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Has anyone had a swim smooth video coaching session? I am trying to be given swim coaching for Birthday/ Xmas presents this year so am researching what is out there. I like to idea of a video session but it is expensive so if anyone has any experience it would be good to hear. Thanks.
I was pondering whether to join one of these too. Done the dvd's and books and stuck now- I am pretty crap at swimming though
I have booked one - but it isn't until January, but the coach at my tri club did say it would be worth it.
It seems that the detailed video analysis can be worth a number of 'normal' coaching sessions in terms of impact. I use video for feedback to support learning at work so can believe this. Just cautious as it feels a bit like all eggs in one basket in terms of available finances!
Thanks, I am in Herts so Manchester a bit far....am looking into other video coaching though.
Yes I have had it done twice - mainly because my tri club president was also a swim smooth coach so we all got to do it at least once.
It's fabulous. It helped me really find out the aspects of my stroke that need tweaked.
The hard part is successfully implementing the changes of course.
I did a swimsmooth weekend 3/4 years ago. Was very good.
I also did a weekend coaching session which was with Archie Brew a few years before that. Archie was really very good, spotted some big flaws immediately and fixed them.
The Swimsmooth course I was on was led by Paul Newsome and he does know his stuff. Swimsmooth has grown so other coaches may be leading the course. The coach is the important thing - Swimsmooth or any other brands dont really differ much in what they are selling you - swimming is swimming (although TI might try to say they are different...).The swim stroke that most courses will coach you in is probably pretty much the same. An experienced coach will spot more things, so have a good look at the course leader and assess what they have done rather than just go on the brand.
Nice thing about Swimsmooth is all the stuff they put online, and they have been good about getting on forums and answering questions. There was also a good vibe on the day - which helps.
I did Swimsmooth as an improver rather than a beginner, but it seemed to me that all levels were well catered for and came away with improvements.
I would recommend Swimsmooth. They are very good.
thanks, my tri coach knows the swim smooth coach I think and recommended him. I am hoping that I will be more of an improver by January!
Did those of you who have used Swim smooth wear fins? The chap has emailed me and said they are essential for the session but I have concerns they will cause my ankle tendon injury to flare up due to the increased resistance.
I cant remember about the fins. I know I didnt own fins, but cant remember if I borrowed any on the day.
If you have a concern re the tendon I would ask the chap who emailed you - he should be able to answer.
Fins are pretty important, not just for improving your kick. Without them you probably won't have the correct body position for some drills. You don't have to kick hard with them, just enough to keep your lower body near the surface of the water. Unless your ankle is actually sore to run or swim at the minute i wouldn't worry about it. It could strengthen it as long as you ease into it slowly and stop if it ever starts to hurt. A shorter length set of fins should be fine and would have less stress on your ankle.

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1. Re: Tabular Forms, Tabular FormsATD Jan 23, 2009 7:45 PM (in response to Tyler-Oracle)Hi Tyler,
I think you know my feelings about tabular forms (I seem to recall a discussion in a thread somewhere not too far from this forum)! I would say that I'm 50/50 about their use. In many instances, I do as you do - let users have single-record forms for creating/updating data. However, they are useful in several situations (for example, Timesheets where the user needs to see multiple records at one time). Not having come from an Oracle Forms background, I wouldn't say that it's because of that - though, of course, there other applications that use similar functionality.
Oh well, I guess we each have our own way of doing things!
ps - yahoo does do tabular forms - or, at least, they have that functionality within their YUI (there's even a thread on here about integrating it into an Apex page). Google, to me, only has one field - Search :D
2. Re: Tabular Forms, Tabular FormsSc0tt Jan 23, 2009 8:47 PM (in response to ATD)Thought I'd throw my 2 cents in since I actually just posted a tabular form question myself....
I think it comes from both Oracle Forms and Excel. People are so used to seeing all their data lined up next to each other that they think it always has to be that way. Regardless of my explanation to people that virtually any website they go to where they fill out a form is not in tabular format, they don't like the explanation. I setup a form yesterday as part of a demo and immediately the response was "Well I like seeing all my data on the same screen together - can't you just make it like Excel"? It finally took me showing them 30 fields all next to each other for them to come back and say "Uhhh yea that does look kind of bad - just go back to what you had before"
Unfortunately they are still a huge pain in the ass working with and I hate them. Unless you are doing the simplest of tasks I think the built-in tabular forms are useless so you end up having to do them manually anyway.
3. Re: Tabular Forms, Tabular FormsDenes Kubicek Jan 23, 2009 9:46 PM (in response to Tyler-Oracle)Tyler,
I think you are right. I also share your opinion in the most of the details except those related to cancer and ugly :). But what I also know is that the most of my customer wouln't consider using apex if there would be no feature like tabular forms. At least the half of the projects I did so far were replacements of some internal applications running in access or even excel and without a possibility to emulate tabular updates apex simply wouldn't have a chance. ;) And if you take more than just a few days away from the forum and come back once the version 4 is there, you will probably notice that there is even more of that stuff arround:
- websheets
- updatable interactive reports
- enhanced support of tabular forms
I am convinced this is the right way to go - those popular feature needs to be enhanced. This way apex is going to gain even more popularity and eventually completelly replace Access.
Denes Kubicek
4. Re: Tabular Forms, Tabular FormsATD Jan 24, 2009 10:39 AM (in response to Denes Kubicek)Hi Denes,
Do you know of any sites where we can see demos of websheets?
5. Re: Tabular Forms, Tabular FormsDenes Kubicek Jan 25, 2009 10:24 AM (in response to ATD)Andy,
Unfortunatelly no. I have seen it in several presentations so far but I don't think there is a demo yet.
Denes Kubicek
6. Re: Tabular Forms, Tabular FormsATD Jan 25, 2009 11:04 AM (in response to Denes Kubicek)Thanks, Denes - I guess I'll just have to wait!


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For the second year in a row, Rabbi Joseph Edelheit graciously invited Courtney, the kids, and me to share in his family Seder dinner for Passover. It was a wonderful experience.
There are longstanding, traditional elements on a Seder plate, including maror, charoset, karpas, z'roa, and beitzah. We had all of those.
But one of the things that I like most about the traditions of Passover is that they are open to change and modification, at least in the Edelheit home. Last year, he added an orange to the plate, to show solidarity with women and GLBT persons.
This year, he added two elements. One was tomatoes, in solidarity with migrant workers who work in near-slavery in America:
Over the last few years, the issues of actual slavery (estimates of people working today as slaves in the world today range between 12 and 27 million) and workers' rights (many, like the tomato pickers in Florida, are said to work in near-slavery conditions) have achieved greater visibility in parts of the Jewish community. Especially at Passover, the holiday that commemorates the ancient Hebrews' freedom from slavery. Individual seder leaders, and organizations like RHR (which produces an "anti-slavery" Haggadah supplement and table cards that contain stories of modern-day slavery), Boston's Workmen's Circle branch and Congregation Dorshei Tzedek in West Newton, Mass., have incorporated reminders of farm workers' rights into their seder readings.
This year the tomato — along with words of accompanying text — becomes the latest symbolic food officially added to some seder tables.
RHR and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (the central labor representative of agricultural workers "in low-wage jobs" in Florida) this week announced that they are urging Jewish homes to put a tomato on their seder plate.
Of course, this reminded me of my friend, Brian McLaren, who has been fighting for the rights of Immokalee workers in Florida for several years.
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I've got a 68 mustang 289 (bored .040 over) and it has the stock 8 inch rear end in. This car is my daily driver but I would like to make it faster off the line. What kind of a gear ratio can be put in that would make me a lot jumpier but not kill the highway driving? I don't want to be whining down the freeway at 45 at 4500 rpm. Am I correct in assuming that I don't need the 9 inch rear end because I don't think I need one partly because the engine is not all that built and I don't have too much money. Also, where is the best place to get one of these gearings and what is a good price for the type of gearing I'm looking for? I don't want this ratio to adversely affect mileage or put too much strain on the engine. Please help, I don't know much about rear ends.
I have a 67 with a built 302. I'm running a stock 8in with a 3:00 gear. 67 and 68 offered either a 3:00 or a 3:20. If you put in a 3:55 with 25 inch tires you will turn about 3400 rpm at 65 mph. I need the tall gears because its 50 miles east or west to town. I would't go any lower than the 3:55 if you want to drive on the BIG road. HTH. Norm.
thank you for your help bud-23. do you know of a good resource for gears? does anyone else know of a good place to get them? junkyards? thanks
I get mine from Border Motor Parts in Spring Valley (San Diego). Too far for you to drive. I always put in new gears but you can find the pumpkins in wrecking yards. A new set (ring,pinion,brgs,seals) runs about 275.00. HTH. Norm.
Thanks so much for your help. I plan to put in the 3:20's or the 3:55's soon.
This was my first post and I thought it was great. This site is really cool and I look forward to posting more.
There is plenty if help out here. From reading your first post you know how to ask the question and give the information about your problem. Doing so keeps us from reading between the lines. Norm.
Randy's Ring and pinion are in all the street rod magazines at the back. The are out of Seattle. They have all posi's too! You don't say what trans you're running but that has to do with the equation. I run 3:73 in all my cars but the have overdrive trans. 2500 @ 65mph. Only way to have the best of both worlds. If you have 3 speed A/T or a 4 speed think a 3:25 or close would work good.
Forgot to tell you that you need to know what you have now. Think the 8" has a rear cover. Count the teeth on the ring gear and the pinion. divide the pinion into ring and thats the ratio you have. Can also mark the drive shaft and an axle. Rotate the axlel one full turn while seeing how many turns the drive shaft went to get a real close idea of ratio. ie: 3 1/2 turns 3:50 ratio
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Thanks guys
Snkbyt, I have a C4 three speed. Will this be able to handle the 3:50 or would something around 3:25 be better for my purposes?
Thanks, Ben
The higher the ratio,3:55, the faster it comes away from the line and also will go into the next gear faster(lower road speed)also less tire slippage. The only negative is the top speed will be slower because of higher engine rpm. The lower the ratio this all reverses. If I was doing mainly city driving not extended 65mph I'd use the 3:55. For highway I'd be down in the low 3:00 or high 2:00 ratios. Also the speedo changes with ratios so you have to deal with that too. There are web sites that tell on speedo . Ray
$129.00 Same price from JEG'S. And it Works good.
the 8'' ford has a drop out chunk. no cover on the back.
You probably have 2.80 gears now.
235.60x14 tires (25 inch diameter) and 3.25 gears will be about the best without overdrive.. about 2650 @ 60 mph.
67 and later Fairlanes, Mustangs, Granadas, Mavericks, Mustang II. Just have to snoop around to find the right ratio.
62-66 Fairlane cars were all 8" rears and had 3.25s with stick shifts, but the pumpkin housing is not as heavy duty as the 67 up... but probably would be OK in your situation, especially without a "posi" you will never hurt it.
You can probably pick up a complete 8" chunk ready to install for $ 35-50 at any junkyard.
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Is it based on his years with NY or his entire career?
I stopped fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now.
Heh, you can say he build the foundation of his HOF career in those years with Big Blue.
I think he took advantage and public notice taking 2 franchises like the Giants and Pats and making them winner. The Giants were starving to be a winner again not winning the big one for such a long time. The Pats were a joke of a franchise and in some ways he turn the tide and made them relevant changing the cuture of the entire team. The Jets ? A fair enough job in my eyes. The cowturds ? That is as you mention my only beef against the Tuna but it didn't seem to hurt his stock for the Hall not to mention his stint with the Fins.
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"It's certainly a good deal for Vodafone," said Craig Moffett, an analyst at Moffett Research LLC in New York. "It's probably good news for Verizon as well. This gives them much better growth and it gives them much better dividend coverage, and it's almost certainly going to be accretive to earnings."
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Verizon and Vodafone have for years tried to resolve their relationship. In March, Bloomberg News reported the companies have discussed options ranging from a buyout of the venture by Verizon to a full merger of the two carriers. Verizon, which owns 55 percent of Verizon Wireless, has control over whether and when the unit pays its owners dividends.
Verizon's stock reached a 13-year high in April, giving the company greater financial flexibility to make a bid. Since that peak, it has fallen about 14 percent. Vodafone, whose revenue trails China Mobile Ltd., has lost about half of its market value since 2000, the year Verizon Wireless began service.
Buying the stake for about $130 billion would value Verizon Wireless at 3.8 times the $75.9 billion of revenue it generated last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg that excludes net debt. Telecommunications takeovers larger than $1 billion had a median multiple of 1.1 in the last five years, the data show.
U.S. Consolidation
A buyout of Verizon Wireless would be the latest of a string of mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. mobile-phone market, which has surpassed Europe in technologies that enable faster Internet browsing and video streaming for computers and smartphones.
Deutsche Telekom AG merged its T-Mobile USA unit with MetroPCS Communications Inc. in May. Japan's SoftBank Corp. in July completed its $21.6 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in Sprint Nextel Corp.
Verizon's fate is closely linked to the wireless venture it controls as the carrier invests in fiber-optic network for high-speed Internet service to help offset declining landline customers. Wireless accounted for 66 percent of Verizon's 2012 revenue and almost all of its operating income. The carrier also relies on the mobile business to help fund its dividend, which amounted to about $5.2 billion last year.
Acquisition Spree
The partnership originated in 1999 after Vodafone outbid Verizon's predecessor, Bell Atlantic, for Airtouch Communications Inc., then the world's largest wireless company. After acquiring Airtouch, Vodafone agreed to combine its mobile assets with Bell Atlantic to create a nationwide U.S. network. Shortly after, Bell Atlantic merged with GTE Corp., creating Verizon Communications Inc.
As Verizon Wireless went on an acquisition spree, buying spectrum and companies to become the biggest U.S. mobile operator, Vodafone went without a dividend payment from the business for years. When Vodafone finally received a payout last year, it was the first since 2005.
For Vodafone, a deal would cap Colao's efforts to exit joint ventures where the carrier doesn't have full control. In the past three years, Vodafone has divested stakes in French carrier SFR as well as holdings in Asia and Poland.
M&A Record
Vodafone keeps one of the earlier deal records. Its previous incarnation, Vodafone Airtouch Plc, spent more than 150 billion euros in 2000 to acquire Germany's Mannesmann. Time Warner's combination with AOL brought in $124 billion in cash and stock when the two combined near the end of the technology bubble in 2001.
The cash from the U.S. stake sale would give Vodafone the wherewithal to make acquisitions and expand into faster-growing regions and businesses. In June, Vodafone agreed to buy Germany's largest cable company, Kabel Deutschland Holding AG, for $10 billion, part of a shift in strategy to sell combined wireless, fixed-line Internet and television services.
Vodafone was also considering an acquisition of Italy's Fastweb SpA, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News in June.
Nick Read, head of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, has said Vodafone is looking for opportunities to get bigger in Africa, where profit is predicted to overtake southern Europe in a few years.
Cash Injection
The potential cash injection helped push Vodafone's five-year credit-default swaps to the lowest in almost three months. The contracts fell as much as 6.5 basis points to 69.1 basis points, the best performers among companies on the Markit iTraxx Europe Index today, signaling an improvement in creditworthiness. Vodafone reported net debt of 24.9 billion pounds as of June 30, including its joint ventures.
Resolving Vodafone's stake has been a topic of contention for years. In 2004, the two companies got close to a deal. Vodafone agreed to sell its stake in Verizon Wireless if it won a bid for AT&T Wireless. The AT&T deal fell through, and so did the agreement with Verizon.
Vodafone also had an option to sell its stake in Verizon Wireless in 2006 and 2007. It let that option expire.
It came up again in 2009, when Colao, on the job for just over a year, told a conference in Barcelona that he intended to "solve" Vodafone's lack of control over Verizon Wireless and that he would consider selling the stake or merging with Verizon.


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Blogs Liberty and Power The Mandarinization of American SchoolingJun 16, 2005 10:48 pm
The Mandarinization of American Schooling
With respect to why this is occurring, I would suggest it is part of the larger Imperial Syndrome. The Chinese were the first to deal with developing an imperial, bureaucratic schooling system, which was later debated by Jefferson (a sinophile via France) and John Adams. Tocqueville also recognized the triumph of "the Chinese System" in France.
As noted recently by a teacher at American University, to avoid instant responses by students including threats, use number rather than letter grades and get the hell away from campus and the computer after listing your grades at the last second. I got an early taste of this when I started teaching on the Internet in 1997.
I recall in high school after having won a city wide prize for American history, and having the highest average in the 11th grade class, getting "B"s because I would not cut out little articles, mount them, and bring them into class. All of the young ladies did so to "earn" the "A." The teacher, a woman, asked me why I wouldn't conform, and I asked why she couldn't reconsider her system?
I suspect that women by nature and by early training are better suited to this kind of schooling that has little to do with a real education, which is not so easy to evaluate with either a number of a letter grade.
Wendy suggests privatization, but if the private schools have the same Mandarin training structure, how will that help?
If males take the approach of the Taoists and simply drop out, that need not, as Wendy suggests, consign them to blue collar jobs. It may lead them into the market, entrepreneurship and small business. The spate of new books about the corporate corruption in universities suggests that is a viable alternative to schooling, certainly these are now more ethical.
I often wonder what my life might have been like had I turned down the academic scholarships and fellowships that took me through to the doctorate, as I had turned down the athletic ones, and had simply gone into construction from the get-go? Even operated as a sideline, one year I earned more from the latter than from teaching, until Reagan's "tax reform." In neither effort was my primary motivation monetary, but I did enjoy working with some craftsmen more than with some of the academics at the university. There was never the nastiness, pettiness and envy one sees among so-called intellectuals.
See also my article "Capitalism and the Tao," in The Free Market for Jan. 1998 at Mises.org.
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William Marina - 6/17/2005
There is at least one book on how this kind of "feeling" thing came on big in the Ming, the last of th really indigenous Chinese Dynasties.
Max Swing - 6/17/2005
On the other side, we still see that students of engineering, physics are still mainly male (however even here more women apply). There are different problems in school, I encountered and could enummerate. First, the feminin structure that McElroy brought up is one certain thing. Boys can't see clear goals, because the school don't show clear language anymore, instead they want to appeal to your feelings, which is the wrong way to interest men.
Just take her example: Making career, ok, planning it step by step, ok. but men don't have the same idealism about the environment and such themes. All the former male visions have been destroyed in one way or the other...
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Paint stripper doesnt work for beans.
Using Klean Strip , brush it on the wood surface (its like a gel), and wait 5 minutes, then brush more on, wait about another 5 minutes or so, and scrape with knife, and nothing happens! Its like the paint it stripper proof!
Ready to quit and yank casing off and put in new. Just figured Id try it first to save $$ on wood, and doing carpentry....
Any feedback/tips/experience appreciated.
Your title said something about beams---The thread said casing, what are you trying to strip?? Sometimes the chemicals in the strippers take longer than what you might be hoping for. Are you able to encase the project in plastic?? keeping the stripper wet for an extended period of time. Some paints are TUFF and need more than just 5 minutes of soak time to do their job. Sometimes just replacing the wood is easier.
Infrared stripper technology is a gift from God. It was the last tool I bought before forced retirement. They are much safer than heat guns, will loosen 800 layers of paint faster than chemical strippers, etc. You can rent one for a day or two and be done with this in no time. If you have a lot to do, buy one (not cheap) use it for as long as needed and sell it on Craig's List for near what you paid for it. As mentioned many times before, you always want razor sharp scrapers at hand with projects like these. Dull ones are dangerous and ineffective. Sharp tools are safe tools!
casing- yes, around a door. no beams.
Looks like there is still hope..........
Would your project on the beans, beams ooops, casing go better if you removed the casing and did the stripping outside, in a garage, or elsewhere?? To keep the mess out of the house would be a nice thing. Once stripped sanded and even primed or stained prior to going back in, working on the horizontal is soooo much easier than the vertical, beans, beams or WHATEVER:laughing:. You are to funny, thanks for your post!!!!!!
Some diy strippers are weak. Some strippers need to dwell and remain wet on the surface for a while. Strypeez and Peel Away are pretty great strippers, but be carefull with caustic stripppers, follow instructions and wear PPE
Dad's brand liquid stripper worked better for me then the gels.
Used to strip paint with lye. Recycled it to make lutefisk for Christmas presents. I would pack the reconstituted cod fish in jars, along with lead paint chips and habenero peppers and mail it off to family and friends.
Yes, 64 percent of those who got lutefisk from me are now dead. The smarter ones knew, since I marked it as lutefisk, the the jars---pretty as they looked---should never be opened.
I tasted it once and survived. Nothing could look prettier if contained as pure evil in a jar.
Why do we always turn to chemicals for stripping paint? More time to chow down on lutefisk? Lazy?
I can get layers off trim paint with a sharp scraper. Paint does not get melted with chemicals or power tools into the wood grain for me to have to deal with later.
And please people, remember the vapors from old type strippers are heavier than air and can sink along a basement or garage floor to say a water heater or furnace pilot light.
Boom!!! This site is really weak on estate planning and will design for DIYers.
just buy new casing. Its cheap enough.
If the trim is common modern stock--replacing it is the best idea,
If one of a kind antique consider removing and sending it out to be stripped.
I've only stripped a few---the cost of stripping is MUCH higher than replacing---I can reproduce antique trim and install it for less than the cost of stripping,in most cases.
My man sdsester is on a roll!!:laughing:
However, ate least in the houses I worked on the showy trim downstairs was often really nice oak, walnut and so forth. A shame to toss that I think. :no:
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Recently we heard a statement from Dee Allen of GM about the Volt costing around $35,000. Since it's of tremendous interest and importance, I decided to look into this in more detail. I managed to catch up with Mr. Allen who it turns out is GMs spokesperson on global product and brands, and pretty much Bob Lutz' communication guy. We had the following discussion:
How is the $35,000 number generated, since the car isn't built yet how do you know what it will cost?
We put together estimates, the vehicle itself and then estimates for the different kind of equipment it will carry and the engine. You go through and do a cost analysis. We've been working on that and one of the things, and I'm just repeating what Bob said, I'm not the expert on this, is, we were down in Dallas speaking to some of the reporters, and that's where he said instead of around $30,000, its around $35,000 and the reason is that when we got started on this we didn't anticipate so many of the vehicle systems that are currently in existence that we're using on vehicles were building today are fairly high energy users. The examples are things like windshield wipers and 8-speaker sound systems and so on. We don't usually think of them as big energy users particularly because we've got so much energy being generated by the gasoline engine. You don't end up studying how much electrical draw there is normally on each of those things as your driving down the road. Now all of a sudden were tackling a vehicle that as you know were targeting for 40 or more miles on a charge. Thats when you realize that is your driving that vehicle when its raining or cold outside and your using a heater and your using the windshield wipers you using up motive energy.
So one of the things that the team has been doing is working on low energy usage systems that we would use on the Volt so that you don't draw energy and reduce your driving radius.
When you did the initial computer modelling before announcing the concept wasn't that idea of using lower power components considered?
As far as I know from what Bob was saying, some of those things were not considered. To some extent you take these things for granted. As people are used to high power stereo systems and A/C and it takes energy. What Bob was saying is he was absolutely amazed how much power the stereo uses. Most of us think of A/C as being a major energy user, but people don't think that using the radio may impact their mileage. When you're counting on the battery, then you all of a sudden realize that any load you put on it will reduce it.
Are you saying the new components will have to replace the ones that are typically used, since you cant use off the shelf components, and will that increase the cost?
Well yes you have engineering costs going into doing that and tooling costs and so on. Your essentially doing some new componentry that obviously has some design engineering and manufacturing cost associated with it. And one of the things that Bob explained was that there are things we could do, for example if we come up with a low wattage windshield wiper system, lets say, if we spend a lot of time on it there probably things we could do to take cost out of that system, as we're designing it there are always improvements you can find. But when you are working against a tight deadline like we are, for us this is like a "moon-shot"and we set a goal for the team and were going to try like the devil to make that goal and so when you've got that kind of a time constraint on it we are going to go for a solution rather than perhaps the most cost effective solution.
Are you saying you will have to engineer design and manufacturing these components (i.e. windshield wipers) in house?
Or outsourcing them.
Is there a problem with finding suppliers or their ability to ramp up production?
Even if were not talking about the Volt and were talking about any product, there are two ways to go about that. GM can do the designing or we can go to a supplier and say this is what we need and these are the parameters and ask them to do the design work. Either way there is design work involved and of course the engineering of the design, what we call design engineering, and of course testing, etc. Using the windshield wiper as an example, you have to go through rigorous testing as this is essentially a safety device. So now you have to do testing and simulate usage over a long period of time and it has to be able to hold up to snow and ice.
Has GM actually started the process of designing these new systems?
Absolutely. This program is unique in the annals (of automotive history), but the way were going about this is were designing a unique powerplant, a unique vehicle, and unique components to go into the vehicle, and were doing it all simultaneously. It didn't take long to realize that wed needed to use low power systems.
When we showed the concept to people, the design work was done without a whole lot of testing. When we made the call and put it in the wind tunnel, Bob likes to describe it as "a brick". Aero work isn't usually done on a concept that you'd show at an auto show.
With this type of vehicle that is going to use electric power, every part of the vehicle that draws off the power or anything aerodynamic can lead to a loss of range.
Don't you have components from the EV-1 like the windshield wipers and stereo that you can use for the Volt?
In some cases yes, and I'll tell you the things that we learned from the EV-1 as I'm sure Frank (Weber) has said, it gives us tremendous advantage because we do have experience. I don't know about the (actual EV-1) parts, we didn't exactly mass-produce EV-1s either. That was also a little while ago, and in many cases for example the windshield wipers have to be fitted to the type, size, and shape of the vehicle.
When Bob Lutz discussed the pricing update, did he say closer to $40,000 or exactly $35,000, what were his exact words?
What Bob said was that our original goal was targeted around the $30,000 mark and now as we've gotten into it more deeply and with the development work we've been doing, I wish it wasn't so, but its probably going to be more like $35,000. The explanation was what you and I have already talked about.
Does the $35,000 price refer to actually owning the battery pack or not include leasing the battery?
I could say if I knew, but I don't know. Maybe thats a question for Bob when we're together in New York (Volt Nation).
Do you know if the issue of leasing the battery is still on the table?
I honestly don't know. One of the things we've said consistently is that we are going to be a transparent as possible about this, I mean were no going to give daily reports of course, but were going to be transparent about it and were going to let people know how the development is going, and if we run into a hiccup were going to let them know, and if we get successes were going to let them know. Were working with the battery manufacturers right now and were testing battery packs. The batteries have not been an issue at all.
I still see things in the media that the battery will still be an issue because of computers that caught on fire and all that kind of stuff. As Bob says, saying lithium-ion is like saying beer. There are a lot of kind of lihtium-ions like there are a lot of kinds of beer. The lithium ion were using has been great.
Do you know how many packs are GMs possession right now?
I don't know. I know we've had deliveries from both teams. I haven't talked to Bob about this in the last two weeks, so I really don't know where we stand.
Do you know if there is an actual pack in a mule yet?
I don't know. I do know that Bob has said hes going to be driving a mule this Spring. But I don't know where we stand with that right now.
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Siemens Leads Bond Surge After Slowest February Since 2010
Siemens AG (SIE), Europe's biggest engineering company, led a resurgence in corporate debt sales after the slowest February in three years.
Siemens sold $3.4 billion of bonds in euros and dollars today in its first deal since August, while carmakers Daimler AG (DAI) and PSA Peugeot Citroen (UG) also returned to the market, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Non-financial companies issued 10.4 billion euros ($14 billion) of bonds in euros and pounds in February before today, down from 33 billion euros last month.
Bond issuance is recovering in Europe after a hiatus caused by the earnings season and uncertainty over Italy's elections. Munich-based Siemens is looking at potential acquisitions and has held talks with Italy's Finmeccanica SpA (FNC), which is trying to sell a stake in power-plant construction unit Ansaldo Energia.
"We should, or could, have finished off the month in subdued fashion, but primary sparked into life with Siemens, Daimler and Peugeot tapping the markets," said Suki Mann, the head of credit strategy at Societe Generale SA in London. "Issuance today makes the monthly supply figures look very respectable, but fails to hide the fact that it has still been a very light month for issuance overall."
Euro Bonds
Siemens issued 1.25 billion euros of senior bonds due 2021 that were priced to yield 35 basis points more than the swap rate, Bloomberg data show. It also sold 1 billion euros of 2028 notes at a spread of 70 basis points and $500 million of bonds maturing in 2018 priced at 65 basis points.
Philipp Encz, a spokesman for Siemens, declined to comment on the fundraising.
The German engineering company has 1.4 billion euros of bonds coming due next year out of a total debt load of 15.6 billion euros, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
With some of the hurdles to issuance now out of the way, European companies are starting once again to take advantage of near record-low borrowing costs to raise money. The extra yield that investors demand to hold euro-denominated company bonds instead of benchmark government debt fell to 115 basis points from 121 at the end of January, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Euro Non-Financial Index.
"Companies are now coming out of their blackout periods and finding that, despite the uncertainty surrounding Italian politics, market conditions are actually quite favorable for issuers with the right profile," said Hans Lorenzen, a strategist at Citigroup Inc. in London.
Peugeot Sale
Peugeot, Europe's second-biggest carmaker, sold 1 billion euros of five-year bonds that were priced to yield 7.5 percent, after a 600 million-euro sale of 2015 notes last June. Today's sale attracted orders of 4.3 billion euros and will help the company's "financial security," the Paris-based carmaker said in a statement.
"Despite poor operating performance and an unconvincing recovery plan, the liquidity cushion that has been built up through 2012 on top of implicit and explicit government support should help buoy investor demand for the new bond issuance," analysts at New York-based CreditSights wrote in a client note before the French auto company's transaction was completed.
Stuttgart-based Daimler, the world's third-biggest maker of luxury cars, raised 1.5 billion euros from a sale of bonds due July 2016 and March 2023, Bloomberg data show. The deal is its first benchmark fundraising in the currency since it sold 750 million euros of debt due 2020 in November.
Profits Decline
As well as eyeing potential acquisitions, Siemens, which reported a decline in profits and rising costs for the three months through December, is planning to offload units such as airport luggage systems, mail automation and water technology. Shareholders already approved the spinoff of the underperforming Osram lighting unit.
Chief Executive Officer Peter Loescher, on his second five- year term, has come under pressure to boost profitability and refocus the engineering company after deals that he supervised soured. A push into more environmentally friendly energy generation has also led to spiraling costs.
"What you currently see are the very defensive issuers that take benefit from the lower yields over the last days and that aren't affected by the Italian situation," said Oliver Woyda, a money manager who helps oversee about 20 billion euros at Deka Investment GmbH in Frankfurt.
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As expected, Google just started rolling out its brand new inbox to iOS users after first introducing us to the new category-based design last week. While its not a tabbed design like on the desktop, much like the Android app that just started rolling out iOS users can now access the new feature that groups emails into separate inboxes by selecting categories from the app's side navigation bar.
Meet the new inbox: If you've enabled the new inbox, your mail is now grouped into categories so that you can see what's new at a glance and decide which emails you want to read when. Primary mail is shown first and it's easy to access and keep track of email in other categories by opening the menu. Configure this feature by going to Gmail.com on your computer.
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Loughborough has again topped an annual poll to find the best university according to students.
The institution came first in the Times Higher Education's Student Experience Survey.
The survey asked more than 13,000 undergraduates to rate their university on 21 different factors, from the quality of teaching to the social life on campus.
Loughborough scored highly for its sports facilities, campus environment, extracurricular activities, social life, students' union and library.
It is the fifth year running that the university has topped the poll.
In second place this year was Sheffield University, and in third was the University of East Anglia.
Both Oxford and Cambridge have slipped down the ratings.
Cambridge was in fourth place, down from second last year, and Oxford was sixth, down from third last year.
Ann Mroz, editor of THE, said: "Unlike other polls, ours asks students themselves to rate the factors they see as important – from the quality of teaching to the non-academic aspects of university life that contribute to a great all-round experience.
"With universities in England grappling with the new funding regime, the data in this table will be more important than ever.
Aaron Porter, president of the National Union of Students, said: "This survey allows students a real voice to say what they think about their experiences and universities. As tuition fees are once again tripled, students will increase the pressure on their universities to deliver a high standard of academic, social and environmental experience."
Westminster University came bottom of this year's poll, with the University of East London just above it.


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I walk to work every other day or so, about a mile through a city I can now navigate with my eyes splitting time between my phone and the way the buildings here seem to volley sunlight back and forth in between them like little kids fighting over a beachball.
The coffee shop across from our office is a cave of a place, friendly staff and great food and good at knowing which drink you'll have based on the way you open the door. It's the destination, each morning, and the route through downtown Vancouver is usually similar to the previous one, similar to the next, save for a busy intersection that might send me this way or that, an extra block or two.
People in this town aren't rushed like they are in other cities. Every once in a while you get a whiff of crisp mountain air that reminds you to look North to take in those pearly whitecaps you probably forget are always there.
This morning I took a different route. Sometimes you need to tell yourself to take another route, to push yourself outside of the most meaningless norms in order to have the confidence to do the same thing when when it really matters.
The sun and smells were fresh as came around the underbelly of the city near the stadium where my old friend spends his weekends captaining the soccer team into their second professional season.
A block or two from the stadium there's an expanse of public soccer fields and my route takes me alongside them, fields to my right and the outer walls of the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden to my left.
Calm and solitude emanate from either side…especially nice while dressed in dusty columns of early sunlight.
I stepped off the sidewalk towards the fields to snap a photo. Empty soccer pitches in the morning anchor childhood memories I can almost taste.
Flashbacks to years of early morning dew and sunrise, sitting on the sidelines putting on shinguards and cleats hoping the grogginess subsides before game time. The buzz to play, to compete.
A man was sauntering along the street towards the corner I'd come upon. I stood leaning against the rail with my camera held towards the sun.
"Spare some change?"
I'd ask the guy taking time out of his morning to snap photos of an empty pitch for change too.
"Honestly wish I could. Elbow deep in chasing dreams these days. I've got nothin."
He smiled genuinely.
"I guess we're both chasing dreams, then, eh?"
Ha! Indeed.
He limbered by.
At the intersection a few paces away he turned around and he said, "I think that makes us both rich in some way."


text: Gorgeous, Shadow! But you are the Devil's Advocate to me right now:I keep saying that I have no desire to do machine embroidery, but it's beautiful stuff like yours that makes me think twice. Hmmmmm ..... maybe I DO need the embroidery module that goes with my new Bernina QE 440. :wink:


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Texian Songs, Hymns and Poetry
Goliad & San Jacinto | Memorials & Tributes
Goliad and San Jacinto
Entry of Friday May 6, 1836, The Diary of Dr. Joseph H. Barnard. Dr. Barnard was a physician attached to Col. James Fannin's command at Goliad, who was spared from massacre and taken with the Centralist army to Bexar to treat Alamo casualties.
.......Observed this evening, as I walked out, the people collecting in small groups, talking anxiously together and seeming to have some great news that agitated them. I was walking with an officer, and did not think proper to inquire of him what it was, but on meeting some negroes, he requested me to ask of them the news. I did so, and they informed me that Santa Anna had lost a battle and was taken. At first I could not credit it, but reflected a moment on the agitation that was visible among the people, [and] which suggested forcibly to my mind at the moment the commencement of Byron's celebrated enigma:
Twas whispered in Heaven,
Will You Come to the Bower? There are many versions of the songs and instruments used at the Battle of San Jacinto with some accounts of an organized march on the enemy with military fife and drum. Family legends passed down in the Daniel Davis family, early DeWitt Colonists, relate that most of the San Jacinto volunteers did not know how to march, there were no fife and drum on the Texian side, only the simple folk instruments from home that participants had brought with them. This included mouth harps ("Jews harp"), homemade whistles, makeshift drums and tom-toms and cymbols from kitchen utensils. Daniel and son George Washington Davis were fiddlers and were instructed by General Houston accompanied with his usual profanity for emphasis "to play something the Texans knew, but which the Mexicans wouldn't take as aggressive" to feign a drill while the Texians moved to surprise the Mexican camp. They played what they could think of at the moment, a crude love song which was a waltz, but played with as much of a march tempo as possible using country fiddles. The tune was "Will You Come to the Bower?".
DeWitt Colonist Creed Taylor in Tall Men with Long Rifles after the battle of San Jacinto in which he participated.
President of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau Lamar, known as the "Father of Texas Education" was a poet and artist, perhaps the Poet Laureate of the Republic. Although he was a prolific poet on a variety of subjects, his poems as the above on specific events in Texas history were rare. According to Phillip Graham in The Life and Poems of Mirabeau B. Lamar:
From the diary of DeWitt colony area resident, J.W. Nichols, recalling his experiences in the US-Mexican War.
"....About ten days after my arivel [in Monterrey] the citizens gave the officers a ball or fandango. Thare was none invited but commissioned officers, and this young senorita, Selavia Arista, was thare and her dress and jylery was veriously estemated at about 5,000 to 25,000 dollars. I had made her acquaintance a few days before, and as I could speake the Spanish language well, she seemed to look to me for protection and I had to interduce her at least fifty times that night. She was saught after and admired by many a young officer of Tailors army. She was the noted senorita, the Maid of Monterey. She was the one that acted the charitable part to the wounded soldiers that caused David Cule, the little Irishman, who was wounded thare to compose the song known as "The Maid of Monterey." She dressed herself in peon or servent cloaths and went ministering among the wounded soldiers. I will here insert the song."
[This piece appears elsewhere in historical records and is credited to various authors]
From Phillip Graham's Life and Poems of Mirabeau B. Lamar: Lamar, once President of the Republic of Texas joined General Taylor's US army at Matamoras, Mexico, in the autumn of 1846, and here he wrote the poem to Do�a Maria Innocente, daughter of Don Rafael Lopez de Aropoza, upon presenting her," he said, "with a bunch of flowers." In the early newspaper versions "My bonnie belle" is apostrophized in the first line-a discord with reference to the Mexican setting. Lamar changed the phrase to Isabel to correct the defect. The poem was published in: The Flag (Matamoras), November 11, 1846; The Northern Standard (Clarksville), November 28, 1846; The Brownsville Flag, February 12, 1858; Verse Memorials (1857); The Southern Intelligencer (Austin), February 24, 1858.
From Phillip Graham's Life and Poems of Mirabeau B. Lamar: "Carmelita" was written near Monterey, Mexico, a few days before the action at that place, where Lamar rendered valiant service. The lady addressed was a beautiful Mexican girl whose identity has been lost. The poem appears in none of the Lamar manuscripts, the result of its being composed in camp. After its publication in Verse Memorials (1857) it was copied widely, appearing in the Tri-weekly Intelligencer (Austin), October 3, 1857; in the Southern Intelligencer (Austin), October 7, 1857; in the Northern Standard (Clarksville), December 26, 1857; in The Library of Southern Literature (Atlanta, 1907), VII, 2996; in Mabel Major's The Southwest in Literature (New York, 1929).


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cannot believe you guys slept through an earthquake! - it was big news here in oz.
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That night a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Sumatra. The epicenter was a fair way from Lake Toba, but the shaking there was still rather substantial. Or so we were told, the cheap vodka (which I may have been having on the rocks by the end of the night) ensured a sound sleep on our behalf come hell or high water (or earthquake). The Vodka may have had some fantastic sedative effect, however the next morning I could feel the 7.7 magnitude earthquake directly behind my left eye. And I swear that the sun was brighter that day than any other it was doing that just to annoy me I'm sure. In fact, everyone was doing everything just to get under my skin. Suffice to say, I was in no shape to ride around the island so another day of relaxing and doing nothing but take Panadol.
The next day we did finally get a moped and checked out Somosir island's other attractions. Somosir may be an island in the centre of a lake in an old volcano, but it's big. It's about the size of Singapore. The initial plan was a circumnavigation, reported to take approximately 9 hours, so we started early. Not far north of Tuk Tuk there is a town called Ambarita we arrived there and headed straight into see the infamous stone chairs.
Surrounding the stone chairs were also some traditional Batak houses. They're on stilts, have intricate carving and painting, buffalo-horn shaped roofs and (originally) used no nails to build (although now they all have corrugated iron instead of thatching and some nails here and there). It's pretty cool that on the island lots of people still live in these houses. I'm always amused by the juxtaposition of this beautiful old architecture, with a ramshackle grubby big satellite dish on top.
So we jumped back on the bike, continued north towards the town of Simanindo where we'd read there was an old village king's house had been turned into a museum and we could watch a Batak traditional dance performance. This museum was more substantial than the previous, yet still underwhelming. But the dance was really, really cool. We were given a hand out explaining the meaning of all the dances in broken English. Towards the end, the 5 or 6 people in the crowd were asked to join in the dance. The other four people were a German family, and we all know what Germans think of making fools of themselves for fun, so only Penny and I joined in dancing around a buffalo tied to a tree.
We had used up a few hours at the first two attractions and were still only 17kms North of Tuk Tuk, circumnavigation during daylight hours was seeming unlikely. The only attraction on the far side of the island was some hot springs so we headed back to Tuk Tuk for lunch then south to see the tomb of one of the last pre-Christian Kings. The Tomb of King Sidebutar was pretty impressive, carved from stone and surrounded by stone carved miniature people. There was another grave for some one who died in 1997 right next to it, we couldn't work out the meaning of that, and it isn't mentioned in any of the guide books or tourist information.
Speaking of dead people and tombs, riding around the island, we saw the most immaculate intricate family tombs, well maintained and recently painted, right next to the dilapidated family homes. We never did work out the reason for this, other than respect for the dead, and wanting to keep family close by. The following day we jumped on a bus headed south for Bukitinggi.
Now I'm sitting on in the roof top garden of our hotel in Bukitinggi, West Sumatra. The bus from Lake Toba was 15 hours of sleepless pain (having long legs and not much padding on your bum are not qualities which fair well on Indonesian buses). We arrived yesterday morning and after sleeping most of the day and really well last night, I think we have recovered. Bukitinggi is a city of about 100,000 it's only a couple of hours north of Padang (west Sumatra's biggest city). It's a really pretty city with views of three volcanoes surrounding the city. We've spent the day today wondering the city, and being harassed by high school students with English home work. They have these bloody forms for us to fill out about our favorite sports and what we like about Indonesia. Bukitinggi, like Lake Toba, apparently used to attract hoards of backpackers, but now you don't see many long noses (as they call white people). But I think the home work these kids were set must have stemmed from more tourist-rich days, every kid has about 15 forms to get tourists to fill out and speak to them about. That makes being one of the only 10 tourists in the city a big job. It was fun and interesting for the first 15 but the phrase "excuse me sir, may I ask for some of your time" will haunt me to my grave after today.
We stumbled across the city zoo we didn't even realise we were paying for entrance, as we were meaning to pay for entrance to see Fort Kock an old Dutch colonial fort. Turns out Fort Kock is within the zoo. The zoo was horrible. I have never seen such disgusting conditions for innocent animals. Initially we only saw small birds in small cages but we crossed the foot bridge and saw the two elephants, chained on 4 meter chains wallowing in mud and their own excrement, the only water in sight was bright green with algae.
We are going to tour some of the surrounding villages tomorrow, then climb to the summit of Mt Merapi, a tall, active volcano tomorrow night, to watch the sun rise from the summit. Then we've still got a few days to kill before we fly out of Padang on the 20th headed for K.L. to organize our Indian Visas.