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Virginia's Historic Charlottesville
On your approach to Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, you'll gaze down on one of America's most historic landscapes, where gardens, vineyards and venerable country estates dot rolling hills and woodlands. On one hilltop, you'll spot an elegant, white-domed Palladian villa that mysteriously arrived from northern Italy and materialized here in the hills of central Virginia. That will be Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's beloved estate, where he lived from 1770 until his death in 1826, through a career as author of the Declaration of Independence, secretary of state, minister to France and third president of the U.S. And, as you'll soon discover, Charlottesville remains Jefferson's town; his influence continues to set the style and pace for this small, graceful city with a countryside drenched in culture and history.
Start your visit to Charlottesville on the University of Virginia campus, the Academical Village that Jefferson founded and designed in 1819. Wander along The Lawn, a grassy esplanade flanked by the columned student and faculty residences of Jefferson's original campus. Presiding over The Lawn is the stately, white-domed Rotunda, which once housed the university library and lecture halls. Modeled after Rome's Pantheon, it has been recognized, along with Monticello, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, putting it in the same category as such other international treasures as the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China.
Take a few minutes to explore the historic walled gardens behind each pavilion, then head to the nearby University Art Museum, a trove of everything from Asian art to French modernists. Afterward, follow Main Street to the city's Downtown Mall, once the town's traditional business district, but now a bustling, tree-lined pedestrian island with al fresco cafés, local artisans selling their wares and early 20th century storefronts hosting trendy 21st century boutiques, restaurants and galleries.
Although the Mall has enough shops to keep you and your plastic fully occupied, don't miss Caspari, the only U.S. branch of the Parisian boutique famed for its stylish paper products and hyper-fashionable housewares, and the Signet Gallery, with its vibrant mix of posh jewelry and gifts. The Mall also boasts a lively collection of contemporary art galleries, including the Sage Moon, where you'll find an eclectic assortment of artists and artisanry from Toledo to Tuscany, and Les Yeux du Monde, with works by local and international artists. Book lovers will want to poke through browse-worthy bookshops like Daedalus and Read it Again, Sam. And since this is the heart of Virginia wine country, a visit to Tastings for an introduction to the area's top vintages is mandatory.
Next you'll want to drive through the hills above Charlottesville to pay your respects to Mr. Jefferson at Monticello, which features abundant evidence of his towering intellect-his collections of books and scientific instruments, his personally designed furniture, the dumbwaiter (which he invented) and even the classic architecture of the mansion itself. After your tour, stop by the house's South Garden and vineyard. That's where Jefferson-convinced that Virginia could produce wines as fine as those he loved in France-planted America's first European vines, prompting Nathan Hale to grumble that his fellow revolutionary had returned from Paris so "Frenchified" that he had "abjured his native victuals."
Working from Jefferson's exhaustive household records and his Garden Book, horticulturalists have painstakingly restored his 1807 vineyard, the first terroir of American wine, where vines twined around split-rail trellises overlook the serene panorama of wooded hills and tidy farms that reminded Jefferson of Burgundy. "Jefferson's vineyard made Monticello the birthplace of modern American winemaking," said Gabriele Rausse, Monticello's current winemaker and its assistant director of gardens and grounds. "It's also a perfect example of the Virginia wine country's ancient roots in American history and of Charlottesville's enviable lifestyle."
Although Virginia winemaking still goes hand in hand with America's past, contemporary techniques and attitudes have radically changed the way vintners view their craft and brought a new excellence and even international recognition to the state's wines. Do your own field testing by sampling a silky Petit Verdot or a citrusy Viognier and other terrific 21st century Virginia wines at Jefferson Vineyards, just down the Thomas Jefferson Parkway from Monticello.
You'll then follow Route 53 to another Presidential home, Ash Lawn-Highland, the often-overlooked estate of James Monroe, who purchased this plantation property in 1793 to be near his friend Jefferson. There's a time-warp feel to Monroe's house, where a dining room table surrounded by chairs from his White House is set as if awaiting his return, perhaps from a visit to Monticello. And in the Presidential drawing room, the cabinets, clock and chairs imported from Napoleon's France reflect Monroe's galloping Francophilia, a souvenir of his days as the American minister in Paris.
To call on the area's third President and visit another top winery, follow state Route 20, one of those back roads that mark the difference between mere driving and motoring, past the imposing homes and manicured pastures of Virginia's tony horse country, to Montpelier, the stately residence of James and Dolley Madison. During your tour of Montpelier you'll see Madison's impressive drawing room, with its Gilbert Stuart portraits of the Founding Fathers, and the meticulous archeological sleuthing that is guiding the estate's ongoing restoration. The tour ends in Montpelier's library, where Madison drafted what became the U.S. Constitution.
A few minutes away, you'll enter Barboursville Vineyards and Historic Ruins, a unique enclave dedicated to fine living and great wines. Start out in the tasting room by sampling some of Italian winemaker Luca Paschina's vintages, especially the opulent Cabernet Franc Reserve. The "Historic Ruins" in Barboursville's name are the remains of the 1814 plantation home of Governor James Barbour, a close friend of Jefferson, who designed the house for him. Fire gutted the house in 1884 and it was never rebuilt; only the massive columns and walls, which appear on every Barboursville label, were spared.
Adjoining the ruins, visitors live an elegant lifestyle amid antiques and oil paintings in the five luminous cottages and suites that comprise Barboursville's 1804 Inn. In Barboursville's five-star Palladio restaurant, which features northern Italian cuisine, open a bottle of Octagon, a sumptuous blend of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot, and ponder Jefferson's remark after planting his vineyard: "By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt." That's saying a lot, especially these days.
Traveler Report Card
Accommodations (A+): Charlottesville itself offers a full range of lodging options, including many well-known hotel chains. In the hills around the city, you'll find high-end country inns and resorts, many with health spas and exercise facilities.
Food (A+): For a small city, Charlottesville has a surprisingly cosmopolitan array of excellent restaurants, serving everything from French to fusion. Of course, you can
also find classic Southern dishes such as black-eyed peas and fried chicken.
Activities (A): Wine tasting and vineyard touring are high on the list. But Charlottesville also has trails for hiking and biking, including the Saunders-Monticello Trail, which begins near the visitor center at Monticello. In the Blue Ridge Mountains, about a half-hour est of town, you'll find even more challenging hikes, while the Blue Ridge Parkway is perfect for a sightseeing drive, especially for autumn-leaf peeping. There are plenty of fishing, canoeing and kayaking possibilities on the nearby James River.
Quietude (A): In town, the atmosphere is low key, relaxed and never noisy.
If you stay outside Charlottesville, you'll find so much silence and serenity you'll almost be able to hear the grapes grow.
Traveler Fast Facts:
What it is: A town of 40,000 steeped in American history. Perched in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville is the home of the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, who lived at nearby Monticello, his hilltop estate.
Where it is: In central Virginia, 100 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., and 60 miles northwest of Richmond, Va.
Ambiance: Although it was one of colonial America's earliest political and intellectual centers, Charlottesville is no period piece. As the home of a prominent and historic university, it has a lively, college-town feel. And even after 300 years, Jefferson's legacy of elegance, fine living and academic achievement lives on in Charlottesville's mellow, distinctly Southern lifestyle.
History: In Colonial times, Charlottesville's fertile lands and equable climate attracted tobacco growers, followed by landed gentry who established large plantations. The most influential of these was Jefferson, who used his estate as a showcase for his inventions and his agricultural experiments with fruits, vegetables and grapes. Although Jefferson's winemaking attempt failed when disease devastated his vines in 1807, Charlottesville is today the center of a thriving wine district.
Flying In: Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO), eight miles north of town, has a 6,001-foot runway and jet-A fuel. For more information, visit www.gocho.com. Landmark Aviation (434-978-1474, www.landmarkaviation.com) furnishes ground support.
Where to Stay
Boar's Head Inn, actually a 573-acre estate, has a championship golf course, tennis courts and a spa. Lodging runs $166 to $575 per night. (434) 296-2181, www.boarsheadinn.com.
Clifton Inn is the white-pillared and now hyper-chic mansion Jefferson visited when it was his daughter's estate. Clifton's 18 rooms and suites run $365 to $695 per night. (434) 971-1800, www.cliftoninn.net.
Keswick Hall is an exquisitely furnished English manor house with a world-class
spa and golf course. Lodging costs $375 to $975 a night. (888) 778-2565, www.keswick.com.
Omni Charlottesville is on the downtown pedestrian mall. Lodging is in the $200 to $300 range. (434) 971-5500, www.omnihotels.com.
200 South Street Inn, a centrally located and charming B&B with 19 rooms, charges $160 to $320 per night. (434) 979-0200, www.southstreetinn.com.
Where to Dine
Bizou is an unassuming diner-bistro on the pedestrian mall where the chef serves up refined down-home cooking. (434) 977-1818, www.pursuecharlottesville.com/dining.
C&O Restaurant, just off the mall, gets raves for its French and American dishes. (434) 971-7044, www.candorestaurant.com.
Hamilton's, also on the mall, offers top-notch American comfort food amid a lively vibe. (434) 295-6649, www.Hamiltonsrestaurant.com.
The Kluge Estate Farm Shop is an elegantly stocked Parisian food hall where chefs prepare dishes like salmon rillette and sorrel vichyssoise, along with sumptuous desserts. Carry your "take out" to tables set under towering oaks for a memorable picnic. Kluge also offers winery tours by appointment. (434) 984-4855, www.Klugeestate.com.
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Oughton, Gruenebaum Moving On
The Columbus Dispatch - February 20, 2014 08:11 AM
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – When he was with the Crew, Duncan Oughton was a man of many jobs. Part assistant coach, part assistant technical director and part broadcaster, the New Zealand international and former Crew player kept busy in Columbus.
Now as he enters his first full season with Toronto, Oughton wears just one hat: that of an assistant coach. But after watching his former team defeat his new team 3-1 in the first game of the Disney Pro Soccer Classic, the short-haired Oughton said it's one that fits just fine.
"It's good because I can focus and really put all my effort into that, whereas before I had to put my full time into coaching, my full time into TV, my full time into assistant technical director so you never really get to be full-time in anything," he said. "You get spread pretty thin. It was good, learning a lot of different stuff, but it was hard as well. Now I can just focus on that and learn a lot within that field, which is good."
It's obviously been a busy offseason for Toronto, which inked a trio of new designated players highlighted by the game-changing – at least by Major League Soccer financial standards – signings of Jermain Defoe and Michael Bradley. It's part of a plan that Oughton said was at least partially outlined to him by Toronto head coach Ryan Nelson before he opted to leave the Crew.
"He had these plans to bring in certain pieces and do certain things in the offseason," Oughton said. "Occasionally you get a few extra pieces thrown in or a few curveballs here and there but it feels good at the moment. We've just got to get everyone in at the moment and get everyone on the same page, fitness-wise and playing wise. That's obviously the plan at the moment."
Oughton said it was not hard to buy into Nelson's vision because "If you've been up to Toronto and seen the city and the facilities, seen the opportunity, it's definitely there. It makes it more realistic than someone saying they're going to build Rome in a day and you're sitting in an empty field."
Defoe will join the club once he finishes out his contract with Tottenham Hotspur F.C. on Feb. 28.
Now after taking up residence near or at the bottom of the standings since joining the league, Toronto has suddenly become the most talked-about club in MLS. As a coaching staff, however, Oughton said he does not feel any added pressure.
"The fans up there deserve to see that type of player, that caliber of player, and they deserve a team to love up there," he said. "There would be pressure whether or not we had guys coming in. As a staff, there's always pressure. If it didn't' go well, you weren't going to have a job soon enough. Of course there's pressure, but that's what you live for. If there was no pressure it wouldn't be as much fun, would it?"
Moving on
As the Crew celebrated its win against Toronto, a familiar face was in the hallways near the locker rooms at the ESPN Wide World of Sports.
Andy Gruenebaum, the Crew's opening-day starting goalkeeper in each of the last two seasons, was on hand with his new club. Sporting Kansas City played New York immediately after the Crew-Toronto game, and although Gruenebaum did not dress for the game with the staff giving No. 1 goalkeeper Eric Kronberg the nod, he said he is appreciative for the opportunity with the club.
It's not too dissimilar to what he experienced during the first six years of his Crew career, where he was the backup to William Hesmer before earning his shot.
"Obviously you want to play," Gruenebaum said. "Playing behind Will for a while and the ups and downs that brings, it's tough in a sense. They were very straightforward with me (in Kansas City). Like myself in Columbus, Kronberg had been with Kansas City for a long time and like myself they felt like he deserved an opportunity like I was given. Our paths were a little bit different, but to be honest and open about it and the way they handled it makes me impressed and want to compete more. Obviously I want to push him. We have a great working relationship."
Gruenebaum and his wife are both natives of the Kansas City area. The two are closing on a house in nine days, Gruenebaum said, thanks in no small part to the fact that his mother is a realtor in the area.
Although he had planned to finish his MLS career with the Crew, Gruenebaum said the chance to join his hometown team was too much to pass up. Conversations began after Kansas City won MLS Cup, he said.
"Even then it was like, 'OK, it's got to be on the table,' " Gruenebaum said. "(Jimmy) Nielsen announced his retirement. I didn't want to step on any toes in that regard because he established himself as a legend in Kansas City and it's really tough to move past that. It's the nature of the business. We made contact and obviously we were interested and they were and we worked something out."
Gruenebaum said he spoke with new Crew coach and sporting director Gregg Berhalter several times about his future but in the end both sides decided it was better for him to move on.
"I think the way he handled it in the end was respectable and he gave me the option," Gruenebaum said. "I think he had maybe a couple places he could've shipped me to. In the end, he was a man of his word. I definitely respect that. Sometimes a change of scenery is a good thing.
And as for the new era the Crew is embarking on, Gruenebaum said, "Sometimes change is good. I'm sure the new air that's flowing through the organization has to be a good thing. Time will tell in the end, but it's totally different and I can't really make a statement on it because I can only compare what I experienced. It's a totally different experience. All the guys on the squad that I know are great guys and I have long-lasting relationships with them.
"I want to see them do well, except when they play us."

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E3 2013 Highlights
I'm the wrong person to cover E3. I loathe it. True, I'm a gamer of the 1st degree, but being a E3 has nothing to with being a gamer. It has everything to do with the shouty, misogynistic, terrified-of-the-new, big-business industry of gaming.
Also, I fraking hate crowds of aimlessly wandering people. Haaaaaaaate.
That said, this year was less horrible than year's past. Here are some pictures and highlights.
Gran Turismo 6
I LOVED this game when I played it the first time, back when it was called Gran Turismo 5. This "new" version looks a loooot like 5. I'm sure it will be shiny and new and blah blah blah whatever I'm going to buy it so who cares.
Battlefield 4
I've written a ton about BF3, as it was flat out awesome. Like GT6 I'll be buying this one at launch no matter what, so I really haven't paid any attention to it. This video makes 4 look awesome.
DayZ standalone
The DayZ mod was one of the most creative and unique gaming experiences of recent memory. The long-awaited standalone version looks a lot more polished.


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Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Chief, Breast Imaging
Research Organizations
Radiology & Biomedical Imaging: Breast Imaging | Clinical Radiology
Extensive Research Description
Breast Tomosynthesis
Synthesized (C-View) mammography
Screening Breats Ultrasound
Selected Publications
- Melissa A. Durand, MD, Brian M. Haas, MD, Xiaopan Yao, PhD, Jaime L. Geisel, MD, Madhavi Raghu, MD, Regina J. Hooley, MD, Laura J. Horvath, MD, Liane E. Philpotts, MD. Early Clinical Experience with Digital Breast Tomosynthesis for Screening Mammography. Radiology, published ahead of print. Sept. 2014.
- Geisel, Jaime L., and Liane E. Philpotts. "Breast Tomosynthesis: a Replacement or an Adjunct to Conventional Diagnostic Mammography?."Current Breast Cancer Reports (2014): 1-6.
- Rafferty EA, Park JM, Philpotts LE, Poplack SP, Sumkin JH, Halpern EF, Niklason LT. Diagnostic accuracy and recall rates for digital mammography and digital mammography combined with one-view and two-view tomosynthesis: results of an enriched reader study. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2014 Feb;202(2):273-81
- Haas BM, Kalra V, Geisel J, Raghu M, Durand M, Philpotts LE. Comparison of Tomosynthesis Plus Digital Mammography and Digital Mammography Alone for Breast Cancer Screening. Radiology, 2013 Dec; 269: 694-700.
- Columnar Epithelium with Apocrine Snouts and Secretions (CAPSS) in Breast Biopsies: Correlation with Mammographic and Associated Histologic Findings Philpotts LE, Lee C, Tocino I, Columnar Epithelium with Apocrine Snouts and Secretions (CAPSS) in Breast Biopsies: Correlation with Mammographic and Associated Histologic Findings. Radiological Society of North America 2003 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 30 - December 5, 2003 ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2003/3106629.html
- Philpotts LE, Hooley RJ, Lee CH. Comparison of Automated versus vacuum-assisted biopsy methods for sonographically guided core biopsy of the breast, AJR 2003, 180:347-351.


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There's the rub. I've got a Dell that's over 10 years old, with a gig of
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 10:52 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: RSE - Remote System Explorer
Remember what once was a 'honking big PC' is now a wimpy old piece of
junk. So pretty much anything modern will do quite well. Of course you
can still purchase a true piece of junk if you go bottom feeding at dell
or HP but slide up the line a couple clicks and don't scrimp on the
memory and you'll do fine.
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
On 8/7/2014 11:32 AM, Paul Nelson wrote:
My beef when WDSC was available for windows was that one needed a honking
big PC to get it to run without freezing up. Is that still the case?
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
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Briggs, Trevor (TBriggs2)
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Remember that the first version of WDSC was only available on OS/2.
IBM's version of the Edsel.
Trevor Briggs
Lincare, Inc.
(727) 431-1246
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Subject: Re: RSE - Remote System Explorer
On 8/6/2014 11:29 PM, John Yeung wrote:
Midrange programmers didn't adopt the GUI IDE even when
it was bundled with the compilers.
While this is often used as evidence of low demand (and as
justification for the extra charge for RDi), I find any conclusions
derived from this particular fact kind of suspect. (1) The IDE at
that time was pretty crappy, judging by what I've read.
I can't comment on what you've read, but as one who actually used
Code/400, WDSC, RDP and RDi I can state with some authority that at no
point was the IDE crappier than SEU.
It was either not easy to use,
I'm going to answer these one by one, as they do seem to represent
things that 'everybody knows' about the IDE.
Ease of use was approximately the same as it is today.
or it was too slow on the PCs most folks had back then.
The 'too slow' complaints were most often from people who tried to start
WDSC, edit one member, compile one member and then close it down. Once
the IDE was running, typing was just as fast as SEU, and the ability to
cut and paste normally made editing simpler and faster than MM...MM A.
(2) It was definitely not promoted well enough. I mean, think
of how few people know the proper naming for the midrange platform
itself. I'd guess far fewer even know that a GUI IDE exists, let
alone what it's called. (And Jon Paris amply demonstrated that the
naming of the IDE underwent changes comparable to the naming of the
midrange platform.)
I don't know what that means. Seriously. All of us reading this list
bought a midrange machine - a machine that we probably didn't buy
because of an ad campaign. Virtually all of us program in RPG, a
language that we mostly learnt on the job, not as a result of a push by
university CS departments via IBM subsidy. The stack of tapes, then
CDs, then DVD that IBM sent to us have always been cryptically labelled,
and yet we managed to install it all one way or another. All except
WDSC. Why? I don't think it's a marketing problem as much as a
consumer demand problem. We like SEU, we really like it!
managementIt's my opinion (and worth every penny you paid for it) that
Ifdeclines to spend the money on RDi because the demand is very weak.
the entire staff walked into the boss' office and said that they need
RDi, I think management would be much more likely to cut the check.
I don't disagree with any of that, but my (equally valuable) opinion
is that now would be a good time for IBM/Rational to revisit both
pricing and promotion for RDi. People these days have more powerful
PCs, the underlying Eclipse engine has (from what I gather) also
improved during these intervening years, and Java itself (which runs
Eclipse) has also improved. So it's probably much easier for RDi to
make a case for itself today than WDSC did back when it was bundled at
no extra cost. But people have to know it exists first.
When I say pricing should be revisited, what I mean is that IBM should
seriously consider bundling RDi with the compilers, and charge more
for the compilers.
It seems a chicken and egg situation to me. If the majority of midrange
developers were less satisfied with SEU they'd be actively looking for
alternatives. Speaking of which, 'Have you tried the modern alternative
to SEU? Press F1 for more details.' :-)


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Re: THE RAGE THREAD!!!!
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A what?
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Re: THE RAGE THREAD!!!!
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You must, of course, adhere to the forum's rules that supercede any rules that appear in the original post, old sport. I believe that post was out of line.
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New York City -- The City Council of San Diego repealed strict limits on new retail supercenters Tuesday amid concerns over the cost of a ballot measure forced by a Walmart-led petition drive, the Associated Press reported.
The 7-1 vote came less than two months after the council required retailers such as Walmart to study how so-called "big-box" stores would affect the economy and traffic. Opponents of the measure said it amounted to a ban.
Wal-Mart Stores gathered more than 50,000 signatures after its setback in December to force a special election this year that would have cost taxpayers up to $3.4 million at a time when the nation's eighth-largest city is weighing severe spending cuts.


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Relaxation Program: short form
The last lesson will take you about twenty minutes. First you simply go through the given sequence of exercises.
Sit on a chair in an upright position, both feet flat on the ground. Now just do the following exercises in a quick order to learn the sequence and how to do it.
- Both hands and arms
- Face, neck and shoulders
- Chest, back and belly
- Both legs
Relaxation Program: third training
Tighten each group of muscles and hold the tension for about 5 seconds, then relax for about 30 seconds. While focusing the inner perception on the muscles just exercised you will sense that the process of relaxation progresses a little after loosening the muscles. Let it happen that way and enjoy it. Repeat each exercise once.
At the end keep your eyes closed for a short while and enjoy the rest a little longer. Breathe in deeply and move your fingers and toes playfully. Breathe in deeply again and stretch yourself. Breathe in deeply and open your eyes. Do this at the end of each session. This breathing and stretching shall make sure that your circulation is reactivated. Usually you will feel quite refreshed afterwards.
Before you now actually start, close your eyes and enjoy the rest for a minute or so. Accept any perceptions or emerging thoughts but let them pass by like leaves floating on a creek. Do not ponder or brood, try not to start daydreaming. If some important idea comes up you can come back to it later, when your exercise is finished. Okay? Now start tensing and relaxing the muscle groups in the order you just have trained.
Relaxation Program: practice
In the next two weeks you should practice this sequence of exercises each day. Find a convenient time for your training. Usually the best times are either in the morning before breakfast or in the evening before dinner or supper. Regular practice is more important than frequency. Later you can reduce the number of training sessions to, say, three times per week.
By now you may have noticed that you can sense muscle tension and tightness much more easily than before the training. You can train this a little further by concentrating your perception from time to time on the muscle groups you exercised during this course (again, refer to the checklist of the complete training sequence). You can do this as some kind of internal checking in any situation (while phoning, while watching the TV, while waiting at the dentists ...). Just focus your attention on your hands, your arms, your neck, your chest, and so on. When you realize that a particular group of muscles is tense you simply give it the internal command "relax". You will see that it works! You need not tighten the muscles first to relax them. Train this inner awareness of muscular tension whenever you feel like it. Eventually you will find that you can calm down and relax very quickly and easily in many situations you found stressing before.
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By JOHN FRANK
Published April 18, 2007
BROOKSVILLE - It's a small world that becomes even smaller in the wake of a national tragedy like the mass killing Monday on the campus of Virginia Tech.
A. Keith Furr (left) of Brooksville knows the school well. He taught physics and science courses at the sprawling Blacksburg, Va., university for 34 years before retiring in 1995.
Furr worked in the same department as two of the professors who were killed in Norris Hall but "thankfully" didn't know any of the victims, he said.
He also knows a thing or two about campus safety, serving as the founding director of the university's environmental health and safety department. In this role he worked with campus and local law enforcement and served on the area emergency planning committee.
Since the shooting, Furr has received a number of calls from friends at Virginia Tech and here in Florida. He said, "They call me and ask, 'What in the world do you think, Keith?' "
Below are some of his thoughts from an interview Tuesday.
Could this tragedy have been prevented?
I don't know how you can stop something like that. Students do get upset and they do strange things. ... Not knowing what triggered the guy, I don't see how it could be avoided. Students are under tremendous pressure.
What could law enforcement have done differently?
I would have locked down the entire school when they couldn't find the shooter. But that's in hindsight. The people in charge try to do the best they can. But it's a 10,000-square-foot campus with 100-plus buildings. ... About 30,000 people go on or off campus in a given day. It's hard to keep track of all of them.
When you were on campus did you see students act out violently?
While I was there, a physics student built a bomb (in a science lab) and set it off in a stairwell of the building. ... Another guy was making some drugs with hydrochloric acid and blew up the lab.
How does the fact the shooter was allegedly an international student from South Korea contribute to incident?
Foreign students even more than most undergraduates are under more pressure to succeed.
John Frank can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 754-6114.
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This is part 1 of a two part article. Part 2 can be found here
The industrys current enthusiasm for 3D-ICs is widespread and well warranted, but designing those 3D devices presents a challenge. Normal 2D tool flows, thoroughly honed and refined over many years, nonetheless fail to address some of the critical issues of 3D design. A new 3D design process is evolving gradually from that 2D heritage. When Tezzaron designed its first 3D circuits in 2003, the designers used standard 2D CAD tools and cobbled together a 3D DRC and LVS flow based on scripts. Today there are tools to handle a complete backend flow and strides are being made to enable true 3D design partitioning, synthesis, placement, and routing (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 Current 3D design flowThis article discusses the current state of 3D tools and software, describes a working flow, and identifies the areas where more progress is needed. We base the discussion on a specific next-generation demonstration device taken from a design that Tezzaron is prototyping with several partners. The demo design contains an advanced ARM® processor stack, an off the shelf FPGA die, and a DRAM memory stack, all assembled onto an active silicon circuit board acting as an interposer, as shown in Figure 2 below.
Figure 2 The demo device
The PartsThe CPU is an implementation of an ARM® Cortex-A processor, part of a new class of highly scalable ultra-efficient processors. An out-of-order execution unit with superscalar pipelining is tightly coupled to a low-latency level-2 cache. We take advantage of the multicore capability to support 1 to 4 layers of processing for a scalable design implementation. Each layer of the 3D processor stack contains two CPU cores, their respective L1 caches, and a shared 2MByte L2 cache. The processor layers communicate vertically via a 1024 bit ultra wide low latency bus interface block. The interface block isolates powered-down cores and copes with bus masters of differing frequencies. The gate count per core is about 2 million gates, excluding the cache memories.
The FPGA is a standard 2D device. This could just as well have been an ASIC or other logic element. It provides the glue in our demo system.
The DRAM, a three layer 8Gbit memory, is representative of a next generation Tezzaron memory. It acts as the main memory in this system.
The final element in our demonstration system is an active interposer or silicon circuit board (SiCB). Beyond signal redistribution, our demo system takes advantage of the SiCB to provide power regulation, decoupling, and signal termination.
The ProcessorThe 3D processor is assembled using a wafer to wafer process to produce a frontside to frontside bonded wafer pair. Wafer to wafer bonding allows the smallest, densest vertical interconnect structures and opens many avenues for design optimization.
Figure 3 Details of a two layer logic device
Figure 4 Three layers of silicon, top two layers thinned to 5.5µmOn the down side, wafer to wafer bonding does not provide the yield benefit that die to die techniques can offer with a Known Good Die (KGD) approach. Overall, a wafer to wafer 3D design has about the same yield as a 2D equivalent when looking at the total area of all layers.
We scale the performance of the processing element in this demo device by adding a pair of CPU cores in each layer of the 3D stack. This reduces our partitioning effort and allows us to treat the design effort more like a 2D design with extensions. Our early 3D designs were done this way because of the primitive state of 3D tools eight years ago. In this case, the 3D enhancement of the 2D design can be relatively brute force; TSVs and vertical interconnect planning can be inserted manually. The synthesis and placement are done in 2D in this case. However, to provide insight into a more sophisticated and powerful flow, let us explore some alternatives.
Partitioning and PlacementThe CPU begins as a Verilog module. It can be partitioned in a few different ways. For instance, the CPU logic could be put on one level and the cache on a separate level. In this case the manufacturing process for the cache could be done in a different node or technology than that of the CPU core itself. Process separation is one of the most beneficial aspects of 3D integration.
Alternatively, we could use recent tool advances to create a 3D optimized placement of the CPU internals themselves. Using Magmas Talus tool, with its unified data model and highly flexible TCL interface, we can easily optimize the Verilog into partitioned regions. While the tool itself is not presently 3D aware, we can use it to create identical regions in a flat 2D model and define interconnect elements that mirror between regions. The mirroring in fact forces the 3D interconnect to align vertically. Another approach is to use the Talus tool to do full block physical synthesis and early partitioning and then import the .DEF files to Micro Magics 3D-FloorPlanner (see Figure 5 and Figure 6 below).
Figure 5 TSV insertion example using Micro Magic 3D MAX auto placementLeft: Top down view of two layers to be vertically connected
Right: TSVs inserted into areas without obstructing transistors, placed to minimize wire length
Figure 6 Orthogonal view of 2 layer circuit after TSV insertionThis tool auto inserts TSVs into the floor plan, optimizes the TSV placement, and further optimizes the cell floor plan. One of the benefits of the Micro Magic environment is that its MAX-3D tool allows true 3D physical editing. The design can be tweaked as necessary to improve the partitioning and pre-route critical nets. After the Micro Magic adjustments, the database can once again be transferred to the Magma Talus environment for routing. The advantages of partitioning the entire design in 3D is increased performance and lower power. In theory, 3D can reduce the length of wires by a factor of N where N is the number of layers used. This is overly optimistic, but as long as the 3D interconnect structures (face to face or TSV) are reasonably fine grained, the wire shortening is significant. The longest nets tend to be clocks, data busses, and global controls all of which have the most repeaters and consume the most power. Applying 3D wiring to these nets can easily improve the system speed and power by 30 to 50%.
Someday, the ultimate 3D tool will take into account both separate processes and true 3D placement optimization. Today, however, this tool is somewhere over the horizon.
RoutingWe have now successfully partitioned our processor and done the initial placement. The vertical interconnects in the placed design are modeled as standard cells or blocks and these are fixed to prevent the router from breaking the inherent 3D wiring that the placement created. Additional cells and blocks can either float or be fixed, as desired. We finish the routing with the Magma Talus router. The Talus router now sees just a simple series of fixed regions that have wormhole connections that is, the 3D interconnect points provide connectivity between the fixed regions with no obvious wire length. The 3D interconnect is modeled as a lumped fixed element in the wiring network. As mentioned previously, the vertical interconnect locations are locked down, but the Talus tool is free to make final adjustments to the clustering and balancing of the cells and blocks as necessary and complete the routing process. A key to making this flow work is the extensive flexibility that Talus offers. We have glossed over the obvious strengths of the Talus tool at handing a multi-gigahertz, high performance core processor through physical synthesis, placement, and routing. At 28nm these tasks are no small issue. The need for a clock guard ring and ultra tight signal matching is paramount. Needless to say, if these basic requirements of state of the art tools were not already present in the Talus tool, the 3D extensions and use would be substantially diminished.
VerificationThe design verification involves design rule checking (DRC) and comparing the layout versus schematic (LVS). Magmas Quartz, which already supports 3D DRC and LVS decks, can check the 2D and 3D design requirements. The key to 3D verification tools is that they must support the simultaneous use of multiple databases and technology files. Quartz, like Talus, has a built in multi-database capability that fulfills this basic requirement. To simplify and allow reuse of the existing 2D rule decks provided by the foundries, the design is treated as a set of 2D designs, each of which is separately checked and verified. The whole is then checked as a 3D assembly of the 2D designs. The 3D rule sets should be provided by the 3D assembly house in this case, Tezzaron
DRCAs mentioned previously, 3D DRC is performed by first checking each of the 2D layers with the DRC deck supplied by its respective wafer foundry. The use of unadulterated foundry decks is important. If we were to significantly customize a deck for use with 3D, the continuing maintenance and revisions from the foundries would make updating that deck a never-ending chore. Error results are thus generated separately for each of the silicon layers in the 3D stack.
After the 2D DRC processing is complete, 3D DRC is run. The TCL interface to Quartz allows simple scripts, supplied by the 3D assembly house, to check all of the 2D layers and then process the 3D rules as well. 3D DRC must look at the top and bottom of each of the 2D layers and the interconnect between the layers, such as bonding or backside metals. If necessary, 3D DRC also performs checks for layer specific pieces of the 3D interconnect for example, TSVs might not be part of the 2D rules from the foundry. An important nuance is that there are multiple sets of silicon layers that may or may not have identical GDS layers. Micro Magics MAX-3D tool can specify unique GDS numbering for the 3D layer stackup as part of its 3D tech file. In this way metal1 on the first layer of silicon can be unique from metal1 on the second and third layers, etc.
The 3D GDS file written from MAX-3D contains all of the layers that are required to check the design to assure that, mechanically, the design can be correctly fabricated. The 3D tech file and the 3D DRC files should be written and supported by the 3D assembly house.
LVSTalus provides a post place and route Verilog netlist. This netlist can be used for simulation and physical verifications such as LVS. Quartz LVS operates in 3D much as Quartz DRC does. A script interface checks each of the 2D designs against a set of 2D netlists and then an overall 3D check is done, comparing a top level netlist against the extracted 3D interconnect. Again, the original LVS decks as supplied by the foundries can be used for the 2D checks, eliminating the need for a cumbersome and error prone rewrite of the extraction and comparison rules. The 3D LVS is very simple in that there are no devices just blocks with pins and wiring between those blocks. This greatly simplifies the 3D assembly houses task of creating 3D LVS decks. The 3D LVS can be generalized to easily accommodate 2D layers with differing technology.
Figure 7 Quartz LVS screen shot
Part 2 of this article can be found here
Robert Patti, CTO and VP of Design Engineering; Director, Tezzaron Semiconductor (Singapore) Pte Ltd Previous experience: Founder and President of the predecessor company, ASIC Designs, Inc.; Member of Technical Staff for Tellabs, Inc. Member of IEEE. Former Vice-Chairman of JEDEC's DDRIII / Future Memories Task Group. Holder of 16 US patents, numerous foreign patents and many more pending patent applications in deep sub-micron semiconductor chip technologies; BS (EE/CS) and BS (Physics), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
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Testing is the same as for stroke. Blood tests may show high cholesterol levels.
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Republican primary voters should rally around the GOP field's most accomplished supply-sider, the all-but-announced Rudolph W. Giuliani. Having sliced taxes and slashed Gotham's government, New York's former mayor is the leading fiscal conservative among 2008's GOP presidential contenders.
Before Giuliani's January 1, 1994 inauguration, New York's economy was on a stretcher. Amid soaring unemployment, 235 jobs vanished daily. Financier Felix Rohatyn complained: "Virtually all human activities are taxed to the hilt." Punitive taxes helped fuel a $2.3 billion deficit.
Mayor-elect Giuliani sounded Reaganesque when he announced he would "reduce the size and cost of city government" to balance the budget. In his first State of the City address, he said: "We're going to cut taxes to attract jobs so our people can work."
Giuliani spent eight years keeping these promises.
"America's Mayor" cut or killed 23 levies, saving taxpayers $9.8 billion. Giuliani pared Gotham's top income-tax rate by 20.6%. Washington, D.C.'s CFO reported that between 1993 and 2001, local taxes on a family of four New Yorkers earning $50,000 fell 23.7%.
Giuliani cut the commercial-rent tax, curbed sales taxes, and curtailed the marriage penalty on taxpaying couples. Giuliani proudly shaved Gotham's hotel tax from 6% to 5 in 1994. Consequently, that tax's revenues soared from $135 million in Fiscal Year 1995 to $239 million in FY 2001.
Giuliani defends his supply-side instincts with bracing candor. Asked after September 11 if he would hike taxes, Giuliani called that "a dumb, stupid, idiotic, and moronic thing to do."
Giuliani's expenditure growth averaged 2.9% annually, while local inflation between January 1994 and December 2001 averaged 3.6%. His FY 1995 budget decreased outlays by 1.6%, while his post-9/11 FY 2002 plan lowered appropriations by 2.6%.
If President Bush had followed Giuliani's example and limited Washington's spending to 2.9% average, annual growth, the just-unveiled FY 2008 federal budget would cost $2.275 trillion, not $2.9 trillion, saving taxpayers $625 billion, the Cato Institute's Stephen Slivinski estimates. Such Giulianian fiscal discipline would generate a $386 billion surplus, not an anticipated $239 billion deficit.
Giuliani repeatedly privatized municipal assets. Giuliani sold WNYC radio for $20 million, WNYC-TV for $207 million, and Gothams share of the U.N. Plaza Hotel for $85 million. Divesting the New York Coliseum excised an eyesore from Columbus Circle and added $345 million to city coffers. Giuliani also let the private Central Park Conservancy manage Manhattan's fabled urban forest.
These eight years of tax reduction and fiscal responsibility helped hammer unemployment from 10.4 percent in 1993 to 5.7 percent in 2001. Simultaneously, personal income advanced 53 percent.
It's hard to compare a two-term ex-mayor, a one-term governor, and a four-term U.S. senator. Nevertheless, Cato's 2006 gubernatorial report card gives former Massachusetts chief executive Mitt Romney a "C." While the top personal tax rate fell 6 percent on his watch, thanks to a referendum voters approved before he arrived, Romney's first budget raised $140 million by closing corporate-tax loopholes. It also featured some $501.5 million in increased fees, including higher marriage licenses (from $4 to $50), pricier gun permits ($25 to $100), a $100 biannual fee for volunteer firefighters (rescinded under pressure), and a $10, previously free, ID card that lets the blind ride Boston public-transit gratis.
Few in Congress expose outrageous federal boondoggles as fervently as does John McCain. However, he is an ambivalent tax fighter. According to Club for Growth research, McCain opposed President Clinton's 1993 tax increases and supported his 1997 capital gains tax cuts. He also voted to extend President Bush's 2003 tax cuts. For 2005, McCain earned a 78% National Taxpayers Union rating -- an "A."
Unfortunately, McCain opposed President Bushs 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. McCain voted against repealing the Death Tax in 2002. Also, in 1998, McCain embraced former Sen. Tom Daschle's (D.-S.D.) motion to approve Big Tobacco's Master Settlement Agreement, including a $1.10-per-pack cigarette-tax increase.
"I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues," McCain conceded to Wall Street Journal editorialist Stephen Moore. "I still need to be educated."
Conservatives seeking a proven leader to lasso taxes and rein in runaway spending have a natural choice for President: Rudolph W. Giuliani.
People should take a look at Ruday's record and read the article above.
Rudy PING
Lert me know if you want on or off the list.
While certainly not a social conservative, Rudy has a highly enviable record in controlling government spending and making government work effectively.
I jus done came fer the purty pic'tures of Ms. Geeuleeani in dat dere drag photo of hers.
Please put me on your Rudy ping list.
Tancredo and Paul both have extensive and real records proving their fiscal conservatism. I don't buy any that snake oil salesman Giuliani says.
I want to like Rudy, but his Second Amendment position is a deal-breaker.
And what do you think Hillary's position is on the 2nd amendment?
Rudy also backtracked some on his anti gun stance.
Where's the barf alert?
Rudy has a record as NY Mayor.
Tancredo and Paul have nothing but talk, not to mention that they both demonstrate continuously that they are incapable of living in reality and looking at the big picture, which is critical for a President and Commander-in-Chief.
This is what doomed McQueeg with me. I'd never heard of Dubya in 2000, and, like many, automatically supported the Arizona Senator. John signed his political death warrant with the Estate Tax vote, and threw a few shovels of dirt with the "Gang of 14" BS.
Ron Paul and Tancredo are "unelectable" according to the MSM and you know they're the smartest people around. They also have the best interests of the country at heart.
That is, they are unelectable if anyone in the MSM even mentioned that either is running. Just ask Sean Hannity about how Rudy, Romney, or McCain are the real Reagan conservatives for '08.
REad the record, the author cites FACTS and as I pointed out this appeared in the very conservative Human Events.
Hillary has warned, "We are going to take things from you for the common good."
Using Human Events' term, it's the supply-sider versus the Marxist-Leninist "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
Or, as Hillary would delicately describe her potential rule,
McCain voted against repealing the Death Tax in 2002.
Karl Marx did not believe in transferring wealth within a family to a next generation either.
The Titantic was a great ship. Oh, and by the way, it sunk...
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Abortion on Demand
Partial Birth Abortion
NY ban
Roe v. Wade
Taxpayer Funded Abortions
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Federal Marriage Amendment
Defined at
state level
Gay Domestic Partnership/
Civil Unions
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for Illegal Aliens
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Employers of Illegal Aliens
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Protecting 2nd Amendment
Supports bans
Confiscating Guns
as mayor.
Even bragged.
Supports bans
'Assault' Weapons Ban
Frivolous Lawsuits
Against Gun Makers
Filed One
Gun Registration/Licenses
War in Afghanistan
Voted for it
War in Iraq
Voted for it
Weak support
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Voted for it
2001 & 2006
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.
Rudy Giuliani
I detest McCain for too many reasons to count.
Im pro-choice. Im pro-gay rights, Giuliani said. He was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions. No, I have not supported that, and I dont see my position on that changing, he responded. Source: CNN.com, Inside Politics Dec 2, 1999 http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Rudy_Giuliani_Abortion.htm
ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES (November 14, 2006)
RUDY GIULIANI (R), FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: I'm pro- choice. I'm pro-gay rights.
KING: Giuliani supports a woman's right to an abortion, and back in 1999, he opposed a federal ban on late-term abortions.
GIULIANI: No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing.
KING: Immigration could be another presidential landmine. Back in 1996, Mayor Giuliani went to federal court to challenge new federal laws requiring the city to inform the federal government about illegal immigrants.
JEFFREY: He took the side of illegal immigrants in New York City against the Republican Congress.
KING: Giuliani opposes same-sex marriage but as mayor, he supported civil unions and extending health and other benefits to gay couples. He also supported the assault weapons ban and other gun control measures opposed by the National Rifle Association.
GIULIANI: I'm in favor of gun control. I'm pro-choice.
Republican Big-Wigs Support Pro-Abortion Event in NY
Pro-abortion Governor George Pataki and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also supports unrestricted abortion, are co-chairs of the 2000 Choice Award Presentation to be held on May 30 at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. The event is sponsored by the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition, a group that is campaigning for the removal of the pro-life plank from the Republican National Platform.
"it's the supply-sider versus the Marxist-Leninist "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
BINGO! The choice for any REAL conservative should be obvious.
They wouldn't have their Congressional records or anything, righ? They don't call Paul "Dr. No" for no reason.
"Tancredo and Paul have nothing but talk...."
Bull. They both have long, proven voting records of fiscal conservatism. Tancredo and Paul were two of only ten or eleven members of the house of representatives (435 members in total) who stood up against excessive spending in after Katrina. Both voted against the medicare prescription drug deal. Both have all kinds of "friends of the taxpayer" awards and top rating from just about every fiscal conservative group out there.
Yes, I detest Rudy McRomney too. Democrats with R's by their names.
Would you please STOP? Do you take PayPal?
Don't you get it? The Free Republic code is:
R = good. D = baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
Please get with the program.
If Rudy was merely neutral on the social issues, then I would not have much of a problem with his candidacy for the nomination.
Rudy seems ready and willing to use whatever lever his has at his disposal to solve a problem, and that seems to threaten some core issues for me at least.
Yes, and it's obviously not the beneficiary of this stupid puff piece. I have no idea why Terry Jeffrey allowed this in Human Events. Maybe finally after all these years, Beltway Fever has infected even him. Damned shame.
Liberals are liberals, no matter what letter happens to be by their name.
Hillary's trolls are at it again. I swear they stalk these boards just waiting for the Rudy threads to pop up. No life.
In your world principles are for sale. Not in mine.
We (Mr. and Mrs. RQSR) had a negative premonition of Schwarzenegger, but we had Gray Davis in California. Something had to be done (vote for change) and it was done holding our noses and praying for the best. It didn't happen. Siiiiiiiiiiigh
Now along comes Giuliani as favored Republican nominee and that same negative premonition we had is back as more and more jump on the Rudy bandwagon.
Where Schwarzenegger married into a family of Leftist baggage, Rudy has accomplished it all on his own.
As we stated in another post, Rudy is a "Niche" kinda guy, as Mayor of NYC he was OK, quite successful by all indications, but we cannot see him as President of the United States of America.
Giuliani=Lieberman. They're so similar it's beyond belief. I wonder how many people here like Lieberman back in 2000. Probably none. Somewhere between 2000 and now the republican party moved further to the left.
Not exactly; Tancredo has his one issue, and Paul is swiftly becoming the left's favorite Administration basher.
(The Republicans will unite in 2008 around (Guiliani, Romney, McCain or Rice)-take that Hillary!)
Hillary wouldn't be so bad if she just had an R next to her name. Most of the people around this forum wouldn't be so mean to her if she just had an R. Some extremists would probably still call her a liberal or some other slur popular among ultra-right-wingers, but most would understand she's good now.
Schwarzenegger vetoed many of the socialist bills the Dem Legislature passed, people keep ignoring that -- bills that a Dem governor would have signed, everything from government run REAL socialist healthcare, to drivers licences to illegals, to marriage for homosexuals, tax increases and the list goes on.
He should just put a D there and be honest.
I'm voting for Rudy; and if I am I think most are.
Sad, but true. After all "SHE CAN WIN," right?
Rudy McRomney scored a combined 25% in the last FR poll.
See tag line.
All these people telling us how "conservative" they are, while they bash nonstop any Republican who has any chance of beating the Dems but NEVER, NEVER criticize Democrats.
Makes one wonder as to their real credentials, as you implied.
Schwarzenegger's vetos are few and far between. Now he's foisting socialized medicine for illegals.
Or a "T", ( for the punch bowl condiment)
"Facts are stubborn things; and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence." - John Adams
Rudolph Giuliani is nearly 100% in phase with the Democrat plaform, and almost 100% out of phase with the Republican platform. And them's the facts, Jack.
Great post!
WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) was awarded the Taxpayers Friend Award for 2005 by the National Taxpayers Union. Tancredos score by the group ranks him as the third most fiscally conservative Member of the House of Representatives. Tancredo has won the award every year since he was elected to Congress.
See also:
Now the real Rudy record.
From the Manhattan Institute for POlicy Research:
TAXES: Giuliani did cut the marginal city income tax rates, reducing taxes by some $2.0-billion from 1996-2001, but those cuts only offset the $1.8-billion increase in city income tax rates put in place by Mayor Dinkins a few years earlier. In the end, taxes were actually cut by a modest $200-million. Freezing the 12.5% surcharge on high wage earners was good, but Giuliani didn't attempt to abolish that surcharge. Nor did Giuliani attempt to make serious permanent changes the city income tax code. The primary reason Rudy and the City Council agreed to cut taxes, was to make NYCity more appealing to new businesses thinking about locating/relocating to the Big Apple. A smart move, however, Rudy left office with NYCity the highest taxed big city in America, with some of the highest income taxes, property taxes and utility rates in the entire nation.
GOVERNMENT SPENDING: From 1997 to 2001, spending under Giuliani went up 32%. More then double the rate of inflation. Rudy left NYCity with a $2.0 billion deficit and a $42-billion debt. Second largest debt after the federal government. Giuliani also added 15,000 new teachers to the city employment rolls. Increasing the membership of two major liberal organizations, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
"The scope of government was not reduced at all. The mayor abandoned his most visible initiative in this spherethe proposed sale of the city hospital systemafter a struggle with the unions and defeats in the courts. He did cut costs in social services; even before the new federal welfare reforms took effect in 1997, the city had begun to significantly reduce caseloads. But money saved on social services has only helped to subsidize big increases in other categories. Today the array of social services sponsored and partially funded by the cityfrom day care to virtually guaranteed housingis as wide as ever.
"In the final analysis, Mayor Giuliani sought to make the city deliver services more efficientlynot to make the city deliver fewer services. Gains in efficiency were offset, however, by a spike in the costs of outsourced contracts (see point 2 below). Thus, in two areas where inroads might have been made, the city instead failed to reduce spending."
"1. Personnel Increases. In 199596, the city entered into a series of collective bargaining agreements with its public-employee unions. In addition to granting pay increases that ended up roughly equaling inflation, the city promised not to lay off any workers for the life of the contracts. These agreements were expected to add $2.2 billion to the budget by fiscal 2001. But that estimate didnt reckon with renewed growth in the number of city employees. After dipping in Giulianis first two years, the full-time headcount rose from 235,069, in June 1996 to over 253,000 by November 2000. Thanks largely to this growth in the workforce, the total increase in personnel service costs since 1995 has been $4 billion.
2. "Outsourced Services. The failure to shrink the scope of city government made it all the more imperative that Mayor Giuliani vastly increase its efficiency. In the attempt to increase productivity, the mayor farmed out some city services to private contractors. But as the number of outsourced contracts doubled under Giuliani, contractual expenses also nearly doubledfrom $3 billion to $5.8 billion. While it may be argued that the city saved money by outsourcing these services, the net savings turned out to be marginal at best. In practice, outsourcing proved to be more of a bargaining chip in negotiations with unions than a serious means of pruning expenses."
As the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research said: "Even with the tax cuts of the last several years, New York remains by far the most heavily taxed big city in the country."
Proof that Rudy Giuliani was NO fiscal conservative.
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Hello all!I realize I am posting to a thread which has been inactive for sometime, but due to it establishing itself as the Zachary's DD thread, I figured this would be the best place to continue and hopefully even get an update from individuals on the past year.Similar to JCG and terhorst, I am from the bay area and joined the forums due to my obsession/hysteria with Zachary's spinach and mushroom pizza. I anticipate I have had this particular pizza well over 50 times in the last 10 years (more than any other dish/restaurant). For someone who generally eats out rarely and likes to try out new places when I do, this is a lot!As I am brand new to this forum and using dough of any kind, there will be a large period of time for me to get up to speed on terminology and get some practice in. Curious as to whether JCG, terhorst, or any other individuals have further attempted this recipe/cause. I would love to hear more about any attempts/ progress.


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August events in AdvancePosted Wednesday, August 4, 2010, at 7:45 AM
This Monday, August 2, 2010 photo of the new Cross Trails Medical/Dental Center in Advance shows the progress that Wesbecher Construction is making toward an October opening. The concrete work for the driveway and sidewalks is just visible to the left.
Events in our town are as follows:
Thursday, Aug. 5, 6 p.m. - Advance Senior Community Center Board of Directors - Senior center building on C and Poplar.
Tuesday, Aug. 10, 7 p.m. - Advance Community Library Board of Directors - Library facility in old R-IV Administration Building on Highway C next to old gym.
Thursday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m. - Advance R-IV School Board - New offices of superintendent - New high school annex wing.
Monday, Aug. 16, 6 p.m. - Advance Board of Aldermen - City Hall, Gabriel Street, across from new Cross Trails.
Monday, Aug. 23, 6:30 p.m. - Stoddard County Historical Society meeting - Stars & Stripes Museum - Highway 25 in Bloomfield.
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The citizens of Advance can be proud of the many new happenings occurring as a result of leadership taking every opportunity for community betterment.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Thu, Aug 12, 2010, at 8:42 PM
The photo of the new Cross Trails Clinic is a good example of stimulus money properly used. I don't see how anyone could disagree with that statement - especially when the figures show how under-served Southeast Missouri is in the field of health services.
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A team of Colorado small businesses is installing the solar panels. The seven megawatt solar array will provide clean, renewable energy to help power federal offices for nearly 6,000 workers, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy costs and preventing thousands of tons of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere every year. The solar panel systems will be tied into the existing electrical distribution system of the Denver Federal Center. The arrays will generate enough power to run the equivalent of 1,050 residential homes. The 34,564 solar panels will provide more than 15 percent of the Denver Federal Center's electrical needs, while reducing the demand for common grid-supplied electricity and saving utility costs of more than $700,000 per year.
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""It's not so much a frenzy as it was before, but in the long term it's going in the right direction." "
Dassault Falcon 200
Dassault stopped producing this twin-engine model more than two decades ago, but pilots still love it. it has great range and can climb 6,000 feet per minute. And while its hourly operating costs are high, its low acquisition cost compensates: You can buy a well-equipped, well-maintained 1987 falcon 200 for around $1.6 million-at least $3 million less than you'd pay for some competing models.
I CALL IT "EUTHANAIRSIA." A manufacturer builds an airplane that's so good it threatens sales of its own follow-on-and more expensive-models. So the company kills it.
Cessna did it with the Conquest II turboprop. Beech did it with the F90 King Air (see New Jet Review on page 22-Ed.). Hawker did it with the Model 1000A super-midsize jet. And Dassault Falcon Jet did it with the midsize twinjet Model 200.
Allegedly, Dassault did more than stop production of the airplane. According to one source, it tried to quietly buy back the 33 Falcon 200s that were in civil hands and send them to the smelter or re-engine them. The owners would have none of it. Even today, Dassault Falcon Jet doesn't want to discuss this airplane. When I asked about it, one of the company's PR guys suggested I write about the spendier trijet Falcon 50 instead. I got the feeling I had committed an aviation faux pas equivalent to trying to order sauerbraten at Paris' Le Procope. Vous idiot!
The twin-engine Falcon 200-which Dassault first delivered in 1983 and manufactured until 1988-was a follow-on to the wildly popular Falcon 20, an airplane built to fighter jet tolerances with an unlimited-life airframe. During the 1970s, Federal Express began its rise using freighter versions of the Falcon 20, operating them at four times the frequency that designers had envisioned. Some of these aircraft remain in service with smaller freight companies. While the 20's airframe was robust, its noisy, gas-guzzling GE CF700 engines limited the midsize cabin airplane to incredibly short legs. Hitting a headwind from Teterboro, N.J., to Chicago meant a fuel stop in Ohio. Under those conditions, you could fly home faster nonstop in a King Air 200.
So in 1973 Dassault began work on the Falcon 50 trijet, which used the 20's fuselage but had three more fuel-efficient Garrett (now Honeywell) engines and range enough to cross the Atlantic or beat a headwind and fly nonstop from White Plains, N.Y., to Burbank, Calif. But it also began working on a much improved version of the 20 called the Falcon 200. The 200 shared the 20's fuselage but had a redesigned and more comfortable cabin, more powerful and efficient Garrett ATF3 engines, a tweaked wing and first-generation glass cockpit avionics.
The ATF3s produced 5,200 pounds of thrust each, a 1,100-pounds-per-side improvement over the CF700s on the Falcon 20. More blow means more go. Compared with the 20, the 200 climbed faster, flew faster and farther, used shorter runways, handled better, had increased gross weight and burned much less fuel. Pilots noticed stunning performance improvements. Pilots typically say nice things about the airplanes they fly, but there is an unusual level of effusiveness about the Falcon 200. "The airframe is awesome," said one seasoned 200 pilot.
"There isn't anything about the airplane I don't like," commented Darrell Rahn, an instructor who has flown all 33 civilian 200s in existence and has logged almost 6,000 hours in the type. (Because the 200 was manufactured in such limited numbers, pilot training simulators were not built for the aircraft.)
WITH THE FALCON 200, you can fly Seattle to Miami nonstop with four passengers and a light tail wind and land with 40 minutes of fuel left; climb initially at a stunning 6,000 feet per minute; and use 5,000-foot runways all day-and still have plenty of safety margin. Push up the throttles to a sporty Mach 0.82 and you can fly a 200 with four passengers and lots of luggage 2,000 nautical miles unrefueled. The 200's performance was so good that some Dassault customers interested in a new Falcon 50 ended up buying a 200-for nearly 40 percent less. In 1987 a new 200 cost $7.85 million while a Falcon 50 retailed for $12 million.
The ATF3 engine had some major teething problems early on. It was initially employed by the U.S. Coast Guard on G and H series Falcon 20s (designation HU-25), which were used for patrol and search-and-rescue. Those aircraft routinely operated at low altitudes over saltwater and the resulting corrosion reduced the life of engine parts. Early engines also had some endemic design and component flaws, including faulty oil seals, but Rahn claimed that those have long since been solved. In all his time in 200s he had to shut down an engine in flight only once, as a precaution, due to fluctuating oil-pressure readings. "The engines are very reliable," he said.
Engine parts availability was also an early problem and many years ago playful Coast Guard mechanics sometimes would strip an engine of virtually every replacement part they thought they might need before returning the bare carcass to the factory for overhaul. But today, most ATF3s are on Honeywell's MSP Gold "power-by-the-hour" maintenance program and operators report excellent support. However, it isn't cheap. We rely on David Wyndham, a principal in the aviation consulting firm Conklin & de Decker, for aircraft comparison and performance data for this series. When David sent over the numbers for the 200, he felt obliged to write in the column next to direct hourly engine restoration costs, "These ATF3 engines are expensive. The number is correct!" The number is $1,465.20. Per hour. It's insane. That gives the 200 total direct hourly operating costs that are $1,800 more than those for a Hawker 1000 and $900 more than those for a Falcon 50.
So given the high direct operating costs, why would you want a 200? Well, it's sort of like finding a former Kentucky Derby winning stallion on Craigslist for a thousand bucks.
Today you can get a well-equipped, well-maintained 1987 Falcon 200 for around $1.6 million. That's at least $3 million less than you'd pay for a similar-vintage Falcon 50 or Hawker 1000 and half what you'd spend for a 1984 Falcon 20 retrofitted with newer TFE731 engines. (More than 100 Falcon 20s have been so modified and are designated Falcon 20F-5. Performance numbers between a retrofitted 20 and a 200 are virtually identical.)
You can fly a lot of hours, even more expensive ones, with that kind of cash left in your pocket. Maybe you can use some of the savings to re-cover the interior for around $75,000 and install a decent entertainment system.
Compared with a 20, the 200 still has the better cabin, with seats for eight or nine, a bigger galley, an aft lavatory and an externally loaded baggage compartment. The standard cabin layout features a forward club-four executive seat grouping followed by a half-club opposite a three-place, side-facing divan.
Rahn said he considers the aircraft an excellent choice for operators who fly 200 to 300 hours per year. "The only person who would say anything bad about this airplane is someone who has never flown one," he said. "There's nothing mean or ugly about this airplane anywhere."
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Once the Tiberius Arms First Strike Rounds came out, I knew I wanted to build a functional 'sniper' rifle. Meaning no extra fluff, just pure headshot business. I thought my final primary marker would be the T9.0 but, I found it wanting as I began to tire of having to disconnect the airline just to change mags.
Enter the 9.1 with it's remote line ready ASA. Then Tiberius Arms upped the ante with the LAPCO manufactured Rifled Barrel. Now, I'm not going to try to say that the Rifled barrel is a substantial improvement over a good smoothbore barrel (i.e. LAPCO or Flasc) but, to my unaided eye, I can say it looks at least as good. I'll hold final judgment until someone can do some well-documented performance testing.
So, I ordered one, and began putting my own 'personal' touches to it. I was really crunched for time as I wanted to have it ready for a LL4 unveil. Nothing too fancy or exotic (like the woodstalker Ion, in my sig) but, I'll go over that towards the end of this post. For those who didn't see it at LL4:
The Pics:
The Specs:
- Tiberius Arms T9.1 Ranger
- Tiberius Arms (LAPCO) Rifled Barrel
- Polished Air Chamber
- Polished Firing Bolt
- Polished Firing Pin
- Filled in body holes.
- Custom Magazine Window
- Custom Suppressor (it's built similarly to the SP-8 Stealth Shroud)
- Modified Tiberius Arms FSR Adjustable Riser (Length Cut down)
- Lucid HD7 Multi-Reticle Dot Sight with 2x Magnifier
- Quick Disconnect Sling Mount
- Blackhawk Universal Swift Sling (3-Pt)
- UTG Rail Covers (Bottom ones not shown in pics)
- Custom Four Color Duracoat Camo Pattern (Dark Green to Light Green Fades with Tan-Dark Brown Digital shapes)
Generally, this was an improvement over my Woodstalker Ion. I picked better green shades and, brown shades as the ones I used previously really weren't different enough to get the shading I wanted. The theory behind it is that in natural scenes greens rarely fade to browns (like one sees in Omnipat or, Multicam patterns). Instead, I've noticed that browns fade to tans, and Dark Greens into light greens. Also, the greens I picked are satin/semi-gloss finishes while the browns are ultra-flats. This is intended to simulate the shining effect of leaves over flat dirt and branch features. I took some pics of the suppressor (I don't feel comfortable walking with the entire gun down the street to the park) in some outdoor environments to get an idea how the colors matched up.
This pic really shows how well the greens match the vegetation at the edge of a woodline. The tans also match the dead material.
This pic shows how the tans match up with the earth. It also shows something unavoidable with 2D camo patterns- unnatural (straight-horizontal) shadows draw the eye. This is why I added the netting, which is easily removable.
Living Legends 4 was it's debut and it performed well. The suppressor's an interesting thing. To me, while shooting it, it still sounds surprisingly loud. However in game, I received several unsolicited comments on how quiet it was. More importantly, I fired four spaced shots at Blue's Crew while I was only lying in the roadside grass, and from 40yards away, they couldn't locate me until I fired a fifth shot while they were looking right at me.
Issue and Solution: Barrel Jams- after 80-100 of these rounds, I would get a barrel jam that wouldn't clear unless I took a 5/8 dowel and pushed the round/s through manually. Solution: Run a pull through squeegie through it halfway through the day (about every 60-80 rounds), and you're good.
Finally, here it is in action at LL4:
EDIT: Issue and Solution
Edited by UV Halo, 06 June 2012 - 09:51 AM.