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i just got my stanton sa-3 mixer and i was looking trough the manual i turned the page and there was this topic that said "rotating the transform switches"... it went on and on about how to do that but it didnt explain what the rotating of the switces do ... ?! ?!
help would be apreciated...
transform ?! ?!...
Started by DeeSupreme , Jan 11 2007 09:08 AM
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Posted 11 January 2007 - 01:58 PM
well on my pioneer I can rotate the transform switches in different directions. so instead of striaght up and down like a ninja hittin switches you can have them say at a 45 degree angle. maybe even sideways. Im not sure cuz I never did it but it is an option on my mixer. so I bet the same for yours.
Posted 11 January 2007 - 10:37 PM
ok thanks !
Posted 12 January 2007 - 04:25 PM
It's just so you can adjust them to whatever way you like them the most.
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Adjustable Height Desks
Choosing an adjustable height desk that will best suit your needs can be a difficult task, especially if you have never used similar furniture in the past. New styles and versions of competing desks are entering the market on a monthly basis. In order to find the best solution you must consider what your needs are first, including how you will be using the desk day to day. The different types of standing desks available include: electric, crank, pneumatic/gas, standing only and models designed to sit on the desktop of your existing desk.
BTOD.com's Top 5 Most Popular Types of Standing Desks
Electric Desks
Electric desks are by far our most popular version of the adjustable height computer desk. While electric desks tend to be the most expensive, they are the most well rounded option available. These desks are typically operated by just the push of a button. For customers that are interested in making a switch from a normal sit down desk, we highly recommend this type. Moving from a sitting to standing height will typically only require 10-20 seconds depending on the model selected. The ability to move all items on your desk (phone, paperwork, ect) is an added bonus with the fully electric desk. This eliminates the need to reach down to answer a phone call or complete a writing task. If you haven't had the opportunity to try a raisable desk yet, you will soon find out that neither sitting nor standing should be done all day. It is the ability to switch between them that will help you create a more comfortable working environment. The electronic rising desk can easily accomplish this by simply pushing the up or down button. (See all electric models here)
Crank Desks
The manually operated crank desk is a nice alternative to the electric desk. This type of desk will allow you to move all of your desks contents from sitting to standing height. A crank desk is the perfect solution for a person who might not have access to a power outlet at their work area. This type of adjustable office desk is also great for customers who might be concerned with the potential breakdown of electrical components beyond a products' warranty period. While the manual crank desk might seem like a perfect fit, it should be noted that most manual desks do require a lot of cranks for each 1" of height adjustment. Our NewHeights crank, for instance, is one of the faster options available on the market and requires eight cranks per 1" of height adjustment. Most users will need 10"-14" of adjustment to move from a sitting to standing height. In total you would be cranking 80-112 types just to go one direction. It is for this reason in particular we highly recommend an electric desk. (See all crank models here)
Pneumatic/Gas Desks
The pneumatic assisted adjustable desk is a great option for customers looking to save money and space. Because of its size, the stand up laptop desk is easily moved and with casters can become a mobile workstation. Our pneumatic desks are typically used in hospitals, manufacturing facilities, computer labs and apartments. This type of desk can also be used as an add-on option for existing workstations. Customers that may have an existing desk that they would like to keep can set the gas lift desk next to their desk and use with a laptop throughout the day. Because the pneumatic desk is a smaller option, space will be limited. Having all of your paper work, computer items and phone on the desk at once will be difficult. The pneumatic desk option will also have a much smaller lifting capacity than its electric and crank counterparts. For this reason they are not suitable for all office applications. (See all pneumatic models here)
Standing Only
Fixed height or standing height tables are some of the most common standing desks being used in homes and offices today. This type of simple standing desk is easily created through DIY plans and can be a very affordable option. Many of our current customers have also created make-shift desks with boxes, crates, books and other items readily found in the office. Creating a DIY elevated desk can be great way to test the waters before making the full plunge. Since fixed height desks are not adjustable we highly recommend using a standing height calculator to get a proper measurement of your new desk. Picking the wrong height for your new desk will most likely cause the user to stop use of the desk and not gain the health benefits from standing during the work day. While the standing height desk can be a great option, it also has its downfalls as well. Without the ability to lower the desk, you will most likely need to find a solution for a tall office chair. Only standing throughout an entire workday will create new health risks and we highly recommend the use of an ergonomic stool with your standing only desk. (See all standing only models here)
Standing Desk Converters
This brings us to our last option of standing desks available. The stand up desk converter is one of the newest additions to the desktop workstation category. This type of sit stand desk attachment is a perfect solution for those who want to keep an existing desk and have the ability to sit or stand during the day. Our desktop options include: manual, gas assisted and electronically operated models. The models will vary in price and can be a very affordable option for those looking to stand at their existing desk. While the desktop only can be a great option, because of its size they will typically only allow for computing tasks to be done. The desktop only models will also require a good amount of space on your desk and will limit you to a smaller area for other office tasks. (See all stand up desk converters here)

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Multi-Source CTS Delivers Flexible High Performance and Variation ToleranceMulti-source clock tree is a hybrid containing the best aspects of a conventional clock tree and a pure clock mesh. This paper illustrates the benefits such as lower skew and better on-chip-variation (OCV) performance compared to a conventional clock tree.
IC Validator: Automatic DRC RepairThis paper presents how in-design physical verification with IC Validator enables Automatic DRC Repair (ADR), a novel capability that makes it possible for designers to automatically detect, repair and revalidate signoff DRC violations with negligible physical or timing impact, all within IC Compiler.
Minimizing Time to Complete a Hierarchical DesignThis paper addresses design exploration and planning in a hierarchical flow for larger SoCs and discusses techniques for achieving predictable design convergence without surprises.
IC Validator: GDS Merge This paper presents an optimal approach to creating a working snapshot of a design's complete mask data set for the purposes of in-design physical verification with IC Validator, Synopsys' award-winning physical verification platform for advanced nodes.
IC Validator: Physical Verification for Analog Designs Physical verification challenges of analog designs are different than the challenges of large digital designs. IC Validator, the latest generation physical verification tool, can be used to address these challenges. This paper addresses many of the physical verification requirements of analog designers and how they are met with IC Validator.
Multicorner-Multimode – A Necessary and Manageable Reality of DesignThis paper addresses the increasing design complexity and process variability present at 65nm and amplified at 45nm and below, and the pressing need for a concurrent, convergent, correlated, multi-corner multi-mode implementation solution. Complexity and variability are the drivers for an increasing number of design modes and process corners.
Physical Datapath – Improved Productivity for All DesignsAn ideal physical datapath solution for custom and ASIC designs should have an automated flow to deliver performance power area (PPA) objectives with predictable time-to-results (TTR). Currently, most EDA tools do not provide a solution that addresses the limitations of a custom datapath flow. This paper discusses datapath designs, benefits, limitations, and the use of an automated datapath design capability that allows both custom and ASIC designers to meet aggressive design objectives with ever-tighter project deadlines.
Achieving Faster Time-to-Tapeout with In-Design Sign-Off Metal Fill By providing foundry signoff metal fill generation in an interface that is familiar to the place and route engineer, a cumbersome collection of design tasks is turned into a pushbutton flow. Additionally, control over insertion and deletion of fill layers provides added benefit for engineering change orders (ECOs) when minimal schedule delay is imperative. Timing impact is considered as the fill is generated during the implementation stage so that both DRC's and timing are taken into account simultaneously. Achieving correct-by-construction results during implementation significantly reduces time to tapeout and avoids schedule delays. This paper presents a pushbutton flow to generate timing-aware, signoff quality metal fill during place and route.
Accelerating Physical Verification With an In-Design Flow Physical designers are responsible for verifying and ensuring that their designs are clean of Design Rule Check (DRC) violations before delivering the design to the foundry. Since semiconductor foundries use sign-off DRC rules to validate the manufacturability of a design, physical designers must use the same sign-off DRC rules to avoid any missing checks. This paper discusses the need for a concurrent physical design and physical verification flow, also known as an in-design physical verification flow. This flow improves the overall turnaround time and ease of use of the physical verification process. This paper also provides a production-proven example of this flow.
Realizing Low Power IC Design: It Starts with the Clock Tree There are numerous techniques to achieve a low-power design and several approaches to structuring the flow. As a starting point, high performance designs require a benchmark proven low-skew, low-insertion delay CTS solution. Correlation to industry standard sign-off engines for accuracy and minimum data format translations are required to achieve fast design closure. The optimal solution includes complete low power capability throughout the design flow. This paper addresses low power design issues and includes technologies and techniques to achieve high performance, low power design goals.
Advanced Design Challenges Make DFM-Friendly Routing A Must-Have Timing, area, power, and signal integrity have traditionally been the primary objectives of design technology, and the primary care-abouts for designers and CAD engineers. Increasingly manufacturability and yield have also become critical design objectives, and multiple design-for-manufacturability (DFM) optimization techniques have been added to the design flows. As manufacturability has been a secondary goal, conventional routers have been optimizing for it after timing optimization – the point at which all of the primary design goals have already been met. While this methodology has worked well up to the 65nm technology node, it starts to break down at 45nm and below. This paper talks about the routing challenges at 45nm and below and the need for modern DFM-friendly routing technologies for achieving better manufacturability and higher yield without sacrificing performance.
Clock Mesh for Mainstream Designs: Designing High Performance Variation Tolerant Circuits By its very nature, even the best conventional clock tree synthesis leaves both performance and variation tolerance potential on the table. Clock mesh offers the designer a means of achieving extreme high performance along with the avoidance of process variation effects. Long known as the clock distribution method for high-end microprocessors, clock mesh also offers significant variation tolerance. Clock mesh use to be an entirely manual, difficult to analyze technology, but new advances in clock mesh automation and analysis now enable it to be considered as a mainstream clock distribution solution.


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N-E-S-T-L-E-S… Are you singing the jingle? If so, you're old enough to recall reaching up to drop your small change on the counter of the general store to buy penny candies like Bit-O-Honeys, Mary Janes, Necco Wafers, candy buttons, wax soda bottles filled with flavored syrups and so on.
Candies from a bygone era, or retro or vintage candies as they are called, are now a candy trend. Their brightly colored wrappers, beckoning from old-school candy bins or antique oak display cases, have become big business. Fans of the sweet and gooey, the crispy and the crunchy scour the world looking for just the right combinations of taste and texture, and manufacturers are re-introducing discontinued brands like Charleston Chew, Bonomo's Turkish Taffy, Black Jack Gum, Chiclets and Juicy Fruit.
In my family, the sweet art of confectionery dominated every holiday. There were candy corn and mini chocolate bars in our trick-or-treat bags at Halloween, candy-decorated gingerbread houses and peppermint candy canes at Christmas, "conversation" candy hearts on Valentine's Day, and at Easter time all the dipped-in-chocolate delights, jelly beans, sugar-dusted marshmallow peeps and, of course, the giant edible effigy left in our Easter baskets by Sir Rabbit, himself.
Chocolates are the hard currency of candy. Once the ancient Mesoamericans discovered the palate-pleasing qualities of the cacao tree's fermented, roasted and ground beans, chocolate became a precious commodity that was ceremonially served during religious rituals, quaffed by royalty and traded for other valuable goods. Much later, the Europeans added refined sugar and milk, developed the emulsification process and learned how to press the cocoa butter from the beans. Mechanical processes developed during the Industrial Revolution made candy available to the masses.
These days, the art of the chocolatier extends far beyond the borders of fondant and flavor. Chocolate massages aside, chocolate chess pieces vie with chocolate stilettos for top prize in the strange-uses-for-chocolate category. In 2005, a 227-pound, life size chocolate figure of Elton John that took a thousand hours to create was added to the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London. In 2012, Qzina Specialty Foods set the world record for the largest chocolate sculpture with an 18,000-pound replica of a Mayan pyramid. The chocolate "Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza" is on display at the Qzina Institute of Chocolate and Pastry in Irvine, CA. It is slated for destruction on December 21, 2012, the final day of the Mayan calendar.
Not just for birthday parties anymore, candy has recently been in the news as a theme for weddings, graduations, baby showers, fund raisers and more. Candy-themed parties set a fun and festive tone, interweaving the magics of bright colors, swirling shapes and fabulous flavors to form a most memorable occasion, from invitation to leave-taking. Dylan Lauren, daughter of designer Ralph Lauren and owner of Dylan's Candy Bar in New York City, planned her own candy-themed wedding complete with candy cocktails, candy tiara and a bridal bouquet of pink and yellow sugar flowers.
It seems there is no limit to the varieties of flavors, shapes and objects to "candify" that can be coaxed from the sweet and sometimes eccentric imaginations of confectioners. It is clearly evident that candy makers are making every effort to disprove the adage, "You can't please all of the people all of the time."
Cran-Walnut Bark recipe
(Donated by Nancy Kimble of Susie's Sweet Shop)
12 ounces of semisweet chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
1/3 cup dried cranberries
coarse salt
In the microwave, melt half the chocolate and stir in remaining 6 ounces. Spread into a ¼- to ½-inch-thick rectangle or square on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Sprinkle the remaining ingredients evenly over chocolate and let sit, or refrigerate until firm. Break into pieces.
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103 East Ann Street, Milford, PA 18337
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1095 Texas Palmyra Hwy, Route 6
Honesdale, PA 18431
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1206 Main St., Honesdale, PA 18431
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602 Church Street, Hawley, PA 18428
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Jay-Z and the Post-Modern Man
Since this is my last weekend on the site until I return, begging for a job as James Del's assistant, I've invited some friends to play with me. Matt Ealer is the proprietor of Rendit Dot Tumblr Dot Com. Matt?
I just drove from DC to Philly and listened to Jay-Z's 2007 American Gangster about two and a half times. This is significant.
Sandwiched between two albums (comeback flop Kingdom Come, and 2009's high-tech Blueprint 3) that are the rockcritical equivalent of Batman and Robin—so easily maligned by the type of press that values "authenticity" and "honesty" among all else such that it becomes cliche — it stood as a revelation at the time. Al Green, Marvin Gaye, vintage Beastie Boys, and Isley Brothers samples. Lyrical nods to classic Outkast, EPMD, Rakim, Biggie. The picture painting of Ghostface mixed with the lyrical dexterity of MF DOOM mixed with Biggie's weird and halting virtuoso breath control. All the signifiers were correctly in place, and we ate it up. In spite of ourselves.
Consider. The sinewy, pitch-noir ode to Brooklyn's True Grit featuring perhaps the greatest example of Lil' Wayne's crazy-old-bluesman-in-a-19-year-old's-body rap-singing committed to tape of American Gangster versus the bloated, warbling banality of an ode to power centers of Midtown Manhattan and the lost life of three-martini lunches featuring Alica Keys at perhaps her most stultifying of The Blueprint 3.
And yet. For all the seemingly absent authenticity of these two perma-hated records; it becomes clear upon further investigation that they are, in the most literal sense of it, the most authentic records. Kingdom Come's "Minority Report," "Beach Chair," "Young Forever," as hated as these songs are amongst the rockcritical establishment and the subset of Shawn Corey's fan base that reads them, these are the songs about what it is actually like to be Jay-Z. More specifically, these are the songs evidencing a bleeding consternation over these very issues—how does one continue to rap when one reaches this level of success rapping about what it is like to be young and desperate?
American Gangster, on the other hand, is all nostalgia at best and cynicism at worst. And he says this, explicitly in the text. The second verse of "Ignorant Shit" is really the key to the record. He tells you that everything he is currently telling you is a lie. It is a show. It is a put-on. He is the self-created, artificial man. He is the self-made man, at odds with the fiction of the American Dream yet a perfect representation of its actuality. He is telling us explicitly that he is playing us.
And we eat it up. As we are told. In fact, even our hate at the more "mainstream," chart-pop oriented albums is part of the plan. For if not, what would we have to praise him for when he sleepwalks out an American Gangster?
To drive the point home, after the one-two meta punch of "Ignorant Shit" and "Bad Guy," he has a song that features Nas, a man who buys the rockcritical position so much that he actually named one album Hip-Hop is Dead and the next The N Word both without a hint of self-knowing irony, dropping maybe the worst verse he ever has in his long and twisted career. Jay is blatantly smirking at us, here.
And by God, when "Blue Magic" finally follows the worst ever tacked-on end to a "concept album" since the heyday of Rush; I nod my head and get goosebumps at the greatest Ronald Reagan takedown ever committed to tape. Because Jay-Z is playing me. And I am eating it right up.
Which is all a long way of saying that Denton is the Jay-Z of blogging. Hi, Nick!
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Taking a trip across the universe is possible at Amarillo's Don Harrington Discovery Center.
Discovery Center Executive Director Ganesh Ganpat said the center is a private, non-profit organization which makes "science exciting, relevant and interesting to all types of learners by providing interactive exhibits and programs that actively engage children, adolescents and their families.
"It fosters inquiring minds and nurtures the individual genius that is within each of us," Ganpat said.
Recent changes to the discovery museum has Ganesh very excited about the centers 55 hands-on exhibits, and aquariums with 55 different species of fresh and salt water fish, but what he's really looking forward to is people's reactions from the new digital planetarium which opens July 26.
"We're calling the space theater 'Beyond the Stars' which will have educational entertaining presentations that will delight your eyes and ears," Ganpat said.
At the center people can learn about the weather, helium, puzzles, structures, sound, optical illusions, fish, coral and reptiles. David Sargus, exhibits director, said teaching children how to think in a fun environment is the main objective of the discovery center.
"We try to show kids that science is fun. We want them to begin thinking about why something works a certain way," Sargus said. "The center is definitely a positive activity families can do together, and the expression on kids faces when they're experimenting with the exhibits is really an awesome sight to see."
Sargus explains to his staff that they never know how children will react to the sights and exhibits they experience at the discovery center or if they'll someday grew to develop a passion for science, but he said the most important thing to remember is that the discovery center is a place where all children can leave with a positive scientific experience.
"We encourage our guests to explore, create, play, tinker, solve, read and discover with all of the exhibits," Ganpat said. "We're a great facility where people can spend two and a half hours leaning about science it's a great family activity especially for children and the space theater is something people will enjoy seeing again and again."


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American Red Cross volunteers closed up a shelter Friday morning for displaced Maui residents at the Hannibal Tavares Community Center in Pukalani, according to Maui County officials.
The shelter opened up Thursday night while Maui was in a flash flood warning for those who had to leave their homes due to flooding and to motorists who could not make it home due to the closed roads.
Two residents who were unable to return home spent part of the night at the shelter.
The Maui County Fire Department says weather-related calls began at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and the last engine returned at 9:15 p.m. Crews from Makawao, Kula, Kahului, and Paia responded to various flooding calls during this time.
The following is a summary of incidents that occurred:
- Responded to Kuhina Place in Makawao Ranch Acres where a residence was experiencing some flooding. Fire crews utilized a floatation pump to remove water and also dug trenches to divert the water.
- Responded to a call of flooding at 2905 Iolani Street. A drainage grate just mauka of this residence had become clogged and was overflowing. Firefighters dug debris out of the grate until it began to flow. County Public Works crew also assisted in clearing this drain.
- Responded to Kealaloa/Hanamu Road for some stranded vehicles. Arrived and found four vehicles stranded, no injuries. High water on either side of them. Fire personnel escorted the vehicles down Kealaloa Road which was still passable.
- Makawao's E-5 was assigned to the report of a cottage being washed away at 355 Kaluanui Road. E-5 responded and found that Makawao Avenue was impassable at Maliko Bridge due to water and debris coming over the bridge. With E-5 unable to access the area, E-2 (Paia) was dispatched to 355 Kaluanui Rd. for the cottage that was swept away. The cottage was unoccupied. E-2 arrived to find that the cottage had completely washed away and was gone. A residence at 365 Kaluanui Rd. was also being threatened with 5 occupants unable to evacuate. Rescue 10 on scene evacuated 2 of the occupants as the water subsided but, the other 3 decided to stay at the home . E-2 began evacuating homes in Maliko Gulch. Eight homes were evacuated. No injuries reported.
- Responded to Kaupea Street off of Makawao Avenue fora home being flooded. Flooding was occurring on the side next to the house. They were advised that they were in no immediate danger, but was also advised to stay away from the swift running water. Realizing that it would be dangerous to drive away, they decided to wait out the storm.
- Responded to Maliko Gulch ( Hana Highway) for 3 vehicles stranded due to flood waters -- all occupants out of the vehicles, accounted for, and safe.


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Darlington Raceway has never been a forgiving race track, sending drivers into walls and challenging competitors with its tight turns and narrow straightaways.
Then why is it that several former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions are hoping a race at Darlington in Saturday night's Bojangles' Southern 500 (6:30 p.m. ET on FOX) will be the tonic they need?
Answer: It's another chance for a win, and in this new era of NASCAR competition, that means everything. Under the new guidelines to qualify for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, a win during the first 26 races would likely secure a driver his or her place in the postseason. Winning is everything -- or at least it's the most important thing when trying to make the Chase.
Through the first seven races, seven different winners have celebrated in Victory Lane, however, none of them are named Jimmie Johnson or Matt Kenseth. For comparison purposes, after the first eight races of the 2013 season, Johnson and Kenseth had each notched two victories. The two finished 1-2 in the standings last season.
Kenseth finished the season with a season-high and career-best seven wins with Johnson collecting six.
Although Kenseth, who wheels the No. 20 Home Depot Husky Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, has yet to make a mark in the "Win" column this season, he is run well enough to rank second in points, four points behind Jeff Gordon. Coincidentally, Gordon is another former champion still hunting down that first win.
After starting the season off with a solid sixth-place finish in the Daytona 500, Kenseth placed in the top 10 in four other races. His lowest finish is a respectable 13th-place showing in Bristol, where he led 165 of the 500 laps. Obviously, his stat line proves he has run well and is certainly deserving of his second-place ranking. However, he is still missing the one thing that counts more than anything else this year -- a win.
Will Kenseth finally get his chance to wave a checkered flag in 2014 at Darlington?
Possibly. He is the reigning race winner. In 2013, Kenseth passed JGR teammate Kyle Busch with 13 laps to go and cruised to victory, beating his other JGR teammate Denny Hamlin to the finish line by 3.155 seconds. Kenseth led two other times for a race total of 17 laps led. His average speed of 141.383 mph is a track race record.
"Winning the Southern 500 last year was definitely special because that's one of the biggest races of the year in my opinion," Kenseth said. "It's such a historic and prestigious race because the Southern 500 is one of the three or four races that you always hear people talking about.
"It's certainly one you always want to win, and to say that we were able to get to Victory Lane last year was really a highlight for me."
Prior to last year's victory, however, the Wisconsin native had mixed results at the challenging 1.366-mile egg-shaped oval. In his first 19 races there, he collected eight top-10 finishes and one pole, but he also had seven finishes lower than 20th.
Kenseth's average finish in 20 races at Darlington is a respectable, but not stellar 16.6. His driver rating is a decent 90.9.
In the NASCAR Nationwide Series, Kenseth has three victories at the South Carolina track, winning most recently in 2009. He will be pulling double-duty this weekend, driving for JGR in both series.
As the only full-time NASCAR Nationwide Series driver in Joe Gibbs Racing's stable, Elliott Sadler has high expectations for Friday night's VFW Sports Clips Help A Hero 200 (8 p.m. ET on ESPN2) at Darlington Raceway.
Sadler has performed well through the first six races of 2014, compiling four top 10s and one pole. His best outings are a pair of fifth-places finishes (Daytona, Auto Club).
Although he has never won at the 1.366-mile track, his best result came last season when he finished runner-up to JGR teammate Kyle Busch, who started on the pole. Starting position is of the utmost importance at a track like Darlington Raceway where the narrow straightaways and tight turns place a premium on passing.
"If there's anywhere qualifying will be important it's definitely here this weekend," said Sadler, who sits fourth in the standings, 16 points behind leader Chase Elliott. "It's a short race. There's no time for mistakes."
Thirteen Nationwide races at the track have been won from the pole, more than any other spot on the starting grid. Five of the last eight races have been won from the pole, all by Sadler's JGR teammates. In all, seven of the last eight races have been won by JGR drivers: Denny Hamlin (three), Kyle Busch (two), Tony Stewart (one) and Joey Logano (one).
Current JGR driver Matt Kenseth won the eighth race while driving for Roush Fenway Racing. He also won the race immediately prior to the seven-of-eight stretch.
Kenseth and Busch will join Sadler in JGR's three entries Friday night at Darlington, where Sadler hopes to continue the trend and become the next JGR driver to visit Victory Lane.


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Pittsburgh will work fine for me too. In fact, isn't it close to Erie? maybe at some point I could pop over to the Old Rite church.Joe Zollars
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Of course, OC.net is not reflective of the Church, but is rather a surreal bubble. I have visited a lot of different parishes around the world and have listened to many hours of AFR...
Does that mean your voting for Pittsburgh too?Joe Zollars
Everyone should vote Pittsburgh because traveling the PA Turnpike is truly an ascetic experience (like wearing a hair shirt).
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Christine and Josh were set up on a blind date in 2004 by their parents, and they immediately hit it off. A few years later, Josh proposed to Christine in Edgartown Harbor on Martha's Vineyard.
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If it all pans out, it looks as if federal authorities are doing it right in Lodi, Calif. FBI agents arrested Hamid Hayat, 22, and his father Umer Hayat, and detained three other Pakistani-Americans suspected of having a link to al-Qaida or some terrorist organization.
On the basis of preliminary news reports, the actions are exactly the kind of homeland security measures that law enforcement should be taking.
People are innocent until proven guilty, of course, and the two haven't actually been charged with being terrorists or planning terrorist acts, but with lying to federal authorities. And the government's record on nabbing suspected terrorists inside the United States is hardly impeccable.
After the Madrid train bombings, FBI fingerprint experts erroneously identified an Oregon lawyer as a suspect and stayed with the case longer than was warranted. The case against three North African men arrested with great fanfare in Detroit in 2001 eventually fell apart.
But according to an affidavit released Tuesday, Hamid Hayat at first told federal agents that he never had anything to do with a terrorist training camp, then when faced with the possibility of a polygraph test admitted that he attended a terrorist training camp for six months in Pakistan in 2003-04. His father at first denied providing him money for the camp but later, according to the affidavit, admitted he had done so.
Members of Lodi's close-knit Pakistani community, estimated variously at from 700 to 2,500 in a town of 62,000 people, and Hayat family members all say they can't imagine Hamid Hayat is guilty.
Lodi, a farming community increasingly known for Zinfandel wine and grapes, has been a longtime home to Pakistani immigrants, most from a small rural section near Punjab where people learn agricultural skills that have proven useful in a California farming community.
Some newspaper stories say Pakistani-Americans are fearful they will be tarred with an al-Qaida brush and experience discrimination or violent incidents in the wake of the arrests.
It would be tragic if their fears were realized. It is incorrect to assume more than a tiny minority of Muslims have the slightest sympathy for terrorism. Indeed, intelligent cooperation with Muslim Americans, most of whom are loyal Americans, could be key to identifying and neutralizing the few who might seek to do Americans harm.
If the Hayats are really involved with terrorism, then throw the book at them. We hope the FBI did its work thoroughly and conscientiously in this case.


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So, how are the member corporations of America's Chambers of Commerce going to functionally gut that corporately-composed financial boondoggle known as "Obamacare?" Simple, America is going to become an overtime-working nation of part-time employees.
In order for Obamacare to work, an effective majority of employees in the United States need to be full-time workers. The vast bulk of our nation's employers are small and medium-sized businesses. So, the die is cast, and now, an overwhelming majority of small and middle-size employers will hire only part-time employees, especially in blue and white-collar job-markets.
The consequence? Most employees who used to hold down full-time jobs (or perhaps, one full-time and one part-time job) will have to multi-task two (at least 35-hour-a-week, but no more than 39-hour) jobs just to sustain themselves at some similar wage balance that they previously enjoyed before Obamacare became "the law."
The only way for Obamacare to really work is to 1) radically rewrite the law more along the "individual mandate" paradigm, or 2) make it kick in for an employee after only 10 hours a week of employee labor.
Exempting "part-time" employees from Obamacare was an SFB, guaranteed "no-starter" loophole. But wow, what a way for ALL employers to quite effectively now get around both the 40-hour work week, AND any need to surrender overtime payment to most workers that will ultimately be doing at least 50 hours a week of work just to barely make ends meet.
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We at Epicurious believe that just as you can never give or get too many presents, you can never have too many holiday cookie recipes in your recipe box. So, 10 editors of Epicurious and Gourmet Live swapped our most beloved family recipes, from Vanilla-Cherry Chocolate-Chip Cookies and red-and-green-sprinkled Santa's Whiskers to Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies and Pecan Pralines. Be sure to read our guide to cookie swaps for tips on hosting your own.
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Simply Splendid Sugar Cookies
Tanya Steel, Editor-in-Chief
"I love this one because it has almost as much whole wheat as all-purpose flour and less sugar than most versions. It's from my book, Real Food for Healthy Kids, and it's our go-to cookie when we are craving something crisp and sweet. We make it every Christmas Eve and leave it out for Santa. It turns out he loves them as much as we do."
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"When I was younger, I was partial to the frosted wreath cutout cookies with bows made of cinnamon Red Hots, but now that I'm older I love the thumbprint cookies. The bright red jam is pretty and festive, and I like to invite my friends' kids over to roll the dough into balls and press their thumbs in the center."
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"Long ago and far away in the days before digital recipe boxes, a New York Times recipe clipping worked its way into steady rotation in my kitchen at holiday time. Over the years, the recipe became a family favorite, evolving along the way, as such things do. But here's one thing that never changes: I get as much pleasure out of making these cookies—shaping the fragrant crescents by hand—as I do from eating and gifting them."
Vanilla-Cherry Chocolate-Chip Cookies
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"The holidays don't officially begin in my family's home until we fire up the burners for the first (of what's sure to be dozens) of the season's batches of Marshmallow Wreaths. Every year for the past 15 years we've been making this dessert, and some of my earliest memories in the kitchen with my mom are of molding the bright-green mix into wreath shapes and tacking on the cinnamon-flavored candies. In addition to the individual treats, we often craft an entire batch of the mix into one giant wreath for the ultimate festive and edible centerpiece."
Pecan Pralines
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"Buttery, nutty, and so caramel-y sweet they make your teeth hurt, pecan pralines have always been a highlight of my Christmas visits to my mom's family in Louisiana. This recipe comes from a family friend who is one of the best cooks I know—and that's saying a lot when you're talking about denizens of South Louisiana. Made with two homegrown Louisiana ingredients—sugar and pecans—plus butter and cream, they're a sweet bite of bayou country."


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The sharp, peppery flavor of oregano makes it an indispensable ingredient in many kitchens. This hardy 2-foot-tall perennial has square stems and small green oval leaves.
Some cooks say Greek oregano has the strongest flavor. Other varieties can be very mild. Before buying an oregano plant, it's a good idea to pinch a leaf and sniff its aroma—it will give you a clue as to what you're getting.
Cutting the plant back during the season keeps it from getting leggy and gives you a good supply to dry. Oregano retains its color and flavor when dried.
Oregano adds spark to many foods. Try these savory, tempting dishes.
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The safety belt doubles the chances of survival in a serious road accident. Nonetheless, half of all truck drivers choose not to use their safety belts. That is something that Volvo Trucks wants to change.
"If more road users wore their safety belts, more than 7,000 lives would be saved every year in the EU alone. Professional drivers should serve here as an example," says Carl Johan Almqvist, Traffic & Product Safety Director Volvo Trucks.
The chances of surviving a serious road accident are doubled if the driver or passenger uses a safety belt. This can be seen, for instance, in the most recent WHO report entitled Global Status Report on Road Safety 2013. The report emphasises increased belt usage as one of the most crucial issues for improving traffic safety. Today there is legislation requiring safety belt usage in 111 countries the world over. As of 2006 compulsory belt use has been required in the EU for both cars and trucks.
"In recent years belt usage has increased among truck drivers, but even so, fewer than half use the safety belt. And that's despite the fact that both our own and other European research has revealed that at least 50 percent of truck drivers who lost their lives in traffic would have survived if they had been belted in. Of all truck drivers involved in fatal accidents, only five percent were wearing their safety belts," says Carl Johan Almqvist.
A recent survey conducted by Sweden's NTF road safety organisation based on observations of more than 700 truck drivers and interviews with more than 200 of them between 2011 and 2013 confirms this picture. Most said they used safety belts when driving a car, but only half did so behind the wheel of their truck. Among the reasons given were that it is difficult, inconvenient or time-consuming to put on and take off the belt.
"Bearing in mind that the safety belt can spell the difference between life and death, these are not particularly credible excuses. At Volvo Trucks we invest considerable resources in the development of accident-prevention systems, but as long as the human factor plays such a big role it will never be possible to entirely eliminate the risk of road accidents. I would therefore encourage both haulage firms and drivers to do what they can to improve safety. The simplest measure of all is naturally to use the single most important safety feature on board - the safety belt."
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- A CAD/CAM system for high performance precision drum cams
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- This paper describes a computer-aided design and manufacturing system for the design and production of complex profiles for high-performance drum cams within the specified tolerance. The system graphically generates the cam profile on the cylindrical drum after performing an analysis of the kinematic performance for the prescribed follower motion, using a B-spline representation of follower curves. Eight different types of follower motion for a translating follower are considered. The kinematic performance is based on the criteria of achieving the lowest levels of velocity and acceleration for each curve. The system is also able to simulate the motion of the designed cam graphically. The system also recommends the best cam profile on the basis of comparing the kinematic performance of all the B-spline representations of all the follower motions.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Industrial Research Institute Swinburne
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- International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 15, no. 1 (Jan 1999), pp. 32-37
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- 1999
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- 01 Mathematical Sciences; 08 Information and Computing Sciences; 09 Engineering
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- B-spline; Cam profiles; CNC machining; Cylindrical cams; Drum cams
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- Springer
- 0268-3768
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"Never met a wilderness she did like."
By Vince Beiser
David Simon is piloting his road-worn Volkswagen Passat through the streets of New Orleans, his mind on the city. As we roll from one filming location to another of his HBO show Treme, he points out landmarks: the Industrial Canal that burst its banks during Hurricane Katrina; the Lower Ninth Ward that was drowned as a result; the former site of a studio where some of the city's most important musicians cut their first records.
"We want the show to be about New Orleans," he says. "It's about what New Orleans means, about why it matters."
Simon is best known as the creator of The Wire, HBO's sprawling but intricately intertwined saga of crime, justice, politics, and the press in a terminally decaying Baltimore. In person, he's garrulous and aggressively intelligent, sociable without exactly being friendly. He has doughy features and an ursine frame clad in sneakers, jeans, a Kangol cap, and a hoodie that seems barely adequate protection from the damp, biting wind on this December day.
At each set, he slaps backs and checks in with the actors, writers, and crew, making sure that what is being filmed is as close to real as he can make it. For a scene set in an office of the Road Home federal aid program for Katrina victims, he wants to make sure the building they're using really is a Road Home office. At a murder scene, he looks to see whether there are bullet casings on the ground. And at a shot including a trumpet solo by legendary local jazzman Kermit Ruffins, Simon swaps a quick man-hug with the actor he's hired for the part: Kermit Ruffins.
After thirteen years as a crime reporter at the Baltimore Sun, Simon abandoned the sinking ship of newspaper journalism in the mid-1990s to write for Homicide, the NBC series based on his nonfiction book about Baltimore cops. In 2000, he adapted another book he authored into The Corner, an HBO miniseries focusing on the dealers, addicts, and civilians enmeshed in the drug market of a West Baltimore street. That netted Simon three Emmy awards, and was the seed from which The Wire's five-season run grew. Though The Wire never drew a huge audience, critics drooled over its multifaceted structure and nuanced portrayal of the lives of those cast off, forgotten, and fucked over by the post-industrial American economy, from petty drug dealers to inner city schoolteachers to laid-off dock workers.
Treme, the second season of which premieres in April, is in some ways a similar meditation on post-Katrina New Orleans. But Treme is not another cop show. Even though police, drugs, and prisons figure into Treme's several braided and branching storylines, the show's central concern is a unique segment of New Orleans's working class: musicians, and what they mean for the city. Over the course of a working afternoon and a gumbo and po' boy dinner, Simon explains why.
Q: You've said Treme is not The Wire set in New Orleans. But it is a similar kind of animal. It's a many-sided, many-charactered, novelistic examination of a badly damaged American city. Is there a common theme between them?
David Simon: Well, in terms of governance or institutions, the New Orleans of Treme may be as problematic as the Baltimore of The Wire. Even more so, because 80 percent of it went under water a short time before. So, it's clearly the same backdrop. But it's saying something different using that backdrop.
This show, if we do it right, is an argument for the city. For the idea of American urbanity, for the melting pot, for the idea that our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future.
I listened during the last election cycle to the rhetoric about small town values and where the real Americans live. I thought to myself, "I've never heard such bullshit in my life." Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.
Q: You wrote once that The Wire was "ruminations on the end of empire. What it's like for a society to no longer have the will to pull itself, as a whole, as a single entity, forward. That's a recipe for the disenfranchisement of significant portions of the country." That sounds like it could apply just as easily to New Orleans as to Baltimore.
Simon: Yeah, it can. One thing we're trying to show is the lack of political and social will to help New Orleans. People here felt alone after the storm. Entirely alone. Alienated not just from Washington or the rest of the country but the rest of the state. We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.
But what brought this city back has been culture: an unyielding unwillingness to part with the living tradition that is life in New Orleans. One crawfish etouffe, one saxophone solo at a time, the city is coming back. Before the storm, 77 percent of the people who lived here were born here. In the transient state that is modern America, that's a remarkable statistic. It speaks to the fact that people who are from here can't imagine living their life anywhere else. There's so many reasons not to be here. The crime is rampant. The police department is as dysfunctional as any in the country. The school system's among the worst in America. The infrastructure.... Have you seen these potholes?
Q: They're very impressive.
Simon: This is what happens when you have no tax base. Corruption is endemic. Yet, people came home and they continue to come home. This city comes back because it's New Orleans.
The rest of America, with some small exceptions, has been bulldozed and rebuilt and then bulldozed and rebuilt again. Our places have become interchangeable. Here, everything from the architecture to the way in which people eat, the way in which they talk, the way in which they do business, the way in which they dance, the manner in which everything is set to a parade beat, they're all from here. There's no place like it.
What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export.
Q: Greatest in what sense?
Simon: In an empirical sense. What else would you compare to it?
Q: Movies and TV.
Simon: That's not ours. The Germans invented that.
Q: Maybe they invented film, but Hollywood movies are one of the most ubiquitous cultural products in the world.
Simon: Listen, we didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened anywhere. It's not distinctly American, as witnessed by the fact that there are film communities throughout the world that tell stories to their own cultural liking. Blue jeans have gone around the world. But that's a product. We market blue jeans better, just as we market film better. But you can't tell me that if America didn't exist, the culture of movies wouldn't exist. It's not a distinctly American art form.
But African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll. If you go into a bar or a shebeen or a tavern anywhere in the world, Timbuktu, London, Ouagadougou, Johannesburg, anywhere you go, if they have a jukebox there will be American music. This is the cradle of it. This is where it happened, Congo Square, the Tremé neighborhood. The marriage of the West African pentatonic scale and rhythm to European arrangement and instrumentation happened in eight square blocks of this city and was nurtured in this city and is still nurtured in this city as a living tradition. That represents, without a doubt, the greatest truly American cultural contribution.
Q: Another theme that crops up a lot in Treme is authenticity -- who belongs here, who doesn't, who's really from New Orleans, who isn't. What are you trying to say with all that?
Simon: It's a form of patriotism. That is the patriotism that was once reserved for the nation-state. Where immigrant families would compete against other immigrant families over who had been here the longest and who was the most invested. That was when the identification with the American ideal and the American collective seemed not only utterly desirable but essential. Because America, in turn, was identifying with the collective, with every class. It wasn't as if the rich weren't going to get richer; it wasn't as if the poor didn't have a harder life. But everybody, certainly from the time of the New Deal, believed in the ideal that we were all in this together. Or at least enough people believed it that we bought into that notion that the poor and the middle class and the rich were all invested in the same collective outcome. Nobody was going to get there on their own.
It was a time before gated communities. It was a time before charter schools. It was a time before capital had won a complete victory over labor. Before globalization. When you believed your tomorrow might be better than your today, even if it was only going to be marginally better, or even if it was your kids that were going to have it better. If you were invested, and if you got up, dragged your ass to work every day, there was going to be a place for you. When that held, patriotism couldn't be made to seem naive. Belief in the nation-state was plausible.
In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism. An insistence on belonging in this nation-state -- New Orleans. People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."
Q: How does working as a writer of fictional TV narratives compare to that of being a journalist?
Simon: More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so. I wrote a book (The Corner) that was a very deliberate critique of the drug war. Because it was made into a miniseries, I may have sold a couple hundred thousand of them so far in a country of 300 million.
By comparison, over time, with DVD sales and re-watch and whatever, maybe ten million people have seen the television version of The Corner. Maybe twenty million people have seen The Wire.
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which you can deliver very complicated, nuanced explanations of problems and possible solutions.
A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can. But if I can make you care about a character, I may make you think a little longer about certain dynamics that might cause you to reconsider your own political inertia or your own political myopia. You might be more willing to accept a critique of the prevailing political and social systems. Or not. Because a lot of times The Wire was entertaining just because it was entertaining, and people watched it and they got no political message whatsoever. Or it reaffirmed their belief that "they're in the ghetto because they deserve it."
The best I can hope for is that I might provoke a water cooler argument between you and somebody else. But it is not journalism. It doesn't have the rigor of journalism. It doesn't have the proof positive that facts provide. So it can be readily dismissed as mere propaganda. But I can certainly reach more people.
Q: You're a guy who wants to make a difference. You want to have an impact ...
Simon: I'm a socialist. I'm not a Marxist, but I am a socialist. You hear these sons of bitches invoke socialism to suggest that we shouldn't have an actuarial group of 300 million people and keep all of us a little more healthy by sharing. It's a thoughtless triumph of ignorance.
Both parties fear telling the truth. The collapse of all democratic integrity over taxes is near complete. I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under Eisenhower. Do people think America wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under Eisenhower in the '50s? Nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "We're taxing ourselves into oblivion." Yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. It's been purchased.
But the thing about Treme or even The Wire is that at no point can the characters say the kind of shit that I'm saying to you because no characters would. You've got to love your characters for who they are. Antoine Batiste, he's a musician. He's thinking about where the next gig is, and pussy. And not necessarily in that order.
Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Harper's, Wired, and many other publications.
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The beauty and the tragedy of everyday life in a war zone.
By Wendell Berry
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Listen to carrion—put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come. Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry is a poet, farmer, and environmentalist in Kentucky. This poem, first published in 1973, is reprinted by permission of the author and appears in his "New Collected Poems" (Counterpoint).


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After 10 years of trying and being told we couldn't have children, I got pregnant. Our daughter, Savannah, was born on May 21st, about three months early. She's doing really well, and I've been pumping every two hours (every four at night) for the last two weeks. I've been given a prescription of Reglan, and I'm still producing very very little.
My milk increased to nearly 5 ml (a HUGE leap, pathetic as that sounds!) just before and just after I got to hold her for the first time, outside of her incubator, but unfortunately, this is still something I can only do occasionally (just the one time, the other day, so far).
I've heard people recommend to drink a beer, which might help with let down (which I don't want to do for obvious reasons, plus I hate it), I've heard people say to take a bubble bath, which I can't do for another four weeks because she arrived by emergency C-section.
Can anyone recommend something else? I'm desperate to increase my milk supply, as they're now increasing her feedings by 1/2 a CC every 12 hours.
Please help! I've got enough things to worry about and cry about, without feeling sorry for myself that I'm not producing enough milk to feed my baby!


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- Corn, soybean prices: Has mission been accomplished?
- Further slowdown in global demand
Prices needed to be high enough to ensure an increase in corn acreage and maintain soybean acreage at the 2010 level.
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In our newsletter of Jan. 18, it was suggested that corn and soybean prices had the dual objectives of allocating old crop supplies so as to maintain pipeline supplies at the end of the year and directing spring planting decisions.
Specifically, prices needed to ensure an increase in corn acreage and to maintain soybean acreage at the 2010 level.
For soybeans, the declining pace of both the domestic crush and exports, along with the prospects for a large increase in double-cropped acreage in 2011, suggested that soybean prices had increased enough by mid-January to accomplish the dual price objectives. That conclusion was reinforced by the improving condition of the Brazilian soybean crop and prospects for a record harvest in 2011.
The USDA confirmed prospects for a record large Brazilian soybean crop earlier this month. Soybean prices increased another $.40 from Jan. 18 to the peak on Feb. 9. Since then, May 2011 soybean futures have declined about $1.30. The decline in November 2011 futures has been only slightly less.
For corn, the conclusion in mid-January was that prices would need to remain very strong to slow the pace of consumption and to motivate a large increase in planted acreage. May 2011 corn futures increased nearly $.60 from Jan. 18 to the peak on March 4.
December 2011 futures increased about $.40 to the much earlier peak on Feb. 11. Corn prices have declined sharply since early March and are now back to the level of mid-January. The rapid decline suggests the market believes that corn prices have accomplished their objectives.
The likelihood that old crop consumption has been slowed enough comes from two perspectives.
First is the macro-perspective. Recent world events are seen as a threat to the fragile economic recovery that is under way. Political unrest in North Africa and the Middle East has pushed crude oil and gasoline prices nearly 15 percent higher in the past month. Those higher prices could slow economic growth and curb commodity demand, including demand for agricultural commodities.


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Hey guys, hope you had a lovely long weekend! My DIY workshop at Ikea Houston this past Saturday went really well, and a big thanks to all of you who came out! I'll be posting a recap of some of the projects and questions from the event later this week.
I've currently spent the last two days feverishly packaging my business cards and outfits for Alt Summit which starts tomorrow, yikes! Are any of you headed to Alt, too? Let me know so we can meet up! Oh, and remember this post? I'll be teaching a jewelry making class on Saturday that's based around that project, which I'm pretty excited about.
Last thing for now, the lovely ladies over at Brika graciously asked me to be their Tastemaker for the week! Brika is an online store for small-businesses and artisans (which you all know is right up my alley), and I've chosen some of my favorite makers and pieces for you to check out. Let me know what you think!


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Give it a couple of hours.ReplyCancel
Oh are you cold? Its 50 degrees where I am and will be 80 again by Friday (worth every penny this cost me too, not to mention throwing my life away)ReplyCancel
So I basically got fired on Sunday. Fuck my life. It's hard to fine a job nowadays.ReplyCancel
It is very very cold in Toronto…but luckily not a snow storm. Some of us did go without power for almost a week (not myself but close friends) over the holidays including Christmas.
Anyone watch Chelsea Handler last night? Enty is right—she needs rehab ASAP! She was so wired it was uncomfortable to watch. On the plus side she interviewed Kristen Bell whom I never knew was so funny and articulate.
how that sucks @Snap–what did you do to get fired?ReplyCancel
@derek They are letting people go. Unfortunately, I was one of them.ReplyCancel
Sorry Dragon, I once got canned from a job five days before Christmas . Firings this tine of year seem a bit cruelerReplyCancel
sorry to hear that—just get out there and apply apply apply—aint gonna find a job here…trust me I know lol—I work part-time and am finishing the 2 credits in school I failed. Do u live in a big city with job opportunities?ReplyCancel
Sorry @Dragon! Hope you find a new one soon.
It's 15 degrees here. 🙁ReplyCancel
will for sure—was never a fan. never hated her-she was just never in my radar but she is funny and seems down-to-earth. speaking of Ferguson have you ever seen him interview Brittany Murphy–yikes. Kinda sad but entertaining in an uncomfortable Anna Nicole train-wreck sorta way….ReplyCancel
Dunno about porn, but within a few months, it's going to be a Syfy Original TV Movie involving airborne sharks.ReplyCancel
OMG @Derek You HAVE to youtube Bell on Ellen with the sloth! Have to!ReplyCancel
Thanks guys.ReplyCancel
Awww, hugs to you my dear @dragon.ReplyCancel
@lotta *hugs*ReplyCancel
@Reno kk will for sure—nothing on tv these days so youtubing Kristen interviews sounds like a planReplyCancel
This winter weather we're having in SoCal almost makes the summer temps worth it.ReplyCancel
Everybody Dance Now da da da da duhReplyCancel
If Paris Hilton agrees to star, it could be Pole Her Valtrex.ReplyCancel
So close! Sandyboo beat me to it! Gonna make you sweat till you…100 percent, puuuure blove
I was gonna say; Polar Vortex sounds exactly like a Canadian porn, just working on the tagline and traditional stilted dialogue. A good friend came up with the BEST canporn movie name ever:
Canadian Key Party: Where It's All A Horrible MisunderstandingReplyCancel
@dragon, We should really start up that crime unit we've been talking about…ReplyCancel
@sugar lol sure would. Thanks *hugs*ReplyCancel
@Dragon Bet lolReplyCancel
Tough @Dragon, best of luck and may you find something soon.
Can't the government move the end of fiscal year to a more neutral time of the year so the layoffs and firing don't happen during the holidays? Sheesh.
The name might as well be porn title with all the people that are staying locked up. It was -19 all morning where I'm at, but the wind is the worst of it all.ReplyCancel
My area has hit a record low today, woo hoo.
If one needs to warm up think of places in Australia hitting 50 degrees, Celsius, it's the new high over there, throw in the humidity might just as well wear a bathing suit all day long or nothingReplyCancel
Try Googling "Pole Her Vortex" that might turn up some results. Or cut to the chase and Google "Eskimo Porn". I have never seen Eskimo porn. Usually when I'm thinking of Winter Wonderlands, I can turn up some Hi Def Euro Barely Legals fooling around naked in the snow.
How come Frosty pulled his pants down? He heard the Snow Blower coming.
What is the difference between Snow Men and Snow Women? Snowballs.
Lindsay Lohan was standing around, while a mechanic checked out her snowmobile. He walks up to her and says, "Looks like you blew a seal." She wipes her chin and says, "No, a coke dealer. If you can get that think running and hold one still, I'll blow a seal. I don't have any cash on me."ReplyCancel
I'm the midst of a snowstorm, the power just came back on, simultaneously I realized that I have a terrible cold and must medicate with Benadryl and whiskey.
@Dragon, lousy for you, hang tight!
Imaging Eskimo porn, I think it differs from the realism of Inuit porn, which I prefer.ReplyCancel
@Kimba I read that as Intuit porn. HA. Is that when QuickBooks dominates a CPA?ReplyCancel
Damn Dragon, that sucks. I agree with sugar, just let your name get out on the market…positive thoughts your way..ReplyCancel
I did the google. Eskimo porn isn't all that aesthetically pleasing.ReplyCancel


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1993 NCAA Div. III champions
CEDAR RAPIDS—The Central College women's basketball team charged back from a 19-point deficit in the final minutes of the game, but a late push carried Coe College past the Dutch 62-47 Saturday.
Central (9-12 overall, 1-9 conference) maintained just a 31.3 percent shooting percentage, but the Dutch went on a 10-0 run, cutting Coe's (12-9 overall, 7-3 conference) lead to just nine points with 2:40 remaining.
"Coming out in the second half, we were extremely aggressive and did a nice job of attacking the rim, knocking down shots and getting second chance opportunities off of offensive rebounds," said coach Chelsea Petersen. "I thought there were noticeable improvements and adjustments made from Wednesday's loss."
Although Central lost the rebound battle, 34-23, the team forced 18 Kohawk turnovers. The Dutch were hard pressed to recover from Coe's first half shooting percentage of 63.6 percent. Overall, Coe shot 50 percent from the field and 40 percent from long range.
"Coe came out and shot very well," Petersen said. "When a team shoots over 60 percent for a half, it is very difficult to take the lead."
The Dutch were led by offensive and defensive threat Rachel Evans (guard, junior, Fort Dodge). Evans scored 12 points, had a game-high eight rebounds, one assist and five steals.
"Rachel had a phenomenal game," Petersen said. "Her defensive intensity really energized her teammates."
Guard Kenzie Vander Molen (junior, Pella) took the game-high scoring title with 16 points. Guard Courtney Kelderman (senior, Pella) had 11 points and four rebounds. Guard Emily Neff (freshman, Cedar Falls) contributed six points.
"Kenzie did a great job of controlling the pace of the game, getting to the rim and knocking down free throws," said Petersen. "Courtney worked really hard and did well hitting her shots and Emily attached and got to the rim for some great drives."
The Dutch face Buena Vista in a women's-men's doubleheader beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the P.H. Kuyper Gymnasium. Buena Vista (10-11 overall, 4-6 conference) defeated Central in their Jan. 25 matchup, 83-79.
"We have a great opportunity for a home win on Wednesday night," Petersen said. "The team looks forward to improving in practice on Monday and Tuesday."


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FREE THE GRAPES!!! We Need Your Help – Stop H.R. 5034:
As most of you know, South Coast Winery rarely gets involved in talking politics – that is, until something as important as H.R. 5034 comes along and threatens your rights to receive and enjoy your favorite South Coast Winery wines in the comfort of your homes.
Last week we included an article in our eNewsletter that has generated so much feedback from our readers, we immediately knew we had to give you more information to empower you to make an informed decision and help us STOP this special–interest legislation.
Wine Institute states, "H.R. 5034, initiated and promoted by the National Beer Wholesalers Association and supported by the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, seeks to allow wholesalers to pass anti–competitive, discriminatory state laws dealing with wine, beer and spirits. Wine Institute strongly opposes this ill–conceived effort to give wholesalers the ability to create and perpetuate an environment of discrimination and inequality."
In summary, if H.R. 5034 were to pass, it would:
•Allow wholesalers to pass discriminatory state laws eliminating licensed, regulated direct-to-consumer wine shipments
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A: Hands down, the beer and wine wholesalers associations would be the only winners here. Among other impacts, H.R. 5034 would likely restrict or eliminate out–of–state winery direct shipping, so you lose your ability to buy wine directly from your favorite winery or merchant at a fair price while more money gets added to the wholesaler middlemen's pockets.
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Name is ready for birth of Barclays prop spin-out
A Barclays proprietary trading team that is set to spin out from the British bank this year is to be named Squarepoint, Financial News has learnt.
It is still in talks on the size of the assets it will manage. Barclays will not invest with the firm nor take an equity stake, a person familiar with the situation said.
Squarepoint will be formed from nQuants, the unit set up in 2000 by Gregoire Schneider and Olivier Durantel at Lehman Brothers and bought by Barclays after the collapse of the US bank. nQuants uses its own capital to employ systematic trading strategies, mainly in equities. This is a form of computer-based trading based on trends identified through technical analysis of market and economic data.
Squarepoint will take a similar approach and will have around 60 staff with offices in London, Paris, Zurich, New York, Tokyo and Singapore, the person said.
The division is part of Barclays' non-core assets, which the lender said in May that it plans to sell or wind down, Bloomberg reported.
However, the spin-out of the nQuants unit has been planned for a number of years, the person said. A Barclays spokesman declined to comment.
Squarepoint Capital LLP was established in May and its directors include Maxime Fortin, Thibaut Bondoux and Schneider, all traders within the nQuants unit.


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I'm just a flatlander, a New York City dweller, residing mostly on the island of Manhattan. Every couple-a-few weeks or so, I venture up to the most beautiful Callicoon on Delaware. My life partner and I vacation on the PA side of Callicoon, a river beach plot with River Road running through the property. It's just a small cottage with a humble parcel of land. Our neighbor, Seth, has noticed one of our small contributions to the ecology of the area.
The following is from an email conversation along with a request from yours truly, part-time resident of Damascus' River Road… to the hard driving people (much respect) living and driving cars on all the river roads….
Don Garland
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Subject: Hello from Seth: turtle eggs
Sent: Sun, Jun 30, 2013, 5:59 p.m.
Hi Gail and Don,
As I was pulling out of my driveway last Friday morning, I look to the left and see a big turtle (snapping, maybe 10 to 15 pounds) sitting in your yard, between your driveway and the first of those two pine trees... maybe eight feet or less from the road. Stupid turtle, right?
Well, I go call Rose and we both look at it; we wonder what to do. I think, well, maybe I could carry it straight back towards your house beyond the creek. That way maybe it won't march into the path of the pickups and SUVs. So I do that (holding it straight out from me, the poor thing was helpless, snapping its head back and forth). But as I do that, Rose yells that it had been sitting on a hole it dug, filled with marble sized eggs.
So, I gently set it back down where it was, apologize to "Mrs. Turtle," and we leave it alone…. Rose later took a photo of the hole, turtle no longer in sight (apparently eggs left partly uncovered, deep in the hole)….
Rose looked up some info; apparently no way to safely move the eggs or dig up the hole without killing them. I think she said she read they hatch in 10 to 18 days. (I gotta look up info myself.) Anyway… obviously nothing we can do right now... but I was wondering if maybe you can contact your lawn mower guy and ask him to not mow around the hole, or skip a week or something? At least try to not kill them with his big mower and weed whacker.
Maybe it won't make any difference; maybe it's already too late?
But I've seen baby turtle hatchlings cross that road a couple times in past years and they are pretty cool and cute (and almost all of them got smashed by cars and eaten by birds before I found them.) But one year I was able to save about six and put them by the river, which they then crawled into. (They always seem intent about crossing the road, heading down the embankment to the river.) They don't know nuthing about human roads.
That's all I can say right now... I can pass some news/instructions on to Rose, if you have any ideas.
Reply sent on 7/2/13, 5:52 p.m.
DG wrote: Seth and Rose, I can only say wow, and this is a problem. We need a sign for turtle migration—1/8 mile per hour. It seems like a crass joke, but maybe a sign will help somewhat. Most people in PA are careful types. Then there is those disconnected people that would rather have target practice. Mom turtle picked a bad spot, sadly.


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The Queen's Medical Center and St. Francis Healthcare officially came to an agreement on the sale of the former HMC facility in Ewa.
A spokesperson for Queen's says it will close on the deal this October and open in the fall of next year.
"The Queen's Medical Center is pleased to have the opportunity to serve the West Oahu campus," said Queen's Health Systems Communications Director Cedric Yamanaka.
Queen's says it will reopen the emergency room and plans to add more services to cater to the Leeward Oahu community.
Yamanaka says the hospital will invest more than $50 million in renovations and upgrades to the facility that's been vacant for more than eight months.
"We want to upgrade the imaging facilities there," said Yamanaka. "We want to upgrade the surgical suites and emergency services there."
When Hawaii Medical Center shut down its Liliha and Ewa facilities, more than a 1,000 people were laid off. Queen's says it will initially hire 400 positions and possibly more once the hospital is fully operational.
The city's Emergency Medical Services Director Dr. James Ireland says reopening the Ewa facility won't just impact Leeward Oahu but have an impact islandwide.
"It's not just going to impact the health care in West Oahu but the other hospitals as well because there's overcrowding at the other hospitals," said Dr. Ireland.
St. Francis says it couldn't comment on the details of the transaction.
But, it says once the sale is complete, it will not oversee the operations of the hospital but continue to run its hospice care and non-hospital related facilities islandwide.
According to its filing with the State Health Planning Agency, Queen's is spending more $73 million to buy and renovate the Ewa medical center.