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We also met each other at Shaadi.com portal. Mr.Grewal sent me interest(paid member) and I accepted the same as his profile matches mine being both from Corporate.Our very small chat went on 10th Feb,2015 and we talked on call briefly for the first time on 11th Feb,2015 and then,our detailed talk happened on the weekend i.e. 15th Feb,2015 and we shared our life views,job profiles,families and interests.We took each other positively and our daily conversations started on phone.Then our bonding increased through voice,video calls and we found each other quite compatible as life partner.We took our next step and talked to our families.My parents visited his home and met his parents on 08th March,2015 and little Shagun was done.Then, his parents visited my home and met me and "ROK CEREMONY" was done on 01st April,2015.God showered his blessings on us and our parents declared our lives officially together-"MADE FOR EACH OTHER".
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I am waiting for him(fianc now to come to INDIA from CANADA in October for MARRIAGE.
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As people say marriages are made in heaven so we believed it too.
One fine evening of summer I received a call from Abhishek after accepting his interest from Shaadi.com.
A series of small and long conversations happened, that time we were not aware that soon we gonna fall in love in winters. After several conversations a day has come for which we waited a lot." A coffee day" truly we believe that a lot can happen over coffee, thank you Barista Shipra mall, that day our relation from good friends turned to lovers and now Soulmates.Finally season love birds(We) tid a knot in this Summer '15.Our relation has seen all colors of season started in summers move ahead in rainy and finally fallen in love in winters.
We thank to Shaadi.com for providing us an opportunity for meeting each other. and wishing all the very best remember always someone somewhere is waiting for you as I met my soul mate so you do.
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I Rashim Rai and Anthony chand met on Shaadi.com, I saw anthony first time on Shaadi.com, I liked his pictures. I sent him request of interest and he accepted the request, I saw him and sent him the text and he replied, from here our relationship started. Then we started chatting on whatsapp. We kept talking to each other for almost 1 hour a day on whatsapp chat and sometimes over the phone.We both liked each other.. Then he introduced me to his parents Then his parents started talking to me over phone and my parents talked to Anthony's parents and anthony over the phone Anthony and his parents decided to see me and my parents. Then Anthony visited me to India along with his parents. We both was happy to see each other.. And anthony request my parents for my hand in marriage. And my parents gave him the approval. We got engaged on 18 march 2015 and soon going to marry.
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Its a huge and heartily thanks to Shaadi.com for finding my life partner in here...we are very much thankful to you...Our marriage has just happened on 3rd May of 2015..
Again a cordially gratitude to the Shaadi.com...
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Now, it seems a clear and univocal description of the "variables" involved in the formula .
The "variables" are (in summary):
1. - the actual focal lenght;
2. - the "large gear radius" ;
3. - the "Diameter of film drum with average amount of film";
4. - the "Perpendicular distance from center of small gear to the LENS AXIS": as made clear by Jamie, is the distance between H and D in the previous drawing;
5. - the "Perpendicular distance from center of small gear to the FILM PLANE" (NEGATIVE IF FILM PLANE IS BEHIND GEAR: this happens, as clarifyed by Jamie, in #5, #6, #10 and #16 cameras);
6. - the "Slit width";
7. - the "Gear pitch" , with the meaning "diametral pitch" (rounded value of "number of teeth/outer diameter of the large gear, measured in inches").
So, after you give, in the formula (in http://digilander.libero.it/foto_ras/Cirkut_gears.zip) the correct "starting parameters" (or, as an alternative, fill with those values the file gearsInput.txt), you are prompted to type (I'm guessing from my trials of the program) the values (or - it should be the same - the number of teeth) of your smallest and of your largest "removable gear" available to you (the "small gear" above); finally, the program will determine the distance (from FP or lens rear nodal point) of the subject for which is necessary to use a "complete seat of gears" in a 1-1 step, from the highest to the lowest valued typed; the distance is expressed in inches or in millimeters, according to the initial choice.
In case the resulting distance is negative, that means that the gear is not appropriate.
This is what I've undestood: hope it's right ...
BUT (sorry, don't kill me ) a final question (really: no more questions!) is still alive. In theory of panoramic photography (as I can see from the articles in "Panorama"-IAPP Magazine, from 1999, downloaded completely: thanks to IAPP!) the rotation axis should be on the vertical of the real nodal point of the lens, otherwise some adverse effects could occur (blurring, I suppose). But in Cirkut it never happens! The pivoting axis is alwais between the lens and the film plane. In theory, the pivot should be in B, but in Cirkut cameras the pivot is in A .
What does it mean ? What does it implies ? No bad consequences, it seems, because none of panoramic photographers using Cirkut cameras reports them. So: 1) is the theory wrong? 2) are those possible bad effects obviated by some special feature in Cirkut cameras ? or is due to a systematic presence of Saint Veronica on the side of the photographers ?
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Article: Comparative proteomic analysis of malignant pleural mesothelioma evidences an altered expression of nuclear lamin and filament-related proteins[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Malignant mesothelioma is a neoplastic disease linked to asbestos exposure whose diagnosis is limited, so detection methods for an early diagnosis and treatment result essential. Here, we compared proteomic profiles of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) and benign biopsies to search potential biomarkers useful in differential diagnosis. Tissue biopsies were obtained from 53 patients who were subjected to a diagnostic thoracoscopy. Two-dimensional electrophoresis/mass spectrometry based approach was used for proteomic analysis and protein validation was carried out by western blot analysis versus benign and lung carcinoma samples RESULTS: Among the proteins identified we confirmed known MPM biomarkers such as calretinin and suggested the new ones as pre-lamin A/C, desmin, vimentin, calretinin, fructose-bisphosphate aldolase A, myosin regulatory light chain 2, ventricular/cardiac muscle isoform, myosin light chain 3 and myosin light chain 6B. Ingenuity software was used to identify the biological processes to which these proteins belong and to construct a potential network. Overall, our results suggest potential biomarkers that can be useful in occupational medicine for the early identification of the onset of disease in health surveillance of past asbestos-exposed workers, for monitoring the progress of disease and for assessing the response to treatment. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.PROTEOMICS - CLINICAL APPLICATIONS 04/2014; 8(3-4). DOI:10.1002/prca.201300052 · 2.68 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Data on neurobiological mechanisms underlying mood disorders are elusive; the aetiology of such states is multifactorial, including genetic predisposition and environmental factors. Diagnosis is currently being made only on an interview-based methodology. Biological markers, which could improve the current classification, and in perspective, stratify patients on a biological basis into more homogeneous clinically distinct subgroups, are highly needed. We describe here a comparative proteomic analysis of peripheral lymphocytes from patients affected by acute psychotic bipolar disorder (PBD) (n = 15), major depressive episode (MDE) with no personal or family history of psychosis (n = 11), and a group of demographically matched healthy controls (HC) (n = 15). All patients were evaluated by means of Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-Patient version (SCID-I-P), Positive and Negative Symptoms Scale (PANSS), Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D-17) questionnaires. Blood lymphocytes were obtained by gradient separation, and 2-DE was carried out on protein extracts. Significant differences in protein patterns among the three groups were observed. Thirty-six protein spots were found to be differentially expressed in patients compared to controls, which collapsed into 25 different proteins after mass spectrometry identification. Twenty-one of these proteins failed to discriminate between PBD and MDE, suggesting common signatures for these disorders. Nevertheless, after the western blot validation only two of the remaining proteins, namely LIM and SH3 domain protein1, and short-chain specific acyl-CoA dehydrogenase mitochondrial protein, resulted in being significantly upregulated in PBD samples suggesting additional mechanisms that could be associated with the psychotic features of bipolar disorder.Molecular BioSystems 02/2014; 10(6). DOI:10.1039/c4mb00068d · 3.18 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Major salivary gland tumours are uncommon neoplasms of the head and neck. The increase of precise pre-operative diagnosis is crucial for their correct management and the identification of molecular markers would surely improve the required accuracy. In this study we performed a comparative proteomic analysis of fine needle aspiration fluids of the most frequent benign neoplasms of major salivary glands, namely pleomorphic adenoma and Warthin's tumour, in order to draw their proteomic profiles and to point out their significant features. Thirty-five patients submitted to parotidectomy were included in the study, 22 were identified to have pleomorphic adenoma and 14 Warthin's tumour. Fine needle aspiration samples were processed using a two-dimensional electrophoresis/mass spectrometry-based approach. A total of 26 differentially expressed proteins were identified. Ingenuity software was used to search the biological processes to which these proteins belong and to construct potential networks. Intriguingly, all Warthin's tumour up-regulated proteins such as Ig gamma-1 chain C region, Ig kappa chain C region and Ig alpha-1 chain C region and S100A9 were correlated to immunological and inflammatory diseases, while pleomorphic adenomas such as annexin A1, annexin A4, macrophage-capping protein, apolipoprotein E and alpha crystalline B chain were associated with cell death, apoptosis and tumorigenesis, showing different features of two benign tumours. Overall, our results shed new light on the potential usefulness of a proteomic approach to study parotid tumours and in particular up regulated proteins are able to discriminate two types of benign parotid lesions.PLoS ONE 08/2013; 8(8):e71874. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0071874 · 3.53 Impact Factor
Article: A proteomic profile of washing fluid from the colorectal tract to search for potential biomarkers of colon cancer.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Washing fluid (WF) from the colon rectal tract after surgical resection might represent a first step in obtaining a mixture of proteins derived from the secretion of tumoral epithelial cells potentially involved in the pathological progression of tissue. In this study, we performed a proteomic analysis of colorectal WF to search for potential biomarkers of colon cancer. The outcome of this approach might open the possibility of using WF to screen for the precancerous and early stages of colorectal cancer (CRC). Samples of WFs were obtained during surgery from 35 patients submitted to colon resection for suspicious adenocarcinoma or carcinoma, while the respective controls were obtained by washing the healthy sections. WFs were immediately centrifuged, concentrated and trichloroacetic acid (TCA) was added to obtain protein pellets. After two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE), the protein patterns of malignant samples were compared with respective normal samples. Forty-one protein spots were found to be differentially expressed exhibiting ≥2 fold-change of mean value spot intensities. After mass spectrometry, these protein spots collapsed into 38 different proteins. Interestingly, 19 of the differentially expressed proteins identified in the study corresponded to those suggested as being potential biomarkers of CRC. In accordance with the literature, these proteins showed the same direction of change (up or down for all proteins). Our results suggest that WF has the potential of being a method for the exploration of clinical samples for biomarker and drug target discovery.Molecular BioSystems 04/2012; 8(4):1088-99. DOI:10.1039/c2mb05394b · 3.18 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are complex neuropsychiatric conditions of multifactorial etiology whose diagnosis is currently based solely on clinical interview methodology. Therefore, biomarkers which could improve the current classification and in perspective stratify patients on a biological basis into more homogeneous clinically distinct subgroups, are highly needed.Objectives We describe here the preliminary data on the application of a protein profiling investigation for the identification of peripheral markers for psychotic disorders, based on a proteomic approach.AimsTo identify serum protein biomarkers in patients with acute phase psychotic disorder compared with anxiety or depressive disorders with no history of psychosis.Methods Patients were sampled and evaluated by means of SCID-I, PANSS, YMRS, HAM-A, HAM-D.Lymphocytes have been separeted and Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis (2-DE) was carried out on protein extracts. Analysis was performed using Progenesis Same Spot software.Result2-DE showed significant differences in protein patterns between the two groups, in particular some protein spots are upregulated in a statistically significant manner and are under identification by mass spectrometry. PCA underlies a clear separation between the two groups, with a t1 value for the first component of 54%.Conclusions Preliminary analysis of a small sample shows significant differences in protein pattern between acute psychotic patients compared with non-psychotic psychiatric controls. Further work will widen the sample and will identify the single proteins.European Psychiatry 01/2012; 27:1. DOI:10.1016/S0924-9338(12)74943-X · 3.21 Impact Factor
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Grapefruit And Avocado Salad
7 Nov 2009
Grapefruit And Avocado Salad is something I prepare quiet often for my parties. The dish is simply delicious and the visual appeal of the dish neverfails to impress my guests. My secret? This amazing Grapefruit And Avocado Salad recipe.
|Ripe avocados
|2 Large, halved and stoned
|Lemon juice
|2 Teaspoon
|1 Large, peeled, pitted and roughly chopped
|Chicory head
|1 , trimmed, washed and chopped
|2 Teaspoon
|French dressing
|3 Tablespoon
Using a teaspoon, carefully scoop out the avocado flesh and place it in a medium sized mixing bowl.
Reserve the avocado shells.
Add 1 teaspoon of the lemon juice, the chopped grapefruit, chicory [French or Belgian endive] and sugar and, using a fork, mash the ingredients carefully together until they form a relatively smooth mixture.
Stir the dressing into the avocado mixture.
Spoon the mixture into the avocado shells and sprinkle over the remaining lemon juice.
Place the filled avocados in the refrigerator and chill them for 30 minutes.
Remove the filled avocado shells from the refrigerator and serve them immediately.
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Are you working at two jobs now to make ends meet? Most Americans are.
When you and your spouse add your jobs together, you both work 4 jobs.
This new reality doesn't leave much time for your kids and their needs, but what to hell. It makes the rich , richer.
If this is the President's plan to increase our exports, it's working.
Before any of us know what's happened, we'll have foreign companies building manufacturing facilities here in the States because of our cheap labor.
Then we have the problem of Medicare and Medicaid. Doctors and providers aren't excepting those insurances much anymore. Why?
They aren't reimbursed for their services because Congress feels it's more important to build and fund the awesome armored personnel carriers we saw on display in Boston last week.
Did you get a glimpse of the "Dog and Pony" homeland Security Show?
I'm not sure what scared me more- the two alleged bombers or the 9000 armed to the teeth ATF and Homeland storm troopers.
It seems we have our priorities backwards.
We actually need more money for schools and research and less for Homeland Security.
If anything, the recent events in Boston should show us, that no amount of security will ever stop two lone bombers from acting out their plans.
It was a guy looking out his window that found the 19 year old by whipping back the tarp, but Homeland Security needed a robot? Really?
I'm not convinced. And I'm not scared as our government would like.
We've become a police state, Folks.
When President Obama can spend $4.7 million on a predator drone base on Ft. Drum and $95 million on improvements to Gitmo, when we have schools laying off teachers for lack of state funding, something is seriously wrong in our country's leadership. Liberty
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Do your 2 year olds sing a lot of songs? I haven't been to my DD's 2 year well child yet and I don't follow any delevopmental sources. It really drove me nuts when I was an FTM constantly checking where she was, would be next, and where she was compared to her peers. Now that I have DS, I just enjoy one day to the next and let the doctor worry if they aren't meeting milestones timely.
Anyway, DD knows all the words and sings to and on her own probably 40-50 songs. It seems like a lot. She has kid CD's and we listen to the Toddler station on Pandora Internet Radio. She does talk a lot but I am just amazed with her song singing. Yesterday we were driving somewhere and she took the pen to her magna-doodle (Ithink thats what its called) and used it as a microphone. I don't even know where she got that idea!! It was so cute.


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Diamondbacks designate Trevor Cahill for assignment with $17 million left on contract
Jun 9, 2014, 7:40 PM EDT
The Diamondbacks moved right-hander Trevor Cahill to the bullpen back in April and now they are prepared to eat the roughly $17 million remaining on his contract, as the team announced this evening that he has been designated for assignment to make room for J.J. Putz's return from the disabled list.
Cahill was acquired from the Athletics in December of 2011 for Jarrod Parker, Ryan Cook, and Collin Cowgill. The 26-year-old posted a 3.87 ERA in 57 starts and one relief appearance over his first two seasons in Arizona, but he was banished to the bullpen in April after just four ugly starts. He has posted a 3.04 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 23 2/3 innings as a reliever, but that apparently wasn't good enough to justify a roster spot.
Cahill signed a five-year, $30.5 million extension with the A's back in April of 2011, so he's still owed the remainder of his $7.7 million salary for this season, $12 million for 2015, and buyouts for team options for 2016 and 2017. It will be interesting to see if a team tries to work out a trade, likely with Arizona picking up a large portion of the contract.
UPDATE: According to Steve Gilbert of MLB.com, Cahill indicated that he's open to accepting a minor league rehab assignment with the Diamondbacks.
- gbrim - Jun 9, 2014 at 7:49 PM
Cahill has options, and the local press expects him to accept a trip to the minors to work out his issues as a starter down there. Probably his best chance to have any value to any major league team in the future.
- karlkolchak - Jun 9, 2014 at 7:57 PM
If he still has options, then he could not have been DFA'ed. Someone has the story wrong here. It really makes no sense for the Snakes to dump him.
- karlkolchak - Jun 9, 2014 at 8:01 PM
Just check MLB Trade Rumors. As a five+ year veteran, Cahill, who does indeed have options, can refuse the assignment. If I were him I'd bolt as I expect many MLB teams would love to have him on their squad with the D-backs paying the bulk of his salary.
- nsauser - Jun 9, 2014 at 8:11 PM
Yea, someone might want him. This is assuming they haven't seen him pitch since June of 2013.
- migoli - Jun 9, 2014 at 8:32 PM
Would be nice to see the Twins stay with the aggressive style and work out a deal.
- Bryz - Jun 9, 2014 at 10:07 PM
If there are any rotation openings for the Twins, they are going to Alex Meyer and Trevor May, not Cahill.
- hittfamily - Jun 9, 2014 at 8:45 PM
Is this a case of him not hitting enough guys or something? No grit? That 3.04 ERA out ofthe pen looks pretty good. Upon further examination, he looks to have Jeremy Hellickson syndrome: very lucky for a few years, then very unlucky. His xFIP is right in line with career norms: 4.86, 3.99, 3.90, 3.76, 4.11, 3.92.
Just another stupid move by the DB's to add on to all their other stupid moves. Just for reference, Ian Kennedy, traded away for a bag of beans last year, has a 3.39 ERA and has been worth 1.5 fWAR so far this season, for a division rival!
- Old Gator - Jun 9, 2014 at 9:20 PM
Yeah, I was just scratching my head about this one too. Those are pretty good numbers. When you look at how these clowns who are running the team have scotched their own snake, though, this isn't really much of a deviation from their operant norm. But at least Cahill escapes from a…well…sinking ship. Or maybe lost planet wagon train?
- Old Gator - Jun 9, 2014 at 9:21 PM
PS – here's hoping he winds up on a team with a functional aquifer underneath it and a governor you wouldn't mind waking up next to the morning after a binge.
- hittfamily - Jun 9, 2014 at 9:40 PM
"a governor you wouldn't mind waking up next to the morning after a binge".
So it won't be here in Florida huh. That would be the first sign I had died and gone to hell.
- sportsdrenched - Jun 10, 2014 at 9:58 AM
OG, you're the last guy I thought would have the hots for Sarah Palin.
- Old Gator - Jun 10, 2014 at 11:28 AM
If she's good enough for Glenn Rice, she's good enough for me.
The trick is to keep the pillow talk to an absolute minimum.
- jayquintana - Jun 10, 2014 at 1:45 AM
Odd. Seems way too early to give up on a guy.
- randygnyc - Jun 10, 2014 at 3:57 AM
Must be more to the story. They owe this guy $17 million dollars. His numbers are at least, serviceable. There are personality conflicts here, I'm sure.
- gbrim - Jun 10, 2014 at 11:29 AM
Couldn't be more wrong, randygnyc. He has truly fallen apart mechanically and need innings he will never earn in the bigs so he can try to rebuild a repeatable delivery. He says the DBacks have been 'totally supportive' and will accept a minor league assignment to work out his delivery. If there were personality conflicts the DBacks would not offer him the option to go to the minors, and if they did, he would simply decline to get out of there and become a free agent.
This is separate from the discussion of the awful trade to acquire this guy from the A's. One of many moves that resulted in La Russa as "CBO", whatever that means.
- greymares - Jun 10, 2014 at 8:17 AM
NOTE TO RAJ: See Rueben when they cant play you let them go. The money is gone anyway why impair the team to try to validate the previous mistakes
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Holy cow, I wrote a book!
Although you can tag your registry data with any of a variety
of types, such as REG_DWORD or
REG_BINARY or REG_EXPAND_SZ.
What do these mean, really?
Well, that depends on what you mean by mean,
specifically, who is doing the interpreting.
At the bottom, the data stored in the registry are opaque chunks of data.
The registry itself doesn't care if you lie and write two bytes
of data to something you tagged as REG_DWORD.
(Try it!)
The type is just another user-defined piece of metadata.
The registry dutifully remembers the two bytes you stored, and when the next
person comes by asking for the data, those two bytes come out,
along with the type REG_DWORD.
Garbage in, garbage out.
The registry doesn't care that what you wrote doesn't many any sense
any more than the NTFS file system driver doesn't care
that you wrote an invalid XML document to the file config.xml.
Its job is just to remember
what you wrote and produce it later upon request.
There is one place where the registry does pay attention to the type,
and that's when you use one of the types that involve strings.
If you use the RegQueryValueA function to read data
which is tagged with one of the string types (such as REG_SZ),
then the registry code will read the raw data from its database,
and then call WideCharToMultiByte to convert
it to ANSI.
But that's the extent of its assistance.
Just as the registry doesn't care whether you really wrote four
bytes when you claimed to be writing a REG_DWORD,
is also doesn't care whether the various
string types actually are of the form they claim to be.
If you forget to include the null terminator in your byte count
when you write the data to the registry, then the null terminator
will not be stored to the registry, and the next person to read from
it will not read back a null terminator.
This simplicity in design pushes the responsibility onto the code
that uses the registry.
If you read a registry value and the data is tagged with the
REG_EXPAND_SZ type,
then it's up to you to expand it if that's what you want to do.
The REG_EXPAND_SZ value is just part of the secret
handshake between the code that wrote the data and the code that is
reading it,
a secret handshake which is well-understood by convention.
After all, if RegQueryValueEx automatically expanded
the value, then how could you read the original
unexpanded value?
Windows Vista added a new function
RegGetValue which tries to take care of most of the
cumbersome parts of reading registry values.
You can tell it what data types you are expecting (and it will fail
if the data is of an incompatible type),
and it coerces the data to match its putative type.
For example,
it auto-expands REG_EXPAND_SZ data, and
if a blob of registry data marked REG_SZ
is missing a null terminator,
RegGetValue will add one for you.
Better late than never.
This is the blog entry that acted as the inspiration for the
last topic in
my 200 PDC talk.
When somebody launches a second copy of your single-instance program,
you usually want the second copy to send its command line to the first
instance (and
deal with the current directory somehow),
and then you want the first instance to come to the foreground.
But a common problem people run into is that
when the first instance calls SetForegroundWindow,
it fails.
The problem with this design is that as far as the window manager is
concerned, what happened is that the first instance received a message
and then decided to steal foreground.
That message wasn't an input message, so the window manager sees no reason
for the first instance to have any right to take the foreground.
There is no evidence that the first instance is coming to the foreground
in response to some user action.
There are a variety of ways of addressing this problem.
The easiest way is simply to have the second instance make the call
to SetForegroundWindow.
The second program has permission to take the foreground
because you just launched it.
And if a program can take the foreground, it can also give it away,
in this case, by setting the first program as the foreground window.
Another way to do this is to have the second program call the
AllowSetForegroundWindow function with the process ID
of the first program before it sends the magic message.
The AllowSetForegroundWindow function lets a program say
to the window manager,
"It's okay; he's with me."
And then when the first program finally gets around to calling
SetForegroundWindow, the window manager says,
"Oh, this guy's okay. That other program vouched for him."
If you are transferring foreground activation to a COM server,
you can use the corresponding COM function
In all cases, note that
you can't give away something that's not yours.
If you don't have permission to take foreground,
then calling AllowSetForegroundWindow
(or one of its moral equivalents)
will have no effect:
You just told the window manager, "It's okay; he's with me,"
and the window manager replied, "Who the hell are you?"
Pre-emptive snarky comment:
"There are some really sneaky people who found a way to circumvent the rules
and steal foreground activation."
Well yeah, and there are some really sneaky people who find ways to steal love,
so there you have it.
If everything is right with the world,
both groups of people will eventually be
found out and made to
suffer for their malfeasance.
Update (02/21): Deleted all comments that showed ways of
circumventing the rules.
Duh, people.
There are any number of bits of information you might want to query from
the file system, such as
the number of files in a directory or
the total size of the files in a directory.
Why doesn't the file system keep track of these things?
Well, of course, one answer is that it certainly couldn't keep track
of every possible fragment of information anybody could possibly want,
because that would be an infinite amount of information.
But another reason is simply a restatement of the principle we learned
last time:
Because the file system doesn't keep track of information it doesn't need.
The file system doesn't care how many files there are in the directory.
It also doesn't care how many bytes of disk space are consumed by the
files in the directory (and its subdirectories).
Since it doesn't care, it doesn't bother maintaining that information,
and consequently it avoids all the annoying problems that come with
attempting to maintain the information.
For example,
one thing I noticed about many of the proposals for maintaining the
size of a directory in the file system is that very few of them addressed
the issue of hard links.
Suppose a directory contains two hard links to the same underlying file.
Should that file be double-counted?
If a file has 200 hard links, then a change to the size of the file
would require updating the size field in 200 directories,
just one
as one commenter postulated.
(Besides, the file size isn't kept in the directory entry anyway.)
Another issue most people ignored was security.
If you're going to keep track of the recursive directory size,
you have to make sure to return values consistent with each user's
If a user does not
have permission to see the files in a particular directory,
you'd better not include the sizes of those files in the
"recursive directory size" value when that user goes asking for it.
That would be an information disclosure security vulnerability.
Now all of a sudden that single 64-bit value is now a complicated set
of values, each with a different ACL that controls which users each
value applies to.
And if you change the ACL on a file, the file system would have to
update the file sizes for each of the directories that contains the file,
because the change in ACL may result in a file becoming visible to one
user and invisible to another.
Yet another cost many people failed to take into account is just
the amount of disk I/O, particular writes, that would be required.
Generating additional write I/O is a bad idea in general,
particularly on media with a limited number of write cycles
like USB thumb drives.
One commenter did note that
this metadata could not be lazy-written
because a poorly-timed
power outage would result in the cached value being out
of sync with the actual value.
Indeed the added cost of all the metadata writes is one of the
reasons why
Windows Vista no longer updates the Last Access time
by default.
Bonus chatter:
My colleague
Aaron Margosis
points out a related topic over on the
ntdebugging blog:
NTFS Misreports Free Space?
on the difficulties of accurate accounting, especially in the face
of permissions which don't grant you total access to the drive.
Smart quotes—you know, those fancy quotation marks that curl
"like this" 'and this' instead of standing up straight
"like this" 'and this'—are great for text meant for humans to read.
Like serifs and other typographic details, they act as subtle cues
that aid in reading.
But don't let a compiler or interpreter see them.
In most programming languages, quotation marks have very specific meanings.
They might be used to enclose the text of a string, they might be used
to introduce a comment,
they might even be a scope resolution operator.
But in all cases, the language specification indicates that the role
is played by the quotation mark U+0022 or apostrophe U+0027.
From the language's point of view,
the visually similar characters U+2018, U+2019, and U+02BC (among others)
are completely unrelated.
I see this often on Web sites,
where somebody decided to "edit" the content to make it "look better"
by curlifying the quotation marks,
turning what used to be working code into a big pile of syntax errors.
I even see it in email.
Somebody encounters a crash in a component under development
and connects a debugger and sends mail to the component team
describing the
problem and including the information on how to connect to the debugger
like this:
WinDbg –remote npipe:server=abc,pipe=def
Or maybe like this:
Remote.exe "abc" "def"
And you, as a member of the team responsible for that component
copy the text out of the email (to ensure there are no transcription
errors) and paste it into a command line.
C:\> Remote.exe "abc" "def"
and you get the error
Unable to connect to server ôabcö
What happened? You got screwed over by smart quotes.
The person who sent the email had smart quotes turned on in their
email editor,
and it turned "abc" into "abc".
You then got lulled into a false sense of security by
the best fit behavior of
which says I can't represent " and " in the console code page,
but I can map them to " which is a close visual approximation, so I'll
use that instead.
As a result, the value you see on the command line shows straight quotes,
but that's just a façade behind which the ugly smart quotes
are lurking.
I've even seen people hoist by their own smartly-quoted petard.
I can't seem to access a file called aaa bbb.txt.
The command
type "aaa bbb.txt"
results in the strange error message
The system cannot find the file specified.
Error occurred while processing: "a.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Error occurred while processing: x.txt".
Why can't I access this file?
I can't seem to access a file called aaa bbb.txt.
The command
aaa bbb.txt
type "aaa bbb.txt"
results in the strange error message
The system cannot find the file specified.
Error occurred while processing: "a.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Error occurred while processing: x.txt".
Why can't I access this file?
Somehow they managed to type smart quotes into their own command line.
So watch out for those smart quotes.
When you're sending email containing code or command lines,
make sure your editor didn't "make it pretty" and in the process destroy it.
Exercise: What is wrong with the WinDbg command line above?
Bonus chatter:
is a notable exception to this principle,
for it
treats all flavors of smart quotes and smart dashes as if they
were dumb quotes and dumb dashes.
From what I can tell,
you have this guy to thank
(or blame).
Occasionally somebody asks
about the timing of an entry I've written
and wants to know how far ahead with this blog thing I really am.
To give you an idea of how far in advance I write my blog entries,
I wrote this particular entry on February 13, 2008.
Generally, the articles are published in the order I wrote them;
this particular entry ended up on February 27, 2009 because that was
the next available open day.
If the big news topic of February 27th, 2009 happens to be related to
this entry,
it's just a coincidence.
Now, with a buffer of over a year,
I do have quite a bit of leeway in choosing when
any particular article is published.
Although articles in general just get slotted in for the next open day,
I will occasionally arrange for
one to come out on a thematically-related day.
Sometimes the connection is blatant,
like writing about time and time zones
on the Fridays before Daylight Saving Time transitions,
or writing about Hallowe'en on, well, Hallowe'en.
More often the connection is low-key, like
telling a story about the economics of parking tickets
on a day when parking is free in Seattle
warning about fake guacamole
on the Friday before the Super Bowl.
And sometimes the connection is impossibly obscure,
like taking a story that I know a friend will like
and slotting it in on their birthday, anniversary, or some
other day meaningful to them.
(To answer Paul's specific question:
I found the article on guacamole and said,
"That would be a great article to use for the Super Bowl."
I already had a Super Bowl article picked out for 2007,
the guacamole article was slotted in for 2008.)
There are other patterns you may have picked up on:
But generally, it's just a FIFO queue.
Oh, and right now, the queue is full up through the
beginning of June 2010.
The dllhost.exe process goes by the name
COM Surrogate and the only time you're likely even to notice
its existence is when it crashes and you get the message
COM Surrogate has stopped working.
What is this COM Surrogate and why does it keep crashing?
The COM Surrogate is a fancy name for
Sacrificial process for a COM object that is run outside of
the process that requested it.
Explorer uses the COM Surrogate when extracting thumbnails,
for example.
If you go to a folder with thumbnails enabled,
Explorer will fire off a COM Surrogate and use it to compute
the thumbnails for the documents in the folder.
It does this because Explorer has learned not to trust thumbnail extractors;
they have a poor track record for stability.
Explorer has decided to absorb the performance penalty
in exchange for the improved reliability resulting in moving
these dodgy bits of code out of the main Explorer process.
When the thumbnail extractor crashes, the crash destroys
the COM Surrogate process instead of Explorer.
In other words, the COM Surrogate is the
I don't feel good about this code, so I'm going to ask COM
to host it in another process.
That way, if it crashes, it's the COM Surrogate sacrificial process that
crashes instead of me process.
And when it crashes, it just means that Explorer's worst fears were realized.
In practice,
if you get these types of crashes when browsing folders containing
video or media files,
the problem is most likely a flaky codec.
Now that you know what the COM Surrogate does, you can answer
this question from a customer:
I'm trying to delete a file, but I'm told that "The action can't
be completed because the file is open in COM Surrogate."
What is going on?
(Cultural note: The phrase
the mating call of the loser
is a term of derision.
I used it here to create a more provocative headline
even though it's stronger than I really intended,
good writing is bold.)
When given a choice between two architectures,
some people say that
you should give users a checkbox to select which one should be used.
That is the ultimate cowardly answer.
You can't decide between two fundamentally different approaches,
and instead of picking one, you say
"Let's do both!",
thereby creating triple, perhaps quadruple the work compared
to just choosing one or the other.
It's like you're remodeling a book library and somebody asks you,
"Should we use
Dewey Decimal
Library of Congress?"
Your answer, "Let's do both and let the user choose!"
Imagine if there were a checkbox somewhere in the Control Panel
that let you specify how
Windows XP-styled controls were implemented.
Your choices are either to require applications to
link to a new UxCtrl.DLL (let's call this Method A)
or to link to COMCTL32.DLL with a custom manifest
(let's call this Method B).
Well, it means that every component that wanted styled common controls
would have to come in two versions,
one that linked to UxCtrl and used the new class names
in its dialog boxes and calls to CreateWindow,
and one that used a manifest and continued to use the class names
under their old names.
#ifdef USE_METHODA
hwnd = CreateWindow(TEXT("UxButton"), ...);
hwnd = CreateWindow(TEXT("Button"), ...);
CAPTION "Whatever"
#ifdef USE_METHODA
CONTROL "Whatever",IDC_WHATEVER,"UxButton",
CONTROL "Whatever",IDC_WHATEVER,"Button",
At run time, every program would have to check this global setting
and spawn off either the "Method A" binary or the "Method B" binary.
Now you might try to pack this all into a single binary with
something like this:
if (GetSystemMetrics(SM_USEMANIFESTFORSTYLEDCONTROLS)) {
hwnd = CreateWindow(TEXT("Button"), ...);
} else {
hwnd = CreateWindow(TEXT("UxButton"), ...);
if (GetSystemMetrics(SM_USEMANIFESTFORSTYLEDCONTROLS)) {
} else {
But it's not actually that simple because a lot of decisions take
place even before your program starts running.
For example, if your program specifies a load-time link to
UXCTRL.DLL, then that DLL will get loaded before your
program even runs, even if the system switch is set to use Method B.
A single-binary program that tries to choose between the two methods
at runtime will have to do some activation context juggling
and delay-loading.
Hardly a slam dunk.
Okay, so now you have two versions of every program.
And you also have to decide what should happen if somebody
writes and ships a program that uses Method A exclusively,
even when the system switch is set to Method B.
Does everything still work within that program as if Method A
were the system setting, while the rest of the system uses Method B?
(If you go this route, then you've completely undermined the point
of Method B.
The whole point of Method B is to allow programs that
rely on specific class names to continue working,
but this rogue Method A program is running around using the
wrong class names!)
Now the entire operating system and application compatibility work
needs to be done with the checkbox set both to Method A and to
Method B,
because the compatibility impact of each of the methods is quite different.
Okay, that's double the work. Where is triple and quadruple?
Well, the two different versions of the program need to be kept in sync,
since you want them to behave identically.
This can of course be managed with judicious use of #ifdefs
or runtime branches.
But you have to remember both ways of doing things
and be mindful of the two method each time you modify the program.
Somebody else might come in and "fix a little bug"
or "add a little feature" to your program,
unaware of how your program manages the shuffle of Method A
versus Method B.
The mental effort necessary to remember two different ways of doing
the same thing plus having to expend that effort to correct mistakes
in the code, that's the triple.
The quadruple?
I'm not sure, maybe the ongoing fragility of such a scheme,
especially one that, at the end of the day, is a choice between
two things that have no real impact on the typical end user.
Engineering is about making tradeoffs.
If you refuse to make the choice,
then you're taking the cowardly route
and ultimately are creating more work for your team.
Instead of solving problems, you're creating them.
All because you're too chicken to make a hard decision.
One of my colleagues was overwhelmed by how many times
papers need to be signed when you buy a house.
A seemingly endless stack of papers.
Sign and date here, initial here, initial here,
now sign this, and this, and this, and sign and date here,
and sign here, and initial here...
By the time it's over, your arm is about to fall off.
Some years later, my colleague was about to buy a new house and
began to dread the signature-fest that would invariably ensue
at the closing.
Another ten-foot-tall stack of papers that needed to be
signed and initialed.
In preparation, my colleague actually did hand exercises
to build up stamina and strength.
I'm not sure what the exercises consisted of,
but they were probably a mix of strength-building wrist exercises and some
stints of extended longhand writing.
Finally closing day came.
My colleague walked into the agent's office,
sat down, and prepared for the worst,
only to be surprised when the stack of papers was only a dozen pages long.
What happened to the ten-foot-tall stack of papers that took hours to
sign and initial?
The difference is that my colleague paid cash for the new house
rather than taking out a loan.
That ten-foot-tall stack of papers?
Nearly all of them were related to the mortgage,
not to the actual sale of the house.
The paperwork associated with a house sale proper is comparatively light.
But all was not lost.
At least my colleague had pretty strong wrists now.
This Web site is not for beginners.
I try to write for advanced programmers,
and if you're not an advanced programmer,
then you'll just have to accept that
there will be times you are baffled by what I write.
Often I dial the geek back a notch,
explaining some things which should be "obvious" to an advanced programmer,
such as why storing a constant pointer into a stack location from
dynamically-generated code is a clear indicator of a framework thunk.
But I will dial it back only so far,
and eventually you may just be forced to (horrors!)
do your own background research
to get yourself up to speed
or simply give up and see if you have better luck with the next entry.
There are some topics I have sitting in my ideas folder
which I will probably never actually post about because
they are so advanced that even
Don Box,
COM guru extraordinaire,
admitted in email to me that they're too advanced
even for
his super-advanced book on COM.
At the PDC, talks used to be categorized as 100, 200, 300, or 400-level,
mimicking the categorization of classes at most U.S. universities,
with 100-level classes being introductory,
and 400-classes being college senior seminar type stuff.
COM weak QueryInterface would be somewhere at the graduate
research level.
Stuff so esoteric, nobody would actually need to know it.
To be honest, I don't think I've written anything truly advanced
in a long time.
It's all been fairly intermediate for the past few years.
People don't seem to mind too much, so I'll just keep it going.
One of my friends is a high school language teacher,
and I used to ask her,
"So, what are your students complaining about today?"
That was back when her school used the traditional
"First we learn the personal pronouns,
then we learn the present tense of regular verbs,
then we learn nouns in nominative case..."
grammar-based language acquisition system.
That system works reasonably well for me
(although I prefer to
learn the major points all at once rather than in pieces),
but it requires an appreciation for rules (and their exceptions)
that most high school language students don't really have.
That's why I like to ask her what her students are complaining about.
One day it'll be
"Why do I have to learn noun genders?",
another day, it'll be
"Why do we have to change the form of the verb depending on who
the subject is?",
and another day it'll be
"Why are there two different past tenses?"
These students usually fail to realize that their own native language
suffers from the same (if not more) "Why?" questions.
Why does English have both a simple present tense and
a present tense with progressive aspect?
(And why are there so many exceptions?
For example, why can't you say "He is owing me five dollars"?)
Anyway, one day, when I asked her,
"What are your students complaining about today?"
I was expecting another point of grammar.
What I wasn't expecting was,
"They want to know why they need to learn synonyms."
I guess they figured that once they learned the word big,
there would be no need to know words like
massive, or
I no longer ask this question, because my friend
now teaches based on the principle of
comprehensible input,
wherein students are exposed to the language by means more closely
mimicking the natural way language is acquired:
employing stories and conversations,
and using contextual or visual cues to
infer the meanings of
unknown words and tenses instead of learning them from a
vocabulary list and a rule sheet.
And it's working fantastically.
Now I don't have to ask her about how the students are doing:
She happily volunteers it!
A few years ago, she was excited about
students in their sixth week of class
reading a story that would have stymied second-year students
under the old system.
Another story that stands out for me was students who knew where
to put accent marks in relatively unfamiliar words
even though they were never formally taught
the rules on accent marks; they just used their gut feeling.
Most recently, it was
"I formally introduced the past tense and asked one student to give
me a sentence in the past tense.
He said
that when he was younger, he once took his dad's car for a joy ride.
Well, that quickly led to a game of one-upsmanship with students
fighting to tell their own stories of juvenile delinquency.
And they all used the past tense."
Sure, they didn't get the irregular verbs quite right,
but hey, they didn't get the irregular verbs right when they were
learning English for the first time, either.
Happy birthday, Rebecca!


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Nationwide Medical/Surgical, a distributor of the flu vaccine and flu vaccine supplies has unveiled their annual 2009 list of what to do if exposed to the flu virus.
(Vocus) March 2, 2009 -- Nationwide Medical/Surgical, a distributor of the flu vaccine and flu vaccine supplies has unveiled their annual 2009 list of what to do if exposed to the flu virus.
The flu is a highly contagious disease known as the influenza virus. It infects the respiratory tract and the virus can range from mild to very severe and in some cases can be fatal. As a matter of fact, the Center for Disease Control reports that over 30,000 people die each year due to the influenza virus. The best way to avoid the flu virus is to get an annual flu vaccination. The flu vaccine works by introducing either weakened or dead versions of the flu virus to the body, so that it can create the proper immunities or antibodies to the virus. If there is a future exposure to the virus, the body will have the proper measures in place to fight it off.
Unfortunately, there is no guarantee against getting the flu. Even if one does get the flu shot, it is still possible (although less likely) to become infected with the influenza virus. If one becomes ill, there are several measures one can take to lessen the severity of the flu.
The most important thing to do if one gets the flu is to rest at home. It is important to get ample sleep and to drink plenty of liquids. Sleeping helps the body spend its energy fighting the illness and drinking liquids helps the body avoid dehydration that can come quicker due to the influenza virus. Hand washing is highly encouraged to avoid passing
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"Social vs. Military Spending: How the Pentagon Budget Crowds out Public Infrastructure and Aggravates Natural Disasters—the Case of Hurricane Katrina"
Hossein-zadeh, Ismael
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SubjectArmed forces--Appropriations and expenditures.; Militarism--Economic aspects.; Emergency management--United States--Political aspects.; Military-industrial complex--United States.; Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
This paper puts forth (and documents) an argument that the escalating military spending at the expense of non-military public spending is steadily undermining the critical national objective of public-capital formation (both physical and human) and that, if not stopped, the resulting trend will stint long term productivity and economic growth, as it erodes both physical and soft/social infrastructure. An equally high opportunity cost of the colossal Pentagon budget in terms of forgone or neglected public infrastructure (roads, bridges, mass transit, dams, levees, and the like) is vulnerability in the face of natural disasters, as evidenced, for example, by the recent devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Dr. Ismael Hossein-zadeh teaches economics at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Yesterday, exclusively on Trisha Goddard, DNA results reveal that Michael Lohan is the father of 17-year-old Ashley Horn. For years, Kristi Horn has claimed that Michael Lohan is the biological father of her daughter Ashley Horn. Ashley came face-to-face with Michael for the first time in an explosive episode of "Trisha Goddard".
When Trisha asks, who wants to open the DNA results envelope, Ashley volunteers "I'll do it, it's my life." Michael adds "It's all of our lives."
After Ashley opens the DNA Diagnostics results envelope, Kristi breaks down in tears, but Ashley remains silent. Curious about the outcome, Trisha leans over to discover the truth and announces "Michael IS Ashley's father."
After the announcement is made, Ashley defiantly hands the envelope to Michael and says "Just to prove to you…." and Michael responds "I believe what you said."
Through her tears Kristi says to Michael, "You have another daughter and you missed out on 17 years of her life."
When Michael attempts an awkward hug with Ashley, she says no and stiffens, then explains "This is the first time I've met you, I'm sorry, but I'm not sure…"
Trisha ends the episode with some words of wisdom to Ashley, "The thing to remember is that both your parents, who are here, are human beings with their flaws.. don't push anything, he's human – he'll screw up… all parents do." To which Ashley poignantly points out "All people do."
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Morels are a wild mushroom that is most often found in the spring time. Look to farmer's markets and specialty grocery stores to carry them.
It is suggested to soak morels in cold salted water, at least two rinses to remove loose dirt and any bugs.
Morels have a delicate mushroom flavor and have a perfect design for absorbing sauces. Morels are fantastic sauteed with butter, served next to a poached or over easy egg or make a perfect addition to fresh spring asparagus dishes.
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Here's a November sunset...2013...
LOL yes it has been a while since I posted in my thread ..
I hope everyone had a Wonderful Christmas....
And a start to a great New Year...
WOW can you believe it's 2014 !! I know I can't
I turned another year older.. Wiser well that's still up for grabs...
The weather last week was a doozie ;we hit -8* ..That is not a typo...
HB's BD is coming up And I know he has been wanting to replace his 30 yr.old Moose hide moccasins ,that I had repaired a few times..
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Took about a week on and off... To make ..I really didn't have a pattern.. Just his old ones as references..
My old 1901 treadle was able to do some of the sewing,the heel box I did by hand with seniew.. And hand whip stitch the foot box...
I had American Bison hide layang around and used that for the body of the moc...
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March 15, 2010
The U.S. and the U.K. have moved "substantially" closer to losing their AAA credit ratings as the cost of servicing their debt rose, according to Moody's Investors Service.
The governments of the two economies must balance bringing down their debt burdens without damaging growth by removing fiscal stimulus too quickly, Pierre Cailleteau, managing director of sovereign risk at Moody's in London, said in a telephone interview.
Under the ratings company's so-called baseline scenario, the U.S. will spend more on debt service as a percentage of revenue this year than any other top-rated country except the U.K., and will be the biggest spender from 2011 to 2013, Moody's said today in a report.
"We expect the situation to further deteriorate in terms of the key ratings metrics before they start stabilizing," Cailleteau said. "This story is not going to stop at the end of the year. There is inertia in the deterioration of credit metrics."
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All right. After weeks of trying to figure this out, I'm turning to this forum to see if someone can help.
I have an idea for a character, an Asari from mass effect. I've managed to extract the relevant meshes from the game's .pcc files.
I'm having a bit of trouble loading the correct textures, but that's not all that big an issue.
What I'm having trouble with is getting the head, particularly the back of the head and the neck, into Daz to work with Genesis.
I'm aware of Dariofish's HFS shapes; I do not like the HFS asari morph as it is not accurate, so please do not point me to it.
Other things I've run into in the process; there are no 'back of the head' morphs that shrink that area of the skull to let the Asari mesh fit.
How would I go about getting the model to work with/as part of a Daz genesis figure?


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MEA is partnering with NEA, the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to sponsor the Teaching Leadership Initiative (TLI) program. If you're an MEA member and ready to take hold of your career and learn to lead in matters of practice and policy—if you're an MEA member eager to make a difference in your classroom, but not sure where to begin—TLI is for you.
The ice has melted and the roads are worse.
Michigan's deteriorating roads and bridges pose a serious safety threat to drivers. Crater-size potholes are responsible for extensive damage to our automobiles.
The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) recognized 15 high-performing Reward schools at the 2015 AdvanceED Michigan/MDE Spring School Improvement Conference where they also presented their best practices. Reward schools are in the top 5 percent of schools on MDE's annual Top-to-Bottom ranking.
State Superintendent Mike Flanagan will be retiring on July 1 after 10 years in his position. The State Board of Education released the names of the six candidates they will be interviewing to replace him. Interviews are scheduled for March 10 and 11.
This is National Breakfast Week (March 2-6) and to raise awareness of the issue of child hunger, the NEA Health Information Network (NEA HIN) has released three new videos and created resources you can use in your classroom and in your school district.
Michigan State University scholars have created a financial health-indicator system for school districts that could be facing financial stress. The proactive system uses research and information from other states to analyze the fiscal health of school districts and is outlined in a white paper, "Knowledgeable Navigation to Avoid the Iceberg."
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The number of public schools and charters that are facing a financial deficit has risen to 55-up from 48 schools last year. On that list are schools that started the 2013-14 school year solvent, but after facing money problems during the year, are now part of the new list of deficit schools. The Education Achievement Authority is one of those schools newly added.
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Topic: Bobby Bell
Nick's Chiefs Briefs: Week 14
Oof, that was an absolute punch in the gut. Not only did the Kansas City Chiefs get beat by the division rival San Diego Chargers, they got annihilated. The division is still a two horse race, and one which the Chiefs have a lead at the turn, but the Chargers are gaining. So let's all have a big drink of bourbon, and wipe away the weeks misery by getting into a nice clean set of Briefs.Read on »
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This picture got me thinking, Front wheel drive Hack
I know almost nothing about sidecars so i'm sorry if this is just a stupid idea, but a front wheel drive Hacks makes kind of sense to me.
Maybe a three wheel drive will be the ultimate snow machine.
Such as using THIS for a front & rear drive combination tug?
In 2008 - The addition of front suspension:
Actually From what i can see this guys used a different trick, somehow popular in the "Rockcrawler" community.
The comcept is actually pretty simple, they take a small "Transverse" engine and tranny (from a front wheel drive car) mount it longitudinal behind the driver seat (center of mass of the vehicle) and use one of the half shafts (left or right depends in how the engine and output shaft spines) to send power to a rear differential (Actually a "Locker") and do the same for the front wheels, ending up with a 4 wheel drive vehicle.
Notice how the "Motorcycle" is moved to the left side of the driveline and the substantial "Box" structure where the shafts will be house.
At least that is how it looks (To me) from the pictures Richard post.
Also Notice the "3x3" sticker in the back of the chair. (I think that is what it is)
It is a Vogel 3 wheel drive made in France. I am thinking may be it's made from parts of, or a modify 4X4 ATV
Seriously, I have been working on some sketches and early layouts of a design for a 2-wheel or 3-wheel-drive sidecar where the sidecar frame is used to hang all three wheels/suspensions off of. :becca
My powerplant of choice, of course, was going to be an oilhead boxer BMW. And I see that they this Vogel rig has already been mated to an Airhead.
The frame looks to me to be all custom fabrication, and the hubs/axles look like automotive front-wheel-drive half-shaft units. Smart-Car perhaps???
Cannot seem to find many other photos or details about the rigs. The builder is listed on several websites listing sidecar manufacturers in France, but there is no website or email address for them, and they all date back to 2007.
Are they still around???
Not Smart, 2CV!
I think I have a interesting question..
How about just running A-arms mount from the main frame to the wheels, Front and maybe even the tub wheel with steering and the rear one fix straight...??
Sounds kind of logical to me since all the power stems from the massive rigid frame already.
Please tell me what you guys think.
High/Low range chaincase, reversing gearbox, and a viscous coupling to allow differential rotation between the two drive axles.
Mobec Superdrive from Germany...
Simpler version of a Mobec 2-wheel-drive unit.
Direct drive out of the BMW final drive, no reverse, no high/low range, but does have viscous coupling to allow differential rotation of wheels while cornering.
Aluminum box is a 1:1 chain-case to transfer power forward, allowing for proper sidecar wheel lead.
I just hate to ask how many bundles of $40,000 bills such a beauty is going to cost.
Thanks for posting.
Now for one more challenge..
Why does the engine need to be in the conventional location if you are making a sidecar specific chassis including the "Motorcycle frame"
Refer to Bob Pelican super wonderful Wanker power yellow monster that he name "Roto Hack" for example
Sure if you have a set up like this in the dirt, you will spend the whole time looking at stars not only do to the power but the vias center of mass.
Here is their web site;
I got some prices from them a couple of years ago.
As the saying goes,"if You have to ask, You cant afford it". Over $16K for their most basic unit. +bike +bike mods +tub +frame +paint +lights +++++
If I ever win the lottery.......
just look how clean this "Front fork" is build.
Mobec also makes a 2WD conversion for the KTM 950 Adv. It's listed on their site anyway. I contacted them awhile back about buying the parts to convert my 950. They wanted $30,000+ and needed me to ship my 950 to Germany. :huh Apparently, it's not a bolt-on! :lol3
I'd love to buy the parts. Not happening!
Ricardo, here's another rear engine sidecar for you, 2WD Mitsubishi:
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Streamline your cooking routine with this reconstructed GE electric double oven range.
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We go hands-on with Alcatel's inexpensive Android smartphone with a 5-inch screen and stylus.
With its spring-loaded clamp, the Easy One Touch holds a phone firmly in your car, but allows for easy removal.
The Clickfree C6 would make an excellent portable storage and backup drive for any Windows user.
Google's chatbot artificial intelligence has some interesting -- and not entirely illogical -- ideas about morality, philosophy and the meaning of life.
Linksys ships high-gain antennas designed to quickly extend the Wi-Fi coverage of any router with an RP-SMA detachable antenna.
Polarr opted not to build an app specifically for Apple's iOS software, instead going the less-traveled route of using more-universal Web technologies. That decision is now paying off with droves of downloads.
We talk to Intel's Doug Davis about what it will take to deliver an Internet of Things that will get the public excited. Hint: beer plays a supporting role.
Delve into the complicated and messy world of spray-cheese 3D printing as a maker attempts to produce gooey cheese forts and cracker toppings. No, it's not an April Fools' joke.
A CIA-backed technology company says it's spotted credentials connected with the departments of Defense, Justice, Treasury and Energy, as well as the CIA itself.