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Mueenuddin grew up in Lahore and on the family farm in Rahim Yar Khan, a rural district in southern Punjab.
It is in the cities like Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad that the danger is actually the most acute.
Early in 1999 Sharif invited then-Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee to Lahore to talk about reducing tensions.
For example, Sharif has promised to build a bullet train from Karachi to Lahore without explaining how he would pay for it.
Housed less than a mile from the Lahore offices of the U.S. Consulate, Newsweek Pakistan is no stranger to protests.
He sent three samples of indigo, but none of the Lahore kind, which is round, and the best.
I decided, regretfully, to make a change in the command of the Lahore Division.
At Ferozepore an aggravated revolt had occurred, and at Lahore it had been found necessary to disarm all the Native troops.
"I am afraid this knocks the Lahore week on the head," he said at length.
Lahore is a great and goodly city, being one of the fairest and ancientest in India.
region on the Indian subcontinent, from Hindi Panjab, from Persian panj "five" (from PIE *penkwo-; see five) + ab "water." So called for its five rivers. Related: Punjabi.


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Bullying Tied to Suicide Thoughts and Attempts
The emotional pain of being bullied can lead some kids to think about killing themselves and others to follow through with actually attempting suicide. Sadly, far too many young kids and adolescents have succeeded in ending their lives because of the hurtful actions, mean words and cyber aggression of others.
Some people may assume that bullying is just a part of growing up and relatively harmless, but a new analysis of previously published studies on bullying, found that school children who are bullied are more than twice as likely to think about killing themselves and to attempt suicide as children who are not bullied.
Researchers also found that cyber-bullying, such as harassment over the Internet, was more closely linked to suicidal thoughts than in-person bullying.
"We found that suicidal thoughts and attempted suicides are significantly related to bullying, a highly prevalent behavior among adolescents," Mitch van Geel told Reuters Health in an email.
Van Geel is the study's lead author from the Institute of Education and Child Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
He said it's estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of children and teens are involved in bullying as the perpetrator, victim or both.
Studies have discovered links between bullying and suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, but there are still a lot of questions left that need answering.
Cyber-bullying is a relatively new phenomenon, in research and analysis time, so fewer studies have been completed.
For this latest analysis, published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers found 34 studies that examined bullying and suicidal thoughts among 284,375 participants between nine and 21 years old.
They also found nine studies that examined the relationship between bullying and suicide attempts among 70,102 participants of the same age.
Overall, participants who were bullied were more than twice as likely to think about killing themselves. They were also about two and a half times more likely to attempt killing themselves.
In one study included in the analysis, researchers found that about 3 percent of students from New York State who were not bullied thought about or attempted suicide. That compared to 11 percent of students who were frequently bullied.
The extra risk of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts tied to bullying was similar among participants of different age groups and among boys and girls.
In the handful of studies on cyber-bullying, researchers found that those victims were more likely to have suicidal thoughts than kids who experienced traditional face-to-face bullying.
"At this point, this is speculative and more research is definitely needed on cyber-bullying," van Geel wrote.
It could be, however, that cyber-bullying victims feel belittled in front of a wider audience and may relive the attacks because they are stored on the Internet, he added.
Some experts have cautioned that the studies included in the analysis don't prove a causal connection between being bullied and suicidal thoughts or suicide attempts among the participants. As one noted researcher explained, it could be, for example, that kids who attempt or think about suicide are more likely to be bullied.
Many schools have implemented no-bullying policies and programs to help children who are targets of bullying have a voice and a safe place to talk and receive counseling.
Those steps have helped bring attention to the problem of bullying in some schools. However, it may take a change in adolescent attitude and societal pressure to make bullying lose its power.
"There are now meta-analyses that demonstrate that bullying is related to depression, psychosomatic problems and even suicide attempts, and thus we should conclude that bullying is definitely not harmless," said van Geel.
Source: Andrew M. Seaman, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/10/us-bullying-among-kids-idUSBREA291JS20140310
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2001 mustang v6 won't start, coil pack?
My Mustang has been set up for over a year. I put in a new battery, replaced oil and filter, put in new coolant, new plugs, new fuel filter, and new gas. It cranks but will not start. I hear the fuel pump and have gas at the rails ( Schroeder valve). I think I may not be getting spark.
I set my multimeter to 200 ohms and checked the three terminals on the coil. First 2 show 1.2 for resistance and third shows 0.7. Does this indicate a bad coil pack? Is this enough to keep it from starting?
The wiring attachment to the coil pack also seems a little brittle. Perhaps I should replace it?
Check for spark at distributor if you got it the coil is good. Then check spark at the plugs. If you font got it there. Pull your distributor cap and check your cap, rotor, and distributor for corrosion may have corroded up setting check her out :bigthumbsup
I don't think it has a distributor, just a coil pack. 2001 Mustang v6 3.8 liter.
Check for spark at the plugs ill check my Mitchell if you got spark with no start for a tsb.
I would recommend stating here http://www.allfordmustangs.com/forum...e.html#2984838 with wmburns Crank with no start check list.
If you do a search before starting a thread, you can find lots of good stuff (especially from wmburns,) and often avoid being told to check the distributor that you DON'T have under YOUR hood.
Good luck.
Common practice to check coil distributor for spark if u got no distributor then just check the coils out like I said. Get the codes come back with more info
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I was waiting to turn left at an intersection recently. I was the first car in the left-turning lane, and when the light turned green I didn't move right away, as there was a long line of cars coming in the opposite direction. The driver behind started to honk at me to push up, even though I couldn't turn. Am I obligated to pull into the intersection to wait for a break in traffic? Wouldn't it be safer to stay behind the line until there's a reasonable chance of making the turn, so I don't get stuck in the middle of the intersection when the light turns red?
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Should you move out into the intersection when waiting to make a left turn? In Ontario, it's left entirely up to you.
"It's accepted practice to move ahead... but it's not required by the law," says Sgt. Dave Cross, media relations officer with Halton Regional Police in Mississauga. "But if you sit behind the line waiting for a break in traffic, you could be waiting an eternity."
Ontario's Highway Traffic Act (HTA) doesn't address where you should wait to turn at an intersection.
Young Drivers of Canada teaches new drivers to move ahead when turning left at a light, but just a little.
"New drivers are taught to advance into the intersection with just the front end of the car," says driving instructor Berk Dietrich. "When the light turns amber you begin creeping forward slowly and then finish your turn around the end of the last car coming through."
By moving ahead just a little, you're less likely to block the view for left-turning drivers coming from the opposite direction, Dietrich says.
What if you move up too far and the light turns red before you've finished your turn? You could be stuck sitting there while the traffic with the green light drives around you.
Dietrich says those other cars should be courteous enough to let you finish that turn so you're not blocking the intersection. In reality, that might not happen. "Drivers to your right and left tend to ignore this," he says.
And if you decide to wait at the stop line instead of moving ahead? You have to stay there once the light turns amber.
"If you don't take possession of the intersection to wait for your turn, when the lights do change, you are not allowed to enter to make the turn," Dietrich says.
Section 141.5 of the HTA says you can't turn left across the path of an oncoming vehicle unless you have "afforded a reasonable opportunity to the driver or operator of the approaching vehicle to avoid a collision."
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Charlee Drew gears up for the release of debut EP 'You Did Me A Favour'
Up-and-coming Leicester born artist Charlee Drew has just announced that he'll be releasing his debut EP, You Did Me A Favour, on September 16th…
Charlee looks set for great things this year, with such a great response received upon premiering his debut single, You Did Me A Favour, he now looks set to take it to the next level with the release of his debut EP of the same name.
Although the spotlight is now beginning to shine on the young artist, Charlee has been hard at work for a number of years now — producing for the likes of Skepta and receiving co-signs from Ed Sheeran, Sway and Lemar, no less.
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A great video with a happy ending.....
May we all be as willing to extend assistance to an officer in need....
....Now for the inevitable "armchair quarterbacking"
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A great video with a happy ending.....
May we all be as willing to extend assistance to an officer in need....
....Now for the inevitable "armchair quarterbacking"
well besides getting thrown off a bit by some of the things that were said like "he pulled the trigger" "it jammed" and "he kept the gun cocked" I think he did a good job. Not really the way I would have handled it personally but I'm glad that he helped an officer in need and that it all turned out OK in the end. Could have ended a LOT worse though.
Whenever I see a video like this for the first time I always try to think (while it's happening) how I would react. Then analize my decision later. I try to come up with an answer right then and there because that's how it would be.
I would like some more info on the background of what actually happened though...was the trigger actually pulled all the way? What kind of malfunction happened if so.
good vid , no monday morning qb here , officer needed help and got it end of story , reasons are not the issue , results are .
Yep - RR nails that.
The late stage ''pinning lady'' sure made some difference too :wink:
I don't recall that ever being in our paper, as we are about 20 miles from Linden.
But glad to know we have some good folks in this neck of the woods. It looks like the guy got a Carnegie Hero Fund Commission award for helping out.
I could not help however laughing a bit when the woman came up and layed on the perp to keep him down. You got to admit that was funny.
lol chris yep , and let me say tounge in cheek if she sat on me like that ... well i would go peacefully too:gah:
oO( I know ... I know ... BADDD REDNECK , NO BUDWEISER ):spankme:
well done by all as far as I can see and crackhead waas luck someone else didn't show up first or it could have been a trip to the morge instead.
Good vid - Bad gun defense, glad it worked! :congrats:
Short of divine intervention, it seems unlikely that the gun jammed - Do officers carry condition III? Are there rules/regs regarding this?
On the misfire issue , ill bet that the trigger did get pulled , but due to the struggle the slide was slightly out of battery and the disconecter did its job .
Good job on the part of the bystanders. Glad everything worked out ok and no one was seriously injured or shot.
Just a note about situational awareness.
Did anyone else notice the 2nd person in the suspects vehicle? While all this is going on they just stayed in the car. This second person could have changed the whole situation.
Good job by the unarmed good guy but...
If I see an officer fighting with someone over their gun... a contact shot to the BG's head will end it! :dead:
Just an observation:
I think this is a reenactment.
Aside from the movements looking staged, the "dashboard" camera is moving and changing focus.
Dashboard cameras are fixed and don't move. This video's camera perspective is moving and changing focus.
Good on Mr. Coughlan, and on the woman who also assisted.
That officer needs some SERIOUS RETRAINING, in my layman's opinion. Her effort in the beginning of the fight was nothing short of pathetic... like two fourth-graders fighting over a can of Yoohoo or something, for all the technique she put into it.
I can't help but notice that Mr. Coughlan's grip on the Glock later on did not seem like that of someone proficient in handgun use. He had his weak-hand's index finger pointed along the frame like he must have seen on television or in the movies. :rolleyes:
What was all that malarkey about how "the 9mm Glock is loaded, but miraculously 'JAMS'"? :blink: What, the trigger stuck when the perp tried to pull it? What kind of failure are they trying to describe, here?
I seriously think that the officer demonstrated a deficiency in her training that should be addressed. Why just stop the discussion at, "Whew! Glad no one was hurt!"?
As far as reenactment is concerned, and the camera moving and zooming.
I suspect that the motion and zooming that you see was done later when the footage was transposed for the broadcast, narrated television show on which this clip aired. It's called "pan and scan" in some circles. They zoomed and edited to focuse the viewer's attention on what is germane. Makes for far better video than a stationary camera shot would. If the camera was stationary and they didn't pan and zoom, they probably would have done that thing where they darken everything and leave a light circle around the stuff you should be paying attention to.


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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 878109, 13 pages
A Tikhonov-Type Regularization Method for Identifying the Unknown Source in the Modified Helmholtz Equation
1Institute of Wave and Information, National Engineering Laboratory for Offshore Oil Exploration, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China
2School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China
Received 30 September 2012; Revised 16 November 2012; Accepted 22 November 2012
Academic Editor: Carla Roque
Copyright © 2012 Jinghuai Gao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
An inverse source problem in the modified Helmholtz equation is considered. We give a Tikhonov-type regularization method and set up a theoretical frame to analyze the convergence of such method. A priori and a posteriori choice rules to find the regularization parameter are given. Numerical tests are presented to illustrate the effectiveness and stability of our proposed method.


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Justice Minister Peter MacKay is distancing himself from apparent patronage appointments at a Canadian Crown corporation, saying he had no hand in the hiring of a now-dismissed executive or the people he brought on.
The comments from the Nova Scotia MP, a key figure in Stephen Harper's government, came as Ottawa announced it had "terminated" the employment of John Lynn with cause as head of the Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation (ECBC) just one day after a watchdog's report found he had breached ethics rules by hiring four Tory-connected people with little or no paper trail or competitive process.
Mr. MacKay announced Mr. Lynn's appointment to ECBC chief in 2008. Two people who were members of Mr. MacKay's staff received what the watchdog said were apparent patronage postings to jobs funded by taxpayers. But Mr. MacKay says the decisions were not his.
"The president has lost his job, so we're respecting the report," Mr. MacKay said on Wednesday, before bristling at the suggestion that, as minister responsible, and the one who made the announcement, he had picked Mr. Lynn.
"Well, no, let's be clear. There was a name brought forward, and he assumed that position. It was his activities that have been deemed inappropriate. With respect to other individuals that were named, those were his decisions," Mr. MacKay said, an apparent reference to the ex-staffers Mr. Lynn hired.
After a year-long investigation, the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada released a report on Tuesday saying Mr. Lynn committed a "serious" breach of ethics rules when he made the four hirings in 2009 and 2010. Two of the people had ties to Mr. MacKay, while the other two had ties to provincial Progressive Conservatives. The commissioner's report cited an "element of deliberateness" and a "pattern" in Mr. Lynn's actions that left "the appearance that they were partisan appointments." The commissioner, Mario Dion, said it was up to the government to decide how to respond.
The government terminated Mr. Lynn's employment the same day, and announced it on Wednesday – but argued the basis for the dismissal was not the commissioner's report but an ECBC board investigation, which it would not make public.
"This decision was taken as a result of findings from an independent investigation undertaken by the Board of Directors of the Corporation that determined that Mr. Lynn's actions were incompatible with his position as CEO of ECBC," said the government statement, attributed to Rob Moore, the minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), of which ECBC is going to become a part. Mr. MacKay oversaw ACOA when Mr. Lynn was appointed.
Mr. Moore's office would not say directly if Mr. Lynn will receive severance, but said, "the Government of Canada does not provide severance when an individual's appointment is terminated with cause." Mr. Moore continued to handle the issue in Question Period, even opposition MPs' questions for Mr. MacKay on whether the people Mr. Lynn hired will keep their jobs.
The Liberals hope they will not, and have tabled amendments to a government bill to ensure the people who apparently got patronage jobs, two of whom still work for ECBC, cannot be transferred to ACOA. Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner has written to the head of the Public Service Commission, Anne-Marie Robinson, asking that the employees not be allowed to join ACOA as public servants.
"Individuals hired through such a tainted partisan process should not have their appointments, and the process through which they recived [sic] their appointment, legitimized by being transferred into the public service," Mr. Cuzner wrote in a letter obtained by The Globe.
Mr. MacKay is a friend of Mr. Lynn, who was once director of the Pictou County Chamber of Commerce, which is in Mr. MacKay's Central Nova riding. Mr. MacKay commended Mr. Lynn in an address to the House of Commons in 2001.
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In many locals carrying the firearm unholstered or not in a box of some sort would be called brandishing. An entirely different thing than OC.
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In many locals carrying the firearm unholstered or not in a box of some sort would be called brandishing. An entirely different thing than OC.
Obvious time to call the police is obvious.
So I turn a corner and see this guy smacking his head and brandishing his gun . . . what do I do? The smart___ in me says start smacking myself in the head and brandish my gun as well. Two's better than one, right?
Realistically? Goodbye, and I make the phone call after I'm out of line of sight.
If I have observed this behavior, my next step is to get out of Dodge and let SWAT take care of this problem. My signature says a lot but not stupid. When with my Granddaughter I am full force ahead, the rest of you folks need to get heads up and get out of the way!!
First of all, thats not a shotgun......
Its considered an AOW or a smooth bore pistol the way it is configured. Would I be concerned yes! I don't know many states that allow the legal open carry of AOW's. Would it constitute suspicion, yes because there is a high probability of possession of an unregistered NFA item is a felony and is a federal crime and constitutes severe time in a federal prison. Personally I would not want to get in a shoot out, but would I have conducted a surreptitious draw and have my gun out, ready for use, I would say yes, because at this point if i'm in line of site of the guy based on the facts, i'm reasonable in fear of my life. Here in Virginia thats all I need.
If I saw this, I probably wouldn't dial 911 but keep an eye on the guy as I go about my business. I find it interesting that people on this board in large pretty much do the same thing as the police do and that is go out in public with a gun. Yet when we see things that make us uneasy we are quick to call guys in that also have guns and pray they get there in time before anything happens. We as armed citizens can help the police out by being extra sets of eyes to assist in maintaining a safe community. The police are nothing more than ordinary citizens with guns like any CCW holder, only difference is the attire and the method in which the firearm is carried. Dialing 911 and hiding somewhere is the exact thing someone many refer to as "sheeple" would do. I can't say whether or not that guy carrying a gun like that is lawful in his state and we all know how well laws work with those hell bent on causing trouble. I am kind of sick of this fear based society we live in these days.
I'd stand one isle over and start lobbing cans of soup.
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Nigerian Kids Can Now Attend The 'Pinky And The Brain School'
How cool would it be to attend a school named after cartoon characters? Well now, Nigerian kids can do just that at the Pinky and The Brain Day Care, Nursery, and Primary School. Are you pondering what I'm pondering…?
I'm still wondering why the administrators at this school decided to name it after cartoon rodents, but it's a pretty cool name nonetheless. The school is located in Abuja, and I'm guessing they didn't get the green light from Warner Brothers to use the name or characters from their hit show. But, they do have their own catchy song in which the pay homage to God, and their school,
We are the children of Pinky and the Brain, Children growing in wisdom, age and grace.
We lift our voices to thank God; the giver of life.
Shout it out, far and wide,
Pinky and the Brain first among equal,
Pinky and the Brain, the flag bearer, for others to follow.
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An hour later, on stage, that sound had come to life, and yet another new audience was sharing the shock felt by generations of first-hand listeners to Ellington's music. Posterity will learn part of the story from recordings. But the sound of these men moving the very air in the room through the use of metal and reeds - the glistening vibrato of Johnny Hodges, the lyric poet of the alto saxophone; the brassy cries of Cootie Williams's trumpet; the velvety croon of Lawrence Brown's trombone; the imperturbable weight of Harry Carney's baritone saxophone, the keel that stabilised the ensemble; and the laconic, teasingly off-centre piano phrases of Ellington himself - touched the senses in a way that can never be recaptured.
This was Berlin in 1969, and the Ellington band was well into the final chapter of its long history. But as the musicians rocked through the jaunty cadences of "Take The `A' Train" and turned "Mood Indigo" into a sighing evocation of perishable dreams, it was easy to identify with Max Jones, a British jazz critic who described his reaction to seeing the curtain rise on the Ellington orchestra at the London Palladium in 1933. "The sound and spectacle," he wrote, "were such as to rob me momentarily of all reason." Even in Ellington's last years there were audiences just as avid to experience the dizzying sensation for themselves. In 1971, when the band visited Leningrad for their first concert in the Soviet Union, they were greeted by people who had queued for days to buy tickets and who wept at the sound they had loved in secret for many years.
"Take The `A' Train" was, after all, the signature tune of The Voice Of America's Jazz Hour, broadcasting its subtextual message of peace, democracy and free-market capitalism across the world every night, despite the attentions of the Russian radio technicians, who jammed the frequency with a blizzard of static whenever East-West relations took a turn for the worse. When it came to presenting jazz as a symbol of America's virtues, Ellington was the perfect figurehead. Even in friendly territory, he represented something ineffably exotic. Tynan, again, summarised the experience of many far-flung admirers when he wrote of "the remote and lordly musician who brought the sound of Harlem chugging and wailing into my Birmingham suburb late in the Thirties".
Later this month (on 29 April) the centenary of Ellington's birth will be celebrated around the world. For he has a fair claim to be called the century's greatest musical figure, not only by virtue of his specific accomplishments, but also through the way his life and work incorporate so much of the story of African-American music. He reminds us of the swiftness and diversity of the music's evolution, of the breadth of its dissemination, of the thoroughness with which it has been absorbed by other cultures.
Unlike Louis Armstrong, jazz's first great instrumentalist, Ellington did not rise to world renown from origins in a home for "colored waifs". Unlike Charlie Parker, jazz's other undisputed genius, he avoided the indulgences that ruined the lives and careers of many musicians. Born in Washington DC, the nation's capital, Edward Kennedy Ellington was a child of the middle class, of handsome, personable parents who provided a solid home where music, in the Victorian manner, was a family activity. His father had worked as a butler at the White House before becoming a blueprint maker with the US Navy. His adored mother instilled in him lifelong religious beliefs and sent him to a piano teacher, Marietta Clinkscales, whose lessons were often the casualty of competition from informal baseball games, and whose encouragement had less to do with the boy's eventual choice of career than his own attempts at fooling around on the keyboard, freed from notions of theory.
The nickname was the idea of a high-school friend. "I was a pretty fancy guy," Ellington remembered. And he always stood apart from the crowd. Something about Ellington, something that had less to do with his musical and organisational talents than with a mysterious blend of ambition and allure, enabled him to rise above those who led first-class big jazz bands in the inter-war years - the likes of Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Jimmy Lunceford, even Count Basie, all talented, all respected - to achieve an imperial position within jazz.
It helped that he had a manager with a gift for media-manipulation. Irving Mills promoted his artist with the same cold-blooded thoroughness and intuitive reading of the audience's weaknesses that George Evans, Colonel Tom Parker and Tony DeFries were to employ with pop stars such as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and David Bowie. Mills made the Ellington musicians dress in eye-catching uniforms, with two or three changes per night. He acquired a special Pullman car in which they toured the country, thereby avoiding segregated hotels while conveying the impression of exclusivity and success. He aggrandised Ellington by playing up any hint of a connection with admirers from other fields of music, such Leopold Stokowski and Percy Grainger. In Reminiscing In Tempo, a new oral biography of Ellington, the British author Stuart Nicholson reprints an "advertising manual", written by Mills for distribution to regional concert promoters. This is almost shocking in the candour with which it supplies hints for selling the band via newspapers, radio, record stores and charity shows, including specimen stories to be placed with friendly journalists, and even suggesting headlines: "Harlem's Aristocrat of Jazz!"; "Music No Other Band Can Play!"; "Primitive Rhythms! Weird Melodies! Amazing Syncopations!"
From 1927 until well into the Thirties, the band could be heard at the Cotton Club, where Harlemites and socialites gathered to hear early masterpieces such as "East St Louis Toodle-oo", "Creole Love Call", "Rockin' In Rhythm", "Daybreak Express", "In A Sentimental Mood" and "Black And Tan Fantasy" interpreted by a band featuring the brilliantly outlandish trumpet and trombone solos of James "Bubber" Miley and Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton. Listening to this music now is to be astonished by the range of gesture and the accumulation of detail crammed into each three-minute tune, and to envy those who were around at the time and were able to take them as they came, released in pairs on double-sided 78rpm records every few weeks - a schedule allowing the listener time to appreciate the significance of each piece and to savour every nuance. This privilege, too, is now lost to us; instead we put on a 70-minute CD and attempt to absorb perhaps 20 such tunes in a row.
Between 1939 and 1943, the band's line-up inspired Ellington to a creative peak. With Jimmy Blanton, the first truly modern exponent of the double bass, and the poetic tenor saxophone of the young ballad-master Ben Webster in the ranks, and with a fresh charge of compositional inspiration from a new collaborator, Billy Strayhorn, Ellington presided over the performance of a group of pieces which the critical orthodoxy has long claimed to be his finest work. They include "Ko Ko", "Jack The Bear", "Bojangles", `Harlem Air Shaft", "Cotton Tail", "Warm Valley", "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)", and the extraordinary suite titled Black, Brown And Beige, which premiered at Carnegie Hall. Here Ellington integrates every aspect of his experience and his craft in a music which is interdependent on its composer, its solo voices, and its collective. His years in the semi-vaudeville environment of the Cotton Club had given Ellington an unmatched feeling for colour and drama in music, and for compression and impact. In these pieces we find a sophisticate who none the less adored the chaos and urgency of ordinary life, who took pride in his cultural environment, and drew his own essence from its vitality.
The immediate post-war years were less kind. Late in his life, Ellington liked to tell people who asked his age that he had been born in 1956 at the Newport Jazz Festival, reflecting his distaste for the era preceding an event that led to his popular and critical renaissance. He and his band had spent the summer of 1955 accompanying the Aquacades show at Flushing Meadow, New York, the old World's Fair site. Some of his longest-serving musicians, including the irreplaceable Hodges, had already left the band in the hope of making better money elsewhere. Five of the remaining players were dropped from the line-up, replaced by a string section, an extra pianist and two harpists, who made appropriate noises as ice-skaters and comedians went through their routines. The leader himself appeared only for a brief piano solo, leaving the direction of his orchestra to a house conductor. Back at home each night, he would set to work on a stage play, The Man With Four Sides, and on a symphonic piece, Night Creatures. The play was never performed; the music received a Carnegie Hall premiere, but had to wait eight years before anyone showed sufficient enthusiasm to make a recording of it.
In terms of popularity, then, 1955 was the low point of Ellington's career. The post-war economy had destroyed the big-band business, while the diverging forces of bebop and rock'n'roll had reduced the popular audience for jazz, taking the eggheads off in one direction and the dancers off in another. This was the time when even Andre Hodeir, the great French jazz critic and a confirmed admirer, could write that "Duke Ellington's decline does not seem merely temporary".
The summer after the nadir of the Aquacades, a single midnight performance of one previously unremarked composition, "Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue", effectively restored his fortunes. A long, long solo - 27 choruses in all - improvised by the tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves had the effect on 7,000 festival-goers assembled in the gardens of a Newport mansion of a can of petrol on smouldering embers. Suddenly Ellington and the band were rocking with an unstoppable momentum, and the news of their performance reignited his entire career. Concert bookings flooded in from around the world, a surge of interest from major record companies led to important extended pieces such as The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, Such Sweet Thunder and The Queen's Suite, and Ellington's all-round eminence increased to such dimensions that when the Pulitzer Prize committee rejected him for a special award in 1965, its members were the objects of widespread derision. The non-honoree responded with a famous bon mot, typically suave and mischievous. "Fate is being kind to me," he said. "Fate doesn't want me to be famous too young."
Ellington was a complicated man whose relationships, with musicians and women alike, were conducted according to highly personal rules of engagement. With all women he was egregiously charming; with those he fancied, he was lethal. In 1918 he married Edna Thompson, a high-school sweetheart, but they separated in 1929, when their son Mercer was 10, after Edna discovered Ellington's relationship with an actress and slashed his face with a razor. Thereafter he enjoyed relationships of varying durations with countless women, both before and during his liaison with Evie Ellis, a former dancer, which began in 1938 and lasted until his death in 1974. Evie kept a home for him in New York and was seemingly unbothered by his other activities; she and Duke are buried together, near his parents's grave.
"Duke liked life to go smoothly," the impresario Norman Granz once said. "If anything disturbed his equanimity, then that was a great drag to him." He was distressed, for example, when Granz briefly enticed Hodges away. The unique longevity of the Ellington band was, after all, based on a set of relationships that was often difficult for outsiders to comprehend. Ellington was not given to the style of leadership - pitched somewhere between military officer, sports coach and head teacher - that was favoured by others; he preferred to exert control in subtler and less confrontational ways. Paul Gonsalves, whose solo had sparked the Newport triumph, was a notable lush; his employer would respond to Gonsalves' arrival on the bandstand in a particularly poor state by featuring him on the first five numbers, all played at unusually rapid tempo, at the end of which he would be the soberest man on stage.
Ellington's debt to his employees is still a matter of debate. Lush Life, David Hajdu's fine biography of Strayhorn, probably gets close to the true nature of a remarkable collaboration. But Barney Bigard, Ellington's featured clarinetist in the pre-war years, claimed with some vehemence years ago that he and Johnny Hodges had been the actual composers of "Rockin' In Rhythm", knocking it out as a number to back the act of a comedy duo at the Palace Theatre in New York one day in 1930. Yet it has always been credited to Ellington, Harry Carney, and Irving Mills (who, in the manner of those days, grabbed an unwarranted share of several important compositions). Similarly, Bigard claimed to have written one of the key themes of "Mood Indigo", while the authorship of "Sophisticated Lady" has been reliably attributed to the saxophonist Toby Hard- wicke and the trombonist Lawrence Brown, both important early members of the orchestra.
Bigard, a man of few illusions, nevertheless provided an admiring appraisal of Ellington's techniques. "Duke was different from anyone else," he told Max Jones. "He studied every man in the band, figured his style, what his character was, and if he made an arrangement to feature me, he knew exactly that it would fit me." Ben Webster endorsed this view: "Duke makes a star of everyone because he's the greatest judge of musicians I've ever come across. Within a very short time of you joining the band he'll know your musical abilities, and he'll know the man. Next thing you'll have a concerto to play, and that way you begin to get famous, or more famous than you were before."
These men, like Ellington, are long dead. Nothing survives of them but the recorded echoes, and a legend that is all the more convincing for its inconsistencies. The Duke Ellington Orchestra was never a precision instrument, for alongside the charm and the vision and the imagination and the generosity of its leader, it also contained his vanities. Yet that sound - vivid, exultant, exquisite, vibrant, a sound that could bop you on the nose or stroke the soles of your feet or tell you a joke or introduce you to a new best friend - represented an unrepeatable miracle of humanity.Reuse content


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B. Davie Napier, at the time of this writing was Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Intepretation at Yale Divinity School. He later became President of Pacific School of Religion. He is a minister of the United Church of Christ and an author of several books on the Old Testament. Word of God -- Word of Earth is copyrighted to United Church Press, 1976, and published by A Pilgrim Press, a division of United Church Press. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Paul Mobley.
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WATCH: Farrah Abraham's Painfully Awkward Soap Opera Audition Tape
It turns out Farrah Abraham isn't settling for the XXX industry when it comes to her on screen appearances.
The former MTV Teen Mom star (also the star of pornographic video "Backdoor Teen Mom") is aiming for a new role on the famous NBC soap opera "Days Of Our Lives."
By the looks of things though she isn't quite cut out for the part. For one thing, it's clear she's not big on memorizing lines. For another...well, just watch it for yourself...
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Great article. You guys should mention that not only is it difficult to make and build a satellite. But their are a bunch of restrictions to your design, there are satellite that cost billions of dollars up there and to damage one of those would be severe. Another thing is something like live google earth will most likely not happen anytime soon…if at all ever. Think of all the national security that would threaten. Drug dealers and smugglers could easily use this to their advantage as well and that is just the beginning of problems have live overhead can cause. As cool as it sounds and would be this is something that is not happening.
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If you read the full content of this link many who may have reservations about changes or additional zones may in fact recognize the benefits of doing so.
I further wish to request that folks make serious Note to the comments the USFWS added to the suggestion option of removing zones and splits. This should not be something to take lightly. Last summer what was being suggested even though we have a 2 zone structure state was a season that started and ended on the same day in both zones. Read the comments of the USFWS on the negatives of removing zones or splits.
What is said should give others who attend NRC meetings proof as to why we as a state should never ever open and close our zones on the same days. PERIOD ANY RECOMENDATION FOR SUCH A THING SHOULD GO RIGHT INTO THE TRASH CAN!
Presently as a 2 zone state or a 3 zone state this will have to be made clear and put to rest as final. Why? So we do not have to waste so much of our limited debate time arguing over the same issue year in and year out.
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From The Tennessean's Dave Paulson:
I love that there's hip-hop at Bonnaroo. I wish there was a lot more of it. There are few things I'm looking forward to seeing more this weekend than Jay Electronica, and Kanye West's 2008 performance -- even if it was delayed for two hours -- remains one of my best Bonnaroo memories.
But of course, West's set was plagued with problems, and I couldn't help but draw parallels as I and several hundred irritated fans waited a good half hour past set time for Wale to take the stage Thursday night. It's clear that thousands of Roo attendees are all about seeing some rappers, but I'm thinking there are definitely some swagger adjustments required for guys like Wale if they want to make it in Manchester.
Sure, if you're playing in a club, taking your sweet time to hit the stage is expected and practically a live hip-hop custom -- but it's just not kosher here. The booing started around 20 minutes into the delay, and got worse during a prolonged introductory DJ set, which swerved from pandering (Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit) to just plain clueless (Drowning Pool's Bodies). The hype man required that a half-hearted crowd chant Wale's name a few dozen times before he hit the stage, set to coast on simmering swagger like any other gig.
Early on, he interrupted one of his best-known songs, Days Like This, to ask if there were bloggers in the crowd and if they had flipcams, then resumed the song after a few more moments of incoherence. The band was air-tight -- like a Jr. Whopper version of Jay-Z's flawless backing unit -- but the flow was muddy and detatched. Later on, Wale taught the crowd a call and response: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the realest of them all?" We're going to go out on a limb and assume that he's referring to himself, but he sure didn't do much to convince us.


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By Bob Reinert, USAG-Natick Public Affairs
When it comes to fashion, America looks to, well, the Natick Soldier Systems Center, as it turns out.
At least that's the argument made by GQ. In an article entitled "Natick, Massachusetts: America's Fashion Capital," the venerable men's fashion and style magazine states its case for the home of everything U.S. service members wear.
"If America has made any lasting contribution to men's style, its (sic) utility: functional clothing," GQ wrote in a story posted to its website, Sept. 18. "And no one issues a louder clarion call for 'function' than the five-pointed Department of Defense."
GQ pointed to "the combat boot, the fatigue shirt, the camouflage print and the campaign desk, all items of veneration. We also got the T-shirt, popularized after the Spanish American War (1898). Today, we're calling attention to the G-1 flight jacket, first flown in the Korean War and delivered continuously to market ever since."
"Nearly every New York fashion house produces a version of the G-1, but these are interpretations at best, and imitations at worst, of an American classic," GQ continued. "None is quite comparable to the leather original born four hours up the road in Natick."
High praise, indeed, but such compliments are not the main reasons those at Natick design apparel for America's heroes.
"Of course, everything designed for our war fighters must be fully functional," said Annette LaFleur, team leader of the Design, Pattern and Prototype Team at Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center. "The goal is to design clothing that enhances the user's ability to perform their mission, quality of life, and protection/survivability."
Yet, LaFleur admitted that style is a consideration, even for the military.
"Image also is very important for acceptability of an item," LaFleur said. "If we are designing a protective item, we want the user to want to wear it; so the truth is, it has to look good and have that 'cool factor' to it."
LaFleur added that it takes "a huge team effort" at Natick to create those functional, acceptable items.
"Every day, it is something different for the war fighter," LaFleur said. "We make many design improvements to already fielded items and design brand-new clothing and items using written requirements and feedback from the field."
As to GQ's point about DOD's ability to produce functional clothing?
"Why wouldn't the general public want to have utility and functional clothing?" LaFleur said. "Utility in street fashion may serve many different purposes from how our war fighters need utility and function in their clothing.
"It is neat that the fashion designers and people on the street want to emulate the look of our finest men and women in uniform," she said.
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Water heater T/P vavle
Was in crawlspace and found a constant drip from the T/P valve pipe. The T/P valve was replaced a few months due to opening when using water heater. I removed the pipe to the T/P valve and placed bucket under and no drips. My thought is the pipe for the T/P valve is cooper and since it's going to crawlspace could it be condensation? The T/P valve is warm to the touch and the heat will carry down half of the cooper pipe. Could this be resolved by using PVC on T/P valve? The drip is pretty regular limit once every two seconds and when touching it's cold. The cooper pipe from the T/P valve is 4' long.
Left bucket under T/P valve during shower and it's dripping so the condensation theory failed. This T/P is only about 1 year old. Is it possiable that it's bad T/P valve or do I need to research further?
Install a new T&P. Oncde opened, they may (usually) will not completely reseal.
Do you have an expansion tank in your water system? Without that, pressure builds up each time the water heater cycles on (the new batch of water expands slightly when heated) and this can put too much exercise on the relief (temp. & pressure) valve that it 'sorta' wears out and develops a constant leak.
The best location for an expansion tank is on the cold inlet to the water heater downstream of the water heater inlet shutoff valve.
AllenJ: That was part of the problem. I replaced the TP valve on the water heater and the same problem was still occuring. I contacted our water dept and they measured the water pressure at the meter which was 113lbs. Contacted plumber who is installing Pressure Reducing Valve and thermal expansion tank tomorrow. After talking with water dept I know I needed to bring in the pros. Hopefully once all this is done I will see reduction in my water bills, since it's not going down the TP pipe. To keep the water from dripping down the TP valve, I've been turning on breaker to WH 1 hour prior to use then immediatly after and captured 1/2 water during that time.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ----- Sophomore running back Darrin Reaves and senior offensive lineman Chris Hubbard, along with senior linebacker Marvin Burdette, were named to 2012 All-Conference USA football teams, the league office announced Tuesday.
The conference's All-Freshman Team was also announced and the Blazers landed two players on the squad in quarterback Austin Brown and offensive lineman Cameron Blankenship.
Reaves, who rushed for 1,037 yards and 13 touchdowns this season, became the Blazers' only first-team, all-conference running back selection in school history, and the first Blazer all-league running back pick overall since the 2004 season (Dan Burks was named third team).
Reaves registered the highest rushing total (223) in a game in the league this season, posting that number against Southern Miss (Nov. 3). In a three-game stretch vs. Tulane, Southern Miss and Marshall, Reaves averaged 191 yards per game, while his rushing touchdown total (13) established a new UAB single-season record. He also had 41 receptions (302 yards) in 2012.
Hubbard, the anchor of the Blazers' offensive line, picked up his first postseason all-conference honor after being named as a 2012 preseason all-league lineman last summer. He was an honorable mention choice last season. This is the fourth consecutive year that UAB has had a first-team offensive lineman selection.
Named to the league's second team, Burdette led Conference USA and ranked No. 2 nationally in tackles at 13.08 per game. The 5-11, 230-pound product of Batesville, Miss. set UAB records for tackles in a career (406) and a season (157). His 24 tackles vs. Tulane are also a Blazer single-game record. Burdette finished the season with 13 tackles for loss and returned an interception 36 yards for a touchdown against Southeastern Louisiana (Oct. 6).
Blankenship, a true freshman, made a strong impact in his first season at UAB, starting the final nine games of the season at offensive guard.
The Blazers also had six players named as honorable mention All-Conference USA selections: tight end Kennard Backman, wide receiver Jackie Williams, safety Calvin Jones, kicker Ty Long, punter Hunter Mullins and long snapper Taylor Klein.
Backman finished with 23 receptions for 235 yards and four touchdowns while Williams led the team in catches (52) and receiving yards (799) with one touchdown reception. Williams, who also earned honorable mention honors in 2011, has caught at least one pass in every game he has played at UAB, a streak of 35 consecutive games (ninth-longest in the country).
Jones started nine games at safety for the Blazers and finished the season as the team's third-leading tackler with 71 stops, including 39 solo hits.
Long had his second straight outstanding season as he connected on 14-of-17 field goals, including the two-longest three-pointers in UAB history (54 yards vs. Ohio State and 53 vs. Southeastern Louisiana). In two seasons, Long has converted 30-of-36 field goals. His 83.3 percent accuracy mark ranks as the best in the Blazer record book. In addition, Long is already tied for fourth all-time at UAB in most field goals.
Mullins set a UAB record for the best punting average (44.8) in a season and ranks No. 13 in the nation in average. The sophomore had 14 punts inside the opponent 20-yard line and also had 12 of 50 yards or more.
Klein, a senior in 2012, finished his career having been the Blazers' regular long snapper for 48 consecutive games. He was a C-USA All-Freshman Team selection in 2009. Last week, Klein was tabbed to the conference's All-Academic Team.


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Armored Cable Question
I am remodeling my bathroom and need to run a new 20 amp circuit for the outlets. The main electrical box is on the other side of the house and I have a finished basement, so it is difficult to run new wire. I do have a ventilation shaft the runs the length of the house and was thinking that I could run a length of armored cable next to it. I could then hire an electrician to hook up the new circuit for me, but I would be able to save the cost of paying him to run the cable. The shaft starts next to the electical box and ends 25 feet away at the furnace room (next to the remodel bath).
I saw many articles and posts on armored cable, but it is not clear what is the best choice for the job. Any advice on which one to to use, and how to run the cable (without poking holes in my basement ceiling and meeting code)?
First off you make it sound like you are not going to do this run to code, No electrician will touch something that is not up to code that is newly installed.
Ventilation shaft requires not combustible cable. Not sure if armoured cable meets that spec. You can't have a smoking cable pumping toxic fumes throughout your house.
He said "next to" the plenum, not inside it.
That's fine, but the cable, no matter what sort it is, needs to be well supported.
I have seen BX cable run adjacent to ductwork in many instances!
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Thanks everyone. To clarify, I do want to run the cable to code, beside (not inside) vent shaft. I just want to run the cable myself to save a few bucks, but I'm scared/smart enough to leave the hook up to a professional.
What is the difference between 12/2 and 12/3 cable? If I am planning simply to connect a few outlets, shouldn't 12/2 be enough?
Also, I see the terms "BX" "AC" and "MC" all used. I think that they mean the same thing. Is that correct?
12/3 has an extra wire, you'd use it mostly for 220v circuits, or for some types of switch wiring.
BX is an obsolete version of what is now called AC.
MC has a plastic sheath inside and has slightly different rules.
Your just feeding the bathroom right? If so, go with 12/2 on a 20 amp breaker.
I have to agree with junkcollector and inphase, I would want to personally run the calbe as if it is fished and AC90, how do I know you did not snag the wire and kink it or break the insualtion by pulling to hard, and I would not want to accept liability for that, if it is an easy fish, an experienced electrician can have it in in no time, so pinching a few pennies may not be worth it.
In my opinon hooking up wire for a few outlets is really not that difficult. Research on how to hook up wire to a breaker and its buss bar. Determine what kind of breaker box you have..ex. square D, Siemens, etc.... Cation! dont get square d and square d homeline breakers confused there made different get a 20 amp breaker..SHUT OFF THE POWER install the breaker hook the black wire (hot wire) to the screw on the breaker and the neutral and ground to the buss bar(s) run your wire (if your running it in armored cable make sure that you use anti-short bushings so that the wire will not get frayed going through the cable. then with the outlets hook up the black wire to the bronze colored screw on the outlet and the white wire to the silver screw and the bare ground wire to the green screw. There are double sets of screws so that you can hook multiple outlets together so take your next piece of wire and hook white to silver and black to bronze and the ground wire to the green screw and go to the next outlet and do the same. hope this helps
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1989 Ford Taurus SHO
The fastest four-door sedan you can buy for less that $50,000.
In their efforts to cleanse the SHO of such front-drive nasties as torque steer and wheel hop, Ford's suspension engineers faced several challenges. When a wheel moves up and down, the half-shaft angles and the scrub-radius dimensions change. Fore-and-aft wheel motions, caused by bushing compliance, tend to allow unwanted steering movements. Neither type of movement is a problem when both front wheels move together and the half-shafts are approximately the same size—as are the SHO's. But when the car rolls in a corner or encounters a bumpy road, the wheels move unevenly—causing the car to pull to one side.
To limit the SHO's vertical wheel motions and body roll, Ford engineers increased the Taurus's spring rates by 30 percent, fitted firmer shock absorbers, and enlarged the front anti-roll bar from 20.5mm to 24.0 and the rear from 20.0mm to 26.0. To reduce fore-and-aft wheel motions, they stiffened the bushings in the front suspension's trailing and lateral links. Finally, though the change did nothing to reduce torque steer, the engineers added stiffer bushings in the rear lateral links—aiding toe-in during hard cornering.
Ford's efforts have been remarkably successful. Drop the clutch at 4000 rpm and the SHO's front tires light up cleanly and evenly—with no wheel hop or pulling. And when the tires hook up, the SHO pulls straight ahead.
The SHO is also stable on rough pavement. Unlike some other powerful front-drivers, the SHO doesn't dart from side to side when it encounters bumps under hard acceleration. Steering feel also remains largely unaffected by applications of power—due in part to the SHO's high-effort power-steering mechanism.
Good as the Taurus SHO is, it still understeers at the limit—a problem inherent in its front-drive layout. When pushed hard, a front-driver's overworked front tires inevitably reach their traction limits before the rears do. In the SHO's case, though, those limits are admirably high: the tires hang on long enough to reach 0.82 g on the skidpad, and the chassis always remains reasonably close to neutral balance. Steering the SHO with your right foot is as easy as steering it with the wheel.
Surprisingly, the SHO's stiff suspension extracts little penalty in ride comfort. Although it's no limousine, the SHO is much more compliant over expansion joints and small cracks than one would expect a car with such stiff suspension bushings to be. According to Ford engineers, much of the credit goes to the 215/65VR-15 Goodyear Eagle GT +4 tires, which were specifically developed for the SHO. Compared to a 3-series BMW, the SHO is a little firmer over big bumps and a little softer over small ones.
The SHO's exotic engine is a perfect match for its finely tuned suspension. The four-cam V-6 can be as unobtrusive or as dominant as your driving style demands. If you never rev it over 3500 rpm, the engine will never reveal its secrets to your passengers. Wind it out, though, and even the dimmest, most mechanically ignorant of your occupants will realize that the SHO is energized by a remarkable mechanism. Above 5000 rpm, the Shogun engine sings like an exotic Italian V-12. And the forward thrust it produces reinforces that image. Best of all, the Shogun V-6 never jolts the driver with an unexpected rush of torque. Only when the driver makes a conscious demand for power—say, by downshifting and flooring the throttle—does the Shogun engine display its muscle. The power is there only when you want it—with no surprises.
Compared with the potent Ford Mustang V-8, the SHO is a mere 0.3 second slower in the quarter-mile. And all of that lost time occurs at the start; once rolling, the SHO keeps pace with the Mustang and finishes the run at the same 95-mph trap speed. Above 100 mph, the aerodynamically superior SHO steadily pulls away from the Mustang. The Taurus SHO is one fast five-passenger family sedan.
The only part of the SHO's powertrain not quite up to first-class standards is the five-speed manual gearbox. Its action is a bit too notchy and heavy for our tastes. You won't miss any gears with this shifter, but neither will you mistake it for a Honda transmission.
We would also expect to see stronger brakes on a car with the SHO's speed potential. Despite having vented discs all around, our SHO required 198 feet to stop from 70 mph. Anti-lock brakes are due as standard equipment on next year's car, though, and they should provide the added braking power we're looking for.
To our eyes, the SHO's styling needs a bit more work as well. Perhaps Ford designed the SHO as an unobtrusive Q-ship, but we'd be happier if it looked a bit less like a garden-variety Taurus. The new bodywork around the car's lower perimeter is properly subtle, and we wouldn't change a line of it. But unique alloy wheels, a rear spoiler, and tastefully chromed exhaust tips would underscore the SHO's special status.
No such identity problem exists inside the SHO. New sport seats with power-adjustable lumbar supports and side bolsters cradle the SHO's front passengers. Between them lies a full-length console housing the manual shifter. The dash offers an analog instrument cluster (including an 8000-rpm tachometer) and metallic rather than wood trim on the dash surface. The SHO's interior is not quite up to premium German standards, but it's functional, comfortable, and distinctive.
The Taurus SHO will be sold only in fully equipped form when it goes on sale in late 1988. Standard features will include air conditioning, cruise control, tilt steering, a four-speaker AM/FM-stereo radio, and power mirrors, seats, windows, and locks. The only major options will be leather upholstery, a sunroof, and various stereo-system upgrades. Prices won't be released until after we go to press, but Ford promises that the base SHO's sticker will sneak in under the $20,000 mark.
Because the Taurus SHO can outrun any other four-door costing less than $50,000, it completely upsets the performance-sedan pecking order. The Taurus SHO is the first sedan to combine top-rank, autobahn-ready performance with great handling, everyday family utility, and a price within the reach of mere mortals. Those qualities make this dazzling car the most important automotive breakthrough in years.


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This report summarizes results of a literature review, a workshop, and many meetings with demand response and thermostat researchers and implementers. The information obtained from these resources was used to identify key issues of thermostat performance from both energy savings and peak demand perspectives. A research plan was developed to address these issues and activities have already begun to pursue the research agenda.}, keywords = {demand response and distributed energy resources center, demand response research center, home networks \& controls}, attachments = {https://eetd.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/lbnl-938e_3.pdf}, author = {Iain S. Walker and Alan K. Meier} }


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Noah Iliinsky – Beautiful Visualization: Letting Data Tell the Story
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Sifting through piles of information to find a story is difficult, especially if the story isn't quickly recognizable. The more information thrown at you, the more challenging it becomes. Information Visualization uses the brain's innate ability to recognize patterns to create visual representations of data. When you see a great visualization, it's as if you are looking through the eyes of an expert.
Noah Iliinsky is a designer and co-editor of Beautiful Visualization. In his virtual seminar, Information Visualization: Letting Data Tell the Story, Noah gives examples of the types of visualizations in common use, why and when they are useful, and how to think about different types. Noah was unable to answer all of the questions during his session. In this podcast, He joins Adam Churchill to address the remaining questions.
Here's an excerpt from the podcast.
"…like it or not, there's always going to be people who want to use their visualization to persuade. And much like any other informational message, if you're willing to bend the truth just a little bit, you can make it much more persuasive.
Now in general, I'm a stickler for the truth and I'm a stickler for accuracy. Part of that's because I was educated as a scientist as an undergraduate and so I believe a lot in the accuracy of the data. So that's one facet of that. I generally would like to show the truth and let the truth speak on its own rather than biasing it for the sake of the message.
The other part, and this is more specifically what Ryan is fundamentally asking, 'Is it better to be truthful and boring or is it OK if it's harder to understand and interesting?' And in that question, again, I think the answer is, If your goal is to convey actual information, you want to make it truthful and maybe a little more boring because that is going to be more than made up for by the actual utility that your audience finds in it.
If it's exciting to look at but hard to extract information from, people are going to glance at it and say, "Well that's exciting, but this isn't very useful because it's very difficult for me to extract any knowledge from. And if there's no way for me to extract that knowledge, there's no actual benefit to me beyond just aesthetics," and then they're going to move on with their life.
So, I believe fundamentally that being able to get the message across to people is the most important goal, and I think it's entirely possible to craft that within a visual context that is interesting, and appealing and useful. But if you start out with a purely aesthetic agenda, making the information accessible as an afterthought is usually going to fail…"
Listen in to the podcast to hear Noah answer these additional questions:
- Should accuracy always prevail over maintaining engagement?
- How do you build your capacity to generate ideas or visualize things?
- What is your opinion on heat mapping as a technique?
- What is your opinion on using two Y axes?
- What tool do you use to generate charts from data in HTML or JavaScript?
What are your experiences with information visualization? Please share with us in our comments section.
Recorded: March, 2011
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