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The Saris Freedom SuperClamp's innovative front and rear wheel hooks completely eliminate frame contact while providing the most secure hold of any tray-style rack on the market. At only 32 lbs, the SuperClamp 2 is half the weight of similar style racks on the market. And with its integrated lock and arms that ratchet into place to simplify loading and unloading, the Saris Freedom SuperClamp loves to protect your bikes as much as you love to ride them. - Carries 2 bikes (60lbs/bike). - Preassembled. - Fits all bikes. - No frame contact design. - Adjustable, locking arms. - Rack-integrated locking cable. - Includes a locking hitch pin. - Universal fit: works with both 1 ¼" and 2" hitches. - Ratcheting arms pivot on case hardened brackets. - Lightweight at 32 lb. - This rack fits a wheelbase up to 48" right out of the box. If your bike has a longer wheel base, you will need our long wheelbase bar. - Standard scoop max tire width: 2.25"
Transport all types of bikes with Saris' Freedom 4-Bike hitch rack. Its innovative design adjusts to fit most bikes and sizes, including kids' and even some recumbents, thanks to the adjustability of its center upright supports. It uses quick-adjust trays and ratcheting straps to secure four bikes of up to 35 pounds each, and loading is made easy by the low tray height. The center upright supports even tilt down to allow trunk access.
Meet the SUPERBones. It is the classic Bones 3-bike trunk rack, reimagined. Saris took everything they've experienced, observed and learned from their Bones customers and used it to guide their design process. Out of that work was born a trunk rack more secure, more beautiful and more intuitive. With interwoven steel straps that store neatly within the rack to the floating foot that pivots to conform to a wide variety of trunk shapes, the SUPERBones is truly a functional piece of art with all the features of a forward-thinking bike rack. - Carries 3 bikes (35 lbs/bike) - Anti-sway adjusts in and out to maximize bike protection - Bikes are easy to load thanks to pivoting anti-sway straps. - Integrated locking to secure bike to rack and rack to car - Heavy duty straps reinforced with internal steel strands - Strap adjustment lever quickly tightens rack to car - Internal ratcheting mechanism creates the best-in-class strap management - Adjustable foot for maximum protection of car by intuitively adjusting to vehicle's trunk, bumper shape and design - Stationary outer leg creates an easy install on vehicle - Frame fits over most spoilers - Rust-free, injection molded plastic - Compatible with most vehicles (consult the Saris Fit Guide for approved fits) - Lightweight at 18.5 lbs
The Bones Hitch 4-Bike rack is born out of the design and function of Saris' best-selling Bones rack and brought to life in the form of a hitch rack. You wanted a nicely designed, tilting rack at a great value, and you wanted it to be lightweight. The result is the Bones Hitch. The Bones Hitch is one of the lightest racks in the marketplace yet every bit as strong and durable. That's why Saris backs it—along with all of their racks—with a lifetime warranty. Stylish, lightweight, easy to use and made here in the USA—who says you can't have it all? - Carries 4 bikes, up to 35 pounds each. - Preassembled in box. - Rack tilts down with pull of handle for easy access to rear of vehicle. - Coated hold-downs and anti-sway straps provide soft-touch protection to secure and stabilize the bikes. - Fits 1-¼-inch or 2-inch hitches out of the box. - Lifetime warranty. - Made in Madison, WI. - Injection-molded arms are strongest in the market. - Arms fold up and down with ease for quick storage and easy loading. - Welded steel mainframe. - Hitch lock sold separately (Model 3022). - Lightweight, steel construction weighs only 20 lbs.
Saris' Locking Hitch Tite adds both stability and security to your hitch rack. It tightens up the interface between your rack and hitch to combat swaying and it locks your rack to your vehicle. It fits 1-1/4 and 2-inch threaded hitch-tites and is compatible with the 200/500 Series T-Rax, all Thelma racks, standard-model Cycle-Ons, and all the T-Bones racks (each sold separately).
Thule's Spare Me rack bolts onto the mount for your spare tire and securely carries two bicycles (total weight up to 75 pounds). It has Thule's Stay-Put cradles that protect your bikes and boasts an anti-sway design to keep your bikes from swinging together or hitting your vehicle. The arms fold down when not in use. An integrated locking cable and locking knob make it easy to secure bikes to the carrier and the carrier to the vehicle.
Thule's 4-Bike Parkway rack features 2 sturdy arms with Thule's stable, protective cradles to safely carry and secure your precious two-wheel cargo. Plus, the Parkway easily tilts down for access to the back of your vehicle.
Hollywood's Traveler racks get you traveling with all your bikes quickly and economically. The Traveler 4 carries 4 bikes and includes Hollywood's separators and anti-sway stabilizers, which makes mounting the bikes easy and protects them in transit. This versatile hitch-mount rack tilts down for easy rear access and the arms fold out of the way when the rack is not in use. Plus, Hollywood's No-Wobble Hitch holds the whole system steady even on bumpy roads. And with the universal heavy-duty metal hitch insert, the Traveler 4 fits 1 1/4- and 2-inch hitches so you can use your rack on different vehicles. - Not to be used on any trailer, fifth wheel, or towed vehicle - Weight: 28 lbs - Max weight capacity: 35 lbs per bike
Yakima's RidgeBack 2 securely transports two bikes with Yakima's cradles and their simple-to-adjust, ratcheting ZipStrips. Constructed of lightweight aluminum, this innovative hitch rack comes fully assembled out of the box for ease of use. Just plug it into the hitch, tighten and lock the SpeedKnob, and you're ready to load up the bikes! In addition to carrying traditional double-diamond frames with zero bike-to-bike contact, the anti-sway cradles are specially shaped to be compatible with non-standard and full-suspension frames. Plus, the Upperhand control lever allows the rack to fold down, away from back of your vehicle, for unimpeded trunk/hatch access, or when not in use, lets the RidgeBack fold flat for storage.
Thule's Raceway Platform 2 Bike rack perfectly marries the stability and security of a platform-style rack with the simplicity and ease-of-use that only a trunk rack affords. The two bike trays mean that your prized rides are rock solid and sway free as you drive down the road. Adjustable rubberized clamps keep the bikes separate, so they don't knock into each other. Thule's FitDial adjustment makes fitting this rack to your car a breeze, and when it's time to park the car, this rack folds down flat for convenient storage. The Raceway attaches to your vehicle with SureTight ratcheting locking cables for maximum security, strength, and ease of use.
Some vehicles require extra strap length. Compatible with Saris' Bones bike racks, the Saris Extra Long S-Hook Straps 80" are made of strong nylon with coated hooks that protect your car's finish.
Protect your rides during transport and save your back, too, with Hollywood's Sport Rider rack that carries up to 2 bicycles. Simply set any bike into the wheel holders (that are nice and low for easy bike mounting), then slide the padded universal clamp over the frames to secure the bikes. This great rack also includes Hollywood's No-Wobble system that prevents rack sway and holds your bikes steady even when the road is less than ideal. The Sport Rider folds for easy storage, too, and comes with Velcro wheel straps for top-notch safety. - Max weight capacity: 45 lbs per bike - Hitch Size: fits both 1 ¼ and 2-inch - Not to be used on any trailer, fifth wheel, or towed vehicle
Thule's Insta-Gater turns your truck bed into a stable, secure bike carrier. It mounts without tools because it's ingeniously held firmly in place by closing your truck's tailgate on the ends of the mounting straps. This unique bike rack accepts one bicycle with 20- to 29-inch wheels and up to 3-inch-wide tires. It's also easy and fast to mount your bike thanks to Thule's SecureHook that holds the bike by grabbing the front wheel. No frame contact is made. You can use more Insta-Gaters to carry more bikes.
Hollywood's Baja 3 is an extremely versatile rack that installs quickly and easily. This trunk-mount carries 3 bikes and fits almost any vehicle, including sedans, mini-vans and SUVs. Six straps solidly attach the Baja to the rear of the vehicle, and Hollywood's patented micro-adjust hubs provide fast and simple installation. Hollywood's bike separators and anti-sway stabilizers keep the bikes firmly attached to the rack and safe from harm while in transit. And when not in use, this rack quickly folds flat for storage. - Spacing between bike cradles: 11-inches - Distance between support arms: 11.5-inches
Lightweight, durable, and portable—Kuat's Beta is no-frills and full of function. It features an anti-wobble cam at the hitch, and a anti-wobble adjustment at the arms for a locked-down, solid ride. Anti-Sway cradles keep your bikes in line for a smooth ride down the road. The 11-pound Beta folds flat, so you can stash it in the back of a car or behind the seat of a pickup and have it ready when you need it. Features • Carries 2 bikes (up to 40 lbs. each) • Total carrying capacity of up to 80 lbs. • Folds up quickly for storage • Tilts down for easy vehicle access • Enhance the Beta with hitch lock system (sold separately) • Hand-tight cam system - no need for additional tools! • Anti-sway carriages for a smooth ride • Aluminum construction is lightweight and extremely durable Specs •Weighs only 11 lbs •Available for 2" OR 1.25" receivers. The 1.25" Beta can fit either receiver with an adapter (sold separately).
Thule's Snug-Tite Receiver Lock secures their T2, Doubletrack, Roadway, and Parkway receiver-type racks (also called "hitch racks"). Just insert the Snug-Tite in place of your receiver pin and the rack is locked in place.
Yakima's FourTimer hauls 4 bikes of virtually any style, from children's bikes to big DH bikes to fat bikes. • Transport four bikes regardless of frame design, suspension or wheel size • Ideal for fat bikes, kids' bikes, and fenders • Secures bike by the frame with padded arms • Low tray height for quick and easy loading and unloading of bikes • Folds down with bikes loaded for rear-of-vehicle access. Folds up when not in use • Easily converts into 2-bike carrier
Saris' Protect-O-Pads are foam blocks that separate and protect your bikes when multiple bikes are being transported. They come in packs of four.
- Updated design, for use with all Saris racks where bikes are secured by the top tube - Bridges the gap from stem to seat tube, creating a virtual top tube - Useful on ladies and specialty frames
- Carries 2 bikes (35 pounds/bike). - Preassembled. - Injection-molded arms are strongest in the market. - Arms fold up and down with ease for quick storage and easy loading. - Welded steel mainframe. - Rack tilts down with pull of handle for easy access to rear of vehicle. - Coated hold-downs and anti-sway straps provide soft-touch protection to secure and stabilize the bikes. - Fits 1-¼-inch or 2-ubcg hitches out of the box. - Hitch lock sold separately (Model 3022). - Lightweight, steel construction weighs only 15 pounds. - Made in Madison, WI.
The ForkLift is one of Yakima's most versatile fork-mounted roof racks. It boasts square, round and direct-to-factory crossbar capability right out of the box. It also features quick and easy tool-free installation, a sleek design and a smooth, automotive finish that looks great on any car. The easy-to-adjust sliding wheel tray makes positioning the rear wheel a snap and it's compatible with most disc brakes.
The arch is arguably the most important engineering feat in human history. One look at Saris' Bones 2-Bike rack would make any ancient Roman proud. With three incredibly strong, arched leg mounts and two arched arms, you can rest assured that your bike is in solid hands. Six highly adjustable straps, each equipped with soft coated hooks, hold the rack down, while the three legs have grippy rubber feet to provide a sturdy base. Ratcheting anti-sway straps ensure a tight grasp on your bikes. The Bones is made out of 100% recyclable, non-rusting parts and fits almost all vehicles—even those with spoilers.
Easy to mount and a cinch to store in the back of your car, Saris' Solo is a low-profile rack for peace-of-mind convenience. Solo's uni-body frame has no adjustable parts, which makes it a no-brainer to set up. With its soft, rubber, pivoting feet and four hold-down straps, the Solo safely and securely attaches to your car. Two strong buckles and an integrated anti-sway strap keep your bike in place. As an added bonus, the Solo is built with 100% recyclable, non-rusting materials.
Don't leave your fat bike behind! Saris' Freedom Fat Tire Wheel Holders carry up to 5-inch-wide bicycle tires. Extra-long straps secure your bike to any Saris Freedom rack (sold separately).
If you're looking for a car rack that will haul your favorite 2-wheeled possessions with swagger and security, the Bones Hitch 3-bike has you covered. With arching lines and robust, American-made materials this hitch rack can be summarized in two words: beautiful simplicity. Weighing in at only 16 pounds, this 3-bike hitch rack is a full 25% lighter than similar racks—et just as strong. With integrated anti-sways and hold downs, the Bones Hitch is a fully functional piece of art. - Carries 3 bikes (35 pounds/bike). - Preassembled. - Injection-molded arms are strongest in the market. - Arms fold up and down with ease for quick storage and easy loading. - Welded steel mainframe. - Rack tilts down with pull of handle for easy access to rear of vehicle. - Coated hold-downs and anti-sway straps provide soft-touch protection to secure and stabilize the bikes. - Fits 1-¼-inch or 2-inch hitches. - Hitch lock sold separately (Model 3022). - Lightweight, steel construction weighs only 16 pounds. - Made in Madison, WI.
Transport all types of bikes with Saris' Freedom Spare Tire 2-bike rack. Designed to fit all spare tires (left-, right-, or center-positioned), this innovative rack adjusts to fit most bikes and sizes, including kids' and even some recumbents, thanks to the adjustability of its center upright support. It uses quick-adjust trays and ratcheting straps to secure two bikes of up to 35 pounds each. Loading is made easy by the low tray height. The center upright support even tilts down to stay out of the way when not in use.
$12.99 - $13.99
Simply insert Saris' Hitch Tite into the hitch receiver to give your Saris bike rack (sold separately) extra stability. The Hitch Tite is compatible with the Bike Porter Hitch 2-Bike, Freedom, Axis Steel, Axis Aluminum, Cycle-On, and T-RAX Sport racks.
With an iron grip, Thule's Rapid Crossroad turns factory-installed raised rails into a versatile multipurpose rack system. Your car's rails are fully protected thanks to the integrated rubber lining. You also get maximum rack strength and a custom fit from the tooless, rubber-coated steel straps.
Grab your bikes, put them on the back of your vehicle and go with Thule's Passage rear rack. It's that easy because Thule's innovative Fit Dial easily attaches the Passage to most vehicles and the 6 straps securely hold it in place (straps not shown), while Thule's rubber anti-sway cradles keep your bikes from swaying into each other. You'll also love that the rack arms fold, making it super easy to store this rack when it's not in use.
Saris' Wheel Straps keep your front wheels from spinning and your handlebars from turning in the wind. They're made of tough nylon with easy-to-use buckle closures. Wheel Straps are sold in pairs.
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Israel has recently launched new attacks in Palestine. It has been a constant that Palestinians are abused and attacked regularly by Israeli forces but recently after the kidnapping of some Israeli teens, Israel has launched another operation in Gaza and bombed houses, killing civillians as revenge.
The latest -
Israeli settlers Kidnapped a Palestinian boy in revenge and burnt him alive. He was forced to drink petrol. - http://www.theguardi...ir-burned-alive
Israeli police arrested (without charge) and severly beat an American Palestinian boy - http://www.theguardi...-israeli-police
Here are some confessions from IDF personnel who felt the weight of the crimes they were commiting and witnessing beared too much on their own conciences.
http://www.theguardi...tine-occupation - May Allah give more people the strength to break free of evil.

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On the day before the military invasion of Iraq began last year, anti-war opponents in the United Nations Security Council were giving speeches beseeching the Bush administration to reconsider their march toward war.
"To those who think that the scourge of terrorism will be eradicated through what is done in Iraq, we say that they run the risk of failing in their objective," said French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin on March 19, 2003, whose country was among the most vocal opponents of the Iraq war.
One year since the start of the invasion and one week after one of the worst terrorist attacks in European history, de Villepin's statement seems to
hold up. Following the bombing of four trains that killed more than 200 people in Madrid eight days ago, Spain voted out the popular party of Prime Minister Jose Aznar, one of Washington's closest allies.
In his place is a social democrat prime minister who has promised to pull Spain's 1,300 troops out of Iraq. Fearing terrorist attacks, the government of Poland, which heads a 9,000-troop multinational force in Iraq, initially joined Spain in considering an Iraq pull-out.
Last year, Italy, Poland, Spain and the U.K. were the United States' closest allies in the looming invasion of Iraq. Their support divided the European Union, opening deep wounds in the 15 member bloc that have only recently begun to heal.
Looking forward, not back
Germany, like anti-war opponent France, has done a lot to patch up its ties with Washington. In September 2002, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder fell foul of the Bush administration when he rode his opposition to the Iraq war to campaign victory.
Rather than abandon his position after his re-election, Schöder's government stood by its anti-
war stance, pleading in the U.N. Security Council that the United States and Great Britain give U.N. weapons inspectors more time to search for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
A year later, vast stores of weapons of mass destruction have yet to be found, and coalition forces in Iraq are suffering heavy casualties in a guerrilla war with Islamic Jihadists. But Schröder has gone out of his way to disperse any notions that Germany feels justified in its Iraq opposition.
"We have to talk about the present and the future now," he said at a joint White House press conference with President George W. Bush on Feb. 27 this year. "We both have a great interest in seeing a stable and democratic Iraq develop."
After Iraq division, offers of help
The Feb. 27 marked the final stages of a return to normalcy in a German-American relationship thrown off-track by divisions over the Iraq war. On his trip to the White House, Schröder mentioned several olive branches Berlin had extended to the Bush administration in an effort to bridge the Iraq divide.
German police have already begun training the first 150 Iraqi police officers in the United Arab Emirates. The government is also mulling ways to forgive Iraq debt and increase the economic aid it wants to pour into the war-torn country.
But Berlin continues to rule out any deployment of German soldiers on Iraqi soil, even under a NATO mandate.
"We have absolutely no plans to send the military, the Bundeswehr into Iraq," German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has said.
Germany better off through anti-war stance
The stance is one that has come under criticism from opposition politicians, who supported America's military invasion of Iraq one year ago. The Christian Democratic Union has said the Schröder government shouldn't rule out sending soldiers into the war-torn country.
Government Development Minister criticized the opposition in an interview Friday, saying that had they listened to the CDU "there would be German soldiers in Iraq today, and they would also be victims. And we would have to have spent billions of Euros on this war."
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So I've got a chick that does alot of image resizing as part of her role, and is struggling with resizing tools.
What is the current best tool for automating this sort of thing?
I'll bet she could resize my tool
Photoshop. File -> Scripts -> Image Processor
Nah not photoshop dawg
Thinking under $1k
I mentioned photoshop so as to avoid installing additional software, since everyone already has photoshop.
But there are a thousand tools like this, just go to a download site like tucows or whatever and do a search. I doubt there is a 'current best tool', they are very simple programs.
Irfanview batch mode will do it; it is freeware. http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/69939
ImageMagick command line tools will do it too
Assuming it's basic image resizing, Irfanview is free and extremely customisable when it comes to that. If it's for professional photos/images of abnormally higher bit-depth, etc (that normal software doesn't support) .. then you're better off with Photoshop style programs.
Just make sure you have "Resample" enabled, otherwise it'll do nearest-neighbour interpolation.
one of the first tools i install on any windows install is the image resizer. (not sure why its not a default windows tool)
select however many images, right click, resize. it does standard sizing, but can also do custom.
simple, fast, easy.
i hate tards that post 3meg or bigger images in emails and on forums
pix resizer, and it free and awesome been using it for years.
I use http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/ too. Works great.
doesn't CS4 (i know, no photoshop, but still) have the droplets you can make (basiclly simple work flows, drop a whole folder on the droplett, and it does the same commands to all the files, and spits them to a set folder, bam!)
MS Office picture manager ftw
I use VSO Image Resizer at home and it works well and is easy to use. Easy enough that I was even able to teach my mum how to use it.
They use a program called Fotosizer at work that even work chumps have figured out how to use, so It's pretty simple too.
The same thing for photoshop exists in GNU image manipulator program (GIMP).
Quick google would have been better than this thread IMO.
If you aren't just going from 1 absolute size to another absolute size then things get tricky though.
Edit: What do you mean by 'struggling' as in 'isn't competent' or more that the tool she uses isn't very good, and if so in what way? What does 'best' mean?
now that I'm on my PC, I'll add more to "mogrify"
you could set it up on a timer so all she has to do is drop a bunch of files in a directory at night, in the morning they'd be resized and she can just move them to wherever, or just make some sort of batch file & drop a directory onto it or what I did, add a menu entry to the right click menu for folders
tucows is still a thing?
Powertools, image re-sizer?
Powertools, image re-sizer?
yer, thats what i used to use, doesnt exist for windows 7 though. shame, it should have been made a default windows tool.
^^ you're a default windows tool
+1 for.
Great tool, I think the above is a Win7 compatible version of the WinXP Powertools original.
I use InfranView or Photoshop if it's more advanced.
Yup there defs is a win 7 compatible version. I have it on my work PC


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The pamphlet collections collectively are a rich source of information on women's history, women's movements, and issues affecting women's lives. Nineteenth-century reform movements, including contemporary writings on suffrage, abolition, education for women, prison reform, and temperance, are documented in them. These primary sources will allow the reader to follow the arguments on these and other issues, both pro and con.
More than thirty thousand pamphlets are found in such groupings as the YA Pamphlet Collection, the Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection, the African American Pamphlet Collection, the Radical Pamphlet Collection, and the bound pamphlet collections. Although most pamphlets have individual bibliographic records online, they do not have individual classification numbers. This accession-type numbering means that pamphlets on one subject or by one author will be scattered throughout the collections. Pursuing online access to them by subject heading or author and title is most efficient.
The YA Pamphlet Collection, a huge, miscellaneous nineteenth-century pamphlet collection, includes speeches by Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) and other early feminists as well as works by and about Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), the first American woman astronomer and an advocate of higher education for women.
The Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection and the African American Pamphlet Collection include significant material by African American women authors and activists, particularly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The Murray Pamphlet collection includes several works by noted abolitionist and suffragist Frances E. Watkins Harper (1825-1911), including her speech Enlightened Motherhood (Brooklyn: The Society, 1892; E449.D16 19:6 Murray Pam) [full item] given before the Brooklyn Literary Society, and some of the anti-lynching writings of journalist and lecturer Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931).
In The Progress of Colored Women (Washington: Smith Brothers; E449.D16 A:13 Murray Pam) , a speech Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) delivered before the Fiftieth Anniversary Convention of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association in 1898, she calls for the end of racial injustice and gender bias in education and employment.
The Murray collection of nearly 350 pamphlets has been digitized as an American Memory collection entitled "African American Perspectives". The African American Pamphlet Collection, which numbers nearly four hundred works published between 1824 and 1909 and includes works related to women's education and social conditions, is also available in American Memory as "From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection".
The Radical Pamphlet Collection of approximately four thousand items is organized as a group, with the call number HX81.A53 1870 . The pamphlets are arranged alphabetically by author, organization, or title, and a container list is available in the Rare Book Reading Room. Pamphlets by Emma Goldman (1869-1940) are here, including Marriage and Love and Anarchism, What It Really Stands For, both published in 1914. Works on women and communism by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964), member of the National Board of the Communist Party, U.S.A., and Olive Johnson's (1872-1954) pamphlets on women and the Socialist movement are also in this collection.
The division holds five more special collections of radical literature, representing the ideologies and activities of groups across the political spectrum. The Anarchism Collection (1850-1970) includes foreign-language titles intended for urban immigrant communities in the United States, such as works by Emma Goldman and the Yiddish- language newspaper of an anarchist group of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. The Anarchism Pamphlet Collection consists of approximately eight hundred pamphlets, broadsides, and posters printed between 1895 and 1972 and is strong in materials relating to anarcho-syndicalism as well as anarchism. Finding aids are available in the reading room.
The Paul Avrich Collection of nearly twenty thousand, twentieth-century American and European anarchist publications and manuscripts was donated to the Library by Dr. Paul Avrich, its collector. It features much material concerning Emma Goldman, including a number of rare pamphlets and extensive correspondence. Materials related to Mollie Steimer (1897-1980), a participant in the controversial Abrams case concerning American civil liberties and free speech, and extensive correspondence with Clara Larsen are notable.
Contributions of women to the development of anarchist colonies and schools, especially Stelton Modern School, can be traced in the correspondence of Elizabeth Ferm (1867- 1944) and Nellie Dick. Also significant is correspondence of Jo Ann Burbank, Minna Lowensohn, Dora Keyser, and Pauline Turkel. Significant serials holdings include several issues of Association of Libertarian Feminists News (Revere, Mass., 1979-85) and Rebel Woman (Portland, Ore., 1973-74). Manuscript material is arranged alphabetically by individual or organization; pamphlets are arranged alphabetically by author. A finding aid is available in the reading room and catalog records for books in the Avrich Collection are available online.
The House UnAmerican Activities Committee Collection includes four thousand pamphlets that were produced by those under committee review and collected by the committee. The wide range of topics they address includes labor, communism, socialism, fascism, and black power. Access to this collection is available through a finding aid in the reading room or the Chadwyck-Healey microfiche publication Radical Pamphlets in American Collections (MicRR).
The M & S Collection of ten thousand, twentieth- century radical books, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, broadsides, and printed ephemera represents many little-known and short-lived groups that generated publications between 1950 and 1981. Publications are arranged by format and then alphabetically by group. Included are scattered issues of the newspapers Women and Revolution and Women United; the magazines Freewoman and Minute Woman; and broadsides by Female Liberation, National Organization for Women, Women's Committee against Genocide, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, as well as many pamphlets related to abortion and other topics relevant to women. A finding aid is available in the reading room.
The division's holdings on birth control, family planning, and the birth control movement are classified in HQ, along with books on sex and marriage. Two volumes labeled "Pamphlets on contraception" (HQ763 .P3 and HQ763.P33) contain seventy-two pamphlets, many of which were given to the Library by Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), a pioneering advocate of birth control, in December 1931. The pamphlets, most of which were published in the 1920s, cover the history of the movement, include two editions of Sanger's Family Limitation, as well as her lecture leaflet, the Fight for Birth Control [full item] and present arguments both for and against birth control. (Sanger's personal papers are held in the Manuscript Division.)
The division holds several treatises on abortion at HQ767 and a pamphlet describing the activities and court trials of the New York abortionist Anna Trow Lohman in Restell's Secret Life (Philadelphia: Old Franklin Publishing House, 1884; HV6534.N5 A6 1884) . Stories based on court cases and police reports dealing with various "wrongs afflicted on young women," including deception, domestic violence, and murder, are found under HV6534.N5 A6 1869-1886.[Top]
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The headline from March 28 says Robyn Pugh sues Middle Smithfield past and current supervisors for sexual harassment. Let's see, it's been 17 months since Miss Pugh was in the employ of Middle Smithfield Township when all of the terrible things she alleges occurred. Perhaps she's spent the last 17 months spending all of that outrageous money she was paid, $90,000 a year plus overtime, for the bang-up job she did running the golf course and sewer business for the township. The poor thing was so overworked that bills went unpaid for months and of course she had such outstanding golf course management skills that the course lost a reported $600,000. Where oh where did all of that money go? One wonders?
Miss Pugh has cost the taxpayers of Middle Smithfield enough grief, aggravation and money already — enough is enough. She needs to pack her tent and vacate the area.
Miss Pugh should be on the end of a suit for gross incompetence instead of throwing up a frivolous suit which is clearly nothing more than an attempt to scrounge up some money, which is what she appears to an expert at. What in heaven's name is her attorney thinking — what Kool Aid did this person drink?.
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Unit C: Treasures From Earth
The books listed below may be available through publishers, distributors such as bookstores or online retailers, or library systems.
Leveled Independent Science Books
Extra Support
- Finding a Woolly Mammoth
- Summary: The experience of finding woolly mammoth fossils is described.
On Level
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Painter of Birds
- Summary: Louis Agassiz Fuertes grows from a young bird lover to a famous bird painter.
- A Worm's Home
- Summary: An earthworm describes soil and its relationship with plants and animals.
- Soil
- Readers learn about the composition of soil and different types of soil.
- Fossils
- This look at fossils explains how they are formed and where they can be found.
- The Best Book of Fossils, Rocks, and Minerals
- This overview gives readers a broad understanding of Earth's natural riches.
- A Handful of Dirt
- A tour of soil presents the multitude of microscopic creatures that live in it.
- River
- Paintings and simple text chart a river's decline from unspoiled to polluted and then back again.
- Garbage and Recycling
- Readers learn why recycling is important and how they can begin recycling at home.
- Home
- Over the course of time, Tracy and her neighbors clean up their polluted urban neighborhood.
- Recycling
- This introduction to recycling explains its importance.


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Manufacturers of foods pitched most heavily to kids -- breakfast cereals, snacks, carbonated beverages and restaurant fare -- should develop and reformulate their offerings to cut salt, added sugars and saturated fat and ensure they contribute meaningfully to a child's healthy diet, a federal working group recommended on Thursday.
The food manufacturers should make those changes soon, with a target date just five years away, in 2016; they should revamp their advertising pitches and marketing messages to stress the nutritional values of their fare and shift their ad campaigns away from less healthy options; and they should do all this voluntarily (please), said the Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children.
In the year 2006 alone, the food industry spent $50 million to advertise and market 10 categories of food primarily to kids, and it is no accident that many products in these categories are well known to -- and frequently demanded by -- kids who spend time watching television geared to their demographic. If the food industry chooses to follow the recommendations drafted by the working group, the following categories of food would either be reformulated or get less airtime than is currently the case: breakfast cereals, snack foods, dairy products, candy, baked goods, fruit juices, beverages, frozen desserts, prepared meals and restaurant food.
Those "preliminary proposed nutrition principles to guide industry self-regulatory efforts" were issued Thursday by a panel of experts hailing from four federal agencies that regulate and set policy on nutrition and health and food safety, production and marketing. Acting at the direction of Congress, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Commerce Department's Federal Trade Commission drafted the new principles and are seeking the public's comment.
The working group's suggestions prompted praise (and an implied threat) from the lawmaker who called for the guidelines and grousing from those who see the guidelines as a meddling edict from the "nanny state" and its "food scold" allies. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who drafted the legislative language calling for the "preliminary proposed principles," said the draft guidelines released for comment Thursday "make the healthy choice the easy choice."
"On a daily basis, kids across the country are barraged with ads for junk foods, and it is long past time that we put some limits on the advertising of these unhealthy foods," Harkin said in a statement issued Thursday. "It is now my hope that companies will voluntarily abide by [the guidelines] and work to implement them as soon as possible. Our childrens' health cannot wait."
Calling the proposals "sweeping" and "overly restrictive," Dan Jaffe, executive vice president of the Assn. of National Advertisers, said, "despite calling these proposals 'voluntary,' the government is clearly trying to place major pressure on the food, beverage and restaurant industries on what can and cannot be advertised."


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Annual, perennial herb, shrubs, trees, generally stellate-hairy; juice sticky; inner bark tough, fibrous
Leaves alternate, simple, petioled; blade generally palmately veined or lobed, stipules present
Inflorescence often leafy; whorl or involucre of bractlets often subtending calyx
Flower generally bisexual, radial; calyx lobes 5, margins abutting in bud; petals 5, free (fused at base to filament tube, so falling together); stamens many, filaments fused into a tube surrounding style, tube fused in turn to petal bases; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 5 or more, style branches, stigmas generally 1 or 2 X as many as chambers
Fruit of 5many disk- or wedge-shaped segments, loculicidal capsule, or berry
Genera in family: 100 genera, 2000 species: worldwide, especially warm regions; some cultivated (e.g., Abelmoschus , okra; Alcea ; Gossypium , cotton; Hibiscus , Malvaviscus )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Sterculiaceae [Angiosperm phylogeny Group 1998 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 85:531553; Alverson et al. 1999 Amer J Bot 86:14741486; Bayer et al. 1999 Bot J Linn Soc 129:267303]
Mature fruit important for identification.
Annual, perennial herb, sometimes from long, creeping rhizomes
Stem generally erect or base ± decumbent
Leaves generally mostly from near stem base; lowest blades generally crenate to shallowly lobed, upper blades generally deeply lobed (generally ± compound)
Inflorescence generally spike- or panicle-like, generally more open in fruit; bracts at pedicel base 2, generally stipule-like; bractlets subtending calyx generally 0(3)
Flower: calyx lobes = or > tube; petals purple or rose-pink to white; stamen-tube with generally 2 series of ± fused filaments near tip; stigmas linear, on inner side of style branches
Fruit: segments generally 510, indehiscent, generally ± beaked, walls thin
Seed 1 per fruit segment
Species in genus: ± 25 species: w North America
Etymology: (Greek: combination of 2 names for mallow)
Reference: [Hitchcock 1957 Univ Wash Publ Biol 18:196]
Highly variable and difficult, with many local forms; some plants will not key with certainty. Additional work warranted.
Stem 1.53 dm, slender; lower stem ± glabrous to sparsely stellate
Leaf: blade segments generally 57, linear
Inflorescence not much longer in fruit; flowers generally 46, overlapping
Flower: calyx generally 810 mm, not much larger in fruit, stellate-canescent; petals 1820 mm, rose-purple; outer filament series fused in small sets
Fruit: segment 2.53 mm, net-veined and pitted, glabrous
Ecology: Dry hillsides, often on serpentine
Elevation: < 1000 m.
Bioregional distribution: Inner North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range Foothills, Sacramento Valley, n&c Sierra Nevada Foothills.


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Last time I described the procedure for constructing a look-up table for time conversion for road segments of a particular road grade. The road grade is the result of taking the route profile for a course, extracted for example from barometric altimetry + GPS data (Garmin Edge 500, Garmin Edge 800), and convolving it with a smoothing function to reduce grade changes which occur over substantially less distance than 25 meters. The approach is based on an equation fit to data from Minetti, et al, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology in 2002.
Here's the model, where metabolic cost is measured in energy per unit distance. Although metabolic heat is more conventionally reported in calories, I prefer joules in order to facilitate conversion between power, work, and heat. I assumed running for grades up to 12%, and walking for grades larger than 12%, which is consistent with my typical practice (perhaps not Gary "the" Gellin, who could run up a sheer vertical wall and still do sub-9 minute miles).
dE/ds =where I define:
a0 +
a1 (g' + g'0)2 +
a2 (g' + g'0)4 +
a3 (g' + g'0)6
g' = grade / sqrt[ 1 + grade2 ]
and where I derived the following heuristic model parameters:
a0 = 1.68 J/m/kg a1 = 54.9 J/m/kg a2 = −102 J/m/kg a3 = 200 J/m/kg g'0 = 18.4%
To convert cycling power to metabolic cost, I assumed a 3% drivetrain loss rate, and I assumed a cyclist metabolic efficiency of 25.7%, which is the lowest value which avoids the bike rider requiring a greater rate of metabolic cost than the runner at the same road grade given the idealized assumption of zero bike weight and zero drivetrain efficiency. However, here I take a slightly different approach.
The retarding force from wind resistance is typically modeled as 1/2 ρ Cd A v2, where ρ is the air density (typically approximately 1.15 kg/m3), Cd is the coefficient of wind resistance, A is the cross-sectional area, and v2 is the square of the bike or runner speed. For the cyclist, I am going to arbitrarily assume a CdA of approximately 0.45 m2 per 75 kg of body mass, while for the runner, I will assume Cd of approximately 0.8 with an area of approximately 0.75 meters squared, totalling 0.6 m2 for the same 75 kg of body mass. So the runner, by virtue of an upright position, will have more wind resistance, and will typically be wearing less aerodynamically efficiency clothing, although he is spared the wind drag of a bicycle. For runners, the key question is how to convert this wind drag to merginal metabolic cost. For that I can just assume a marginal metabolic efficiency. 25% seems a good choice, so that's what I used.
For cycling, I assumed a CdA of 0.45 m2 for a 75 kg cyclist. I estimated a rolling resistance coefficient of around 0.4%. I set extra mass, including bike and clothing, to a modest 12% of the body mass (9 kg). I then assumed the cyclist could sustain 5 W/kg, which yields an Old La Honda time of just over 17 minutes.
As I noted last time, I asserted at high speeds the cyclist is retarded by safety considerations, which I applied as follows:
v → (v−4 + vmax−4)−1/4 .
Here's the resulting pace in minutes / km (I like min/km ore than
min/mile because it makes calculation of times for 10 km races simple,
perhaps except for a fractional minutes-to-second conversion):
calculated minutes per km for model cyclist and runner. I assume the runner can do just under 4 min per km (4.3 meters/second) while the cyclist can sustain 5 W/kg (17-minute Old La Honda). I then scale runner speeds using my analytic fit to Minetti's metabolic cost data, adjusted for estimated wind resistance with a 25% metabolic efficiency. For the rider, I assume a climb-like bike position for wind resistance with 12% of total weight taken up by the bike + clothing.
As expected, the cyclist at negative and zero grades has a substantial advantage, but as the road gets steeper, the runner does better relative to the cyclist. Here there is no cross-over point, unlike my last calculation where the conversion between runner and cyclist was based on an assumption of metabolic efficiency However that approach substantially overestimated what speed I would be able to sustain up Old La Honda, so for this calculation the more heuristically based criteria for setting cyclist and runner speeds independently (I still used a metabolic efficiency for the small correction to runner speed due to wind resistance in still air) resulted in lower running speeds, and therefore the cyclist in this case is able to sustain an advantage to the 20% in the plot.
It appears from the trend as if the runner will eventually catch up to the cyclist pace but in fact this isn't the case due to the nonlinearity in the metabolic running cost with road grade. This is optimistic about the ability to sustain power on a bicycle at extreme grades, however. Eventually traction becomes an issue, and likely gearing becomes limited, unless you're riding a bike like Dan Guttierez's Fargo-Road-climbing-custom (video). But then who says you're not? My model shouldn't assume you're riding an inappropriate machine for the road.
Anyway, I then calculated a score conversion factor for running scores. As I noted, rather than rely heavily on my ad hoc assumptions about what speeds a model runner versus a model cyclist can sustain, I constrained the score conversion to 1 at a 12% grade. The result is here:
Score conversion factor for runners versus road grade. Actual roads will be adjusted on a segment-by-segment basis using full profile data (with Gaussian smoothing). While specific assumed cycling and running speeds were used to generate this curve, the effect of these assumptions was only on wind resistance, and therefore for climbs the affect on the conversion factor is small. The dashed line is for equal time, the solid line adjusts for the runner taking more time and thus facing greater fatigue than the cyclist (for the grades on the plot). Each curve is independently normalized to 1 at a 12% grade.
What I'm missing in the dashed line in this plot is the effect of endurance, however. I
started by assuming cyclists could sustain a given power and runners a
given flat road pace, but of course they can't do that indefinitely.
However, such a pace cannot be sustained indefinitely. Looking at
world record times, there is a trend that these speeds fall around 5%
every time the time required is doubled. I can model that as speed is
inversely proportional to distance (at a given grade) raised to the
power ln(1.05)/ln(2). There's a minor issue whether the 5% applies to
doubling of distance or time. I'll assume time. That means to get an
exponent to apply to distance I need to solve self-consistently, which
can be done analytically via the transformation of the exponent k
kd = kt / (1 - kt )where kt is the exponent for time and d is the exponent for distance. So in my application speed is changing over the course due to grade, but on constant grade I initially assume constant speed, so instead of kd here I can use initially calculated time. So what I do for endurance is to take a reference time at which the assumed flat-pace or power can be sustained, then assume that pace applies to any distance, then once I've calculated a power I multiply it by the ratio of the initially calculated time to the reference time raised to the power calculated to yield my 5%/factor-of-two-time speed loss, which is 0.0757.
The effect of the endurance adjustment is shown as the solid line in the preceding plot. For relatively flat or descending routes, the runner takes more time relative to the cyclist than he would on the reference 12% grade, and therefore his speed will be relatively degraded by the assumed 5%/factor-of-2-in-duration rate of decay. The effect is 5% total for when the conversion factor reaches 2 (which is what it is designed to do).
So that's it. All I need to do next is test it on a real hills.


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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) West Virginia's backcourt duo of Christal Caldwell and Bria Holmes left coach Mike Carey confident about the Mountaineers chances of making program history in the NCAA women's tournament.
Caldwell scored 26 points, Holmes added 20, and second-seeded West Virginia defeated Albany 76-61 in the opening round Sunday, setting up a second-round matchup Tuesday night with host LSU, the No. 7 seed.
Averee Fields added 10 points for West Virginia (30-4).
"We attacked the basket and did what we are supposed to do," Carey said. "We passed the ball extremely well."
Megan Craig led the 15th-seeded Great Danes (28-5) with 23 points. But the 6-foot-9 center was hampered by two quick fouls that limiter her playing time in the first half.
"I'm very proud of my team," Albany head coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson said. "They completed and competed to the end and finished the game as fighters."
When Craig went to the bench, the Mountaineers went on a 16-2 run to take a 33-11 lead.
"It was more of our defense that was the biggest reason we went on our run like we did," Holmes said. "It got things going with us offensively and allowed us to score a lot of points quickly when their girl (Craig) went out of the game."
Indeed, West Virginia's defense held Albany scoreless for nearly six minutes during the run and the Great Danes never quite recovered.
"I was just itching to get back out there as quick as I could," Craig said. "But I knew I couldn't afford to get into any more foul trouble, particularly in the first half. I just knew that I had to do whatever I could once I was able to get back into the game."
Albany leading scorer and America East Player of the Year Shereesha Richards also got into foul trouble and was limited to only nine points before fouling out with four minutes remaining in the game.
Sara Royals scored 14 points for Albany, which fell behind by as much as 22 for mounting a desperate comeback attempt.
Albany managed to cut the lead to 56-51 with less than seven minutes to go, but West Virginia immediately responded by scoring the next four points to push the lead back to 60-51, securing the victory and its berth in the second round.
"Having Shereesha and Megan in foul trouble was just the difference in the game," Abrahamson-Henderson said. "That changed the entire offensive outlook. We had to change out a lot of stuff and look to some other players to get points. We just couldn't get over the top once we got it down to five in the second half."
West Virginia has already set a school record for victories in a season and has its highest ever seeding in an NCAA tournament. Now the Mountaineers have two days to prepare for a virtual road game against an LSU team coming off a commanding 98-78 triumph over Georgia Tech.
"We are used to playing away from home in front of big crowds," Caldwell said. "The thing about this team is that in those types of situations our coaching staff says we focus even more. I think if we do that then we are going to be fine."
Carey said he expects the Lady Tigers, who'd lost eight of 10 entering the tournament, to nonetheless be a formidable foe.
"We know that it is going to be a tough game," Carey said. "We are going to have to play our offense and our defense for 40 minutes if we are going to be able to win. We are going to be going up against a really good LSU team that can do a lot of good things on both ends of the court."


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Texas' Republican senators gave a rare round of applause to the Obama administration today after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it will not add the dunes sagebrush lizard to the endangered species list.
Sen. John Cornyn, who called the service's original intent to list the dune lizard found in oil-rich West Texas as endangered "ill-conceived," said the administration was correct to change course. The San Antonio Republican said in his statement that the original proposal was "based on incomplete science" and posed a threat to employment in Texas.
"After visiting the Permian Basin the administration no doubt saw firsthand the real, dire consequences that listing this species would have had for Texans and our nation's energy production," Cornyn declared in a statement.
This small lizard, which dwells in four select sand dunes of Western Texas and four in New Mexico, has drawn attention recently in the scientific community as data was collected and the consequences of listing this lizard were discussed.
Cornyn and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., wrote a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar six months ago asking for a delay in the final decision. Over those six months, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs formed the Texas Conservation Plan, which Texas lawmakers today credited with playing a part in keeping the lizard off the list.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison R-Dallas, said she was "pleased" by the news.
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NAPA — Two years ago, Denarius Moore burst onto the scene in training camp as a wide receiver to be reckoned with. Last season, Rod Streater made a huge splash. This year, it's Andre Holmes emerging from a crowded receiving corps and making a strong case for a roster spot, if not significant playing time.
Holmes, 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, caught two passes for 11 yards in seven games with the Dallas Cowboys last season. He also spent time with the Minnesota Vikings since he entered the NFL out of Hillsdale college, the same college that produced Raiders left offensive tackle Jared Veldheer.
Moore and Streater ultimately enjoyed successful rookie seasons. Time will tell if Holmes follows their lead, even if he isn't a rookie.
If so, he won't get to make his mark until the Raiders fifth regular-season game, at the earliest, because he was suspended four games by the league for violating its policy on performance-enhancing substances.
Holmes has outshined the likes of second-year receiver Juron Criner, 2013 draftee Brice Butler and undrafted free agents Conner Vernon and Sam McGuffie so far.
Time and again, it's Holmes making the big play, drawing oohs and aahs from the fans in attendance and catching the eyes of the coaches that will decide who stays and who goes a month or so from now.
"I've made some plays and everything but I'm still going to be hungry and just think, 'OK, I've done what I've had to do,' " Holmes said. "It's continuous, especially going into the preseason games. That's where, I said every practice is a game, well the preseason is like the Super Bowl. You got to go out there and show your worth and just because you do it the first four days of camp, you got to keep doing it every single day."
On Tuesday, Holmes worked his way into the corner of the end zone, timed his leap perfectly and came down with a pass from Tyler Wilson just as the ball sailed over cornerback Taiwan Jones' fingertips.
— As long as we're on the subject of wide receivers, coach Dennis Allen said he still isn't sold on any of the players on his roster as the go-to receiver just yet.
He is hopeful that someone will emerge as the clear-cut No. 1 by camp's end. Moore and Streater figure to be the only legitimate candidates for that role right now.
"I don't think we have a go-to guy yet," Allen said. "I'm waiting for someone to jump out and be the guy. We have a talented, young group that's working hard, but it's going to be a work in progress. We have until September to figure that out."
Moore played the part last season, until he lapsed the second half of the season. Allen is eager to find out if Moore can regain his standing as the No. 1 receiver on this team.
So, what does Moore have to do?
"Make the plays that we want him to make," Allen said. "He's going to have to go up and make the contested plays, and he's going to have to make sure he doesn't have those concentration drops that he had at times last year. Again, It's as much about the mental part of it as the physical part of it."
Beyond that, Allen said, he wants every one of his receivers to develop a certain mind-set.
"Just, to be the go-to guy you've got to see yourself as a go-to guy," Allen said. "We've got to develop a swagger with the players on this team. There's got to be a vision and there's got to be a belief that they're good football players, and that they can get the job done."
Streater said he is taking that message to heart and not wasting any days at practice.
"As of now, I feel like I'm competing for that," Streater said. "Every day, anything that comes my way I got to catch. Whatever I don't, I just got to continue to work hard and just continue to focus on running routes right, blocking and doing things receivers do when the balls not in the hands."
— Nice touch by Pro Football Hall of Famer Willie Brown and current Raiders scouts Zack Crockett and Calvin Branch to spend some time with long-time season ticketholder Josh Maresca during practice today.
Maresca, who turned 58 today, is battling illness right now, so the visit no doubt served as a nice pick-me-up. He watched today's practice while wearing a No. 80 Raiders jersey.
— Linebacker Joe Mays signed with the Houston Texans, but not before receiving interest from a handful of other teams, including the Raiders.
It's unclear whether the Raiders offered Mays a contract before he opted to sign with the Texans. However, he was on the market when the Raiders were searching for help at linebacker in light of injuries to Miles Burris, Billy Boyko and Kaluka Maiava.
— Allen had a rather revealing quote about rookie cornerback D.J. Hayden: "He's not a first-round draft choice that feels like he's entitled. He's a first-round draft choice that wants to come in and prove himself. That's what I like about him."
Everything we've seen from Hayden supports Allen's take. Hayden got beat on back-to-back plays Tuesday, but he bounced back and ran stride for stride with the receiver a few plays later and prevented a long completion.
Even though Hayden hasn't been cleared for contact in practice, he participates in every drill, doesn't take off plays and soaks up as much info as he can from coaches and veteran players.
— Offensive players wore the silver jerseys the past couple of days. As it turns out, that's more than coincidence.
Allen said there's a little competition going on between the offense and defense each day, with the unit that outperforms the other getting to wear the silver jerseys the next day.
It's all part of fostering competition, creating a little good-natured rivalry and keeping things interesting during the drawn-out days at training camp.
"There will be practices throughout training camp where we'll put the jerseys up for grabs and the side of the ball that competes the best," Allen said, "because, at the end of the day, we're judged on winning and losing. We had a competition day the other day, the offense won the jersey, the defense is fighting to get it back."
— Tony Bergstrom worked at left guard once again with Lucas Nix sidelined by injury. The rest of the offensive line looked the same, for the most part.
Jared Veldheer is at left tackle, Stefen Wisniewski at center, Mike Brisiel at right guard and Khalif Barnes at right tackle.
Recently signed lineman Andre Gurode worked at right guard and center. He moved from center to right guard when he was on the field with Wisniewski.
— The play of camp so far came late in the proceedings today, when defensive coordinator Jason Tarver pleaded with his troops to make a goal-line stand.
On the next snap, strong safety Tyvon Branch jumped a route for tight end David Ausberry, stepped in front of Ausberry and intercepted Matt Flynn's pass. Branch was off to the races, his teammates and Tarver off the hook with excitement.
— A close second came a tad earlier when fullback Marcel Reece matched up with Jones, bolted down the left sidelined, timed his leap perfectly and snared the ball over Jones and kept going for a long touchdown.
That's the precise reason the Raiders love Reece so much, for his ability to create matchup nightmares because of his rare combination of size, speed, hands and athleticism.


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Minnie Batey was born on September 30, 1905. She grew up with her mother, Mamie Kirk and her sister, Tennie. She only went to the fifth grade, but she was very smart, both with intellectually and with common sense. She gave birth to her son, Wash William Brown, alone at the age of fifteen and placed him in a trunk. She didn't tell her mother about the birth for two days but cared for her son alone. After two days, she contacted her paternal grandmother Liza and told her of the birth and went to live with her grandmother and her father, Wash Batey. Minnie had a hard time for the next few months because her mother insisted on whipping her for having a baby and there was constant friction between her father, her mother and her. Baby Wash's father, Iss William Brown, found out about the birth, went and took Minnie and their son to live with him and his mother, Jennie Kimbro. They were married June of 1921, their son was five months old and they both adored him. Minnie, now a wife and mother, showed extraordinary judgment and sensibility at that time for such a young woman. She could cook almost anything without measuring the ingredients. She enjoyed cooking and keeping house for her family. She kept an immaculately clean house, everything had a place and everything should be in its place. Her husband, Iss, did not share this passion and many arguments ensued over the years regarding same. She was not a trusting woman and often exhibited signs of that mistrust with friends and distant relatives. If she did not want people to return to her house, after their visit she would sweep red pepper out of the door behind them. For her family which included her husband, son, granddaughter and first daughter in law, Violet; Minnie would go to the ends of the earth, they helped to raise their granddaughter after her parents were divorced. They, both, adored that granddaughter and taught her many things about life and how to handle life problems. Iss and Minnie were very much in love with each other and remained married until Iss passed away in 1977. Although their son, Wash, chose not to tell Minnie of Iss's death, she instinctively knew. She often said "I know Iss is dead." But, in her more lucid moments, she hoped that she was wrong. Minnie died in January, 1983. Most people in Murfreesboro remember "Momma Minnie."
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Simple Embedded Architecture for Robot Learning and Emotion
I've been working on a paper about robot learning for over a year now, more as a place to organize my thoughts than anything else. This paper outlines some ideas I've been having about how to implement a learning system that let's a robot relate state-action sequences to a result. It's still extremely sketchy, but I thought I'd make it public:
Simple Embedded Architecture for Robot Learning and Emotion
Sorry for the shoddy formatting, but that results from publishing a Google Doc as HTML.
I also have a few background documents that may be interesting* to some:
Senses/States Matrix
Emotional Effects on Outputs
Robot Emotions versus Movements
My current mental obsession is an ALife simulation running under Linux, and I thought I would try out this learning architecture in a simulated environment on a capable processor.
*I find this stuff extremely interesting, but then according to my teenage daughters I'm weird. Of course they think weird is a compliment.


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Explore impact of new technology and the benefits of timing its implementation properly.
I usually try to gear Prepress Wire toward discussions that focus on the technical aspects of prepress. There are plenty of opportunities for that, and it's easy to find some interesting aspect to highlight. But this month begins a two-part segment on managing changing technology around us, specifically the strategic and tactical approaches to implementing technology and innovation.
A significant disconnect often exists between what managers feel they need and the reality of the employees who implement our grand schemes. No matter how innovative or productive the technology is, the workers must ultimately make it happen—if it happens at all. Let's talk about some of the common situations to keep in mind. To begin, we'll take a look at the typical prepress scheme. The art department will be our first subject.
The art department
The art department is usually made up of creative art and production art. The creative artists normally have little to do with how the jobs are prepared and printed. Their job is to come up with the content that creates value in the eyes of the customer. Management commonly treats creative artists as prima donnas with an attitude. Management tolerates the artists and issues them a set of objectives that is different from the rest of the company's goals.
A huge divide sets apart throwing out ideas and concepts and actually making them printable. Making them printable falls on the production artists. These are the guys and gals who make it happen. They are often faced with the daunting task of making the unworkable workable. Production artists are vastly more technical in their understanding of the reproduction process, but they're often seen as overhead. Customers are rarely willing to pay for their time, nor are they appreciative of the production artists' knowledge and understanding of how the job will print. After all, the client is buying the complete package and has little interest in the mechanics of how the job actually gets done. Printers find it difficult to get customers to pay the full value of creative art because clients consider the step between the final approved art and the printed product as part of the deal.
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Fabrizio Campelli appointed to the Group Executive Committee
Deutsche Bank announced today that Fabrizio Campelli, age 41, Head of Group Strategy, will join the Bank's Group Executive Committee (GEC) with immediate effect. The GEC performs advisory, coordinating, performance-monitoring and decision-preparing functions for the Management Board.
As the Head of Group Strategy since 2009, Campelli works closely with senior management in formulating, executing and communicating the strategy of the Bank. Group Strategy includes teams that manage Corporate Strategy, Corporate M&A, Business Integration, and Infrastructure Strategy. Campelli will continue to report to Henry Ritchotte, Chief Operating Officer.
Jürgen Fitschen and Anshu Jain, Co-Chief Executive Officers of Deutsche Bank, said: "Fabrizio's promotion underlines the importance of the role that Group Strategy performs in defining the Bank's strategies and, in particular, executing Strategy 2015+. Fabrizio has demonstrated the ability to partner with and to help our business divisions and infrastructure functions as they execute their strategies."
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Purple Heart memorial dedicated at Camp Lejeune
By THOMAS BRENNAN | The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C. | Published: October 12, 2013
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A new monument behind Wounded Warrior Battalion on Camp Lejeune stands testament to the sacrifices of past, present and future Purple Heart recipients.
The Friday morning unveiling of the Purple Heart monument — which cost almost $7,000 and was provided by the Beirut Memorial Chapter 642 of the Military Order of the Purple Heart — brought together Camp Lejeune's combat wounded, local organizations and civilians.
The Purple Heart, which is the oldest U.S. military medal, is an award for those wounded or killed in action against an enemy of the United States.
"To me, this is a good eye opener for the younger Marines who aren't used to seeing Purple Heart recipients," said Purple Heart recipient Sgt. Shawn Seguin, 29, of Kingsville, Texas. "We have less and less combat wounded coming into Wounded Warrior Battalion. This shows them how much the wounded warriors have sacrificed. It also shows me the sacrifices of past generations and how much they have given up for our freedoms."
The Beirut Memorial chapter, according to Seguin, goes above and beyond to provide for the wounded Marines and sailors of Camp Lejeune and surrounding bases. Events like their Christmas tree display at the Marine Corps exchange and how the order funds combat wounded service members travel home during the holidays are truly impressive, he said.
Until Friday's ceremony, Seguin said he didn't realize how much brotherhood existed between those who have earned Purple Hearts. The unselfish display, according to Seguin, has inspired him to get more involved with the order.
"Organizations like MOPH are a guiding light and help us get where we need to go in our recovery," Seguin said. "That feeling of fighting the system goes away when you have the support of an organization like this to guide you through and take care of you."
The memorial is located at Wounded Warrior Battalion East's barracks because that is where wounded Marines and sailors come to heal and that they need to know their sacrifice is not forgotten, according to Grant Beck, the MOPH chapter's commander.
"About two and a half years ago we decided to raise funds to present a Purple Heart memorial here at the Wounded Warrior barracks," Beck said. "It's our way of honoring those Marines and sailors. We wanted them to have the memorial next to the barracks ...so it serves as a reminder of what the medal means that they have earned."
Beck hopes the wounded warriors know they need to be a team and foster an environment where they are not alone, something the order doesn't plan on letting them forget, he said. With post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and suicide being so prevalent, Beck said that reminding our Marines and sailors that people do care is of the utmost importance.
"They're not alone," Beck said. "They don't need to suffer by themselves. ...When they hear that from us – from those of us who still suffer from PTSD and our wounds ...maybe it helps them understand things a little more.
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Supporters of establishing "Roadrunner" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers as the official rock song of Massachusetts now officially have a formidable challenger on their hands.
Supporters of establishing "Roadrunner" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers as the official rock song of Massachusetts now officially have a formidable challenger on their hands.
Duxbury Democrat Rep. Josh Cutler and Marshfield Democrat Rep. James Cantwell today filed legislation that would bestow the official rock song status on a tune that's got a larger popular following than "Roadrunner," "Dream On" by Aerosmith.
The reps said that Rolling Stone magazine lists "Dream On" among its 500 greatest songs of all time. Cutler calls it a "classic ballad that's all about holding on to your dreams and seizing opportunity." Added Cantwell, "With all due respect, Aerosmith is the best-selling American rock band of all time. No band is more closely associated with Massachusetts."
The Aerosmith classic is also getting a lift through its inclusion in the trailer for "Argo," which won the best picture Oscar Sunday night.
In a Feb. 24 article, Laura Barton of The Guardian said she'd learned about the recent push behind "Roadrunner" through tweets and Facebook messages she'd received about a bill sponsored by Dorchester Democrat Rep. Marty Walsh.
Barton wrote an article in 2007 as a tribute to the song and speculated that she might head to Massachusetts for a "victory lap" should Walsh's bill become law. "In reality this song is nothing more than a tribute to the joys of driving on Route 128 at night in a Plymouth Roadrunner, driving past the Howard Johnson restaurants and the Stop 'n' Shop grocery, driving alone, for driving's sake, with only the radio on for company. In essence, however, Roadrunner is more than that: a song about what it means to feel young, and free, and charged by the world. It's a song about how glorious it feels to be alive."