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Damir S. Skerl, Houston, TX US
|Patent application number
|High power umbilicals for subterranean electric drilling machines and remotely operated vehicles - Method and required apparatus to provide the closed-loop feedback control of a remote electric motor that has specific required operating parameters which is used to turn a rotary drill bit to drill a borehole in the earth that receives electrical energy through a long umbilical possessing insulated electrical conduits that includes the steps of measuring a set of electrical parameters with a multiplicity of sensors located near the electric motor, sending that measured information to a computer on the surface of the earth, comparing the measured information with the required operating parameters within the computer, adjusting an uphole power generator system to adjust its electrical output parameters to provide electrical energy to a portion of the umbilical located on the surface of the earth, repeating the measurements and adjustments to provide the closed-loop feedback control of the electric motor having specific required operating parameters.
|Long-lasting hydraulic seals for smart shuttles, for coiled tubing injectors, and for pipeline pigs - A well conveyance apparatus for conveying equipment into a wellbore possessing long-lasting movable and slidable hydraulic seals against the interior of a borehole casing located within a wellbore in a geological formation in the earth that is caused to move by the application of pressurized wellbore fluids against the seals. The seals are allowed to rotate on bearings about the tool mandrel to prevent the build-up of torque on the seals to minimize wear and to extend the life of the seals. Vibratory means are attached to the tool mandrel to vibrate the sealing portion of the seals, so as the extend the life of the seals and to minimize wear of the seals. Sensor arrays provide information to a computer system that is used to control the vibratory means, pressure relief valves, and other parameters to minimize wear of the hydraulic seals.
|Universal drilling and completion system - Methods and apparatus are described to drill and complete wellbores. Such wellbores include extended reach horizontal wellbores, for example in shales, deep subsea extended reach wellbores, and multilateral wellbores. Specifically, the invention provides simple threaded subassemblies that are added to existing threaded tubular drilling and completion equipment which are used to dramatically increase the lateral reach using that existing on-site equipment. These subassemblies extract power from downward flowing clean mud, or other fluids, in an annulus to provide additional force or torque on tubular elements within the wellbore, while maintaining circulation, to extend the lateral reach of the drilling equipment and completion equipment. These added elements include combinations of The Leaky Seal™, a Cross-Over, The Force Sub™ and The Torque Sub™. The use of such additional simple elements allow lighter drilling equipment to be used to reach a given lateral distance, therefore reducing drilling costs.
|Method for Deployment of Seismic Recorder Array With Removable Data Recorders - A method of deploying a seismic recorder array on a seafloor is disclosed. The seismic recorder array comprises a plurality of removable seismic data recorders. The method comprises the step of forming the seismic recorder array by connecting a plurality of recorder housings in series, wherein adjacent recorder housings are connected by a connector cable. The recorder housings are configured to retain the removable seismic data recorders. The method comprises the step of loading the plurality of removable seismic data recorders in the recorder housings, and lowering the seismic recorder array into water until the seismic recorder array is positioned on the seafloor underlying the water. The method comprises the step of operating the seismic data recorders to detect seismic signal reflections and to record seismic data representing the reflections.
|Drilling apparatus - A drilling apparatus comprised of a multiplicity of subassemblies for drilling an open-hole extension from within an existing cased borehole located in a geological formation for the production of oil and gas. In one embodiment, one subassembly includes a motor located within a cased section of the borehole that rotates a drill pipe segment attached to a rotary drill bit in the open-hole to drill the open-hole extension of the well. In another embodiment, a shroud encloses the motor located within the cased portion of the well that is used to control the mud flow to and from the bit in the open-hole during the drilling process.
Patent applications by Damir S. Skerl, Houston, TX US
Damir S. Skerl US
|Patent application number
|Mud motor assembly - A longer-lasting, lower cost, more powerful, all metal, mud motor than the presently available progressing cavity type mud motors for drilling boreholes into the earth. A mud motor apparatus possessing one single drive shaft that turns a rotary drill bit, which apparatus is attached to a drill pipe which provides high pressure mud to the mud motor, wherein the drive shaft receives at least a first portion of its rotational torque from any high pressure mud flowing through a first hydraulic chamber within the apparatus, and receives at least a second portion of its rotational torque from any high pressure mud flowing through a second hydraulic chamber within the apparatus. The mud motor apparatus possesses two hydraulic chambers, each having its own power stroke, and return stroke, and acting together in a controlled fashion, provide continuous power to a rotary drill bit.
Katrin Skerl, Erlangen DE
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|Extracting lenticules for refractive correction - In certain embodiments, refractive correction includes controlling a focus of pulsed laser radiation having ultrashort pulses. A channel is created with the pulsed laser radiation to facilitate separation of the lenticule from the eye. A posterior incision is created with the pulsed laser radiation to form a posterior side of the lenticule. An anterior incision is created with the pulsed laser radiation to form an anterior side of the lenticule.
Katrin Skerl, Bad Doberan DE
|Patent application number
|STABILIZING LENTICULES USED FOR REFRACTIVE CORRECTION - In certain embodiments, a method for refractive correction includes controlling, by one or more laser components, a focus of pulsed laser radiation having ultrashort pulses. A posterior incision is created with the pulsed laser radiation to form a posterior side of a lenticule. An anterior incision is created with the pulsed laser radiation to form an anterior side of the lenticule. Application of a stabilization solution to the lenticule is facilitated to stabilize the lenticule.
Olaf Skerl, Bad Doberan DE
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|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AN IMPEDANCE COURSE - A system which generates a warning signal in the event of looming pulmonary edema and/or looming decompensation. The system has an impedance detection unit for determining impedance values, which represent a transthoracic impedance course, and an impedance analysis unit (
|IMPLANTABLE ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT - An implantable measurement arrangement for intracorporeal acoustic measurement of geometric parameters and motion parameters in and on organs and/or tissues of a patient includes an implantable device, in particular an electromedical device; an implantable sonic transducer for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves, the transducer being in signal connection with the implantable device; and an implantable reflector in communication with the implantable device and situated at a distance from the sonic transducer for reflecting the ultrasonic waves back in the direction of the sonic transducer. The electromedical device can analyze the ultrasonic waves picked up and reflected back by the sonic transducer.
|IMPLANTABLE BIOSENSOR AND SENSOR ARRANGEMENT - An implantable biosensor, which comprises a measuring (or first) chamber filled with the test fluid, which is able to convert a change of the concentration of a predetermined analyte or ion type into a change of a physical variable. To this end, the measuring chamber is closed by at least one membrane, which is permeable to the analyte or ion type and impermeable to the test fluid. In addition, the biosensor is equipped with at least one microacoustic sensor, which is operatively connected to the test fluid such that it can detect the physical variable that changes with the concentration of the analyte or ion type. Further relates to a sensor arrangement comprising at least one such implantable biosensor, the arrangement including a polling system that is wirelessly coupled to the biosensor.
|DEGRADATION AND INTEGRITY MEASURING DEVICE FOR ABSORBABLE METAL IMPLANTS - The present invention relates to a measuring device including a sensor catheter, an evaluation unit, and means for receiving a magnetic field and converting the magnetic field to an electrical measurement signal which are situated in the sensor catheter and connected to the evaluation unit. The evaluation unit is designed to evaluate the electrical measurement signal.
|APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT VALUES - A monitoring apparatus having a signal input for signals representing measurement values of one or more physiological parameters, and an evaluation and processing unit connected to the signal input. The evaluation and processing unit is designed to select, or differently weight, individual values from the values received for further processing based on one or more criteria such that measurement values raising doubts as to the validity thereof are not selected or given a very low weighting.
|HEART MONITOR - Embodiments relate to a heart monitor, which is connected to or can be connected to at least one sensor for pressure and volume data or equivalent substitute variables and which comprises an evaluation unit for processing at least one input signal reflecting the temporal course of pressure and volume data or equivalent substitute variables of the heart. The evaluation unit is configured such that it segments the input signal in accordance with individual completed cardiac cycles and examines segments of the input signal obtained in this way as to whether a particular segment of the input signal represents a PV diagram, which corresponds to specified quality conditions regarding the direction of circulation, morphology and distance between a starting and end values.
|ELECTROMEDICAL IMPLANT AND MONITORING SYSTEM - An electromedical implant for monitoring a thoracic property of a living being is provided that includes a detector arrangement including an impedance measuring unit and an electrode arrangement, which are equipped to capture a measurement signal associated with the thoracic property in the form of an impedance signal; a monitoring arrangement, which is connected to the detector arrangement and equipped to generate a parameter from the measurement signal that is indicative of the thoracic property, and an evaluation unit, which is connected to the monitoring arrangement and equipped to determine an evaluation result regarding the thoracic property based on the parameter. According to the invention, the electrode arrangement comprises at least a plurality of mutually isolated electrodes, which are disposed on the housing and operatively connected by way of the impedance measuring unit and which can be separately controlled, wherein an electrode body has a strip shape.
|BLOOD FLOW SENSOR - A blood flow rate sensor has at least one transmitter for emitting waves into a blood vessel, the propagation of which is deflected by cellular blood components, and at least two receiver units for receiving waves emitted by the transmitter. The receiver units are spaced from each other in the direction of blood flow, and are situated such that each receives waves from a different path through the blood. The output signal of each receiver unit is filtered or otherwise processed to obtain a noise component, and the noise components from the receiver units are cross-correlated to determine a time offset between the output signals. The time offset is inversely proportional to the blood flow rate.
|IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE - An implantable medical device includes an integrated or connectable implantable three-dimensional acceleration sensor, and a ballistocardiogram (BCG) capturing unit that is connected or connectable to the acceleration sensor. The BCG evaluation unit processes an acceleration signal provided by the acceleration sensor and derives a BCG from the 3D accelerometer output signal. A BCG evaluation unit is connected to the BCG capturing unit, and is designed to evaluate a BCG provided by the BCG capturing unit and supply an output signal representing stroke volume.
|DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS - An implantable device includes a posture sensor and a physiological signal sensor. The posture sensor supplies at least one first sensor output signal indicating body posture and/or changes therein. The physiological signal sensor supplies at least one second sensor output signal indicative of at least one physiological parameter such as blood pressure, intracardiac impedance, stroke volume, heart sounds, heart rate, and/or biochemical measurements (e.g., oxygen concentration). An evaluation unit processes the first and second sensor output signals and determines one or more variables that describe the dynamic behavior of the second sensor output signal in response to a change in body posture indicated by the first sensor output signal.
|COMPARISON OF RIGHT-VENTRICULAR AND LEFT-VENTRICULAR CONTRACTION USING AN ACCELEROMETER IN AN ARTERY CLOSE TO THE HEART - An implantable medical device includes a multi-axial acceleration sensor and an evaluation unit connected thereto. The evaluation unit is configured to (1) split the accelerometer output signal into at least two signal components, one of which is associated with a right-ventricular contraction and another of which is associated with a left-ventricular contraction; (2) detect events in the signal components, and/or determine signal features therein; and (3) determine at least one characteristic value K by evaluating the signal components, and/or the events and/or signal features therein.
|Medical Implant and Medical Arrangement - A medical implant comprising a transducer element which induces mechanical vibrations of the implant when electrically and/or magnetically controlled.
Patent applications by Olaf Skerl, Bad Doberan DE
Olaf Skerl US
|Patent application number
|ELECTROMEDICAL IMPLANT AND MONITORING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE ELECTROMEDICAL IMPLANT - An electromedical implant (
|IMPLANT AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING DECOMPENSATION - An implant predicts decompensation of a patient's heart based on an acoustic pressure measurement. The implant includes first and second acoustic transducers, which are matched to each other and which rest in/on the patient's thorax. The first acoustic transducer emits an acoustic signal which has at least one first signal portion having a first frequency. The second acoustic transducer is designed to receive and re-emit the emitted acoustic signal, or to reflect it, such that the first acoustic transducer receives the emitted acoustic signal. A signal processing unit communicates with at least one of the two acoustic transducers and determines an attenuation value as a function of the attenuation of the received acoustic signal versus the originally emitted acoustic signal, and provides a prediction signal as a function of a comparison of the attenuation value to a threshold value, wherein the prediction signal indicates the development of decompensation.
Tomislav Skerl US
|Patent application number
|Mud motor assembly - A longer-lasting, lower cost, more powerful, all metal, mud motor than the presently available progressing cavity type mud motors for drilling boreholes into the earth. A mud motor apparatus possessing one single drive shaft that turns a rotary drill bit, which apparatus is attached to a drill pipe which provides high pressure mud to the mud motor, wherein the drive shaft receives at least a first portion of its rotational torque from any high pressure mud flowing through a first hydraulic chamber within the apparatus, and receives at least a second portion of its rotational torque from any high pressure mud flowing through a second hydraulic chamber within the apparatus. The mud motor apparatus possesses two hydraulic chambers, each having its own power stroke, and return stroke, and acting together in a controlled fashion, provide continuous power to a rotary drill bit.

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Interface: Queer Artist Forming Communities through Social Media
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Interface is an eclectic mix of queer New York artists working in a wide variety of styles and mediums that became friends and colleagues through social media. This exhibition emblematizes a shifting time in the art world where technology allows artists to not only create in a different way, but also alters the way the public encounters them and their art. Join us virtually throughout the exhibition at #QueerArtInterface.
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Through large-scale drawing, ceramics and installation practices, artist Zachari Logan evolves a visual language that explores intersections between masculinity, identity, memory and place. Making reference to the famous "Unicorn Tapestries" in the Cloisters, in NYC, Logan amalgamates patterned foliage (from personally sourced images) with the flattening patterns of textiles thus evoking a deep baroque space. Citing the amalgamations of Archimbaldo, Bosch and Breughel, he re-evaluates historical European constructions such as the Wild Man and Green Man to further narratives of self-mythology. These become observation-based drawings, combined in a way that could not exist in the natural world, so are fictive, and explore the metaphysical as well as the metaphoric, constructing queer spaces that mix the local and the exotic to become dream-like manifestations of recollection.
Zachari Logan was born in 1980 in Saskatoon where he continues to reside, engaging a full-time studio practice. Logan graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with both a BFA in 2004, and an MFA in 2008. Logan's focus on drawing, ceramics and installation practices intersect issues of personal identity, place and queerness, largely engaging his own body as reference. His work had shown internationally and has been featured in many publications worldwide.


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Ville St. Laurent is a borough; pardon me, arrondissement, in the city of Montréal. It spawned me and Jonah Keri. Although we are both graduates of Concordia University and mutually agreed that Place Vertû is the worst mall in the history of VSL (Shout out to Norgate! Bring back Croteau!) only one of us wrote an incredible book about the Expos. Can you guess which one? Yeah, yeah, it's him.
I spoke to Jonah about our hometown, my weird crush on Pat Burrell and of course, his new book Up, Up & Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos.Â
Bugs & Cranks: Thank you for writing this book.
Jonah Keri: Cool. You're welcome.
Bugs & Cranks: I loved it. There's a waiting list, most of my friends want to borrow it but I told them to buy their own because you know, you gotta eat.
Jonah Keri: [laughs] Awesome.
Bugs & Cranks: It's more than a history of the Expos; it's a scrapbook of memories and tidbits that every Expos fan will love. That being said, I'm from Montréal so you don't have to sell me on the Expos. For the rest of Canada, Americans and non-Expos fans, what do you want tell them to get them to read the book? Why should they care about a team that doesn't really exist anymore?
Jonah Keri: My kind of blanket answer that I give when people ask me; let's say that you love macramé. You love macramé. It's so important to your life, I'd read that book because I feel like if someone is passionate about something that's what's gonna happen. There's no question that I'm passionate about this subject. In two ways: Number one, as a fan certainly that it was a shaping experience and all that for my life. And number two, as a journalist that I spent almost three years digging up more facts, talking to more people, getting more stuff. You know it's such a deep dive that I think you can have a casual interest and you'd be like, "Wow this guy really cares about this thing, it's probably worth my time."
I can tell you about Vladimir Guerrero and Andre Dawson, those are inherently interesting people. Maybe more interesting than macramé, although, maybe some people may disagree, but in my mind it really is about that. It's about the idea somebody would be obsessed with their subject matter for three years. I think that's a positive or can be a positive if it's done correctly.
Bugs & Cranks: Sold! Before I was old enough to go to games alone with friends I would go with my dad and we would drive. We'd take the Metropolitan [AUTHOR'S NOTE: The Met is the worst unless you like traffic and potholes.] and get off at Viau and drive down what seemed like the longest street in the world just to pull up at this eyesore of a stadium and for my eight-year-old self it felt like an eternity. In reality it's what, a 20-minute drive from St. Laurent?
Jonah Keri: Pretty much.
Bugs & Cranks: It felt like we were driving from MontrĂ©al to Boston and then the closer we got, I'd see the tower from the car window, the tower on the Big O, and that's when I'd get excited. You do touch on this the book, meeting your friends at du College Metro to take public transit as a teen, when was your excitement moment as a kid when you were being driven to the Big O? Was it as soon as you got in the car knowing you're going to a game?Â
Jonah Keri: I almost always went by metro. Definitely when you drive up, you can see the tower from anywhere, you know this. If you're coming from downtown, you can see it from there. I think that was it. I think that was the emblem for me. I can remember, and certainly it was like that then and when I moved away and I'd come back and fly over the city you'd see it or whatever. It's so iconic. You know lots of cities have stadiums. For whatever it's worth, whatever you think of this crazy ballpark it definitely stands out.
Bugs & Cranks: For sure. In researching and conducting interviews for the book you probably got to talk to some childhood heroes. Who was the person that you spoke to that wasn't a hero but became one? After I read your book, I now have so much respect for Charles Bronfman. Not that I didn't have respect for him before, but was there anyone that you talked to that you were just like, "Wow, this person is a god."?
Jonah Keri: I don't know about a god [laughs] but…
Bugs & Cranks: [laughs] Yeah, too strong. [AUTHOR'S NOTE: I had just binge-watched two seasons of Game of Thrones and before I called Jonah I was talking in a northern accent while cleaning the house. If anyone has a bad case of the King Joffrey's it's former Expos owner Jeffrey Loria.]
Jonah Keri: Cliff Floyd really made an impression on me. It's funny, Cliff Floyd is definitely quoted extensively in the book but there's all this stuff that I didn't end up using. He's about my age, a couple years older than I am. We met in a coffee shop in Miami and he just dazzled me. We talked about, he had a really bad rib injury in '95 and he went into intimate details about his rehab and how difficult it was and stressful and he's near tears and so am I, in the middle of this busy coffee shop. He's just telling me all these stories. So smart, so insightful, so able to channel the emotion of the time; you know, the '94 season and his own career and everything that happened. I came away really impressed. We spent about two hours talking. Other than Felipe Alou, Cliff Floyd is probably my favorite.Â
Bugs & Cranks: If "JK Livin" McConaughey can win an Academy Award, then baseball can come back to Montreal. I'm not knocking Dallas Buyers Club, I think it's a great movie but like, Matthew McConaughey plays the same character in every movie, he just did it 40 pounds lighter in this one. However, with Pauline Marois and the charter and all that political nonsense, the political landscape might scare away not only future owners but the players as well. What's your one sentence or one word pitch to get players to come to Montreal to be part of the new Expos should baseball return? [AUTHOR'S NOTE: It would take me way too long to explain The Charter of Quebec, Pauline Marois, the PQ, etc. But, please ask your buddy Google to tell you why this woman and her band of merry racists needs to be stripped of her power.]
Jonah Keri: A one-word pitch?
 Bugs & Cranks: I would just say "smoked meat poutine". [AUTHOR'S NOTE: Three words, yes I can read.]
Jonah Keri: [laughs] All that's great, but I don't have a one-word pitch for you because I think that the answer is complex because the reason they left is complex. I feel like the city has a lot to offer. When I spoke to these players they all kept saying it was the best time of their lives which is interesting to me because from the outside it has a reputation and going through customs is a pain in the ass. [AUTHOR'S NOTE: I was held up this past December at the Quebec/NY border because the customs officer thought I was smuggling crack or something. He didn't specify.]
Granted, if you're 22 years old and you're staring your major league career anywhere, San Diego, Kansas City, I think you're going to have warm memories anyway but these guys really talked it up. I think part of it is if you're a good looking, rich, 22-year-old guy in downtown MontrĂ©al, you're going to clean up. But even beyond the nightlife you can really appreciate the culture. You know, some of the Latin guys were saying just how easy, even though people don't really speak Spanish, it's such a melting pot, you just kind of feel comfortable. For the African-American players it was the same thing. There's no bad sentiment, nobody hassles you, it's just cool. It's got that environment, it's a very intangible thing to describe what it is about MontrĂ©al, but it has that. They really felt it and they really appreciated it and it was a formative time in their careers and lives. I think recapturing that feeling; everything that makes MontrĂ©al so great is really a lot of the reason that having a baseball team here can be great.Â
Bugs & Cranks: Finally, The Extra 2% and Up, Up, & Away have incredibly long titles. For your next book, which I can only hope is about the life and times of Pat Burrell, would you consider a shorter title?
Jonah Keri: No, although Pat Burrell's very handsome. [AUTHOR'S NOTE: Duh.] Let's see, I don't really want to write another book but if something comes across my desk that's a crazy, big story that's way beyond the scope of these last few things. But yeah, the subtitles are all about SEO anyway. [AUTHOR'S NOTE: I used to work as a keyworder/SEO specialist and let me tell you, he's right.] Sure, I'll try to do a two-word title next time and even if it's not about Pat Burrell we'll just call it "Pat Burrell". Is that okay?
Bugs & Cranks: Well, there's your SEO because he's probably getting into a fight somewhere anyway.
Jonah Keri: That's true. See, that could work. You're on the marketing team, I appreciate that. I mean it's strictly for SEO purposes and I've already got people mocking me for it. The thing that I enjoy the most is that I get to do these radio and TV interviews and the poor person who has to read it over and over.
Bugs & Cranks: Fair enough!
Thanks to Jonah Keri for doing this interview. You can read a review of his new book here.
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No matter what I change for each of my i/o ports jungleflasher says "No Drive Detected"
Below is a link to the specs of my motherboard if it's of any help. If anyone could help me with this problem I would greatly appreciate it. My brain is about to explode.
(Also I have tried it with the tray in, out, half way in [open status], half way [close status], pin 3 from it's power disconnected [in, out, and half way]... I think you get my point )
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This summer my teammates and I want you to get caught up in a good book. We know how fun exploring a great a story can be and that is why the Nationals are sponsoring the DC Public Library's Summer Reading program for kids and teens.
While part of my job is making great catches on the baseball field, your job this summer is to catch a great book and keep learning. You have the entire summer to enjoy fantastic books and get caught up in cool and exciting stories.
In fact, make sure to check out the Summer Reading list for books about one of my favorite topics-baseball! Choose one of the books on the list or one of the thousands of other great books at the library.
For every kid and teen between the ages of 6-19 that is registered in the Summer Reading program and reads at least eight hours this summer, we will give you two free tickets to catch one of our games at Nationals Park. To sign up or get more information, visit your DC Public Library or log on to dclibrary.org/summerreading.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced the decision Friday after his meeting with Catherine Ashton, European Union foreign policy chief, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Press TV reported Saturday.
"At the meeting with Ashton we agreed to hold the next round of Iran's nuclear talks with the Group P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) in Vienna Feb 18," said Zarif.
Previous reports suggested that the next round of the negotiations would be held in New York in February to set the stage for achieving a permanent agreement.
Iran and the six world powers -- the US, France, Britain, Russia, China plus Germany -- had inked an interim deal on Iran's nuclear energy programme in Geneva last November. The deal came into force Jan 20.
Under the deal, Iran agreed to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities as a confidence-building measure and the world powers agreed to give Iran some relief in sanctions and release more than $4 billion of Tehran's oil revenues.
Meanwhile, Russian foreign ministry's Security and Disarmament Department director Mikhail Ulyanov said Friday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has found no violation by Iran of the November nuclear deal.
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Coming to Fantasia 2011: Takashi Miike's Ninja Kids!!!Takashi Miike is a Fantasia favourite. Many of his films (Audition, Dead or Alive, The Great Yokai War, Ichi The Killer, and Zebraman, to name just a few) have been shown there.
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Red Like the Sky - very inspiring, without being sappyThis charming movie, suitable for adults and children, is set in 1970s Italy. When 10-year-old Mirco has an accident that leaves him legally blind, he has to leave his Tuscan town and go to a boarding school for the blind in Genoa.
Festivalissimo Friday: Pequenas VocesIf war is hell for everyone, how much worse must it be for children, who have not yet bought into any ideology or learned how to hate. One could call Pequenas Voces (Small Voices) an animated film from Colombia, an impressionistic documentary.
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Hudson has a mild stutter and a rumpled, fatherly air. According to his press materials, he is "a cognitive scientist specializing in complex literary and organizational analysis." He explains vaguely: "My background is very . . . eclectic. I come from a background of doing very long-term strategic thinking about extremely complicated things." Among these, he says, are global warming, sociolinguistics, telecommunications, and the Gospel of Matthew, which he spent several years analyzing from a structuralist standpoint. After the dotcom bust, Hudson decided to abandon his career and pursue a degree at the Shakespeare Institute in Birmingham, England.
It was there that he first began to detect what he says are hidden Jewish elements in the plays and embarked upon a search for an author who might have put them there. This is nothing newfor as long as Shakespeare has been celebrated, his identity has been in doubtbut Amelia Bassano might be the unlikeliest candidate ever proposed. She was one of the first female poets in England but is best known because of a now discredited theory that she was Shakespeare's muse, the Dark Lady referred to in his sonnets. It is not widely believed that she was black; still, Hudson thinks she was the Dark Lady as well as the author of the sonnets. Why would she write the sonnets to herself? "Well, why would she not write the sonnets to herself?" he counters with a puzzled stare.
Hudson bases much of his theory on references in Shakespeare's works to music and Hebrew words that he could not have been familiar with; Bassano, on the other hand, came from a family of musicians and had Jewish roots. But the most incontrovertible piece of evidence, according to Hudson, is the fact that each time a dying swanperhaps a metaphor for the poetappears in Shakespeare's work, there is a character present who bears a name associated with Bassano. "The probability that these signatures are not a coincidence is 99.999999999999999999 percent," he declares. "Eighteen decimal places."
Also noncoincidental, he thinks, are the parallels he detects between Titania and Oberon's feud in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Jewish-Roman war of the first century. Thus, his staging of the play (subtitled A Comic Jewish Satire) transforms the usual fey fairy ballet into a Semitic war of the worlds. He sees the whole thing as an allegory, with every character representing a different Judeo-Christian figure. Titania and Oberon are Titus Caesar and Yahweh, respectively. Bottom, the weaver with the head of an ass, is Jesus Christ. Shakespeare's Midsummer ends with three weddings and revelry all around. Hudson's Midsummer ends with the Apocalypse.
In order to make his allegory clear, Hudson had to condense the original, cutting some scenes and magnifying others until they take on far more import than in the original. For example: "Where Titania has the fairies cut off the limbs of the bees, the Maccabees, we bring the bees onstage, and we have their limbs cut off, and then they're lying dead all over the floor. They have big limbs, and their limbs are taken out, and they're hung up on the bower." He says this as if transforming bees into the Jewish rebels known as Maccabees were the most natural thing in the world.
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Mahayana Landowne, the production's director, has a deep, flat voice and a wicked eye for detail. She spends an hour fine-tuning the scene, pointing out awkward moments and inflections, trying to define and refine the bits that are not usually staged. What's the best way for rioting Bacchanals to rip apart a paper effigy of a Thracian singer? And how precisely should an actress playing "a man who died from drink" fall down after glug-glugging an entire bottle of wine? Hudson sits to the side, watching intently and chuckling in delight.
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After official dismission, I hope that IBM will free PZ/sMash to the open-source with an Apache license.
What do you think?
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Re: And now?2012-07-20T20:57:52Z in response to dvisentinMy vote is to open the sMASH source code and transfer it to the Apache as an open-source package. This would allow the continuity of patches preserving all the technical value of this software tool. Yet another benefit is that the service divisions, like the GBS AS services, as well as the IBM cloud computing environments, would be able to deliver sMASH based solutions, or distribute the package in the cloud computing space without concerns of licence questions, possibly giving the sMASH web server technology a new breath of live.
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Re: And now?2012-08-20T23:40:07Z in response to SystemAdminYES, we are using it in many projects. Was quite perturbed to see that it is being pulled from support ! Had to be that it was "too good" and had an undesirable financial impact.
I was about to ask (before seeing this post) how to get source code as the FAQ suggests such:
"Can I contribute?
IBM is following a community driven commercial development process for WebSphere sMash. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. As the community grows, there will be a facility for community members to share reusable components (for example, libraries, widgets and services). This is similar to the way Eclipse plug-ins work in that plug-ins extend the base Eclipse platform, but the plug-in itself is owned by the person or company that developed it.
If I develop extensions, who owns them?
You do! "
I was hoping that with such an announcement of dropped support that we would be able to get source code so that we can continue to use this very valuable asset going forward. Any word on this ?
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Re: And now?2012-08-03T13:52:16Z in response to dvisentinQuestion:
How numerous is the sMASH developer community today, how many active participants we have in the community? Just raise your hand:
. I'm here.
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New to the rental market for 2013. Only the 2nd house back from the ocean. Home has ocean views from the living room, kitchen, master bedroom, deck. WIFI, BBQ grille with patio set on large rear & side deck; dishwasher; microwave; outside shower; washer/dryer; large fenced-in yard, fire pit. There is also a front enclosed porch with ocean views. Bed Setup: Bedroom #1 on 1st floor, has 1 full-size bed; Bedroom #2, Master B/R on 2nd floor with Queen bed and ocean views. Bedroom #3 has a 1 queen bed and a bunk bed (twin mattresses) with a full mattress underneath which can be pulled out (sleep 5); Bedroom #4 is like a "dorm" – huge. Has 1 full, 1 bunk bed (2 twin mattresses), futon (full) and a trundle bed (sleeps 8). There is A/C in bedroom #4. Home will sleep 14 in beds – 16 with the extra mattress under bunk in bedroom # 3. There is a half bath on the 2nd floor and a full bath on the 1st floor, with shower (no tub); The beach is just around the corner. Walk down Surf St. to Fairhaven for beach access. (About a hundred yards away-football field). Off-street parking for 4-5. All for only $3,300/wk. Pets permitted with approval.
I represent the owner for this house as their rental agent. I've rented properties for over 20 years from Camp Ellis to Pine Point.
House sleeps many for families & friends who rent together. Large fenced-in back yard, ocean views. Pets allowed.
Proximity to the beach; Quiet family area. Large fenced-in back yard, ocean views from master b/r, kitchen, living room & front porch.. Pets allowed. Wifi, large-screen TV. Swing on back deck;
This house is located at Ferry Beach in Saco.
Saco & Old Orchard exits are #36 on the Maine Turnpike and are half way between Kittery & Freeport for outlet shopping; 20 minutes to South Portland to a major mall and 20 minutes to Portland. There are also many shops along Rte. 1 for antique stuff between Wells & Scarborough. The Old Port in Portland is at the waterfront with shops, 25 minute ride. We're about 1-1/2 hours or so from the Boston area..
Old Orchard has amusements & gift shops. From either of the Saco beaches or the OOB beach, it's about 5 miles to Funtown which is a theme park & water park; about 7 miles to the Aquaboggin, a water park; 5 miles to major supermarkets.
Another attraction is "bird watching", especially at the Scarborough Marsh, which is about a 5-minute drive from Saco.
From Ferry Beach in Saco it's a short walk to Camp Ellis where the Saco River meets the ocean. There is great fishing in both areas.
There is a bike path from this area to the Old Orchard line. This is a great central location and a community which caters to families, unspoiled by high rises.
Ferry Beach State Park is at Ferry Beach with trails to walk
When you go to the beach and have to go back for lunch, etc., you will not need to bring your blanket or chairs back. No one will touch them when you're gone. It's that type of beach and areas catering to families and are great for little kids. Families return here year after year for vacations.
Like lobsters? Buy directly from lobstermen either at Ferry Beach or Camp Ellis.
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MRR column #374
"I am not a chilled person."
"I don't see you on here" said the lady behind the desk.
"I should be, my reservation is right here" I reply, holding up my phone showing her the screen with my flight itinerary.
"Oh that was yesterday hon…"
My hands got shaky and for a second I went beet red. I fly almost once a year, how the hell could this happened to me; the most organized person this side of chaos?! Dammit!
"… OK then. One ticket on the first plane to San Francisco please."
"Sure thing. That'll be $70 for the ticket and $25 for your luggage."
"Double dammit! … OK…here's my card."
Swipes card. "I'm afraid it's not going through…" Triple dammit!
Thanks goodness my friend Jason had offered me a ride to the airport and was there—he and his working credit card…I hugged Jason for being my savior but what I really wanted to do was punch myself in the face for being an idiot. I bought the ticket, went outside and chain-smoked three cigarettes said my goodbyes and dragged myself to my gate, flustered and swearing obscenities under my breath. I am not a chilled person.
But wait a minute, what the hell am I doing away from MRR anyway? Why am I even outside San Francisco? I never leave; I'm the coord who hasn't even crossed the Golden Gate Bridge yet (sad but true). I get separation anxiety every time I leave the compound for more than a few hours. (Man, this must be what having kids is like… Glad I'm never having any of those!) To maintain my sanity, I needed to get away for a while, recharge my batteries, then come back and get knee deep into it again. "I'm not looking for escapism, I just want to escape."
I was originally going to go on tour and help roadie, but that kinda fell through, which is fine really; I looked forward to a week of having nothing to worry about except whether or not I have enough cigarettes in my pocket. So I booked a ticket to NYC, my favourite place in the whole wide world (so far!) Thankfully I have awesome friends and Ermis and Afroula (and their gorgeous cat Eddie) let me stay with them for a few days. Yessss! This was really going to happen!
San Francisco is changing faster than you can say "gentrification," which means that all the cool things that made SF a colourful, creative, radical city are being whitewashed by yuppies, techies, trust fund students and rich families. That aside, SF is too small for me. When I lived in Athens, a city with a core population of over 3.8 million people, I felt it was too small for me. SF, which has a core population of just under one million people, its metro population just over 4.5…still too small for me. I need some place where I can go up onto a steep hill and look down and see a city that goes as far as the eye can see. I need a metropolis to fit my busting personality, my endless thirst for discovery. SF is truly beautiful, but, if I didn't have this über-demanding job at MRR, I think I would eventually go mad living in the Bay Area as it is right now. I am not a chilled person.
Friday went like most: On the floor by 10am, a full coffeepot awaiting my consumption, the inbox refreshed, the lists all updated. Then the doorbell rang; once, twice, three times. Then the phone. Then the mail arrived, then a couple shitworkers; then more punk guests to check out the compound. By 8pm I was nowhere near finishing all I had to do before safely being able to exit the building. By 11pm I had finished my emailing, by 1am I was done with editing, and by 3pm I had showered and packed my bags. By 4.30 when the shuttle bus arrived I was wide-awake, ready to finally get on that fucking flight to NYC. I am not a chilled person.
On Saturday Jason picked my up at JFK (he really is the best) and we headed straight for Brooklyn. As we rode over the BQE and talked about Spike Lee movies, I said I wonder where Queens Bridge is. He said he was surprised I even knew that place. I said "I get a lot of my New York references from Beastie Boys songs" and started to rap, "We're doing fine on the 1 and 9 line. On the L we're doin' swell. On the number 10 bus we fight and fuss. Because we're thorough in the boroughs and that's a must." He laughed and pointed towards Manhattan as it slowly rolled past us on the right. Man, I have to move here one day!
Our first stop was to get a traditional cheese slice (yum!), then check in on the felines he was cat-sitting (both adorable). Then we met up with Jason's friend, Rugrat, who took the bus (!) all the way from Columbus, Ohio (!) to come with us to the show and hang out (punks have no qualms when it comes to traveling for punk, I love it!). Despite already counting about 36 hours without sleep I was feeling surprisingly chipper—dazed and still slightly nauseous from the plane but definitely standing. We headed to the Acheron (which people mispronounce all the time, something I as a Greek find quite entertaining), chatted about the current state of NYC punk, and hung out outside, beneath the graffiti-filled buildings, smoking, laughing, yelling at each other and generally looking like a scruffy bunch of delinquents. The Black and Blue Bowl was happening right around the corner, with bands like Agnostic Front, Biohazard, Madball, 7 Seconds and apparently the next night Discharge too!
I was too out of it and engrossed in conversation to catch the first two bands (though Ajax sounded great from outside) but of course I headed in for EU's Arse, who were pretty darn incredible! The singer has a temperamento that is magnetic and engaging, as he squeals, screams and wriggles on stage. Sure, maybe the young kids have all the gimmicks and béret-props, but what EU's Arse were playing in Udine, Italy back in the '80s is still what the young kids are playing today. It's not boring or overplayed, it's classic and inspiring.
On Sunday I rolled out of bed pretty late for CET, so we just headed to our friend Leda's house, a punk we all knew from back home in Athens who moved to NYC a few years ago. We rolled cigarettes and played Cards Against Humanity outside in the sun, downing beers, then coffee. At some point I heard a strange, sweet tune wafting through the air. I had heard that tune before, I recognized it from the movies: it was an ice cream truck! (Yes, those things actually exist!) We spoke of the differences between Athens and NYC, and SF and NYC, and SF and Athens, and even though I still have not put my finger on what it is that makes this country so surreal (too many things probably), I was feeling more at ease in NYC, no doubt. Something about the smells in the air, the 24-hour diners and cheeky rats make me feel right at home. I am not a chilled person.
That evening I also met up with a newer writer punk friend, AC. We met by Peter Luger on Broadway, and walked to one of the Art University campuses, where we strolled through the outdoor art exhibits and counted stray cats. The night was starry and mild. We sat under a statue with a yellow balloon tied to it and talked about the joys of writing. I tried to suck the helium from the balloon and recite Bill Hicks in a squeaky voice, but all I managed to do was inhale some random person's second-hand breath. Oh well. We continued south of Williamsburg and headed towards AC's warehouse bookstore. It was quite a way down, so I balanced on the back of his bike as we rode past the waterfront, the Manhattan city lights gleaming in the distance, the Brooklyn bridge every bit of majestic you expect it to be. The warehouse is simply huge and reminded me of the kind of place you'd hole up in in the event of a coup d'état, or if the zombie apocalypse finally came. I think the people in charge have the same idea. Rows and rows of household materials, antiques, ornaments, furniture and every other thing you could imagine: from bathtubs, marble sinks, ceiling fans and picture frames, to chandeliers, rocking chairs and coffee pots. And of course, in amongst this paradise of "one man's trash is another man's treasure" was AC's little bookstand. Four or so bookshelves and one display table; set up looking like the world tiniest bookstore, perfect with its dusty carpeting underfoot, rusty chandeliers for sale up above and the hand-written section signs pinned to the shelves. Lucky for me, I was gifted something special: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde and a night of great conversation.
We had no supplies, so headed out in search of some coffee and beer and slowly walked back through the warm night and empty streets. Back at the warehouse we were greeted by Bagel the cat. We listened to a little transistor radio (the kind that fits in your breast pocket) and priced used books, shared stories and listed books we hadn't yet read. Around 3am we headed back north, made food and more coffee and listened to the Sun Ra special on WBGO on the little transistor radio. The sun had started to come up and was reflecting off the buildings and through the trees. I got some writing done, as did AC, a compulsory need writers have in order to move on with their often-hectic lives.
Later on we headed to the local library in search of some maps. Alas they had none so we strolled through Prospect Park. As we walked past a junior baseball league match, I heard an ice cream truck's tune somewhere in the distance yet again. It started to rain, so out the other end we went and ducked into a perfectly scruffy little diner for coffee and donuts and talked zines, punk, MRR and the oddball opportunities life throws you. By that time the clouds had cleared and the sun was out again; setting just as I crossed the bridge on the J train back home. Overground trains are so much cooler than underground trains.
The next day I woke up so hungry I demanded we go to a diner for brunch. When in Rome… naturally we went to Astoria. When the waiter came to refill my coffee I almost squealed with joy—the land of bottomless coffee cups! After brunch we walked into a corner store to buy cigarettes and I found out they make frappe! So, one glyko me gala (sweet with milk) and off we were to Hell Gate, a picturesque arch railway bridge that goes through Astoria, across the East River and into Queens the other end. It was warm and sunny, the park was full, an ice cream truck was serving cones to the kids and the Triborough Bridge loomed in the distance, suspended and impressive.
For all the hype it gets, and all the hipsters who have moved there, you'd expect Williamsburg to have more than three crappy bars. After going in circles for 30 minutes around Lorimer Street, we eventually found somewhere with a garden out back to wet our whiskers. Two drinks were not enough, so Jason and I headed into Alphabet City, found Joe Strummer's mural on Avenue A and 7th and got cocktails at Niagara. (when they're well made like those ones, I love me a cocktail, or four.) Through the window we could see Tompkins Square Park, aka (what once was) The Punkest Square in Manhattan. We sat there for a while afterwards and, even if we were the only punks there, it felt great to sit outside and soak up the night. We had one of those deep conversations you often have when forming a new friendship. We laughed at the people and situations that made us grow, worried about the ways in which our lives would be changing over the next year (for vastly different reasons) and for a moment silence fell; the kind that two people can share and actually enjoy. A silent ice-cream truck drove by. I told him how I wanted to move to New York. He told me he'd been thinking about moving to the Bay. "I know it seems that way, but I am not a chilled person. I'm a West Coast person trapped in an East Coast body." As we headed our separate ways we both recognized our position in our respective presents, and realized that the future isn't as scary when you have friends to hang out in parks with.
A little earlier he had told me a saying from the '80s people had about Alphabet City. Avenue A you're Alright, Avenue B you're Brave, Avenue C you're Crazy, Avenue D you're Dead. I thought about this as I noticed the street sign above my head said Avenue C and 3rd. After leaving David the punk lawyer's pad (who owns an original Minor Threat EP, which I got to touch and smell!) I had intended to walk down to the Bowery area to catch a nightcap before catching my train, but had drifted off to the right somewhere by mistake. It was past midnight and I was still in my T-shirt. The rats crawled between the rubbish bins, the kids played basketball in the outdoor courts and the bars and shops were all still open. There were old ladies buying groceries at midnight on a Tuesday! Fantastic! I continued to roam until I stumbled upon a wine bar near my station. Unfortunately the place was almost closing for the night so I chugged my overpriced glass of rose, scribbled down some notes at the bar and bolted. As I walked towards Essex Station I saw some tourists point to a gutter and shriek in mock horror. Yeah, we are all in the gutter, but I am not a chilled person.
I was still on West Coast time so even though my SF-conditioned body woke up at 8am, it was already 11am in Brooklyn. Afro and I got some coffee and donuts from Dunkin' Donuts (I know, the worst, but it's actually kind of the best) and talked about New Yorkers. Have you got anxiety because you live in New York, or do you live in New York because you have anxiety? Most people would coil up at the sight of hundreds, thousands of people walking down Lexington Ave., but I relished in it. I had missed that feeling, of being able to be a nobody, an anybody (a somebody?) as I walked side by side all these complete strangers. There is a sense of destiny in the air, as if something strange and magical can occur. Like spinning tops, people are constantly trying to avoid crashing into each other, lest their precious time is wasted, their important schedule affected. Yet when two of them do collide, just by accident, because of some unlucky series of events, their courses alter, moving into a new, shared dimension that never would have existed otherwise. Social entropy.
David the punk lawyer grew up in Manhattan and spent many of his early years exploring Grand Central Station. So when we met beneath his office at 51st and Lex, it seemed like the appropriate place to get some gelato, coffee and postcards. It's a massively huge station; a little city beneath the city, with shops and restaurants, news stands and shoe cleaners (yes, those still exist apparently); the terminal area alone expanding for almost one square mile, with 44 platforms serving 67 tracks! Over 20 million people go through it on an annual basis and I was one of them.
Dinnertime was rolling around and I was to meet Ermis in Chinatown for dumplings and teriyaki chicken, which was, of course, delicious. Drinks at the Cakeshop with Stav were up next. (I walked by ABC No Rio but still haven't managed to catch a show there yet! Ugh! It's been added to my Next Time list.) I know Ermis because along with another eight or so punks we used to run a tropical wet hole/show basement, called Katarameno Syndromo, in the shittiest part of Athens. I know Stav through a different group of friends (hi Elly!), also from Athens. Ermis and Stav are both Greek artists (comics, painting, sketching, tattoos) who have lived within a few miles of each other in Brooklyn for the past four years or so—but had never met! So when I was there last December I insisted they do! And now we were all hanging out together—don't you just love how small the world can be sometimes?
Stav and Dana live in Green Point. From their sixth floor apartment I can see the Empire State building. We discuss language, politics and "political correctness." An electric storm is raging above our heads but their two luscious Persian cats, Gordon and Charlie, snoozed under the table, on the sofa, looking completely cozy and at ease. For once in a long time I could relate. I tucked my working friends into bed and settled into the snug duvets myself. The lightning illuminated the room and I counted the seconds between lightning and thunder; the furthest strike about three miles away (fifteen seconds), the closest right around the corner, a mile down the road (three seconds). I tried to sleep but I could feel my neurons fire up, visualizing them spark with every strike of lightning. I was wide awake and wandering down my own neural pathways, but unable to find Morpheus anywhere. So I smoked another cigarette on the balcony, admiring the skyline, feeling electrified. Around 3.30am I finally retired. I am not a chilled person.
The next day I did a spot of cat-sitting while my friends went to work. I didn't technically need to, but it was wet and dreary outside, so what better way to spend the day than with cats, drinking coffee, listening to records and writing postcards and letters? It didn't look like it was going to clear up, so I ventured out anyway, through McCarren Park to meet Santi, who does Hysteria Records (he just put out that wicked D.H.K. EP, reviewed further down in this issue). We went to the tasty vegan diner Lauren from La Misma works at (I missed their Bay Area show, I heard they killed it! Hopefully got an interview coming soon!). Then we went to 538 Johnson St., where a bunch of shows happen, most recently NY's Alright Fest, and climbed up onto its perfect punk roof, talking about new bands and records, up-coming projects and travels. It was still very cloudy, and that only dispersed the light, so everything had a sepia tone, quite cinematic. (hysteriarecords.bigcartel.com)
"Do you have ADD?" David the punk lawyer asked me as we walked towards Time Square, then back again, in search of some grub, my head darting left and right like a pigeon. Everything excited me. I felt alive in all that craziness. Maybe because I felt less crazy myself.
Stav and I hopped a train to Chambers Station for, weirdly enough, more cat-sitting. I got to see City Hall for the first time, got more stamps from a very drunk kiosk guy, and went up seven floors to an apartment overlooking City Hall Park. A tall and skinny silver skyscraper (World Trade 2.0) towered to the left, the park below, New Jersey in the distance, and looming above it all the most vicious looking cloud—sludgy green/charcoal grey with shards of blue/white lightning shooting out at a scarily close distance. It was sick! (yeah, that film Twister? Love it!) We had to bolt, but fuck if the architecture and urban landscape isn't crazy: one skyscraper reflecting of another, lights glowing, lines and angles merging, materials mixing; shape and perspective take new form, different dimensions skip out from between the buildings, space feels like its constantly altering, you're over-stimulated and the city shifts and morphs around with you, almost as if it's pulling you into its alternate reality, simultaneously pushing you to keep moving forward. I like that forging of energies, the mutability, it keeps me on my toes, it keeps me buzzed. 'Cause hey, I am not a chilled person.
• The Flex and Violent Opposition show in Oakland was great, lots of people went flying in the pit and their energy was quite different, a nice change of pace, and very cool people too. Also, I went to Don Pyle's photography exhibition at 1-2-3-4 Go! and of course his work is amazing, with prints from the early Canadian punk scene, plus pictures from Ramones, Blondie and Iggy shows in Canada! He's great at capturing people in their moments of bliss, ecstasy and exhilaration on stage. (Fell in love with Debbie Harry all over again.) If you haven't already, check out his interview in MRR #350, July 2012!
- MRR is doing monthly shows again! Wanna help out? Suggest a band, out-of-towners included? Get in touch at email@example.com. Also, send your demo tape/CD-R for review, or submit your info for the New Blood section! Do you take pictures? Monday Photoblog your best shit on our website! Are you the next Nick Blinko? Submit your art for the artpage! Do you have a record out, or do a label? Send us your vinyl for review. What gets reviewed is then kept in the vast MRR record collection of about 46,000 records—a punk resource and treasure! You can help preserve it by donating on our website at maximumrocknroll.com/donate.
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Insights on Immigration: deportation reprieve
However, the government should never advertise the fact that a certain category of law breakers is not going to be deported; this only serves to encourage future law breaking and creates a sense of entitlement by the non-priority violators. The Department of Homeland Security should always process any violators who fall into its lap, in addition to those who fit the established priorities.
This new strategy is a blatant political ploy intended to appease the Democratic Party base during an election year, and a shameful distortion of the concept of the rule of law.
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A: It is vital to prioritize deportation cases. There is a growing backlog in our immigration courts. Prosecutorial discretion can be an effective tool to allow the Department of Homeland Security to prioritize, pursue, prosecute and deport criminal aliens.
The goal of prosecutorial discretion is to help reduce the number of low-priority cases, and to allow DHS to focus immigration enforcement resources on high-priority criminals. If implemented properly, it will allow DHS to use its limited resources to accelerate the prosecution and removal of dangerous criminals.


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I thought TB was a really high performing string but it did lack a little in the comfort area. It's very crispy and tingy. I like it better in a larger more open stringbed that has a little more give.
Hyperion is still gc-poat (greatest co-poly) for me. Old reliable. No fuss, no dead feel, no edges wearing off, no overnight transformation into lifeless board. PL2 is superb at the beginning but the 6 hour falloff is there: it just gets hard and launchy.
I'm down to 2 sticks looking to sidegrade from my E-pro: PSTGT bone stock and lead fortified YTPP.
Gonna be a tough call on this one. Spent the weekend moving lead around the ytpp: The PED setup with 3g at 12 seemed to solidify the top of the string bed and give more shape and spin to my shots, however, it did not swing as classically as the 3 and 9 lead. Also, the 3 and 9 seemed to give more power and control on shots where I was really going for it. Really dug the lesser swingweight on the 3 and 9 when serving.
I found the rac exceedingly spinny in stock and adding lead at 12 seemed overkill in the spin department: I was finding crazy angles but I lost a little of that lazer feeling: could see the ball checking up.
I think macro said this thing was the GOHBHROAT, I gotta agree, I was whipping up and over shots that I would have to slice with my heavier SW sticks.
Stick should be hyperionized and freshcapped tomorrow, can't wait.
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We studied foraging activity of giant petrels during the incubation period, by simultaneously deploying activity recorders and satellite transmitters on northern (Macronectes halli) and southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) at Bird Island (South Georgia, Antarctica) between 29 October and 26 December 1998. Satellite tracking showed two types of trips: (1) coastal trips, all undertaken by male northern giant petrels, to the nearby South Georgia mainland, presumably foraging on seal and penguin carcasses on beaches, and (2) pelagic trips, foraging at sea for marine prey or potentially scavenging on distant archipelagos (e.g. South Sandwich, Falkland or South Orkney Islands). Activity recorder data were consistent with the types of trip defined by the satellite tracking data, with median wet activity (time spent at the sea surface) during pelagic trips being 41%, but only 14% on coastal trips. On pelagic trips, there was a significant negative correlation between the duration of wet periods and the speed of travel between satellite uplinks. Mean travelling speed between uplinks was greater during day than night for both types of trips, suggesting that giant petrels prefer to travel during daylight and are less active at night. The scarcity of wet periods during the night in giant petrels foraging to the South Georgia coast (median=3%, range=1–9%) indicates that such birds spent almost all night on land. Likewise, the scarcity of wet periods at night for three birds foraging 700–1,000 km south of Bird Island, where there is no land but abundant icebergs, suggests these birds were resting on the icebergs at night. In addition to the adaptations to scavenging on carrion, pelagic trips by giant petrels contain elements similar to those of albatrosses, indicating a complexity to giant petrel lifestyle hitherto unrecognised.
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- Activity patterns of giant petrels, Macronectes spp., using different foraging strategies
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Marine Biology
Volume 140, Issue 1 , pp 197-204
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- 10.1007/s002270100684
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- D. Briggs (A2)
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- A1. Dept. Biologia Animal (Vertebrats), Univ. de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, Barcelona 08028, Spain,
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Egypt's new, military-appointed interim prime minister defended the security forces' response. He denied the military or police shot at protesters, saying gunfire came from an unidentified group that "came from the back and fired at protesters."
He accused the antimilitary protests that have been held for weeks outside the Cabinet building of being "anti-revolution."
In a potential embarrassment to the military, a civilian advisory panel it created this month suspended its work, demanding an immediate end to violence and a formal apology from the ruling military council. Eight of its members resigned in protest of the crackdown.
The latest round of violence touched off late Thursday after soldiers stormed the antimilitary protest camp outside the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square, expelling demonstrators demanding an end to military rule and an immediate transfer of power to a civilian authority. Witnesses said troops snatched a protester, taking him into the parliament building and beating him.
Mustafa Ali, a protester who was wounded by pellet shot in clashes last month, accused the ruling generals Saturday of instigating the violence to "find a justification to remain in power and divide up people into factions."
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Vintage aircraft, dog-fighting model airplanes, the Goodyear Blimp and a parachute team will be among the attractions of "Airport Day '94" on Saturday at Fullerton Municipal Airport.
Among the aircraft on display will be the Stearman, an open-cockpit biplane used to train pilots in World War II, said airport director Roland Elder.
Spectators can pay $15 per person for an airplane ride with the Fullerton 99s, a women's aviation group.
Helicopter rides are also available, and several radio air-traffic controllers will be on hand to emcee the event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is free of charge.
As part of the show, radio-controlled airplanes flown by the California Air Show Team will perform at 10:30 a.m.
"They just capture the day. They do dog fights and barrel rolls," Elders said of the model planes.
The airport is the oldest general aviation field still in its original location in the county. During the show, it will be designated as one of the county's 40 historical landmarks by Supervisor Gaddi H. Vasquez.


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You have basic tools like a nice multimeter?
Sitting down with a VERY clear wiring schematic, and using a fine pointer, start at the battery and start following along. Wiring is very logical. Once you learn the various symbols (there aren't many on a bike) AND what they do, it all starts to click.
Start with a basic wiring diagram like how to wire up driving lights.
Does this make sense? If not, what specifically? I think if you can take small steps in understanding the big picture will happen quickly.
Once you figure out the various circuits, you can break them down into reasonable sections and isolate them. Just looking at a full schematic without understanding smaller blocks of it is intimidating.
I have no tools. But I do plan on picking up a voltage meter and crimpers.
That diagram does make sense on how power travels from the battery to each light and out to a ground. But everything in-between the battery and the lights is more than I know.
Here's my situation as of right now.
First: I just wired in a tusk street legal kit to my crf. It was a simple plug and play off the battery. But I need to find out how to cut the wires to the headlights and attach them to the tusk wiring harness. It's simple, as there's 3 wires connecting the lights, and 3 wires coming from the tusk harness. I just need to figure out which ones are which. But I'm still lost on how to do this.
Second: The PO placed a pressure sensor on the rear brake to turn the rear running light into a brake light. He spliced into the factory wiring harness. My new tusk pressure brake runs right into the tusk wiring harness so it was easy to complete. But now I have the old brake wiring hanging out and I want to put it back to factory, and am unable to figure out which wires were factory and which weren't.
Third: I picked up a keyed ignition switch. Nothing fancy and it's purely a thief deterrent. I just want to connect it to my start switch which is only 2 wires. The keyed ignition has 4 wires coming from it. I don't know if I only use 2 of the wires, or 2 in and 2 out.
Fourth: I bought heated grips, and they've been sitting in my garage for over a year. I have no idea how to install these. I'd also like to see if I can provide enough power to power the grips, gps, and maybe cellphone.
I'd like to start out by wiring the headlights and eventually learning enough to set up my own "control panel" for my gadgets.
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I really screwed up, my engine is shot. I need to replace the 3.8 on my otherwise good 2000 Ford Windstar with 100K miles.
They are telling me it'd be around $2,600 for a used (20K) engine, and about $3,600 for a rebuilt.
Damn....I new it would be pricey...but wow!
Any advise on which way to go and how to approach this?
Sounds cheap, is that an installed price?
If these prices are installed, they do not seem out of line. How many miles on the used engine? What is the warrantee of the used vs. the rebuilt? How long do you plan on keeping it and what is the overall condition of the Windstar? Answer these questions and make a decision. Worst case 3600 is one year car payments.
I think I'd go for the used engine (most likely from a wreck) that hasn't been tinkered with. The Windstar still has a residual value of about $4-6500 so it's worth dropping another engine in.
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