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Almost all cordless power tools on the market come with a lithium-ion battery , which is capable of holding a lot of power which doesnt diminish over time if the tool isnt used. Plus, the top cordless tools will last a long time before their power starts to fade and some of the high-spec ones come with a fast charger. Whats more, some are up to 40% lighter than some other types of battery, making them easier to work with.
What voltage are cordless power tools?
The batteries for cordless tools come in different sizes, ranging from as low as 6 volts all the way up to 36 volts. The lower the voltage, the less powerful the tool, as this determines how much power the battery can deliver.
For light-duty tasks, a tool between 7 and 15 volts is suitable, for medium-duty tasks look for anything between 12 and 18 volts, whereas for heavy-duty work look for tools which range between 18 and 36 volts.
Advantages of cordless power tools
- Convenient – one of the biggest selling points of cordless tools is the convenience of being portable, because they dont require electric supply. They can move with you and are ideal for quick fixes and hard-to-reach places. Plus, with an extra battery always charging, theyre never without power. Whats more, by not having to worry about cords getting in the way this can help to reduce hazards and risks.
- Extra features – many cordless tools are produced with a variety of features, such as multiple speeds.
- Multiple uses for the battery – a huge benefit of modern cordless tools is that the same battery can be used in other tools.
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text: Steve Hickoff, Yamaha Outdoors Tips 3 Ways to Haul Duck Hunting Gear Haul waterfowl gear in and out of your hunting location on four reliable wheels. Want to get your duck hunting gear from one access location to another? There are few better ways than using your Yamaha ATV or Side-by-Side to do it. Three gear items can help. Use Decoy Bags: In the good old days before the advent of sturdy, pocketed decoy bags we stashed rigs in the back of the truck and left it at that. Nowadays slotted pockets protect your decoy investment's painted finish. They fit easily in the back of a four wheeler. Styles vary and include 4-slot, 6-slot, 12-slot sizes for both ducks and geese. One-slot bags are available to protect expensive full-bodied decoys. Some float (good for timber sets), while others hold silhouette dekes firmly for easy carry. Inexpensive mesh decoy bags are useful too, though not as durable as heavy-duty slotted bags. All fit on the back of your Yamaha wheels for setting pre-dawn spreads. Use Blind Bags: Now that you've contained your decoy investment in portable bags, you'll need to stash your shells, calls, and other smaller items for the run to where you'll hunt. Blind bags often have dozens of zippered pockets, water-resistant elements, and so forth. The trick is to break your haul into big items (the decoys) and smaller gear to simplify in-and-out transport. Use Gear Sleds: If you're the kind of waterfowler who believes in the "go big or go home" idea, add a sled to the back of your four wheels. Additional gear items can add to the hunting effort and make your deployment into goose fields and flooded duck timber work methodically. This in turn helps you hunt more effectively with better results. Additional decoy bags can be firmly attached with bungee cords. Guns can be carried safely in Yamaha's Deluxe Gun Boot with Removable Case. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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if my phone doesn't have blue tooth and i don't have a USB cable, is there any other way i can download the ringtone in my cell phone?
You can create ringtones for free with iTunes using the steps outlined below, and can upload them to your cell phone with a USB data cable or a Bluetooth connection.
I'm assuming you already have your song loaded in iTunes, and you can refer to other articles in the iPods and MP3 Players forum if you need instructions for loading songs into iTunes from your iPod or a music CD.
Right-click on the song in iTunes and select "Get Info" from the pop-up menu. Choose the Options tab and change the Stop Time to 0:30 for 30 seconds of play time.
This won't change or damage the actual file; it just tells iTunes to only play the first 30 seconds of the song (plenty of time for you to answer your phone). You can change this setting back to full length after you create your ring tone.
Configure the MP3 Encoder built into iTunes to use 22khz and mono encoding (the format used by cell phone ring tones).
Click the Preferences menu and then choose the Advanced tab.
Click "Importing" and then choose "MP3 Encoder" from the Import Using drop down.
Choose "Custom..." from the Settings dropdown, which will display an "MP3 Encoder" dialog like the one shown below.
Convert the song to ringtone MP3 format by right-clicking it in iTunes and selecting "Convert Selection to MP3" from the popup menu.
iTunes will make a copy of the song and you'll see that the time will change to 30 seconds.
Send the ringtone to your phone using a usb data cable or Bluetooth.
NOTE: Do not select "Create Ringtone", as this option will charge your account, and also only works with songs you have purchased through the iTunes store.
Here's the finished ring tone I created: ACDC-ringtone-you-shook-me-all-night-long.mp3
You'll need to download software to transfer your new ringtone to your phone via Bluetooth or a USB data cable, something phone manufactures don't include with their phones.
You'll also be able to use the software to transfer pictures and videos, so it will quickly pay for itself after just a few free transfers.
I recommend a program called DataPilot that works with a USB data cable to transfer ringtones to your phone - it works with all major phone types and lets you transfer multiple ring tones, photos, videos, contacts, etc at a time.
When you run DataPilot, it will open a file explorer window and you'll be able to copy any music files from your hard drive to your phone.
iTunes stores it's music files in your "My Music" folder in Windows XP (under "My Documents"), and in your user folder in Windows Vista (e.g. C:\Users\rickysays\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music).
You'll use DataPilot's file explorer to open this folder and from there you'll be able to select music files and transfer them to your phone.
Now that the ringtone is on your phone, you can set it as your default ringtone.
For the Motorola Razr, this involves entering Settings and selecting Ring Styles.
Choose the second option, which ends with "Detail", and scroll to find your ringtone (hint, scroll up instead of down, since the newly added ringtone will be at the end of the list, and scrolling up will pick up the last item on the list).
Other phones will have slightly different menu selections, but the concept will be the same - find the audio file on your phone and then set it as your default ringtone.
if my phone doesn't have blue tooth and i don't have a USB cable, is there any other way i can download the ringtone in my cell phone?
The other way is to email it to your phone, which is described in this article:
How to transfer photos and ring tones to your cell-phone
Keep in mind though that your wireless provider will charge you for data transfers when you send files via email. AT&T charges 10 cents per KB of file size, so if you send a 75KB picture file (typical size) then you'll be out 75 cents.
I really hope this stuff works! ITs totally awesome that I could turn any of my songs into ringtones...I'm soo sick of ALLTEL making you pay a buttload of money for crappy ringtones that have muffled sound or are like 5 seconds long!! So I guess I'll try this out...wish me luck! There might be some money tricks
I follow exactly what you have said... but when i click options: the only thing that lets me change was media kind: music or audiobook. Is there something wrong?
my phone doesn't have a USB cable or a Bluetooth.how do i download the album as my ring tone.
itunes won't let me convert the files to mp3. it says they can not be converted because protected files can not be converted to other formats. how do i get around this?
There are a couple ways to remove the DRM protection, and I wrote a seperate article here to describe them:
Hope it helps :-)
Not sure what you mean here. This is completely free and no payment is required to make ringtones using iTunes and the instructions above.
hello, i have followed you guide exact and i got the 30 sec tune on my phone but it wont let me set it as a ring tone.. please help =D
What kind of phone do you have?
I have the same problem... i got bluetooth to transfer onto my phone, but to get it as a ringtone, it is having a problem
its pretty much just like the voyager
I just did this and sent it to my lg Touch (VX11000); when I had my computer and phone linked by bluetooth I picked "send file" on the computer bluetooth menu; my phone accepted it and filed it under sounds. Scrolling through the sounds, I found it, and the phone gives you the option to set it as a ringtone or alert.
The first time I did it, I browsed my phone from my mac, then dragged the song file off my mac onto the screen that came up of phone folders. My phone took the file as a song, however, and once it does that you can't make it a ringtone.
i have the iphone, how do i set it as a ringtone ?
I have have the USB cable but I dont have a transfer program and i cant afford to spend the money on one. I also am not allowed to charge to the phone bill for things like e-mail. Any other way?
Does your phone support bluetooth?
my plan does not incude web but i have a usb cord and an mp3 cell phone , is there a way i could transfer itune songs as ringtones to my cell phone....
Yes, you can transfer using a usb cable or bluetooth (if your phone has bluetooth). Check out this article for instructions:
how do you get it from iTunes to DataPilot
When you run DataPilot, it will open a file explorer window and you'll be able to copy any music files from your hard drive to your phone.
iTunes stores it's music files in your "My Music" folder in Windows XP (under "My Documents"), and in your user folder in Windows Vista (e.g. C:\Users\rickysays\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music).
You'll use DataPilot's file explorer to open this folder and from there you'll be able to select music files and transfer them to your phone.
For music that you buy on iTunes, they lock it with DRM protection that keeps you from converting it to an mp3 format (which would allow you to play it anywhere, and I really don't understand why they're so concerned about that - after all, it's music that you paid for, so you should be able to play it wherever you want to play it).
I recently wrote an article that covers how to bypass the DRM protection. Give it a try, and you'll be able to listen to your itunes music on your cell phone or anywhere else.
And what program is there comparable to Ringtone Media Studio 2 for those of us who are on a Mac platform? Since the RMS page shows it is only a PC program...
SO, what software is out there for Mac that is comparable to Ringtone Media Studio???
Did we ever find out?
really cool walkthrough!
one thing to add: to have the new 30 second mp3 show up in iTunes as a ringtone, right click -> show in finder -> change file extension to .m4r -> reimport that into iTunes. It should now show in the ringtones section to sync from iTunes -> iPhone.
I haven't tried it recently (i will when i get home from work :) ), but this should still work.
You're awesome, thank you!! This worked perfectly, if I only found this article earlier. I've been trying to do this for some time now and was only successful after reading your article. Again, THANK YOU :) Me love you long time ahahah
i was at Best Buy today buying a bluetooth adapter for my computer and i asked the guy there if i was able to use it to send ringtones to my phone and he told me it will work as long as i'm able to send a ring tone to someone elses phone using my phone, which i can't, so will this still work even though i can't send a ringtone to another phone?
What type of phone do you have, and which service provider are you using?
i have a Sanyo SCP-7050 and my provider is Sprint
The Sanyo SCP-7050 supports Bluetooth, so you should be able to transfer ring tones to it from your computer using Bluetooth.
does charging the ipod by usb will weaken the power of the computer as the same need to be charged by only computer.
No, charging an ipod by usb doesn't weaken the power of the computer.
If you're charging an ipod from a laptop that's not plugged in, your laptop battery will drain much faster, but if it's plugged in then both will charge normally and the laptop's power will not be depleted.
i went to "edit" then "preferences" then "advanced," but i don't have an "importing" option?!?!?! please help. i have the latest -itunes 8.0.2.
Apple changed the location of the import settings in version 8 of iTunes. You still get there from the "Edit" -- "Preferences" menu, but then look under the "General" tab instead.
You'll see an option for "When you insert a CD", and an "Import Settings" button that will let you choose the mp3 encoder.
I can't seem to get to the iTunes MP3 Encoder built into iTunes to use 22khz and mono encoding (the format used by cell phone ring tones). I followed your directions & in my advanced tab I don't have the option "Importing" therefore can't choose "MP3 Encoder" from the Import. I have saved a 30 second file & it worked on my blackberry curve, however it is full of static sounds and not very clear. I am using a PC, w/iTunes 8.0.2 and I can't find the encoder....please help...thanks!
Hey! It's because the newer versions of iTunes moved it! I was wondering the same thing, but quickly found it.
It's under the General tab. Somewhere in the middle it says:
"When you insert a CD:" blah blah blah.
To the right of that you should see a button labeled:
"Import Settings..."
Hope that helps =)
thanks so much for the help with making the rigntone. but i have one problem, i need to put the ringtone on my phone fo free. i have a usb cord for my phone, and a memory card adaptor. but, i don't know what file to drag the ringtones into. help please!
Hey so I have the Pantech Duo, it runs on Windows Mobile I can transfer files and everything... What seems to work only is when the file is
Hi Rick, everything worked, transfered the file via bluetooth to my lg env2, but the ringtone is in my sounds and wont let me use it as a ringtone, what did i do wrong or how do i get it to be my ringtone, there is no option to ad as my ringtone, thanks!
Hey! So I just wanted to thank you because everything worked great! As for the person above, I too have the env2. Just attach the sound file to a text message to yourself, and when you open the file it will let you save it directly as a ringtone. Anyways, thanks again! Worked perfectly!
So, so far, everything worked until I had to reimport the song back into iTunes after converting it to a .m4r so that I could put it on my iphone. I can add other music to the library, but iTunes won't add the homemade ringtone to my itunes library. Any ideas on how to get through this?
how do you import it so it goes into the ringtone selection on itunes to you can sync it to your iphone? (newest version of itunes)
ok i followed the first step going to the info box and setting the time but after that im lost can you send me a break down of what you are talking bout i cant find the prefrences that you speak of dont know what this conversion process you speak of is im just completly lost after step 1 if you can help that would be great thank you and have a blessed day
Hey I operate on windows xp and my preferences page looks different do you know how I would go about this from that step on using windows xp
I have a plan through alltel. I have been making and using my own songs as ringtones for a while. I have just recently signed up with alltel and none of my techniques have worked. i have the data cord, and it won't recognize any of my person audio files as ringtones. i can play them and listen to them, but when i got to change the ringtone it says i have no audio files on my sd card. i went to myxer.com and they sent me a text message with a link that i follwed and when i went to click on the link from my phone it didn't do anything. I'm just starting to think that Alltel won't let you do it for some reason. which is fucked.
if there is a way to get around it, i'd sure like to know. email me plz
This dosen't work on PCs! Please figure out a way to do it on a PC! Please?
I tried to send it to my phone via email because while my phone has bluetooth, my laptop doesn't. However, the phone won't let me open the messege. It's an Alltel Hue. Is there anyway to fix this? Am I send the email wrong, or something? I attached the file like I would for any other.


text: Here is a new clip of the Justice League: War DC animated film that comes out February 4th. While I have been looking forward to this DC movie and generally love most of the DC animated films and shows, I hope this line delivery by Wonder Woman in this clip is not a consensus preview of the rest of its voice acting. I do love Wonder Woman's costume in this movie though. LOVE IT! More practical than most of her other outfits.


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My Advice on Google Sitemaps - Verify, but Don't SubmitBlog Post: February 20, 2007
This type of response makes me wonder about the syntax used in people's sitemap files. Many of the auto-generated sitemap files I've seen don't handle dynamic url's very well, so if you aren't really careful about your lastmod settings you could easily hurt yourself by fooling crawlers into ignoring new pages, that it thinks changed before the last time it crawled your site. Also I think you need to be really careful with the importance setting. If you set your sitemap to one or two levels of importance - is that going to be the same way the search engine would see it.
I personally think a sitemap is a great tool, but you have to be careful to use it as it's meant to be used. If you're lazy with it, ditch it and let the search engines do their job. It's just another tool in the box.


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Bay units come in double-hung and casement combinations. Bow units typically come in casement with 5 to 7 window combinations. They add lot's of light and can enhance the beauty and personality of your home. These window combinations project outward from the home.
Hinged at the top, the sash swings outward from the bottom. Awning windows also offer better ventilation than sliders of the same size and can be left open when it's raining because they deflect rain during storms. You get less air leakage than with sliders and single or double-hung windows.
Venting sash in a single frame that slide horizontally past one another. Can accommodate full or half screens on the outside of window. Because the sash do not open outward they are an excellent choice for rooms that face walkways, porches or decks.
Casement Windows are hinged on either side, the sash opens horizontally opposite the hinge. They're easy to clean and also offer better ventilation than sliders of the same size because they open to the full glass area. You can position these windows to catch passing breezes.
Usually stationary, rectangular, non-opening windows that allow light into the room. Picture windows have no moving hardware and offer a wider, brighter view of the outdoors. This makes them more energy efficient and allows for larger sizes than a window that vents.
Venting upper and/or lower sash in a single frame that slide vertically past one another allowing for ventilation on the top, bottom or both. Double Hung Windows also come in Larger sizes and let in plenty of light and accommodate half or full screens either inside or outside.
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WITH its brass-trimmed halogen heating elements, glass globes and bamboo paddles, the new contraption that is to begin making coffee this week at the Blue Bottle Café here looks like a machine from a Jules Verne novel, a 19th-century vision of the future.
Called a siphon bar, it was imported from Japan at a total cost of more than $20,000. The cafe has the only halogen-powered model in the United States, and getting it here required years of elliptical discussions with its importer, Jay Egami of the Ueshima Coffee Company.
"If you just want equipment you're not ready," Mr. Egami said in an interview. But, he added, James Freeman, the owner of the cafe, is different: "He's invested time. He's invested interest. He is ready."
Professionals have long been willing to pay prices in the five figures for the perfect espresso machine, but the siphon bar does not make espresso. It makes brewed coffee, as does another high-end coffee maker, the $11,000 Clover, which makes one cup at a time. Together, they signal the resurgence of brewing among the most obsessive coffee enthusiasts.
Could this be the age of brewed coffee? "We're right there at the threshold," said George Howell of Terroir Coffee, a retailer of roasted and green beans. "Coffee has never been a noble beverage because the means to perfectly produce it haven't existed," said Mr. Howell, who is also a founder of the Cup of Excellence, an annual competition that seeks to identify the best beans in each coffee-producing nation.
But, he said, with recent advances in coffee-making technology, "now you can get perfect extraction."
Mr. Freeman is not trying to end the era of espresso. He still starts his days with a cappuccino, and his cafe serves drinks mostly from espresso machines, including a lovingly refurbished San Marco from the 1980s. But he's excited by the possibilities of brewed coffee.
"Siphon coffee is very delicate," he said. "It's sweeter and juicier, and the flavors change as the temperature changes. Sometimes it has a texture so light it's almost moussey."
A professionwide interest in brewed coffee has driven the stealth spread of the Clover. Introduced less than two years ago, it has become standard equipment at some of the country's most progressive cafes, including Intelligentsia in Chicago, La Mill in Los Angeles and Caffe Vita in Seattle.
Stumptown, of Portland, Ore., recently installed four Clovers in its location in the Ace Hotel. New York City now has five of the devices, two of them at the Chelsea branch of Café Grumpy, which has used them to dispense 60,000 cups in a little over a year.
So far, the Clover is still something of a cult object, with just over 200 machines scattered around the world. But it might soon become a common sight: Starbucks has just bought two.
Designed by three Stanford graduates, it lets the user program every feature of the brewing process, including temperature, water dose and extraction time. (It even has an Ethernet connection that can feed a complete record of its configurations to a Web database.) Not only is each cup brewed to order, but the way each cup is brewed can be tailored to a particular bean light or dark roast, acidic or sweet, and so on.
The Clover works something like an inverted French press: coffee grounds go into a brew chamber, hot water shoots in and a powerful piston slowly lifts and plunges a filter, forcing the coffee out through a nozzle in the front. The final step, when a cake of spent grounds rises majestically to the top, is so titillating to coffee fanatics that one of them posted a clip of it on YouTube.
"There is some gee-whizness to it," said Doug Zell, a founder of Intelligentsia. "But hopefully the focus goes back to the cup of coffee."
At the Stumptown Annex in Portland, the focus is entirely on the cup of coffee. As many as 35 different coffees are on the menu at the small cafe, and unlike the six other Stumptown locations, it doesn't have a single espresso machine.
The Annex first brewed individual cups with cone filters, but now everything is made with a Clover. "You get more of the delicate and floral flavors, the subtle sweetness, the notes of perfume and citrus," said Duane Sorensen, the owner of Stumptown. "The delicate, pretty, sexy flavors show in a Clover."
"A Clover gives you greater control over the variables," Mr. Zell said. "It's a clean, crisp cup, and it tends to play better to coffees that are higher toned, brighter. Like the coffees of East Africa, or the more intricate coffees of the Americas."
It is those brighter notes that excite serious coffee drinkers as they take an interest in single-origin, micro-lot and direct-trade beans those from specific regions, even particular growers, that are prized for their distinctive characteristics.
"Steep coffee in water, and you're going to taste gradations of flavor you're simply not going to find in espresso," said David Arnold, director of culinary technology at the French Culinary Institute in New York. Though he is an espresso partisan, Mr. Arnold allows that brewing highlights the more subtle flavors of single-origin and micro-lot beans. "Especially if it's roasted fresh," he said. "The differences are astounding."
Where the Clover is a workhorse, and its genius is in its programming, brewing coffee with a siphon bar is a fickle art and takes patience to master.
The secret is in how it's stirred.
A siphon pot has two stacked glass globes, and works a little like a macchinetta, that stove-top gadget wrongly called an espresso maker by generations of graduate students. As water vapor forces water into the upper globe the coffee grounds are stirred by hand with a bamboo paddle. (In Japan, siphon coffee masters carve their own paddles to fit the shape of their palms.)
The goal is to create a deep whirlpool in no more than four turns without touching the glass. Posture is important. So is timing: siphon coffee has a brewing cycle of 45 to 90 seconds.
"The whirlpool, it messes with your mind," said Mr. Freeman, the owner of the Blue Bottle. "There's no way to rush it."
Mr. Freeman said he practiced stirring plain water for months to develop muscle memory before he brewed his first cup of siphon coffee. Even now he starts every day with a five-minute warm-up. The evidence of good technique is in the sediment: the grounds should form a tight dome dotted with small bubbles, the sign of proper extraction.
Mr. Freeman keeps pictures of his domes on his iPhone. "It's active, sucking out the air and foam," he said about one of them. "I love the kinetic energy, the aliveness. That's my best dome."
Even if the siphon bar turns coffee making into a spectacle, the biggest difference is in the flavor it extracts from prized beans like Gololcha, a dry-processed Ethiopian with long jammy berry notes that turn floral as the coffee cools.
"It's kaleidoscopic," Mr. Freeman said. "It's forcing you to pay attention to every sip, because the next one is going to be different. I feel like when we serve it we'll have to ask people to just pour it in their cup and smell it for the first minute or so."


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(Lenexa, Kan., April 3, 2014) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have selected the Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) for the 2014 Energy Star Partner of the Year Award for Climate Communications and Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence. Fifty-three DMPS schools received an Energy Star rating. This is the third consecutive year the school district has received a partner award.
As one of the country's 10 Climate Communications winners, Des Moines Public Schools has raised the awareness of students, teachers, families and the community to the impacts of climate change. DMPS has created communications that encourage their customers to combat climate change with the help of Energy Star and emphasize how energy-efficient behaviors have a positive effect on the environment.
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Thirteen El Centro College Art students, under the direction of Omar Hernandez (Art Program Coordinator), designed 15 framed art pieces using various mediums that will be on display during the entire run of RAGTIME THE MUSICAL. The musical, which is showing at Music Hall at Fair Park, runs May 24- June 5. The exhibition is made up of work from Digital Art I, Digital Art II and Drawing II. Their assignment was to create a composition after studying the history of the musical - including but not limited to: previous posters, stage settings, and time period references in general or create a composition inspired from the musical's cultural theme or a specific character. Digital Art I students include: Alex Piland, Andres Lopez, Azalia Salazar, Sam El Ali and Meighan Sims. Digital Art II students include: Brian Burkhart, Frank Gonzales, JR McFarling, Marco Sanchez and Alondra Gamino. Drawing II students include: Neftali Andrade, Frank Gonzales, JR McFarling, Sergio Salinas and Jay Hillard. The Art Department of El Centro College provides a wide range of courses including studio and lecture classes. Studio classes in both 2-D and 3-D media are offered including drawing, painting, photography, design, jewelry & small metals, sculpture and ceramics. These classes are essential coursework for the student pursuing a degree in a creative field, and they supply the student with valuable foundation skills. Students are encouraged to engage in personal artistic exploration, and engage in community activities such as exhibitions and collaborations. For more information go to www.elcentrocollege.edu/artbr/> El Centro College is a sponsor of Dallas Summer Musicals (DSM) and DSM High School Musical Theatre Awards.


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NEW LONDON — For a few families who received gifts during the first day of Tommy Toy Fund distribution Wednesday, the experience was made a bit more special than usual thanks to a full-sized Foxwoods Resort Casino shuttle bus.
Over the course of three weeks, Foxwoods employees, vendors and members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council stuffed the large vehicle with $11,000 worth of toys, blankets, clothing and diapers to benefit the 40th annual Bulletin-sponsored holiday toy drive.
"We're excited that it was so successful. The day we launched, the entire Tribal Council showed up with donations," said John Voisinet, Foxwoods' director of bus marketing. His team came up with the idea.
Voisinet was among the Mashantucket Pequot and Foxwoods volunteers working with the United Way who helped fill orders for toys, books and gloves at the Tommy Toy Fund sites in New London and Norwich. The fund also had a distribution site in Danielson. About 5,000 children from more than 2,000 families were served this year.
When filling the bus, officials didn't just look for support locally, either. Voisinet said the campaign was advertised at every Foxwoods bus stop location from Maine to New Jersey.
Voisinet said the casino's retail department also donated merchandise.
The giving campaign started Nov. 18 and ran through Dec. 8. The packed bus was then unloaded at the Gemma E. Moran United Way Labor/Food Center in New London, and the contents were distributed to all three Tommy Toy Fund sites.
Alice Soscia, a United Way employee and site coordinator of the New London location, said the contributions of casino employees and tribal leaders was "outside-the-box" thinking that contributed to the massive inventory needed for this year's event.
"When we saw the bus, it was overwhelming to see one of our tried-and-true partners step up in a way the United Way never could," she said.
Mike Orsene, a sales manager in Voisinet's department, said his co-workers were quick to embrace the effort.
On Thursday, Orsene and Voisinet visited the New London site and were gratified, they said, to see the actions of so many volunteers pay off for people in need.
"I think it's great to be able to help people who are unfortunate and don't have what we have," Orsene said.
Tribal Council Chairman Rodney Butler said the 20-year relationship between the Mashantuckets and United Way led to its work with the Tommy Toy Fund.
"It wasn't in particular the Tommy Toy Fund per se, it was really just the fact of the holiday season, and the ability to be on the giving side of thing. The Tommy Toy Fund aligned with the spirit of what we're trying to do," Butler said.
He said the fund is a "great distribution channel to get toys into the hands of the right people."
The good will spread to Norwich as well, where volunteers in The Bulletin's warehouse worked to fill orders for clients.
"It's great to see the people and the gratitude they have being able to celebrate Christmas," said Sean Ryan, who works for Norwich Public Utilities.
In addition to NPU, Norwich Free Academy students and employees of several other local businesses helped out. Some came to help because they were on the receiving end several years ago.
"We were in a shelter at the time, and if we didn't have Tommy Toy Fund, we wouldn't have celebrated Christmas," Lisa Desso, of Norwich, said.


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Abstract: It is by now an established fact, that the so-called high technology industries have experienced growth rates way above average through most years. High technology industries share of the world manufacturers export has risen from 12 per cent in 1970 to 25 per cent in 1995. More than one-third of Japan's manufacturing export and more than 40 per cent of America's manufacturing export are products from high technology industries, and this development has increasingly led to an international obsession with high technology industries. In a number of countries R&D indicators have by now become the object of intense discussions. Great efforts are devoted to improve a bad relative standing. The aim of this paper is to questioned whether a national specialisation towards high technology industries is the only way by which the mature, developed countries can hope to sustain and augment their economic position. I claim that in contrast to much of the assumptions in contemporary politics and in the majority of the contemporary academic literature on the subject the countries without a specialisation in high technology industries are not left in the backwaters of economic development. Quite the contrary seems to be the case as many advanced, high-cost countries experience an above average economic performance even when specialising in the bottom end of the low-tech industries. The argument is illustrated with empirical material from the wooden furniture industry in general - and the rather successful Danish wooden furniture industry in particular. The possible reasons behind this apparent paradox are discussed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8119
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Network File System (NFS), is an open standard network file sharing protocol.
- 1 Installing
- 2 Configuring
- 3 Mounting NFS shares on the client
- 4 Mounting from Windows
- 5 Troubleshooting
Both client and server only require nfs-utils from the official repositories.
Time synchronization
In order for NFS to function properly, both server and client must have closely matching time values. If the clocks on the clients differ from the server too much, then basic functions like file copy operations may hang for a very long time leaving the system unusable until they resume. The clocks do not have to match to micro/nano second accuracies, but ideally they should be within 1 second of each other.
The NTP system is recommended to sync both the server and the clients to the highly accurate NTP servers available on the Internet. For a small system like a home network, the ntpdate utility may be used to sync both servers and clients to the same time. For a larger installation, it may be desirable to install an OpenNTP server (see NTP) onto the same machine acting as the NFS server, and then all clients on the network would sync time values from the server. This has the advantage of lowering the stress on the external NTP servers, and in assuring that the NFS clients will use the exact time that the NFS server has, even if the NFS server experiences some drift.
The server configuration involves the
/etc/idmapd.conf file and the
/etc/exports file to export shares. Further tweaking can be done by editing
Server ID mapping
/etc/idmapd.conf file needs to be edited. You'll need to at the very least specify your Domain there. Example:
[General] Verbosity = 1 Pipefs-Directory = /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs Domain = archlinux.org [Mapping] Nobody-User = nobody Nobody-Group = nobody
All the NFS shares are defined in
/etc/exports. Add directories which you want to share and ip addresses or hostnames of client machines that will be allowed to mount them:
/mnt/music 192.168.0.12(rw,no_subtree_check)
You can also share it to a whole subnet:
/mnt/music 192.168.0.0/24(rw,no_subtree_check)
A typical NFSv4 export would look like this:
/mnt 192.168.0.12(rw,fsid=0,no_subtree_check) /mnt/music 192.168.0.12(rw,no_subtree_check)
fsid=0 is required for the root filesystem being exported.
/mnt is the NFS root here (due to the
fsid=0 entry). Everything else that you want to be shared over NFS must be accessible under
/mnt. Setting an NFS root is required. For exporting directories outside the NFS root, see below.
For more information about all available options see
man 5 exports.
Exporting directories outside your NFS root
To do this, you will need to use bind mounts. For example, to bind
/home/john to
# mount --bind /home/john /mnt/john
To make it stick across server reboots add the bind mount to
/home/john /mnt/john none bind 0 0
/mnt/john needs to be added to
/mnt 192.168.0.12(rw,fsid=0,no_subtree_check) /mnt/music 192.168.0.12(rw,no_subtree_check) /mnt/john 192.168.0.12(rw,no_subtree_check,nohide)
nohide option is required, because the kernel NFS server automatically hides mounted directories.
Starting the server
To start the NFS server:
# rc.d start rpcbind nfs-common nfs-server
Or add them to your
DAEMONS=(... rpcbind nfs-common nfs-server ...)
To start the NFS server when you are using systemd, use:
# systemctl start nfsd.service rpc-idmapd.service rpc-mountd.service rpcbind.service
The client configuration only involves the
/etc/idmapd.conf file. If your client also acts as a server for other machines on the network, then you will still have to configure the files covered in the server section.
Client ID mapping
/etc/idmapd.conf file needs to be edited on all clients. The Domain entry should be identical to the one on the server (see the Server ID mapping section). Example:
[General] Verbosity = 1 Pipefs-Directory = /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs Domain = archlinux.org [Mapping] Nobody-User = nobody Nobody-Group = nobody [Translation] Method = nsswitch
Starting the client
To start the NFS client:
# rc.d start rpcbind nfs-common
Or add them to your
DAEMONS=(... rpcbind nfs-common ...)
/etc/fstab or if
/etc/exports is empty (which both might be the case if you are using autofs to mount the nfs4 shares).
In this case set NEED_IDMAPD="yes" in
Show the server's exported filesystems:
showmount -e server
Then just mount as normal:
# rc.d start rpcbind nfs-common # mount -t nfs4 server:/ /mnt/server/ # mount -t nfs4 server:/music /mnt/music/ # mount -t nfs4 server:/john /mnt/john
Replacing 'server' with the hostname or IP address of your NFS server and of course 'server', 'music' and 'john' with the names of whatever directories you exported on the server.
Auto mounting
- With Initscripts: If you want to auto mount the NFS shares on boot, you will have to make sure that the network(or any other networking daemon that you use), rpcbind, nfs-common daemons are started up and also in that order. Do NOT background the daemons since the order in which they start up is important. Additionally you will also want to start netfs daemon which handles the clean unmount of NFS shares while shutting down the client machine. The netfs daemon can be backgrounded without any issues.
DAEMONS=(... network rpcbind nfs-common @netfs ...)
- With Systemd: Systemd/RemoteFilesystem page and make sure to enable rpc-idmapd.service for user id mapping.
After you have added the daemons, auto mounting of NFS shares can be handled in one of two ways:
Using fstab
Using fstab is useful when you have a server which is always on, and the NFS shares are available whenever your client boots up. Edit your
/etc/fstab file, and add an appropriate line in there reflecting your setup.
server:/ /mnt/nfsshare nfs4 defaults 0 0
If you wish to specify a packet size for read and write packets, specify them in your
/etc/fstab entry. Read the NFS man page for further information, including all available mount options.
Using autofs
Using autofs is useful when you have multiple machines that you want to connect via NFS and they could both be clients as well as servers. The reason this method is preferable over the earlier one is that if one of the machine(server) is switched off, the client will not throw errors about being unable to find NFS shares. Please see the relevant section on the autofs#NFS_Network_mounts page for setting up NFS shares.
Mounting from Windows
NFS shares can be mounted from windows if the "Client for NFS" service is actived (which it is not by default). To install the service go to "Programs and features" either through the control panel or by typing it in the search box from the start menu and click on "Turn Windows features on or off". Locate the "Services for NFS" and activate it as well as both subservices ("Administrative tools" and "Client for NFS").
Some global options can be set by opening the "Services for Network File System" (locate it with the search box) and right clicking on the client->properties.
showmount -e servername from cmd.exe
exportfs: /etc/exports:2: syntax error: bad option list
Delete all space from the option list in
mount.nfs4: No such device
Check that you have loaded the
nfs module
lsmod | grep nfs
and if previous returns empty or only nfsd-stuff, do
modprobe nfs
mount.nfs4: access denied by server while mounting
Check that the permissions on your client's folder are correct. Try using 755.
permissions issues
If you find that you cannot set the permissions on files properly, make sure the user/group you are chowning are on both the client and server.
If that does not help, try modifying these lines in
# /etc/conf.d/nfs-common.conf # Do you want to start the statd daemon? It is not needed for NFSv4. NEED_STATD="no" # Do you want to start the idmapd daemon? It is only needed for NFSv4. NEED_IDMAPD="yes"
Restart the nfs-common daemon for the changes to take effect. I restarted all the other daemons as well, just to be sure.
group/gid permissions issues
If NFS shares mount fine, and are fully accessible to the owner, but not to group members; check the number of groups that user belongs to. NFS has a limit of 16 on the number of groups a user can belong to. If you have users with more then this, you need to enable the
--manage-gids start-up flag for
rpc.mountd on the NFS server.
/etc/conf.d/nfs-server.conf # Options for rpc.mountd. # If you have a port-based firewall, you might want to set up # a fixed port here using the --port option. # See rpc.mountd(8) for more details. MOUNTD_OPTS="--manage-gids"


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Errata Editions Books on Books #9-12 finished!
I know that I have been starting each of my very sporadic postings with an apology for the silence but I am finally back in NYC after attending Paris Photo, the Offprint Paris Book Fair, and spending several days press checking the new Errata Editions books in China. I wasn't able to blog while on press just like last year because the Great Firewall of China is still blocking access to blog sites. I promise to be resuming my posts regularly. My "vacation" is now over.
This time around I was five days on-press as we were doing five books (four new and a second printing of Walker Evans: American Photographs). I survived on little sleep and lots of what I now call a "Wall-Mart Espresso" (3-5 packets of powdered Nescafe coffee in a half cup of hot water stirred with the body of a Bic lighter). As exhausting as the press checks are, I am pleased with the results and hope you'll be too. The new books are:
Books on Books #9 Paul Graham: Beyond Caring. Published in 1986 Beyond Caring is now considered one of the key works from Britain's wave of New Color photography that was gaining momentum in the 1980s. While commissioned to present his view of 'Britain in 1984,' Graham turned his attention towards the waiting rooms, queues and poor conditions of overburdened Social Security and Unemployment offices across the United Kingdom. Photographing surreptitiously, his camera is both witness and protagonist within a bureaucratic system that speaks to the humiliation and indignity aimed towards the most vulnerable end of society. Books on Books #9 presents every page-spread of Graham's controversial book along with a contemporary essay by writer and curator David Chandler.
Books on Books #10 Zdeněk Tmej's Abeceda duševního prázdna (The Alphabet of Spiritual Emptiness) published in 1946 enables a rare look, from a captive's perspective, inside a Nazi forced labor camp in Breslau, Poland during World War 11. It is remarkable that Tmej, a Czech citizen made to work for the Nazi war effort for two years, was allowed to photograph at all, let alone describe the psychological stasis of his experience with the poetic voice that these portraits and still-lifes convey. Books on Books #10 presents every page spread from this extremely rare and fragile document including the original texts by Alexandra Urbanová translated for the first time into English. Czech photo historian Vladimír Birgus contributes a contemporary essay on Tmej called Zdeněk Tmej's Conscripted Labor in Germany.
Books on Books #11 Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet. Published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and performances of ballet companies visiting New York stages. Shot in 35mm and disregarding traditional conventions of "good" technique, Brodovitch pushed the boundaries of description to create a panorama of images that perfectly captures the motion and spirit of dance. Books on Books #11 reproduces every dynamic page spread from this rarely seen volume along with a contemporary essay written by leading Brodovitch scholar Kerry William Purcell.
Books on Books #12 László Moholy-Nagy's 60 Fotos sets forth the framework and ideas behind the 'New Vision' of modern photography from the legendary Bauhaus teacher and key figure in early experimental photographic practice. Published in 1930 as the first book in the planned Fototek series on 'New Photography,' 60 Fotos evoked a complex and multi-layered dialogue using some of Moholy-Nagy's finest examples of 'straight' photographs, negative prints, photograms, and photomontage. Books on Books #12 reproduces every page spread from this classic treatise on photography along with a contemporary essay from the noted photo-historian David Evans.
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I love it when the clocks go forward, not only do I get to enjoy an extra hour in bed, but I know that the long sunny nights are on there way. I am a lover of all seasons, I adore the snow in winter, the changing of the leaves in autumn, and that summer brings my birthday as well as the UK's best weather, the occasional heat wave, but there is something special about spring.
I not sure whether it is because it follows the cold, not that this winter has been as cold as previous years (I am still waiting for the snow), or that it brings out the flowers, I especially love daffodils all lined up in a row, or that the fields surrounding my village are dotted with adorable lambs bouncing around the field playing. There is just something so giddy and playful about spring that always makes me smile.
We have had a great start to spring, this weekend was gorgeous, it was nice just to spend time in the garden watching the butterflies fluttering around enjoying the blossom on the trees and listening to all the birds chirping away – it is hard to think of a better way to spend a Sunday to be honest.
As well as enjoying the sun, my surroundings, and outside brunches with friends, I also love that spring means lightweight knits, fun lovely flats and peep-toe heels, and if you are really lucky – no coat at all. Plus it is always the time of year that I love to do a revamp of my wardrobe – out with the old and in with the new.
What does spring mean to you?
My Style: Jumper, Peter Pilotto for Target via Net-A-Porter.com // Glasses, Retro54 // Floral print nails done at the Next press event //


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Jim Carrey vs. Fox News: Gun Battle Between Hollywood Actor and Cable News Channel (VIDEO)
A Jim Carrey vs. Fox News feud has begun, with the Hollywood actor accusing the cable new network of slander.
However, despite Carrey's claims, a Fox News report on March 29 has stated that the actor will not be attempting to sue the news network.
Carrey has said the network slandered him and that he would have sued Fox News "if I felt they were worth my time."
He also stated in a press release that Fox News is "a media colostomy bag."
The feud reportedly began with Fox News' coverage of Carrey's video "Cold Dead Hand." The video was created to speak out on the gun control debate, and Carrey was starring in the video promoting what his stance was on the issue.
Carrey has stated that he is against any guns that can hold large magazines and assault rifles.
In the video Carrey mocks gun owners as well as Charlton Heston, one of the most prominent supporters of the right to bear arms in America over recent decades. Heston recently passed away.
Carrey had stated in his press release: "Since I released my Cold Dead Hand video on Funny or Die this week, I have watched Fux News rant, rave, bare its fangs and viciously slander me because of my stand against large magazines and assault rifles. I would take them to task legally if I felt they were worth my time or that anyone with a brain in their head could actually fall for such irresponsible buffoonery."
However, far from stepping away from the battle with Carrey, Fox News has fought back against Carrey's claims.
"The Five" host, Greg Gatefold, has called the comedian's press release "a complete meltdown" and proclaimed that the late Charlton Heston has a "brighter future in films" than Carrey.
Gatefold said, "Jimmy mocked Mr. Heston but won't respond to me -- yet. I guess Jimmy thought he couldn't lose to a debate to a dead man. That's what's really funny. He did. And now Charlton Heston has a brighter future in films than Jim Carrey."
"He issued a press release, which is basically a complete meltdown," Gutfeld said. "This is a guy that insulted most of America and danced on the grave of Charlton Heston. Jim Carrey is, in this letter, threatening legal action -- something Charlton Heston can't do because Charlton Heston is dead. That was the whole point, to stand up for somebody who couldn't talk back to a fool like Jim Carrey."
Gutfeld continued: "He released this video, then he retreated. He wouldn't respond. He hid like a little baby."
Here is a video of some of the Fox News footage into the Jim Carrey feud:


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Anyone with an eye toward upcoming gear has been pondering the possibility of a smaller iPad. That includes me, as well as many Forbes readers. Now that we are receiving reports that the iPad Mini is in production, the gadget-hungry masses may be forced to wipe an ever-growing pond of viscous drool from their collective jowls. If it's true and the new Apple tablet's release is an inevitability, what will we find inside it and how will it do on the market?
On this column, 'The Players & The Game,' we discussed the possibility of a mini iPad, when it might emerge (if at all), what would it contain and how it might stand up to competition from other products already on the market.
It was mentioned that profit margins in the 7-inch tablet space were not robust enough to entice Apple to offer up a product in that category. I also heard it suggested that perhaps the Cupertino-based company wished to take a look at how Google's Nexus 7 fared before it pulled the trigger on a smaller iPad. Did Apple find a way to grow its margins with a 7-inch tablet? Did it look to Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) offering to decide whether to jump into the fray? (If so, if tooled up for production incredibly quickly). Or, did Apple plan this all along?
Possible Features?
Forbes contributor, Anthony Wing Kosner, noted that OSXDaily listed a number of possible features for the new product, including A5X CPU from the current iPad 3, 8GB of storage, iOS6 and a price of $299. All of this with a 7.85" display and 1024x768 resolution.
A commenter for a previous piece on the possibility of a new tablet speculated that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) could use a 163 pixel-per-inch screen and then laud it as '50% higher resolution.'
Another Forbes reader felt that the company would not likely release a smaller iPad for less than about $349. Another reader commented that though Apple could be successful with a higher price tag with some consumers, Nexus 7's lower cost would make it a winner with businesses, developers and professionals.
Areas Apple could improve upon the Nexus include expandable storage. Google's tablet doesn't have it. Integration of a virtual PA, a la Siri (likely to happen), well-developed magazine and newspaper reading experience and HDMI compatibility would all be features improving upon areas where critics found the Nexus 7 lacking.
As far as the Kindle Fire is concerned, a Forbes reader suggested that the Nexus has replaced the Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) product as the 7-inch tablet to have. If this is so, iPad Mini will be going head to head with Google in that space. On the other hand, rumor has it Amazon will be unleashing Kindle Fire 2 soon, which will add another very worthy player to the market. Given the competition for consumer attention, this holiday shopping season could make for an exciting showdown.
Should the small tablet space continue to develop more compelling products from more competitors (I'm looking at you, Microsoft Surface [NASDAQ:MSFT]), players like Google, Amazon and Apple will be spurred on to release ever more impressive gear. In that sense, no matter who gets the upper hand in the mini tablet wars this year, consumers are likely to win no matter what.
**NOTE: Latest rumors of the release of Amazon's Kindle Fire 2 were added at 4 p.m. EST.**
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Watching over you
Like astronauts, heavy-equipment operators in remote mines can benefit from long-distance monitoring using space technology. An ESA spin-off company has raised safety for dozens of drivers at the El Brocal mine in Peru by predicting their fatigue.
In far-flung mining operations around the world, drivers typically work 12-hour shifts, driving trucks and loaders of 160–180 tonnes – the size of a small apartment block.
Combine the gruelling schedule with even a small mistake, and you have a recipe for disaster.
"Sixty-five percent of serious accidents are caused by fatigue," says Jean Verhardt, founder and CEO of EstrellaSat.
Incubated at ESA
With the help of ESA's Business Incubation Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, Jean has developed a way to detect the early signs of fatigue.
Sensitive gyroscopes developed for satellites measure tiny changes in the vehicle's motion, analysing patterns in braking, steering and acceleration.
"The system isolates specific movements related to fatigue out of thousands of movements in a given night," Jean says. "That way, it can predict fatigue before the driver himself is aware of it."
But Jean still needed a way to link the fatigue sensors to supervisors who could decide when a driver has had enough.
The big obstacle: many mines sit in remote areas without cell phone, or 3G, coverage.
Spin-off from ESA
Jean got support from ESA's ESTEC space research and technology centre to develop a way to link the motion sensors on the vehicles to remote offices via wifi and satellite.
"Our role was to give him tech support," says ESA communication systems engineer Nader Alagha.
"We helped to integrate existing technologies in an innovative way so he could develop an effective system."
Thanks to the expertise from ESTEC engineers and elements from their space systems, a data link via satellite was developed to create a constant connection between the fatigue monitor and an office hundreds of kilometres away, where trained staff can evaluate the data in real time from the drivers.
Truck driving made safer in Peru mine
Following an extensive high-altitude field trial of the Driver Fatigue Management System, in November 2012 EstrellaSat recently closed its first contract, and is now setting up the system covering 30 drivers operating 10 vehicles at a high-altitude mine in the Peruvian Andes.
"We saw during the field trial that keeping drivers aware of their fatigue status in real time substantially reduced fatigue levels," says Steve Dixon, Chief Operating Officer, Stracon GyM S.A.
"We expect that the fully operational fatigue service will result in a long-term reduction in driver fatigue levels at our mines,"
The next version of the system will draw even more on space technology.
Working with ESA's human spaceflight directorate, EstrellaSat is now developing a vest with sensors that measure temperature, heart rate and other physiological data to pinpoint risky fatigue in drivers even more accurately, and in time get them out from behind the wheel.
ESA's Technology Transfer Programme Office's Business Incubation Centres (BICs) have been set up to support the spin off of space technology to non-space applications and to foster new European business based on research and development in European space programmes.
The seven BICs in the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, the UK and Belgium are supporting over 60 start-ups every year, totalling more than 180 to date.
To support the start-up companies following their BIC-incubation period, ESA has initiated as a limited partner the Open Sky Technology Fund, a €100 million venture fund.


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Red blood cells take on many-sided shape during clotting
Red blood cells are the body's true shape shifters, perhaps the most malleable of all cell types, transforming – among many other forms—into compressed discs capable of going through capillaries with diameters smaller than the blood cell itself. While studying how blood clots contract John W. Weisel, Ph.D., professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues, discovered a new geometry that red blood cells assume, when compressed during clot formation.
Although red blood cells were first visualized in the mid-17th century and studied extensively since then, this new study, published online ahead of print in the journal Blood, describes a previously unknown shape and potential new function for red blood cells. The Penn team found that red blood cells can be compressed into many-sided, closely-packed polyhedral structures – instead of their free-flowing bi-concave, disc shape.
What's more, contrary to expectations, the aggregates of fibrin and platelets that make up highly contracted clots lie primarily on the clot exterior, with the red blood cells crowded within the clot interior, although the contents of clots are more homogeneous before contraction takes place.
Contracted clots may form an impermeable seal and help prevent vascular obstruction, but confer resistance to penetration by drugs that break down fibrin, the structural component of clots, a common treatment option for heart attacks and strokes.
"The first time we saw this, we thought: 'This can't be biological,'" recalls Weisel. The team first saw the polyhedron-shaped red blood cells when studying the clot-contraction process using a novel magnetic resonance technology, with co-authors from T2 Biosystems, along with co-author Douglas Cines, M.D., director of the Coagulation Laboratory and professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Penn. They observed a signal that indicated tightly packed red blood cells.
The Clot Network
Clots are a three-dimensional network of fibers, made up primarily of the blood protein fibrinogen, which is converted to fibrin during clotting, and platelets, which aggregate by binding to fibrin once they are activated. A blood clot needs to have the right degree of stiffness and plasticity to stem the flow of blood when tissue is damaged, yet be flexible enough that it does not block blood flow.
After a clot forms, the actin and myosin in platelets start the contraction process and cause the clot to shrink to about one-third of its original size. This is an important step to stem bleeding, to decrease obstruction in blood vessels, and to provide a matrix for migration of cells involved in wound healing. Red blood cells are caught up in the contraction process, especially in the venous system, and get pulled by the platelets towards the interior of the clot, as the Blood study indicates.
Little was known about the structure of contracted clots or the role of red blood cells in the contraction process. "We found that contracted blood clots develop a remarkable structure, with a meshwork of fibrin and platelet aggregates on the exterior of the clot and a close-packed, tessellated array of compressed polyhedral erythrocytes within," says Weisel.
The team also saw the same morphology of compacted clots after initiating clotting with various activators and also with clots formed from human blood reconstituted with its cellular and plasma components and from mouse blood. Such close-packed arrays of polyhedral erythrocytes, or polyhedrocytes as the researchers dubbed them, were also observed in human arterial thrombi taken from patients who had heart attacks. This shape is likely taken on by the red blood cells when contracted or pushed together when the platelets compress a clot so as to decrease volume, surface energy, or bending energy, surmise the authors.
Cines notes that these findings might have clinical implications. Physicians need to inject thrombolytic agents such as tPA to rapidly break up thrombi, clots that obstruct blood flow, for example in coronary arteries to treat a heart attack, or in the arteries to the brain to treat a stroke. It is well known that with time thrombi develop resistance to being broken up, which is one reason why early intervention is so important. The nearly impermeable barrier formed by red blood cells within the contracted clots that was observed in the Blood study may help to explain why. Clot contraction could be a target of intervention to prevent the formation of the closely packed array of polyhedrocytes.


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You can learn so many things in a school hallway.
What's happening in school. What's happening out of school. Who's dating whom. Who just broke up with whom by text (welcome to what I consider an extremely bleak and odd future).
If you listen closely between classes, you could probably learn the true identity of D.B. Cooper (kids are smarter than you think).
Of course, most of the stuff I overhear from kids makes me say "Huh?".
Which is a whole lot better than the things I overhear that make me say "Eww."
The key is to listen, but not listen too closely (How to Be a School Administrator 101).
Once in a while, I feel like my time in the hallway is extra productive.
These are the times when I gain real tidbits of knowledge.
It could be from a student or a teacher. But there are definitely things said that make me smarter.
Some might argue this isn't too difficult.
I would tend to agree.
One day in the not so distant past, I asked a coach if he was actually a teacher during the day, or simply a coach waiting for his next game to begin.
Without hesitating, he said he was a teacher who coaches, not a coach who teaches.
I thought that was a great answer. Especially, since he didn't hesitate (plus, he seemed a little annoyed… which is a good sign).
Then he said something that made me smarter.
He said "Instead of asking about what I do during the day, maybe you should be asking what other teachers do after 3:30 to make kids better."
Coaches commit hours to students after school and on weekends (as do other teachers).
He made a good point.
It's not good enough that we just give our best during the school day.
The teaching profession is becoming more and more of a 24 hour a day job.
Whether we like it or not, we have to do more for students to help them be successful.
Which means, all of us have to not only give our best during the school day, but also after 3:30.


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Wind River punts homegrown hypervisor
Extra goodies for Intel
One thing that Intel will inherit when it closes its $884m deal to acquire embedded and real-time operating system maker Wind River this summer is a new cross-chip virtualization hypervisor that the software maker has created all by its lonesome.
Every watt, every clock cycle and megabyte, and every dollar count in the embedded systems space, says Tomas Evensen, chief technology officer at Wind River. Companies that make embedded controllers, telecom switches, and myriad other devices are not usually keen on trying to build their gear using the general-purpose chips inside PCs and servers or using the existing hypervisors available for these processors.
Wind River supports PowerPC, x64, ARM, and MIPS processors with its VxWorks and Wind River Linux real-time operating systems and its related Workbench application development tool kit. And the one thing it does not want to do is to license and support different hypervisors on different chip architectures.
The whole point of the Workbench suite is to insulate application developers from the underlying differences in the embedded chips they pick for whatever gadget they are coming up with while at the same time taking advantage of whatever unique hardware is available for those architectures.
That basically left Wind River with one choice when it came to virtualization for the four processor families it supports with Workbench: create its own cross-architecture hypervisor. And so that's what Wind River has done.
According to Evensen, the Wind River Hypervisor announced today is a bare-metal or type 1 hypervisor, one that provides for isolation between virtual machines in that it runs right atop the iron, not as a layer on top of an operating system that is in turn sliced up into virtual machines that can support other operating systems - that's a type 2 hypervisor in the virtualization lingo.
Wind River's hypervisor comes from its prior experience in creating so-called separation kernels for its operating system, which isolate different applications from each other when running on a single kernel, a requirement that military and aerospace embedded systems often require. Their two different kernel specs are known as MILS and 653, and the new hypervisor created by Wind River, which is comprised of fewer than 10,000 lines of code, is based on its prior experience with putting what amounts to a virtual private server partition atop VxWorks.
But this time around, the hypervisor supports full and incompatible operating systems running inside different virtual machine partitions, and it will span four different processor architectures. And more importantly, says Evensen, because some workloads require more performance and others require higher security, this Wind River Hypervisor also has scalability, which means users can pick what security or performance characteristics of the hypervisor to invoke, depending on their needs.
More rugged security impacts performance, but not every embedded application needs top-end security. A hypervisor used inside a multifunction printer doesn't need the same security and isolation as partitions running in a jet fighter's systems, and there is no reason why the hypervisor has to be exactly the same (in terms of activated features) even if the code base is the same.
The Wind River Hypervisor is being rolled out first on Intel Core 2 Duo, Xeon 3500 and 5500 Nehalem, and Atom embedded processors, as well as PowerPC chips from IBM and Freescale Semiconductor. The Power chips have historically been the most popular for embedded applications, given the long-time popularity of the Motorola 68K processors in embedded devices and the fact that the PowerPC was its kicker.
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