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This is a GPS-based position tracker and logger. It uses the same GPS receiver and similar radio to our flight computers, but does not include pyro circuits. This allows the board to be small and light, so that it will fit well anywhere you need a good GPS tracker.
For the latest TeleGPS firmware and related ground station software, please visit the AltOS page on this site.
These are photos of production version 1.0:
The manual for TeleGPS is available in html and pdf formats.
The TeleGPS application runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It's written in Java and offers the same functionality and interface on all three platforms. It uses the FTDI USB Serial drivers to communicate with the hardware. If you're running Mac OS X or Windows, a compatible version of those drivers is included with the software. You can also install a different from from the FTDI Driver page.
TeleGPS is part of the larger AltOS suite of software, which also includes a dedicated MicroPeak application.
Available Versions
TeleGPS version 1.7
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Release Notes for Version 1.7
Version 1.7 includes support for our new TeleMini v3.0 flight computer and bug fixes in in the flight software for all our boards and ground station interfaces.
AltOS New Features
- Add support for TeleMini v3.0 boards.
AltOS Fixes
- Fix interrupt priorities on STM32L processors. Run timer interrupt at lowest priority so that device interrupts get serviced first.
TeleGPS version 1.6.8
- Available Downloads:
Release Notes for Version 1.6.8
Version 1.6.8 fixes a TeleMega and TeleMetrum v2.0 bug where the device could stop logging data and transmitting telemetry in flight. All TeleMega v1.0, v2.0 and TeleMetrum v2.0 users should update their flight firmware.
AltOS fixes:
- Fix STM32L DMA driver to work around STM32L SoC DMA priority issue t lock-up in the logging or radio code, either of which could stop data logging and telemetry.
- Avoid having TeleBT battery status values smash telemetry packet data by holding a lock during both operations.
- Don't start reporting flight 0 when the log fills in flight.
AltOS changes:
- Flash LEDS on all products briefly during power up so that they can be tested during production.
AltosUI fixes:
- Re-enable go/no-go entries after they've been disabled due to lack of data. If telemetry information is delayed when the Ui starts up, sometimes important fields would get disabled to never re-appear.
- Deal with ground station failure better during Configure Ground Station operation by cleaning up pending operations.
TeleGPS version 1.6.5
- Available Downloads:
Release Notes for Version 1.6.5
Version 1.6.5 fixes a TeleMega and TeleMetrum v2.0 bug where the device would often stop logging data and transmitting telemetry in flight. All TeleMega v1.0, v2.0 and TeleMetrum v2.0 users should update their flight firmware.
AltOS fixes:
- Fix STM32L SPI driver to prevent lock-up in the logging or radio code, either of which could stop data logging and telemetry. Found and characterized by Chuck Haskin, who also tested the new firmware before release.
TeleGPS version 1.6.4
- Available Downloads:
Release Notes for Version 1.6.4
Version 1.6.4 fixes a bluetooth communication problem with TeleBT v1.0 devices, along with some altosui and altosdroid minor nits. It also now ships firmware for some newer devices.
AltOS fixes:
- Fix hardware flow control on TeleBT v1.0. Hardware RTS/CTS doesn't seem to work, switch from using the hardware to driving these pins with software.
- Fix ARM USB drivers to deal with OS restarts. Needed to reset all USB-related state when the USB bus is reset. These fixes affect all STM32L, STM32F0 and LPC11U14 based devices.
AltosUI, TeleGPS and AltosDroid New Features:
- Automatically switch from meters or feet to kilometers or miles for distance units.
- Add Monitor Idle mode to TeleGPS application.
AltosUI, TeleGPS and AltosDroid Fixes:
- Abort map preloading when the preload map dialog is closed.
- In AltosDroid, Don't reconnect to last device if the user had disconnected it the last time the application was active.
TeleGPS version 1.6.3
- Available Downloads:
Release Notes for Version 1.6.3
Version 1.6.3 adds idle mode to AltosDroid and has bug fixes for our host software on desktops, laptops an android devices along with BlueTooth support for Windows.
AltOS fixes:
- Fix hardware flow control on TeleBT v3.0. RTS/CTS is wired backwards on this board, switch from using the hardware to driving these pins with software.
AltosUI and TeleGPS New Features:
- Add BlueTooth support for Windows operating system. This supports connections to TeleBT over BlueTooth rather than just USB.
AltosUI and TeleGPS Fixes:
- Change Java detection and install on Windows. Detection is now done by looking for the javaw.exe program, and installation by opening a browser on the java.com web site.
- Delay polling while the Fire Igniters is visible to allow for TeleMega to report back complete status over the radio.
- Disallow changing RF calibration numbers in the configuration UI. There's no good reason to change this from the field, and recovering is really hard if you haven't written down the right number.
- Fix USB device discovery on Mac OS X El Capitan. This makes the connected Altus Metrum USB devices appear again.
- Fix acceleration data presented in MonitorIdle mode for TeleMetrum v2.0 flight computers.
AltosDroid new features:
- Monitor Idle mode. Check state of flight computer while in idle mode over the radio link
- Fire Igniters. Remotely fire ignires for recovery system ground tests.
- Remote reboot. Cause the flight computer to reboot over the radio link. This provides a method for switching the flight computer from idle to flight mode without needing to reach the power switch.
- Configurable frequency menu. Change the set of available frequencies and provide more descriptive names.
AltosDroid bug fixes:
- Don't set target location if GPS hasn't locked yet.
- Fix saving target states so they can be reloaded when the application restarts. When the application is shut down and restarted, all previous target state information will be restored (including GPS position if available).
- Fix crash on some Android devices for offline maps when changing the map scale or location.
- Don't require USB OTG support. This kept the latest AltosDroid from being offered on devices without USB device support, although it can work without that just fine using BlueTooth.
- Don't require bluetooth to be enabled. This allows the application to operate with USB devices or just show old data without turning on the bluetooth radio.
- Recover old tracker positions when restarting application. This finally allows you to safely stop and restart the application without losing the last known location of any tracker.
TeleGPS version 1.6.2
- Available Downloads:
Release Notes for Version 1.6.2
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This document is released under the terms of the Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0 license.
Version 1.6.2 includes support for our updated TeleMega v2.0 product and bug fixes in in the flight software for all our boards and ground station interfaces.
AltOS New Features:
- Add support for TeleMega v2.0 boards.
- Add PWM servo driver. There's no higher level code using this yet, but the driver allows testing of the TeleMega v2.0 servo output connector.
AltOS Fixes:
- Slow down telemetry packets to allow receiver to keep up.
AltosUI and TeleGPS Fixes:
- Fix post-flight orientation computation when processing TeleMega and EasyMega eeprom data files.
- Capture complete eeprom data even when there are invalid entries in the data. This keeps reading eeprom contents and writing the associated .eeprom file when an error is detected.
We spent a bunch of time trying to improve our documentation
- HTML versions now have a table of contents on the left side.
- EasyMini now has its own shorter manual.
- Provide links between sections in each document.
- Lots of minor rewriting and restructuring to avoid duplication of information
TeleGPS version 1.6.1
- Available Downloads:
TeleGPS version 1.6
- Available Downloads:
Version 1.6 includes support for our updated TeleDongle v3.0 product and bug fixes in in the flight software for all our boards and ground station interfaces.
AltOS New Features
Add support for TeleDongle v3.0 boards.
AltOS Fixes
Don't beep out the continuity twice by accident in idle mode. If the battery voltage report takes longer than the initialiation sequence, the igniter continuity would get reported twice.
Record all 32 bits of gyro calibration data in TeleMega and EasyMega log files. This fixes computation of the gyro rates in AltosUI.
Change TeleDongle LED usage. Green LED flashes when valid packet is received. Red LED flashes when invalid packet is received.
Replace LPC11U14 SPI driver with non-interrupt version. The interrupt code would occasionally wedge on long transfers if interrupts were blocked for too long. This affects all released TeleGPS products; if you have a TeleGPS device, you'll want to reflash the firmware.
AltosUI and TeleGPS New Features
Compute tilt angle from TeleMega and EasyMega log files. This duplicates the quaternion-based angle tracking code from the flight firmware inside the ground station software so that post-flight analysis can include evaluation of the tilt angle.
Shows the tool button window when starting with a data file specified. This means that opening a data file from the file manager will now bring up the main window to let you operate the whole application.
AltosUI Fixes
Show the 'Connecting' dialog when using Monitor Idle. Lets you cancel the Monitor Idle startup when connecting over the radio link.
Make 'Monitor Idle' work for TeleGPS devices when connected over USB. It's nice for testing without needing to broadcast over the radio.
Use different Windows API to discover USB devices. This works better on my Windows 7 box, and will be used if the older API fails to provide the necessary information.
Look in more places in the registry to try and identify the installed Java version on Windows. If you install the default 32-bit version of Windows on a 64-bit OS, the Java registry information is hiding \SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node for some reason.
Fix file association on Windows by searching for the javaw.exe program instead of assuming it is in %SYSTEMROOT%. This makes double-clicking on Altus Metrum data files in the file manager work correctly.
When replaying a file, put 'done' in the Age field when we reach the end of the file, instead of continuing to count forever.
In the Scan Channels code, wait for five seconds if we see any packet. This is needed because AltOS now sends the callsign, serial number and flight number only once every five seconds these days.
In the Scan Channels code, reset pending flight state information each time we change channels. This avoids having flight computers appear on multiple frequencies by accident.
TeleGPS version 1.5
- Available Downloads:
Version 1.5 is a major release. It includes support for our new EasyMega product, new features and bug fixes in in the flight software for all our boards and the AltosUI ground station
AltOS New Features
Add support for EasyMega boards.
Make the APRS SSID be configurable. This lets you track different rockets on the same receiver without getting things mixed up.
Report extra pyro channel continuity state on EasyMega and TeleMega via the beeper. This lets you easily verify flight readiness on these boards after powering up the electronics on the rail.
Add lower telemetry data rates (2400 and 9600 bps) to increase telemetry radio range. This reduces the amount of data received as well as increasing battery consumption in the transmitter.
Change TeleGPS to have only a single log, and append new data to it rather than using seperate per-flight logs. This avoids accidentally filling up log storage by turning TeleGPS on/off several times.
AltOS Fixes
Increase the maximum range for altitude values from +/-32767m to +/-2147483647m, allowing the flight computers to function correctly above the 32km level.
Continuously test pyro firing conditions during delay stage, inhibiting the pyro channel if the test fails. This prevents firing pyro charges where the conditions were good before the delay, but become bad before the delay expires.
Allow negative numbers in pyro configuration values. This lets you specify things like descending speed or deceleration.
AltosUI and TeleGPS New Features
Support telemetry baud rate selection. Adds menus to the flight monitoring and configuration for baud rate selection.
Support APRS SSID configuration.
Integrate with file managers. This provides icons for all of our file types and associates our application with the files so that using a file manager to open a AltOS data file results in launching our application.
AltosUI Fixes
Make the 'Graph' button on the landed tab work again.
Make tests for Java on Windows a bit smarter, and also provide the user with the option to skip installing Java for cases where we just can't figure out what version is installed.
TeleGPS version 1.4.1
- Available Downloads:
Version 1.4.1 is a minor release. It fixes install issues on Windows and provides the missing TeleMetrum V2.0 firmware. There aren't any changes to the firmware or host applications at all. All Windows users will want to upgrade to get the signed driver, but Mac and Linux users who do not need the TeleMetrum V2.0 firmware image will not need to upgrade.
Windows Install Fixes
Provide signed Windows driver files. This should avoid any need to disable driver signature checking on Windows 7 or 8.
Fix Java version detection and download. Previously, the installer would only look for Java 6 or 7 and insist on downloading its own Java bits if there was something else installed. Furthermore, the 64-bit Java link provided didn't work for anyone other than Keith, making it impossible to install AltOS on any machine with Java SE 8 installed.
Other Fixes
Include 1.4 firmware for TeleMetrum V2.0. None of the installers shipped this file. Now it's included in the AltOS packages for Linux, Mac and Windows.
Include Google Application Key for map downloading. The 1.4 release didn't have this key in the released version of the software, making map downloading fail for most people.
User View
- GPS tracker and logger
- Offers custom digital telemetry, APRS and direction beacons
- 16mW transmit power
- High-dynamics GPS receiver for accurate tracking
- Uses 3.7V Lithium Polymer battery.
- 1.5 x 1.0 inch board designed to fit inside 29mm airframe coupler tube
- 2MB on-board data logging flash
- Built-in USB connection for configuration, data download and battery charging
- 12.3g flight weight (including antenna, excluding any battery)
Developer View
- Hardware Features
- NXP LPC11U14 System-on-Chip
- ARM Cortex-M0 MCU
- 32k Flash
- 6k RAM
- 8 12-bit analog inputs
- I2C, SPI, async serial
- digital I/O
- uBlox Max 7Q GPS receiver
- TI CC115L 70cm transmitter
- Built-in USB data download and battery charger connection
- 2MB SPI flash
- NXP LPC11U14 System-on-Chip
- Software Features
- Written mostly in C with some ARM assembler
- Runs from on-chip flash, uses on-chip RAM, stores tracking data to flash memory part
- Tools Used
- Licenses
- The hardware is licensed under the TAPR Open Hardware License
- The software is licensed GPL version 2
There is a single manual for TeleGPS and all other Altus Metrum products, which is available in html and pdf formats.
The hardware design files can be found on git.gag.com in the project hw/telegps.


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During its second-quarter earnings call in August, Dominion officials said they were at the mid-point of their Kewaunee sale effort and hoped to have a buyer by the end of the year. Dominion officials said then that their data room was open and bidders were evaluating the information. The Kewaunee retirement also poses transmission implications. American Transmission Co. (ATC) has decided to reconsider a plan to build the 345-kV Barnhart-Branch River transmission project as a result of the Kewaunee retirement news.
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I'm guessing that the satin finish would have just a bit more luster than the matte finish? Or is it the same stuff in a different can? The matte coat has pics of artists paintbrushes on the can and is noted for sealing charcoal sketches and such. Whereas the satin finish can be found with the regular spray paint.
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The Cowboys coach, whose team is trying to avoid another December collapse, is under an increasing amount of scrutiny with every loss. And team owner Jerry Jones said Phillips needs to put together a playoff run to ensure he returns next season.
But in the Dallas locker room, there is wide support for Phillips. LB Keith Brooking said there's growing momentum to validate Phillips and ensure he remains the Cowboys coach.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Former Pacific Grove police commander John Nyunt now faces federal criminal charges of wire fraud and extortion.
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Forest Industry firm Stora Enso says that its accounting procedures have changed to ensure that a mistake that raised questions in a documentary film cannot happen again. No individual employee has taken responsibility, although whistleblower Gerard Goodwyn was fired.
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"These accusations are completely groundless," said Peltola. "It's highly improbable that any over-valuation would have remained, they were corrected in connection with the 2008 writedown at the latest."
Stora Enso made a surprise announcement in 2009 that there had been a mistake in previous years' accounting and that dividend payments were suspended. The firm's share price halved, and it has not risen to previous levels since.
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Gerard Goodwyn, the company's head of accounting who spoke publicly about the mistake, was fired in 2010. He died of an illness earlier this year.
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Hey guys I'm getting new tires and rims for the chevelle and I'd like to be able to hold a mickey thompson 29x12.5-15 sportsman tire in the rear.....will it fit with the stock rear-end or what do i need to do to get it to fit?
I've seen some pretty big tires in the back of Chevelle's, but I don't know if they were 12.5". There may be an easier way, but this is what I would do. Jack the car up and take one of the rears off, then support the car on the rear axle with a jack stand. Then measure half of 29 (14.5") from the middle of the axle straight up to the wheel well. That's going to be how high the tire is. From there, you are going need to meaure 12.5" across and see if it fits. I tape a piece of string on the back of the quarter where 14.5" hits, and put a weight at the end so you have a spot where it's perpindicular (because the fender goes in as you go up). With that string, you can measure from there to the hub to get your backspacing. I would think you would have to roll the lip on the quarter wheel well, then bang in the inner a little also.
I hope that wasn't too confusing...
I have 275/60/15s that fit way easy on my 69 Chevelle and 72 Monte. Why oh why won't anyone make rims with enough backspacing! I have centerlines with 4 7/16 backspacing! I think at least I could fit a 295/50 or maybe even a 305/50 with the right rim; and maybe doing a little fenderlip massage! This is with both stock rearends. I think you can go to a 66 or 67 Chevelle rear since they are a few inches narrower. IF you need too!
Hey Sandflea, with the 275's, isn't there a ton of room in the wheel well? The reason I ask is because I had 275's on my 69 Camaro and all I had to do was roll the lip and a little banging on the inside. I always thought that Chevelle's had a ton of more room under there...
ya...I don't know about a ton a room...but there's room....I haven't looked at the Chevelle in a while but the Monte has about 2 inches inside the tire with the 275s and the lip on the quarter is super wide....but it will be tough to roll the lip with the quarter molding attached.
The thing that surprised me is how easy a 275 fits under a later car like my 79 Z-28.....The same Centerline with 4 7/16 backspacing.....Super!!!!
OH yeah...let's talk about the room under my 69 Impala....muhahaha
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Then he slapped Walter on the back, for twenty odd years on land had not taken his "sea-dog" manners from him.
That some one was promptly called by the commodoreas jolly a sea-dog as never trod a deck.
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Women in Development Roundtable for Experienced Professionals - Feb 2014
Women in Development of Mercer County
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 from 8:15 AM to 10:00 AM (EST)
Event Details
Exploring ethics in fundraising. Ethical situations will be presented for us to explore and discuss best strategies.
Intended for experienced fundraising professionals, each of these breakfast roundtables provides an opportunity for frank discussion and to brainstorm new ideas and strategies.
Tuesday, Februrary 18
8:15 – 8:30: Brief chit-chat/introductions/purchase breakfast
8:30 – 9:30 Discussion focuses on the topic of the morning
9:30 – 10:00 Open discussion or continued discussion on the day's topic
*** Everything said at the Breakfast Roundtables stays at the Breakfast Roundtables.
Participation is limited to 12 people per roundtable.
Many thanks to WID Board Member, Julie Davidson Meyers, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer, for coordinating and facilitating these events.
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2633 Main Street
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 from 8:15 AM to 10:00 AM (EST)
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Fresh off of a European promotional tour, Emily Blunt attended the 25th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, California on Sunday (February 7).
Looking quite darling, the lovely actress was on-hand for the 2010 Virtuoso Awards presented by Chopin Vodka as she continues to boost interest in her new film "The Wolfman".
Talking about the upcoming film, Miss Blunt said that she thinks co-stars Sir Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro are a bit "insane".
She tells, "Oh, they're both insane, aren't they? I think we all took our cue from Anthony. We tried our best not to add to the melodrama. Benicio and I even cut some of our dialogue because we thought it was more interesting to feel the space between the characters."
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Name: Matt Tracy
Position: Pitcher
DOB: November 26, 1988
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 215
Bats: Left
Throws: Left
He went 1-2 with a solid 3.04 ERA for the Staten Island Yankees in his debut season and struck out 48 batters in 47 1/3 innings.
"I thought it went really well," Tracy said. "I was lucky going in there [last] summer and being surrounded by a couple of good pitching coaches – Danny Borrell and when Danny went down [with an injury], 'Rosey' [Jose Rosado] came up. They're both left-handers and Danny was a two-way guy in college a lot like myself.
"They really helped me out and I felt like I made some good adjustments throughout the summer mechanically-wise and I worked on a few pitches. Overall I thought it was a good summer."
Beyond the solid numbers though was just how good his stuff was, especially considering it was the first time in his life he focused solely on pitching after also playing outfield for Ole Miss on the days he didn't pitch.
"We were pleasantly surprised by the way he performed," Yankees senior vice president of scouting and player development Mark Newman said. "We put him in the rotation and he ended up being as good as anybody in that rotation. He didn't pitch on weekends at Ole Miss.
"[Our scout] Andy Cannizaro did a nice job. He'll get the fastball up to 94 mph, he's working on breaking ball consistency but he shows occasional quality breaking balls, he has feel for a changeup, he's athletic, and he competes. And he's left-handed, holy smoke!"
Showcasing an above average to plus fastball, an above average changeup, and a developing curveball that certainly looked the part of an above average to plus pitch on certain days, and throwing all of them consistently for strikes, Tracy's later round selection has already made him a 'sleeper' prospect of sorts.
"Yeah, without a doubt," Staten Island pitching coach Danny Borrell said. "Anytime you have a left-handed pitcher who is 91-94 mph and sits there for five to six innings at a time, I think his 'sleeper' status is going to end pretty soon.
"You mix in the fact that he has a pretty good idea of where he wants that fastball to go, his changeup [is a pitch] that he can throw for strikes at any point in the count, good arm speed and deception on that, and his curveball is a good pitch -- it's just a matter of what he wants to make that curveball into.
"I know several times throughout the season it was a put-away pitch, it was a plus big league pitch. He just needs a little more time on the mound, especially him being a position player in college. Once he gets a little more time in -- it's already clicking for him -- he should be fun to watch."
He worked exclusively on the curveball during Instructs this offseason and it came a long way from a consistency standpoint. While improving it further in the coming years will be a developmental mantra for him, what makes Tracy so intriguing is his advanced approach on the mound for a pitcher with so little experience.
"I think every pitcher would tell you that pitching inside is a great way to get people out, Tracy said. "It's my favorite pitch to throw. I think it makes the hitters uncomfortable.
"When I used to hit in college I hated to be thrown inside. Most people don't like it, it makes them uncomfortable, and it doesn't allow hitters to sit on everything out over the plate and take advantage of you."
A bit of an enigma in so many ways -- a lefty who throws hard and who also has two quality secondary pitches, one who has shown advanced command and a willingness to attack batters, and who has all of the necessary components to be a very good pitching prospect for the Yankees -- how he lasted as long as he did in the draft is a mystery in itself.
"He was more of a position player, but he's a 6-foot-4 lefty who throws strikes who will pitch in to righties which a lot of lefties won't do," Staten Island manager Tommy Slater said. "He's got good fastball command to both sides of the plate, a really good changeup, and they tell me that Instructional League that his curveball got better.
"Those three pitches right there have the chance to be really good. He's a great competitor. I think he's got the chance to be really good. He's athletic and he repeats his delivery well."
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Repertoire. Fastball, Curveball, Changeup.
Fastball. Tracy's fastball is a plus pitch for a left-handed pitcher for where it sits. It won't hit in the high-90s like some premium power southpaws have the ability to do, but his four-seam fastball consistently sits in the 91-94 mph range. Being left-handed, he gets really good natural tailing action with his fastball too. He also has great command of his fastball and his propensity to pitch inside to right-handed batters only makes his fastball that much more effective.
Other Pitches. Tracy throws a two-seam changeup that gets great fade and depth to it, and it is already an above average big league pitch that has long-term plus potential. He has the confidence to throw it in any count and it is a good strikeout weapon. He also throws a quality big league curveball that was more of a slurvy breaking ball in college but has quickly developed into more of spike curveball at the professional level. Sitting 78-80 mph with it, it gets more 12 to 6 action now and it is yet another strikeout pitch. He doesn't quite yet command it like he does his fastball and changeup, but it is getting oh-so close.
Pitching. Tracy's entire approach on the mound is one of an attacking style. Not only does he go right at batters with a quality big league three-pitch mix with command, but his goal on the mound is to keep hitters from getting comfortable. He pitches inside to batters with the best of them and that allows him to expand the zone. A former outfielder, he is a great athlete who repeats his delivery well, fields his position, and can hold runners close in the running game. Beyond his natural talent, however, it's his very competitive nature that is the driving force.
Projection. Forget that fact that he was a $2,000 sign, Tracy has great upside and surprisingly few weaknesses for a pitcher with so little experience. Tall left-handed pitchers with his kind of athleticism and command of three big league pitches, including a good power fastball, are quite rare. He has some work to do to make his curveball into a consistent plus pitch, but should that aspect of his game come together for him in the coming years, he projects best as middle of the rotation big league starting pitcher who, like former Yankee southpaw Andy Pettitte, could pitch better than that on any given day.
ETA. 2014. Tracy is a decent bet to possibly skip the low-A level to begin the 2012 season, but even if he begins his first full season in Charleston he should still see ample time in the Florida State League later in the year.


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Was that Letterman or Borger?
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Australian households and business demand for credit remained subdued in November, the latest Reserve Bank of Australia economic data release has shown.
Monthly private sector credit grew at 0.3 per cent in November 2013, unchanged for the fourth consecutive month.
The November reading was below economists' predictions of a rise of 0.4 per cent and resulted in an annual growth rate of 3.8 per cent, a decline of 0.3 percentage points.
Monthly private sector credit growth has exceeded 0.5 per cent only once since February 2009, while demand for housing credit grew at 0.5 per cent, the same level reported for the month of October.
Growth in demand for personal loans was flat, an improvement from a decline of 0.1 per cent in October, and demand for business loans declined, falling by 0.1 per cent. Business credit had grown by 0.1 per cent in October.
The slightly more robust demand for housing credit has led the annual rate of housing credit growth to increase to 5.1 per cent from 4.6 per cent a year ago and the annual rate of business credit growth fell to below 2 per cent, down from 2.5 per cent a year ago.
The Australian dollar traded at about US89.12¢ at 11.43am AEDT following the data release, having traded at about US89.20¢ before the RBA numbers were published.
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This article was published 7/2/2014 (1237 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The latest string of below-normal days continues today and tomorrow.
Environment Canada is calling for mainly sunny skies today, with winds at 20–40 km/h dying down in the afternoon, as temperatures rise to -16ºC.
Increasing cloudiness is expected near midnight, with a light breeze picking up again as temperatures drop overnight to a low of -27ºC.
Tomorrow will dawn cloudy, although it should clear in the afternoon. The thermometer will rise to about -18ºC tomorrow.
Sunday will be sunny, as will Monday, but the high both days will be just -20ºC or even a little colder.
Tuesday will see the start of a mild improvement, with a high of -16ºC under sunny skies, followed by a predicted high of -10ºC on Wednesday. However, the forecast calls for a few clouds and possible flurries by then.
At this point, a few more clouds are predicted for Thursday, with a high of -13ºC.
The normal high for this time of year is -9ºC. The normal low is -19ºC.
The coldest it's ever been on this date was in 1994, when it was -37.4ºC. The warmest ever was in 1954, when it was 4.4ºC.


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Everyone's got their own style, their own taste. Sure, rust and double lips aren't for everyone, but in my opinion, car enthusiasts should be able to recognize and appreciate the amount of work and attention to detail that went into something like this.
I think this is key.
I don't respect many different things people do to their cars when they're both tasteless and copy-cat. I get tired of the argument that every mod deserves respect. If I don't like stretch and poke, I don't have to respect it because it's been done a million times and you're just copying it with off the shelf parts.
But something like this guy, obviously a ton of work went into it, a lot of creativity and different thoughts, even the custom wheels are very unique. While I wouldn't want something like this for my car, the creativity and work that went into it gets mad props from me and it definitely earns respect.
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The Duke MBA – Weekend Executive Celebrates 20th Anniversary and Awards Degrees to 84 Graduates
October 25, 2005
Durham, NC — Duke University 's Fuqua School of Business will graduate the 20th class of The Duke MBA – Weekend Executive program on October 30 at 1:00 p.m. in Page Auditorium. The 84 graduates hail from 15 states and represent a variety of industries.
John Ratliff, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Quintiles Transnational and a 1985 Duke MBA – Weekend Executive alumnus, will deliver the commencement address.
The Duke MBA – Weekend Executive program is designed for middle-to-upper level managers who attend classes on Friday and Saturday of alternate weekends for 20 months. The first Weekend Executive class graduated in 1985, and new classes enter each March.
The Fuqua School of Business ( www.fuqua.duke.edu) was founded in 1969 and is now ranked among the top graduate schools of business in the United States . Fuqua offers its MBA degree in four formats: The Duke MBA – Daytime, The Duke MBA – Weekend Executive, The Duke MBA – Global Executive and The Duke MBA – Cross Continent. Fuqua is also a leader in non-degree executive education.


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Last year I had a lovely surprise in August when I was sent some second-season asparagus from a pioneering farmer in the Wye Valley. I wrote a column about them – only to receive a letter from one reader who obviously hadn't read the text, taking me to task for writing about asparagus out of season!
Anyway, on 1 March we were sent the first of this season's asparagus, again from the Wye Valley, and while I'm often slightly dubious about receiving asparagus that early, they had a fantastic flavour.
Pork tenderloin with creamed wild garlic and asparagus
Serves 4
It's a lovely time of year to combine a quick-cooking cut like a pork tenderloin with some foraged wild garlic leaves and asparagus. If you can't find wild garlic, then use crushed garlic instead.
500g pork tenderloin
1-2tbsp vegetable or corn oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
200g asparagus, cooked and cut into lengths on the angle
A couple of handfuls of wild garlic leaves, washed and dried
150ml double cream
60g butter
Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, season the pork and cook on a medium heat for 8-10 minutes, turning the pork as it's cooking and keeping it slightly pink. Tear the wild garlic leaves in half and simmer in the cream until it has reduced and is coating the wild garlic. To serve, warm the asparagus in a pan in the butter and season. Spoon the wild garlic on to warmed serving plates, slice the pork and lay on top, then spoon the asparagus over.
Asparagus and monk's beard spelt
Serves 4
Spelt makes a great alternative to rice in a risotto-type dish. If you can't find monk's beard, or agrette as it's known in Italy, just use chopped chives and chervil.
2tbsp olive or rapeseed oil
150-200g spelt, soaked for 3-4 hours in cold water
1ltr vegetable stock
150g asparagus, thinly sliced on the angle
100-150g monk's beard, trimmed of any roots and washed, or 2-3tbsp of chopped herbs, as above
100ml double cream
100g butter
80g finely grated Parmesan
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Heat the olive oil in a pan, add the spelt then gradually add the vegetable stock in 4-5 stages, making sure the liquid is absorbed before adding the next bit. Cook the spelt for about 30-40 minutes until tender, adding more stock if necessary and seasoning and tasting as it is cooking. Add the asparagus and monk's beard and continue cooking until the asparagus is tender; then add the butter, cream and Parmesan and cook for a couple more minutes.
Re-season if necessary and add a little more stock to adjust the consistency; it should be fairly wet. Serve immediately.
Asparagus with Asian mushrooms
Serves 4
When mushrooms are out of season, I always keep a stash of dried black mushrooms. Asian supermarkets normally have a great selection.
150-200g asparagus with the woody ends removed
50g dried black fungus, soaked in water for 2-3 hours
1tbsp sesame oil
200g fresh Asian mushrooms as above, trimmed and sliced if necessary
6 spring onions, trimmed and sliced on the angle
2-3 cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed
50g root ginger, scraped and finely grated
A handful of pea shoots or a bunch of watercress
2tbsp soy sauce
2tbsp roughly chopped coriander
Cook the asparagus in boiling, salted water for 2-3 minutes and drain. Then cut into lozenges on the angle. Meanwhile, cook the black fungus in lightly salted water for about 15 minutes, then drain and cut into bite-sized chunks.
Heat the sesame oil in a frying pan or wok; stir-fry the spring onions, garlic, ginger, asparagus, pea shoots (or watercress) and mushrooms for a minute or so. Add the soy sauce, a couple of tablespoons of water and the coriander, simmer for 30 seconds and remove from the heat. Serve immediately.
Asparagus and crab fritters with mayonnaise dip
Serves 4
These make great little nibbles with drinks or you can serve them as a starter.
Vegetable or corn oil for deep frying
150g asparagus with the woody ends removed
150g freshly-picked white crab meat
70g self-raising flour (I use Dove's Farm gluten-free)
Enough water to make a light batter
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2-3tbsp good-quality mayonnaise
To make the dip, cut the asparagus about 3cms from the stalks and cook the ends in boiling, salted water for 5-6 minutes until soft. Drain and blend in a liquidiser or food processor until fairly smooth. Leave to cool, then mix with the mayonnaise and season to taste.
Thinly slice the remaining raw asparagus on the angle and mix in a bowl with the crab, flour and enough water to make a thickish batter and season. Preheat about 8cm of oil to 160-180C in a large, thick-bottomed saucepan or electric deep-fat fryer. Drop dessertspoonfuls of the mixture into the hot fat and stir occasionally with a slotted spoon for a couple of minutes until nicely coloured and crisp; drain on kitchen paper. Scatter with some salt and serve with the dip.Reuse content


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Unless you are in water deeper than 6' then you can not have too much ammo.
I try to have 1000+ rounds of .308 and 9mm at all times.
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Even during Katrina or the LA riots after the Rodney King debacle, there were only a few dozen rounds fired in self defense, and not all by one person.
I think you'll be fine. I plan on stocking up myself - but based on expected price hikes/taxes on ammo - not some doomsday preparation.
Some disaster won't likely wipe you out. Several will.
I have 100 rounds of defense and 200 range for my Ruger P90. I plan to try to get another 200 or 300 range. I just picked up a P3AT and plan to get 100 defense and 200 or 300 range. I have 50 rounds 00 for my H&R Pardner 18" 12 gauge. I'll probably get another 50. That's way more than I can afford since I'm retired and fixed income. Trying to do some part time work to feed this new addiction. Well, new sorta. Just getting back into it after about 20 years.
How much ammo is enough?
Always more.
Stay safe,
Chuck Brick.
Now that I will start casting, I just ordered enough lead for 7,500 pistol rounds, I have brass for 17,000, powder for 5,000 and short on primers with only 3,000.
Rifle over 2K rounds, pistol rounds some 1,500 and some 300 for shotgun...
When the store has to order more to fulfill your order, you've probably got enough...
otherwise Id say at least 5000 for every firearm you own and you've got enough to withstand a few wars if you're careful.
How much is enough? Enough to survive the unexpected encounter(s). How much is that? Dunno. All I know is: it's more than the thousands of rounds that I've got.
This question is a bit like asking a billionaire how much money is enough. The guy will still be out working to make more; it never is enough.
A more realistic question is what amount is adequate for reasonable realistic stuff that might actually happen.
Day to day home defense and practice: a few hundred rounds in each caliber you use.
For moderate SHTF where there is still a government in place making some effort to restore order, a couple of thousand rounds.
For the big time post nuclear SHTF; one is all you need.
I have something on the order of 50-60K rounds of ammo for pistol, rifle and shotgun, much of it in still in spam cans. Its not anywhere near enough!
I have purchased 2000ea of virgin brass, 8lbs of powder, and 2000ea bullets, for every caliber I shoot (except my .32).
I keep about 500 rounds loaded, and when I shoot. I replenish my supplies the same day.
Yeah, I'm anal about it...
:aargh4right now i have about 300 .40 cal. s/d- about 200 target also .40
150 12g shells and quite a few .22lr. i should be ok for a small zombie
attack. after that i guess i'l start throwing shoes and boots or whatever
i can find. :twak:
I think if you're going to shoot it all, having a few thousand isn't a bad idea.
I have 150 for the 40, 200 for the 45, 200 for the AR. I rarely get to practice so this is fine for me plus a box of defensive ammo for each.
More ammo than this would go bad before I use it all up.
If I need more than that, then the po-po or an army must be after me and my guns and I doubt any amount of ammo will be enough to keep me alive long enough to stop them.:ahhhhh:


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what is the importance of social studies in industrial attachment?
Since you could be located somewhere entirely different in your industrial attachment or internship program, knowledge of social studies helps you understand the people and the culture in which you find yourself.
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what should I do????
I have a house foundation put down. Yard is in good shape. 3 acres. I live in a mobile home I renovated after my divorce. I was married for 35 yrs. Will it be cheeper to build a small home on the foundation or sell mobile home and buy small doublewide,place it on foundation. I know,I will have to remove the pillers. ANY IDEAS???I live in disability and only have 250 to spend on house payments,THANKS!
Why not just keep what you have and live I that? $250.00 not going to get you much, it would not even get a desent double wide that's not going to have to be repaired.
I'm not exactly educated on the costs of placing a double-wide versus building new but I will say, even a small house will give you a better return than a mobile home. If you want to look at this as an investment then a built home will win out every day.
Better return but how is he suppost to pay for it?
You and I posted about the same time; but after I thought about it I think you are right.
If you are on a fixed income you may just want to keep what you have. If your house is working then just keep it. Either set aside your money or invest it somehow. If you can't afford to build a house then why tie up your money in such a difficult asset?
I'm all for building in a pay for it manner but I am also very for no debt and downsizing. I guess it's all up to the homeowner.
I think I will look into building a smaller home (1000 sq. ft) on the foundation instead of tearing it all down. Quick fix to a larger place is D.W. but long term I can custom build the hallways,doors widths, etc. I can get a loan for 60 and have a quality home built but may not have granite counter tops
When my house burned down in 2013, I had the contractor remove existing copper lines in slab and replace with PEX. All new construction w/ 2x6 walls, 9 foot ceiling, new HVAC and exterior concrete work for $104,000. the slab was there when they started. It took 33 days from the day the framing crew showed up until we moved back in. I guess it helps that I am the local building official and all the contractors knew me and we have worked together. I had to have the neighboring inspector come over for inspection so there was no conflict of interest. By the way, I am also the Assistant fire Chief for the community. You can guess how much I got ribbed when my house burned down.
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I analyzed this post a little and here are my foundings.
You shared your income situation because you didnt want us to go on a limb and tell you "of course you should build a new one". That does not mean you dont have money to invest in this project.
the other thing I assumed is the trailer you live in right now is not that great and you want a better place to live in.
I have experience with this since I was living in a trailer and bought a house that needed remodeling. Long story short: I kept living in the trailer untile the house was ready (took 3 years...). I would do all sorts of jobs mostly selling stuff on ebay and put the money aside every month. Some months I was able to put $1000 in my savings, some months $200, but it didnt matter.
As soon as I had $100 I would buy my next thing, and finish another section of the house.
Also keep in mind I got this house almost for free and the way I paid for it AGAIN (lol) was that I saved money like crazy for the pars 3 years.
When I sold my trailer and moved in the house I got exactly half of the money back, so that saved me tons on renting.
My verdict is: if you have little money triceling down to your bank each month, start building a small house. If you can do it without hiring, and if the house is built sound and well, resale value is higher than doublewide.
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My 2004 EXT has developed a water leak on the pass. side. It seems to be coming from the blower motor or above it maybe from the duct work. I have isolated it to the last 6" of the pass. side by the bottom of the windshield. This is not an AC drainline issue it comes in when it rains.
Does anyone have an exploded diagram of the blower motor area? I want to get an idea of where it may be leaking before I start tearing things apart.


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I've always noticed this and thought it was a bug ore something.
But this week i've updated to Mavericks and now the number of sending emails in the message is up to 20.
I simply create one new email and send it – than at the bottom left i see: Sending: 20 of 20
Anyone knows where this comes from?
Just figured out the number it says is the total of emails i've send this day, of all my email accounts together.
that's kind of stupid..


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Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson says a Railyards arena project may yet be salvaged. But, he says without the Kings, the arena could be smaller or built in stages.
JOHNSON: "It's about us controlling our own destiny. And I still think we have an opportunity to do that. There are some financial, some legal, some economic issues that we've gotta look at."
Some of those issues come from a clause in the current lease agreement. It allows the owners of the Sacramento Kings to pay off their lease early if the city builds a facility that competes with Power Balance Pavilion.
Building an arena now -with the assumption the Kings are going to leave - could put the city in a better position to attract a professional basketball or hockey team once the Kings are gone.
If the Kings stay, the Maloofs could still pay off the loan early, and become tenants at the new facility.
But, if the City follows the recently deceased arena plan, it would need to find $74 million.
The Mayor says the parking operators, arena operator and developers have all told him they are still committed to Sacramento.
As the City looks at what kind of new arena might be built downtown, there is this vision for the home of the Sacramento Kings…something more closely resembling a castle:
"People would access their seats in the upper level by virtue of escalators and elevators that would be in entry towers exterior to the existing structure, but added on to it. It would just be an entirely different look."
That's Greg Van Deusen. He says there is no reason why Power Balance Pavilion couldn't be renovated.
He works with the architect of the King's original home, and has been in contact with the owners of the Kings over the last several weeks.
On Capital Public Radio's Insight Program, Van Deusen said they could expand the perimeter of the building, make the concourses wider and redo all of the surfaces within the building for under $150 million.
Mayor Johnson has said the City won't help finance a renovation. He says he hopes to have a better idea of what might still be possible for a new arena by the middle of next month, after he meets with "trusted partners."


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Pilot Light works once, then have to re-light after furnace goes off
My pilot light is being extinguished by the furnace, at least that is my opinion from what I am witnessing
The pilot will light easily and stay lit for days.
But, as soon as the furnace comes on, burns for a while , then goes off, the pilot light is gone.
I can reproduce this every time..
I was curious to see if the air conditioner would also extinguish the pilot light, but it did not.
any ideas???
note: i am preparing for the winter not wanting to wait until the last minute. is it possible that the system will act differently once it turns cooler?
This is an old Coleman Presidential II furnace in a mobile home with a Rheem condensor and a-coil in the air handler. There is a Hunter 4-wire thermostat.
Furnaces are a pain in the arse...
In know this is a diy forum...but since your dealing with what I would guess is gas ... I'd be very cautious and take into consideration your safety...
I'd recommend you get a hold of a company to service your furance..... its a great thing to have done before winter and even more so if you haven't had the furance serviced in a while....
Hopefully its not anything serious...
Thanks for the safety advice. seriously!.
I agree, but, I like to do my homework before calling the "experts". I have found it best to interact with service men when you at least seem to know what they are talking about.
So, if I promise to call out a service man, will you give me your opinion(s) of what could cause this?
Doesnt seem like a wiring problem or thermostat.
Doesnt seem like a gas valve problem, or is it?
Doesnt seem like a thermocouple problem.
How about loose duct work? or faulty propane supply or ???
ideeas and discussion please.
Is it windy there? could be a draft hood needs to be installed or a damper came undone.
Does the pilot have a strong flame too it? it shouldn't get blown out during light, unless you have too high of gas pressure...this would cause the flame to blow out. Where is the main fuel burner regulator?
I could see if the gas pressure coming in was too low that the main burners would starve the 1/4" pilot burner and cause it to flame out. The regulator or main shut off valve for the system could have a semi-clogged orifice.
oh i have no idea what to do about it, just giving some general safety advice....
gotta be careful with those gas appliances man.
Hey Viper16, I think you are on to something.
The pilot light seems strong, blue flame, no flickering, will burn for days until we demand the furnace, then all is well until the furnace cycles off.
We moved since last winter, bought a new propane tank and regulator (at the tank). Maybe they sold us the wrong regulator? Plus, maybe some trash got into the system.
I will have the pressure checked and see if the main burner is starving the pilot, but the furnace flame seems strong.
Maybe as you said, it is too strong.
The pilot seems strong, doesnt go out by itself, and it is windy here.
Thanks for the idea, i was reaching on this one.
Also check if it the main burners are weak when it is lit...it could be that the regulator may be set way to low and that you are, as we have stated, starving the pilot.
You may want to have your furnace inspected a crack in the heat exchanger can cause those symptoms
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Enrico Lisi, a blind pianist from Milan, Italy, will make his American debut in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, 100 First Street SE, Washington, D.C., 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 23, 2005.
The event is free and open to the public. Tickets will be available at 5 p.m. on the day of the concert from the Information Desk on the Ground Floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building.
The event will be cosponsored by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress; the Friends of Libraries for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals in North America, Inc.; the National Federation of the Blind; and the North America/Caribbean Region of the World Blind Union.
Frank Kurt Cylke, director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, said, "We are delighted that Enrico Lisi has accepted our invitation to share his music with the American public. He provides us with a unique opportunity to showcase the abilities of blind and disabled people and their contributions to international cultural life."
Lisi was born partially blind in the province of Como, Italy, 40 miles north of Milan. By age six he had lost all of his sight and by age seven, he had been introduced to the piano. In his third year of elementary school, the budding musician began studying under Maestro Valter Suman. Lisi entered the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatorio in Milan in his fifth year of school, studying under Maestro Alberto Mozzati through 1981, when he completed his studies. He further developed his expertise under Ludwig Hofmann in Munich, Daniel Rivera in Florence, and Bruno Canino and Alberto Colombo in Milan.
The pianist obtained execution awards at such important contests as the Viotti Valesia International Competition (Varallo), the Alberto Mozzati Award at Capo d'Orlando (Messina), the Velletri (Roma) National Contest, the Carlo Fantini Contest of the Italian Union of the Blind (Turin), the Dario Formigoni Revere Award (Mantua), and the Mauro Torrefranca Contest (Vibo Valenzia).
Lisi has performed numerous concerts in such places as the Milan Teatro Rosetum, the Piccolo Teatro, the Palazzo dei Congressi "Fiera di Bologna," the Auditorium Comunale di Senigalia, the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, and the Teatro all'antica Sabioneta.
In addition to his renditions of works by such composers as Schubert and Chopin, Lisi will present one of his own compositions, "Improvviso-rapsodia," a short piece composed in 1993.
For more information call the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, at 1-800-424-8567, selection 2, or visit www.loc.gov/nls.
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Gigabyte's New Pentium 4 Solutions - 8IEXP and 8IGX
Features of the 8IEXP - Enthusiast board
First we start with the layout of the board. Gigabyte have chosen a 1/6/1 (AGP/PCI/Riser) layout for this board, this suggest they are aiming the board more towards the enthusiasts. While Gigabyte has given a riser slot that shares with PCI slot 6, it doesn't take up any extra expansion bays, so it's easy to tolerate, though we won't be using it. Power connector locations are fair - The two pin ATX connector is located behind the FDD controller near the upper right of the board, well out of the way. The four pin P4 connector hangs down around the bottom of the P4 heatsink retention mechanism. Power supplies with short four pin P4 connectors will end up having to drape the wires over the P4 heatsink, a big no no for overclockers.
Intel I845E
The GA-8IEXP motherboard uses the Intel I845E chipset paired with the ICH4 controller hub. This chipset gives you 533FSB, DDR-200/266 memory support, AGP4x and USB 2.0 - all from the one chip. While the Intel I845E is rumored to have 333Mhz memory support (unofficially) we haven't seen it implemented on any I845E board to date, that is, if it even exists.
Firewire, My God - It's Onboard!
Well this is certainly a change. Only two other boards I know of integrate Firewire onboard, and they are ASUS and Soyo. It's nice to see that this board is among the few to give us this high speed bus option. Using VIA's VT6306 controller, you get three Firewire ports, not too shabby. This is along with the USB 2.0, now you have everything.
Creative SoundBlaster PCI
Gigabyte have gone down the same path than many other enthusiast level motherboards have gone before in the sound department. That is to replace the AC'97 audio with hardware controller for the sound system. AC'97 audio is pretty much useless unless you are going extreme budget audio, and even then a $30 sound card is better than the AC'97 sound quality. Gigabytes have chosen the Creative SoundBlaster PCI128 chip that they have used on many of their past motherboards. While this chip is far superior to the AC'97 audio, it would have been nicer to see the C-Media CMI8738 6 channel sound chip, as it gives 5.1 speaker support for the same cost per chip as the Creative sound controller. Nonetheless, it is great to see Gigabyte use hardware sound.
Gigabyte have given us the ability to run RAID and ATA-133 IDE hard disks through the 8IEXP. The Promise PDC20276 chip is included onboard which is the same chip used on the Fastrack Lite RAID controller cards from Promise. Additionally, Gigabyte has given us the option as to run the controller as a RAID or ATA controller. In the BIOS under the Integrated Peripherals menu, you can enable and disable the controller as well. In ATA mode you can run your disk drives in ATA-133 IDE mode, and the controller will accept ATAPI devices (CD-RW, LS120, Tape Drives and so on). In RAID mode you can run up to four similar sized hard disks in ATA-133 RAID mode.
Dual BIOS - A must for Gigabyte boards these days
Since Gigabyte introduced their Dual BIOS system onto their motherboards, it's now expected of them to place this feature onto just about all of their motherboards. This comes in extremely handy if you accidentally bad flash your BIOS or get a BIOS resident virus. You can simply erase the main BIOS and boot from the backup chip and get your system into working order for a new or correct flash.
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Cookbook of the week: The Preservation Kitchen
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Confession: The Preservation Kitchen, the cookbook from [node:149003 link=Vie;] and [node:149925 link=Perennial Virant;] chef Paul Virant (co-written with occasional TOC contributor Kate Leahy and photographed by Jeff Kauck), which came out this week, has been sitting on my desk for a long time. Like, possibly months. I think there are two types of people in this world: people who can regularly, and people who have never canned at all. It's not that I haven't pickled some rhubarb or made a refrigerator jam, but I fall squarely into the latter category. Unless Paul Virant comes over to my house and shows me how to process and sterilize jars, I live in fear that I will do something terribly wrong and poison myself and loved ones.
[node:15197391 noterms cck=field_caption; cck=field_credits;]I'm writing today to report that (1) I have finally spent some QT with this cookbook. (2) If any book could inspire me to can, it's this one. (Cherry clafoutis with milk jam is not going to make itself!) And (3), even if I never can, The Preservation Kitchen is a book I will treasure for its inspiring, unusual approaches to cooking seasonally. The first half of the book is devoted to "Capturing the Year in a Jar": pickling ramps, snow peas, beets, watermelon rind, you name it; turning beer and dehydrated strawberries into jams (separately); apricots, gooseberries and peaches into jellies; pumpkins and walnuts into butters; and preserving currants, grapes, asparagus and more as aigre doux and mostarda. The second half of the book, "At the Table," provides recipes that incorporates those preserves.
It's this section that I am smitten by. Its organized in a way that reminds me of one of my favorite cookbooks, Suzanne Goin's Sunday Suppers at Lucques: The recipes are broken down by season, and within each season, they've divided into menus. Cookbooks that are divided by menus are often hilariously rarefied ("Menu for a six-year-old's locavore tea party"), but not so in the case of The Preservation Kitchen. The first menu is "Early Signs": lemon-pickled turnips with baby leeks and picked herbs, braised chicken legs in pearl pasta with swiss chard and pickled stems and pound cake with dehydrated strawberry jam and sweetened crème fraîche. In other words, it's exactly what I wish I were eating at this very moment of the year. The menus glide slowly through the seasons, featuring a grill out (with a recipe not only for a burger but also its bun), an "Autumn Chicken Dinner" (tomato jam–roasted potatoes included) a "Chili Night" (beef chili with chow chow) and more.
These recipes do not look easy. And the ingredients called for—("pork fatback, cut into cubes and ground in a meat grinder"?)—are at times a bit much. But to flip through this book is to await every turn of the season and every visit to the farmers' market to come.


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There Was A 'Blossom' Reunion! [Photos]
There was a Blossom reunion, guys! The show, which ran for five seasons on NBC from 1991-1995, is coming back to TV on The Hub Network. So, to celebrate, the cast hosted a Blossom marathon (which I'm pretty bummed I missed.)
Mayim Bialik shared pictures from the reunion on her social media pages. It's a little sad that none of the sweet 90's fashion from the show made an appearance.
Joey Lawrence, Jenna von Oÿ and Michael Stoyanov, and Bialik were all there, and I have to say, they're looking pretty good considering the end of the show was 20 years ago. For good measure, here's the opening credits from the show so you get an idea of what they looked like back in the day.
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Um…@joeylawrence @MikeStoyanov @JennavonOy. We still look like young whippersnappers @hubtvnetwork #blossomreunion pic.twitter.com/ph7O1JQYlP
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#blossomreunion thanks to @HubTVNetwork in effect! pic.twitter.com/izBDrKQuLw
— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) June 16, 2014
Joey Lawrence took to Twitter to express his love for his former castmates after the reunion:
. @missmayim @JennavonOy @HubTVNetwork @MikeStoyanov so awesome being with u all again. Feels like no time has passed. Love you all
— Joey Lawrence (@joeylawrence) June 16, 2014


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The world of physics covers a wide range of length scale: from nanometer scale atoms all the way up to stars and galaxies. When speaking of physics, people tend to think of things that are not "alive", such as material physics, particle physics, astronomy, etc.
In the last decade, a new area of physics called active matter physics has arisen. To better understand active matter physics, it is helpful to introduce a similar field, soft matter physics. Soft matter physics mainly studies the group behavior of particles with the size of several micrometers. Behavior of a system at such a small size is largely determined by thermal dynamics. Glass, soft gels, granular material are all studied by soft matter physics.
Active matter physics, on the other hand, is very similar to soft matter physics, since it also mainly focuses on studying the group behavior of a system that arises from the interactions of "particles". However, one of the crucial differences between active matter physics and soft matter physics is that active matter physics studies particles that are "active", which means that by consuming energies from the environment, they can produce self-motility. Systems studied by active matter physics can range from bird flocks (Fig.1) to cytoskeleton structures inside cells (Fig.2).
Studying active matter physics provides another perspective for understanding the emerging behavior in a biological system. For instance, there has been work done on simulating cell motion in densely packed tissues. Physicists using tools from statistical mechanics have successfully simulated how cells move around inside tissues and have found that there is a transition where cell motility changes from liquid-like flowing into solid-like jiggling around its initial position. They are able to plot out the phase diagram of such transitions in a space determined by three parameters: cell moving speed, persistence time along a single cell track, and a shape index that characterizes the competition between cell-cell adhesion and cortical tension. Such results provide an insight into the understanding of similar solid-to-liquid transition observed in cancer progressions.
About the author: Yu Shi is a 4th year PhD student in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. He is in Prof. Daniel Reich's lab, and his current works focus on studying dynamic properties of actin-myosin system inside cells using micro-patterned substrate.
Reference article:
1. Dapeng Bi, X. Yang, M. C. Marchetti, M. L. Manning, "Motility-driven glass transitions in biological tissues," Phys. Rev X, arXiv:1509.06578 (2015).
2. M.C. Marchetti, J.F. Joanny, S. Ramaswamy , T.B. Liverpool, J. Prost, Madan Rao, and R. Aditi Simha," arXiv:1207.2929v1 (2012)
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Still, the Maroon and White hung tough. After an erasing an early 12-1 deficit, MSU still fell back down 10 points at the intermission. An early second-half surged found team teams tied 40-40 with 14:12 left. From there, the homestanding Lady Bulldogs scored the game's next 15 points and eased to the victory.
"If you play hard for 40 minutes, you learn how to win," MSU head coach Sharon Fanning-Otis said. "I am proud of the effort tonight. Even in the last couple of minutes, we found a way to make plays and score some points. Turnovers were the difference in the ballgame. We were almost even in rebounds. We have to rebound more consistency, but we also have to take better care of the basketball."
Georgia scored the game's first seven points and quickly built a 12-1 lead before MSU's Kendra Grant hit a 3-point basket with 14:17 left in the first half. The Lady Bulldogs fell down by 11 before scoring seven straight points, including a 3-point basket by Diamber Johnson.
MSU later scored seven straight points with Grant hitting a pair of free throws for a 22-21 Maroon and White lead – the only lead for the guests the entire night.
Georgia moved back ahead on a layup by Erika Ford. The hosts scored the game's next eight points to take a 29-22 lead. Georgia moved into halftime with a 36-26 advantage.
MSU came storming out of the gates to start the second half. Behind the strong offensive and defensive play of Martha Alwal, the Lady Bulldogs pieced together a 14-4 run for a 40-40 tie.
Alwal converted an old-fashioned 3-point play before Johnson rammed home another 3-point basket. Alwal then got a putback for the tie. MSU would then go the next 4:27 without scoring as Georgia reeled off the game-deciding 15-0 run.
Georgia would build the lead to 22 before MSU closed the contest with game's final 12 points. A putback by Alwal as time expired created the final margin.
"If you play hard you will find ways to win," Fanning-Otis said. "It all starts with intensity. We had the intensity and focus you need to have to win in this league tonight. Now, we have to build on this and carry that same attitude into the Vanderbilt game."
For the contest, MSU hit 23 of 56 shots from the field (41.1 percent), 3 of 13 shots from 3-point range (23.1 percent) and 11 of 16 shots from the foul line (68.8 percent). Georgia hit 26 of 64 shots from the field (40.6 percent), 5 of 12 shots from 3-point range (41.7 percent) and 13 of 22 shots from the foul line (59.1 percent).
Georgia held a 39-38 rebounding advantage. MSU had 12 assists and 24 turnovers, while UGA had 12 assists and 17 turnovers.
Johnson and Grant each had 14 points apiece to pace MSU. Porsha Porter added 12 points, while Alwal scored 11 points. Johnson had five assists and three steals but turned the ball over six times. Alwal had a team-high eight rebounds and blocked seven shots.
Georgia received 16 points each from Khaalidah Miller and Jasmine Hassell. Meredith Mitchell was next with 11 points.
MSU hosts Vanderbilt 2 p.m. at Sunday in the Humphrey Coliseum. The Lady Bulldogs will be celebrating National Women in Sports Week at this event, with numerous games and promotions available for the youngsters in attendance.


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Yesterday, I was amused at how John Ireland ranted on how Max Kellerman was inferring that when the Lakers where winning that it was the players lead by Kobe who were actually coaching the team. John almost lost it and called Max full of crap bec he totally blames D'Antoni when they lose and givethe players full credit when they win.
That was exactly my point when DK locks his missiles on the coach when they struggle and totally ignore his contributions when they win.
But to a point, he is right ONLY if the team has 3-4 supertars with a great supporting cast. I like his analogy of handing a key to a driver to drive a well oiled Porche.
The problem is the Porche has some old and/or defective parts, a 39 yr old PG, a center with a bum shoulder, Kobe and Metta shooting like 30% from the perimeter etc.
Not to mention that there are so many new players on this team that are in the rotation that are still getting comfortable with their roles. The other day, Jodie Meeks hit four three pointers out of four against the bobcats. Before that he wasn't doing so well. These players that have roles need to also be professional and perfect what they are asked to do. If Jodie hit most of his threes, Ron was a consistent shooter, Dwight makes his free throws and hustles every game, and the team collectively figured out how to stop turning the ball over so many times a game, would we a) have such a mediocre record, b) blame coach all the time, and c) be having this conversation?
The coach gives the players their roles, and the keys to getting them good shots. If you have a bunch of wide open opportunities, and you either miss the shot, or you pass it up, then you are either a) an idiot, or b) just not really putting in your time to help the team by improving on what you need to do night in and night out.
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