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Hey Al can you tell me if there is a way to run off the balance plug or can I just splice in to the esc battery connection probably on the esc side. I don't want to carry an extra battery cause weight means death to my planes I'm just running the 2cell 24 gram motors and maybe even a smaller motor than that which I assume are 2 cell motors also. I see some of the cheap hk lights that run off the receiver at 3 or 4 volts but I guess I think I like the 6-12 volt lights probably better. I can see where they would really be bright on a 3 cell battery I didn't want to buy another battery but I guess I could.
Which begs another question. Can I even run one of those hxt type motors on 3 cell? They recommend 2 cell so that's what I have is 2cell 800 batteries two of them. I think some guys use 3 cell batts but I never have I don't want to burn them up but then again I bust em anyway. I like the lighter weight of the two cell jobs I have some 3 cell bricks but I'd like to keep the weight of the plane down to the 8-10 oz range if I could.
I built a delta wing plane that has a 3 cell 50 gram motor that flies great but with my flying skills its basically an unguided missile and at 16 ounces it could do some damage and theres no way I'm going to try flying that bomb at night. I need light slow and floaty
It's my day off and if the fog lifts I am taking my armada to a small neighboring town at my secret delta base alternate flying site. A nice cushy 80 acre alfalfa field where I can launch my attack at the unsuspecting public. Here is my sweetheart kesl with the annihilator my primary weapon of destruction. Notice the folded kfm over the wing core? It really helps keep the cg forward which is critical on wings anyway. Also notice how I removed tape and paper from the back. I had to do that to balance it and lighten it up. With its 37 degree sweep it likes to be tail heavy right out of the build. My next one I left just a strip of paper at the back of the wing core at the hinge line and left the paper on the elevons and taped them. I origionally taped and papered the whole thing and the chubby bugger weighed 14 oz. I got it down to 12 the next one I hope down around 11 if I can. There is a 2 inch hollow between the folded leading edge and the wing core I run my wires down but plenty of room for lights also. Hmm I'm getting ideas and they hurt.
To see the plane really well I like running the LED's off a 3 cell . HobbyKing has them as small as 360mah , 32.4 grams . http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...poly_Pack.html
Yes , you can run the lights off the balance plug , but that will significantly reduce your flight time , especially if you're running EVERYTHING off of one small battery .
One of my night flyers is an Electrifly Flylite http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXYGD7&P=7- SUPER stable , slow-flying , high wing dihedral . The motor I have on it is a HexTronik 24 gram 2712-12 running off an 800mah 2 cell. For the lights I put an 800mah 3 cell under the wing ( on the CG ) . It takes it about a minute to climb up to about 300 - 400 feet , and then it will cruise around looking like a UFO for about 20 minutes . Each 800mah 2 cell is good for about a 20 min. flight , the 800mah 3 cell for the lights is good for about 4 of those flights .
If you want to build your own plane , this one is similar to the Flylite in stability and slow flight . https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...ighlight=j+bug A flying buddy of mine has made two , one large , one small . He uses the large one for night flying , here is a video of it at night .
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Fat Butt SUE flies... sorta...
So, Not having made SUE II, the Daughter of NEKKID SUE, I decided to see if I could fly the 409 Obese SUE. The name Fat Butt SUE was chosen, and the Missus did the nose art.
WOW... what a difference between FB SUE and NEKKID SUE. It took 80% throttle to get FB SUE moving... and then things happened FAST. My big problem was oscillation from a positive feedback loop.
This was partly caused by my mis-adjustment of the control horns. I moved them to the proper position (holes over the hinge), but used the same hole as on NEKKID SUE... the lowest, closest hole. This meant that the control surfaces could swing like barn doors... not quite to 90 degrees, but I could definitely get some real flap action going. That also meant that the stick was probably too sensitive, especially for my monkey-on-speed approach to control. Especially at the higher speeds for Fat Butt SUE as compared to NEKKID SUE. I'll bet that the effect of a given deflection goes up as some power of the speed, eh ??? Double the speed and the same control surface deflection causes a lot more force ???
Anyway... I managed some great aerobatics... inverted flight, loop, stall and recovery, stall without recovery... It would have been WONDERFUL if any of that had been planned ! But here is a typical flight:
Check the control surfaces, check the field, run it up to 80% and give her a heave... Okay, she's going... a litttle up on the elevators... OOOPS, down... okay, hey, she's level... and going towards the end of the field. Gotta think about this turning stuff. Stick to the left... hummm... losing altitude, nudge the elevator up... HEY, she stands on her tail pretty... okay, before she stalls lets use less elevator... OKAY, I got her... now, lets try that turn again... ooops, she's banking too far, less rudder... rocking back the other way, TOO FAR... more rudder... OOOPS, BANKING THE FIRST WAY AND ROLLING INTO A DIVE ... RUDDER THE OTHER WAY AND UP ELEVATOR... oh wait... she's rolled upside down now... and the up elevator means she is heading towards the mineral rights on my land... MAYDAY MAYDAY. AAAIIEEEE.... *SPLOT*
Actually, I made several good circuits, got some good recoveries and saves... Other than the fact that I pounded the living poop out of poor Fat Butt SUE - to the point where I'm thinking of retiring her - it was a good day. Didn't destroy any batteries, didn't chop any wires... HOLY POOPIES
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Sounds like you got some nice EXCITING practice in on FB-SUE ! Aerobatics are FUN ! The extra weight forces her to fly faster , doesn't it ?
Does your radio have high/low rates ? If so , you can set it up so with the flip of a switch you can go to low rates ( less deflection ) . If your radio can't do that , then before your next SUE flight adjust your pushrods so you have about 45* deflection on the elevators and about 30* on the rudder .
One hint about building a new SUE , you can cut ( on the hinge line ) the rudder and elevators ( already beveled , and with control horns attached ) out of an old SUE to put on the new SUE . That saves a little time not having to make all new R and E's .
Ad astra - it's really happening !
MEGA SUE, or ME Sue (Multi Engine)
Okay, while shopping today I stopped in at a Craft 2000 and found foam board... Blue, Yellow... and 32 by 40 inch Elmers board.
Twice as big. Of course it would be silly for a newbie with so little experience to even consider anything other than SUE and other proven models.
So I bought a few sheets.
So... shall we make MEGA SUE, or ME (Multi Engine) SUE ?
Basically the same beast, BIGGER. Will need new motor, new ESC, new servos... any suggestions ?
Use a counter rotating propeller pair from the quad copter world. Probably can use the same motor, same esc (x 2 each)... but probably still need new servos. Make a slot that is 18" wide and mount the propeller sticks on the wings ?
Or is this a REALLY BAD IDEA ? Are planes that are 2x bigger in each dimension 4x harder to fly ???
(Which means I won't try it for a few months )
Ad Astra, in a big way !!!
I think it's a GREAT idea ! Actually the bigger ones are easier to fly , the only negative ( for me , anyway ) is that it would be difficult or impossible to get into my car .
Two motors with counter rotating props would be a plus because that would eliminate torque roll ( they cancel each other out ) . So when you throttle up , the plane will accelerate and climb straight .
If you double the wing area , but increase the weight by only 1.2X or 1.5X you'll have lighter wing loading ( overall weight relative to wing area ) . Lighter wing loading = slower flight . Here are two examples of light wing loading :
This plane has a 3 foot wingspan and the AUW is 78 grams ! Looks like slow motion .
This is a 19 foot wingspan kite , powered by a vectored thrust unit where the motor/prop up by the nose turn left and right , up and down , pulling the nose in the direction you want to go . It flies so slow , sometimes it looks as if it's standing still !
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I wonder if one should just glue together 2 20x30 sheets to get a 30 by 40... then it would be just a little over 2x the weight... save some on the motor because one could probably get away with a motor that is 1.5x as heavy (any suggestions)? Also, what affordable servos ? I guess the 9g servos from the combo kit wouldn't be beefy enough to swing the barn door sized elevator and rudder ?
One way to build a ME SUE with 2x wing area and 2x weight... cut the triangles for a SUE, and then glue those to an uncut square of foam board. So one could have a flat center section with up curved wing tips, OR you could cut the center piece lengthwise and make a polyhedreal wing. The motors could mount at each join... sort of like two SUE's joined by a square section in between. Make most of the trailing edge ( 16 of the 20" wide) of the flat part an elevator, and have rudders on each fuselage ... that protects each motor.
It's basically getting towards a FPB, with HUGE wing tips...
Now, if one wants to lighten it... start cutting windows in the foam board, and use that thin cellophane to cover it over...
However, time to make SUE II, so I'll have something to fly tomorrow.
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I made a SUE with a center rectangle between the wings . At first with ailerons it wouldn't turn , so I added rudders and it flew OK .
There's a guy here on RCG who builds jumbo deltas with very light wing loading out of super light-weight R-tech insulation foam from Home Depot https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show....php?t=1538174 . I tried some R-tech for a hovercraft I was making , it's a PAIN to cut with a blade , you'd probably have to use a hot wire cutter .
I think the 9 gram servos would work on a jumbo SUE if you put the control rods on the INNER hole on the servo , and the OUTER hole on the control horn . That would be the least amount of strain on the servo , and give you mild deflection on the control surfaces ( no aerobatics ! ) .
Gonna have SUE II ready to go by tomorrow ? - very cool ! Can't wait to read the report !
1) Colored foam board with one side colored can be ... tricky.
If you lay both pieces with the colored side up and cut from the upper left to the lower right, you get pieces with parity (chirality). You can't make a plane with the colors both UP or both DOWN. It has to retain the same parity as you go around your join axis. Try it with some 3x5 cards and colored scribbling on one side only.
To make a SUE with the colors both UP or DOWN, you have to lay the color UP on one and cut from upper left to lower right and then lay the color DOWN on the other and still cut from upper left to lower right... OR you lay them both colored side UP but cut one from upper left to lower right and cut the other from upper right to lower left.
I didn't do that. I cut them wrong. So, I'm going to make one right handed screw SUE II, and one left handed screw SUE II. I had wanted to make one SUE II with a pretty top and one with a flashy bottom. Oh well...
[On proof-reading the previous paragraph it sounds really wrong. I meant "screw thread"... helix... twist... and as far as top and bottom goes... I give up. ]
2) Considering that I am still auguring in half the time, I decided to build something intermediate between NEKKID SUE and FAT BOTTOM SUE ... this one is mostly nekkid, but the pointy bit has received significant structural reinforcement. I used hot melt to attach 3 mm BBQ skewers on the leading edge of the first 8 inches on both wings and the fuselage, AND also the fillets where the wings meet the fuselage. The leading edges were then reinforced with a bit of fiberglass reinforced tape. It added almost 14 grams... but I need that strength. Probably just mean it will break in NEW and EXCITING ways...
3) I finally got the new XMTR to work and I figured out ELEVON control. So, I will have ELEVON and RUDDER and THROTTLE. I can confuse myself in totally new ways and then crash even more dramatically
Actually, I don't think I can crash any more dramatically. I've got that down.
Welp, it's 3 AM, and time for dis one to go to bed and dream...
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Dan, I like your idea of cutting out parts of the foam board and then covering with cellophane. I'll bet that could be done selectively in the centers of your wing panels to not really lose much stiffness, but shed some weight sort of a stronger nekkid sue. The lighter you can make it the slower and easier to fly I think. Maybe work on the fuselage panel also and hollow some of that out. Call it Chopper Sue. Dollar Tree packing tape is thin and light and very sticky. It's a pain to get off the roll but its great stuff for its lightness. Tape the cellophane on. Your packing a lot of foam and paper on that plane.
I'd also move the linkages more to the center of the servo and out on the control horns. You don't want to overcontrol the plane that's why its so quick and twitchy. Setting about 30% expo on your radio would smooth it all out too.
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The exercise sought to capture the elements that make outbreaks hazardous and decisions difficult.
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The ill person came from a country with less-than-optimal disease surveillance and laboratory testing. Nobody was certain what the facts of the Indonesian outbreak were. Was there casual spread of the illness in Jakarta? Were there outbreaks in other parts of the country? These are not minor details. They help determine whether the World Health Organization -- with lots of CDC help -- will try to mount a mass distribution of antiviral drugs in a one-shot effort to snuff out the virus at its source.
A passenger on one of the student's flights had died in Chicago and another was sick in Baltimore. Was this just a coincidence? It was flu season, and regular influenza virus makes some people very sick -- killing some of them.
The number of people who might be incubating flu grew by the hour. Should the whole swim team be quarantined? How about all the other swim teams at the meet?
The federal government has 20 million doses of oseltamivir (Tamiflu). When should this stockpile be distributed to the states? At the first hint of a pandemic, when many doses might prevent cases but also be wasted? Or later, when the outbreak is confirmed and the drugs will go only to the ill, possibly saving their lives?
There were hints that the Georgetown student might not be the only source. A passenger on a flight from Singapore to Hawaii developed fever and "respiratory distress." Did he have some link to Indonesia? Should all flights from Asia be diverted to the 20-odd airports that can screen and quarantine passengers? Should CDC push to have people leaving certain countries be medically evaluated?
And then there were the small annoyances.
The scenario said the student was "living in an on-campus dorm." But this was wrong. He lived in a rented house in Northwest with 10 people -- an error that gave headaches to the two cartographers who were marking satellite photos of the District -- all the places the "index patient" had been.
The exercise included a mock news conference. CDC media officers questioned Gerberding while four real reporters (from The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press and the Canadian Press) watched.
Gerberding ran two high-level meetings like an experienced college professor in a freshman seminar. She regularly summarized the avalanche of facts, cleared the air with concrete questions and demanded unambiguous answers from her advisers.
"We probably have to assume the worst," she said at one point, noting that even with woefully incomplete data from Indonesia it appeared that one-third of the people there with the flu were dying. Later, she asked: "So, do we agree there is strongly supporting evidence that we have a pandemic?" The senior staff agreed there was.
In the news conference, however, she avoided eye contact with reporters, emphasized uncertainty and concentrated on the paucity of facts. A news release quoted her as saying: "We have not yet seen sustained or repeated human-to-human transmission of H5N1. It's important for people to remember that one case does not mean that a pandemic has begun." She later admitted she hadn't had time to read the quotations attributed to her.
The game will pick up in April with an exercise in which pandemic flu has spread to many states. In a final round in May, the virus gets to Atlanta and takes out 40 percent of CDC's workforce.
It's unlikely there will be any snow to save them.
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He had just completed one of the scenarios and was speaking to his son, who also serves as a corrections officer, and other officers when he suddenly collapsed. The officers immediately began CPR until paramedics arrived but were unable to revive him.
Officer Paskewicz was a U.S. Army and Navy veteran of the Vietnam War. He had served with the Maine Department of Corrections for 20 years and was assigned to the Maine Correctional Center. He is survived by three children, four grandchildren, a fiancé and several brothers and a sister.


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This week saw the inauguration of Indiana's new governor, Mike Pence, and his introduction of the one bill we must pass in the 2013 session of the Indiana General Assembly: a two-year state budget.
This was our first chance to see what the new governor feels is important for our state. His priorities tell us how we are going to fund the operations of state government for the next two years.
Based on what we have seen so far, here are my initial thoughts on the budget:
In presenting the document, the governor's people made a big point about it increasing funding for our public schools by 1 percent in each of the next two years.
These negligible increases cannot overcome the financial challenges faced by our school systems.
We can't forget about the fact that state support for these same schools was cut by $600 million over the past four years. I don't think that point has been forgotten by many local people across this state who felt the impact of those cuts in the form of programs that were eliminated and personnel forced out of work.
We must have a recommitment to our traditional school system.
I believe our first priority in education should be to make our schools whole again by restoring the investments promised to them these past few years.
In "Meet Your Legislators" this past Saturday, EVSC Superintendent David Smith confirmed this priority.
This should be the starting point in any discussion of education funding.
I also noticed the governor has included his plan to cut state income taxes for individuals by more than a half-million dollars the next two years.
My feelings are that this tax cut must have full and careful review. Any tax cut approved by the Legislature should meet the goal of both stimulating new jobs and increasing the earnings of the middle class.
These are the people who need the help the most. These are the people whose household median incomes are more than $4,000 behind the rest of the country.
These are the hard working Hoosiers who excite our economy by spending their paychecks on their children, their children's education, food and clothing, home and expensive utilities.
I believe Gov. Pence should have the chance to state his case for his plan before the General Assembly. He has earned that right.
But to date, it has been interesting to see that the most objections to cutting income taxes have come from members of the governor's own party.
For now, the focal point for discussions on the budget will be in the Indiana House of Representatives. Our Ways & Means Committee will be debating it the next few weeks, then all of us in the House will have our chance to talk about it, probably starting in February.
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It's been about six months since we adopted Molly, a tiger-striped tabby. Molly is intelligent and is the perfect mix of feisty and cuddly. She wakes us up in the morning with kisses (after having used my neck as a pillow). She taught herself fetch, and also loves to play chase-the-red-light, and sits in her guard tower next to the window to protect us from any birds that might try to enter the house. She's also our official bug-killer....and eater. Molly meets us at the door when we come home from work and she's always up for a hug and a cuddle after a long day. She's the most loving and loyal cat we could have ever imagined, and we are thankful every day that she came into our lives. Thank you for taking such good care of her until she came to us!
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Libyan gas exports [2] resumed to Italy after a brief stop on Saturday, as a result of armed dispute around the Mellitah complex on the western Libyan coast. [3]The Libyan Deputy Minister of Defence announced Sunday that gas exports have resumed as the Libyan army took over the security requirements in the complex.Libya provides at least ten percent of Italy's gas needs. [4]Mellitah gas complex is located about 100 kms west of Tripoli on the sea coast. It is a joint venture between the Libyan National Oil Coloration and Eni of Italy.
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[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/03/us-libya-gas-italy-idUSBRE92203A20130303
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/business/libya-gas-export--474531
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BMW is stroking its long, bushy and diabolical Moustache of World Domination and considering rolling out a hotter 1M Coupe, apparently.
In an interview with website jonsibal.com, a BMW 'source' said a CSL-type 1M Coupe would depend on reaction to the M-powered 1-Series, set for a Detroit Motor Show unveil in January.
See pics of the 1 Series M Coupe
The last CSL was, of course, the E46 M3 CSL; a car which Jeremy described on Top Gear telly as "BMW, at its absolute best". There's also the recent and quite sold out BMW M3 GTS. Should the moustached rulers of M decide to sip from the same bottle, the 1M CSL could be a natty bit of kit.
Of course, they could also decide to build a four-door-coupe-estate version of the 1M Coupe, as well as a version running solely on the hopes and dreams of BMW fanboys. Rumours of a BMW 1M Coupe blimp capable of outgunning a Zonda around the 'Ring are unfounded, and entirely speculative.
Top Gear drives the BMW M3 GTS
Until then, Mr Jonsibal.com has decided to imagine how a CSL 1-er could look (above). Remind yourself why you should be interested in the 1M Coupe here, watch a mini-lap video below, and then let us know below how your 1M CSL would look like…
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Bay Area weekend picks, March 7-10
Published 2:35 pm, Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Music: Marin Symphony
Music Director Alasdair Neale conducts the orchestra in music by Aaron Jay Kernis, Mozart and Beethoven. 3 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. $29-$70. Marin Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. (415) 499-6800. www.marinsymphony.org.
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Theater: The Mountaintop
On the night before his assassination, exhausted after delivering one of his most memorable speeches, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, only to be interrupted by a stranger who forces him to confront his destiny and his legacy. Adrian Roberts plays King and Simone Missick is the motel maid as Anthony J. Haney directs TheatreWorks' regional premiere of Katori Hall's award-winning drama. Previews Thursday (March 7)-Friday; opens Saturday. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Through April 7; check website for full schedule. $23-$73. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. (650) 463-1960. www.theatreworks.org.
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Music: You Tube sensation
Nicki Bluhm became an overnight sensation when her You Tube video for a cover of Hall & Oates' "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" was viewed almost 2 million times. Bluhm brings a heartfelt sincerity to her work that's impossible to fake. There's a slight retro feel to her songwriting, but her perfect balance of country and laid-back rock is given an edge by her burnished vocals and the down-home feel of her backing band, the Gramblers. 9 p.m. Friday. $20 (advance tickets sold out). Bimbo's 365 Club, 1025 Columbus Ave., S.F. (415) 474-0365. www.bimbos365club.com.
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Music: Synth-pop star
With its cool synth-pop tones and surprisingly sharp lyrics, L.A. singer Sky Ferreira's 2012 EP "Ghost" made an impression on discerning pop fans, while the standout single "Everything Is Embarrassing" landed on several critics' year-end lists. She's promoting her forthcoming album, "I'm Not Alright," which is scheduled for the spring, with a show at S.F.'s weekly Popscene party. 10 p.m. Thursday (March 7). $13-$15. Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St., S.F. (415) 861-2011. www.rickshawstop.com.
Music: Electronic duo
Archnemesis is an electronic duo based in Charleston, S.C., that crafts songs by blending original productions with samples ranging from blues and jazz to hip-hop and soul. Since the release of its debut 2010 EP, "Diamonds and Glass," the group has attracted a sizable fan base with songs that feature deliberately torpid rhythms set to boisterous, dance-friendly instrumental samples. 9 p.m. Saturday. $10-$20. Inner Mission, 2050 Bryant St., S.F. www.innermissionsf.com.
Art: Mixed-media works
Chaotic fragments of color and texture define their own internal rhythm in the mixed-media images of Southern California artist Allison Renshaw. Her first Bay Area solo show, "Better Than Candy," features her recent work on a theme of convergence. As in our day-to-day reality, genres, cultures and styles collide, and new stories emerge. Reception 6-10 p.m. Saturday. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Through April 6. Mirus Gallery, 540 Howard St., S.F. (415) 543-3440. www.mirusgallery.com.


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Rich internet applications not only make web pages more responsive to surfers, but they can also be used as more responsive desktop apps too. We've looked at the four biggest cross-platform RIAs that were launched last year to find out just how good they are.
Rich internet applications (RIAs) are enhanced web apps that are more responsive to web users than standard HTML pages. This in turn, means they can also be used as more responsive desktop applications as well.
RIA technologies include AJAX, which is a combination of JavaScript, dynamic HTML and an asynchronous server request interface; Flash - a widely available plug-in technology from Adobe often used by designers; Flex, which is a variation on Flash more suited to programmers; Silverlight, a relatively new plug-in technology from Microsoft that includes a subset of the .Net Framework ; and Curl - an object-oriented language with embedded HTML markup.
In the past year or so, a number of cross-platform RIA technologies have been released that can double as desktop application technologies. We've looked at that accomplish this trick: Adobe Air, Curl Nitro, Google Gears and Microsoft Silverlight. I installed them all, explored them and used them for several months in the course of my work.
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Sociology is the study of interactions between human groups and institutions and their influences on each other. Among the specialties within sociology are criminology, demography, cultural traditions, family relations, gerontology, social welfare, race relations, social status and social change. Students from around the United States and the world work with a supportive faculty known for strong teaching and high research productivity. Faculty research covers a broad spectrum, including the policing of terrorism, the sociology of science, family and child development, the interplay of spatial and social inequalities, political demography, and the sociology of sports.
Graduates with a degree in sociology apply the sociological perspective to a wide variety of jobs in such sectors as business, health professions, criminal justice system, social services and government. A major in sociology also produces a firm liberal arts foundation for entering professional schools in law, education, medicine, counseling, social work and other fields.
Undergraduate: B.A. and B.S.
Undergraduate sociology students explore complex issues of power, inequality, justice, crime, poverty and conflict. They learn to question common sense, raise significant questions, examine arguments, synthesize information, analyze data, and make conclusions and present information orally and in writing.
Sociology students benefit from outstanding facilities that include the Laboratory for Sociological Research, one of the largest facilities of its type in the world, as well as a demography library, a statistics laboratory and two activity rooms for student research projects and observations.
Graduate: M.A. and Ph.D.
The Sociology Department offers a graduate program that provides students with a thorough grounding in the theories and research methodologies of the discipline in order to conduct empirical inquiry. The research specialties of the faculty span several areas. It is expected that the master's and dissertation research projects of students will be carried out in specialty areas that fall in the purview of the faculty's expertise. Sociology graduates pursue careers in a wide range of academic and non-academic fields. Graduates of the master's program often find employment in government agencies or in private firms that require professionals with research skills and experience in data management. Graduates of the doctoral program also work for government agencies and in private firms, but many accept appointments at universities and colleges.
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Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we're having a sloppy, slurpy noodle-fest on the very edge of the new west end of Glasgow.
Well, that's the way it turns out anyway. If you're wondering where that is, incidentally, it seems to be a rapidly growing strip running away from the tail-end of Byres Road out to Finnieston.
We are in Dumpling Monkey, and it's bright and clean; there's an open counter with three or four people bustling about. Well, mainly chatting intensely to each other right now. Hello? Anyone serving? Behind them a door swings open to show a couple of guys furiously flash frying in a tight kitchen.
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From above our tiny table comes the constant thump, thump, thump of footsteps as staff go up and down the stairs to a store. There's an Asian game show on the telly, chillis, vinegar and soy in dishes on the table and, when we eventually get some attention - which it takes far too long - plastic bottles of tepid Diet Coke are brought straight out. No ice, no glasses, no nuthin', but hey-ho there's a studenty buzz to this place so we go with the slow flow.
Everyone goes back to their conversations again and we consider the telly until a while later a hot, pillowy, freshly steamed baozi stuffed with pink, sweet char siu pork arrives, then another with pork and green beans. A bowl of sweet-and-sour soup is next with large floppy pork and ginger wontons floating in it, the soup tasting of citrus and chilli and oil. Spicy beef noodles come in a footbath-sized dish and start the game-show-like eating problems as writhing noodles slip from chopsticks and spoon and whiplash in the air, showering us - well, me mainly - head to tie in a bland broth. Nice beef, though.
It's while I'm trying to wipe the gloop from the tables that the unexpected dish of the evening appears: special brisket beef curry, it said on the menu. Unexpected? Well, there's been a smattering of a hands-on home cooking feel to the first few dishes even though the broth with the spicy beef is very bland, but this curry? Isn't it one of those green Chinese curry sauces looking just like the stuff from catering packs that's served in Chinese takeaways up and down the land? It sure is. There are even big chunks of onion among the hunks of juicy brisket. It's congealing so fast in the cool air that we leave it at a quarter consumed, but you know what? With good beef and a taste that brings back memories of teenage takeaways it's not bad, in a retro way.
Fortunately at this point, and I say fortunately because Debs and Luca are raising eyebrows at my choice of Saturday-night restaurant treat, what we have been waiting for finally arrives. Potstickers. Soft folded dumplings allowed to sit on the frying pan just long enough for their bases to crispen, adding texture and taste. These are stuffed with pork and Chinese leaves and cost a fiver for 10. We're not actually fighting over them, but there's a definite scramble to grab the last two because they are so crunchy, soft and very juicy. Delicious, actually.
I ordered fried sauce noodles too, but someone forgot and frankly by the time I realise they haven't arrived we've lost interest. But they come anyway, thinnish wheat noodles with a grey, gluey pork mince, chopped cucumber and yellow soy bean paste. Tastes a tad soapy to me and they remain largely untouched.
Dumpling Monkey, then? Nice fast and casual studenty feel to the place, which remains clean and bright looking. The non-dumpling dishes are sometimes bland, largely ordinary and not really worth crossing Dumbarton Road to sample. But the dumplings? Fresh, juicy, full of flavour and great value. If I had known that before I came in we wouldn't have wasted time and money ordering anything else.
Dumpling Monkey
121 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow (0141 583 8300)
Potstickers, not by the dozen, but in batches of 10. Many other - largely noodle-based - Chinese dishes too. 3/5
Bright and cheery without being too fast-foodish. Has a studenty feel but don't let that put you off if you're a fan of dumplings. 3/5
Casual feel to the place. Was quiet when we were in and the service seemed slow and preoccupied. 2/5
Absolute bargain basement prices with dumplings at a fiver for 10, and most noodle soups hitting £6. 5/5
The dumplings are fresh, juicy when they should be and delicious. Nothing outstanding about the other dishes we had, though. 7/10
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Unfortunately this is one of your weaker animations. The voice acting is lacking. And the whole "you're dead just accept it" segment felt like the kind of imitation British humor a junior high kid would write. Although you're only 16, you've set a very high bar for being wise beyond your years. Now that I think about it, the joke seems very similar to the dead parrot Monty Python sketch. But then it gets all serious and it just seems kind of jarring and out of place. You say you didn't have to panic this time but it does feel like it was made in a hurry.
Good animation considering you're only a novice at it. I felt quite an attachment to the charaters for some reason. The voice acting was really quite bad. Not emotion. It felt forced, and of course, the quality. I look forward to your future works.
I imagine if you had better quality, this would be much better.
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Baylor Starts Major Recycling Project; Joins More Than 1,000 Other Campuses to Help Focus Nation on Solutions to Global WarmingJan. 25, 2008
Baylor University will join more than 1,000 other universities across the country in participating in Focus the Nation, the largest "teach-in" in U.S. history that hopes to prepare students to become leaders in one of the largest environmental challenges any generation has faced - global warming.
"This event is an opportunity to put theory into practice," said Whitney Petty, a senior environmental studies major from Dripping Springs and president of the Baylor student club Environmental Concern Organization. "It's an opportunity to learn what solutions each individual person can be a part of."
The teach-in will be held at 4 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31, in room B110 of the Baylor Sciences Building on the Baylor campus. The event will focus on global warming solutions and will feature panel presentations from three Baylor professors on different topics relating to the subject. Following the presentations, different vendor booths will be set up to educate participants about sustainability opportunities at Baylor.
Presenters include:
Dr. Larry Lehr, senior lecturer of environmental studies at Baylor, who will give an overview of global warming and pollution.
Dr. Ian Gravagne, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Baylor, who will speak about alternative approaches to generating energy.
Robert Darden, associate professor of journalism at Baylor, who will speak about the media's past, present and future role in the issue.
Baylor also is starting a major new recycling initiative. Beginning Feb. 1, the initial phase will place 145 blue recycling containers in every campus residence hall that will take nearly every recyclable item, such as paper, colored paper, plastics, aluminum and tin. The containers are "single stream," meaning students will not have to sort the different items. The sorting will be completed at Sunbright Disposal Services, a local processing plant.
"We've wanted to do this for a while, but the problem was just getting an organized effort started," said Toby Tull, coordinator for housing information systems and chair of the sustainability projects subcommittee at Baylor. "The key is to get residents to realize that the majority of the waste in residence halls can be recycled and not thrown away."
Over the next few months, Baylor will expand its recycling initiative. Recycle bins will be placed in Baylor offices and public places around campus like the libraries, the Bill Daniel Student Center and the McLane Student Life Center. Tull said estimates show that Baylor could triple the amount it currently recycles, from 160 tons per year to more than 500 tons, once all the recycle bins are in place.
The new recycling initiative also will impact Baylor's bottom line. If the projected recycling numbers are met after all the bins have been placed, Baylor will save approximately $1,200 per month on landfill fees. In addition, Sunbright will pay Baylor about $1,100 per month for its recycled goods, meaning total savings could be nearly $2,500 per month, or more than $27,000 per year.
"The cost savings are nice, but above that, it is also the need to be good stewards of the resources we have been given," said Pattie Orr, vice president for information technology and dean of university libraries at Baylor, who spearheaded the sustainability initiative. "It makes no sense to put material in a landfill that costs us when we can get money by sending the same material to the recycling facility."
Members of the University's Sustainable Committee will have a booth set up at Focus the Nation to educate the community about the upcoming initiatives.
For more information, contact Pattie Orr at (254) 710-3200.
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The Noose
That old instrument of death the noose has been much in the news of late. Saddam Hussein and his henchmen have gone to the gallows. Clarence Thomas continues to rail against his "high-tech lynching" at the hands of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And in the past few months, actual nooses have been found hanging in a variety of places — at high schools and universities, in workplaces and police stations, from the backs of pickup trucks, and near Ground Zero in New York City. Many have surmised that the appearance of these nooses is related to the controversy sparked in Jena, Louisiana when white students hung nooses from a tree near a public school. What we have is probably some combination of disgruntled students, cowardly racists, and "copycats." Or perhaps, as Peter Applebome of the New York Times suggested, "maybe it's just the distorting mirror of the never-ending media cavalcade, where any moron with a Sharpie and a length of cord from Home Depot can make a statement heard round the world." [The noose is not the only symbol of hate making a comeback. The swastika has been showing up with increasing frequency in some communities; it has been spotted at synagogues and even carved into a crop circle in New Jersey].
Whatever the case, the seeming resurgence of the noose is a disturbing development. Its intentional use as a symbol of racial hatred and terror is of course utterly comtemptible. There have always been, and likely always will be, those who will make such cowardly gestures in an effort to intimidate. More disturbing on some level is the fact that there appear to be some (perhaps many) people who are either not aware of the noose's disgraceful history, or who may believe that being forced to acknowledge that experience forces political correctness upon them. Some of the co-workers involved in the incidents noted above seemed to think that hanging a noose was a "joke." Others have suggested that perhaps the media is hyping noose hangings in an effort to shock readers into caring about race. After all, as Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, is quoted in the New York Times saying, "This is comparable to name calling" . . . "It's important to look at what it means and also what it doesn't mean."
We certainly ought to consider what hanging a noose signifies. I suggested in a paper that ethnographic methods may be useful in assessing the meaning of symbols like the confederate flag and symbolic acts like cross burning. Anyone who doubts the enduring and powerful hatred and terror associated with this symbol (and who cannot be bothered to read one of many excellent accounts of the Jim Crow South) should at least peruse Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (2000), a book I stumbled upon years ago and have never forgotten. Of course, the noose, like other symbols, is polysemous. The context of the display matters. There are certain contexts — historical exhibits on Jim Crow violence or the death penalty, tributes to the Wild West, and perhaps even a celebration of Halloween fright — in which the symbol is intended to convey some non-threatening meaning. Even so, hangers of nooses — in particular those who live in diverse neighborhoods or work in diverse environments — ought to understand how this symbol is interpreted by many, if not most, African-Americans. Those noose-hangers who are fully aware of and even embrace the terrorism of the symbol should not count on any First Amendment protection for their "message." Hanging a noose with the specific intent to intimidate is a true threat. What to do about the deep-seated undercurrent of racism that the noose's resurgence seems to signify is a much more complicated question — and not, as our history demonstrates, one that will be resolved solely by passing hate crimes laws.


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Verite Educational Systems offers easy-to-use, multi-platform software for schools and home
DULLES, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 18, 2014–
Verite Group Inc. announces the spin-out of Verite Educational Systems Inc. to design and market enterprise-quality technology tools to educators and families who together are raising the next generation of digital citizens.
Verite Educational Systems will serve the educational technology market, which in Q1 2014 saw total investment of more than US$500 million. Currently embarking on its Round A financing, the spin-out launches with US$1.3 million in seed funding provided by its management team and Taher Behbehani, high-tech entrepreneur and corporate executive.
Led by a team of experienced technologists from Verite Group who are compelled by their shared passion as concerned parents, Verite Educational Systems will build innovative, multi-platform and easy-to-use tools that teachers and parents can use to help children thrive online.
Verite Educational Systems will bring fresh leadership to the EdTech sector, which is grappling with a variety of issues, including the rise of Internet exposure in early childhood, increased utilization of technology in K-12 education, and the market's complicated and fragmented array of offerings that only play catch-up to the deluge of new websites and apps.
"Ten years ago, it was easy to manage my older children's time online. It's much different now with my middle-schooler," said George Dotterer, CEO and co-founder of Verite Educational Systems. "When shopping for Internet security software for my home, I was dismayed to discover that schools and parents did not have access to a solution anywhere near the quality of those designed for my clients." For more than a decade, Verite Group has provided Subject Matter Expert (SME) services and tailored technology solutions to large corporations and government clients.
The company's inaugural product, NetRef, will roll out in schools in fall 2014 and to families in spring 2015. The Internet management solution empowers educators and parents to set the boundaries kids need to use the web safely. NetRef can help children focus and manage their time online productively whether they are at school, at home or on the go.
Get schooled in NetRef at www.net-ref.com, on LinkedIn and Twitter @NetReferee
Yui+Company, Inc.
Jeanne Segal 202-271-8880


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The Tiger Woods Spoofs No One Will See
By a stroke of luck, the embattled golfer scheduled his big public apology for a time when all the top late-night shows are off the air. Check out some of the best jokes you won't see on TV.
Tiger Woods' rambling, 15-minute apology to his wife and the rest of the known universe Friday morning may not turn out to have been the most effective public relations move, but one element was unquestionably brilliant: the timing. Whether they knew it or not, Woods handlers scheduled the press conference at a moment that made it essentially immune to late-night mockery. The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Saturday Night Live are all in reruns this week. Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien are off the air. And David Letterman tapes his Friday shows on Thursdays. All of which make an 11 a.m. Friday morning press conference a kind of Bermuda Triangle of public shaming. Woods could have gone on about Buddhism for another hour, and there would've been no major comedians to spoof it for days.
• Rebecca Dana: Four High-Profile Exes on Tiger's Apology• A Crisis Manager on the 7 Reasons Tiger's Apology WorkedBut since the Woods speech had so much good material—from his impassioned anti-steroid defense to the overlong hug with his mom at the end—we didn't want to let the opportunity slip away. The Daily Beast reached out to a few top TV comedy writers to get a glimpse of all the jokes we're missing. Here's what they came up with:
• Tiger said he doesn't plan to answer any questions from reporters because this situation is between him and his wife. Actually the situation is between Tiger, his wife, several waitresses, three models, and two porn stars.
• During his announcement Tiger said, "People want to know how I could be so selfish and so foolish." Tiger said he wasn't sure and then referred all questions to his penis.
• Tiger said that after his announcement, he would be going back to rehab. Not directly. First he's stopping in Cancun for Spring Break.
• Tiger's excited to return because he's close to Jack Nicklaus' all-time record. Turns out Nicklaus had 17 mistresses.
• Tiger made his announcement to a handful of sympathetic friends who he's leaned on during this crisis: Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford, and John Edwards.
• There was one out-of-place moment when Tiger started talking about his ongoing commitment to educate teenagers. Then he announced the release of the Tiger Woods' Kama Sutra.
• Tiger finally explained where he's been for the last 78 days. It turns out he's been in an undisclosed location with Dick Cheney.
• Tiger says he doesn't plan on repeating the mistakes he's made in the past. Then he introduced 13 new mistresses for 2010.
• When Tiger was done he walked over to his Mom and gave her a long hug. I'm not sure rehab is working because then they started making out.
• During the announcement Tiger said, "I am deeply sorry for the irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in—except for one of my mistresses who was double-jointed."
• Tiger says that for the last 45 days he's been facing punishment for his actions. Not in a rehab clinic—every day his wife Elin waterboards him.
• During his announcement Tiger said, "I am deeply sorry for the selfish behavior I engaged in." Tiger promised that in the future he'll focus more on his mistresses' orgasms.
• Before today the public hadn't heard from Tiger Woods in 78 days. Unfortunately, when Tiger finally emerged he saw his shadow, which means six more weeks of booty calls. *The trouble isn't over: One of Tiger's mistresses is claiming he got her pregnant twice. Or as Tiger calls it, "a double bogey".
• For the past six weeks Tiger's been in sex rehab in Mississippi. Unfortunately, in Mississippi sex rehab is all about getting you to stop sleeping with your cousin.
• The PGA says they would have made the same special arrangements for any golfer on the PGA tour. Then they fell down and laughed for 3 hours.


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Feb 05 2011
Super Bowl XLV Team Color Wines & Food Pairings
As we hunker down tomorrow for an exciting Super Bowl XLV with our arch rival cheese head neighbors Green Bay Packers against the favored 3x Super Bowl Pittsburgh Steelers, what food and drink will you have during this 4 hour battle? While most of you may think beer first, there are many wines that pair very well with Super Bowl fare such as New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc with Nachos, Gruner Veltliner (aka Gruvee) with salted chips and nuts, Oregon Pinot Noir with thin crust peperoni pizza, Prosecco with popcorn, Viognier with spicy Buffalo Wings, Tempranillo with Burgers & Brats! To make it even that much more festive, we've selected wines that in in the shades of the Super Bowl's team's colors (I know…it's a stretch!).


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Opportunity knocks for struggling franchises
Adding Wild Card teams gives certain clubs newfound hope
By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com
The new Collective Bargaining Agreement may have produced a distinct set of viewpoints, but nobody can argue that by adding another Wild Card team in each league, more clubs have an opportunity to be postseason-bound than ever before.
And even though it's ultimately just one additional game -- in the new system, the two Wild Card teams will face off in a one-game playoff before advancing to the traditional three-tiered system -- it could be enough to entice a few clubs to go outside their means this offseason and take themselves to the next level.
With that in mind, here are five previously out-of-contention clubs that could be just a big move or two away from suddenly being legit again. None have made it to the postseason in at least the last eight years, none finished any better than 16 games back of first place in their respective divisions in 2011 and only one (the Mariners) has ever sported a nine-figure payroll.
But all have some newfound opportunity.
OK, so perhaps they've already beat me to the punch. The Marlins -- out of the playoffs since 2003, 30 games out of first place last season and money-strapped since the dawn of their existence -- suddenly have an influx of cash with their new retractable-roof stadium opening up. With that, they've hosted Albert Pujols, Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle and, on Monday, C.J. Wilson.
And now, they seem almost destined to come away with at least one of them.
The Marlins may have to play in the same division as the Phillies and Braves, but if they can get a full season of health from Hanley Ramirez and Josh Johnson, and add a couple of impact free agents to a roster that's better than it showed while going 72-90 last year, they can compete.
Pujols isn't for South Beach. The Marlins can't afford to sign him to the contract he seeks and put a viable winning club around him. In an ideal world, they'd get Reyes to stabilize the top of the order and move Ramirez to third base, then use free agency or the trade market to add a proven starter and a proven closer.
That's a lot, sure. But for a club that's expected to increase payroll from $58 million to more than $85 million, it's doable.
We could be looking at one supremely competitive National League East next season if general manager Mike Rizzo gets what he wants. Washington -- absent from postseason contention for three whole decades -- is "serious" about adding Prince Fielder, according to FOXSports.com. It's an interesting move, considering Mike Morse excelled at first base last year and Adam LaRoche -- owed $8 million in 2012 -- is expected back healthy this spring. But things have a tendency to work themselves out for a player like Fielder.
If the Nats add Fielder's bat to a lineup that already includes Ryan Zimmerman, Jayson Werth, Danny Espinosa, Morse and (perhaps) Bryce Harper, they're as potent as they come. If they instead keep LaRoche and upgrade center field like Rizzo has suggested -- perhaps by signing Yeonis Cespedes, or trading for B.J. Upton or Denard Span -- they're also dangerous.
And if they can couple that with a proven starter to go along with Stephen Strasburg and Jordan Zimmermann -- Buehrle or Roy Oswalt surely would be nice -- they can make a case for a playoff spot as early as next year.
Blue Jays
Suddenly it doesn't seem so threatening to play in the American League East. Now with up to three teams in one division being postseason-eligible, a team like the Blue Jays has a legitimate shot to return to the dance for the first time since winning it all for a second straight season in 1993.
The Blue Jays have returned to the classic-uniform look of that era, and most importantly, they have a solid foundation with the likes of Jose Bautista, Brett Lawrie, Ricky Romero, Yunel Escobar, Colby Rasmus and others. General manager Alex Anthopoulos is a master of the trade (see: Lawrie, Rasmus and Escobar) and can use a crowded outfield, some promising starters and a well-stocked farm system to add some impact players.
The best part: Thanks to the clearing of Vernon Wells' contract, the Blue Jays have the financial flexibility to take on salary in a deal for those impact players. That can go a long way in them bolstering their rotation with a big arm, or shoring up the back end of the bullpen with a proven closer, or getting another bat to protect Bautista -- or maybe even all three.
The Blue Jays have finished fourth in the AL East each of the last four years despite finishing no worse than .500 in three of those seasons. But they have a real shot to make some noise in 2012.
And that brings us to perhaps the most intriguing case of all -- a Royals team that has been absent from the playoffs since 1985, when Ronald Reagan was president and "Back To The Future" was new.
The Royals started strong last season, then quickly faded before finishing the year 71-91. But in a division where the White Sox are rebuilding, the Twins are a mess, the Indians are a mystery and only the Tigers are dominant, the Royals could be a couple of pieces away from contending again.
Their lineup is promising and young, with Eric Hosmer, Billy Butler, Mike Moustakas and Alex Gordon already there, and Lorenzo Cain and Wil Myers up and coming. They just need pitching. Re-signing Bruce Chen was a good start; so was acquiring Jonathan Sanchez by selling high on Melky Cabrera; so was signing Jonathan Broxton to a little-risk contract on Tuesday.
But the Royals still need a proven, front-line, ace-material starter.
Their rotation had the least amount of wins and the second-highest ERA in the AL last year, and now they have the chips to acquire a starter -- perhaps Gio Gonzalez or James Shields -- via trade.
And it's one dominant starter that can take this team to a new level.
I know it's hard, but try to look past back-to-back seasons that saw the Mariners finish last in the AL West -- two seasons that saw them finish a combined 68 games below .500 -- and try to picture this squad with a big, left-handed, middle-of-the-order bat.
In other words, picture this club with Fielder.
With the trio of Felix Hernandez, Michael Pineda and Jason Vargas, the Mariners have some solid starting pitching. With Brandon League, they have a good closer. With Dustin Ackley, Justin Smoak and Mike Carp, they have nice young pieces in the lineup.
With Fielder, they may just have a shot to compete.
The Mariners have to hit better. Actually, after finishing dead last in the Majors in runs and OPS last season, they have to hit a lot better. And with the budget expected to be at about $95 million, Seattle figures to have roughly $15 million to spend on additions. That may make it tough to sign a guy like Fielder, but GM Jack Zduriencik can find creative ways to shore up a little more money if he thinks adding him would really be worth it.
Considering where Fielder can take the Mariners, it just might be.
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and his blog, listen to his podcast and follow him on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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About Me
Enjoying a brand new life in Hamburg. Being happy.
Gnosti te autun.
I think it's only worthy living if you do it in, as Queen said, "good company".
For the moment, I will just say: too many.
- photography
- painting
- guitar
- piano
- software
Music, Movies, and Books
Some of the books that really shocked me were Rayuela, 2666, Los detectives salvajes, Maus, 1984, El Quijote...
Writers: Cortazar, Bolaño, Poe, Kafka, Chejov, Javier Marías...
Music: tbd
Movies: tbd
One Amazing Thing I've Done
- Crossing a river with Crocodiles in Vietnam.
- Going across the Arctic Polar Circle.
- Creating a useful tool for thousands of people.
- Visiting the Chiapas state.
- Watching people helping each other.
- Going "to the other side of the world" for love.
Teach, Learn, Share
Things I could teach:
- Spanish.
- Some French.
- Some English.
- Some Catalan.
- Basic photography.
- Software development.
- Interest in almost everything.
- Playing guitar, piano or any other instrument.
- Skating.
- Painting.
- And all the rest... :-)
Countries I've Visited
Belgium, Costa Rica, Finland, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Viet Nam
Countries I've Lived In
France, Germany, Spain


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We had a great surprise for the holiday…our wonderful friends from Utah came to visit!
They are a blast to be around and our kids have so much fun together. Well, they have a love/hate relationship because what do you expect from a 3 1/2 and 2 1/2 year old? The fireworks were fabulous last night and all had a fabulous time!
Liam was running around and being so funny. This is just one of his funny faces that he posed for Ian.


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NicTool is a DNS management suite with support for various DNS servers (djbdns, BIND, PowerDNS), SQL data storage, DNS entry parsing (RFC 1034 & 1035 compliance), tiered and delegated permissions so you can safely grant access to clients and admins, giving them only the permissions they need. Humans interact via the Web interface, and an API is used for scripting mass updates, DNS templates, provisioning, and more. All changes are logged to easily track change history and see who changed what, and when.
|Information Management Internet DNS
|Operating Systems
|Mac OS X POSIX BSD FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD HP-UX IRIX Linux Other SCO Solaris Unix
|C Perl
Release Notes: The NicTool client (Web interface) is now HTML 5 validated. Much archaic HTML was replaced with shiny new HTML 5, CSS, and Javascript. Many other changes were made to improve the quality of the code and maintainability.
Release Notes: A large reworking of the SQL backend. Many improvements to the data model have been made. The exports are now much simpler and robust. They also support more type of zone records. BIND export support has finally arrived. The test suite has been enlarged, and the validation tests for zones and records is much more robust. There is partial support for location and timestamps for records. These can be used to support BIND views, tinydns locations, and start/stop times for zone records. There is no support yet in the Web interface.
Release Notes: This release abstracts NTS:Z:R:Sanity::new_or_edit_basic_verify into a suite of functions, supports SRV records, shortens db_mysql.h's ZONE_QUERY_FORMAT from 716 to 509 chars and adds ZR_PRIORITY and ZR_OTHER, rewrites nameserver/install.pl so it prompts for all required values with reasonable defaults, adds a patch from slink to get_zone_records (see forum thread), provides better error messages to nt_export_djb.pl, and tries to install required Perl modules with bin/install_deps.sh. Users need to update their SQL tables.
Release Notes: A link to the license and source was added to most output templates. The license and source links were updated to open in a new window. Affero-GPL license info was added. The TXT rr type was added in NicToolClient.pm. The "use strict" pragma in htdocs/*.cgi was disabled. This causes failures under perl 5.8 due to programming shortcuts used by previous authors.
Why yes it is! But the listing on fresh meat/freecode are (apparently) not. Oops. :) The largest update (v2.10) in a decade is 90% completed as I write this.
Is this thing still maintained?
A Fluent OpenStack client API for Java.
A TWiki appliance that is easy to use and lightweight.