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- Title
- Evolutionary history of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1052
- Author(s)
- Pierce, Michael; Brodie, Jean P.; Forbes, Duncan A.; Beasley, Michael A.; Proctor, Robert N.; Strader, Jay
- Abstract
- We have obtained Keck spectra for 16 globular clusters (GCs) associated with the merger remnant elliptical NGC 1052, as well as a long-slit spectrum of the galaxy. We derive ages, metallicities and abundance ratios from simple stellar population models using the recently published methods of Proctor & Sansom, applied to extragalactic GCs for the first time. A number of GCs indicate the presence of strong blue horizontal branches that are not fully accounted for in the current stellar population models. We find all of the GCs to be ∼13 Gyr old according to simple stellar populations, with a large range of metallicities. From the galaxy spectrum we find NGC 1052 to have a luminosity-weighted central age of ∼2 Gyr and metallicity of [Fe/H]∼+0.6 . No strong gradients in either age or metallicity were found to the maximum radius measured (0.3 re≃ 1 kpc) . However, we do find a strong radial gradient in α-element abundance, which reaches a very high central value. The young central starburst age is consistent with the age inferred from the H i tidal tails and infalling gas of ∼1 Gyr. Thus, although NGC 1052 shows substantial evidence for a recent merger and an associated starburst, it appears that the merger did not induce the formation of new GCs, perhaps suggesting that little recent star formation occurred. This interpretation is consistent with 'frosting' models for early-type galaxy formation.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 358, no. 2 (2005), pp. 419-431
- Publication year
- 2005
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishers
- 0035-8711
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- Copyright © 2004 Royal Astronomical Society. The accepted manuscript of this paper is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive publication is available at www.interscience.wiley.com.
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He began with a blessing: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart."
He launched his first tweet from a new personal account at the end of his weekly general audience. The text of the tweet, in Italian, flashed on the jumbo screens in the modernist Pope Paul VI Hall, where the audience was held.
Then, about an hour later, he answered the first of thousands of questions sent to him in the past nine days. It went out to someone in the USA who asked in English: "How can we celebrate the Year of Faith better in our daily lives?"
Benedict replied: "By speaking with Jesus in prayer, listening to what he tells you in the Gospel and looking for him in those in need."
His tweets are in keeping with his teaching on Advent this morning, that God "comes to us in different ways." And during the day today, he'll answer two more questions, in two other languages from two other continents, sent to him with the hashtag #askpontifex, says Greg Burke, the Vatican's communications strategist.
Catholic News Service, live-tweeting the event, said a U.S. official at the Vatican, TJ Jones from one of the Holy See's communications offices and two student interns from Villanova University set up a tablet for the @pontifex tweet.
More than 1 million people, including 645,000 from the English-speaking world, responded to his "follow me" invite to Twitter feeds in eight language for @pontifex. Thousands sent him questions - from sincere to silly to serious digs at the Catholic Church - with a marker #askpontifex. Vatican staff screened the tweets, but officials say the pope's answers will be in his own words.
Benedict has launched pre-approved tweets on other Vatican Twitter accounts since 2010, but this is the first time he has used this new personal account.
The social media company engineered the 12/12/12 event, encouraging the Vatican to personalize its multiple Twitter accounts and assigned Claire Diaz-Ortiz, Twitter's manager of social innovation, to the Holy see to stage manage the account. She was there - and tweeting - for the big moment today.
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Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski on Putin's reckless course.
WARSAW, Poland—Poland's foreign minister, Radoslaw "Radek" Sikorski, has been intimately involved in the Ukraine crisis, including in the negotiation of an agreement in February that then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych walked away from, further fueling the Maidan protest. Sikorski spoke with Lally Weymouth Wednesday, ahead of the diplomatic talks in Geneva aimed at defusing hostilities, about the crisis, U.S. global credibility, and what Vladimir Putin has his eyes on next. Excerpts:
What do you think is going to happen in Ukraine?
I think President Putin wants to prevent Ukraine from becoming a successful European/EU-associated country. To that end, he needs to destabilize Ukraine and to upset its electoral calendar and make it more difficult to carry out economic reforms.
You worked hard to make Ukraine an EU-associated country, didn't you?
It was under the Polish presidency that the text was agreed, and we had persuaded most of the EU to say officially that the association agreement would not be the last step in our collaboration. If Ukraine had carried out the reforms, it would eventually have been able to lodge an application to the EU. Of course, Ukraine wasted a lot of time. For 20 years the country was bled by corruption, by stealing of assets, and by a populist economic policy. Twenty-five years ago, Poland and Ukraine had the same standard of living. Today we are three times richer. They also wasted the public enthusiasm after the Orange Revolution, 10 years ago. So, over time it gets harder. But I think this is the best team in Kiev we are likely to get. Prime Minister [Arseniy] Yatsenyuk is honest, competent, and knows what needs to be done.
Do you think he will be able to get things done with the Russians at the door and Russian agents occupying these 10 towns in eastern Ukraine? Aren't those Russians in the 10 towns?
Of course they are Russians. They have equipment that only Russian armed forces possess. And we had seen the pattern in Crimea. It's an extremely hard task to reform the country, introduce an [International Monetary Fund] adjustment program, and defend its territory at the same time.
How would you explain why Ukraine matters to Westerners?
It matters because for the first time since the Second World War, one European country has annexed a province from another European country. And that matters because it is a rejection of our entire legal system and international norms and treaties that we have regarded as the foundation of peace. Remember, there is not a country in Europe that does not have national minorities. If we went back to protecting them through changing borders, we would be back in the hell of the 20th century and before. This is why what President Putin has done in Crimea and is now doing in eastern Ukraine is so threatening to all of us.
What would you like to see the United States do?
The United States is in the lead on sanctions and hopefully can tell it like it is to the Russians. And the United States is helping Ukraine, too. A $1 billion loan has just been passed in Congress.
It is a $1 billion loan guarantee.
Yes, a guarantee. Which is the same thing. ... And then the United States should reassure those allies in Central and Eastern Europe that have been warning about this sort of thing for years. We have an American base and a brigade in Germany, we have American bases in the U.K., in Spain, in Italy, in Turkey, but only a very small presence in Poland.
So the U.S. should move troops to Poland?
Yes. I have talked about it to [Secretary of State] John Kerry and the supreme allied commander of Europe [Gen. Philip Breedlove]. We believe that after 15 years of our membership in NATO, and in view of the events in the Ukraine, this region deserves a reassurance package.
Do you think the U.S. should arm the Ukrainians?
These are difficult decisions. And the risks are enormous. These calculations have to be done by the Ukrainians themselves because they will bear the consequences of any such actions.
How can they fight the Russians if they do not have any arms?
Actually, Ukraine has an arms industry, which is, I think, the fourth-largest exporter in the world.
So they do not need to be armed by the West?
They need to get their army functioning again. I think Ukraine is paying the price of 20 years of strategic illusions of being able to be neutral and of not paying enough attention to their security sector.
What happened the night you and the German and French foreign ministers made that deal with former president Yanukovych? Why did it fall apart?
Point one of the agreement was that the previous constitution would be brought back, with less presidential power and more parliamentary [power]. The president and the parliament had 48 hours to sign on. The parliament voted it through the same day, within two hours. Then the next day the president announced on TV that he would not sign it into law. So the parliament voted him out of office.
That was how the Maidan started?
The Maidan started when Yanukovych refused to sign the association agreement with the EU back in November. And then it became an anti-Yanukovych movement. ... The snipers killed about 100 people while we were there, literally outside the building.
Do you think U.S. credibility is at stake?
Or Russia's credibility is at stake because Russia was a signatory of the [1994] Budapest Memorandum, and it is not the United States but Russia that broke it. But yes, if you were North Korea or Iran thinking, "Should I trust Western security guarantees if I give up my nuclear ambitions?" ... That is why what President Putin is doing is so dangerous.


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Picture Book of Daniel Boone
Horn Book Guide Reviews 2014 Spring
This brief biography chronicles the life of one of the nation's early pioneers. The narrative succinctly relates Boone's early life, his experiences with Native Americans, the opening of the Cumberland Gap to form the Wilderness Trail, the settlement of Boonesborough, and his final push into Missouri. Realistic illustrations are artfully rendered and complement the straightforward, readable text. Timeline, websites. Bib.
Kirkus Reviews 2013 July #2
Adler, collaborating with his son, expands his extensive repertoire of picture-book biographies of famous Americans with this worthy addition featuring Daniel Boone. Beginning with the frontiersman's birth in 1734 to Quakers who left England and settled in Pennsylvania for religious freedom, the straightforward text follows the same format as the authors' previous biographies. Sprinkled with documented quotes, double-page spreads introduce specific events in Boone's life. Descriptions of his curiosity in childhood, his job as a wagon driver for the British during the French and Indian War, and his constant search for better hunting grounds lead up to his establishment of a settlement in Kentucky (then still part of Virginia) and blazing the route from Virginia to Kentucky that came to be called the Wilderness Trail. The authors heighten the perils by including several Shawnee Indian attacks Boone and his family encountered, but they do not balance the topic by indicating why the Native Americans felt threatened. Complemented by realistic illustrations that depict the lushness of unexplored land and an attention to the details of soldiers', settlers' and Native Americans' clothing and homes, the biography is still a good source for browsing and school reports. Appended lists of important dates and related websites, as well as authors' notes, will assist with the latter. The informational text proves why Daniel Boone is synonymous with the pioneer spirit.
(Picture book/biography. 4-8)
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Across the Spectrum continues to develop and mature over time, and this new installment marks a few milestones. All four spheres have had their first period of focus now, so it's time that we start going back over familiar territory. This is also going to be the first time when we focus on a sphere combo that already won a previous Across the Spectrum. You've probably guessed by now that this is all about Lawtia and Gowen. All Iczers are advised to reread the main Across the Spectrum page, because it has seen some restructuring to better reflect the nature this contest has come to assume. Also, as the winner of AtS 1 was a Lawtia/Gowen deck, all contestants are advised to review that winning entry and try to avoid submitting anything that's overly similar to it. As the main page states, this will be an ongoing guideline for this and future AtS installments.
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about 3 months ago i got 2 female swordtails and just today i noticed that one of them has a sword on his/her tail.is this normal? also yesterday my one male, my assorted swordtail died of fin rot.
Just one of the late male developers.
but he was already fully grown when i bought him, and the lady at the fish store said he was a female:-?
It is not at all unusual for a fairly old "female" swordtail to turn out to be a male. Some swords develop the sword shaped tail quite early in life while others do not develop one until they are about 3 inches long.
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The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating the two-vehicle crash that happened at about 1:10 p.m. on Faircrest Street SW west of Perry Dr. SW in Perry Township.
Donald Johnson, 63, of Sherrodsville, was driving a 1997 International semi-tractor trailer traveling east on Faircrest Street.
Joanne Howell, 77, of Massillon was driving a 2008 Chrysler Sebring traveling west on Faircrest Street.
Troopers said that Howell's car went left of center and struck the semi in the left front. She was seriously injured and taken to Aultman Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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New Orleans' legendary Mardi Gras celebration is well underway. With daily parades and parties that culminate on Tuesday's huge Fat Tuesday celebration, the historic city is already rocking.
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Comment by James Bloyd — October 20, 2013 @ 12:13 PM
Israel has brought this cancer upon itself. Only Israel can eradicate the cancer, no one else. Israel cannot have a Fifth Column living side by side with Israel. One day the Jews will wake up and see the light. Maybe it will take more kidnappings, and murders for the average Israeli to see that their Government is a waste of good time. Until that time, more Israelis will die or be maimed by these vultures.
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Israel needs Israeli warriors with ferous dogs to strike the terrorists, so the terrorists will not have human shields, they are scared to dogs, so they will try to flee, and than this warriors can kill the terrorists without human shields.
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When village resident Tony Pettiford takes over as Yellow Springs police chief on Nov. 19, he will bring a deep knowledge of the community he has called home for 51 years, which he says will serve him well in his effort to keep Yellow Springs safe.
Ryan rallies local support at dairy
It was a little overcast and a bit blustery. But that didn't stop more than 2,000 supporters from showing up at last Saturday's Paul Ryan rally at Young's Jersey Dairy. And a number of the Republican vice-presidential candidate's supporters hailed from Yellow Springs.
Canvassers blow in from the West
A group of Northern California Democrats left 80-degree weather to brave the cold, November winds of Ohio in hopes of pushing the swing state further left this election. On Monday the four Californians, members of the West Yolo Democratic Club, warmed up at the Emporium before heading out to canvas for Yellow Springs congressional candidate Sharen Neuhardt in Fairborn in 40-degree blistery cold. But they seemed to be more focused on the winds of political change.
Drafting the Village budget— Early numbers on target
The Village of Yellow Springs came to its budget process early this year, and happily too, with most funds coming in close to budget and a sizable cash carry-over to pad the operation. With several more workshops planned for Village Council meetings on Nov. 5 and 23 and Dec. 5, the Village plans to get the coming year's budget passed by early 2013.
2012 Election Results
Click here for results from the 2012 election, including the breakdown by local precinct.
Village names new police chief
The Village chose local resident Anthony Pettiford to be the new Yellow Springs police chief.
Views from the street— How presidential were candidates?
The News asked Yellow Springs residents to weigh in on the first presidential debate held on Oct. 3 in Denver, and the vice presidential debate held in Danville, Ky., on Oct. 11.
Village OKs bidding on lot
The Railroad Street property where the grain elevator once stood is going to auction this week, and the Village of Yellow Springs will be among the bidders.
Council eyes public art policy
Village Council considered a draft art policy at its Oct. 15 meeting as a first step towards defining the types of art allowed in public spaces and the procedures for their approval.
Village to consider bidding on land parcel downtown
The Village Station development that has been hanging on as a concept plan for office and retail space at the corner of Dayton and Railroad Streets is all but quashed. But an opportunity for a new idea may be coming soon.


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We have talked about the different types of companies, now I wanna get down to specifics. The nitty gritty of how the cloud can help. This is non specific will work if your company is big or small, whether you have 10 employees or a thousand employees. Wow those are grand words your are saying to yourself but how can the things that will help my small company also work for a big company. Read after the break for more.
So most of WTC has been strictly about cloud tech or how certain segments can benefit from the cloud. I wanna get a little more personal with this one as Google moves into the social space. On a daily basis I find myself moving more and more to the cloud with my everyday life. I have cut the outlook chord because gmail's web app is just so much better. I have access to the Google Music beta although I don't use it. If iTunes went to a complete and true cloud solution I would be on that faster then Steve Jobs could announce it. So as more and more stuff goes to the cloud should your identity join that? Is that what Google is trying to do with it's new social offering?
So I found out the other day that Netflix is on the cloud. This shocked me in many ways. I love Netflix, their products and most of the time their service. But I have a reliability problem when it comes to Netflix that I thought for sure a cloud would provide. Then I found out where they had deployed to. Amazon Web Services, which in some ways should not surprise me. Recently they suffered an outage on the US East Region that affected Netflix although supposed invisible to the user. Netflix did have to do a whole bunch of stuff on the back end to keep this crash from affecting customer facing services. Now their are parts of Amazon I can stand by. S3 is an amazingly reliable service. Their EC2 instances not so much. Also I would not think S3 has the throughput to truely support HD streaming. So unabridged although some new information has come to light my open love letter to Netflix.
This may be the hardest article to write for a few reasons. Even your most transparent companies don't like to share how they secure their networks and I don't necessarily blame them. Its also very technical so you will have to bear with me as I break it down for you.
Security is a hot topic in the cloud. How can I trust data that is not directly under my control behind my souped up firewalls and under my watchful eye? It's a valid concern. Network Admins and Engineers are paid to be super vigilant and un-trusting. We all believe we know best and the way we secure things is the best way. We may agree on certain practices but when you break it down into the minute details the things that separate a well secured network from a decently secured network we will never always agree. So how as an admin can I give up the ability to secure my data and infrastructure and hand it over to a cloud company. Easy don't give up the control and make sure your cloud company has some best practices.
The guys from The Cloud Geeks are truly that: geeks. Ones who have become obsessed with the way the cloud works currently and how to fix it. Now, I try not to toot our own horn on this blog cause it is one that is meant for discussion not self aggrandization. However, there is something we are working on that I have to talk about and it fits perfectly with the topic of networking.
The neural center of a cloud is its network. The brain may be in the actual servers but the network is its spinal chord and nerve endings. The cloud is nothing without it. And networking is about to change drastically as people start to convert from IP v4 to IP v6. I explain both of those and what the cloud geeks are doing for them after the break.
Render times are the bane of almost any A/V specialists existence. They always seem to get worse when you are working with a deadline so you are forced to do something besides what you wanted to, normally leading to a slightly inferior product.
What if everything you did could be done in real time with no very expensive upgrades or cards? How bout being able to edit in real time from a netbook while on the go? What if with a high-speed internet connection you could completely change the way your business works and how productive you technicians could be? As a formal A/V professional if I could have had all of those things I would probably have never left the business. The cloud gives you all of that and so much more.
We have talked some on who needs cloud and why you need the cloud. Now I wanna talk about what is involved in building a cloud. Cloud computing consists of the layers you see in the image to the left. I wanna focus on the foundation of infrastructure and how you build a proper one. What makes for a solid cloud foundation. We will talk later about processors and memory and how many servers you need to start a cloud off. For now I wanna start with what seems to be the weakest link, storage.
Businesses are probably wondering what this cloud is. Small Businesses are probably doing the same thing that Grandpa Simpson is doing in the picture. They hear all about the cloud. They might even have read that the cloud is where they should be. But it's all confusing to them. Why does my small business need cloud computing. We have been doing just fine buying servers and computers for my end users.
Small Business (SMB) should be in the cloud. They should be using it to differentiate themselves from other SMBs. They should learn the power of cloud and leverage it to explode. We will talk about how and why.
You're a small business. You have minimal IT needs but you keep hearing this buzz word "Cloud-Computing". So, you try and research it and you get overwhelmed with information. You figure, "this cloud thing is too advanced for my business. I don't need this it won't do anything for me." You're wrong. It doesn't matter how small your business is or what your business is, you need cloud computing and even more so you need a strategy. If your business doesn't have a cloud strategy you will be left in the dust out-shined and surpassed by your competitors. So we're going to break down some types of business and why they need the cloud in this series of posts.
Do you ever wanna check your Twitter or tweet about something that's important to you and get the Fail Whale? Twitter serves 19 Billion searches per month. That's more then Google or Bing. Sixty five million tweets a day from over a 190 million users. That requires some serious horsepower. But something in that kind of demand shouldn't fail. Seems like a great case for the cloud, doesn't it? Think about it, you're serving that much data you would want to have almost infinite power and redundancy. You would also want some load balancing and maybe even a content distribution network.
So, who offers all of these things now, in one integrated form? The answer to that, and why it still doesn't work coming up.


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The first happened Friday just after 2:00 p.m. on South Church Street.
The victim is 40-year-old Yong Bin Lin.
Police say Lin was approached by two men he didn't know as he was getting into his trailer at the Stockyard. The suspects showed Lin weapons, demanded money, then took off in a two-door green Pontiac.
Another robbery happened Saturday just after 10 p.m. on Winston Walk.
Three young men were leaving a relative's home when they told police two men they didn't know pulled handguns and forced them down on the ground.
The victims say the robbers took their stuff, then forced them to get in their car and drive off.
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STAFFORD - Stafford Motor Speedway officials found a way to trump Mother Nature on Tuesday, but in the end it was a shortage of another type of liquid that brought an early ending to their CarQuest Extreme Tuesday card.
It was closing in on 11:30 p.m. when ISMA SuperModified officials pulled the plug on their feature, four laps short of its expected 50-lap distance, because a rash of cautions had many teams perilously close to running out of gas.
It proved a curious way to end an interesting night at the track, where it was Chris Perley winning the shortened SuperModified race, Nokie Fornoro taking the checkered in the 30-lap NEMA Midget feature and Norm Wrenn winning the 25-lap Pro Four Modified race.
Check out below for some scenes from the paddock in Stafford on Friday before the start of feature racing.
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NEMA Midget driver Abby Martino and announcer Pete Falconi jot down some notes from the NEMA pit board after practice.
NEMA Midget driver Randy Cabral straps in prior to his heat race.
Stafford Motor Speedway regular Woody Pitkat prepares to take a NEMA Midget out for a heat race.
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ISMA SuperModified driver Dave Duggan does some suspension work in the Stafford pits.
ISMA SuperModified driver Chris Perley, who eventually went to win Tuesday, prepares for the start of a practice.
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"Houston, Looks Like We Have A Quote Problem Out There"
Shit breaks again. It's been covered plenty of times. The fragmentation within the US equities market its beyond management. It gets old repeating the same tune. The SEC is inept, the HFT industry is selfish, and the Academic research on the topic is conflicted and corrupted. The exchanges offer unpublished orders to top bidders and the integrity of the market has vanished.
The garbage was first reported by BATS:
Not even 3 minutes later Nasdaq reports problems:
As is expected, news reading algos go apeshit and flash crash Nasdaq stock:
It's all good though. HFT provide liquidity and tighten spreads...
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Great liquidity when average investors get stoped at zero dollars.
Ahh, butt cheese, and I was just learning how to trade. Not in this millenium.
How about------- Never in the intercourse of human history have so many been screwed by a few with the blessings of our politicians and financial leaders
When are they going to make a rule for the TBTF/TBTJ that when their algos/HFT go haywire, they get to hit the big <Command> Z and have a do-over?
Oh… Yeah… They all ready get to do that…
My mistake.
Can I get in on that?
I wonder how many algos being held in stasis whose only job is to crash the system. Providing cover for other failures, like collapse of silver futures for example.
MACHINES WILL do so much of our work for us, our Biggest Problem will be what to do with all out Free TIme.
« Pour que le travail même, et non le paiement seul profite à l'homme, il faut que ce soit un travail humain, un travail où l'homme entier soit engagé : son corps, son cœur, son intellect, son goût.
L'artisan qui façonne un objet, le polit, le décore, le vend, l'approprie aux désirs de celui à qui il le destine, accomplit un travail humain. Le paysan, qui donne vie aux champs et fait prospérer le bétail par une œuvre accordée aux saisons, mène à bien une tâche d'homme libre.
Tandis que l'ouvrier enchaîné au travail à la chaîne, qui de seconde en seconde répète le même geste à la vitesse dictée par la machine, s'émiette en un travail sans but pour lui, sans fin, sans goût ni sens. Le temps qu'il y passe est temps perdu, vendu ; il vend non son œuvre, mais le temps de sa vie. Il vend ce qu'un homme libre ne vend pas : sa vie. C'est un esclave. »
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For the work itself, and not only pay benefits to humans, it must be a human work, a job where the whole man is engaged: his body, his heart, his intellect, his taste.
The artisan who fashions an object, polishes, decorates, sells appropriated to the desires of the person to whom it is intended, does a human work. The peasant who gives life to the fields and cattle prospered by a work given to seasons, leading to a task free man.
While the worker chained to work the chain, every second repeats the same gesture at a speed dictated by the machine crumbles into nonprofit work for him, without end, without taste or sense. The time it spends is time lost, sold, and he sells not his work, but the time of his life. He sells a free man does not sell: his life. It is a slave.
- Lanza del Vasto
Google does a pretty good job. But loses a bit of nuance. Here:
"For the work itself, and not just the payment, to benefit man, it must be a human work, a job in which the whole man is engaged: his body, his heart, his intellect, his taste.
The artisan who fashions an object, polishes, decorates, sells, adjusts it to the desires of the person for whom it is intended, does a human work. The farmer who gives life to the fields and makes his cattle prosper by a work in harmony with the seasons, accomplishes a free man's task.
Meanwhile the worker chained to chain production, who every second repeats the same gesture at a speed dictated by the machine, crumbles in a pointless work for him, without end, without enjoyment or sense. The time he spends on it is time wasted, sold; he sells not his product, but the time of his life. He sells that which a free man does not sell: his life. This is a slave."
- Lanza del Vasto
I like tight spreads.
And also, spreading tights.
Funny, so do I...
It's only really expensive if you buy it. Renting the alley is the way to go............
Here's a quote for you:
"Never in the course of human events have so many owed so much to so few"
Never in the course of human events have so few owned so many others.
"Never in the course of human events have so few owed so much to so many."


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So own up to it -- you've been known to mix some wire and maybe (maybe!) even some chain mail into your original jewelry designs. Why not share them with the world? We are currently accepting submissions for Wirework Spring 2015 and are looking for the following:
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The complex—and imbalanced—legalities of cross-border justice.
Mexico and the United States, while connected like hermanos siameses by one of the longest continuous land borders on the planet, are miles apart in terms of how they think about the rights of criminals—both foreign and domestic. These differences can be boiled down to a simple, almost shocking statement: The Mexican government believes that American criminals in Mexico have a right not to be killed—anywhere—while the U.S. government supports killing Mexican criminals who are in the U.S., even if they've been provided something less than their full range of legal protections. Recent high-court activity in both countries highlights this disparity and points to a continuing impasse in larger arenas. Unfortunately, this growing schism will likely complicate legal, diplomatic, trade, and even counterterrorism initiatives.
On Dec. 9, on the eve of International Human Rights Day, Mexico's President Vicente Fox formally celebrated his country's purging the last vestiges of capital punishment from its legal system. This celebration may have been a bit overblown, or at least late in the day, as Mexico has not actually executed anyone since 1961. But capital punishment was officially still on the books there until last Friday, when the government published changes to Mexico's Constitution, which now reads: "The death penalty, mutilation ... whipping, beating, and any form of torture ... are prohibited."
Since assuming office, Fox has wanted to be seen as a human rights defender. One of his preferred methods has been a systematic refusal to extradite anyone to the United States who may face the death penalty. He can even point to a bilateral treaty encouraging this stance. Fox has also fought the extradition of suspected prisoners who face life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
But two weeks ago, in a little-noticed decision, Mexico's Supreme Court complicated that agenda. And made some American officials very, very happy. In a 6-5 decision, Mexico's highest court ruled that criminals facing life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in their home countries may now be extradited. This ruling overturned a 2001 decision that had gone exactly the other way.
To understand this change requires first recognizing that Mexico's Constitution regards imprisonment as a means of rehabilitating criminals, rather than punishing and deterring them. Its Article 18 in particular recognizes only "social readaptation" as the goal of doing time in a Mexican prison. This cheery, future-oriented approach readily distinguishes Mexico's system from the U.S.'s, which follows more of a "lock 'em up, then lock 'em up some more" philosophy.
The Mexican high court's reasoning in 2001 sought to comply with Mexico's ban on cruel and unusual punishment—particularly in instances where the suspect could be extradited to a death-penalty-loving nation. The majority essentially argued that by executing someone, or by eliminating the possibility of their ever leaving prison, the state cruelly interfered with the "readaptation" function required by Article 18. That ruling, unsurprisingly, led some American crime suspects to flee to Mexico to avoid punishment in the United States. And that ticked off American law enforcement officials.
Something changed between that 2001 decision and last week's—most notably an aggressive campaign by U.S. politicians to undo Mexico's extradition ban. Indeed, Southern California law enforcement officials, apparently untroubled by usurping the federal government's foreign-affairs power, took credit for the Mexican court's recent decision. "This is the culmination of three years' work by our office and many others," said a staffer for the L.A. County District Attorney.
Not to be left out, Congress also went to work to subvert Mexico's liberal, rehabilitation-based views on crime. In the days leading up to last week's decision, U.S. lawmakers were busy slashing foreign aid for any country refusing to extradite suspects who had committed certain types of crimes. Conservative journalists correctly deemed this "a warning to the Mexican government." And just before the high court's ruling, President Bush signed a massive foreign-aid bill and hinted at the possible cancellation of up to $40 million earmarked to Mexico in FY06.
Finally, the writing was on the border fence in late November, when Mexico's Consulate General announced that Raul Gomez-Garcia—accused of killing a Denver police officer—could be extradited to the United States. This was a big retreat from Mexico's position as recently as last June—when it had flatly refused to extradite Gomez-Garcia if the Denver DA planned to bring charges carrying either the death penalty or a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Mexico is moving further away from President Fox's stance on the death penalty—a stance agreed upon, as it turns out, by just about the entire rest of the planet—and closer to the U.S.'s "punish or perish" jurisprudence. Are the courts there trying to appease the White House? Annoy Fox? Whatever the cause, something here is weirdly imbalanced.


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I picked up an old Bianchi Randonneur recently, have been riding the hell out of it and really like the trail on the fork.
Now I have the idea of putting a rando style fork on my RB-1.
Is this doable or just plain silly?
I picked up an old Bianchi Randonneur recently, have been riding the hell out of it and really like the trail on the fork.
Now I have the idea of putting a rando style fork on my RB-1.
Is this doable or just plain silly?
What qualifies as a "rando style" fork?
And what do you expect to happen when you change the fork?
I'm trying to figure out what you hope to accomplish.
Changing the fork is not like swapping a saddle or tires; you're not going to turn your road bike into a rando bike just by sticking a different fork on it.
You could try to figure out the characteristics of your current fork, then buy one that has more trail. In order to do that, we'd need to know the geometry of the fork you want to replace. But there isn't a "rando fork" which is always going to have more trail or a specific amount of rake.
Also AFAIK "planing" isn't a geometry characteristic, at least not one I've ever heard of.
Thank you for your somewhat thoughtful, if haughty, response BTW, are you the pcad of this forum?
I would like to respond.
By way of background, I have been riding road bikes since I was 17, which was 39 years ago, sometimes more, sometimes less. It's all part of the daily regime. I don't ride as much as you guys. In the last few years, I've been riding 6,000 to 8,000 miles a year. This one more of a 6,000 pace and AZ summer heat is not helping.
I have a number of road bikes -- both newish and C&V. The collection contributes to my "athletic" pursuits and satisfies my male tendency towards accumulation of gear, etc. The mix of bikes allows me to experiment ("turbo" my gear, as my family says) and adds variety to the workout.
So, recently, I picked up and totally rebuilt the Bianchi Randonneur and 1989 Bridgestone RB-1 in the photos below, and have spent most of my riding time on these two. The two bikes are just about the same size and have the following basic geometry:
Bianchi: ST 72, HT 72
Oh, and as I am sure you are aware, the US Bridgestones were the beginnings and the protypes of bikes now manufactured by Rivendell elves. BTW, the RB-1 has a replacement carbon fork, which is actually very good.
The Bianchi has been a new riding experience. I have rebuilt, ridden and sold two highend mid 1980's touring bikes, including a cherry Miyata 1000. Beautiful to look at, but rode like pigs, IMHO. The Bianchi is much quicker and the long trail provides a very different feel, particularly at speed, and a great deal more stability than the RB-1.
So, it occurs to me that a "traditional" "rando" or long trail fork on the Bridgestone might give me a similar ride.
Now that I have gone through all of this bullsh*t, do you have anything useful to say and/or are you able to answer my friggin' questions, which, again, are:
Will putting a long trail fork on the RB-1 give me a similar ride?
Does anyone make a stock "rando" or long trail fork?
Thank you for your consideration.
Last edited by RFC; 07-12-11 at 01:07 AM.
You both should be talking about randos with front loads usually having high rake aka offset (wheel sticks out farther forward), not "long trail." There is a formula for trail, in which more fork offset results in less trail. Several on-line tools will allow you to play with some numbers. This, at least, is just math.
RFC, I'm in the middle of having a low-trail fork built for a Trek 610 by a local builder. It's taking quite a while - design coordination, shortage of acetylene, the builder's need to work and manage his LBS setting up for the spring/summer season, and more design coordination. My reason is to get better handling with a front bag load; the change may or may not transform my 1984 Trek 610, a decent bike, into a poor-man's Alex Singer (my guess is, not quite so much). I tried to get my fork re-raked, but that was not possible. The new fork will have a tight low bend like your Bianchi, but 6.5 cm offset, compared to the OEM 5.2 cm on my Trek. I expect trail around 40 mm with the new fork. The target plan is to mimic the geo of the Boxdog Pelican.
We're actually talking about me picking up my fork and bike next week - I'll let cha'all know how it works.
Can you measure the offset of your Bianchi's fork? My uncalibrated eyeball of your photo does not cry out "Low Trail!"
Last edited by Road Fan; 07-12-11 at 04:57 AM.
Thank you both for the clarification. I appreciate it.
Whoops, mixed up "trail" and "offset."
To answer your questions:
1) No, you can't make the RB-1 ride exactly like the Bianchi just by changing the fork.
The geometry of these two bikes aren't particularly close; it's just that they both use traditional straight top tubes. The RB-1 is a race bike, the Bianchi is a rando bike. Even from the photos (and confirmed from specs) I can see that the Bianchi has a longer chainstay, a slacker HT angle, a fork with a lot of offset. The RB-1 also has more BB drop, and the tubing is probably different as well.
If you use a fork with more offset, in some respects it will be more stable -- the wheelbase will be a little longer and you'll have less trail.
However, numerous other critical aspects won't change: The rear wheel will still be closer to the pedals on the RB-1, the rear triangle on the RB-1 is still smaller and therefore stiffer, the RB-1 has a slightly lower center of gravity. If the tubes are different, this will affect the frame's stiffness and ride quality.
Also, you'll be reducing wheel flop, which can degrade handling at slow or moderate speeds. So it will be more stable in some conditions, but not others.
2) Forks don't independently have "low trail," they have "offset." Trail is calculated with both offset and HT angle.
The stock RB-1 has 45mm of offset, and forks up to 55mm should be available off the shelf. However, it's entirely plausible that the new fork already has 55mm of offset, it's impossible to tell from a photo.
As per Road Fan, if you want more than 55mm of offset you're looking at a custom job. What he doesn't tell you is that given the same HT angle, more offset reduces the wheel flop. (AFAIK most fork designs avoid going over 55mm of offset to keep the wheel flop in check.)
Nor do all rando bikes use forks with high offset. For example, the 58cm Masi Randonneur (http://www.masibikes.com/steel/randonneur/) has a 73º HT angle and 43mm of offset. It uses a longer chainstay to get a longer wheelbase, which increases stability and comfort.
As such, there is no such thing as a "rando fork." You can get forks with varying offset, you can get forks with and without eyelets, you can get forks that are stiff or compliant, but there's too much variety in rando frames for there to be a rando-specific fork.
You could try a different fork; it's a bit of work but it's not going to break the frame, and it's a reversible change.
That said, it just doesn't make sense. It's like putting a hitch on a Camaro. The RB-1 is reputed to be an excellent road bike and will most likely offer an excellent ride for 60-100 miles, while altering the geometry will turn it into a mediocre rando bike. I don't see that it's worth the time, effort and resources.
Thanks. Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?
There is no such thing as a "rando style" fork, because "rando style" encompasses everything from the latest carbon fiber wonderbike, to a Rene Herse bike from the 50's, to a Surly LHT, to a unicycle, to ...
If what you mean is a steel fork with a given amount of rake/offset, or equivalently, with a specific amount of trail, given tire size and head tube angle, then there are manufacturers that can do that. I had Waterford build me a 64mm rake fork for my Gunnar Sport. They used an A.Homer Hilsen fork as the base design. With a 650Bx38 tire, the bike has 37mm of trail and 10.7mm of wheel flop; it handles perfectly when it has my normal rando front-end load in the largest of the Gilles Berthoud bags. It does have a little shimmy when ridden no-hands and loaded with a 400Km's worth of food at the start of the ride, but this improves through the day as I eat the food.
Another source of forks with generous offset is some of the older Trek models up until 1984. My '84 Trek 614 has 52mm of rake and a head angle of 73, so its front-end geometry is almost identical to the current Velo Orange Randonneur, which has 53mm of rake. With a 650Bx38 tire, trail is 46.5 and flop is 13.
So what's the trail on that Bianchi?
One pretty surprising result when I consulted with my builder on the new high-offset fork, is that a much longer brake would be required if i didn't want to go with cantilevers. The bike is a 1984 Trek 610 with the 52 mm fork, possibly the same as the one thebulls is talking about. A number of years ago I had the original fork de-raked (yes, I added trail) to improve the bike's stability. I wanted it to feel more like a race bike. It ended up with trail around 59 mm with 28 mm 700c, and the original brakes fit just right. When I wanted to try low trail I first added a front rack and bag to that bike and went out for some test rides. It was not to hard to control with one hand at speeds above 16 mph, needed two hands from around 9 to 14, and needed good attention at lower speeds. This was with about 12# in the front bag.
BTW, my Mondonico makes a much better racy bike.
My next trial was on my Woodrup, which had a 5.5 cm offset resulting in about 48 mm trail with 700x32 Paselas. With the same load setup on the front and the Paselas it was much easier to ride at any speed, but difficult one-handed and no-handed. Nonetheless I did four metrics on it last summer. Frame has been sold.
Questing less trail, I found a local builder to build me a 6.5 cm fork for the Trek, maintaining a level frame. The long blades of this fork require either Cantis or Mafacs, and I am going with the Mafac brakes. Needless to say, it will have endless fender clearance. This bike will not be soft and cushy in the front, since the great fork length necessitated use of fairly stout Dediaccai fork blades, not the cute slim New Continental ovals of the 610 Trek. We'll see how it goes. The bike will end up with geometry very similar to a Boxdog Pelican, and with luck it will handle about as well.
RFC, your new fork may end up forcing some unforeseen changes.


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