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North Allegheny places six on all-state team
Whether it was on the field or on the all-state team, the North Allegheny football team was dominant.
North Allegheny finished 16-0 this season and placed a half dozen players on the Pennsylvania Sports Writers All-State Football team that was released today. On top of that, North Allegheny quarterback Mack Leftwich (pictured) was named the Class AAAA Player of the Year.
Leftwich threw for more than 3,000 yards this season and had more than 7,000 yards offense in only two seasons at North Allegheny. He will play next season at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).Besides Leftwich, the other five North Allegheny players to make all-state were offensive lineman Pat Kugler, receiver Gregg Garrity, tight end Zach Lyon, defensive lineman Jeremy Gonzales and defensive back Brendan Coniker.
The other five players from the WPIAL to make the Class AAAA team were Gateway quarterback Thomas Woodson, Woodland Hills defensive lineman Jawan Turner, Woodland Hills linebacker Alex Beasley, McKeesport linebacker Hodari Christian and Gateway defensive back Montae Nicholson.Nicholson is the only junior from the WPIAL to make the AAAA team.
The Class AAA all-state team had eight players from the WPIAL, including two from Montour – offensive lineman Matt Barone and "athlete" Devin Wilson. Wilson played receiver and running back for Montour and set a WPIAL record for career receptions.
The other WPIAL players on the Class AAA team were Central Valley receiver Robert Foster, West Allegheny offensive lineman Jordan Diven, Belle Vernon offensive lineman Dorian Johnson, West Mifflin "athlete" Derrick Fulmore and Franklin Regional linebacker Carter Henderson. Fulmore played quarterback for West Mifflin.
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U.S. Chamber Unites Trump and Anti-Trump Republicans Alike in Protecting Corporate Power
Although the Republican establishment may not all be on board with Donald Trump yet, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce appears to be the force to unite Trump and "not-yet Trump" Republicans alike behind a common core agenda: protecting their corporate power.
The U.S. Chamber's "Save the Senate" campaign aims to protect Republican Senate incumbents who champion the Right's pro-corporate, big oil & gas, Wall Street, and Big Tobacco agenda, all at the expense of working families and small businesses.
Check out the Bridge Project's report about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Backing Corporate Greed.Read more after the jump.

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We woke up to torrential rain this morning, the kind that brings me back to typhoon season in the Philippines. The strong winds brought our already stressed apple tree into submission–fruits fell with every blow and leaves got strewn all over. I'm trying not to think about the aftermath cleanup because we need this water. […]
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March has whizzed by. April is beginning to blur . It has been a very busy springtime. As I've mentioned earlier, we're organizing Bake For The Quake, an event where bakers, collaborative sponsors, and the supportive Vancouver community come together to raise funds for Japan. There's no question it's almost like a second job to […]
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Finding California Meyer lemons in Vancouver in the dead of winter calls for a celebration: the kind that involves a spatula dancing around the pot to make curd. This silky smooth concoction is something I could eat by the spoonful, like Nutella. If one can resist eating the bowl clean, I would highly recommend that you lay it on a bed of shortbread and bake into luscious zesty and buttery bites. The curd can be made ahead and stored in the refrigerator or freezer. And you can use regular lemons that are readily available.
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I've been participating in, and hosting, snail mail exchanges online since 2001. Last December, we had the Secret Santa Foodie, where everybody got together to spread some holiday cheer. I 'met' a lot of new people, including Adrienne Mitra, who owns a travel agency with her husband. What's so interesting is that they offer fully-customized […]
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How to Build a Capacitor
A capacitor is an elementary electronic component that stores electrical charge, somewhat like a battery. Capacitors are versatile, and are used in such vital electronic circuits as radio tuners and signal generators.
A capacitor is very simple. It consists of a positive and negative terminal close together, separated by an insulator. One of the simplest capacitors is the saltwater capacitor, which is an electrolytic capacitor. The instructions for building on of these devices are enumerated below.
1Fill a non-metallic vessel (such as a paper cup, or a plastic bottle) with warm saltwater. Use warm water to dissolve the salt.
2Wrap the outside of the vessel with aluminum foil, or tin foil.
3Place a metal object (such as a knife, a nail, etc) in the saltwater. The foil is one terminal, and the water/metal object combination is the other. Do not allow the water or the metal object to touch the foil or spill over the side. This will short the capacitor and make it impossible to charge.
- Later you can use a voltmeter to verify if the capacitor can hold a charge.
4Charge it up, by applying the voltage from an ordinary household battery, to both terminals. After a few seconds disconnect the battery and connect the voltmeter to the terminals of the capacitor. Any reading (mV-V) will indicate a charge.
5Congratulations, you have a working capacitor, capable of holding an electric charge!
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- You can charge it up with a battery, or with static electricity. You cannot charge a capacitor with an alternating current, only with a direct current.
- Capacitors are very dangerous. Do not touch one after it has been charged by a power source, because it will shock you.
Things You'll Need
- Warm water
- Salt
- Non-metallic vessel (paper cup or plastic bottle)
- Aluminum or tin foil
- Metal object (knife or nail)
- Volt-ohm meter (optional)
- Battery
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just some pics of me and my friend when we didnt kno many tricks....
just some pics of me and my friend when we didnt kno many tricks....
these are joey...
and out of curiousity does anyone like guns n roses?
favriote song? if u do
guns n roses is the best, ive got appetite for destruction and there new greatest hits, i especially like live and let die, then sweet child of mine, then come welcome to the jungle. there all awesome even november rain, but y do u ask
These Darn Training Wheels
i should post some pics of me and myfriends too, i got a digital camera so ya we got some stuff to show off
These Darn Training Wheels
Please tell me you aren't still running your handlebars Chicago style? (forward)
Handlebars should be between straight up and down to the angle that your forks are at which is typically about 75 degrees or so (less actually). So, somewhere in there find a comfortable position and your tricks will come much easier.
La-de-dah - nice pics, looks like you guys are having fun.
Lots of G-N-R stuff is good, some of it is just to blech for my liking, but they managed a lot more likeable songs for me than... let's say, Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
I don't really like any bands, or dislike any bands... I like music and songs, one by one.
pink floyd and led zeppelin for me.
my friend and I are planning on making a video of me doing small yet dramitic wheelies, yes wheelies. little pop wheelies. im gonna try to make the first half a satire of flatlanding, then im gonna get serious and do some tricks for the camera. its gonna be funny and cool.
imagine hard metal playing, me in slow motion rolling, cuts to a picture of my determined face, pans out and i pop a small wheelie. b e a utiful
yeah i like G-N-R pretty much all of there songs are good. yeah i really want to make a video of me breakin out some sweet flatland moves. so ill problly post a thread in the future.
i cant wait tell tommorrow......... i get better looking everyday.
o ya and Haro Rider what bike are you usin in that pick?
i cant wait tell tommorrow......... i get better looking everyday.
F3 and the handlebars where pushed out from bunny hops...i fixed it right away
im going to post a bar hop on here later this envening
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In August 2014, twenty students from the Interlochen Arts Academy Theatre Department traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland to participate in an opportunity of a lifetime: performing at the Fringe Festival - the largest arts festival in the world.
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You might think that actors at Interlochen spend all their time in performance or rehearsal, but they also spend hours each day in the classroom where they learn skills and techniques from seasoned professionals.
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The theatre arts major at Interlochen Arts Academy is designed for young artists who are serious about their craft. Through Stanislavsky-based performance training, students explore the full potential of their own unique resources.
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Node is very nice to create event-driven applications. During this meetup, we can try to create a Node.js app. Maybe handle twitter events or see if we can create a nice... Learn more
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Oklahoma Cowman magazine editor dies
A.J. Smith Jr., the 24-year editor of the Oklahoma Cowman magazine, knew of and was known by thousands of cattle producers in Oklahoma as well as other states. Saturday, Smith suffered an aneurysm during the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association state convention in Midwest City and died. He was 68. Feb. 1, 1985, Smith was named editor of the Oklahoma Cowman magazine, the official publication of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association. He wrote 295 editorials and countless feature stories, took thousands of pictures, planned numerous ranch tours, and traveled the country providing ring service at purebred and commercial cattle sales. Smith was recognized with numerous honors and awards for his efforts and contributions to the nation's cattle industry. He received the OSU Animal Science Recognition Award, Beefmaster Appreciation Award, OSU Animal Science Graduate of Distinction Award, Oklahoma Hereford Association Heritage Award, Oklahoma Youth Expo Show Honoree Award and Honorary Cattlewoman of the Year Award. He also was inducted into the Oklahoma Angus Hall of Fame and served as president of the Southwest American Livestock Foundation. He is survived by his wife, Debra; his son, Aaron Smith, and daughter-in-law Staci Smith; daughter Christel and son-in-law David Birk; and daughter Jessi and son-in-law Mike Barnett, all of Tuttle. A memorial service is scheduled at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Express Ranch Show and Sale Barn at 2202 N 11 in Yukon. Memorial donations may be made to the "A.J. Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund" to benefit his grandchildren. Donations may be made payable to "Smith Fund" and mailed to the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, 2500 Exchange Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73108.
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Village Cafe?? Haha, it's just a shack: "VietHai: The Art of Smoking a Dieu Cay" Top 5 Page for this destination Ha Long Restaurant Tip by bpacker
Ha Long Restaurants: 25 reviews and 27 photos
While the younger counterparts smoke Camels, many older Vietnamese smokers use a DIEU CAY (water-pipe). It looks like a minature shisha and in northern Vietnam, loose tobacco and the use of communal water pipe are commonly offered free of charge to patrons of restaurants, noodle stands, and weary travellers...
Favorite Dish: After lunch in the small fishing village of VietHai ( Catba National Park ) , the guys were invited for a smoke on the Dieu Cay. Fascinating stuff, first our guide lit some tobacco with the help of a little flint and instructed the smoker to suck hard. As the smoker inhaled, the pot bubbled merrily.
It was powerful stuff!
After just one puff, our German friend's eyes just glazed over. As for my husband, he choked and spluttered. This was way too powerful for a social smoker! And as for me.. Rats, I wasn't included..click here... to find out why...
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Vermont town says house pigs must goJanuary 07,2013ESSEX A Vermont woman considers her pigs to be pets, but town officials where she lives say theyre farm animals and have no business living in a residential neighborhood.
The Essex zoning board on Thursday gave Florence Gruber and Alan Tsefrekas until Jan. 22 to remove an estimated 30 to 40 miniature potbellied pigs from their home in the Pinewood Manor neighborhood.
Gruber told the board her pigs use litter boxes and that the adult animals weigh in at 50 to 100 pounds. Shes given them names like Larry, Nadia, Olive and Snow White Sleepy Girl.
But a town official said Gruber was violating town regulations by keeping pigs in a residential area, and neighbors who have complained about the pigs and the condition of the property told board members the pigs must go.
You have neighbors; thats the issue, resident Marie Sadler said. Its about consideration for people in the neighborhood.
Gruber last month told the Burlington Free Press that she had lost count of how many pigs she had at least 30, maybe 40.
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Less expensive colleges to the left, new yeshivas on the right: Yeshiva University seeks a perch for itself as Joel nears 10th year.
Each is a beit midrash — bookshelves lined with the same shiny spines — but the similarity ends there. The hall of study at Stern, the women's college of the Orthodox Yeshiva University, is an elegant, airy place to pore over books. The beit midrash at secular Queens College is very different: a cramped closet, smelling of cooking oil, in which boxes of used holiday decorations bump up against the folding tables that serve as desks.
Ilana Barta and Stern College would seem to be bashert, made for each other. She is a pre-med student also majoring in Spanish and Hebrew, and an alumna of Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck and Migdal Oz, a women's seminary, in Israel. Stern offered Barta first one scholarship and then another, bigger one.
Yet Barta chose Queens College.
"At Stern, there are always people in the beit midrash," she said. "The beit midrash here is just a side room. It's a very small room. It's not lively."
Why did she — and many like her — turn Stern down?
It wasn't just the economy.
Between 2008 and 2011, undergraduate enrollment at Stern and Yeshiva College, YU's men's school, was down 8 percent, to 2,853 students, according to YU's own numbers. The decline is significant in part because YU is struggling to make ends meet.
Back in 2008, it cut $30 million from its budget to offset anticipated losses from a $110 million investment in a vehicle that was itself invested with Ponzi scheme architect Bernard Madoff, who before the scandal broke chaired YU's business school. In the hope that the economy would rebound, YU's board let the university run deficits, but has now decided it must balance the books, which means $25 million more in cuts, or 12 percent of the budget excluding its Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Undergraduate tuition is not a major source of YU's revenue, but the school has set itself a goal of enrolling at least 120 more students by 2013.
Such a modest target contrasts poignantly with President Richard Joel's grand ambitions for the colleges almost 10 years ago, when he entered office. At his 2003 investiture ceremony, he told the overflow crowd of 2,000 that he wanted Stern and Yeshiva to compete with the Ivy League. After three years on the job, he started to dream that the colleges could grow, by a thousand students. But they have shrunk instead.
The recession didn't help, but Orthodox students' taste in higher education is also changing. YU tries to hug the middle, to be a kind of Harvard on the Heights that integrates halachic rabbinic authority into the classic American undergraduate experience of a liberal arts education on a leafy campus.
"There's no place that can offer what this place can offer," Joel said with characteristic enthusiasm during one of two interviews in his spacious corner office. "If you're in our honors program, you're with students of the same caliber or better than the Ivy League. You're writing a thesis, and you're at YU and you're growing as a Jew."
Still, as any self-styled moderate can attest, sitting in the center can be scary. Brand-name secular universities are encroaching on YU's territory from the left; more traditional yeshiva options from the right.
"People who walk in the middle get hit by the traffic going both directions," said Samuel Heilman, a Queens College sociologist and the author of the 2006 book "Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy." "For those who want a yeshiva, the university detracts from that, and for those who want a university, the yeshiva detracts."
The very circumstances behind Joel's arrival were an indication of how hard the job of leading from the center would be. His hiring was the product of a bitter, protracted search at the end of which the university acknowledged that its ideal candidate — a Torah scholar with secular academic credentials who was also a dynamic fundraiser and competent administrator — just didn't exist.
The YU when Joel arrived emphasized religious over secular studies, a reflection of American Orthodoxy's increasingly traditional bent since the 1970s. Indeed, to protest the first election of a layman as president, several leading rabbis at the university's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, or RIETS, called for prayer and a public fast. In their eyes, Joel's appointment was particularly provocative because as the top executive of Hillel, the Jewish campus organization, he had championed "multicultural Judaism."
When Joel took over at YU, the undergraduate colleges were relying heavily on adjunct faculty, he said. There were gaping holes in the course offerings. Students earned their degree by cobbling together as few as five semesters on campus with credit from yeshiva study in Israel.
Yeshiva College had become "a first-class yeshiva with a few college courses attached to it," wrote Steven Bayme, an alum who has also taught there, in "My Yeshiva College," an anthology published by the school in 2006.
But there was also another reason to upgrade the college's secular offerings: bodies. Lander College for Men in Queens had emerged in 2000 to outflank YU on the right and began poaching students and faculty immediately. By 2006, Rabbi Hershel Schachter, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva's rabbinical school, was noting to a campus newspaper that students were choosing Lander College over YU to avoid academic exposure to the Christian Bible.
Joel's decision to cultivate the colleges' more liberal applicant pool — the students who would consider both YU and secular colleges — was also a strategic one.
"Richard Joel was concerned that we have quality secular education so that Yeshiva could compete for those students and parents who want their sons and daughters to get the best possible secular education," said Rabbi Yosef Blau, YU's senior maschgiach ruchani, or spiritual adviser.
'Reinventing' Yeshiva
The instinct to boost enrollment by offering more secular courses is common in the world of religious higher education, said Jim Hearn, associate director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia.
"Do you want to continue to be distinctive, or do you want to some degree to begin secularizing to attract different markets? How can you preserve the core of the institution while adapting to changing circumstances?" Hearn said.
Often, he said, schools keep their undergraduate programs traditional while offering secular professional programs, such as executive business degrees, to a broader market. In the Touro College system, of which Lander College is a part, about 12,000 of its 19,000 students are enrolled in its graduate and professional programs, which include one of the country's largest medical schools. While YU's numbers were slipping, enrollment at the Touro colleges competing with YU rose by 6 percent, said Touro College President Dr. Alan Kadish.
Joel diverged slightly from this model, although he also identified graduate schools and academic centers as a means of raising revenue and YU's profile. An executive MBA program is in the works, for example. And Joel created the Center for the Jewish Future, whose mission is to spread YU's values throughout and beyond the Orthodox world. But Joel did not declare the colleges sacrosanct. Instead, he made them a centerpiece of his project, speaking frequently of his desire to "re-invent" and "re-imagine" them.
He created 64 new tenure-track faculty positions and initiated new master's degrees, like economics, both to enhance existing departments and to entice undergraduates with joint BA/MA programs. He "re-invented" the undergraduate Syms School of Business, which is trying to secure accreditation and is starting an honors program. He cut the ribbon on a luminous new beit midrash on the main Washington Heights campus and made other aesthetic improvements, like turning the university's section of 185th Street into a pedestrian mall.
"I'm a spender," said Joel, who saw a generously funded program of improvements and innovations as necessary to fulfill his expansive vision for the school.
By 2006, he had set a goal of Yeshiva and Stern enrolling 4,000 students, up from about 3,000.
And some students did respond to Joel's initiatives. Enrollment at YU from some of its longstanding feeder schools rose as educators there applauded the new focus on secular academics and campus life.
Naty Katz, executive director of the Maimonides School in Brookline, Mass., said, "There's no place else where you can have a one-on-one relationship with your rebbe and with your chemistry teacher." More Maimonides graduates have chosen YU in the last four years than previously, he said.
Students themselves stuck around longer, in part because the university discontinued a system that had allowed them to test out of certain courses through placement exams. In 2004, 32 percent of undergraduates graduated after only five semesters on campus; by 2011, only 12 percent did so, spokesman Mayer Fertig said.
But Joel needs more students to come and to stay if he is to reverse the dip in enrollment and see YU grow as he'd dreamed. He says he's "optimistic" about future enrollment based on year-over-year increases in the school's mid-year registration of students from Israel.
Economic Priorities
Of course, the economy remains a challenge. Ilana Barta, the Queens College sophomore, was loath to take on the cost of YU with the expense of medical school ahead of her. For New York State residents, it cost $23,000 to attend and live at Queens College in the 2011-2012 academic year; YU costs more than double that.
Financial constraints have driven even legacy students to YU's competitors.
"I always thought of course I would go to YU," said Queens College sophomore Eli Weinstein, who also learns at the Madreigas HaAdam yeshiva in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Joel calls Queens College his most serious competition, because students there can do yeshiva study in the morning and return to campus for class in the afternoon, at a significant savings over YU.
Slumped in a chair in the middle of the Queens campus Hillel, tzitzit dangling toward the floor, Weinstein looked a little depressed. "It's like I was born to go there," he said of YU. "My father went there. And then I realized I just couldn't do it."
YU is at a disadvantage in a soft economy because by the time its students enter those hallowed halls, many of their parents have already paid the equivalent of a college education in the form of day school tuition.
But the economy can't be the whole story because most of YU's peers are not struggling in the same way. In YU's category of 33 private research universities, only two others — Brandeis and Carnegie Mellon — had fewer applications in 2010 than in 2007, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. YU also accepted a higher percentage of its applicants in 2010 than in 2007: 72 percent, compared with 69 percent.
What's more, 14 other schools in YU's peer group — including Columbia, 60 blocks south of YU — saw applications increase by about 30 percent, according to NCES data. A weak economy makes those schools seem even more desirable, and YU isn't perceived as their competitor yet, said Hearn of the Institute of Higher Education. YU costs, however, only slightly less to attend.
"I really think the problem with YU today is the money," Weinstein said. "It's like they [YU officials] want to be Harvard or Yale, but they're not even close."
Further to the right on the Orthodox spectrum, a growing number of students are choosing the Lander Colleges. A year of study and housing at Lander College for Women costs about $23,000, but most students do not live in the dorms and pay only $16,000 for tuition and fees.
"There was a financial consideration, but their recruitment office was phenomenal," said Aliza Ganchrow, a Lander freshman majoring in English. She was also accepted to Stern's honors program and to University of California Los Angeles. "They [Lander officials] decided they wanted me, and they made the program sound so appealing."
Better recruiting is Joel's answer to declining enrollment. Back in June, he tasked Rabbi Kenneth Brander, head of the Center for the Jewish Future, with a special assignment: to "re-invent recruitment strategies," as Joel put it to the Stern College student newspaper, The Observer, in an October interview. The school is inviting guidance counselors to visit. And Joel says he himself has become more involved, e-mailing parents and wooing students attending Israeli yeshivas during their post-high school gap year.
"Every student has to matter," Joel said. "It has to be that personal. It's not just about 'Happy to meet you, here's my card, call me if you have questions.' We have to be more aggressive than that."
YU's financial troubles will make Brander's difficult job harder.
The university is running the largest cash flow deficits of any school evaluated by the rating agency Moody's, which said in June that YU's bonds had become a riskier investment. It doesn't generate enough out of its regular sources of revenue, like tuition, to pay its everyday costs, like professor salaries.
The school has already made cuts, slashing $30 million from its budget in 2008. This year's further cuts, including a number of adjunct professor slots, are hardly a selling point for students. They mean larger class sizes — from an average of about 20 to up to 40 — and fewer course offerings.
The full professorships Joel created are safe, but the faculty is feeling the budget crunch nonetheless.
"Things aren't free and easy," said James Kahn, the chair of the economics department, who said that in order to pay competitive salaries, budget constraints might prompt him to consider hiring a less expensive, less experienced professor.
Under these circumstances, the school can't offer any more money for financial aid. Parents and guidance counselors share a perception that since the recession, aid for non-honors students has dropped off sharply. YU spokesman Mayer Fertig denies this. The honors program requires a combined SAT score of 1400.
It's true that 78 percent of Yeshiva and Stern students received scholarships in the 2009-2010 academic year, according to the most recent data available. That's a higher percentage than at the research universities considered YU's peers by the NCES, but the amount of grant aid was also lower on average at YU. For the average undergraduate scholarship recipient, YU ends up costing about as much as an Ivy. YU is cheaper, and it gives grants to more students, but it gives them less.
"YU looks like a bloated institution to me, with the number of faculty they have, and the amount of programs they fund," said one mother who asked to be quoted anonymously because her son is deciding between Yeshiva and Lander College for Men. "And then they say to an average middle-class kid, it's $46,000, but maybe we'll make it $40,000."
The power of the rabbinical school rabbis to intervene in student intellectual and extracurricular life could also undermine efforts to compete with secular colleges. Rabbi Schachter, who objected to the study of the Christian Bible, also told The Commentator he sees the work of Geoffrey Chaucer as expendable and that 50 percent of an art history course is probably 'avodah zara and gilui arayot' (idolatry ad licentiousness)."
"Sometimes people feel a little stifled here," said Chesky Kopel, a senior who chose Yeshiva College in large part because he wants to serve the Modern Orthodox community. "It's clear that the roshei yeshiva" [heads of the rabbinical school] have a significant say in what happens on campus."
Kopel cited the rabbis' influence in the retraction of an invitation to Rabbi Ethan Tucker, head of the yeshiva at the egalitarian Mechon Hadar, to speak at YU. Senior Simi Lampert, co-editor of one of the student newspapers, said the same about the furor that greeted publication of a first-person essay about a sexual encounter between a Stern and a Yeshiva College student.
Some YU students are troubled by this level of rabbinic involvement, although most understand that the process of grappling with the demands of Torah is an essential aspect of both their YU education and Jewish identity.
"YU always had this impossible goal of being a yeshiva and a university," said Ben Kadish, a senior. "Other places totally ignore this challenge. I hope YU continues to attempt to do [this] even though it is not completely succeeding. We get made fun of by secular colleges for not being a good university, and by other rabbinical schools for not being hard-line enough."
Under Joel, YU has again risen to its mission of nourishing a Judaism that embraces the work, sometimes joyful, often arduous, of integrating Orthodoxy and modernity. The question — complicated by an uncertain economy — is whether his more expensive aspirations will serve that mission in the face of Orthodoxy's ongoing fragmentation. With his ambitious upgrades, Joel is reaching out to a particular segment of the YU community. Whether their response will validate his gesture remains to be seen.
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I currently teach at Yeshiva College and I have to respond to at least one of the major overstatements in this article. The idea that "rabbinic oversight" somehow constrains the course offerings of the college or its administrative decisions is a paranoid delusion propagated by a small anti-religious wing of faculty and students. The college is completely independent of any such oversight and I know of no cases in which a professor was required to edit or revoke a course because of religious concerns. A bunch of Rabbis fasting over the Joel hiring and the Beacon media non-event are not evidence that a problem of religious oversight exists. The former is if anything an expression of powerless resignation and the latter was created when the paper published a "scandalous" article and then alerted the press that there would be an "uproar". I certainly hope that potential YU students are not deterred by this baseless and unsupported claim. Also, why is a canned remark from Samuel Heilman considered de rigueur in every article about YU? He knows nothing about the place but will happily turn over his magic 8-ball if asked, to reveal a pithy non-sequitur. My suggestion for the overall shoddy analysis of this author is that s/he could have benefited from a more rigorous higher education. I've heard YU has some spots open.
Statistics like admissions percentages can't be meaningfully compared between YU and other universities. YU's applicant pool is largely limited to Jewish day schools, and in any case is highly non-representative. This is not to say that there is no enrollment problem, but the percentages exaggerate the issue.
I am a scientist, and have spent my entire career on the faculties of major research universities. Several of the premises of this article are absurd.
1. Lander College is part of the Touro University system, a vast conglomerate of schools with no unifying mission. Touro has traditionally been considered a bottom-feeding outlet for mass-produced diplomas, and not a serious, scholarship-oriented institution. Touro has several medical schools, but most of them award the DO rather than the MD degree, and you will search hard before you find any research output from Touro faculty. The rise of Lander College as a destination for Orthodox students is the result of the dumbing-down of the Orthodox community, particularly at the right end of the religious spectrum, and the renewed tendency within that community to regard college as a trade school where one earns a piece of paper which leads to a job. It is an alternative to using credits earned in Israel, in combination with some courses at Thomas Edison State College, to graduate in 3 years. Academic excellence is not the goal of a Touro education.
2. Yeshiva College and Stern College are not, and never have been, peers of Columbia, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon or most of the other schools which the article cites as members of the same stratum of the American academic world. While it is true that Yeshiva University has well-respected medical, law and graduate schools, the average undergraduate is completely unaffected by the intellectual atmosphere of those schools. Pace Richard Joel, nobody with any understanding of academia will choose YU over Yale or Harvard for intellectual reasons. The strength of the institution is in Torah studies, and that is what attracts students who would otherwise be drawn elsewhere.
I strongly suspect that the dumbed-down, diploma-oriented thinking which has regrettably become such a feature of right-wing Orthodox thinking is a significant reason for the decline in YU enrollment. Only when it becomes clear that competition for jobs today puts a premium on serious study will the situation reverse.
Forgetting the cost issue, I don't think YU realizes how much it has alienated bright students over the past decade with its mixture of a pervasive nanny-administration culture and lack of a clear vision for the yeshiva or the college. If YU wanted to pursue academic excellence all it had to do was look at the model of the good liberal arts colleges. Instead it decided to be a convenient no-hassle option for those pursuing professional degrees, most of the departments ran with only a handful of permanent faculty, and some were basically shells of departments. And this was all happening when the money was rolling in. I'm glad that Richard Joel has begun to realize that this was a terrible way to run a college but it may be too little.
I give Richard Joel a lot of credit for bringing a number of innovations to YU. It is clear from your interesting article that President Joel has to invest in many centers in order to attract a variety of students. Lander and Queens College can offer a la carte alternatives where students can choose the college fit and yeshiva fit which make sense to them. YU's smorgasbord of "Ivy League style" secular studies and a Judaic studies program taught by rebbeim leaning to the right seems like a disconnect. The institution seems to be moving in the opposite direction at the same time. I can imagine any number of challenges for students to integrate their Torah and Mada worlds. I always thought YU should try to develop a special Shabbat community for its students by encouraging its faculty to live on or right off campus. How many Ivy League students have the opportunity to develop close personal bonds with their professors?
The article's main assertion is absurd. The fact that YU is in the middle (of modern Orthodoxy) gives it a significant recruitment advantage over rivals perched on its left and right flanks.
The decline in enrollment is the result of several factors. As mentioned in the article, the weak economy is definitely a major one. The vicissitudes in student attitudes toward non-elite universities is another. Finally, discomfort with large class sizes - particularly in popular shiurim - and the concomitant lack of personal relationships with rebbeim and instructors has also taken its toll.
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The challenge YU faces is that the institution as a whole might be smack in the middle of the Orthodox spectrum, but when it comes to individual faculty/rabbis, this is true of only a small percentage. YU maintains its middle-of-the-road status by having a right-leaning rabbinic staff, and a left-leaning secular faculty. It is constantly under attack due to either one of those extremes.
While I commend Joel for striving to straddle this line over the years, and there are definitely many successes to be noted, this reality can lead to a very frustrating experience for genuinely moderate students looking for the best of both Torah and general knowledge. Optimizing the undergraduate experience at YU will continue to be a struggle, but I encourage the University to free student programs from Rabbinic oversight and develop a true liberal arts campus.
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You clearly don't appreciate what the center is if you think that YU is so diverse. Even the most right elements of YU are still to the left of most 'Yeshivas'. The Roshi Yeshiva are in touch with the world and integrate into general society. That doesn't mean absorbing all the norms from secular campus which have reached a morally corrupt campus life.
Regarding the extreme left of YU, the faculty doesn't even come close to that which you will find once you exit the YU campus. Liberalism, Egalitarianism, Sheilaism of the most extreme verity is found throughout campuses around the country. The great melting pot of secular university campuses has lead to terrible secularization of young adults.
Finding a balance is done very well at YU by allowing people to find their place without falling off to either extreme. If you open YU up to non-rabbinic supervision then you will be left with another secular campus that happens to have a room for Judaic studies. If you don't allow the left to voice their opinion then YU becomes just another Yeshiva. In our Yeshiva University, we require both. We learn from both, develop from both and ultimately lead from both worlds. We require both sides to enrich us as people and as Jews.


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Board of Elections says early voting is up by nearly double in the county since 2010. 850 people filed to vote early four years ago compared to nearly 1,500 this year. Last year, 1,000 voters filed early in Greene County.
James Daveport is running for the county commissioners seat in the first district and says he welcomes the large turnout.
It's the first year where county commissioners can only file in the district in which they live, but voters there can vote for one candidate in each of the five districts.


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Posted September 18, 2001 and updated on May 8, 2014
Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles
The most recent home video release of this movie is September 18, 2001. Here are some details…
Home Video Notes: Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles releases to home video (DVD) on September 18, 2001.
Related home video titles:
This movie is a sequel to Crocodile Dundee. For other video picks about visiting foreigners, check out Cool Runnings, the story of a Jamaican bobsled team that heads for Calgary, Alberta, Canada or the movie, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial(now that's a guy who really is from out of town!).


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Here's a pretty straightforward question that I raised in this thread, but probably deserves its own discussion.
As detailed in other threads, I'm really tall and my bike frame isn't big enough, but I plan to hold off buying a new one for awhile. So in the meantime, I'm using an uber-size Nitto Technomic stem - 130mm extension and 225mm quill. The quill is inserted into the steerer tube about 5mm beyond the minimum insertion mark, so we're okay on that front. Here's a picture:
The potential problem comes with the amount of torque that is exerted on the steerer tube with a handlebar that is so far above and forward from the steerer tube, specifically when standing and sprinting.
My question: is it possible to damage the steerer tube of a threaded steel fork by torquing on the bars when standing out of the saddle, while using such a long quill?
Also, is there any danger to the headset? If so, would it help (the headset and fork) if I replaced the aluminum locknut from the Shimano LX threaded headset with a steel locknot?
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I want to change out the belts in the corrolla. I see three belts and I believe that there are three locations where I would need to release tension on the belts to remove them and then replace. Is this correct and can you confirm the locations of the tension points. Thanks.
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|Número de publicación
|Tipo de publicación
|Número de solicitud
|Fecha de publicación
|23 Ago 1977
|Fecha de presentación
|31 Dic 1975
|Fecha de prioridad
|31 Dic 1975
|Número de publicación
|Tom P. Airhart
|Cesionario original
|Skyline Industries, Inc.
|Exportar cita
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Citas de patentes (8), Otras citas (1), Citada por (36), Clasificaciones (8)
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet
The present invention relates to fishing rods constructed of graphite fiber-reinforced resins.
In the production of a conventional fiber-reinforced fishing rod, a tapered steel mandrel is wrapped with fibers at an angle to the axis of the mandrel, typically a single layer providing fibers at 45° angle to the mandrel axis. These angled fibers are then surrounded by a single multi-layer sheet having its fibers parallel to the axis of the mandrel. This multi-layer sheet is dimensioned to form a single wrap around the mandrel. After curing and removal of the mandrel, the 45° angle ply runs the full length of the interior of the tapered tubular rod which is formed providing transverse reinforcement which tends to maintain the round cross-section of the rod when it is flexed. The fibers which parallel the axis of the rod are on the exterior of the rod, and they provide axial flexural strength and stiffness.
When these fishing rods contain carbon (graphite) fibers of high modulus of elasticity, there is a tendency for forces to concentrate at the exterior surface of the rod near the handle of the rod when it is flexed during casting or when a fish is being reeled in. It is desired to provide maximum flexural strength in a rod of minimum weight, and this concentration of forces near the handle tends to cause the rod to break unless it is made larger and heavier to sustain these loads. The objective of this invention is to provide a fishing rod construction using carbon fiber-reinforced resins in which increased resistance to breakage on flexing is provided at any given rod size and weight. Naturally, this is of greatest importance in fishing rods which are hand held, so such fishing rods are primarily contemplated.
In accordance with this invention a fishing rod is provided having a hollow tapered rod body of generally circular exterior cross-section which tapers from a large diameter handle end to a small diameter tip end. The rod has a hollow interior extending along the rod axis which tapers in the same direction as the exterior of the rod. The rod body is constituted by laminations of a plurality of plies of fiber reinforced resin in which the fibers in each ply are parallel to one another. The plies include at least one inner ply having its fibers oriented at an angle of at least 30°, and preferably 45°, to the axis of the rod. Overlying the inner ply is a plurality of outer plies having their fibers oriented generally parallel to the axis of the rod. The outer plies at the large diameter end of the rod have their fibers disposed at a progressively increasing angle to the axis of the rod as they approach the rod exterior due to the way in which the plies are rolled onto the tapered rod. This skewed or angled alignment of the outer ply fibers near the exterior of the large diameter end of the rod produces less axial stiffness in the outer part of the fiber ply than is present in the inner part thereof which is adjacent to the inner ply and this yields a more uniform loading across the body of the rod so as to better resist breakage when the rod is flexed during the casting motion, or when a fish is being reeled in.
The rod may be made in one piece, or in sections which fit together with a ferrule.
The invention includes the method for producing the fishing rod.
The invention will be more fully understood from the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a cross-section showing a fishing rod constructed in accordance with this invention, portions being broken away to show the fiber alignment;
FIGS. 2-4 show the method used in producing a fishing rod in accordance with this invention;
FIGS. 5-8 illustrate generally right triangular plies for various fishing rods as described herein; and
FIGS. 9-13 show the outer plies for various rods constructed of two sections.
Referring more particularly to the drawing, FIG. 1 diagrammatically shows in cross-section the overall fishing rod which is constituted by a tapered hollow rod 10 and a handle 11 which is secured to the large end of the rod in any convenient fashion.
The fishing rod also includes the typical guides which are used on such rods, but they are not shown here for the convenience of portraying the structure of the rod.
Referring more particularly to the rod 10, it is hollow as indicated at 12 and the diameter of the tubular opening increases progressively from the small diameter end 13 to the large diameter end 14. It will be evident that the hollow portion 12 reflects the shape of the mandrel used in forming the rod, the mandrel having been removed.
The rod body is constituted by a fiber laminate 15 which includes an inner ply 16 in which the fibers are at a sizable angle, at least 30° with respect to the axis of the rod. It is customary to use a single ply of angled fibers at a 45° angle to the rod axis, but several plies can be used in a heavier rod, and then it would be desirable to balance the fiber angles by having one wrap at a 45° angle in one direction, and another wrap at a 45° angle in the opposite direction.
It is desirable to maintain the angle of the inner wrap 16 by spirally winding a tapered ply with the narrow end of the tapered ply positioned at the narrow end 13 of the fishing rod, but this is not essential.
The outer wraps 17 are the result of a rolling operation to be described hereinafter, but the structural result of this rolling operation can be seen in FIG. 1. As can be seen, the fiber direction in the outer wraps 17 is generally parallel to the rod axis, but this angle changes as the wrap moves outwardly from the center of the rod beyond the inner ply 16. Thus, the first outer wrapping 18 has its fibers parallel to the rod axis, but at the handle end 14 of the rod 10, the fibers are oriented at a progressively greater angle to the axis of the rod in each successive wrap so that the greatest angle is encountered at the outermost wrap 19 and the handle end 14. The increasing fiber angle is shown in the drawing by the progressively larger number of roving which are severed in each succeeding wrap.
The rod of FIG. 1 is formed in the manner shown sequentially in FIGS. 2-4.
FIGS. 2 and 3 together show the start of the application of the outer wraps. As can be seen in FIG. 2, a tapered mandrel 20 has been spirally wound to provide an inner ply 16 with its fibers at a 45° angle to the axis of the rod. The mandrel 20 with the inner ply 16 thereon, is placed above the longitudinal edge of a generally right triangular-shaped fiber ply in which all the fibers are parallel to the said longitudinal edge. In considering the generally right triangular ply to be triangular, the shortest side is regarded as a point, the side which cuts diagonally through the fibers is the hypotenuse, while the edge that is parallel to the fibers is the long side of the triangle, noted hereinbefore as the longitudinal edge. This triangular ply is identified at 21, and the disposition of the mandrel 20 with respect to the longitudinal edge of the triangular ply 21 is shown in FIG. 3, where the mandrel atop the ply rest upon a work table 22. The rolling motion which is about to be used is shown by arrow 23. It will be manifest that the large diameter end of mandrel 14 will move across the wide end 24 of the triangular ply 21 more rapidly than any of the smaller diameter portions of the mandrel 20. As a result, the angle of the fiber of the ply 21 with respect to the axis of the rod will increase progressively with each revolution of the mandrel 20 during the rolling operation 23, and this is shown in FIG. 4.
The generally right triangular plies may be cut from a rectangular blank so as to obtain two generally triangular plies from each blank and thus economize on materials.
It will also be apparent that when the mandrel 20 is rolled across the triangular ply 21, the large diameter end of the mandrel will not track true along the side of the ply, but will instead follow an arcuate path. This provides an uneven end which can be remedied by trimming the ply either before or after the rolling operation, or it may be left untrimmed because the large diameter end of the rod will be encased in a handle.
It will be evident that fishing rods vary widely, depending upon their purpose, and the drawings include FIGS. 5-8 which show various outer plies which can be used for the production of various casting rods constructed in accordance with this invention utilizing a mandrel which is wound with the ply over a 60 inch tapered length, the mandrel being 0.257 inch in diameter at its large diameter end, and tapering uniformly to a diameter of 0.040 inch at its narrow diameter end.
FIG. 5 shows the ply used to form an extra light casting rod, FIG. 6 a light casting rod, FIG. 7 a medium casting rod, and FIG. 8 a heavy (stiff) casting rod. The last 6 inches of the heavy end of the rod blank which is formed is embedded in the handle of the fishing rod, which may be of any convenient construction.
While the invention is particularly directed to hand held fishing rods of the type which are used in casting, the same concentration of stresses which occur on casting also takes place when the fish pulls on the line, so the invention is also applicable to fly rods, as well as rods used for surf fishing. If the rod is very long, it can be made in two pieces.
Two piece rods are made using the same fabrication technique as described above. Essentially two individual rods are produced and joined by a ferrule. Patterns for the outer plies of such two piece rods are shown in FIGS. 9-13.
FIG. 9 shows a fast taper fly rod.
FIG. 10 shows a light fly rod.
FIG. 11 shows a stiff fly rod.
FIG. 12 shows a light surf rod, and FIG. 13 shows a heavy surf rod.
The two piece rods, such as fly rods, require less increase in stiffness toward the butt end than casting rods. The wrap pattern, therefore, has less taper and the resulting laminate is of more constant cross section throughout the rod length.
The ferrules which join the sections of the two piece rods may be of any type, but are preferably short sections of the same general design and fabrication as the rods, but have three layers of alternating 45° plies covered by three layers of 0°, or axial plies. The increased cross sectional strength and stiffness from the extra 45° plies serve to reinforce the enclosed rod end sections at the critical joint area. The ferrules are made on mandrels of the same general taper as the outside of the rods. Joining of the ferrule and the tip section of the rod is accomplished by inserting the tip section of the rod through the ferrule tube until it contacts near its lower, broader end. It is then bonded in place. The two piece rod is assembled by pushing the smaller end of the handle section into the bottom end of the ferrule. In the disassembled rod, the ferrule remains permanently attached to the broad end of the tip section.
The hollow tapered rod body of the fishing rod of this invention is constituted by a number of laminated plies which preferably contain from 55-63% by weight, preferably from 57-61% by weight, of fine diameter fiber possessing a high tensile strength and a high modulus of elasticity, especially carbon fibers. The precise diameter of the fiber is of secondary significance, but the important aspect is that the fibers are arranged in parallel order within the resin plies so as to give the resin body particular strength in the fiber oriented direction upon cure.
Appropriate resins may vary considerably, so long as it is hard and strong, but these are preferably thermosetting resins which cure on the application of heat to provide hard and tough resin matrices. The usual commercial resins for fiber reinforced laminates are epoxy resin systems, and these are preferably used herein. These epoxy resin systems can be cured with either acid or alkaline curing agents, and both types of curing systems are well known. The bisphenol-based diglycidyl ethers are preferably employed having an epoxy equivalent weight in the range of 150-600. Typical alkaline curing agents are illustrated by dicyandiamide. Typical acid curing agents are illustrated by phthalic acid or anhydride. The curing agents are used in stoichiometric proportions ± 25%. Other thermosetting resins are illustrated by commercially available organic solvent-soluble polyimides. Even thermoplastic resins, such as high melting fluorine-containing addition polymers illustrated by polytetrafluorethylene can be used. The point to be observed is that the high modulus fibers become chemically bonded into a resin matrix and the resin matrix itself, while relatively hard and tough, is totally incapable of handling the stresses which may be imposed upon the thin tapered rod which is to constitute the fishing rod of the present invention, without the specific wrapping features in the laminations of the rod.
The fibers which are utilized in this invention are primarily illustrated by fibers of carbon. Speaking generically, the fibers should have an average tensile strength above 300 × 103 p.s.i., and an average modulus of elasticity greater than 18 × 106 p.s.i. Commercially available carbon fibers customarily have these properties, but it is also possible to find such properties in boron fibers. Glass is not satisfactory since its modulus of elasticity is too low. Similarly, metals generally have much too low a modulus of elasticity also.
The fishing rod is made on a mandrel which has been cleaned and treated with a release agent to facilitate later removal of the cured laminate. The standard sequence of fabrication for all rod designs involves helically wrapping at least one long narrow ply around the mandrel at a 45° angle to the axis of the rod. This first ply is long and narrow with its fibers paralleling the length of the ply and is wound from the inner ply of the rod with its side margins in contact with one another without overlap. This provides a single inner ply or layer of rovings, all of which lie just above the plane of the mandrel. This is followed by the generally triangular ply with its parallel fibers being oriented to parallel the longitudinal side of the triangle. As the wrapping proceeds as described for FIGS. 2, 3, and 4, the fibers become increasingly angled away from the axis of the rod, and this distributes the load to maximize the flexing strength of a rod of minimum weight.
The plies in an illustration of this invention consist of epoxy resin-impregnated straight parallel carbon fiber tows (untwisted rovings) bound together with about 50% by weight of alkaline catalyzed epoxy resin in a tacky B stage*. The rovings used in this example are available in commerce under the trade designation HTS from Hercules, Inc., the individual fibers having a tensile strength of 350 × 103 p.s.i. and a modulus of elasticity in the range of 36-42 × 106 p.s.i.
After these tacky plies, in the B-stage, have been wrapped around the mandrel as previously described, the wrapped mandrel is covered with a wrap of heat shrinkable tape, such as 1/2 inch wide polyvinyl acetate film, and cure is accomplished in an oven in which the long, flexible steel mandrel supporting the graphite material is placed in a stretcher designed to hold it straight during the cure cycle. A cure cycle of 21/2 hours at 350° F is appropriate for the epoxy system noted hereinbefore. Using a commercially available epoxy material, Narmco Rigidite 5209, appropriate curing cycles are 60 minutes at 180° F., 30 minutes at 220° F., and 60 minutes at 260° F.
The mandrel with the cured graphite laminate is removed from the stretcher, and the mandrel is withdrawn from within the rod. The heat shrinkable film is unwrapped from the surface of the rod, leaving the cured graphite composite fishing rod blank ready for finishing which involves a very light sanding to prepare the surface which may be painted. The rod ends may be trimmed to provide an even edge or as at the handle end, it may be left uneven and merely inserted into a handle. The cure provides an integral laminate, sometimes referred to as a composite.
The invention is defined in the claims which follow.
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By Matt Rardon
Synthesis Solutions
Cadence contact tells you that the fix you need is in RC 8.1.201. You ask your
internal contact what version of RTL Compiler is installed and you are told
that it is 08.10-s203_1. Why the discrepancy? Is this the version that you
The confusion
comes from the fact that all RTL Compiler and Conformal releases currently have
two version numbers. Cadence recently moved to the more intuitive #.#.###
versioning scheme. Where the first #.# is the major release numeric designation
and the ### is the patch level.
For example, the first version number for the RTL
Compiler 8.1 release was 8.1.100. The first patch release was 8.1.101. The
8.1.200 version was a supplemental release that included numerous new features.
The latest version is 8.1.202 at the time that this article was published.
However, the version number internal to RTL Compiler still uses the old scheme
of ##.##-p|s###_#. Where the ##.## is the major release numeric designation and
the p|s###_# is the patch level. The 'p' indicates a production release -
typically the first version of a major release. The 's' indicates a
supplemental release. For example, the first version number for the RTL
Compiler 8.1 release was 08.10-p104_1 which corresponds to 8.1.100. The first
patch release was 08.10-s108_1 which corresponds to 8.1.101 and so on. The
recent entries on downloads.cadence.com
list both version number styles to make it easier to find the version that you
are seeking.
The version
numbers on the Conformal side require less explanation. The new #.#.### and older
#.#-p|s### schemes are the same as RTL Compiler. However the numbering of the
### and p|s### portions of the version number are aligned. For example, the version
numbers for the first release of Conformal LEC 8.1 are 8.1.100 and 8.1-p100.
The most recent patch release at the time of writing is referred to as 8.1.280
and 8.1-s280.
The good
news is that everything is converging towards using the new scheme, so please bear with us.