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Canada, ON, Guelph
Joined Jul 2004
210 Posts
STERLING FS-36 CORSAIR e-CONVERSION!
Hi Guys!
I just bought this FS-36 Corsair kit (Old Sterling Kit) and I have been busily building away on it... I will post pictures as soon as possible ( I have lots, but haven't gotten around to posting them yet...).
If anyone has done this conversion before, what motor/prop/batts did you use?
I bought this kit for $10 from an estate sale, lucky, I know as they go for aot more than that...
Anyway, this kit is suprisingly nicely cut considering the age.
Equipment I am planning on using:
AXI 2808-16 Outrunner (Just one I happen to have)
9x3.8 APC Slowfly Prop
3s 1250 Lipo (Thunderpower)
I am fitting it with 3 hardpoints, one under each wing (on the rudder channel, so you can release them independently) and 1 under the belly for a torpedo. Which, hopefully will be a functional one that will run just under the surface... have to built that after..
Anyway, any thoughts or pointers are appreciated!
How's the wood density in the kit? I'd be thinking about lightening the airframe as much as possible, especially aft of the cockpit. Every Sterling kit I ever built was built like a tank, with heavy wood.
What glow engine was this designed for? It is a 1/2A design, right?
Stamford, CT
Joined Oct 2000
6,794 Posts
I know this airplane by reputation only, but like Rick says- it was not a light design. You're way undergunned in terms of power- I suspect that you need closer to 300 watts to fly this airplane- it really needed a 0.15 glow engine- a TD .049 wouldn't hack it. Hence a slow flyer 9 x 3.8 prop isn't gonna work either-
My recommended power system would be a Jeti Phasor 15/4 (or equivalent) an 8 x 6, a 3s 35A comfy pack - probably around 3000-4000 mAH. Don't run a pack at 20C, you may need lots of throttle to fly this airplane- it will be quick- so you want to have some flight time. If you build it light, might be pretty sweet.
Canada, ON, Guelph
Joined Jul 2004
210 Posts
Wow really?
Wow... Really? Hmm. Interesting. I have been building away and the fuse seems light enough, but the wing seems really heavy to me. I have not sheeted it yet, though I have on the fuse in 1/16th. I was thinking sheeting hte wing with 1/32 to save a bit. The wood wasn't too bad as far as density, though I have replaced some of it. I am curious to see what the weight of the airframe will be when it's all together without covering or equipment. Maybe my axi won't be enough.
I wanted to run a 3 blade prop on it, when a prop says 9x7 , does that mean the diameter of the circle is 9" and the pitch of each blade is 7? That's what I am assuming. How to I convert between the 2 and 3 bvlade props... Any thoughts? a 9x7 must be like a 10x8 or so 2 blader?
Anyway, I will post pictures tonight. Thanks for the input! Keep it coming!
Judging from some of your questions, you appear to be a beginner to R/C, or nearly so.
I would recommend you not try to fly this airplane unless you can comfortably handle a fast, heavily wing-loaded warbird. Even if you build it light, it's going to be a handful to fly, no matter what. Don't kid yourself--it's definitely not a plane for a beginner or inexperienced pilot.
Stamford, CT
Joined Oct 2000
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Agree with Rick. Also- you probably do want a rudder on this airplane.
In terms of wing sheeting- I wouldn't go to 1/32 simply for handling reasons. This is gonna be around a 2 lb airplane if I'm guessing right and that means that landing is going to have some impact loads. 1/32 will be annoying.
In terms of props- yeah, you're about right- a 3 blade 9 x 7 (and yes, 7 is the pitch) is about a 10 x 7 two blade. However, this is going to be a fast airplane- you'll need a pitch speed of at least 60 mph- hence an 8 x 6 turning at 10k rpm min.
I have the same kit lurking in my kit closet. I think it was intended for a .10 glow. The AXI may have enough urge on a 2200mah 3S lipo maybe 9x7 APC E prop. I would recommend using rudder with landing gear for ROG takeoffs. You might want to use one micro servo for each aileron and a Y harness to the receiver.Use a 3amp speed control such as the current Phoenix 25. With total four servos on 3S lipo you may want to use a Park BEC. Agree that this is not a beginner's model, you should fly a couple of GWS foam warbirds to get some slower low wing aileron experience before attempting to fly the much faster heavier snappier Sterling Corsair
Canada, ON, Guelph
Joined Jul 2004
210 Posts
Haha... that's funny...
Haha.. That's funny... I suppose given my past post (reading it back to myself) you would assume I am a beginner. Actually, I have been flying for about 15 years, anything from 3D profile planes, ducted fan jets (glow), warbirds of various sizes, float planes and 2610 scale combat etc... That's ok though, my posts were dense, I realize...
Anyway, I will just chug along and finishe her up, if she ends up being a "just for show" model that's ok too. We'll see what we end up with.
So far, it feels light enough (she is a warbird afterall) and I will get a weight measurement once I finish the sheeting on the fuse. Get an idea of where were going.
Thanks for the input though, I do appreciate all the wonderful people on rcgroups that add their input, it helps alot when doing things you haven't done before...
You can always weigh the parts then post here. I just weighed some LHS wood - 1/32" X 4 X 36 15grams
Lone Star Balsa same size 9grams.
It is quite possible or balsa to rance 4:1 in weight.
When I was a kid, my dad built a Sterling P-38 and with 2 Fox 15's it flew great. It would loop on one engine.
I found a Sterling P-38 kit about 5 yrs ago and put 2 OS 15's on it. It is fast but will only fly straight on one engine. It glides like a brick. I called dad and he said "Those Sterling kits were fameous for using oak-hard balsa. I substituted lighter balsa and that's why ours flew so well."
Now he tells me!
The question about prop size and pitch designation just struck me as a newbie question, that's all. I guess I just don't quite understand how anyone could be flying R/C for for that long and not be extremely familiar with how props are sized and marked.
just a followup to feather's comment on balsa density.Before I was placing large orders for balsa for kits (where I can add in some specific grades from the supplier with the standard order), I would take a gram scale in to the hobby shop and select wood using it. I remember the numbers from one sortie when I was getting sheeting for my OV10 bronco. They'd just gotten a large shipment of 1/16X3X36 and I needed 10 or 12 sheets of it. After 20 minutes or so of weighing, and placing into various stacks, and selecting what I wanted, I found out that those sheets ranged from 11 grams to 63 grams (yes, same size sheets). Compared to the kit-supplied wood, I saved just over 8 ounces on the wing sheeting alone by spending 20 minutes at the hobby shop with a gram scale. They used to laugh at me when I did that, but no more <G>
Canada, ON, Guelph
Joined Jul 2004
210 Posts
Balsa weights
Sounds good guys, I will weigh some of the balsa sheets are see how it's doing. I compared it with the light stuff I picked up from the LHS for my Lanier Shrike (found their sheeting on the heavy side) and found that it was about equivalent. Not sure on weight, I will find out.
About the prop thing, I have never used a 3-bladed prop since I never had a reason to, so that's why I was just checking to see if there was a fast and easy conversion so I can think in the way my mind works with props. I know about 2 bladers, as to what prop should give me what range of amps on which motors, but three bladers, my mind would just want to increase the total by 33%. Just thought I would ask
Anyway, glad to hear the P-38 flew ok! I expected it to be a brick, and I am sure it will be! haha. In the end, if it has to be gas, I suppose it might be so, I have a OS .25 sitting around that I guess I coulod install...
Gary - When they see me at the LHS, they ask if I'm gonna need the scale. I use theirs. And yes they are stilll amused.
But my 75" Edge weighs just over 9lb.
Canada, ON, Guelph
Joined Jul 2004
210 Posts
Wow feather, that's amazing!
I've posted pictures on my website of the build, you can see it along side my guillows' stuka converison also. Both are coming along, but I should really focus on one or the other to finish them up! Oh well...
Here's my Stuka Thread:
Cheers to everyone!
And just think if the design of that edge was given as much consideration as the wood. My 90", 1660 square XL's are 9 and a touch with ubec and 7S, almost 10 lbs with 10S and 5-cell 3000 nimh rx pack,... .. without any thought given to wood selection,..just whatever was grabbed out of the stacks.Unless I run large packs, and the big 5 cell 3000 rx pack, they get too light to snap or spin. I don't get the amusement anymore at the hobby shop, as i rarely select wood there since I place very large wood orders for kits and short kits. I just add in some 4 to 6 lb wood to the order and the work is done for me by lonestar.
Just remind the hobby shop that you get the last laugh when you finish the plane at ridiculously low wieght. The OV10 I mentioned above ends up 7.5 to 8 lbs with two 25 glow engines and 4 ounce tanks. Mine had two geared electrics,.. twenty 2600 nimh cells (10 per side), 7 servos, and pheumatic retracts. Mine flew at a shade under 6.5 lbs with 800 watts. That plane was de-commissioned a few years ago and sits in the attic. I've ran the numbers and with some A30's and lipos I should be able to shave 1.5 to 2 lbs off it and have more power to boot. I just haven't gotten around to doing it yet.
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Previously in this chapter I talked about how to expand your iTunes library across multiple hard drives, which can be useful when you're running out of space on your main hard drive where your iTunes library is stored. But there may come a time when you want to completely move your iTunes library to another drive, instead of having it spread across multiple drives. So in this movie I would like to show you how to move your library to a completely separate drive. Now, I want to address two slightly different scenarios for moving your library. First, you might want to move it to a larger drive because your current drive is running out of space, but I'm also going to show you an optional step here if you're interested in making your iTunes library portable.
And what I mean by portable is that you can copy over some additional files to your external drive, so that you can then connect that drive to any computer running iTunes and be able to access your entire library without having to move or transfer files to that computer. Again, this will be an optional step, so you can skip it if you only intend to use your iTunes library with the computer it originated on. Also I do want to warn you that this is a slightly more advanced topic, because we will be moving files around using the Finder or Windows Explorer. So be sure you understand what I'm showing you here before you try it yourself and proceed at your own risk.
If you pay attention of what I do here though, it's actually very easy to do. So let's save your internal drive where all my iTunes content is stored on my computer is getting full. I want to move the entire library to the second drive I've connected to my computer. Now, the first thing I suggest to do is to go to iTunes > Preferences or on Windows go to Edit > Preferences and under the Advanced tab, if they aren't already selected, make sure to check Keep iTunes Media folder organized and Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library. We have mention these checkboxes a few times already, but again this makes sure that any files you drag into iTunes get copied into organized folders within your main iTunes library, and the library location is specified here at the top of the window.
And currently it's set to my default location. But I want to change this location, so I'll click Change. And here I'll select the drive I want to move my library to, and you can see it's mostly empty. I just have this folder called backup stuff on it. Now, this is very important. If you plan or even think that you want to be able to connect this hard drive to another copy of iTunes on another computer, don't just choose that external hard drive as the location for your library. You want to make a couple of subfolders here. First I'm going to click New Folder. I'll call this iTunes so I know what it is, and within that iTunes folder I'm going to create a another new folder, and I'm just going to call this Library.
You can call it anything you want as long as you remember what you named it. So I'll click Create. With my Library selected I'll choose that. So you can see now I've changed my library location. Now, if you recall from the earlier movie on expanding your library, if I just left everything as it is right now, any new content I drag into iTunes will get stored in this new location while all of my current songs and videos that are currently in my library will be stored in the old library location. But I want everything to go over to this new location. So I'm going to close my preferences. So you can see it says Updating iTunes library and let me just show you what it's done so far.
If I go and look in my Drive A, there is an iTunes folder I created, there is that Library folder, and here it has just created a folder called Automatically Add to iTunes, which we've looked at before. So now in iTunes, I'm going to go to the File menu and choose Library > Organize Library, and here I'm going to make sure Consolidate files is checked. So when I click OK, that's going to copy all the files now currently stored in my old library location, which is essentially all of them, into the new location we just selected. So I'll click OK and you can see it's now copying my songs over.
Now depending on how large your library is, this could take several minutes to several hours. Just let iTunes do its thing until all the files are copied over. All right, so now iTunes has done copying and at this point all of my media files are now stored on my other hard drive. If I go out in my Finder again and look in Drive A and look in iTunes, there is my Library folder I created. And if I look under Music, you can see it created all these folders. It did in fact copy all of my music over. So now that these files have been copied over, I'm free to delete the files from their original location.
On a Mac, again, that default location is inside the Music folder in your home folder inside iTunes, and on the Windows side of things, you can get to that location by clicking the Start menu, your user folder, and My Music. Now, this is very important. Do not just delete this entire iTunes folder. iTunes is actually still using this folder. If I open it up, notice these files you are seeing here, iTunes Library.itl, iTunes Music Library.xml, and so on. These are database files iTunes uses to keep track of your library's location and to keep it organized.
So even though you moved your content to another drive, iTunes still uses this original location to store the information about your library. Now these files take up virtually no space. What's really eating up your hard drive space is the iTunes Media folder, where all of your stuff was stored. So you really want to do here is to delete the iTunes Media folder, which maybe also labeled iTunes Music, and you can just drag that entire file to your Recycle Bin and then Empty Recycle Bin to delete it. Let's switch back to the Mac. Now, in the Mac the same thing goes. If I look inside the Music folder inside iTunes, we see these exact same files here, iTunes Music Library and iTunes Library.
Those are the two main important ones, and again all of the content is stored inside iTunes Music, which, since we've copied that over, we can actually then just drag to our Trash. And then empty our trash to free up that space. And that's really all there is to it. My media is now safely on my external drive, and I can still play it off through iTunes. (Music playing) Now I mention in optional step if you want to be able to make your iTunes library portable. Now as you just saw, I copied my entire library of content to another drive, but those database files iTunes uses are still on my main drive in my home user folder.
To make my iTunes library portable, I need to copy these database files to the external drive as well. That's why I had you save your library in a subfolder on the new drive, because these database files need to stay on the outside of your iTunes content folder. So I'm just going to quit iTunes for a moment here, and inside the iTunes folder, now again this is in my main user folder, Music > iTunes, I'm just going to select everything in this folder. Now first of all I'm going to open Drive A so I can see what I'm doing here. And then I'm going to open another Finder window, go back to my Music folder, iTunes, and now I select everything in here and I'll copy that over to my other drive, to my Drive A. With those files copied there, my iTunes library is now truly portable.
Everything that has to do with my iTunes library is now on Drive A. Now you might even want to do this, even if you don't intend of making a portable iTunes drive. This is just to make sure that you get everything related to your iTunes library into one location, but if we were on an external drive and I connected to another computer, all I have to do is hold down Option on my Mac or Shift on the Windows as I start up iTunes again. And this is something you're going to have to do after you move these files anyway. So again, on a Mac, hold down Option and on Windows hold down Shift. Startup iTunes. Now I'm prompted to choose a library. So I'll click Choose Library, I'll select Drive A where I've copied everything over to, iTunes, the folder containing my library, and I'll select iTunes Library.
I'll click Choose and I can again see all of my content. And as you can see, I can still play any of my content as well. (Music playing) So at this point, if I wanted to, I really could go into my main home user folder into Music, and then delete this entire iTunes folder, because now everything that has to do with iTunes is copied to Drive A. And that's how you move your iTunes library from your main hard drive to another hard drive.
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Tumult sometimes breeds great rock music, as proven here by Smashing Pumpkins, the hot-blooded quartet that returns with a vengeance after a few shaky outings. Things had been off-kilter since 1996, when a member of the group's touring band died of a drug overdose. Adore, a quiet set released in 1998, didn't sell well. During the same period they fired and rehired a drummer, and one of the band's founding members quit. Now they're back together (with a new bassist) in time to tour on the release of this new opus from lead singer and songwriter Billy Corgan. Got all of that? Then get this: Emerging from the mayhem amidst a swirl of punishingly loud electric guitars and stuttering drumbeats, this grunge act miraculously delivers the most melodic and gorgeously wrought album in its 11-year history. Hearing Corgan sneer, "Let me die for rock and roll," we can only hope he doesn't really mean it.
Bottom Line: Kinetic rockers rev it up again
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Packed season of shows drives record grosses
Showing that 2009-10 was no flash in the pan, Broadway logged its second straight billion-dollar season, registering a record $1.08 billion and rising attendance of 12.5 million.
A brawny 42-show season slate kept seasonal tallies high and the Rialto unusually crowded with large-scale new musicals targeted at a broad swath of theatergoers, ranging from edgy comedy "The Book of Mormon" to comicbook spectacle "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" to feel-good drag-queen road trip "Priscilla Queen of the Desert."
As has become more and more common in recent years, plays contributed their fair share of coin to the pot, with such star-driven revivals as "The Merchant of Venice" joined in recent weeks by strong-selling shows including "War Horse," a rare play title that's hitting B.O. heights without the benefit of a celeb in the cast.
And then there are the success stories that rake it in year after year.
"Wicked" is the Main Stem's perennial top-grosser, and it was no different during the 2010-11 season, despite a few frames of healthy competish from both "The Lion King" and "Spider-Man" for the No. 1 spot in the weekly Top 10. "Wicked" racked up $86.1 million over the season, outpacing the "Lion King" tally of $79.8 million.
Also notable this season: "Wicked," which bowed in late 2003, broke the half-billion dollar mark in overall cume for its Broadway incarnation, while the Gotham outpost of "Lion King," running since late 1997, topped three-quarters of a billion.
The season's newer offerings rarely make it to the top of the annual sales charts, simply because most of them haven't been around very long. However, "Spider-Man" ($28 million) managed to swing a spot this year, thanks to hefty weekly tallies for perfs that began back in November. Not bad for a show that's still in previews.
Year-on-year comparisons are muddied slightly by the fact that the 2010-11 season is made up of 53 weeks rather than the usual 52. An extra week is tacked on once every seven years in order to mitigate the calendar variables that arise over the course of individual years.
Even at 52 weeks, though, Broadway box office came in at a record $1.06 billion. Rising ticket prices and the now-commonplace sale of premium-price seats are among the factors that help pull in extra coin, particularly for high-demand shows. "Merchant of Venice" ($15.3 million) benefited from premium sales in its limited engagement, and more recently "Book of Mormon" ($12.5 million) has logged premium-powered weekly tallies well above the potential gross for sold-out houses at standard top-ticket prices.
The season's attendance, on the other hand, didn't break any records based on a 52-week comparison, with the total at 52 weeks hitting 12.26 million. That's well ahead of the 11.89 million posted in 2009-10, but not as high as the 12.31 million hit in 2006-07 (and about on par with the 12.26 million for 2007-08).
The 42 productions that crowded into the Rialto made this one of the busiest seasons in the past 20 years, seeming to confirm theater owners' assertions that these days there's no shortage of product angling for a berth on Broadway.
Despite a spring packed with new tuners, the 14 musicals that opened over the course of 2010-11 were easily outnumbered by the 25 plays to hit the stage. Those totals in part reflect the continuing predominance of the limited-run play engagement — a la "Merchant," "Driving Miss Daisy," "That Championship Season" — a production model that's now a staple on the Main Stem thanks both to the season sked at Broadway's not-for-profit houses and the rise of star-driven productions with strictly curtailed skeds.
Joining "Wicked" and "Lion King" in the upper reaches of the season's sales chart were usual lineup of hits including "Jersey Boys" ($55.7 million), "Billy Elliot" ($53 million) and, among the newer additions to the list, the 2009-10 offering "The Addams Family" ($50.1 million).
Holdover "Memphis" parlayed last year's Tony win into a $44.1 million season. Both "Promises, Promises" ($34.3 million) and "American Idiot" ($33.4 million), two now-shuttered shows from 2009-10, also did well, powered by Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth in "Promises" and the extended thesping stints of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong in "Idiot."
With the season wrapped up over Memorial Day weekend, Broadway can look ahead to the tourist influx that traditionally keeps box office healthy all through the summer. It can also look forward to "Spider-Man" — which, after its drawn-out, publicity-magnet preview period, is skedded to open June 14. Though with this webslinger, nothing is certain.


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Takeda Review
publisher: Xicat Interactive
developer: Magitech Corporation
genre: Strategy
P200, 128MB RAM, 1GB HDD, 8MB video card
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release date: Nov 15, 01
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Takeda, coming from the relatively unknown Magitech, is an interesting tactical strategy, which brings us the fascinating history of medieval Japan through a series of complex strategic battles.
The game mostly resembles Shogun: Total War in a sense that its goal is practically identical: you have to become the Emperor of the medieval Japan and conquer the territories of the enemy clans. The game engine is, on the other hand, a bit different - in stead of the 3D engine, you will have a classical 2D engine capable of displaying hundreds of units on screen in full color. I was particularly surprised by the fact that the engine did not slow down, even when there were 600-700 units engaged in battle. The game engine really seems remarkable.
The story takes us to the XI century, the age of Sengoku (Age of Strife) which gave birth to a great leader from the clan Takeda Shingen. The player assumes the role of the Takeda clan Daimyo, and sets off to conquer Japan. The campaign is unfortunately quite linear, and comes down to the same thing regardless of the choices you are offered to make during the game (for instance, if you want to kill a thief who looks like you, or save him and then sacrifice him in public to make your enemies think you have been slain).
The map of Japan is crammed with flags representing armies and castles. Clan symbols (Mon icons) are displayed with their military, political and economic meaning. The higher these numbers are (especially the military stats) the bigger the chances are that clan would rule Japan. The main map has only three options for you to use. The first one will take you directly to the next battle, the second one will let your forces rest for a year and fill its ranks, but don't forget that the enemy will use this time to get reinforcements or attack you. The third option will take you to the main menu. The more territories you own the more soldiers you will have, and the bigger your influence will be.
Before the battle, you have to prepare your army, choose your generals, and select the formations for your units. You can also select to have detachment forces, which come during the battle as reinforcements. The generals play an important role in your army. There are several types of units available, and the Takeda clan was especially notorious for its excellent cavalry. Apart from that, there are samurai, spearmen, archers and riflemen. Next to the picture of each general, you can see the type of units he can lead, in a certain color. White would mean that he is a rookie in commanding that particular unit type, and gold means that he is an expert, and likely to perform exceedingly well with that unit type. Each general has (usually) three officers, which follow him in battle. Generals and their officers will advance through the game as they gain experience and bravery points if they manage to survive the skirmishes. Formations are an important tactical element that did not get enough attention in Shogun.
You can choose the arrow, wave, tiger, fish and other exotic formations. Choosing the right formation may mean the difference between victory and defeat in the oncoming battle.
The heart of this game are the battles. Controlling units consisting out of hundreds of soldiers is an impressive feeling. You will issue commands to the unit, and each soldier within the unit will act on his own accord.
The predefined orders, all officers got at the start of the scenario and their formations, can be changed using the pop-up menu next to each general's picture.
You can order your units to attack, or all attack, stand ground or retreat, defend themselves or regroup. One of your main goals in each battle is to capture enemy flags and destroy his Headquarters which destroys enemy morale. When the flags on the headquarters fall, that means the general is dead, and his troops will start frantically retreating, giving you a chance to kill them off without much ado.
The units are small, but are still clear and full of details. Castle sieges are particularly interesting. The soldiers have to find a way to tear the gates down, while the archers shoot at them from the castle. Each dead soldier remains on the ground, making battlefields look really spectacular after a fight. The atmosphere of medieval Japan has not only been achieved through excellent unit design, but also by using characteristic architecture. The engine supports weather conditions, clouds and fog, as well as the night and day cycle, and all these things influence the battle and its potential outcome.
Besides the campaign, the game also includes 16 historical battles for you to play, and it supports network head to head play. You can save the movies of your multiplayer skirmishes, and review them later using the demonstration battle option.
Takeda is not a revolutionary game, but it offers an array of interesting options in this already old and worn-out genre. It can also be considered to be a good 2D rendition of Shogun.
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One Sunday after church, we were visiting with friends Jane and Don about an apple orchard that we both visit to buy apples in these winter months. This orchard has a small salesroom where you can buy most varieties they have along with their excellent cider, cheeses and more.
At the same time, the owners encourage regular customers to go back in to their cold storage where the apples are kept and pick out what we want that they have bagged and ready to sell. When you walk into that cold storage, there is a delicious smell of apples of many kinds. It is an aroma that is one of a kind that we really enjoy.
Last Sunday after church, these friends came up to us with Jane carrying a small package. Because of illness and weather problems, we had missed several Sundays, but they were looking for us. This small package was a candle that, when burning, gave off the aroma, or nearly so, of that apple storage. We do enjoy it and appreciate the thoughtfulness of our friends with that little gift.
This experience made me think about the many pleasant aromas that are all around us if we take time to stop and notice them. Visiting a bakery with all the wonderful smells coming from fresh baked products is an experience we all should enjoy once in a while. Problem is, I am no longer allowed to have any of those fresh-baked doughnuts or sweet rolls. But it doesn't cost anything to enjoy those delicious smells.
Better yet is to come home and find that Betty has baked fresh wheat bread, rolls or an apple pie. The house is full of aromas that linger for sometime. Naturally, when fresh bread cools a little bit, I have to have a big slice. It's never better than when freshly baked.
Most of my life I have lived in the country or a small town, and I have an agricultural background. That may make me more aware of pleasant aromas and sights that are found out in the country.
There is another aroma common to spring that you don't want to miss, and that is freshly cut hay curing in the field. You can smell the pleasant aroma coming from the hay as it cures when you drive by. Better yet, find a safe place to stop and walk to the edge of the field and really enjoy the experience.
I do some hay, grain and silage judging at county fairs. One of the requirements of a top sample of hay is to open it and find that fresh, newly cut aroma. It indicates top quality hay. Any hint of a musty sample or mildew grades the sample down.
Grass silage made at the right stage of maturity and stored at the right moisture content has a pleasant, sweet aroma. If it has a sour, pungent odor, it was probably too high in moisture when put in the silo and is not the best feed.
Another pleasant aroma that we can experience anytime now comes from the sugar houses where maple sap is being boiled to make maple syrup. When the farmer is using wood to boil the sap, as many still do, the smell of wood smoke combined with the steam from the evaporator is another pleasant experience. Then you need to sample the newly made, warm syrup when it comes off the evaporator. Delicious!
Thinking of pleasant sounds, it's enjoyable to hear the first frogs or "peepers" in the spring when you can open the windows. They tell you that spring is really here or just ahead. A positive sound. Early morning birds chirping just outside the window are sounds we need to listen to and enjoy. One friend says he wishes those noisy birds wouldn't start so early in the day, but he isn't really that grumpy.
Take time to enjoy the sights, sounds and pleasant aromas that are all around us if we will just listen to them. Even the big supermarkets in town have many pleasant aromas that we can enjoy. And most of them do a fine job of creating attractive displays of their foods.
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A former Philippi resident who spent 24 years serving his country in an elite military group said Monday that all veterans should be considered as part of a special group because of the sacrifices they made for America.
A 1960 Philippi High School graduate, Tom Hawkins retired from the Navy in 1998 after 24 years of active service as a Seal Team officer, earning the Meritorious Service Medal and the Navy Achievement Medal. Hawkins resides in Virginia Beach, Va., with his wife Carol Hawkins and their two sons and daughter. He told the Veterans Day audience in Philippi that he and his family plan to relocate to Volga.
"It's wonderful knowing that you grew up in a town like this," Hawkins said. "I love it here."
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Walking with other members of Mountaineer 4-H, Stephanie Santilli, 8, of Philippi smiles as she waves an American flag toward the camera during the Veterans Day Parade down Main Street in Philippi Monday.
Hawkins spoke about the declining statistics of men and women in service.
"Over time, fewer and fewer people have shouldered the burden, and it's only getting worse," Hawkins said, adding that 1 percent or less of the citizens in America have volunteered to serve. "These are, of course, unbelievable statistics. The average citizen has been asked to sacrifice nothing, and has sacrificed very little."
Hawkins said that distinction alone makes every military veteran part of an elite group. He said that those who have served in the military have lost relationships, spent years of their lives in extreme conditions, spent years away from their children and families and some never made it back. He said that many times, veterans came home to a nation that didn't understand their suffering, their sacrifices, why they fought or that "bad people exist."
He spoke about the history of Veterans Day. He said Armistice Day, originally celebrated in 1919, was a special day to honor veterans of World War I. Hawkins said that in June of 1954, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day to honor veterans of all wars.
Philippi American Legion Post 44 Commander Lloyd Zetty thanked everyone who not only participated in the preparation of the ceremony, parade and luncheon, but also the veterans who fought in our nation's wars throughout the years.
"We kept on serving because we should," Zetty said. "This is the day we honor all the veterans."
Rhododendron Girls' State participants and the Veterans Day pageant royalty were recognized during the ceremony. In a Saturday pageant, Kelsi Griffith was named Queen, and Ashley Luff was named Little Miss Queen.
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Mazda first revealed its fuel-efficient Sky-G and Sky-D combustion engines at the 2009 Toyko motor show, but the automaker laid out its plans to introduce the designs into the North American market at the 2010 New York International Auto Show.
Details on the gasoline-powered Sky-G engine are still sparse, but Mazda says it will launch the stingy four-cylinder globally in 2011, starting in the U.S. The new direct-injection four-cylinder engine reportedly delivers a 15-percent increase in both torque and fuel economy over the current 2.0-liter I-4. We've yet to hear which vehicle will first receive the Sky-G technology, but given a Mazda3 equipped with the engine could potentially return fuel economy akin to the smaller Mazda2, we imagine Mazda's compact car is a definite possibility.
Surprisingly, Mazda also plans on bringing its efficient Sky-D diesel engine to the U.S. for the 2012 model year. Although it would make sense to offer the engine in a larger vehicle like the CX-7 or CX-9 crossovers, the company's official release says the oil-burning engine will be fitted in a "next-generation midsize sedan" — so we're betting a diesel Mazda6 is in our future.
Thanks in part to a two-stage turbocharger, optimized fuel delivery, and a revised combustion chamber, the Sky-D can reportedly help the 6 return up to 43 mpg on the highway — better than Ford's Fusion Hybrid. Better yet, the engine returns 20-percent better fuel economy than Mazda's present 2.2-liter turbo-diesel I-4, and requires no exhaust aftertreatment to meet EPA emission standards.
Both engines will be mated to a revised automatic transmission, billed as "Sky-Drive." By reducing internal friction, modifying the torque converter's design, and changing when it actively locks up, Mazda says the gearbox helps deliver an additional 5-percent improvement in fuel economy over a conventional design.
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Criticism should be kept as
narrow as possible
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Wrong: "You are a big jerk!"
Right: "I disagree with your opinion about foo-oriented programming."
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If a person is frustrating you for whatever reason, leave the discussion (assuming the context of a wiki) before you are tempted to express wider opinions about given person.
When in doubt, say nothing
Our primal cave-men urges to lash out in frustration or chest thumping is harmful to civilized discussion. Yes, it's hard to resist the urge, but something we must do if harmony is a goal. Lashing out will likely not change the other party to fit your desires anyhow. Harsh or blunt criticism rarely solves anything. The other party probably has some harsh opinions of you also that they are holding back. Unleashing yours will either alienate the other party, or result in them releasing counter criticism.
While the above offers some good advice, I feel it should be noted that the
"as narrow as possible"
depends upon the claims being made. If the argument is organized such that one can clearly identify "items C, J, and K", then those can be targeted. If not, "You don't understand any of this" may indeed be
"as narrow as possible"
But one should clarify where the alleged problem is first. It may just be a communication breakdown.
If the problem is somehow 'localized', then perhps 'where' can be clarified. Fallacy and some problems, however, are rarely localized.
One was provided.
And, to the contrary of the claim above, generalizing a person's (lack of) understanding can indeed solve problems. It can help a third-party audience - one not well enough experienced to be properly crtical of claims - know where to review evidence with caution. It is perfectly fair to note that a person has regularly used fallacy in his or her arguments, especially if it is easily proven. This might even help the other person IF that person is not a
and is capable of critically reviewing his or her own claims. But you can't ask for everything.
But its such an overused accusation on the web that it is more likely to generate heat than light. Everyone thinks their opponent "doesn't get it". It reminds me of that survey where something like 80% of randomly surveyed people think they are better-than-average drivers. There's a topic on that somewhere on this wiki. (It may be that they use criteria that favors themselves, not that they are outright self-deceiving.)
An accusation is only "overused" if it's wrong. Claims of fallacy, I think, are
It no longer carries any "punch" because it is overused. Readers ignore it as an authoritarian claim because it is over-used. For example, if a 5-year-old says their teacher is "stupid", they are probably ignored, *even* if they were right, because most 5 year olds probably hold that opinion at least once. The villagers hear "wolf" so often, from different people, that they ignore the next one like they did the last one......even if there really is wolf this time.
"Punch" isn't the issue if you're seeking "light". Truth is.
Truth not heard is still not heard. You need to take movies or photos or something if you want villagers to pay attention to your wolf call over the hundreds of bogus calls.
Is your goal to be right or to be heard?
If only the first, then you may end up being right in isolation. It may not even be your fault that others have abused
so much that your good criticism is dismisses and put in the same category as that of the empty shouters. But the environment is what it is. Don't complain about the rain, work around it.
Truth not heard is still truth. And there is often evidence (photos, movies, etc.) proving the truth before persons claim it. The issue of "not being heard" has nothing to do with lack of evidence; it has to do with willful ignorance. People who pander to the ignorant (be it willful or otherwise) by telling them lies and misrepresenting truths in ways they're willing to hear are called 'Charlatans' and 'Sophists' and are morally corrupt bastards that don't deserve respect or to be heard in ANY intellectual community.
[I don't see any evidence that Top is intentionally corrupt or wilfully misleading. I'm sure his intentions are good and he means well, but for whatever social, psychological, educational or genetic reasons, he does not possess the same appreciation for scientific or logical rigour that you do and he never will. His priorities are different to yours, but that doesn't make his priorities wrong. I imagine he's the sort who frequently spouts homey aphorisms around the office like "Keep it Simple, Stupid!" or "I don't care how you do it, as long as it works!" The VB coders in the room probably smile and agree; after work they buy him beers and say, "You da Man, Top!" The Haskell and LISP programmers swear under their breath. Top's managers keep paying him. If I were hiring, I'd hire one of him and one of you -- for different but equally-important purposes -- but I'd put your offices at opposite ends of the building. Y'all might want to consider doing the virtual equivalent here, because you're never going to agree on anything. Ever.]
There is no rigor in software engineering beyond machine performance. I'm just the messenger. It's all turned into a game between everybody to shape the "best practices" in their own image by overmagnifying their pet factors using over-simplistic, convoluted, or circular reasoning. If you can objectively prove X is better in all meaningful factors, be my guest. Until then, stop peddling
fake rigor
and claiming/painting everyone who disagrees with you as drooling VB hugger.--top
If you're just a messenger, then I suggest you find a source for these claims of yours that isn't so persistently wrong. First, as you've been informed many times, software engineering DOES NOT concern itself with demonstrating 'X is better in all meaningful factors' any more than architectural engineering concerns itself with whether bolts or screws are better in all cases. Only particular cases are of any concern, and risk, cost, and consequence must all be considered. E.g. whether gotos are bad in all cases is irrelevant... are they bad when you're doing a simple while loop? yes, because they offer no benefit relative to a language loop construct but introduce greater risk of error and make more difficult the optimizations. Second, there is a great deal more that is rigorous than machine performance: there is also
(independent of machine), correctness (for sorts, searches, databases, dispatch, optimizations, calculations, communications, etc.), safety (both type-safety and the sort of consideration for control-safety commonly seen in robotics, pacemakers, and city traffic-lights controllers), security (PKI and SecurityModels
, preventing buffer overflows, etc.), modularity, and more. I'm assuming you're just willfully ignorant on that second matter, as you've heard it all before but it never seems to stick for long in that opinionated and ridiculously 'custom business app'-focused brain of yours. In any case, even if you believe you're right,
is your goal to be right or to be heard?
- because, as a messenger, thus far
you fail
. Any truth you might be presenting seems quite heavily buried in that pile of what your proposed audience considers obvious untruths then is buried even further when you attempt to defend fallacy and error with yet more of the same. If you want to be a good messenger, improve that signal-to-noise ratio of yours.
That advice applies to everybody in the field. Our field has
because we haven't figured out how to apply rigor to software design outside of overly-narrow metrics. Some want to over-magnify these narrow metrics to promote their pet tool/technique. --top
(Moved Goto-related material to
. The split may not be perfect because there is a bit of interweaving of sub-topics.)
In some ways this reflects the on-going issue of OO design patterns: shouldn't they be built into the language if they are known patterns? It's also an argument against try/catch language idioms: something which can be handled with conditionals and other techniques. Some argue that languages are getting carried away in the way of
to keep up with the brochure-checkbox Joneses. Design-by-contract and
are other contenders for creeping featuritise idiom clutter. Generally we want our OWN favorite idioms in the language but not other's that we don't use much. I personally like blocks over gotos in most cases, but it has not been demonstrated that blocks are objectively better using sufficient and thorough rigor.
I see from your last statement that you're once again stubbornly beating the dead horse about 'objectively better' without dealing with a proper 'better for what' angle. When you get tired of doing so, maybe we'll have a reasonable conversation on that matter. When it comes to blocks vs. gotos, I don't believe there's even much overlap in their functionality. Might as well compare, with 'sufficient and thorough rigor', which of gotos vs. car wax is better.
Please clarify the non-overlap statement.
What is difficult to understand about 'non-overlap in functionality'? Hammers and Nails have different functions, and so arguing which is better is somewhat silly (better for what? pounding objects into walls?). I feel the same about your 'gotos and blocks' comments. Perhaps you should clarify what you mean by 'blocks' since, while there are about four variations of which I'm aware for meaning of 'block' relevant to software, none of them seem to be comparable to gotos.
I mean flow control structures such as IF, While, Case, etc.
I'm left baffled as to how you meant these and said 'blocks', but I do see how these items can be compared.
You are baffled by almost everything I do. I believe you to be bleeped in the head and vise versa. No need to repeat such.
Actually, most of what you do I can comprehend. It just
You disgust me too. The feeling is mutual.
I'm convinced that
, or at least are indicative of missing language features. If you can't encapsulate and refactor a commonly used pattern into a library, something is broken with the language: either the language needs the pattern built into it OR the language needs a higher-level feature that would allow one to encapsulate that pattern into a library. The latter is a better choice, and is where the whole idea of subroutines and objects started.
, if combined with a symbol generator, would be a usable combination for encapsulating most patterns. I would note that
are features you can't capture even with
or functions or procedures - arguing that they're
seems to me like another statement of gross ignorance on your part. In addition, I'd note that your statements above are an argument
try/catch language idioms, not against them - i.e. using try/catch obviates need for common patterns that programmers usually get wrong anyway... which is why they built the pattern into the language.
Note: replace my statements above about "machine-performance" with "performance-related issues". "Machine" is misleading. --top
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Your investment strategy is probably designed for the long term with a diversified mix of various types of investments. However, there are times to consider tweaking your portfolio to react to changes that could – or should – alter your investment strategy.
It may be time to review your portfolio and consider rebalancing your investment mix if, for instance:
- Your risk tolerance changes.
- You reach a financial goal, such as helping a child pay for college.
- You are close to retiring.
When your investment goals, time horizon and tolerance for risk changes, you can rebalance your portfolio to restore the asset allocation you want. Keep in mind that the use of asset allocation doesn't guarantee returns or insulate you from potential losses.
Understanding how rebalancing works
Say the stock market gains over the past three years have swollen the stocks portion of your portfolio. If the current level is too high for your risk tolerance, you can return to your original allocation.
How do you do this?
- You can move money from stocks into other asset classes, such as bond and money market funds.
- Or you can invest more in underrepresented asset classes until you achieve the overall allocations you want.
Learn about rebalancing through this example
By using a hypothetical subject – Karen – let's examine how she rebalances her portfolio. Three years after Karen invested her money in three different asset classes, gains in the stock market increased the value of her stock funds 22%. During the same period, the value of her bond funds grew 9% and her money market fund value was up 4%.


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Plastic water bottles have become kind of hip, even though they're bad for the planet.
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Brandimage has come up with an idea for a paper water bottle that's made of renewable, recycled paper, according to the folks at Yahoo! Green.
The company also won an award for its "360" paper bottle, which designers say will decrease energy consumed through the product's entire life cycle. For instance, the bottles can be flattened for easy shipping before they're filled with water.
In other wild idea news, a British designer has created a fake flower in a vase that wilts as your home energy use increases.
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There's a similar prototype called FlowerPod that you also can't buy, but another device called the Wattson monitor that will show how many watts you're using at a given time, according to a post at treehugger.com.
Onions make your eyes run, and they can also run your iPod, a U.K. paper says.
The Mail Online has a story about a 21-year-old who soaked an onion in an energy drink called Lucozade and got it to power his digital music player.
It works, but won't replace coal plants anytime soon, says a writer who tried it.
The power of energy efficiency will shine tonight in Washington, D.C., when the National Christmas Tree is lit Dec. 4.
This year's tree is lit almost entirely by LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, and will use half the energy as last year's tree.
That's according to officials with General Electric, which donated more than 37,000 lights for the display.
GE, by the way, has halted the development of a high-efficiency incandescent light bulb.
The Clean Break blog reports that GE was working on a next-generation incandescent that would be as efficient and brighter than those twirly compact fluorescents, minus the mercury.
But the company has suspended the project and is now working on LEDs and something called organic LEDs.
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Ray Takeyh: The Origins of Iran's BellicosityRoundup: Talking About History
Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
More than thirty years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power—and two decades after his passing—the Islamic Republic remains an outlier in international relations. Other non-Western, revolutionary regimes eventually eschewed a rigidly ideological foreign policy and accepted the fundamental legitimacy of the international system. But Iran's leaders have remained committed to Khomeini's worldview. The resilience of Iran's Islamist ideology in the country's foreign policy is striking. China's present-day foreign policy isn't structured according to Mao's thought, nor is Ho Chi Minh the guiding light behind Vietnam's efforts to integrate into the Asian community. But Iran's leadership clings to policies derived largely from Khomeini's ideological vision even when such policies are detrimental to the country's other stated national interests and even when a sizable portion of the ruling elite rejects them.
Many Western observers of Iran don't understand that its foreign policy has been fashioned largely to sustain an ideological identity. Thus, we can't understand Iran's foreign relations and its evident hostility by just assessing its international environment or the changing Mideast power balance. These things matter. But Iran's revolutionary elite also seeks to buttress the regime's ideological identity by embracing a confrontational posture.
The question then becomes why the Iranian leadership continues to maintain this ideological template so long after its revolutionary emergence. After all, other revolutionary regimes, after initially using foreign policy for ideological purposes, later moved away from that approach. Why has China become more pragmatic but not Iran? The answer is that the Islamic Republic is different from its revolutionary counterparts in that the ideology of its state is its religion. It may be a politicized and radicalized variation of Shia Islam, but religion is the official dogma. Thus, a dedicated core of supporters inevitably remained loyal to this religious ideology long after Khomeini himself disappeared from the scene. Revolutionary regimes usually change when their ardent supporters grow disillusioned and abandon the faith. It is, after all, much easier to be an ex-Marxist than an ex-Shiite. In one instance, renouncing one's faith is political defection; in the other, apostasy. Although the Islamic Republic has become widely unpopular, for a small but fervent segment of the population it is still an important experiment in realizing God's will on earth.
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The 2001 Volkwagen GTI in which Tyree was a passenger was traveling south on that highway when it crossed the road, struck a business at 748 Milford Road and continued on to smash into the boulder.
Route 209 was closed for over eight hours following the accident.
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BURNHAM - Japanese steel manufacturer Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. and Sumitomo Corporation have agreed to acquire Steel Wheels Acquisition Corp., the parent company of Standard Steel LLC in Burnham, according to a press release issued Monday.
The estimated $340 million transaction is expected to close before the end of the year, subject to the receipt of regulatory approvals, the release states.
Standard Steel, a portfolio company of Trimaran Capital Partners, is a leading manufacturer of steel wheels and axles for use in freight railcars, locomotives and passenger railcars. Standard Steel produces steel railroad wheels and axles from its manufacturing facility in Burnham and has approximately 620 employees.
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A Japanese company plans to purchase Standard Steel by year's end, according to a press release. The company also says it has plans for the Burnham facility.
"Under Trimaran's leadership, we completed several initiatives, including an expansion of our wheel business, that have enabled us to remain competitive in the railcar components market," Standard Steel CEO Michael Farrell said Monday. "We are excited about the opportunities to further grow our business and enhance our relationship with our customers and we look forward to working with our new owners to achieve future success."
Sumitomo Metals' aim is to enhance its global competitiveness in the manufacture and sale of railway wheels, including wheels used for locomotives and passenger trains, as well as high-speed rail, according to the release. The acquisition of Standard Steel is part of Sumitomo's plan to increase its presence in the North American market, and includes bringing its proprietary Sumitomo Inclined Rotary Dishing pressing facility - a rotary forging press for wheels - and its clean steel technology to the Burnham location, the release states.
Sumitomo said in the release that it believes technology transfer and cooperation with Standard Steel will increase its global competitiveness in terms of quality, technology and product line-up.
"We are pleased to have partnered with Standard Steel's management and employees to support an iconic company as it entered into its next phase of growth," said Michael Maelli, Managing Director of Trimaran. "The company is now well-positioned for future expansion and should continue its successful tradition of being a key supplier to one of the country's oldest industries under its new ownership."
Standard Steel's customers include Class I railroads, freight railcar builders, railcar and locomotive maintenance shops, Amtrak, locomotive builders and regional transit authorities, among others. The company, together with its predecessors, was established more than 200 years ago, and its Burnham facility is one of the oldest continuously operating manufacturing facilities in North America.
Trimaran is a private asset management firm, headquartered in New York, with assets under management in excess of $2 billion. Since 1995, Trimaran has completed 61 private equity investments totaling over $1.5 billion of equity capital. Trimaran and certain members of the management team purchased the company in 2006.
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Pros and cons of options vs. futures
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Futures trading originated in many respects as a way to hedge commodity prices. While that is still a key function, retail futures traders can now speculate on the price movements of a wide array of assets, including oil, gold, currencies, equities, and volatility.
And all this can all be done for a very small margin, allowing for huge amounts of leverage. For example, a futures contract on the S&P 500 worth roughly $60,000 can be controlled for as little as $2,500.
This amount of leverage is in some respects similar to that afforded options, but the two instruments are very different. Losses in futures can come very quickly because of their margin requirements, and it is entirely possible for traders to lose much more money than they even have in their accounts.
The same is true of selling options, but not buying them. Option buyers always know exactly how much they are risking and their maximum potential loss, but they still get significant potential leverage. In fact, the leverage is sometimes greater with options.
Depending on your outlook, for instance, you could buy an SPDR S&P 500 Fund (SPY) call for as little as $50. That would give you control over 100 shares of the SPY, worth $12,750 at the time of this writing.
Futures traders face another important issue: An account must be opened that is different from your equity account, something that has scared off many traders since MF Global's downfall chilled the market. (I personally am not going to stop trading futures because of one bad apple, though it does raise a host of questions.)
On the other side of the equation, futures are in many respects easier to trade than options. If you think that oil or gold are going to rise in price, you buy the futures. The buying and selling is similar to trading equities, except that selling is much easier in the futures world because it is essentially treated the same as buying.
Options have a pricing model--a whole range of them, actually--and a volatility component that make valuing them more difficult. Option traders also need a thesis on the underlying, a view on volatility, and a timing projection. They need to pick a strike and an expiration. Of course, some of these issues are not so clear cut, as there are options on futures as well.
It used to be that futures were the only way to get access to some markets, and to a limited degree that is still true. But various exchange-traded products are now available that allow the retail equity or option trader access to such things as gold. The SPDR Gold Shares Fund (GLD) is one of the largest exchange-traded funds.
I trade futures and options. There are times when I lean toward one market or the other. But from a risk perspective, option vertical spreads provide unparalleled potential returns as well as risk management for all of those who are willing to put in the work to understand options basic mechanics.
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R&B/Soul Musician. Born Erma Venice Franklin in Shelby, Mississippi, she was the sister of singers Carolyn and Aretha Franklin, and the daughter of Rev. C.L. Franklin. As a child she moved to Memphis, Detroit, and Buffalo, where at 5 she began singing in her father's church choir. Later in high school she began singing with her sisters in the vocal group, 'The Cleo-Patrettes' and began recording on the local Detroit Radio Label JVB, but the group broke up after high school. After high school Erma toured with her father's gospel group for 2 years and then had the chance to record for the Chess Record Label and to join Motown but ended up going to college on the advice of her father. In 1961 she auditioned for the Epic Record Label and moved to New York to record her debut album, "Her Name Is Erma" which came out in 1962 and featured jazz, pop, and R&B tunes. One of her songs on that album, 'Abracadabra' was written by Van McCoy who would later have a success with the hit, 'The Hustle.' She soon became tired of the hassles with Epic and waited out of her contract, and spent 1961 to 1966 touring with Lloyd Price's show. Next she joined the Atlantic Record Label and her career suddenly took off more then it had before, later signing with producer/songwriter Bert Berns of Shout Records in 1967. That same year she recorded the song, 'Piece Of My Hear' written by Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy. The song became her first Top Ten R&B Hit and later Janis Joplin's signature song. Berns died that same year unexpectedly at the age of 38, and she began to tour and backing Aretha on several Atlantic Recordings, also touring the United States and Europe. In 1969 she signed with the Brunswick Record Label and scored a minor hit with, 'Gotta Find Me A Lover (24 Hours A Day)," and her LP, "Soul Sister." After a falling out with the label she again waited out her contract again and moved back to Detroit in 1972, where she worked on a PR Farm and at the Boysville Children's Charity. During the 1980s and 1990s she toured with her sisters. In 1984 her father died, and in 1988 her sister, Carolyn. Her other hits are, "Detour Ahead," "Pledging My Love," "Saving My Love For You," "Each Night I Cry," "Never Let Me Go," "It's Over," "Don't Have The Right To Cry," "It's Just Ready For Love," "Open Up Your Soul," "Baby, What You Want Me To Do," "Don't Catch The Dog's Bone," "Big Boss Man," "Can't See My Way," and "You've Been Cancelled."
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WASHINGTON {AP} The Soviets discovered one of America's biggest Cold War operations an underground CIA tunnel in Berlin before construction even began. CIA agents in Berlin shortly after World War II "paid too much attention ... to rumors, high-level gossip." East German spymaster Markus Wolf was slightly cross-eyed.
Such are the gleanings from a 634-page collection of documents by CIA historians on U.S. intelligence efforts in Berlin ground zero of the Cold War from the end of World War II until the wall was built in 1961.
The book was compiled as part of a three-day conference beginning today in the German capital. Historians and former CIA and KGB agents will be trading tales about the intelligence wars at the epicenter of East-West espionage.
The CIA is sponsoring its first overseas conference with the Allied Museum of Berlin around the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The book, made up mainly of documents declassified in recent years, traces the tentative start of clandestine operations in Berlin after the war, the 1948 Soviet blockade of Berlin and the Allied airlift, a 1953 uprising by Germans in Soviet-controlled Berlin, the 1956 Soviet uncovering of the CIA tunnel and East Germany's construction of the wall.
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Jeanne M. Vanderlin, 91, formerly of Overhill Road, Williamsport, died peacefully and surrounded by her family on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, at the Williamsport Home.
Born Aug. 8, 1921, in Williamsport, she was a daughter of the late Roland T. and Marie (Crowne) MacLaren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Richard J. Vanderlin on May 23, 1994, and her sister, Mary L. Thomas in 2011.
Jeanne and her husband owned and operated Vanderlin Dry Cleaners for 34 years until they retired in 1991. She was a member of St. Joseph the Worker Parish, and enjoyed reading and cooking.
Jeanne is survived by two sons, Steven R. of Williamsport and Michael R. of Altoona; two daughters, Ann V. Lundy (Ken) of Williamsport and Karen V. Flock of Dewart; 12 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-granddaughters.
Funeral services will be held 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Knight-Confer Funeral Home, 1914 Memorial Ave., Williamsport. Burial will be held at Wildwood Cemetery. Visitation will be held 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Knight-Confer.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Jeanne's name may be made to the Williamsport Home, 1900 Ravine Road, Williamsport, PA 17701 or the W.B. Konkle Library, 384 Broad St., Montoursville, PA 17754.