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Very disappointing experience, we choosed more expensive room – they call it COMFORT. But we got small room absolutelly not acceptable for 2 adult people, very uncomfortable, totally overpriced for this room
I especially liked the decor. I thought it blended in well with the city's medieval setting. Lack of staff.
Location and ambiance. Neat setting in a walled city.
Junior Suite rooms much better than standard. Gorgeous decor and gorgeous location in town. Rooms are excellently prepared and cleaned and reception staff are friendly. Parking arrangements may not be to some tastes but I actually enjoyed the adventure!!!
The location was superb and in an area where parking is a challenge the special parking facilities were welcome. The cuisine was good and the dining experience delightful. It was a really beatifulr location to visit. Staying in a castle one does not expect a huge luxury room and in this case the room was certainly quite small. But this did not detract from a high quality experience.
clean but lift access for luggage not shown to us. Also the drive could have been used on arrival to unload luggage. Carrying bags unecessarily
peaceful location - good base for exploring Tarn - good service - basic food - value for money for a family
Quiet Rooms. Dont be mislead by the Chateau in the promo pictures. This is a purpose built accommodation, more motel than hotel. Indoor pool.
The staff were very helpful. They offer decent breakfast with fresh baked bread and croissant. It was wonderful. Quite and relaxing area. The pool is a bit cold and small but it is bearable. Kids enjoyed a lot!
Very friendly and helpful staff/owners. Nice quiet setting but also very close to Cordes Sur Ciel. Noisy doors.
Romantic place, beautiful park, nice pool
You need to walk 15-20 minutes to get to Cordes from the hotel.
Friendly staff, large comfortable room, quiet countryside setting.
Good location, just two minutes into Cordes. Quiet countrytside location. Good sized room, clean and well kept. Very helpful and pleasant staff.
We enjoyed the setting, the peacock, the restaurant, the welcome and tranquility. We stayed in a lovely bottom floor room, but without air-conditioning. It got very hot.

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The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?
This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest less in current R&D as uncertainty about market returns increases. The effect of firm-specific uncertainty on R&D investment is smaller in concentrated markets – those where market power is higher and strategic rivalry is more intense. Further, the effect of uncertainty on R&D investment is attenuated for large firms which may be the result greater economies of scope.
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"I think it is a broadly reflected concern of the Australian community.
"You can see in retail and housing prices and the lack of confidence that the government seems to be managing by focus groups and minority interests and not the overall Australian economy."
The outspoken comments follow those of Mr Packer in an interview in today's AFR Magazine.
"I think the problem for the Prime Minister at the moment is that while she keeps saying she's pro-business, there is a real perception in the corporate world that she's not," Mr Packer said. "This perception is a real problem which she needs to address soon."
Retailers addressing a business luncheon in Sydney yesterday refused to be drawn on whether Ms Gillard was anti-business, saying they had learned to work with all governments.
However, they said the minority government and lack of clarity over the carbon tax had contributed to consumer uncertainty and lacklustre retail spending.
"What was once certain is no longer certain and that's contributing to where consumers are at," said Woolworths' incoming chief executive, Grant O'Brien.
"What's not so certain any more is the nature of the minority government," he said.
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive
"There is considerable unease within business circles at a number of the government's policies and generally the lack of a strong economic reform agenda from both the government and the current federal opposition," he said.
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Some people are closet wrestling fans. Professional wrestling great Jerry "The King" Lawler is a closet American Idol fan.
Lawler -- a color commentator for WWE's Monday Night Raw and most famous outside the square circle for his early-'80s feud with comedian Andy Kaufman -- had been a casual Idol watcher for years. He got more invested last season, though, when Alexis Grace and Lil Rounds, two contestants from Memphis, Tenn., where Lawler lives, made the Top 12.
"I became a pretty big Alexis Grace fan, and I was really pulling for her," says the WWE Hall of Famer, who began working in the early '70s for Memphis' Mid-South Wrestling promotion.
Lawler and Alexis actually had met once before the show.
"We made eye contact in a record store," he says. "I guess she thought she recognized me but was too embarrassed to say anything. And I thought, 'Well, there's a cute girl that's looking at me,' but I didn't say anything to her, either.
"After I left, I got in my car and started to drive away. I was about to pull out onto the main street, and she pulled up in her car besides me. I rolled down my window, then she rolled down hers and said, 'You're Jerry Lawler, aren't you?'"
Lawler didn't make the connection between the woman he'd met and the one he watched on Idol until after the season was over and he went to a club where Alexis was hosting a karaoke night.
"I went up to introduce myself to her, and she said, 'We actually met once before,' and she reminded me of the story," he says.
This season, he says, he's favoring Crystal Bowersox, Lacey Brown, Katie Stevens and Tyler Grady.
"When you're a guy my age that grew up on the '60s music, it's good to see a young person say that they really enjoyed that and were really influenced by the music of the '60s and '70s, The Doors, The Who and groups like that," he says. "You could actually see some of that in Tyler's performances."
Lawler adds that Lilly Scott ought to stick to singing and steer clear of dancing any more, calling her celebration "the worst dancing down Hollywood Boulevard that I've ever seen."
In general, Lawler says, he prefers the audition episodes, with their horrible and apparently clueless singers, to the competition itself. "I guess it's my wrestling background that makes me a fan of that part of the show," he says. "When it gets down to where they're all good, it loses some of its edginess and shock value."
Whereas Tom T. Hall once sang that he loves "winners when they cry, losers when they cry," Lawler would rather see them both cry, so he really enjoyed Wednesday's tear-filled segment with Andrew Garcia and Thaddeus Johnson.
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Another highlight so far this season, from Lawler's perspective: the performance of Ellen DeGeneres.
"You can tell she's got that mean streak," he says, "but she tries to hide it. She tries not to let it come out." Watching Ellen break the news to singers that they'd made the Top 24, he says, "you could tell that she really enjoyed stringing those contestants along, dragging out the suspense. You could just see the devilish smile wanting to pop out on her face before she finally told them, 'Oh, okay, you've made it.' She tried to make it sound so depressing for them before she gave them the good news.
"She'd make a great WWE Diva."
And with the judges' chair next to Ellen opening up at season's end, a man known for his insults and coarse one-liners -- like saying there wasn't anything wrong with one hopeful's recent performance "that a vasectomy of the vocal cords wouldn't cure" -- thinks he just might see a new career path opening before him.
"I would be somewhere between Simon and Howard Stern, I would think."
Nashville-based Brian Mansfield began writing about music for USA TODAY in 1997 and took over Idol Chatter just before the start of Season 8. He co-authored Make Me a Star: Industry Insiders Reveal How to Make It in Music, and while he has never auditioned for American Idol, he did sing Boot Scootin' Boogie at Disney World's American Idol Experience the day the attraction opened (he lost). More about Brian | E-mail Brian


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The Various Interests' Group of the EESC, chaired by its President Luca Jahier, organised a conference in Manchester on Tuesday 8 March entitled 'The UK in the EU: What Is In It For Us?'
The UK's future role and membership of the EU is without doubt one of the most important political issues to be debated in the next few months at both the national and European levels. The decision of EU Member States in December 2015 to "…work closely together to find mutually satisfactory solutions in all four areas at the European Council meeting on 18-19 February 2016", has increased the time pressure and placed the topic squarely in the public domain. Arguably, the grass-roots movements and civil society initiatives which are springing up throughout the UK, either in favour of or against EU membership, are prime examples of the active citizenship that the EESC has espoused for decades.
Within this context, the objectives of the conference included:
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Archery Clubs
Below is a list of archery clubs with programs recognized by USA Archery
Archery Clubs
Below is a list of archery clubs with programs recognized by USA Archery
The New Jersey School of Archery
The New Jersey School of Archery is located in Florham Park, NJ, and is under the direction of Michael Usherenko, a Level Four archery coach who was named National Archery Coach of the Year in 2008. Since 2007, Coach Mike has repeatedly been selected as an assistant coach for the US team at World Championships and World Cups. In 2011 he coached the woman's team to a silver medal at a World Cup event. The school offers youth and adult lessons for beginning and advanced archers, and also sponsors a JOAD program. In the summer, the school shoots at the outdoor range in South Mountain Reservation.
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WA-XO-BE Archers
The largest archery club in New Jersey, Wa-Xo-Be Archers is comprised of archers of all skill levels, from beginner to professional. All are dedicated to promoting and developing the sport of archery and making it accessible to individuals of all ages and skill levels.
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Bloomfield Archers
Bloomfield Archers, founded in the 1930s, is New Jersey's oldest continuing archery club. The clubhouse and field are located at the northwest corner of Brookdale Park. Across from the intersection of Bellevue Avenue and Glenside Terrace.
The club is active between April and October every year. The club holds a Sunday shoot almost every weekend during the spring and summer.
Bloomfield Archers is also the home of the Bloomfield Gold Cup.
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NEW YORK (Scott's Investments) -- Market volatility and drawdowns remind us of the role that "hedging" can have in portfolios. Hedging in its simplest form is purchasing securities in order to reduce portfolio risk. The purchased securities are intended to have negative correlation to the remainder of the portfolio in order to help offset any potential losses in the portfolio.
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Holding uncorrelated assets, such as stocks and bonds, are one of the most popular methods for reducing portfolio risk since historically stocks and bonds are relatively uncorrelated. There are other methods for hedging downside risk and this article explores four methods for hedging long equity positions.
Moving Average
One of the more popular methods for minimizing downside risk and one I track frequently on Scott's Investments is to exit long positions when they fall below a long-term moving average. This may not technically be a hedge, since the entire position is exited. However, as Faber showed in The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets , it is an effective method for reducing volatility and risk in a portfolio.
There are other options for investors who hold individual equity positions and hedge. For example, say you hold a position in two stocks, ABC and XYZ, and wish to hold both stocks for the long term. However, the overall equity market has you a bit nervous and has recently begun to struggle, showing signs of weakness. One option would be to short the overall equity market, and one of the simplest ways to do so would be via a 1x inverse ETF such as (Proshares Short S&P 500 (SH), which seeks daily investment results that correspond to the inverse of the S&P 500 Index. You could also use an inverse small-cap, international, sector, etc., ETF, depending on the long positions you currently hold.
I most recently back-tested an example of this moving average hedge system in March 2010. I used AlphaClone to generate my individual stock holdings. I then shorted the S&P 500 in an equal amount (100% hedged) only when the S&P 500 closed below its 10-month simple moving average. The system did not have a down year since 2000. While much of the performance can be attributed to AlphaClone's ability to find stocks with hedge fund support, the hedge did its job in reducing volatility and drawdowns:
Relative Strength
Using ETF Replay, we can compare the relative strength and volatility of ETFs and backtest various ETF strategies.
Assume we hold a portfolio of five ETFs representing five major asset classes: Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND) (bonds),PowerShares DB Commodity Index (DBC) (commodities), Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF (VEU) (international equities), Vanguard REIT Index ETF (VNQ) (REITs) and Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) (U.S. equities). A buy-and-hold portfolio since 2008 had 22.4% volatility and a -46.28% drawdown (despite being allocated across 5 seemingly diverse asset classes) and, frankly, disappointing results (results from ETF Replay include dividends):
I created a portfolio of SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) (long S&P 500), SH (short S&P 500) and iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Treasury Bond (SHY) (short-term Treasuries, used as a close proxy for cash). I went long whichever of the three had the highest combined ranking as determined by the highest relative strength over the past three months and 20 days and the lowest volatility over the past 20 days. The system rebalanced semimonthly (for those looking to limit turnover, the monthly rebalance returns were slightly lower but similar to semimonthly), produced the following results. While volatility was high, which is to be expected when only holding one position, returns far outperformed a long-only strategy (SPY), which was also to be expected given the market volatility of 2008:
How could one use this information to hedge? If we'd held 50% of a portfolio in the five-ETF portfolio referenced above and allocated the other 50% to the SPY-SH-SHY strategy, we'd have reduced volatility and drawdowns during one of the most volatile periods in recent history and still produced solid returns. This is mainly owed to positions in SH, which hedge the positions in the five-ETF portfolio that were highly correlated in 2008. I used a 50% allocation to both strategies for simplicity and not as a recommended allocation:
Market Conditions
A third hedging strategy is to based long/short positions on overall market conditions. There are myriad ways to gauge "market conditions," and how one hedges these "conditions" depends on your timeframe and current portfolio. However, assume we hold a portfolio of U.S. equities or U.S. equity ETFs and wish to hedge them during "unfavorable" market conditions.
I am a big fan of the analysis at dshort.com, and pay close attention to the P/E Ratio Market Valuation updates. Ideally, we could employ a hedge when the market is "overvalued". However, markets can stay over- and undervalued for lengthy periods of time, sometimes years. Thus, basing a hedge on relative long-term market valuation alone can be a costly and lengthy experiment.
Stockscreen123 has devised a timing system suitable for longer-term investors that has historically still reacted quickly enough to serve as a hedge during unfavorable market conditions. The system uses two factors to determine "market conditions," assumingconditions are favorable for equity investing if EPS estimates are rising and if valuations are reasonable.
1. The estimates test is whether the five-week moving average of the aggregate of the consensus current-year estimates for S&P 500 companies is above the 21-week moving average.
2. The valuation test is based upon risk premium, specifically whether the S&P 500 risk premium (earnings yield minus 10-year Treasury yield) is above 1%
When conditions are "favorable," one would be long equities (hold SPY) and during unfavorable conditions, short equities (hold SH). Rebalancing every four weeks for five years results in the following equity curve (red line) compared with the S&P 500 (blue line):
During periods of high volatility and market drawdowns, this system performed well, moving inversely to the S&P 500, and could have served as a functional tool for determining when to hedge equity (or other) positions.
The current signal indicates favorable market conditions and a position in SPY.
Technical Analysis
Technical analysis can also serve as a method for determining when to hedge long positions. If an investor is comfortable and skilled enough in conducting his or her technical analysis, then during periods of high uncertainty or unfavorable technical setups, either in a market index or in an individual position, a hedge may be appropriate. The hedge could again be a short position in an index ETF or could be an options position on an individual holding.
Technical analysis is a broad subject with many tentacles, so a comprehensive review is not possible. However, as a general rule, support and resistance lines and trend lines are good starting points for analyzing technical setups, and I wrote about one such setup last week with Chris Vermeulen giving us an example in this chart of what he saw headed into the week of the March 14 (chart courtesy of The Gold and Oil Guy):
This article should not be considered a complete list of hedging methods as there are myriad others ways to hedge a portfolio (options being a popular method not discussed here). Hopefully it served as a starting point for further considerations on how and when to hedge equity positions and your portfolio as a whole.
Returns discussed excluded commissions and taxes.
At the time of publication, author had no positions in stocks mentioned.
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I have always argued that no person is truly irreplaceable. I still believe that to be the case. However, my colleague and friend Rodger Doxsey came probably as close as anyone ever could to being irreplaceable. I know of no one who had a deeper and more thorough understanding of the workings of the Hubble Space Telescope than Rodger. Rodger passed away on October 13, 2009, at the age of 62.
Usually when we retire a computer, we make sure that all the information on it is stored elsewhere. Unfortunately we cannot do the same with the human brain.
For the past two decades, Rodger was driven by one passion – the desire to make the Hubble Space Telescope the most productive scientific instrument ever.
Here is a description by another Hubble pioneer, John Bahcall, of the birth of the "Hubble Space Telescope Snapshot Program," a wonderful example of one of Rodger's many brainchildren:
"The Snapshot program originated in a lunchtime conversation between Rodger Doxsey and myself in the STScI cafeteria sometime in the spring of 1989. We were both late to lunch and probably were the only people in the cafeteria. The principal topic of conversation was the expected low observing efficiency of the HST. Rodger described the extraordinary difficulty in making a schedule that would use a reasonable percentage of the available time for science observations. Slewing was slow and changing instruments or modes of observing was time-consuming. Also, the scheduling software that existed in 1989 was not very powerful.
I asked Rodger, without thinking very carefully about what I was saying, if it would be possible for the software he was developing to insert new objects in the holes in the schedule. I wondered aloud if one could improve the efficiency by choosing new objects, close to the directions of the scheduled targets, from a previously prepared list of interesting objects scattered over the sky. I remember that Rodger suddenly became very quiet, thought about the question, and finally replied something like: 'In principle, it is possible.' The Snapshot program was born at that lunch."
Very few people know of a ritual Rodger and I have developed over the years. During the first servicing mission and subsequent observatory verification, Rodger and I followed all the tests for the instruments at the Institute. After the performance test of each instrument, we shook hands ceremoniously. This became somewhat of a superstition, and consequently, in all the following servicing missions we continued with the same ritual. During SM4, Rodger was already too weak to attend all the activities continuously. We did meet, however, after the completion of SM4, and performed the ritualistic handshake to celebrate all the instruments.
Goodbye friend. To me, you are irreplaceable.


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Team learns innings and outs of baseball
Tournament offers game experience
June 25, 2005
Game experience, regardless of age, makes all the difference in baseball.
This year, Gary Engle put together an 11-year-old tournament team for Steamboat Springs to help young players get more time on the field.
"I think we are competitive against the field this weekend," Engle said. "They are way better than when we started."
On Saturday, Steamboat lost 14-10 to a Denver All-Star team in Triple Crown's Mountain Magic Division 3 tournament.
Division 3 was created this year to allow teams with minimal tournament experience the chance to compete in a more competitive format, which works well for many Northwest Colorado teams that struggle to get on fields before late April or early May.
In Saturday's game, Steamboat jumped to a 2-0 lead on the top half of the first inning, but the All-Stars scored five in the bottom of the first to take the lead for good.
Steamboat closed to within 9-7 but couldn't even the score.
Walks and errors played an integral role in the Sailors' loss. Steamboat committed 10 errors on routine throws or plays. After the game, Engle complimented the 11-year-olds on their effort but also told them they gave the game to Denver.
Pitcher and shortstop Charlie Von Thaden agreed.
"Compared to practice, we were sloppy," he said.
Charlie joined the team this week to provide an extra arm and a boost to the batting lineup.
He pitched three strong innings, walking two and striking out two and was 2-for-4 out of the leadoff spot.
After the game, Charlie said Steamboat would play better in the future.
"If you have a bad game and aren't making the routine plays and listening to what Coach says, you will do it right the next time."
Tommy Lyon was 3-for-4 with one RBI for Steamboat. Teammate Zac Engle was 1-for-4 with three RBIs. Eric Spahr drove in two runs.
Steamboat continues pool play at 10 a.m. today at the Ski Town fields against the Colorado Cutthroats, a team made up of Craig and Hayden players.


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A few weeks ago Chet Haase joined the Flex team and is going to be focused most likely on our graphics and animation pieces. Very exciting for us. He's already started blogging about his Flex experiences. For now he's focusing on getting up and running, but expect to see the more advanced topics coming soon!
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Spellcasting with its feats and counter-spells can be pretty complex in D&D 3.5 (that goes for everything in the ruleset though - the powers that be really went overboard on its new player learning curve). I'd second Dart's recommendation on going with a fighter for at least the Original Campaign until you can get a handle on things.
Still, if you're committed to wizard, your intelligence is your lifeblood; contrastly, charisma for a sorcerer. Not only do you eventually need at least level 19 in your respective stat to cast level 9 spells, but the higher it is, the harder it is for enemies to resist your spells. You'll get a single stat increase every four levels but that doesn't mean your initial stats shouldn't be mulled over carefully. I'd recommend something like 12str/8dex/18int/16con/8cha for a wizard. You could also drop down to 16 starting int for a more balanced character.
-strength: how much damage you do in melee combat; generally how well you manage to hit in melee combat; how much you can carry!
-dexterity: tied to your armor class, provided your worn armor allows the bonus; how well you hit in ranged combat; tied to your reflex save!
-constitution: not to be ignored by anyone especially a wizard who only gets 1-4 hit points per level. For each two points of con, you also gain 1 hit point per level. Retroactive.
-wisdom: for your purposes, simply tied to your will save.
-intelligence: see above. Also determines how many skill points per level you get.
-charisma: for your purposes, will mainly be used to affect charisma-based skills such as appraise and diplomacy. (assuming you don't go sorcerer)
Bear in mind that each of the above stats don't do anything for you in 1 point increments. Associated improvements only happen at even values.
Under your skils as a wizard, you'll want to pay extra attention to spellcraft and concentration.
Lastly, I definitely do NOT recommend a sorcerer for you. Not only will you have fewer spells to experiment with but it will be more difficult to exchange them for other spells in comparison with a wizard.


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PG-2000II - R/G (Remote Gain)
Connections: OK
Transmitter Settings:
1 - Insure the end point settings (e.g. ATV or EPA) for the rudder channel and gear/aux channel (the channel that you have plugged the RED gain lead into) are set at 100 and 100. If you have a radio that has special channel 5 gyro software then set this at max ATV on both ends.
2 - Insure that your rudder sub-trim and rudder trim are set in the middle.
3 - Insure that the Revo Mixing settings are at an initial setting of 18%.
4 - With the TX turned on and the tail rotor servo / gyro connected, attach the tail rotor servo arm so that it is at 90 degrees to the tail rotor control rod when the TX stick is centered.
Helicopter Servo Set-up:
1 - (As Before)
2 - Insure the tail rotor control rod, tail rotor bellcrank and tail rotor control slider are set up mechanically as per the instructions in your helicopter kit manual.
3 - Attach the ball joint or Z-bend of the tail rotor control rod to the tail rotor servo arm at a distance of 10 to14 mm from center.
4 - Turn on your radio, leaving the tail rotor control rod disconnected from the servo arm. Now move the tail rotor control stick on the TX fully to the left and fully to the right and try to attach the control rod when at both ends. If there is not enough rod travel to allow this (binding) then move the attachment point further in on the servo arm. If there is room for even more movement of the control rod at each end, then move the attachment point further out on the servo arm.
5 -Move the TX rudder control stick fully to the left and slowly rotate the tail rotor through one complete rotation, and note any binding. Do the same with the TX rudder control stick set fully to the right. If there is binding anywhere, investigate and adjust the servo arm attachment points accordingly.
Final Bench Adjustments
1 - Turn on the transmitter, and then the receiver. DO NOT move the helicopter until the gyro has initialized. The green LED at the top left of the gyro will flash green for a few seconds then turn to a solid green, this will indicate that the gyro is now initialized. NOTE: whenever the radio is turned on before flight, it is important that you allow time for this initialization to take place before moving the helicopter.
2 - Check for proper rudder direction. With the tail rotor in the vertical position, and looking from the rear of the helicopter, move the TX stick fully to the right. Note the TRAILING edge of tail rotor blades, they should move to the right. With full left stick, they should move to the left. If they do not, then reverse the rudder throw in the TX.
3 - Check for the proper gyro direction. With the radio on and the gyro initialized, rotate the nose of the helicopter to the right and insure that it causes the trailing edge of the tail rotor blades to move to the right.
4 - Set the TX gain to 75% and 45%
A - If you are using a radio that does not have specific gain software, then the gain of the gyro will be adjusted by the settings of the ATV's in whatever aux channel you have used. Settings of 0 to 100 ATV in one direction will adjust gains upward from 50% to 100% relatively (e.g. 0 ATV is 50% gain, 50 ATV is 75% gain and 100 ATV is 100% gain). Settings of 0 to 100 ATV in the other direction will adjust gains downwards from 50% to 0% (e.g. 0 ATV is 50% gain, 50 ATV will be 25% gain and 100 ATV will be 0% gain).
B - If you are using channel 5 of a TX that has gyro gain specific software then you can adjust the two switch settings directly with the percentage number you desire. In this case, I would suggest 75% and 65% for a start setting.
C - If you have a radio in which there is no channel available for remote gain settings then you just have to leave the aux lead free and you will be able to operate the gyro as a single gain unit, using the mechanical pot on the front of the gyro to adjust the gain. Clockwise rotation will increase gain and counter-clockwise rotation will decrease the gain. A good place to start would be a setting of about half way.
Field/Flight Gyro Adjustments to optimize gain settings.
1 - Setting the gain at hover rotor speeds.
Insure the gain channel switch is in the position that selects the previously set 75% gain. Bring the helicopter into a hover. If the tail wags, decrease the gain setting until it stops. If it does not wag, then increase the gain settings until it just starts to wag. Then decrease slightly and test to insure no wag when giving a rudder command and releasing it. Then switch to the other gain setting and set the gain there to 15% less.
2 - Setting the gain at the higher speeds for aerobatics and fast forward flight.
Set the gain channel switch to the position that selects the lower of your two gain settings. Take the helicopter into fast forward flight. If the tail wags during any maneuver then turn down this gain setting until it stops.
3 - In the hover, set the rudder trim so that the helicopter heading does not drift when pointed directly into the wind.
Setting the Revo Mixing in the TX.
1 - Set your engine to the proper needle settings in the hover and at full throttle. Also insure your throttle and pitch curves are set to give a constant engine and rotor speed at all collective settings. Only then can you set the revo mixing for more precise control of your rudder through all maneuvers.
2 - From a hover into the wind, apply FULL throttle / collective and let the heli climb straight up for about 100 feet. Note if the heli yaws left or right through the climb, if it yaws in the opposite direction that the rotor turns, increase the UP revo mixing. If it yaws the other way, decrease the UP revo.
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Sanjiva, You are right. I agree with you on tracking XML Protocol. Maybe, since there is no specification proposed yet (right?), I was not sure know how to proceed the architecture design with XML Protocol. I think I expressed my question in a wrong way. I am very sorry. Regards, Yuhichi Nakamura IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory Tel: +81-46-215-4668 FAX: +81-46-215-7413 From: "Sanjiva Weerawarana" <email@example.com> on 2000/11/10 14:10 Please respond to email@example.com To: <firstname.lastname@example.com> cc: Subject: Re: Potential F2F design session for 3.0? Hi Yuhichi, > >> code. Clearly we need to write it in a way that we can track the W3C > >> XML Protocol work too. > I am not sure how important to track XML Protocol. Let me check it. I'm a bit confused by the 2nd sentence .. check it with who? *We* decide what this project is about and I suggested a few weeks ago that we should track the XML Protocol work and got many +1s and no disagreements. Who else needs to say anything about what this project does?? Sanjiva.
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by Dan Dicker
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2013
It's time to step out from my 'normal' role as the 'energy expert' and make a comment or two on the markets in general, just as a professional trader who's seen quite a bit in his almost 3 decades of daily experience with capital markets and the way they act. Patterns emerge that aren't foolproof, but they've served well over the years and they are making some very visceral noises to me, even observing the action at longer range on vacation.
Here's something that won't be news to you - the markets look terrible.
It's not just the fundamental information that most of the 'regular' equity analysts have been filling you full of on every media outlet around: There's the lowering of expectations on earnings, not just the disappointments of 2nd quarter results (which were uninspiring).
It's not just the continued bad indications from the emerging markets, whose growth rates continue to be guided downward. It's not the continuing bleat of 'taper talk' which (for those who believe this has been a totally fed-inspired rally) would be a total death knell for stocks.
You don't need me to point out any of this.
But here's what I see. There's a stock market that continues to ride the lower edges of some usually reliable technical indicators, like the RSI and Stochastic, usually a good sign for a technical rally. There's a market that's felt extended but now looks more like it's really rolling over, and not for any short-term of a few sessions or weeks, as we had earlier this year.
We've got a bond market that may be even worse than equities, and is riding out into the sunset on a wave of panic, with very few analysts interested in buying. And we've got a pick-up in some of the most 'left-for-dead' commodities that were never supposed to come back, including copper and natural gas, up above $3.50/mcf again.
Every stock rally looks like it has to be sold and Gold actually looks like it should be bought.
These are not good signs, folks. These are the signs of a market that has put in it's best values for the next several months and has a best case scenario of moving sideways for the rest of the year, if not into the first few quarters of 2014.
But, where can you go? As an oil trader, I've got no problem being short commodities, but a lousy track record being short stocks. That's why I've advocated collecting premium wherever you can by selling calls either in the money or slightly out of it on most every issue you own in stocks.
With your commodity exposure, I still maintain that most of the risk remains to the upside and the strong correlations between oil and stocks are slowing breaking.
In very, very unique cases, I might look to buy something undervalued, but it would have to have been undervalued for years, as the miners have been or perhaps inside the natural gas space. Over the last few columns, I've given you some ideas here and I'll continue to do that when appropriate.
But for now and into the near future, I'm hunkering down.
The market action just stinks.
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THANK YOU FISH!! Finally, after all of these Blake Lively posts and the other random hot chicks, somethin for the ladies (poofs too)!!! Good Lord that man is a gift from above. And that little daughter of theirs is by far the most genetically gifted little girl on the planet, so cute. WOW!!!
Thank you for this hot, hot man!!!!
Quick, give me a biscuit so I can sop up this delicious piece of heaven!! GOD is truly good to have created this luscious morsel. Halle Berry is FOOL of FOOLS!! Some women just don't know a GOOD BLESSING when they got one, they always want more, more, more. Can we say "idiot?"
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Kahlua Cream Cheese Dip
Recipe by BecR2400
A luscious creamy Kahlua dip that's wonderful for dipping fresh strawberries (or your favorite fruit or cookies). This is sooo delicious! Notes: You can use regular milk for the evaporated milk. May be made up to two days in advance; just store in a covered bowl in the fridge until serving time. P.S. Would also be excellent made with Amaretto vs. Kahlua. :) Enjoy!
Top Review by teresas
This is sinfully good! I made half the recipe for hubby and I...I used the higher amount of the Kahlua...so that could explain why my dip came out so dark...you can taste all of the ingredients...what an impressive dessert to serve to company...thanks for posting it...=)
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 3 -4 tablespoons Kahlua
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar (to taste)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 -4 tablespoons evaporated milk
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee powder
- cocoa powder, for garnish
- fresh strawberries, for dipping
Directions See How It's Made
- In a medium bowl beat together the dip ingredients with an electric beater until completely combined.
- Refrigerate in a covered bowl until serving time. Dust with cocoa powder (sift if lumpy) just before serving.
- Serve with fresh strawberries or your favorite fruit or cookies for dipping.


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August '08
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August 2008
In Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring, a book which is one of my all time favorites (and about which I have an article in this issue), Mami Gros-Jeanne, one of the main characters, calls the religion she practices: Shango or Santeria or Voudun or what, we all doing the same thing. Serving the spirits (126). I have spelled the religion Voodoo in various places on the website because it is the most popular way of spelling the religion which is a blending of African folk mythology and religion, New World practices (including Native American and slave religions/spirituality), folklore and folk medicine. It is one of the most misunderstood of religions, I think, with the most common image that of primitive savage priests cutting chicken heads off and mumbling curses and poking pins in voodoo dolls.
My own first experience with the deeply spiritual aspects of this religion, early in college, came in my Intro to Religion class where I did a fabulous presentation on the subject. It was one of the first times I have enjoyed the mixture of dramatics that come naturally to me and academic scholarship. I still grin when I visualize my classmates coming into the classroom where I had candles lit, vévés drawn on posterboard lining the front of the room, and sacrificial offerings to Erzulie and Damballah on the table where our deeply spiritual professor usually sat. They asked, with a little worry in their voice "Ummm, what are we doing today?"
I have been fascinated with the two sides of Voodoo ever since. It is with that eager fascination that I am thrilled to be bringing you this special issue on Voodoo, Conjure, Hoodoo, "Serving the Spirits," Afro-Caribbean, Afro-American religion, as it is practiced by female initiates and/or written about by female writers. While Voodoo itself is not strictly female, there is a strongly matriarchal current within much of it, and we have to remember that Voodoo's female loa (gods) are just as powerful as its males. This alone makes it something for feminist inquiry and interest, but then add its subversive roles as a religion that upsets the "house of the master" at every turn and we see a perfect place to explore.
I had no idea what to expect when I sent out the call for essays on the subject, but it turns out that there are several scholars doing incredible work on the subject and I am very proud of the collection Women Writers has gathered here. We have collected seven amazing scholarly essays, several new and original works of poetry and fiction with Voodoo and/or Afro-Caribbean magic and religion as theme, an interview with writer Jewell Parker Rhodes, and book, film, and popular culture reviews of texts that deal with the subject matter.
Ed Cameron's excellent essay on Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work on Voodoo (Tell My Horse and Mules and Men) and its connection to psychotherapy and analysis is a revealing look at the double-voiced conflicts one often finds in Hurston's scholarly work-- the bind between being active participant in the ritual and folklore and also trying to "objectively observe" as an anthropologist has often been criticized, even derided. Cameron's discussion of this voice in the light of therapy gives a new even-handed perspective on this issue.
Tatia Jacobson Jordan's insightful reading of Jewell Parker-Rhodes' novel trilogy featuring one of the most famous U.S. practitioners of Voodoo, Marie Laveau, points to the "feminist triumph" of the work and character featured there. Jacobson Jordan's analysis of the real history of the real Laveau plus readings of the fictional one in Parker Rhodes' creative and gripping matriarchal portrayals of the "Maries" illustrates much about why Marie Laveau continues to fascinate us. Particularly important are the way Parker Rhodes works within an awareness the triple-intersections of race, gender, and class within the novels.
There is some evidence within Zora Neale Hurston's work on Voodoo that she could claim a magic lineage several times descended from Marie Laveau-- who is, by the way, the beautiful and enigmatic woman in our masthead artwork by Holly Sarre. That Hurston is best known as a writer of fiction, then, shows a different kind of magic and initiation taking place. Sheila Ellen Pardee writes about Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work, the conflicts that Hurston was well-aware of during that work, and the multiple shifting "roles" or "voices" that one sees within that work on Voodoo and folklore. Pardee details the way that Hurston's work was part of an attempt to "clean up" Voodoo's image by the government of Haiti, and also gives factual detail of some of the inner-workings of the religion. The way Hurston balanced between Houngan's initiate, scholar, and budding writer of fiction is clearly addressed in Pardee's vigorous reading.
Kelli Randall reads Maryse Condés I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and reveals the ways that race influenced the Salem Witch trials, with Tituba in its center, as well as Condés postmodern, imaginative reclaiming of the image of Tituba from that negative connotation as the "evil witch who started all the fuss." She argues that the novel is "critical of the hypocrisy, racism and religious bigotry of Puritan New England of the 17th century."
Kameelah Martin Samuel's essay illuminates the history and development of the Conjure woman archetype-- a magical woman practitioner of Voodoo (or other folk religions). We learn that Conjure women (and men) appear within American literary narratives as far back as the founding of the country and have evolved into a unique genre of its own. She then reviews several contemporary texts (including the film Eve's Bayou) for the way that Conjure is changed, rewritten, and reappropriated within those texts, predicting a "second-coming" for the Conjure woman.
Brenda R. Smith reveals for us the way in which Zora Neale Hurston combines her knowledge of Voodoo's rites and mysteries in her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Smith details the imagery of Janie as the goddess Erzulie, a subversion and challenge of Voodoo's "primitive" side within Hurston's portrayal. Smith shows us the way Hurston integrated her work into a seamless magic of mythic literature, deepening our understanding of the nature of the story as much more than the "just" a romantic female Bildungsroman, a genre into which the novel is often cast.
Tara Tuttle's essay on Jewell Parker Rhodes Voodoo Dreams and Toni Morrisons Song of Solomon discusses prominent uses of conjure in African American literature before examining the ways in which conjure is key to the empowerment of women in Jewell Parker Rhodes Voodoo Dreams and Toni Morrisons Song of Solomon. She argues, among other things, that Conjure as a metaphor for female creativity has everything to do with the role of language in religion and society.
My own essay on Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring details the way Hopkinson blends science fiction dystopia with Afro-Caribbean folk magic and creates an empowered Third Wave feminist heroine. The essay close-reads the novel's use of magic and especially the element of possession as a way of empowering a new genre of literature: the Magical Feminist story.
Add to the scholarly mix above four incredible short stories, three poetry collections specifically dealing with Voodoo as a theme and three other poetry collections that center on all sorts of magic, several book reviews (some of books I myself had not discovered yet and am on the way to buy now). A review of a Voodoo Tarot deck, Disney's upcoming foray into Voodoo and the first African American Disney princess, mystery, magic, and nonfiction.
Then, don't even get me started on how excited I am that author Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes agreed to do an interview and featured author piece on the site. The interview is incredible-- far more than I ever expected of insight into Rhodes's work on Marie Laveau. Kameelah & Rhodes range from family histories to dream memories to-- well. Go read it yourself and see.
I once bought a dress for a special occasion (my PhD graduation, to be exact). I was looking for something comfortable, yet cool enough to wear under those formidable layers of "Doctorial Robes" and yet look cute later at the celebratory dinner. I found a white, cotton summer sundress. By the time I got it home and tried it on, I realized it looked just like the white dresses Voodoo initiates often wear to their ceremonies. I toyed with the idea of wearing it anyway-- I mean, the commencement into academia is as much a ceremonial initiation into a "sister(or brother)hood" as any. But I felt wrong to wear it to something that wasn't actually part of a true religious ceremony. It felt like appropriation to wear it any other way than to TRULY wear it. It still hangs in my closet. I have no idea if I'll ever wear it, really. It felt a little towards the "kooky" side to admit that I feel superstitious about the dress, but perhaps, one day, I will find a true use for it.
Like Kameelah, and Jewell Parker Rhodes, magic women run in my own family. My great-grandmother was the midwife of her small Illinois farming community, and I remember being a small girl, with my mother and sister in a car, all of us casting a spell of justice upon the former employer of my mother's boyfriend. It was no more, really, than a prayer for "what comes around" to land where it ought to. But I sometimes wonder, in retrospect, whether the years of struggle for my family might not have been a bit of threefold justice hitting us for that moment of not-so-nice magic. I also once cast a spell of attachment on a boy I wanted as my boyfriend-- and it worked, all too well, and it took a lot of pain and tears to break that sometimes inexplicable attachment. I can't say that I'm a true believer, but I personally view magic carefully, as a cautious and tentative not-a-skeptic, as something not to be played with, as something only to be explored carefully. This we do here: explore the idea of Voodoo within literary, film, and popular culture texts. Some of the works we explore were written by people who are initiates, some are just works of very creative people fascinated with the same ideas of something greater than humanity moving in the world.
But I hope, and I think, that this issue shares with you a bit of our own reverence for such a study. I thank everyone who participated, and especially Kameelah, who submitted an essay for consideration and responded positively when I pounced on her and thrust the burdens of editorship upon her. Anyway. Go read and enjoy thinking about the issues the essays raise. Maybe you'll find your own connection to the loa someday, maybe not. But if you read carefully, at least you'll recognize them when and if you see them.
|By: Kameelah Martin Samuel
|August 2008
I am beaming with anticipation as we prepare to launch this special issue of Women Writers. This issue reflects the shifting connotation voodoo and other African-based spiritual traditions are invoking in the modern age. Voodoo is everywhere!!! Academia is chock-full of books, journal articles, and other scholarship that centers on New World religions and those who practice it. From Karen McCarthy Brown, to Albert Raboteau, to Yvonne Chireau intellectuals are certainly engaged in the work. Authors, poets, and the like have been infusing the loa into their creative material for some time, now. Hip Hop artist Common gives praises to the orisha in his lyrics and who can forget the sultry spoken word performance of Lorenz Tate in Love Jones (1997) when he addresses his muse: Is your name Yemanya? Oh, Hell no. Its got to be Oshún! Even Tia Dalma, from Disneys Pirates of the Caribbean (2005), is a nod to the prevalence of voodoo, conjure, obeah, lucumí, hoodoo, macumba, rootwork, espiritismo, condomblé, and ifa across the Atlantic world. Instead of discussions of black magic, cannibalism, and denigrating titles like Hags and Their Ways, Serving the Spirits: Women and Voodoo in Literature and Popular Culture brings together agents of this transitioning mood. To be sure America is not what you would call a Voodoo Nation, but there is something very telling about its long standing fascinationfor better or worsewith voodoo. Our special issue engages that fascination in multiple ways.
For me, however, studying the phenomena that is voodoo is more than scholarly inquiry. Having been attracted to and connected with the otherworldly from a wee babe, discovering the history of African-based spirituality in college (by an English professor and Ifa priestess!) offered a framework with which to finally comprehend the extra-spiritual activities of my youth. Unlike Jewell Parker Rhodes, my grandmother offered no lessons in dream interpretation or numerology, though she always has some home remedy she is anxious to share. I had to decipher her coded, Catholic-influenced language. I would later discover, much like Ntozake Shanges character Indigo, that [voodoo is] my blood. Ive got earth blood, filled up with the [voodooiennes] long gone, and the sea (3). My maternal line stretches back eight generations to the very same nineteenth century neighborhood as Madame Laveau. My great-great-grandmother is entombed in famed St. Louis Cemetery #1. Apparently, .err gifts are shared among the women in my family. At times, I ponder whether or not I came by my research interests of my own accord! The completion of this issue is as much a reflection of my professional endeavors as it is an expression and acknowledgement of my very tangible ancestral past.
Shange also warns, Where there is woman there is magic. This special issue embodies just that--a powerful clashing of spirit and the feminine. Author Jewell Parker Rhodes gives an intimate portrait of how women and voodoo have influenced her life and writing. She was gracious and very forthcoming about her work and even hints at her current work-in-progress, Hurricane Levee Blues. I thank Kim for inviting me to work so closely on this very important volume. The scholarly essays and creative submissions continue to showcase the innovative ways voodoo has seeped into history, literature, and American culture (I am so mesmerized by the Holly Sarré painting that I simply have to own it!!). Seeing this issue realized has been one of the highlights of my budding academic career. It is my hope that our reading audience will challenge themselves and others to re-think preconceived notions about women of color and African ways of knowing; to progressively move toward a better understanding of how voodoo and its New World counterparts function and why such religions continue to exist in a post-slavery society And if a few are embraced by the Spirit imbibed in the works collected here and become suddenly aware of an ecstatic tickle at the nape of the neck .So be it!
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Mt. Pleasant girls hope lessons learned pay dividends in rematch with EF
Even at this late stage of the season, the members of the Mt. Pleasant girls basketball team are still learning about their own identity as they forge ahead in the PIAA Class AAA playoffs.
On Saturday, the Vikings were put to the test, but kept their season alive thanks to a 58-51 overtime victory over District 6 champion Huntingdon.
"We learned that despite whatever obstacles we face, if we stick together, communicate and stay with the plan, we can come out on top," Mt. Pleasant coach Scott Giacobbi said.
The PIAA win was Mt. Pleasant's first since earning a play-in victory over Bradford in 2011.
"This is a very meaningful win for our program in a couple of ways," Giacobbi said. "First, it's the payoff for a long season and off-season of hard work and time spent in the gym to get there. Further, it's March, and we're still practicing. The longer season and extra practices mean that the underclass players get more work for next year. The girls appreciate the time with each other and camaraderie, too."
In order to keep practicing, the Vikings will have to beat Elizabeth Forward in the second round of the tournament at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Fox Chapel High School.
Unlike Huntingdon, Mt. Pleasant is very familiar with Elizabeth Forward. The two teams have met in the regular season in each of the past two seasons. The Warriors won each of those contests, including a 57-45 victory in January at Elizabeth Forward.
But just as the Vikings learned valuable team lessons during their win over Huntingdon, they also believe the knowledge they gained in their most recent loss to Elizabeth Forward could serve them well in the rematch.
"With EF, we learned that we can compete with one of the better teams in the WPIAL," Giacobbi said. "Familiarity helps when playing a team previously in the season in order to gauge the match-up."
The Warriors (21-4) and the Vikings (16-9) are the WPIAL's fourth- and fifth-place teams, respectively, and Giacobbi is expecting a tough battle. He pointed to one major area in which Mt. Pleasant must be better in the rematch.
"This time, we must do a better job rebounding," Giacobbi said. "Poor defensive rebounding on our part made a difference in the fourth quarter."
Both teams have scoring depth, although Mt. Pleasant is missing leading scorer Alexa Szelong (18.5 points per game), who is out with a knee injury. The Vikings are paced by Elaina Fearer (12.3) and Morgan Barlock (11.1). The Warriors, who beat District 9 champion Bradford, 52-30, in the first round of the state tournament, feature six players that average at least 10 points per game. Kylie Owoc (14) and Abigail Sporio (13.8) are primary threats, followed by Alison Pastore (12.8), Olivia Barkley (12), Natalie Fekula (11.8) and Jessica Palady (10.3).
Despite Elizabeth Forward's many weapons, Mt. Pleasant should enter the game confident. The Vikings are no strangers to getting revenge in the playoffs against teams that beat them in the regular season. Mt. Pleasant dropped a 58-47 decision to Belle Vernon during the regular season, but beat the Leopards, 46-42, in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs.
Giacobbi and the Vikings will be looking for similar results against the Warriors.
"In the sense of familiarity, we understand how they want to play and how they may react to our plan," Giacobbi said. "In this way, we'll be better prepared than scouting enabled us to be last time. With Belle Vernon, this certainly made a difference. We are excited to be in the mix at this point. If we play a confident game, we can be successful. Our performance Saturday seems to indicate we will play with poise and confidence."


text: An increasing number of energy efficient appliances operate on direct current (DC) internally, offering the potential to use DC from renewable energy systems directly and avoiding the losses inherent in converting power to alternating current (AC) and back. This work investigates that potential for net-metered residences with on-site photovoltaics (PV) by modeling the net power draw of the 'direct-DC house' compared to that of today's AC net-metered house, assuming identical DC-internal loads. Power draws were modeled for houses in 14 U.S. cities, using hourly, simulated PV-system output and residential loads. The latter were adjusted to reflect a 35% load reduction, representative of the most efficient DC-internal technology, based on an analysis of 32 electricity end-uses. The model tested the effect of climate, electric vehicle (EV) loads, electricity storage, and load shifting on electricity savings; a sensitivity analysis was conducted to determine how future changes in the efficiencies of power system components might affect savings potential.


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The cdcat is a graphical (Qt based) multi-platform catalog program that scans the directories/drives you want and memorizes the filesystem (including the tags of MP3s) and stores it in a small file. The database is stored in a gzipped XML format, so you can hack it, or use it if necessary. Cdcat can store the contents of some specified files up to a size limit if you want (for example: *.nfo).
NekoXNI is a collection of small, useful XML tools written for the Xerces Native Interface (XNI) that is the foundation of the Xerces2 implementation. The NekoXNI tools are written to illustrate the power and flexibility of the XNI framework, as well as provide useful tools for XML application developers. The current collection of XNI tools includes an HTML Parser, DTD Converter, a Style Processor, a RelaxNG Validator parser configuration, and an XML Pull Parser.
References for TeX and Friends is an ongoing project which provides a help file for LaTeX (and its friends like ConTeXt, Metapost, Metafont, etc.) using a state-of-the-art source format, DocBook/XML. Various output formats can be generated from the source file. Anyone can write a converter for any desired output format. Because the source file is XML, the easiest way to do this might be to use XSLT.
PDFreactor is a formatting processor to convert HTML and XML to PDF. It uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define page layout and styles. It allows you to dynamically generate PDF documents such as invoices, delivery notes, shipping documents, or print versions of Web content on-the-fly. Vector graphics (SVG), barcodes, MathML, XSLT, and CMYK colors are supported. All common J2EE application servers are supported. Complete .NET, PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby APIs are included. Direct integration into automatic build processes using Apache Ant is also possible.
Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications. It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.
The POI project contains several components for dealing with popular OLE 2 formats in Java. POIFS is a pure Java implementation of the OLE 2 Compound document format. HSSF is a pure Java implementation of Excel 97-2003 XLS file format based on POIFS. HSSF Serializer is a pure Java serializer for Cocoon 2 that uses the Gnumeric XML format to output XLS. Full documentation of the POIFS file format is included. It is useful if you wish to output reports in the Excel file format, or if you have existing XML documents that you need to get into Excel. HSLF provides initial support for PowerPoint 97-2003 and HWPF provides limited support for Word 97-2003. POIFS can be used to read any OLE2 stream.
XCC is a tool for building XML format parsers. One way to describe what XCC does is by analogy with a generic parser generator, e.g. yacc or bison. Yacc needs a lexical analyzer to function properly, and that lexical analyzer is usually built with (f)lex. In the XML world, there are a few packages which fill in the role of lex (expat and libxml are the most known), but the high-level grammar parsing is usually done by a hand-written code; writing such a parser is a tedious and error-prone task. XCC was created to help developers in writing reliable easy-to-understood parsers for handling complex XML-based grammars.
A utility that strips or converts ANSI code sequences.
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The Blackwater Falls are located on Blackwater River in Tucker County, near the town of Davis, West Virginia. The dark, tumbling waters plunge almost 60 feet over resistant sandstone of the Pennsylvanian Age, creating one of the most photographed sights in the state. The falls are accessible from steps, and several viewing platforms allow visitors to enjoy the falls year-round.
The waters of Shay Run reach the Blackwater Canyon's edge and cascade down the canyon's wall as Elakala Falls. A short walk along the Elakala Trail from the Lodge will take hikers over the upper section of Elakala Falls.
45 acres of pristine mountain views into the Blackwater Canyon provide one of the one of the most famous views in all of West Virginia.
Pendleton Falls can be viewed at a roadside pull-off about one-half mile from the Lodge. Like Elakala, these Falls are the cascades of Pendleton Run coming from the park's boating lake.
A view of Blackwater Lodge and Blackwater Canyon can be enjoyed from this vantage point. This is the canyon's deepest and widest point.
Blackwater River is a scenic and wild river that runs through the heart of Blackwater Falls State Park.
For information about other area attractions and scenic wonders in the Blackwater Falls area, visit www.canaanvalley.org.


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