the barn there is a planter filled with flowers.
Refurbishing of a main floor bathroom also is underway, as is the installation of heat and air conditioning.
"I could not be more thrilled," said City Council Member Ron Case, who toured the building last week. "I feel like he is saving this for the people of Eden Prairie. This building would not have been here but for Steve."
Case said he would support just about any improvement Schussler may want to make to the building because "what he is doing is a Cadillac class act."
Schussler learned of the plight of the barn in a newspaper account and was the only person to bid for it in a county bidding competition.
He said he saved it out of a love for "preserving something old." Now he is using it as a creative laboratory. "It inspires me."
His firm, Schussler Creative Inc., dreams up theatrical environments, collects artifacts for them and sells them as the signature theme settings for restaurants, retail stores and attractions. Among his creations: The Rainforest Cafe at the Mall of America and the Galaxy Drive In in St. Louis Park.
The barn gives him more space for his collections and creations.
But Schussler will not have carte blanche at the historic site. As a building that is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, the barn is protected by a property preservation easement held by the State Historic Preservation Office, said John Gertz, a historic preservation consultant to the city of Eden Prairie.
That means that the Preservation Office must review and sign off on all of Schussler's plans.
Some of Schussler's improvements -- the new roof, capping the silo and putting in better windows -- have helped preserve the building, Gertz said.
As a general rule the characteristics of the building that make it historically significant should not be diminished in its re-use, Gertz said. "The less you do the better with regard to historic properties. You don't take historic properties and turn them into almost a theme park venue."
While Schussler is adding his own touches in the form of lawn art and crystal chandeliers, "I don't think anything he has done so far is non-reversible. It's through that lens that you evaluate what he is doing," Gertz said.
Gertz will advise the Eden Prairie Heritage Preservation Commission to recommend the barn for designation by the City Council as a local heritage preservation site. With that designation, local preservation zoning would add another measure of protection to the barn, Gertz said.
The barn lacks space for the parking that would be needed to turn it into a public attraction. But Case said he sees room to park about 30 cars and hopes that the barn can be used for occasional public functions.
Schussler said the barn's second floor hay mow, which faces the Flying Cloud Airport, might be a perfect place to sip wine and look out the window at landing and departing planes.
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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, specialty glass and ceramics giant Corning (NYSE: GLW ) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Corning and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Corning facts
Headquarters (founded) |
Corning, N.Y. (1851) |
Market Cap |
$22.4 billion |
Industry |
Electronic components |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$7.9 billion |
Management |
Chairman/CEO Wendell Weeks Vice Chairman/CFO James Flaws |
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) |
13.1% |
Cash / Debt |
$5.8 billion / $2.9 billion |
Dividend Yield |
2.6% |
Competitors |
3M TE Connectivity |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 98% of the 5,399 members who have rated Corning believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last month, one of those Fools, Gainster, succinctly summed up the Corning bull case for our community:
A relatively cheap dividend stock with a trailing P/E of 12.3, in an innovative and long standing company, in a not so innovative industry. ...
They have positioned [themselves] as a brand in a lot of consumers mind with the Gorilla Glass, a uniquely durable kind of glass.
They have developed a fiber that is suitable for installing the last stretch to the consumer, tolerating more bending than other fibers.
Their unique and innovative products, targeted at a sort of niche in the tech industry, will probably secure them some nice margins and not too tough competition. They are experiencing some growth and might continue growing with the growth in smartphones, tablets and fiber to the home.
Besides being relatively cheap, they also pay a decent dividend of 2.8% at a reasonable payout ratio (28%). And they have loads of cash to weather harsh times.
With the explosive growth of smartphones worldwide, many investors thought they would ride Corning's dominant cover glass to massive investment returns. That hasn't played out yet, as mobile growth has failed to offset declines in the company's core business. In this brand new premium research report on Corning, our analyst walks through the business, as well as the key opportunities and risks facing it today. Click here to claim your copy.


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C mount
A C mount is a type of lens mount commonly found on 16mm movie cameras, closed-circuit television cameras, machine vision cameras and microscope phototubes.
C-mount lenses provide a male thread which mates with a female thread on the camera. The thread is nominally 1.000 inch (25.4 mm) in diameter, with 32 threads per inch, designated as "1-32 UN 2A" in the ANSI B1.1 standard for unified screw threads. The flange focal distance is 17.526 millimetres (0.6900 in) for a C mount.
Merely to say that a lens is "C-mount" says very little about the lens' intended use. C-mount lenses have been made for many different formats, the largest being 4 times as large as the smallest. C-mount lenses are built for the 8mm and 16mm film formats and the 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, and 1-inch video formats, which corresponds to a range of image circles from 5 to 17 mm diameter, approximately. Some manufacturers have recently introduced lenses for the 4/3 inch / 1.3 inch format but these remain very expensive.
This is no trivial difference. For example, for the 4/3 format, a 12-mm lens is a wide-angle lens and will have a retrofocus design. For the 2/3 inch format, a 12mm lens is "normal" and can have a simple and fast double Gauss layout. For the 1/3 inch format, a 12-mm lens is long and can have a telephoto design.
Some TV lenses lack provision to focus or vary the aperture, so may not operate properly with film cameras. Also, some TV lenses may have bits that protrude behind the mount far enough to interfere with the shutter or reflex finder mechanisms of a film camera.
Although C-mount lenses have a back focal distance far too short to be used with 35mm film SLRs or any existing digital SLR, they can be mounted on interchangeable-lens mirrorless digital cameras. One such system is the Micro Four Thirds, being used by Olympus and Panasonic. However, the vast majority of C-mount lenses produce an image circle too small to effectively cover the entire (micro-)four-thirds sensor, with its approximately 22-mm diagonal. This produces what is popularly called vignetting but is better described as a mismatch between camera format and lens format.[1]
The letter "C" is said to stand for "cine", the original application being movie camera lenses.
CS mount[edit]
CS-mount has a flange focal distance of 12.50 millimetres (0.492 in), but is otherwise the same as C-mount, including the fact that lenses for many different formats are made for it. CS-mount lenses are built for the smaller formats, 1/2 inch and down.
Camera body |
extension tube adapter |
Lens | Net Effect |
Focus | View angle |
Zoom | Exposure |
C | C | Normal | Normal | Normal | Normal | ||
C | CS | +5mm | Near-sighted | Narrower | Larger | Darker | |
C | 5.0 millimetres (0.20 in) | C | +5mm | Near-sighted | Narrower | Larger | Darker |
C | 5.0 millimetres (0.20 in) | CS | +10mm | Most Near-sighted | Narrowest | Largest | Darkest |
CS | C | -5mm | Far-sighted | Wider | Smaller | Brighter | |
CS | CS | Normal | Normal | Normal | Normal | ||
CS | 5.0 millimetres (0.20 in) | C | Normal | Normal | Normal | Normal | |
CS | 5.0 millimetres (0.20 in) | CS | +5mm | Near-sighted | Narrower | Larger | Darker |
See also[edit]
- ISO 10935:1996, "Optics and optical instruments -- Microscopes -- Interfacing connection type C"
External links[edit]
- Making Digital Camera Microscope Adapters. The section "Understanding C-Mount and CS-Mount Standard Mechanics, Optics, and Cameras" discusses the standards and custom machining of C-mount apparatus.
- List of some C-mount lenses. Collection of cine optics and photos of them.
- [1]. Selection of Lens and extension ring/tube for machine vision


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10th March 2008, 04:19 PM | #1 |
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Budget studio monitors from spare speakers?
Hey all. I am in need of some half way decent near-field studio monitors, but I just spent a bunch of money on other recording gear and my wallet is running dry. I have some drivers sitting around the house, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a way I could use any of them in a new speaker to save money. Even if I only use one of the components and have to buy another that would help. Here's what I've got:
Dayton DC28F-8 1-1/8" Silk Dome Tweeter Dayton DC130AS-8 5-1/4" Classic Shielded Woofer Vifa P21WO-20-08 8" Woofer Vifa D26TG-35-06 1" soft dome tweeter the two vifa drivers were originally purchased to build a pair of Linkwitz PMT1 dipole speakers. I guess I could follow through on that, any thoughts on if the PMT1 would work well as a near field monitor? thanks for any help!! If I don't end up building anything, I'd probably end up purchasing a pair of these Yamaha HS50M, so that gives you an idea of how much my absolute limit on cost is. |
10th March 2008, 06:12 PM | #2 |
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Nevermind about the Yamaha HS50M's. I was hoping to get a good used price on them. I'd like to spend <$200 in parts. Ideally I could just use the drivers I have and spend say <$100 on crossover parts (or get a used pro-audio active crossover for that price, I have amps I can use).
I should note that I've never designed my own speakers, so i'm a bit weary on that. I do have an audio interface though, and some panasonic capsules I can make a measuring mic from. I just don't have any software to make a frequency response measurement. |
10th March 2008, 06:21 PM | #3 |
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>>> the two vifa drivers were originally purchased to build a pair of Linkwitz PMT1 dipole speakers. I guess I could follow through on that, any thoughts on if the PMT1 would work well as a near field monitor?
That looks like an interesting design. Thanks for posting. I would use the Vifa drivers to build a small monitor in a more typical bookshelf speaker but after seeing the PMT1 i would consider building those. Godzilla |
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Re: Budget studio monitors from spare speakers?
It should be Ok with the design of a BR box and better reinforcement (alignment) of the low frequencies under 100Hz. I am looking at a reference of a 35ltr. box from the specs that is low about -4dB@100Hz from a reference of 0dB@200Hz.
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11th March 2008, 04:17 PM | #5 |
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I emailed Linkwitz, and he doesn't think the PMT1 would serve well as a near field monitor as the speakers need some room for the front and rear waves to integrate. So, i guess I'll build a more standard bookshelf type speaker using the Vifa drivers.
Inductor, thanks for the design help. I'm new to crossover design, so let me see if I got this right. C2, L2, L1, and C3 make up the 2nd order crossover. R2 and R3 are a pad for the tweeter. And C1 and R1 serve as impedance correction. Is that right? How do I now go about calculating the values for all the components for the suggested 2kHz crossover. Also, does anyone have any suggestions on the enclosure design? Should I use the 35l box used for the specs measurement? In which case what do I tune the box to? How about the baffle (does size matter? placement of the drivers? does it matter which way the port faces?)? thanks for the input guys Sorry for all the basic questions. |
11th March 2008, 08:55 PM | #6 |
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Youre correct about the functions of the components
For values, use a calculator: http://ccs.exl.info/calc_cr.html#second (Be sure to use the ACTUAL impedance of the drivers at the xover freq) For enclosure size, download WINISD Pro (free) : http://www.linearteam.dk/default.aspx?pageid=winisdpro for baffle step, read Rod Elliots page: http://sound.westhost.com/bafflestep.htm
Impedance varies with frequency, use impedance plots of your drivers and make crossover calculations using the actual impedance of the driver at the crossover frequency |
11th March 2008, 09:03 PM | #7 |
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This is inexpensive and has an option for a lower BSC version as well. Could be nice for near-field listening. Will also allow you to keep your existing parts to finish your dipole someday.
http://zaphaudio.com/audio-speaker19.html Peter |
12th March 2008, 04:59 AM | #8 |
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You already have the drivers for The "Dayton Budget 2-Way"
If you go to his site he has an improved crossover. You may want to experiment with less baffle step for your purpose. Dayton 2 way |
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Ahh Zaph designs. That website is dangerous. I want to try out soo many of his designs. But every-time i start looking I end up wanting to build a pair of the Seas L15 design, or just go for broke withe ZD5. Maybe I should just suffer with headphone (at least I have a nice pair of HD580s) + crappy monitors right now while i save up for the parts to built one of those designs... |
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Everybody Hates Chris: The Second Season
Everybody hates stupidly predictable sitcoms, which is why anybody paying attention should simply love Everybody Hates Chris.
Friday, February 9 2007
Norbit (2007)
In the poster, he looks squished and distressed, she looks furious, as if daring you not to get the joke built into the very concept of Multiple Murphys.
Thursday, April 13 2006
Everybody Hates Chris
Episode: 'Everyone Hates Corleone' - Despite his parents' firm belief that he will be 'safer' in the all-white school, Chris' status as the only black student opens him up to a daily barrage of abuses.
Thursday, September 22 2005
Everybody Hates Chris
The brilliantly constructed and deceptively complex pilot succeeds by not trying to force an awkward story over the exposition required of a premiere episode.
Wednesday, September 15 2004
Baadasssss! (2003)
Mario Van Peebles came up understanding the power of images as a means to incite and reveal revolution.
Thursday, June 24 2004
White Chicks (2004)
Marcus and Kevin's observations also make them think again about their own behaviors, more respectful of black women.
Friday, May 28 2004
Baadasssss! (2004)
At once the biography of Melvin Van Peebles as a young, angry, brilliant filmmaker (played by Mario, who looks achingly like his dad in a couple of shots, with cigar, sculpted face, and black hat), and his own biography.
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Critter depopulation, refrigerator raiding, homogenization, permanent disfigurement, and big bear butts. All this and more in the latest episode of the Twisted Nether blogcast, Hybrid Hijinks, featuring Runycat of Unbearably HoT and me! It's twice the entendre for half the price!
Tree-Shirts Deadline Extended
On an unrelated note, because I've been asked by a couple of participants and because I'm a bit overwhelmed at the moment, I'm extending the Tree-Shirts Contest deadline until Sunday, September 28th. I'll display the submissions on the 29th or 30th! Thanks for your understanding, all!
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I've never had good luck with podcasts; they always break something on my computer. The art extension makes me very happy, though. This is taking more time than I'd like, but hopefully it's worth it. It might wind up being a better mousepad than a shirt…
If nothing else, it's going to be a sweet portfolio piece. Thanks, Phaelia!
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Hai Phaelia, wishing a happy bday to you and hope that life will keep on blooming ;p~ anyway i have been a regular reader of your blog since the 2.4 change in mp5 and i would like to thank you for all your guides that really helps me when raiding with my guild. Keep up the good work!
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First, Happy Birthday!!
Second, Thanks again Phae for coming on the show. As always, Madam, you are a class act. We can't wait to have you on the show again very soon.
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@All: Thank you for the birthday wishes!
@Crythia: Hopefully soon! ^_^
@Inwe: YAY, Inwe!
@Tesh: You are killing me with anticipation. The mousepads do tend to print more complex designs exceptionally well. I LOVE the one I got with Andrige's tree! (Fortunately, I still have room for one of my desk at home!)
@Hiu: You are very welcome! I wish I had more time right now to devote to theorycraft, but I just have SO much going on right now. Thank you for commenting!
@Perrin: Thank you! Hooray!
@Breana: Thanks!! Although, next to Runy, it's hard not to appear a "class act." ;-D I look forward to it!
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Great interview (as expected), I had a good laugh with "epic husband".
And happy b-day, druid queen! /bow
11:39 am on 9/24/08 -
Happy birthday, Phae! My computer is being rather stubborn at the moment, so I'll have to listen to that podcast at school sometime, much to the dismay of my teachers. Mwahaha
And I can't wait to see those t-shirt designs when they finally get to see the light of day.
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@Hokuto: Thank you, sir!
@Gelaende: I'm really looking forward to sharing them! I hope you enjoy the podcast!
@Archmera: /splashes with water
@Sydera: Thank you! I'm glad. =)
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I personally think your show was terrible, and whatever d-bag you had on there with you really made a mess of things.
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Designs submitted, Phaelia. I sent them to you via my wife's email by mistake, then sent a follow up from my email. Here's hoping the wait is worth it.
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@Tesh: Definitely worth the wait. I am pretty awestruck (and more than a little envious).
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can you post a pict of the box.. and is there a red line ?? if so its the one that goes to the manifold.. if nothing else .. take a tee and put it in a good vac source.. and try to hook up to difernt points to see if it works..
you could try to use a air tank and go from the vac disco and put air to it and follow the sound to find where it goes to I would disconect the transfer case 4 prong plug before you apply the air to it (if you have a regulator) use 5-10 psi and dont use it on the vac disco valve or you can blow it out thats what I would do good luck mike
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Description: This is the fantastically easy to use sensor from Maxbotix. We are extremely pleased with the size, quality, and ease of use of this little range finder. The serial interface is a bit odd (it's RS232 instead of standard TTL), but the PWM and Analog interfaces will allow any micro to listen easily enough. The sensor provides very accurate readings of 0 to 255 inches (0 to 6.45m) in 1 inch increments with little or no dead zone!
Maxbotix is offering the EZ0, EZ1, EZ2, EZ3, and EZ4 with progressively narrower beam angles allowing the sensor to match the application. Please see beam width explanation below.
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Checkout Mikey Sklar's flame-based trampoline, the high-lighter, using the EZ1!
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I just discovered a brilliant solution to this problem.
If you attach your sensor to a panel, or anything really, so that the sensor is facing away from it……… you won't be able to see the symbols etched on the back! you can forget about them and be happy and never have to look at them.
Wow, what a great item. And accurate? This thing is so precise, I even found Jesus! –He's 1st, you know.
While I am not strongly against the placement of the religious logo on this product, I do believe that putting an unprofessional logo on their product suggests that the product itself is unprofessional. That combined with the logo's potential to offend Maxbotix's customers makes the logo a bad business decision.
On a side note, putting religious logos on products is not a very effective way to spread one's religion.
You know those silly evangelists….
Lighten up. It is a great sensor.
This reminds me of how paypal can close out an account or the US government arrest anyone for any reason whatsoever - and get away with it. Would people buy chinese products if a star was on all their components? How about Allah gas logos at American gas stations where you don't get gas until you say allah three times while balancing a ball on your nose. Why hasn't someone figured out how to trick the subconscious Gee.. something tells me that wouldn't go over too well with medical industry. I read somewhere about interference problems with this sensor when used with a servo - and it was "not" an easy fix.
So this sensor tells me how far I am from Jesus?
I personally prefer this company because they put the Jesus 1st fish and cross logo. I hardly call a barely-visible logo pushing religion, but to each his own.
They also have a far superior product to the Parallax ping sensors, which require that you change the state of the pin from an Output to send the pulse, back to an Input to read it again after waiting for it to return. This causes much un-needed overhead for your code which is avoided by the Maxbotics sensors.
I have the PVC outdoor model from here and love it. I plan to buy several more of the EZ-1 models.
Coming from a die-hard atheist, I say "don't buy it if you don't want to support religion". That said, it's a good product.
Wow - just looked at the Ping sensors: they're rubbish compared to the Maxbotix ones.
Have just hooked my EZ0 up to an Arduino - one of the easiest doodads I've ever used with it. It was more work (MUCH more work) to set up the 4x7-segment display as a readout.
Using PWM is easy on the Arduino, too. The pulseIn function handles everything nicely.
I know this is outdated, but the EZ-1 is not nearly as accurate as the Ping series. The extra code is worth ten times the detail in data.
I was not going to get this product. Then I saw reference to Jesus, realized that a private company can put anything they want on the bottom of their product, and decided to purchase it.
If these guys wanted to put that little fish with feet that says "Darwin" on it, I'd be cool with that too. Maybe I'd order 2.
So long as the government keeps religion bias out of U.S. government business, I'm comfortable. Put the little fish and the cross on whitehouse.gov, and watch my blood boil… now THAT is worth a complaint, boycott, protest, or what have you.
Heck, maybe I'll order 3. Or maybe ordering or not ordering any based on the manufacturer's private* religious beliefs and the expression thereof in an (arguably) public place is just silly. Yes, that's it- that's what I really think. It's silly. I'm not ordering any. Unless I need one. Then I'll buy one of these. Printed howsoever the manufacturer sees fit.
(* private as in, "…belonging to or concerning an individual person, company, or interest…", not as in "not known or intended to be known publicly")
I was also about to get this product but noticed the ridiculous jesus crap on the bottom. Thanks commenter's.
LOL @ all the 12 year old theophobes bashing the religious icon on the PCB…. Apparently it's not considered intolerant or bigoted to bash a company for having a positive view towards Christianity, but I am sure that every one of you conflicted theophobes would have a problem with someone bashing a company for having a positive view towards gays!
It's the idiots of this world (like you theophobes) that make normal people feel better about themselves :-)
I'm gonna buy a couple of these things… Not because I subscribe to any religion, but because I am not a theophobe nor homophobe (nor any other type of -phobe except for maybe an arachnaphobe!) and it makes me happy to know that I am not like the freaks that are bashing this company!
The most shocking thing about this Jesus print is that is says "1st". It's quite disrespectful to anyone believing he's only second (like Muslims for instance), or third, or last. But well bigotry is the only weapon you have when you can't prove your prophet right. Out of my cart too :(
Maxbotix should fix up the routing on their boards. It's a bit haphazard at the moment.
If you are wondering if you can use this sensor with the Arduino board,
Yes you can. Here's example code that works with a similar ultrasonic sensor:
then you can load up the Processing code from this page:
and it should work.
Has anyone used this around dogs? Can someone test this around their dog for me?
According to this, dogs can hear sound waves between 40 Hz and 60 kHz, so they should be able to hear this 42kHz sensor.
I'm looking for a proximity sensor that won't drive dogs nuts.
I don't think we've ever intentionally used this around dogs. But we have used these in the building, and with 40ish dogs here on a daily basis we've never had problems.
I sent this to a friend that has done much work in the micro/ultrasonic area back when you had to use raw transducers and design your own electronics. And he was impressed. I want to use these to shut down a machine if something gets into its work area. And about the Jesus 1st symbol. Are you so weak in your atheism that seeing a tiny symbol is going to rock your world? Symbols of atheism don't get my panty's in a bunch. Relax.
hello, I need some help, I got a IOIO OTG board and I wan to know if this sensor works with it, thank you
hi, does this measure only in one line, or it can cover wider areas, too? i mean: http://s22.postimg.org/j2afb5r8x/photo.jpg
Does anyone know if this type of ultrasonic emitter is able to be used to measure volume inside a container? All of my research into the topic has shown that there's not a huge difference in the design of the $300 ones designed to sense volume in a container and these.
You might be able to get a rough size estimate using one of these, but depending on how small the container was, you would likely get some noise in the readings as the signal bounced off different sides of the container. I imagine you'd have to measure readings at different angles and do some serious data processing to get a good idea of the shape/volume of the container. However, if you try this out and are able to get it up and running, please let us know! We'd love to see it, and I'm sure it would benefit some other customers as well.
Really nice and accurate sensor that delivers the reading in many easy to use technologies. Did a tutorial with this one and an Arduino to help back your car up into your garage (using the goofy 232), ha! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4D_c3fflLU
i'm choosing EZ-3 based on beam width (i used an EZ-1, which worked just great, but found the beam wider than i wanted) and puzzled out the datasheet (which is dense, but complete).
the key is the diagram at the bottom lower right of the first page.
there's a paragraph that ought to be there maybe, stating 'principle of operation', but you should google sonar sensors and work out how they work yourself. they assume you know that: sonar (sound) has to reflect off the thing you want it to "see" and, intuitively, if the thing is very thin it is hard to see at a distance.
the four diagrams show the result of "seeing" the target (A, B, C, D) described. A, the ¼" rod – very thin!! – can be seen out to about 4 feet (at 5V). It can see it not only when pointed directly at it, but when the thing is up to approx. 1 foot to either side of straight ahead. The implication is that beyond 4 feet, it cannot see something that thin. this is entirely reasonable, and excellent performance.
For D, the 11" wide board, the EZ can see it up to 20 feet.
They imply – and i can verify – that their test of side-to-side beam width applies also to up-and-down, in other words, the beam is more or less like a… q-tip? propane torch flame? the beam pattern is a 3-dimensional space, hard to represent on paper.
its a great product. I'm using PWM and interrupts on the trailing edge and getting very good haptic feedback from an EZ-1. I will buy the EZ-3 for the narrower beam.
Cross-posting this to the EZ-1 comments because that part seems more popular.
Hi everyone, Is it possible to use this sensor and connect the TX pin to an XBee? and will the data be displayed in decimal?
How does this technology react to water? I mean, specifically, if I aim it at a tub of water, will a change in water level be something this device can detect? I fear the water will absorb the emitted energy and not reflect back at all. Has anyone tried this?
I want to use this device to detect my expensive malfunctioning G.E. washer's water level in the washing tub, from the lid.
I don't understand the "The serial interface is a bit odd (it's RS232 instead of standard TTL)" I looked at the data sheet and it says the UART levels are 0 and 5 volts. That is TTL. RS232 standard +-(3 to 15) volt.. (bipolar). So, shouldn't I be able to interface it to an Arduino UART, which uses 0 to 5 volts without the need for an RS232 level shifter such as a MAX232?.. Please let me know if I am wrong about this.
Many RS-232 ports will correctly read TTL-level (0/5V) serial signals, BUT note that the data is inverted from normal TTL-level serial data, and thus a TTL serial port will be quite confused by the data. Tutorial. A possible workaround with the Arduino is that the soft serial library has an initialization option to read and write inverted data, so you might be able to use that to get it working.
Mike, is this why my serial port emulator (RealTerm, what else?!) is getting very garbled data? I've checked and rechecked all the settings. But it's total garbage out.
Frustrating thing is that RealTerm has an "invert" checkbox but it doesn't seem to be doing anything to the displayed data. I guess I could just put it in hex mode, do an inversion manually on the bytes to confirm?
There are a lot of places in this chain of events where things could be going wrong. If you contact our tech support department they'll be happy to take a closer look at your project and help you get up and running.
What exactly is the difference between EZ0 and EZ4? I cannot figure out how to read these datasheets.
I am looking for something with a long range (15 feet) and a narrow beam. Like, I am mounting it on a servo and scanning for trees in my yard. As I turn the servo I want to create a map.
is it possible somehow to connect this to a blinkm so that the blinkm is only active when someone is in proximity? Sorry if noob question but really need help thanks
Would I be able to attach this product to a sound sensor that makes a sound that changes when I move closer or further away from a wall or large object.
I was a bit misled by the description "The sensor provides very accurate readings of 0 to 255 inches (0 to 6.45m) in 1 inch increments with little or no dead zone!". In the data sheet it says "Objects from 0-inches to 6-inches range as 6-inches" and this is in fact the case. I don't consider this to be giving an "accurate reading" when an object at 0.5 inches reads as 6 inches. If you need a sensor that will allow you to accurately stop very close to an object, this is not that sensor. I (now) understand this is a common limitation of ultrasonic sensors, and I can't blame Sparkfun for the speed of sound, but this should really be worded better.
use two of them, in line, 6 inches apart. the rear sensor measures everything from 0" to 6", and the front sensor reads everything from 6" out.
These are really good. A pong game I made with these sensors
anyone weather proof one of these to be used as collision avoidance for a car/truck?
How about a parts list..Or better yet..How about a kit?
Please forgive my ignorance but I'm a 60 year old just beginning to get involved with the details of electronics as a hobby.
I like this idea and would love to see some detailed instructions on assembly along with a detailed parts list of what to buy. I know the video is pretty informative but a hard copy of instructions would be helpful.
Also, Is it possible to create a program to respond to the different ranges?
Incidently, I like your website and your products.
My i send and receive signal between two modules.
I want to use one of these as a backup-monitor for my car. Will the 20Hz sample rate be affected by the low frequency vibration through the chassis from my engine? (I'm worried about inaccurate readings due to comb filtering or other artifacts)
Can you list the code you used in the video, my seven segment display reads the right numbers, but the numbers are scrolling from right to left…
hi 2 all, i am looking to find some pdf files or internet sites in order to understand how rangefinders works in order to work in my project.i am not really familiar with how this electronic devices work so i would like to start with the basics. Thanks for your time
Working with these sensors through the analog pin is really easy using the Arduino's analgoread function.
I wrote a tutorial for this sensor in my blog. Proximity Sensor With Arduino
Hi guys
Can someone tell me if this sensor can measure the proximity of a person through a glass window? thanks
As the window will bounce all the ultrasonic sound right back to the sensor, no it will not. You will be able to tell with remarkable accuracy how far away the window itself is, though!
Use the Sharp IR sensors
…although many types of glass have IR-reflective coatings, which would interfere with an IR sensor. (House windows, for example, usually have IR-reflective coatings for increased energy efficiency.)
"I was going to buy this but I noticed there is a "Jesus 1st" image on the PCB. I will find an alternative that doesn't push religion."
I did not realise until you had said that, the relevance of the logo.
I think it is possibly a bit off but you cannot beat these ultrasonic sensors. They are great!
This product was used on a "Sumo Robot" to find objects around it. I read the analogue output of the sensor using a A/D converter of a microcontroller. Once you get the A/D converter started on any microcontroller, this sensor can be interfaced very easily.
The analog output and the PWM don't agree. The analog output is all over the place and they admit it does not respond quickly to sudden changes. PWM seems better but also jumps sometimes.
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JDO has a very high degree of flexibility and so can be configured to operate in different modes. The mode most consistent with JPA is shown below (this has the PMF property DetachAllOnCommit set to true)
So a newly created object is transient . You then persist it and it becomes persistent . You then commit the transaction and it is detached for use elsewhere in the application. You then attach any changes back to persistence and it becomes persistent again. Finally when you delete the object from persistence and commit that transaction it is in transient state.
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(10/P92) TRENTON - Despite assurances from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that it had stopped a discharge from a Delaware River dredge disposal facility in Salem County, DEP inspectors today found water flowing uncontrolled from the site, raising the department's concerns about potential harmful impacts from contaminants on ecologically sensitive wetlands.
"This finding is especially troubling because the Army Corps of Engineers represented both to DEP and in court documents that they stopped the flow of water shortly after it started last month," Commissioner Bob Martin said. "At this point, we do not know how long or how frequently this water has been flowing off the site and into New Jersey wetlands or what environmental impacts this situation is having. We demand immediate answers and an action plan from the Army Corps. They must stop this discharge and prevent it from happening again."
The disposal facility is adjacent to the Killcohook National Wildlife Refuge and its ecologically sensitive tidal wetlands.
On Thursday, Governor Chris Christie and Commissioner Martin expressed outrage that the Army Corps had begun using a section of the Killcohook Confined Disposal Facility in New Jersey's jurisdiction to dispose sediments dredged as part of the Army Corps' Delaware River deepening project in disregard of a federal court order. The Corps began using the facility on Aug. 13 without informing the DEP.
This week, the Army Corps reported to the DEP and to a U.S. District Court judge that a dike at the facility broke, causing a discharge to wetlands on Aug. 30-31, but that the flow of water had been stopped.
The DEP sent staff from its office of Dredging and Sediment Technology to Killcohook today to assess the situation. They found water gushing through a weir box and into a piping system that drains into an unnamed stream. Water from the dredge disposal site had risen above the discharge pipe, completely covering it. A weir box is a structure used to control excessive water levels within an impounded area.
The staff further found that the Army Corps is not performing any contaminant monitoring of the discharge.
"These inspection results only elevate my concerns that contaminants, stirred up by the dredging process, may be flowing from this site and into ecologically sensitive wetlands or into the river itself," Commissioner Martin said. "We are redoubling are efforts to get to the bottom of this situation, get it corrected and hold the Army Corps responsible."
Because of a border quirk, a portion of the Killcohook facility technically lies within the state of Delaware. However, the section that the Army Corps began using last month is within New Jersey. A U.S. District Court judge previously ruled that the Army Corps could begin its deepening project in Delaware waters but limited disposal of sediments to that state.
The sediments that the Army Corps discharged to the New Jersey section of the Killcohook facility are from a heavily industrialized section of the river near the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
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iepe rubingh used 500 liters of eco-friendly paint to convert the rosenthaler platz intersection in berlin into a painting tracing the cars crossing the intersection.
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In an undercover operation a team of local volunteers swaped the advertisements in Madrid's city center making the entire publicity landscape disappear. Find more info here.
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In 1913, Marcel Duchamp labeled everyday objects as art. Those "readymades" are now in museums. Now, artist Ji Lee has taken a classic Duchamp readymade and put it back into the everyday context of the street. Duchamp Reloaded
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First attempt at a comic (as a finished work anyway; I "finished" two previous versions that each had typos)
Came here thanks to Penny-Arcade, but I did remember reading Sam & Max comics somewhere in the foggy years of yore and it's warming to know these guys are back.
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Ask cheapskate value investors to buy a stock that's achieved a new 52-week high and you'll get one of two responses:
- Hysterical laughter.
- Sudden nausea.
Pity them, Fool.
How many times has Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) touched a new 52-week high on its way to becoming one of the market's 10 best stocks of the past decade? Too many to count, of course. Never assume that "rocket stocks" -- high-growth stocks that are also realizing heavy price appreciation -- are too expensive. What looks like a cliff could really be base camp on a climb toward the summit of Everest.
Rocket stocks, not rocket science
Each weekday in this column, we'll enlist the 80,000 pro and amateur stock pickers in our Motley Fool CAPS community to find stocks that are still climbing. We'll start with The Wall Street Journal's 52-week-high lists. But we'll focus our search on stocks expected to boost net income by at least 15% a year for the next five years and whose CAPS ratings sport at least two of the maximum five stars.
Here's what we've turned up today:
Company |
Closing Price |
CAPS Rating |
5-Year Growth Estimate |
52-Week Range |
CTC Media |
$30.99 |
**** |
60.0% |
$18.82-$31.21 |
Genoptix |
$35.76 |
*** |
52.0% |
$23.40-$36.71 |
Healthways |
$64.50 |
**** |
25.1% |
$41.58-$65.24 |
Express Scripts |
$77.58 |
***** |
18.0% |
$32.32-$77.96 |
Investment Technology Group |
$49.45 |
**** |
17.6% |
$35.36-$50.17 |
Our mostly small-cap list features some promising (though speculative) stocks. Yet these tiny titans can create astounding returns if you buy them before the market discovers them. Just look at benefits administrator Express Scripts, which has risen more than 125% over the past 52 weeks. The S&P 500 has barely budged over the same period.
Don't blame the media
Upstart Russian TV network CTC Media can't claim similar success -- it's up just 30% over the past year -- but unlike larger American peers such as CBS (NYSE: CBS ) , it's experiencing massive increases in free cash flow. Behold:
Free Cash Flow (millions) |
Trailing 12 Months |
2006 |
2005 |
2004 |
CTC Media |
$135.0 |
$113.1 |
$32.9 |
$27.6 |
$1,538.9 |
$1,494.3 |
$3,210.0 |
$3,422.7 |
It gets better. Wall Street projects 60% growth for CTC over each of the next five years, conferring a 0.59 PEG ratio on the business. CBS, by contrast, commands a 1.5 PEG on just 7% projected growth. Either the eight analysts covering CTC are way off (which is, of course, possible), or the stock is sharply undervalued. With superior international investors such as Richard Pell and Rudolph-Riad Younes owning a significant stake in CTC, I'm more inclined to believe its shares are cheap.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee State is replacing Tennessee Tech on Tennessee's 2013-14 women's basketball schedule.
Tennessee released a schedule last month that included a Nov. 21 home game with Tennessee Tech, but Tennessee officials issued a release Monday saying Tennessee Tech had informed them a conflict would prevent the Golden Eagles from playing on that date. The Lady Vols announced Monday they had dropped the Tennessee Tech game from their schedule and added a Dec. 17 date with Tennessee State at Thompson-Boling Arena.
Tennessee Tech athletic director Mark Wilson issued a statement saying that the school "never agreed nor was contracted to play Tennessee in women's basketball in the 2013-14 season." Tennessee athletic department spokesman Eric Trainer said Tennessee had been under the impression that the two schools had agreed to play in 2013-14 until Tennessee Tech officials informed the school they already had scheduled another game for that date.
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Best gift for mothers is help with daily chores
Publication Date : 12-05-2012
US President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney waged a war of words in a bid to court women's votes that soon turned into a heated exchange among mothers. During an interview, Democratic pundit Hilary Rosen attacked Mitt Romney for saying his wife is his advisor on women's economic issues, saying Ann Romney "has actually never worked a day in her life".
Ann Romney fought back on behalf of the millions of other stay-at-home mothers. According to the US Census Bureau, there were 5 million stay-at-home mothers in the United States in 2011, and as expected, Rosen apologised for her remarks the very next day.
However, results based on a Gallup Daily tracking poll of more than 45,000 adult women in the US somewhat support Rosen's comment that most women with children under 18 in the US cannot afford, like Ann Romney did, to choose to stay home and raise their kids.
But just because they are a minority outside the workforce does not mean stay-at-home mothers lack an economic perspective, especially considering they can be the ones working 14 hours a day and seven days a week creating a considerable amount of economic value.
For its 12th Annual Mom Salary Survey, the US-based Salary.com, a division of human resources consultancy Kenexa, asked more than 8,000 mothers nationwide before Mother's Day what their top 10 most time-consuming jobs are and how much time per week they spend on each. It found that stay-at-home mothers work 94.7 hours a week on tasks such as housekeeping, cooking and the duties of a daycare centre teacher, which taken together would result in an annual salary of US$112,963.
As usual the survey drew a lot of criticism, but the move is aimed at recognising the hard work involved in bringing up kids.
Unlike their US counterparts, Chinese stay-at-home mothers are rarely the subject of discussion. Chinese women were encouraged to join the workforce in the 1950s and 60s under the popular slogan "Women hold up half the sky". This changed the traditional gender division of "men for the field and women for the hearth". A 2010 report by the UN shows that nowadays Chinese women's labour participation rate is about 74 per cent, well above the global average of 52.7 per cent.
But the third national survey on Chinese women's social status in 2010 indicated an increasing number of respondents, both male and female, agree with the traditional view that women should be family-oriented.
Many Chinese mothers do spend several years at home looking after their children before they are old enough to attend kindergarten or school, and according to the decennial survey, mothers in a family with a child under 3 years old undertake the major childcare responsibility.
The down-and-dirty work, however, is easily overlooked. An undergraduate student from Wuhan, Hubei province, wrote a prize-winning thesis in 2009, that estimated stay-at-home mothers in the city could earn 9,600 yuan (US$1,520) a month based on the local wage level if their work was paid.
Zhang Xiaomei, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, wrote an article earlier this year, emphasising that carrying out a valuation of housework is not to spark a war between men and women but to enhance their mutual understanding and respect, and although doing housework does not directly create economic value, it saves a family's money and reduces its dependency on society and thus relieves the burden on public resources.
In 2010, Zhang proposed that housework should be valued and husbands should pay their wives a salary each month for doing housework. Her proposal succeeded in drawing wide attention, although it was not endorsed.
While her ideas have garnered support, especially from stay-at-home mothers, recognising housework as an economically productive activity still has a long way to go to gain popular acceptance.
Still, something can be done on the part of children and husbands. A greeting card, a bouquet of flowers or any special gifts tailored for mothers will work as usual, but helping mothers, either stay-at-home ones or working ones, with housework on a regular basis instead of once a year would be the best Mother's Day gift.
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- 12-12-12, 01:36 PM Thread Author #1
Lupe Fiasco a BlackBerry user?
So I was listening to this Lupe Fiasco interview on YouTube where he was talking about his album, news, and various other subjects.
For those of you that don't know, Lupe Fiasco is an American rapper from Chicago who is famous for songs like Kick Push, Show Goes On, Words I never Said, Around My Way, Superstar, etc and is basically a rapper who actually has substance in his music.
Anyway, towards the end of the interview, the reviewer asks him "this or that" questions and this comes up:
Interviewer: iPhone or Android?
Lupe Fiasco: Neither!
Interviewer: What you got BlackBerry!?
Lupe Fiasco: BlackBerry all day! I'm riding until the wheels-until the screen falls off!
I love how my favorite artist is a BlackBerry user lol and I find it funny that after he dismissed iPhone and android windows phone wasn't even an alternative. Here's the link to the full interview below if you're a Lupe fan yourself or just want to hear him say it. Note: It comes around the 14:30 mark.
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It's true...I saw the interview also. In that same video, seem to remember him making a statement about "riding till the wheels fall off" or something like that. I was wondering if he meant he won't get a new phone until it's completely nonfunctional, or if he's going to be faithful to RIM until they no longer exist.
Inside I was hoping it's the latter. - 12-12-12, 03:42 PM #5
Lupe Fiasco a BlackBerry user?
so cool. I like his songs very much. Too bad I dnt like to set music as ringtone. if I did would set "audubon ballroom" from food and liquor II. luv it
Wale uses a bold 9900 in the video "ambition". like his songs too.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900by MostHat3D prod. - 12-12-12, 03:58 PM #7
Listen to the first line on the song "venus versus mars" by jay-z
- 12-12-12, 05:44 PM Thread Author #8
- 12-12-12, 05:46 PM Thread Author #9
lol is orange ever gonna get love from people that make serious money and work on tight scheduling.
Interesting...not only is Lupe a Berry user...he also has a VERY entertaining verse about a particular Cupertino organization on this song of his that I heard today for the first time:
Here's the lyrics to his first verse:
Standing in line for the new one
Not the black, but the blue one
And I don't even know what it do, son
But Steve Jobs said that it's too fun
Fun in abundance is what I need
It's cold out here, put my arms in the sleeves
I'll probably lose my place if I leave
But I really need to pee
If I do it right here they'll see
Makes you wonder, how do snipers
Marathon bikers
Next time: diapers
They say it has all new features
Faster processors and much better speakers
Great for kids, a necessity for teachers
For work or home, a revolutionary way of being alone
I mean, should we really get along?
Hey what's the matter, just tell it to your phone
Cupertino heart with Chinese parts
Built by the poor, but designed by the smart
They opening the door so you go
On your mark, get ready, set, buy
Imagine a world where everything starts with an 'i'
But it still ends with a die
Probably got an app for it, that you could try
From the iClouds, right into the great Wi-Fi
Siri, can iGod really hear me?
"Does not compute - can you repeat more clearly?"
"Woaaah" - 12-14-12, 08:22 AM Thread Author #13
I think Common used to be a blackberry fan or a paid sponsor too. One or the other. G.O.O.D music
I saw this video too! I had to rewind it make sure I heard correctly! lol I love that he uses a Blackberry. I've always respected Lupe because he's not afraid to be himself or speak his mind, no matter if its unpopular opinion.
Its also cool to see so many Blackberry users who are Lupe fans!!Last edited by shemaree09; 12-14-12 at 04:25 PM.
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Google Billboard Puzzle
{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits e}.com."
The answer, 7427466391.com, would lead to a Web page with yet another equation to solve, with still no sign of the firm that wanted to recruit some of the best math guys, out there. It wasn't known that it was Google, until the puzzle was cracked.
Here's a pic of that billbaord:
I got to know this puzzle much later and thought of giving it a try. Without thinking much, my first idea was to use a simple, naive, brute-force approach of calculating Euler's Number (e) to around 10000 digits and then loop over the decimal part of 'e', taking 10 digits in each step and incrementing by 1 digit, in each step. I tried it and it worked, without consuming much time.
"Euler's Number" can be calculated in a couple of ways, but I used the following formula:
With the above formula, we can calculate 'e' by looping through, finding factorial and adding up 1/Facorial(n), in each and every loop. Java was my programming language of choice, but calculating e to 10000 digits precision is a problem because you cant use the normal primitives like "double", "float" or whatever to contain the huge number of digits in the decimal part of a number. So, it was pretty obvious that I had to use 'BigDecimal'.
One more tricky part was to determine 'how many times should the program loop through , for the precision to be around 10000 digits'? I tried a couple of combinations and found that "100" would be good enough. Also it doesn't consume much time. If you try it for 10000 or more, it would probably take a couple of minutes or hours.
Ok....I looped through "100" times in the code, calculated 'e' to a bit more than 10000 digits, in the first step. The next step, I looped through the decimal part of 'e', taking 10 char substrings (starting from the decimal point) in each step and checking whether its a prime or not. If it's a prime, the Puzzle is solved!
Here's the Java code for finding the 'First 10 digit prime number in the consecutive digits of e':
I ran this program and got the following output:
First 10 digit prime number in the decimal part of e : 7427466391
So, thats the answer and the domain address would be 7427466391.com" (which is defunct now).
....and here's the "Euler's Number (e)" that I calculated using the above approach: 'e to 10000 digits'
PS: The above solution is a very basic, brute-force/trial-and-error approach that I used, but it very much solves the puzzle.
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- AnonymousAugust 8, 2014 at 1:56 AM
Just silicon valley? REALLY! Way to go google that's really the only place smart people live eh' LOL! This is an amazing stradegy though. Great blog smartie ;-)
ReplyDelete - AnonymousAugust 9, 2014 at 1:46 PM
That's Mathematica code :)
digits = RealDigits[ N[E , 100000]][[1]][[2 ;;]];
nd[n_] := FromDigits[Take[digits, {n, n + 9}]];
n = 1; While[n < Length[dd] - 10 && ! PrimeQ[nd[n]], n++]
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The officer, Kevin Howland, was treated for a bruised knee and ankle after the shooting Monday afternoon in a crowded outdoor shopping mall in Sacramento's Natomas Marketplace, Sgt. Terrell Marshall said Tuesday.
Three surviving suspects were arrested after the car hit a palm tree near a fast-food restaurant. A 16-year-old male and an 18-year-old male were charged Tuesday and the third suspect, an 18-year-old woman, was later released, Marshall said.
Howland, 32, was called to the shopping center to investigate a vehicle reportedly involved in an armed robbery less than two miles away, Marshall said. Officers were later able to link the suspects to an attempted car-jacking and a bus-stop armed robbery earlier Monday.
As Howland walked toward the car, the driver backed up, ramming Howland's squad car, then swerved forward, throwing Howland onto the hood.
Police were investigating whether the suspects fired back, or if guns were waved or fired from a second vehicle.
The driver's body remained in the wrecked car through the afternoon as police investigated. He was later identified as Edward Timothy Gallegos, 18.
Hiroko Goto dove under a picnic table at the fast food restaurant a few yards from where the car had crashed.
"It didn't feel scary, because it just seems so unreal," she said. "It's like 'CSI: New York,' or something like that."
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