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Danny Weitzner's blog
No such thing as bad publicity for Facebook
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that there's no such thing as bad publicity (at least for Facebook). In the wake of the recent flap about Facebook's change in its terms of service, I seem to be experiencing a spike in new friend requests on Facebook. Of course, there may be no causal relationship whatsoever but I don't think I've become any nicer or more popular. I have a feeling people just have Facebook on the brain.
Obama's Tech Stimulus plan - Health IT, Broadband, and smart grid
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Steve Lohr has a nice piece in the New York Times ('Technology Gets a Piece of Stimulus,' 26 Jan 2009, p. C1) this morning about the role that technology and innovation will play in the economic recovery (aka stimulus) bill supported by the Obama Administration.
In the past, health IT deployment has been approached as an engineering problem: what computers have to be part of which networks exchanging which types of data? This loses sight of the purpose of electronic medical records: helping doctors to provide better care to their patients and transforming the system at a macro scale so that it enables data-driven, evidence-based research on how to provide effective, cost-efficient care. Today, because most doctors are paid based on how many procedures they perform, as opposed to how good they are at keeping patients healthy, will actually lose money if new information systems help them to deliver care more efficiently and keep people healthier. So, the key challenge for electronic medical record deployment is to marry up overall changes in healthcare policy with the the right innovation environment to produce the health information infrastructure we need to support safer, more efficient health care.
A quick infusion of stimulus spending, combined with a long term commitment to spend much of this money in a way that rewards doctors for delivering better care and data needed to measure effectiveness and efficiency (as opposed to just subsidizing them to put expensive hardware and software on their desks), can help lay the groundwork for the systems needed for health care reform. As Lohr explains:
The time-tested way for governments to create jobs in a hurry is to pour money into old-fashioned public works projects like roads and bridges. President Obama's economic recovery plan will do that, but it also has some ambitious 21st century twists.
The $825 billion stimulus plan presented this month by House Democrats called for $37 billion in spending in three high-tech areas: $20 billion to computerize medical records, $11 billion to create smarter electrical grids and $6 billion to expand high-speed Internet access in rural and underserved communities.
The technology industry is not typically viewed as a prolific job producer. Much of its manufacturing is highly automated. But bringing technology to services fields like health care, telecommunications and energy can be labor intensive and thus generate jobs.
The issues surrounding electronic health records illustrate the policy challenges of targeted programs. Mr. Obama has advocated spending $50 billion over five years to accelerate the use of such records and the sharing of health information across a national network.
The computerized records, when used properly, are an indispensable tool for measuring, tracking and improving patient care — yet only about 17 percent of the nation's doctors are using them. They are commonplace at large medical groups, but 75 percent of doctors practice in small offices of 10 physicians or fewer.
Doctors often benefit from inefficiency, because the dominant fee-for-service payment system means they are paid for doing more — more doctor visits, tests, surgical procedures, pills.
"Paying to put computer hardware and software in physicians' offices isn't going to do anything unless you change the incentives in the system," said Dr. David J. Brailer, former national health information technology coordinator in the Bush administration.
"You want to pay for achievement — better health quality and efficiency," said Dr. David Blumenthal, director of the Institute for Health Policy at the Harvard Medical School, who advised the Obama campaign. "But in the transition period, before financial incentives are reformed, you need to provide incentives or grants to use electronic health records because this technology is sort of the opening wedge to reform."
And summarizes the current contents of HealthIT stimulus proposals developed by the transition team and current being considered by Congress:
Those eligible for grants to buy technology, a member of the Obama transition team said, will include inner-city and rural hospitals and small doctor practices. But most money, he said, will go to incentive payments to improve quality and safety of care.
The big leverage that that the Federal Government has is the over $700 Billion dollars that it spends on Medicare and Medicaid each year. All together the Federal government pays for over 40% of all healthcare in the US so directing that spending in a way that encourages a more data-driven health care system is the key to success. The stimulus spending will be the first step toward creating a system in which that money can be used to encourage smart, data-driven health care.
Transitioned
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I've spent the last eleven weeks working on the Obama-Biden Transition Project with the Technology Innovation and Government Reform (a.k.a TIGR) policy group and have now finished. It's been an great experience and tremendous honor to be able to work on a wide range of technology policy issues with such a talented, disciplined and dedicated group of people. Knowing that President Obama is now in the White House and getting to participate in the inaugural festivities was a great way to cap this all off.
What was extraordinary about the Technology and Innovation policy group was that it existed at all. This presidential transition, as others in the past, had to do a thorough review of issues and challenges in all of the Federal agencies, select senior personnel to fill Cabinet and White House positions, and prepare strategies for meeting key policy challenges and campaign commitments: health care reform, economic recovery, national security, foreign policy, etc. While Internet technology and innovation issues have been on the radar screen for nearly 20 years, this was that first Presidential campaign and the first Presidential Transition Team to give tech policy issues high profile attention.
Now I'm going to take a few days off, try to catch up on old email, and look forward to returning to my research and teaching at MIT at the beginning of February.
President-Elect Obama's electronic medical records goal
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From Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama
As Prepared for Delivery
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Thursday, January 8, 2009
"To improve the quality of our health care while lowering its cost, we will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years, all of America's medical records are computerized. This will cut waste, eliminate red tape, and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests. But it just won't save billions of dollars and thousands of jobs – it will save lives by reducing the deadly but preventable medical errors that pervade our health care system."
The paradox of information flow in transition
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A wonderfully perceptive and funny characterization from outgoing US Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean (Health care contenders - Chris Frates - Politico.com):
Dean said: "I'm not going to say anything about anything to do with transition. Generally, those who talk don't know, and those who know don't talk. And I don't know what he's [President-elect] going to do, but I ain't talking."
First legal shot across the Semantic Web's bow - Thomson suing Zotero
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Last week Thomson Reuters (the owner of EndNote Software, a widely used proprietary tool for collecting and managing scholarly bibliographic information) filed a lawsuit against Zotero, the most popular open source, Semantic Web-enabled bibliographic tool. Zotero, packaged as a Firefox extension, is a handy tool for collecting bibliographic metadata to assist scholars in managing information necessary for their research (news story, complaint). Zotero can import and export a variety of different bibliographic formats and does so in a web-friendly, RDF-enabled way. Exchanging and linking bibliographic information (ie., the title, author, publication venue) of scholarly communication is an important means to discover new links amongst individual pieces of research that are published around the world. This has been a high priority, for example, in the life sciences where new knowledge can be uncovered by linking individual pieces of research together.
The latest beta release of Zotero will read and write EndNote's proprietary metadata format . In response to this, Thomson sued the Zotero developers (an open source community hosted at George Mason University), charging that Zotero (and GMU) reverse engineered the EndNote citation file format in violation of EndNote's end user license agreement (EULA).
The key effect of Thomson's suit, if it succeeds, would be to create a legal doctrine that enables software developers to restrict the Semantic Web's potential to promote data interoperability and data integration. The legal issue at bar has to do with reverse engineering and the enforceability of EULAs, both of which are important questions. And, there's a lot of say about whether or not the compliant will stand up to legal scrutiny. That said, the Web community, as well as the scholarly community, ought to pay careful attention to this case because its outcome could have real bearing on how free we will all be in the future to exchange information and realize the knowledge-enhancing benefits of the Web through collaborative research.
Update: Nature Magazine editorializes about the threats to interoperability of the lawsuit.
Justice Brandeis and privacy protection through usage restriction
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For a couple of years, colleagues of mine and I have been writing about the need to protect privacy through rules and laws restricting how information is used, not just who can access the personal information. So, I was very happy to discover that a famous early exposition of privacy rights in United States law (Olmstead v. United States (1928)), by the most famous judicial advocate of privacy rights, Justice Louis Brandeis, expressed a clear sentiment in favor of protecting privacy based on how information is used, not just whether one is entitled to have access to it or not. In the course of explaining why earlier Supreme Court legal precedents should be understood to make wiretapping illegal, Brandeis wrote
Unjustified search and seizure violates the Fourth Amendment, whatever the character of the paper; [n4] whether the paper when taken by the federal officers was in the home, [n5] in an office, [n6] or elsewhere; [n7] whether the taking was effected by force, [n8] by [p478] fraud, [n9] or in the orderly process of a court's procedure. [n10] From these decisions, it follows necessarily that the Amendment is violated by the officer's reading the paper without a physical seizure, without his even touching it, and that use, in any criminal proceeding, of the contents of the paper so examined — as where they are testified to by a federal officer who thus saw the document, or where, through knowledge so obtained, a copy has been procured elsewhere [n11] — any such use constitutes a violation of the Fifth Amendment.
That is to say, even if the officer was in rightful possession of the private information, it still should be understood as a violation of privacy it the police use the information against the individual. This is privacy as a set of usage rules.
Brandeis was trying to argue that wiretapping should be considered illegal under the Courts existing precedents but the majority of the Court opposed him and asserted that wiretapping was constitutional because it did not involve any physical trespass into the private property of the telephone user. So, Brandeis lost the argument in this early case and wiretapping remained constitutional (though not always legal) in the US for another 40 years. Eventually, though, the Court came around to Brandeis' view that how the government got access to the telephone call matters less than the fact that people have, and are entitled to have, an expectation that their calls are private; that government would become too powerful it allowed to use the contents of our private communications without a warrant.
Will John McCain help the NEXT Blackberry creator?
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Today a senior McCain advisor, Doug Holtz-Eakin, proudly held up Blackberry and declared:
"You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."
AP, 16 September 2008
Bloggers on all sides of the partisan divide are having a field day with this, suggest that the McCain campaign is out of touch, desperate, or trying to top the trouble VP Al Gore got into when he was falsely accused of claiming to have invented the Internet. At best, it suggests that Eakin-Holtz was just careless. At worst, it suggests that the campaign and the candidate has deeply irrational ideas about how to promote innovation. It's also been pointed out that there's some irony in McCain claiming credit for the success of a Canadian company.
The real question is: what would a McCain presidency do to help enable the NEXT innovative device, service or revolutionary use of the Web? (**Full disclosure here: I'm an active supporter of Senator Obama, though this post is entirely my own and not in any way made on behalf of the Obama campaign.**)
McCain's record in promoting innovation on the Internet and in the large information and communications marketplace is terrible. Mostly, he can claim credit for supporting incumbents over innovators and for failing, in his time as Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee to do anything at all to support the innovative and socially beneficial aspects of the Internet. While he was in the leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee (1997 - 2001, and 2003 - 2005) his contributions included:
- being entirely AWOL in defending the openness-protecting provisions of of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 — the parts of the Act that were supposed to help assure market access to innovative new services, such as the Blackberry, were weakened, ignored or attacked by the FCC and the courts. As Chair of the Committee responsible for the law, McCain did nothing. That's why we have an anemic choice of broadband providers in most parts of the country. This is good news for incumbent cable and telecom companies but will make it harder for the next Blackberry to get to market.
- opposing eRate legislation that extended Internet access to schools and libraries. Not only were his policies as committee chair bad for innovators, he sought to make it harder for the non-profit sector to pay for Internet access.
What did McCain do has chair of the most powerful congressional body in the communication and information market? He mostly stood up for the interests of incumbents. He wrote letters to the FCC supporting higher cable television rates, encouraged consolidation in the telecommunications market reducing the number of local phone companies from 7 down to an eventual 3.
And today, even though he's no longer in a leadership role on Internet and telecommunications policy, he's still speaking up against innovation and for incumbents through opposition to even modest Net Neutrality provisions.
In the end, the campaign season slide of some advisor is nothing compared to the anti-innovation record of Senator McCain himself. We're lucky (well, maybe ) to have Blackberry's an other innovations today. They won't likely go away. But the question is which presidential candidate is more likely to support policies that enable the NEXT Blackberry. History shows is certainly isn't John McCain.
Microsoft on the need for openness in scholarly tools and data
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I'm sitting at the Microsoft Faculty Summit, listening to Tony Hey (VP for External Research) talk about how critical it is for scientific researchers to have open access to data and open source tools (Tony actually said 'free software tools') in order to solve the most critical problems of the world. Among other things, Tony highlighted the importance of attaching metadata to documents and data, mentioning some of the MSFT tools such as a MS-Office plug-in that attaches Creative Commons labels to Office docs.
Anyone who thinks that institutional views of monolithic or easy to predict….
Conflicting voices in the liberal mainstream on FISA
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Today, the Senate passed a much-debated revision to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with Lots of different views out there, even amongst the mainstream liberal establishment on the upcoming FISA legislation ('Senate Passes Surveillance Bill With Immunity for Telecom Firms', Washington Post, William Branigin, 9 July 2008).
In advance of this vote, there has been much debate, recently because Sen. Obama announced that he would support this compromise bill and not vote in support of filibuster. (Full disclosure, I'm an Obama supporter and have helped the campaign on Internet policy issues.) In thinking about this, I thought I'd survey the range of opinion just on the liberal center. Here's some of what I found:
Mort Halperin, highly regarded civil libertarian, former head of the ACLU Washington office, and himself a target of unwarranted government wiretapping when he was working for Henry Kissenger in the Nixon White House, writes in a New York Times Op-Ed ('Listening to Compromise', New York Times, 8 July 2008):
The compromise legislation that will come to the Senate floor this week is not the legislation that I would have liked to see, but I disagree with those who suggest that senators are giving in by backing this bill.
The fact is that the alternative to Congress passing this bill is Congress enacting far worse legislation that the Senate had already passed by a filibuster-proof margin, and which a majority of House members were on record as supporting.
What's more, this bill provides important safeguards for civil liberties. It includes effective mechanisms for oversight of the new surveillance authorities by the FISA court, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and now the Judiciary Committees. It mandates reports by inspectors general of the Justice Department, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies that will provide the committees with the information they need to conduct this oversight. (The reports by the inspectors general will also provide accountability for the potential unlawful misconduct that occurred during the Bush administration.) Finally, the bill for the first time requires FISA court warrants for surveillance of Americans overseas.
As someone whose civil liberties were violated by the government, I understand this legislation isn't perfect. But I also believe — and here I am speaking only for myself — that it represents our best chance to protect both our national security and our civil liberties. For that reason, it has my personal support.
On the same day, the New York Times Editorial Board wrote against the bill ('Compromising the Constitution', 8 July 2008):
The Senate should reject a bill this week that would needlessly expand the government's ability to spy on Americans and ensure that the country never learns the full extent of President Bush's unlawful wiretapping.
Supporters will argue that the new bill still requires a warrant for eavesdropping that "targets" an American. That's a smokescreen. There is no requirement that the government name any target. The purpose of warrantless eavesdropping could be as vague as listening to all calls to a particular area code in any other country.
The real reason this bill exists is because Mr. Bush decided after 9/11 that he was above the law. When The Times disclosed his warrantless eavesdropping, Mr. Bush demanded that Congress legalize it after the fact. The White House scared Congress into doing that last year, with a one-year bill that shredded FISA's protections. Democratic lawmakers promised to fix it this year.
The bill dangerously weakens the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. Adopted after the abuses of the Watergate and Vietnam eras, the law requires the government to get a warrant to intercept communications between anyone in this country and anyone outside it — and show that it is investigating a foreign power, or the agent of a foreign power, that plans to harm America.
Proponents of the FISA deal say companies should not be "punished" for cooperating with the government. That's Washington-speak for a cover-up. The purpose of withholding immunity is not to punish but to preserve the only chance of unearthing the details of Mr. Bush's outlaw eavesdropping. Only a few senators, by the way, know just what those companies did.
And today, the Washington Post, often somewhat more centrist on civil liberties matters than the Times editorialized ('FISAs Fetters', 9 July 2008):
These are serious concerns, worth taking seriously. We are under no illusion that the measure is perfect; future fine-tuning may well be called for. The classified nature of the surveillance program makes it impossible to assess the implications with anything near certainty. But the legislation reflects, as far as we can tell, a reasonable compromise, worked out over long months of negotiations, between the legitimate needs of intelligence agencies and the legitimate privacy interests of Americans.
The measure requires an individualized, court-approved warrant to conduct surveillance targeted at Americans' communications with those overseas and — in an expansion of existing FISA protections — at Americans abroad. Purely domestic-to-domestic communications, even among foreigners here, would require a warrant as well. Intelligence agencies would be able to target and collect the communications of non-Americans "reasonably believed to be located outside the United States," even if their phone calls or e-mails passed through or were stored in the United States. But the agencies are required to adopt procedures to "prevent the intentional acquisition" of purely domestic communications and to minimize the retention and dissemination of such information.
more to come…


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Eight Days-A-Week Notebook Planner
What dad couldn't use an eight day week?
Hmmm...what a concept. Make a to do list for somebody else for a change!Tags: home, humor, office supplies, office, gifts, decor, organization, notes, stationaryAdded 9 Years Ago from Organize
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Coffee for One French Press
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Tired of the bad coffee at the office? Or simply don't feel like brewing a whole pot? Coffee for One, complete with a French coffee press and mug, is perfect for brewing just one fresh cup of coffee or tea at a time. The simple functional design gives you an easy way of making great tasting coffee or tea at anywhere you have access to hot water but not to quality joe, i.e., the office, a camping trip, or a boyfriend's bachelor pad. Not only is it convenient, but the French press tends to capture more of the coffee's rich flavor that often gets filtered out in machine-brewed java. Coffee for One brews up to 14 ounces of your favorite bean at a time and is dishwasher safe. Available in four cool colors
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Coffee in the teachers lounge is the worst! Let teacher brew her own coffee at the comfort of her desk with this handy Coffee for One French Press.
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Available in many colors, this is the perfect companion to keeping those creative writing juices flowing. For use with coffee or tea.
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One way ticket to Hell
It's rare for video games to look to the literary world for direct inspiration, and you can guarantee there were plenty of eyebrows raised with the announcement of Visceral Games' brutal action title, Dante's Inferno. One man's journey through the Nine Circles of Hell, as depicted in Dante Alighieri's epic literary masterpiece The Divine Comedy, doesn't exactly lend itself to the hack and slash genre. But if you think about it, it makes perfect sense. The Divine Comedy's vivid imagery of Hell and all the horrific creatures within is the quintessential depiction of the Inferno, and a fantastic starting point for any game venturing into Lucifer's playground. It might not be faithful to the source material but seeing Dante Alighieri's terrifying vision come to life gives Dante's Inferno a unique visual style. Now it's just a case of whether substance can overcome style.
Of course it's within those Circles that the bulk of the action takes place. Dante's Inferno is, to put it lightly, a God of War copycat. From the use of light and heavy attacks, the fixed camera angles; the way you open doors, health and magic viles; the crate and lever puzzles and the QTEs to finish off enemies. The list could go on and on but I think you get the point. Sure, it's derivative, but that doesn't stop it being fun. Armed with Death's own scythe and a Holy Cross, Dante's certainly equipped to deal with any of Hell's deadly minions. Combat starts out fairly basic with the scythe used for light and heavy combo attacks, and the Holy Cross as a useful ranged weapon, but eventually you'll kill enough enemies to earn souls and upgrade both pieces of equipment to add an element of depth and variety to proceedings.
It's here that Dante's Inferno adopts some originality with holy and unholy upgrade trees. Whenever you grab an enemy for a brutal finishing move you can decide to either punish or absolve them, earning unholy or holy souls. These souls will open up more and more powerful abilities for you to buy for the scythe (unholy) and Holy Cross (holy) so choosing whether to punish or absolve an enemy carries a degree of strategy depending on what area you want to improve upon. As you reach the higher levels you'll be able to purchase and utilise a variety of devastating moves for your two weapons and magic attacks, so there's a lot of freedom to the combat allowing you to pick and choose which moves suit you. Combine this with different augmentations that give bonuses to particular areas and Dante's Inferno has a case for stating its own identity.
It's still very much derived from the God of War franchise with familiar and unoriginal combat; however, combining all of the light and heavy attacks with the Holy Cross and magic is wholly satisfying and stops combat from ever seeping into repetition. Plus, Dante's Inferno has a unique setting and character designs going for it as well. Your descent into Hell will be a frightening one as you pass through each of the Nine Circles: limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. It'd be easy to fill each Circle with rivers of lava and molten rock, but Dante's Inferno goes for a much more gruesome look, spectacularly earning its mature rating. Death is all around, whether it's the terrified screams of lost souls falling from above, or even the architecture itself; often moulded from the limbs and vital organs of the deceased. Everything about it signifies our worst nightmares, and as you venture deeper and deeper the environments will begin to represent each stage of the Nine Circles. Lust is full of phallic shaped towers and other such imagery, while gluttony sees you travel through the fleshy innards of a giant creature, eventually appearing out of its mouth. Even the enemy designs follow a similar pattern, with the controversial unbaptised babies waiting in limbo and bulbous, vile creatures eating anything that moves in gluttony. They're fantastically grotesque and a joy to rip apart with your scythe.
Sadly these brilliant designs don't far outstretch the first three Circles. While everything at the beginning of the game is new and exciting, enemies are eventually rehashed in each subsequent Circle. The only new enemy types you have to look forward to are mages and a couple of the other enemies re-branded, and it doesn't make much sense that creatures seemingly specific to gluttony will appear in violence later on. It's a shame because the few enemies you are introduced to are great, but you end up fighting them throughout the majority of Dante's Inferno's seven hour playtime. Even the level design carries a similar fate. There are a few standout moments past the first three Circles, but that initial grandiose scale is lost as you're shuffled from room to room, forced to fight respawning enemies till the exit door opens. The only thing in-between these rooms are simple crate and lever puzzles and some light platforming. The sense of exploration and awe from your first few hours in Hell eventually fade away as the level design turns to tedium, culminating in fraud (the 8th Circle) where you're forced into ten identical challenge rooms before you can face off against the last boss. They're monotonous, frustrating and disrupt any excitement that could have been built before the grand finale; ultimately reeking of lazy level design.
Dante's Inferno starts off big, consistently introducing new enemy types and grand environments, but by the end of the game that initial excitement turns to repetition as you fight through wave after wave of the same enemy type in increasingly familiar territory. The core gameplay is enjoyable enough to keep it interesting and fun throughout, with myriad upgrades and a unique punish and absorb mechanic to sink your teeth into, so it's a shame the rest of the game couldn't keep the momentum going. It might not be original but if you've never owned a Sony system before, Dante's Inferno is an enjoyable alternative to Kratos' Greek adventures, though the rest of us may want to wait until March.


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Just finished testing a new strategy to help assist with light flywheel and grabby clutches for easy drive off! The new strategy allows you to give the engine more throttle and let the ecu control the rpm as the clutch engages. This prevents rpm flair and extra clutch slip when driving off from a stop! The strategy also doubles as a variable rate two step launch control, the more throttle you give it, the higher the launch rpm (all calibratable of course). This allows you to have controlled and consistent aggressive launches without having to be on 'kill'.When the vehicle is stopped, and the two step is active, there is now a table based on throttle angle for setting the limiter, so for example….
The Limiter might be set like this….
Antilag active above 80% [ANTILAG]
0%_10%_20%_40%_ 50%_60%_70%_ 80%_100%
2000 2000 2000 2500 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500
This allows you to give additional throttle and let the ecu control the rpm to prevent over revving the engine and over slipping the clutch.
If you want more leave rpm, just give it additional throttle and the ecu will control the rpm based on how much throttle, once you get above your Antilag trigger point, the ecu will kick in to antilag mode and target boost like normal!
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My opinion is that a nondescript bulge (that is not detailed enough to be a recognizable silhouette of a pistol part) is OK.
I frequently carry a G21 IWB under a T-shirt and it produces only a small bump like you mention. Same holster, same 9:00, as you use. I have no indication that I've ever been "made", even by police officers that were passing on the street only a few yards away.


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I-Cubs' Hendricks spins six shutout innings
Building on strong 2013 campaign, right-hander allows just two hits
By Ashley Marshall / MiLB.com | April 21, 2014 11:09 PM ET
When Kyle Hendricks toed the rubber for the first time this year, his plan was to throw his secondary pitches to give him a lethal four-pitch arsenal.
After getting hit hard in that season debut, the No. 15 Cubs prospect decided to stick with what got him there in the first place. Three weeks into the season, less is proving to be more.
Hendricks (3-1) allowed two hits and two walks over six innings in the Triple-A Iowa Cubs' 5-1 win over the visiting Round Rock Express on Monday. He struck out six batters and threw 61 of 89 pitches for strikes before turning over the lead to the bullpen.
"I think I threw the ball real well today," said Hendricks, originally selected by the Rangers in the eighth round of the 2011 Draft. "My last three starts have all been pretty solid. In my first start, I was trying to develop my cutter and curveball, but I've gone back to doing what I did last year and that's throwing my two-seam fastball and changeup.
"They're not too far behind right now, but I have realized they're my third and fourth pitches and that I can't get beat on those. When it's a tough situation, I have to go back to my two-seam and changeup."
The 24-year-old struggled in his season debut against Memphis on April 5 (seven runs over 4 2/3 innings), but he has picked up victories in each of his past three starts at home to Nashville, New Orleans and now Round Rock.
Hendricks has struck out 25 batters and issued seven walks over 24 2/3 innings to start the year, holding hitters to a .195 average. The only two hits he allowed Monday came on a get-it-over curveball to Brett Nicholas and a fastball up and in to Alex Buchholz that dropped in for a hit.
"I can't really rank it," the Dartmouth product said of the start. "I just try to go outing to outing. [Round Rock pitching coach] Brad Holman was a huge part of my development when I was in high-A with Myrtle Beach in 2012 before I got traded, so I was happy to pitch well and show him I have kept growing."
The 6-foot-3 right-hander was acquired by the Cubs with infielder Christian Villanueva from the Rangers for pitcher Ryan Dempster on July 31, 2012.
Hendricks got a glimpse of the PCL at the end of 2013 following a promotion from Tennessee, where he went 10-3 and led the Southern League with a 1.85 ERA. He went 3-1 with a 2.48 mark in six starts with the Cubs, giving him a combined 13-4 record and 2.00 ERA -- both of which ranked first in the organization -- for the season.
"They are very different," Hendricks said of the two levels. "It is a bit of a jump. There are a lot of young hitters, good hitters, at Double-A, but there are more veteran hitters at Triple-A. They will change their approach to what you're doing."
Iowa center fielder Matt Szczur went 3-for-4 with a triple, an RBI and a run scored and second baseman Arismendy Alcantara was 2-for-4 with a solo homer and two runs scored.
"With the guys we have in the lineup, we're always just one swing away," Hendricks said. "Alcantara and [Javier] Baez and [Chris] Coghlan really have power. [Catcher] Eli Whiteside did a great job calling the game behind the plate ... and the defense made some great plays on some tough ground balls, especially Villanueva at third base."
Round Rock starter Scott Baker (3-1) allowed two runs on five hits and two walks while striking out five batters over seven innings.
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MiLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AshMarshallMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Suspect Wanted In Ocala for a Robbery
Law enforcement say the one robbery and the one attempted robbery happened within thirty minutes of each other. authorities say the dollar general, off of Northeast Jacksonville Road, was robbed around 9:15. There were two clerks on duty when an armed man entered and held them up. He also robbed two customers. The man fired two shots, but no one was injured. He then left the store in a dark colored vehicle and went north on Jacksonville Road.
Just thirty minutes earlier, law enforcement say a man ran into an Auto Zone off of Northeast 14th Street and pointed a gun at the clerk. When the clerk refused the man shot into the air, leaving a bullet hole in the roof, he left with no money. Authorities believe the two incidents may be connected.
In the mean time, authorities are looking for a black man, 6 feet tall, 170-180 lbs. He was last seen wearing a dark colored ballcap with writing or a design on it, a dreaded wig, a black shirt, light colored blue jeans and black shoes. Call authorities if you have any information.
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I deleted the nat -> inbound rules and remade them checking the make
automatic firewall rules and now it is all working again. I did that the
first time but when I rebooted to the new version it was not working.
Sorry for the false alarm ;) I guess I should check more instead of jump
the gun and think something was wrong with the code
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I switched from v1.2b1 to v1.2.b2 and now the inbound routing I had setup
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connection for myself, but now the routes for the VNC and HTTP are not
I also have the default traffic shaping going on. Can anyone help me get
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That is definitely a wonderful way to read. :]
You have always been seven shades of awesome girl. ^_^
I love the stockings, especially.
Thank you ^^
Great background and cool pose! ^_~
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For the most reliable count you should install the WooCommerce plugin and dummy content on your web host and poke around, but here is an approximate list of WooCommerce pages/experiences:
Cart (+ Cross-sells)
Mini Cart (in top nav)
Order Success / Thank You
Product + reviews + upsells + tabs (as needed)
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Customer login
My account
My address
My orders
Order tracking
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New Order (admin)
New Order (customer)
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Processing Order
Don't add unnecessary weight to WP: https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Customization_API
I'd like recommendations for a (free or paid) image/content slider which will allow for variable image/content widths with no margin, padding, or white space between slides. Responsive would be nice too.
I currently use FlexSlider but it automatically makes every slide the same width which adds dead space to the right of smaller width images.
wiseguys is only talking about HTML AND he's also assuming that us silly developers think it's possible to design a site "in a few days".
Of course it doesn't take designers a few days, just as it may not take us developers a few days. Design can be terrifically nuanced.
50% is a fair split for HTML in my opinion because I do see only a modest amount of support time needed.
But for Wordpress or any of the ecommerce platforms you're crazy if you're a designer and you don't understand that a 50% split is crazy. Especially if the theme has consistent sales, the developer could end up providing support for YEARS! And the support is typically to clients who purchased the theme some time ago. So a developer is just supposed to continue for months and months, spending his time supporting loyal customers while the designer counts his cash and gets to move on to another project free and clear? That doesn't sound like any partnership I'd want to be involved in unless we split the price of third party support.
I don't think I'm "worrying about a few %". It's TIME that concerns me. Sure, a lower percentage of something is better than a higher percentage of nothing—but have you seen a lot of the other posts in this forum? With so much potential for unending support time it is crazy to split 50/50 on non-HTML themes.
Like I said though, remove that time from the equation by hiring support staff and 50/50 is fine with me. But I'm not going to support your one-off design until I'm old and gray while paying you a 50% royalty.
I haven't sold anything on Themeforest yet because I haven't been able to find a designer who is on the same page.
Every designer I've found has been so stubborn (and some pretty nasty) that they refuse to accept the developer's role is ongoing and thus they ought to receive > 50% of sales.
The conclusion I came to is the recommendation above which is that I'll just need to find someone to sell me the rights to code their design.
Not to hijack this thread but what do experienced devs out there think is a reasonable price for a PSD file? Anyone actually submit themes purchased/licensed in this way?
Just use inspector and change the text on menu items, headers, and captions then send a screenshot.
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YAY! Let's just steal from each other!
Thanks for your meaningful contribution!
Can you guide me towards the specific requirements?
I mean, what counts as "1-1"?
If they are cosmetically identical? But what if MY template is responsive whereas the original is not?
I have a client who really likes the look of a certain website and there are no similar themes. The site is not using WP afaik.
I'm probably going to create a WP theme for the client to mimic the site they like.
I won't be using anything proprietary to the company who owns the existing website (fonts, stock images, etc.).
Can I sell this theme on TF when it's complete?
Very cool, thanks for the tip!


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Turn to split the difference between the two of them, draw pistol, low ready...
If no suitable response, aim COM at the closest threat, repeat command.
If he keeps coming, shoot him. Same for the other one.
There are two of them, they're both bigger than you, and grown men getting into fistfights leads to all sorts of "serious bodily injury" or death these days.
Disparity of force.


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The International Telecommunication Union along with the Commonwealth Telecommunication Organization (CTO) organized a three-day Forum 26-28 September on Using ICT for Effective Disaster Management. The meeting at Ochos Rios, Jamaica adopted a road map for better coordination in the use of state-of-the-art information and communication technologies (ICT) aimed at improved disaster preparedness and mitigation. This includes:
formulation of appropriate policies
deployment of appropriate technologies
ratification and implementation of the Tampere Convention for free movement of technical equipment in case of disaster
capacity building for users of ICT services and applications
establishment of national platforms that help countries to be ready to use ICT when disasters strike
development of common regional strategies on integrating ICT in all phases of disaster mitigation: early warning, preparedness, response and relief
Speaking at the opening session of the Forum, Mr Philip Paulwell, Minister of Industry, Technology, Energy & Commerce of Jamaica, reiterated that the Caribbean countries are among the most vulnerable areas in the world to tropical cyclonic events. "Following the 2004 Ivan hurricane disaster and Emily in 2005 it became evident that the lack of communications was one of the significant weaknesses of the regional disaster management framework," Mr Paulwell said. "Both intra-agency communications as well as public information have been identified as requiring improvement." He added that we should "move forward through the creation of an effective process for the development of early-warning information using ICT and media broadcast technologies, develop a publicly accessible website containing real-time disaster monitoring information, and implement a regional database of survey results and findings for selected disaster events to support the projects engagement with policy-makers."
The three-day forum focused on improving early-warning communication and disaster preparedness in the Caribbean region, developed practical tools to augment national disaster management strategies and initiatives, built effective relationships among national and regional stakeholders in effective disaster management and mitigation, assessed the impact of recent disasters and discussed the role of ICTs in disaster risk prevention, preparedness, relief and reconstruction.
Still reeling from the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane season, the most active and destructive in history, experts in the Caribbean region decided to look the storms in the eye and prepare for future disasters. In 2005, a record number of 27 storms and as many as 13 hurricanes pounded the vulnerable Caribbean coastline. These included Hurricane Wilma, the most intense in recorded history, and Katrina, the most destructive with an estimated USD 50 billion in insured damage.
Access to information is of paramount importance in the immediate aftermath of a disaster for relief agencies to coordinate search-and-rescue, medical intervention and rehabilitation efforts. There is an urgent need to establish effective and comprehensive communication links between the affected area, national disaster response facilities, and with the larger international community. This is particularly important for countries with fragile economies and countries with special needs, such as least developed countries and Small Island Developing States.
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Supported by funds from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the National Study Center is studying work-related injuries in Maryland, with the goal of developing a model statewide surveillance system. The long-term objective of this research is the reduction of death and disability from serious occupational injury.
As part of the study, the NSC has created a statewide database of emergency department records, hospital discharge records, medical examiners records, death certificates, and police crash reports. Trauma nurse coordinators from all nine adult trauma centers have agreed to participate by identifying work-related injury patients treated in their institution.
In addition, in-depth interviews of patients with known occupational injuries are being conducted at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. This information will be linked with other data sources to provide an overall description of occupational injuries in Maryland.
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Handguns are big trouble, if you are in the city (five boroughs) mandatory sentence regardless if locked, unloaded etc. I'd call local PD to get the answer.
Rifles/shotguns can be transported but must be locked and separated from ammo (which should probably be locked to avoid hassle). They are real ******** in the city.
Up state is a little more tolerant. But I think the handgun has to be locked in a case/separate from ammo and you need a reason for taking it through the sate, like a shooting competition. You also need proof of the event.
Bottom line Rifle/shotgun - OK. Handgun, avoid the state.


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Three weeks ago I posted a poll on this blog. The results are now in, and I must admit that I am a little surprised by the outcome. The question was about the ongoing debate over printed books vs. electronic books, and it was titled simply "Which Do You Prefer?" The results were:
Printed Books - 62%
E-Books - 8%
Both - 30%
As for those who chose "printed" or "e-book," the comments I received were the standard arguments we have all heard made for each option numerous times since e-readers became mainstream. What surprised me was the high number that answered "both," mainly because the media frenzy surrounding this issue rarely includes that option. Several people responded that they would be likely to continue to buy both because there were some times when they wanted to read on their e-reader (during the work commute, on vacation, etc) and other times when they wanted to hold a printed book in their hands (when curled up on the couch on a rainy day, when reading to their children, etc).
Obviously this was not a scientific poll, but it was one where (given the nature of this blog) the respondents are most likely actual readers. Many of the other polls of this type never take into account that a majority of those queried haven't read any type of book since high school.
The 8% result for e-books is intriguing for another reason. According to several publishers' statistics, in 2010 electronic books made up just a little over 8% of the total book sales in the United States. There is no doubt this number will increase in the coming years, but it is an interesting coincidence. I was personally gratified that printed books still won a clear majority in their own right, as I am both a traditionalist when it comes to books and a collector (try getting your favorite author to sign your Kindle).
The debate over printed books vs. electronic books will continue for the foreseeable future, but for today at least it appears that the printed book is both still very much alive and unlikely to meet its demise anytime soon.


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In Reply to: Harmon Kardon Citation II article in TAS Legacy segment by Bob Carver.. March 2017 posted by Julien43 on March 17, 2017 at 11:40:36:
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It was a hot mid-summer's night and I was in Chicago at the consumer electronics show.
I was in my booth pitching my wares, a new amp and preamp, and it was hot inside. Not the amplifier, but the convention floor, and I was getting thirsty. I wanted something cold to drink, so I decided to sneak away from my booth for a moment to get a coke. As I was sneaking, a colleague happened to walk by and said, " Hey Bob, have you seen Stu Hegeman's new preamp?"
I found myself getting excited, as Stewart Hegeman, the master designer of so many classic vacuum tube amplifiers and my very own hero, was here! Stu Hegeman was a true genius, having designed the Citation I, II, probably the III and countless other amplifiers for Sidney Harmon and for Lafayette.
We all were just entering the solid state age, and Stu had started his own company to introduce his latest creation, the solid state Hapi I preamp. I just had to see it! So instead of getting my coke, I made a bee-line to Hegeman's booth, and there I met the master and my hero for the first time. I introduced myself and HE said "I know who you are, you're the kid who designed the Phase Linear." Kid? Anyway, I was standing there mesmerized and in awe of my hero and could hardly concentrate on what he was saying, much less COMPREHEND what he was saying.
And so we began talking about amps and preamps, ultimately leading to a quiet corner in a close-by restaurant. Very close, as it was part of the convention itself. I finally got my coke. I could not believe I was in the presence of THE Stewart Hegeman, and he was talking to ME! We talked and talked about big solid state amps, tube preamps, solid state preamps, loudspeakers, ionic tweeters, recording lathes and finally tube power amps. And what a scientific talk it was! As two hours went by, he admitted to having been caught up in the ultra-linear fad of his day, that it was the biggest blunder of his career, and he did it only once and would NEVER design an amp with an ultra-linear output stage ever again.
And he didn't. The Citation V was pure pentode, as was the subsequent Lafayette 550 and everything else he designed from then on. I asked how come. He explained that when the plate pulls the top of the output transformer winding towards ground, the ultra-linear tap pushes the screen grid so low that it renders the tube unable to drive difficult loads. In addition, he pointed out that the normal idle potential on the screen grid regularly exceeded a safe voltage, often causing output tubes to blow up. The tube manufacturers hated it, but had to go along or lose market share, and so changed the specification for screen voltage in order to allow ultra-linear output stages. I wonder if they changed the tube design, or just changed the screen voltage specification.
Back to Stu. Anyway, when I asked him about his favorite output tube, he said the mighty 6550 was the one to use, and when I queried about KT88's, he held up his little pinkie finger as if to hold a tea-cup and said in a mock British accent. " Brits you know, if you want watered down tea."
He loved to use wide-band video pentodes in his amp designs, and did so when he could. (Read that as cost-no-object.) They were expensive then. "Why would anyone want to use a triode front-end when they could use a pentode?" he mused. Stu was single handily responsible for one of the worlds great amplifier topologies, the wide-band video pentode design. Never been done before, and it added a new category of stunning topologies to our universe. We talked with our arms and hands as much as our mouths, and we both usually had pencil and paper in front of us to help. Not only that, but my patent attorney had already trained me to continuously write down stuff in my "inventor's notebook", so when Stu Hegeman drew a diagram on a piece of paper, I saved it, trimmed it with a pair of scissors and taped it into my inventor's notebook that night in my hotel room. And I still have it to this day. ( My attorneys make me save everything in those notebooks forever.)
I've been collecting vintage amplifier parts for a lifetime, always with the notion of building a small museum someday. But lately a better idea has come over me, and that's to use them to build an amplifier. And here it is.
Successful cross pollination:
With a simple piece of inventor's notebook paper, Stu designed the wide-band video pentode front-end along with his 550 phase inverter, all the while leaving the rest of the circuit and the details of the design for me to solve over a vast gulf of intervening years. I designed the output stage with his favorite output tube, the mighty General Electric 6550, the main bias and power supplies, and as it turned out, sonic performance that cannot easily be believed.
There's more.
Very hot output tubes:
Stu talked about the need to run the output tubes extremely hot to get the distortion low enough to satisfy his boss, Sidney Harmon. (The Citation division of Harmon Kardon later relented on this point when too many output tubes began failing.) Consequently I had to invent a DC restorer circuit using a 6AL5 / 5726 tube; it eliminated the troublesome need to idle each output tube at 50 watts ( ! ), yielding instead an idle power of about 12 watts per tube. And it lowers distortion way down while simultaneously eliminating all signal related DC operating point shifts, a real sore point for vacuum tube amplifier designers. It works by keeping the DC component on each output tube grid the exact correct value through the entire audio signal swing, allowing perfect performance up to and even beyond clipping.
If you're still awake, read on.
All vintage parts:
This amplifier uses all vintage parts except for paint, the chassis and some of the small circuit parts. Even the transformer covers, tube sockets, and transformers themselves are vintage. The front end tube is an Amperex wide-band video pentode, the tube following is a General Electric 12BH7 driver, and the DC restorer is a JAN 6AL5 / 5726. Output tubes are new vintage General Electric 6550's, double tested, then burned in for three days and tested again. The best of the best. All are NOS. The transformers are MASSIVE vintage iron; each mono-block amp weighs in at 42 pounds, 84 lbs in all. Power is an easy 180 watts rms with a power bandwidth from 23 Hz to 55kHz, frequency response 2Hz to 95 kHz, and distortion less than 0.15 % at 220 watts out. Even more onto six ohms.
It's been so over designed that I expect it will last at least 50 years without need for service. In fifeteen years the wide-band pentode should be replaced, whether it needs replacing or not, and the 12BH7 driver tube should be replaced after twenty years, again whether it needs it or not. Here is the best part: even the mighty 6550's should last 50 years unless they have an unforeseen catastrophic failure. No need to replace them unless they won't bias up.
The sound: This amplifier stands with a small handful of the world's great vacuum tube amplifiers.
And beyond: It possess huge energy storage that Stu could only dream of, has the Hegeman phase inverter configurerd by me to have built-in auto-balance, a DC restorer and twelve output tubes in all. Nothing can touch it.
The features: Four output terminals; one, two, four and eight ohms. A bias control. A switch that changes feedback from classical ( vintage ) to contemporary. A jack for the bias meter. It has built-in auto balance, a volume control and a power switch with in-rush current limiting. And finally, a chrome roll bar for the front end tubes.
This amp was lovingly built by Joey "Tubular Joe" Bonin, the best tube amplifier builder and craftsman of all time right here in the rain forest of the Northwest.
Hi, Tubular Joe here. Just wanted to let you to know a few aspects and features of these amplifiers. They are hand-wired, point-to-point with star grounds. Even the tagboards are Stewart Hegeman style, inspired by his teachings on the big Citations amplifiers. They are military-style epoxy with bright silver plated swaged turret terminals. Using them keeps internal wires short, neat and hum-free. The transformer covers are lined with 3/16" inch thick sound and vibration-deadening panels. Hope you like them. Enjoy!
Bob here. If one ever breaks, as long as I'm alive I'll fix it free if you get it to me. Except for the tubes.
One last thing. Stu Hegeman and I will autograph the the amp to you with your name in gold. Example: "To our friend John - enjoy the music! Bob Carver, Stu Hegeman". Except your name of course, not John's. If you wish. Since Hegeman is no longer with us, his name will be a facsimile in gold, whereas mine will be by hand. It'll be hard to tell. Or, I can write " In tribute to Stu Hegeman…..†You choose. I prefer the facsimile myself.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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Topic - Harmon Kardon Citation II article in TAS Legacy segment by Bob Carver.. March 2017 - Julien43 11:40:36 03/17/17 (8)
- Here is Bob Carver meeting with Stu Hegeman years ago. - Michael Samra 17:40:28 03/17/17 (5)
- RE: Here is Bob Carver meeting with Stu Hegeman years ago. - Crazy Dave 07:01:45 03/19/17 (2)
- RE: Here is Bob Carver meeting with Stu Hegeman years ago. - Michael Samra 13:18:55 03/19/17 (1)
- RE: Here is Bob Carver meeting with Stu Hegeman years ago. - Crazy Dave 16:46:59 03/19/17 (0)
- RE: Thanks for sharing! nt - Julien43 02:31:55 03/18/17 (1)
- RE: Citation II - sony6060 08:37:20 03/18/17 (0)
- RE: Harmon Kardon Citation II article in TAS Legacy segment by Bob Carver.. March 2017 - elflow 15:10:10 03/17/17 (1)
- RE: Harmon Kardon Citation II article in TAS Legacy segment by Bob Carver.. March 2017 - Julien43 15:55:25 03/17/17 (0)
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- Here is Bob Carver meeting with Stu Hegeman years ago. - Michael Samra 17:40:28 03/17/17 (5)
- RE: Here is Bob Carver meeting with Stu Hegeman years ago. - Crazy Dave 07:01:45 03/19/17 (2)
- RE: Here is Bob Carver meeting with Stu Hegeman years ago. - Michael Samra 13:18:55 03/19/17 (1)
- RE: Here is Bob Carver meeting with Stu Hegeman years ago. - Crazy Dave 16:46:59 03/19/17 (0)
- RE: Thanks for sharing! nt - Julien43 02:31:55 03/18/17 (1)
- RE: Citation II - sony6060 08:37:20 03/18/17 (0)


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Building My Wings
I had planned on blogging about other things today. Things like this or this. But then I saw the news that Ray Bradbury died, and that spawned all kinds of thoughts, mostly about how I read his stories during my junior high years and how his work have their place in my writing lineage (if you will).
Think of all the people whose lives were touched by what he wrote. That's huge. What a legacy.
Now, all these years later, his quotes about life and creativity continue to encourage and lead me. One of my favorites has always been: "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
Ray Bradbury also said,
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
This is our confession week. Here's my confession: I've jumped from the crafting side to the business side of writing. I'm in the querying trenches. It's fascinating and scary all at once. I have full manuscripts out on request, and revision requests to consider. One agent described my novel using the words "fabulous" and "thrilling" and "fresh". Hearing that from someone who isn't a friend or my mom sent me over the moon.
I've jumped. I'm building my wings. And I'm grateful for those who jumped before, who paved the way for those of us who follow in their steps.
Thank you, Ray Bradbury, for your imagination, your innovation, your inspiration.


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People all of the world are attracted to baseball, America's pastime. It is important though, to refine your game at all times. The tips and nuggets of advice featured below should help baseball player everywhere improve their game, regardless of their current level of play. buy mlb tickets
As a baseball coach, it is important to keep your team enthusiastic to play a winning game. Pizza parties and the like go far in helping a team bond. And remember, that it is just a game and that the world's fate does not depend on it.
You need to know how to stride well to play baseball. People who are right-handed should pick up their left leg a little as the pitch is thrown. Left-handed folks should do the opposite. When there is a pitch coming near you, start moving toward the pitcher to help build momentum towards him. Younger and smaller people need to stride less than a whole foot.
If you are playing in the outfield, you should pay close attention to where the batter stands. People that are right handed are going to hit a lot of balls to the left side of the field. Conversely, when a leftie is up at bat, you'll see more balls headed for right field. If you understand this, you can anticipate where the baseball will end up even before the ball is pitched.
You have to wear a batting helmet when you are up to bat. A helmet will protect your from head injuries. They should also shield your face.
Be aware of the location of each baseball player. This will help you avoid collisions. Concussions are frequent in collisions. The most effective way to avoid the dangerous collisions is by making players aware of your intent to go after the ball.
Learn the best way to stride in baseball. Right-handed batters should use the left leg for added momentum. This is the reverse for left-handers. Shift your front foot about a foot towards the pitcher when you are preparing to hit the ball. Smaller people need to stride a shorter distance.
When running on the bases, pay attention to base coaches. You should focus on the bases and the base coaches because they can see the entire field. Watch them as you round the bases, and try to avoid looking at the ball. Let the base coaches be your eyes. If the coaches tell to to stop, stay where you are. If they tell you to run, run!
Lights and sun can both make it hard following the baseball. So that you don't see spots, you must learn how to make eye contact with the baseball without staring into the stadium lights or the sun. Using your peripheral vision, you can find the ball and not see spots.
Sunlight can make it hard to keep track of the ball. In order to keep you from seeing spots, you must know how to look for the ball without staring at the sun or stadium lights. Use the peripheral vision you were born with to find the ball.
If you don't want to bunt the ball to the pitcher, the bat's handle should be pointed at the third base or if you're right handed to first base. If you are left-handed, the bases are reversed. Getting your bat angled right will make sure the bunt is fair while keeping the ball from the pitcher.
As the article above shows, you don't have to be a pro to love baseball. With the advice you've read here, you'll be better at it, too. Use these tips the very next time you play or watch it.


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how to increase a furnace fan speed
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I have an Ultra 2 gas fired high efficiency furnace with AC. I want to increase the fan speed. I have been reading online and am not sure what I must do. Attached is a photo of my fan limit control. Is this what I use to increase the fan speed? If so, how should I change it?
I read this: http://www.doityourself.com/stry/adj...nace-fan-speed but I do not see any jumpers they refer to.
Basically, I am a new home owner having lived in my new home since April of last year. I was quite impressed by the air flow of our new home and how quickly the home could change temperature. Last August we had a new control panel put in and I think the technician may have changed the settings. The unit just isn't blowing like I remember it.
I'd appreciate any input you could provide. Thank you.
The fan limit doesn't control fan speed. There should be another relay. probably in the blower compartment. With the blower motor wires connected to it.
Look in there, and post a pic of it if you can.
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Is this the blower compartment?
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Here are some other shots of the furnace.
Yes. that was the blower compartment.
But. Your furnace is older then I thought. So the control for the fan speed, is in the burner compartment.
On the right hand side. The 4X4 box with the transformer and relay(known as a fan relay center) is where the blower's wires are connected for the cooling and heating speed.
Black is high, blue med, and red is low. One of them should be connected to the relays normally closed contacts so the fan limit can run the blower in heating speed. And another connected tot eh normally open contact of the relay for cooling speed. Its possible that the tech connected med(blowers blue wire) for cooling. if so, connect the black wire instead.
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I think this photo depicts the wire setup on the box near the transformer you are pointing me to. Is that right? How do the wires look? Can you see the adjustment needed?
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here are the only other 4x4 boxes that I see; although, I doubt they are where you're pointing me to. I do not see near them the transformer. Isn't the transformer the copper wire covered device?
The first pic with the wires, is the box I'm talking about. But the line voltage wires that need to be checked/changed. Are in the box.
Need to turn the power off and open it up.
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here is the back of the face plate.
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Here are two photos of the inside of the box. I don't see any jumpers. Hmmm... now what?
Follow the wires from the blower motor. What colors are connected where?
Looks loke the black(high speed) is wired nutted off.
the red wire is capped off.
the blue one goes into a nut with two black wires - one of which goes into the switch on the other side of the furnace wall, the other goes into a plug labelled coil 1 at the back of the transformer.
the black one goes into a nut with another block one that enters into coil 4 at the back of the same transformer.
the white one goes directly into the switch
Did the blower move more or less air in heating mode last winter?
You may have traced them back wrong. The black, red and blue should not all be connected. Only 2 of them.
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This was our first winter in the house and so I have no basis by which to say how the heat compared.
See image for detail of wires. The only other wires in the mix are black and orange. They, however, travel to the blower door. They operate the door trip which turns the fan off when opened.
Ok. With the power on. Carefully turn the dial of the fan limit unit the blower comes on. Listen to it.
Then let the dial go, so the blower shuts off. Then have someone turn the fan switch on the thermostat to on. Listen to the blower. Which seemed to blower more? if by the dial. Switch the blue and black wires. If by the fan switch on the thermostat. Then the tech may have used a lower horse power motor.
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With the problems on offense this season leading to a down year, the annual meeting between Tuberville, Auburn President Jay Gouge and Athletic Director Jay Jacobs should be an interesting one as all sides talk about the future of Auburn football. Tuberville said the meeting should take place sometime this week, but nothing is set in stone.
"No time," Tuberville answered when asked if a specific meeting was scheduled. "Last year I talked with them sometime in the middle of December. I'm sure because of the publicity of all this it will probably be sooner.
"I know there are going to be people asking about my future," he added. "I plan on being here. I think it's an opportunity that coaches look to knowing you can get the job done. We've done it here eight out of 10 years having better than average football seasons and we're going to continue to have that."
The first order of business for Tuberville is to start recruiting as soon as possible. He'll do that beginning this week by visiting several players that have questions after committing to the Tigers. Once that is done he said it will then be time to narrow down his search for an offensive coordinator.
"What I have to do is identify four or five guys, which I'm pretty close to finishing that up. Then I'll start down the line and interview. I don't have any frontrunners or leaders. I want to talk to them and I'll have my leader in terms of who I think can best fit after talking with four or five people.
"I've got several guys in mind. I'll start talking with them and visiting with them because this is obviously huge in terms of getting a guy that is going to be here for a while and understands what we need to do with the type of players we've got here and we can recruit."
When looking for a candidate Tuberville said that he's got several things in mind that he wants to see for potential coordinators.
"They've got to be experienced," Tuberville said. "I'm not into training somebody. We're past that point. We should be able to get somebody to come in here. It's hard to find people that will change jobs and come to another situation. Number one the head coach and coordinators have to be on the same page. They have to feel like they can be successful and given opportunities to run their own program within the program. I allow them to do that. A lot of people have said in the past that I have forced assistants on people. That's never happened. That's been totally up to the guys that come in."
Tuberville said that is something that will continue this time around. Because of the staff still in place and on the recruiting trail, Tuberville said whoever he hires will have the chance to talk to current staff members if he chooses to do so.
"What I want to do is give him the freedom to bring in somebody if he has someone in mind," Tuberville said. "He'll probably want to visit with the ones here on the staff, which I would allow him to do. We've got to have an offensive coordinator that feels comfortable with what he's doing and if he's got somebody he thinks could help put his program in or maybe he's worked with in the past.
"Sometimes that happens and sometimes it doesn't," he added. "I have not been around too many coordinators in the past that had people they wanted to bring. Obviously we've got to do something on offense and we're going to. We're going to get the problem solved and get some consistency. I talked with all of our coaches last night and they understand the situation. They understand this program and what we've got to do. I think all of them have done a good job, but we've got to make sure we get the program going in the right direction in terms of offense."
Tuberville also didn't rule out possible staff changes even if the new coordinator doesn't bring in coaches he wants from his current job or he's worked with before. He said that everyone on the staff will be evaluated in the coming weeks and will sit down with him to talk about their role in the program.
"I have to sit down and talk with all the guys first," Tuberville said. "Right now we're all out recruiting and that's the number one thing, but as we go through this process I'll sit down with each one of them and talk about their futures, what they've done and how they've done it.
"You don't want to get the cart before the horse in terms of offensive coordinators," he added. "What that does is in recruiting it throws you into a jam. You want to keep guys out there recruiting because they are still employed here. We've got good coaches here. They've worked hard and know how to coach. The main thing for them is going to be the situation with our coordinator."
All of the attention is on the offensive side of the ball, but there could be some action on defense as well. There has been talk that coach Paul Rhoads is receiving interest from Utah State as a possible head coach. Tuberville said that's something that is possible down the road, but right now it's only preliminary talk.
"There have been some people call about possible interest," Tuberville said. "Me and Paul are going to sit down and talk next week. He's not from Utah or anything. I think he may have worked for somebody out there. That will be up to him. He really likes it here. He would have to decide on whether he wants to go to that situation."


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Though April 22 is Earth Day, celebrations for the 43rd anniversary are tinged by "Get Well quick!" wishes. That's because we've reached an environmental and economic tipping point. Power and money converge, leveraging debt that multiplies exponentially, like lily pads overwhelming the small pond.
How can we, the people, exact any change? With the Green Shadow Cabinet, founded by the Green Party's presidential nominee, Jill Stein, another government is possible!
It's difficult since climate change deniers attend the church of infinite economic growth. Just use a bogus denominator and claim global weather disaster losses are a shrinking proportion of the global GDP.
Data scientists devise incomprehensible equations to manipulate assumptions and math for economists. Derivatives are the legal bets that built an unregulated global casino for banks. Now derivatives exceed an unimaginable figure of $1.2 quadrillion ($1,200 trillion dollars)—20 times the world's annual GDP! No wonder Harvard Business Review proclaims the data scientist the sexiest job of the 21st Century!
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America's FDIC cannot withstand another $700 billion taxpayer funded bailout. There's only $25 billion available in reserves. Is Cyprus the new normal?
This is just one side of the coin. Goldman Sachs said the estimated $50 billion damage of Hurricane Sandy can be good for the economy since housing and construction sectors get a boost. Goldman's stocks also soar when their computers churn profits through high frequency trades.
How do these "negative externalities" benefit the economy and democracy? To quote Noam Chomsky, they don't.
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as mentioned in this thread:http://graphicriver.net/forums/thread/i-need-a-nice-d/91830
I need someone who can design me a "d" (D)
Thanks everybody for help.
I think I need another professional to design a D
aleluja said
Why dont you design your own d?
Good question. But I am not sure what I want
The "Candy" is too playful
I search for something like this:
This "d" looks to simliar to a "S" I guess.
Demorfoza said
Have you tried fontsquirrel or dafont? I assume you want free ones
Thanks, yes of course
Could be non free also.
Hey guys,
think here would be the best place to write my question:
I am looking for a nice "d"
I want to make a new logo. I already designed a circle. In this circle I want to place a small "d" – but I can not find a good "d".
Do you know some nice calligraphic or handwritten fonts with this letter?
Amrhamza said
What happened with all of the good graphicriver reviewers? They are still working , they have become more Nazi than before " I am really afraid of resubmitting.' GROW SOME BALLZ
Thanks for the good reply
Hey guys,
I am so frustrated about a soft rejection and the reviewers reaction.
I made a flyer template for Poker/Casino events. This fact should be made my files unique Then I created a green Poker Flyer Template and uploaded it.
1. Soft Rejection -> my file would not be unique enough.
I was wondered and created a horizontal, typography version and facebook timeline cover to give more uniqueness to my file.
2. Soft Rejection -> "This file design needs more work here. The composition is still too generic and simple, think about the typeface selection, the concept (the idea of a model placed over a series of objects is just too over done now) and generally how to push this item further and make it drastically different to others on the site."
Hmm ok, "the idea of a model placed over a series of objects is just too over done" – why are the most of the latest flyer templates are all in that style?
3. Soft Rejection -> I decided to create a new version and made a red version without the image and lot of elements. Also 3 different color versions. It has a difference to the first layout. Also I wrote some nice words to the reviewer with all of my changes. It was a lot of work!
-> Now I am very annoyed. I only get a generated mail:
"This is a resubmission of a previously rejected submission. Resubmitting without making the required changes or any improvements is not considered acceptable use of the Envato marketplaces and repeated attempts may result in a temporary or permanent suspension of authorship.
If this item was previously soft-rejected, please resubmit your updated files by updating the item directly. If this item was previously hard-rejected, it must be changed as required in the initial review or significantly improved such that it qualifies as a new item."
Now my question: What happened with all of the good graphicriver reviewers? Ok, they have a lot of work, but I think in my case he won´t give my flyer a chance. Is it so bad? What can I do? I am really afraid of resubmitting.
Here is an image showing the process:
ZozoUI said
Very good looking. As mentioned in gray colour could changed. Also why the top and footer area is empty? May be you could try fit the whole area with content. Like give the content/slider 100% height.
Thanks. Would think about a higher content slider. But at the moment I like this "empty" area
CipheredDesigns said
Hey Dom, this is what I call a professional portfolio! Well done mate, the only bug I noticed is that you can´t open the preview of the individual files? But this is an error in the matrix, I guess? Gruß dimi
This was my intention. I don´t want to have the images opened in a lightbox, etc.


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Here are some local activities to help keep you busy and have some fun this weekend. Come out and see Cedar Key's 47th Annual Fine Art Festival this Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 5pm. The festival will include art work from 125 artists, samples of local cuisine, and you can enjoy live entertainment in the city park. There will also be face painting and other activities for kids.
If you don't want to drive out to Cedar Key, you can head to Micanopy for Doc Hollywood Days. This year marks the 20th anniversary since the film came out featuring Michael J Fox which was filmed in Micanopy. On Saturday there will be a fine arts show and music all day.
You can see if the Gator Baseball Team can get back in the swing of things by sweeping the unranked Tennessee Vols this weekend. They play tonight at 7pm at the McKethan Stadium and 1pm both Saturday and Sunday. For softball the Gators will play Kentucky here in the Gainesville. They play 6pm on Friday and 1pm both Saturday and Sunday.
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