text: I liked sports when I was growing up. I used to watch (of all things) boxing with my dad and, while I could never cultivate an appreciation for football, I did like to watch a good college basketball game. And I loved tennis. For a few years I was convinced I could become the next famous tennis pro. I talked my parents into getting me lessons, I practiced for hours in the basement, hitting a ball against the cement wall. I'm not sure what happened in the end--my interest fizzled, eventually. The spark died. In high school I played junior varsity basketball and although I didn't care much for playing part of the game itself, I enjoyed the teammanship side of it all. I liked the coach, and when we worked together, all of us as a team, I felt a heady thrill coarse through my body. Despite all this, and despite the fact that Scott is a solid and competitive tennis player himself, I've never felt that sports had to be a critical part of our children's lives. T. likes sports and has been clamoring to play soccer for years. L., as I've mentioned many times before, has never showed any interest in sports at all. The very facets of being on a sports team that I appreciated as a child, he finds oppressive and even frightening. Swim team, though, has been a safe place. Our pool runs a fairly non-competitive team, and the emphasis has been more on the swimming part, and less on the winning. We've loved the coaching so far, and our experience last year lulled us into a naive sense of complacency about L.'s place on the team. He swam races at every meet last year, and even won a few ribbons. This year, we thought, things would surely be the same. We need sameness. Sameness is good for us. Without it L.'s world explodes out of control, and ours does, too. On Tuesday night, when Scott and I arrived at the pool with the kids, and L. raced off happily to change into his suit, we read down the lists of who would swim in each race, and saw right away that L. hadn't been placed into any races. He was swimming three non-competitive heats, but no main event races. My heart sank. I looked at Scott. His face was set thoughtfully, the way it gets when he knows we're headed into troubled waters. "Should we talk to him?" I asked. And then we made parenting Mistake #1 of the night. We decided, right then and there, that we'd just let it go. Maybe L. wouldn't notice. Maybe he didn't even know the difference between a heat and a race. Maybe he'd spend the evening blissfully unaware of the relationship between being "benched" for the night, and swimming competitively in a race. Did it matter, we wondered? Yet, deep down, I knew it would. L. had spent the whole day talking about that night's meet. At the pool earlier in the afternoon he had practiced his starting dives off the block, over and over and over again. Back at home, he had spent a solid thirty minutes organizing the ribbons from last season in the large glass frame hanging on his bedroom wall--just so he could make room for the new ones. Despite all this, we had just settled ourselves into the deck chairs and just managed to convince ourselves that it would all be okay when L. appeared, his face contorted with hurt indignation, and the effort of holding back his tears. He knew. He was mad. We haven't seen L. that upset in a long time. Surges of emotion are extremely difficult for him. Other kids burst into tears, or they articulate their anger, their sadness, their fears. They might fight inwardly for control, or pretend nothing has bothered them. L. becomes a wildly spinning tornado, a perpetual motion machine. He paces and rages inside and he needs his space. Even if what we might want more than anything is to gather him close, to feel him melt against us, to comfort him, he strikes out physically at anyone who tries to get near. So we let him do dry laps around the pool deck right up until it was time for his heat and then, just as we'd corralled him to the blocks, and just as he was readying himself for his first swim, Mother Nature stepped in, and unrolled the thunder. What followed can only be described as something akin to torture as we sat in the sweltering heat for an hour with T. while L. paced and raged, and while we waited to see if the meet would proceed as scheduled, or be called due to weather. And it was then that we made Mistake #2, for we should have just called it a night and packed up for home. But we wanted L. to get to swim, and T. was scheduled for an actual race, and the thought of leaving seemed like admitting some type of defeat, for all of us, but for L. especially, who we knew, even if he couldn't say it, wanted so desperately to swim. At 8:00 the announcement was made that the meet would go on and Scott jumped to his feet to find L., who had already changed into his street clothes. I ran off with T. in the other direction to listen in on the team meeting at the far end of the pool. We had, without realizing it, made Mistake #3. Maybe wiser parents would have waited to find out the status of the rest of the meet before getting the already devastated child of the family back into his swimsuit only to find out minutes later that in the interest of time, all heats had been cancelled. No heats. No swimming for L. No diving off the block. No chance for even a heat ribbon. It was, as the saying goes, the straw that broke the already suffering back. We were a sad procession back from the pool that night. T., over-tired to tears, walked with Scott, and I followed L., who charged on ahead, muttering to himself and periodically slapping at his face with the flat of his hands--to keep the tears inside, he told me later. Home at last, he wrapped himself into a blanket and finally--finally--let himself cry. It will be okay. There will be other meets, other triumphs. Tomorrow will be a better day. These things happen, sometimes too often for too many kids. There comes a time in every child's life when they have to process a huge disappointment; when their expectations and hopes and dreams tumble and they are left with that awful drained empty, colorless, awful feeling inside. We can't protect our kids from all these moments, even if we try. They happen, and they're important--not for the the disappointment itself, but because of what we learn from them. At least, this is what we tried to rationalize to ourselves that night, when we'd finally tucked in both kids and collapsed on the couch, drained empty and feeling pretty colorless ourselves.


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Junk Euphoria Crosses Pacific as Sharp Worry FadesYusuke Miyazawa
Japan's junk bonds are joining the global rally as optimism over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic stimulus boosts investor appetite for riskier debt.
Sharp Corp.'s 0.846 percent bonds due 2014 soared to 77 yen per 100 yen face value on Jan. 28, from 46 yen two months ago, according to JS Price data. The notes of junk-rated Tokyo Electric Power Co., Nippon Sheet Glass Co. and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. also climbed. Global non-investment grade debt has gained to a record 105 cents on the dollar, Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data dating back to 1997 show.
Investors are seeking higher returns, emboldened by Abe's plans for 10.3 trillion yen ($113 billion) of fiscal stimulus and global monetary easing that has contributed to record inflows into funds that own speculative-grade debt. Sharp's bonds maturing in 2014 yield 19.5 percent while the television maker warns there is "material doubt" about its ability to survive. Tepco, which may have an active fault under one of its atomic plants, has a yield of 3.3 percent on its 2017 debt.
"The market has become bullish to the point of euphoria," Taketoshi Tsuchiya, Tokyo-based director of credit trading at Barclays Plc, said in a telephone interview on Jan. 28. "Sharp's bonds are overheating."
Sharp's 0.846 percent bonds rose to 81 yen on Jan. 17, the highest level since Aug. 2. Tokyo Electric's notes maturing in 2017 advanced 6.5 yen in the past two months to 94, and Nippon Sheet Glass's 24 billion yen of debt due 2015 climbed 11.2 yen to 88 yen, JS Price data show.
Bond Yields
Japan's corporate bonds pay an average 0.63 percent yield, while its sovereign notes offer 0.6 percent, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data. That compares with 6.36 percent for global high-yield securities.
Rating & Investment Information Inc. of Japan has a BB-ranking on Sharp's notes, three levels below investment grade, and rates Nippon Sheet Glass bonds at BB, the second-highest junk level, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Standard & Poor's ranks Tokyo Electric's debt at BB+, the highest non-investment score.
Kawasaki Kisen, Japan's third-largest maritime shipper, was downgraded by one level yesterday to BB- by S&P, its third-highest junk grade. The company's 1.46 percent bond maturing June 2014 climbed to a record 97.9 yen on Jan. 28, JS Price data show.
Japanese Corporates
Elsewhere in Japan's credit markets, Japan Student Services Organization sold 40 billion yen of 0.15 percent two-year bonds, SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. said in a statement yesterday.
Japan's corporate bonds have returned 0.23 percent this year, compared with a 0.27 percent gain for sovereign notes, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data. Company debt worldwide fell 0.63 percent.
Yields on Japan's benchmark 10-year government bonds rose half a basis point, or 0.005 percentage point, to 0.77 percent as of 11:33 a.m. in Tokyo. The securities yielded 123 basis points less than similar-maturity U.S. Treasuries, compared with 89 a year earlier, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
The yen weakened 0.2 percent to 91 per dollar as of 11:46 a.m. in Tokyo. The Japanese currency lost 5.2 percent this year, the worst performance among the 10 developed-nation currencies tracked by Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes.
Default Risk
Five-year credit-default swaps that insure Japan's sovereign debt fell 6.7 basis points this year to 75 basis points yesterday, after reaching the highest since Aug. 1 on Jan. 17, according to data provider CMA, which is owned by McGraw-Hill Cos. and compiles prices quoted by dealers in the privately negotiated market. A drop in the contracts signals improving perceptions of creditworthiness.
The Markit iTraxx Japan index decreased 42 basis points over the last two months to 135 basis points Jan. 25, the lowest since August 2011, according to CMA prices. The risk benchmark for insuring the nation's corporate bonds may decline further to about 80 basis points by March 31, 2014, according to Nomura Holdings Inc.
"The Abe administration's economic policies are set to combine with the recovery in the U.S. economy," Toshihiro Uomoto, chief credit strategist at the brokerage in Tokyo, wrote in a note dated Jan. 22. "With the synergy effect of both, we expect some tightening in Japanese credit spreads."
BOJ Target
The weakening of the yen was spurred by Abe, Japan's seventh prime minister since 2007, who urged the central bank to double its inflation target to 2 percent to help revive the world's third-biggest economy. The Topix stock index has climbed for 11 straight weeks, the longest rally in 40 years.
The Abe Cabinet in Tokyo yesterday approved a proposed spending total of 92.6 trillion yen for the fiscal year starting April 1. The budget cut spending for the first time in seven years, underscoring Abe's efforts to establish fiscal-discipline credentials even as he seeks to boost growth. Lawmakers will debate the spending plan in a session of Parliament that opened this week.
Deposits into funds that own speculative-grade debt, rated below Baa3 by Moody's Investors Service and lower than BBB- at S&P, climbed to a record $72.4 billion last year, according to data from EPFR Global.
"Japan's credit markets were lagging behind, weighed down by the strong yen," Tomone Kawachi, executive partner in Tokyo at WERU Asset Management Co., said in a telephone interview yesterday. "Now that it has been removed, they are catching up."

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I love shooting all of my handguns but this one still makes my jaw drop.
What other caliber has such a mystique?
You can go anywhere in the world and others will associate a large wheelgun with the infamous Dirty Harry and his .44 Magnum.
It's a true classic in every sense. Power, accuracy, versatility. It has it all.
True- there are other upstarts more powerful, some are downright brutal, but, they are not true to the orriginal moniker: "the most power handgun in the world".
An American Calssic: The .44 Magnum- post em up boys.
I love shooting all of my handguns but this one still makes my jaw drop.
The one in my avatar is 27 years and it's still like new. I also have the box it came in.
Oh sure, go ahead and taunt me with your .44 pics. I still could kick myself for selling my .44 Ruger Redhawk. I really regret that move.
My trail gun: a Ruger New Model Super Blackhawk .44 Mag with a 5 1/2" barrell. Simple but effective.
Here's mine, A Ruger Super Redhawk with 9.5 bbl and a Simmons 4x32 Scope It's a definite rush to shoot a 44 . I had a Redhawk that I sold to get my Para LTC. I still miss it. But getting this makes it a little easier.
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Hey guys,
I was wondering where and how to post 516 pieces of 44 mag assorted brass? I couldn't find a sales section!
Some is once fired, some twice and some new! I might sell my dillion dies also.
Yup! That's the problem!!
My 7.5" Redhawk, with 180 grain JHPs loaded over a stiff charge of Winchester 296 ball powder.
(Sorry about the quality of the pic; captured from a vid clip):
Nice stuff guys...
Esp the Smith above.
If I owned that gun, I'd be feelin' 'lucky'.
Yep, gotta love the .44!
I have a 7.5" Ruger SBH, I hope to go hunting with it this year (if I get drawn)
I'm saving my money and will add a S&W M29 (pre-lock) to my cabinet one of these days!
So many toys, so little $$.
How do I like the .44 Magnum?
Let me count the ways:
And, Smiths:
I DO like 'em.
Bob Wright
Please excuse. The bottom Ruger is only a .44 Special.
Oops! Forgot one. this Ruger was absent the day the family portrait was made:
Its an old three screw. Was a studded barrel model, now gelded.
Thank you, Robert.
I was hoping you chimed in.
Beautiful line up ....and yes, now I'm really jealous.


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Awesome!Now if we could all get this ingame :DI still dream of the day of Wowhead inside WoW live.
Cool, should make things easier heh.
How many necklaces does Bernice have?
Excellent indeed!
As usual, WowHEAD you are really the ONLY place one needs to come for information for WoW.
Great! It seems like you followed my suggestion from almost a year ago, but for some reason you didn't give a option to see ALL (Non-faction-related) NPCs on the map, only rare ones and ones that are related to the Horde or Alliance.:(I think you should just add a option to see all NPCs, and then just add the regular NPC filter from this page, this feature would be much better if you do that, imo
Epic win.
wohow, now to NPCs inside dungeons please :) old and new :) instead of This NPC can be found in <Zone name> :)
The features offered by wowhead are so far ahead from any other fansite/db. Glad to see things are still progressing here, and that youre being creative with new web technologies to offer us with new and better tools.
Wowhead, i offer my body to make multiple babies with you awesomes, plz take my internets.
very handy feature
Great Idea. I love it. No more need for map coordinante addons :) looks like an amazingly easy search feature.I always thought Wowhead was great, but now I know it.
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By James B. Bartle
In a tough economy, pride- ful workers, determined man- agement and a will to expand has turned a former company in Sullivan around, along with a new name and look along the North Service Rd.
Carden Machine, now ALM Tech Group, 975 North Ser- vice Rd. West, has brightened the outside of their facility with new paint and landscap- ing, made improvements to the inside of their facility and is focused on expanding the company through strength, durability and reliability un- der the direction of company president, Robert Doherty.
In December 2011, the current operation in Sullivan was down to nine employees. Since Doherty's arrival in March 2012, the turnaround in the business has begun with some 35 employees working in the 55,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Sullivan. With plans of expan- sion on the horizon, just in the last week the company
has added six employees and another 10 are expected to be added for a second shift.
"The key thing here is a change in philosophy," said Doherty. "We have changed from being not only a ma- chine shop but to a technol- ogy-based company. We are offering more now than just machining parts. I'm proud to be here in Sullivan and be a part of the community. The workforce we have is the heart and sole of our company, and really any company. My wife and children were here for our company picnic recently from California and, within that four hours, my wife come up to me and stated, 'I can see why you want to be here. These are good people.'"
Doherty went on to say, "You can buy talent. You can't buy the heart and sole that is needed to survive in this tough world. The people here are dedicated to this company and, with that, the company will do very well."
Doherty commented that the ALM Tech Group is about diversification and being able to utilize their manufacturing equipment and employees to get into different segments of the industry.
The company, which is known for its history in ma- chining aircraft parts, has diversified even more with the addition of composite and bullet resistant products.
The company now has a sales team in five states – Florida, Texas, Virginia, Okla- homa and Arkansas – and has gone from providing services for 20 states to now 45.
"In the last three months, we have quoted in excess of $10 million in orders," said Doherty. "We're bringing former customers back to us and adding two new mar- kets every day. We've teamed up with Optimal Armour, Wolverhampton, England, who is allowing us to use their technology to bring a high tech product to the U.S. for police and military service people. We are teaming up for joint ventures with other firms and looking to expand in the future."
Doherty stated that, five years from now, he can see the Sullivan operation em- ploying three shifts and a fu- ture corporate headquarters being built between Sullivan and St. Louis. This opera- tion would also house their composite fabrication facility which currently operates in Moberly.
Also brought into the com- pany team has been Allen Dawson, general manager, and longtime employees, Sam Witt and Matt Baer.
"We are hiring and have some top-notch, talented
people here that are commit- ted to our success and that's very critical to our future," said Doherty. "We are work- ing to bring people back to work that are currently unemployed. We have hired some military veterans back from the war in the company and really working again to put people back to work."
ALM Tech Group lists a number of companies it pro- vides parts and manufac- turing for that include the biggest names in aerospace such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Bell Helicopter, Vought Air- craft and many more.
The company states on its website, "Getting it right from the beginning isn't just our credo, it is the way to do business."


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Board of Directors
Erica Rose JD
Erica Rose is Director, R&D Compliance, for GlaxoSmithKline, where she has been involved in policy development and, more recently, compliance activities since 1995. Prior to joining GSK's predecessor, SmithKline Beecham, she was employed at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), working on the Congressional report regarding ethical, legal, economic, and social implications of patenting human DNA. Ms. Rose has a long history of involvement with industry professional societies, including the PABIOTECH Board of Directors, the Greater Philadelphia First-PABIOTECH Life Sciences Task Force, the PhRMA FDA/Biomedical Research Key Issues Team, the BIO Bioethics Committee, and BIO's subcommittees on Biomedical Information and Responsible Uses of Biotechnology. In addition she has been appointed to a diverse group of advisory boards, including the American Bar Association Coordinating Group on Bioethics; the National Conference of State Legislatures Blue Ribbon Panel on genetic technologies; the La Salle University Integrated Science, Business, and Technology Program Advisory Board; the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility Education Advisory Board; the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) dialogue group on science and religion; and the Hastings Center Working Group on Ethical Issues in the Management of Financial Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research. She has authored articles and book chapters on medical information privacy, gene patenting, and financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research, as well as co-authoring several chapters of the biotech reference book Biotechnology: Law, Business, and Regulation (M. Malinowski, ed.).


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Safari Wood Mobile
- Overview
These safari friends came straight from the jungle to keep your child wildly entertained. They're crafted from eco-friendly bamboo that's artfully laser cut to create each animal's distinctive features, from the monkey's friendly grin to the elephant's enormous ears.
- Laser cut from sustainably harvested bamboo; a rapidly renewable resource.
- Due to the nature of the material, pieces may vary slightly in color and grain.
- Includes four laser-cut animals, two notched hanging sticks, and clear thread.
- Ceiling mobile comes assembled.
- Made in the U.S.A.
- Dimensions & Care
- Overall: 10 diameter, 20" high
- Monkey: 2.5" wide x 3.5" high
- Giraffe: 3.25" wide x 7.5" high
- Elephant: 5.25" wide x 4.5" high
- Lion: 5.5" wide x 4" high
- Stick (2): 9" long x 1" wide
- Thickness: 1/8"
- Dust with a soft, dry cloth.
- Shipping & Return Info
Standard UPS can deliver most in-stock items within 4-5 business days.
Next Day Delivery and Processing
We can arrange for next day delivery to most destinations within the contiguous 48 states, for an extra charge of $17.50 per address. If we receive your order by 6pm PT Monday through Friday, you'll receive your order the next business day; orders placed on Friday after 6pm PT through Sunday will arrive on Tuesday. Note: Next Day Delivery service is not available for some oversized items, Premium In-Home White Glove Delivery, out of stock items, personalized items or for items shipped directly from the manufacturer.
Select oversized items have an additional delivery and processing surcharge; this charge is listed below the item price.
View the complete Shipping and Delivery Information page.
At Pottery Barn Kids, we take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of our products. Attention to design, materials, safety and construction is our priority. We carefully inspect your order prior to shipment; upon receipt, please inspect your purchase and notify us of any damage. We will arrange for a prompt replacement. If, within 7 days for Quick Ship upholstery and 30 days for all other products, you are dissatisfied for any reason, you may return your purchase for a refund of the merchandise value.
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- Final Sale items (identified by a price ending in $.97 or $.99)
- Items damaged through normal wear and tear.
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- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 8 skinless bone-in chicken thighs (or breast fillets)
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 cup reduced fat cream cheese
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 1 can artichoke hearts in brine/water, drained and chopped
- 1 can mushroom pieces
- 4 cups loosely packed baby spinach leaves
- Salt and pepper to season
- 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
- Preheat oven to 400°. Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper to taste. Add olive oil to Dutch oven; heat over medium-high heat. Add chicken, flesh-side down, and sear for 2 - 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown; drain any excess fat.
- Stir garlic in and heat through (about 1-2 minutes). Add in cream cheese and occasionally stir it until it begins to melt down and become thinner in consistency. Pour in the chicken broth and add the Parmesan cheese.
- Bring to the boil, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer until sauce thickens (about 5 minutes). Stir through artichokes, mushrooms, and spinach; simmer until the spinach has just started to wilt.
- Place the skillet into preheated oven and continue to roast for 15-20 minutes (or until completely cooked through).


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The trial of the man accused of stabbing to death a Stokes Valley father has been aborted on day three of the trial.
The murder trial, which was set down for two weeks in the High Court at Wellington, was aborted this morning when a juror said they knew information about the case.
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PROGRAM NAME: Comprehensive Career Guidance Program
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Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption. Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landeau. 342 pp. MIT Press, 1998. $25.
Although historians and anthropologists tell us that some form of surveillance has been a part of nearly all societies, it is clear that this activity took on new dimensions in the West with the onset of modernity. Two major developments—industrial production and the monitoring of work performance, and the rise of nation-state bureaucracies and their regulatory functions—made surveillance and information-gathering more formal, impersonal and rationally organized. Since then, social scientists and others have attempted to understand the impact of modern forms of surveillance on political power, social control and individual privacy.
This volume makes an important contribution to this scholarship by focusing on the intersection of new telecommunication technologies and government access to these electronic channels.
For the uninitiated, cryptography involves the transformation of a message into a form that is incomprehensible to anyone who does not have the "key" needed to restore the message into normal text. In Privacy on the Line, Diffie, the inventor of public-key cryptography, and Landeau, a professor of computer science, set out to uncover the technical, social and political aspects of recent debates over wiretapping and encryption. Their thesis is straightforward: Given our increasing reliance on electronic communication, especially in commerce, U.S. government attempts to restrict the availability of cryptography to systems that provide law-enforcement agencies with a "master key" threaten to undermine privacy. Although these agencies claim they cannot ensure public safety without such access, the authors contend that, given the government's history of invading privacy, there is much at stake here. Thus Diffie and Landeau contend, "If people are to enjoy the same effortless privacy in the future as they have in the past, the means to protect that privacy must be built into their communication systems."
Given their backgrounds, I find the authors to be most effective when they are addressing the technical side of the issue. In several very readable chapters, they provide an interesting account of the historical development of cryptography, covering the basics of how the systems work, as well as significant advancements through the wars (both hot and cold). They also do a credible job outlining the social functions of intelligence and law enforcement agencies and their practices and procedures such as wiretapping. Yet I do find in their discussions of the government and of their concerns about privacy in general a tendency toward what I would call misplaced Big Brotherism.
For example, their argument that "when government has the power to invade, abuses occur," rests mainly on dated examples of extraordinary cases such as the FBI's targeting Martin Luther King, Jr., and antiwar activists, among others. (Oddly, a section labeled "The 1990s" contains one small paragraph with two examples of employees "browsing" through government data bases.) These famous cases were egregious abuses indeed. Yet, although the authors readily acknowledge the growth of commercial and corporate surveillance in everyday life, they seem to have little concern for it and even make the dubious claim that governmental data collection "dwarfs that of private enterprise."
I find it ironic that Diffie and Landeau seek to protect the privacy of the U.S. business community with techniques such as cryptography when it is these very organizations that are systematically and wantonly abusing the privacy of their own employees and customers alike. Despite these reservations, I learned quite a bit from Privacy on the Line. Anyone interested in issues of technology, privacy and electronic communication will find it informative as well.—William G. Staples, Sociology, University of Kansas
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"It's a great recognition at the national level. I owe it to the entire ISRO team who are behind me", the ISRO Chairman said after it was announced that he is one of the 10 Padma Vibhushan awardees.
"I think ISRO has been doing very well in the last few years. If you take the last five years, we (ISRO) have completed something like 23 missions", he said. "I have a really golden opportunity to lead such a wonderful team. Recognition has come on account of that".
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My Romas are now ripening apace - the fungus-addled plants look shot to pieces, mind! Sungolds also doing well, although another bloomin' stem is going black. Lots of fruit On super sweet 100s and pale green so hopefully comin soon... Black Russians,which have never grown before, more of a concern. Some decent sized fruits but resolutely green. Hopefully this late warm spell in the UK will do the job tho?
It's your best chance. Temperature is the key. Ultimately, though, you can always ripen them inside. In fact if the temp drops to about 15C outside, it's by far the best bet. Given that it's warmer than that inside. Providing they've begun the change from their dark green they should only take a couple of weeks to ripen.
And a tip: for the larger varieties, sit them on their shoulders.
Oh no! I've done that. And snapped entire branches by twisting off fruit because I was too lazy to go and get the secateurs.
If it has started to change from its dark green it will ripen inside. Give it time, even a couple of weeks. It would be a shame to turn a Pink Brandywine into a fried breakfast!
Bugs aren't your problem. It's fungal - Black Spot - about the most common fungal problem for roses. I get plagues of it. There's not much you can do once it's in situ. The plant will drop its leaves for winter. Collect all the affected leaves and destroy them.
At this late stage of the season, pinching out the growing tips isn't going to make a lot of difference. Any more fruit that sets won't have time to mature and the existing fruit that is starting to ripen needs nothing more than warm temperatures.
Probably nothing, Shugs. Wisteria can take more than 6 years to bloom. I've known them yet to bloom after 10 years. Very frustrating things, Wisteria. One thing they do need is masses of sun.
Just re-sent the first message, Jo. I don't recall a "validate recipient" button. Which doesn't mean there isn't one, the heat here has fried my brain.
Okay, I'll re-send the first message. The email notifications for posts and PMs have been very erratic lately. I usually have to go and check the PMs manually to see if I've received any.
Cuore di Bue (it literally means Ox Heart) is a very popular tom here in Italy. I swapped some tom seedlings with my greengrocer, Marco, who grows his own. He gave me a Cuore di Bue plant grown from his own saved seeds. Crossed seeds in this case, unfortunately. The plant produced a couple of Ox Hearts and a lot of smaller variations. Not bad flavour, though.
Which Costoluto is it, Maud? C. Genovese and C. Fiorentino are the two main ones. They're both heavily ribbed. In fact Costoluto means just that, ribbed.
The air circulation is good anti-fungal problem procedure. I'd close the windows at night, too, to keep up the temperature. At this time of the season a fungal infection isn't going to do any long-term damage because there isn't a long-term. So to speak.
Bob, toms don't need direct sunshine to ripen. It's all about temperature. Low-20s and above is optimum. The lower you go, the longer it takes.


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GUEST COLUMN: People don't understand what addiction is
Editor's Note: This is the first of four first-person accounts written by an area woman who is participating in Adult Drug Court of Ionia and Montcalm counties. The woman's identity won't be revealed, but her life of addiction and recovery is an important story to tell in her own voice. Anyone interested in becoming involved with adult drug court or a court mentoring program may contact Kristi Jeffrey via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
People today use the word "addicted" so flippantly, so carelessly. They say they are addicted to a game, to Facebook, to their cell phones. They say it as if it were amusing, as if being addicted equated to happiness, to enjoyment.
For me, it does not, and never will. I am a 32-year-old mother of two, with a fulltime job, a place to live, a vehicle, a healthy relationship, a high level of education and a supportive, wonderful family. I am a drug addict. My name isn't important, because I could be anyone. The Realtor who sold the house you live in, the clerk at the grocery store, the accountant who handles your taxes. There is no way to distinguish an addict on sight, nothing to make us stand out in a crowd. But we are individuals, with our own story to tell. This is mine.
My addiction started later in life, at the age of 29. I was prescribed low grade narcotic medication as a solution to back pain caused by scoliosis and arthritis in my spinal cord. Ironically, I was petrified of taking them, because I'd heard how addictive they were. Eventually, I was convinced by someone I trusted that it would be fine.
Within a month, those pills didn't work anymore. I had developed a tolerance. So I found stronger pills, then stronger yet. The addiction consumed me, it was all I cared about. I needed to get high, needed it like oxygen, in order to function through the day. I spent money I didn't have, money for bills, for rent and borrowed money I couldn't pay back. I soon started to steal, to fund my addiction. I neglected housework, my children, any and all responsibility in the pursuit of a buzz. Because I was addicted, I became a monster, filled with an uncontrollable rage and anger directed at anyone around me. I could see nothing positive in my life, everything was colored by negativity and anger. I had mood swings, I was depressed, I snapped at people when they spoke to me. I isolated myself from anyone who didn't do drugs, I had no use for them. Instead, I surrounded myself only with people who could help me get high. Those were my real friends, and I trenched myself so deep into denial that I was convinced this was a normal lifestyle.
Addicts do not become addicted because they don't have certain possessions, a lack of a structured family life, or a simple lack of self control. For me, my addiction was both genetic and environmental. I have what's called "abnormal biochemistry," passed to me from my father, who was an alcoholic. To explain it simply, my body and my brain do not process stimulants the same way a nonaddict does. The pleasure center and dopamine receptors in my brain are stimulated differently than a nonaddict's, which sets off "cravings" for more of the drug that gave me the "high." Basically, my brain likes it too much, and when it's rewarded, it wants more, in a way that is uncontrollable.
Humans are creatures that learn from our peers, and mimic those around us. My environment at the time consisted of people who engaged in drug abuse and didn't think there was anything wrong with it, accepted it as normal. Therefore, I did, too. That's not to say I blame them. I made my own choices, set my own course. It became instinctive to behave that way, because of the outside influences I had. Because of this and my genetics, I began to fight a losing battle.
Today: "People don't understand what addiction is"
July 16: "Finding rock bottom in the Montcalm County Jail"
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I was shocked. Our target only had one end-cap and there wasn't much on it. And, truth be told...I LOVE Nate, but the quality was questionable. Not what I expected from something with his name on it.ReplyDelete
Ugh! I went on the weekend as well, not knowing that the Nate Berkus collection had arrived. Sadly it was already SO picked over, but I did see a gold lamp base I absolutely loved, and a few black and white chevron jars with my name written all over them. I am loving that lamp in your office!ReplyDelete
I'm totally nosey-- what/where/who is in the frame next to James?ReplyDeleteReplies
Ha! I'm nosey too! That's my mom and dad and one of my younger brothers. :)Delete
Loving your office so far! Can't wait to see more - that lamp is great - where did you get it??ReplyDelete
LOVE the Nate Berkus collection, and can't wait to see what you did with a flat sheet!! CURIOUS!ReplyDelete
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I shopped from home for the Nate Berkus collection since the nearest Target is two hours away. Plus I have heard so many reports of understocked shelves for opening day. Online, the cupboards were not bare. I purchased a few items I particularly am drawn to like the gold urchin, the oak and snakeskin box, the hammered bowl. looking forward to seeing how you style your Nate-pieces.ReplyDelete
I shopped from home for the Nate Berkus opening -- the items I wanted were sold out online within hours and judging from the number of people who went to their targets with understocked shelves, I'm glad I saved the gas and paid the shipping costs. Looking forward to seeing how you style your Nate treasures!ReplyDelete


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I've decided to call these Monthly reviews now since I don't seem to be able to update them weekly much anymore. I've been busy, so here are some notable Go Media happenings for May.
- Launched a new Go Media site at www.gomedia.us. We haven't updated our portfolio and design services site in such a long time. It was overdue for a facelift. We are still adding projects and case studies to the portfolio, but it's ready for you to look at.
- Launched a NEW affiliate program for the Arsenal with PepperJam network. Our affiliate manager is Tim Seigfried and his email is email@example.com and his AIM is TimPJN. We've also increased the commission payout to 20% of every sale you generate. We're no longer using our self-hosted affiliate plan. Registration is now open to become an affiliate, so get on over to PJN and sign up. Once you're approved to PepperJam Network, log into your account and click on the "Find Partners" tab. Once you find us, click on the "Join" button on the right hand side. Once you're in the program, use the "Generate Links" tab to grab text links or banners to promote the Arsenal. You'll find a bunch of awesome new banners and links to use. Not everyone who applies to become an affiliate is accepted. We want to make sure our affiliates are high quality and have something in common with designers.
- Worked on Arsenal 3 design with @adam_wagner and it's coming along quite nicely. We will have some PDF wireframes for people to review shortly. We're going to be changing the Arsenal's infrastructure and the overall vector buying experience. We're also revamping the concept of "My Arsenal" and we'll switching to a "deposit funds" type system like a lot of other stock resource sites.
- Tattoo Highway, a new reality show on A&E premiered last Wednesday. Go Media did the logo, animations, and in-show graphics for it last summer. It's great to see it finally air! Bill did the logo, I did the 3D animation, and Haley did the color, editing, effects, and map animations.
- Did a zombified Blink-182 tribute tee for Paint the Stars clothing. It came out pretty nice, pics below.
- Worked on posters for Cedar Lee Theatre for their Cult Film Series. Go Media did 3 concepts for them and they went with my colleague Chris Comella's rad poster. The posters were meant to advertise their Cult Film series but were mainly focused on the film A.P.E. in 3D.
- Illustrated Jesus stabbing the Devil with a sword for Christian clothing brand Disciple.
- Did a quick logo/lettering job for a band called God Damned (funny, how I this job came in the same week as Jesus killing the Devil).
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Along with the fluorescent orange lips, the call of the nineties was among the first elements to capture our attention as soon as Rag & Bone's reenvisioning of the grunge era as channeled in their spring / summer 2014 collection, walked the New York fashion week (NYFW) runway bursting with confidence.
Done in a way that had cool written all over it, the reimagining of the spaghetti straps and the oversized sweaters, crossed paths with plenty of sportswear traces. The resulting offering had the downtown girl's wardrobe essentials stripped to a tough vibe enfolding in minimalism.
Cricket sweaters with deep V-necklines, net-covered slip dresses and A-line pleated skirts, together with effortless overalls grounded by timeless shades of black and white, spoke about a disheveled aesthetic built in modern tones. Accented with cross-body bags and top-handle totes, Rag & Bone's collection embodies the spirit of past, present and future New York without loosing an ounce of its relevance.
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It was no more than a single thought, one small five-letter word that was barely two syllables. But the impact of it would change the course of vampire history. Permanently.
Bella knew, with no small amount of certainty, that she would recognize that voice anywhere, any day. A passing thought, a whisper in a crowded room, a recollection of someone she'd never known. It didn't matter to her.
James' voice was indescribably burned into her psyche, melded into her bones and infecting her lungs. Her entire body screamed out at the sound of his thoughts; the predator in her chest roared with a violent, uncontainable power and lunged itself forward.
The pain was immaculate. Tendrils of exquisite, needle-thin electric currents of anguish ripped through her chest; the force of ten thousand panicked and frightened wild bulls tore through her ribcage and sent her onto her back in the dirt. Her throat was sore and Edward's petrified expression loomed over her, blocking out all view of anything else. She could feel her back arching painfully and her arms and legs twitching against her will. It felt as if she were being pelted with large rocks from all angles, the pain was such a brilliant white over her vision that she no longer even saw Edward.
In the great chamber, the walls were falling in around the remaining vampires. Enormous hunks of stone and mortar collapsed and fell around him. Aro's thoughts had been silenced instantly; James took a great amount of diabolic pleasure in having gotten to witness the first death due to the crumbling building. Aro hadn't even had enough time to consider what was going on. The first and, so far, largest of the stones had landed directly upon his head; almost as if it had been planned.
However, it hadn't; and James was desperately attempting to keep the larger fragments from imitating the first upon his own head. He was growing weary, having used much of his power before this, and the task of focusing on a piece of the ceiling or wall and tossing it away from him was becoming less and less interesting for his exhausted telekinesis. While he managed to retain enough focus to shove the larger portions of the building away from him, he was not quite able to do so with all of them. Including some not-so-small sections of ceiling that rained down upon him.
James heard the deafening crunch of bones beneath stone and felt the tiniest flare of pride at the possibility that Acanthus had finally been crushed. The pride, however, was short lived when the sudden, torturous pain took over his chest.
The crunching sound had been his ribs, he realized. He wasn't breathing; he realized that was probably due to lungs that certainly had to be entirely flat based on an estimate of the weight that was on his chest. Somewhere in the undercurrent of his ever-speedy thoughts, James understood that blood was seeping from a wound on his head. His vision was slowly starting to fog up on the edges; not the kind of fog that Gloria controlled, and this understanding sparked a series of domino effects in his consciousness.
One, he'd lost. Which meant that Bella was in danger; a world of danger, in fact. One she probably didn't even understand.
Two, he could never fully explain the dangers she would face. Not in the amount of time he had to channel his thoughts to her before the fog ate up the rest of his vision. Not in a hundred years. The perils she would be facing made his stomach turn, just knowing what was going to present itself to her made his throat close up with the sheer defeat he felt at not protecting her.
Three, his place beside her would be taken up by a man not capable of the job. Despite Edward's most sincere attempts, and James had no doubts about the sincerity of Edward, he simply was not the man for the job. James was, and he knew it; but that knowledge wouldn't save him. His understanding of the situation would not prevent the outcome.
Four, he had to face it. As difficult as it would be, he had to come to terms with the harsh realities of this world.
Five, Bella was more than he had ever imagined. He had witnessed something that vampires considered a myth; he, himself, had been one of the first to fall to his knees before her. He'd been given an honor that, simply put, his people had yet to learn the magnitude of. He knew this because it was his purpose to know this.
Everything he had ever done, ever seen, had led him to this point in his life. The cynical side of his brain said, "this point in his death" but he couldn't bring himself to accept that yet. He had been conditioned, created for the events that were about to be set into motion. His soul had been waiting for this.
Every single insignificant thing that had ever happened had happened to get to this point. As much as his body wanted him to shut his eyes and let the events progress, minus one person, he couldn't allow himself to do it.
He was hers, and she deserved more. It was part of his genetic make-up, he had no choice but to be for her. In every way, in all ways.


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Today, Atlantis Computing moves into the hardware market with a new hyperconverged solution, HyperScale. HyperScale is based on the company's flagship product, USX. Technically, this solution is not a revolution, but it is an evolution on Atlantis Computing's part. This is the first time it has delivered an end-to-end bespoke solution that tightly couples certified hardware with its flagship USX product. More to the point, unlike most new entrants into this space, Atlantis has entered straight in with a full product set, multiple-hypervisor support, and three OEM deals. This is in addition to its own Supermicro-based in-house appliance. What's more, HyperScale has a starting price that does not set your teeth on edge.
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Most will know Atlantis from the days of ILIO Persistent VDI and ILIO Diskless VDI. I would expect that most even consider it a niche product with the single goal of accelerating desktops. I have to admit, I was shocked to find that this is no longer the case. It is well known that I have been quite vocal in my thoughts about this company. People I know and trust have had bad things to say about its performance and stability. Admittedly, this is hearsay and also very old knowledge. But mud sticks. I also have to say I have undergone a road to Damascus moment regarding this company and its products. They have obviously improved on stability; further, the performance and functionality have gone stellar.
Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI 4.0 – VDI Game Changer?
Atlantis Computing have released the first in-memory storage solution for persistent VDI. Setting aside the remoted experience, peripheral support, licensing and off-line access – the most nemesising nemesis for VDI is hardware scale. A major hardware limiting factor is storage performance.
In a transition from physical PCs to virtual work spaces you can move 50,1000,20,000 people from an environment where everyone has their own hard drive in their own device, to a shared environment where there are (hopefully) no longer 50,1000,20,000 hard-drives. You do this to achieve cost savings. Still, in the majority of instances, the desktop file system and the apps that run on it weren't designed to understand such consolidation. Many a desktop project fails because the storage infrastructure wasn't architected with these mismatches in mind.
Yet, desktop virtualization solutions have have matured to accommodate such issues. A range of increasingly impressive VDI appliances: dedicated drive arrays. Way back in 2010 we were reporting that Atlantis Computing were looking to Transform Desktop Computing with their In Line Image and Optimization (ILIO) product. Atlantis Computing's core ILIO product sought to address optimizing non-persistent VDI instances, then offered a RAM based solution with their ILIO DiskLess VDI, then presented a way to optimize Citrix XenApp instances. Atlantis' offerings look to dramatically reduce the physical hardware required to support virtualized desktop infrastructures.
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Tennis appeared at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 but was dropped from the programme after the Paris 1924 Games.
It returned 64 years later, with Miloslav Mecir (Czechoslovakia) and Steffi Graf (West Germany) winning gold in the two singles tournaments at Seoul 1988.
The Tennis competition at London 2012 will be held on the grass courts of Wimbledon, which has its own Olympic history. The venue staged the Tennis competition when London first hosted the Olympic Games in 1908, with Great Britain winning all six gold medals.
Mixed doubles will be contested at Olympic level in London for the first time since 1924.
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I hold an M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University and a B.Sc. (Honours) in Mathematics from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (Canada).
My research focuses on queueing theory, convergence rates to equilibrium for Markov processes, and large deviations. I am also interested in applied problems related to dynamic pricing and revenue management.
I am grateful to have been supported by an Arvanitidis Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF) in Memory of William K. Linvill, as well as NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS M + PGS D) during my studies.
At Stanford, I have served as a Course Assistant (CA) for MS&E 321 Stochastic Systems, MS&E 322 Stochastic Calculus and Control, OIT 247 Optimization and Simulation Modeling (Accelerated), and OIT 668 Dynamic Pricing and Revenue Management. In Spring 2016, I was also the instructor for MS&E 121 Introduction to Stochastic Modeling.
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I recently came into possession of a stack of old Hawaii Observer newspapers. If you don't remember the Observer, here's the dry basics as listed in the UH library's collection:
Frequency: Monthly
Paper: Dec 3, 1974 to Mar 9, 1978
Indexed in: Hawaii Pacific Journal Index
The observer tried to deliver long form, feature-style writing on key issues and events. Leafing through the old issues provides quite a bit of insight into modern Hawaii politics. Warren Iwasa, a sometimes commenter here, served as an editor. Maybe he can provide some additional first-person context.
In any case, two articles caught my eye in my first pass through the collection, and looked relevant enough to today's headlines to scan the oversize pages in sections and then piece them back together digitally.
First: "The education of a teacher negotiator," by the Obserer's associate editor, Brian Sullam, is a long interview with Joan Husted, who was then HSTA's lead negotiator. September 18, 1973.
Husted, who retired at the end of 2007 after 36 years with HSTA, has been in the news again this week with comments on the rejection of the state's latest contract offer.
She told the Star-Advertiser:
Husted said the contract rejection has serious ramifications for relations among the Department of Education, the state administration and the union.
"It's not a minor event," she said. "It's a major, major event. How do you problem-solve from this point forward? How is the administration assured that HSTA can sell what they agreed to? And how can HSTA agree to things without knowing where their teachers are? This is a very serious problem."
In any case, Husted's Observer interview gives a description of bargaining with the state is quite revealing, providing a good "feel" for the process. At one point, she was asked whether you ever raise your voice during negotiations.
Oh, yes. You raise your voice, but you have to do it selectively. There are two things that destroy a negotiator. Temper and fatigue. It is often said that the guy who will get the agreement will be the guy who outlasts the other fellow. You can't afford to lose your temper at the table because you will say things that you don't want the other side to know. But there are times when you selectively lose your temper, you get absolutely and positively indignant that they would even suggest something like that. It is a lot of bluff. The other thing to watch for is the point when you are so fatigued that you are willing to give away anything just to get away from the damned table. It is a hard process to describe.
Ah, but she described it so well!
Second: "How do we get from here to there, and how much is it going to cost?" by Tuck Newport, February 24, 1977.
The names are different, the costs much lower than today's numbers, but this Hawaii Observer story about Honolulu's rail transit debate covers the same issues that continue to surround the debate 35 years later.
The story describes the frustration of city council members after failing to get good answers to their questions about the financial plan for the rail. Cost, and the depth of public support for rail, were open questions.
Newport wrote:
There is no evidence of widespread popular support for rapid transit. City Council members and State legislators, even those sympathetic to transit, uniformly report opposition to it among their constituencies."
Back in 1977, then-Mayor Frank Fasi was proposing to ask the legislature for county authority to impose a one-percent sales tax, with half going for transit.
"What if we don't get a one-percent sales tax? asked Councilman Frank Loo.
"That is a decision for you to make," replied Fasi.
Then, in another eerily relevant passage, Newport wrote:
At the back of the Council Chambers, Representative Ben Cayetano, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, told reporters that he would oppose release of the State's share of matching funds for the environmental impact statement and preliminary engineering. Despite the Legislature's tentative commitment to a 14-mile guideway, Cayetano has grown increasingly skeptical about the proposed system: "I'm having second thoughts. About its route. About its cost. About whether we really need it."
And so it goes on this Sunday morning.
Oh, by the way, say "Happy Birthday, Ms. Meda!"


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Before reading the book I had heard only about UML, and knew only the pure basics of it. Now with understanding of those other two I have more tools in my use for designing software. OCL aka Object Constraint Language is actually a part of the UML standard and it is a tool for giving explicit constraints without ambiguities of natural languages. IFML is Interaction Flow Modeling Language, which is an extension to UML for modeling user interfaces.The flow of the book is quite good, I rarely had to reread sections in order to understand them (and none of these cases were due to the editing of the book). One minor issue was that sometimes the figures were quite far from the text referring to them. Nevertheless the figures themselves were excellent in clarifying the issues.As in many other books in the field it uses a bit simplified, but still quite realistic, running example for which the object-oriented design is done in the book. The design goes from finding out what the system has to do to how the system has to communicate with database. While doing this reader is introduced for example to the use cases, stereotypes like report or CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete), patterns, functional modeling, testing, and user interface.The online chapters (which were included completely on the O'Reilly Ebook) makes the written index bit less useful as only the chapter heading is given for them, but the sub-chapter headings are in the electronic table of context. I have to assume that those chapters are "missing" in the actual paper version of the book and they have to be downloaded from publishers site.I do have minor issue about one advice given in the book. The use of NULL values in relational databases. C. J. Date has advised against this in his books.Overall now I feel lot more confident if I have to design a complicated software from the scratch and I have to thank this book about it. I'll give a solid 4/5 (quite close to 5/5)ps. I received this book free of charge for review purposes through O'Reilly Blogger Review program
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FIRST EDITION of the first announcement of differential calculus.
"The controversy with Newton on priority of invention of the calculus does not detract from the superiority of Leibniz' method of notation, one retained in modern use. He applied his new method to the solution of the cubic parabola and the inverse methods of tangents and many problems left unsolved by Descartes. Fifteen years after Newton's first work in fluxions and nine after his own independent discovery, Leibniz published [Nova Methodus], his first announcement of the differential calculus" (Dibner 109).
"Leibniz was an almost universal genius whose place in the history of mathematics depends on his being an independent inventor of the infinitesimal calculus and on his contributions to combinatorial analysis which foreshadowed the development of modern mathematical analysis... The Acta Eruditorum was established in imitation of the French Journal des Scavans in Berlin in 1682 and Leibniz was a frequent contributor. Another German mathematician (E.W. Tschirnhausen) having published in it his paper on quadratures, based on researches that Liebniz had communicated to him, Leibniz at last decided in 1684 to present to the world the more abstruse parts of his own work on the calculus. His epoch-making papers give rules of calculation without proof for rates of variation of functions and for drawing tangents to curves...
"The infinitesimal calculus originated in the 17th century with the researches of Kepler, Cavalieri, Torrecelli, Fermat and Barrow, but the two independant inventors of the subject, as we understand it today, were Newton and Leibniz... Although both Newton and Leibniz developed similar ideas, Leibniz devised a superior symbolism and his notation is now an essential feature in all presentation of the sibject.... With the calculus a new era began in mathematics, and the development of mathematical physics since the 17th century would not have been possible without the aid of this powerful technique" (PMM 160).
IN: Acta Eruditorum, 1684-1685, pp. 467-73. The full volume offered, with volume title, index, and addenda. Thick quarto, contemporary half-calf with elaborately gilt-decorated spine; edges dyed red. Corners on binding bumped and worn. Text generally very clean with only ocassional light browning.


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governor wrote:barnym17 wrote:Are you sure the engine is why they are fast? 2 more mph in the corner translates to a lot faster laptime?
You hit the nail on the head, had my share of motors claimed (12) when I used to run IMCA and NEVER did a guy claim one of my motors and beat me with it.
Speed is in the setup.
.raceman14 wrote:If you win, won't they toss you out on acid ported intake manifold???
Why don't you go the extra step and find out what the manifolds actually flow so you can determine fr yourself what is better. I am sure there is a good head porter with a flow bench in your area if not it only costs about $25 to ship a manifold anywhere in the country maybe $50 if it is far.
I flow 3-4-5 manifolds a month, sometimes more sometimes less. I charge $100 to flow all 8 ports. When you have a manifold restriction it is critical to get the best head flow you can. Do you know where you are there? I have recently flowed some EQ heads and have a valve job profile that kicks the flow up on them pretty good.In my opinion you are wasting your time with those old cast pieces, they weigh a ton and unless you had someone really good work on them they won't be much better than stock most acid porters don't take material out in the places where it needs to be removed and I have flowed many a $1000 cast iron manifold that was worse than a stock one. Airflow does not always like more volume as it can kill the port velocity.
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Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick and Chris Pine star in Disney's adaptation of James Lapine's Broadway musical Into The Woods. It follows the classic tales s of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel, all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch who has put a curse on them. Rob Marshall directs the pic that bows on December 25. Check out the first trailer that dropped this morning:
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Are they keeping it back at little that it's a musical?
They don't want to scare anyone away.
Incredible! Disney Marketing is afraid of showing people that this is a MUSICAL! Imagine – if Disney Marketing had 'Sound of Music' – they would have sold it as a WWII action film against the Nazis.
I think they are downplaying, but not outright hiding. The first two credits are "from the director of Chicago" and "from the producer of Wicked", so that should definitely tip viewers off. Also, this will be playing in front of Guardians of the Galaxy, so they're making an epic, action-y trailer for that demographic. Unlike with Sweeney Todd, no one will mind that this is a musical — it is a fairy tale movie from Disney, after all. People would probably be surprised if it WASN'T a musical lol.
first thing I thought is wow- they don't want people to know its a musical- but at the sometime I though if this is as good as it looks it will be a big Oscar contender
There must be some sort of unwritten marketing law that says, "Thou shalt not let the moviegoing public know that your musical is a musical." It happens again and again, so there must be data to back it up, but it just seems cowardly. And kind of deceptive.
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isn't this the same team that brought us "Nine" ?
and also starring Jonny Depp as a prosthetic hand …
Great trailer though – love Meryl's door-blowing entrance!
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Gas line to dryer
Recently moved into a very old house. We were given a nice gas dryer and from what I hear, we'd rather have gas than electric. I have gas run the area where I need it via sideways U-shaped black pipe that goes out to within about 8' of the wall I need to come up and then back. The picture below will help clear up my poor description. (Nevermind the junk all over the crawlspace dirt. Not sure what they were doing there.) The T that goes to the soft copper is the gas they stubbed out to the back room of the house to run a space heater. I'm working to replace the furnace so I don't need to use these types of heaters. If it's best, I could take that copper and just move it where I need it. In the picture, I need the gas toward the top-right where the water lines go up - those lines feed the bathroom sink and washer, dryer is right next to it.
So, what is my best bet? Notice there are no unions in the black pipe. I could cut the pipe and put in another T with a union. I could pull the copper down and swing it around to the dryer. If I run a new T, should I run copper, or the flexible insulated line? Should I run it to an inset box in the wall?
I'm competent to do the work, I'm plenty confident of that. But, I just don't know what's appropriate material or method.
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Step one would be to size your lines and make sue they have enough capacity, as well as ensure your meter/regulator also have enough capacity. Being competent with gas means more than just being able to screw some pipe together.
Call a plumber or have the gas company hook it up for you.
i see a few problems i would let a gas certified plumber take care of that installation. better to be safe than sorry.
Sizing the system shouldn't be impossible if I know what I'm looking for. I know what pipe diameter I have and can find most other info out just like a plumber could. As for volume needed, can I get that info from the gas company? Or, do I total it by finding certain requirements from my gas appliances (dryer, furnace, stove, water heater)? I have mostly 1/2" pipe to the ends and can check what I have coming in from the meter.
As for the problems, what problems do you see? I understand plumbers need jobs just like the rest of us and hope soon I can afford to have someone come in to do some of this type of work for me. Right now, I need to get a dryer hooked up before it's too cold to be hanging clothes out on the line. That day isn't far off.
I'm posting on a DIY forum in hopes of doing this myself. If there are legitimate reasons I cannot do it myself, please make them known. Otherwise, please offer whatever help you can.
Get rid of the copper completely, swing the Tee around install a shut off valve right at the Tee, run 1/2" black pipe over and up to the dryer, install another gas shut off above the floor then run a approved 1/2" gas flex line to dryer, leak check all work and fire it up.
Most folks advise against DIYers doing gas because folks aren't willing to do enough research, planning, and testing to do it right. And with gas, their mistakes often injury and/or damage the property of their family and neighbors.
I would suggest doing the following before you get two far along:
1) Check with you're building department to see if homeowners can run gas. Many places do not allow homeowners to do this sort of work.
2) Read over the fuel code that your building department uses. Ask questions and reread it until it all makes sense.
3) Make sure that you know all the restrictions on types of fittings (such as no unions in non-accessible places)
4) Size your gas system. The fuel code you're under will have the details and the tables you need. For example here's a summary provided by one city
5) Make sure you know what testing needs to take place, and under what conditions. Differing jurisdictions have differing test requirements.
Something as a simple clogged orifice from crystallized gas in a line, to an improperly bonded gas line. could cost loss of life and the least is property damage which by the way if the fire marshal determines that a fire was caused by a gas related leak, and the insurance finds out that the work was done by an unlicensed person or contractor guess who's not getting paid on their insurance claim. So when the guys here on these forms that have been doing this for a while in my case 38 plus years, recommend you have a licensed professional do the work I tend to believe its in your best interest. These sites are for the homeowner manageable task, change a fill valve on a toilet, fix a leak here and there. Big difference between changing a flapper VS running a new gas branch. I love how people minimize a trade they have no clue as what it takes to become a master plumber. Much less a licensed contractor. I can understand saving a few bucks but necessity VS practicality VS common sense VS safety ? anyway it's not my house or next door to my house, so go for it. but before check out this link
It appears the support strapping for the plumbing waste lines and water/gas supply lines are missing. A floor joist is missing a chunk in the lower (compression) edge, reducing its size/span to the next one down, it is compromised. The Romex electrical wiring should be stapled to the joist bottoms or run through drilled holes. The right-hand 2" drain line appears to be back-sloped, could be wrong. Are your perimeter foundation walls insulated-- as the floor is not. My 2 cents- anytime I see a picture...
where do i start....oh yes...have it all removed and installed right to code with proper sizing and supports and while this is a diy site....this is not a diy project sorry but its not...don't take it personal..take it as fact and for safety...:yes:
Yeah, I have lots of work to do. I have to insulate the whole space and staple wires still. Since moving in I had to redo a good deal of plumbing, lots of wiring, install soffit vents, and fix countless other problems. I have to put in a new beam in that crawl space including pole jacks as well as strap up pipes. Notice all the construction waste on the ground? I have to figure that whole area out.
Since I have 1/2" black pipe runs after the furnace, I don't think I'm going to have to start from scratch. This weekend I'll try to read up on code and next week call the inspector to answer questions. Thanks for all the advice.
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