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I plan to retire from full-time work next year when I will be 65 and qualify for Medicare coverage. I will likely work part time until I'm at least 66, when I plan to begin drawing Social Security. I have no debt and a $375,000 home that's paid for. I have $500,000 in balanced funds in my retirement account. I also have $125,000 in a brokerage account (mostly stocks) and about $320,000 in cash and CDs.
I am concerned, like most everyone else, about the European debt crisis, as well as other potential problems such as Israel-Iran. I'd rather miss out on potential gain from my investments than go through another meltdown like 2008. What do you think? Is it too early to pull out of the market and play it safe?
All-or-none decisions — like being entirely in or out of the stock market — are usually bad decisions. Making such broad decisions assumes that you know the future and how it will unfold. As a practical matter, I can't remember a year without worry about some possible world-shaking event. We live in a world of upheaval and calamity.
And I have yet to meet anyone who knows when to get back in after having gotten out of the market. Worse, numerous studies have shown that most people buy when it feels good (market highs) and sell when it feels bad (market lows), so their long-term return is significantly below the return they would have earned if they had simply bought and held. The people who argue for market timing are usually selling a newsletter or another form of crystal ball reading.
So what you can do? Take a min/max approach. Select a "normal" equities/fixed-income ratio, such as 60/40. Then allow yourself to hold as much as 70/30 when you think equities are undervalued and to sell down to 50/50 when you think equities are vulnerable or overvalued. You won't be able to market a newsletter doing that, but you'll feel better. You may even make a good call from time to time.
Your current portfolio is about 40 percent equities, which makes it pretty conservative. Look at it this way: If you assume an annual withdrawal rate of $40,000, your current cash and CD holdings are equal to eight years of withdrawals. So you are a long, long way from having to sell equities in a bear market.
Scott Burns is a syndicated columnist and a principal of the Plano-based investment firm AssetBuilder Inc. Email questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Recording artist, performer and Foreigner front-man Kelly Hansen is a modern rock icon. Combining amazing vocals with over-the-top performances, Hansen produces energy and passion that blast through classic rock and always leave fans wanting more.
Kelly's Influences
Kelly Hansen was born April 18, 1961 in Hawthorne, CA. He lists his musical influences as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and all 50s and 60s R&B. Starting as a teen solo artist, Hansen toured SoCal high schools and parks, capturing crowds early on with his energetic and sexy stage presence and a voice that soared through anthemic rock with uncompromising fashion. Then, in 1984, Hansen met up with guitarist Robert Sarzo and bassist Tony Cavazo (the kid brothers of Quiet Riot's Carlos Cavazo and Rudy Sarzo), and with drummer Jay Schellen, they formed the melodic, hard-rock group Hurricane. Musically the band fused easy-to-listen-to melodies with a bad-boy attitude, releasing the milestone album, "Take What You Want," in 1985. Hansen's emerging kick-ass style clicked as the band hit the tour circuit and he honed his stage skills around the U.S., Canada and Japan. Throughout the 1980s, Hurricane recorded three critically-acclaimed albums including the memorable "Over The Edge." The band also racked up five Top 20 MTV videos and landed a top 35 single, "I'm On To You."
Kelly's Career
Into the 1990s Hansen masterfully continued to make music with a long list of other accomplished artists. Hansen was featured with Unruly Child in its 1999 "Waiting for the Sun" album. He lent his talents to Stuart Smith's ("Heaven and Earth," 1999) and Tim Donahue's ("Into the Light," 2000), and partnered with Poisonguitarist CC DeVille and French torch singer Liane Foly. In 2001 Hansen and Hurricane drummer Schellen released "Liquifury," Hurricane's first CD in over 10 years, to overwhelming acclaim. Hansen also has worked on a myriad of projects with a veritable who's who in the industry. As an engineer, producer and composer in many styles, Hansen has the experience and confidence to be comfortable in any musical situation.
Meeting Mick Jones
In 2005, a serendipitous rock convergence linked Hansen to Mick Jones, who was up to something new – a revamping of Foreigner. After meeting and jamming with the band, Jones asked Hansen to join Foreigner. Since then, Hansen's unique, explosive style has showcased the authentic Foreigner catalog across five continents and countless countries, cultivating a new following and reinstating Foreigner's musical prominence in the process.
Today and Tomorrow
Coming off a massive European tour and continuing this summer on a much-anticipated US tour withJourney, Hansen's vocals have kept true to the roots of Foreigner greatness. Hansen's unforgettable stage style and distinctive voice have pushed Foreigner deeper. The band influence is intensifying – engaging new and hard-core Foreigner fans alike in the process. Each new step reveals another layer of talent for Kelly Hansen, astounding recording artist and performer who certainly knows, and is, everything rock and roll ought to be.

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National Organization for Marriage
NOM Is Apparently Cash-Poor These Days, Too
It's never a good idea to assume that Brian Brown or NOM are telling the truth, but Joe has this fundraising letter from them posted
This Is Rich: NOM's Brian Brown Raising Money for Newt Gingrich
We know that the people who run the National Organization for Marriage are nothing if not flaming, dishonest hypocrites. That's a given. But it's a
The Slope that Did Not Slip: Another Anti-Gay Argument In The Trash Heap
Anti-gay organizations and politicians like Rick Santorum have long argued against marriage equality by saying it would create a slippery slope leading to the legalization
How To Survive Thanksgiving When You're A Total Loser Bigot
Say what you will about Maggie Gallagher — seriously, go ahead, say what you will — but you can't say she doesn't like to help,
Um, If We're Talking About Ripping Books Out of the Bible, Maggie…
Maggie Gallagher, whining about gays and stuff: "It's becoming increasingly clear that the gay rights movement, the gay marriage movement, really does believe you're like
Canadian Dude Is Victim of American Marriage Equality, But Not Canadian Marriage Equality
This is NOM's latest episode of "Grown Adults Bitching and Moaning," and it features a man named Damian Goddard, who used to be a sportscaster
Iowa Bigots Sad
Boo-hoo: Pro-family groups in Iowa say hopes for a marriage amendment in that state have all but faded now that Tuesday's election has left Democrats
Oh, Remember the Weird Robo Calls In Iowa? The Democrat Won.
This is very good news. I wrote about the campaign between Democrat Liz Mathis and Republican Cindy Golding yesterday, focusing on the weird robo calls
NOM Admits Their True Beliefs Repulse Normal Human Voters
Earlier this afternoon, I wrote about a weird robo call going around in an Iowa state senate race, which asks voters to call the Democrat
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Rangers Outfielder Leonys Martin Alleged Victim in Kidnap, Ransom Plot
By Curt Anderson
MIAMI — Like many Cuban baseball stars, outfielder Leonys Martin dreamed of leaving the communist island for the bright lights and big money of Major League Baseball. Martin accomplished his goal in 2011 when he signed with the Texas Rangers, but not before what court documents and the Justice Department describe as a harrowing ordeal in which he was held for ransom in Mexico while his family members were kept under surveillance in South Florida.
Three people have been indicted in Miami on federal charges of hostage-taking and extortion conspiracy — counts that carry potential life prison sentences if they are convicted — and Martin himself is suing his alleged kidnappers for the return of more than $1.3 million he has already paid them.
Andrew Zimbalist, a Smith College professor who specializes in sports economics, said the Martin case appears unique.
"I have never heard of a kidnapping case like this," Zimbalist said.
Many Cubans have defected over the years to play ball in the U.S., including such current stars as Cincinnati Reds pitcher Aroldis Chapman, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig and Oakland Athletics outfielder Yoenis Cespedes. In September, the Cuban government reversed decades of policy by announcing that its athletes will be allowed to sign contracts to compete in foreign leagues without defecting.
Compared the vast majority of immigrants, Cubans get unique treatment by the U.S. government under the "wet foot, dry foot" policy that came about during the Cold War. Cubans who reach U.S. soil are generally allowed to stay in this country, while those intercepted outside the U.S. are sent back home.
Martin, 25, a speedy center fielder for the Rangers, made his MLB debut in September 2011. Last season, in 147 games, he hit .260 with 49 runs batted in and 36 stolen bases. Martin and his attorney, Paul Minoff, declined comment for this story, as did the Rangers and MLB officials, citing the ongoing litigation.
A few years before joining Texas, Martin was a rising star in Cuba, traveling to baseball tournaments around the globe with the national team. After an August 2010 tournament in Japan, according to his lawsuit, he decided to leave for the U.S.
He and several family members and friends made contact with a man who offered them a trip from Cuba on a yacht to Cancun, Mexico. From there, they could eventually cross by land into the U.S. But instead of journeying directly north, they were taken to a house lined inside with mattresses and watched by two armed men, one of them identified as Eliezer Lazo.


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Fischer Talks Tough to Treasury Over New Bank of Israel Law
Governor expected to hold heated press briefing today.
Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer is to hold a press conference in Jerusalem today at which he is expected to lash out at Finance Ministry opposition to promoting the new Bank of Israel Law.
Fischer is expected to put forward the central bank's position on the new law, and to blame treasury past and present heads for failing to get the law passed.
The crisis in relations between the Bank of Israel and the Finance Ministry escalated last week after Fischer delivered the central bank's proposal for the law to Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Monday. The draft exposed a number of differences in principle between the two bodies.
These include the composition of the monetary committee, a new entity whose duties will include setting interest rates, and the employment terms of the bank's employees.
On Tuesday Steinitz argued that the draft cannot serve as the basis for negotiations on the bill, and claimed that the central bank had reneged on a number of issues over which agreement had previously been reached.
"If the Bank of Israel is going back on understandings that were reached then the Finance Ministry will also have objections to a variety of issues," Steinitz said.
In response to the treasury's position, the central bank recently informed the treasury it was considering issuing longterm bonds without consulting the Finance Ministry in advance (see box), in violation of previous agreements between the two bodies.
Bank of Israel officials say, however, that at present the issue is a theoretical one since there are no plans to issue such bonds.
The monetary committee that is to be created by the Bank of Israel Law will be headed by the governor of the central bank. It was previously agreed that the committee would have six members: three members from the Bank of Israel and three external members from business and academia, with the governor given an additional vote in the event of a tie.
Loss of faith
In light of its ongoing disagreements with the Finance Ministry over the bill, as well as the erosion of trust in Israel's political system, Fischer changed his mind and now wants just five members on the committee - three from the bank and just two external members.
Then there's the issue of wages at the Bank of Israel. The proposal submitted by Fischer to Steinitz last week explicitly excludes the central bank from Article 29a of the Budget Fundamentals Law.
This article gives the treasury, through its wages director, control over all issues related to wages in the public sector, including within the Bank of Israel.
The central bank's draft stipulates that all future wage agreements for its employees are to be based on existing agreements.
It also calls for the creation of an administrative council that would be responsible for any changes to wages at the bank.
The Finance Ministry could appeal its decisions to a tribunal.
Treasury officials say that the central bank's proposal, if introduced, would set a precedent for Israeli labor relations that could bring about an end to state control over public-sector wages.
"The principle of [government] supervision over wages as specified in Article 29a is a fundamental condition for transparency and good governance," Steinitz said on Tuesday in response to the Bank of Israel proposal.
"It is a sacred principle that cannot be violated, and does not in any event infringe on the independence of the Bank of Israel or of any other governmental body," Steinitz said.
In its official response to the draft, the Finance Ministry said, "After two years of long and stubborn negotiations, including thousands of hours of discussions, disagreements and agreements, we were shocked by the governor's proposal. In effect, the governor and the bank are going back on all the agreements and promises."
Fischer was furious, and the following day issued the harshest statement seen so far in relations between the Bank of Israel and the Finance Ministry during his tenure.
"Unfortunately, after three and a half years of attempting to push forward the Bank of Israel Law, through cooperation with the treasury, we once more discover that the treasury's perspective reflects a lack of understanding regarding the central bank and its independence, and does not serve the Israeli economy," the Bank of Israel said in its response.
Bank of Israel officials stressed this weekend that, contrary to the Finance Ministry's claims, the new Bank of Israel Law does not aim to serve the central bank and its governor, but rather the Israeli economy.
They noted that in contrast to the current situation, in which the governor is permitted to set the bank's monetary policy on his own, the new law assigns this authority to the monetary committee as a whole, enabling public supervision and complete transparency.
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The former chief executive of the Bank of the Commonwealth and three former vice presidents have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that they conspired to commit bank fraud.
The Bank of the Commonwealth opened in 1971 and was headquartered in Norfolk, serving the Hampton Roads community and northeastern North Carolina until it failed in 2011. The bank failure followed an aggressive expansion by the bank beyond its traditional markets of Norfolk and Virginia Beach in 2006 and into northeastern North Carolina and the Outer Banks.
Those indicted include former chairman and CEO Edward J. Woodward; former executive vice president and chief lending officer Simon Hounslow; and several others.
The indictment unsealed Thursday says the bank set a goal of becoming a billion dollar bank within three years and that by 2009 its assets more than doubled to about $1.3 billion. Most of that growth occurred through brokered deposits, a financial tool that allows investors to pool their money and receive higher rates of return. However, because those deposits are highly volatile, a bank needs to remain well-capitalized to accept and renew brokered deposits.
The indictment says that many of the bank's loans were funded and administered without regard to industry standards or the bank's own internal controls. By 2008, the volume of the bank's troubled loans and foreclosures soared, according to the indictment.
"However, bank insiders were unwilling to fully acknowledge the deterioration in the bank's loan portfolio. In particular, they were concerned that the bank's declining health would negatively impact investor and customer confidence, and that capital erosion would affect the bank's ability to accept and renew brokered deposits," the indictment says.
The indictment says top executives masked non-performing assets at the bank for their own personal benefit and to the detriment of the bank, which ultimately helped lead to its collapse. Among other things, the indictment says they conspired to conceal the bank's true condition by funneling bank-owned property to troubled borrowers and overdrawing demand deposit accounts to make loan payments.
The indictment says the bank's failure will cost the federal government more than $260 million through an insurance fund.
"For more than 30 years, this community put their trust - and their money - in the Bank of the Commonwealth. These charges portray a bank leadership that betrayed that trust for their own profit at the detriment to their own bank, its shareholders and the community it served," U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said in a prepared statement.
Woodward served as the bank's CEO and chairman of its board of directors for more than 30 years until he was forced to step down as chairman in April 2010 and then ultimately forced to retire in December 2010. In addition to the fraud conspiracy charge, he also faces charges for false entry in a bank record, multiple counts of unlawful participation in a loan, multiple counts of false statement to a financial institution, and multiple counts of misapplication of bank funds.
Hounslow was the bank's executive vice president and chief lending officer. The indictment says he was responsible for operating the bank in a safe manner and keeping the board of directors informed about the bank's financial condition. He is also charged with misapplication of bank funds, false statement to a financial institution and multiple counts of false entry in a bank record.
Among other things, the indictment says Woodward, Hounslow and Stephen G. Fields, a former executive vice president and commercial loan officer, removed millions of dollars in loans from a past-due report before it was presented to the bank's board of directors. Also facing charges is Woodward's son, Troy Brandon Woodward, who was a vice president and mortgage loan specialist until January 2011.
The indictment says bank insiders provided preferential financing to troubled borrowers who were already having difficulty making payments on their loans so they could purchase bank-owned property.
Also indicted were troubled borrowers Thomas E. Arney, who leased office space at the bank's headquarters and owned a residential development company, and Dwight A. Etheridge, who owned and operated a residential and commercial development company, as well as an employment staffing company.
If convicted, the maximum possible sentence is 30 years in prison. It was not immediately clear Thursday whether those indicted had attorneys.
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LOUISVILLE, Miss. (WCBI)-The Superintendent of Louisville School District is retiring.
Dr. William Wade announced his retirement during a board meeting last night.
His last day will be in June.
Dr. Wade has been an educator for more than 30 years.
The Louisville Municipal School District serves around 27-hundred students in Winston County.


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Think before you get in a situation. Visualize what you would do IF..Also, if you get a funky or weird feeling about some place or some One, Listen to that feeling--it is telling you that you are at risk.
As far as macho goes, I will never forget a sign I saw in a taco shop in CA : "Macho is not mucho". I believe many situations escalate because of pride, arrogance, and the need to be Macho.
Also, do not have as your friends anyone whose life is filled with odd happenings and soap opera type conflicts or who seems just not to get how to stay out of trouble.
Your mind is your best weapon and although there are times it is imperative that you use force, Benjamin Franklins' words still hold true for many situations: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
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6 DNA questions in various matters..Can you answer?
Discussion of all aspects of biological molecules, biochemical processes and laboratory procedures in the field.
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6 DNA questions in various matters..Can you answer?
Here are several questions and matters that generally revolve around the DNA.
I'd be glad to know and understand the answers to these questions as fast as possible:
1)A. You've got a picture of a cell thats' in the divison stage, in which you see 19 doubled chromosmes (bulit from sister chromatids). In what divison stage is this cell found in, and why? (prophase of the mitosis, telophase II of the miosis, prophase of the miosis, anaphase of the mitosis or prophase II of the miosis).
B. If the DNA quantity in the previous section is X, what is the DNA quantity in each of the 5 stages (written in the brackets)?
2)Investigators raised germs in a liquid environment. After few raising circles, they have moved the germs to a raising environment that contains the izotope of heavy Nitrogen -N15, that combines with the nidrogenic bases found in the nucleutids in the cell, making it possible for the germs to have 3 more doubling-cycles.
A How to draw the DNA molecules, heavy and light, in the doubling process of a germ, and include the proption between the heavy-weight molecules in every doubling-cycle.
B A sprouting cell, which is in the end of the G1 stage, was moved to a raising environment containing heavy nitrogen izotope. How to draw the dna molecules, heavy and light, of a pair of homologic chromosomes in the dobling-process?
3) A The insulin hormone in the human being is a small protein, that contains 51 amino acids. WHat's the length of the encoding DNA part for it?
B What's the length of the RNA messanger of the insulin's gene, given that the gene contains 30% Guanine?
C How can germs still produce the insulin protein?
4) The transcriotion is uaually criticized by a protein that connects to a DNA, that's upper relatively to the gene, and not by a change in the RNA's polymrage. Suggest why's that so?
5)In germs there is a buliding track of compound A from materials found in the cell. When you raise germs in a mazeto base, that does not conain compound A, a very big amount of enzymes o the compund A buliding track are created in the cells of the germs. And when you add compund A to the raising-environment, the eznymes amount gets much smaller. Draw a scheme of the apparent structure of the OPERON of compund A and explain it.
And for the last one...
6) A In germs that were raused in a laboratory a mutation was found, that came to expression in producing an INACTIVE PROTEIN. When the amino acids in the mutant protein were compared to those in the active protein, t was found that the amino acid of TYROZINE whichi s in the edge of the amino acids in the active protein, isn't found in the INACTIVE one. What mutation has happened in those germs? Explain it, basing on the genetic code table!
B Here are 2 peptides, translated from the same gene, but from 2 different types of germs - the peptide in breed 1 is alright, while the peptide in the snd is a result of a single mutation. Write the 2 RNA transcriptions of the peptides, and please expalin what kind of mutatuon caused the difference!
The peptides are:
1) aspergin - triptopane - tyrozine - glitzine - arginine.
2) glotmat - levizyne - levizyne - glitzine - atginine. (Might be some errors in the spelling).
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It's the last and most important one I have to make, and these are 5 questions lthat were left to me after I did 35.
I'd really appreciate your help in this assignment, so can you help me in these 6 questions?
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Forging a real-time spec for models
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Much has already been written on the topic of applying the Unified Modeling Language to real-time problems, and whether and how UML needs to be extended for this purpose. To this end, the Object Management Group has requested proposals for a standard way of modeling real-time systems using its UML.
The result is a proposed real-time UML specification that opens up the possibility of exploiting the various real-time analysis techniques, such as different kinds of scheduling ability and performance analyses.
These techniques can significantly improve the design of such systems, but they have not been widely used because they require highly specialized expertise that is not readily available. But by defining a standard way of modeling real-time phenomena, the proposed real-time UML profile provides a vendor-neutral facility for integrating analysis tools and UML modeling tools. This combination can then be used to automate the analysis process, so that real-time domain specialists can directly benefit without having to learn the intricacies of the analysis techniques involved.
The proposed standard is flexible, leaving much latitude for modeling real-time systems in ways that are considered most appropriate. This is achieved by allowing a stereotype corresponding to a real-time concept to be applied to a variety of different UML modeling concepts.
Since the profile can be specialized further, it is also extensible, allowing future specialization for dealing with custom situations and newly developed analysis and even synthesis techniques. The ultimate objective of such a standard is to improve on the predictability and reliability of real-time software design, a process that is currently more of an art (a black art, in some cases) than a true engineering discipline.
The real-time UML profile for modeling time and time-related aspects of systems is designed so that real-time software developers could have a standard way of using UML to represent their systems, and models developed under that profile could be analyzed using common formal analysis techniques for analysis of scheduling ability and performance. It allows the construction of predictive UML models; that is, models that can be used to compute key system properties-such as responsiveness, scheduling ability and resource requirements-before the system is actually constructed. This means providing modelers with the capability to attach quantitative information to a UML model in standard ways so that it can be shared between model editing tools and model analysis tools.
The real-time UML profile automates, as much as possible, the formal analysis of such models by a process. Modelers construct UML models of their systems that include supplementary annotations required by different kinds of model processors. A given model may be analyzed from multiple viewpoints. Furthermore, some tools may even automatically synthesize parts of the user-defined model, thereby ensuring optimality of the design.
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|The annotated model is then transferred to the model-processing tools where it is analyzed (or synthesized) and the results fed back to the model editor. The standard defines both the format and the semantics of such annotations so that models can be exchanged among any tools that comply with the standard.
Each analysis tool automatically transforms the UML model into the internal form required by its analysis method. Consequently, the details of analysis algorithms and internal semantic representations remain hidden from the modeler, who does not have to be an expert on the analysis method. This is quite important, since the technical intricacy of current analysis methods has been one of the biggest impediments to their more widespread use.
A salient characteristic of most real-time software is that both its physical and its logical aspects are important. While the logical part of the specification determines a system's operational (functional) correctness, the physical properties can have an equally significant impact on its validity because real-time systems have definite quantitative constraints, such as response time requirements, which are ultimately dependent on the physical attributes of the underlying implementation technologies.
The physical aspect of software is traditionally represented through the notion of a resource. It reflects, either directly or indirectly, the finite nature of the underlying environment. Note that resources in software systems do not necessarily have to be physical devices. In addition to components such as processors and networks, the concept encompasses logical devices such as buffers and virtual circuits. However, there is always some physical underpinning to every logical device.
In our real-time UML model, a resource is viewed as a server that provides one or more services to its clients. The physical limitations of a resource are represented through its quality-of-service attributes. In general, QoS attributes characterize how well a resource service is performed or how well it needs to be performed.
QoS attributes can be used to model many different properties. They are mostly quantitative (for example, size, service time, capacity), but may also be qualitative specifications that ultimately have a quantitative impact. For example, the scheduling policy of a system (for example, earliest deadline first) is a QoS characteristic of the scheduler of a system that may have fundamental consequences on the scheduling ability characteristics of a system.
Understanding the relationship between a resource and its clients is essential in any quantitative analysis technique. Of course, it is not enough to know only what QoS a resource can offer, but also what its clients demand.
This suggests differentiating the notions of offered QoS (on the resource side) and required QoS (on the client side). The analysis problem then typically reduces to a comparison of these two sets of values; that is, does the supply meet the demand. Naturally, since resources are often shared in software systems, there can be complex interference patterns between clients competing for the same resources so that very sophisticated analysis techniques are required.
Modeling diverse resources
The real-time UML proposal allows the modeling of many different kinds of resources. Specifically, it provides several different categorizations of resources. Thus, based on the functionality of the resource, the proposal defines the following basic categories: processor resources, which represent either virtual or physical processing devices capable of storing and executing program code; communication resources, whose primary purpose is to provide communications between other resources; and general devices, which cover all other types of resources such as disks, physical sensors, motors, etc.
Depending on whether a device is capable of autonomously initiating events, resources are classified as active resources, which can generate stimuli without being prompted by an explicit stimulus within a scenario, and passive resources, which cannot generate their own behavior but only respond when prompted by a stimulus from an executing scenario.
Finally, based on whether a device has some kind of protection against concurrency conflicts or not, resources are divided into either protected resources, which are resources that offer one or more exclusive service instances (services that restrict concurrent access according to some access-control policy); and unprotected resources, whose services are not subject to any access restrictions.
The UML standard does not impose any restrictions on the modeling of time. It neither assumes that time is discrete or continuous, nor that there is a single source of time values in a system. This semantic flexibility, which allows different representations of time, is retained in the profile. Physical time in the UML proposal is assumed to progress monotonically and only in the forward direction.


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China and Climate Change Take Stage at APEC – Bill Tarrant
Reuters gives up the update from Sydney:
China takes the spotlight at the Asia-Pacific leaders forum on Thursday when President Hu Jintao meets President George W. Bush and Australia's prime minister to talk about security, product safety and climate change.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, after getting backing from Bush on Wednesday over the Iraq war and climate change, will meet Hu.
… Howard and Hu will also talk about plans to launch bilateral security talks next year, despite lingering human rights issues.
The decision comes after Japan proposed an alliance of Asian democracies that would also include Australia and India, viewed by some analysts as an attempt to contain China. [Full text]
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Cornbread at its best in a cast-iron skillet
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I received several responses to the request for a 'real Southern cornbread' recipe. The following recipe is one of the versions that came in. Cornbread always comes out best if baked in cast iron. Pair cornbread with some soup or stew and you've got a hearty cool-weather meal. This recipe's a winner with my family.
Patty Woods sampled a homemade focaccia bread loaded with herbs and spices at a party recently. The host would not part with the recipe; do any of you readers have a favorite focaccia recipe?
Renee Michaels was given some lemon and rosemary shortbread cookies and wants to make them herself, readers?
Send requests and responses to firstname.lastname@example.com or to Elizabeth Pudwill, Houston Chronicle Kitchen to Kitchen, P.O. Box 4260, Houston, TX 77210.
Keep it simple. A pair of kitchen scissors go a long way in your kitchen. I use mine to snip off basil from the stem, to cut parsley into soups or sauces, to open everything. It will save wear and tear on your kitchen knives. Keep them handy so you won't use your knives to cut open packages.
Real Southern Cornbread
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup flour
¹⁄3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk
½ cup vegetable oil
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It seems that the vast majority of people don't understand how incestuous government is and how liberals game the system and shuffle money from one another to enrich themselves. Take this report about how Duke Energy CEO, who is also co-chair of the Democratic National Convention host-committee, Jim Rogers, takes money from government then funnels that money back to officials in government (both Republicans and Democrats, but mostly Democrats). This sort of cronyism and back scratching is what taints our Republic.
Rogers and his company take money from government. Part of that money pays his salary and he is enriched. Then he turns around and donates money back to the politicians who gave him the money. As a bonus, he goes out and raises money from other people to supplement those donations. In return, he and his company will get even more money from the politicians.
This is not uncommon. But it is poisonous. As long as it is allowed to continue this Republic will continue to die. The solution is simple. But to the politician it is impractical. The solution is to stick to the Constitution. Doing that eliminates the unconstitutional expenditures that benefit Mr. Rogers.


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If I take my swim suit off in front of people in the men's locker room, exposing myself below the waist, that's okay. I do it outside the locker room, I'll get arrested. If I do it in front of a photographer I'm Britney Spears?


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WASHINGTON - Airline passenger traffic around the Thanksgiving holiday is forecast to rise 4 percent from a year ago, a trade group for U.S. carriers said Monday.
The Air Transport Association said it expects roughly 27 million passengers to fly over 12 days beginning Friday, with planes about 90 percent full.
In an attempt to minimize travel hassles, some big airlines will add as many as 500 seasonal workers - some of whom had been furloughed - to usher fliers through airports, James May, the president of the association, said at a press conference.
The industry anticipates an average of about 2.5 million passengers a day on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and the Sunday and Monday after the holiday, according to ATA. Average daily passenger traffic this year is roughly 2.1 million, with load factors of about 80 percent.
The expected uptick in holiday air travel comes in spite of historic delays reported by airlines all year. In 2006, the trade group forecast a 3 percent increase in Thanksgiving passenger demand, compared with a year earlier.
More than 24 percent of flights arrived late through September and the industry's on-time performance through September was the worst since comparable data began being collected in 1995, according to the Transportation Department.
Airlines are also working to prevent travelers from being stranded at airports due to bad weather by having additional aircraft and buses readily available on runway sites.
"Weather delays should be expected during the holiday season," May said. "We can't control the weather, but we can control how we handle it."
For passengers stranded by weather delays, some airports will also waive change fees for rescheduling tickets.
But May said there are many things that travelers can do to make their airline experience easier. Due to an increase in inexperienced passengers during the holiday season who may slow the check-in process, passengers should arrive at the airport at least two hours before their flight to avoid delays, May said.
Additional tips to make traveling easier this season:
- Travel with a current government-issued photo identification.
- Allow plenty of time for checking in and for security screening at the airport. On the busiest days, plan for longer-than-usual security lines.
- Medications taken on a regular basis should be carried with you onboard.
- If carrying any liquids or gels in carry-on baggage, they must be in containers of 3 ounces or less.
- Make sure all bags are tagged with your name and contact information.


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The Trust contributes to the relief of poverty with a particular focus on fuel poverty and helping families and individuals who are struggling to pay for their domestic supply of gas and electricity.
The Trust provides a significant difference to the lives of those in need by awarding grants to clear energy debts. In exceptional circumstances help is also available for energy efficient white goods and other priority debts. The Trust also funds charitable organisations to provide money and fuel debt services.
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The EDF Energy Trust helps families and individuals living in fuel poverty, suffering or other distress who are struggling to pay their gas and/or electricity bill by awarding grants to clear those debts. The aim of the Trust is to give vulnerable individuals a fresh start and financial stability enabling them to remain free of fuel debts going forward. In addition, the Trust also provides Further Assistance Payments to purchase energy efficient white goods and Bankruptcy/Debt Relief Order fees (DRO's). The Trust also offers grants to money/debt advice organisations to increase money and debt advice services in local communities.
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|August 22, 2011, 04:25 PM
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NEF 12 Ga 18.5" Pump
I finally took my NEF 12 G pump to the range just to make sure it operated o.k. It had been sitting in Gun cabinet for several months unused/unfired.
I fired 3 kind of shells: 1. #6 game load 2. #4 game load
3. OOBuck .Observations: At about 15 feet the #6 shell shredded a bulls-eye target with a pattern about 10" wide. The #4 was similar and did a lot of damage. The 00 Buck blasted about a 3"-4" hole in target each time. The pellets entered in a practically solid mass.
After this session, I'm thinking of keeping the #4 in the 5 shell elastic carrier on the stock of the shotgun that I store unloaded. If I was in a high stress home defense mode, I might not get the gun directly on-target with a 3" pattern of lead. The #4 on the other hand at 15-20' distance would be hard to miss even a moving target. I will have to think about that. The OO B seemed like "overkill" to me.
The gun kicked "like a mule" and I only fired 5 shots. (I was on a pistol range). The stock is solid synthetic, is somewhat undersized and rather narrow in thickness. I think the small footprint of the stock contributes to the harsh kick even though it has a factory rubber pad. Gun seems to work o.k. and I gave it a good cleaning after the brief range session. I wouldn't want to fire a box of shells through it.
I fired 100 rounds of 38 sp in a couple of revolvers which was a lot more fun than the shotgun.
|August 22, 2011, 09:29 PM
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#4 buck is the minimum you should use. Hitting your target is a lot harder than you might think, and I'd definitely not leave it unloaded if you're unsure of your abilities to reload under stress. My 870 wears a short barrel, and 4 ride in the mag tube. If you're worried about spring fatigue, buy some extras and keep em around to replace yours with. Self defense is not something to play games with, no offense intended, and you better be ready when the chips fall. That .38, if you're more practiced with it, is probably a better choice. At house distances, unless you're a millionaire, all shotgun shells hit as pretty much a solid mass.
|August 22, 2011, 09:46 PM
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A slip on recoil pad might help, and especially if the stock is too short.
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Here's where light loads come in.
Find a 7/8 oz ultra light load and use up lots of that. It will help as you firm up your form and technique.
Reduced Recoil 00 or even 4 buck will do you better than 4 shot for defense.
Do not depend on pattern spread to make up for poor shooting skills. Practice until you can place that narrow little pattern exactly where it needs to go to STOP the threat.
|August 23, 2011, 05:16 PM
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Listen to Dave on starting with light target loads. I got beaten up so bad at first that my family wanted me to go to the doctors. When I went out after a month to familiarize myself to buckshot and slugs, I was told I wouldn't be able to shoot more than a handful. I shot about 50 mixed rounds of buchshot and slugs with very little sensitiivity.
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Ever check yourself for eye dominance? That's the first thing I do with a new shooter, even before we get to the safety lecture, before we ever put hands on a firearm. If you're cross dominant, that could affect your shooting form in a negative way. To determine your dominant eye, extend both arms out in front of you. Make a circle with your thumbs and fingers. With both eyes OPEN, center up a small object at least ten feet away in the circle. Close one eye, then the other. The one eye open that keeps the object centered in the circle is your dominant eye. It's usually best if your shooting 'handedness' is on the same side as your dominant eye.
Getting a shotgun butt into your shoulder pocket is important in avoiding pain. To find your shoulder pocket, but your support hand (aka 'weak hand') thumb on the middle of front of your collar bone, the extended middle finger of the same hand on the front of the 'ball' of your shoulder joint, and extend the index finger (pointing finger) down to your shoulder halfway between thumb and middle finger. That 'soft spot' is your shoulder pocket. That's where you want the butt of the shotgun to go. Bring your elbow up to shoulder level with the arm flexed, and swing that elbow forward and back slowly while pressing in on the shoulder pocket. Feel the bone on both sides of your index finger? Getting a shotgun butt on bone hurts. Getting the butt out on the muscle of the upper arm on the outside of the shoulder joint hurts too. Getting into the habit of a good consistent gun mount with the butt of the shotgun in the shoulder pocket is important.
Gun fit is important too. IIRC the LOP of the stock on the Pardner pumps is about 13", which is 1" to 1 1/2" or so shorter than many production guns. It could be the stock is still too long. It's usually easier to shoot a shotgun (especially a defensive shotgun) with a too-short stock than a too-long stock.
If recoil is such that it hampers your ability and willingness to shoot the gun regularly, it might be you need to go to a 20 gauge. There's a very nice youth model 20 ga. in the Pardner line if you need a somewhat smaller sized gun, also.
If you're a normal, healthy person, shooting a shotgun shouldn't hurt that much. The advice to start out with lighter recoiling loads is very good. Whatever the problem is, I hope you get it sorted out soon and with no more pain.
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|August 24, 2011, 11:12 AM
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I have handled firearms most of my life, but have not used shotguns much because I am not a game hunter. I was expert with rifle in the Army and am pretty decent with handguns.
The 12 ga Partner was a somewhat new experience for me. I plan to get a slip-on pad to beef up the stock somewhat. It did seem undersized and felt a little awkward to get a good solid shooting position. It is not a light-weight gun so that was not an issue. I still believe the undersized stock was the biggest single issue I had with it- and was the main cause of the shock to my shoulder.
I was limited on # of shots because of range rules at the indoor pistol range I was using & I could certainly understand that. My revolvers would be my first firearm reached in home defense. The 12 ga would just be for if TSHTF and I had the time to reach the locked gun cabinet in another room of the house.
Due to a family member in my home that should NOT have access to firearms, I have to keep everything locked up. I am trusting to my 2 dogs to give me enough warning to access my handguns. They sleep in our bedroom and can hear a mouse sneeze a block away.
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try reduced recoil 00 buckshot--it has the penetration and stopping power with less kick.
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The troubles for Liberty Reserve have only just begun. The Justice Department has accused the online currency exchange of laundering $6 billion and has already frozen assets and seized their website.
But let's say your company was using Liberty Reserve for non-money laundering purposes. The last few days have resulted in little clarity about what the future holds.
"Friday was the first time that we noticed that something was amiss," says Mitchell Rossetti. He's the co-founder of ePay-Cards and sells prepaid virtual debit cards using the online currency Liberty Reserve was trading in.
Rossetti got confirmation Tuesday that the site had been shut down. Since then, he's heard nothing from the Justice Department about the $28,000 seized from his account.
"We are a legitimate business that has been hurt by this action," he says.
Ironically, he chose Liberty Reserve because of its security after some bad experiences with PayPal.
They made the switch to Liberty Reserve so that "if any issue would come up, we would be able to discuss that directly with the customer, what happened, and look at their accounts and make a decision. But we weren't exposed to any fraud."
The business relies on trading online currency to operate and he's not sure what it will mean for the future of ePay-Cards.
Rossetti talked to his staff earlier in the day. "Their question to me was, 'what do we do, do we have a future?'" he says. "And I advised everyone to have their resumes ready, but don't send them out yet. We will look for a way to come back from this, but it is going to be difficult."


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The integration of an accurate heart rate monitor, efficient odometer, a reasonably reliable altimeter and a fairly decent navigation system is a plus. I use it with Openstreetmap, which is free and which works well except that you lose the turn-by-turn navigation aspect. I pre-plan routes using one of a number of websites, then load the route to the unit. This works well, and means one is not reliant on the unit to choose the best route - something I think is probably more problematic when cycling. Works for me.
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If one chooses to use Garmin's own maps, be prepared for a hefty bill on top of the price of the unit. It can lose signal under cloudy skies, although I don't think it's any worse than my car's satnav in this respect; it's more noticeable because it tells you! The file system relies on and produces TCX files which are a bit of a faff compared to the "standard" GPX files. However, there are online converters which do the job quickly and painlessly (just Google TCX and GPX).
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DARPA awards LiquidPiston $2.5M to advance further X4 rotary engine prototype
14 December 2016
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded LiquidPiston Inc. $2.5 million to continue development of a new, patented, high-efficiency, lighter-weight rotary engine.
LiquidPiston, a developer of advanced combustion engine technology, received the award for the first phase of a program to realize the full capability of its patented high-efficiency hybrid cycle (HEHC) engine. This is the second award DARPA has made to LiquidPiston in the past 18 months, following an earlier test program for a different LiquidPiston rotary engine prototype, which achieved promising results. (Earlier post.)
LiquidPiston will be developing its X4 test rig: a prototype 30 kW diesel X-engine, with targeted brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) of 186 g/kWh (better fuel efficiency than heavy duty truck engines, and twice the fuel economy of a gasoline engine over a typical drive cycle).
The X4 is designed for extremely high specific power, with an objective of 1.5 hp/lb, making it up to ten times (10x) more powerful than a standard diesel engine with the same weight. The entire 40 hp engine is targeted to fit into a 10" x 8" x 8" box and weigh just 30 lbs. In this first phase of the program, LiquidPiston will build a test rig that will support future optimization efforts towards these objectives.
Our goal is to create a reliable X4 test rig that will support optimization of the X-engine architecture and the HEHC cycle. Combined, the cycle and architecture offer a compression-ignition, diesel-fueled rotary-engine power solution that is a fraction the size and weight of a comparable piston engine, while offering the advantages of greater fuel efficiency, quieter operation and reduced vibration.—Alexander Shkolnik, CEO and Founder of LiquidPiston
LiquidPiston recently installed its 70cc X-mini rotary engine prototype into a go-kart demonstrator (earlier post), replacing a 40 lb, 6 hp gasoline piston engine with the 4 lb, 3-5 hp 70cc X-mini engine.
LiquidPiston's X Engines are non-Wankel rotary embodiments of the company's High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle (HEHC). In contrast to other rotary engines, the X engine has a higher CR, and a stationary conical/spherical combustion chamber suitable for direct injection (DI) and compression ignition (CI). As with the Atkinson or Miller cycles, the X engine takes advantage of over-expansion. This is done by changing the locations of intake and exhaust ports asymmetrically which allows for the extraction of more energy during the expansion stroke.
Three combustion events per rotor revolution result in high power density. The company earlier built functional proof-of-principle 70 and 40 HP diesel engine prototypes (X1 and X2), which demonstrated the initial operating capabilities of the engine architecture.
The X Engine's few moving parts consist of a rotor (the primary work-producing component) and an eccentric shaft. Except for ancillary parts such as injectors, fuel pumps, and oil pumps, there are no other moving parts. LiquidPiston's X Engine architecture geometry allows for standard materials and 2-D manufacturing to be used, greatly decreasing the design, build and testing cycle.
The HEHC combines high compression ratio (CR), constant-volume (isochoric) combustion, and overexpansion, and has a theoretical efficiency of 75% using air-standard assumptions and first-law analysis. The rotary engine architecture shows a potential indicated efficiency of 60% and brake efficiency of >50%. The cycle elements include:
For maximum efficiency, air is compressed to a high compression ratio, fuel is injected and compression ignited (CI-HEHC). The X Mini utilizes a spark-ignition (SI-HEHC) version of the cycle with a lower compression ratio standard for gasoline engines.
A dwell near top-dead-center forces combustion to occur at nearly constant-volume conditions.
Combustion products are over-expanded using a larger expansion volume than compression volume, as in the Atkinson Cycle.
Cycle-skipping power modulation allows high efficiencies at low power settings while simultaneously cooling the engine's walls internally and providing partial heat recovery.
Water may be injected to internally cool the engine. Some of this cooling energy is recuperated, as the water turns to steam, increasing the chamber pressure.
Alexander Shkolnik, Daniele Littera, Mark Nickerson, and Nikolay Shkolnik et al. (2014) "Development of a Small Rotary SI/CI Combustion Engine", SAE Technical Paper 2014-32-0104 doi: 10.4271/2014-32-0104
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The idea to continue to develop obsolete Internal combustion engines makes no sense because they are too inefficient...they waste 80% more energy than they use and they pollute the air and water and destroy the health of the people.
These are misdirected funds that should be used to build BEVs at a lower cost so people can buy them.
This appears to be a very good engine for propeller driven aircraft and drones. DARPA has a very good track record for picking winners. If you doubt this, the internet that you are now using was originally a DARPA project that was started in 1969. I hope that this project works out.
Lad, There are many places where batteries are the answer but high endurance aircraft is probably not one of them nor is lightweight compact power generation.
Those who hold that the solution to everything is batteries simply prove that they do not understand the subject.
There is a sheaf of technical solutions, with very different performance envelopes, which are best for the job in different applications.
I am generally assumed to be a fuel cell advocate here, although it is in fact more accurate to say that they are an option which should not be dismissed, but if you want very high energy density, this motor looks hard to beat as there is so much energy in the fuels it can use, and it needs no pressure containment.
In other characteristics such as silence and being pollution free at point of use it is not going to do as well as alternatives.
Its a matter of sorting out the best option for the job in hand, not of determining the sole solution to everything.
If this can be made to work at reasonable cost and without gotchas then it is going to find a lot of uses.
I see this being very good for range extenders like others have pointed out... biggest draw back is going to be emissions and long term durability. Not saying that emissions issues cant be addressed downstream.
But if they can get those numbers out of such a small little device it will be pretty great.
Range extenders for most EV style cars would have to be in the range of 20-40hp peek, which, if you are trying to power a defroster and heat the passenger compartment in the winter, that 7,500-15,000 watts of waste heat becomes a pretty valuable thing.(could be a life saver in an emergency)
I do believe in Batteries, but I don't believe they will solve all our issues, there are physical constraints that disallow current and most future speculation about battery technology to exist in vehicles as we are accustom to. This is why range extenders tend to be the necessary evil.
There are only a few front runners that I see, Turbines, combustion engines, and Fuel Cells, and a trailer full of more batteries, and overhead trolley lines.
Near future we'll see more Volt like vehicles. Mid future trucking will move away from diesel to alternatives like hybrids comprised of smaller diesel and turbine style generators.
I think in about 20 years we will have more market penetration of Fuel Cells than we do with the BEVs today. I believe still that BEV only vehicles will be rather short range 100-200 miles, and virtually absent in the workforce other than some short route box trucks.
I believe that the battery technology has a long way to go before dethroning a hybrid setup.
To say that ICEs 'waste 80% more energy than they use' is surely a huge underestimate. Isn't it more like 200-500% more energy than they use?
From this link (http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/98966/maximum-theoretical-efficiency-of-internal-combustion-engine) the Carnot limit is already over 100% waste.
I'm very confused by your statement.
Its easiest to look at energy and its conservation.
the Hydrogen bonds in the fuels which break apart allowing it to make water and CO2 (ideally) only have so much energy. That's a known quantity per gallon of fuel.
You can look to how much power is output per given amount of fuel, and you can then deduce that x amount goes to heat/friction losses.
Electric motors are in the ball park of 80-95% efficient. Gasoline and Diesel engines are about up to 40% with some eaking out some more.
Gasoline cars only waste about 60-75% of the energy in. So within the realm of Gasoline engines they waste almost double the energy in, not 500%
But if you look well to well, it muddies the water up a bit, especially if you have coal as a primary source of electricity.
The government has a website where you can go select your car, and your mileage and compare amongst plugins and the conventional vehicle. It will also tell you how much CO2 and other things you'll generate.(In my local area, its better for the environment to drive my fiesta, than it is to own a plugin, according to them.)
I personally don't agree with the import barrels of oil on there, US get close or is a net exporter sometimes. Its those darn Canadians selling us that cheap oil.
The Carnot efficiency is NOT the maximum efficiency of an ICE.
The maximum efficiency of a ICE is the same as any electrochemical conversion device (such as a FC), which is dG/dH.
All of the fuel energy is available to do work, meaning the maximum efficiency of an ICE is ~100%.
Therefore, an engine is wasting ~70% of the fuel energy if its an SI engine or ~50% if its a CI engine.
What about Utah? California is not an island yet.
I was pretty sure California in the recent past was using some non-carbon-free electricity.
Taking some external combustion process like using coal to generate steam, then transmitting it, then converting it to DC, then back to AC through the drive motor. Is no small task.
Okay, so using coal, 50% efficiency, then transmission losses, then conversion losses at the charger, then losses at the battery, then losses at the inverter, then losses at the motor, then losses to friction.
Fueleconomy.gov is telling me 305g/mile (210 at the vehicle level) for my car, and telling me 310g/mile for a new tesla.
What's strange is that gap gets even wider the more percentage I stay on the highway.
I agree with you in that EVs are cleaner than most ICEs, and I am looking forward to the end of ICEs.
Mechanically ICEs are impressive that they even work as well and long as they do.
I rather we frack, and build out CCNG plants and do away with coal. Double our efficiencies.
we have several hundreds of years of NG in the US, and its only getting stretched longer as efficiencies increase.
it will probably take 50 years before we significantly move away from diesel and gasoline.
I'm excited for the model 3.
I am even more excited for the solar roofs that tesla debuted. If America, in the name of national security, started funding solar roofs on new construction, or something as radical, it could change the course of the nation.
National security is an easier way to sell the green movement. Sure, we are unlikely to use all of our Natural gas or petroleum reserves in the ground. But for the economy, and the cost of energy, you can stabilize it with renewables. Wind is at a point where it is cost competitive with coal.
Solar, is but isn't. It needs large capital investments to make it really work. (People could lease panels from the government at competitive rate).
The national grid needs a major overhaul. For any of this to work. the smart grid needs to happen. DC high tension lines, even 12v-480v DC delivered to point of use could save 20% of our nations electricity. (more so if our country runs on plug-in vehicles)
We need to start living under ground, at least earth berm on North and north West sides of structures with live vegetation on the roofs. South and south east are passive solar sides.
I am not sure where the Solar panels go. They partly contribute to global warming, although I think they are a necessity.
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In Reply to: None the less posted by Kathy on March 28, 2008 at 07:36:
: I am really curious how it makes any sense to use "none the less" in a sentence. To me it just doesn't go together. What does it mean?
Most people seem to think it goes together so well that it has been used as one word since at least 1930 and can be found in the dictionary that way. Nonetheless(in spite of that, despite anything to the contrary, nevertheless), I can see how it might be confusing.


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Kroger Named Wine Enthusiast Magazine's "Retailer of the Year"
Recognized for "dynamic growth", "dedication to wine" and "customer service"
Nov 13, 2013, 08:09 ET from The Kroger Co.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) announced today it was named the 2013 Retailer of the Year by Wine Enthusiast Magazine.
Wine Enthusiast selected Kroger for this recognition because of the company's "dynamic growth, dedication to wine, ability to foresee trends and customer service", the editors stated in a profile that can be viewed at http://www.winemag.com/Web-2013/2013-Retailer-of-the-Year-Kroger-Co/ or in the magazine on newsstands.
"We are honored to receive recognition from the experts at Wine Enthusiast," said Michael J. Donnelly, Kroger's senior vice president of merchandising. "Kroger is focused on providing our customers with spectacular wine experiences – from our exclusive offerings such as Acronym to showcasing their favorite varieties from local wineries."
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Wine Enthusiast has honored companies and individuals "whose vision has impacted the wine and spirits industries" with the Wine Star Awards annually since 2000. This is the first time Kroger has been honored by the magazine.
Kroger, one of the world's largest retailers, employs 343,000 associates who serve customers in 2,418 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 31 states under two dozen local banner names including Kroger, City Market, Dillons, Jay C, Food 4 Less, Fred Meyer, Fry's, King Soopers, QFC, Ralphs and Smith's. The company also operates 783 convenience stores, 326 fine jewelry stores, 1,195 supermarket fuel centers and 37 food processing plants in the U.S. Recognized by Forbes as the most generous company in America, Kroger supports hunger relief, breast cancer awareness, the military and their families, and more than 30,000 schools and grassroots organizations. Kroger contributes food and funds equal to 200 million meals a year through more than 80 Feeding America food bank partners. A leader in supplier diversity, Kroger is a proud member of the Billion Dollar Roundtable and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber's Million Dollar Club.
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Remove obsolete, expired versions of RT. Use www/rt38 instead.
Reset maintainer
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o RT_LAYOUT is not overrideable
o add LocalHtmlPath as hack for p5-RTx-* pluggins to RT.pm
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- Disable instruct target in favor of pkg-message
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PLEASE WELCOME www/rt38
o www/rt3 has marked been IGNORE for at least one year, so has been removed.
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o GID 180 has been registered officially for rt's use.
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Update my ports to my freebsd address
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Fix all occurrences of this that are not part of REPLACE_CMD commands.
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Update to 3.4.5.
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Assign to new maintainer.
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It fixed INDEX build with next exp-build patchset and prepare a smooth
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This is the first fly of any type i've tied in about 6 weeks.
Hook is a 3/0 reworked Sunday, not sure of the exact shape though....
Would like some things back.
There is a nice banksian sub in there under the mallard....wish now i'd put it on the bottom, or made the roof a bit shorter.
Body hackle didnt show up as i'd have liked either.
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Late Show
North Mississippi Allstars
Lightnin' Malcolm
Union Transfer
1026 Spring Garden St.
Philadelphia, PA, 19123
Doors 10:00 PM / Show 10:30 PM
This event is all ages
North Mississippi Allstars formed in 1996; the product of a special time for modern Mississippi country blues. Brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson soaked up the music of their father, Memphis legend Jim Dickinson, and absorbed the North Mississippi legacy while playing and shaking it down in the juke joints with their blues ancestors. R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Otha Turner and their musical families were at their peak, making classic records and touring the world. Eventually, Luther (guitar, vocals) and Cody (drums, vocals) formed the North Mississippi Allstars and pioneered their own brand of blues-infused rock and roll.
The North Mississippi Allstars released their debut album, Shake Hands With Shorty, in the spring of 2000. Their debut proved to be a success and earned them a Grammy nomination for 'Best Contemporary Blues Album'. After earning 2 more Grammy nominations in the same category for 51 Phantom (2001) and Electric Blue Watermelon (2005), the North Mississippi Allstars earned the reputation as one of the most intriguing acts to emerge from the loam of Southern blues and roots rock.
In 2008, after five studio albums and more than a decade touring together, the Dickinsons decided to branch out and pursue other projects. That same year Luther started recording and touring with the Black Crowes. He went on to form the South Memphis String Band with Alvin Youngblood Hart and Jimbo Mathus, touring across the country and releasing two albums with them. In 2012, Luther formed The Wandering, a five-piece folk band featuring Shannon McNally, Amy LaVere, Valerie June and Sharde Thomas (Otha Turner's granddaughter), and released their debut record Go On Now, You Can't Stay Here. He also recorded and released a solo acoustic album, Hambone's Meditations, which received a 2013 Grammy nomination for 'Best Folk Album'.
Meanwhile, Cody formed his own group, Hill Country Revue, which released its debut, Make A Move, in 2009 and the follow-up Zebra Ranch in 2010. The band toured heavily behind the releases and shared the stage with a number of notable acts, including the Dave Matthews Band, Gov't Mule and Big Head Todd and The Monsters. Cody also honed his producing chops, working with artists like Lucero, Cisco Adler, Anders Osborne and Ian Siegal.
The brothers reunited in 2010 to record Keys to the Kingdom after the passing of their father. Jim had always told them, "You need to be playing music together. You are better together than you will ever be apart." Inspired by his words, Luther and Cody went into the family's home recording studio Zebra Ranch, to create a record that could help them cope with the loss and rejoice in his honor.
Most recently, Luther and Cody have toured extensively with Robert Plant & The Band of Joy, headlined major festivals and toured internationally as a headliner and with Ian Siegal as part of The Mississippi Mudbloods. They also released two live bootleg records, 2011's Live in the Hills and 2012's Live in the Hills Volume II, both recorded at the annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic in Potts Camp, MS.
The North Mississippi Allstars are at times joined by Lightnin' Malcolm, Alvin Youngblood Hart, previous member Chris Chew, and a host of other talented musicians.
Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lightnin Malcolm has announced a September 10th release date for Rough Out There via his independent label Shakedown Records. As a member of the North Mississippi All-Stars, and an artist who is witnessing significant growth in a solo career, his reputation as a pure purveyor of the Blues distinguishes him from many others in the genre. He is an artist who carries the torch proudly, bringing melody, intonation, and the legacy he has learned from the masters to stages across the globe on a nightly basis. This year, he will tour extensively in Europe with the Allstars, and stage a run of headline dates to support the release of his latest Lightnin Malcolm album. When touring solo, the repertoire is presented as a duo, with Carl Gentle White aka "Stud" on drums.
Malcolm's journey began near the railroad tracks in rural Southeast Missouri. As far back as he can remember, his existence has been focused on music. Growing up, he gravitated to Bob Marley, Hank Williams, and The Temptations. As he delved deeper in to his musical exploration, he developed a keen understanding that the roots of all music that inspired him was the deep blues. After several years of travel in search of inspiration and an audience, he settled in North Mississippi, and became further inspired by the hill country Blues first made famous by Fred McDowell, and later R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Jessie Mae Hemphill. For years, he has focused his energies on carrying the torch, and presenting the essence of what he learned from the masters of the Blues he has been inspired by via direct contact and collaboration. Amongst those he was friends with and learned from were R.L. Burnside, Cedell Davis, Big Jack Johnson, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Robert Belfour, Honey Boy Edwards, Hubert Sumlin, Otha Turner, and especially T MODEL FORD.
He shares, "They all taught me the ways of the world….how to survive, handle your money, travel and meet people, and use the music to help those around you. Most importantly, they taught me what notes to hit and what notes NOT to hit. I loved playin' with the guys who had original styles and were very hard to accompany. They wanted somebody to back them up without messin' up their style, and they liked me because I could feel their changes and anticipate where they going with it. It's like secret codes we were speaking in, and they liked me because somehow I understood."
Lightnin Malcolm's closest collaborator and mentor was the late T Model Ford. He reminisces, "Me and T Model traveled all over the world together. I would open the shows – one-man band style. I had my guitar, with bass, and snare drums on my feet. Then, I played drums and T MODEL played guitar. Even just as a two-piece we really tore places up. He had a style like a Delta Blues orchestra on the guitar. His sound was so full, and so big, and was a huge influence on my guitar style." The inspiration is clear, on tracks from Rough Out There that include the opener "Workin," alongside "Took Too Long," and "Young Woman, Old Fashioned Ways."
Currently, his sole band member Stud is a young man he has known since he celebrated his first birthday. The percussionist is T Model's favorite grandson, and Malcolm shares, "When I was playin' drums for T Model, and Stud was about 3 or 4, he was practically in my lap learnin' how to hold the drumsticks. Later on, when I had to leave for my own career, at age 8 he became T MODELs full-time drummer. Studs been by T Model's side his whole life, and there's nobody livin' that's got the blues imbedded deeper in them than Stud. Now he is a great young man, and I'm so proud the circle is bringing us back together. I've worked with some of the best drummers out there, and Stud is the best. Our style together is the result of those early seeds, and the chemistry we have is dynamite!" You can hear that chemistry transparently on "My Life's A Wreck."
He approaches writing with the intent of exuding emotion and a message he feels is worthy of sharing. The framework is never approached within the confines of a two-man band, but rather a universe where there is no limitation to the sounds and styles that serve as the inspiration. He offers, "I keep the rhythmic current of the blues foundation in everything we do, and the duo format works great for this. The music matches the lyrics, and has a good dance beat to it. As far as lyrics, I try to write about everyday life, and the world we live in. Keeping it universal allows the listener to find their own interpretation." Malcolm's approach in exhibiting this theme is best displayed in the tracks "Reality Check" and "Money."
Lightnin Malcolm will release Rough Out There on his own Mississippi-based independent label Shakedown Records. He offers, "I started my own label to make the kind of records I want, and to put out all the music I'm writing. We also want to record some of the great artists that I know that are amazingly talented, especially some of the last authentic Blues men left. It is a guerilla business model for sure, and the focus is a work in progress."
Lightnin Malcolm lives with the mantra, "Music Is My Life." As the spotlight grows, he is ready for the moment, and the friendship struck with Luther Dickinson 15 years ago on the dance floor of Junior Kimbrough's world famous juke joint, now brings heightened visibility to the arc of his growing career. When asked about Malcolm, Dickinson passes on, "Malcolm's much appreciated blues-roots aesthetic principles are very strong and centered which is a great influence on Cody and I. There are only a handful of musicians left who were actually here in the Hills, back in the day, when it was really jumpin. Malcolm's time spent on RL's porch and in the van with Cedric, and playing drums behind T-Model and Cedell. Roots music is passed on hand to hand, man to man and as Otha said, 'ever had your hand in the shit? well, you got it in there now.' We love playing with Malcolm and that be a tough spot to fill, in between two brothers, but Lightnin keeps it cool and in the pocket, conjuring up the Zone! You can sense how much he cares about the music and the depth of his love for music and life." As bassist for the North Mississippi All-Stars, he will have the enviable position of also taking the stage as support to play songs from Rough Out There alongside others as the band travels The World. With each day, one thing is certain – Lightnin Malcolm will make that torch a little brighter for the Blues to continue to yield discovery and offer a setting for celebration.
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The St. Johns County Health Department is joining with the University of Florida -- Extension Office to offer a free nutrition class to the public at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Hastings Recreation Gym, 400 Harris St.
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Electa Chapter No. 4, Order of Eastern Star, will celebrate its 68th anniversary at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Shiloh Baptist Church, 271 W. King St. Speaker will be Deputy Norma J. Dewdney, worthy matron of Flossie Hopkins-Mann Chapter 174, Crescent City. The public is invited.
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