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An obscure leftist group has claimed responsibility for the shooting deaths of two members of the far-right Golden Dawn party. Counterterrorism officials are investigating the authenticity of the group's claim.
"We, the People's Struggling Revolutionary Powers, claim responsibility for the political executions of the fascist members of neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn," the group said in a message posted on the Greek news website Zougla.
"The attack was an act of retaliation for the murder of Pavlos Fyssas," the group said. The anti-fascist Fyssas, also known as Killah P, was stabbed to death by a Golden Dawn supporter in September.
An anonymous caller had tipped off Zougla to the location of a USB stick, which contained an 18-page letter written by the leftist group that claimed responsibility for the shootings. The news website found the USB stick in a plastic bag in the Athens' suburb of Kaisariani.
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Golden Dawn members Emmanuel Kapelonis, 22, and Giorgos Foundoulis, 27, were gunned down on November 1 in a drive-by shooting outside the far-right party's local offices in an Athens suburb.
Since the shootings, Golden Dawn's approval ratings have risen from 6.6 percent to 8.8 percent, according to a survey by pollster ACLO for the newspaper Proto Thema. The far-right party's favorability had sunk by almost a third in the aftermath of the murder of rapper Fyssas.
Last week, Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias had warned of "the beginning of a spiral of terrorist attacks and a bloody vendetta with insecurity spreading in society."
The government has cracked down on Golden Dawn, Greece's third largest political party, since the murder of Fyssas. Party leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos and five senior lawmakers face trial on charges of belonging to a criminal group.
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"The distraction of going shopping for stuff you don't really need -- and possibly can't even afford -- is probably not the best strategy," Nise says, "to attain happiness."
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Root cause analysis with enriched process logs
Suriadi, Suriadi, Ouyang, Chun, van der Aalst, Wil M.P., & ter Hofstede, Arthur (2013) Root cause analysis with enriched process logs. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing [Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2012 International Workshops Revised Papers], 132, pp. 174-186.
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In the field of process mining, the use of event logs for the purpose of root cause analysis is increasingly studied. In such an analysis, the availability of attributes/features that may explain the root cause of some phenomena is crucial. Currently, the process of obtaining these attributes from raw event logs is performed more or less on a case-by-case basis: there is still a lack of generalized systematic approach that captures this process. This paper proposes a systematic approach to enrich and transform event logs in order to obtain the required attributes for root cause analysis using classical data mining techniques, the classification techniques. This approach is formalized and its applicability has been validated using both self-generated and publicly-available logs.
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hydraulic experts, boat application.
I need to figure out how to make one of these myself.
here is a link with more info.
You move the tiller handle, and some how that thing the tiller handle attaches to drives fluid into and out of the cylinder.
The cylinder attaches to the engine.
There is a very small amount of slack in the tiller handle and the pump/bracket with hoses. So you move the handle over 1/4" then it catches, and turns easy as can be.
The now make tiller steer boat engines as high as 250hp because of this power steering setup.
here is a video.
Anyone with ideas on how to make a home brew system like this??
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it looks to be basically 2 hydraulic cylinders plumbed togethor (one feeding the other, so no need for a pump, which is also what makes it a closed loop) and has 2 load holding valves (the valves they talk about being operated by the cables. Basically a check ball that keeps oil from flowing in a given direction. The more the oil pushes against the ball, the harder it is pushed into its seat...oil flowing inthe opposite direction easily unseats theball and fows right through)
You move the handle, which does two things:
1)forces the drive cylinder in given direction, forcing oil to flow out of it and into the driven cylinder, which forces it to move in an oposing direction
2)pulls a cable to open the load check on the outlet side of the driven cylinder, allowing the oil to flow out of that cyl...no idea why they didnt use a hydraulic operated load check valve instead, it would mean fewer moving parts to fail and adjust
You may be able to build something like it yourself, if you have access to the correct parts very cheaply (used), have a good understanding of hydraulic principles, at least enough to caculate the flow rates correctly to make sure you get the right parts, and are capable of fabricating the necassary mounts and other pieces.
Even though I dont know what that costs to buy it, I highly doubt you will build something that will work reasonably well for less then the cost of buying it. The hydraulic parts alone will not be cheap, and you arent buying them in bulk for discounted price as this company surely does.
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sort of, but what you drew has no way of locking in place, so you would have fun trying to hold the handle in place. Thats what the load hold check valves are for.
In this wonderfully artistic drawing that I have added, you can see basically what those checks would be. Essentially, a check ball with a seat, so that when the oil is pushing the ball into the seat, it closes the path and keeps the oil locked in place. If oil is pushed the other other way, then the ball lifts off of the seat and oil flows through it with little or no restriction. To lock it in both directions, for the sysem you want, then a mechanical system (or a bit more advanced hydraulic system) would need to be used to lift the check valves to start the oil flowing.
Then you have the flow rates to consider, or rather the volume of the seperate chambers. The drive cylinder should be somewhat larger then the driven cylinder, so that you get a mechanical advantage out of it (it has the ability to force more oil out then the driven cylinder can accept) and also the surface area of the piston (which would determine the pressure suplied from the drive cyl. to the driven cyl.) How much mechanical advantage you need is beyond me, as that adds a wole new set of variables.
You will also need some way to bleed the air out of hte system and make sure it is fully filled with oil, though thats not extremely difficult.
As I said before, with the time spent, parts purchased, headache and aggrevation, and trial and error you would go through to get this functioning correctly, it would be cheaper and easier to buy the readily available system.
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To clarify, that is only one cylinder.
The shaft above it, slides through the "tilt tube" of the engine.......Basically where a steering cable would connect on a console steer boat.
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Ten days after signing lefty Brian Fuentes to a minor league contract, the St. Louis Cardinals have added him to the major league roster. The Cardinals purchased the contract of the 36-year-old Fuentes from Double-A Springfield in time for Wednesday night's game against the Dodgers. Fuentes has 224 career saves to lead active left-handers. He led the majors with 48 saves in 2009 with the Angels. He was 2-2 with a 6.84 ERA and five saves in 26 appearances for Oakland before being released on July 11. Struggling right-hander Victor Marte was optioned to Triple-A Memphis and right-hander Chuckie Fick was designated for assignment to clear space on the 40--man roster. Fuentes will be the third left-hander in the bullpen.
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The three Americans in the first Olympic women's boxing tournament have learned how fickle the draw can be. While flyweight Marlen Esparza and middleweight Claressa Shields both drew first-round byes Friday, lightweight Queen Underwood was assigned one of the toughest paths to gold imaginable. Underwood must fight British contender Natasha Jonas in the first round. The winner will meet Ireland's Katie Taylor, the top-ranked lightweight thought to be the best female boxer at the Olympics. The rest of the 286 fighters in the field also learned their first-round fates during the long proceedings at ExCel, the multisport venue hosting the boxing tournaments. Most of the world's top-ranked fighters received byes.
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Mentoring Vietnamese preservice teachers in EFL writing
Hudson, Peter B., Nguyen, Thi Mai Hoa, & Hudson, Sue (2008) Mentoring Vietnamese preservice teachers in EFL writing. In Bradford-Watts, K. (Ed.) JALT2007: The Japan Association for Language Teaching 33rd International Conference, November 22 – 25, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.
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Mentors have individual beliefs on what is and what is not important for developing preservice EFL teachers. Five factors for mentoring have been previously identified by the author, namely, personal attributes, system requirements, pedagogical knowledge, modelling, and feedback. A literature-based survey instrument gathered 100 Vietnamese preservice primary school teachers' perceptions of their mentoring for EFL teaching. Results indicated acceptable Cronbach alpha scores for four of the five factors, that is, personal attributes (.74), pedagogical knowledge (.89), modelling (.81), and feedback (.75); however, system requirements was .08 below the accepted .70 level. More than 50% of mentees perceived they had not received mentoring for developing their teaching of English writing on 29 of the 34 survey items, particularly with system requirements and modelling of EFL practices. Tertiary institutions may employ the survey instrument to gauge the degree and quality of mentoring in subject-specific areas such as EFL writing in order to benchmark and enhance mentoring practices.
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So you've decided it is time to start using anti aging skin care products. Good for you, being so proactive about your skin. But here's where it starts to get overwhelming: now that you've decided anti wrinkle cream should be a part of your future, how on earth do you go about finding the right natural anti aging products?
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Man at center of Te'o hoax says he was molested
The man who says he tricked Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o into falling for a fake woman he created online claims the hoax had "everything to do" with escaping from real life because he had been molested as a child.
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo spoke publicly for the first time in an interview with Dr. Phil McGraw for the "Dr. Phil Show," the second part of which aired Friday.
The 22-year-old Tuiasosopo told McGraw he was repeatedly molested, beginning at age 12, by someone who was close to his father, a church pastor and youth minister.
"I felt that I couldn't do things, accomplish things, pursue things, live out as Ronaiah," Tuiasosopo said. "And I felt the need to create this. It has everything to do with what I went through as a child."
Tuiasosopo did not identify his alleged attacker by name and did not say whether he had told police about his claim.
His father, Titus Tuiasosopo, said it was difficult to hear the details of the abuse his son suffered.
"When he told me the location, the time, I could go back and vividly remember those trips, the times that these guys came over," he said. "That part, right there, was kind of gut wrenching for me."
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo said he built the online persona of Lennay Kekua, a nonexistent woman who Te'o said he fell in love with despite never meeting in person. Tuiasosopo then killed off the character last September.
He said creating Kekua — who met Te'o online during the player's freshman year at Notre Dame — allowed him to live in an alternate reality and helped validate that he was a good person.
"When I looked at Lennay through Manti's eyes, I got a glimpse of who I was as far as my heart," said Tuisasosopo, who told McGraw that he fell in love with Te'o.
When Deadspin.com exposed the hoax in a story on Jan. 16, the report raised questions about whether Te'o was in on it. But Te'o denied he was involved.
Kekua "died" the same day in September that Te'o's real grandmother died, and the story of the linebacker playing through the double tragedy became an often-told tale as Notre Dame went 12-0 last season and earned a spot in the BCS championship. Te'o failed at the time to make clear that he had only known Kekua online and through phone calls.
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Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary is auctioning the "ugliest dish in the world" on eBay. Again. This is the fifth time they've sold it, and every time, the winning bidder donates it right back. It's just too darn ugly to keep. The full story appears on the auction page.
As of this writing, the bidding's only up to $35. The auction runs until early Sunday morning. I'm not convinced this is really the ugliest dish imaginable, but it's the ugliest dish in service of the best cause. Get in there and push the price up!
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Damn, I bidded $50 and got outbidded.
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Important Correction! (that actually makes the tale of this Ugly Dish more interesting…) We (WFAS) are not the ones auctioning off the plate for our benefit, it is a very funny Rabbi who was initially doing it on his own accord with proceeds going to us, his chosen charity. The winning bidder decided to donate it back so it could be sold again and 2nd winning bidder decided to do the same and so on. This is now the 5th time it is being autioned! So bid it up, ya'll, it's for our critters and our important work!
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That's the ugliest dish they could find? Pfft.


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WILMOT -- Robert Lee Meese, 77, of Wilmot, went home to be with his Lord on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012.
He was the only child born to Ralph and Hazel (Maxwell) Meese on Easter Sunday, April 21, 1935, and had lived his whole life in the village of Wilmot.
Bob graduated from Beach City High School in 1953 and was appointed postmaster of Wilmot by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 and served there for 34 years. At the time, he was the youngest postmaster in the United States. He served in the U.S. Army from 1958-1960 at Ft. Gordon, Ga. as a base postal clerk.
He was the financial secretary for the Greenlawn Cemetery for 30 years and was in charge of the Memorial Day program at the cemetery. He also served as the president of the Wilmot Water Board for 10 years. He was a member of the Wilmot Fire Department for 50 years and served as the cashier for the Sunday ham dinners in later years. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and served as the secretary for the Sugarcreek Valley Farm and Game Club for 30 years. He was a member of the Wilmot United Methodist Church.
In 1990, he married Marcella (Donner) Wald, who survives. Also surviving are children, Michael (Tracy) Meese of Dover, Molly Romig of Massillon and Melissa (Steve) Clements of Canton; step-children, Kimberly (David) Brown of Apple Creek and the Rev. Matthew Wald of Wooster; grandsons, Cody Beard and Kevin (Karla) Clements; and granddaughters, Mallory, Hope and Lexie Wald.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 1, at 11 a.m., at Wilmot United Methodist Church, with Pastor Scott Simmons officiating. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Cemetery in Wilmot. Friends may call on Tuesday, one hour prior to services. Spidell Funeral Home in Mount Eaton is handling the arrangements.
A memorial website has been created by the funeral home and may be accessed at www.spidellfuneralhome.com, where you may share a memory or sign the guestbook.
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"The people shall have the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State, but the military shall be kept in strict subordination to the civil power." Article 1, Section 27, Oregon Constitution
The first law to prevent the carrying of concealed weapons appeared in Kentucky in 1813. Very few people owned handguns. The main concern was the concealed carrying of Bowie knives by slaves, freed blacks and abolitionists. By 1850 every Southern state had made it illegal to carry any kind of concealed weapon.
Oregon passed it's first concealed carry ban in 1917: "No person shall carry in any city, town, or municipal corporation of this state any pistol, revolver or other firearm concealed upon his or her person, or of a size which may be concealed upon his or her person without a license or permit therefore, issued to him or her by a chief of police. . ."
In 1925 Oregon enacted the Firearms Regulatory Act which prohibited handgun ownership without permission from the sheriff or police. Modeled after the Sullivan Law in New York, this permit system required "good moral character" and "good cause." The broad discretion in this system insured that very, very few people without "connections" could legally buy handguns.
The Firearms Regulatory Act also made a felon out of anyone who manufactures, imports, possesses, offers for sale, lends or gives a pistol or revolver. The punishment is five years in prison. Within a few years the entire Act was determined to be unconstitutional.
In 1989, the Oregon Legislature passed a bill that allowed each law-abiding Oregonian to carry a concealed handgun, after receiving a license from the county sheriff. Oregon's violent crime rate has dropped steadily ever since, and is currently the lowest it has been since 1974.
It is hard to discern whether Measure 11, which passed in 1990 and significantly increased prison sentences, or the Right to Carry statute should receive the credit for lowering Oregon's violent crime rate. However, studies have shown significant decreases in violent crimes in states after they adopt Right to Carry laws, and slight increases in stealth crimes. The five states with the lowest violent crime rates have long had very permissive gun laws.
U.S. citizens and certain legal resident aliens, over the age of 21, can apply for a concealed handgun license in Oregon. If you fit into all the right categories and don't fit into the wrong categories the Sheriff MUST issue the license.
Your principal residence must be in the county in which you applied for the license. You cannot be a criminal defendant on pretrial release nor have any outstanding arrest warrants. If you have EVER been convicted of a felony, or have been convicted of a misdemeanor within the last four years, you will not receive a concealed handgun license.
In addition, you must "demonstrate competence with a handgun" in one of seven ways listed in the statute. Unless you can present evidence that you were trained with a handgun while in military service or while competing in organized shooting competitions, OR that you already have, or have had in the past, a handgun permit from another county in Oregon, you must attend a firearms safety training class.
The statute states that the sheriff of your county must give you a concealed handgun permit application form upon request. In order to receive the license you must first fill out the application with your legal name, current & previous addresses for the last three years, current telephone number, date & place of birth, hair & eye color and height & weight. You must also be fingerprinted and photographed.
When submitting your application you must also submit two pieces of current identification, one of which must bear a picture of yourself.
The license fee is $65, out of which $15 goes to the State Police to conduct your fingerprint search. The sheriff's office keeps the remaining $50. Renewal of an existing license costs $50.
As soon as the sheriff's office receives your application they are required by the statute to enter your name into the Law Enforcement Data System as a concealed handgun applicant or license holder.
If you own a car, your handgun license will be "connected" to your car's license plate in the state's database. When a law enforcement officer runs a check on your vehicle he will become aware that the owner of the vehicle also has a concealed handgun license.
A concealed handgun license expires four years from the date of issuance, unless renewed.
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The Ocean Ridge Ladies Golf Association will sponsor its cancer rally on September 14, 2015, with a golf tournament and walk-a-thon, open to all Ocean Ridge Property Owners, to benefit the BCCCP, which provides free or low cost breast and cervical screenings to women (and men) who meet the eligibility criteria.
The golf tournament and walk-a-thon will commence at 8:15 AM with announcements at the Panther's Run/Lion's Paw Clubhouse.
Sale of mulligans and "Share the Wealth" tickets will start at 7:30 AM. Also, raffle tickets will be on sale for a custom hand crafted quilt and an original oil painting of Sunset Beach.
Walkers will start at the clubhouse around the circle of pink flags then along the first hole of Panther's, through more pink flags lining the first fairway, then follow Dartmoor Way to Castlebrook and turn left to head toward the Nature Center Pavilion and back to the Clubhouse (approximately a 3—1/2 mile walk).
Following the golf tournament and walk-a-thon, a hot buffet lunch will be served at the Plantation Club where the tournament winners and raffle ticket holders will be announced. There is NO GIVE BACK this year. The Committee will not accept prizes from the golf tournament and "Share the Wealth" as donations.
Forms for the "memory" and "honor" flags are available at the Plantation Club and at each of the golf clubhouses. Instructions are on the forms.
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Manhattan Duo Earns Weekly Conference Honor
McGrath (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City) was named Offensive Player of the Week as he had three goals per game scoring a total of seven points in Manhattan's 1-1 week. McGrath notched back-to-back hat tricks in games with #11 Princeton and Providence. During the Jaspers 11-9 victory over the Friars, the junior tallied three goals and assisted on another as he finished with four points. McGrath leads the Jaspers this year in goals with six and is second on the team in points.
Thistle (Chelmsford, Ma./Bishop Guertin) earned MAAC Rookie of the Week honors after averaging 5.50 points per game this week to pace the attack. In his first career game against a ranked opponent, Thistle scored two goals and added four assists to finish with a game high six points against #11 Princeton on Wednesday. He would then follow that performance up with a three goal, two assist performance in a 11-9 Jasper win over Providence on Saturday. Thistle is currently the team leader in goals (6) and points (11) while placing second on the squad with five assists.
Manhattan will continues their three game road stretch when they travel to Stamford, Conn. to take on Sacred Heart at 1:00 p.m. before traveling to Chamblee, Ga. and Mercer on Tue., March 13.
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I'm glad to hear that it's "okay to root for Tiger Woods again" because, if nothing else, it signals a return to stories about Tiger being about golf and not about his marriage, his kids, his infidelity, his temper tantrums on the course, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I don't really care about.
We recently asked people in the forum to predict Tiger's 2011 season, and as I write this 25% of people think Tiger will continue his major-less streak in 2011. 43% think he'll win a lone major, and 23% think he'll win two or more. In regular PGA Tour events, only 9% think he'll go winless, while 40% think he'll win one to three and another 25% think he'll win four or more.
My votes? I picked two majors and 4-6 regular PGA Tour wins, and here's why. In 2011, Tiger Woods will have the emotional wreckage of his broken infidelity and subsequent divorce behind him, he'll have incorporated enough of new instructor Sean Foley's methods to get his swing back, and he'll be eager to prove that he can still be dominant. Let's look at each of these.


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Anyone who has to travel a lot for business will know that their notebook can be a vital communication tool - not just for work, but also to keep in touch with family. With this in mind, many notebook manufacturers have started to build webcams into their machines, allowing users to video conference, or catch a glimpse of their children while they're away. If you don't have a built-in webcam, it might be worth picking up a small, clip-on USB webcam for your notebook, like the Microsoft NX 3000, or the Creative's Live Cam! Notebook Pro.
If you're going to be truly productive while you're out and about though, you'll also need to be hooked up to the Internet at all times. While there is a decent network of Wi-Fi hotspots in most major cities these days, you'll still have to find one, pay to use it, and probably buy a cup of coffee or something to eat to justify being there in the first place. What you really want is something that allows you to get online wherever you may be, whether that be on a train, in an airport or even sitting in the park.
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All the latest news and reviews from Las Vegas: CES 2012 Special Report
It was only a couple of months ago that Motorola launched the world's thinnest smartphone in the shape of the Droid Razr, but it appears as if thinness didn't do it for everyone and the company is back at CES 2012 with a chunkier Razr which features a whopping 3,300mAh battery, promising two-and-a-half days of continuous music streaming.
Whatever you thought of the Motorola Razr, everyone agreed that it was thin. At just 7mm at its thinnest, the phone was almost too thin for many people, especially given its large 4.3in screen.
Well Motorola must have been paying attention to these people because it has launched a new Razr which is identical in every way except for a bloated 8.99mm profile, extra weight and larger battery.
The new Motorola Razr Maxx keeps the 1.2GHz dual-core Texas instruments OMAP processor, the Super AMOLED Advanced screen, 8 megapixel rear camera capable of capturing 1080p footage, Android 2.3.5, 1GB of DDR2 RAM and, as this is initially launching in the US, a 4G radio.
The new phone's footprint is also the same (130.7 x 68.9mm) but the phone is now 8.99mm thick and weighs 145g compared to 127g of the original.
It's strange to see phones getting thicker, as for years now the race has been to the bottom in terms of thickness, but Motorola packs a huge 3,300mAh battery (compared to 1785mAh on the original) into the Razr Maxx, meaning it is necessary to bulk the phone out a little.
In the hand the phone feels anything but bulky and it's only when you place it next to last year's Razr that would you notice the difference. It's solidly built, retaining the Kevlar-covered rear of the original and we have to say it felt better because of the extra weight and bulk.
The boost in battery from 1,785mAh to 3,300mAh is a major step up and Motorola is promising 22 hours talk time from a single charge which is more than double what most smartphones deliver.
Here at CES, Motorola was unable to tell us whether or not anywhere outside of the US would be getting the new Droid Razr Maxx but considering we did get the Motorola Droid Razr in the UK, we would expect the fatter phone to land at some stage in 2012.
With the hardware and software identical on the two phones except for the battery and 2mm in thickness, which phone you buy will come down to a personal choice. For us, though, on initial test the bulkier phone feels better and the added battery life makes the decision an easy one.
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Not before time! I hope this is a new trend for smartphones. It strikes me as a much better size/battery life compromise. A phone that (just) lasts a day if you don't use it too much isn't really acceptable - it's the BARE MINIMUM to make it JUST fit for purpose. This sounds much better.
"Does the idea of a slightly bulkier Motorola Razr with a much improved battery life entice you?"
Absolutely, yes! Anything less than 10mm is hardly 'bulky'. At that point, improved battery life becomes more important.
I view this similar to camera makers slowly (too slowly) realising that after a certain point more MPix is less useful than less noise, more DR etc.
Easy: give me the 2mm + the day extra time!
Given how often I've heard people on this site complaining about the current drive towards thinness while battery life seems to suffer, I think this phone will generate a following. Whether that actually translates into sales, I'm not so sure.
Personally, I'd be content with about 30% more battery life than my Xperia Arc currently provides. At least then I'd be able to get through a full day, regardless of how I used it.
Kudos to Motorola for shaking things up though.
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Another case, another missed court date.
Randy Quaid and his wife Evi once again face arrest warrants after failing to show up for a Santa Barbara, Calif., hearing on allegations they were squatting in the guest house of a Montecito home they once owned.
Santa Barbara Senior Deputy District Attorney Lee Carter tells the Associated Press that $50,000 warrants were issued after the couple failed to appear for the arraignment Monday on residential burglary charges.
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Jazz musician Grace Kelly's résumé reads like many of the musical legends who have come before her: She's an accomplished saxophonist, singer, composer, arranger, bandleader, producer, performer and music educator. And at the age of 21, Kelly continues to balance all of this with international fame, time in the studio and between 100 and 150 shows a year.
"The last few months have been a lot of intense touring," she said. "It's bicoastal for me, so I'll be on the West Coast and then the East Coast right after."
One of the next spots on her tour will be Indiana University of Pennsylvania for the university's Lively Arts series. Kelly and her band will take to the stage in Sutton Hall's Gorell Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday, bringing her eclectic show to Indiana.
"We'll do my own music, some covers, some standards that have been 'Graceified,' meaning they've been arranged by me," she said.
Kelly relies on a "good foundation" in jazz to pull off many different styles on stage. At the age of 16, she studied professional music on full scholarship at Berklee College of Music, where she now teaches residence workshops. She's studied saxophone with jazz greats George Garzone, Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Jerry Bergonzi and Allan Chase and released eight full-length albums. Her first EP is due this summer.
Thursday's show will demonstrate her flexibility as an artist who doesn't shy away from pop music.
"I love listening to songs on the radio, and I love mashing it all up," she said. "Lately I've been listening to more contemporary music and songwriters, and at the same time I've been more inspired to write songs."
Kelly believes that just like her own shows, the genre as a whole will embrace other influences, which will continue to popularize jazz with her generation.
"That's the refreshing thing — there's no music snob thing going on anymore," she said. "We love jazz and we love what our peers are doing. I don't think that as a young person, I need to mash things up. It's just a natural thing."
She doesn't worry that her generation hasn't embraced jazz the way others have. To Kelly, it's a matter of exposure, not accessibility.
"There's always these discussions about jazz being dead and about how we get jazz to a younger audience," she said. "I think part of it is they just haven't been exposed to it, and they haven't been exposed to jazz they understand."
What is understandable across the board is improvisation, what Kelly calls "the essence of jazz."
"You can bring that to any music, and everybody appreciates and loves that," she said. "Jazz musicians are at such a high level and we can express ourselves at a high level."
Kelly wants her shows to "bring joy" to the audience members even as she's expressing herself. Based on her fan base and how audiences respond to her shows, she's exceeding her goal.
"When I talk to audience members afterward, they said, 'that was the most dynamic show I've ever seen,'" she said. "I like when they're taken to a different place so they can enjoy themselves."
Tickets for Thursday's show are available at the HUB box office for $20 for regular admission, $16 for senior citizens or groups of 15 or more, and $12 for I-card holders, students and children.


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Relay Diagrams
I came across this site that has lots of useful info reguarding the wiring of relays. Thought I'd pass it along.
Relay Diagrams - Quick Reference
After a computer crash and the one in my shop stolen along with a lot of other stuff, I've started printing out info I want to save for reference and keeping it in notebooks.
90% of all relays work off the same principal......
For example a bosch type relay.....
There is a coil with two terminals, (85 and 86) it doesn't matter which terminal gets pos or neg.
If you hook up constant 12v to one terminal (85)....... the other terminal (86) connected to one side of a switch, the other side of the switch connected to a ground, when the switch is thrown it provides and ground (neg) and activates the coil.
If you hook up constant neg (ground) to one terminal (85)....... the other terminal (86) connected to one side of a switch, the other side of the switch connected to a 12v source, when the switch is thrown it provides and pos and activates the coil.
Depending on what you want .... either way works just as well. I like to hook fused, constant 12v to the coil (85 or 86) and use a switched neg to activate the relay. IMO that keeps the hot wire short and reduces the resistance etc.......
On most automotive bosch type relays that you can purchase at most auto parts stores, will also have a common terminal (30) and a normally open or NO terminal (87) and there are some that have a normally closed (NC) terminal (87a).
Depending on what you want to do would determine if you needed a 4 or 5 terminal relay.
For example........ You wanted to hook a air horn up on your vehicle and you wanted to use the steering wheel horn button to activate it, but you still wanted to use the normal car horn ...... that's where a relay works perfectly. You would find the original wire that connects to your normal horn and disconnect it from the normal horm, make a new wire and connect it to the normal horn and run it to NC (87a) terminal.
Take the original wire and hook it to the common terminal (30), since 87a and 30 are making contact, when you press the steering wheel horn button the normal horn honks. Next you hook your air horn pwr lead to NO (87) terminal, now when the relay is energized, as outlined above, it disconnects terminal 87a NC from the common (30) and connects terminal 87 NO to the common (30) so now when you press the horn button pwr is routed to the air horn.
Basicly it's an "either"/"or" type circuit
Let me add to the above post......
If you are using a 5 terminal relay, instead of a 4 terminal, to switch something on for example..... fog lights....
I like to hook the hot lead to terminal 87 (NO) and the fog light feed to the common terminal (30). My reasoning.... When the relay is not energized, terminal 87a (NC) is dead.
If pwr were on terminal 30 and the light feed was on 87, then when the relay was not energized terminal 87a would be hot and increase the chances of a short circuit.
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One of the neatest things I've done with relays........
On my 67, I have after market pwr windows, my OEM window cranks are my switches, I didn't want those ugly door switches and I wanted the interior to look bone stock........
The issue: I couldn't roll down the pass window while i was driving etc......
Solution: A stainless steel micro push button switch and four relays. Press the micro switch and it switches the relays to allow the drivers window switch to control the pass window.
Works very well
although i haven't seen lately, some older bosch relays do have a suppression diode across terminals 85 and 86. in that case terminal 86 is the positive and 85 is the negative. wire it backwards and you get a short circuit, blown fuse, smoke let out of the electronics module controlling the relay, etc...not a good thing. the nice thing is that bosch did put a little symbol for the diode on the case of the relay to show that there is one present. if you sourced relays from used vehicles, gm i know did have them back in the 90's, couldn't hurt to look.
For a good explanation of why you should use relays this spells it out in EZ to understand terms:Custom Cars Classic Hotrods Streetrods-Watsons StreetWorks
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Here's one for Door poppers using a neg pulse from a remote key fob or a hidden switch to activate.
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Door popper using Pos pulse
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Very basic cooling fan
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Pwr antenna using two relays
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Pwr door locks
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67 Camaro RS headlight doors
This relay, available from Summit Racing has two 87 terminals.
Handy for wiring two headlights to one relay.
Because of the diode in some relays, keep pin 86 positive, and pin 85 negative. You can switch either coil feed wire, that does not matter.
The relay you use may not have a diode in it, but there is a possibility you may need to replace the relay at a later time, or the next owner of the car will. If you wire the coil of the relay with the wrong polarity, you have to make sure the relay you replace it with also does not have the diode.
The diode is used to suppress inductive kick back. Just like the primary side of the ignition coil, when a relay coil is switched off, the magnetic field collapses, and that induces a brief high voltage spike in the relay coil.
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Wagh added that the need for more number of flats for low-income groups was justified and said, "As people with low incomes cannot afford to buy flats from private builders, our focus is to create more housing stock for them."
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Burgenland Croatian
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|Burgenland Croatian
|gradišćanskohrvatski jezik
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Burgenland Croatian is a regional language of the Chakavian dialect of the Croatian language. It is spoken in Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Burgenland Croatian is a minority language in the Austrian state of Burgenland. 19,412 people speak the language there in 2001. Many of the Burgenland Croatian speakers in Austria also live in Vienna and Graz.
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1. components of identity
2. perceived internal cause
3. perceived organization and structure
immediate awareness of current environment
ego, superego
available to awareness
unavailable to awareness
unconscious part of mind exerts great influence
raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality
-operates on unconscious level
-holds primitive desire
-pleasure principle
-represents the rights and the wrongs of society as taught and modeled by ones parents, teachers, and other significant individuals
-includes the conscience
strives to balance the desires of the id and the realities of the objective, outside world (superego)
-executive of personality
individuals encounter conflicts between the demands of society and their own sexual urges
-failure to resolve conflicts at any stage can result in fixation
unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety
erik erikson, carl jung, alfred adler, and karen horney
-believed frued laid too much emphasis on the events of chilhood as determinants of adult personality
-greater focus on ego, more control over id
-minimize importance of sex
-increase focus on social factors, effects of society, and culture
sometimes called the the first feminist psychologist
-suggested that personality develops in the context of social relationships
enduring personality characteristics that tends to lead to certain behaviors
-people can be described in terms of the basic ways they behave
father of american personality psychology
-allport rejects the notion that the unconscious was central to an understanding pf psychology
-must focus on present, not childhood
-uniqueness of each person and capacity to adapt to environment
likeable, agreeable, good, pleasant
factor analysis
16PF personality scale
imaginative or practical
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organized or disorganized
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sociable or retiring
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softhearted or ruthless
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calm or anxious
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psysical survival
reproductive success
influence of a persons cognitions, as well as observation of others behavior
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-self esteem
responsibility people have for their own behavior
rogers and maslow
concentrates on qhat is uniquely human
humans possess an inner drive to grow, improve, and use their potential to the fullest
psysiological needs
safety needs
belongingness and love
self actualization
carl rogers
innate need for positive regard
acceptance, sympathy, love from others
real self vs ideal self
standard measures designed to assess behavior objectively
tests are based on norms
developed by trait theorists
extensive interview which is used to determine the most important events in childhood, social relationships, and success and failure
objective tests
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Myers briggs - based on jungs personality types
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