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The House in a Box
Homes Sold as Kits Enjoy a Modest Renaissance, But Low Cost and Speedy Assembly Can Be Elusive
One hundred years after Sears, Roebuck began offering its first mail-order house, the kit home is gaining renewed attention.
Promoted by design magazines such as Dwell, these houses sold as parts have attracted a near cultlike following among style-minded home shoppers and do-it-yourselfers. The factory-fabricated houses, often in modernist designs, can bring efficiencies to a process notorious for cost overruns and delays. And fans say they are greener because they create less waste than on-site construction.
But assembling a kit house, also called a flat-pack house, can present unexpected pitfalls. From mismatched doors to missing parts, buyers' experiences suggest there are endless ways to burn time and money on the prefab route. Custom touches tend to evaporate any cost savings -- some prefabs end up being as expensive as architect-designed traditional construction. And despite the buzz, only a few hundred modernist kit houses have been sold.
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Among the least-expensive choices are kits sold by Rocio Romero, a home designer in Perryville, Mo. Her $36,000 kit provides a shell and blueprints for a boxy, 1,150-square-foot dwelling clad in galvanized steel -- but homeowners have to supply windows, doors, roofing and interior finishes. Ms. Romero has sold 154 houses since launching the line in 2003. A kit from Minneapolis designer Charlie Lazor costs about $250,000 for a 2,000-square-foot house, including design services, windows, doors and roofing. Mr. Lazor has sold 16 kits since starting the line in 2005. Another option, the NextHouse by Empyrean International, a longtime maker of prefab houses, starts at $250,000 for a 2,400-square-foot home. This line, co-branded with Dwell, has sold 20 since 2005.
Jennifer Watson and her husband, Barry Bless, dreamed of a Bauhaus-style vacation home. On a budget of $95,000, the Richmond, Va., couple thought it was out of reach -- until they found Ms. Romero's designs. They paid $23,500 for six acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains in December 2003, ordered the kit and within three months began construction, working on the house nearly every weekend for a year. Ms. Watson, a 41-year-old Web developer and mother of four, acted as general contractor and bargain hunter, begging manufacturers to process tiny orders for windows and doors. She offered free future vacation time at the house to friends and family in exchange for help building it. The savings added up: The two-bedroom, one-bath house cost $99,000. "We literally ordered this house through email, and we took a huge risk, but it really paid off," Ms. Watson says.
But others won't want to endure her family's labor- and time-intensive process. Below, three other kit-home buyers who had different experiences.
Setting out to build on three wooded acres near Aspen, Colo., Tony and Kathryn Grant thought they'd save a few bucks by building a prefab home. As soon as they laid eyes on Mr. Lazor's first FlatPak House, they were sold. For a $15,000 fee, Mr. Lazor worked with the Grants on customizing the design of the FlatPak House. Then the Grants bought a kit of factory-made parts costing $460,000 from Mr. Lazor's manufacturing partner at the time, Empyrean International, of Acton, Mass. The Grants hired a contractor to assemble the 4,800-square-foot, four-bedroom home, including floor-to-ceiling mahogany-framed windows, floor joists, doors, roof panels and a garage. For the interior, they hired a designer they knew, choosing custom finishes and fixtures and driving up costs to $1.4 million. If they had used Mr. Lazor's interior-design package, the cost would have been closer to $770,000. There were problems. Shipments of the exterior parts came missing steel beams. Walls that were supposed to arrive fully assembled were in pieces. Mr. Grant ended up having to buy replacement parts from local suppliers. Patrick Gilrane, owner of Empyrean, acknowledges delivery problems with the Lazor-designed kits. "There were a number of special items that were designed specifically for that house," Mr. Gilrane says. "If you utilize a standard kit of parts, we're pretty good at that." Empyrean stopped making the Lazor kits in December. All told, construction took almost 11 months, two months behind schedule but faster than traditional custom construction. If he had it to do over, Mr. Grant says he'd use Mr. Lazor's design but source all the parts locally.
Peter Lieberwirth and Susan Stemper considered hiring an architect to design a custom home to replace their existing house in Carlisle, Mass., but decided they didn't want the hassle. "We just wanted to have a new house that met our needs and was kind of exciting without it turning into some hellacious life experience," says Mr. Lieberwirth, a 55-year-old software-development consultant. So the couple bought a NextHouse kit and added a mudroom. They hired a builder who had assembled the more traditional-style kit houses that Empyrean has sold for decades. Demolition of their old house and construction of the 3,000-square-foot new one went smoothly and took seven months, quicker than most regular houses. Yet the NextHouse is far from low priced: The couple's home cost $800,000 (about $30,000 over budget), including the $255,000 kit, site work and assembly.
Rocio Romero
Matthew and Allison Meek started out thinking their weekend home in New York's Hudson Valley might resemble a Frank Lloyd Wright design. Mrs. Meek's brother, an architect, designed a parallelogram-shaped house that leaned over a cliff. But when Mr. Meek, a 32-year-old vice president and director of financial analysis for a Manhattan real-estate developer, took the drawings to a builder, the estimate came back at nearly twice his $260,000 budget -- just for the shell. So, the Brooklyn, N.Y., couple decided in 2006 to buy a kit from Rocio Romero for $42,000, plus $3,600 for shipping. At 1,500 square feet, the house had three bedrooms and two baths. But buying the roofing, doors, windows and interiors, plus other charges, quickly blew their budget. First came design fees: The Meeks eliminated the basement, took out a wall to open up the kitchen and flipped the floor plan. Mrs. Romero charged $8,400 for the tweaks. They swapped out the galvanized steel exterior for cedar, costing $4,500. Then there were the windows and doors. Mr. Meek wanted floor-to-ceiling ones that contain argon gas between the double panes for energy efficiency. Cost: $32,500. There were unexpected costs, too. Although the land was a relative bargain -- $42,000 for three acres in a popular weekend-home destination for New Yorkers -- the sloped site required an above-ground septic system for $22,000, versus about $3,000 for a standard in-ground one. Mr. Meek started cutting corners. He bought Ikea kitchen cabinets, scoured eBay for deals on other supplies and hauled two tons of marble tile from Washington, D.C., in a rented truck to save delivery fees. The Meeks paid their contractor a fixed price, $64,000, for what they thought would be four months of work. But site conditions such as hitting rock and delays from ordering custom materials not included in the kit stretched the project to a full year. All told, the house cost $250 a square foot, or $375,000. While local architects say custom building starts at about that price, it was 44% over the couple's budget. Still, "It was worth it," Mr. Meek says. "I wound up with a home that was way cooler than I thought it would be.
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With five rounds of matches complete and just one to go in this season's Champions League group stage, there have been some clear standout moments.
Premier League champions Manchester City have failed to reach the knockout phase for a second season running, defending champions Chelsea are on the verge of joining them after a defeat at Juventus that cost manager Roberto Di Matteo his job, and Celtic celebrated their 125th anniversary with a memorable win over Barcelona.
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Here's a topic that's important to know about, even for those of you with MGUS: BLOOD CLOTS.
Myeloma, in and of itself, is a risk factor for a blood clot, known in med-speak as a deep vein thrombosis, or DVT. Simply being over 65 is a risk factor for blood clots as well. Blood clots can be life-threatening if they become dislodged, or embolize, from their original site (usually the lower leg) and enter the lungs.
Even people with MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance) and smoldering (or asymptomatic) myeloma are at increased risk for blood clots, though at lower risk than those with active disease. Add to this the increased risk of a blood clot posed by treatment with thalidomide or Revlimid, especially in combination with dexamethasone or chemotherapy, and the odds of having a DVT become even higher.
The good news is that there is a system for evaluating risk in each patient based both on the factors mentioned above and the patient's own individual characteristics and medical history. Based upon that risk assessment, preventive strategies ranging from a daily baby aspirin for those with the lowest risk to strong blood thinners for those at greatest risk can be taken.
Every patient with MGUS, asymptomatic myeloma, or active myeloma should be evaluated by their hematologist/oncologist for their risk of developing a blood clot. For further information, please see the International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) publication, "Prevention of thalidomide- and lenalidomide-associated thrombosis in myeloma," and the simplified IMWG Guidelines on this topic.


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Jessi Colter
Colter has recorded nine previous solo albums, but none has come close to being the emotionally satisfying, musically refined, altogether wonderful project this one is. It may be that co-producer Chips Moman, who has turned out records for Elvis Presley and Colter's husband, Waylon Jennings, has helped her learn to use her frail, Dolly Partonish voice without overtaxing it. In any case, this LP is full of understated country music and a surprisingly touching version of the pop standard Stormy Weather. Colter profits from the old Ray Charles hit I Can't Stop Loving You, the title song (which made the charts for B.J. Thomas) and Basil McDavid's wry, rough-and-tumble tune Tiger. There are also a couple of endearing new songs: Easy Street, by Moman and Bobby Emmons ("I thought our place in the sun was made in the shade/But it ain't no bed of roses/Up on Easy Street these days"), and John Scott Sherrill's Wild and Blue ("They could just take you up yonder, honey/You're already wild and blue"). Jennings himself makes only a token background appearance, but no matter; with his wife doing so well, he'll be known as "Mr. Colter" any day now. (Triad Records)
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Economist: Erie's employment outlook good
Nearly four years after the recession ended in June 2009, we're still waiting for the economy to come roaring back.
Even in Erie, which staged a comparatively quick recovery, the engines of our economy have managed little more than a modest growl, with an unemployment rate that remained at 7.8 percent in December.
Kurt Rankin, an economist for Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group Inc., expects that could change in the months ahead.
In fact, Rankin, who prepared PNC's latest regional forecast, expects Erie's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate will fall to 7.1 percent by the end of the year and fall to 6.3 percent by the end of 2014.
The region, to a greater extent than many other areas, has sown the seeds of a more robust recovery, he said.
"I think Erie's best asset is the manufacturing gains that began after the recession and continued at a somewhat stronger pace through 2013," Rankin said.
During that period, manufacturing employment in Erie rose 14 percent to 22,000, according to numbers from the state Department of Labor & Industry.
"This means there has already been sizable gains in manufacturing jobs in the region. That means those incomes are already there," Rankin said.
"Erie has been able to enjoy those incomes being spent locally," he continued.
"That is why we have seen the growth in the service industry."
Growth in that sector is equally apparent. Erie has added more than 6,000 service-sector jobs in the past three years, according to the state Department of Labor.
Why hasn't the unemployment rate fallen in step with these rising employment numbers?
The answer, said Rankin, is that the size of the labor force is also growing quickly as more people begin looking for jobs.
He expects, however, that the unemployment rate will begin falling more quickly as improvements in manufacturing continue to power the local economy.
"Because of higher-paying manufacturing jobs, unemployment should be able to come down a bit faster than in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia," Rankin said.
It's worth remembering, however, that even at 6.3 percent, unemployment would remain substantially higher than its pre-recession levels. For months before the recession, unemployment in Erie was below 5 percent.
Jim Kurre, a professor of economics at Penn State Behrend and director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie, said he likes the sound of Rankin's forecast.
And while he's not inclined to disagree, he does sound a note of caution.
"We have been seeing growth, but the problem is the last few months have slowed down," he said.
Kurre, who is due later this month to release his latest ELI or Erie Leading Index, hasn't predicted a negative turn in the economy.
"We are hoping to get back on track," he said. "My thoughts are the most recent months have been a pause in what's otherwise going to be a continued recovery."
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An Amarillo woman was sentenced to 10 years probation after she pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence while helping cover up an alleged homicide.
Michelle Nicole Lucero, 34, pleaded guilty, was sentenced in March and also was ordered to pay a $4,000 fine, according to documents made public Tuesday. As part of her plea agreement, she must testify truthfully in a murder case pending against Amador Lujan Lomeli.
Lomeli is accused of fatally shooting Harold Hernandez during a melee Aug. 17, 2007, at Old Busters Lounge, 2204 S.E. 27th Ave. Lomeli allegedly fled in a Cadillac after the shooting.
Lucero pleaded guilty to hiding the Cadillac at a residence in the 4600 block of Flying A Trail in Randall County. Lucero and two other people allegedly put a tarp over the vehicle. Potter-Randall Special Crimes investigators located the vehicle based on a tip and found Lucero's fingerprints on the tarp, according to the criminal complaint.
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February 18, 2015
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS: Wheaton 73, Emerson 61
NORTON, Mass. - Video highlights from tonight's women's basketball game against Emerson. Wheaton defeated Emerson by a score of 73-61 on Senior Night.
February 18, 2015
WBKB Postgame: Wheaton 73, Emerson 61
NORTON, Mass. - Wheaton College women's basketball head coach Melissa Hodgon discusses the Lyons' 73-61 win over Emerson College on Senior Night.
December 8, 2011
Wheaton Women Shine on Basketball Court
Former Trinity Catholic basketball player Jeana Trimboli is the No. 2 scorer on the women's team at Wheaton College.
December 7, 2011
Dingwell set to take over Brockton High girls basketball
April Dingwell knows exactly what she can expect as the new head coach of the Brockton High girls basketball team, and she couldn't be more up to the task.
September 9, 2011
Wheaton Commemorates 9/11 in a Different Way
While many of us remember the events of 9/11 like they were yesterday, it may have felt like a bad dream for younger generations. Either way, the date of Sept. 11 holds grave connotations.
December 9, 2010
Norwalk's Trimboli Shines on Wheaton Courts
Sophomore Jeana Trimboli is creeping into the career leader categories at Wheaton College, where she plays for the women's basketball team.
November 16, 2010
Lyons building on experience
The Wheaton College women's basketball team returns six players from a team that won 16 games last season, but coach Melissa Hodgdon will have to find a way to work 10 newcomers into the program.
March 17, 2010
Bailey featured by hometown Needham Times
Wheaton senior Andrea Bailey admits that sometimes its hard for a point guard to get recognized, especially when it comes to postseason awards.
March 11, 2010
Bailey draws attention in Boston Globe West notebook
Former Needham High standout Andrea Bailey capped a tremendous career in the backcourt at Wheaton with first-team All-New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference honors.
March 4, 2010
Bailey profiled by Needham's Hometown Weekly
The season did not end with a championship trophy like Andrea Bailey and the rest of the Wheaton women's basketball team envisioned, but the senior point guard did not go down without a fight.
January 22, 2010
Barbera featured in Ridgewood (N.J.) News notebook
As teammates on the Ridgewood High School girls basketball team, Sarah Higbee and Gabby Barbera scored their respective first varsity points in different games.
January 21, 2010
Bailey and Vitagliano included in Boston Globe West notebook
When Wheaton captain Andrea Bailey of Needham banked home a 40-footer at the overtime buzzer to stun Worcester Polytechnic, 64-63, freshman teammate Hallie Vitagliano could relate to her heroics.
January 12, 2010
NESN.com names Wheaton-WPI Game of the Week after Bailey's 40-footer at buzzer
I had a couple of other games I was going to use here, but then I would be cheating Andrea Bailey of Wheaton.
January 8, 2010
Champney and men's hoops appear in Peter Gobis' Sun Chronicle column
Women's basketball senior Jenny Champney and the men's hoops team's victory over regional heavyweight WPI were among local items mentioned in Peter Gobis' column in the Sun Chronicle.
January 7, 2010
Champney featured in Boston Globe West notebook
Bedford native Jenny Champney became the 11th player in Wheaton womens basketball history to reach 1,000 career points during the Lyons 89-86 victory over Elms on Saturday.
December 6, 2009
Trimboli in The Hour (Norwalk, Conn.) notebook
Trinity Catholic graduate Jeana Trimboli knows how to wow the home-state crowd.
November 29, 2009
Bailey, Champney in Boston Globe West notebook
Wheaton College head womens basketball coach Melissa Hodgdon has set the bar high for senior cocaptains Andrea Bailey of Needham and Jenny Champney of Bedford.
November 20, 2009
Paolino, Trimboli in The Hour (Norwalk, Conn.) blog
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The Kalamazoo Mall between Michigan Avenue and South Street will be closed from 6 to 9 a.m. Monday and Tuesday for construction on the Corporation Hall project.
Portage Street between Lovell Street and Pitcher Street will be closed from Monday to Nov. 30 for underground electrical work, according to a city of Kalamazoo news release.
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Nearby, Lovell Street between Portage and Jasper streets was closed for underground electrical work this week.


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With a different Superman around, how will the Trinity get along?
The battle against Batman and his allies takes a dark turn.
Moon Knight the movie is coming to a theater near you.
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Mordru appears in 131 issues.
Described as a "medieval playboy inventor", Al Jabr is a member of the Demon Knights.
Alan Scott, the bearer of the mystical Starheart, is the original Golden Age Green Lantern and a founding member of the Justice Society of America. An all-time great, Alan continues to fight for truth, justice and freedom well into old age as a member of the Justice Society. He has now been introduced as an iconic gay character in DC's new reboot, The New 52.
Daxamite member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Jahr Leroy Drake Ningle was a rejected Legion hopeful who joined Leland McCauley's Workforce and was killed in a battle with Mordru.
Blok is a member of the Legion of Super Heroes in the 31st century.
A super-strong Khundian with indestructible cybernetic claws, Blood Claw was a short-lived member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the Glorithverse. He was killed in action against Mordru's legion of the dead.
Mordru is the most prominent Lord of Chaos. He is indirectly responsible for the recent destruction of the of the Rock of Eternity, and apparently directly responsible of the courruption of Hawk.
Worshipped as the "God of Evil", Darkseid is one of the most powerful beings in existence and the supreme monarch of planet Apokolips. Considered one of Superman's greatest adversaries, the greatest enemy of New Genesis and one of the greatest threats to the DC Multiverse, he seeks to bend everything and everyone to his will and remake the cosmos in his image, while searching for the Anti-Life Equation.
Mordru manipulated Hawk's mind into fathering a child with Dove, just so Mordru could kill the child and take its power.
Dawnstar is from Starhaven, a planet colonized by Native Americans and whose inhabitants are genetically engineered to have wings and superluminal flight. Her peerless interstellar tracking abilities make her a valuable member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
A reporter from the 30th century, Devlin gained the ability to repel any object or force that approached him at a speed of more than about ten miles per hour. He used this ability to become a hero and join the Legion of Super-Heroes.
A medical doctor who lost his sight, Dr. Pieter Cross can see spectrums of light in total darkness. He works with the JSA to train the heroes of tomorrow, as well as to use his medical knowledge for unusual cases.
Dragonmage is a mystic from Earth whose magic manifests as dragons. He became a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
One of the most notorious of Hell's demons, Etrigan's soul was merged with the body of a human man, Jason Blood, who calls upon the demon's terrifying power to fight the forces of darkness.
Evillo is an evil prince who runs the dark planet called Tartarus. His evil machinations have caused him to come into conflict against the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Amazonian warrior in exile who joined the Demon Knights.
Member of the Legion of Super-Heroes with the ability to mentally transform his body into nearly invulnerable isotope of iron.
A Khund warrior in DC Comics and a short-lived member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Glorith of Baaldur is a villain whose primary foe is the Legion of Super-Heroes. She was a major presence in Legion of Super-Heroes where she became a central figure in DC's attempts to repair the continuity problems created when it removed the original Superboy from continuity following.
Whether he is Monarch or Extant, Hank Hall is an Agent of Chaos called Hawk. He changed the timeline of the DC Universe in Zero Hour.
Mordru corrupted Hawk into becoming Monarch and then Extant.
A free spirit, wandering vigilante, and a master archer, the mysterious Horsewoman is a reluctant member of the Demon Knights.
The third Hourman was an android created in the 853rd century by the time-traveling first Hourman, Rex Tyler. The android Hourman was an apprentice to Metron and a member of the JLA and JSA before sacrificing his life to save Rex Tyler.
Infectious Lass was a rejected applicant from the Legion of Super-Heroes who joined the Substitute Legion. She later became the wife of Jacques Foccart, Invisible Kid II. The contrast between her rather gross power set (and phlegmy costume) and her resiliantly kind nature and optimism has made her a bit of a fan favorite among the third-stringers.
Jacques Foccart became a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes after drinking the same serum that gave Lyle Norg, the original Invisible Kid, his powers. After being a member for sometime he later became President of the United Planets.
Jay Garrick is the original, Golden Age, super-speedster, and was the first to have the mantle of the Flash and a founder of the Justice Society of America. It was Jay Garrick's legendary heroics that inspired Barry Allen. Currently Jay Garrick resides on Earth-2 as that world's version of The Flash.
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June events at Molbak's
Vines, flowers, fruit, and roses top the list of the seminars planned by Molbak's for the month of June.
Learn which vines are best suited for trellises, arbors, fences, and walls in Fine June happenings at Molbak's
Vines and Climbers,
a free seminar offered June 6 at 7 p.m.
Molbak's floral designers will present
Fresh Flowers from the Garden
June 20 at 7 p.m. This free seminar will provide tips on cutting, caring for, and arranging flowers from the garden.
Find out about
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in a free seminar June 21 at 7 p.m.
Garden-Side Chats
are free informal talks that are held from 12:05 to 12:25 p.m. at the nursery pavilion. Ground covers will be discussed June 7; late-flowering shrubs will be the topic June 14; and water plants will be covered June 28.
How to Care for Roses
June 21 at the Linden Tree Lawn from 12:05 to 12:25 p.m.
The nursery will be the site for
Fuchsia Q & A
on June 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Sno-King Fuchsia Society will present this free demonstration.
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Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave.
Early this morning, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) has issued "an apology letter signed by chief executive Tim Cook that vowed to revamp aspects of its customer service policies in China after more than two weeks of pointed attacks by government-run media." In case you're curious (and can read Chinese), here's the letter.
In it, Cook states: "We are aware that a lack of communications ... led to the perception Apple's attitude was arrogant and that we do not care and attach importance to consumer feedback. We express our sincere apologies for any concerns or misunderstandings this gave consumers."
Apple was first targeted by the Chinese media in the middle of last month after the People's Daily newspaper, the communist party's "traditional mouthpiece" according to the Journal, accused the company of not responding to press inquiries and of treating Chinese customers differently from those living elsewhere. More specifically, the piece alleged that Apple fixes broken devices under warranty in China, rather than simply replacing them as it does in the United States.
In response to the original allegations, Apple posted a message on its Chinese website saying that it fixes iPhones with new components but then reattaches the original casing. It also claimed that "Apple's Chinese warranty is more or less the same as in the U.S. and all over the world."
Regardless of the veracity and motives behind the attacks, one thing is certain: The news is having a negative impact on Apple's stock and is fueling negative sentiment among technology stocks more generally. With roughly an hour left in the trading session, shares of the technology giant are down 2.2%.
Following Apple's lead downward are virtually all of the tech stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI ) , which itself is off by 24 points, or 0.16%, at the time of writing.
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) is the index's biggest laggard today, down by 2% in afternoon trading. As my colleague Matt Thalman noted earlier, the chip maker found itself on the business end of an analyst downgrade. JMP Securities' Alex Guana said he believes Intel's full-year EPS will be lower than previously expected. He now expects it to come closer to $1.85 a share, versus his earlier forecast of $2.15 per share.
Shares of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) aren't far behind, down by 1.9%. Absent the dour sentiment among tech stocks, there doesn't appear to be any concrete catalyst for HP's move. That said, given that HP is the Dow's top-performing stock this year, up nearly 70% since the beginning of January, it's always possible that traders are simply taking the opportunity to realize profits.
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A description of a women who enjoys casual sex and seeks it fairly frequently. Created to replace the nasty term "slut" because sex is good, wanting sex is normal, casual sex is fun, and calling women "sluts" discourages them from having more sex. Courty is a much nicer sounding word, derived from "courtesan", an old romantic term for the mistress of a king or other high class person, or a high class prostitute.
"She's shagged all three of them? Damn, what a legend"
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Iowa CITY, Iowa - Kirk Ferentz believes in the now. Win or lose, he asks his Iowa players to move on to the next opponent within 24 hours of their previous game.
The Iowa coach can let go of that approach this week. For the first time since 2000, the Hawkeyes head into the season finale with no hope of reaching the postseason. It's time to look to the future.
The prognosis for next season and beyond is worrisome after Saturday's 42-17 beat-down at Michigan. It'd be nice to win a trophy when Nebraska comes to town next weekend, but it's really not that important in the big picture.
Ferentz would be better served to see what he has coming back in 2013. Play the young guys against the Huskers.
"We always talk that we're building for that next championship," Quarterback James Vandenberg said on Saturday's post-game radio show. "Obviously, at this point in the year, it hasn't gone exactly how we thought, but we're building for that next one. We're trying to get a lot of the young guys a lot of experience."
Ferentz has done that to a point with Nico Law and Drew Ott. He hasn't done enough of it, including Saturday when he played starters into the fourth quarter of a blowout.
Vandenberg has taken every quarterback rep this season for a 4-7 team. He's been a credit to himself, his family and the program, on and off of the field. His time has come and gone.
While sending Vandenberg and the other seniors out on a high note in their final game at Kinnick would be nice, a win isn't going to create enough momentum going into the offseason. The group that's been out there is riding a five-game losing streak into the contest, anyway. Victory seems unlikely.
During Iowa's skid, its allowed 31.8 points per game and scored 18.6. That included close losses to conference doormats Indiana and Purdue.
You can pin Iowa's struggles on a lack of effort at times this season, but that wasn't the case on Saturday. The Wolverines were the superior team with a large advantage in individual talent.
Ferentz has had teams underachieve in his 14 seasons as head coach. The '05 and '10 teams were better than their final records. Outside of a loss to Central Michigan, the Hawkeyes have lost their other six contests to teams that out coached them and players who brought as much or more ability.
Iowa's early October win at Michigan State has lost some luster. The Spartans fell at home to Northwestern on Saturday to go winless in East Lansing this season.
The Hawkeyes other Big Ten win occurred in their opener against Minnesota. The Gophers got pounded at Nebraska on Saturday to match Iowa and Michigan State with 2-5 league marks.
"My first thought is we have a lot of work to do between now and Friday," Ferentz said during his radio interview at Michigan. "We'll start that (Sunday). It will be a busy week; a lot to correct, a lot of things we're going to have to do better."
That sounds a lot like a guy in denial but we can hope he comes to his senses. By all means, show gratitude by starting the seniors who have earned it. If they care about the program, they'll understand that after that it's time to step aside and let the young guys give it a go.
Some folks might say that Iowa owes it to the Big Ten to play its seniors as Nebraska still is competing with Michigan for the Legends Division title. Sorry, in this situation, the Hawkeyes need only look out for themselves.
"It's all about competing," Ferentz continued in his radio interview. "Every time you have a game scheduled, you want to go out and play the best you can…We're playing another team that's extremely talented and every bit as dangerous. We're going to have to make some corrections, make some adjustments and hopefully play sounder so we give ourselves a chance."
A win here just isn't that important. And that's not to say it's time to sit every starter. Play the underclassmen with the backups competing for jobs alongside them next season. Maybe you get a sense about who really wants those spots.
Of course, perhaps coach speak came out of Ferentz on Saturday. Maybe he's already decided that it's time to start working on next season this week with no bowl preparation on which to lean. It would be one of the better decisions he's made this fall.


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United States, TX, Spring
Joined Jun 2011
116 Posts
Thanks for the info, guys. There are very few people here in the States that use anything other than JR, Futaba, Airtronics, or Hitec. So for me to go to Jeti, a company I didn't even know about till about 2 months ago, makes me a little nervous. Is this system popular in Europe? Do you guys know others in your area that use Jeti, that also report good results?
Part of the reason I am so adamant about this, is because the features set and the design of the DS-16 is out of this word! It is amazing and very exciting. Therefore, I tend to start to wonder if there is something about this radio that is too good to be true. Looking through this forum, I haven't found much this radio can't do! So I will admit I'm skeptical. Especially when we fly our very time consuming and expensive planes with these radios. They literally need to be flawless. Anything short of that and it isn't worth it. Some of my planes are over 10 yrs old and I have grown very fond of them. They get only the best quality stuff. I hope this radio fits that bill. More input is welcome.
I only have had time for six flights on the plane until now but the results are good so far the Jeti products do have an outstanding quality feel and the transmission technology has been on the market for quite some time and seem proven to work by now.
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Joined May 2010
3,232 Posts
Unfortunately at this moment all I can say is that we are very, very, very close. For past 2 weeks we have been submitting revisions of the final report almost on the daily basis. All can be done Tomorrow, Friday or early next week. At this moment we are 99.95% there. FCC compliant receivers and radios are here. Tomorrow we would like to start fixing and pre-packing all orders.
It seems like soap opera. We have never dealt with such a detailed people. Every number, coma, space or letter has to be accounted for. Fortunately after this; next batch of R18/14/5 and new DS-16 will be just the breeze.
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United States, ME, Wells
Joined May 2008
1,652 Posts
Commas In Place
But, don't you have to admit that you feel so much safer knowing that all the commas are in place? (Said, tongue planted firmly in cheek.) :-)
I have had to deal several times with the FAA - yet another government agency - 'nuff said.
Roofus, I switched to the Jeti system back in 2009, with a conversion of my elderly Multiplex 3030. It has been rock solid and I have really enjoyed the glitch-free flying that comes with 2.4GHz operation. I now feel that my trusty 3030 probably represents the weakest link in the system so I am on the waiting list for the DS-16. . . .
United States, TX, Spring
Joined Jun 2011
116 Posts
I really like the big screen above the sticks. So many telemetry systems have the display below the sticks and thus below the neck strap. On my current Futaba, I have a hard enough time just looking at radio voltage while I'm flying, let alone telemetry.
Can anyone comment on using the Jeti Voltage Regulator MAX BEC 2 in gas planes? how does it do with the vibration?
Also, can anyone share their setup for powering the Duplex system in a 100-170cc IMAC/3D plane? EG: switches, regulators? RX batt's, powerbox? ect.
Thanks in advance,
United States, CO, Delta
Joined Oct 2005
495 Posts
Gentlemen ,thank you for the input.All is well said,i am scratching my head on these Radio's as well.As Roofus stated we have a lot of money and time in these Model's.I think i will go for the DS16 as well,the features are just outstanding.I just want to see what the new Profi 16 look's like.Paul
Joined Feb 2004
577 Posts
I have bought a DC16 for my 40% IMAC models. I fly exclusively tray so I am really pleased to get my first tray radio. I have a R9 and satellite receivers that will go in my current DLE 170 powered Slick 360, this has a Powerbox and HV servos. I have a R18/sat for my next model with DA200. This will not need a powerbox or regulator as it is a high power (40amp 8.4v) receiver so I will run it on unregulated 2cell LiPo. The telemetry will be an amp meter to find out how hard my servos are working as I haven't seen any info on this at all. I got an optical tach to find out in air rpm and temp sensors to get a good tune on all 4 cylinders of the 200. I really like the logical switches to unload the snaps and I got a stick top switch as it is right next to your finger. At the moment I am testing it in a foamy but will report back when I get it in the Slick. Oh and Gernot flys one too
It would be nice if Jeti made a regulator/BEC unit that supported the 20 amp nominal and 40 amp peak currents that their higher end RX's do(with that and a r12 or better you'd never need a power box for most every giant scale IMAC type bird)....Still I'm thinking about running 1x jeti max BEC(12 amp nominal/20amp peak) with 2x life packs on my 89" 60cc slick(even with all 5 control surface servo's stalled I should only be around 17 amps peak...
I've also ordered a dc-16, being a pincher Ive always wanted a tray style tx and the dc-16 hits all of my anorak buttons on the head...I've been annoying espirt models with emails ever since they announced they would be bringing them to the states. Ive used Jeti esc's off and on for years(they have been hard to get in my area and I like to support the local shop when I can) and never had anything but flawless performance from them. I can't wait get my 16!
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577 Posts
Hi Chris I have a Fromeco wolverine switch for the 200 model set up 2 into 1. At 15 amps per switch it will be the weak link. However the telemetry will tell me what sort of current draw I am getting in flight. For the Slick I will have to get another current/volt meter, one for each battery. I was mainly interested in the current of each individual servo as I am using one servo per surface including rudder. I also got the 125C temp sensors to see how warm the servos get.
Joined Jan 2009
65 Posts
My I suggest this little gadeget http://www.sm-modellbau.de/shop/index.php?cPath=18
I got it last week and for now I used in my DG-300 glider just to test vario. But it is capable of many more. Here is a test http://www.elektromodellflug.de/unisens-e-von-sm.html
It can measure current, voltage, power, capacity, motor RPM and altitude. When you connect it to jeti receiver, you instantly have it on DC-16 sensor screen. It is also compatible with Hott and MPX telemetry protocol. This weekend I will mount it in my tug SwissTrainer and sons Trex-500 just to see how much current flows there.
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By Bebe grand
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Comments about Long Handled Telescopic Tub & Tile Scrubber:
Great for cleaning up high.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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This takes all the effort out of shower cleaning
By MyShare120
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My bathtub and shower are always the hardest to clean and this made it a breeze. I am short so I need the long handle and a strong brush on the end. Awesome. I am going to buy 3 or 4 more!!
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By Ann the Hopefull Cleaner
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I don't have a pet. I bought this brush because it showed a woman using the brush on shower wall. There was no mention it was just for kennels, etc. I tried using this brush on my bathroom floor which had grout lines. I found it very weak and bending easily using the long handle, not enough support. When I used the smaller size it was great at scrubbing the tile and grout and I had to wipe up afterwards. However because of my elderly age and back problems I really needed the longer handle to be stronger so I could use it better.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By Mary
from Evergreen Park, IL
I have a bad back and scrubbing the bathtub was very difficult for me. With the telescopic scrubber, I did the tile walls and the bathtub itself with no problem. The scrubber did a great job and I didn't have to strain my back. The bristles are pretty stiff for cleaning and the rounded edges and swivel head make it easy to get into the curved corners of the bathtub.
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this works so well in shower and tub so nice not to have to bend down to clean
Works well.
By ANNIEB
from Ontario, NY
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I use it for cleaning my bath tub and tile.
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from New Castle, Va.
Great for the bath tub walls and showers. Easy to use. You can adjust the handle to suit you.
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Haven't used yet but looks practical
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Seems very practical-but just received and haven't used as yet.
Tremendous tool for bathrooms
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Cleans raised Roman tubs without stretching/straining. Terrific for arthritis sufferers to reach those difficult areas in bathrooms.
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Washington Township residents shouldn't be alarmed if they hear loud booms and plumes of smoke coming from the Old Stone House Village this weekend — when the second annual Civil War Living History event gets under way.
Confederate soldiers from the 9th Virginia Dismounted Calvary Regiment will set up camp at the historical village for the two-day event starting on Saturday morning at 9 a.m.
While it's the second year the regiment will host the living history event, started by township Historical Advisory Board member Steve Sonnon, it's the first year they'll be joined by their enemies.
Union soldiers from the 7th New Jersey Infantry Regiment, Company D, will also set up camp behind the Olde Stone House, not far from the "Rebs."
Township resident Fred Mossbrucker — a member of the Union regiment who connected with Sonnon to bring out both sides this year — said he's excited to get the event under way, especially with the new family-friendly and fire-powered attractions.
"[The reenactors] take it seriously," said Mossbrucker, also a longtime teacher at Pitman High School. "It should be a good time."
At 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, and 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Sunday, the soldiers will do live firing demonstrations of their period-accurate weapons, and both days will feature a kids boot camp where children can learn about drills, marching and life during the Civil War.
On Sunday at 2 p.m., the Ft. Delaware Concert Band will play original Civil War-era songs on original Civil War-era instruments.
The event — which costs $10 per car load with proceeds going toward the village's preservation — closes down at 5 p.m. both nights, but Sonnan said that the real show happens when the sun goes down and the camp opens back up to the public for a free night firing event.
"[During the day firings] what you don't see is all the fire that comes out of those cannons," said Sonnon, who estimated this year's Living History event to be at least 50 percent bigger than last year's. "It's going to be noisy, smoky and a lot of fun."
They'll also have reenactors cooking period-accurate meals for the reenactors over fires, and engaging with visitors to explain the back story of the Civil War, the real lives of soldiers that goes beyond battle names and casualty numbers.
"We'll try to explain camp life ... You can get up close and personal," said Mossbrucker.
"You see battles [at reenactments]," Sonnon added. "But you don't see what's afterward."
---Michelle Caffrey may be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @ShellyCaffrey. Find the South Jersey Times on Facebook.


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Twitter Testing Design that Resembles Facebook Pages
Twitter is testing a new layout that closely resembles to Facebook Pages. This comes just weeks after a change that aligned the design of the desktop and mobile versions.
No date has been set for when the redesign will go live. In keeping with past changes, its rollout will likely be incremental, so you may or may not see it immediately. At present, the updated layout is not publicly visible. Users must be logged into their account to see it.
Here is a breakdown of the changes.
Header Image
The first thing to notice is the extremely large header image. Twitter recommends that images be 1500 pixels wide by 500 pixels high, which far exceeds the size of header banners used by other social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+.
Background images are 1252×626 pixels in the current version, which means images fitting the new dimensions will have to be uploaded. Otherwise, they may appear distorted.
Profile Image and Bio
The placement of a larger profile image is almost exactly the same as on Facebook Pages. Biographical information is now located beneath the image and contains the same content that is available on the current layout.
List of Tweets and Other Information
The updated layout includes an area that lists the number of tweets, photos and videos, people the user is following, followers, and lists.
On-page Editing
By clicking the "Edit Profile" button located on the right-hand side just below the header, users can make changes to header and profile images, biographical information and theme color.
Home Page Newsfeed
Newsfeed items are larger, and this applies especially to photos. Depending on the browser — I tested the new design in Chrome and Firefox — items may appear in a two-column format similar to the way Facebook Page timelines did before their latest redesign, or in a single column as shown below.
Followers, Following, and Photos
Another change is the use of a card structure on the Followers, Following, and Photos/Videos pages.
Other Twitter Accounts
Interestingly, other Twitter profile pages viewed from an account with the new design share the same look, even though the others may not be included in the test.
Reason for the Change
Twitter is tight-lipped regarding reasons for the change. However, a recent earnings call with investors may provide a clue. During the call, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said, "We need to make Twitter a better Twitter."
Due to its reliance on advertising revenue, the fact that most people use applications like HootSuite, SproutSocial, and TweetDeck presents a problem for the company. These third-party apps don't show ads, so it's in Twitter's interest to find ways to encourage people to use its own version.
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Here's an update to the story. Twitter just announced that, very soon, it will start rolling out the new design to everyone. Three features are mentioned specifically: best tweets (tweets with more engagement will appear larger), pinned tweets (users can pin a tweet to the top of the page) and filtered tweets (when viewing other profiles, can choose options).
Here's the link: https://blog.twitter.com/2014/coming-soon-a-whole-new-you-in-your-twitter-profile


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Why did the Department of Health publish a report on childhood cancer?
The State Cancer Registry collects data that is used to determine New Jersey's cancer rates and analyze cancer trends, both statewide and in particular populations. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children after accidents, making childhood cancers of particular concern to the public, researchers, health care providers and policy makers. This report provides the latest rates and trends in childhood cancer incidence and mortality, including cancer incidence rates by county.
What are the report's findings?
Childhood cancer deaths have dropped steadily since 1979. In fact, mortality rates declined by one-third, according to the report. However, cancer incidence increased slightly, just under six percent, during the 17-year period.
How does New Jersey compare with the nation?
Childhood cancer trends in New Jersey mirror those in the United States. The state and U.S. mortality rates are identical, and both declined by one-third since 1979. Childhood cancer incidence also increased in the U.S. during the time period, although at a slightly faster rate than in the state. New Jersey's rate remains higher than the U.S., but the gap has narrowed over time. It is important to note that while national mortality rates are based on nationwide data, incidence rates are based on National Cancer Institute data representing about 10 percent of the population.
Did the report find any counties that had elevated cancer rates?
No. County-by-county rates for all the major childhood cancers were analyzed for the period 1979 to 1995. There were no statistically significant elevations compared with state rates.
As well as publishing cancer data, the department continuously monitors cancer incidence in the state and looks more closely at areas where there is concern about possible elevated cancer rates.
How does the department respond to concerns about cancer in the community?
The Office of Cancer Epidemiology is available to discuss the public's concerns about cancer in their communities. Staff answers questions, discusses citizen observations about cancer locally, and provides educational materials published by the department and other agencies. When warranted, the department works with the local health department to conduct more in-depth analysis to see if further investigation or studies are needed.
How common is childhood cancer?
Childhood cancers account for less than one percent of all cancers diagnosed both in New Jersey and nationally. In the 17 years covered by the New Jersey report, 4,075 childhood cancers were diagnosed, or about 200 to 250 a year.
Why does the report present data on childhood cancers diagnosed only through age 14?
National health agencies such as the National Cancer Institute define pediatric cancer as those occurring from birth through age 14. This standard definition enables comparisons between New Jersey data and national published data. In addition, the types of cancers observed in young people begin to shift at about age 15. For example, there are more testicular cancers and lymphomas -- which affect the white blood cells of the immune system -- in the 15 - 19 age group than in younger children.
Why doesn't the report give cancer rates for municipalities?
Although childhood cancers are very serious diseases, they are also very rare. The small numbers of cases in each county make it statistically difficult to see year-to-year differences that are significant, and not due to chance alone. In other words, a difference of one or two cases more or less a year can produce a rise or fall in rates that is not statistically meaningful. This problem is even more pronounced when analyzing municipality data, because the numbers of cases are even smaller.
The department also must protect the confidentiality of those in the Registry. Municipal numbers may be so small, that when analyzed by race, sex and type of cancer, an individual with cancer could inadvertently be identified. In addition, Registry data includes mailing addresses for individuals diagnosed with cancer, which may not reflect actual town of residence.
Who can use this report?
Members of the public and the media can use this report to learn about cancer rates and trends in the state and counties. Researchers may use it to target future studies on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer, while health planners can use the information to plan needed children's health services. The report also is being sent to legislators, local health officers, pediatricians and pediatric oncologists.


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A new season brings even greater challenges for mountain men old and new. In the frozen wilds of Alaska's Great Northern Range, bush pilot and fur trapper Marty Meierotto hopes to rebound from a disappointing trapping season, but a late-arriving winter threatens to derail him before he can even get started. In the isolated Yaak Valley of northwest Montana, Tom Oar and his wife, Nancy, must battle all-consuming wildfires and repel a host of natural invaders ranging from marauding grizzly bears to a pack of wolves. Meanwhile in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, Eustace Conway struggles to repay a hefty cash loan that he took out in order to save his land from a government lien.
Joining their ranks this season is Rich Lewis, a mountain lion hunter who leads a team of well-trained hounds in pursuit of one of North America's deadliest predators. Rich is hell-bent on running off one cat in particular: Three-Toes, the lion that killed his best dog. However, he also uses his skills to track down the poachers who seek to kill the lions and the wolves that prey upon his neighbors' livestock. Also joining Mountain Men this year is George Michaud, a trapper who is devoted to Native American hunting and trapping techniques and relies on his dogsled team to navigate the terrain of Idaho's Grand Tetons. Rounding out the cast is Charlie Tucker, an ax man-turned-mountain man who has left the only job he's ever known to pursue his dream of trapping fur full-time in the forests of northern Maine. Using ancient skills and innate ingenuity, these men fend off nature's ceaseless onslaught, carving out the lives they've chosen from a harsh and unforgiving landscape.


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John Coltrane: His Life and Music
John Coltrane: His Life and Music
Lewis Porter
Univ of Michigan Press
Thirty-one years after John Coltrane died, just short of forty-one years old, he remains an enigma, not to only to me but to the various persons who have attempted to capture his character in books. There are, with the publication of Lewis Porter's John Coltrane: His Life and Music, eight books in English about the man. None of them, including Porter's, give you much insight into his personality.
If you are looking for a light read, skip this book. There is comparatively little about his private life, and some of that is speculative.
The emphasis is entirely on the music, and I would suggest that you don't even pick up this book unless you are a musician with considerable understanding of harmony and the ability the read musical notation. But if you are a musician, particularly a jazz musician, hasten to your bookstore and get it, and prepare to spend not days, not weeks, but months studying it. It is the finest musical analysis of a jazz musician's art I have ever read. It is brilliantly done. In addition to being a responsible scholar, Dr. Porter is associate professor of music at Rutgers University, he is a jazz musician. He is a pianist and for fifteen years he was a working saxophonist. This shows in every detail of his discussion of the work of a man who was a great saxophonist, in some opinions the greatest of his generation.
I can't say that I knew Coltrane well because I'm not sure it was possible to know him well. We certainly were on cordial terms, and he would now and then come to my home in Chicago for dinner during the years I was editor of Down Beat magazine. I remember him as everyone Porter interviewed remembers him: gentle, articulate when he chose to speak but usually very quiet, and astonishingly modest. It has always baffled me that the most mediocre musical talents often have the biggest egos. But those of brilliant ability are inclined to be unprepossessing. Perhaps it is because they are always pushing to the outer periphery of their abilities, and the art itself makes them modest. John certainly was that way, and Porter quotes him a number of times as asserting that he was searching and had not really found what he sought, musically or philosophically. I remember listening to Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste with him. He hadn't heard that piece before, although he was very familiar with Stravinsky's music (as most jazz musicians are). He listened in complete absorption while my son, then about three, crawled up on his lap and made himself comfortable. That is how I remember him: completely open to a little child, and gentle. Frankly, I somewhat adored John. He was a lovely person.
That he was a former heroin addict is widely known. He broke the habit on his own, and early, though he began using (and this I did not know) LSD in the later years, possibly in search of that mystical experience he was seeking through music. John's music was essentially a religious search, and he was fascinated, as Porter documents, by all the religions of the world. He was by the same token interested in every kind of music he encountered. He named one of his children Ravi (himself an outstanding and underrecognized avant-garde saxophonist) after the great sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, one of John's friends.
Coltrane emerged as a major jazz figure in the late 1950s. Born in North Carolina, he developed as a musician in Philadelphia in company with another important saxophonist, Benny Golson, his lifelong friend. It was his membership with the Miles Davis group that pulled people's coats, to use an old jazz musician's phrase, to his emerging brilliance.
John was said to play with a hard tone, and some referred to his playing as angry. This puzzled him. He said to me, "Why do they say my playing is angry? I'm not angry at anything." This bothered him enough that he said it to other's as well, according to Dr. Porter's book. I thought John had an exceptionally pretty sound. I attended one of his record sessions entirely devoted to ballads; indeed I was there because John wanted me to write the liner notes for it, which I did. I remember that session (and the album documents my impression) for enthrallingly tender playing. It will stay with me all my life. He also did an album with the late singer Johnny Hartman in which this aspect of his work is again evident.
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SALEM - Area workers and their employers learned about safety concerns on the job, earned training credits and networked with each other and safety equipment or service suppliers during a conference Friday.
The Columbiana County2012 Safety Conference & Expo at Salem High School attracted nearly 400 attendees and 43 health, safety and risk-related exhibitors, co-sponsored by the Columbiana, East Liverpool and Salem Area Safety Councils, in partnership with the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.
"Safety is everybody's responsibility," Employer Management Supervisor David Costantino of the Ohio BWC Youngstown office said.
This was the fifth consecutive year of holding safety conferences in the area and the third for Columbiana County, with an estimated 1,700 people trained over that period of time, he said.
The event opened with a BWC update, followed by morning and afternoon sessions on a variety of safety topics, such as hazard communication, accident analysis, hazardous waste training, oil & gas well exploration and drilling, transitional work plans, power tools, lift plans, explosive dusts, violence in the workplace, drugs in the workplace, distracted driving, record keeping, claims management, trench and excavation and workplace chemical hazards.
Costantino said the BWC appreciated the three Columbiana County Area Safety Councils partnering with the state and making the safety conference successful. He said being able to bring such a big group together for one day is valuable to both the attendees and their employers.
"We are very pleased to be able to offer to the businesses in our county and the surrounding area classes that focus upon safety," Salem Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Audrey Null said, adding she was pleased with the collaboration between the Salem, East Liverpool and Columbiana Area Safety Councils along with the BWC.
She explained that each Chamber of Commerce has an Area Safety Council which meets monthly and provides educational resources to businesses within the chamber and the community.
A program is provided each month related to safety issues. One recent program dealt with distracted driving. Others have covered fire safety, drugs in the workplace and safety issues in the workplace related to digging, use of cranes and ladders or trenching.
Some of the classes at the conference were strictly for educational purposes, while others fulfilled training credits required by the BWC or counted toward human resources certification.


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Sufficiently Smart Compiler
This is a classic argument often pulled out in a
. The gist is that the
may be slower than the
, but given a
this would not be the case. Moreover, this hypothetical compiler could use the high-level information available in language
to perform optimizing transformations which are simply not possible in
, thereby making an optimally-compiled
than an optimally-compiled
In reality, there are a few such compilers, such as the Stalin compiler for
(which was never intended to be usable on huge, production-level programs), but that's not the point. It's mostly an empty argument that's trotted out whenever a language is put down for not being
Note that this kind of argument is only invalid as long as the
is hypothetical. The very moment compilers appear that do exploit the high level information this argument is valid. Java is the best example - in the beginning it was slow - much slower than C - and
was only used as an excuse. But then as Java became more popular, support (for whatever reason) for better compilers (or rather just in time optimizers) started to appear which did exploit information that was not available to C compilers: Real time profiles of code use (optimize code); real time use of reference use (optimize garbage collection). These make Java indeed
(or faster) in a large area of applications (I can give lots of studies/examples).
I would be interested in pointers to published, peer-reviewed studies of sufficiently smartly compiled Java being faster than C. Thank you
I think
has the necessary refs. If not come back to me. --
The refs point to results that claim that "Java indeed
" is not true, repeating the tests with current compilers yield even worse results for the java side, than the ones published. The Benchmarks used are only small computational applications, with local data structures. Larger applications usually involve lots of objects that need to be processed/traversed, here Java software is further penalized (java apps pay for abstraction) due to its cache inefficient object system
Note that
has optimized compilers. Perhaps a SmartCeeCompiler
simply generates faster code than a SmartHighLevelLanguageCompiler
as a result of the language design. It's like a normal person on caffeine versus an Olympic athlete on caffeine. The issue isn't how much caffeine they drank.
At what point does C stop being C and become a new language? In order to get past the limitations of the old C, the new C (C99) no longer permits pointing different sized types at the same memory. This allows out-of-order processing of pointers to different types. (A further extension allows you specify that no other pointer ever points to a value). The new language permits a SmarterCeeCompiler
. Is that cheating?
In many cases, the (alleged) optimizations that would make language X
are either a) unknown, b) still a subject of active research (and not yet ready for production use), c) computationally difficult (
or worse--many optimization strategies are in this category), or d) just plain undecidable.
A related issue is the
Many optimization strategies for C are
as well, and so is register allocation by graph coloring. NP completeness is not a criterion for dismissing a compiler technique. -- ScottWolchok
I agree with that assertion. I'd add that even 'just plain undecidable' isn't sufficient criterion for dismissing out of hand a compiler technique. Most undecidable problems that are undecidable in the general case are quite decidable in specific cases. Similarly, many
problems are only non-polynomial in the general case or when seeking a global optimum; human-written code tends to have a lot of structure that can be leveraged by pattern-matching algorithms to reduce search-space for optimization points. And one can usually grow things much faster by settling for less-than-optimum... which allows for heuristics and such (even specialized AI) to replace brute-force methods. Undecidable and
are only a problem if you force them to 'completion'. Just abort or deprioritize optimization-efforts that are taking too long, or make them more incremental. It isn't as though most optimizations are
If a compiler DOES use some undecidable and
techniques, though, I'd only suggest a parameter in the optimizer options saying exactly how long it may spend optimizing code (e.g. 10 seconds), and possibly make the optimization-process interruptible (complete it now!). Further, I'd design the compiler to create extra files that track successful and unsuccessful optimization-attempts (at least the
attempts) on a per-project basis in order to speed up iterative edit-compile-run cycles and have a more additive effect over time (so it uses its time mostly to make new optimizations rather than reproduce the old ones time and again).
The greatest of reasons to skip optimization techniques has less to do with their time-complexity than with the fact that they're truly, awfully, horridly painful both to implement and verify as legal. That really needs to change... we need something like a
dedicated to describing optimization techniques that makes them easy to implement (e.g. pattern-matching, functional or
spec of attempted transform(s), etc.), along with a system that systematically searches for, attempts, and verifies these as legal and more-optimal at point of use (possibly in combination with other transforms, though that would need to be limited by heuristic to avoid
). It would certainly be nice to be able to pass a file describing optimization suggestions, patterns, and heuristics to the optimizer - it would certainly improve research in the field. (First we compile the optimizer, then we optimize the code... hmmm...
at its finest.)
Moved discussion about C, assembly, risc processors and LISP machines to
. --
The exception that really does prove the rule is that there some domains where there is profit in building a
, to make specific cases run faster than a C compiler.
for example. This is a language used for hardware design. Running fast simulations requires code that produces the effect of massive parallelism. Some simulation vendor provide solutions that translate the verilog code to (very efficient) C, and then rely on the C compiler's optimisations to make it really fast. But the top vendors don't compile to C: they compile directly to object code, making full use of their application-specific knowledge and the full instruction set of the cpu (and cache structure, etc.) They even have engineers who look at customer's code, and modify the compiler to recognise specific hardware design styles (and components). A high-end direct-to-object-code compiled simulation knocks the socks of anything that a general-purpose C compiler can produce - because it is smart: it doesn't attempt to be a good compiler for general-purpose code.
Certainly, but this is really rather off topic, because translating language X into C and then compiling the result is not at all the usual topic of conversation when people raise issues about a
To knock the strawman down: if a human expert translated a program in language X (specifically including
) into C by hand with speed as the goal, then the result would in general be vastly faster than the above-discussed
An expert human compiler... yes, that would be SufficientlySmart
. And slow. And expensive.
And prone to error.
To put it another way, it is in general true that a good native compiler for language X will tend to be better than translating X to C and then using a C compiler, but that is not surprising and not usually at issue.
Superior performance isn't the only attribute frequently assigned to the (mythical)
. Many such compilers are also capable of other incredible feats of reasoning about programs, such as detecting errors at compile-time that lesser compilers need expensive runtime checks for (or ignore completely).
... which is somewhat ridiculous. The fundamental ability to detect errors is an emergent property of the language and syntax. This ability, after all, requires the ability to distinguish errors from intentional effect; only languages that both capture intent
force you to program the underlying implementation of that intent allow for both production
detection of errors. (Well, you can produce errors in any language, but you cannot detect them where a higher-level 'intent' is not also captured.) In most languages, at the moment, 'intent' is largely limited to typing of values and objects.
In some case, the hypothetical compilers are SufficientlySmart
that they can do so, despite the fact that the computation in question has been proven to be undecideable on a
. (i.e. "with a sufficiently smart compiler, you can prove whether or not a program written in X will halt!" If X isn't
, I suppose).
It isn't unreasonable to require halting as a property of certain programs and sub-programs. In this case, the inability to prove a program halts or continues indefinitely, after some pre-defined amount of effort, allows for answering 'true', 'false', or 'unknown' to undecidable questions... and requirements policy can either reject or accept the 'unknowns'. I'd hesitate to reject consideration of useful but undecidable computations merely on the basis that they are undecidable. So long as a claim is not made that the
can solve undecidable requests on
program written in a
language, it is difficult to reject the claim as unreasonable. (There are many programs I can prove halt, so why not my compiler?)
Does the
compiler count as sufficiently smart? Compile time garbage collection, automatic parallelization of code, beats other logic programming languages in performance, etc.
It might be a smart compiler, but there's no way it touches on the 'magic' of the '
'. Keep in mind that the term is often used with much hand-waving.
It was once believed that no C compiler could ever produce code that ran faster than hand written assembly. However, modern C compilers can relentlessly optimize every part of the code, and anecdotally, can out perform human assembly programmers.
This is still true - a compiler can never win this battle. All a human programmer has to do is take the output of the compiler and make a single optimisation, and he/she wins. This is the advantage that the human has - they can use any of a wide variety of tools at their disposal (including the compiler), whilst the compiler can only do what it was programmed. The best the compiler can hope for is a tie.
But, this is ad nausea. Provide the human edited improvement to a compiler. What has been implied is
From Scratch, a Compiler will output better optimized object code than a Human
, and this should be qualified with "for a given time constraint." Both of these are not only valid constraints but one could say necessary. Not many projects have the Railroad Tycoon's luxury of time (and compulsion) or need to be written the bottom up in assembly.
Link-time optimizations are rather difficult to perform given a set of '.o' object files. Thus, given that a great many global static optimizations cannot be automated prior to link-time, it shouldn't be difficult (with a language designed to support optimizations) to surpass a C compiler in global optimizations. This is especially true given C's slow and inflexible procedure-call protocol; assembler benefits a great deal from the ability to specify register-passed parameters, letting the programmer control exactly which registers might be 'trashed' and thus might be desired for saving, etc... and to largely avoid unnecessary memory access (because RAM access is moderately expensive, even with L1 and L2 cache). Further, due to state-based programming ('side-effect' programming), C is awful at most partial evaluation optimizations (save inlining and basic integer or floating-point ops). Partial evaluation and redundancy elimination are the two biggest local optimizations one can perform. With C missing one big set of local optimizations and the vast majority of global optimizations, it should be quite possible to design a high-level language that can produce code that is
, possibly by a wide margin in some problem domains.
The trick is to make a language that can be compiled to something
that also provides the extra features seen as so desirable in the high level languages. And, once that is done, the hours upon hours of arduous effort placed into the C compiler would need to be matched.
Regarding link time optimizations, whole program optimization and even profile-guided optimizations are already possible for C compilers. I'll grant some of the other points -- I've sometimes thought it would beneficial for a compiler to be able to change the default register usage (how many are used for arguments, how many for local values, how many are saved & restored) depending on the specific program, but in such a case you have to know you have the *whole* program, and you're not part of a dll, for example.
Some link time optimizations are possible (e.g. limited inlining and redundancy elimination for C string constants, functions provided as 'static' in header files, etc.), but there are many that would require disassembly of the code. Of course, many of the best link-time optimizations are still based in partial evaluation, which the C compiler isn't so good at even locally.
For the register usage, it is possible for a compiler to adjust those internally so long as it provides (at the ABI, and for function-pointer passing) the required c-declaration wrappers. I wouldn't be surprised if some compilers already do this. I'd track per-function communications and register usage information (input, output, trashed) and, where I don't just inline the function, make it the job of the optimizer to color all those registers to minimize the total register saves and restores program-wide. Then, for the DLL exports and function-pointers, one can create an interface to the functions that additionally meets the C calling conventions... e.g. saving exactly the necessary registers. Link-time optimizations then become possible if you hold onto that register info by linking directly to the inner version. Unfortunately, such link-time optimizations ideally require program-wide register coloring... it's exactly that sort of thing that is made difficult by the
(C/C++) compilation mechanism.
Link time optimizations
is mostly a red hering IMO. Compilers like msvc and icc do tricks like saving their intermediate representation in the object files and doing their normal compilation steps at link time. Anyway in practice the gains here are small. Most time is still spend in inner loops. Most software is designed that all stuff needed for the inner loop is in a single file and inlining even surpasses all gains possible by adjusting calling convention as we can avoid the calls completely!
I tend to see a great deal of
when measured in terms of CPU time spent within any given function. However, that may be a consequence of more event-driven programming with intelligent caching. Link-time optimizations can achieve uniform speedup in these cases. It is true that MSVC and ICC do achieve some link-time optimizations, which helps across '.o' files.
may also be able to turn a high percentage of "imperative" programming statements into declarative ones, such as into a functional sub-language. This may blur the distinction between "imperative" and "declarative" language. As far as determining if a given statement is one or the other, it may be difficult to formulate a general way to tell. One may not be able to rule out that the viewer/optimizer is not just clever enough to find a declarative solution to it. There may always be undiscovered axiom that allows us to turn some or all of it into a declarative statement. -t
Link-time optimizations in C are usually done by delaying code generation until link time. With Microsoft's toolset, this is known as Link Time Code Generation, or LTCG. No disassembly required.
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A lucky Vancouver-girl met Cory Monteith and Mark Salling yesterday. She was cruisin' down Robson and spotted Cory's gigantic-ness. She stopped him and asked him for a picture and he said "yes." She says that she didn't even notice Mark standing beside him. When she did she asked him to join the pic and he said "no." She asked him "Really? You really don't want to be in this pic?" Cory was still in so I guess Mark caved. It was awesome that they did and were nice enough to talk to her, although she says it was obvious they didn't really want to. Sad. I get that they get bothered everyday, all the time, but still. You don't know what the future holds after Glee.
Congrats @pavanatwal_!! You look great!
People are really getting peeved about these posts, hmm? I'm a total Cory supporter, always have been. Isn't it obvious? lol There are more posts about him on this blog than anyone else (kinda embarrassing, ha). He's only been uber nice every time I've met him. Mark too. I've been posting about it due to the number of people emailing me about it – I'm not there, duh. They are just rumours, but it's the sheer number of people talking to me about it that bothers me. I'm not going to delete anything b/c some people don't like it. You can't please everyone. I get negative feedback about every post I do. People weren't getting pics, now some are coming up. That's GREAT! I've never called him a douche, never will, and I've only called fans who do meet him lucky! Don't put words into my mouth


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