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Where do you want me to start? It's not particularly intelligent to vote for a single issue party with no policies that uses xenophobia to attract voters. It's not very intelligent to vote for a party that campaigns on national issues in local elections. It's not very intelligent to support a party that has seen half its MEPs convicted of fraud and turns out former BNP members as candidates in local elections.
UKIP is just another far-right party made up of Little Englanders, racists and poorly educated people who fear the world around them. It doesn't offer any solutions and just attracts right-wingers who want to blame their problems on foreigners. It's telling that UKIP is supported by the EDL and the BNP.
have you read the UKIP policies ? or have you just heard what their main point is? and they do not want all immigrants gone and it just be white people, they want to limit immigration and stop foreigners coming here to sponge... I was going to vote BNP but I then saw their polices and how radical they were and thought wow this is just a hate group. the main point is there are to many people in this country and I want anyone over the fools in parliament at the moment. also they will keep us free from the EU ....VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR ECONOMY ... please educate your self before making assumptions to a specific demographic ...
I understand your point of view but it does not seem like an overly educated one.
I normally avoid voting and have done so once in my life, and in reference to the other posts, my IQ is just below genius. so yea just saying the studies just sound like propaganda to me. would be a good way to get people not to vote for them wouldn't ? by saying they are basically idiots?


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Anthony Edwards / Staff Photo A man is detained in front of the Rutland City District Courthouse on Wednesday following a complaint that he tried to enter the building with a blunt object while in a state of rage.A shirtless man was arrested outside the Rutland courthouse after trying to enter with a number of weapons Wednesday.
Rutland City Police said Parke Keener, 34, had caused a disturbance at the Social Security office on Merchants Row shortly before driving to the courthouse on State Street. He was in Rutland jail Wednesday night, facing two charges of disorderly conduct and one of violating his conditions of release in a previous criminal case, according to police.
Sgt. John Sly said police were called at around 2 p.m. by the Social Security office in the Asa Bloomer Building, where security personnel said Keener had a blunt instrument and was being disorderly and threatening.
Hes distraught over some dealings with the Social Security people, Sly said. It may have progressed from there.
As police arrived and began to evacuate the building, he said, they received a report that Keener had departed in a sports utility vehicle and arrived at the courthouse two blocks away. Sly said the sheriffs deputies responsible for security there denied him entry because his demeanor was agitated and because he was carrying something inappropriate for the courthouse.
He had several different types of pocket knives or small handheld knives, Sly said.
Police also removed a number of items from Keeners vehicle, including a Samurai-style sword, a large wooden object identified by police as a walking stick, and a bamboo item that appeared to be a kendo stick a martial arts training weapon.
Keener had been in court two days earlier, pleading innocent to a marijuana-cultivation charge for which he had been cited in April. Police said they found 30 plants at his home when they arrived there as part of an unrelated investigation. Keener, who told police he had a Colorado medical marijuana card and used the drug for his scoliosis, had been released without bail and minimal court conditions.
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I just received 3 books - one copy each of Yoshihito Isogawa from Japan. Un. Be. Lievable. I'll refer to the books as Red Book (RB), Blue Book (BB), and Green Book (GB) in this review.
English Table of Contents for all 3 books here: http://www.isogawastudio.co.jp/legostudio/bookcontentsenglish.html#howtobuild
Red Book - This is the one to start with - over 150 pages of full-color mechanisms, all using a mixture of Technic and system parts - including motors, gears, beams, and more. All the books are written in Japanese, so unless you can read it, you're going to have to use the icon system that Isogawa has created, but it's not difficult. Along the right edge of each right-side page, you'll find small icons that give you a hint of the sections' designs. For example, in one of my photos here you can see a small image of a pneumatic plunger and piston. Easy to flip to and find all kinds of mechanisms that use pneumatics. Other icons (sections) include springs, magnets, and axles. And those are only 4 icons out of maybe 12+ icons in the book. A few icons still have me puzzled, but it didn't stop me from looking at EVERY page... these small designs are incredible. There is a WEALTH of design ideas here - you won't believe it. And this is just the Red Book.
Blue Book - Almost every design in this full-color book uses tires or some sort of gear/wheel system for movement. Over 160 pages, with RCX/NXT/PF motors represented plus a few more that I don't own. Icons here look like they break the designs down into turning, rotating pieces, motors, springs, gears, pushing, pulling, and multiple-choice type behaviors. Again, some of the mechanisms are so simple but you can see where the few parts will provide major options to robots (especially in competitions like FLL). There are some gearing mechanisms in there that I just cannot figure out, but they sure do look impressive. I think what has impressed me the most is that you can see in the pictures the work the mechanism will produce as well as the small number of parts required to perform the work.
Green Book - This book, 150+ pages in full-color, appears to be dedicated to "walking" and non-wheel devices (a few exist, but not many). The pneumatics and spring sections are surprising, and I've got all kinds of ideas in my head right now. Mechanisms that use or react to sound, light, and weight (force) are also included. The first 30 pages alone are worth the book's price, as it provides dozens of walking mechanisms that could be easily incorporated with an NXT robot... some of them will make you laugh and others you won't believe will work using the small number of parts.
These 3 books are incredible. The sheer number of ideas presented in them will blow you away. While many of these mechanisms can be found in Isogawa's earlier PDF (he sells it for $10 on his website), there's plenty of original content - and the way the author has divided it up among the 3 books and then structured each book makes them easy to "read."
It's difficult to compare these 3 newcomers with the Orange, Black, and Gray books (see links below). They serve a different purpose I believe and the format is much different (very little text in RB, GB, and BB as compared to the Orange, Black, and Gray. That said, I'm much more likely to get actual usage out of these 3 new books as the building instructions are easy to follow and the mechanisms inside are more likely to offer up something I can use (although the Orange Book remains one of my favorites)
Get them here: http://www.yesasia.com/global/search/isogawa-yoshihito/0-0-0-bpt.48_q.Isogawa+yoshihito-en/results.html
The author's Orange Book - more details here and here and here.
Black Book writeup - different author
Gray Book writeup - different author
UPDATE: I wanted to add that for an FLL team, these books could be indispensable. You're not going to find full solutions for any missions, but you will find so many potential mechanisms that can be made to perform actions such as pushing, pulling, lifting, lowering, spinning... the list goes on. Until a way is found to either have them translated and sold in the USA (or elsewhere), they are fairly pricey (most of that is the cost of shipping from Japan but YesAsia.com does do a great job of delivery and providing tracking). It would be great to find a publisher willing to have these translated into English, but don' t count on that... instead, just know that the images are easy to follow and 80-90% of the designs show you exactly how to build them - the rest you can just examine the photos and reverse-engineer.
If you are an FLL team that obtains one or more of these books and you find any mechanisms that you implement in your robot, please let me know! At the end of the season I'd love to give one or more teams the ability to dissect their robot and provide a guest post or 2 covering their design, including any mechanisms found useful here.
Aug 18, 2008
Yoshihito Isogawa - Red, Blue, and Green Books
Posted by: James Floyd Kelly (Jim) at 4:33 AM
4 comments:
- Michael said...
Hi Jim,
where can I order the orange book? It's not listed @ yesasia.com
- Aug 19, 2008, 5:37:00 AM
- ISOGAWA Yoshihito said...
Hello Jim,
Thank you very much for writing about my books.
It took long time for me to read and understand such a long article in a different language. I hope these books will be useful.
Hello Michael,
If you cannot get the orange book at yesasia.com, please contact me at email@example.com.
- Aug 20, 2008, 6:46:00 PM
Is there anywher to purchase the books through a website like Amazon.com? I searched for them, but could not find them, and the list price a yesasia.com is kind of pricey. ($40.00)
- Aug 26, 2008, 10:48:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Try amazon.jp - I've heard from a few people that they've had success getting the books there.
- Aug 26, 2008, 10:50:00 PM
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I didn't say any posts were removed, just that there are a lot of posts with negative views on and as soon as one from Stardock gets some it warrants another thread reasserting their position. It's like a rank pulling thing an it's if anything makes me not like them a little bit more each time, even if it's not requested by them.
The Start8 posts didn't warrant this kind of response, the comments in the linked article did. I don't like having to sit back and allow people to spout something which is untrue. We should be able to tell it like it is because otherwise people who know no better will start to believe the comments. I also agree we need to add a disclaimer to the posts in future and this topic provides that.


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Down syndrome, Down's syndrome, or trisomy 21 is a chromosomal disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British doctor who described the syndrome in 1866. The disorder was identified as a chromosome 21 trisomy by Jérôme Lejeune in 1959. The condition is characterized by a combination of major and minor differences in structure. Often Down syndrome is associated with some impairment of cognitive ability and physical growth as well as facial appearance. Down syndrome can be identified during pregnancy or at birth.
Individuals with Down syndrome tend to have a lower than average cognitive ability, often ranging from mild to moderate developmental disabilities. A small number have severe to profound mental disability. The incidence of Down syndrome is estimated at 1 per 800 to 1,000 births, although these statistics are heavily influenced by the age of the mother. Other factors may also play a role.
Many of the common physical features of Down syndrome also appear in people with a standard set of chromosomes. They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures (the separation between the upper and lower eyelids), shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue. Health concerns for individuals with Down syndrome include a higher risk for congenital heart defects, gastroesophageal reflux disease, recurrent ear infections, obstructive sleep apnea, and thyroid dysfunctions.
Early childhood intervention, screening for common problems, medical treatment where indicated, a conducive family environment, and vocational training can improve the overall development of children with Down syndrome. Although some of the physical genetic limitations of Down syndrome cannot be overcome, education and proper care will improve quality of life.
Down syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality characterized by the presence of an extra copy of genetic material on the 21st chromosome, either in whole (trisomy 21) or part (such as due to translocations). The effects of the extra copy vary greatly among people, depending on the extent of the extra copy, genetic history, and pure chance. Down syndrome occurs in all human populations, and analogous effects have been found in other species such as chimpanzees and mice. Recently, researchers have created transgenic mice with most of human chromosome 21 (in addition to the normal mouse chromosomes). The extra chromosomal material can come about in several distinct ways. A typical human karyotype is designated as 46,XX or 46,XY, indicating 46 chromosomes with an XX arrangement typical of females and 46 chromosomes with an XY arrangement typical of males.
The incidence of Down syndrome is estimated at one per 800 to one per 1000 births. In 2006, the Center for Disease Control estimated the rate as one per 733 live births in the United States (5429 new cases per year). Approximately 95% of these are trisomy 21. Down syndrome occurs in all ethnic groups and among all economic classes.
Maternal age influences the chances of conceiving a baby with Down syndrome. At maternal age 20 to 24, the probability is one in 1562; at age 35 to 39 the probability is one in 214, and above age 45 the probability is one in 19. Although the probability increases with maternal age, 80% of children with Down syndrome are born to women under the age of 35, reflecting the overall fertility of that age group. Recent data also suggest that paternal age, especially beyond 42, also increases the risk of Down Syndrome manifesting in pregnancies in older mothers.
Current research (as of 2008) has shown that Down syndrome is due to a random event during the formation of sex cells or pregnancy. There has been no evidence that it is due to parental behavior or environmental factors.
Pregnant women can be screened for various complications during pregnancy. Many standard prenatal screens can discover Down syndrome. Genetic counseling along with genetic testing, such as amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling (CVS), or percutaneous umbilical cord blood sampling (PUBS) are usually offered to families who may have an increased chance of having a child with Down syndrome, or where normal prenatal exams indicate possible problems. Genetic screens are often performed on pregnant women older than 30 or 35.
Amniocentesis and CVS are considered invasive procedures, in that they involve inserting instruments into the uterus, and therefore carry a small risk of causing fetal injury or miscarriage. There are several common non-invasive screens that can indicate a fetus with Down syndrome. These are normally performed in the late first trimester or early second trimester. Due to the nature of screens, each has a significant chance of a false positive, suggesting a fetus with Down syndrome when, in fact, the fetus does not have this genetic abnormality. Screen positives must be verified before a Down syndrome diagnosis is made. Common screening procedures for Down syndrome are given in Table 1.
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|AFP/free beta screen
|This test measures the alpha feto protein, produced by the fetus, and free beta hCG, produced by the placenta.
|Nuchal translucency/free beta/PAPPA screen
|Uses ultrasound to measure Nuchal Translucency in addition to the freeBeta hCG and PAPPA (pregnancy-associated plasma protein A). NIH has confirmed that this first trimester test is more accurate than second trimester screening methods.
Even with the best non-invasive screens, the detection rate is 90%–95% and the rate of false positive is 2%–5%. False positives can be caused by undetected multiple fetuses (very rare with the ultrasound tests), incorrect date of pregnancy, or normal variation in the proteins.
Confirmation of screen positive is normally accomplished with amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS). Amniocentesis is an invasive procedure and involves taking amniotic fluid from the amniotic sac and identifying fetal cells. The lab work can take several weeks but will detect over 99.8% of all numerical chromosomal problems with a very low false positive rate.
A 2002 literature review of elective abortion rates found that 91–93% of pregnancies in the United States with a diagnosis of Down syndrome were terminated. Physicians and ethicists are concerned about the ethical ramifications of this. Conservative commentator George Will called it "eugenics by abortion". British peer Brian Rix stated that "alas, the birth of a child with Down's syndrome is still considered by many to be an utter tragedy" and that the "ghost of the biologist Sir Francis Galton, who founded the eugenics movement in 1885, still stalks the corridors of many a teaching hospital". Doctor David Mortimer has argued in Ethics & Medicine that "Down's syndrome infants have long been disparaged by some doctors and government bean counters. Some members of the disability rights movement "believe that public support for prenatal diagnosis and abortion based on disability contravenes the movement's basic philosophy and goals.
A 1998 study of Finnish doctors found that "Only very few, pediatricians somewhat more often, thought that Down's syndrome is not a good enough reason for pregnancy termination, but more (15-21%) thought that current prenatal screenings in general are (partly) based on eugenic thinking.
Individuals with Down syndrome differ considerably in their language and communication skills. It is routine to screen for middle ear problems and hearing loss; low gain hearing aids or other amplification devices can be useful for language learning. Early communication intervention fosters linguistic skills. Language assessments can help profile strengths and weaknesses; for example, it is common for receptive language skills to exceed expressive skills. Individualized speech therapy can target specific speech errors, increase speech intelligibility, and in some cases encourage advanced language and literacy. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) methods, such as pointing, body language, objects, or graphics are often used to aid communication. Relatively little research has focused on the effectiveness of communications intervention strategies.
In education, mainstreaming of children with Down syndrome is becoming less controversial in many countries. For example, there is a presumption of mainstream in many parts of the UK. Mainstreaming is the process whereby students of differing abilities are placed in classes with their chronological peers. Children with Down syndrome may not age emotionally/socially and intellectually at the same rates as children without Down syndrome, so over time the intellectual and emotional gap between children with and without Down syndrome may widen. Complex thinking as required in sciences but also in history, the arts, and other subjects can often be beyond the abilities of some, or achieved much later than in other children. Therefore, children with Down syndrome may benefit from mainstreaming provided that some adjustments are made to the curriculum.
Some European countries such as Germany and Denmark advise a two-teacher system, whereby the second teacher takes over a group of children with disabilities within the class. A popular alternative is cooperation between special schools and mainstream schools. In cooperation, the core subjects are taught in separate classes, which neither slows down the typical students nor neglects the students with disabilities. Social activities, outings, and many sports and arts activities are performed together, as are all breaks and meals.
The most common manifestations of Down syndrome are the characteristic facial features, cognitive impairment, congenital heart disease (typically a ventricular septal defect), hearing deficits (maybe due to sensory-neural factors, or chronic serous otitis media, also known as Glue-ear), short stature, thyroid disorders, and Alzheimer's disease. Other less common serious illnesses include leukemia, immune deficiencies, and epilepsy.
However, health benefits of Down syndrome include greatly reduced incidence of many common malignancies except leukemia and testicular cancer — although it is, as yet, unclear whether the reduced incidence of various fatal cancers among people with Down syndrome is as a direct result of tumor-suppressor genes on chromosome 21 (such as Ets2), because of reduced exposure to environmental factors that contribute to cancer risk, or some other as-yet unspecified factor. In addition to a reduced risk of most kinds of cancer, people with Down syndrome also have a much lower risk of hardening of the arteries and diabetic retinopathy.
Research by Arron et al shows that some of the phenotypes associated with Down Syndrome can be related to the dysregulation of transcription factors (596), and in particular, NFAT. NFAT is controlled in part by two proteins, DSCR1 and DYRK1A; these genes are located on chromosome-21 (Epstein 582). In people with Down Syndrome, these proteins have 1.5 times greater concentration than normal (Arron et al. 597). The elevated levels of DSCR1 and DYRK1A keep NFAT primarily located in the cytoplasm rather than in the nucleus, preventing NFATc from activating the transcription of target genes and thus the production of certain proteins (Epstein 583).
This dysregulation was discovered by testing in transgenic mice that had segments of their chromosomes duplicated to simulate a human chromosome-21 trisomy (Arron et al. 597). A test involving grip strength showed that the genetically modified mice had a significantly weaker grip, much like the characteristically poor muscle tone of an individual with Down Syndrome (Arron et al. 596). The mice squeezed a probe with a paw and displayed a .2 newton weaker grip (Arron et al. 596). Down syndrome is also characterized by increased socialization. When modified and unmodified mice were observed for social interaction, the modified mice showed as much as 25% more interactions as compared to the unmodified mice (Arron et al. 596).
The genes that may be responsible for the phenotypes associated may be located proximal to 21q22.3. Testing by Olson et al. in transgenic mice show the duplicated genes presumed to cause the phenotypes are not enough to cause the exact features. While the mice had sections of multiple genes duplicated to approximate a human chromosome-21 triplication, they only showed slight craniofacial abnormalities (688-690). The transgenic mice were compared to mice that had no gene duplication by measuring distances on various points on their skeletal structure and comparing them to the normal mice (Olson et al. 687). The exact characteristics of Down Syndrome were not observed, so more genes involved for Down Syndrome phenotypes have to be located elsewhere.
Reeves et al, using 250 clones of chromosome-21 and specific gene markers, were able to map the gene in mutated bacteria. The testing had 99.7% coverage of the gene with 99.9995% accuracy due to multiple redundancies in the mapping techniques. In the study 225 genes were identified (311-313).
The search for major genes that may be involved in Down syndrome symptoms is normally in the region 21q21–21q22.3. However, studies by Reeves et al. show that 41% of the genes on chromosome-21 have no functional purpose, and only 54% of functional genes have a known protein sequence. Functionality of genes was determined by a computer using exon prediction analysis (312). Exon sequence was obtained by the same procedures of the chromosome-21 mapping.
Research has led to an understanding that two genes located on chromosome-21, that code for proteins that control gene regulators, DSCR1 and DYRK1A can be responsible for some of the phenotypes associated with Down Syndrome. DSCR1 and DYRK1A cannot be blamed outright for the symptoms; there are a lot of genes that have no known purpose. Much more research would be needed to produce any appropriate or ethically acceptable treatment options.
Recent use of transgenic mice to study specific genes in the Down syndrome critical region has yielded some results. APP is an Amyloid beta A4 precursor protein. It is suspected to have a major role in cognitive difficulties. Another gene, ETS2 is Avian Erythroblastosis Virus E26 Oncogene Homolog 2. Researchers have "demonstrated that over-expression of ETS2 results in apoptosis. Transgenic mice over-expressing ETS2 developed a smaller thymus and lymphocyte abnormalities, similar to features observed in Down syndrome."
Vitamin supplements, in particular supplemental antioxidants and folinic acid, have been shown to be ineffective in the treatment of Down syndrome.
Despite these changes, the additional support needs of people with Down syndrome can still pose a challenge to parents and families. Although living with family is preferable to institutionalization, people with Down syndrome often encounter patronizing attitudes and discrimination in the wider community.
The first World Down Syndrome Day was held on 21 March 2006. The day and month were chosen to correspond with 21 and trisomy respectively. It was proclaimed by European Down Syndrome Association during their European congress in Palma de Mallorca (febr. 2005). In the United States, the National Down Syndrome Society observes Down Syndrome Month every October as "a forum for dispelling stereotypes, providing accurate information, and raising awareness of the potential of individuals with Down syndrome. In South Africa, Down Syndrome Awareness Day is held every October 20. Organizations such as Special Olympics Hawaii provide year-round sports training for individuals with intellectual disabilities such as down syndrome.
By the 20th century, Down syndrome had become the most recognizable form of mental disability. Most individuals with Down syndrome were institutionalized, few of the associated medical problems were treated, and most died in infancy or early adult life. With the rise of the eugenics movement, 33 of the (then) 48 U.S. states and several countries began programs of forced sterilization of individuals with Down syndrome and comparable degrees of disability. The ultimate expression of this type of public policy was "Action T-4" in Nazi Germany, a program of systematic murder. Court challenges, scientific advances and public revulsion led to discontinuation or repeal of such sterilization programs during the decades after World War II.
Until the middle of the 20th century, the cause of Down syndrome remained unknown. However, the presence in all races, the association with older maternal age, and the rarity of recurrence had been noticed. Standard medical texts assumed it was caused by a combination of inheritable factors which had not been identified. Other theories focused on injuries sustained during birth.
With the discovery of karyotype techniques in the 1950s, it became possible to identify abnormalities of chromosomal number or shape. In 1959, Jérôme Lejeune discovered that Down syndrome resulted from an extra chromosome. The extra chromosome was subsequently labeled as the 21st, and the condition as trisomy 21.
In 1961, eighteen geneticists wrote to the editor of The Lancet suggesting that Mongolian idiocy had "misleading connotations," had become "an embarrassing term," and should be changed. The Lancet supported Down's Syndrome. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially dropped references to mongolism in 1965 after a request by the Mongolian delegate. However, almost 40 years later, the term 'mongolism' still appears in leading medical texts such as General and Systematic Pathology, 4th Edition, 2004, edited by Professor Sir James Underwood.
In 1975, the United States National Institutes of Health convened a conference to standardize the nomenclature of malformations. They recommended eliminating the possessive form: "The possessive use of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder. Although both the possessive and non-possessive forms are used in the general population, Down syndrome is the accepted term among professionals in the USA, Canada and other countries; Down's syndrome is still used in the United Kingdom and other areas.
The Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles maintains a list of individuals with Down syndrome in roles in TV and movies.


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'Fastest-Ever' Star Orbits Black Hole At 2 Million MPH
Astronomers have found an astonishing star and black hole in deep space which orbit each other every 2 hours.
Known as a black hole X-ray binary system, the pair share a common centre of gravity and rotate around it with remarkable speed.
The star in the system flies around the black hole at more than two million kilometres per hour - 20 times faster than the Earth moves around the Sun.
The total orbit lasts just 2.4 hours, which smashes the previous record by more than an hour, according to Universe Today.
The black hole is called MAXI J1659-152, and is at least three times as massive as our sun. Its companion star, located about a million kilometers away, has less than a fifth the mass of our own.
The binary system was discovered by NASA's Swift space telescope in 2010, but new observations have allowed more detailed analysis of its nature.
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Midwest Living Review
You might be expecting the ultimate pizza experience when you take this $36 tour, because Chicago and pizza go hand-in-hand, right? But you would be wrong -- unless you like wolfing down a slice in five minutes before dashing on foot to another pizza joint. I'm not saying it's the pizza's fault. It's the process. You know you're in trouble when you meet in front of Giordano's, one of Chicago's best-known pizza restaurants, and you're served a slice of two-inch-thick stuffed pizza on a plastic foam plate -- while you're standing outside. On this day, the tour took us to Castel Gandolfo, Gino's East and Pizzeria Uno (all of which let us inside!). We moved from one place to another at a pretty good clip, which means we didn't get info on where we were going, what we were seeing along the way or anything else that might have seemed intriguing about this cool area of town. Castel Gandolfo served us soggy margarita pizza in a musty room. Not pleasant. At Gino's East we ate pan pizza covered with a pretty good sauce and lots of sausage. Good, but not the Gino's pizza of yesteryear when they baked the pie on a memorable cornmeal-base crust. Of the four restaurants, Pizzeria Uno offered the most appealing atmosphere coupled with a good quality product. All in all, the tour doesn't deliver anything but four not-that-great slices of pie. So save your $36, visit one of the Windy City's myriad excellent pizza places, and ask your waiter to tell you about the restaurant. Your money will be better spent.


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Editors Note:Marty Schorr, president of PMPR Inc., is the founding editor of VETTE and was an integral part of the Baldwin-Motion specialty car program from 1967-74. He created all the advertising, produced the catalogs and promotional materials, and worked with Rosen developing product concepts and building the brand. He's currently working on a book about Motion's golden years. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
Mention the name Joel Rosen and what usually comes to mind is Mr. Motion, the hands-on hot rodder from Brooklyn, New York, who produced ground-pounding, adrenaline-pumping Baldwin-Motion 427 and 454 Camaros that were supported by then-edgy advertising and promotional materials which captured the hearts of those who believed that there was no such thing as too much power for the street! Built at Motion Performance in Baldwin, New York, (delivered by Baldwin Chevrolet), Rosen's big-block Camaros represented the birth of the independent Chevrolet "tuner" car. Baldwin-Motion Camaros were essentially build-to-order super cars, limited only by a buyers imagination and financial resources.
Unlike similar products from Rosen's popular and well-connected Chevrolet dealer competition, Baldwin-Motion 427 Camaros and Chevelles were never re-badged COPO cars. Truth be told, neither Rosen, myself, or the people at Baldwin Chevrolet knew about COPO cars in 1969, and didn't find out about their existence until years later! Mr. Motion "made his bones" the old-fashioned way, by winning on Sunday and selling on Monday. "You can question hype, but you can't argue with time slips," reminisces Rosen. "It wasn't rocket science. We raced what we built. It worked for Ford during its 'Total Performance' years, and it worked for us. We went one step beyond however, guaranteeing in writing that an up-level, totally streetable Phase III 427 Camaro would turn 120 mph in 11.50 seconds or quicker, driven by a Motion-approved driver on an NHRA or AHRA-sanctioned dragstrip. If the car wouldn't deliver, the customer could get his money back. That never happened though."
It would be approximately two years from this point before Rosen changed his shop's name from Neclan Service Station (a then small repair shop) to Motion Performance and redirected his energies from tuning and repairing grocery-getters to making hot cars go quicker and faster. "The name Motion came from a high-performance electronic ignition called 'Motion EI' that I had installed on many Corvettes, including my own, a '58 fuelie. I figured anything would sound better than Neclan Service Station!" With the addition of a Clayton chassis dynamometer, the new specialty of the house became fuel-injected Corvettes and Chevy-engined street machines. Almost overnight business soared thanks to Rosen's knowledge of Vettes and the appeal of a chassis dyno that made it possible to power-tune cars under a controlled load.
It was during this transition that Rosen married. He and his wife, Judith, took off after their wedding in the '58 and headed to Ellenville, New York, for their honeymoon. Ellenville just happened to be the location of a popular high-speed sports car hill climb where Rosen decided to exercise his passion for racing. "Rollbars weren't required, and we decided to go for it. At around 100 mph I flipped the '58 and rolled three times, destroying the car. Somebody must have been watching over me, all I got were bruises and lacerations. We took the bus back to New York. Some honeymoon," said Rosen. Judith concurs!


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Produced by Glyn Johns and Jon
Astley [Jon Astley is the son of Ted Astley and Pete's brother-in-law. He was in
charge of the 1994-1998 Who re-release program. Glyn Johns quit Who Are You
after getting head-butted by Roger. He returned for 1982's It's Hard.]
Who Are You was released as Polydor 2490 147 (WHOD 5004)
August 18, 1978. It reached #6 in the U.K.
Liner notes by Matt Resnicoff [with additions in brackets by Brian Cady]
[Who Are You had part of
its genesis in another attempt to revive the 1970 Lifehouse
project (for more on that, see the liner notes to
Who's Next).
According to Pete, Roger had pushed him to have another try at the project and
he wrote a new draft of the screenplay. This one is a sequel to the previous
Lifehouse story. Set 200 years after those events, it concerns
another attempt to stage a huge rock concert and feed it to all the people on
the Grid in order to free them from the necessity of the experience suits. Those
holding the concert are aided by the "musos," a group that worship music and who
are opposed to Plusbond, the corporation that runs the Grid. The woman who runs
Plusbond, meanwhile, is promising that if people do not abandon their suits, the
"perfect one" will soon arrive to lead them to spiritual salvation. Prior to
Keith Moon's death, The Who announced plans to make four films, The Kids
Are Alright, Quadrophenia, McVicar and
Lifehouse. Lifehouse was to have been directed by
Nicholas Roeg, the director of Performance and The Man Who
Fell To Earth. Pete and Nicholas had trouble agreeing to the direction
of the script and then had a falling out in 1980 which again scuttled
plans for the film.]
NEW SONG 4'18 (1996 remix 4'13)
Pete Townshend: "We used full orchestral string arrangements here for the first time on any Who track. It seemed OK to do it with one of John's songs -- he was always struggling single-handed to lay down enough overdubbed brass parts on my stuff (especially Quadrophenia) to sound like an orchestra himself. Our arranger was my wife's inspired father, Ted Astley. The strings on this track are quantum. But it's another cynical, life-weary lyric, like 'New Song'. I wonder why John and I were so bored with life?"
Roger Daltrey: "I had a punch-up with Glyn Johns, mainly because he put strings on John's track 'Had Enough.' I went into the studio in the afternoon the day before they put on the strings. I thought, 'Fucking hell, strings on a Who track?' When I heard it, it was just slushy strings and I don't like slushy strings. I don't mind orchestras. I like them triumphant. There's things you can do with strings that can be really good and exciting but what he'd done on this I didn't like. He said, 'What do you think?' And I said, 'Don't like it much.' And he went up the fucking wall. So I think he smacked me and I smacked him and that's how we were in those days."
905 3'58 (1996 remix 4'03)
Pete from 1978: "I felt the need to say that the group would never, ever, in any way do anything like the Bee Gees. We stand over here and what we stand with is all right. They might say we're boring old farts but we still feel more at home with the boring old farts than any of that crowd."
Pete from 1979: "It's got nothing to do with disco at all! It's only a series of lines put together. The chorus 'Goodbye Sister Disco, now I go where the music fits my soul'...that is not an indictment of disco music. I like a lot of disco music; I even like discos. It's to do with saying goodbye to, I think, a sort of self-conscious poseur kind of thing the The Who had been for such a long time."
MUSIC MUST CHANGE 4'35 (1996 remix 4'38)
Pete Townshend: "I had several studios to work in while developing material for this record. After working on the Tommy film soundtrack I moved my 16-track home studio to a new retreat I built in the country. At home, in London, I built a modest 8-track studio and experimented with the new synthesizers that were appearing at the time, especially the Yamaha polyphonic, touch-pressure-sensitive CS80 which features heavily on this track. My new 'home' studio was a large tiled room containing a big piano and some compact recording kit. Having no drum kit, I tapped the rhythm out by walking up and down the floor, tossing a coin at one point to illustrate that as far as I could see, the word 'music' had transmogrified into 'money' for most of the musicians in my age group. Hearing Roger trying to sing like Mose Allison is a treat after all these years. There I was, trying to be like the jazz-singer's name-sake (Moses the biblical fellow) and attempting to part the waves. I don't think I've heard a song so full of clichés! 'Music Must Change' is earnest enough, but I don't think I knew what was really needed to save rock from decline."
Roger: "That was the one track I didn't want on the album...It just goes on and on and on and on and I think the lyrics are very witty but it just becomes musically bland to me."
GUITAR AND PEN 5'45 (1996 remix 5'58)
LOVE IS COMING DOWN 4'00 (1996 remix 4'05)
I still had the full-size barn studio that I built for mixing Quadrophenia and, while working on the demo for this track, nearly blew my own brains out developing the backing track for the song. The weird background guitar sound on this was created with a top-secret ARP 2600 patch I invented, but the sawing guitar sound at its heart was generated with an 'E-Bow.' Andy Fairweather-Low sang and Rod Argent played piano on this cut. But I can't remember them doing so at all. I can't remember playing that effortless acoustic in the break either -- can't do that any more. I don't much care. Do you? You do? Well who the fuck are you?"
The events described in the first verse of this song occurred during the last week of January 1977. "Who Are You" was released in the U.K. as a single ahead of the album July 14, 1978. It was edited down to 5'05 and reached #18. In the U.S., a completely different edit of 3'22 was used with "hell" in place of "fuck". It hit the charts on August 26, 1978 and went to #14 in Billboard and #9 in Cash Box. A radio edit of the song at 6'11, also with the above word substitution, appeared on U.S. promo copies of the album. The backing track was later used in Pete's quasi-revival of Lifehouse on his 1993 album Psychoderelict.
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Competition: 1993 - 1st Prize
Construction period: 1996 - 1997
Design: Eckhard Gerber
Project team: Jürgen Friedemann, Gerhard Tjarks et al.
Client: Land Niedersachsen vertr. durch das Staatshochbauamt Lüneburg
Gross area: 10.930 m²
Volume: 52.800 m³
The elongated new building unites all functions of the university in one slender, three-storey structure, which opens up to a forecourt in the east and virtually projects into the slope in the west. The existing topography is picked up inside the building in the form of a wide staircase, which becomes a striking feature of the design.


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Retailers usually lease their retail spaces because the cost of owning, developing and maintaining real estate is beyond the budget of most. With limited capital, most retailers rightly focus on "Job No. 1": retailing.
DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma received the 2010 Humanitarian of the Year Award from the United Nations Association of New York "for his outstanding commitment to corporate social responsibility and in particular for DSM's partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme."
The second Natracare Sisters raised $320,000 to help "improve the health of women and babies by training women scientists and clinicians." Sisters Susie Hewson, Natracare's chief executive, and Theresa White cycled 450 km over five days in China as part of the Women for Women Cycle China challenge.
Rockville, MD—Based on results from a 10-year study tracking the retail industry's efforts to improve food safety factors, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concludes that the presence of certified food safety managers on site to oversee and enforce food safety practices in stores significantly increases compliance with food safety practices.
Washington, D.C.—In October, The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the first report of a two-phase study examining nutrition rating systems and symbols on front-of-package (FOP) labeling. This first report details the nutrition science basis for FOP labeling systems and concludes that FOP labeling systems ought to reference serving size, calorie information, saturated fat, trans fat and sodium to effectively assist consumers in making healthful food choices.
Albuquerque, NM—Homeopathic medicine supplier Heel USA held an editors' summit in early October.
Tallahassee, FL—The most famous summer picnic fruit is now found to have positive benefits for health. A study conducted by food scientists at Florida State University found that watermelon can help support healthy blood pressure levels.
Boston, MA—Natural Products Expo East, held here October 13–16, wrapped up its run in Boston with a 1,300-booth exhibit hall and an organic-heavy educational line-up, due to its combined program with the Organic Summit and the Organic Trade Association (OTA)'s All Things Organic show. Next year, Expo East is slated to return to Baltimore, MD, September 21–24.
Arlington Heights, IL—John Carlson, co-founder and president of Carlson Laboratories, will retire after 45 years of heading the company. Carlson will not completely break from the company, instead serving as its Director Emeritus, an "advisory role," says the firm.
Carlson has been an active member of many organizations including National Nutritional Food Association, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, the National Institute of Nutritional Education and others.
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Saturday, 9 May 2009
Drip, drip, drip...
The only glimmer of light in all of this is that the leaks in the newspaper may bring forward the ludicrously slow timetable for publication of every MPs' expenses, which still isn't due officially until July. I would like to see everything published within the next couple of weeks. We then need the Committee on Standards in Public Life to come up with independent recommendations for sorting all this out which Parliament should accept and move on.
One thing I hope the Committee will recommend is that if MPs do buy a home in London for the time they are away from home, they should not benefit from any capital gain when that property is sold. In my case I have seen the value of my London property increase and have said that when I cease being an MP and the property is sold I will not take a penny from the proceeds - I will hand it all back. The taxpayer contributed to the costs of buying the flat, and the taxpayer should get his/her money back (and more besides) when the property is sold.
This whole issue needs clearing up and quickly, not least so that we can then all focus all our attention on the business of holding this government to account.
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- Billz Blog said...
Good Steve. I think it should be symmetrical on property, lose and it is made up, win and it gets paid back.
What is appalling however is the way a number of MPs (ands ministers) have obviously manipulated the second homes allowance to maximise their gain (did Hazel Blears really need three different second homes in one year - all of which needed subsidised renovation?)
- 9 May 2009 at 17:36
- Aaron Trevena said...
Sorry Steve,
I'm a lib dem, I pay my membership and right now I'm disgusted with my party's MPs.
This has been a long time coming, it's the culmination of years of campaigning by a member of the public - no MP of any party blew the whistle or lifted a finger to raise this issue.
Nick Clegg only began his campaign to reform after it became clear that expenses were going to be released and that it would be a bombshell for all partys.
"Moving on" and "drawing a line" and "fixing the system" are just cop outs and excuses.
There is no excuse for what has happened - MPs as a whole have turned a blind eye to corruption, most seem to have fiddled a little here and there, "because well every body does a little".
It's not the system, it's the people - The Fees office didn't do it's job, MPs abused and broke what little rules existed - the fact that nobody in the commons bothered to try and catch them doesn't mean they're innocent or haven't done anything wrong.
Maybe you'll understand this from the point of view of a taxpayer if I put it like this.
If I steal thousands of pounds from you from you every year for 4, 8 or 10 years, nobody stops me, I get a wink and a nod from a dodgy copper or magistrate turns a blind eye - would you accept it after years of theft, that I "draw a line under it", "promise it won't happen again" and claim that the system that let me get away with it is to blame?
Seriously - because that's not just how it looks - that's what's happened. MPs wrote the rules, and STILL broke, abused and failed to enforce them.
It's time to hold those people accountable, not just at election time, time for refunds, apologies and resignations - anything less is getting away with fraud.
I don't know a single person who isn't an MP or married to one who thinks this isn't a crime.
- 9 May 2009 at 20:41
- MatGB said...
Aaron, "no MP of any party blew the whistle or lifted a finger to raise this issue.".
Palpably false. Lib Dem MPs have been leading the attempts to ensure publication of this information since the beginning, it was Lib Dem activity that blocked attempts to exempt them from FOI the first time and it was Jo Swinson's work with MySociety and others that blocked the most recent attempt.
I don't follow every single MP, and I'm sure some of ours will have claimed for dubious items, but I do know that some (including my old MP before I moved) do the best they can to be completely open and transparent with their expenses.
"Nick Clegg only began his campaign to reform after it became clear that expenses were going to be released"
Also untrue, it's an issue that our MPs have voted on and put work into proposing alternatives to for a long time. Sure, Nick only finalised proposals of his own recently, but he's only been party leader for 17 months, and does have many other things to work on.
Besides, there was supposed to be an independent commission, which our MPs backed.
"MPs as a whole have turned a blind eye to corruption"
Untrue, as stated above. Also untrue to say they're all, or even most, at it—many of the claims being complained about are completely legit, I'll even defend some of the ministers over it, especially Bradshaw, who's crime seems to have been "marrying another man and treating it like a marriage". You'll forgive me if the liberal in me finds that argument utterly wrong.
"I don't know a single person who isn't an MP or married to one who thinks this isn't a crime."
We haven't met, so I guess that might be true. I have no doubt that some MPs have committed fraud, some will have been willfully breaking the rules.
But most have been within the rules. If you're not breaking a law, regardless of how stupid it is, that means you're not a criminal.
Our MPs have been leading on this as an issue for reform, just as our MPs are normally leading on issues of HoC reform.
Are there exceptions, idiots and fools? Absolutely, put 50 people in a room some of them will be dodgy.
But overall, we should be able to lead on this story as being in favour of publication, in favour of reform, and in favour of a complete overhaul of the system. That needs to be said, again and again and again, because it happens to be true.
- 10 May 2009 at 15:37
- Alix said...
Good for you Steve, re the profits from your London place. As a (non-buying) first time buyer I find this the hardest bit to stomach.
- 10 May 2009 at 16:04
- Steve Webb MP said...
Aaron - thanks for the feedback; you raise an important point about 'blowing the whistle', but the truth is that (certainly from my point of view) you had no idea what other MPs were doing - they didn't tend to broadcast the fact if they were switching their second home or claiming for a seaside property; where things were known - as with MPs pensions - I have stood up to be counted, tabling motions and voting for a fair deal for the taxpayer; I've still got the scars to show for it....
- 10 May 2009 at 19:31
This episode has done enormous damage to all parties [as i found out when delivering European election leaflets]today.
The quicker the list of what all MP's have claimed is published the better.
If Nick Clegg or for that matter David Cameron want to gain some public respect back [sorry Gordon Labour are finished]then IMHO any MP's in their parties which have blatantly abused the system to boost their income should be sacked from front bench positions and then de-selected at the next election.
Just because something was within the rules does not excuse stretching those rules to "feather ones nest"
I have defended the Liberal Democrats in the past as not corrupt like some in the Labour/Conservative Parties however i fear over the next few days some "rotten apples" will be outed in the party that i have voted for and worked for.
Iam sure that a majority in Westminster are claiming expenses in the spirit that was intended but now you will all be "tarred with the same brush" until all MP's expenses have been opened to public scrutiny.
Hopefully the winners from all of this wont be parties like the BNP.
- 11 May 2009 at 19:59
- Aaron Trevena said...
Hi Matt, Steve,
When I looked to see what the Lib Dems had been doing over this before the leaked documents were available on the market, I didn't find much at all - The campaign page on Nick Cleggs page doesn't go back much beyond recent months and the FOI battle has been several years.
As a whole the party leadership could have done a lot more, and done it in the media - I know it's hard to get noticed by the media when you're the third party but you'd think this would have got some attention.
More importantly, I still think the westminster bubble has meant that instead of unilaterally setting decent rules for it's own MPs (and MEPs), and publishing expenses without waiting for the others means that once again we missed an opportunity to not be "just another big westminster party".
Yes, people have been working on this before it hit the press, but repeatedly failed to grasp the nettle and go it alone.
- 12 May 2009 at 22:16
So - where's the blog post about your own expenses issue ?
Is it 'no comment', or will you be expressing contrition and opening your chequebook ?
If it's no comment, then that's OK - it'll just give the voters more ammo to turn you out with come the election.
- 13 May 2009 at 13:05
Why has there been no denial or comment by the party on this expenses story?:
Following similar second home fraud revelations a Labour MP was suspended and a Tory resigned, both within hours of the allegation. Yet after five days the Liberal Democrats have issued no statement, not forced the Chief Executive to resign, not asked him to pay it back, or in fact done anything at all.
Where does this leave party claims to leadership on cleaning up Parliament?
- 15 May 2009 at 00:31
"99p for two dusters."
Says it all, really.
- 15 May 2009 at 10:13
You seem to be playing this properly and it was good that you posted some details of your claims last summer, and that you have promised to return any capital gain.
As someone who never 'fiddled' my expenses in 35 years of public service; and who pays his taxes, has no overdraft, tries to keep to speed limits and works for nothing for 3 local charities, I find it appalling that so many MPs can 'flip' homes for personal gain; sign their ACA claims for moat cleaning and non-existent mortgages, and then preach to us about 'scroungers'; asylum seekers; and the need to 'tighten our belts'.
- 16 May 2009 at 12:37
- Mark said...
You've done this the right way, Steve. An MP from outside London has to live somewhere when he or she is working in Westminster. By buying a flat and pledging the eventual proceeds to the public purse, you have used the options available to you to line the public pocket instead of your own. If Parliament provides nowhere for an MP to live, the alternative to buying is to rent, which is no investment at all for the public purse.
Unfortunately, the wider expenses scandal is fueling cynicism, and cynics are fools who will believe anything bad. I fear that the public reaction is damaging the whole country and it is hard to see where it will end.
Keep up the good work.
- 16 May 2009 at 16:01
Can we ever trust anyone in the "palace of greed" again ? Well, perhaps Vince Cable !! The feeling of contempt towards MPs is now nearly total.
Aaron is correct. Nobody put their head above the parapet to draw attention to this national disgrace, particularly in a time of recession, when people are losing jobs and homes.
Great PR for the BNP though,unfortunately.
So, lets recap, 10 yrs of thieving bankers and MPs and oh yes,an illegal war.
- 16 May 2009 at 18:02
Ok so now the country is bankrupt, the Government is bankrupt (and urging us to borrow), the banks are going bust, unemployment is now truly shocking, the ministers are all helping themselves to the money we have given them, and when caught saying "oops sorry, it was a mistake", or "it was within the rules". My blood boils. They are paid to run a country. Surely they could get their own basics correct?....Power corrupts.
- 21 May 2009 at 23:23
Hi Steve,
Thanks for publishing your expenses (below 2007/08)
Second Home: £22,913
London Supplement: £0
Office: £18,461
Staffing: £93,370
Stationery: £996
IT Provision: £1,308
Staff Cover: £0
Communication: £9,984
Travel: £8,399
Total Expenses: £158,796
What I find confusing is why MP claims vary so widely. Can you shed any light on this? For example, Dennis Bolsover's expenses (below) are almost 100k less than yours.
Second Home: £11,323
London Supplement: £0
Office: £1,039
Staffing: £45,522
Stationery: £306
IT Provision: £1,226
Staff Cover: £0
Communication: £0
Travel: £6,412
Total Expenses: £66,933
What extra are we getting for our additional £91,863 a year that the constituency of Bolsover are not? Do we get a better service, or do they get less?
- 22 May 2009 at 14:00
Well done Steve, very noble of you to offer all the proceeds of the sale of your flat to the taxpayer.
But am i right in saying, you only made this gesture after The Daily Telegraph broke the news of the MPs expenses scandal?
Why after all these years as an MP, did you leave it till 9th May 2009 to announce this?
Some people might think, when you realised it was only a matter of time before the spotlight was on you in the press, you came up with the idea of giving the profit from the sale back to the taxpayer, to deflect from the embarrassment of some of the claims you made at the taxpayers expense, eg stamp duty, dusters, bin bags, linen.
These items arent as bad as some claims we have seen in recent weeks, but if for example joe bloggs stole a 10p chew or a £1000 TV, its still classed as stealing and he would be labeled a thief. If he goes to court and he gives the excuse that he planned to pay for them when he sold his house, do you think the judge would say "oh thats alright then joe, on your way"?
In my view you are no better than the rest.
And i look forward to your reply to anonymous that asked a question about your expenses on 22nd May.
PS do you have any relatives/spouse on your payroll?
- 29 May 2009 at 23:51
- Steve Webb MP said...
Thanks for the further questions. To respond to the last two posts:
- no members of my family on the payroll;
- perfectly fair question to compare different MPs and for their electors to decide whether they get value for money; the biggest difference between me and Dennis Skinner looks like staffing - this is my top priority and means that people get a quality service when they contact me; we also do a large volume by e-mail which many MPs don't;
- re travel, it would be much cheaper on allowances to go by car, but for environmental reasons (and so that I can get work done on the journey) I go by train;
- re timing, I confirmed that the taxpayer would get the full proceeds of the property (on this blog!) before I was in the paper;
My principle on all of this is no private gain, and seeking to provide a high quality service through my office expenditure - local people must be the judge of whether I deliver that.
Thanks for the feedback.
Steve W.
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He looks at the Zend_Db_Table_Row class of the framework and how it works with these junction tables and how it has an issue where it returns the junction table columns too. A fix was released (in 1.10.2) for the framework to work correctly. Unfortunately, this also left those using the method out in the cold. So, Ralph has created his own workaround called a composite rowset. He includes an example snippet to give you an idea of how it works, but you can download the code from his github repository for a closer look.


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