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MIMA introduction
MIMA Operation
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The MIMA Joystick
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Cable impedance problem with las
Learning to drive with MIMA
Hardwired Harness
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Grid Charger
Grid charger owners and location
Grid charger code V3.0 manual
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Pack discharger
SOC reset device
Insight Battery pack lifter
Grid charger test adapters
Reprogramming the charger
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With the many projects I hope to work on, some extra hands are always welcome.
Check here to see if their will be a workshop if you want to come up and lend a hand.
Currently we are looking at thew 5 speed transmission on a motorized cutaway, and have begun the construction and design of a lithium battery for the Insight
14 year old cars have rust issues
Making the Insight safe again
My 3 Insights are all 14 years old, and after having the breaks and gas lines fail on 2 of the cars, I am looking at the items that any Insight owner will need to deal with to keep the car safe, and running as long as possible. Will start with the serious gas and brake line rust issues. I got a set of lines and parts from Majestic Honda, and luckily They are only 35 miles from here, so I could drive out and get the long crazy break lines. One gas like is too big to ship so their parts list does not show it, but it can be included with the order if you get the part nymber from their sales guy.
I should have got under the car and removed the covers, as it became obvious that one should always replace both the brake and gas lines as they share many of the same clamps, and both would make a very bad day for you if they failed while you were on the road.Ordered the gas lines and clamps and will wait to start the project until all the parts are in hand.
Also very lucky to have a buddy just a few miles from here that has a great workshop with overhead car lift. Would hate to try this in my pit or on jack stands.
The transmission is operational
The transmision is running
Spent a bit of time finishing up the cutaway transmission.
Remounted the transmission so the cutaway was up, mounted a gearmotor to the output end of the transmission so I can simulate a shift with clutch in.
The hardest part was getting the shifter to work, but after some hacking, I have it operating like new.
The next step will be to carefully document the operation of the transmission as it goes through the gears in both directions. Since this is a transmission, a video will be a better way to explore how it works. Sat workshop Sep 14 (tomorrow) will be when we get into it again.Can clearly see everything going on, so it should be very informative.
getting the shift linkage and output shaft made
output shaft and shift linkage
I dug the shifter out of the green parts car, and made an output shaft that bypasses the differential, so I can drive the output with a motor as though the car was coasting with the clutch in.
Will tinker with the project during the week, and try to finish it by friday.
workshops 2013 Figuring out the 5 speed transmission
a better look at the working 5 speed transmission
My green and red Insight are both suffering from the 3-2 downshift issues, and after reading about syncro rings and clocking tabs,and other proposed issues with the 5 speed transmission, I decided it was time to better understand how the 5 speed actually works, and since I had the tranny from the green insight with a broken bell housing, why not make a visible working tranny and see what can be learned.
While many people have fixed the downshift problem, and they understand how the transmissions works better than I,so I want to really understand it, and hopefully document it in an easy to understand and visually demonstrated way.
This will be a part time project, and will be something we can work on in the new series of Saturday workshops I will start this week.
New Saturday workshop helper
City EL EV
Gilles and I met at Altwheels festival in Boston two years ago. He recently got himself a City EL electric vehicle and finally got through all the red tape to put it on the road in Massachusetts.He lives only about 15 miles away, so he hauled his EV over for today's Saturday workshop.
We took it for a few spins up and down the road, measured the current draw (90A max).
Not much power, since it is basically a 36V golf cart with a sealed cabin. We discussed the options for giving it a bit more pep.
A nice day with a new toy to check out, and a mechanical engineer joins the Saturday crew.
Civic power electronics
Civic power electronics
Ron from Hybrid battery repair gave me some civic power electronics that came with some of the civic battery packs he bought. I disassembled one to get a better look at the parts. Shown here is the major components.
IMA motor temp
IMA temp
With MIMA a lot of assist can be sent to the IMA motor, but we have no way to know if it is getting too hot.
A thermal probe could be attached to the magnet structure by drilling a small hole in the side case right where the case is in the closest proximity to the coil structure.
Some of the fun projects for this year
Time to get some help on the many projects underway.
EV bucket truck battery mount wiring and test, new solar tracker drive system, inventory damage to green machine and begin repair/removal of engine and IMA, build 48V prius subpack with pressure switch for charge termination,Ev ATV, cycle old 6V batteries for use on EV bucket truck.Finish the test point breakout panels on the Insight on a stand, make Insight IMA electric motor stand alone with bearings and end plates. Thats just the start.
Have fun, and learn about how this stuff works, and help me with my green projects.
IMA motor is added to my inventory
IMA motor
I finally have a complete IMA motor that is not in a working car that I can play with.
I will need to build a central output shaft with bearings, for the magnet assembly to get to the point where it is a usable motor. Unfortunately the guy wanted to keep the power electronics for use with another motor. If anyone has an Insight power electronics package sitting in their basement or garage, that they would like to see put to good use please contact me.
Once I turn this into a functioning motor, there are several uses that I have in mind:
1)Three phase motor demo for the hybrid training class.
2)We would need to make the demo do more than turn, so mounting it on an electric ATV or go cart may be fun.
3)driving a rear wheel on an Insight for a pure EV mode,possibly by electrically switching the IMA drive signals to the EV motor and back to swap modes?
4) explore using the motor as a generator.
Some specs not easily available.
The complete motor with rotor weighs about 43 lbs.
The 3 phase winding assembly weighs 21.9 lbs
The rotor 8.9
The aluminum casting with sensors 6
The steel commutator disk 6
The thick and heavy commutator disk is may also also play a part of the magnetic path, or shielding
Cutting deeper
I cut the remaining inner webs from the battery case, and tried 20 prius subpacks. It fit nicely, and if mounted as shown, the existing battery fan should keep them cool.
Thoughts on my ideal Insight pack
The ideal battery pack?
Why a different battery pack?
First reason,the present packs are not holding up.
We can't change the control software that is not doing a good battery management job.We need a replacement pack that fits where the stock pack is, uses the same power/relay board and fuse, uses prius subpacks, with the battery management software built into the new pack (open source).This pack would interface with the present BCM, and simulate the battery signals, so the stock SOC guage would work normally to show the battery SOC, and the BCM always thinks the pack is perfect.Any error that our battery management system would detect can shout down the IMA by simulating an error to the stock BCM, which will respond by setting an IMA light and disabling the system.
With PIMA, the bigger the pack, the longer you can run in Electric Priority mode, and the longer you can get >100mpg.
What is the ultimate Insight pack for the minimum cost?
Of course a pack of the new A123 LiPo Hybrid batteries would be my first choice. But my finances dictate that unless they donate some to the cause, I will have to go with NIMH. I have almost enough Prius subpacks to make up four 144V strings of 20 prius batteries.
The 4 packs could replace the present battery pack, with three additional parallel booster packs, increasing the total pack AH to 26. The 80% to 20% SOC range would now have 16AH instead of 4AH. I estimate that this setup will extend the Boosted Battery PIMA range (> 100 mpg) to well over 60 miles, even at 65mph and hills.
With proper design,each of the 4 packs could also work individually as a plug in replacement for the stock Insight pack, or as part of a multy pack system.
Will probably need some custom rear springs to maintain proper ride height.
Then we build a BLDC 10hp 144V electric rear drive system and power it from the same battery pack.Allowing an electric only mode with possibly 40 mile range, but with the ability to recharge with gas while driving under full electric.
Lots of possibilities, the only missing ingredient is the money to get the components and a good mixed signal storage oscilloscope, so I can proceed efficiently. Too many projects not enough time or money .
Prius subpacks in an Insight
Hacking the spare Insight battery case
Will Chabotte came up for the Jan 19 workshop, and we got into hacking the ribs out of the spare Insight battery case.
A sharp carpenters saw did a nice job cutting the plastic, but only after we put in a good deal of elbow grease.
If the side ribs are also removed, we can get 20 subpacks into the Insight case. It is a toss up as to whether this is the best route to go, as the sawing and modifications are time consuming,and we still have to deal with cooling the subpacks properly, and making all the connections, but in theory it can be made to work.
A custom case with the cooling and subpack clamping considered in the design will make a better functioning solution, but the case would need to be built from scratch.
It's never easy.
Other projects
some of the projects we will be working on
Other projects that are in the works, not necessarily in any order.
1. Insight on a stand:
Get ICE to run continuously.
Add output axles and wheel spindles so Motor generators can be attached.(full hybrid dyno functionality)
Add the transmission lift system powered by the EPS unit.
Test IMA system operation with dyno.
2.Develop Prius inverter driver to power the modified synergy MG set for potential EV use.
3.Develop Insight Battery test system that will look at individual subpack voltages on all 20 subpacks, four temp sensors, current in and out of pack, SOC and capacity test.
4. Develop replacement for the Insight battery that has higher capacity cells, and lithium chemistry.
5. Mounting of EV modified Prius synergy drive in a stripped down Insight, with full conversion to EV as the final goal.
6. V-boost integration into Insight system, and control tie in with MIMA.
7. Development of MIMA based MPG maximizing cruise control that will control throttle as well as IMA.
8. MIMA LCD display, and steering wheel mounted Joystick
9.High speed E-wheel
10. Bolt on E-wheel drive system for one of the existing Insight rear wheels.
11. convert telephone truck to full electric.
12. build data acquisition system for Insight battery pack.
13. Determine best way to add solar pack charger.
14. Put bearings and output shaft on the Insight IMA motor.
15. Determine best adhesion system for direct solar cell application to the roof and hood.
Early results of subpack testing
Ian's test setup
Ian has ran each subpack through at least one cycle of charge/discharge to determine AH, effect of cycling, and potential cell imbalances.
Here is the firs look at the data.
#1> Determine the Capacity of the sub-packs
#2> Determine effect of cycling sub-packs
#3> Compare cell resistances in sub-packs
Cell resistance variation can be seen in the difference in temperatures.
Must make sure to take into account the how batteries charge as a sub-pack.
Each cells resistance is in series
Cells in series all have the same current but not the same voltage.
The heat / resistance can also be cause by cells that are lower capacity reaching full capacity sooner.
Once a NiMH battery reaches its SOC Capacity any further charging will see a temperature increase.
This is a variable resistance based on battery SOC.
Faster / higher current charges and discharges will more show the resistance of the battery / sub-packs
Slower / lower current charges and discharges will more show the true capacity of the battery and more fully cycle it.
4 subpacks started with 0000 mAh of initial SOC
6 subpacks started with over 2,000 mAh of initial SOC
9 subpacks initially took ~6,000+ mAh of charge
4 subpacks initially took less than 3,000 mAh of charge
Fast / High Current Cycles
Discharge at 3.0 Amps Charge at 5.0 Amps
Set for NiMH 6 cell pack 6,000 mah expected 7,000 mah limit
Discharge to 0.9 V per cell x 6 cells = 5.4 V per Sub Pack
There is a 15 minute delay between discharge and charge
* = Ian Aborted charge due to temp reading
Slow / low current Cycles
Discharge at 1.0 Amps Charge at 1.0 Amps
Set for NiMH 6 cell pack 6,000 mah expected 7,000 mah limit
Discharge to 0.9 V per cell x 6 cells = 5.4 V per Sub Pack
There is a 15 minute delay between discharge and charge
Slow / low current does not seem to be producing temp variation in cells of sub-pack
Subpack Cycle Date Action Vi mAh Degrees F + Left to - Right
#1 1Fast 8/4 Disch 8.2 959 89
Charge 3278 88 95 92 98 100 102
#2 1 Fast 8/4 Disch 6.7 125 86
Charge 2840 88 91 99 101 93 99
#3 1 Fast 8/4 Disch 7.59 2439 85
Charge 6739* 118 117 114 114 113 115
#4 1 Fast 8/6 Disch 6.68 0000 80
Charge 3977 92 95 100 101 91 93
#5 1 Fast 8/6 Disch 5.89 0000 80
Charge 3111 89 98 100 92 99 90
#6 1 Fast 8/6 Disch 6.93 140 80
Charge 2920 89 90 95 91 99 98
#7 1 Fast 8/6 Disch 6.99 137 79
Charge 3432 91 99 102 100 96 91
#8 1 Fast 8/6 Disch 6.95 173 80
Charge 2794 98 91 94 101 92 102
#9 1 Fast 8/7 Disch 7.58 2360 83
Charge 6009 97 100 100 98 97 97
#10 1 Fast 8/7 Disch 7.57 2228 85
Charge 5954 100 107 109 103 98 103
#11 1 Fast 8/8 Disch 7.2 37 83
Charge 2872 90 95 102 100 95 96
#12 1 Fast 8/8 Disch 6.96 195 85
Charge 3466 97 95 93 97 102 104
#13 1 Fast 8/8 Disch 5.84 0000 85
Charge 3424 106 99 94 92 92 95
2 Slow 8/10 Disch 8.18 2614 73
Charge 7000 80
#14 1 Fast 8/9 Disch 7.27 1300 79
Charge 7000 109 112 119 121 111 114
#15 1 Fast 8/9 Disch 6.4 1358 87
Charge 7000 112 110 114 117 106 118
#16 1 Fast 8/10 Disch 7.3 1775 66
Charge 6493 89 98 96 97 96 98
#17 1 Fast 8/6 Disch 7.63 2658 80
Charge 6139 109 112 113 110 111 103
#18 1 Fast 8/5 Disch 7.04 2309 83
Charge 6159 91 103 103 100 102 98
2 Slow 8/8 Disch 8.03 5163 78
Charge 7000 83
#19 1 Fast 8/5 Disch 5.82 0000 80
Charge 4026 90 91 93 98 101 101
2 Slow 8/9 Disch 7.8 3059 79
Charge 6751 81
#20 1 Fast 8/5 Disch 7.59 2646 76
Charge 6743 106 110 102 111 113 110
2 Slow 8/8 Disch 8.0 5479 80
Charge 6851 82
Obviously the pack was badly unbalanced.
The interesting thing here was that the pack was working relatively normally and had no IMA code in the silver Insight that it came from.I did have problems trying to start the car after it sat for some time.
Ian Cycled each subpack and found that they all seemed to respond with nearly full AH in subsequent cycles.
Silver pack reassembled.
some interesting observations
After Ian's thorough cycling experiment, we reassembled the pack.
While the pack was apart, we did a few more interesting test.
1. The positive temp coefficient band that passes through the side of each 6 cell subpack was removed in order to get some data about it's temperature response. Each 6 cell strip measures 1.5 ohm when at room temp. It raises to 2 ohms at about 135F, and is 4 ohms @ 160F.
2. The 180 ohm "resistors" that are in each of the 10 monitor lines feeding to the BCM, are also positive temp coefficient devices. They act like self resettable thermal fuses, as their resistance goes into the K ohm range when they get hot, and returns to 180 ohms when cool.
3. The battery end studs are either a square (+), or a hex (-), and the orange connection plate has mating sockets, so it is virtually impossible to assemble the pack wrong.
When the pack was assembled, we dropped it back into the silver insight. The car had been having trouble cranking just before the pack was removed, but the recharged and cycled pack turned over the car and it started immediately,just as it should, even though the 12V battery had been out of the car for 2 weeks prior, so the computers were all reset, and the SOC showed zero.
This means that the car must do a HV pack voltage check before it decides to use it for cranking,even though it did not know the SOC.
Once we saw the easy start, and no codes, we pulled Ian's pack, and after mounting his BCM and MCM on the silver cars pack, we installed it in his car, so he can watch it on his 500 mile/week commute.
He will also test and cycle his subpacks, by exposing the two ends of the strings,to see how well balanced it is.
We suspect that a pack must sit for a day or so to have the voltage settle to it's no load voltage,and show any imbalance?
I also welded up a radiator mount for the Insight on a stand, and hope to get it running this week.
Another fruitful Sat.
Graphs of the battery pack initial conditions, as well as Ians pack initial conditions:
Ian's Graphs
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There is a new storyline emerging ahead of this week's talks on climate change. China has somehow emerged as the good guy, and the U.S., less than a year after the election of Barack Obama, is again the villain.
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Yet China is rapidly becoming a climate-change darling. Today, United Nations climate boss Yvo de Boer told the AP that China's progress makes it a "front-runner" among nations battling climate change, leapfrogging the U.S.
Fatih Birol, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency, offers similar praise. China's plans to make its economy more energy-efficient, he said, mean that by 2020 China "will be at the forefront of combatting climate change," not by actually reducing emissions, but by making sure they grow less than they otherwise would have.
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4 x 4 ribbed hat
A couple of years ago I knitted a ribbed hat with 4 x 4 ribbing -- the entire hat. I can't find my pattern, and I don't remember how I decreased at the crown area. I believe I used circular size 5 or 6 needles I knitted it with Plymouth outback wool. Can anyone assist with instructions regarding the decreasing on 4 x 4 ribbing. I would appreciate any help. Thank you! (I am new to this site -- I may have duplicated this question -- I don't think I hit "submit", but if so, I apologize).
Well, since no one else has answered yet, I thought I'd give it a shot. I think you should be able to do your decreases by using k2tog and p2tog to get gradually narrower ribs as you get toward the top.
For example, you'd start with *k4, p4*. Your first decrease round could be *k2tog twice, p2tog twice*. This would get you to 2 x 2 ribbing. Do that that for a little bit and for your next decrease round do *k2tog, p2tog*. That'll get you to 1 x 1 ribbing. From there, if you still need to decrease, you'd probably have to change to *k3tog, p3tog* to stick with 1 x 1 ribbing or if that looks funny, you could tyring changing to stockinette.
Alternately, your first decrease round could be someting like *k2tog, k1, p1, p2tog* to get 3 x 3 ribbing. Not quite as simple, but it might look better if the decrease rounds are spread out more. Anyway, I think you get the idea.
I've not tried any of this out, but I think my reasoning is sound. Try a swatch and play with it. You might want to use SSK instead of k2tog and see how that changes things. I think you could get a light spiral effect or a pretty symmetical look depending on how you mix things up.
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Thank you so much! I'll be trying those ideas. I do appreciate your thoughtful response.
Hey Nancydee, Look what I just found!
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You are amazing! Thank you again!! I just printed the pattern.
Nancydee: It was a serendipitous find -- I came upon it when I was looking for something else. Hope it works out! -Jane
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December Trade Boosts Norfolk Admirals' Defense
Norfolk has the AHL's two highest-scoring freshmen in Cory Conacher and Tyler Johnson, while 115 of the team's league-leading 250 goals have been scored by first-year players.
Receiving such sizable contributions from rookies has affected the Admirals in a couple ways.
The first and more obvious consequence has been that Norfolk's overall goal-scoring abilities have been boosted, with the Admirals entering the weekend with at least 24 more goals scored than any other AHL team. The second and less obvious consequence of the Admirals' rookie core's emergence was that earlier this season, the team unexpectedly found itself with more quality forwards than available roster spots.
Lightning General Manager Steve Yzerman managed Norfolk's surplus in forwards to solidify the Admirals' blue line and give the Lightning a better-rounded prospect pool, making a trade on Dec. 2 in which he dealt James Wright and Mike Vernace to the Florida Panthers for defensemen Evan Oberg and Mike Kostka.
"Defense was a position that we thought we needed to get a little bit deeper in," said Admirals head coach Jon Cooper. "Adding those two guys has really added much-needed depth for us."
Before the trade, the Admirals had a goals-against average of 2.86, which ranked 13th in the 30-team American Hockey League.
Norfolk's defense enters this weekend having allowed at least 17 fewer goals than any other Eastern Conference team for the season, while yielding just 33 goals during the team's record-breaking, 21-game winning streak.
"We're being really disciplined in our system and picking up the loose guys," said Evan Oberg. "Everybody is backchecking and we aren't turning pucks over. Coach Cooper has been doing a great job making sure we've been tightening up defensively in all the ways we're supposed to."
The area where Oberg and Kostka have specifically paid the largest dividends is with their puck-moving abilities. Adding the pair to a group of Norfolk defensemen which already featured the league's highest-scoring blueliner in Mark Barberio has improved the Admirals' power play, which has scored in 17 of 21 games during the team's win streak and ranks second in the AHL at 22.5 percent.
"Earlier in the season, we were really looking to spruce up our power play," added Cooper. "Those two guys have been really good offensively for us. They also give our goalies the confidence that they don't have to worry about rebounds as much, because of their abilities to move the puck up the ice and out of our zone so quickly."
"It was tough at first to be going back and forth so much," said Oberg. "But at the end of the day, hockey is hockey and I have to play the same game regardless of what team I'm with. That being said, I've gotten a lot more comfortable on the ice as I've gotten to know my teammates more."
Although Kostka has yet to have been called up to the Lightning, he's accelerated his development in Norfolk and is one of the highest-scoring defensemen in the American Hockey League over the past two seasons.
Kostka is the second-highest scoring defenseman in the AHL since the start of last season, producing 91 points during stints with the Admirals, San Antonio Rampage and Rochester Americans.
A former captain of the UMass-Amherst Minutemen, Kostka has partnered with the more defensive-minded JP Cote for most of the last three months, collecting 30 points (7g, 23a) in 45 games with Norfolk.
"I think our styles play off of each other really well," said Kostka. "We communicate really well and playing together for probably the last 30 games has given us good chemistry. JP is more of a stay-at-home, defensive defenseman and that gives me the room to jump into the play a lot more."
Meanwhile, Oberg has settled in as Mark Barberio's defensive partner over the last few weeks, during which he has played in 12 straight March games for Norfolk after spending much of the last few months in the airways between Florida and southeastern Virginia.
"Everybody has played so well during the win streak that we've been able to keep the same partners the whole time," said Oberg. "Mark (Barberio) and I try to get the puck up to the offensive zone as much as possible because the more we have the puck and the other team doesn't, the less chances they're going to have to score."
The Admirals' third regular defensive pairing is Scott Jackson and Radko Gudas, who serve as the team's top shutdown pairing which thrives when matched against other teams' top forwards.
Norfolk's ever-improving defense handed Atlantic Division-leading St. John's just its third shutout of the season on Wednesday night, during which Radko Gudas bloodied IceCaps captain Jason Jaffray out of the game with a shoulder-first, clean and devastating body check.
"He was carrying the puck up the wall," commented Oberg. "He stopped up on the rush and tried to make a play. Gudas just stepped up and went directly through him. We pick up so much momentum every time Gudas throws hits like those."
The Admirals used their 2-0 shutout win over the IceCaps on Wednesday night to run their unprecedented winning streak to 21 straight victories. Norfolk takes aim at 22 straight wins when it hosts second-place St. John's again on Friday night.
"We're on a good roll right now and want to be playing the way we are right now when the playoff start," added Oberg. "If we can keep playing the way we are right now, we know that nobody is going to want to face us in the playoffs."


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How To Design A Stylish Google Mobile Friendly Website
Google is currently the leading search engine for mobile sites, with more than 90% of the market share. Their decision to concentrate upon mobile accessibility sometimes works to the detriment of their traditional PC-based market.
Until recently, many Google website owners had sites which were focused upon the PC user, rather than upon mobile devices, but with Google's decision to require mobile-friendly websites from its users, websites owners are now facing a choice: ignore the new directive, and risk sliding down the search engine rankings, or obey the directive, and try to make your site more mobile friendly.
If you are not sure how to convert your website, there are a few simple steps that you need to follow in order to make sure that your site is ready for mobile searches.
The first steps towards changing your site
You need to start your changes by reading the advice offered by Google on its Webmaster's pages. This can offer you tools designed to help you learn how mobile friendly your website is, develop your third party software to ensure that it is suitable for mobile users, and will also supply you with advice such as mobile SEO, or more information about the technology you will need. There is also advice about how to work with a developer to improve the mobile-friendly benefits of the site.
Secondly, you should also learn the five ways to improve your mobile technology. These include: creating defined viewing areas to allow the website to sync with the screen size of the device; creating content that is confined within the viewport, so that there is no need to scroll across the screen; introducing fonts that are scalable so your content can be viewed by mobile users; touch-friendly elements that allow users to easy access the buttons they want, and mobile-friendly visual elements and movement between pages.
Advanced steps for improving your website
Once you have implemented Google's current guidelines for your website, there are still other steps that you can take to ensure that the site is attuned towards mobile users.
The first thing to do is to check the CMS recommendations provided by Google. Make sure your CMS integrations match with Google's advice. You should also make sure that the load time for your website is still working at a high speed.
Page loading speeds should be a focal point of any website design, and are considered pivotal to good search engine rankings. You can check Google's page speed rankings, or simply visit your site using a mobile phone or tablet. Thirdly, you should look at the content of your site, including optimizing images so that they don't slow down your page, and ensure that nothing on the site uses Flash, which isn't suitable for mobiles.
You should also ensure that your site hasn't blocked retrieval of JavaScript, Image Files or CSS by Googlebots. Lastly, make sure that your 404 messages are able to take in mobile searches, so that you don't simply display an error signal to your mobile users.
Google To Promote Business Apps In Search
How searching for apps is becoming easier
As the internet becomes more app-focused, and more people are using app-based devices to interact with websites and software programs, so it is becoming clear that Google has to develop its search technologies to allow people to find apps more easily. The key to the new process of finding apps is a technology known as app indexing. This process allows you to make your app easier to find through standard searching
What is App Indexing?
If you are using apps as your main source of income, then you need Goole's App Indexing technology. With this technology, you need to use a technique known as 'deep linking', which can be enabled through your developer's console. Once this is done, you can then connect the app to your business website, which will allow it to be searched. The app needs to work in Google Play, so that it can be found by the new indexing API which specifically searches for apps with these new deep links. This will allow people searching for apps similar to yours to be able to find your app easily.
What else will I need?
In addition to these deep links, you will also have to set up messaging to Google, telling them when people are viewing your apps. This is known as Intent Filters, and will show Google that your App is being used. When the content is seen, the message for the API will tell Google that you have this content in your app, so that when someone searches for that content, the user can easily find your app. At the moment, the app won't send more details than the title of your content, and its location, but in the future it is likely that app analysis will be used by Google to keep track of your content, and remove malware-containing apps.
What this change means for businesses
If you are running an app, then you will have to ensure that your content can be found by search engines. If you are not able to make the changes to your app, then it could be left behind as more developers start using this feature in all of their apps. What it means is that, rather than just using SEO in the title and meta-content of the app listing, you will have to optimise your app's content, too, demanding a massive sea-change in the way people create and use SEO in apps.
Get Back to the Basics: How to Rank Your Article on the First Page of Google
Google's First Page of Search Engine results is the only place worth being these days. If you don't rank on a search engines first page you have maybe a 1-5 percent chance of being found, depending on the industry you are in.
That might seem like the competition is too hard and the whole optimization thing is a waste of time, but it's not. The thing about Web Marketing is that it's not really all that hard. I know, I know, people like to make it mysterious and full of incomprehensible graphs and data. But believe me, it ain't.
There are things that almost any blogger or small business website can be doing to bring themselves up to the first page, which is why I wrote my cheeky article: "Google's 1st Page, and How I got this Article There".
Bit embarrassing after that title if I don't actually make it to the top of the search engine, eh?
Here are the 5 of the 10 steps I use on each page to get me heading in the right direction. Try them on your own site if you haven't tried them yet.
1. Domain
Your domain name should be short and sweet. It also helps if you can keep your product, post or service URL short also.
2. Title Tag
The title tag tells Google in a few words what your page is about. If you don't tell Google, it will guess. Therefore, use your Title Tag.
3. Keywords
Every page on your site should be optimized using a major keyword or phrase. Use this keyword suggestion tool to find good option.
4. Image Attributes
Alt tags (Image Attributes) are similar to title tags and description tags. They help Google to understand your pictures. Use them on every image and make them all different. Google loves to read this stuff.
5. Outbound Links
Put yourself in Good Company. Although it may seem strange, Google is believed to act positively toward the external links that point to authoritative sites in an article. Pick your sites carefully. Use sparingly.
While ranking in Google is challenging, it is not impossible. Ranking on the first page of any search engine is all about common sense, a bit of sweat and diligence.
The key to SEO is good, relevant, and up to date content. Everything else is just infrastructure, which is to say, helping the content to be easily found and understandable by the search engines.
The beauty in all this is that the better your site's content, the higher your rankings in Google. The higher your rankings, the better your click through rate. The better your click through rate, the more relevant your content must be. The more relevant your content, the more likely you are to make sales.
Go for it and be sure to take in all 10 of these search optimization tips and apply them to your site.
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Why the IEA is consistently wrong on renewables
Last week's IEA World Energy Outlook forecast modest renewable uptake globally in a number of scenarios. In its most optimistic outlook for solar and wind, the International Energy Agency (IEA) expects total deployment growth essentially of 0% through 2040, and 20 to 40% decreases in pessimistic scenarios. Future Smart Strategies' Ray Wills has long been critical of the agency's renewable modeling. Here, he sets out why he believes the group has got it wrong again.
The race to produce a viable mass market solar battery is on
If Deutsche Bank is correct in estimating that the solar energy market will be worth $5 trillion by 2030, then the first company to produce a viable solar battery will have an incredibly valuable piece of IP on their hands. We have Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, and a number of startups all throwing their hats into the ring. But who will be victorious, and why? Clive Rolison, founder of Complete Renewables analyses the market.
Shrinking cultural clash between solar and mining
Thomas Hillig from THEnergy, discusses the growing trend for the deployment of renewables, specifically solar PV, next to mines. In response to issues, like lifetime differences between a solar plant and a mine, bespoke solutions are being created. However, while there is a positive business case for combining the two industries, barriers in the mining industry exist, which must be overcome if the positive trend is to continue.
We're back!
With the Australian Parliament having finally passed its reduction of the country's Renewable Energy Target, Solar Business Service's Nigel Morris declares: "We're back"
The state of distributed solar in India
Rooftop PV in India holds enormous promise, writes Bridge to India's founder and director, Tobias Engelmeier. Yet, as of May 2015, there is only a cumulative installed capacity of around 400 MW. He discusses the state of the market, listing the current business models used, market innovation and policies.
Closing the gap between how rural off grid and on grid users use electricity
The focus on providing electricity to rural homes around the globe has grown tremendously, but many barriers still remain, including access to financing, subsidization, and available technology that is both effective and also affordable for low income homes.
Why auctions for power projects don't work in India
Director and founder of consultancy firm, Bridge to India, Tobias Engelmeier argues that power project auctions don't work in India, and instead lead to irrational competition and unsustainable business models.


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Jiyyeh sand extraction worries environmentalists
Public Works committee demand engineering report after 17 environmental groups sound alarm
Contractor allegedly taking sand day and night and selling it immediately
By Rita Boustani
BEIRUT: Parliament's Public Works Committee demanded Wednesday that engineers at the Central Inspection Department submit a report on sand extraction operations in Jiyyeh after 17 environmental associations sounded the alarm over the weekend.
The associations, including the Association of Professional Divers, Green Line, Bahr Loubnane, Byblos Ecologia, Greenpeace, Nature without Frontiers, Amwaj, Earth, Al-Marbah al-Akhdar and Chouhah al-Biaa, issued a statement Saturday denouncing extensive sand extraction from the sea in the Jiyyeh area.
The Middle East Company is currently carrying out the extraction with a permit from the Directorate General of Land and Sea Transport to "clean the Jiyyeh power plant area from sand and other substances."
Chairman of the parliamentary committee, Beirut MP Mohammed Qabbani, said the Central Inspection Department would have to answer the following questions:
"Did a specialized office conduct the study prepared by Electricite du Liban on the limits of and depth of extraction? To what extent is the contractor respecting the study, and has it extracted sand outside the authorized limit, especially during the night? Are the contractor's operations being seriously monitored, especially during the night and outside official working hours?"
The environmental associations' statement said the "contractor has been extracting sand during the night without any supervision from the ministry, adding that the pumps are working, even during the day, far from the locations defined in the permit."
It also claimed too much sand had been extracted and was being sold immediately afterward. The associations backed up their claims with photographs.
According to their statement, the LL482,400 million contract gives the contractor the right to extract 67,000 square meters from the basin, which contains sea water used to cool the turbines, with a 15 percent margin of error.
The associations challenged the permit and requested that sand extraction stop immediately. The Public Works Ministry refused their demand.
The engineer supervising the operation - who, according to the associations' statement, is paid by the contractor - said "the work was taking place within the terms of reference."
The associations also sent letters to Energy and Water Minister Maurice Sehnawi and Public Works and Transport Minister Yassin Jaber to "put an end to this flagrant environmental crime, which is taking place under the pretext of cleaning water drains in power plants without being based on any scientific study ..."
The group has also asked for an appointment with Environment Minister Wiam Wahhab, but, as of yet, had not received any official reply to their request or letters.
According to Qabbani, the sand of Lebanon 's shores is a "national treasure" that should be protected and not used for construction purposes.
"If there is a need for sand extraction from any location, as it is the case today in Jiyyeh, that sand should be taken to shores in other locations because sand is very important for tourism, and is therefore an essential national treasury," he said.


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MANILA: Dozens of heavily armed Philippine peacekeepers defied Syrian rebels yesterday in a Golan Heights stand-off, hours after the fighters took hostage 43 Fijian soldiers there, the Filipinos' commander said.
Seventy-five Filipino troops were defending two fortified posts in the UN-patrolled zone after armed groups surrounded them on Thursday and demanded they give up their weapons, Colonel Roberto Ancan told reporters in Manila.
Ancan, the commander of the Philippines' peacekeeping operations division, said no shots had been fired during the stand-off, but that his troops were prepared to engage in combat.
"We can use deadly force in defence of the UN facilities," Ancan said.
"I (would) just like to emphasise our troops are well-armed, they are well-trained... they are well-disciplined warrior peacekeepers."
The military said the soldiers were occupying UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) posts about four kilometres (2.5 miles) apart in the buffer zone between Syria and Israel that was created after a 1974 ceasefire.
The UN earlier said 81 Filipino peacekeepers were surrounded, but Ancan said there were only 40 Filipinos in one post and 35 in the other.
On Wednesday, Syrian rebels, including militants from the Al Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra Front, stormed one section of the buffer zone and exchanged fire with Israeli troops.
A day later the fighters captured 43 Fijians, forcing them to surrender their weapons then taking them hostage.
Ancan said the rebels used an English-speaking Fijian hostage to relay their demand to the Filipino peacekeepers, who refused and stood their ground.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino described the situation in the Golan Heights as "tense".
But, in brief comments to reporters, Aquino sought to calm fears about the fate of the troops.
"So far, we should not worry. The news is that the situation looks stable," Aquino said.
Israel seized 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles) of the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War, then annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.
The UN peacekeeping force has been stationed there since 1974 to monitor a ceasefire between Israel and Syria.
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The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose nine points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,887 as of noon Thursday. The index is three points below the all-time high it set April 2.
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The Wii U console will support microtransactions, according to Nintendo top dog Satoru Iwata. However, he pointed out that Nintendo has no plans of offering first party titles as free-to-play games, nor do they have any plans of offering their games on phones and tablets. Iwata did confirm that they are looking into bringing DLC to their games, though. Speaking at an investor briefing right after E3, Iwata said,
"We have designed the system from a technical standpoint to allow developers to freely take advantage of things like free-to-play and microtransactions"
Free-to-play games have gained in popularity over the past years, which are generally supported by microtrasactions and/or advertising. These types of games are becoming such a huge deal that major developers like Crytek have said that all of their future titles will be free-to-play, with the exception of the upcoming Crysis 3.
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Roger cruises into quarters
Roger defeated Xavier Malisse today 6-4, 6-3 and has booked his spot in the quarter-finals.
Roger played much more flexible today - just a few hours after his victory over Spain's Feliciano Lopez. He was in control of the match. He struggled only once when Malisse fought his way back into the first set but Roger eventually took it 6-4. After 70 minutes, Roger won the match with his first match ball.
"I was really happy with my performance," said Roger after the match. "I'm looking forward to the next round. Xavier is a great player, who is capable of great shots so it is very nice to get through."
In the quarter-finals, Roger will face the winner of the match between Robin Söderling and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Roger leads the head-to-head 15-1 against Söderling, and 3-1 against Tsonga.
The webteam forgot to mention that you will be playing the SF this afternoon, but we definitely have noticed that you beat Söderling for the 16th time in your career :-)! It won't be easy to beat Nadal on clay and so far the last ones to do so are you and Robin Söderling. Since you beat Robin yesterday all our hopes are set on you (as usual I might say). If only I could watch you in the final tomorrow at home.
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You delighted us with many legendary and magic shots !!!
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Walter (Bruce) Burch
Bruce Burch has had success in many facets of the music business including being a hit songwriter, operating his own publishing companies of hit songs, working for a major music publishing company, as well as being an artist manager.
As a songwriter, Burch co-wrote two #1 singles for Reba McEntire, "Rumor Has It" and "It's Your Call". These two songs were also the album titles for two of Reba's most successful albums. Burch also co-wrote songs on two other Reba albums, all of which have gone multi-platinum, selling well over 15 million records and CDs. Bruce has also had platinum and gold album recordings by other top artists.
As a music publisher, Burch operated two companies, Burch Brothers Music and Bruce Burch Music. These two catalogs contain songs co-written by Burch and recorded by various top artists.
Burch served as Creative Director at EMI Music Publishing, at the time the world's largest music publisher with over a million songs in its vast catalog. Burch also worked with EMI's older catalog songs and has gotten cover recordings of many classic tunes of Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Todd Rundgren, and Tammy Wynnette. He has gone in the studio to produce new demos of many of their hit songs from the past to bring them up to date for possible placement in today's market.
Burch also authored a book "Songs That Changed Our Lives". Two chapters of this inspiring book were picked to be included in the "Chicken Soup For The Soul" series of books.
Burch founded and directed the University of Georgia Music Business Program and the Joel A. Katz Music and Entertainment Business Program at Kennesaw State University.
Burch is currently serving as an Executive in Residence at Brenau University in Gainesville, GA.
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LOS ANGELES — Sixty-three years after Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph E. Gantt went missing in action during the Korean War, his remains were returned to his 94-year-old widow in a solemn ceremony at Los Angeles International Airport before dawn Friday.Clara Gantt wept as she stood in the cold before the flag-draped casket that was carried from a jetliner by military honor guard."He told me if anything happened to him he wanted me to remarry. I told him no, no. Here I am, still his wife," she told reporters.
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LAKE PLACID - Fund raising efforts are paying for security cameras in the downtown area to serve as a deterrent to criminal activity and to assist law enforcement in identify perpetrators.
The cameras are being placed in strategic areas to capture the images of people who are trying to escape from them, Lake Placid Police Chief James Fansler said.
There have been a few robberies that have taken place on the train tracks near the train depot, he said. A man was shot in the arm late in the year last year during a robbery.
"We are hoping to either avoid those situations by placing cameras down there or begin capturing suspect information when we set up the cameras," Fansler said.
The situation is similar at Nu-Hope, he said. The police department has tracked suspects who were running past the store either on South Main Avenue or in the alley way.
Five security cameras were installed at the train depot/Depot Museum in mid December at a cost of $3,155, which was paid for through donations and installation savings ($1,155) provided by Central Security.
The police department provided $200 for an additional camera for "as much focus around the building as possible," Fansler said.
Now the department is focusing on raising money to install a security camera system at Nu-Hope on South Main Avenue.
Nu-Hope continues to be a victim of burglary and theft, according to a police department summary on the Jan. 13 town council agenda. Fansler noted that cameras on city buildings help monitor activity along Interlake Boulevard and DeVane Circle.
Hector Hernandez said the police department provided a security camera about one or two years ago for the outside of his business, Lake Country Jewelers on North Main Street.
It shows the front of the store, the sidewalk, other businesses and some of the street, he said. From his in-the-store monitor he can view his in-store camera or flip a switch to view the outside camera. The monitoring system stores about two-weeks of images.
"We have used it in the past, not always successfully, but we have been able to see different things that have occurred," Hernandez said. "We can distinguish faces. With better technology we may be able to pick up license tags."
It's not a perfect situation, Hernandez noted. If the outside camera was mounted higher, on top of the building, it would show a greater view.
"It's not a cure-all, but it sure does help," he said. "I am very happy that they are trying to raise some more money to place these things around because in today's world we need all the help we can get."
Those who want to donate to the security camera effort can send a check to the police department at 8 N. Oak Ave., Fansler said. They can earmark the check for camera installation at Nu-Hope.


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The Pit and the Pendulum
by Edgar Allan Poe
Analysis: Plot Analysis
Most good stories start with a fundamental list of ingredients: the initial situation, conflict, complication, climax, suspense, denouement, and conclusion. Great writers sometimes shake up the recipe and add some spice.
Initial Situation
Down and Out
Here we have the basic premise: our man is locked in a cell, ready to be punished for who knows what crime. We don't know how he's going to be punished, but things don't look too good.
What's in Store?
The conflict here is mostly mental. Our hero has to wrap his head around what's going on. He must reassure himself that he is not yet dead, and he does his best to figure out where he's been imprisoned.
Plain and Simple: A Razor Blade is Headed for His Heart
While trying to figure out the nature of his prison, our narrator trips and falls at the edge of a large pit. After eating what he thinks must be drugged food, he faints. When he wakes up, he finds he's been tied down to a strange contraption, above which swings a mysterious pendulum. Uh oh. But at the same time, this is when our hero slowly discovers what's up. He finds the pit, he sees the pendulum, and he figures out what his cell actually looks like. These revelations aren't comforting, though – especially when he realizes that the razor-sharp pendulum is slowly descending. Complication, indeed.
Ho-ly. Crap.
Here you have it – the moment of truth, the slow march of Time, the approach of death in the form of the razor-sharp pendulum. The narrator watches the pendulum descend, hearing the swish of the blade and feeling the air move with every swing. This is where you sit on the edge of your seat, clutching the book in your sweaty hands.
It Ain't Over Till It's Over
So, the rats save the day (by eating our narrator out of his bonds), but it's only now that the suspense kicks in. Think about it. Before, there was no way out: he was tied to a table with a razor blade headed for his heart. It's only when he has a chance – a really, really slim chance – of escaping that things get interesting. Poe gives us just that. And the question is: how the heck is he going to survive? (Which, by the way, we know he will.)
Climax, Part II
The denouement here is also another climax. Sure, some things are explained to us: what the room is really shaped like, where the light was coming from, etc. But, wait: the narrator also finds himself between burning and contracting walls and a giant pit of death. A pretty climactic denouement, don't you think?
General Lasalle saves the day, pulling our hero from the brink of the pit. The narrator is finally, definitely saved from the Inquisition. The Inquisition itself is finished, too. Of course, we know that our guy is safe from the very first paragraph – otherwise, we wouldn't be reading his story.


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Aiken, SC., May 8 - The Aiken County Sheriff's Office holds warrants for the arrest of a Graniteville man, who on May 5 attacked a motorist and stole the victim's pickup truck in North Augusta, South Carolina.
Joseph E. Rowe, 24, 9 Gregg Street, Graniteville, South Carolina, will be charged with Assault and Battery High and Aggravated Nature, Carjacking and Financial Transaction Card Theft (two counts).
Subject Description
Gender: Male Race: White Height: 5'9" Weight: 185 Hair: Brown Eyes: Green
About 4:45 a.m., Rowe asked the victim for a ride at a Bank of America automated teller machine outside Kangaroo Express, Highway 25 and Belvedere - Clearwater Road, in North Augusta. The victim is identified as Joseph S. Roberts, 51, 101 Windy Mill Drive, in North Augusta.
The victim drove Rowe to a synagogue, Beth Shalom, 701 Atomic Road, in North Augusta.
As the driver prepared to drop off the subject, Rowe attacked the victim, pushed him out of the truck and drove away. Later the same day, the Richmond County Sheriff's Office recovered the stolen 1994, Ford Ranger pickup truck at Dugas and Harrison Streets, in Augusta.
Between 6:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., surveillance video shows another man using the victim's stolen credit card at four different convenience and grocery stores in Richmond County and then drive away in the victim's stolen pickup.
The Columbia County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday arrested the individual, Terry L. Hanna, 41, 610 Grant Avenue, North Augusta, South Carolina. He faces charges in Richmond County for the use of the stolen credit cards.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Joseph Rowe is asked to contact Investigator Charles Cain at the Aiken County Sheriff's Office: (800) 922-9709. Individuals also should call Crimestoppers of the Midlands: (888) 559-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous and are eligible for a cash reward or between $50 and $1000.
Information from Aiken County Sheriff's Office


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The 1920s
Ideology in The 1920s
Culture War: Country vs. City, Tradition vs. Modernity
The rapid pace of technological, economic, and cultural change during the Roaring Twenties provoked a considerable backlash among those Americans left behind by modernity—farmers deprived of any economic gains from the new economy, nativists beset by New Immigrants, Christian fundamentalists angered by Darwinian challenges to the literal word of god, traditional moralists offended by the escapades of flappers and appalled by the illegal boozing of the speakeasy.
Hollywood and the Resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan
The traditionalist backlash took many forms, but perhaps its most dramatic manifestation came in the revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The original Ku Klux Klan, organized in the South after the Civil War, had served as the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party, terrorizing blacks and Republicans to dissuade them from exercising their civil rights. Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1876, which allowed Southern states to reimpose white power through the creation of virtual one-party Democratic regimes, the KKK was no longer necessary, and it withered away.
The Ku Klux Klan revival began in 1915 with the theatrical release of D.W. Griffith's film, "The Birth of a Nation." The cinematic epic, which was considered by many to be the greatest film of its age, portrayed Klansmen sympathetically as heroic defenders of white civilization against the depredations of freed slaves run amok. The film's most controversial scene depicted white-hooded Klansmen riding gallantly to the rescue of a white maiden about to be raped by a savage black man. The film's racism seems disgusting today, but in 1915 "The Birth of a Nation" set a record for box office profits that would stand for 22 years. President Woodrow Wilson endorsed the film's racist historical revisionism, describing the film as "history writ with lighting... all so terribly true."
Birth of a Backlash: Four Million Klansmen
The film generated a new enthusiasm for the Klan, its symbols and regalia. Later in 1915, a failed doctor named William J. Simmons organized a new Klan in Atlanta, announcing it to the world by burning a great fiery cross atop Stone Mountain. Grand Wizard Simmons's new KKK spread throughout the United States in the 1920s, becoming the most important mouthpiece for a traditionalist politics that was not only anti-black but also anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-Communist, anti-immigrant, anti-alcohol, anti-sex, and anti-science. The Klan's greatest strength lay not—as many would assume—in the South, but rather in the Midwest and West. The Klan won virtual control of the state governments of Colorado and Indiana (where Klansman Ed Johnson became Governor), and wielded heavy influence in Oregon, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and several other states. An estimated four million Americans were paid members; some historians even claim that President Warren G. Harding was initiated into the Klan in a special secret ceremony inside the White House.13
The widespread popularity of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s revealed the depth of traditionalist resistance to the dizzying social and cultural changes wrought by the Roaring Twenties.
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Perhaps the single most famous Roaring Twenties confrontation between the opposing forces of modernity and traditionalism was the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial, in which celebrity lawyers argued both sides in the case of a Tennessee schoolteacher charged with teaching evolution in violation of state law. Many Americans today know the Scopes trial as it was portrayed (in fictionalized form) in Inherit The Wind, a popular play and movie of the 1950s, which depicted the trial as an epic showdown over the proper relationship between church and state in America. The events of the real trial were, in fact, much more bizarre than those of Inherit The Wind.
Putting Darwin on Trial, Putting Dayton on the Map
The story of the Monkey Trial began in early 1925, when fundamentalist Christians in the Tennessee legislature sought to defend the sanctity of the Bible as the literal word of God by passing a new law that made it illegal for any public schoolteacher "to teach any theory that denies the story of Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."14 Darwin's Theory of Evolution thus became taboo in Tennessee classrooms.
There was one minor problem: The state had already adopted a standardized biology curriculum built around a textbook—George Hunter's Civic Biology—that taught evolution. Thus every biology teacher in the great state of Tennessee who taught from the state-approved textbook was forced to break the new law.
Out-of-state lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) thought that the farcical legal conundrum created for teachers by Tennessee's new law violated the Constitution's protections of the separation of church and state. The ACLU placed ads in Tennessee newspapers, offering to provide legal representation for any teacher willing to go on trial to test the new law.
At this point, the story got weird. Struggling businessmen in the small eastern Tennessee hamlet of Dayton reasoned that their town could put itself on the map and benefit economically if it hosted the evolution trial, which would be sure to generate widespread media attention throughout the country. The Scopes "Monkey" Trial thus began as publicity stunt.
Dayton's businessmen asked their friend John Scopes, a local football coach who sometimes also worked as a substitute teacher, to volunteer to stand trial for illegally teaching evolution. Only one problem: Scopes (who apparently was not the world's greatest teacher) wasn't even sure whether he had actually taught evolution or not during a recent two-week stint subbing for the biology teacher at County High School. Scopes's reply to the Dayton town boosters was almost as strange as the subsequent trial: "If you can prove that I've taught evolution, and that I can qualify as a defendant, then I'll be willing to stand trial."15 During the trial, the ACLU-led defense blocked Scopes from taking the stand in order to prevent him from revealing how little he understood about evolution and that he probably had never actually taught it to Dayton's students.
Circus or Holy War?
Having got their defendant—flawed though he may have been—Dayton's boosters set out to build up hype for the trial. They wanted world-famous celebrities to serve as lawyers for both sides. They initially asked British science fiction writer H.G. Wells to lead the defense; surely, they reasoned, Wells would want to defend science against superstition. But Wells, who had no training in the law, declined. Despite Wells's refusal, Dayton did end up getting its celebrities, with William Jennings Bryan leading the prosecution and Clarence Darrow heading the defense. Bryan, a world-famous orator and three-time Democratic candidate for president, was also a devout Christian fundamentalist. Darrow, the country's most famous defense attorney, was also a committed agnostic. Bryan likely would have shared Darrow's assessment of the trial's significance: "Scopes isn't on trial, civilization is on trial."16
When the trial finally got underway in late July, 1925, more than a thousand people packed into the Rhea County Courthouse to behold the spectacle, which Time magazine called a "fantastic cross between a circus and a holy war."17
As a legal proceeding, the trial was a bit of a dud. The defense did not dispute that Scopes had broken the law. The judge refused to allow the defense to call expert witnesses to question the law's constitutionality. There really wasn't much in the case left to dispute. (In the end, a frustrated Clarence Darrow actually asked the jury to return a guilty verdict, hoping to be able to raise his constitutional objections to the law on appeal.)
As a circus, however, the trial did live up to its billing, especially when lead prosecutor William Jennings Bryan bizarrely volunteered to take the stand (as a hostile witness for the defense) as an expert on the Bible. Darrow's aggressive examination of Bryan had little to do with the case of John Scopes, but it turned into a dramatic debate pitting Christianity vs. science, church vs. state. After Darrow quizzed Bryan on the literal truth of seemingly impossible Biblical stories like that of Jonah and the whale, the judge sought to halt the legally dubious line of questioning. But Bryan and Darrow both wanted to carry on:
Bryan: These gentlemen [i.e., the ACLU lawyers] have not had much chance. They did not come here to try a case. They came here to try revealed religion. I am here to defend it, and they can ask any questions they please.
Judge: All right.
Audience: [applause]
Darrow: Great applause from the bleachers.
Bryan: From those whom you call 'yokels.'
Darrow: I have never called them yokels.
Bryan: That is the ignorance of Tennessee, the bigotry.
Darrow: You mean who are applauding you?
Bryan: Those are the people whom you insult.
Darrow: You insult every man of science and learning in the world because he does not believe in your fool religion.
Judge: I will not stand for that.
In the end, neither Darrow nor Bryan got much satisfaction from the case. The trial might be considered a draw: Scopes was convicted, but on narrow factual grounds; the jury was barred from considering the deeper constitutional issues at stake. (Scopes later won on appeal, but—again—on a narrow technicality, allowing the law to stand.) Meanwhile, nationwide press coverage overwhelmingly portrayed Bryan, the people of Dayton, and opponents of evolution in general as unsophisticated "yokels" and "morons." These were harsh and unfair stereotypes, but they took hold in the imaginations of much of the public. For fifty years following the trial, the teaching of evolution came to be accepted in most American schools as uncontroversial scientific knowledge. Only in recent years has the conflict between evolution and creationism (now recast as "intelligent design") once again become a major controversy in American education.


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I Play with the Phrase Each Other
Directed by: Jay Alvarez
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Dir. Jay Alvarez in person! 2014 Special Jury Prize, Slamdance Film Festival
Jake, a young neurotic, is persuaded to leave his small home town and move to the city to live with his friend Sean, a fanatical poet who survives by swindling inexperienced Craigslist customers. When Jake arrives in the city, Sean has disappeared, and as he struggles to secure a job and a place to stay, Jake discovers a nocturnal world of neon poverty in which his friend is thriving.
Screening with BIRD SHIT (Caleb Wood, 1 min.)NR, 110 Minutes
Official Website: http://www.thecellphonemovie.com/


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Malcolm wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:57:51 GMT
> Michael Soibelman
>> Grant wrote:
>> > On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:54:31 GMT, Michael Soibelman
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>I'm trying to install oracle-xe which requires a 1GB swap space. I
>> >>formatted my system with a 1GB swap space but...since my system is
>> >>using a small amount of that (~200MB) there is oly ~800MB free. My
>> >>main / directory has about 16GB free. Can I resize this partition
>> >>by shrinking it a little and increasing my swap space by that
>> >>amount without screwing up my
>> >>system ?? Of course I would do this by booting to cd and resizing
>> >>there.
>> >
>> > Yes, remember to shrink the filesystem before shrinking the
>> > partition
>> >
>> > Another option is to simply add a swapfile to increase swap space.
>> >
>> > Grant.
>> How does one shrink the filesystem ??
> Hi
> Use the yast partitioner tool to resize a partition, or have a look at
> sfdisk, mkswap, swapon and swapoff. You could just create a swap file
> and use that rather than shrinking and creating a swap partition.
I'm getting deeper into this and am having some anxiety...
I rebooted to cd and started system recovery. From the console I ran e2fsck
on the partition I want to shrink /dev/hdc2. Then I ran
resize2fs /dev/hdc2 36G. (was 36.7 GB before) Everything worked out so far.
So I rebooted to the hard disk and logged in. Now I'm getting a little bit
tired after being on the computer for over 10 hours and I'm just trying to
be cautious...
So, it seems to me that in order to resize this partition after having
successfully resized the filesystem on that partition I have to do that
without the system (or at least this partition) being mounted.. So do I
have to do this by booting to cd again ??


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Ayers Rock, or Uluru as it is now called by most, is one of the more remote attractions in Australia. Located in the middle of the country, in the Outback, the whole act of getting there and back, and finding amenities – like food and accommodation — can be labeled a chore.
Even so, more than 500,000 people visit the glowing red monolith each year, making the long and exciting drive from bigger cities, or flying into the tiny local airport in Yulara.
Yulara constitutes the sole resort area for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, and it is actually the only area nearby the attraction to find accommodation. As there is no camping inside the park, Yulara, just 5 miles (8km) from the park entrance, provides almost a necessary stopover for tourists at Ayers Rock.
Where to Stay in Yulara
The Yulara township was created to act as an accommodation location for tourists, and it consists of 7 different accommodation options of all shapes, sizes and classes. However, one thing generally applies to each of them: They seem to be overpriced for what they are. That said, with such a remote destination, of course running costs are going to be more than in conveniently located coastal cities.
Choose from the following:
- Voyages Longitude 131 (5 star)
- Sails in the Desert Hotel (5 star)
- Desert Gardens Hotel (4 star)
- Emu Walk Apartments (4 star)
- The Lost Camel Hotel (3 star)
- Outback Pioneer Hotel and Lodge (3 and 2 star respectively)
- Ayers Rock Campground
Where Else to Stay
Besides Yulara, the closest major city to Ayers Rock would be Alice Springs, and with that destination being 287 miles (462 km) away, the drive to there in a single day is often not recommended unless you have spare time to kill. We definitely wouldn't suggest trying to do Ayers Rock in a day trip; that would most likely result in you missing out on what makes the rock so glorious: a sunrise or sunset.


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During the "Fly Your Ride" competition Abraham Sanchez, left, and teammate Emiliano Lopez, both 18, of Oceanview Christian Academy in Chula Vista, watch their team's entry bridge the two ramp's gap. The competition was to get the longest distance in flight with your team's flying car they created.
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In the end, it took until the 93rd minute for Paulinho's backheel to secure a deserved 1-0 victory, making it four wins in our opening five matches in the Premier League.
That was our 29th shot of the afternoon - 20 on target - as we were denied time after time by home goalkeeper David Marshall.
"I just felt we were going to score a goal, perhaps not in the 93rd minute, but I thought we would score," said the full-back, who described the feeling when Paulinho struck.
"When the ball hit the back of the net the fans erupted, the players erupted, everyone went mad! We kept going and got the winner in the end."
The 1-0 win also represented our seventh clean sheet in eight matches in all competitions this season.
"That's important as well," added Kyle, who once again showed his versatility at left-back with Danny Rose suffering an injury against Tromso IL on Thursday.
"Daws and Jan are such a solid pairing, Hugo's on fire, he got me out of trouble in the first half, Walks as well, it's a strong back four."
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Cycle over to Providence�s Cable Car Cinema on Tuesday for an encore screening of �Rising From Ashes,� a documentary look at the African nation of Rwanda�s first national cycling team. Coached by Americans Jacques Boyer and Tom Ritchey, one seeking personal redemption, the other a former rival who offered him a chance, the team has become a unifying symbol to the people of Rwanda still struggling to recover from the genocide of the mid-1990s.
The film was originally shown in January as a benefit for the Rhode Island Bicycle Coalition, but bad weather prevented many from attending, organizers said in an email. Tuesday's showing again will benefit the coalition, who mission is "is to promote and enable bicycling as a healthy, enjoyable, efficient and environmentally friendly mode of transportation in and around the state of Rhode Island."
�Rising From Ashes� shows at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Advance tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at www.cablecarcinema.com. Tickets at the door will be $15. The Cable Car Cinema and is at 204 South Main St. in Providence.
The original version of this story was posted at 1 a.m. on Jan. 20.
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