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- Choosing and customizing a workspace
- Defining a new site
- Uploading files to your site
- Creating new documents and web pages
- Formatting source code
- Working with CSS
- Placing images and background graphics
- Creating links
- Styling a basic table
- Creating a web form with buttons, check boxes, and list menus
- Adding Spry effects
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When designing pages it's sometimes extremely helpful to note what you're looking at, or what the properties of an element are without having to resort to using one of the panels that we've been using up 'till now. Dreamweaver has several visual aids that you can use to assist you, when designing your pages with CSS. So with the programs.htm file open from the 06_09 directory, and we're just going to show off some of the visual aids here. Now, I of course had the foresight, because I'm the one writing the tutorial, right? But I'd the foresight to go in and turn all of them off.
So your preview screen may look a little different than mine. I just want show a couple of these visual aids off to you. So in doing that I turned them all off and I'm going to turn them on at a time. So you can see kind of what those things are. Now you'll also notice that I'm in Design view and I'm not in Live view. So I've got Live view turned off and I'm in Design view, so that I can sort of see the visual rendering on the page. Alright, so our visual aids are accessible through a couple different places. You can go upto the menu and go to View. But probably the easiest place to grab them is right here in the Document toolbar. You can see this little pull-down menu with the eye.
I'm going to grab that and I'm just going to start kind of in the bottom and work my way up. Now we have a lot of different Visual Aids, but in terms of CSS Visual Aids, we have pretty much stuff for these guys. Although, I guess you could select AP Elements Outline as being one of those as well. If you do any absolutely positioned element, it'll give you a nice outline around it. So as a matter of fact, you can see that right here, that is an absolute positioned element and that's the outline around it. Okay, I'm going to turn on the CSS Layout Outlines. Now the first thing that that does for you, you are probably used to this view by now. It gives you some dashed (-) lines around the different elements on the page.
So it's very easy for me to tell, when I'm looking at one container element versus another, and as I hover over those lines you'll see that it'll turn red indicating I can select that particular element. So a lot of times when you're dealing with more complex layouts where you have a lot of nested elements inside of elements, this is a really handy thing to turn on, because it makes it very easy to tell kind of who you're hovering over and who you're looking at. The next tool, I want to show you is a Layout Box Model, and it sort of goes hand-in-hand with these layout outlines. You'll notice now, that if I hover over one of these elements, and let's say I selected like this main article.
As soon as I select it, instead of just selecting the element now, I get this sort of these little diagonal lines inside of it. And these diagonal lines are indicating to me, the amount of padding and margins that an element has. If I hover over that area you can see, as a matter of fact, it says Padding: 16 pixels. So the more I go over an element, when I hover over an element, I'm getting some of the box model properties of that specific element. When I go over the contents of that article, I get more information about the article itself, what type of tag it is, what type of box model positioning. In this case, it's Floating to the left. The width of that applied to as well. So that's a, extremely useful feature. The next thing I am going to do, I'm going to go upto my Visual Aid menu again, and I'm going to choose the CSS Layout Backgrounds.
Now, you may find this useful or not, when you turn this on all of your background images and all of your background colors that you've assigned through CSS are going to go away, and what you're going to see, is you're going to see a semi-opaque background that's applied to the elements itself, and it's just kind of letting you know where those regions are. So you can very quickly and easily scan through the page, and tell that these headlines and these two columns are inside of an element. We can also tell that these links are inside their own regions as well.
We can also tell how these regions are being positioned, and the amount of space between them, which is really hard to do when this is turned off. If I turn these back off for example you can see that other then the outlines, I really don't have anything visually letting me know, that info. So it's a very nice quick and easy way to scan it. Now one thing you need to know about that, is as soon as I turn it on, I get a different set of colors every time. So there's a random algorithm that determines what these colors are going to be. So it would be lovely if you're like, hey, every single time you find the element named Info it would give this background color.
But they don't quite work that way. They're really for just sort of a quick visual survey if you will. I'm going to turn those off, and I'm not going to turn this on, but this option Fluid Grid Layout Guides, if you use the new Fluid Grid feature inside Dreamweaver, it's going to give you basically an overlay of columns on your page. When you resize your layout elements, it's going to help you snap to those particular column. So this is very useful if you're using Fluid Grids. Now there's one more feature that I want to show you guys, that's not really one of these contained within the menu. If I go up to View and I turn my Rulers on.
So I'm going to go down towards bottom here to Rulers, and I'm going to tell it to Show. You can see that I get rulers above this. Now this is quite common for anybody that's ever used Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, programs like that. You're used to having those rulers, and if you're used to having those rulers my guess is that you're used to being able to drag guides out from those rulers as I'm doing here, and place them on the page. Now I absolutely love the guides in Dreamweaver. I wish other programs had guides as powerful as Dreamweaver. That sounds like a ridiculous statement to make, but it's true. Notice that as I mouse over these areas, it's snapping right to the edge of those elements, and notice that as I'm dragging out the guide it tells me where I'm at, position-wise, on the page.
So as I drag these guides out, it's telling me exactly where I am and what I'm lining up with. So as I continue to drag these out, you'll notice that I'm getting really precise measurements. Now above and beyond that, check this out. This blows my mind. I love this. If I mouse over an area where I have some guides on the page, and I hold down the Ctrl Key on a PC or the Cmd Key on the Mac, look at that. I get measurements between the guides. Let's say I mouse inside this and turn this on, I can see that the height of these undergraduate degrees, all these links is 24 pixels, and I can see the width of the box, there inside of is 318 pixels.
That is really cool. Again I wish other programs will allow us to do that. Now the one really big downer to using these really cool CSS Visual Aids is that as soon as I go up and turn Live view on, they all go away. So while those ruler guides are amazing, and they're very powerful. Since the Design view does such a poor job of showing you what the layout's actually looking like of the large part, unless you're using extremely simple CSS you probably won't find a whole lot of usage in them. You will find usage out of things like these CSS Layout Elements though in the box model properties.
That's really useful, but unfortunately for the most part I don't use the guides a whole lot, because well, it's not an accurate representation of what my layout's going to be. So while the CSS Visual Aids in Dreamweaver are powerful, that lack of support for them in Live View means they're not as effective as you'd want to them to be when planning and testing your layouts. Thankfully Dreamweaver does have a few more tricks up its sleeve when dealing with Live view and we're going to explore that in our next movie, as we use the CSS Inspect feature.


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So, I rejoined Weight Watchers this past Saturday and have had a hard time coming up with filling things to eat that don't cost a lot of points. Tonight I am going to try this and see how it turns out:
Turkey Tacos-Servings 6, 3 points each taco (PointsPlus Program)
8oz Lean Ground Turkey
2T Taco Seasoning
6 Corn Tortillas
1C 1Shredded lettuce
C Chopped Tomatoes
3T Sour Cream
I am using full fat sour cream cause that is what I have on hand. Each prepared Taco is 3 points. The recipe builder doesn't tell me nutrition information but two tacos is a pretty good meal I would guess and I would probably add something else for a couple more points. I haven't put in what FF sour cream would do to the total but it might make a difference. And I was being very generous with the sour cream too. I will come back and let you know how they tasted and how filling it was.
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Geelong, One of the many places, my Heart is at :) And one of my many Homes.
A beautiful part of the World, with many pretty coastal towns, beautiful beaches, and unspoiled bushland.
An absolute 'Must See'. (The Penninsula, Ocean Grove, Port Arlington, Lorne, Queenscliff, Torquay - (Bells Beach), Anglesea, Apollo Bay, The Otways, and, The Great Ocean Road, and that is just the beginning.
Geelong is aproximately a 45 minutes, to an hour, drive from Melbourne, Capitol City of Victoria. There are many ways to get there, regular train and bus services, but having a car is still the best way to travel here, and you can drive around and see the many small towns in this region as well.
There are also many vinyards in this area, and excellent winery tours. Some of Australias best wines come from this region.
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This restaurant is not at Cunningham Pier and bus tours do not stop here, they stop at Smorgys which IS at the pier. Why write about somewhere you don't know about?
I just wanted to tell you that Myer & Target are NOT in Market Square, they are in Bay City Plaza.
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I can take being seduced... by wine..lol.. I've forgotten so much of the lovely architecture there. I'm sure it must have been Fishermans Wharf where I ate at. Still the very best page on Geelong!!..
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The last several months Pennsylvania dairy producers have received less than $16/cwt for their milk. The average breakeven milk price on many farms hovers around $18 to $19/cwt, so right now producers are hurting financially. If that was not bad enough, many dairies are suffering through drought conditions. The following website http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home.aspx shows conditions in the U.S. and for individual states. These are both situations producers have endured before however it never gets any easier. If not already, now is the time to be forward thinking. Forage quality and quantity could be issues and purchasing additional forage is a real possibility. What contingency plans are in place if the worst case scenarios play out: continued low milk price and low forage inventories?
The dairy industry as with any commodity deals with the peaks and valleys of the markets. Other commodities are in a similar situation as the dairy operation and to stay in business they have to know their cost of production. They are constantly monitoring their business's performance so changes can be made quickly to compensate for a downturn. It can be depressing when the current income over feed cost is less than the breakeven number. Instead of focusing on how to cut costs, many times to the determent on animal performance, focus on making adjustments that improve upon what is already being done. Many times it is honing in on a small detail that can make a significant impact on milk income.
The Penn State Extension Dairy Team is hosting an agricultural tour of Costa Rica in January 2017. Trip details updated! Registration deadline July 10th.
Future milk prices are looking (somewhat) better, but it seems like since 2008 no one has felt completely secure in the stability of the dairy industry. Being more cautious can be a good thing, but letting the milk prices and low milk margins get you down is not healthy for you, your family, or your farm in the long run. There is plenty of advice on how to manage your margins and your herd. Now, it is time to talk about how to manage your stress.
When data is available, managers can look at mortality numbers, feed shrink (tons harvested or purchased compared to as fed), and inventories of supplies to determine what changes if any are needed to reduce these sometimes steady drains on profitability.
A typical discussion of farm safety may focus on equipment operation principles, the use of personal protective equipment, or safe animal handling, but there are other aspects of farm safety that we sometimes neglect to include in our discussions.
We have recently updated an article about trends in age at first calving using records obtained from DRMS for all first-lactation Holsteins in Pennsylvania during 2015.
Today's technology provides the opportunity to collect a lot of data related to crops, cows and financials. The problem is a human element is still needed to monitor and evaluate the information. Determining the key metrics important to the producer or manager is essential for detecting and correcting problems earlier versus later.
A common mistake when working with dairy producers is focusing solely on production management or finances. It is the combination of the two that determines if an operation will be successful. Over the years the trend has been for advisors to become specialized. However, it is the interactions of the whole farm system that is critical, especially when working in an industry with extreme market volatility. Communication amongst advisors is essential if dairies are to remain in business.
Shredlage has been a hot topic in recent years, but studies have demonstrated it has the same overall dry matter and fiber digestibility as conventional silage.
In 2015, over half of the milk produced in the U.S. came from five states: California, Wisconsin, Idaho, New York, and Pennsylvania. These states have accounted for over 50% of U.S. milk production annually for the last decade. Despite annual production rankings, how do these states compare between themselves for annual milk per cow, milk price, feed cost, and more importantly income over feed cost (IOFC)?
The Penn State Extension Dairy Business Management Team summarizes Pennsylvania dairy cash flow plans annually to assess the factors that lead to farm profitability. In 2015, the 105 farms in the summary were divided by farm size to determine if there are any benefits to larger-scaled farms.
Structures that house cattle are vital to the success of a dairy business. It is essential these buildings are able to withstand weather events, have tolerable maintenance costs, and contain materials resistant to an interior environment that can be rather aggressive. Buildings need to provide a safe environment for employees and animals, remain in good condition for their functional life with minimal maintenance, and last (at least) the duration of the loan taken to construct them.
It is increasingly common for dairy managers to use tools that allow for pregnancy diagnosis earlier than the traditional 35 to 45 days after insemination. Diagnosing pregnancy early is beneficial for identifying open cows and allowing for reinsemination strategies that will help minimize days open and increase profitability, but losing confirmed pregnancies can be very frustrating.
Regardless of high or low profit margins the investment in health care for calves, heifers and cows should not waver.
When margins are tight the conversation usually focuses on the lactating cows and how to improve performance. This makes sense as they are the major driver of income. However, there are other groups of animals that generate expenses and unless they are sold do not contribute to the income stream. Dry cows and heifers take up on average 20 percent of the farm's total feed costs (home raised and purchased). This number is generated from the cash flow plans conducted by the Extension Dairy Team.
An examination of 2015 cash flow and breakeven production costs for 107 Pennsylvania farms shows that breakeven ranged from less than $16/cwt to over $22/cwt. Not surprisingly, feed costs are a big contributor to differences between farms.
Women have always been an important part of the dairy industry, but at many universities today the number of women earning degrees in agricultural sciences is equal to or greater than the number of men. The number of women who are the principal operator of a farm is also growing.
Understanding differences between cultures can provide helpful insight for situations encountered everywhere in our increasingly global society, including common encounters on U.S. farms.
It should be no surprise when the dairy industry comes off a year like 2014 with exceptional milk prices that the other extreme will come around. The carryover of income from 2014 softened the blow of 2015's lower milk price. Moving into 2016 the milk price is expected to be even lower. The same issues affecting cash flow in 2009 are impacting producers in 2016. Have we learned from past experience?


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One-Third of a Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities
Author(s): Barton, Paul E.
Publication Year: 2005
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Literacy and Health in America
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Publication Year: 2001
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I went to my website this morning to find that on the index page the sidebar is no longer there. On all the other pages the sidebar still appears.
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Crosstown Traffic Band Curacao offers a variety of songs originally recorded in the 1970s and 80s by the most popular American and International artists (Carlos Santana, Deep Purple, Marc Anthony, Three Dog Knight, Ossibisa, Rare Earth, Joe Cocker, The Doobie Brothers, Toto, amongst others). The Band currently specializes in public shows and events. The Band has performed with great success in the pre-shows for Marco Antonio Solis and Jorge Celedon in the Curacao Festival Centre. In 2011 the Band performed with Mr. Percy Sledge on a Mothers' Day Special event in the Avila Hotel in Curacao. In May 2012 (on Mother's Day) the band presented the legendary Keith Lyn (Jamaica) with great success. In June 2012 a Father's Day Special at Because Entertainment Center Curacao featuring Pat Pemberton, Ced Ride, Melania van der Veen and Ed Wieske. In 2013 we featured the legendary Peabo Bryson during a Mother's Day concert.
And for 2014 we will have a big celebration starting in 2014 and ending in 2015 with the presentation of the CATS Aglow Band from Volendam, featuring all the world hits of the legendary Dutch group THE CATS on May 10, 2015 @ Avila Hotel - Curacao, also featuring the Polyglots


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By Stephen Pollard
September 5, 2008
Only Larry David - the funniest man on the planet, by a mile could make a cancer ad like this:
To describe Larry David as funny, a comedian, a comic writer or actor doesn't come close. It's like calling Jascha Heifetz a violinist or Don Bradman a batsman. He is the greatest. Ever.
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Moving Beyond Fannie and Freddie
The experiences of other countries show there's no need for a government role in housing finance.
The new Congress, with a Republican House and a much narrower Democratic majority in the Senate, offers an opportunity for real reform of the housing-finance system. Up to now, most of the "reform" ideas floating through Washington have been designed to maintain a federal role. But if the 2010 election means anything, it is that the American people want the government to stop pursuing policies that put the taxpayers at risk for private failures.
The policy case against further government support of housing seems overwhelming. It is only 20 years since the savings-and-loan debacle, which arose from the government's effort to assure a steady flow of funds for housing. Beginning in the 1930s, interest rates on bank deposits had been capped by the Federal Reserve. In 1966, the cap was modified so that savings-and-loan associations could pay a quarter-point more than banks. With that support, the S&Ls quadrupled in size in the next 13 years.
When the rise of money-market mutual funds forced the government to abandon interest-rate controls entirely, many S&Ls were unable to compete in the unregulated market and became insolvent. In early 1989, the government stepped in. The ultimate cost to taxpayers was $150 billion.
The obvious lessons were ignored. Instead, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were allowed to take over the business of the S&Ls, buying and holding mortgages with an implicit government guarantee. As off-budget vehicles with virtually unlimited resources, Fannie and Freddie were ready-made for political exploitation, and advocates for low-income housing seized the day.
In 1992, Congress saddled Fannie and Freddie with a mission to support "affordable housing." This meant supplying credit for borrowers at or below the median income—mostly through subprime loans—and required that the GSEs reduce their underwriting standards by lowering down-payment requirements and buying other risky loans. But the new mission cemented their congressional support, and so Congress, joined by the housing industry, protected the GSEs from restrictive regulation almost to the day of their final collapse and government takeover on Sept. 7, 2008.
Research by Edward Pinto, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who was chief credit officer of Fannie Mae in the 1980s, has shown that by 2008 half of all mortgages in the U.S.—27 million—were subprime and other high-risk loans, often with little or no down payments by borrowers. Because of their affordable- housing requirements, the GSEs bore the risk of default on 12 million of these mortgages. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and other government agencies insured or held an additional five million. And banks under the Community Reinvestment Act, and other mortgage providers under a Department of Housing and Urban Development program, made another 2.2 million.
Thus, more than 19 million subprime loans were the responsibility of taxpayers, courtesy of the federal government's housing policies. The balance, slightly less than eight million loans, were securitized by Countrywide and other private issuers.
When the housing bubble began to deflate in 2007, these loans started to default in unprecedented numbers, driving down housing prices, forcing Fannie and Freddie into insolvency, and weakening financial institutions in the U.S. and around the world. Last October the GSEs' regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, estimated that the final cost for bailing them out would be between $221 billion and $363 billion.
Taxpayers might wonder what they got for all these costs. Certainly not a superior home-ownership rate—the U.S. ranks 17 among developed countries—well behind Chile, Italy and Israel, for example. Certainly not stable prices.
As other countries have shown, a housing system exposed to normal financial-market fluctuations is fully capable of meeting a nation's needs. Covered bonds, in which a bank sets aside a portfolio of mortgages to back up its obligations to bond buyers, are used widely in Europe and are generally treated as a high-quality security in the financial markets. If the mortgages don't fully compensate the bondholders, they can recover from the bank itself. No government support is involved, other than a rule that requires mortgages to meet the kind of quality standards that prevailed in the U.S. before affordable-housing goals were imposed on Fannie and Freddie.
The U.S. housing market is so large that banks alone cannot supply all the necessary mortgage credit. The securitization market, which is a mainstay of the credit-card and auto-loan markets, has a place. The collapse of mortgage securitization in 2007, like the insolvency of the GSEs, was caused by the securitization of subprime mortgages. Securitizations of "jumbo" mortgages—those larger than Fannie and Freddie were allowed to buy—lost value in the recession that followed the financial crisis, but they have been recovering.
Privatization or elimination of Fan and Fred is necessary to revive the securitization market, which cannot compete with the GSEs' subsidized rates. But as long as the GSEs are controlled by the government, the size of the mortgages they are able to buy can gradually be reduced. This can be done in, say, $50,000 increments every six months. As the GSEs are slowly removed from a portion of the market, securitization will take their place. When the GSEs' permitted level of mortgage acquisitions has been sufficiently reduced so that they are no longer important market factors, they can be closed down or privatized.
As we have learned at such great cost, housing bubbles can cause mortgage underwriting standards to dangerously deteriorate, so some regulation to assure that mortgages retain prime quality will be necessary to prevent this from happening again. The FHA can continue to insure mortgages from low-income borrowers, but these loans must also have clear standards so taxpayers are not put at risk again.
With these reforms, the distortions introduced by government guarantees and social policies will come to an end and the U.S. housing industry—and not U.S. taxpayers—will be taking the risks associated with housing finance. This is the way every other wealth-producing industry works, and the new Congress should assure that housing does not again make itself a ward of the government.
Mr. Wallison is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.


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WENATCHEE — The Chelan County Sheriff said a 40-year-old man has died after falling while hiking with his 9-year-old son over the weekend.
Brian Burnett says told KPQ that searchers found the body of William Berry in a boulder field at about 3:10 a.m. Sunday after an extensive search.
The Lakewood man was hiking with his son on Saturday in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. The two were traversing a steep boulder field when the father lost his footing and tumbled about 300 feet.
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"The Madonna Files ...Based on Prophecies of the Virgin Mary"
Youth Festival 2008, Paddy Kelly (Br. John Paul Mary) sing song "Didn`t know you`re so beautiful"
Our Lady's message for October 25, 2012 through Marija:
"Dear children! Today I call you to pray for my intentions. Renew fasting and prayer because Satan is cunning and attracts many hearts to sin and perdition. I call you, little children, to holiness and to live in grace. Adore my Son so that He may fill you with His peace and love for which you yearn. Thank you for having responded to my call."


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Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 73 (485th overall since 1960)
Draft: Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1st round (1st overall) of the 1976 NFL Draft.
Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1995 (Full List)
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SPA: Should We Process on the Server or the Client?
One of the selling points of the Single Page Application (SPA) was offloading work traditionally performed on the server onto the client. I feel the SPA has delivered on this promise.
However, it's not all roses. It's easy to get overzealous and push too much work to the client. We often forget that we can't control the client's environment -- the client can be anything from a ten-year-old machine to the latest-and-greatest smartphone with access to varying internet speeds. The only thing we can count on is the user viewing our site in a browser.
In my experience, intensive processing and data needing consistency between the server and the client, such as date conversions or data requiring precise calculations, such as money, are prime candidates for server-side rendering.
A common task performed on the client is paging. With small datasets this works great; however, small datasets never stay small. As data grows, the application slows and eventually becomes unresponsive. Unfortunately, you don't know it's happening because it's on the client and even worse it doesn't occur on all clients making it hard to troubleshoot.
Moving paging from the client to the server will alleviate paging related performance issues on the client. You might be thinking, "but now I am making a ton of API calls. Making so many API calls doesn't seem optimal." True, it does seem that way, but you'll be surprised how fast your data returns from the server. And the best part? You control the server and can increase capacity as needed.
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Bring Cotter fireboat to waterfront festivals
On June 17 and 18, the Buffalo River Fest was held at the new beautiful Buffalo River Fest Park on Ohio Street along the Buffalo River. Many visitors were disappointed to learn that despite all the marketing, they were not going to be able to even see the Edward M. Cotter fireboat, let alone board it for a ride. I inquired and found out that just prior to the event, organizers were notified that it was being sent to a festival in Dunkirk instead.
During the weekend of July 30, a sell-out crowd flocked to Canalside to see Tragically Hip perform at the Outer Harbor Fest held at the former site of the Pier, and the waterways were filled with boats. Again, the Cotter was among the missing. This time the fireboat was at a festival in Port Colborne, Ont.
The fireboat is a national historic landmark, one of only nine in the City of Buffalo, and the oldest working fireboat in the world. It should be present in Buffalo as an attraction for visitors now that Buffalo's waterfront has become a destination. With its cannons shooting water, the boat is a show-stopper that local tourists and Western New York residents should be able to enjoy.
As we plan for next year's season, perhaps we can plan on the fireboat for 2012 Buffalo River Fest.
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Turkish official must be joking about Israel
It was with utter disbelief that I read in The News the recent statement by Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. He warned Israel "that it risks alienation among Arab nations by resisting an apology for the raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla." Risks alienation among Arab nations? What on earth does Davutoglu call the Arab nations' treatment of Israel since its rebirth in 1948? Over the years, the world has watched or read about the surrounding Arab nations' attempt to push the Israelis into the sea; wipe them off the face of the map; and state that Israel has neither the right to the land nor even the right to exist.
Perhaps Turkey should send some real aid to all those millions of suffering Arabs we see on TV rebelling against their despot leaders who have kept them in abject poverty all these years.
Virginia McGroder
Social Security is not an entitlement
Some recent articles refer to Social Security and Medicare as "entitlements." Absolutely untrue! Social Security was created to be a retirement insurance plan for American workers. During the years we work, we (and our employers) contribute to this plan. At retirement time, we are supposed to receive a monthly payback from the fund in accordance with the number of years we were employed. This is an earned retirement benefit for those who actually worked and contributed. It is not an entitlement.
One of the government plans to reduce spending is to curtail entitlements. It has redirected our money to other uses. Now it wants to finagle the rules and call our contributions "entitlements subject to reform." That's outrageous! Abolish some of the freebies and perks for certain government employees, and the giveaways to people who didn't work and are not entitled. And plug the many other leaks that need to be plugged.
If Medicare is also an entitlement, will the government ever stop deducting the $96 a month from my Social Security "entitlement"? And will we go a third year without a cost of living increase?
To create jobs, change the free trade rules to make America more competitive. Then we'll need more factories to produce goods. Factories and manufacturing mean jobs. People working generate more tax revenue. But if these things ever happen, they politicians will still have to stop their squandering.
Dave Roth
Our federal politicians are big disappointment
So, am I going to go out and hire lots of new employees for my accounting practice because I'm going to get tax credits? I don't think so. As for veterans, I was looking for an accountant to work in my practice and would have hired a veteran, but there weren't any qualified ones.
We need government incentives that will create jobs. I wrote to President Obama, Vice President Biden, Sen. Charles Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand about giving tax credits to owners of rental property when they insulate their buildings. This would create jobs for the people manufacturing the insulation, the delivery people, the installers and the people selling the insulation.
The only response I received was a letter, one year later, from Obama's office that told me how the government is trying to clean up the atmosphere. It almost seemed that these politicians didn't understand what I was trying to tell them.
I am very disappointed with our federal politicians. We elect them to represent us and they they can't even read or respond to the letters we send them.
Kenneth Weinstein
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People are the lifeblood of any arts organization
When County Executive Chris Collins releases county money only for capital improvements to arts non-profits, this is a back-door way of turning county funds directly over to private companies. Operational money, which he blocked, goes to people's salaries, the people who are the lifeblood of any arts organization. Capital improvement money goes straight back out the door to some company that can build or sell and install the capital improvement. What good is a new roof or an elevator if there are no people left to staff the organization?
If Collins wants to help the bottom line of construction companies, let him just say so. It's hypocritical to disguise it as help for the same arts organizations he has just stabbed in the back.
Nancy Fernandez
GOP intransigence is the order of the day
Besides death and taxes, one other certainty exists in our culture -- Republican intransigence. I watched the president's address on the American Jobs Act and was hopeful for bipartisan support to assist the 14 million unemployed to get back to realizing the American dream.
Sen. Mitch McConnell calls the speech a ploy to get President Obama re-elected in 2012. Sen. Bob Corker says, "it's nibbling around the edges of the problem and might affect the supercommittee's efforts to cut the deficit negatively."
McConnell has indicated the goal of Republicans is to deny Obama a second term. The goal is not to make economic conditions better for the people. It's always party interest over national concerns.
The 2012 elections will be a referendum on Republican intransigence. In the meantime, Republicans are saying to the unemployed, "we don't really care!"
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All for his family trust. Do shorts really think he doesn't know what he's doing??? Good luck thinking this stock is going to go significantly lower. And to those who sold below $4, why did you give your shares to people who could easily afford to pay more? Patience is all you need.
good info. thank you.
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ok so you longs got extremely lucky
you had some insider purchases, big deal. how much did that help you? stock is still in the $4s and not in the $3s thats all.
But you all act like its going higher, like to $5+. thats what I find funny....LMAO
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Volume 41, Issue 6, January 1967
Transversal Motion in Transformer Laminations as a Cause of Noise41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910500View Description Hide Description
Transversal (out‐of‐plane) motion of transformer laminations has been noted by investigators of transformer noise, but it can be explained readily neither by electromagnetic forces between poles nor by magnetostriction. A new approach to the theory of transversal vibration is presented that suggests a cause of this type of lamination vibration and noise, namely, any magnetic path that causes magnetic flux to cross an air gap provides a force mechanism resulting in significant out‐of‐plane motion. This approach is particularly applicable to ballast transformers, in which air gaps, lamination slots, or leakage flux are commonly used. The theory furnishes expressions for the expected values of lamination displacement and velocity. A comparison with experimental data for one set of parameters is given.
Matrix Formulation in Acoustical Analysis of Mechanically Driven Fluid Systems41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910501View Description Hide Description
Mechanically driven fluid systems are inherent acoustic‐wave generators because of their motion and should thus be classified as time‐variant. As a direct consequence, the acoustic wave in the system will consist of a series of discrete components at the fundamental time‐varying frequency and harmonics thereof, and will lend itself to Fourier‐series representation. Previous works assumed the moving part to be a constant‐current source in a time‐invariant acoustic equivalent circuit as a convenient approximation. This work, however, describes the matrix formulation of a solvable linearized time‐variant equivalent circuit for these systems. By use of matrix theory, a general solution with better accuracy for acoustic wave throughout a fluid system is derived. The solution is within the capability of a large digital computer. Later, the simplification of the time‐variable element into a constant‐current source approximation is described.
Influence of Compressor Action on Speech Intelligibility41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910502View Description Hide Description
The effects of compressor action, which reduces the long‐term dynamic range of speech, on intelligibility of monosyllabic words presented in quiet was investigated. Three ratios of change in input level to change in output level were used, namely, 1‐ to 1‐dB, 2‐ to 1‐dB, and 3‐ to 1‐dB. Peak powers of the speech signals were adjusted for these three conditions of reproduction so as to achieve presentations of 0, 8, 16, and 24 dB sensation level. The interphonemic dynamic range of the speech signal was the variable under study. Performance of the normal hearers, patients with labyrinthine hydrops, labyrinthine otosclerosis, and presbycusis improved only slightly during either condition of compression. Moreover, the subjects with hearing loss did not achieve any greater benefit from compressor action than did normals. These results warrant the conclusion that neither the 2‐ to 1‐dB nor the 3‐ to 1‐dB compression ratio offered any important advantage over 1‐ to 1‐dB reproduction when comparison was made only in terms of intelligibility at a given sensation level of the output signal.
Machine‐Aided Formant Determination for Speech Synthesis41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910503View Description Hide Description
A semi‐automatic analysis‐synthesis scheme that can be viewed as a "manual formant vocoder" is described. A human operator makes decisions about formant positions on processed speech data. The parameters which result from the operator decisions are used to control a four‐pole parallel synthesizer.Speech processed by the system had an error rate of 4.2% for vowels and 16.9% for consonants.
Parameter of Nonlinearity in Fluids. III. Values of Sound Velocity in Liquid Metals41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910504View Description Hide Description
The speed of sound is reported for liquid metals(mercury,indium,bismuth,sodium, and tin) as a function of pressure (0 to 150 atm) and temperature (up to 100°K above the melting point). The result and data are used to obtain expressions for the derivatives of the sound speed with respect to temperature and pressure. These coefficients are then used to determine the parameter of nonlinearity in terms of the ratio B/A of the first two coefficients of the adiabatic expansion of pressure in terms of the density.
Mode Conversion in the Long‐Wavelength Limit41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910505View Description Hide Description
Conversion of energy from the first‐order longitudinal to the first‐order transverse mode is observed in the long‐wavelength limit for guided‐wave propagation in solid cylinders. This conversion process increases the attenuation of a multiply reflected longitudinal pulse and occurs in a localized region near any deviation from cylindrical symmetry in the waveguide.
Cross Section of a Circular Cylinder with an Impedance‐Loaded Strip along a Generatrix41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910506View Description Hide Description
An expression is obtained for the monostatic cross section of a circular cylinder when the cylinder sustains a surface impedance load which is constant over its surface, except possibly on a narrow strip along a generatrix. To get this expression, an integral formulation of the problem is obtained, and a discrete matrix approximation is taken. The matrices are diagonalized, and the problem is reduced to a scalar one. Then, because the finite series in the resulting expressions are discrete forms of well‐known integrals, these integrals are replaced by their exact values. The resulting expression is well suited to study the effect of strip width and strip impedance load on the cross section of a circular cylinder. The expression is then used to study the effect which certain nonhard strips have on the cross section of the hard cylinder.
Pressure Correlation for a Cylinder in a Diffuse Sound Field41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910507View Description Hide Description
A theoretical calculation is given of the surface‐pressure correlation function for a rigid, infinitely long cylinder in a three‐dimensional diffuse sound field (i.e., a sound field in which waves having all frequencies impinge on the cylinder from all directions). The analysis includes the effects of scattering of the soundwaves by the cylinder. A general expression is derived that gives surface pressure spatialcorrelation as a function of both circumferential and longitudinal separation for any arbitrary distribution of sound amplitude versus frequency. With the aid of a computer, numerical results are obtained for the case of a narrow‐band acoustic noise field. These results show a decrease in spatialcorrelation with increasing circumferential and longitudinal separation , as well as with increasing frequency. The results also indicate that scattering by the cylinder affects the spatialcorrelation only slightly in the longitudinal direction, but that it affects it considerably in the circumferential direction.
Frequency Dependence of Reverberation in the Ocean41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910508View Description Hide Description
Data on acoustic reverberation, collected at 12 stations in the Pacific Ocean, are presented to show gross characteristics of the volume reverberation as a function of depth at two frequencies, 10 and 25 kHz. The experimental equipment consisted of a cable‐connected, horizontally directional echo‐ranging instrument package, operating in conjunction with a shipboard digital data recorder. Of interest are the comparisons of relative scattering coefficients measured simultaneously at two frequencies. These comparisons indicate significant changes of scatterer composition with depth.
Epstein Normal‐Mode Model of a Surface Duct41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910509View Description Hide Description
Equations are given for the normal‐mode calculation of the sound field in a surface duct. The velocity‐depth profile is represented as , a form first used by Epstein for calculating the reflection of radio waves from a transition layer. A comparison of calculated and experimental measurements of propagation loss shows good agreement between theory and experiment.
Shallow‐Water Propagation under Downward‐Refraction Conditions41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910510View Description Hide Description
The important features of shallow‐water sound transmission under downward‐refraction conditions are interpreted in terms of ray theory and are discussed relative to some specific 30‐f (fathom) propagation‐loss results. The propagation results are shown to depend directly upon the velocity profile and the bottom loss. A bottom‐loss value of 1.3 dB per bounce was inferred from the measurements and is shown to compare favorably with theoretical values computed from bottom‐impedance information. Observed pulse shapes are then compared with theoretical pulse shapes synthesized from the combined ray and bottom‐loss models. In addition, the computed propagation‐loss values for the various paths are presented as a function of source angle in order to illustrate the vertical directivity introduced by the environment. Finally, the effect of this vertical directivity on shallow‐water propagation measurements is demonstrated by comparing propagation‐loss results for directional and explosive sources.
Specular Scattering of Underwater Sound from a Wind‐Driven Surface41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910511View Description Hide Description
A wind‐driven water surface possessing the gross characteristics of a simple sea (near‐Gaussian distribution of slopes and a 1.53 ratio of the upwind‐downwind slope to the cross slope) has been studied acoustically by analyzing the specular scattering of a broad range of frequencies at normal incidence surface roughness √g = 4πσ cosθ/λ ranging from 0.56 to 5.1). Theory, based on the Helmholtz integral and the Kirchhoff approximation, modified for beam diffraction, is used to provide values of the root‐mean‐square surface height from specular scatter at small roughness and of the root mean square slope from the asymptotic results at large roughness. The predicted exponential decrease of intensity with increasing but low value of roughness is corroborated even for wavelengths as large as the surface correlation distance, that is, far beyond the restrictions of the Kirchhoff assumption. The acoustically determined value of the root‐mean‐square slope is 17% less than the optically measured value. The form of the distribution of specularly scattered pressure is found to vary from near Gaussian distribution for the relatively smooth surface to near‐Rayleigh distribution for the rough surface. At any instant, the relative specularly scattered intensity decreases monotonically with increasing frequency to a minimum value at √g≃2.3 from which it is possible to get a second estimate of the root mean square height: above √g∼2.3 the instantaneous scattered intensity is a nonstationary oscillating function of frequency, varying about the asymptotic value.
Angular Distribution of Lower Room Modes41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910512View Description Hide Description
The angular distribution of the lower frequency modes in a rectangular room is calculated for various room dimensions. Applying the results to reverberation‐room measurements, it is shown that a sample placed with its surface normal to a long dimension of the room experiences the most diffuse field. Various methods are proposed to modify the existing techniques of absorption measurement, where it usually happens that the sample is placed with its surface normal to the shortest axis, thus experiencing the least diffuse field.
Mechanistic Aspects of Hearing41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910513View Description Hide Description
The results of a number of apparently diverse experiments on human hearing can be summarized via a simple model. Two mechanisms are required: One element emits unit responses whose number is proportional to the instantaneous amplitude of a sound. The other is a selector mechanism, analogous to a resonant circuit, that integrates the responses. Correspondingly, just two parameters are involved: the threshold of hearing and the "Q" of the selector mechanism. The system of equations representing the model makes it possible to derive the necessary parameters from the results of a number of different types of experiments. The theory of the selector mechanism is based upon a recent study of the limits of performance of a system capable of storing oscillatory energy reversibly, but the remainder of the theoretical description makes use of ordinary communication theory. The discrimination ability of the normal ear is shown to be proportional to the one‐fourth power of the level above threshold, and to relate closely to the sensation of loudness. Many features of the behavior of normal and impaired ears can be predicted by application of familiar network theory to the parameters derived from the model. The properties of the model may be used as criteria in the choice of experiments to develop explicit data on the way the ear performs its function.
Additivity of Masking41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910514View Description Hide Description
Suppose, in separate experiments, the level of noise and the level of a sinusoid are adjusted so that each produces the same amount of masking of a gated sinusoidal signal. If now the noise and sine‐wave masker are combined, how much must the level of the signal be increased to achieve the same level of masking effectiveness as before? Few conditions require only a 3 dB increment of the signal. It is argued that an increment greater than 3 dB implies that the processing of the signal when masked by noise and when masked by a sine wave are different.
Pitch of Complex Tones41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910515View Description Hide Description
The question of whether the pitch of complex tones is based either on the frequency of the fundamental or on the periodicity of the sound as a whole was studied. Fifteen naïve subjects compared the stimuli and had to decide which of the two stimuli, presented successively during 200‐msec intervals, was higher in pitch. The results showed that for m = 1 (fundamental of B was 10% lower in frequency than that of A, and all other harmonics were 10% higher in frequency than A) the pitch changed according to the harmonics for f < 1400 Hz and according to the fundamental for f> 1400 Hz. For m = 2, 3, and 4, the corresponding transition frequency was about 700, 350, and <125 Hz, respectively. This holds for both an = 1 and an = 1/n. The experiments support the view that the pitch of complex tones is based on periodicity rather than on frequency. The description of the experiments is preceded by a historical review.
Quality of Violin Vibrato Tones41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910516View Description Hide Description
Typical violintones with vibrato were recorded on magnetic tape. From a special analysis, synthetic tones were constructed that were very difficult to distinguish from real tones. The analysis showed that not only the frequency was varying up and down about sit times per second, but there were three other important characteristics varying at this same rate. All of the harmonics had the same variation of the frequency level, in cents, from the note being played. There was also an intensity‐level variation of the harmonics at the same vibrato rate, but the intensity‐level variation was greatly different for different harmonics. Also, the intensity of some of the harmonics would be rising while that of others would be falling during the vibrato period. Thus, a curve showing the relative intensity level of the harmonics at any instant changed back and forth during the vibrato cycle. The intensities of the sympathetic tone coming from the open strings also varied either at the vibrato rate or twice the vibrato rate, while the frequencies of these tones remain constant and correspond to the natural frequencies of the fundamental and harmonics of the open strings. The after‐ring is due principally to these transient tones. This effect is negligible when the frequencies of the fundamental and its harmonics are not close to those of the open string.
Attenuation Provided by Fingers, Palms, Tragi, and V51R Ear Plugs41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910518View Description Hide Description
Measurements of the attenuation of noise provided by use of the fingers, palms, tragi, and V51R ear plugs are presented for nine test tones. The results of the study show that the tragi provide the best attenuation, the palms and fingers slightly less attenuation, and the ear plugs the least attenuation.
Random Efficiency of Second‐Order Gradient Microphones41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910519View Description Hide Description
The random efficiency of the second‐order Limaçon transducer family, , is computed and minimum random efficiency of 0.125 is determined to occur when either m or n is and the other is 0.
Asymmetries in the Cumulative Probability Distributions of the Speech Waveform Instantaneous Amplitude41(1967); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1910520View Description Hide Description
Asymmetries in the cumulative probability distribution of the speech waveform instantaneous amplitudes are studied. It is shown that the asymmetries which occur at large amplitude values are accompanied by a difference in the mean and median values of the distributions. Microphone characteristics and filtering reduce the gross asymmetry of the larynx fundamental waveform, resulting in a reduction in the over‐all asymmetry.