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I had replaced COMCAST Cable services at my house with VERIZON FIOS on JUly 1, 2013, as I was fed up with COMCAST increasing prices without telling the customers. So I called them the day VERIZON was installed. I explained that I was traveling for a week. The guy on the phone told me that you have two weeks to return the equipment. Hence in about 14 days I went with alal the cable equipment to return. The lady on the counter said "you owe us for 15 days worth of fees. I explained she said she will take care of it provided I brought the Verizon bill to her showing the startup date to be 1st of July. So my second trip I went witht he Bill and she told me that the charges are ZEROED. I get a call i n about two months from the collection agency that I owe $53 for COMCAST. I explained to teh lady at teh collection agency my situation. She tells me to go back to COMCAST and tell them to go to second screen and zero that one. She explains that they have zeroed it because they have forwarded your charges to a collection agency.
So I go again, this time furious and (it is about 12 miles from my house) The lady behind the counter tells me that they don't have a record of me talking to anyone hence the charges are due as stated. So I call on the manager. She says that no problem she will take care of it.
Then about a month later I get another call from collection agency saying the charges are still due. So I make two more trips to COMCASTand this time talk to three diff customer serice agent (including the supervisor) who say they have submitted the charges to be waived off. She said please give these number (some kind of case number in case you still ahve problems.
Sure enough I get a call again. This time I am enraged and go back to COMCAST. The manager gets to me and says she will take it up personally and see what happens.
Then two days later the manager calls back and says they apprently did some research and she doesn't have right to cancel this charges. (after my five plus trips to comcast , 120 miles of driving and 4 -6 hours of my collective time later) So I told mey wife to go ahead and pay for it and tell them that I am goingt o write this up in a report for everyone to see how COMCAST rips people off.
My recommendation is do not get COMCAST they are shrewed and have no business ethics. As long as I am using some cable service I am not going to use COMACST and I am telling at least 100 peopel about this experience.
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It's the third time this winter St. Paul has asked cars to make way for plows without the threat of a ticket or tow.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. - Heat and winds steered the 6,020-acre Waterman Complex Fire toward trouble Wednesday as the residents of the Marks Creek area were told to pack up and leave after an early-morning Level 3 evacuation notice.
What homeowners will come back to depends on the weather and progress on the fire lines, especially the 3,800-acre Bailey Butte Fire, just 5 percent contained by late Thursday.
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Meanwhile, structure protection crews poured into the area. Firefighters from Crook and Jefferson counties and Crooked River Ranch went over their strategy to protect homes at a command post set up at the Mount Bachelor Academy, one end of a long closure of Hwy. 26E toward Mitchell.
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Jenn Allen, a startup founder and ex-girlfriend of Michael Arrington, revealed on Facebook that her relationship with the TechCrunch founder and investor was so wrought by physical and emotional abuse that she can't get out of bed.
The public Facebook post, first reported by Gawker, was published late Thursday night to Ms. Allen's 4,500 followers. Ms. Allen said that Mr. Arrington cheated on her several times during their eight year long relationship and threatened to murder her. She described the emotional abuse as "equally bad," claiming that she is "completely over" him.
Gawker confirmed that they dated in 2006 and dug up pictures of them together on her Flickr account, but concluded (by looking at publicly available evidence) that the pair did not date for eight years, as Ms. Allen implied in her Facebook post. Gawker says the personal relationship between the two has dissolved.
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I want them to realize that their words influence others who may be inclined to "take matters into their own hands" under the mistaken impression that threatening to kill someone, or physically attacking them, is somehow righteous. And I hope that my peers who tend to sit on the sideline while others attack will start to take a stand against it.
Neither Ms. Allen nor Mr. Arrington returned comment to Gawker. We've reached out to Mr. Arrington and will update the post if we hear back.
Update (4/2 | 1:00pm): This just got even uglier, as someone claiming to be Ms. Allen has now jumped into the comments on the original Gawker post. (We've reached out to Ms. Allen, in an attempt to verify whether this is really her.) In a long response, she accuses Mr. Arrington of making anonymous, mean-spirted comments about her. She also accuses Mr. Arrington of raping a friend of hers and insists that he needs to get help for rage issues:
I've looked inward and outward long enough to finally say something and know exactly why I had to say it. His lies, abuse, threats and what he did to a friend of mine 5 months ago was unforgivable as well. He raped her, and she told me in person he called her to confirm he did it after the fact. I'll leave it up to her if she ever wants to report it or say anything. This madness needs to stop, or he needs to start controlling his rage and rape 'disorder.'
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Hi! guys i have seeing a service that keeps on running after every few seconds on my taskbar. I have attached the link of the service that runs hope to hear your views .would truly appreciate your support
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No link... what Service is that? Services normally do NOT show on a taskbar?
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@ ispalten the service does show after every few seconds as i previously mentioned on my post. hope the snapshot of the service can be viewed.
Yes its a laptop with a camera but it has never been like this before and i haven't installed any application, so i don't know
Well to me, it looks like a camera and a DVD/CD recorder with a gear connecting the two?
What digital camera do you have and have you plugged it in lately or about the time this started?
I'm pretty sure this is NOT a service, but an application 'waking' up looking for a USB connection? I'd suggest you do some thing, there are different ways to go about this. One would be to open TASK MANAGER and see what is using CPU power when this happen. You can leave it open and sort by CPU, once you know the name, you can then figure out what to do.
Other ways to 'skin this cat' so to speak. I'll list them and you can GOOGLE for the app if you wish...
- Get SysInternal's Process Explorer, Process Explorer is an advanced process management utility that picks up where Task Manager leaves off. It will show you detailed information about a process including its icon, command-line, full image path, memory statistics, user account, security attributes, and more.
- Get SysInternal's Process Monitor, Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. This is NOT for an inexperienced user though.
- For W7 there is a Gadget called TOP 5, which will show you apps that are running, since this is always open, you can possibly see what is started when it appears on the taskbar.
- What's My Computer Doing is a program that shows active tasks, another that you can open and hopefully capture the filename being run.
- What's Running, another similar program but with more details. Maybe the best bet and it also has arrows show what is starting and closing. Also has a STARTUP tab, it will show what is auto-starting and info about it. Look for a camera folder on that list, it could be the culprit.
- Last, use MSCONFIG, look at the SERVICES and search the web for any that look odd? Best place would be BLACKVIPER.COM site. Also look at the STARTUP tab.
Report back what you find please or if you need more help.
Don't confuse a camera with a web cam, they are different. Wonder if you got file Updates automatically from the Laptop Vendor. I'd almost suspect something is either autostarting or running as a scheduled task due to a s/w update.
Irv S.
Looks like a Camera and Printer to me, odd to find them both together. Cameras and Scanners yes but not usually cams and print. I would also look in Device Manager for any changes that may have been made, and in Control Panel under both Cams/Scanners and Printers in case there is something that requires an update or is only partially installed/configured.
Yeah, now that I put my glasses on it does look like either a scanner or printer. Gear usually means SETTINGS/OPTIONS as well. Wonder if the Cam/Scan/Printer Control Panel applet was open when the system was once shutdown and will re-open on startup?
Irv S.
Hi! guys thank you all for your support. I managed to somehow solve my problem and this is how is solved it.
I installed process explorer to view the processes running as isplaten recommended. Found out that, it was ui0detect.exe. I googled the problem and solved it using this link http://blogs.msdn.com/b/patric.....ction.aspx .Using event viewer i managed to locate the file that prompted the unusual behavior.
It was my huawei usb dongle so i just disabled interactive service detection from my system and the problem was solved :)
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Hotel Ilio Maris is located in Mykonos town and it is one of the first hotels in Mykonos built in 1985, fully renovated in 2010 and under the eye of the well known artist Zannis Koukas, it is now an establishment that offers comfort with style in harmony with the surroundings.
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As a centre-forward playing representative hockey for South Australian state teams in her youth, Carolyne Burns became an accomplished playmaker, navigating her way to the goal or creating opportunities for others to score.
She has applied characteristic tenacity and purpose to the creation of her own business, Expr3ss!, which is gaining traction as a new model for the recruitment industry. Expr3ss! provides software packages integrated with company websites, enabling them to recruit for themselves: "An affordable, streamlined solution to securing the best staff."
It is the alternative to paying big fees to traditional recruitment firms, and part of an emerging trend for businesses of all sizes seeking cost efficiencies.
Burns launched Expr3ss! in Adelaide in about 2003, but it has been a long road to gain traction. "I tried to offer the idea to recruitment firms back then, but got shown the door as it was too disruptive to their model of upfront fees and commissions," she says. "Their fee structure annihilates businesses that want to grow."
So strong was her belief in her idea that she sold everything she owned in Adelaide, yielding about $120,000, to invest in Expr3ss! "I had to find customers, sick and tired of looking for staff, who would buy it," she says. She relocated to Sydney about 2006 and was down to her last $10,000 – after investing in product and website development, marketing and rent – before her first "breakthrough" client, Spend-less Shoes, came on board: "I haven't looked back."
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The growth trajectory is on the rise, up 80 per cent for the 2013 financial year nudging towards revenues of $3 million for 2014. Burns expects her staff numbers, now seven, to treble in the next year to serve a growing client base, about 200 and rising. Contracts range from $6000 to $40,000 per client, with options for long-term contracts or per-project agreements: "The biggest change in the past two years is that the average size of the accounts has risen dramatically to about $25,000 per year, per client."
The essence of Expr3ss! is a survey developed by Burns's business partner, psychotherapist Glyn Brokensha, featuring a 168-point opt-in checklist for prospective employees to fill out. Along with other data, it is distilled into a report to highlight performance under pressure, for example, or how the applicant may interact in a team.
It takes, on average, about six minutes to fill out the Expr3ss! application form. Burns says: "It identifies their can-do attitude, their will-do approach and their fit-to-the-role characteristics. The flash and friction points can be seen immediately."
It also eliminates the need to read through mountains of CVs: "Why use CVs as the gold standard? Time and again they are a virtual advertising document, glowingly written but not necessarily accurate.
"We are doing so much more of the client's thinking, and the system will use our matching algorithm to the point where there are three buttons to push to get the person they want," she says.
Burns also claims her software will help streamline business reporting for recruitment compliance under the Workplace Gender and Equality Act, introduced in 2012 for companies with more than 100 staff.
Clients already report a diminution in the churn rate of staff, Burns says. Beaumont Tiles, of Adelaide, says its rate has dropped from 20 per cent to 2 per cent in the past two years. Adams Cleaning and Maintenance, also in Adelaide, has dropped its churn rate from 47 per cent about six years ago to about 5 per cent."They can now win multimillion-dollar contracts because they have a secure and stable workforce, with good people on the job."
Another national client says Expr3ss! methodology has saved him about $150,000 a year in direct costs related to recruitment.
The drive to succeed
Disappointment early in life at home in suburban Ascot Park in Adelaide, and on the sporting field, has imbued Burns, "about 50", with a remarkable energy and drive to succeed. Her parents separated, money was tight and she says she played hockey "seven days a week to maintain my sanity". Chosen in the first Australian women's hockey squad, in anticipation of the introduction of the sport at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, Burns could not progress as she was unable to afford to travel interstate to train.
She turned her focus to finding work in a variety of office or data-processing roles, until a big breakthrough with her appointment as executive assistant to Roger Sexton at Morgan Grenfell in 1986. A serial autodidact, Burns admits she first accepted jobs and then found a way to succeed in the roles. She studied commerce part-time at the University of Adelaide while at Baron Partners, "to back-fill the gaps in my knowledge".
The genesis of her idea for Expr3ss! was the result of work with Baron Partners on the sharemarket listing of Hostworks Group, the Adelaide-based website hosting and digital solutions company which floated in about 1997 and was later bought by Broadcast Australia, now part of Canada Pension Plan Investment Boar.
"I needed to gather a team to build Hostworks and get the business structure in place for growth," she says. "I had to find people with specific skills and the right attitudes, and I didn't have much time."
She encountered Brokensha at a corporate conference, used his early survey templates to successfully select Hostworks staff, suggested a collaboration and Expr3ss! was the result.
"I want to be sitting on every company's website, being their careers page and helping them identify the staff and people that would see their business take off," she says.
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"We're excited about getting back into Kenan Stadium, playing in front of our fans. Looking forward to Ruffin McNeill and the East Carolina Pirates coming in here and playing."
Larry, does the way you came back and made it a game against Louisville leave you encouraged?
"I don't know if it means that we're close to where we want to be. But it was good to see that we had that never-say-die attitude, that our guys fought all the way to the end. I was proud of that fact. The problem is, why were we in that position in the first place."
How do you address that going forward?
"You hope you grow from it and learn from what happened in the second half, that you continue to play with the same intensity level that you did in the second half. You start the game that way. You don't wait for something to happen; you make something happen."
How is Gio Bernard shaping up for this week?
"He had a great practice yesterday. Had a smile on his face, was moving around really well. I'm excited about it. Hopefully he is, too."
I know you don't get into details of everything, but as far as the injury goes, is it just something that's nagging, you're not going to hurt it any more, or...
"Really, it's hard to tiptoe around the subject. I mean, it's better just to tell you that he's feeling good, had a smile on his face, practiced well yesterday, and we'll just see what happens."
Is there anything specific that you guys are focusing on this week to improve upon from the Louisville game?
"Yes. Really still trying to find out who we are as a football team. The focus this week has been on our energy level in everything we do, starting with Sunday night, then yesterday's practice, today's practice. Hopefully today's practice will be as good or better than yesterday's practice. We'll move on from there. It's really about us. We're really looking at ourselves this week."
Did you see anything in practice in the week leading up to that game that would have led you to believe that they might come out a little bit sluggish in the first half or was that a surprise to you?
"No, it really was a shock to me, it really was. I thought our guys were prepared. I thought they were ready to go. Ultimately that's my responsibility. So I was the one that failed them."
You've faced the Lincoln Riley offense before when you were at Southern Miss. What is typical of what he likes to do? Are they very similar to what you do on offense at all?
"No, not really. Lincoln comes from the Mike Leach system. They're going to throw the ball around. He has no fear of throwing it around, all over the place. They have a very, very solid philosophy, a very sound offense, all their principles. They're going to move the ball around from sideline to sideline, get the ball in a lot of different peoples' hands. They're going to take the one kid, I believe his number is 2 or 3, the receiver of theirs, move him around and get the ball in his hands.
"It looks like this year they're probably trying to run the football a little bit more than they have in the past. The one thing about it is, Lincoln knows what he's doing. He's played the position. He's going to do a great job of coaching those quarterbacks and they're going to move it around."
This is a really important game for them from a rivalry standpoint. Do you get a sense from your kids this is something special, a little bit more out of the ordinary because you're playing an in-state rival?
"Again, that's one of the things we talked about before the year, something that was going to be important to this football team. It's an in-state team, a very important game for a lot of reasons. One, because it's the next opportunity for us. You got a bad taste in your mouth. No one likes the way the last one ended. The only way you can change that is to go out and play on Saturday and play the way you're supposed to play the game."
When you put up a lot of offensive numbers, the quarterback gets a lot of attention. How is your offensive line doing for you this year?
"I think they've probably been the most consist of all the position groups up there. This last week, I was disappointed with the pre-snap penalties we had, our center/quarterback exchange. Overall, I would say those five guys up front have been the most consistent throughout all three games."
Anyone in particular out of the group that stands out?
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 971303, 14 pages
Research Article
A Hybrid Network Model to Extract Key Criteria and Its Application for Brand Equity Evaluation
Department of Business Administration, Chung Yuan Christian University, 200 Chung Pei Road, Zhongli 32023, Taiwan
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Dear all,
I am struggling with a model and I am interested in understanding if
an independent variable (x1) changed its impact on the dependent
variable (y) following an event (prepost=0 if pre event; prepost=1 if
post event).
I know that I could run a model considering the interaction of the two.
xi: regress y c.x1##i.prepost x2 x3, robust cluster(firmcluster)
The problem is that I got really high VIFs (above 30!!)
I investigate the possibility of centering or orthogonalising the
variables (I saved the residuals of regress x1_prepost_interaction x1
prepost). I got quite nice results.
Do you think this is ok and acceptable? Can you suggest other methods
for overcoming the problem of multicollinearity?
Moreover, I thought to split the model and run the following two commands
regress y x1 x2 x3 if prepost==0
estimates store modelpre
regress y x1 x2 x3 if prepost==1
estimates store modelpost
Now, if I wanted to compare x1 across the two models (pre and post),
what can I do? I read on the web something about lincom or suest, but
I am not really confident with these commands.
Can anyone of you explain me the differences or help me with this?
Thanks to all of you for your help,
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Love what a great baby gift this would be. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by katesnanna
I don't wish to be negative about this but wrapping a baby like this in a capsule or car seat is not recommended. We had a case here in Australia where the baby slid out of the seat in an accident and died. Another one because they were using a secondhand capsule. This baby died also and it was only eight weeks old.
The advice given was to strap the baby into the capsule first then cover. With using second hand capsules it was recommended to have them checked by an expert.
The blankie is cute but just wanted to pass on this information as two precious babies never made it.
I do not think you read the tutorial. It shows the baby is strapped in and could not slide out. Maybe they have something different in Austrailia, since i am not familiar with the term capsule used in a baby product. Love this idea.
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District transport officer Damanjeet Singh on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to Agro Imtex India Private Limited, the contractors responsible for making and affixing the high-security number plates on vehicles. The notice demands an explanation on how were three such plates found abandoned outside the DTO complex on Sunday.
The notice mentions that three HSRPs - PB03Y-3937, PB-04 L-4160 and PB03L-4160 - were found abandoned and could have been misused. The company has been given a week to reply.
However, Agro Imtex India has claimed that the three number plates in question were among the 300 stolen more than 18 months ago.
Company in-charge Sandeep Kumar claimed that an inquiry into the records had shown that an FIR had been lodged at Civil Lines Police Station in this case.
Previously, the DTO had claimed that this appeared to be a case of manufacture of fake plates.
Sandeep also claimed that that a number from Faridkot was in the lot of abandoned plates as it was also among those stolen and at that time, the plates from adjoining districts too were also made in Bathinda.
Civil lines SHO Sikander Singh said that he would have to look in to the records to check the progress registered in the theft case.
So, even though the plates might have been stolen, but it remains a mystery that why were they found dumped outside the DTO complex.


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My wife loved it!
I never have quite figured out why the sexual urges of men & women differ so much. And I have never figured out the whole 'Venus and Mars' thing. I've also never figured out why men think with their head while women think with their heart. And I've yet to figure out how the sexual desire gene gets thrown into a state of turmoil, when it hears the words "I do".
One evening last week, my wife and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says: "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me". I said: "WHAT??????" So she says the words that I and every husband on the planet dread. She explains that I must not be in tune with her emotional needs as a Woman. I'm thinking: "What was her first clue?". I finally realize that nothing was going to happen that night, so I went to sleep.
The very next day, we went shopping at a big, unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on three different very expensive outfits. She could not decide which one to take so I told her to take all three of them. She then tells me that she wants matching shoes worth $200.00 a pair to which I say ok. And then we go to the jewelry dept. where she gets a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you.......she was so excited. She must have thought that I was one wave short of a shipwreck, but I don't think she cared. I think she was testing me when she asked for a tennis bracelet because she does not even play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I told her that it was ok. She was so excited by all of this when she finally said: "I'm ready to go to the cash register".
I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out: "No, honey I don't feel like buying all this stuff now." You should have seen her face......it went completely blank. I then said, "Really honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while". And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me I added, "You must not be in tune with my financial needs as a Man".
I figure that I won't be having sex again until sometime after the spring of 2016.
Your guns are locked up I presume.
Well...you got your point across though,huh? Come 2016 she'll have learned her lesson.


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Find her again and post a link.
This is a discussion on Lima on YouTube? within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; was looking at gun stuff on youtube and found her. very nicely done videos. should check them out. and she DEF knows what she is ...
was looking at gun stuff on youtube and found her. very nicely done videos. should check them out. and she DEF knows what she is talking about. now i know who i REALLY need to talk to when i need info
Find her again and post a link.
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well I have asked her previously if that is her and she said no
I am sworn to protect the Constitution of the U.S.A. from all threats both foreign and domestic.
If you follow the link on her site you are taken to a youtube page with 7 videos on it. Her profile hasn't been updated there since it shows her still living in Pennsylvania, but some of the videos must have been made after their move to Virginia.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein
Checked the website. I really liked the layout. The picture of her with the hubby is very CUTE! (note: I don't say "cute" much)
lima is THE most popular 1911 Gun Guru on YouTube.
Absolutely watch her Videos. They are a must see.
Even if you already know how to field strip your firearms you must watch her Vids anyway just to see why she is such a great gunner and a top DC moderator.
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Very Cool Lima! I haven't seen them all yet, but now I know where to go, I'll watch them and keep an eye out for more to come from ya!
Semper Fi
"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
Thanks guys. Yep, it's me. Duisburg, sorry if I confused you. When you asked me I might have been thinking you were referring to something else.
Yeah, I have them linked on my site as well which you can find in my signature. I update my site more than I do my YouTube page but you're right, dr_cmg, I have made some videos since my move I just haven't updated my page.
When I get more bandwidth for my site I'll be moving the videos to it but for now it makes my site CRAWL and so I post them on YouTube and reference them. It's all a process, you know.
QK, you better stop talking me up so much, I'm going to get nervous.
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lima - Just my opinion on this but, what I think many newer 1911 owners need is a good 1911 complete disassembly video.
I realize that it would be a really complex Vid to make and would really require some careful camera work and some decent close-up and editing skills - since there is usually some serious maneuvering and modestly goofy handwork involved.
Especially on getting the sear/disconnect in position.
It would really be a big help to a ton of people & not just our DC forum members.
There already is one on YouTube but, it is Terrible with a capitol "T" - I hate to even recommend it to anybody.
Many 1911 owners could EASILY completely take apart their 1911 but, the problem is that the process is difficult to explain in a written "step by step" (or with still pictures) where 1911 owners can't quite "get it" by reading it but, could get it by seeing it in a vid that they could play over again a few times.
It might be a great "on again off again" winter-time project for you that sure would benefit lots of people.
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I use the built-in iSight on my Mac for my videos. It works great for just showing me but to do something that involved I would actually need a real camera with a zoom. As it is, when I do any disassembly videos I have to do it backwards and use my screen as my mirror so I can see what I'm doing.
I have a tri-pod and editing the video isn't a problem. I just need the camera.
If we weren't already asking for a safe for Christmas I'd be asking for a video camera.
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Lima, you and JD should look at http://www.refurbdepot.com/ for electronics. I bought a video camera last year for the birth of my son and I have had 0 problems with it. Plus when I hook it up to my IMac it is recognized and IMovie opens right up. With a mac vidoe editing is a snap. Do your research and then buy refurb, you will save a bundle. FYI.. you still get a factory warrenty with most stuff.


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I have heard that freezing a candle before burning makes it last longer.
Is this a wives tale?
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I have heard that freezing a candle before burning makes it last longer.
Is this a wives tale?
Well, it clearly would be true that a candle
fresh from the deep freeze would need to thaw
out before any wax melted, thus slowing the
initial burn rate a tiny, tiny bit... [img]smile.gif[/img]
But let's get real - the delta between freezer
temp (let's say 30F) and room temp (70F) is
negligible (40F) as compared to the combustion
temperature of a candle flame (1500F-1600F),
so it really does not matter if the candle
starts out at 30F or 70F, except that lighting the
candle may be made slightly more difficult by
the frozen state of the wax, and the lack of any
serious "wicking" action.
One thing that CAN happen is that the candle
can freeze unevenly, and crack in the freezer.
That would be a bummer, wouldn't it?
...and don't get me started about people who
claim that they can make a better popover
by placing the batter-filled pan in a COLD
oven, rather than a pre-heated one... [img]smile.gif[/img]
Jim, you know if you keep destroying our urban myths we won't have anything left to believe in! (except the truth) :D
I don't know if it's true or not, but I know they sell long burning candles (made of parafin not beeswax) and the claim, if I remember it right, that it was something about the crystal structure of the wax in the candles that made it burn longer. Is it possible that freezing a candle causes some kind of crystalization? Certainly as comb ages it changes from very soft and mallable to very papery and brittle. What is that change from? Is it from some kind of crystalization? Is it from some kind of loss of oils in the wax? I don't know.
> Is it possible that freezing a candle causes
> some kind of crystalization?
Sure, but "freezing" for wax happens at just
below the melting point! If the wax melts
at 120F, than the "freezing point" would be
just slightly below 120F.
This makes sense, as something is either liquid or
solid, there really isn't a "slush" state between.
There is a "super cooled liquid" stage for many
materials, but that does not apply to the case of
wax. Glass yes, wax no, paraffin no.
Once wax or paraffin has solidified, subjecting
it to colder temperatures is not going to somehow
change the existing crystal structure formed at
solidification any more than freezing a quartz
crystal would somehow change its structure.
Old brittle comb is simply "dried out" from air
exposure. You can get the same result from
leaving wax in a solar melter for about
a month. You will notice a powdery residue
on the surface of your bricks of wax.
Now, there are "microcrystalline" paraffins, which
(no big surprise) have smaller crystals, but this
is a whole different petrochemical byproduct
than the usual paraffin. They are added to alter
the overall hardness of the paraffin end product.
I have never heard anyone claim that they made a
candle "burn longer".
Most crystal structures are really a function of
the material, not something that can be changed
by heating or cooling. You have to do some very
fancy chemistry to add the right items to steel to
get "heat-treatable steel", which is about the
closest example I can think of to a "crystal
structure" that might be modified by temperature
Bottom line, ounce per ounce, and inch per inch,
pure beeswax candles burn longer than anything
else, and even candles with some beeswax in them
burn longer than pure paraffin candles.
And nothing the petrochemical industry can do
is going to change that. Lord only knows that
they have tried. Bees just make a superior
product. [img]smile.gif[/img]
>Sure, but "freezing" for wax happens at just
below the melting point! If the wax melts
at 120F, than the "freezing point" would be
just slightly below 120F.
Cooling metals when they are hot at different rates causes changes in the crystaline structure in the metal. By "freezing" I am simply refering to the original reference (the first post) to putting them in the freezer. But then I thought that was obvious.
>This makes sense, as something is either liquid or solid, there really isn't a "slush" state between.
You must have never driven in Nebraska in the winter.
>Once wax or paraffin has solidified, subjecting
it to colder temperatures is not going to somehow
change the existing crystal structure formed at
solidification any more than freezing a quartz
crystal would somehow change its structure.
I assume we are talking about rapidly cooling a candle in the freezer and this very well might change the crystaline structure.
>Old brittle comb is simply "dried out" from air
exposure. You can get the same result from
leaving wax in a solar melter for about
a month. You will notice a powdery residue
on the surface of your bricks of wax.
So what has "dried"? What has evaporated out of it? Why does it return to normal after I melt it?
>Now, there are "microcrystalline" paraffins, which
(no big surprise) have smaller crystals, but this
is a whole different petrochemical byproduct
than the usual paraffin. They are added to alter
the overall hardness of the paraffin end product.
I have never heard anyone claim that they made a
candle "burn longer".
You must not read camping catalogs.
On this site:
You'll find:
"High melt-point microcrystalline wax makes these long burning candles a must for emergencies. Nothing is more comforting than light on dark, stormy nights."
Only $ 5.99"
I've seen many other camping catalogs with the same claim for microcrystalline wax candles.
>Most crystal structures are really a function of
the material, not something that can be changed
by heating or cooling.
Steel, sugar syrup, honey, just to name three that we are all familar with, can have dramatically different crystaline structures depending on sudden, slow or specific changes in temperatures.
> You have to do some very
fancy chemistry to add the right items to steel to
get "heat-treatable steel", which is about the
closest example I can think of to a "crystal
structure" that might be modified by temperature
I've heat treated common nails and changed their hardness. It didn't take much chemistry. Just heating and sudden cooling. You can do it to brass too, but it works the opposite. Sudden cooling makes it soft and slow cooling makes it brittle and hard. No fancy chemistry there either.
>Bottom line, ounce per ounce, and inch per inch,
pure beeswax candles burn longer than anything
else, and even candles with some beeswax in them
burn longer than pure paraffin candles.
The above are supposed to last 50 hours. I can't vouch for the 50 hours, but there's no beeswax in them.
You are probably right that freezing a beeswax candle won't change the burning rate. But without some experimentation, I don't see how we can say for a fact that it won't.
You appear to be confusing your post-production
application of heat to a specific heat-treated
steel alloy with a general case. Yes, if you
mess around with an alloy, you CAN soften or
harden it, but only because it was made to be
heat-treatable in the first place.
> Steel, sugar syrup, honey, just to name three
> that we are all familar with, can have
> dramatically different crystaline structures
> depending on sudden, slow or specific changes
> in temperatures.
The speed of the temperature change really
does not impact any of the items listed.
In steel, the "magic" is the alloys added.
In sugar, the "magic" is the highest temperature
reached during the heating ("soft-ball", "crack"
"hard crack", et al).
In honey, cystalization is driven by the amount
of glucose in the honey (assuming, of course that
you have not seeded it to deliberately make
"creamed honey).
> I've seen many other camping catalogs with the
> same claim for microcrystalline wax candles.
Well, if you'd rather believe a salesman who
wants to separate you from your money, go ahead.
While the "wax" used may in fact be "high melting
point paraffin", the microcystalline version of
the wax simply means that the candle is mechanically
harder, which while being a good feature for
being banged around in a backpack, has no effect
on the melting point. Look up "microcrystalline
wax" with google, if you'd like. You can use it
to create anything from a napalm-like "gel" to
a candle hard enough to use as a blunt instrument
in a bar fight.
Anyway, as I said before, the exact melting point
of the wax makes little difference to the effect
of the flame, which has a temperature about 10
times that of any possible wax melting point.
> But without some experimentation, I don't see
> how we can say for a fact that it won't.
I did the math in a prior post on this thread,
so experiments are not really required when
the math is so clear, but if you have the candles
and the time, go for it!
My money is on the beeswax every time, no matter
what you do to the paraffin before the test.
Paraffin for candles comes at different melt temps, the highest for pure parrafin being in the 130-135 range somewhere. Various additives, either by the paraffin refiner or the candlemaker can raise or lower that. Sterene, or steric acid, gives you about 140 degrees, Polyboost 135 gives you (SURPRISE!) 135 degrees, and Polyboost 165 gives you 165 degrees.
Crystalline changes in solids after they have solidified:
Lead alloys (any mixture of any amount of lead, tin and antimony that I've seen from wheel weights, 50/50 solder, linotype metal etc.) gets significantly harder when cooled after casting in water rather than being allowed to cool at room temperature. (Jim, I can give you "chapter and verse" from a Lyman cast bullet manual, but when I do such things you refer to it as "nonsense" and when I don't you refer to it as "anecdotal"). Iron and its alloys when cooled rapidly (when it is a solid also) get harder and more brittle. When cooled slowly gets softer. Copper and its alloys (bronze, brass etc. which are not very exact alloys) get softer when cooled rapidly. This is the extent of the metals that I have any real working knowledge of but all of them are affected by rapid cooling.
All three of these same metals and their alloys are affected by working them. When brass is worked (stretched by firing a brass cartridge in a chamber and compressed back to size in a die) it becomes harder and more brittle. When it is heated and cooled slowly it also becomes brittle. This is true of all the copper alloys that I've ever worked with (bronze, brass, copper etc.) Iron and its alloys get softer as you work it as does lead. Resizing a cast lead bullet that has been hardened by rapid cooling changes it's hardness back to virtually what it would have been if it were not hardened by cooling. These changes are a result of the crystalline structure at a molecular level changing as a result of heating, cooling and working. Again, I can give you "chapter and verse" from a number of reloading manuals that SAY it's a result of the crystalline structure changing, but I will save that for after you have questioned this statment and just before you call it "nonsense".
Wax sheets that are made by dipping a wet board in beeswax, are much more brittle than the same wax sheets after they have been run through a mill and pressed. Something in the structure of the wax changes when it is worked and it becomes much more flexible and much less brittle. (just like two of the three above mentioned materials) I don't know the exact cause, but since wax has a crystalline structure (as evidenced by the fact that there is such a thing microcrystalline wax) it would make sense that this change is similar to other malleable solids such as lead, copper and iron alloys.
With beeswax, I see the soft wax (newly built by the bees or newly pressed by the milling machine) go back to being more brittle and less flexible over time. I don't know the exact cause, but I would suspect it is the reverse of the same change we saw when we ran it through the mill.
The camping supply places have been claiming (and, as I said in the first place, I don't know if it's true or not) that microcrystalline wax candles burn longer. They have been claiming this for decades, despite the fact that you did not notice. I read about them in REI catalogs back in the 1980's and I think as far back as the late 70's. Since they do have a higher flash point and a higher melting point than regular paraffin I have to assume it's likely they do last longer than regular paraffin.
So to recap what we know:
1) Wax is crystalline in structure (as evidenced by microcrystalline wax)
2) Materials with a crystalline structure that I have worked with, (which is admittedly a short list) are all affected by rapid or slow cooling processes and by working the material.
4) The hardness of beeswax is also affected by working it and by time.
3) Smaller crystals in the structure of paraffin wax affect melting points and flash points and have been claimed for decades to increase burning times.
So it does NOT seem impossible to me that rapid cooling of beeswax could have an effect on the burning time of a candle. So, as I said to yhou in the first place, "You are probably right that freezing a beeswax candle won't change the burning rate. But without some experimentation, I don't see how we can say for a fact that it won't."
Wow, there we were, just talking about beeswax,
and suddenly BULLETS started flying! [img]smile.gif[/img]
So as to avoid getting too technical about
a side-issue for beekeepers, here's a picture
of the crystal structure of (pure) lead.
It is NOT going to change, no matter what you do.
While a material that could somehow dynamically
"shift" or change its basic crystal structure
would be waaaay cool, you aren't going to see
one anytime soon anywhere outside of science
fiction. Alloys would have different crystal
structures, also always the same for any specific
What you speak of with "rapid cooling" versus
slow cooling of metals is similar to what happens
when forming Martensitic stainless steels, which
also need rapid cooling. This is NOT a change
to any crystal structures, but is, instead a
change to how the different metals (each with
their own crystal structure) combine.
And of course you can "work" a metal and get
a (gross characteristic) change in hardness,
but this also does not change the basic crystal
So, to recap with accurate info:
> 1) Wax is crystalline in structure (as evidenced
> by microcrystalline wax)
So far, so good.
> 2) Materials with a crystalline structure that I
> have worked with... are all affected by rapid or
> slow cooling processes and by working the
> material.
The gross physical characteristics can be
modified, but the crystal structures do not
change in the least for any one component
in the metal.
> 4) The hardness of beeswax is also affected by
> working it and by time.
I can't say if this point is true or not, but
I can say that there would not be any change
to the crystal structure as a result of "working"
the wax, or the passage of time.
> 3) Smaller crystals in the structure of paraffin
> wax affect melting points and flash points and
> have been claimed for decades to increase
> burning times.
...by charlatans [img]smile.gif[/img]
"Melting point" might matter as a storage issue,
but as explained before, has no possible impact
on the combustion rate. Flash points are not
very different at all for any of the various
candle "waxes":
Beeswax - 490 to 535 F
Paraffin - 478 to 489 F
Microcrystaline Paraffin - 345 to 510 F
...and much much less different when compared to
the temperature of combustion (the flame).
> So it does NOT seem impossible to me that rapid
> cooling of beeswax could have an effect on the
> burning time...
So, do your experiment!
Arguing the point with me will never convince
you. The tone of your most recent post is less
than civil in your inappropriate personal
comments, so I will direct you to your good friend
Google, where you can find other, perhaps
better-presented explanations, or at least find
all the different types of candles that you can
use in your test.
Here's a picture of Mike and I as he brings up
the subject of "lead":
>inappropriate personal comments
The only thing I can imagine that you have interpreted as "inappropriate personal comments" are quotes from your posts in the past directed at me and I did NOT direct them at you, I merely predicted a similar response again.
I love the cartoon. Thanks for making my day.
When you start a sentence with "Jim, ..." you
clearly have directed a comment at me.
Or were you addressing some other "Jim"?
There are lots of us about.
While you might offer an "anecdote" about your
attempts at predicting the future in an attempt
to dodge and weave, it would be "nonsense". [img]smile.gif[/img]
The trick is to be hard on the problems, but
remain soft on the people.
>When you start a sentence with "Jim, ..." you
clearly have directed a comment at me.
>>Jim, I can give you "chapter and verse" from a Lyman cast bullet manual, but when I do such things you refer to it as "nonsense" and when I don't you refer to it as "anecdotal
Yes, I directed this stentence to you. I said I would be willing to provide references. What about that was offensive? Then I quoted previous comments from you when I did provide refernces("nonsense") and when I did not ("anecdotal"). I did not say that anything you said was nonsense (despite the fact that you have often used that to describe things I have said) nor did I accuse you of offering "anectdotal" comments despite the fact that you did not back up your statements.
If you really want, I can look up all the previous times you've called what I've said nonsense, but I'd rather spend my time on more productive things.
The speed of the temperature change really
does not impact any of the items listed.
Jim, I read your post with interest most of the time as pertaining to bee keeping but this time I must agree with Michael. Only had the bees three years and always learning. Steel, different thing,Retired two years ago after working as a welder 30 years. Preheat/postheat,oil quench/air cooled, Temp Sticks to control the speed of cooling. brittle versus Machineable.
I'll keep reading about our bees and products. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Pissing contests usually get both people all wet and accomplish little.
An observation.
> ...get both people all wet...
Oh no... if the candles get WET, then freezing
them will surely form cracks all over their
surface! [img]smile.gif[/img]
> ...working as a welder 30 years.
Then you can certainly list which steel alloys
can and cannot be "worked" or "heat treated",
and you clearly understand that you are not
re-arranging the basic crystal structures when
you work or heat-treat metal. Maybe you can
re-read Michael's questions and answer them to
Michael's satisfaction in regards to crystal
I tried.
>An observation.
Hey! Come on Bubba! It's just gettin' good. ;)
Come on guys! Don't just roll over, go for it! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
>Come on guys! Don't just roll over, go for it
"When a metal plastically deforms, the manner in which it does so is by the formation and propagation of flaws (dislocations) within the crystal grains. Grain boundaries resist crystal propagation of dislocations, which is why smaller grain size increases yield strength."
"When a blacksmith pounds on a horseshoe, he or she is making the horseshoe harder by increasing the number of dislocations and reducing grain size."
"Cooling or heating a material can create stresses leading to fracture, ie, thermal shock. Thermal shock resistance typically varies directly with fracture strength & thermal conductivity while it varies inversely with stiffness & thermal expansivity."
"In metallurgy, annealling can reduced cored structure, reduce internal stress and increase grain size."
"We should at this time discuss grain size and its formation relative to carbon steels. Pure iron transforms from BCC to FCC at 1670°F. The grain size is at its smallest at this temperature. Carbon steels, however, start to form austenite at 1333°F (A1 line) and are completely austenitic at the A3 line. This means the grain size starts to become smaller at the A1 line and is at its smallest at the A3 line. If heated way above the A3 line, the grain size increases. We will return to this subject later."
"Look at the 0.45% C steel labeled #2. On slow cooling from the A3 line, crystals of ferrite begin forming as they did with the #1 steel. As the steel continues to slowly cool, more ferrite crystals are present."
"It is also the lowest temperature structural change point for carbon steels. At slightly above 1333°F, the steel is all austenite (FCC). On slow cooling to 1333°F, the ferrite cementite lamella formation takes place. In this case it is 100% pearlite. Pearlite contains 88% ferrite and 12% cementite. On heating the reverse occurs and at 1333°F all the pearlite transforms to austenite. Keep in mind that at this temperature or just above, the grain size is at its smallest.
Thus far, we have discussed what happens when the steel is heated or cooled very slowly. Let's see what happens when we rapidly cool a piece of 0.8% carbon steel from the fully austenitic state. When this steel is rapidly cooled, the FCC state is actually suppressed down to around 200°F. By doing this, the austenite pearlite change has been completely passed and we have a FCC structure that has to change to a BCC structure. The transformation at this temperature is a shear-type transformation. Remember that the FCC structure can take on 1.8% C and the BCC structure can take on only 0.008% C at room temperature. If the 0.8% C steel is cooled in cold water, the FCC state is suppressed down to around 200°F, where it has to immediately transform to the BCC state. Due to this shear type of transformation, the carbon in the FCC state does not have sufficient time to precipitate, resulting in a BCC structure that has more carbon than normal. In fact, the BCC structure is highly distorted. This type of structure is called a highly distorted body-centered tetragonal, more commonly known as martensite. What we have done to this 0.8% C steel is fully harden it. A fully hardened steel has little use as an engineering material; therefore, we usually temper or draw the steel to a desired hardness. Tempering is a heat treating process in which a fully hardened piece of steel is reheated between 300 and 1000°F. Tempering releases some of the trapped carbon atoms. These released carbon atoms combine with iron atoms to produce iron carbide (Fe3C) also known as cementite. The 0.8% C steel was chosen because it is one of the easiest to harden. Theoretically, a 0.1% C steel can be hardened if a fast enough cooling rate can be accomplished. A water quench, however, would not be fast enough; therefore, it is said a 0.1% C steel (mild steel) cannot be hardened. A 0.45% C steel is about the minimum carbon content steel that can be easily hardened using a water quench. It must be remembered that in order to harden steels in the 0.45Â*0.80% C range, they must be heated to just above the upper critical A3 line, then cooled in the desired cooling medium. Steels above 0.8% C can also be easily hardened. The only difference is they do not have to be heated to the Acm line and then cooled. The steel has to be heated to just above the A1 line then cooled, usually in oil. The reason is that steels above 0.8% C contain cementite as well as martensite on fast cooling. Cementite is a very hard constituent in steels."
It's all about crystals, grain size and dislocations all of which are controled by either working or the speed and degree of heating and cooling. Whether it's glass or steel or lead or copper or whatever crystaline solid you want to talk about. Since wax is also a crystaline solid I would suspect it would have to follow some of the same rules.
Quick -- someone start a poll so we can vote for a gold medal winner in this urinary olympics. :D
OK, you finally "get it".
"Grains" are large groups of crystals, but are
really nothing more than random "hunks" of
metal. As I said, one CAN change the gross
physical properties of a material by "working"
it or heat-treating a specific heat-treatable
material, but (to repeat for the umpteenth time):
So, now all you have to do is satisfy yourself
that "grains" are not crystals, but are large
assemblies of crystals, and you should be able
to have a better understanding, and get away
from making statements like "wax is also a
crystaline solid", and using it to draw any
But do your experiment, anyway.
I think it would make interesting reading in
either one of the bee magazines. If you sent a
copy to me, I would lobby hard to get it in the publication schedule.


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Spokane Fire and AMR crews responded to the Culmstock Apartments, located at 8th and Washington, shortly before 2 p.m. for an apartment fire. When they arrived they found a woman on the ground near the building.
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Re: [fw-wiz] Handling large log files
- From: Paul Melson <pmelson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 23:38:49 -0400
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Nate Hausrath <hausrath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello everyone,[...][
I have a central log server set up in our environment that would
receive around 200-300 MB of messages per day from various devices
(switches, routers, firewalls, etc). With this volume, logcheck was
able to effectively parse the files and send out a nice email. Now,
however, the volume has increased to around 3-5 GB per day and will
continue growing as we add more systems. Unfortunately, the old
logcheck solution now spends hours trying to parse the logs, and even
if it finishes, it will generate an email that is too big to send.
Are there other solutions that would be better suited to log volumes
like this? Should I look at commercial products?
Any comments/criticisms/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Please let me know if I need to provide more information. Again, my
lack of experience in this area causes me hesitant to make a solid
decision without asking for some guidance first. I don't want to
spend a lot of time going in one direction, only to find that I was
completely wrong.
What are you trying to achieve with your log analysis, as in, what
sort of actions would the review of this daily log report trigger?
Would you want to or should you move to a model where search/analysis
is happening in near-real time instead of once daily? That's going to
be helpful in knowing what kind of solution you should be looking at.
Also, while it's overpowering your logcheck scripts, 5GB/day of log
data is nothing when you're talking about firewall logs.
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Forrester is in the middle of a major research effort on various Big Data-related topics. As part of this research, we'll be kicking off a client survey shortly. I'd like to solicit everyone's input on the survey questions and answer options. Here's the first draft. What am I missing?
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As we predicted more than three years ago, BI software and services are converging. Today, Deloitte announced its acquisition of the assets of the BI SaaS vendor Oco. This is a great confirmation of several trends:
Posted by Kerstin Heinemann on May 5, 2011
First of all, thanks to everyone who contributed to my "What Constitutes A Management Consulting Firm 2.0?" discussion in The Forrester Community For Vendor Strategy Professionals. This discussion has driven quite a bit of traffic (more than 3,600 views), but we've gotten just six replies so far, all of them very valuable. Please be sure to contribute to receive a copy of my planned update report on the consulting market.
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