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Managing Consultants in the United States can expect to earn a very comfortable salary, with average salaries (in the ballpark of $119K) surpassing six figures annually. With some bonuses and profit sharing proceeds approaching $32K each, total incomes of Managing Consultants generally range from $89K to $199K depending on individual performance. While tenure and the particular employer impact pay for this group, geography is the most influential factor. Making up 77 percent of those who took the survey, male Managing Consultants greatly outnumber their female counterparts. Almost all report receiving medical and dental coverage from their employers and a fair number collect vision insurance. Most Managing Consultants like their work and job satisfaction is high. The numbers in this rundown were provided by PayScale's salary survey participants.
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Managing consultant perform a wide variety of tasks, such as researching, collecting and analyzing data, interviewing various people in relation to their client and the client's company, presenting solutions, aiding and implementing plans and solutions, and keeping clients updated on progress.Read More...
These consultants generally work for clients on a contractual basis, and the type of clients that may use a managing consultant can range from charities to utilities to media to healthcare to retail. Managing consultants generally work with managers of various companies, but they also interview and work with company employees, as well as additional stakeholders.
The educational requirements for a managing consultant vary greatly by the consultants' area of expertise and clients' needs. A bachelor's degree in a relevant field is generally needed; clients may prefer degrees in business, finance, economics, or a related field. Depending on the company, it may also help to have a master's in business administration (M.B.A.), as well as prior experience. Other important skills include the ability to work well in teams, communicate clearly both orally and in writing, successfully research and analyze data, solve problems strategically and creatively, be flexible and understanding when it comes to clients, and to cope with challenge and pressure.
Work hours depend on the company, but managing consultants are known for putting in long hours with substantial extra work. Some companies, however, break that stereotype and offer part-time and flexible schedules.
IBM Global Services pays the most with a median salary of $139K, though with a large amount of variation, going from a low of $102K to a high of $182K.
Employees at Navigant Consulting, Inc. take home the smallest paychecks, and $99K is the median salary. Furthermore, range in pay is narrow, with salaries starting at $86K and quickly nearing the top at only $129K.
Managing Consultants report using a deep pool of skills on the job. Most notably, skills in Strategic Planning, Business Strategy, Consulting Management, and IT Consulting are correlated to pay that is above average, with boosts between 4 percent and 11 percent. At the other end of the pay range are skills like Financial Analysis, Data Analysis, and Human Resources. The majority of those who know Consulting Management also know IT Consulting and Data Analysis.
Median of all compensation (including tips, bonus, and overtime) by years of experience.
Experience seems to be a major factor in determining the incomes of Managing Consultants. During the first five years of their careers, Managing Consultants see a median income of $103K. Survey respondents with five to 10 years of experience report an only modestly higher median of $115K. Managing Consultants see a median salary of $136K after reaching one to two decades on the job. Seasoned workers who boast more than two decades of relevant experience enjoy a median salary of $155K, which is substantially larger than the medians reported by folks with fewer years on their resumes.
For Managing Consultants, working in the bustling city of Boston has its advantages, including an above-average pay rate. Managing Consultants will also find cushy salaries in Philadelphia (+18 percent), Houston (+18 percent), Seattle (+16 percent), and New York (+6 percent). Managing Consultants in Raleigh earn salaries far below the national average by 20 percent, proving that geography overwhelmingly affects the pay scale for those in this field. Below-median salaries also turn up in Los Angeles and Washington (10 percent lower and 7 percent lower, respectively).
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60% at level 89, im one of the last to reach 90 in the guild.
Then one of them ruins things by saying that its so boring, nothing to do aside from dailys and HCs.
Bye bye motivtion, I hardly knew ye.
" I'll tell you the ultimate secret of magic. Any cunt could do it." - John Constantine
If I play it I mostly do sPvP and sometimes WvW, so there is not really a reason for me to level further than 30 at best.
My necro was level 3 for 2 weeks and I played him a lot, just because I can do pvp w/o having to level.
It is a really cool feature, but it kinda sucks when it comes to making me want to level anything. ^^


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TRENTON — The state Senate today passed a bill that calls for up to 10 years in prison for someone who falsely accuses another of a crime, and also increases the penalties for someone who makes a false report to law enforcement authorities.
The bill (S835), passed 38-0, would upgrade false incrimination to a third-degree crime punishable by three to five years in prison, a fine of up to $15,000, or both. But offenders who falsely accuse another of the most serious crimes would face more time.
The bill would upgrade false incrimination to a second-degree crime in cases in which a victim was accused of a first- or second-degree crime. In those cases, the offender would face five to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $150,000, or both.
False incrimination is currently a fourth-degree crime punishable by up to 18 months in prison, a fine of $10,000, or both. In New Jersey, third- and fourth-degree crimes carry a presumption against imprisonment if the offender has no other criminal record.
Making a false report to the police would be upgraded to a fourth-degree crime, up from a disorderly persons offense.
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While his FAS Lane Racing team was in Talladega last week battling Mother Nature, rookie NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Timmy Hill went to Prom. Timmy and his girlfriend, Lucy Kennedy, attended Prom at Ragsdale High School in Jamestown, North Carolina last Saturday night. This Saturday night Hill will strap in his No. 32 OXYwater Ford instead of a tuxedo and turn his attention to another lady - the challenging Darlington Raceway which is famously known as the "Lady in Black".
"With Terry (Labonte) taking the wheel at Talladega, that left me with an off weekend," stated Timmy. "Normally I am at the racetracks supporting my other FAS Lane Racing teammates but this weekend I stayed in North Carolina to go to Prom. Lucy and I had a great time dancing the night away but I am ready to get down with it at Darlington."
Hill, the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year, has two previous starts at Darlington in NASCAR Nationwide Series competition - both Top-20 finishes.
"Darlington is a tough track but I consider it one of my favorites," said Hill. "In my Nationwide Series rookie season I didn't know what to expect but after making my first laps on the track I knew I liked it. I know that racing at Darlington in a Sprint Cup car will be a different challenge but I am definitely up for it. With what I have learned already this year, going into Darlington I look for another strong run in our No. 32 OXYwater Ford and my best finish of the year."
The running of the Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway will run this Saturday May 11th at 6:30 p.m. ET. The race can be viewed LIVE nationally on FOX and heard on affiliated MRN radio stations and on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.
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No plans for 'Delhi Belly' sequel: Aamir Khan
Rumours were abuzz that Aamir and his wife Kiran Rao had plans of making 'Delhi Belly 2'.
Mumbai: Actor Aamir Khan has denied any plans of making a sequel to his adult comedy 'Delhi Belly'.
"The film is nowhere in the scene. We haven't started planning or strategising anything for the sequel. Whatever news is out till now is baseless," Aamir told IANS.
A bold, youth-centric drama, 'Delhi Belly' was directed by Abhinay Deo. It featured Imran Khan, Vir Das and Kunal Roy Kapoor in the lead.
Rumours were abuzz that Aamir and his wife Kiran Rao had plans of making 'Delhi Belly 2'. But Aamir has put all the speculations to rest.
Recently Kiran also said that she is not writing the script for 'Delhi Belly 2'.
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Baseball is good every day, no matter what.
This Saturday, however, will be a great day for baseball.
There are many things to look forward to including two top-prospects playing their first games of the 2012 season, leader boards being climbed and the pursuit to break what has seem to become an insurmountable record.
It could turn out to be a day in which all end up being disappointments, but you will definitely want to keep an eye open for these next five things throughout your day.
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Walking around town
Downtown Roanoke is compact enough to walk around and see all the major sights in a day. Stroll around the farmers market and visit the friendly museums
If you've got a car drive up the mountain to the Zoo or to go look at the 50ft star that's illuminated at night
Roanoke Airport
Roanoke has a good modern airport for a city its size. The airport is located a few miles north of downtown Roanoke just off of Interstate 581. Airlines which serve Roanoke's airport include Delta, United, USAir, and Allegiant. Cities to which you can get direct flights include Charlotte, Atlanta, Orlando, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Detroit.
The Roanoke Airport is very user-friendly, with only about 6 gates and long-term parking within 100m of the terminal. One issue is that the security lines can get backed up to 30 minutes or more in the 5:30-7AM busy period or when an Allegiant flight is going out.
There are two places to get food - one each inside and outside of security. There are also two newsstands. Rental cars are available from Hertz, Avis, National, and Budget. There is also a taxi desk if you need a taxi to get into town.
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If you decide to take our local buses which are called, "Valley Metro" they will cost everyone from the age 5 and up to 65 $1.25 per ride, but you can ask for a transfer if you need another bus.
If your a senior citzen they do offer cheaper rates.
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If you decide to give old YELLOW CAB A call (540-345-7711) or LIBERTY CAB (540-344-1776) make sure to NOT LET ON YOUR A TOURIST or they (The drivers) will take you for a run for your money. As in Taking you the Looooong way around to your destianation.
If your in a hurry don't be Yellow or Liberty cab don't get in a hurry. If its a weekend you mind as well WALK!
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This handsome, sturdy 4-door unit is smartly designed to fit into a corner and accommodates most TVs up to 44" to a maximum of 150 pounds. Beautifully made, this stand also adds an aesthetic lift to any room in your home - its metal hardware imparting a sleek silver finish.
- Construction: Medium Density Fibreboard with paper veneer; oak finish
- Sits directly on floor - no casters
- Does not have a flat edge on the back, it has a cornered back
- Doors are flat panel with European hinges
- Both taller end doors each have one 3-position adjustable wood shelf behind each door; each side storage section measures 8 1/2" w. x 5 7/8" h.
- Two smaller centre doors is open storage space; Bottom compartment measures 23 3/8 W x 15 D x 11 5/8" H.; Top compartment measures 23 3/8 W x 15 D x 6 5/8" H
- Back of fixed open shelf is open for wires and cables and measures 23 3/8 W x 15 D x 6 5/8" H
- Easy to assemble. Instructions and toll-free number included
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The road has now reopened
Crash debris has been cleared and the road is running normally.
Long delays but no serious injuries
The accident involved two cars and an HGV near the B6262 junction. Local diversions are in place and the police hope to have the route opened shortly. Police say they are not treating the accident as serious at this time.
Snow causing problems on the M6
Snow is causing hazardous driving conditions on the M6 at J39 (Shap).
A reduced speed limit has been set up, with matrix signs set to 50mph.
Police are advising to drive with care as there have been several accidents on the road so far this morning, 21 February.
Roads closed in Cumbria due to snow
Roads across Cumbria have been closed due to snow.
- A686 Hartside Pass is closed between Alston and Melmerby
- A66 closed between Brough and Bowes
- A5092 closed between Penny Bridge and Greenodd
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Kirkstone Pass re-opened.
Cars abandoned on snow-covered Kirkstone pass
Several cars and an ambulance were trapped at Kirkstone pass in The Lake District after snow fell.
The ambulance was recovered this morning but a number of cars are still waiting recovery.
Police are advising motorists not to attempt to drive though the pass at the moment.
Road closure update
The A5087 between Rampside and Newbiggin is closed due to high sea levels and debris being washed onto road.
Road remains closed
Three people were hurt in a collision on the pass yesterday
Langdale and Ambleside and Patterdale mountain rescue teams assisted the North West Ambulance Service at the scene after an ambulance sent to the crash became stuck in snow.
Kirkstone Pass currently remains closed. Hardknott and Wrynose Passes should also be considered closed due to dangerous road conditions.
B5305 closed while HGV is recovered
The B5305 at Doctors Brow has been closed whilst a HGV is recovered from a ditch.
The incident was reported to the police at 9.21am.
Nobody was hurt.
Drivers are asked to avoid the area at this time.
For all the latest on the roads across Cumbria you can visit Cumbria Police's Traffic Link website.
Delays to rail services after two freight trains crash
It's been a day of disruption for hundreds of train passengers on both sides of the border.
Services on the West Coast mainline were severely disrupted after two freight trains collided just north of Penrith yesterday afternoon.
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A papercraft model to assemble the famous (and now re-valued) Mini-Moog, with its foldable panel.http://www.jamondelmar.com/deposito/mini_paper_moog.pdf
You have to download the pdf model from http://www.jamondelmar.com/deposito/mini_paper_moog.pdfYou have to PRINT it, and cut it.Note: straight lines ( _ ) are for cutting, but dotted lines (- ...
Take the panel print, fold on all the dotted (- - -) lines. You have to glue it in a box shape, but as you can see on ...
The little grey piece you'll find in the pdf is the back support for the panel. Bend thru the dotted (- - -) lines like the picture. Then ...
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The Tetralogy! Finally available is the (virtual) Box Set of the first four books in my Tales From a Second-Hand Wand Shoppe Series is now available for your reading pleasure.
Welcome visitors, to the page of Robert P. Wills
That's me. I am an inventor of varied items, writer of several genres, speaker of several languages, and above all, a terrible chess player.
I am currently in a writing phase. My Tales From a Second-Hand Wand Shoppe series (below right) is now available now on Amazon here.
I also have a science fiction, post-apocalyptic, Christian novel "Apple Declined" available on Amazon. Yes– that's a lot of genres; but it works. Trust me. This is a 71,000+ word book.
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We've learned that AMD's truly next generation CPU codenamed Bulldozer should be out of the labs in late 2010. This is not Deneb / Phenom done right, it's a complete new architecture.
Since this is AMDs brand new architecture, the company is optimistic about it and we believe that initial shipments won't start until much later in 2011.
We also learned that Bulldozer at start comes as an eight core CPU, but we would not exclude the possibility of other core iterations. Intel plans to have Sandy Bridge, its new 32nm architecture in 2011 and plans a refresh in 22nm called Ivy Bridge.
We told you about Juniper cards earlier and now let's check out their system requirements. Looks pretty similiar to Radeon HD 4770 except you need at least a 600W for Crossfire.
* PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
* 450 Watt or greater power supply with one 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and two 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
A few days ago, AMD demo'd WoW running seamlessly on six Dell 30" monitors, 7680x3200 resolution, at playable frame rates from a single Eyefinity card. Dirt 2 was also running, full DX11, again at playable frame rates, from the same card. Left4Dead stuttered a bit here and there, but was very playable. At 7K+ resolution from one card, that is not bad at all.
The take home message is that Eyefinity does one thing that no one else can, simulate a single monitor on multiple displays transparently to Windows. It should just work, and from what we saw, it does. This simple thing breaks through a fundamental brick wall for GPU adoption, limited resolution monitors.
The Great Chip Wars, as we've come to know them, ended this week — courtesy of a new marketing campaign from Advanced Micro Devices.
AMD has decided to sell its products under the Vision banner, a slogan that emphasizes the strengths of its graphics chip instead of promoting the abilities of its CPUs, or traditional workhorse chips. PC makers and retailers will promote three flavors of AMD-based computers, called See, Share and Create models.
Say you're AMD, and you make graphics chips that nearly double in performance with every generation. Yet games haven't been getting all that much more demanding over time. What would you do with all of that excess power, especially if you wanted to stir up interest in your latest product? AMD's answer at the moment is a new feature it calls Eyefinity.
By now, many of you are probably aware that the launch of AMD's next-generation, DirectX 11-compliant graphics cards is imminent. Rumors about the launch and the products themselves has been trickling out for quite a while now and lots of information--some right and some wrong--is already available at various places around the web. While we can't disclose any detailed specifications or product specifics just yet, we do have some information about a new feature being implemented in the next-gen Radeons that we are able to share with you now.
Customers are apparently shouting at graphics chip makers to do more about correcting memory systems.
One of the downsides of the current generation of GPUs is a lack of error correction which causes problems for high performance users. According to HPC Wire, Graphics chip vendors are aware of the problem and it appears to be only a matter of time before GPUs get a memory makeover.
We've heard that ATI's soon to lunch DirectX 11 performance card, something that we know as RV870 and something that AMD calls Evergreen, should be roughly 1.6 times faster than the RV770 chip.
RV770 is the chip behind ATI's Radeon HD 4870 card and it showed quite good performance, so this 1.6 times performance increase can give you a general idea that the new chip should be quite fast.
Of course 1.6 times is the best case scenario and it should be less than that in some cases, but overall this 40nm chip should be a good step forward for ATI.
Advanced Micro Devices has launched a low-power version of its six-core Opteron processor in time for VMworld, a key virtualization show that opens on Monday.
The six-core AMD Opteron EE consumes 40 watts, and is designed for 2P servers, among the most popular in the virtualized server space. The chip will cost $989, and will begin shipping on Monday.
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As I prepare for tomorrow's Sutherland Lecture by John Green (and don't think about showing up without a ticket. And don't even think about getting a ticket) I'm catching up on the two controversies that John has found himself caught up in. The fault for either might be in his stars but definitely not in […]
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Ooh, who remembers this one? In 1982, the library systems of Chicago, Milwaukee, and San Francisco banned Margot Zemach's Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven from their collections (Chicago, from where I followed the whole story avidly, did include it in its two regional research libraries). Unlike the headlines, still popular today, that too-loosely use […]
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As we (WE?, the staff snarks) pack up the offices for our move at the end of this month, it's just one madeleine after another as old toys and treasure unveil themselves from the shadowed recesses, bringing with them the little joies and horreurs of années passées. Martha uncovered this copy of Magid Fasts for Ramadan, […]
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While Gary Soto seems a bit of a fragile flower in this essay about why he's been scared off writing for children, I have sympathy for him. If your book is sexy or foul-mouthed or anti-authority, you have no better friends than the American Library Association and its adjacent professions. They will–and they should–stick up […]
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The Problem with Pallets
Dr. Suess's Lorax is getting a lot of publicity these days, starring in his own feature movie. The creature "speaks for the trees" and his life's goal is to get people to stop cutting them down. His message is pretty simple — and some may argue, overly simplistic — but it appears to be resonating with audiences, if the film's apparent widespread success is any indication.
One might therefore wonder what the Lorax and his many fans might make of the fact that one single application consumes as much hardwood in the US annually as all others combined. Further, this application is frequently designed to use this wood only once and then discard it, in a way that limits the possibility of recycling — despite the fact that more durable and reusable substitutes can be readily found. And yet, this application scarcely ever seems to register on the environmental radar. I'm talking about none other than the humble, lowly shipping pallet.
Pallet primer
Shipping pallets, also known as skids, are the sorts of things most people don't often think about — but once you do, you start seeing them everywhere, especially in places where goods are shipped, stored, and sold. (Trust me, if you have a typical commute through an urban/suburban landscape you'll probably see dozens on your way home this evening.) Basically, they're designed to protect loads in shipment and help make them more easily handled, stacked, and moved. The majority of these pallets (an estimated 95 percent) are made of wood.
The number of pallets out there is truly staggering. Nearly 2 billion wooden pallets are currently in circulation in the US alone, with a majority of them replaced each year. This consumes an estimated 50 percent of the country's annual hardwood harvest. This in turn represents a very significant market for the lumber industry ($6 billion in annual sales if you can believe it), especially when one considers that roughly half of these pallets are intended to be used only once and then discarded. And since the pallets tend to be full of difficult-to-remove nails, a percentage of these single-use pallets often end up in landfills.
These facts have led some environmental groups to label wooden pallets as a major waste of resources and to call for their replacement with more ecologically friendly alternatives. And some in industry appear to be doing just that. For instance, IKEA, the world's largest provider of home furnishings, recently announced plans to phase out corporate use of wooden pallets and replace them with recyclable paper pallets. Among the reasons cited is the fact that wooden pallets currently account for 50 percent of the company's total global use of pine and spruce.
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At face value, these numbers appear to indicate that pallets comprise an exceedingly inefficient use of wood resources. However, the actual situation may be a little more complicated. (Is it ever any other way when environmental issues are concerned?) For instance, it's true that pallets consume a lot of wood. But much of this consists of relatively low-grade cuts from parts of the tree that have little or no other commercial value. Thus pallets offer a way for the forestry and lumber industries — which have been especially hard hit by the recent recession — to derive revenue from timber byproduct that might otherwise be simply discarded. (As an amateur woodworker, I can personally vouch for this. I've built furniture from boards I've reclaimed from old pallets. In the process, I've acquired a surprisingly broad array of species, including oak, cherry, maple, poplar, and even a couple of boards of what I think might have been chestnut. However, although it had plenty of rustic character, nearly all the lumber I obtained consisted of cuts from branches or other less-choice areas of the tree. So whoever made these pallets obviously didn't waste any furniture-grade timber on them.)
There also appears to be a growing trend towards pallet recycling. For example, a relatively new technology has been developed that promises to make the removal of nails from a pallet — which up to now has been a major recycling challenge — much faster and easier. This could help drive the production of wood fiber created by grinding up old pallets; this wood fiber can then be used in products such as fuel pellets, building materials, mulch, insulation, and many others. One recent survey claims that 73 percent of all wooden pallets are now recycled, a rate that exceeds the recycling of aluminum, paper, and plastic. Another report estimates that only 3 percent of wooden pallets now end up in landfills, and when they do, they obligingly biodegrade.
Further, it should be pointed out that whatever their other shortcomings, wooden pallets do make use of a renewable resource, one of the few that (at least as of this writing) actually appears to be growing more abundant in the US, especially in the east where the forests continue their century-long recovery from the agriculturally led deforestation of the 1800s. For instance, it's estimated that the standing timber volume per acre in US forests has grown 30 percent since 1952.
Pallets may not be the most scintillating of dinnertime conversation topics, but given their ubiquity — along with their associated environmental issues cited in this article — they probably merit more public attention and discussion than they currently receive. At a minimum, they can serve as an example of how environmental awareness doesn't consist solely of considering and debating global, high-profile subjects; one also needs to take into account smaller, more local issues that may not receive a great deal of media notice. After all, such a discussion just might provide our friend the Lorax a significantly larger constituency for whom to speak.
Dick McCarrick is an analyst with Foresight Science & Technology.
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Wooden pallets has both advantages and disadvantages. I dont think so that replacing wooden pallets for plastic pallets is good. Wooden pallets are environmental friendly in nature.
This article is not based in facts. Wooden pallets are one of the most recycled products in the USA. Please visit the National Wooden Pallet and Container Assocation website to get a true picture. Most states do not allow wooden pallets into their landfills. Most landfill operators collect and sell pallets that make it into their waste stream. Please do your research.
Whoever made the comment about this article not being "based on facts" should have read the entire article before making the rude comment: "please do your research." The author clearly stated that one such study indicated that 73% of pallets are recycled. And, in fact, he went on to say that pallets are recycled at a greater rate than paper, plastics and aluminum. Maybe you should spend more time paying attention to what your reading, rather than criticizing.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Rick. I suspect Mr. Doyle may have stopped reading the article somewhere during the "Pallet Primer" section, in which I do mention several of the more common objections people often raise when discussing pallet use. But as you note, the article goes on to explain why objections based solely on "cutting down trees = bad" is probably a too simplistic — and ultimately even self-defeating — approach. Unfortunately, I think reactions such as Mr. Doyle's may be all too common when discussing environmental issues: when one reads anything contrary to their own views, everything else the author may have to say on the subject gets tossed by the wayside because from that point on the author is an opponent who is ignorant of the facts (or worse). And in some cases this may in fact be the case. But as with all things related to the environment, it's rarely if ever that simple, and we often end up talking past one another even though we may largely agree on certain points. In any event, thank you for the support; I appreciate it.
Interesting article especially the stunning claims that 73% of wood pallets are recycled an that only 3% end up in landfill. Big claims not just that no proof. Come on Dick as an analyst you know unsubstantiated opinion does not cut it.
Hi Dirk. Those numbers aren't "unsubstantiated opinion." The 3% number comes from a joint study by the US Forestry Service and Virginia Tech, while the 73% number comes from a study conducted by Modern Materials Handling.
Interesting that at this point I've been taken to task for both being too hard on pallets and too easy on them. I suppose that may be a good sign I've charted the middle course and presented both sides fairly (at least that's how I like to interpret it anyway!).
Great information on pallets but i dont agree with all of it.
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The problem I have with this whole deal is the lease fee. I think that is nickle and dime B.S. With the lease fee they will get their money back in 2 years and they require an 18 month committment.
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The lease fee is identical to the extra receiver fee and replaces that fee.
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Oak Creek — Saturday's sunshine, warm weather and blue skies reminded many in the Sikh community of the morning just under a year ago when they lost six of their own in an assault on their temple by a white supremacist.
But amidst the somber run-up to the Aug. 5 anniversary of the attack, Sikhs and their allies came together Saturday morning at Oak Creek High School. Events included a charity run to benefit a community scholarship fund, speeches about the victims and a sprawling picnic.
Sikh Temple of Wisconsin volunteers named the event after a Sikh principle that has been especially important in the year since the attack: Chardhi Kala, or perpetual optimism even amidst tragedy.
"It means everybody should rise up," temple member Preet Kaur said as she chatted with friends in bright traditional clothing on the grass.
Organizers said about 1,100 people registered for the Chardhi Kala 6K run. They added that they plan to disclose the amount raised in donations later this week.
Temple member Jaspeet Kaur Singh, one of the organizers, said the event was designed to thank the community for its courage in the aftermath of the shooting and to give back "instead of us going to church and mourning and crying."
Before the run began, runners, walkers and observers filed into bleachers surrounding the school's football field to hear from a range of speakers that included victims' families, Sikh community leaders and supporters from across the country.
Raghuvinder Singh's father, internationally recognized Sikh priest Punjab Singh, was shot in the attack and remains paralyzed in a Racine County rehab center.
"He is still in the hospital, and with God's grace and all of your prayers, he is getting well," Singh said. "I need more prayers."
Amardeep and Pardeep Kaleka, sons of slain temple president Satwant Kaleka, said the run participants were helping the Kaleka family and each other with what Pardeep called "the gift of presence."
Retired Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy, who was shot 12 times during the attack, called Saturday's resemblance to the morning of Aug. 5 "somewhat uncanny."
"Someone might look at that and say it's eerie," Murphy told the crowd. "To me, it just shows a representation of the families coming together to bring sunlight and optimism to those left behind ... the name of the run, Chardhi Kala, is relentless optimism, and I think what the community of Oak Creek has shown from 10:20 on Aug. 5, 2012, until now and definitely into the future is relentless optimism and the ability to work together for the common good."
Sikh leaders who traveled to Oak Creek for the weekend included Maj. Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi, the first Sikh granted a special U.S. Army dress code exception for his beard and turban. He called the Oak Creek Sikh community soldiers on the frontlines of a battle against racial hatred.
"To the hate groups that hide in the dark recesses of our country, I want to show you that we are not afraid," said Kalsi, who was raised by Indian-American parents in New Jersey. "This is my home and my turban is an integral part of the fabric of this great nation."
One out-of-towner told the audience he felt a level of understanding among the Oak Creek community that he had experienced in few other places. Robbie Parker, who lost his young daughter in the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn., said in a voice choked with emotion that he hoped the attack would not come to define the local community but would instead help residents become more compassionate toward each other and the world.
Organizers included an improvised altar with portraits and biographies of temple shooting victims, and placed flowers underneath. Organizers placed photographs of the children killed in the Newtown shooting around the altar as well, along with signs that said "We Stand with Newtown" and "We Stand with Aurora."
Megan Ferger of Oak Creek said she started sobbing as she ran past the portraits.
Ferger did the run with her young son, Ethan. She said it was his first serious run — and he beat her.
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ELKINS – A preliminary hearing for an Elkins man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl was continued Monday in Randolph County Magistrate Court.
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Williams is currently housed at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail. His bond was originally set at $75,000 cash or surety but was modified to include terms of surety or property on July 11 by Randolph County Chief Magistrate George M. "Mike" Riggleman.
A condition of the bond modification was that Williams must have already acquired a bed at a mental health facility before being released from the jail.
Riggleman ordered that Williams be required to have GPS monitoring at the mental facility as well as having no access to a cell phone or internet. Williams was also ordered to have no direct or indirect contact with the victim on any juvenile under the age of 18 years old.
According to the criminal complaint, on May 13 the mother of the alleged victim spoke with Patrolman M.J. Sigley of the Elkins Police Department. She said on May 9 she was unable to make contact by phone with her daughter, who had gone to Bluegrass Park in Elkins for a baseball game.
The mother said it was getting late in the evening and "it was not like the juvenile to not answer her phone," and that she "located the juvenile near the Bluegrass Park walking with a male subject identified as Jacob Williams."
According to the complaint, Sigley spoke with Williams on June 10 at the Elkins Police Department. Williams told Sigley he met the girl through a friend and "she was struggling with some depression and he helped her through it," and that "this was around the start of the 2013 school year."
Williams said he met the girl at church and then he "spent four and a half months homeless in Morgantown and had very little contact with the juvenile up until approximately two months ago."
According to the complaint, Williams said "he had met the juvenile a couple times at the baseball games at Bluegrass Park," and that "he has never touched the juvenile in any sexual or intimate way."
Sigley asked Williams if he would be willing to take a controlled voice stress analysis test with a Randolph County Sheriff's Department deputy. Williams agreed and took the test on June 22 but did not pass, the complaint states.
On June 16, the Children's Advocacy Center in Elkins conducted an interview with the juvenile in which she admitted to having sexual intercourse with Williams on two separate occasions, police said.
The juvenile reportedly told authorities "the first time having sexual intercourse was approximately sometime in Jan. 2014 (sic) at Bluegrass Park and the second time was approximately sometime in March 2014 in the garage of her mother's residence," the complaint states.
The juvenile also said "she had performed oral sex with Williams on two separate occasions," and that "the first incident was in Jan. (sic) at the time of the first sexual intercourse and the second time was sometime in April or May 2014 at the Third Ward School playground area," according to the complaint.


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yeah at first i could only find the editted smiley one from a while ago but i just managed to find proper one. . .
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Please join us for PreSchool StoryTime next Tuesday, December 9, at 10:30 AM in the library's meeting room when we will share some stories about bears, go on a bear hunt, and have some special bear crafts to make. So Save the Date! and bring your favorite bear with you if you would like. See you then and Happy Reading!
Some people wear hats; some people do not. Hats come in all shapes and sizes and colors. Some hats are worn for practical reasons; some are worn more as a fashion statement. Whether you wear a hat or not, you can find many entertaining and engaging picture book stories that feature a hat(s). To help you find some of those books, we have a new display at the library--"Hats! Hats!
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Effects of Mass Layer Nonuniformity on a Quartz-Crystal Microbalance, Nan Liu, Jiashi Yang, and Weiqiu Chen
Frequency Shifts in Plate Crystal Resonators Induced by Electric, Magnetic, or Mechanical Fields in Surface Films, Nan Liu, J S. Yang, Yuantai Hu, Xuedong Chen, and Wei Jiang
Numerical Modeling of Steady Burning Characteristics of Spherical Ethanol Particles in a Spray Environment, Vaibhav Kumar Sahu, Vasudevan Raghavan, Daniel N. Pope, and George Gogos
Modeling of solvent evaporation from polymer jets in electrospinning, Xiang-Fa Wu, Yury Salkovskiy, and Youris A. Dzenis
Increased efficiency of low band gap polymer solar cells at elevated temperature and its origins, Bin Yang, James Cox, Yongbo Yuan, Fawen Guo, and Jinsong Huang
A Few Transient Effects in AT-Cut Quartz Thickness-Shear Resonators, Runyu Zhang and Hongping Hu
Assessment of Shape Memory Alloy Stent Deployment in a Stenosed Artery, Shijia Zhao, Linxia Gu, and Stacey R. Froemming
Material-Specific Effects of Hydrated Lime on the Properties and Performance Behavior of Asphalt Mixtures and Asphaltic Pavements, Francisco Thiago Sacramento Aragão, Junghun Lee, Yong-Rak Kim, and Pravat Karki
Steady-periodic heating in parallel-plate microchannel flow with participating walls, Kevin D. Cole
Thermal models of railroad wheels and bearings, Kevin D. Cole, Constantine M. Tarawneh, Arturo A. Fuentes, B. M. Wilson, and L. Navarro
Finite Element Analysis of Cracks in Aging Aircraft Structures with Bonded Composite-Patch Repairs, Linxia Gu, Ananth Ram Mahanth Kasavajhala, and Shijia Zhao
The Relation Between the Arterial Stress and Restenosis Rate After Coronary Stenting, Linxia Gu, Shijia Zhao, Aswini K. Muttyam, and James M. Hammel
Steady-state Green's function solution for moving media with axial conduction, A. Haji-Sheikh, J. V. Beck, and Kevin D. Cole
Directional annealing-induced texture in melt-spun (Sm12Co88)99Nb1 alloy, Tanjore V. Jayaraman, P. Rogge, and Jeffrey E. Shield
Effects of a Mass Layer With Gradually Varying Thickness on a Quartz Crystal Microbalance, Nan Liu, Jiashi S. Yang, and Weiqiu Chen
Force–frequency effect of thickness mode langasite resonators, Haifeng Zhang, Joseph A. Turner, Jiashi Yang, and John A. Kosinski
Steady-Periodic Heating of a Cylinder, Kevin D. Cole and Paul E. Crittenden
Analysis of Flux-Base Fins for Estimation of Heat Transfer Coefficient, Kevin D. Cole, C. Tarawneh, and B. Wilson
Real-time depth sectioning: Isolating the effect of stress on structure development in pressure-driven flow, Lucia Fernandez-Ballester, Derek W. Thurman, and Julia A Kornfield
Effects of Aggregate Structure on Hot-Mix Asphalt Rutting Performance in Low Traffic Volume Local Pavements, Yong-Rak Kim, Hee Mun Park, Francisco Thiago Sacramento Aragão, and Jamilla Emi Sudo Lutif
Computational model for predicting nonlinear viscoelastic damage evolution in materials subjected to dynamic loading, Flavio V. Souza, Yong-Rak Kim, George A. Gazonas, and David H. Allen
Conduction in rectangular plates with boundary temperatures specified, James V. Beck, Neil T. Wright, A. Haji-Sheikh, Kevin D. Cole, and Donald E. Amos
Flush-Mounted Steady-Periodic Heated Film With Application to Shear-Stress Measurement, Kevin D. Cole
Fabrication of High Aspect Ratio Metal Nanotips by Nanosecond Pulse Laser Melting, Bo Cui, Lin Wu, and Stephen Y. Chou
HIGH-IMPACT, ENERGY-ABSORBING VEHICLE BARRIER SYSTEM : United States Patent 7,410,320 B2, Ronald K. Faller, Dean L. Sicking, John R. Rohde, John D. Reid, Robert W. Bielenberg, James C. Holloway, and Karla A. Polivka
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NONCONTACT RELATIVE RAIL DISPLACEMENT, TRACK MODULUS AND STIFFNESS MEASUREMENT BY A MOVING RAIL VEHICLE: US Patent No. US 7,403,296 B2, Shane Farritor, Richard Arnold, and Chris Norman
Simultaneous birefringence, small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering to detect precursors and characterize morphology development during flow-induced crystallization of polymers, Lucia Fernandez-Ballester, Tim Gough, Florian Meneau, Wim Bras, Fernando Ania, Francisco Jose Balta-Calleja, and Julia A. Kornfield
Finite Element Analysis Using Nonconforming Mesh, Ashok V. Kumar, Ravi Buria, Sanjeev Padmanabhan, and Linxia Gu
SURGICAL CAMERA ROBOT: United States Patent NO. US 7,339,341 B2, Dmitry Oleynikov, Shane Farritor, Mark E. Rentschler, Stephen R. Platt, and Jason Dumpert
Numerical Simulation of a Novel Blast Wave Mitigation Device, Zhenbi Su, Wen Peng, Zhaoyan Zhang, George Gogos, Reed Skaggs, and Bryan Cheeseman
Experiments and models for the thermal response of railroad tapered-roller bearings, Constantine M. Tarawneh, Kevin D. Cole, Brent M. Wilson, and Fadi Alnaimat
A slip model for rarefied gas flows at arbitrary Knudsen number, Lin Wu
Subcritical and Supercritical Droplet Evaporation within a Zero-Gravity Environment: Low Weber Number Relative Motion, Hongtao Zhang, Vasudevan Raghavan, and George Gogos
Thermal characterization of microscale conductive and nonconductive wires using transient electrothermal technique, Jiaqi Guo, Xinwei Wang, and Tao Wang
Order-disorder transformations in Sm–Co and Sm–Co–ZrC systems with 2-17 stoichiometry, Y.Y. Kostogorova-Beller, Jeffrey E. Shield, and M.J. Kramer
Surface anisotropy and magnetic freezing of MnO nanoparticles, Marco Morales Torres, Ralph Skomski, Shannon Fritz, G. Shelburne, Jeffrey E. Shield, Ming Yin, Stephen O'Brien, and Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
ROBOT FOR SURGICAL APPLICATIONS: United States Patent No. US 7,199,545 B2, Dmitry Oleynikov, Shane Farritor, Adnan Hadzialic, and Stephen R. Platt
Highly coercive rapidly solidified Sm–Co alloys, Shampa Aich, V.K. Ravindran, and Jeffrey E. Shield
The all boron carbide diode neutron detector: Comparison with theory, A.N. Caruso, Peter A. Dowben, S. Balkir, Nathan Schemm, Kevin Osberg, R.W. Fairchild, Oscar Barrios Flores, Snjezana Balaz, A.D. Harken, Brian W. Robertson, and Jennifer I. Brand
Steady-Periodic Green's Functions and Thermal- Measurement Applications in Rectangular Coordinates, Kevin D. Cole
Comparative modeling of performance limits of solid state neutron detectors based on planar B-rich capture layers, A. D. Harken and Brian W. Robertson
Magnetic behavior of rapidly solidified Pr–Co alloys with the TbCu7-type structure, J. Kostogorova and Jeffrey E. Shield
MICROROBOT FOR SURGICAL APPLICATIONS: United States Patent No. US 7,042,184 B2, Dmitry Oleynikov, Shane Farritor, Adnan Hadzialic, and Stephen R. Platt
Modeling, Analysis, and Experimental Study of In Vivo Wheeled Robotic Mobility, Mark E. Rentschler, Jason Dumpert, Stephen R. Platt, Karl Iagnemma, Dmitry Oleynikov, and Shane M. Farritor
High-energy product exchange-spring FePt/Fe cluster nanocomposite permanent magnets, X. Rui, Jeffrey E. Shield, Zhiguang Sun, L. Yue, Yinfan Xu, David J. Sellmyer, Z. Liu, and D.J. Miller
A Minimum-Impact Method for Measuring Corrosion Rate of Steel-Hulled Shipwrecks in Seawater, Matthew A. Russell, David Conlin, Larry E. Murphy, Donald L. Johnson, Brent Wilson, and James Carr
Load Transfer Issues in the Tensile and Compressive Behavior of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes, G. A. Shen, S. Namilae, and Namas Chandra
Magnetic reversal in three-dimensional exchange-spring permanent magnets, Jeffrey E. Shield, J. Zhou, S. Aich, V.K. Ravindran, Ralph Skomski, and David J. Sellmyer
Direct synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes bridging metal electrodes by laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition, J. Shi, Yongfeng Lu, K.J. Yi, Yushun Lin, Sy_Hwang Liou, J.B. Hou, and X.W. Wang
Modeling and Simulation of the Interaction Between Lubricant Droplets on the Slider Surface and Air Flow Within the Head/Disk Interface of Disk Drives, Lin Wu
Magnetic behavior of Sm-Co-based permanent magnets during order/disorder phase transformations, Shampa Aich, J. Kostogorova, and Jeffrey E. Shield
Finite element analysis of covered microstents, Linxia Gu, Swadeshmukul Santra, Robert A. Mericle, and Ashok V. Kumar
The Stability and Oxidation Resistance of Iron- and Cobalt-Based Magnetic Nanoparticle Fluids Fabricated by Inert-Gas Condensation, Nguyen H. Hai, Raymond Lemoine, Shaina Remboldt, Michelle A. Strand, Steve Wignall, Jeffrey E. Shield, and Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Texture formation in FePt thin films via thermal stress management, P. Rasmussen, X. Rui, and Jeffrey E. Shield
Texture formation in FePt thin films via thermal stress management, P. Rasmussen, X. Rui, and Jeffrey E. Shield
Cluster-assembled exchange-spring nanocomposite permanent magnets, X. Rui, Zhiguang Sun, Yinfan Xu, David J. Sellmyer, and Jeffrey E. Shield
Numerical analysis of heat transfer in pulsating turbulent flow in a pipe, Xuefeng Wang and Nengli Zhang
The effect of heterogeneity on plane wave propagation through layered composites, X. Chen and Namas Chandra
Computer Programs for Temperature in Fins and Slab Bodies with the Method of Green's Functions, Kevin D. Cole
BORON-CARBIDE SOLID STATE NEUTRON DETECTOR AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME, Peter A. Dowben, Shireen Adenwalla, Brian W. Robertson, and Mengjun Bai
Magnetization Processes in Melt-Spun Sm-Co-Based Alloys With the TbCu7-Type Structure, A. Hsiaoa, S. Aich, L. H. Lewis, and Jeffrey E. Shield
Planetary Cliff Descent Using Cooperative Robots, Erik Mumm, Shane Farritor, Paola Pirjanian, Chris Leger, and Paul Schenker
The Effect of Transition Metal Additions on the Microstructure and Properties of Nanocomposite Pr–Fe–B Permanent Magnets, Jeffrey E. Shield, Yi Liu, R. Marr, Z. Chen, and Baomin Ma
Re-examination of "missing strain" during superplastic deformation of AA7475, M. J. Tan, C. L. Chen, and Namas Chandra
A helical tow model and numerical simulation of on-line thermal curing of thermoset composites in filament winding, Xuefeng Wang, David Y.S. Lou, and Negli Zhang`
Magnetoresistance in boron carbide junctions, L. Bernard, J. Monson, A. Sokolov, Zong-Yuan Liu, C.S. Yang, Peter A. Dowben, B. Doudin, A. Harken, P. Welsch, and B.W. Robertson
Effect of combined metal-carbon additions on the microstructure and structure of Sm2Fe17, B. E. Meacham and Jeffrey E. Shield
Production of fine Nd-Fe-B alloy powder by pulsed plasma atomization, Jeffrey E. Shield, S. Christensen, R. W. Kincaid, and F. D. Witherspoon
Thermodynamic Determination of the Cation Distribution in NixMn1-γ-xFe2+γO4 Ferrites, Qiangmin Wei and Brian W. Robertson
A class of boron-rich solid-state neutron detectors, B.W. Robertson, Shireen Adenwalla, A. Harken, P. Welsch, J.I. Brand, Peter A. Dowben, and J.P. Claassen
Chemical Partitioning During Crystallization and its Effect on the Microstructure and Magnetic Behavior of Modified Nd–Fe–B Permanent Magnets, Jeffrey Shield, B. B. Kappes, D. J. Branagan, and J. Bentley
On Modular Design of Field Robotic Systems, Shane Farritor and Steven Dubowsky
Conjugate Heat Transfer From a Two- Layer Substrate Model of a Convectively Cooled Circuit Board, S. A. Harman and Kevin D. Cole
Fabrication of 2- and 3-Dimensional Nanostructures, Hong Jiang, Camelia N. Borca, Bo Xu, and Brian W. Robertson
USING A RAPID PROTOTYPING MACHINE IN THE INTEGRATED KINEMATICS, DYNAMICS, AND MACHINE DESIGN LAB, Wieslaw M. Szydlowski
The State and Future of Mars Polar Science and Exploration, Stephen M. Clifford, David Crisp, David A. Fisher, Ken E. Herkenhoff, Suzanne E. Smrekar, Peter C. Thomas, David D. Wynn-Williams, Richard W. Zurek, Jeffrey R. Barnes, Bruce G. Bills, Erik W. Blake, Wendy M. Calvin, Jonathan M. Cameron, Michael H. Carr, Philip R. Christensen, Benton C. Clark, Gary D. Clow, James A. Cutts, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, William B. Durham, Fraser P. Fanale, Jack D. Farmer, Francois Forget, Kumiko Gotto-Azuma, Rejean Grard, Robert M. Haberle, William Harrison, Ralph Harvey, Alan D. Howard, Andy P. Ingersoll, Philip B. James, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Hugh H. Kieffer, Janus Larsen, Kenneth Lepper, Michael C. Malin, Daniel J. McCleese, Bruce Murray, John F. Nye, David A. Paige, Stephen R. Platte, Jef f J. Plaut, Niels Reeh, James W. Rice, David E. Smith, Carol R. Stoker, Kenneth L. Tanaka, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson, Stephen E. Wood, Aaron Zent, Maria T. Zuber, and H. Jay Zwally
Order–disorder effects in nitrided Sm–Fe permanent magnets, B.E. Meacham, Jeffrey E. Shield, and D.J. Branagan
In situ STEM Technique for Characterization of Nanoscale Interconnects During Electromigration Testing, Ismail Gobulukoglu and Brian W. Robertson
The effect of grain size on magnetic properties in Sm2Fe17Nx, Jeffrey E. Shield, D.J. Branagan, C.P. Li, and R.W. McCallum
A generalized solidification model and microstructural verification for the Nd–Fe–B–Ti–C system processed by rapid solidification, M.J. Kramer, C.P. Li, K.W. Dennis, R.W. McCallum, C.H. Sellers, D.J. Branagan, and Jeffrey E. Shield
Chemcial Vapor Deposition Precursor Chemistry. 5. The Photolytic Laser Deposition of Aluminum Thin Films By Chemical Vapor Deposition, John A. Glass, Seong-Don Hwang, Saswati Datta, Brian W. Robertson, and James T. Spencer
Explosive compaction of Magnequench Nd–Fe–B magnetic powders, S. Guruswamy, M.K. McCarter, Jeffrey E. Shield, and V. Panthanachan
Co-Sm (1̅100)[0001]//Cr (1̅21̅)[ 1̅01] epitaxy and its effects on magnetic properties of Co-Sm//Cr films, Yi Liu, David J. Sellmyer, and B.W. Robertson
CHARACTERIZING THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF A THERMALLY LOADED, ACOUSTICALLY EXCITED PLATE, K. D. Murphy, L. N. Virgin, and S. A. Rizzi
CHARACTERIZING THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF A THERMALLY LOADED, ACOUSTICALLY EXCITED PLATE, K. D. Murphy, L. N. Virgin, and S. A. Rizzi
Ultraviolet and electron radiation induced fragmentation of adsorbed ferrocene, Dulip Welipitiya, A. Green, J.P. Woods, Peter A. Dowben, Brian W. Robertson, Dongjin Byun, and Jiandi Zhang
Microstructure of the Cr underlayer and its effect on Sm-Co//Cr thin films, Yi Liu, B.W. Robertson, Z.S. Shan, Sy_Hwang Liou, and David J. Sellmyer
High resolution electron microscopy and nano-probe study of CoSm/Cr films, Yi Liu, David J. Sellmyer, B.W. Robertson, Z.S. Shan, and Sy_Hwang Liou
Incorporation of Zn in GaAs during organometallic vapor phase epitaxy growth compared to equilibrium, W. Reichert, C.Y. Chen, W.M. Li, Jeffrey E. Shield, R.M. Cohen, D.S. Simons, and P.H. Chi
Nanostructures of Sm-Co on Cr thin films, Yi Liu, B.W. Robertson, Z.S. Shan, S. Malhotra, M.J. Yu, S.K. Renukunta, Sy_Hwang Liou, and David J. Sellmyer
NMR and NQR study of the electronic and structural properties of Al-Cu-Fe and Al-Cu-Ru quasicrystals, A. Shastri, F. Borsa, D.R. Torgeson, Jeffrey E. Shield, and A.I. Goldman
Magnetization reversal in Co/Cr multilayer films, D. Wang, Roger D. Kirby, B.W. Robertson, and David J. Sellmyer
Solutions of the heat conduction equation in multilayers for photothermal deflection experiments, William A. McGahan and Kevin D. Cole
Identification of tetragonal and cubic structures of zirconia using synchrotron x-radiation source, Ram Srinivasan, Robert J. De Angelis, Gene Ice, and Burtron H. Davis


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In writing a client for 0.8, I now have to keep state of which
topic+partition is owned by what broker. This is inherently a pain to
deal with and has the downside that I must wait for an error before I am
notified about a change in the broker topology.
I would be nice if the clients didn't need to know so much about the
brokers. In Apache Solr, which actually has a similar
partition+replication strategy, each server (broker) can handle requests
for any shard (partition) in the cluster. If the current server happens
to be the leader then it will process the request; if not it will
forward it to the correct server, wait for a response, then forward the
response back to the client.
Dumb clients will pay the extra cost of the additional hop, but do not
need to know anything about the brokers. Smart clients will work
basically like they would now with the added benefit of not getting an
error when leader changes.
Would a strategy like this work in 0.8? Do the brokers know about one
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My students cooked up their own Thanksgiving feast to serve up for our classroom family. Teach Preschool wishes you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving too!
My, oh my! We like to make pies!
We had two different kinds of pie on our agenda but to start off our pie making experiences, we read the book "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie."
Turkey toss drawings
Today in preschool, we tossed the dice to inspire some rather unique turkey drawings!
Exploring cornucopias
Holidays present the opportunity to introduce new words and ideas in our classroom. This Thanksgiving, we introduced cornucopias.
Fun with feathers and beads
We filled our classroom centers with materials that were somehow related to our Thanksgiving books including lots of feathers and beads for play!
Our Thanksgiving chart
We shared what we were thankful for through this interesting chart making process.
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Goin on a turkey hunt
What's the best part about Thanksgiving time? Going on a turkey hunt of course!
Sticky paper turkey dress-up and patterning
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I've been intrigued by this photo project since my son did it a few years ago. It's a big commitment but I blog almost every day so I'm sure I could be successful … especially since I've found an iPhone app. How easy is that? One photo a day.
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Plus you can combine it with Journaling your Christmas.
It warmed up to 104* here today! And it's not summer till tomorrow!
I was not successful, so I wish you luck and perseverance.
This may be addictive. I have a friend who is well into her second year of a photo every day.
Good Luck, will follow you progress.
What a great picture of you and Chesty! It's funny Chesty is acting like a typical boy, sticking his tongue out! 🙂
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goto FAIL - Free and Open Source versus Closed Source Proprietary Code
Paw Prints: Writings of the maddog
The events of the past couple of weeks with the bug in OpenSSL exposing many websites and other communications are indeed unfortunate. Not only has it caused a lot of extra work and expense for those who have Internet servers to have to update code and replace certificates, but it has caused many end users to spend time doing what they avoid doing, update their passwords. Forcing end users to update their passwords is both bad and good news, which I will discuss later.
However, the OpenSSL bug has also generated an abundance of articles and TV reports about the validity of Open Source code and (once again) questions of whether or not Open Source is more secure or less secure, higher quality or lower quality than closed source, proprietary code. News people (most of whom have never written a piece of code more complex than "Hello World") have been contacting "elder statesmen of Open Source" and asking them about the "many eyes" that are supposed to be looking at Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and talking about the ability of "volunteers" to generate production level code versus "paid professionals". We have all heard the arguments about how FOSS developers take more time and care to develop their code because they do not want to be embarrassed by it, and how closed source companies use powerful tools and methodologies that keep their code pristine over many years.
Here is my statement: There is no magic. The "many eyes" do not help if no one is looking. However, there is the ability to look and the ability to patch the FOSS code when you want or need to do so.
I had worked for many years in various development environments, both Free and Open Source Software and closed-source proprietary software.
I saw FOSS developers write phenomenal programs, using some of the latest techniques for developing code, since a lot of the study of how to do this comes from academics who are working on just these issues, On the other hand I have seen atrocious code written by someone and "tossed over the wall", even if their source was visible to everyone.
I saw engineers at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) write closed source, proprietary code and submit it to the field test code pool when it was obvious that the engineer had never even tested it one single time....there was absolutely no path through their code. A "professional" (and I use the term loosely) had not done their job.
Yes, in some closed-source companies they do a great job of peer review of code, and in some FOSS projects the project leader/committing engineer reviews the code for both correctness and maintainability style. In both cases there have been bugs found and eliminated, but there is no guarantee that the code is "bug free", no matter which environment you come from.
Some of the writers pointed out the that OpenSSL team of coders is small, with one "full time" person and several "volunteers". I will point out that even in large companies, the number of people working on some particular part of a project may be very small, as few as one person. Quality of code is not necessarily a function of the size of the development team, nor the size of the company. A large company's resources are often stretched across many projects.
Quality of code is also compromised by commitments to schedules for either customer benefit or new revenue benefit. At DEC there were often trade-offs in functionality inclusion due to shipping the code "on time" to meet a customer need or to support a new processor. FOSS projects are not immune to these issues of "timeliness", but my experience has shown that they are less likely to be negatively affected by them. "Ship no code before its time" is more often heard in the FOSS space than in closed source. However, even in FOSS code the tendency sometimes happens to go in and put a "quick fix" without testing the entire module, particularly if you think the bug or functionality is "small".
In FOSS, the concept that you are a volunteer on a project like OpenSSL does not mean that you have no training in writing good code, or that your knowledge of security issues does not rival those of "professional" security companies. As a volunteer it simply means that you do not get directly paid to develop that code. You may be a "paid professional programmer" for a company that depends on that code, or work for a company that is in some other field of software, but you wanted to work on that particular piece of code as a "volunteer".
However there are three areas where FOSS code DOES shine above closed source proprietary code, and those areas are "openness of design", "mean time for complete fix" and the ability to audit.
Most FOSS projects have their forums, mailing lists and other design work very open and visible. The arguments back and forth about issues on the design and code are very visible to anyone who wishes to review or participate in them. With closed-source projects these discussions and arguments are hidden behind closed doors, and discussions of scalability, efficiency, and security are never seen by the end users. Bug lists, including priority setting of the bugs is typically kept out of sight of the end user customer.
The second case is demonstrated most recently by Apple's problem (ironically also in the SSL code) of what became known as the "goto fail" bug. The bug was first identified in the iOS code, and first patched there. However the code was also in the OS/X code, and it took Apple several WEEKS to fix that bug and deliver the patch, leaving their OS/X customers exposed. Compare that to the OpenSSL issue, where the patch was identified, patched and distributed in both binary and SOURCE to all parties that needed it. I stressed the SOURCE part of the patch, since OpenSSL is used not just on one or two operating systems, as Apple had, and not just three or four versions of those operating systems (the ones that Apple still supported), but many different architectures of hardware, many different operating systems (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Unix), many different distributions of each and over many different versions of those distributions, some of which are not being actively supported by the companies who distributed them.
Many years ago there was a very bad worm penetrating Unix computers. DEC created a binary patch for their current Unix systems, but previous systems now out of software contract were not going to get a patch generated for them, even though there were many customers still using them. After the FOSS community understood the problem, it took them five HOURS to design and make available the same patch in source code form.
More recently, Microsoft's XP operating system retirement forced many companies into extremely expensive support contracts for maintaining support of this retired operating system. It was lucky that Microsoft had used a different code base for their SSL functionality, but it can just have easily been some other bug that would cause an issue for XP users in the future, with no ability of millions of XP users to get a bug fix.
The third place where FOSS shines is in what I will delicately call "international security and privacy", or the "ability to audit". Unfortunately in today's world we have learned that you can not really trust anyone. Even closed-source code in your own country might be open to "spyware" of one type or another. FOSS code is often developed by people from many different countries, working together. They know that people from many different countries and many different political spectrum are going to be viewing and working on this code. Putting in trap doors and Trojan horses on purpose will quickly ruin your reputation as a programmer if discovered. This is not true in closed-source, proprietary code.
In closing, I would like to re-state what I have said for many years and continue to say: "Open Source is neither inherently more secure or less secure than "closed cource", but it typically has a faster "mean time to fix" than closed source. Secondly, if you have to depend on obscurity (not being able to see the source code) for your security, then you are not secure.
Finally, the "bad news" about the OpenSSL bug was that it happened in the first place. The "good news" is that it forced people to think about their password strategy for web sites (for some people it may have been a long time) and to re-design a better password policy and mechanism in this more modern (and dangerous) "age of the web".comments powered by Disqus
Issue 193/2016
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Linux Voice Joins the Linux New Media Family
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Critical Flaws Found in VeraCrypt
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Ubuntu 16.10 Released
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Linus Announces Linux 4.8
Google Announces Its Own Pixel Phones
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Linus Torvalds Confirms the Date of the First Linux Release
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End of OpenOffice?
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Adobe Gives New Life to NPAPI Plugin for Linux
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LinuxCon North America Convenes in Toronto, Canada
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