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why the hell would they put Sarah Plains daughter on this show? What exactly has seen done in life to deserve to be on dancing with the stars. Man this world is getting crazier and crazier.
I guess pumping out a kid makes her a star in todays society.
what have half the people on that show done?
Originally Posted by Crowkillers: They might as well put Antoine Dodson on the show too....
I would secretly root for him...
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GEN News Highlights : Nov 12, 2009
MAP Pharmaceuticals reported a $60 million committed equity financing facility. Over the two-year term, MAP will be able to present Azimuth with draw-down notices for the latter to purchase specified dollar amounts of MAP common stock shares, up to a total of $60 million, at predefined terms. MAP has no obligations to utilize any of the facility if not required.
MAP's lead candidate is the inhaled migraine therapy candidate, Levadex. In May MAP reported positive results from the first Phase III trial, which met all four of its primary endpoint. A confirmatory Phase III study is due to start in the first quarter of 2010.
Also in May MAP announced a public offering of 3,500,000 shares of its common stock at $9.70 per share. Net proceeds, after estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses, were expected to be in the region of $31.4 million.
Just weeks later in July, the company confirmed that partner, AstraZeneca, terminated its agreement with MAP for development of the unit dose budesonide (UDB) candidate as a treatment of pediatric asthma. The drug failed to meet its primary endpoint in a Phase III trial, and MAP Pharmaceuticals confirmed its decision to suspend further development of the product.
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The NHL made the "2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series" official today. The Pittsburgh Penguins will meet the Chicago Blackhawks at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, March 1, 2014, at Soldier Field.
This could be the most unnecessary event that we'll ever watch with great intensity.
NHL's Coors Light stadium series: water down your event like Coors waters down their beer.
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Santa Cruz resident Carol Rich has a backyard that is well-kept. Instead of grass, she has neat mulch and stone islands with interesting sculptures, but it didn't always look like this.
"We ripped out a lot of our lawn and a lot of our plants," said Rich.
She prepared for months for the water-rationing request from the Santa Cruz City water department, so their bill didn't give them any big surprises.
"We are trying to keep all of our expenses down, so we are conserving to make it easier," said Rich.
Because of all the changes they made already, she says her life hasn't changed a week into water rationing. She doesn't have any complaints.
"I don't think it's that big of a deal," said Rich.
The water department says the biggest waster is from outdoor irrigation, but residents are getting behind conservation efforts. One week into water rationing most people are getting rid of the biggest money guzzler, outdoor hoses, and replacing grass with mulch and less plants.
Switching out grass for mulch and stone, capping the sprinkler system, purchasing drip irrigation may have Carol Rich's dream garden looking a little different than she imagined it, but it will save her pocketbook in the end.


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Dining Services has been working to make the Ref and Gorecki, the highest traffic dining centers on campus, more sustainable.
Over the past few years, changes such as eliminating trays and using more locally-grown foods have made a difference both on campus and in the community.
Since Gorecki went trayless two years ago, food waste has been reduced by almost fifty percent. An impressive statistic, and it is not just consumable food waste being reduced.
"That amount is not all edible, it includes any food waste, skins, ends of produce…all waste from the back of the house, and from the trays," said Kim Poganski, Director of Culinary Services at CSB.
Savings in water, energy, and labor must also be considered when thinking of all the trays not used every day that Gorecki is open.
The Ref is also moderating tray usage, though not ready to make the transition of eliminating trays quite yet. Community and campus-wide support is being built in beginning the process of going trayless at SJU.
There are also no longer individual napkin holders on each table at Gorecki. This is intended to cut down on the amount of napkins wasted and to reduce the amount of labor to refill and clean. Napkins are still readily available in strategically planned locations. The Ref is conducting their own tests this fall in order to determine the fate of napkin holders on their tables.
Both the Ref and Gorecki have also made efforts to buy food locally when possible.
"The bigger goal is the reduction of food miles and to keep increasing the amount of local foods we buy," said David Schoenberg, Director of Dining Services at SJU. Using food that is less processed is a goal in addition to using more scratch items made to order through local vendors.
Dealing with food waste is a major concern on both campuses as well. Gorecki recently hired a menu manager, who specializes in generating data that estimates the amount of food needed for each station in order to accurately reduce waste. The Ref also has an interesting strategy to reduce the amount of food wasted. Food that cannot be used is sent to a nearby pig farm where it is made into pig feed. Plans are also being made for a future collaboration through a community kitchen program. Any food that is good but cannot be reused will be donated to the community in order to feed those in need.
Future plans are being made to further sustainability. Building and developing greenhouses for more fresh produce in the dining centers is a big part of that agenda, as well as working with nearby physical plants to utilize energy resources.
"We are part of the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University's effort…the dining service is part of that bigger picture when it comes to doing our part for sustainability," Schoenberg said.


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ZEELAND — Over the past decade, Greystone International gained a reputation as a high-quality manufacturer of upholstered seating, being used in venues ranging from Celebration Cinemas to Ford Field, the home of the Detroit Lions.
But the company struggled financially and was in danger of going under.
In December, a new investment team purchased the assets of what was Greystone International and made a commitment to keep the firm in West Michigan.
"We truly were conscious of the value that Greystone International brought to West Michigan," company President Gaylord Stanton said. "We wanted to stay in West Michigan and maintain the West Michigan base."
The new ownership team consists of Larry Kooiker, owner and president of Holland-based Agritek Industries; Bill Maddox, the managing partner of DiffusionTek LLC and Manufacturing Enterprise Consultants LLC, of East Grand Rapids; and Key Portfolio, a family-based investment partnership.
The group outbid other companies, including a few large out-of-state competitors. A purchase price was not disclosed.
"We felt the product was a viable product, especially the theatre seating," Maddox said.
The newly formed company, known as Greystone Public Seating LLC, began operations in early January at a leased 48,000-square-foot facility at 7900 Logistic Drive in Zeeland. The old firm had been based in Byron Township.
Today, the company employs 20 workers making auditorium and theater seating.
Among the company's best-known products is the Harmony chair, which can be used in theaters, performing arts facilities, worship centers and educational buildings. The chair uses recycled materials, including upholstery made from recycled plastic bottles and bags, Stanton said.
The Harmony chair was recently featured on a school renovation project on the NBC-TV show "School Pride," company officials said.
"We've recapitalized the company," said Stanton, a Muskegon native who is the father of Detroit Lions quarterback Drew Stanton. "They're paying all their vendors on time, we figure between that and the new sales effort, we'll be able to expand."
Greystone Public Seating also is making a point of using West Michigan suppliers for components in its seats.
"We own all the toolings, but our vendors make the components that make the architecture," Stanton said.
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Owen Gleiberman?s worst movies of 2000
1. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
They've been working up to it for years, and now the Coen brothers have finally made a movie that is utterly dehumanized. In this egregious picaresque fable, George Clooney, sporting Cary Grant's hair, Clark Gable's mustache, and not a glimmer of their charm, plays an escaped '30s convict who leads two fellow prisoners through a backwoods Mississippi that consists of one stultifying, goony-obvious dumb-cracker joke after another. Unwatchable.
2. Battlefield Earth
John Travolta, looking like the last alien in the universe who hasn't heard that dreadlocks are passe, plays a cackling villain in this trashy, dumb, drably overscaled adaptation of an L. Ron Hubbard science-fiction novel. In his devotion to getting Battlefield Earth made, Travolta proved to be a cult of one.
3. Loser
The most excruciating teen movie in a year of very bad teen movies. Jason Biggs, minus every gram of his former baby fat, plays a sheltered country kid who goes to college in New York City and never figures out that if he wants to get laid, he should, like, take off that damned, stupid earmuffed hunting cap.
4. Humanité
Endless, rambling ersatz art about a French police lieutenant who "investigates" a sex murder by standing around and striking gawky poses that make him look like Tobey Maguire's Gallic uncle. Somehow, though, that title lent it…significance. It makes you wonder whether Battlefield Earth might have gotten a few rave reviews, too, if only they'd called it L'Histoire de Mankind.
5. Where The Heart Is
The dregs of the Southern-fried chick flick. Natalie Portman plays a pregnant teenager who moves into a Wal-Mart, and the baroque wackiness escalates from there. Message to Hollywood: A down-home accent doesn't make you sincere.


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The Entourage Cast Explain Why Their Boy Vincent Chase Makes a Better Aquaman Than Jason Momoa
Stand by your bro.By Marcus Jones
Stand by your bro.By Marcus Jones
Because whenever Vince seems like he's in trouble, it always works out.By Dee Lockett
Would readers have been more excited about her smooches with Mario Lopez, Ryan Reynolds, and Adrian Grenier back in the nineties?By Anna Silman
The "boys" are mad.By Amanda Dobbins
Take your time, guys.By Margaret Lyons
Vince is on Instagram.By Vulture Editors
And it had already been chewed ...
Plus: Julianne Moore loves KFC, and more, on our daily late-night roundup.By Caroline Shin
Kim Kardashian presents the S'Leb Suit, a silver tent that protects you from the paps.By Edith Zimmerman
A satisfying scene from last night's finale, especially for those who quit watching the show years ago.By Edith Zimmerman
Plus: Taylor Lautner a big fan of kissing Robert Pattinson's girlfriend.
Plus: Sandra Bullock to wear potato sack to Oscars.By Edith Zimmerman
But where's Mandy Moore?By Jada Yuan
"There's another [Ari Gold] out in Eugene, Oregon, who runs an organic bakery ... He's the Ari Gold most unlike the one on TV."By Bilge Ebiri
Plus: Matthew McConaughey's been thinking.By Amos Barshad
Plus: Kristen Stewart isn't sure she enjoys how commercial Sundance has become.By Stan Park
Yes — his name is Ari Gold, and the 'Entourage' folks evidently "borrowed" his name for the show's loathsome-lovable agent.
Plus: Amy Sedaris on how Jerri Blank's style obviously surpassed Carrie Bradshaw's.
Pablo Escobar is the subject of three prospective upcoming films, any of which would probably tank at the box office and get booed at Cannes.


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Geo, Make sure you are eating clean and LCHF. I have issues with high pressure situations due to mild Asperger's Syndrome. My anxiety etc. is much better when I am on program and off sugar and carbs.
Geo, Make sure you are eating clean and LCHF. I have issues with high pressure situations due to mild Asperger's Syndrome. My anxiety etc. is much better when I am on program and off sugar and carbs.
I'm washing clothes for the new job and I tried on a pair of dress pants that I'm figuring are around a size 10 or 12. I could get them all the way up, nice room in the legs, and I could wrap the waist band around my waist but couldn't zip. Massive camel toe right now if I were able to do so. I have no clue what the size is on these. I think they have a waist measurement and they are from a high end designer. A mom of one of Caitlyn's friends gave them to about 4-5 years ago. I should be in them in a few months
I know what you are thinking, why in the hell are you washing your work clothes now? I'm lazy and have been enjoying my mini-vacation.
I would wait til the last minute to wash my clothes too... work clothes usually hit the washer about 8:30 on Sunday nights. lol
I think you'll do great at the job! I'm rootin' for you. I hear ya about ADD though... I no longer need medication for it, but my job is so boring and "slow" that you'd think I did. Hot Office Co-Worker and I decided yesterday that our jobs only take us about an hour a day... So depressing.
Wishing you the very very very best of luck tomorrow!
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Woke up again at 5:20am and just laid there until 6. Luckily, today is my off day on workouts so I can get away with lying in bed until then. Luckily, tonight there is nothing on TV that either of us want to watch so its an early bed night. Going to leave in about 10 minutes. We got less than an inch of snow today, so that is going to screw up my drive.
Good luck, chica! We're all pulling for you.
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Have a great day, Geo!
Just wanted to report that thus far, the day is a good one. I'm already going through and confirming orders. The morning has flown by. The best part right now is that I get an hour lunch which is awesome. Half an hour on Saturdays.
My arms are sore from yesterday's workout. I'm finding it amazing how sore they are and all I did we're body weight exercises.
Work is going really, really well. Almost scary well. What I am doing is confirming food orders for chain restaurants for a nationwide food distributor. This week I am supposed to be able to complete 6 sheets on the high end each day for the first week then it goes up to as of week 4, I should be able to complete 16-20 sheets of orders a day. I completed 20 sheets today. No mistakes. I absolutely love it. It may be repetitive but it keeps you busy and I love it. Most of the calls that I take are outbound and are maybe 1-2 minutes long and just reminding restaurants to place their orders.
Sleep has been crap this week. I'm upping 5-htp to 2 tablets tonight and see if that will help me sleep.


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After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Footprints dressed in red And the wind whispers Mary A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life Somewhere a queen is weeping Somewhere a king has no wife And the wind it cries Mary The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow And shine their emptiness down…Read More
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Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand? Hey Joe, I said where you goin' with that gun in your hand? Alright. I'm goin down to shoot my old lady, you know I caught her messin' 'round with another man. Yeah,! I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady, you know I caught her messin' 'round with another man. Huh! And that ain't too cool. Uh, hey Joe, I heard you shot…Read More
Ben E. King – Stand By Me
When the night has come And the land is dark. And the moon is the only light we see No I won't be afraid No I won't be afraid Just as long as you stand, stand by me And darling, darling stand by me Oh, now, now, stand by me Stand by me, stand by me If the sky that we look upon Should tumble and fall And the mountain should crumble to the sea…Read More
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – One Rainy Wish
Gold and rose, the color of the dream I had Not too long ago Misty blue and lilac too Never to grow old There you were under the tree of song Sleeping so peacefully In your hand a flower played Waiting there for me I have never Laid eyes on you Not before This timeless day But you walked and ya… Whoa, ya smiled my name And you stole my heart away Stole my heart…Read More
Jimi Hendrix – I Don't Live Today
Will I live tomorrow? Well I just can't say. Will I live tomorrow? Well, I just can't say. But I know for sure I don't live today. No sun coming through my windows, feel like I'm sitting at the bottom of a grave. No sun coming through my windows, feel like I'm sitting at the bottom of a grave. I wish you'd hurry up 'n' rescue me so I can be on my mis'rable way…Read More
Jimi Hendrix – Little Wing
Well, she's walking through the clouds, With a circus mind that's running wild, Butterflies and Zebras, And Moonbeams and fairy tales. That's all she ever thinks about. Riding with the wind. When I'm sad, she comes to me, With a thousand smiles she gives to me free. It's alright, she says it's alright, Take anything you want from me, Anything. Fly on, little wing. Prevod na srpski Malo krilo Ona hoda kroz oblake sa ludim…Read More
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Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower "There must be some kinda way out of here" Said the joker to the thief "There's too much confusion I can't get no relief" "Businessmen, they, they drink my wine Plowmen dig my earth None of them along the line Know what any of it is worth "No reason to get excited" The thief, he kindly spoke "There are many here among us Who feel that life is…Read More


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Quilt exhibit part of "Main Street Memories"
A quilt exhibit and sale is part of the "Main Street Memories" celebration this fall in historic downtown Eunice, according to Joan McManus, Main Street director.
"If you are proud of a beautiful quilt made by a cherished member of your family, let us display it," McManus said. Quilts made for sale will also be exhibited.
The quilts will hang at the Jean Lafitte Acadian Cultural Center, the Depot Museum, Cajun French Music Association Museum and at stores in the district.
Call McManus at 457-7389 for iinformation.
A vintage car show is among featured events during Main Street's Main-to-Main Cultural Road Show in November.
According to McManus, "Main Street Memories" will include the car show at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15.
Also on that day will be verbal histories and other activities, culminating with a special show at the Liberty Theatre at 6 p.m.
The tentative schedule for Nov. 15:
Ongoing quilt exhibit
Art show & children's activities
10 a.m. Vintage car show
10 a.m. Ongoing verbal histories in historic buildings downtown
10 a.m.-11 a.m. Alma Reed, history of Eunice slide show
11 a.m.-noon Paula LaFleur, free jitterbug dance lessons
Noon dancing
Noon old time barbeque, City Hall parking lot
Ongoing music downtown
1 p.m.-2 p.m. Miriam Fontenot, free cajun dance lessons
2 p.m.-3 p.m. Dancing
3 p.m. Music program
4 p.m. Free cooking demo
4 p.m. Wine and cheese social at Jean Lafitte.
6 p.m. Classic country music show, Liberty Theatre, featuring Hope Huval, Al Karleen and Maegan Bernard, Laura Huval, Barry Ancelet, Terry Huval, Hugh Harris, Luke Huval, Helen Boudreaux, D.L. Menard, Gina Forsyth, Ken David, Tony Huval and Bobby Dumatrait.
This show will be an opportunity to enjoy vintage country and western music in its original style as the performers salute traditional country artists by retelling their long-admired stories in song.
It is especially fitting that this classic country and western music plays at the Liberty, whose stage was graced by such performers as Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers and Lash Larue in the 1940's and 1950's.
Cultural Road Show, sponsored by a Preserve America Grant, Office of the Lt. Governor, La. Dept. of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Office of Historic Preservation, Louisiana Main Street, St. Landry Parish Tourist Commission, CLECO, Wal-Mart and others.


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Volume 84, Issue 11, 01 December 1998
A methodology for automated quantitative microstructural analysis of transmission electron micrographs84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368898View Description Hide Description
It is generally recognized that proper quantification of microstructural behavior is necessary for the optimization of materials properties. In the specific case of polycrystallinethin films,transmission electron microscopy(TEM) is required for microstructural interrogation due to the small (nm–μm) inherent length scales in these systems. While a meaningful study requires large grain populations, typical data sets are relatively small due to the need for human interpretation of the contrast in TEM micrographs. To overcome this limitation, a general methodology has been developed to fully automate the grain boundary identification procedure by using a combination of both conventional and newly developed image processing algorithms to extract and combine information from multiple, optimized TEM micrographs. This technique has been validated by systematically analyzing microstructures of thin Al films, as obtained from TEM micrographs, and comparing these results with those obtained by a conventional, manual approach. Indeed, a statistical analysis shows that the agreement between these two methods is quite good. We further show that based upon a large population (8185 grains) one can estimate the number of grains required to draw meaningful conclusions about this microstructure. While the emphasis of this work is on TEMimage processing, the techniques developed here are expected to be sufficiently general and flexible so as to be applicable to other (e.g., focused-ion beam) microscopies.
Transmission and gain of singly and doubly focusing refractive x-ray lenses84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368899View Description Hide Description
Multiple refractive lenses with a focal length of 1 to 2 m are a new tool for focusing hard x rays to a spot size in the micrometer range. They may be used for microdiffraction, microfluorescence, and coherent imaging. The lenses may be focusing in one or two dimensions. In this article, we have calculated the transmission and the gain for linear lens arrays, for crossed linear arrays and for doubly focusing lenses with parabolic profile. It is essential to minimize the mass absorption coefficient μ/ρ by choosing low Zmaterials in order to optimize the transmission. The gain of the lenses can be as high as 5000 and more, i.e., the intensity in the focal spot can be 5000 times higher than that behind a pinhole of size equal to the spot size. In real lenses the gain is smaller and the focal spot is blurred by lens imperfections, by Compton scattering, and by small angle x-ray scattering (SAS). In the present investigation different low Zmaterials have been tested for SAS. Different linear and crossed linear lenses made of beryllium, boron nitride, pyrographite, plexiglass, polycarbonate, polyoxymethylene, Vespel, and aluminium have been tested for focal spot size, gain, and background. The maximum gain obtained up to now was 13. The focal spot size is slightly larger than the value expected from demagnification of the source size. Possibilities for improving the lens performance are discussed.
Characteristics of populations and gains in neon-like argon (Ar IX)84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368900View Description Hide Description
The characteristics of the populations and gain coefficients in Ne-like Ar have been investigated considering the 37 levels of the , , , , , and configurations. It was found that large gains on the and transitions are formed for the density between and . The effect of the opacities of the and transitions becomes important for a density higher than and even increases the gain on the transition for the opacity of the transition of up to 2.
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Influence of contacts on the conductivity of thin wires84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368901View Description Hide Description
The conductivity of thin wires was shown to depend noticeably on the properties and, particularly, dimensionality of contacts. Two- and one-dimensional contacts create a strongly nonuniform electric field in a wire which, in turn, causes the redistribution of electron density along a wire and nonlinear current–voltage characteristic. The particular shape of the latter has been calculated for both Ohmic and Schottky contacts of different dimensionality. The case of ac applied voltage is also considered. Spatial distribution of nonequilibrium carriers is found for different signal frequencies ω. The wire conductivity is shown to increase with ω for any type of low-dimensional contacts.
Influence of detection conditions on near-field optical imaging84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368902View Description Hide Description
The process of image formation in transmission mode scanning near-field optical microscopy is analyzed both theoretically and experimentally. Changes in the dielectric and topographic properties of the sample influence not only the total transmitted intensity, but also its angular distribution in the far field. This opens up an additional source of optical information about the sample. Some of this additional information is retrieved by separate but simultaneous detection of the radiation emitted at angles smaller (allowed light) and larger (forbidden light) than the critical angle of total internal reflection, respectively. Different experimental setups and their respective advantages are discussed. High resolution, constant height mode optical images of test structures are compared with theoretical predictions. Forbidden-light optical images frequently provide enhanced resolution and/or contrast as compared to allowed light images. For small phase objects, in contrast to amplitude objects, a contrast reversal between forbidden and allowed light images is observed.
Threshold current of quantum-disk and quantum-wire gain-coupled distributed feedback lasers84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368903View Description Hide Description
This numerical study shows that an effective way to reduce the threshold current density in the quantum well(QW) and bulk types of gain-coupled distributed feedback (DFB) lasers is to reduce the active volume. Although the threshold current per unit cavity width is smaller for the quantum-disk type than it is for the quantum-wire or QW type of gain-coupled DFB laser, both the optimum number of vertically stacked quantum structures for minimizing when cavity length (L) is fixed and the optimum L for minimizing when is fixed are the largest for the quantum-disk type. When L=500 μm, for example, the optimum is 7 for the quantum-disk type, 5 for the quantum-wire type and 3 for the QW type. Threshold current density is almost independent of facet reflectivity (r), and this implies that all these lasers oscillate at the Bragg mode. The of the bulk laser, however, is influenced most by r because this type has the smallest differential gain.
Vacuum ultraviolet application of crystals: Generation of 100 fs pulses down to 170 nm84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368904View Description Hide Description
We investigate and characterize the newly grown crystal which is transparent down to 160 nm for nonlinear optical conversion into the vacuum ultraviolet using sum frequency mixing with femtosecond pulses. This material exhibits excellent properties below 180 nm and makes possible the generation of wavelengths down to 170 nm with an all solid state laser system. The most important advantage of in this spectral range turns out to be the possibility of utilizing noncritical phase matching with maximized effective nonlinearity. We demonstrate generation of nearly transform limited 100 fs pulses between 170 and 185 nm with conversion efficiency of 4%. Their peak powers range from 200 kW at 170 nm to >2 MW at 185 nm.
Photorefractive polymer composite trapping properties and a link with chromophore structure84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368905View Description Hide Description
The photorefractive properties and the phase stability of polymer composites are dependent on the detail of the alkyl chain substituent attached to the electro-optic dye within the composite. Photorefractive composites based on poly (N-vinylcarbazole) (PVK), sensitized with trinitrofluorenone (TNF) and mixed with a concentration of 47.5 wt. % of electro-optic dye have been tested for photorefractive performance. Two alternative azo dyes of identical molecular weight have been used to produce alternative composites; both dyes were modified to suppress spatial isomerism and incorporated an eight carbon alkyl chain at the electropositive end of the chromophore: either a straight octyl chain or a branched ethylhexyl chain was substituted. The reorientational enhancement of photorefractive performance is similar in the composites resulting from these dyes. The dye with a straight octyl chain led to a composite with improved holographic performance. The dye with a branched ethylhexyl chain led to a composite exhibiting lower diffraction efficiency, but with superior phase stability. A tentative explanation is offered for these differences based on the shape of the alkyl substituent and its effect on a trapping mechanism involving the dye molecules and the sensitisor anions in PVK:TNF-based photorefractive composites.
Diode-pumped continuous-wave, quasi-continuous-wave, and Q-switched laser operation of at 1.5 and 2.3 μm84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368876View Description Hide Description
We report continuous-wave (cw), quasi-cw and -switched laser oscillation of -doped at 1.5 and Maximum cw output powers of 300 mW at 1.5 and 450 mW at have been obtained. Quasi-cw excitation revealed 20 mJ pulses at The cw pumped laser was passively -switched using a crystal as saturable absorber with a repetition rate of 65 kHz and a pulsewidth of 800 ns. An average output power of 19 mW was achieved. The dynamics of the system was simulated using a rate equation model.
Starting mechanisms and dynamics of bubble formation induced by a Ho:Yttrium aluminum garnet laser in water84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368906View Description Hide Description
The starting mechanisms and dynamics of laser-induced bubble formation at a submerged fiber tip in distilled water were experimentally investigated using pressure measurements and fast flash videography. A fiber guided Ho:YAG laser operating in the free running (τ=200 μs) and Q-switched (τ=45 ns) mode at a wavelength of λ=2.12 μm was used as a light source. It is shown that the beam profile at the distal fiber tip (multimode fiber μm) exhibits hot spots that result in an inhomogeneous temperature distribution in the heated water volume. Depending on the laser irradiance, three different bubble formation processes are distinguished: bubble formation by heating, by rarefraction (cavitation), and by a combination of these two processes. For laser irradiances of less than 0.5 MW/ bubble formation takes place at temperatures near the critical point of water A rapid decrease in the threshold temperature for bubble formation was found for laser irradiances between 0.5 and 1 At laser irradiances higher than 3 microbubbles with radii of up to 20 μm were formed at the front of the laser pulse even though the average water temperature was far below 100 °C. The water temperature distribution during the laser pulse was determined by numerical simulation. Simultaneous pressure measurements revealed that each subablative laser spike induces a bipolar pressure transient. The onset of the bubble expansion was found to be correlated with a characteristic pressure increase that can be used for on-line monitoring of the ablation process. The distortion of the temporal profile of the pressure wave is shown to be an effect of diffraction. The reduction of pressure by the negative part of the bipolar pressure transients leads to a lowering of the evaporation pressure and therefore to the initiation of bubbles by cavitation. With increasing irradiance this mechanism becomes more efficient.
Second-harmonic generation in nonlinear grating coupler84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368907View Description Hide Description
Second-harmonic (SH) wave in the grating coupler is investigated by using the singular perturbation technique with multiple space scales. In order to apply the perturbation technique, we first introduce the perturbation parameter concerned with the nonlinear coefficient and the depth of the grating, and the multiple space scales in the propagation direction. Substituting the expansion of the field and the multiple space scales into the nonlinear waveequation, we can get the governing equations to each order of the perturbation. From the solvability conditions to have nontrivial solutions for each perturbationsolution, that coupled equations for the guided wave, incident wave, and radiated wave can be shown. Also, the radiated angle of fundamental and SH waves and the radiated SH wave for input/output couplers are examined numerically.
Optical second-harmonic generation in sputter-deposited AlN films84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368908View Description Hide Description
Results of a study of optical second-harmonic (SH) generation in AlN filmsdeposited on borosilicate glass by reactive direct current magnetron sputtering are reported. As determined by x-ray diffraction(XRD), the films were highly c-axis oriented. The transmitted SH signal for film thickness ranging from 340 to 7800 Å was measured. The signal was consistent with the existence of a dead layer (in which no SH was generated) on the film surface with an effective thickness of ∼300 Å. A set of 7800-Å-thick films were deposited at substrate temperatures from ambient to For filmsdeposited at 100 °C or higher, minimal variation in the SH signal with was found. Values of and with and having the same sign, were obtained for The approximate tilt angle of the optic axis of the films with respect to the substrate surface normal was determined. XRD results showed that the tilt was due to a tilt of the crystallographic texture axis.
Effects of frequency on the two-dimensional structure of capacitively coupled plasma in Ar84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368909View Description Hide Description
A time-modulated and time-averaged two-dimensional (2D) profile of the net excitation rate of and was observed in capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) in Ar as a function of the driving frequency (1–100 MHz) through the use of 2D-t optical emission spectroscopy(OES). A significant improvement in the detection efficiency was achieved for the time-resolvedOES. Results are presented for the basic characteristics of 2D and 2D-t profiles of the net excitation rate in Ar from 1 to 100 MHz at 1.0 Torr. For comparison, 2D profiles in CCP between high frequency (13.56 MHz) and very high frequency (100 MHz) at 0.1 Torr and 25 mTorr under the same power dissipation are discussed. The advantages of VHF operation are described and discussed based on the radial uniformity and high density in CCP at low pressure. The appearance of a local emission peak at the edge of the rf electrode is observed in CCP, which is caused by changes in the sustaining mechanism due to increases in the driving frequency.
Sheath overlap during very large scale plasma source ion implantation84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368910View Description Hide Description
Measurements of plasma sourceion implantation have been performed on a large target of complex geometry. The target consists of 1000 aluminum, automotive piston surrogates mounted on four racks; total surface area is over 16 The four racks are positioned parallel to each other, 0.25 m apart, in an 8 vacuum chamber. The racks of pistons are immersed in a capacitive radio frequency plasma, with an argon gas pressure of 20–65 mPa. Langmuir probemeasurements indicate that the plasma density profile is highly nonuniform, due to particle losses to the racks of pistons. The plasma ions are implanted into the pistons by pulse biasing the workpiece to negative voltages as low as −18 kV for up to 20 μs. During the voltage pulse, the high-voltage sheaths from adjacent racks of pistons converge towards each other. At plasma densities less than the sheaths are observed to overlap. Measurements of the sheath overlap time are compared with standard analytic theory and with simulations run with a two-dimensional particle-in-cell code.
Secondary electron enhanced discharges in plasma source ion implantation84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368889View Description Hide Description
The first published measurements of a plasma discharge enhanced by secondary electrons during plasma sourceion implantation are presented. The ion implantation target consists of 1000 aluminum, automotive piston surrogates mounted on four racks; total surface area is over 16 m2. The four racks are positioned parallel to each other, 0.25 m apart, in an 8 m3vacuum chamber. The racks of pistons are immersed in a capacitive radio frequency plasma, with an argon gas pressure of 20–65 mPa. Each plasma ion implanted into the target results in the emission of multiple secondary electrons.Langmuir probemeasurements indicate that at high enough gas pressures, the energy of the secondary electrons can couple to the plasma, increasing the rate of ionization. Two different coupling mechanisms are observed. In the first, the secondary electrons directly ionize the background gas. In the second, the secondary electrons couple to the thermal electrons through a beam-plasma instability. Measurements of the instabilities are in agreement with two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations.
Multiply charged ion transport in free boundary vacuum arc plasma jet84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368890View Description Hide Description
The free boundary plasma arc jet expansion was analyzed based on a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model. The plasma jet expansion was modeled using the sourceless steady-state hydrodynamic equations, where the plasma free boundary was determined self-consistently. Due to the existence of an electric field in the quasineutral plasma the different charged ion species can be spatially separated. It was found that the mean charge state distribution is strongly nonuniform with a tendency for the highly charged species to appear near the plasma jet boundary region. Along the center line the density of singly charged ions falls off by about four times while the density of fourfold charged ions drops by more than 100 times. The radial charge state distribution becomes more nonuniform with increasing magnetic field. Good qualitative agreement between calculated and experimental radial distributions of different charged species was obtained.
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Role of small atoms in the formation and properties of Zr–Ti–Cu–Ni–Be bulk amorphous alloys84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368891View Description Hide Description
The formation, thermal stability and mechanical properties of ZrTiCuNiBe bulk amorphous alloy were investigated by means of x-ray diffraction,differential scanning calorimetry and microhardness measurements. The amorphous alloys in the composition range were prepared to investigate the role of Be in the glass forming ability. It is found that the formation, crystallization, and thermal properties of the amorphous alloy are sensitive to the addition of small sized atoms of Be. The amorphous alloy becomes more stable with increasing Be contents. A small amount of carbon addition can further extend the supercooled liquid range and enhance the strength of the alloy. More carbon additions result in the formation of a crystalline/amorphous mixture accompanied by a pronounced increase in strength. The role of Be and C in the excellent glass former alloys is discussed in terms of the thermodynamic and microstructural aspects. The decomposition phenomenon in the alloy is interpreted based on the experimental results. The effects of carbon on the strength of the alloy are discussed from a structural point of view.
Effective energy of nonlinear elastic and conducting composites: Approximations and cross-property bounds84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368892View Description Hide Description
By using similar techniques that were employed in an earlier article on nonlinear conductivity [L. V. Gibiansky and S. Torquato, J. Appl. Phys. 84, 301 1998], we find approximations for the effective energy of nonlinear, isotropic, elastic dispersions in arbitrary space dimension We apply our results for incompressible dispersions with rigid or liquid inclusions and, more generally, with a power-law-type shear energy. It is shown that the new approximations lie within the best available rigorous upper and lower bounds on the effective energy. We also develop bounds on the effective energy of nonlinear conducting media with voids or cracks, purely in terms of the effective and phase elastic moduli of the media.
Disturbed state constitutive model for thermomechanical behavior of dislocated silicon with impurities84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368893View Description Hide Description
A constitutive modeling approach, called the disturbed state concept (DSC), is developed to characterize the mechanical response of silicon with dislocations and oxygen impurity. Factors such as dislocation density, temperature, strain rate, and oxygen concentration are included in the model. The parameters for a silicon crystal are calibrated based on stress–strain data reported by Dillon et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 60, 1784 (1986)] and those for silicon with oxygen impurity based on laboratory stress–strain data reported by Yonenaga et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 56, 2346 (1984)]. The predictions from the DSC model are compared with those based on the model proposed by Dillon et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 60, 1784 (1986)], and with laboratory test data by Yonenaga et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 56, 2346 (1984)]. The correlation between the DSC predictions and test data is very good. It is believed that the DSC can provide a unified and improved constitutive model, compared to previously available models, for the thermomechanical behavior of silicon and other materials.
Experimental study of laser-driven shock waves in stainless steels84(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.368894View Description Hide Description
Two industrial stainless steels were investigated under laser-shock loading in plasma confined regime with water at nearly 10 GW/cm2irradiance, driving to stress loadings close to 7 GPa—20 ns at the surface of the targets. A velocimetryinterferometer system for any reflector was used to measureshock wave decay and estimate, through the determination of elastic precursors, the dynamic yield strengths at strain rates approaching Some 50%–100% increases could be found between dynamic yield strengths and static plastic flow limits at Different behaviors were noticed: on AISI 316L Austenitic steel, elastic precursors were shown to have constant values, whatever the propagation depths, whereas on a Martensitic X12CrNiMo12-2-2 steel, precursor attenuations in depth were evidenced. Concerning the application of laser-shock waves to reinforce surfaces, the determination of Hugoniot elastic limits was shown to be useful to predict the plastified depths and the general evolution of plastic deformations in-depth. For instance, comparisons between shock wave profiles and in-depth residual stress fields were shown to give accurate correlations. Lastly, the propagation of laser-shock waves in work-hardened layers was also investigated, which allowed to point out some stress amplitude increases behind 316L foils in the case of a material saturated with defects (shot peening at very high coverage rate).


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RecipharmCobra Bio recently received European patents for its Xer-cise technology, which genetically modifies bacteria without leaving antibiotic resistance genes on their chromosomes. As Rocky Cranenburgh, Ph.D., head of molecular biology and inventor of Xer-cise, explained, "The system uses Xer recombinases, which are native to bacteria." The Xer-cise cassette consists of an antibiotic resistance gene flanked by dif sites—the recognition sequence for Xer recombinases—and regions homologous to the chromosomal target locus. That cassette is inserted into the target bacterium by homologous recombination.The Xer recombinases resolve the two directly repeated dif sites to a single site, excising the intervening antibiotic resistance gene. "That reduces the steps involved," Dr. Cranenburgh says, because, "once inserted, you don't have to transform the bacteria with an additional plasmid carrying a foreign recombinase gene, which subsequently needs to be removed from the cell.""Xer-cise has enabled molecular biologists at RecipharmCobra and elsewhere to rapidly construct bacterial strains that are not antibiotic resistant, and are therefore advantageous for the commercial production and delivery of biologics,"adds Simon Saxby, vp of biologics.
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The Italians love playing with colors - especially in their wines.
First, they started the modern "orange wine" trend by vinting white grapes on their skins like red wines.
Now comes Alter Ego, a dry "white" made by Andrea Occhipinti from Aleatico, a Muscat-scented grape usually made into a sweet red.
Occhipinti ( not Sicilian superstar Arianna Occhipinti), is an academic who settled on the volcanic slopes of Lake Bolsena in Lazio (a region that includes Rome) and melds indigenous grapes with innovative techniques. H
e also makes Alea Viva, a rare dry red version of Aleatico. As a white, it has minerally edge, a ghost-light hint of tannin that frames a floral nose and what a.kitchen's sommelier, Mariel Wega, describes as a tart, sweet taste of white cherry.


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Someone had to play Sudan.
Memphis puts its 22-8 record and new state ranking on the line against Texas' No. 2-ranked team in a Class 1A Division I area-round playoff.
Sudan, with only one senior starter, is 29-4 after going 27-7 last year and advancing to the regional semifinals.
But don't count out the Lady Cyclones, who this week won a bidistrict game for the first time in 25 years.
"They're a heckuva team," Sudan coach Jason Cooper said of No. 19 Memphis. "They're really athletic and playing with a lot of confidence. They'll be up and ready to go. Our kids will be up and ready to go, too.
"We match up well with each other, and it'll probably be up and down the court."
The Hornettes' four losses were to Class 5A No. 16 Coronado (27 wins), 5A playoff team Tascosa (17 wins), 4A No. 12 Palo Duro (28 wins) and 3A No. 1 Canyon (26 wins).
"I think the winner of this game has a great shot at Austin," Memphis coach Ricky Guy said. "My main concern is handling the pressure. The question is if we can do that."
Another factor is Memphis top scorer KaPrisha Henderson getting offensive help to offset Sudan's balanced starting five.
"It'll take all five to contribute for us to be successful," Guy said. "We've got to have all five hitting on all cyclinders."
Guy is realistic - some team will have to beat Sudan to have a shot at the state tournament.
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Community Services Minister Lisa Neville acknowledges there are still problems in the child protection system in Gippsland and says there is more help on the way to prop up the region.
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Ms Neville says the government has commenced implementing all of the 42 recommendations in the Ombudsman's report. Some have already been completed, and others still need more work.
One issue which remains ongoing is the recruitment of more staff for the Gippsland region.
"We sought out to recruit 36 staff and that was to both fill vacancies, and also to fill the new positions that have been funded in Gippsland. We've been able to recruit 32, but my view and certainly the view of the department, this is going to be an ongoing campaign."
The minister hasn't visited Gippsland since the area was found to have a huge backlog of unallocated cases, but she says in discussions with staff in the region she has heard that last year was a difficult time for Gippsland staff, with a substantial increase in cases and a high rate of staff leaving.
"The loss of those workers then put more pressure on ongoing workers. That then saw more workers leave. We got into a very bad cycle in terms of recruitment and retention in Gippsland that impacted upon the health and wellbeing of workers, and obviously impacted on the capacity of the child protection program to really respond to the needs of vulnerable families in the region," Ms Neville says.
Minister Neville says that recruitment and retention will continue to be a priority.
"We know that across child protection as a whole there is issues around how we recruit, but most importantly how we retain staff. Across the world the retention, or the loss of staff, sits at around 20 to 30 per cent, because it is very, very difficult work.
An issue highlighted by the Ombudsman and staff in the child protection system has been the time and stress for staff of having to appear at the Children's Court.
"They will say that the overwhelming issue in terms of the pressure on them and their workload is the amount of time that is spent in the children's court and that whole experience," Ms Neville says.
She says she is working with the Attorney General to get a more streamlined court system that takes the pressure off workers and better protects children and has also asked the Law Reform Commission to look at court models that operate in other countries to see if the Victorian system could be improved by following overseas examples.
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Richard Douglas, 80, passed away on October 1, 2012 in Kula Hospital, Maui, HI.
Mr. Douglas was born December 31, 1931, in Southfields, London, England. He earned two Master's degrees, coached, and ran, for University of Idaho. He taught in CA, NY, DE, and MD. Richard married Busaba Yip, Ph.D. in 2003.
He is survived by his wife Dr. Busaba Yip Douglas, son Laird (Katherine), daughter Nicole Rene' Douglas, and grandchildren Liam & Gavin, and Aiden & Alexis, mother of his children Cynthia Merrick, sister Pamela Webster, brother John, and many nieces and nephews in the United Kingdom. He was predeceased by his sister, Jean McCarthy. Private services will be held in Maryland at a later date. Nakamura Mortuary is assisting with arrangements.
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Dale McFeatters: Everyone should see Lady Liberty
Every American who's able to should visit the Statue of Liberty and climb up to the crown -- once. More about that later.
The great lady that dominates New York Harbor has had a run of bad luck lately. After being closed for a year for repairs, the statue reopened last Oct. 28, the 126th anniversary of its dedication. Then Superstorm Sandy hit on Oct. 29 and the statue closed again, not because of damage to the structure, but because Sandy flooded 75 percent of Liberty Island with a 13-foot storm surge.
The statue was undamaged, thanks to the intricate internal supporting ironwork designed by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, architect of the Eiffel Tower, which, it should be noted, is also still standing.
Water never touched the statue, but the storm tore out the island's utilities, power supply, docks and walkways. The National Park Service worked heroically to get the island reopened for the Fourth of July. The public responded in kind by snapping up all the tickets to climb to the crown and all but same-day tickets to climb to the top of the base.
I have been to the statue four times. The first thing you have to know is that the statue is tall, really tall, about 305 vertical feet. The second thing you have to know is that it's all stairs. Well, mostly stairs. You're eased into it by the stairs that climb through the base and the pedestal, wide government-issue stairs of the kind you find in major federal buildings.
Then there are the stairs in the statue itself, 354 of them. They begin as more or less normal metal stairs, but then morph into a narrow, ever tightening and narrowing spiral staircase, more like a flattened ladder, protected by a knee-high banister.
This allows for an almost unobstructed view straight down through the center of the statue, which allows your imagination free rein to envision your body bouncing from truss to truss because of the pushy school kids behind you.
On a hot, sticky day, you have the feeling that if you did slip, the heat and viscosity of the sweat-soaked air is such that you will be borne up to the crown rather than fall to an ignominious death in the inside of Lady Liberty's sandals.
The Park Service, to its credit, posts plenty of warnings about the steepness and strenuousness of the climb.
In time, it dawns on you that the worst place to see a windowless statue is from the inside. There are windows -- small ones, smeared to opacity by small hands -- at the very top, the goal of your climb. You can see very little.
The best view is from the top of the pedestal. It's easy to get to and easy to get down from, and while the rest of your party is toiling its way upward through the statue's innards, you are comfortably ensconced on a ground-level Park Service bench with a book and the prospect of a martini once back in Manhattan.
Visit the statue your way; then do it mine. No need to thank me.
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This is an extremely high grade complete set of this fascinating and very scarce 1930s nonsport-card issue, which features scenes and text illustrating the history of espionage from the days of the American Civil War to World War II. "This is a True Spy Story. The names of some of the characters have been changed in order not to embarrass the government." This announcement appears at the top of the reverse of each of the twenty-four cards in Gum, Inc.'s thrilling "True Spy" story cards. This outstanding set was assembled many years ago by a extremely condition-conscious connoisseur of 1930s nonsports cards. This set was consigned to REA ungraded, and was submitted for grading by REA. The entire set of twenty-four cards has been graded and encapsulated by SGC. The complete SGC condition composite: Nine EX/NM 80: #1, 4, 10, 12, 15, 19, 20, 21, and 24. Four EX+ 70: #7, 9, 14, and 16. Six EX 60: #3, 5, 8, 11, 18, and 22. Three VG/EX 50: #2, 6, and 17. Two VG 40: #13 and 23. The fascinating subject matter and vivid artwork have always made this set a favorite with collectors. This is a very attractive high-grade complete set, with all cards bright and clean, and with an overall appearance far superior to that suggested by the technically accurate assigned grades. Total 24 cards. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$1,500+. SOLD FOR $2,115
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If you're compiling a list of New Year's resolutions, you may want to think for a minute about what changes your beauty routine could use. Although you probably don't need a full makeover, there is one step you might be missing out on that could do wonders for your skin.
If you're not slathering on the sunscreen every morning before you do your makeup and head outside, you're doing your skin a disservice. It needs protection from the sun's harsh rays even when you're not at the beach or hanging for hours in the great outdoors.
According to Allure magazine, the challenge is finding a sunscreen that gives you enough protection without feeling thick and greasy. Heavy formulas can make your makeup slide around and cause excess shine. Luckily, many makeup products include SPF, like Paula Dorf – Face Tint with SPF 15, so you know they'll blend right in. Sheer sunscreens, wipes and powders also work well, so try something like Shady Day – Daily Sun Protection Wipes SPF 30.


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DHH, the éminence grise of the Ruby on Rails world, took a swipe at the test-first cult with his provocative article "Testing like the TSA", saying in effect that 100% test coverage is mad, bad, crazy behaviour, worthless, and an overall affront to good taste and a crime against humanity. [I paraphrase.] Since we enforce 100% code coverage at all points through our development process, I want to explain how this does not necessarily make us time-wasting, genital-fondling idiots, how the needs of our business drive our quality strategy, and how this pays off for us.
At Sage our customers demand and deserve the best we can deliver. We are very quality focused because we build accounting solutions in which getting the right answer matters a great deal: perhaps some customers don't care about quality, but ours demonstrably do. Perhaps in some cases time-to-market is much more important than reliability or maintainability: it is a business decision, and there is no one-size-fits-all answer. However, if you're building for the future and want to avoid years of functional paralysis and a costly rewrite, building an application on a solid quality foundation makes a lot of economic sense.
Write less code
The most effective way to maintain 100% test coverage is by writing less code. We refactor like crazy, and we refactor our tests just as much as our code. We don't repeat ourselves. We spend time creating the right abstractions and evolving them. Having 100% test coverage makes it much easier for us to do this: it is a virtuous cycle.
We've been doing Rails development at Sage for five years now, and we've learned a few lessons. Even if you're writing unit tests with 100% code coverage, you're doing it wrong if:
- Generators are used to build untested code (i.e. using the default Rails scaffolds to build controllers and views)
- Partials are the most sophisticated method of generating views, and they look like PHP or ASP
- The tests are harder to understand than the code
What is the alternative? Well, if all of the controllers and views look pretty much the same, factor them out. The Rails generators create enormous amounts of crappy, unmaintainable boilerplate code – every bit as as much as a Visual Studio wizard. On the other hand, if the controllers and views are each completely different and unique flowers, is it for a good reason or is the code just a mess? Chances are, if the code looks like a mess, so does the app.
In my experience it's also basically useless to attempt to retrofit unit test code coverage onto a project that doesn't have it: the tests that wind up written are always written to pass, and they rarely help much. I haven't yet seen a project that could be rescued from this situation.
Whom do you trust?
When DHH says that the use of ActiveRecord associations, validations, and scopes (basic Rails infrastructure) shouldn't be tested, he's claiming that Rails is never wrong: not now, not in the future, not ever. It's his choice to make that promise, but it would be irresponsible of us to believe it:
- Rails changes all of the time. Sometimes there are even bugs! (Crazy talk, I know!) But active record associations and scopes are complex and ornery, and can easily be broken indirectly (through a change elsewhere in the code).
- Because we operate on the Internet, new security risks and fixes appear constantly: zero day attacks are real. We need to react to these threats quickly, and being able to prepare and deploy new versions of our apps based on updated components immediately is crucial. Having a robust test suite makes it much cheaper and less stressful to implement these changes, which drives down technical debt and makes development more responsive, and oh yeah, helps prevent a costly rewrite.
- We use components that extend and complement the behaviour of Rails. DHH calls out the example of testing validations to be particularly useless. Well, what about when the validations methods change in a rails upgrade? Or you want to adopt a new plugin that changes core Rails behaviour? Or you want to refactor an application to move validation to a more useful place? In all of those cases the tests on validation code would be useful.
Often this means a function in a spec mirroring a function in a model (but with enough difference in naming and syntax to be truly maddening). Yes, this feels stupid sometimes, but it is a very cheap insurance policy, and sometimes it pays off.
Time split
DHH says that you shouldn't be spending more than 1/3 of your time writing tests. This leads to a question: how are you characterizing your time? Is the person doing the implementation also the person making design decisions? If you are doing behaviour-driven development you are actually vetting the requirements at the time you write the tests, so is it a good idea to skip that part and move on to the coding? If you spend time refactoring tests to speed up the test process, should that be counted? Should the time spent writing tests before fixing bugs be counted? Have you decided to outsource quality to a bunch of manual testers? What is your deployment model? I'm reluctant to put a cap on the time writing tests. I find this metric as useful as dictating the time spent typing vs. reading, or the amount of time thinking vs. talking: my answer is not yours, and the end result is what matters.
Risk assessment
We enforce 100% test coverage because it ensures that no important line of code goes completely untested. One can decide to write tests for "important" code and ignore the "unimportant" code, but unfortunately a line of code only becomes "important" after it has failed and caused a major outage and data loss. Oops!
DHH avers that the criticality and likelihood of a mistake should be considered before deciding to write a test about something. However, this ignores the third criteria: cost. Is it cheaper to spend time deciding the criticality and likelihood of writing vs ignoring tests for every single line of code, or is cheaper to just write the stupid test and be done with it? Given the cost of doing a detailed long-term risk analysis on every line of code, does anybody ever really do it, or is the entire argument just an elaborate cop-out? The answer gets a lot clearer once you elect to write a lot less code, and it gets easier once you resign yourself to learning a new skill and changing your behaviour.
Code coverage is a great way to measure the amount of exposure you have to future changes, and depending on your business, it might be necessary to have 100% coverage. A highly respected figure speaking ex cathedra can be very wrong when it comes to the choices you need to make, and sometimes it shows. 100% code coverage may seem like an impossible goal, especially if you've never seen it done. I'm here to tell you it's not impossible: it's how we work, and in our case it makes a lot of sense.


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Fast forward to 2012 and Toyota has come a long way in a short time. They not only continue to compete in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, where they started in the sport, they have moved into both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series. These days Toyota doesn't just compete, they have won in all three of NASCAR's top divisions.
More importantly, however to Toyota, is they have not only been accepted by the fans of NASCAR, they have been embraced. Fans not only cheer their favorite drivers behind the wheel of a Toyota, but they have headed to their local showrooms to purchase one for themselves. It isn't only the winning that has brought NASCAR fans on board with Toyota, but their fan-friendly marketing as well.
Heading up those efforts is New Jersey native Keith Dahl, whose official title is Toyota National Manager of Motorsports and Engagement Marketing. Dahl has come a long way from his days of pumping gas at Towne Sunoco in Holmdel. Growing up with a grandfather who was a cattle rancher out west, left him fascinated with life on the other side of the country. He enrolled at the University of Colorado, and finished his education with Graduate School at Arizona State.
His love of everything to do with cars, evidenced by the fact he still has the two Corgi toy cars he played with as a child, led him to take a job with the Toyota Motor Sales Corporation after college. He is still there, but with a much more different role.
Dahl's primary responsiblities are to engage customers with the Toyota brand, and then share the passion he and others, have for it. This is mostly done through auto shows, sponsorships, and, of course, NASCAR racing.
He has two promotions involving Toyota and NASCAR he is currently involved in and excited about. The first will culminate this Wednesday at the House of Blues in Chicago. NASCAR Contenders Live sponsored by Toyota and Sprint will give fans, for the first time ever, a chance to interact with the twelve drivers who have qualified for The Chase. Fans will have the opportunity to ask the drivers questions regarding their strategy and insight on how they plan on going about winning NASCAR's biggest prize.
Initially planned as an event open only to the media, Dahl was instrumental in not only having the fans included, but with creating a contest that generated more than 200,000 entries. The NASCAR Contenders Live sponsored by Toyota and Sprint Sweepstakes awarded one lucky fan a package which includes a 2012 Toyota Camry SE, two tickets to the event, two VIP tickets and VIP passes to attend the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Chicagoland Speedway this Sunday, a one year subscription to Sirius XM Satellite radio, and $500 cash. The event will be aired by Speed Channel on Thursday at 7pm.
Dahl is also excited about another event Toyota is involved in. The Toyota Racing Dream Build Challenge. Two NASCAR drivers, Kyle Busch, and Clint Bowyer, will be individually competing against two NHRA drivers, Antron Brown, and Alexis DeJoria, in a build-off competition. Each driver has been given a different Toyota vechicle for which they will design and install a series of modifications. Fans can check out the progress by going to www.ToyotaRacingDreamBuild.com. Beginning October 20th fans can vote for their favorite by going to Toyota's Facebook page. with one winning a Toyota Racing "Dream Trip." The final products will be displayed at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas on October 30.
When asked what he was most excited about Dahl, who never seems to stop promoting the Toyota brand, was quick to respond, " I'm looking forward to people seeing the great stream of new product coming in the near future. I am also excited about adding a great driver like Matt Kenseth to the Toyota team."
Keith Dahl is a great ambassador for the Toyota brand. He brings that great New Jersey passion we all seem to have when we find something we really believe in. For Keith Dahl it is Toyota, and he hopes it will be for you also.


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HENDERSON, Nev. - The Grand Valley State women's golf team had a promising start to the spring season, overcoming a seven-shot deficit to win the Las Vegas Desert Classic at Revere Golf Club. The Lakers shot a team round of 310, the best round of the tournament by any school, to win the event by four strokes.
The Lakers trailed Midwestern State by seven strokes after round one, but GVSU's 310 paired with Midwestern State duplicating a 321 team score for the second straight round gave the Lakers a victory in their first tournament of the spring.
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Two comparisons of fruit and milk as supplementary lunches for school children have been carried out by this department. The first was made by Margaret S. Chaney1 in 1923 at the Claremont school in Oakland, with 200 undernourished children as subjects. These children were all 7 per cent or more underweight according to the Wood standard.2 Using different subjects, she made two trials of eight weeks each, and weight, standing and sitting height, as well as medical and dental records, were noted at the beginning and end of each period. The children were nearly all of prepubescent age, varying in age from 5 to 14 years. No attempt was made to influence the home diets, which must have varied widely, although probably no poverty was present. In both trials the children receiving oranges as supplementary food showed the largest amount of growth; those receiving milk, the next largest;
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this is a single from one of my most favorite artists. usually i don't buy her singles, but this single is a limited press release which comes with two new songs and six remixes plus one bonus dvd!
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